Datang: Huchi served as a bodyguard, but refused to enter the court as an official

The dark grid bounced up.

Ma Biao and the others stretched their necks to take a look, and sweat broke out on their foreheads.

"Hey, how did you get this thing here?"

Recalling what Liu Bai said just now, there are more than [-] people in the same house, and some of them are timid, sweating as if they had taken a bath.

In the dark compartment is an eight-ox crossbow with a length of two feet and a width of nine feet!

This thing, in the Tang Dynasty, is the number one primitive killer.

Before firearms became popular, the eight-ox crossbow was definitely the most intimidating weapon!

As military supplies that are strictly prohibited from being exported, others have no chance to even look at them, let alone touch them.

When the army of the Tang Dynasty fought abroad, it had twenty eight-ox crossbows, so it was not afraid of the might of the cavalry.

At the beginning, Cheng Yaojin and Zhang Liang led an army of [-] to Goguryeo, but they only brought more than [-] eight-ox crossbows.

Just such a ship, even though it is a bit bigger, can accommodate at most a few hundred people.

There are also more than [-] eight-ox crossbows!

In an instant, Ma Biao and the others looked at Liu Bai in a very complicated way.

In the past, they were mostly in awe of Liu Bai, and even hated him. After getting to know Liu Bai to a certain extent, they became more afraid.

But today they discovered that they seem to have not fully understood Liu Bai!

Thirty eight oxen crossbows were placed on a single ship, even Li Jing didn't have this kind of ability!

Ma Biao swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and managed to make his voice less trembling.

"Young Master Liu, what are you going to ask us brothers to do?"

What he was most afraid of was hearing the word 'rebellion' from Liu Bai.

During the prosperity of the former Sui Dynasty, the five-tooth warship was used to force Chen Guo to perish!

But now, with a five-toothed ship and more than thirty eight-ox crossbows, even if they can't take down Chang'an City, it doesn't seem too difficult to take down important cities like Luoyang, Jinyang, and Jiangning.

Chapter 729 Robbery from a family?

Liu Bai looked at Ma Biao with disdain, and then with those who were also cowering behind him.

Guess with your heels, you can guess what they are thinking.

Those with long hair but short knowledge are talking about them.

I am a wood beetle, so I use the idea of ​​a wood beetle to think about the whole world.

Little did they know that the toads sitting in a well and watching the sky were a bit more generous than them.

Just relying on such a ship, trying to rebel?

Not to mention Jinyang, I am afraid that even a small county like Jingyang County cannot be captured by a mere five-toothed ship.

Fighting a war is not a foolish charge to win by momentary bravery.

The military of Datang has developed war to the level of art.

When Liu Bai was in the Academy's Military Academy, he could always hear many wonderful ideas.

Sun Wu's "Sun Tzu's Art of War", Wu Qi's "Wu Zi", Jiang Shang's "Six Secret Teachings", Huang Shigong's "Three Strategies", and even Li Jing's "Six Army Mirror" have long been recognized by students of military colleges. It was smashed.

Case after case where hundreds of riders defeated ten thousand enemies, even the bellybands were missing after they analyzed them.

The essence of war has long been clearly seen by them.

The topic that attracted the most attention was not the offensive and defensive issues of big cities such as Chang'an, Jinyang, Luoyang, etc., but the surrounding areas of these big cities, such as Jingyang County, a small city located in a major traffic hub!

On the big five-toothed ship, there were more than thirty eight-ox crossbows, which sounded majestic.

A siege attack can clear a path of blood!

But that's just on the cavalry phalanx, if you just pull out a student from the military academy, you can come up with dozens or hundreds of ways to crack it!

A very simple scattered formation can make the eight-ox crossbow completely useless.

Because of this, Liu Bai was able to ask for more than thirty crossbows from the military.

To put it bluntly, only in the eyes of Ma Biao and his group of local turtles can the Ba Niu crossbow have enough deterrent power.

If it was replaced by those in the court who knew the military power of the Great Tang, they would just sneer at it.

The cost of an eight-ox crossbow is nearly a thousand guns, and it is even more expensive if you add the standard three-base siege chisel.

On the contrary, it is better to spend a few pennies and bury two taels of gunpowder in the soil, the effect is more intuitive.

Liu Bai was really too lazy to explain too much nonsense to these local turtles.

After talking for a long time, his mouth was already parched.

It's a pity that basically all the living utensils on the five-toothed ship have been moved down.

The servants and maids also followed Liu Wan'er and the others to disembark, and there was no one to deliver water.

Xu Chu still had some wine.

But wine can't quench your thirst!

Liu Bai decided to hurry up and finish speaking, hurry up and let the group of people get out in the boat.

"Anyway!"

Liu Bai spoke suddenly, startling Ma Biao and the others.

"In short, the ship is given to you, and you can recruit people by yourself, and the money will be reimbursed. Other things have nothing to do with this young master!"

Ma Biao said dejectedly: "Young Master Liu, you haven't said what you want the little ones to do?"

Liu Bai smiled inscrutablely.

"Be a pirate!"

Everyone looked at each other.

Ma Biao was scratching his scalp and pondering, almost scratching the hair on his head.

"Keep this boat can't enter the sea either."

Ma Biao was still a half-expert, and he knew that the five-tooth warship was a gigantic monster with a height of more than ten feet, and once it entered the sea, it was no different from courting death.

However, he didn't have any psychological burden on being a pirate.

This group of people were originally robbers who gathered on the mountain to cut trails.

Going to be a pirate can't be considered a change of career, it can only be said to have expanded a new business.

Liu Bai looked at Ma Biao with even more contempt.

Even Xu Chu felt that Ma Biao was out of his mind.

"Entering the sea? Going into the sea to fish is almost the same. Once you enter the sea, there will be no one else but you. Who will grab it?"

Ma Biao nodded blankly.

Datang's coastline of tens of thousands of miles is estimated to be only on the East China Sea, and several small ports on the Bohai Sea, where sporadic ships enter the sea.

Moreover, ninety-nine percent of them are soldiers of the military navy, who went into the sea to salvage whales and sea treasures.

To rob them?

People with broken brains can't do it!

Other than that, there were only those who drove small boats to fish for pearls in the shallow sea on the South China Sea.

But it's not worthwhile to rob them

The five-tooth warship is so big, people need to eat, the ship needs to be repaired, and robbing pearl divers is better than fishing to get money quickly.

Ma Biao really couldn't figure out what Liu Bai meant.

Blushing, she stood aside and did not speak.

The third master, with a scarred face, stood behind Ma Biao with a troubled expression on his face.

It seems that there is something to say, but dare not say it.

Liu Bai saw his constipated expression, and said, "It seems you guessed it."

Ma Biao looked back, and said faintly: "Third Brother"

The corners of Dao Scar's eyes twitched a few times, and after a lot of effort, he said, "Young Master Liu, you don't want us to rob the caravans of the great families, do you?"

He is a sensible person, he ranks high under Zhang Zhongjian and knows many secret things.

Datang's aristocratic families are not too many, and they must not be considered few.

There are still twenty or thirty.

More than [-]% of Datang's farmland is in their hands.

How much money can you earn by growing crops reliably?

In a certain circle, there is an unspoken secret.

smuggling!

Just like the Lu family back then, he was inextricably linked with the Tubo people.

This connection was established through smuggling.

As far as Guang Liubai knows, almost most of the aristocratic families have some relationship with the foreign race of Fanbang.

Even the samurai Xun, who was at the bottom of the high-ranking nobles, tried in vain to deal with the Goguryeo people.

It's just that Liu Bai plotted against him before the deal was made.

Transporting goods on land is purely courting death.

Every city must have reasonable procedures.

You can't let the caravan travel across the mountains all day, right?

But looking for connections and breaking through obstacles on land would cost too much. Instead, it would be better to enter the shallow sea from the relatively poorly managed rivers, and then slowly head towards the destination.

In this way, the cost is guaranteed, and the shallow sea is relatively safe. Even if you are driving a small sampan, it is unlikely to capsize.

Scar's words made everyone present, except Liu Bai and Xu Chu, change their expressions.

Robbing the family's powerful family?

It doesn't seem easier than rebelling

Ma Biao wanted to cry, but he suddenly realized that he had received a hot potato.

The palms of my hands were blistered, and I didn't dare to throw it out.

Because if you throw it out, it will fall on your big brother's face

Liu Bai really didn't want to waste any more words, so he said flatly: "You all drive the big five-toothed ship to block the mouth of the sea, and anyone who doesn't pay the money will kill his mother! Besides"

He pulled Ma Biao aside, who had a desperate expression on his face, and whispered something in a low voice.

Dao Scar and others saw that after hearing Liu Bai's whisper, Ma Biao visibly trembled

Chapter 730

When sending Ma Biao and the others away, they actually caused quite a commotion around the port.

A ship like the five-tooth warship is absolutely impossible to take down if it doesn't have tens of millions of guns.

In the eyes of outsiders, Liu Bai was clearly the one who gave the five-tooth warship to Ma Biao and others for free!

Everyone saw with their own eyes that Liu Bai ordered people to move all the things on the boat, and let Ma Biao and others walk away!

Several chief officials of Jinan City stood behind Liu Bai, trembling.

Liang Shilong, governor of Qizhou, almost knelt down before Liu Bai.

"Young Master Liu, this, this"

Watching the five-toothed warship drift away, Liang Shilong couldn't speak a single word.