Zhao Min entered the cabin, a thick tiredness hit, the tension that had been suppressed in the past two days, coupled with the inexplicable sense of uneasiness in his heart, was finally released at this moment, and he soon fell asleep. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

I don't know how long later, a knock on the door came, waking Zhao Min up from his dream. got up to approve the clothes, opened the door and looked up, it was dark outside, and it was obviously night. Xu Ming stood outside the door, saw Zhao Min come out, bowed down and said in a deliberately low voice: "Sorry to disturb the lord's rest, but some surprises found that his subordinates did not dare to make decisions without authorization, and the lord Lao took a look for himself." ”

Zhao Min knew that Xu Ming had always been cautious about himself, and calling himself up in the middle of the night would not be an ordinary trivial matter. didn't talk nonsense at the moment, signaled Xu Ming to lead the way, got on Xu Ming's boat, and set off.

On the way, Xu Ming told the ins and outs. It turned out that after the wreck was pulled away from the rock wall depression, the rest of the work was relatively simple, and it was necessary to re-tie the floating barrel and salvage it step by step. But Xu Ming suddenly thought that there might be the remains of the sunken ship and the goods left in the depression, so he arranged for the water ghost to go into the water to investigate. Under this exploration, it was found that the depression was not natural, but there were traces of artificial processing! After a closer look, I found that a passage was exposed behind the depression, and along the passage inside, it gradually drilled out of the water and entered a cave!

Speaking of this, Zhao Min heard some taste. "What do you mean by saying that the cave is not natural, but artificial? But something unusual was found in the cave? ”

"The lord sees it clearly. It was indeed because of some unusual discoveries that his subordinates did not dare to be proficient, so they took the liberty to disturb the lord! ”

"Since you can take me there, naturally you won't dive in from underwater, could it be that there is another exit?"

"The lord is wise! The other end of the cave led to a hidden cave on Tan Island, and his subordinates also went in to observe it before they dared to take the lord there. ”

Sure enough, Zhao Min knew in his heart that Xu Ming must have gone to explore the road first, and found that there was something terrible in it, and he couldn't make up his mind, so he came to find him. So something in the cave must be something special, right?

But no matter how Zhao Min asked Xu Ming, Xu Ming just shook his head and said in a hurry: "Don't force me, the lord will know when you see it with your own eyes, your subordinates really can't say it!" ”

Hearing this, Zhao Min's curiosity became more and more vigorous, but unfortunately Xu Ming just didn't speak, and he didn't want to persecute too much, but fortunately, it wouldn't take long to find out, so he had to suppress his curiosity and wait quietly.

While he was talking, the ship had docked. Zhao Min eagerly followed the pedal to the shore of the island, led the way by Xu Mingtou, and his entourage walked to the depths of the island with torches. After walking for half an hour, Xu Ming stopped when he came to a mountain pass. Zhao Min raised his eyes and looked around, this is one of the rocky hills, the entrance of the cave is quite hidden, because of the blockage of the rocks, it is difficult to find even if it is facing the entrance of the cave, and you must approach the front to see. The entrance to the cave is low and narrow, and you need to bow your head and bend down to enter. There were people guarding the door, Xu Ming said hello to the guards, and asked a few relatives who came to wait at the entrance of the cave, took the torch himself, and led Zhao Min into the cave alone.

The light in the cave was dim, and although it was illuminated by torches, it still seemed dim and unclear. Zhao Min had to hold on to the wall and walk along the slippery road. Fortunately, the cave was not too deep, and it took less than a moment to reach the end of the passage, and suddenly opened up in front of me, and a place like a hall appeared in front of me. The top of the hall is three zhang high, covering an area of about one acre of land. Xu Ming lit the torches planted in the wall in turn, and the hall gradually brightened. The four walls are quite smooth, and the traces of artificial modification are clearly visible; There is an iron torch socket on the rock wall, which Xu Ming lit here just now.

Zhao Min's eyes were attracted by a wooden box in the corner of the wall, because these wooden boxes occupied half of the entire hall, and the box was actually made of basswood! Of course, basswood is not as high-end as wood such as red sandalwood and pear, but most of the ordinary small rich families still use basswood to make furniture; The most important thing is that there are at least hundreds of boxes piled up here at a glance, and the wood of the boxes alone is worth more than millions of dollars!

What is it that is loaded with so much expensive basswood? Zhao Min glanced at Xu Ming, and Xu Ming knowingly stepped forward to open one of the boxes and took out a folded square thing from it.

When Zhao Min saw it, his eyes widened! This is actually a full-body fish scale armor! The armor of the Xia Dynasty army was usually divided into two categories: plate armor and chain mail, of which plate armor was rolled from iron plates as a whole, and chain mail was made of several small pieces of armor. Generally speaking, ordinary soldiers mostly wear plate armor, and chain mail is mainly used by generals and heavy troops such as heavy cavalry and heavy infantry. Chain mail can be subdivided into two categories: the armor and the scale armor, the armor refers to the rectangular armor pieces are stacked and knitted; Fish scale nail refers to the armor formed by overlapping and weaving fish scale-shaped nail pieces. In terms of the object of action, the plate armor here is different from the full-body plate armor of European knights, only two half-moon-shaped hard iron sheets protect the upper body, and have a certain protective effect on sword slashing, but if it is a stab or blunt weapon blow, the damage can only be said to be better than nothing; Because the chain mail is made of layers of fine armor, it has a dispersion effect on the force acting on it, whether it is a slash or a blunt blow, it has a good defensive effect. Among them, the fish scale armor is made of overlapping, which is especially effective, and can even effectively protect against stabbing blows.

Fish scale armor is generally only qualified to be worn by high-ranking officers, at least for the time being, Zhao Min's army does not have a single fish scale armor. Seeing hundreds of boxes here, and one box obviously had more than one piece of armor, Zhao Min couldn't help but look a little straight.

The blades and armor of the Xia Dynasty were all controlled by distribution, that is, the weapons and armor of each state capital and border army had a quota. Although the current control of the imperial court is dispensable to the localities, the ordinary state capital itself does not have the production capacity to produce such fine armor as fish scale armor and zajia armor. The key is the ban of the imperial court, it is strictly forbidden to cast armor without permission, once discovered, it should be punished as a rebellion! Others can ignore this decree, but what is Zhao Min's identity? He's a prince! If the prince is disrespectful, how will he deal with himself once it is passed out?

Looking at the hundreds of wooden boxes in front of him, Zhao Min was silent. After half a ring, he opened his mouth and asked Xu Ming: "The box is full of fish scale armor?" ”

Xu Ming nodded, shook his head again, and silently took out a booklet from his arms and handed it to Zhao Min.

Zhao Min took it, it was a booklet made of parchment nitrate, with only a few pages. When I opened it, there was a line of words on the first line: "Shi Ban Arm Zhang Crossbow counts one thousand"

Zhao Min gasped. What is the situation? Looking up at Xu Ming, he couldn't see any clues from his face. I had to continue to look down: "The three-stone crossbow counts five hundred"

I'll go! The crossbows are out! This thing is a big killer in the era of cold weapons! Although the winding speed is slower, the range can reach up to 500 steps! Within two hundred paces, that's a meat grinder, and it's effortless to go out and pierce two people with an arrow!

"Five forging rings, the first knife counts one thousand"

"Zhangba's spear counts a thousand"

"Jun Zhai Armor Counts 1,000"

"Five hundred fish scale armor made of two jun"

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At the end of the booklet, there is a line of small words in the lower left corner: "Wu Xi three years of July into a book"

Zhao Minmo calculated that there were probably more than 4,000 weapons of all kinds and 1,500 pieces of armor, which was enough to equip a whole army that was fully armed. The Wuxi era is the era name of Emperor Xiaowu during the reign of Emperor Xiaowu, which has been counted nearly 100 years ago. During the reign of Emperor Xiaowu, he was reckless, and launched a war against the Xiongnu for several years, although he also achieved certain results, driving the Xiongnu to the north of Yinshan; But for the people in China, increasing the endowment year after year is tantamount to a disaster! In this way, it is likely that this is the war materials prepared by someone who intended to overthrow Emperor Wu at that time, but unfortunately it did not happen for some reason, and even these war preparations were buried in the island for a long time. It wasn't until this salvage shipwreck that the undersea channel was accidentally discovered that they were rediscovered. But is it a good thing or a bad thing for these things to fall into your own hands? For a while, Zhao Min was not clear.

glanced up at Xu Ming, and found that he was still expressionless, and asked, "Zhizhi, how many people still know about this matter?" ”

Xu Ming lowered his head, and his voice sounded very dull: "Except for his subordinates, only the water ghosts who found the cave have come in." However, he didn't know what was in the box, and his subordinates checked it when they opened it, and they were all nailed with iron nails, and no one had touched it. ”

Zhao Min nodded. If no one knows, it's a lot easier to deal with. Since God has sent these things to the front, there is no reason to just leave them alone, right? Regardless of whether you can use it or not, you can deduce from that fish scale armor that this batch of armor is well-made, even if you don't use it, it must be worth a lot of money to sell it secretly, right? Of course, whether anyone dares to buy it is another matter.

Thinking about it, Zhao Min grinded his back molars and instructed Xu Ming: "Nailing the opened box to death." Let Zhang Han lead the team to load all the boxes on the ship, secretly transport them back to Jimo overnight, and tell the soldiers that they were the goods left on the sunken ship. You are also personally escorted, and you must not make a half-point difference on the road. This matter needs to be kept tight-lipped, and the slightest rumor must not be leaked. Remember! ”

"Whoa!"

Xu Ming clenched his fists and turned to leave, at this time Zhao Min was frowning, not noticing a trace of a smile on the corner of Xu Ming's mouth.