No matter how worried Sun Chuanting was, Wang Xuan had already made his decision and no one else could interfere.
It's just that things are not that simple. The models of the crossbows alone need to be distinguished. It is impossible for Wang Xuan to release the high-power military crossbows and sell them casually. That would not be to benefit the enemy.
There are three types of crossbows that can be sold to the outside world. The worst is the standard crossbow in the Ming Dynasty. The better is the one with added steel parts. The best is the crossbow that can fire three consecutive rounds.
Moreover, these crossbows are very expensive. The cheapest one is 80% of the cost of the Ming Dynasty army. The most expensive three-shot crossbow is three times the price.
As for the bed crossbow, the price is even higher.
Regarding pricing, Wang Xuan also had other plans. The profits of the arms business were still extremely high. Selling them at 80% of the cost of the Ming army would surely attract orders from the military. Even if the imperial court banned it, it would be useless.
After all, the cost alone can save 20%. If the scrap rate is slightly manipulated, the profit can reach more than 30%, and the quality is much better than that used by the military.
The profit was enough for these responsible officials to take the risk and come all the way to order. As for the imperial ban and so on, 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 subject to it.
If anyone controls you, even if you have all the power, it will be useless.
As soon as the ban was lifted, the sales of crossbows boomed. Especially after the newspapers began to publicize it, within half a month, even the neighboring Jiangnan provinces also knew the news.
This caused the first wave of sales boom. Even working overtime in three shifts could not meet the demand for orders. As a result, the prices of raw materials such as animal tendons and isinglass also increased.
The major consumers are still those maritime merchants. There are fifty or sixty guns on a big ship. Even a small ship must be equipped with ten or twenty guns for self-defense. On the vast sea, not on land, the law is nonsense.
, the dark side of human nature is fully exposed. As long as the opportunity is right, a merchant ship will turn into a pirate at any time. Even Wang Xuan can't do anything about this kind of thing. If you have a way, wealth and silk can attract people's hearts. What's the point of being able to go to sea and run a maritime business?
A good person, as long as he is not discovered, can steal a sum of money and it will be big business.
With these crossbows for self-defense, on the sea, if the benefits are not too great and break the balance between benefits and possible losses, this kind of piracy will be reduced a lot.
On the other side, these real and fake Japanese pirates drifting on the sea do not know the relevant information.
"Dang", "dang", "dang", three rapid bells came from the lookout, which immediately spread throughout the entire ship. The warning sound made all the crew members tense up. Recently, everyone knew that a sudden appearance of a bell appeared on the sea.
Countless Japanese pirates came, but they did not expect to encounter them today. Immediately, the ship fell into a panic.
The captain hurriedly ran out of the captain's cabin, looked at the messy sailors on the deck, and shouted: "Quiet, please!"
"Lookout, the people coming are Japanese pirates. How many are there?"
The lookout had been looking at the ship on the sea with a telescope. When he heard the captain's roar, he immediately replied: "The ship is not big, there are about forty people on it!"
'Hoo~' The captain breathed out softly and immediately felt relieved, and then a surge of excitement surged in his heart, "Lao San, Lao San, take your people to the deck, take all the crossbows you bought before departure, and follow
Look at the color of these Japanese slaves!"
The guy named Lao San was very happy when he heard this. After buying this batch of more than 20 crossbows, his team was responsible for protecting the safety of the ships. The guys who fought and killed couldn't put it down and took them out to practice every day.
By the way, I did some maintenance. Today I finally have a chance to practice. How can I not be excited?
He shouted "Hello" and urged the brothers to start running in the direction of the Japanese pirate ship.
The captain didn't know what he thought of, and suddenly shouted again, "By the way, try to arrest as many people as possible. I heard that the government is buying pirate slaves in large quantities. Each one can be sold for a lot of money. It's all money!"
"Okay, captain, don't worry, brothers, it's easy!" Lao San responded, waiting for thirty men to walk out of the cabin, dragging a crossbow behind him, although there is no one for the city wall.
The Eight Ox Crossbow is so huge, but its power is relatively terrifying.
The two ships quickly approached, and the shouts from the distant Japanese pirate ship were carried by the sea breeze. They were chattering, and I couldn't understand what they were saying. But looking at the braids, the shaved hair matched the ones.
The ferocious face looks a bit penetrating.
Six hundred steps, five hundred steps, three hundred steps, as the distance got closer, Lao San kept asking people to control the crossbow and aim, "Don't be anxious, put it in a little, hit it accurately, tie the rope to the crossbow arrow, save the time."
The other party ran away!"
There are more than twenty crossbows in hand. They have tested the power of these crossbows. If they are hit, they will be seriously injured or killed directly. Therefore, Lao San is very confident.
When they reached about a hundred steps, the Japanese pirates had already begun to wave the hook lock in their hands. As long as they got closer and the hook lock was attached, the merchant ship would not be able to escape!
"Whoosh" a harsh scream sounded, "Pfft!" A Japanese pirate felt a black shadow coming straight from the ship in the distance. Before he could react, his body was shot into two pieces by a huge crossbow arrow.
The thrown half of the body was sprayed with rain of blood, and most of it let out a miserable howl.
The crossbow arrow that shot through the human body did not stop. The strong power caused the crossbow arrow to plunge into the ship's plank with a 'bang'. The five-centimeter-thick ship plank was shot to pieces, and the crossbow arrow was deeply stuck inside.
All the Japanese pirates looked at the broken human bodies around them in horror. They looked at the merchant ship again along the cable at the end of the crossbow. Their expressions changed drastically. On the deck of the merchant ship, a group of people leaned out most of their bodies, holding crossbows in their hands.
Aiming this way.
At a distance of fifty steps, the two boats were facing each other, and they were close in the blink of an eye. They only heard the command from the third child, "Shoot these sons of bitches to death!"
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Whoosh", "whoosh" and "whoosh", a burst of crossbow arrows pierced the air, and more than twenty crossbow arrows were shot condescendingly. A group of Japanese pirates were flying in the air without any obstruction.
There was no place to hide on the deck. At such a close distance, a wave of crossbow arrows passed by, and eight or nine of the thirty or so Japanese pirates fell down.
When the two ships passed each other, the second wave of crossbow arrows had been loaded. At this moment, the Japanese pirates no longer had the idea of climbing onto the merchant ship. They waved their giant axes desperately towards the crossbow bolts nailed to the deck. As for the crossbow bolts tied to the tail,
It's just like an iron chain, and it will be cut continuously for a while.
There was another round of arrow rain, this time from a closer distance, and a dozen of them were shot down directly. Two rounds of crossbow arrows went down, and the Japanese pirates who were not dead yet on the pirate ship rolled and screamed, and blood was everywhere on the deck.
With only a dozen or so Japanese pirates left, they saw the crossbow arrow cut off with an axe, roaring and preparing to pull the sail to escape. At this moment, there was another bang, and another crossbow arrow penetrated deeply into the side of the ship. This time, even if he wanted to
It can't be reached even by cutting it off.
"Surrender without killing!"
"Surrender without killing!"
Seeing that there were only a dozen or so people left, and not afraid of another disturbance caused by them, the third child immediately forced him to surrender.
All kinds of things like this can be found throughout the South China Sea. Even in many villages and towns along the coast, crossbows were fired. When facing the invading Japanese pirates, they directly used crossbows to kill them. In just seven or eight days, those Japanese pirates were like ants.
Most of the Japanese pirates were killed, and the small number of pirates who escaped and those who received the news could only slowly gather together, so that they could use their overwhelming numerical advantage to face the merchant ships equipped with crossbows.
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 10,000 real and fake Japanese pirates were completely wiped out in just over a month.
Empty.
While solving the Japanese pirate problem, hundreds of murders also occurred continuously under Wang Xuan's rule. It sounds like I have heard about it, but it was scattered across five provinces (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Xiaoliuqiu, and Annan), so it was not too many.
At least, it was much less than Wang Xuan expected.
This at least shows that the class contradictions under his rule are not that deep. However, the large-scale outflow of crossbow machines will inevitably spread through various channels. Throughout other provinces in Jiangnan, children of wealthy families were secretly shot and killed one after another.
If you shoot a crossbow from a long distance, you can kill someone and escape from a distance. In this era, it is extremely difficult to catch someone.
All of a sudden, everyone in the Jiangnan family was in danger, especially those masters who usually liked to show off their wealthy slaves through the market, such as the boss of heaven, the second boss of earth, and the third boss of others.
During this period, everyone was so frightened that they stayed at home and did not even dare to go out on the street. There were countless enemies. Those people had no way to deal with the wealthy servants who followed the rich children all the time. Now,
But it was different. He was afraid that a cold arrow would suddenly shoot out and kill him. They were all serious three-edged arrows with bloody barbs. As long as they were stained, a large piece of flesh would have to be removed at the least. They, the children of rich families,
But I can't bear this crime.
In fact, although the issue of the public sale of crossbows caused an uproar and countless rich people cursed Wang Xuan, all the really big families in Jiangnan understood what was going on. The Donglin Party and the Zhejiang Party conspired to collude with Japanese pirates to disrupt the South China Sea.
They also know everything about it.
None of these people expected that this plan of Cholera Wang Xuan actually led Wang Xuan to open the crossbow machine directly. It was like stealing a chicken but losing a lot of rice. It put everyone in danger, and those Japanese pirates only fought with sparrows.
You know, people are catching sparrows everywhere...
No need to wait for any results from Wang Xuan, some people in the city of Nanjing began to feel restless. With hundreds of years of family business, they always had to find two ways out. Seeing that the Ming Dynasty was getting worse day by day, although I don’t know when this big ship will arrive.
It will sink, but it’s just a matter of sooner or later. If you don’t make plans early and regret it later when things happen, you can’t really be buried with the Ming Dynasty!