Chapter 57 The scalpers begin to reveal

[57] The scalpers are beginning to show their great

As soon as Yao Fan arrived ten miles away from the castle, he saw a group of people gathering on the edge of the town from afar.

Yao Fan waved his hand to greet him and was found by everyone, so those people rushed over from afar and surrounded Yao Fan to ask for warmth.

He Shicheng rushed to Yao Fan awkwardly, hugged Yao Fan's arm, and said with a runny and tears, "My boss! You are back! These two days have scared me to death."

Zhou Fourth also cried, "You are wronged!"

Li Jun asked, "How is the owner's body?" Have the bandits ever hit their boss?

Yao Fan touched He Shicheng's head, shook hands with everyone happily, and said, "I'm very good there. It's not difficult for the bandits to eat and sleep. I thought that I couldn't be caught for nothing. I ate so much that I almost made them poor.

Everyone laughed when they saw that Yao Fan was as witty as usual and obviously unaffected.

Liu Jinbao wiped his tears and said, "I know that the owner is a good man with great fortune, and there is God's protection everywhere." The guys nodded in agreement.

Yao Fan smiled and comforted the guys. Seeing that Fubo was still standing among them, he smiled and bowed, "Thank you, Fubo, for your help."

A trace of blush flashed on Fubo's old face and said, "Yao Dong's family is auspicious. How can a group of horse bandits break their luck?"

Yao Fan didn't say a word and nodded with a smile.

Fubo said again, "My son is waiting for your message in the town. Go and report your safety."

Yao Fan agreed and took He Shicheng into the ten-mile castle.

It turned out that the Li family borrowed a yard from a landlord surnamed Wang in Shilibao Town and temporarily placed it here. Outside the yard, they also temporarily set up a sunshade with bamboo and oilcloth, and the outside was full of Li's family with knives.

Hearing the subordinate report that Yao Fan was released by the horse bandit who took the ransom, Li Jingshu flew out and roared and shouted at Yao Fan more than 30 meters away, "Brother Yao! Brother Yao!"

Yao Fan was also quite moved. There was a meeting, and the Li boy was also quite humane.

The two approached and hurriedly saluted and greeted each other. Then Yao Fan and he entered the rented yard of the Li family and met the three brothers of the Li family together.

The three sat down around a simple round table. Yao Fan saw that Li Jingxuan's eyes were red, as if he had cried.

Li Jingfang sat next to Yao Fan, held Yao Fan's hand excitedly and said, "Brother Yao, you are back! What a lucky man! Don't worry! I will definitely help you with this breath!

Zheng Tingguo, who knows Wei County, is really incompetent! The restraining place is so weak, and the horse bandits are rampant. They are so brave enough to rob the official road in broad daylight! When I arrive in Jinan, I will definitely find Ding Baozhen to sue him!"

Li Jingshu apologized and said, "My eldest brother originally wanted to send someone to break up those horse bandits. Unexpectedly, these people intercepted Brother Yao, which really made my brothers very anxious. Now Brother Yao has come back safely, which makes my brother feel safe."

Fubo interrupted: "If Yao Dong's family blames me for being immortal. I'm really old and dizzy. I not only ran away from the horse bandits, but also taught Yao Dong's family to suffer."

Yao Fan said, "What a horse bandit, it's just a group of traders. They pay money with one hand and pay people with the other. There is nothing to worry about it. Uncle, don't worry about this kind of thing, as long as they are people who go out to do business, who have not been robbed."

Seeing that Yao Fan had become unsurprised and tolerant and generous, he was extremely admiring and said, "After Yao Dong's family was kidnapped, my son originally planned to report to the official, but when I thought about it, this group of horse bandits was not many, only 30 or 50 people. They kidnapped people were nothing more than asking for money, if they reported it. The officers and soldiers gathered around and must have scared them to tear up their tickets and escape. Sure enough, these bandits sent someone to talk about redemption that night.

Yao Fan got up and bowed, "Fortunately, my uncle's rich experience saved my life. Yao Fan thanked you here!"

He was praised by Yao Fan in front of the three children of the Li family. Fubo was very proud. He quickly picked up Yao Fan and asked, "It's a pity that there were many military crossbows in Yao Dong's car. If it hadn't been for the sorghum land on both sides of the government and Taoism, he would have been able to be on guard against the bandits who shot them earlier."

Yao Fan quickly covered up and said, "Those are not military crossbows, but Western*. They were built by my factory and sold to the royal families of the Western countries for hunting."

Fubo said, "I asked your family He Shicheng to try it for me. That crossbow is full of stone, which is really more powerful than what I used in the Qing army. There is no cow tendon on it, but it is actually a steel string! All the organs are also made of fine steel. The best thing is that it is actually a pedal winding, rather than the handle of an ordinary crossbow machine, which can be folded. He is really a good guy in ten thousand. It's just that there is no barb, only a steel cone. It seems that it is indeed for hunting.

Yao Fan took a look at the three people of the Li family and smiled, "Since Fubo likes it, I will give you a hand. This crossbow used to be exclusively for foreign royal nobles to hunt, and it was worth more than 1,000 taels of silver. Fubo, you know the goods. Just take it and play.

Fubo said, "I can't afford such a baby. Besides, this is a taboo thing. Yao Dong's family must not take it out in front of people in the future, just hunt and enjoy it by yourself."

Li Jingfang said peacefully, "It turns out that Brother Yao's family still has such magic weapons made by factories overseas."

Yao Fan covered up with a smile: "My factories in Taixi make high-end objects, and this folding* is just one of them."

Li Jing asked, "Why did the foreigner trust Brother Yao's family? Do you want to rest assured to give such a good royal artifact to your home?

Yao Fan laughed and said, "This all depends on relationships. My family spends no more than 100,000 yuan on dredging relationships every year, which can take orders from foreigners.

Besides, although this crossbow machine is made in my factory, it is actually assembled. The steel string is customized from the marine steel cable factory in Toulouse, France. The manipulator is customized by the British Royal Iron Factory. The rest of the parts are also purchased from many famous factories in Taixi, and then the craftsman with excellent craftsmanship is carefully polished and made. It can be made.

Because all parts are purchased from foreigners, foreigners are not taboo.

Li Jingfang suddenly realized that he looked at Fubo and nodded. They also don't believe that Yao Fan can make private weapons from head to toe.

Fubo said, "The steel mouth of this crossbow machine and the steel mouth of the bicycle are two hundreds of steelmaking that are not inferior to my Qing Dynasty knives and guns."

Li Jingfang asked, "Brother Yao, can your family easily get these good steels?"

Yao Fan said, "Brother Li, does he have a factory at home? If you want, whether it's gun steel or marine steel, I can buy it for you. I promise that if you go to find foreigners by yourself, foreigners will not sell them.

Li Jingfang thought about it and said that Yao Fan was really a good helper. In the future, if his father could not buy it from foreigners, he could secretly get some real things from the inside of foreigners.

When Yao Fan said this, his mind suddenly came to a bold idea and said to Li Jingfang, "I heard that 1862, that is, the year of Tongzhi, the imperial court entrusted Nelson, the British general of taxation at that time. Oh, by the way, this person's Chinese name is Li Thai and ordered seven warships from the United Kingdom.

Later, due to the floating cost of shipbuilding, he was hired by the British Aspen to occupy 600 ocean sailors and refused to come down. He refused to let the Chinese sailors board the ship in order to control the military power of the Chinese navy. The British minister said that he would not hand over the ships if he did not agree with the British control. Later, Lord Li returned the warship to Britain in 1863, and the British drove the ship back to China for auction.

It is said that the court not only did not receive compensation, but lost 382,000 taels before and after. Is this possible?

Li Jingfang was stunned and said to himself, "He also knows such a national event. Well, such a shameful thing must have been spread by foreigners all over the country."

Fubo said angrily, "Yao Dong's family heard about it in Taixi, right? Not bad! It is true that there is such a thing, but Lord Li is loyal to the country! There is no deviation in this matter!"

Li Jingfang waved his hand to Fubo, so Fubo stopped talking.

Li Jingfang said, "There is such a thing. British people bully people too much! The ship I bought in the Qing Dynasty was actually threatened by them. Isn't the navy a British vassal state? Such a great shame, I can't stand it!"

Yao Fan said lightly, "After those wooden shell ships were towed back to England, I also got on the boat and saw it. It's just some British garbage. The largest 'Jiangsu ship' has a displacement of 1260 tons, 300 horsepower, 12 knots speed, two 68-pound front-installed cannons, four 18-pound cannons front-on cannons, which can only reach two miles away.

The rest has a 'Beijing ship' with 670 tons of displacement, a 'China ship' with 669 tons of displacement, a 'Guangdong ship' with 552 tons of displacement, one 'Tianjin ship' with 445 tons of displacement, and the rest are more than 300 tons of displacement.

There are seven pieces of rubbish, it's okay."

Li Jingfang's eyes gradually widened. Listening to Yao Fan's tone, he immediately touched it and asked, "Brother Yao can buy a better boat?"

Yao Fan said, "It can not only be bought, but also an ironclad ship, not a wooden shell ship, driven by a pure steam engine, without sails, with a speed of about 15 knots, a displacement of about 2,500 tons, and 10 to 16 guns with a range of more than 3 miles."

Li Jingfang said excitedly, "It took great pains to build a wooden-shell sailed 'Yangwu' cruiser, with 1393 tons of displacement and a downwind speed of only 15 knots!" 13 British front guns were installed, costing 254,000 taels of silver! Brother Yao, how much is the boat you mentioned?

Yao Fan blinked and said, "I guess it's only 15,000 taels of gold?" But that's armor! You don't need a sail, just burn coal!"

Li Jingfang roughly calculated exactly 250,000 taels of silver and said happily, "Brother Yao, don't spread this matter. When you get to Jinan, I'll introduce someone to you!"