Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 59

In the next few days, Sun Xin took Tang Long to a secluded corner of Shili Pai under the pretext of going to climb Yunshan Mountain to collect medicine, and began to study the pepper bottle musket carefully.

After countless times of stimulating exercises, the two gradually adjusted the design of the musket.

It is impossible to reduce the recoil force of such a rough musket. Sun Xin simply asked Tang Long to fine-tune the angle of each barrel according to the direction of the recoil force when firing different barrels.

In the end, the six barrels of the pepper shaker pistol were all pointed in different directions to offset the error caused by the bouncing of the muzzle.

Two days later, Sun Xin got eight pepper bottle pistols that could guarantee hitting human targets within 20 meters.

This pistol has many disadvantages: bulky, low accuracy, and reloading is even more troublesome. After a round of shooting, you need to wait for more than ten minutes until the red barrel cools down before continuing to reload. It is basically a one-time weapon in battle. up.

But the advantage that Sun Xin valued the most was that the pistol fired very quickly.

The firing speed of this thing depends only on the speed at which the gunman ignites the fire with the fire pocket and his arm's ability to bear it.

Sun Xin has a strong physique. After two days of practice and getting used to the recoil as if he was beaten, he can already shoot quickly with two guns in each hand and two guns between his fingers.

Fire out six bullets in one gun within three seconds, and then use another three seconds to shoot out all the bullets in the other gun. Sun Xin can shoot two guns in ten seconds plus the hand-changing time. All twelve high-powered buckshots.Moreover, the hit rate within 20 meters is close to [-]%. After using a projectile with a specific shape and a large enough charge, the projectile can even easily penetrate armor.

This is a firing level that no matter what kind of bow and crossbow concealed weapon can't reach it these days.Let's put it this way, if Sun Xin had used this pepper bottle musket when he met Zhu Biao, even if he aimed at Zhu Biao's leg, his leg would have been amputated before Zhu Biao could react.

After developing these eight weapons, Sun Xin called his three apprentices.

Seeing Sun Xin's mysterious expression, Zou Run asked directly: "Master, are we going to do private business?"

This blunt words stunned Sun Xin.

It turned out that the three apprentices had already seen that he was quite ambitious. They had already guessed that Sun Xin was going to do something illegal when they learned that he and Tang Long were secretly preparing things outside Zhuangzi.

And for this they have no resistance.

Sun Xin thinks about it too, the social atmosphere of this era is much more vicious than that of later generations.

Let's see if one of the tyrants in the Water Margin is a law-abiding citizen?

Chao Gai’s village often takes in private businessmen traveling from south to north, not to mention Xiaoxuanfeng Chaijin’s Zhuangzi blatantly hides a bunch of wanted criminals. Jiangzhou fishery boss Zhang Shun works with his brother Zhang Heng in his spare time. Murder and robbery on the river.

The houses of various powerful landlords are either hooking up with this bandit or making friends with that force.

It's not a big deal, but it's not much better. Think about it, when Lu Zhishen and Shi Jin were not entangled, the first way they came up with was to find a woods on the road, squat down and rob them, if you say they have a conscience It's just that Master Lu may still want to save the other party's life after the robbery.

In this day and age, there are only a few rich people who don't have blood on their hands. Sun Xin feels that his three apprentices have long wanted to go out with him to do some bloody business.

Finding these three people to win the birthday key is something that Sun Xin had planned long ago.

These three apprentices have been with him for such a long time, and he can basically guarantee that all three of them are loyal enough to him, not to mention that his team of three is much more united than the seven who outwitted the birth plan in Water Margin , and even Bai Sheng, the weakest of the seven guys, only confessed after being beaten up. In contrast, Sun Xin's confidence in his team is quite sufficient.

Xie Zhen said with a smile: "In the past, I often thought about making a fortune, but I never found a way out. Today, Master is taking me with me, and I'm going to go with the knife, and go with the fire."

Jie Bao, who just turned fourteen, also stepped forward and said, "Master, what are we going to do this time? Is it smuggling salt, smuggling tea, or snatching horses from the North?"

Sun Xin patted Xie Bao on the back of the head and smiled, "I have such a large village now, how about taking the risk of selling salt to earn some money? Don't talk too much, let's take a look at our weapons this time."

When they saw the eight muskets made by Sun Xin and Tang Long, people were all confused, and when Sun Xin showed his ten-second twelve-shot shooting skills, the three opened their mouths in surprise. .

Then the three of them happily picked up the muskets assigned to them and practiced.

Sun Xin and his three apprentices practiced guns in a secluded place in full swing, until two days later Wang Zheng drove a carriage from Dengzhou City to Sunjiazhuang.

As soon as he entered the main room, Wang Zheng said to Sun Xin: "My father heard that you have ginseng here, so he asked me to buy it, but the price is only 150 taels. Brother Sun Xin, would you like it?"

Hu Taigong’s so-called 500-year-old ginseng sold for more than 170 taels. Although the shipping fee from the Jin Dynasty to the Song Dynasty was added, the local price was there. Sun Xin’s red ginseng only sold for 150 taels. It is considered low, but Sun Xin knows that there are some favors that he should do.

Without even thinking about it, he smiled at Wang Zheng: "Since my brother has spoken, it doesn't matter if you have more money or less money. I will sell this red ginseng to my brother."

Wang Zheng was very happy when he heard the words, nodded and said: "Okay, I will write down this feeling."

Immediately, he asked someone to bring the silver, and the red ginseng was delivered clearly.

Suddenly, 150 taels of silver came into the account, and when the money was presented to Hu Sanniang, Hu Sanniang was naturally overjoyed.

In the afternoon, Sun Xin rode to Dengzhou Prefecture, and asked Sun Li about his birthday.

Sun Li replied that he had heard that the waterway from Shandong to the west would not be opened until a few days later, and the government would usually leave a few days for everything to be done. The days are probably just a few days away.

Sun Xin nodded secretly, and after talking with Sun Li about other things, he told Sun Li that he would leave Shili Pai for a while and go out to do some business.

Hearing this, Sun Li was not surprised.

He told Sun Xin to be careful, and told him that now that he has a family and a business, he must not work hard when some things can be done, and Sun Xin nodded to show that he understood.

Sun Xin didn't go to gun practice that night, and went home to have a good rest.

He hugged his daughter-in-law, who was already a little pregnant, and counted: "The 150 taels for selling ginseng will be used to pay back the money for selling iron and stone in Laizhou when the time comes. As for the other money owed, I will go out in two days." Once there, it will be there when you come back.”

Hu Sanniang knew that Sun Xin had been annoyed by the cost of repairing Zhuangzi in the past few days, and Sun Xin was suddenly busy preparing weapons these days. She had already guessed that her man would definitely go out to do business.

"Can you really earn that much money back?"

"You still don't believe me!"

"It's not that I don't believe it, it's just...a few hundred taels of silver is not worth fighting for." Hu Sanniang lowered her head and muttered.

(End of this chapter)