In a few days, the horse team led by Zhu Zilong, in addition to the Confucian Mansion, also investigated the situation of the big landlords and palaces in other places in Shandong.

After getting the first-hand, second-hand, and third-hand real close-up information, I went back to Zhujiazhuang.

Because there are still a few days left, and the time has come when he can travel back to the modern 21st century.

From the situation of attacking Ximei Mountain, Zhu Zilong knew that it was not enough to have guns without artillery, and if there were many light artillery pieces at that time, then even if no tunnels were found, from several hills, he concentrated his firepower to bombard the bandit cottage with firepower. You can win big!

This time back to modern times, he is ready to engage in artillery, no need to be more advanced, as long as the materials are better than those of the Ming Dynasty and the weight is light.

There is no doubt that black powder was first invented by the Chinese, and the earliest tubular firearm is generally believed to be a "musket" made of giant bamboo when guarding De'an in the third year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1132), which is the earliest known example of the use of tubular firearms in the world.

As for the cannon, Westerners believe that they invented it first, while Easterners think that it is themselves.

In the late 13th and early 14th centuries, the rudiments of artillery appeared almost simultaneously in the East and the West, indicating that it was gunpowder knowledge that China spread to the West, rather than direct military inventions.

Artillery should not be an accidental invention of one person in one place, but was developed independently in the East and West under the influence of China's knowledge of gunpowder weapons.

The first armed conflict between China and Portugal, the Battle of Tuen Mun (1521), according to the "Guangdong Tongzhi", recorded: "Wang Hong, the deputy envoy of the province, drove his troops away, and his foreign soldiers fought against the enemy, and defeated the official army with several guns. If you are looking for a donor, please take advantage of its pride, recruit good water people to dig its bottom, and then indulge, and those who work out will be captured, and the rest will flee and leave their weapons."

So far, the famous "Francophone", after the war, a large number of imitations were introduced for the Ming army, and the cottage was improved.

Later, the Ming Dynasty military department cast more than 1,000 franc machine cannons, named "general cannon", attached to the wooden frame, can be high or low, issued to the defenders on three sides. "However, if the soldiers do not make good use of it, they have not been able to control it so far."

In Zhu Zilong's view, there are many varieties of Daming firearms in this period, but not all of them are valued and mass-produced.

For example, the large shogun cannon that was barely mass-produced had no sights, so the hit rate was very low. Only a few of the special artillery pieces or remnants of the Divine Machine Battalion have this feature!

The other, the Great Ming, oh no, should be the whole world around 1626, the best cannons were made of bronze.

This is a bit of a cheat, the national currency is all bronze, and a bronze cannon weighs NNNN kilograms, how much does it cost? And it can't go too far, and it's easy to retire.

Zhu Zilong, who returned to Zhujiazhuang, originally wanted to ask Liu Dabao to come over and ask about the gunpowder situation.

As a result, Liu Dabao was notified that Liu Dabao went to Ximeishan to complete the new task assigned by Zhu Zilong. That's when I reacted, but didn't I!

Last week, Zhu Zilong secretly told Liu Dabao to take a team of people and horses back to Ximeishan. Claiming to be to clear and find the remaining bandits, in fact, the real purpose is to find the extinct volcano that has been silent for many years in Ximei Mountain, and to find the raw materials of gunpowder with high natural purity.

By the way, let's see if I can find some iron ore, and what else I haven't come back yet.

Zhu Zilong had to prepare first, and traveled back to the modern 21st century to realize the materials, one is the old three, ginseng, cordyceps, and some precious Chinese medicinal materials.

The second is, some gold. Third, this time there are a few more antiques to test the waters.

As soon as you see this antique, some readers may want to ask.

The cottage moonlight treasure box has no time precipitation function, and the antiques of the Ming Dynasty have a history of hundreds of years for people in the modern 21st century. But for the people of the Ming Dynasty in 1626, what they held was still a new product of the right year.

This is in the modern 21st century, without hundreds of years of precipitation, carbide can not stand the test of modern equipment. People will only treat you as a fake, a high imitation antique, not worth a few dollars at all, and bring it back to the modern 21st century to do what?

We can think of this, and Zhu Zilong, who has gradually become knowledgeable, can naturally think of this.

Therefore, the few antiques he is going to bring back are not from the Ming Dynasty. It was from periods such as the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, not the Ming Dynasty anyway.

How's that, smart enough, right?

Modern 21st-century equipment can check whether an antique is genuine, but it is absolutely impossible to determine whether it is 300 years, 400 years, or 500 years. As long as it is more than a few hundred years old, almost all devices will be considered genuine.

(In addition, not all antiques must be tested with carbon-14 identification equipment and other equipment, that is, as long as Zhu Zilong is more knowledgeable.) A small number of antiques from the Ming Dynasty can still appear in the modern 21st century to make a lot of money. ）

Just after Zhu Zilong prepared these above things, packed them, and put them in the warehouse.

As soon as I came out, I walked outside into the large living room of the reception room.

I saw that in the living room, Xiao Bai and Xiao Hei were eating a golden giant fish, and there were a few old people under the rule on the side chatting with the housekeeper Wang Dayong with a smile on their faces. As soon as he saw Zhu Zilong coming out, he hurriedly prepared to come forward to salute!

Zhu Zilong was just about to wave his hand to signal that there was no need to be polite, but suddenly his eyes were round.

I didn't look carefully just now, but when I got closer, how could the golden giant fish eaten by the little white and black pit tigers be so familiar?

"Master, a few old fishermen accidentally caught a few money fish, and I heard that the holy beast at home likes to eat fish and meat, so I sent it. Was the money given at the price of marine fish in the market? Still is? Wang Dayong said to Zhu Zilong.

However, Zhu Zilong was still in a daze, thinking.

Money Fish? Money Fish?

I'm going to go, you fart, this is the famous "Yellow Lipped Fish" in the modern 21st century. Zhu Zilong finally came back to his senses and recognized the fish!

"My money!" There was a scream, and in the midst of everyone's stunned, they saw that in the next second, Zhu Zilong flew up and kicked Xiao Bai and Xiao Hei away again.

Hurriedly rescued the half-cut fish meat in their mouths, and then touched the fish as if they were caring for a priceless treasure.

He also whispered to himself: "It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, the most valuable fish fat hasn't been eaten yet, it's only worth a few million yuan!" ”

Wang Dayong and some subordinates, as well as a few old fishermen who offered fish, looked at each other for a while, and they didn't know why.

It's no wonder that they are at a loss, how could a fish that is very common in their eyes make Master Zhu so out of shape?

Well, if Zhu Zilong knew that they thought that this fish was worthless and nothing remarkable, they would definitely whip them hard.

(Yellow-lipped fish, Fujian and Cantonese people call the money fish, the money fierce fish, also known as (fish high).) Inhabiting the sea area with a depth of 50~60 meters near the sea, juvenile fish inhabit the estuary and its nearby coasts, and are distributed in the coasts of the East China Sea and the northern part of the South China Sea. It is an endemic fish to China! ）

In April 2009, when two fishermen in Fuding City, Fujian Province, went to sea, they picked up a dying 84-kilogram yellow-lipped fish, which was bought by a Wenzhou boss for 1.98 million yuan and sold to a Guangzhou boss for 3.25 million yuan.

In February 2010, fishermen caught a yellow-lipped fish of more than 140 catties in the South China Sea, which was snatched by three Wenzhou bosses in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, for 5.45 million yuan. That's right, pay attention to snatching, not buying, because there were too many people at that time and the competition was too fierce!

In December 2015, in Songmen Township, Wenling City, Taizhou, a local fishmonger bought a huge yellow-lipped fish from Myanmar for a reported cost of nearly 10 million yuan. As soon as it changed hands, it also made millions!

Giving the tiger a yellow-lipped fish worth at least millions of yuan as rations is a big loser. It's simply a god-level loser!