Chapter 27: The Ship Returning to the East
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Testing the new gun is not a matter of half a time to be done, you need to carry out hundreds, or even thousands of rounds of test firing, to determine whether the durability of this gun meets the requirements of the battlefield, before they did not use only two hundred rounds of wrought iron guns is no choice, at this time with a pig iron gun, naturally to have an accurate grasp of its performance and life, if its durability is not as good as the wrought iron gun, it is better to hand over to Li Blacksmith as soon as possible to improve. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Of course, as far as the results are concerned, the effect is not bad.
Wrought iron is soft but has good toughness, pig iron is hard but has poor toughness, the difference between good and bad toughness is that one is easy to polish the rifling, but it is not easy to blow up, and the other is not easy to polish the rifling, but the process is not good to blow up the chamber is not negotiable.
Therefore, during the test, Buchen equipped the elf sisters with crystal masks made with no expense, this is not an ordinary crystal mask, while having the original hardness of the crystal, it has also been hardened by the magician, which can resist the damage to the face of the barrel fragments when exploding, as for the body, they are wearing the two pieces of bright light armor that Blacksmith Li originally created for them, this armor may be the strongest armor in the world at this time, and the problem of resisting fragments is not particularly big, so Buchen is also quite relieved.
As for Buchen himself, he couldn't get a new gun at hand, and his armor was also damaged in the duel with Nicklaus, so naturally he didn't have a test shot, so he said goodbye to the two spear gods who were happy to shoot and the crazy scientist who was enthusiastic about his work, got into the carriage alone, gave the coachman, and went to the docks.
Hearing that Pope was buying a boat there, he was going to check it out.
It's also curious to say, Buchen has never been on a sailboat in this life, well, he hasn't been on a sailboat in his previous life. In his previous life, these sail-powered ships were long gone.
Buchen has always been curious about what the sailing ships in this world are like, and what is different from those ships in his previous life.
More than twenty minutes later, Buchen's carriage stopped at the dock outside the city.
In the past, Buchen rarely came here, at most he glanced at the scene of thousands of sails gathering from afar, but when he really looked at it, he found that the dock was much more deserted than at the beginning, and most of the Cyris hard sailing boats that used to account for the vast majority were gone, and the triangular soft galleons of the brown men accounted for the vast majority.
Buchen looked at it, the freeboard of these dhows are relatively high, the hull is wide, and they all look a little bloated, judging by his limited knowledge, the speed of these boats is definitely not fast, and when sailing on the water, the less resistance the boat will be faster, and these boats with a wide hull like a bucket naturally have great resistance. On the contrary, those few Cialis schooners are still slim, and the speed should be above the former.
However, what Buchen didn't know was that the sailing ships of Ceris that were still on the dock were actually clippers prepared by various merchant houses for big names such as shopkeepers, and the real merchant ships had long since been withdrawn to China.
The chaos in the Brown Empire has grown, and most of the Seris merchants have given up their business here.
He wandered around boredly, and finally found Master Pope's carriage next to a dhow. He looked at the ship and stepped onto one of the pedals that were on the side of the ship and on the dock.
"Eight thousand gold coins, whether you sell it or not!"
"Oh, my lord, look at this man, is he here to rob? Eight thousand gold coins? I paid 30,000 gold when I ordered this ship! ”
"Shit, I've already asked the boat yard around here! A ship like yours will cost fifteen thousand at most! You've used it for so long, the planks are old, and the bottom of the ship is full of seaweed, and I'll give you eight thousand to be conscientious enough! ”
"No, you have to give me at least 10,000 gold coins!"
"Eight thousand five, don't even think about one more!"
Before he stepped on the deck, Buchen had already heard the bargaining between Master Pope and the shipowner, he smiled faintly and said loudly: "Pope, just give him eight thousand!" Eight thousand five? He's beautiful! ”
"Eun Gong!" When Master Pope heard Buchen's voice, a smile immediately appeared on his face.
"Uh-huh." Buchen agreed, held his head high, and walked onto the deck with his hands behind his back.
"Who are you?!" Hearing the words of the strangely dressed man in black, the five hundred gold coins he had received flew away, and the shipowner couldn't help but be furious.
Buchen didn't look at him at all, but just glanced at him and said, "The person you can't afford to provoke!" ”
"Hey!" The owner of the ship, who is not afraid of death, saw that Buchen was so arrogant, and was immediately angry, "I can't afford to mess with you?" It's just a heretic, but this is the Brown Empire! ”
"What about the Brown Empire? And what about the infidels? Buchen glanced at the shipowner with a cold gaze.
The shipowner's neck was cold for no reason, and his heart was shocked, this shipowner was very familiar with this gaze, this is the eyes of a demon killed from the sea of corpses and blood, he had seen it in the eyes of the pirate king of the Mediterranean, Duncan Lue, but he didn't expect to see it again in the eyes of this half-blood young man at this time.
And that encounter with the Pirate King was the most terrifying experience of his life, not one!
"Uh......" the boat opened its mouth, but could not utter a word, only made some meaningless sounds.
"Hmph." Buchen sneered, and asked arrogantly: "Say, eight thousand gold coins, do you sell them?" ”
"This ......"
The shipowner was still a little hesitant, after all, Buchen didn't use his own means, and his eyes were not really the same as Duncan Lue's, the shipowner was a little difficult to decide, what if this half-breed boy was just bluffing and scaring people?
Buchen guessed his thoughts, his mouth grinned, revealing eight white teeth, and a hideous smile appeared on his face: "It seems that you don't cry when you don't see the coffin!" ”
As he spoke, Buchen raised his right arm and shook it lightly, and with a "whew", a dazzling flame burned on his arm!
The shipowner was frightened, he recognized what this was, this was Dou Qi, a tenth-level fire element Dou Qi! It is a power that only the most powerful samurai in the Western Continent can have!
"To sell or not to sell?!" Under the reflection of the raging flames, Buchen's expression looked very gloomy.
"I ...... I sold! "The owner of the ship has finally given in, and if he doesn't, this half-breed kid will immediately burn him to ashes, right? As for whether the city government of Litro City will arrest this kid in accordance with the law and avenge himself, the owner of the ship has no illusions, he knows the bureaucrats too well, and they will only be responsible to their superiors and financiers. And no matter how reasonable others are, they don't bother to pay attention to it if they don't have money.
However, the shipowner's fear of the Flame Fighting Qi of Buchen is actually completely superfluous, because his fire fighting spirit is just a trick tossed out of optical camouflage, and the real essence is the undead fighting spirit of the undead clan, and it is only the peak of the eighth level, and it is still far from the tenth level, and it can't burn the dead at all, and even if it reaches the tenth level, the black flame has no real killing effect of flames, it can only burn people's souls.
Well, the power of burning out souls is not small......
The deal was completed smoothly with the "help" of Buchen, and the owner handed over the deed to Pope as soon as he got the money, and then left quickly.
Seeing that the owner of the ship didn't want to stay longer for a moment, and couldn't wait to get as far away as he was, a contemptuous smile appeared on Buchen's face.
"I said Pop." Buchen looked at Master Pope beside him, "This ship sells for 6,000 at most, why did you give him 8,005?" ”
Buchen is not talking nonsense, Buchen has already observed when he got on the ship just now, the maintenance of this ship is not good, not only the board of the ship is dilapidated, but the seaweed and other plants growing on the bottom of the ship have overflowed the waterline. And it's not very big, and it's only a medium size among a bunch of dhows on the pier.
Master Pope sighed and said, "Engong, now is the time of national crisis, and everyone is having a hard time, so if you can help, you can help." Even if it lives up to the teachings of the master. ”
He shook his head without hearing this, and said angrily: "Are you still a profiteer?" ”
Master Pope only smiled bitterly, he was born with the skin of a profiteer, even if he was not a profiteer, the people of the world who were used to judging people by their appearance would call him a profiteer.
Buchen also thought of this, sighed, patted Pop on the shoulder, and did not continue the topic, but changed the conversation and asked, "When will you start recruiting sailors?" ”
Pope immediately replied, "I'll be putting up a notice in the city bar tonight." ”
"Do you want me to follow the gate?"
"I'll solve this matter myself, you better go home and rest!" Master Pope hurriedly refused.
Just kidding, let Buchen, a guy with the potential of a black-hearted capitalist, follow the checks, and it's strange that those sailors are willing to apply!