Chapter 89 Troll! Shotgun

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That’s right, Wang Shouzhe doesn’t understand animal husbandry.

But he knows that the foundation of animal husbandry is to convert plants into meat, milk, wool, leather, draft horses, war horses, etc.! Therefore, he only needs to grasp the root cause, increase the quality of food and reduce the cost of food.

The rest will naturally be managed by the tribesmen and old herdsmen.

For Wang Shouzhe, he began to suspect that the disaster that year was caused by the family's handiwork ten years ago.

Therefore, while he was investigating, he had already begun to study the industrial characteristics and weaknesses of the Tianren Huangfu family and the Tianren Lei family.

The best way to deal with the Huangfu family is to start from the bottom of the animal husbandry industry, which is the most critical grass in the animal husbandry industry - alfalfa and purple grass. The yield of this thing is not even 10% higher, but it has a huge impact on the livestock industry.

What's more, Wang Shouzhe has been continuously cultivating alfalfa and purple grass in his spare time over the years, and has gradually increased the unit yield by 70%, and its palatability is better.

If you are dealing with the Lei family, you will naturally have a way to deal with the Lei family. But now that the truth has been revealed, what happened that year had nothing to do with the Lei family, so naturally the methods used against the Lei family can only be retained.

"Zongwei, don't be too happy too soon." Wang Luotong said sternly, "The centipede insect is dead but not stiff. What's more, the Huangfu family is currently only Hua Ye's ancestor who was restrained by injuries. They have accumulated wealth over the past five hundred years. Still here, this battle is bound to be a protracted one."

"Huangfu Jinhuan, the current head of the Huangfu family, doesn't have much ability, but he has a lot of tricks." Wang Luotong said with some disdain, but also with a solemn expression, "Recently, the small actions in the big ranches in front of us have been Quite a few.”

"Fourth Aunt is right." When Wang Zongwei mentioned this, he was also quite confused. "After the beginning of spring, the growth of our new alfalfa has been extremely strong, and it has also attracted many jackals. They are all a group of rogue cultivators. They They were all scattered actions, and a medicinal powder called paraquat was sprinkled on our fields. This medicinal powder is extremely vicious. Once it is sprinkled, the grass will wither and no grass will grow for many years."

Wang Shouzhe already knew about this.

The geographical location of Qianma Town is very good, and it is the main transportation road between Changningwei and Anyuanwei. There is Anyuan Pass in the north and Qianma Bao in the south. Over a mountain range to the east is the territory of Donghaiwei.

Only the west side is bordered by the Huangfu family's Huangfu ranch, and there is no barrier between them. Moreover, the border line is twenty to thirty miles long, and there is no way to prevent penetration from that side.

In this world, casual cultivators are the least valuable, and they can take risks at will just for a little convenience. As long as Huangfu can spare the money, there are countless desperadoes he can hire.

Those people operate secretly and run away every time after spreading paraquat. When Wang Luotong and other experts rushed over after hearing the news, they didn't know where they had gone.

Guangtianhong Ranch has a total of 30,000 acres of grassland. How can it be prevented?

It is undoubtedly an extremely disgusting thing to lose dozens of acres of pasture fields every now and then. If this continues for many years, it will not only cause huge losses to the Wang family, but also make the ranch panic and fall into a downturn.

The Wang family also dispatched clan troop patrols to patrol the edges of the pasture. Each patrol consisted of ten men, all fully armed and equipped with crossbows.

But most casual cultivators are very naughty, and those who dare to take risks are experienced veterans with good physical skills. The strength of the patrols was very low, their reflexes could not keep up with their dazzling movement skills, and their crossbows often failed to hit people.

To deal with them, only powerful generals and tribesmen, or also hiring a large number of casual cultivators. Wang Shouzhe has always had a bad impression of casual cultivators, who tend to create a situation where it is easy to invite gods but difficult to send them away.

However, the manpower of the generals and clan members is already insufficient. If Qianma Town is fully mobilized, other places will be short of manpower.

"Fourth Uncle~" Wang Zongwei cautiously suggested, "I have also thought about this problem. There are only two options at present. One is to second the generals and clan members from other families. However, this will face a long-term confrontation process, maybe two years in ten years. Ten years is not a long-term solution after all.”

"Second, can we properly absorb some casual cultivators? I know that Fourth Uncle, once bitten by a snake, lacks trust in casual cultivators. However, as long as we have interests with them, it will be fine."

"Fourth brother, Zong Wei is right." Wang Ruotong also admonished, "It is true that most casual cultivators are old oilmen who adapt to the wind. But given the sufficient price and opportunity, they are still willing to risk their lives. . In addition, we can also recruit a large number of casual cultivators to conduct long-term observation and assessment of them. If there are those with excellent character, they can be gradually included in the family general or guest minister system."

Wang Shouzhe pondered deeply while drinking tea. Ruotong and Zongwei's suggestions were all based on reality. The current situation facing the Wang family is that their territory and wealth are expanding rapidly, but their clan and family will not be able to keep up.

Because of his past experiences with the Liu family and the Zhao family, Wang Shouzhe was very distrustful of casual cultivators. However, it is still possible to hire casual cultivators on a large scale and select some high-quality people to serve as guests.

"Ruotong, then I'll leave it to you to try to operate it now." Wang Shouzhe said after thinking for a moment, "For casual cultivators, even if it is a cooperation of interests, we cannot bring in cats and dogs. We, the Wang family, have a way to solve the current crisis. Look, this is a new weapon developed a while ago in our Science and Technology Innovation Research Laboratory - a shotgun!"

As Wang Shouzhe spoke, he touched the storage ring, and a long, strange-looking thing appeared in his hand. Its structure was somewhat like a blunderbuss, but the mouth of the tube had a trumpet-shaped opening.

"Fourth Uncle~What kind of weapon is this?" Wang Zongwei perked up. He knew that Fourth Uncle's attacks were always extraordinary.

"Just go to the yard and test it." Wang Shouzhe took Zongwei and Ruotong to the yard and asked his generals to find some wooden stakes and set them up.

Then he raised the shotgun and fired in that direction without even aiming.

"boom!"

Like the sound of lightning and thunder, countless fine steel balls were sprayed out in the shape of a diffuse trumpet, covering the wooden piles several feet away. Several wooden piles were blown upside down, and there were many potholes on them.

"This..." Wang Luotong's eyes tightened, shocked by this scene. Her cultivation has now reached the eighth level of Qi Refining Realm, and she can be regarded as a little master.

But she found that if she were closer, it would be difficult to escape the shotgun's attack range in an instant even if she used the catkin body skills to the extreme.

"I have brought a total of one hundred shotguns." Wang Shouzhe said, "I have also brought ten trained tribesmen, and asked them to lead the patrol team to train and defend against enemies. They will be very useful to those casual cultivators. A big deterrent.”

"Fourth Uncle, isn't this weapon too scary?" Wang Zongwei wiped away cold sweat and said, "If a group of patrolling clan soldiers fire a volley, I'm afraid even those who are high-level in the Qi Refining Realm will definitely die."

"It can't be said to be too scary." Wang Shouzhe shook his head and said, "This shotgun has good power at close range. Ordinary clan soldiers can get started quickly, and it can pose a great threat to ordinary Qi Refining Realm monks. But it also has many shortcomings. Every time you fire it, you have to refill it with black powder, steel balls, etc.”

As a time traveler, how could Wang Shouzhe not use his brain for guns? However, it is not easy to make firearms. The first thing is gunpowder. This is good, after all, there are prosperous alchemists in this world, and gunpowder has been invented long ago.

But gunpowder is usually used in alchemy furnaces and mining. It is said that some weapon refiners also tried to make it into a fire gun or the like, but gave up soon, mainly because it was too weak.

Wang Shouzhe also wanted to develop weapons such as ultra-long-range sniper rifles at once, but any high-tech equipment requires too much pre-requisite technology. Good firearms must use more sophisticated lathes, and Wang's science and innovation research laboratory has only begun to develop rudimentary hydraulic lathes.

Therefore, we can only simply get a shotgun sprayer for clan soldiers to use to improve the combat effectiveness of the bottom layer.

As for technologies such as steam engines, Wang Shouzhe has long wanted to develop them. The principle seems very simple, and the craftsmen in the scientific research room also understand its principles. However, in the actual research and development process, every step is a bumpy road.

It is estimated that it will be difficult to come up with a rudimentary steam engine within a few decades.

In terms of scientific research, many things require a lot of time to think about and accumulate.

Even if it is a small steel ball, it is very difficult to mass produce it.

The shotgun blasters use only iron beads, which are prone to rust and come in weird shapes and sizes. Just because the production process is very crude, it melts iron into a slurry and then sprays it out, and quickly manufactures iron beads through cooling with air and water. The overall quality is really good.

Only those of the right size are selected and then finely polished by craftsmen before they can be used in ball bearings.

Most of the remaining steel balls can only be used to make spray bullets.

Moreover, in the absence of a large number of basic industries, even a hundred crude shotgun sprayers cost craftsmen a lot of time and money because of the need to develop flintlock technology.

On average, each one costs more than ten dry gold.

This price can buy a high-quality war horse, or two pretty little girls as maids.

The only advantage is that it can make up for the shortcomings of Wang's low-level combat power. As well as solidifying basic technical knowledge for subsequent firearms.

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Soon, the clan soldiers brought by Wang Shouzhe were integrated into the ranch patrol team. The rest of the patrol team members quickly mastered the shotgun spray after simple training.

This thing is simpler than a crossbow. You just need to pull the trigger in a general direction. However, after firing one round, reloading is very troublesome.

Time has passed in a hurry for more than ten days.

As spring gets stronger, the two spring rains fall.

The 30,000 acres of pasture in Tianhong Ranch are already full of fragrance and growing very gratifyingly. It is like an "endless" pasture, contrasting with the blue sky, which is refreshing and refreshing.

Wang Feng!

As a seventeen-year-old girl general, her ancestors have been loyal family members of the Wang family for generations. In addition, since he was a child, he had the qualifications of a lower grade C, so he was carefully cultivated by the Wang family from an early age.

Her training and treatment standards were almost based on those of direct disciples of the Wang family, and she was also allowed to practice ancestral techniques such as the Wang family's Xuanyuan Jue.

And she has been working hard since she was a child. Not only does she practice quickly, but she also has very good results in clan studies.

At this time, she was wearing a suit of soft but defensive beast leather armor, riding a maroon horse with a hunting cloak on her back, and she looked quite heroic.

Behind her were eight carefully selected clan soldiers, all of whom were fully armed and had the recently issued shotgun spray slung across their backs.

This day was as sunny and sunny as usual.

The ranch patrol team led by Wang Feng is performing a security inspection mission, and its main target targets are casual cultivators coming from the direction of Huangfu Ranch.

It stands to reason that usually those casual cultivators who come to cause trouble would come at night and return at night. In broad daylight, unless you have special support, you will definitely not dare to come to seek death.

Brother Murong.

They are a pair of famous brothers among the casual cultivators.

They are less than forty years old, but they have reached the seventh level of Qi Refining Realm, and they are already considered the best among casual cultivators. The most important thing is that this pair of brothers had a special opportunity and practiced a special body technique called Xun Feng Shan.

Once the Standing Technique is used, the speed of Xunfeng Flash is extremely fast. Let alone the casual cultivators of the same level, even those one or two levels higher cannot catch up with them. Just a few months ago, they had come to Tianhong Ranch to cause trouble.

He also played tricks on Wang Luotong, who had a higher level of cultivation.

Although Wang Luotong's cultivation has reached the eighth level of Qi Refining Realm, and he has mastered the ancestral body technique "Catkin Body Technique", the Catkin Body Technique is more about being elusive and unpredictable, which is quite effective in face-to-face combat.

However, if used in a chase, its speed is far inferior to Xunfeng Flash.

On this day, they blatantly crossed the border, and intelligence showed that Wang Shouzhe had left. Wang Xiaohan, the ancestor of the Lingtai realm who guards Qianma Town, will also be restrained by the casual cultivators of the Lingtai realm that Huangfu invited at a great cost.

Their goal was not as simple as destroying dozens of acres of fields, but to injure a group of herdsmen who had already begun to cut the first stubble, creating panic in Tianhong Ranch and making the herdsmen panicked and distracted from work.

Acting at the same time as them, there were six or seven batches of casual cultivators. It's just that the Murong brothers are regarded as the main force in completing the mission.

Just on the edge of tens of thousands of acres of pasture, the Murong brothers and Wang Feng's patrol met unexpectedly.

"Hehehe, it turns out to be that pretty little lady." Brother Murong faced the patrol, but instead of retreating, he advanced, preparing to play a trick with his powerful body skills.

They are extremely fast, and it is very difficult for ordinary crossbows to hit them, and they have always been able to advance and retreat freely.

The two of them used their body skills, like a gust of wind blowing in the field, and the speed exploded faster than a galloping horse. At the same time, they were accompanied by evil smiles: "Miss Wang Feng, we meet again. Come on, come on. , play with your Murong brother~"

"Brother Murong!"

Wang Feng's expression condensed and she said angrily, "You are really audacious. You have offended my Wang family in this way. Aren't you afraid of my Wang family's revenge?"

"Hey, revenge?" Brother Murong approached quickly and stopped blatantly a few feet in front of the patrol. He kept laughing and said, "No matter how strong you Wang family is, you are just a small overlord of Changning Guard. This mission, Our brothers can get two thousand gold. Afterwards, the world is so big, where can’t we go?"

This is one of the reasons why Wang Shouzhe has never liked casual cultivators. They have no roots and foundation, and all they think about is the worst possible outcome for me to go and live somewhere else. How can you believe it?

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