Chapter 165 Ends

After the last battle of Nangantang, Liu Yidao learned more about Yu Xiaotian's character and knew that this person was amazing. In a short time when he came to Fuzhou, his strength expanded rapidly. At first, there was only one dilapidated bird boat, but now he has four or five boats, and his men have as many as 70 or 80 people. So many, even people like him dare not easily offend Xiaotian now.

And he also learned from others that Yu Xiaotian and Wang Hong, the third son of the Shark Gang, have a good relationship, and even Qian Lao Er value Xiaotian very much. As a result, few people in Fuzhou dare to easily provoke Yu Xiaotian.

What's more, the last time Zhou Cheng came to find Yu Xiaotian's trouble, not only did he not take advantage of it, but he was also ruined by Yu Xiaotian, and all of them were in the hands of Yu Xiaotian.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian did not agree to his words, and he did not dare to say that Yu Xiaotian was not, so he had to stay on Treasure Island for a day and then returned home to reply to Zhang Chuan's reply to Yu Xiaotian's reply.

This incident was a lot of trouble in Fuzhou. The Lei family had no choice but to redeem his people with 300 taels of silver, but this breath was difficult to swallow for a moment, so they called around, hoping that the government could pay attention to this matter and send troops to suppress the sea wolf.

But the government will not easily agree to this kind of matter. Even if the relationship between the Lei family in Fuzhou is very wide, because the government will dispatch troops to suppress this kind of matter, which is easy to cause big trouble.

What's more, it's illegal for merchants like the Lei family to go to go to sea and do business. It can't be put on an official point of view. Everything is a private big guy who turns a blind eye. It doesn't matter what the benefits are. They are unlucky that they have an accident and are robbed by pirates. As long as pirates do not attack the land on a large scale, they will It is regarded as ensuring the safety of one party, and the superior will not be investigated.

But once troops are sent to suppress it, it is too much involved. If this group of soldiers wants to allocate money for the sailors, the sailors will definitely propose to repair the ships and build new warships, which will cost a lot.

And they have not forgotten the lesson of the government's crackdown on Nanri Island two or three years ago. The last time the government failed to suppress the Nanri Island Shark Gang, and later many officials were dismissed as a result, and some officials were simply arrested by the brocade guards, resulting in a ruin and exile. Several military will also be Exemption from office and arrest.

Once the suppression fails this time, no one wants to bear such consequences. Therefore, although the Lei family wanted to retaliate against Xiaotian through their relationship, the government turned a deaf ear to it and was not the same thing at all. Therefore, the Lei family finally spent a lot of money, but nothing was done. I can stare and admit defeat.

These things were quickly fed back to Yu Xiaotian through the Li family, which also made Yu Xiaotian completely relieved, and the Li family did not fail to keep their promise. They received all the goods that Yu Xiaotian had robbed from the Lei family this time, and gave a very good price, which made Yu Xiaotian make another profit. This did not count. The Li family quickly A big Buddha machine was handed over to Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian was very happy. Although the Franco machine gun is not a very advanced artillery, it is much stronger than the "earth cannons" he has. The important thing is that this Franco machine gun is very fast. Even if the range is limited, it is also a big killer for people like them.

After the gun was transported back to Treasure Island, Yu Xiaotian immediately unpacked and inspected the goods and looked at it carefully.

This big Buddha Lang machine is probably the so-called thousand catties Buddha Lang machine recorded in history, but many records in Chinese history are very different from the actual situation and have great exaggeration. This Buddha Lang machine may be a thousand catties Buddha Lang machine, but its weight is far less than a thousand catties, at most three More than 100 pounds, at best, a nine-pound cannon is good.

So this Buddha machine can only be called the big Buddha machine, which is not as big as Yu Xiaotian thought at first, but so far, it is also the largest and the most powerful cannon he has!

Take a closer look. This Big Buddha machine is made of cooked iron casting, but the casting quality is not flattering. After casting, the surface is rough. Only the inner chamber of the mother's chamber and the joint part of the son's hammer are polished more carefully. There is no inscription on the gun body, indicating that the gun is not supervised by the government, but underground. Private casting in the workshop.

There are nine Ziqi, which is packed in another box. After opening it, take out one. After checking it, you can find that the Ziqi casting is still sloppy, and the polishing is also fine, indicating that the person who cast this cannon is very clear what the key is. For the sloppy appearance, the key parts are still relatively refined. Fine.

Although it is not as good as he expected, Yu Xiaotian is still very satisfied with getting such a cannon, which shows that the Li family's path is very wide, and he must be in close contact with some merchants in Guangdong. Otherwise, it would be good for them to get ordinary cannons at most. This kind of Folang machine gun is basically impossible.

You should know that it is not easy to cast the Franco machine gun, because the female gun has an open gun tail, it is very troublesome to open the mold, and the casting yield is not high, so the price will be quite high after casting.

This time, the Li family took out such a thing and asked him to attack the Lei family. It can be seen that they really hate the Lei family very much, otherwise they would not have so much blood.

However, on the other hand, he can also see that the reason why the Li family did this is also a test for him, that is, to see how much his ability has improved during this period, and whether it is worth continuing to support him.

If he fails to intercept the two ships of the Lei family this time, I'm afraid that he will be abandoned by the Li family and secretly support a group of pirates as their supporters.

Now he has done this, and he has done it alone without looking for any help. In this way, the Li family should know his ability. It is estimated that the next step will be to support him more strongly, which is exactly what Yu Xiaotian needs now. The two sides are now taking what they need and combine in a short time. It will be quite pleasant.

After watching the goods, Yu Xiaotian turned his head and saw that Zhang blacksmith also came to look down at the big Buddha machine, so he smiled and said to Zhang blacksmith, "Master Zhang, how do you look at this cannon?"

Zhang Blacksmith nodded and said, "The craftsmanship is good. It should be made by a famous craftsman! On the surface, this guy is very rough, but in fact he knows what to do. Although he is a little lazy, it should be used well on the whole! Let's do this. This cannon will be sent to me first, and I will polish it and repair the place where it should be repaired. It will be easier to use and look more beautiful!"

Yu Xiaotian nodded and agreed, which made people send the cannon to Zhang's shop. When Zhang's blacksmith turned his head and left, Yu Xiaotian looked at his back and touched his beard on his chin, with a memorable smile on the corners of his mouth.

The big Buddha Lang machine sent by the Li family is only a gun body and has no gun rack, which requires Yu Xiaotian to solve the problem of the gun rack by himself.

Yu Xiaotian was not in a hurry to get a gun rack for the big Buddha machine gun, but first climbed to the lucky boat and began to carefully inspect the lucky boat from the inside out.

After the inspection by him and Guo Fu, Yu Xiaotian can confirm that this lucky boat is a new ship that is not old, and it is less than two years old at most. It should be built in the boathouse on the other side of Quanzhou. The hull is strong, and the keel is made of nanmu, which is very strong and exquisite. The board of the ship is made of half a foot thick pine wood. The partition is also made of hardwood, and the materials are relatively miscellaneous, but they are all good. Basically, they can be used directly without much repair.

What just makes Yu Xiaotian depressed is that people who run on the sea in this era don't seem to have any sense of hygiene. The cabin is very dirty, which is basically similar to his previous sea wolf. There are actually places with urine stains, even stools. Each cabin is stinky, which is really impossible. Endure.

So Yu Xiaotian ordered Guo Fu to take his apprentice son to repair the damaged part of the hull, and the rest of his men began to thoroughly clean up the two newly acquired ships.

Treasure Island is now busy. Everyone is busy on the boat like ants, cleaning up garbage, spreading lime in the cabin, and smoking in the cabin with copper basins to kill mosquitoes and fleas in the cabin.

The sails of the two ships were also unloaded, thoroughly cleaned, wiped off the two huge thunder words above, and finally brushed them with tung oil.

Yu Xiaotian is a little dissatisfied with the method of covering the sail with a layer of tung oil. Although this thing can have a certain anti-corrosion effect on the hull and sail, it is too flammable. It is easy to be ignited when it occupies the fire. However, at present, he does not have the fireproof paint or fireproof paint of later generations, so he can only use this method. .

Instead, Guo Fu came up with a solution, saying that there is something that can be solved on the land, that is, to mix Du Zhong's tree juice and the juice in the seeds into something called Du Zhong paint, replacing tung oil and painting it on the sail, so that it can be fireproof. Even if it is stained with some fire, it will not be ignited soon. It's good. It's just not easy to deal with, and the price is extremely high.

Yu Xiaotian heard that there was such a good thing. He just heard that Du Zhong was a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, but he didn't know that it could also play a role in fire prevention. It seems that there are really many things he didn't know in the world. The wisdom of the ancients was not something he could underestimate, so even if someone wrote it down, he would inform the Li family later. No matter how much it costs, find a way to get a batch of such things back for him.

Next, Yu Xiaotian carefully observed the stern of the ship and observed the internal structure internally. Finally, he decided to place the Great Buddha cannon in this place first.

The bow of the blessing ship is high. Although the vision is good, it is inconvenient to set up artillery. The artillery can only fire from both sides of the bow, but it cannot fire at the front. It is not very convenient to adjust the gun, and it takes a lot of manpower.

If he has a lot of cannons, he can still deal with it, but at present, his cannons are too few. If he can hold such a cannon, he must find a better position to put them on the scene.

So in the end, he put the cannon on the sway, so that the tall sway provided the gun with a better shooting boundary and a more spacious place.

However, the structure of the stern is probably a little insufficient. After all, this lucky ship is not built according to the standards of the warship, and the structure is not as strong as the warship, so after mounting this cannon, it is likely to damage the structure of the stern tower due to the recoil.

Therefore, before installation, Guo Fu also needs to strengthen the structure of the interior of the suff building to make it enough to bear the recoil of the gun.

However, the reinforcement of the stern tower involves the balance of the ship. The stern building increases a lot of weight, so it must also be leveled at the bow position, and the ballast stone of the cabin should be aggravated to avoid increasing the weight of the ship too much and causing the instability of the hull.

In a word, if the whole body moves like this, it will still take a lot of time and time to make the overall adjustment.

Xiaotian doesn't care about this time. He now has a lot of time to do these things, as long as he can get a boat that he is satisfied with! This is the foundation of his future foothold in the sea.