From Chief to Ball

"Thank you Jixia."

He put it on immediately, moved it a bit, then took out a feathered arrow with a cast iron arrow from Ji Bo's quiver, and stabbed it a few times at the place where there were iron plates on his shoulders and chest. .

All the leaders praised one after another, and Su Yue also smiled and said: "This gift is really a treasure. I have had beautiful jade or pearls, but if it is the most intimate, it is still this one."

"Although this thing is precious, I hope that all the leaders of my Dahe clan will have it. It is my wish to turn this treasure into something that can be seen everywhere, such as plowshares and bronze swords. Treasures are not treasures. "

His words had the bearing of the leaders of the various ministries, no matter whether it was false or revealing the truth, these words still won applause and praise from the crowd.

After applauding, Su Yue asked: "I wonder if this armor can still be made? If it can be made, everyone can buy some and exchange for others, and everyone can suffer less damage during the battle."

All the leaders also looked at Chen Jian expectantly. Chen Jian frowned and said, "It's not easy to make. As for the leader of Suyue, it costs a lot of money. I'm afraid it's really hard to make it again."

When everyone was disappointed when they heard the words, Chen Jian said again: "However, if it is a little simplified, it can be made. I have already thought of some methods, and it should be completed within three to five years. After three to five years, those in Yucheng The iron-smelting people's skills are becoming more and more mature, and they can be separated at that time to go to your cities. If there is an iron mountain, they will mine and smelt, so that the clansmen of the Dahe tribe can have new farm tools, or they can also create long-lasting Sword and spear."

In a word, it immediately won more praise than after Su Yue said his emotion just now, this is the most practical thing.Now the iron wares in Yucheng are spread everywhere, not to mention the tribes of Dahe, you can get good things in exchange for Yidi, which seems to have become a reliable currency like Xia Guo's copper coins.

Xia Guo had been strictly guarding the secret of iron smelting before, and some people used words such as the common interests of the Dahe tribes to squeeze Chen Jian, hoping that he could share it with everyone.But Chen Jian's answer was not a matter of course, such as why we made it up for you, but that it was difficult to smelt it in other cities because there were not enough skilled workers.

All the leaders thought that Chen Jian's previous statement was just prevarication, but now that he has said these words, many people think that Chen Jian is indeed the kind of person who puts the illusory thing of the collective interests of the Dahe tribes as the first priority. There is no doubt about electing him as high priest.

Su Yue watched Chen Jian continue to brag there, and guessed in his heart that this was probably the benefit Chen Jian gave to the clans and cities in order to secure the position of high priest.Although the mind is impure, the benefits obtained are real.Let’s not talk about whether we can defeat Xia Yu to snatch skilled craftsmen, even if they get in, it’s useless—everyone knows that most of the craftsmen in the Yucheng Smelting Department are escaped slaves from various cities, and they all have blood feuds and blood debts It is too difficult to get them to surrender.

This is a well-known fact, but everyone didn't tell the truth. Anyway, when Chen Jian said that there was no escaped slave in Onozawa, everyone pretended that all the escaped slaves were dead.

It's just that no one noticed the time point of three to five years mentioned by Chen Jian, and no one knew that Xia Guo was now at its weakest, and no one dared to shake it with the lingering prestige of last year.

This kind of prestige Chen Jian felt that it needed to be strengthened, so after verbally giving a big sweet date to the clans of the cities and towns, he asked someone to take out a second gift.

"This gift is easy to make, not too difficult. I know that all the leaders are among the best warriors in the clan. Warriors like armor, swords, spears and other weapons the most, so this gift is given to each leader. .”

With the shock of the cloth mask before, everyone's curiosity was aroused this time, but what Chen Jian brought out afterwards disappointed them quite a bit.

No ingenuity can be seen, just an ugly copper rod, still empty inside, with a piece of wood behind it, of no apparent use.

But everyone didn't ask, ugly things may not be bad to use.There are too many strange and good things in Xia Yu's system, but there are not many that can be called gifts by Chen Jian, so it is difficult for them to guess what it is.

In fact, this is a copper musket.It is not a matchlock, nor is it the kind that is lit by flint, but the most primitive fire door gun.

This is one selected from many castings, the interior is very smooth, and the level of casting is not bad. It did not explode after several test shots, so Chen Jian used this to scare the leaders.

The inside was already filled with gunpowder, and a small special-made matchstick like a firecracker stick protruded from the fire door, and the lead round bullet had been pierced in before it was handed over to Chen Jian.

Holding the not-so-long copper gun in his right hand and the matchlock in his left, he walked two steps forward seemingly unintentionally.

Ji Bo immediately placed a clay pot that he had been carrying on his back on the stone next to the big tree. The clay pot was filled with a pot of lime for the effect to look good.

Chen Jian has already gotten close to the distance of three or four steps from the clay pot. Normally speaking, he should be able to shoot at this distance without accident.

He had a smile on his face, but he was muttering in his heart: "Don't blow your gun, don't miss it, don't miss it..."

It's all a common occurrence with such shoddy things.

When all the leaders saw the matchlock in Chen Jian's left hand, they all guessed that it had something to do with gunpowder, so they all got ready for a loud noise or a strong explosion—in their opinion, the people of Xiacheng were extremely fond of such things. Love, to celebrate after returning from Dongyi, it is said that someone stuffed gunpowder into the bamboo and ignited the tins, and they also heard that Xiacheng people liked to burn poplars with bugs to burst at the end of the year. Voice……

In fact, Chen Jian really didn't want to touch this thing. Xia Cheng had several people who died on it in the past few years, but he had to do it at this time.

With his right hand, he raised the bronze fire door gun that he had prayed for several times, aiming at the clay pot three or five steps away, and with his left hand, he quickly ignited the fast matchlock inserted in the fire door with a matchlock.

boom……

After a sound that wasn't too loud, a puff of white smoke came out from the muzzle of the gun, and the clay pot three or five steps away shattered in response, just as a gust of wind blew in, and the scene was extremely shocking.

Everyone was terrified by this scene. They had seen gunpowder before, and many people used it, but most of them threw it out to listen. How could they have thought that gunpowder could be used like this?

In fact, the power of this musket is not great, and its range is closer than that of a bow and arrow. The archer may shoot twenty arrows before this broken thing can be loaded and ready. There is no simplest and most primitive semi-mechanical matchlock and flasher. By the way, if this is not shooting three Five paces away instead of clay pots thirty or fifty paces away, it would be better to close your eyes.

But Chen Jian hid all these shortcomings, and what he got was the perfect situation where the gunpowder and lead bullets were compacted, the ignition wire was plugged in, the target was three or four steps away, and it hadn't rained yet.

Therefore, in the eyes of all the leaders, the situation is like this: Jixia raised her hand, aimed at the clay pot, lit the short match, and the pot was smashed to pieces in the blink of an eye. This thing is stronger than a bow and arrow too much!And judging from the sound of the jar bursting, this thing must be very powerful, even if the leader of Awayue wore that armor, he would probably be shot to death.

No matter how good a bow shoots an arrow, the naked eye can see the trajectory; no matter how good a slinger throws a stone with a leather rope, he can clearly see how he hit the target.

But this thing has nothing.

This is simply a miraculous thing, especially in the eyes of the chiefs who have never thought of seeing anything like it, this is simply the weapon of causality in this era-I want to make that jar shatter, and the jar shatters .No drawing a bow, no using a sling, let alone hitting it with an ax after approaching it, the pot was so broken!

Chen Jian secretly shook his stiff hands, thanking himself that he was not blinded by the blast, sniffing the smell of gunpowder in the air, he casually took at least one or two minutes to prepare for the next shot. The useless musket was thrown into Ji Bo's hands.

"This is the gift I want to give you, one for each leader. It's just that it is very troublesome to control. Although it is easier to learn than drawing a bow and archery, it will take five or six days. I will let people know in the future Go to each city to teach each other."

Chapter 1 Twelve Exploration

This statement is half true and half false.

Bow and arrow is indeed difficult to learn, especially the Dahe tribes, like the nearby Dongyi and other ethnic groups, use the finger-pushing method, which is even more difficult to learn.

Because of this, it takes five or six days to learn to shock everyone.What is the use of learning how to shoot an arrow if you can hit the target in just six days without drawing the bow or twisting the arrow?

Moreover, dozens of them were prepared at one time. I am afraid that this thing can be easily produced like Xiacheng's farm tools, which is really scary.

However, Chen Jian was actually lying.This thing is really easy to learn, but even if you vomit blood tiredly with this crap, you can't have the shooting speed of a bow and arrow.

Furthermore, this is the first batch and the last batch. In the future, Xia Guo will never produce this thing again. Similar things are still too early to be mass-produced.

The consequences of these words of truth and falsehood are serious.For those cities that think Xiacheng is very powerful, they sneer at the arrow skills of Xiacheng people, so they admire Xiacheng's battle formations, chariots, cavalry and so on.

Just like when Ji Bai missed that arrow before, if one day Xiacheng people don't need bows and arrows but can use them to kill people from far away, who can resist this group of people?

When they didn't know what the hell the Huomen gun was, the group of people were shocked by Chen Jian's deliberate illusion.

Fortunately, Chen Jian had a good impression of the leaders on weekdays - he was a lunatic, he was a man of his word, and he really put the interests of the Dahe tribes first, and never did anything like bullying others.

Before Xiacheng appeared, no one followed the rules established during the Huasu Alliance.But after Xiacheng appeared, some people began to abide by this rule, and the clan that obeyed it the most has the best strength among all tribes. He could have disobeyed but did, so the rule has meaning, and those who want to violate it will be afraid and don’t want to violate it. will try to continue to comply.

For a while, many cities had fantasies: Xiacheng and Jixia are well-behaved people, no matter how powerful their weapons are, as long as I am from the tribes of Dahe, as long as I do not violate the interests of the tribes of Dahe, I will Then there is nothing to be afraid of.

The most unimaginative among them is Au Yue.

When the alliance was formed back then, Xiacheng seemed to have jumped out of a rock, spreading everywhere about the fact that the two brothers passed along the river and finally separated and migrated. Most of the clans believed it, even most of the Xiacheng people themselves believed it.

At that time, Xia Cheng had just helped Weicheng defeat Xirong, and he expressed early that the tribes of Dahe should regain the strength of the Huasu Alliance back then, and indicated that he would support the proposal of a leader to lead the tribes, and Su Yue urgently needed support at that time .

At that time, Xiacheng was still a small city with thousands of people, far in the northwest, and there were some weird things like carriages and horses. No one would have thought that this city would develop so fast, even Suyue did not Thinking of the small town that most supported the unified order of the ministries at the beginning, it would be eligible to compete for the position of the leader of the ministries.

Today, Xiacheng has a population of tens of thousands, and even the slaves who killed their masters and escaped can be tamed; there are various new technologies, and they monopolize ironware, gunpowder and other things that are indispensable to each city; Relatives and noble sons study; make history books to record major events in the city...

Other cities think this is a good thing, but Su Yue, who is the leader of the alliance, doesn't think so: Even though Chen Jian is a very well-behaved person, Xia City is growing day by day, and Chen Jian's age is the same as Su Yue's. The son is almost the same, once Suyue dies, who will be the leader of the Dahe clan?