Takeda Harunobu, who was acting as a light bulb again, looked away from his sister and brother-in-law showing affection in front of them. After they were done, he deliberately asked in a disgraceful way: "How much does this candy cost?"
"Always." Imagawa Yoshimoto had already anticipated Takeda Harunobu's subsequent fire, and simply answered frankly.
"A full line?" Takeda Harunobu also expected that the price quoted by Imagawa Yoshimoto would be very expensive, but he didn't expect it to be so expensive. "A full line of money? To buy those bigger candies? Are you sick, Goro?
If you have money and nowhere to spend it, you can give it to me, so what are you going to do for those profiteers?"
"tasty,
What do you know, a Kaibi country bumpkin from the mountains?" Ginkgo glared at Takeda Harunobu fiercely, "You've never seen the world!"
"Who are you calling a Kai country bumpkin? Aren't you? After living in Suruga for several years, you have forgotten your origins?" Takeda Harunobu quarreled with his sister unceremoniously.
At this moment, a ninja ran quickly from a distance, holding a long black tube in his hand.
"Your Highness, I bought what you asked for." The ninja presented the clarinet to Takeda Harunobu,
Takeda Harunobu picked up the clarinet with satisfaction,
He took two more small bags from the ninja's hands.
"What is this,
Goro, do you know?" Takeda Harunobu shook the clarinet in his hand and proudly showed off to Imagawa Yoshimoto.
"What is this?" Imagawa Yoshimoto's intuition told him that the thing in front of him should not be simple.
"Tiepao." Takeda Harunobu showed a satisfied smile, "You can also call it Tanegashima."
"How much did it cost?" Ginkgo on the side choked angrily.
"Fifty francs." Takeda Harunobu calmly reported a price that was already an astronomical figure for him. As expected, Imagawa Yoshimoto and Ginkgo were stunned in an instant.
"Fifty sticks?" Ginkgo was so shocked that he almost didn't even hold the kite in his hand. He pointed at the iron cannon in Takeda Harunobu's hand and said, "Just bought a black stick? Are you still the one like me who wants to break open a penny?
Brother?"
"I, Takeda Harunobu, never waste money. Since I am willing to spend 50 kan to buy it, it means it is really worth it." Takeda Harunobu slammed the iron cannon on the ground and began to take out tools from the bag.
Takeda Harunobu first took out a pig hair brush, put it into the barrel of the iron cannon, cleaned it several times, and got out some black and gray debris. Then he took out a small handful of gunpowder from the small bag.
, poured it into the gun chamber, and then stabbed it hard with a wooden stick a few times to compact it. After that, he took out a black projectile the size of gravel.
He stuffed it into the barrel of the gun and struck it hard with the stick.
After completing a series of preparatory work,
Takeda Harunobu took out two more flints and rubbed the match rope on the exposed part of the iron cannon, igniting the oil-soaked match rope. Takeda Harunobu then picked up the iron cannon and pointed the muzzle of the gun diagonally upward at the ginkgo plant.
kite, then pulled the trigger, and dipped the match rope into the firing cup behind the barrel——
I heard a loud noise, and there was another flash of fire in front of my eyes, followed by smoke, which startled Imagawa Yoshimoto and Ginkgo who were close at hand. The next moment, I heard paper coming from the kite in the sky.
There was a sound of being smashed. The two looked up and found that a round hole had been punched in the center of the kite.
"This is the power of the iron cannon." Takeda Harunobu proudly raised the barrel of the gun, which was still emitting gunpowder smoke, and smiled at Imagawa Yoshimoto, "An imported product from the Southern Barbarians, the bows and arrows of the Southern Barbarians. The range is not much shorter than that of bows and arrows, but
The power is several times that of a bow and arrow. Not to mention leather armor, even the most powerful armor in the world can be penetrated with one shot."
"Is this... a slingshot driven by gunpowder?" Yoshimoto Imagawa, who saw the iron cannon for the first time, obviously didn't understand what it was. "Did you shoot a stone?"
"Could it be another sorcery..." Ginkgo on the side looked at the clarinet with side eyes and took a few steps back uneasily.
I pulled Imagawa Yoshimoto, who just went to ward off evil spirits a few days ago.
"Such a loud noise,
The kite in the distance broke."
"Sister, stop those monsters and ghosts. Goro is right, this is a stone that was shot out. The Nanman people call it a projectile." Takeda Harunobu took out the small black ball called a "projectile" from the bag as he said it.
Imagawa Yoshimoto and Ginkgo waved it in front of their eyes, and then took out a handful of gunpowder from another bag, "You know this gunpowder, right? It's the smoke that bursts out after the gunpowder is ignited and explodes, pushing the projectiles out.
"
"How can you have so much strength by blowing a breath?" Ginkgo glanced at the gap in the kite in the distance in puzzlement, "Can you push this stone so fast?"
"If you don't believe me, just watch it again." Takeda Harunobu simply repeated the loading process. After working for a long time, he aimed at the kite again and fired a shot - this time it missed the target, but the trajectory of the projectile flying into the sky was still the same.
clear and distinct.
"It's a very interesting gadget." Imagawa Yoshimoto nodded and said perfunctorily to Takeda Harunobu, "When you are bored, you can play with a kite on the castle tower."
"What Goro, don't you understand? This is not for flying kites, it is for fighting, and it will bring about earth-shaking changes to the wars around the world!" Takeda Harunobu was struck by Imagawa Yoshimoto's stupidity.
He jumped to his feet and argued with a red face: "With these iron cannons, the pattern of war will be completely changed. I heard from the merchants of the Southern Barbarians that the Southern Barbarians have now installed these iron cannons on a large scale and have eliminated all bows and arrows."
Lost!"
"You mean to use it like a bow and arrow for long-range shooting?" Imagawa Yoshimoto probably understood what Takeda Harunobu meant, but then he shook his head and said, "No way..."
"Why can't it work?" Takeda Harunobu suddenly became anxious. He loaded another round with great difficulty, and then aimed at the signboard of an abandoned shop not far away and fired - but the first shot missed. The bullet was unknown.
Where did it go? Takeda Harunobu was a little embarrassed, so he forced himself to load it once with ink marks on it for a long time, and pulled the trigger again - after a loud noise, the projectile actually penetrated the piece of wood, leaving a gap full of debris.
——This is a lethality far beyond what bows and arrows can achieve.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Did you see it?" Takeda Harunobu pointed at his trophy, "This thing is more powerful than a bow and arrow, and it can also cause huge damage to warriors wearing armor on the battlefield.
One shot, and even the gods will fall."
"But it seems that the hit rate is not high." Imagawa Yoshimoto pointed to the kite in the sky, and then pointed to the wooden board in front of him, "At this distance, bows and arrows are always accurate."
"That's because it's my first time to use this thing, so naturally I can't hit it accurately. I just need to practice more." Takeda Harunobu said matter-of-factly.
"Practice more. The accuracy of this kind of thing can't be compared with bows and arrows, right?" Yoshimoto Imagawa observed the iron cannon in Takeda Harunobu's hand, "It's difficult to aim at all, and as you said, its
The launch relies entirely on gunpowder to blow out the rocks, and there is no way to fine-tune the direction manually."
"If you insist on saying that, then it is definitely because no archery master like you can shoot accurately, but iron cannons can use surface damage to improve their own shortcomings in hit rate. If a hundred people stand in a row, even if they fire together, they will all go wrong.
Can it hit a lot of people?" Takeda Harunobu put forward a very beautiful idea, and then continued to try to prove the correctness of his judgment, "Besides, no matter how accurate the bow and arrow is, its power is insufficient. How can it compare with the iron cannon?
?”
"Indeed, the iron cannon is quite powerful, and it makes sense to use it to replace bows and arrows." Imagawa Yoshimoto began to seriously examine the plaything in front of him, "But the problem is that it takes too long for him to fire one.
It’s time for half a cup of tea. With this skill, the archers will have shot four or five arrows. The enemy, let alone the cavalry, even the ashigaru will have already walked in your face."
"There are many ways to improve it." Takeda Harunobu started to talk to Imagawa Yoshimoto about the benefits of this iron cannon like a salesman. "Weigh the gunpowder in advance and put it in a paper bag or bamboo tube. Find a special
Someone can load for the iron gunner, or practice more frequently... you can always increase the shooting frequency."
"It's rare for my brother to be so enthusiastic, and it's rare for him to be so keen on recommending good things to others." Ginkgo noticed the clues and came to Imagawa Yoshimoto, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Sir, be careful of being deceived.
.If it is really a good thing, I can guarantee that my brother must have kept it to himself without telling anyone, so how could he share it with others?"
"Sister, don't doubt me or my relationship with Goro!" Seeing this, Takeda Harunobu hurriedly stepped forward and pulled Imagawa Yoshimoto away, hugged his shoulders, and made a gesture of "good friends", "
The Takeda family and the Imagawa family are closely related allies, who wouldn’t want the alliance to become stronger?”
"Don't come here." Ginkgo snorted, not bothering to argue with Takeda Harunobu, and sat down on the rocks nearby.
"Then since Tora Chiyo has already talked about this, I'll buy some and go back and take a look." Imagawa Yoshimoto couldn't resist Takeda Harunobu's kindness, so it was worth relenting.
"That's right, your Imagawa family is rich. Let's try it first. If it works well, my Takeda family will deploy it on a large scale and use this to replace bows and arrows." Takeda Harunobu showed a satisfied smile and squeezed Imagawa Yoshimoto's shoulders hard.
pinch.
"Tsuchihara." Imagawa Yoshimoto then called to the Tutonsuke who was standing by, and pointed to the iron cannon in Takeda Harunobu's hand, "This dark thing is called 'iron cannon', and it seems to be available from Nanman merchants.
I bought it. Go and buy 400 of them for me and transport them back to Suruga directly by sea, and buy a few boxes of Jinpei candy on the way."
"Four... four four four four - one hundred?" Takeda Harunobu was dumbfounded when he heard this, and almost fell to the ground - this is a full 20,000 kusen, the annual income of countless small daimyo - the Takeda family is so wealthy
The boss of the mine didn't even have that much of a surplus for the whole year, so Imagawa Yoshimoto spent it like this without blinking an eye?
I have long heard that the Imagawa family has become rich and wealthy in recent years under the governance of Taiyuan Xuezai, but I didn't expect it to be so outrageous. Of course, there is also Imagawa Yoshimoto who deceived the Hojo family navy and merchant ships, and vigorously encouraged sea trade.
Credit - Although Imagawa Yoshimoto's original intention was just to buy Jinpei candy for Ginkgo.
Just when Takeda Harunobu was having a fierce psychological struggle and was about to abandon his dignity for the first time in his life and ask someone to ask Imagawa Yoshimoto to give him some money to buy an iron cannon, a horse suddenly came from a distance. The person was coming.
He is a disciple of Taiyuan Xuezhai, Amano Jingde who came with him.
"Your Highness, Master Sekssai, please return to Kyoto as soon as possible." Amano Keitoku reined in his horse, dismounted, and whispered in front of Imagawa Yoshimoto.
"What's wrong?" Imagawa Yoshimoto couldn't tell the seriousness of the matter from Amano Keitoku's tone - because although Amano Keitoku was young, he always had a dead face and always spoke with a lifeless tone - he
The expression of the crow on his shoulder is richer than his.
"The Shiokawa family has rebelled." Amano Keitoku reported truthfully.
"Shiokawa?" Imagawa Yoshimoto has obviously never heard of the word Miao.
"Master Yukisai said that Shiokawa Masatoshi may be just a small person, but he may just be the starting point for big people to take action." Amano Keitoku quoted Taiyuan Yukisai's original words: "Kinki, things are going to change."