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Chapter 500
No matter how worried Sun Chuanting was, Wang Xuan's decision was made, so no one else could interfere.

It's just that the matter is not that simple, just the model of the crossbow machine has to be distinguished. It is impossible for Wang Xuan to release the military standard high-power crossbow machine and sell it casually.

There are three types of crossbows that can be sold to the outside world. The worst is the Ming army's standard crossbow, the better is the crossbow with steel parts, and the best is the three-shot crossbow.

Moreover, the price of this batch of crossbows is very expensive, the cheapest one is [-]% of the cost of the Ming army, and the most expensive three-shot crossbow is three times the price.

As for the bed crossbow, the price is even higher.

As for the pricing, Wang Xuan also had other plans. The profit of the arms business is still extremely high. Selling them at [-]% of the cost of the Ming army will surely attract orders from the military. Even if the imperial court prohibits them, it may be useless.

After all, [-]% can be saved in the cost alone, and if a little manipulation is made on the scrap rate, the profit can reach more than [-]%, and the cut quality is much better than the military's own use.

The profit is enough for these officials to take the risk to come and order. As for the imperial ban or something, I believe that no one will care if the money is in place. When a system starts to rot from the top, it will no longer be accepted. Anyone controls it, even if you have the power to dominate the world, it is useless.

As soon as the ban was lifted, the sales of the crossbow machine became very popular, especially after the newspapers started to publicize it, and within half a month, even the nearby Jiangnan provinces also knew the news.

This caused the first wave of sales to climax. Even three shifts and overtime production could not meet the demand of the order, and the prices of raw materials such as animal tendon and fish glue also rose accordingly.

The big consumers are still mainly those sea merchants. There are fifty or sixty on a large ship, and even a small ship must be equipped with ten or twenty for self-defense. On the vast sea, it is not land, and the law is all nonsense , the dark side of human nature is vividly revealed. As long as the opportunity is right, merchant ships will turn into pirates at any time. Even Wang Xuan has nothing to do about this kind of thing. Youdao is rich and silky, and there is nothing wrong with those who can go to sea to run merchants. Good people, as long as they don't get discovered, it's a big deal to grab a fortune.

With these crossbows for self-defense, on the sea, if the interests are not too great and the balance between interests and possible losses is broken, this kind of piracy will be greatly reduced.

On the other hand, these real and fake Japanese pirates drifting at sea don't know the relevant news.

"Dang", "Dang", "Dang", three rapid bells sounded from the observation deck, which immediately spread throughout the entire ship. The sound of warning made all the crew members tense up. Countless Japanese pirates, unexpectedly encountered them today, and immediately, the ship fell into a panic.

The captain hurriedly ran out of the captain's room, looked at the messy sailors on the deck, and shouted sharply: "Quiet me, run away!"

"Lookout, the people here are Japanese pirates, how many are there?"

The watchman had been watching the ship on the sea with binoculars, and when he heard the captain's roar, he immediately replied: "The ship is not big, there are about forty people there!"

"Huh~" The captain exhaled lightly, immediately relieved, and then a wave of excitement surged in his heart, "Third brother, third child, take you to the deck, take all the crossbows you bought before departure, follow Take a look at these Japanese slaves!"

The third guy was very happy when he heard it. After buying this batch of more than 20 crossbows, their team was responsible for protecting the safety of the ships. The guys who fought and killed couldn't put it down. They had to take them out every day to practice their hands. After some maintenance, today I finally have an actual combat opportunity, how can I not be excited.

Saying hello, he urged the brothers to start running in the direction of the Japanese pirate ship.

The captain didn't know what to think of, and suddenly shouted again, "By the way, try to arrest people, I heard that the government buys a large number of pirate slaves, and if one of them can be sold for a lot of money, it's all money!"

"Okay, captain, don't worry, brothers will save it!" The third child echoed, and waited for thirty men to come out of the cabin, dragging a bed crossbow behind him, although it was not used on the city wall. The eight-ox crossbow is so huge, but relatively speaking, its power is already very terrifying.

The two boats approached quickly, and the yelling from the Japanese pirate boat in the distance came along the sea breeze. It was chattering, and I couldn't understand what was said, but I looked at the sky braids, the shaved pieces of hair matched the The ferocious face looked a bit pervasive.

Six hundred steps, five hundred steps, three hundred steps, as the distance approached, the third child kept manipulating the ballista to aim, "Don't worry, put it in a little bit, hit it accurately, tie the rope to the crossbow bolt, and save it." The opponent ran away!"

There are more than 20 crossbows in their hands. They have tested the power of this thing. As long as they are hit, they will be seriously injured or killed directly. Therefore, the third child is full of confidence.

At about a hundred paces, the Japanese pirates had already started waving the hook lock in their hands. As long as they were a little closer and the hook lock was engaged, the merchant ship would not even think about running away!

"Whoosh" sounded a piercing scream, "Pfft!" A Japanese pirate felt a black shadow coming directly from a distant ship, and before he could react, his body was shot in two by the huge crossbow arrow. The half of the body that was thrown away was sprayed with rain of blood, and let out a half-voiced howl.

The crossbow arrows that shot through the human body did not stop, the strong power caused the arrows to pierce into the ship plank with a 'boom' sound, the five centimeter thick ship plank was shot to pieces, and the crossbow arrows were deeply stuck inside.

All the Japanese pirates looked at the broken human bodies around them in horror, and looked at the merchant ship again along the cables at the end of the crossbow arrows. Their faces changed drastically. On the deck of the merchant ship, a group of people leaned out, holding crossbows in their hands. It's aiming over here.

Fifty paces away, the two boats were moving towards each other, and they approached in the blink of an eye, only to hear the order from the third child, "Shoot these sons of bitches to death!"

"嗖", "嗖", "嗖", there was a sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the air, and more than 20 crossbow arrows shot past condescendingly. A group of pirates were on the deck with no shelter, and there was no place to hide. At such a short distance, a wave of crossbow arrows passed by , Eight or nine Japanese pirates with more than 30 people fell down.

When the two ships passed by, the second wave of crossbow bolts had already been installed. At this moment, the Japanese pirates no longer had the idea of ​​climbing on the merchant ship, and desperately swung their giant ax towards the crossbow bolt nailed to the deck. It's simply an iron chain, and it will be cut continuously for a while.

It was another round of arrow rain, this time at a closer distance, and a dozen or so were directly shot down. Two rounds of crossbow arrows went down, and the still-dead Japanese pirates on the pirate ship rolled and screamed, and blood flowed everywhere on the deck.

There were only about a dozen Japanese pirates left. Seeing that an ax cut off the crossbow arrow, they roared and prepared to pull the sail to escape. At this moment, there was another bang, and another crossbow arrow pierced deeply into the side of the ship. Cutting is not enough.

"Surrender without killing!"

"Surrender without killing!"

Seeing that there were only a dozen or so people left, and he was not afraid that they would cause another storm, so the third child directly forced him to surrender.

All kinds of these can be found everywhere in the entire South China Sea. Even in many villages and towns along the coast, crossbows are also sent down. Faced with the invading Japanese pirates, they directly use crossbows to kill them. In just seven or eight days, those people are like ants. Most of the Japanese pirates were killed, and a small number of escaped pirates and pirates who received the news could only gather together slowly, so that they could face the merchant ships equipped with crossbows with overwhelming numbers.

However, in this way, although they succeeded several times, they were caught by the navy, half of them were killed, and most of them were captured. In this way, more than 1 real and fake Japanese pirates were completely wiped out in just over a month empty.

While solving the Japanese pirates problem, hundreds of homicides occurred continuously under Wang Xuan’s rule. It sounds like I have heard of it, but it is not too many to be scattered in five provinces (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Xiaoliuqiu, and Annan). At least, it was much less than Wang Xuan expected.

This at least shows that class conflicts are not that deep under his own rule, but the large-scale outflow of crossbow machines will inevitably spread through various channels. Throughout other provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, children of wealthy families have been secretly shot one after another. Shooting with a crossbow from quite a distance, the murderer goes straight away. In this era, it is extremely difficult to arrest.

For a while, everyone in the aristocratic Jiangnan family was in danger, especially those masters who usually like to bring their slaves to swagger through the market.

During this period of time, everyone was frightened and stayed at home obediently, not even daring to go to the street. There were so many enemies, and those people had no way to deal with the rich servants who always followed the children of rich families. Now But it was different. I was afraid that a cold arrow would suddenly shoot out somewhere and kill him. Those were all straight three-edged arrows with blood-grooved barbs. I can't bear this crime.

In fact, although the issue of the crossbow machine being sold publicly caused an uproar, and countless wealthy children cursed Wang Xuan, all the real big families in Jiangnan knew what was going on. The Donglin Party and the Zhejiang Party conspired with the Japanese pirates to disrupt the South China Sea They are also very clear about things.

None of these people expected that Wang Xuan's trick of cholera would cause Wang Xuan to open the crossbow directly. Can hehe, there are sparrow catchers everywhere...

No need to wait for any results from Wang Xuan, some people in the city of Nanjing can't sit still anymore. After hundreds of years of family business, they always have to find two ways out. Seeing that the Ming Dynasty is getting worse day by day, although they don't know when this big ship will Sunk, but it's just a matter of time, if you don't make a plan early, and regret it too late when things come to an end, you can't really be buried with the Ming Dynasty!

(End of this chapter)