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Chapter 1468 Conjecture
Qi Jiguang's brows were tightly frowned, the generals in the tent of the Chinese army didn't even dare to show their breath, and looked at the commander cautiously.

It stands to reason that the battle reports from the front line were sent back to the Chinese army, and the [-] enemy troops were encircled and defeated. This is the only regular army force in the [-]-mile radius of the Raksha Kingdom, which is the only regular force of the Western Expedition Army. Qi Shuai should be happy.

But just now, I went out of the tent of the Chinese army, and the soldiers behind me held a few guns and dismantled them in the tent of the Chinese army according to the order.

Marshal Qi became this frowning look, as if he had encountered some incomprehensible problem.

what happened?

Zhu Yu is Qi Jiguang's old subordinate, but he didn't dare to speak at this time, he and his colleagues looked at me and I looked at you, and finally decided to ask a question, saying: "Commander, but Is it different to seize the firecrackers?"

"Different?"

Qi Jiguang was not angry, he was just stunned by the statement that there was a difference, and then slowly nodded, quite a bit really confused and helpless, he let out a sigh of relief, "There is indeed a difference."

He looked down at the disassembled bird guns on the ground, raised his finger slightly, and said, "These guns belong to us."

"Ours?"

Zhu Yu didn't understand the meaning of Qi Jiguang's words. Although these bird guns were seized, people like Zhu Yu recognized them, and the shape and shape looked like they were made in Beiyang.

There is no doubt that these bird guns must have flowed into the Raksha Kingdom through their maritime merchants or military mansions. At most, they were surprised that the trade routes of the military mansions were well laid out, and they were not as confused as Qi Jiguang.

As for the matchlock blunderbuss, whether it was made well or not, and who made it really didn't make much difference, Zhu Yu's gang of generals didn't care at all.

The soldiers who reported back from the front line also said that, to put it mildly, the guns of the Raksha army are all matchlock guns, and there is not a single flintlock; Xiyi Pao doesn't have the blood of General Zhenshuo of Ming Dynasty, so it's over.

"Yes, ours."

Seeing Zhu Yu's expression, Qi Jiguang knew what he was thinking, shook his head and explained: "Qi is not talking about the Beiyang Army Mansion... Let's put it this way, these guns belong to me."

He picked up a blunderbuss, together with the wooden blunderbuss bed, butcher rod, blunderbuss mechanism, and copper rivets, he picked them up on the table, pointed to them and said, "The blunderbuss bed has no support, and the handle is round. The early form of the Nanyang Guard Weapons Bureau of Japanese guns."

"However, its paint materials are different from those in the north and south of Ming Dynasty. It seems that it has been newly painted in recent years, and there is no work name on it, which is unreasonable."

"The blunderbuss machine and the blunderbuss bed are not compatible, they are not a set, and the internal gaps are uniformly filled with small pieces of wood of equal size. The inscription on the inside of the blunderbuss machine is made by a craftsman from Guangping Prefecture in Zhili, and it was made in the fifth year of Wanli."

"However, for the new guns in the fifth year of Wanli, the stick has changed from the iron flat-headed wooden stick to the iron concave-headed wooden stick, but the stick of this gun is still an iron flat-headed stick."

"As for the tenons and rivets, it is impossible to test the year when these small objects were made. Now we only know that the tenons of the sticks of these bird guns do not fit well with the sticks. You don't even need to release the guns. Just shake the guns twice and the sticks will fall off. gone."

Qi Jiguang talked about the origin of the various parts of this bird gun in a clear way, which mainly comes from his experience when he revived the Zunhua Iron Works in the north.

In those few years, Zunhua Iron Works was a major factory that ordered parts from the Beiyang Military Bureau. Every year, the Beiyang Military Bureau sent parts to various subway factories in Jizhen through his Prime Minister's Office. palm.

But he hasn't said the most important thing yet.

Qi Jiguang raised the gun barrel, pointed to the joint under the gun barrel that needs to be inserted into the gun bed, and said: "The inscription on the front of Wangshan Mountain has been worn away on the gun barrel, and there is a barbarian pattern on the right side, but the inscription below is not worn, look at it." What is written on it."

Zhu Yu took over the gun barrel, and the square iron under the gun barrel was inscribed with three rows of characters. Because of the age and the sawdust, it was difficult to distinguish, so it can only be seen that in the [-]th year of Jiajing, a certain Ministry of Industry in the South... a craftsman Yan... ...some experience...Qi Mouguang' words.

Time, place, craftsmanship, supervision, acceptance, and the last Qi Mouguang, Zhu Yu looked up at Qi Jiguang without even thinking about it. He finally understood why Qi Jiguang said that the gun belonged to us, or his.

The barrel was inspected and accepted by Qi Jiguang himself.

It is an old object from the Jiajing period.

This is where Qi Jiguang wondered, how could the gun barrels he supervised go to a place thousands of miles away from the Ming Dynasty, especially...especially in such a place, not to mention the decades in the Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, recently For decades, Qi Jiguang was absolutely sure that his troops must be the first batch of people here.

Who assembled this batch of bird guns, and who sold this batch of four-shaped bird guns here?
And when it is sold here, why does the stick drop such an obvious inferior product, and someone will buy it?
The existence of this kind of tattered bird gun itself is a very unreasonable problem.

Qi Jiguang thought to himself: Is this thing made by Yin Zhengmao of the Western Army?Or was it sold by Chen Chaojue, Nanyang Military Mansion?No, the biggest possibility is Jing Haibo.

Although these three people seem to be able to do such a thing.

As for the merchants, there is no need to consider it at all. They do not have the ability to collect all kinds of bird gun parts that have been eliminated for more than ten years on a large scale, let alone modify them on a large scale.

To be honest, the imperial court's appointment of the ministers of the Sanyang Military Mansion is definitely a man who made the best of his talents.

Qi Jiguang never imagined that there could be more suitable candidates for Sanyang military ministers than these three people.

Only the three of them have the ability to do this in the whole world. Besides, Ye Mengxiong can't do it, because Ye Mengxiong has the raw materials and production base but no market. market.

The funniest thing is also here, the three of them... are people who can do this.

Chen Mu, Yin Zhengmao, and Chen Lin are all people who can dismantle, refurbish and obsolete weapons, sell them as good ones, and sell them to overseas countries to make huge profits.

It's nothing more than Chen Lin selling the ammunition first, earning the money in his hands, and then thinking about beating you up to get the ammunition back.

Yin Zhengmao is selling your arms, hoping that you will fight a life-and-death battle with others and then sell the arms to both sides;
And Chen Mu beat you up first, and then forcibly sold you the ammunition.

Generally speaking, Qi Jiguang's understanding of the ministers of the Sanyang military government is like this.

Yin Zhengmao was looking forward to the client's death; Chen Lin was looking forward to beating up the client someday; Chen Mu was always on the way to beating up this client and going to the next one.

At this moment, the geographical location of the Raksha country, combined with the fact that Yin Zhengmao asked Qi Jimei to send a message from Ottoman, means that the Western Army has not yet contacted the Raksha country, and Qi Jiguang naturally thinks that selling these arms to Luo It is Chen Mu who is in the country.

This correct understanding greatly affected Qi Jiguang's judgment on the situation. He thought that Luocha Kingdom had become Chen Mu's client, so Luocha Kingdom had already been beaten by Chen Mu, and it was very likely that he was being beaten in the west.

This made him very relieved, his brows swept away his doubts, and his eyes were bright when he turned his head: "Go on, everyone! I will wait for about a while, and we will join forces with the Dongyang Army under the city of Moscow!"

(End of this chapter)