Chapter 31: There must be a Yu-Gi-King

"Use the Item Card 'Railway' and draw three cards."

"Use the character card 'Tecumseh' and activate the effect 'United as One' so that all our characters share the highest stats."

"Use the Item Card 'Burn Your Cauldrons'. This turn, our character attacks twice in a row. In the next turn, all of our duelist's health points will be deducted."

"You lose!" Ma Shao played the last card and announced his victory with a smile.

"No, no, let's try again. I didn't know how to play it just now." The student scratched his head in annoyance.

"Okay, let's do it again." Ma Shao reshuffled the cards and said, "You all watch carefully. I want to know if anyone can defeat me today."

"What will happen if we defeat you?" someone suddenly asked.

"I will call the one who defeats me 'Game King'!" said Ma Shao.

Ma Shao, who lived in the 21st century, had already been baptized by various high-sounding titles. In reality, there are Pope, Head of State, Commander-in-Chief, Emperor and the like, and in fantasy, there are also Doudi and the like. Yu-Gi-Oh does not even rank among them.

But these young students had rarely heard such a sharp title, and they were immediately excited. They all jumped up and joined in the card duels one after another.

In order to understand the captions on the cards, the students' enthusiasm for literacy was unprecedentedly high. They gathered around the two opposing teams and vigorously corrected each other's reading errors.

After just one day, the students' literacy level has improved significantly.

Ma Shao himself has some experience with this phenomenon. He still remembers that when he was a child, he could not memorize many ancient poems in one class, but if he changed to pornographic poems that came from nowhere, he could memorize them almost after listening to them once.

Interest is the best teacher.

In addition to arguing about Chinese language knowledge, the students naturally couldn't help but give comments on the contestants' tactics.

"Burn your boats, just burn your boats! Go and get him!"

"Use the Ancient Toad to collect a point of health each round!"

Faced with this behavior of talking loudly while watching chess, Ma Shao did not stop it, and even encouraged it, because he felt that this behavior coexisted with reading. After the students understood the words on a card, they would naturally express their opinions on the tactics.

But he didn't expect that because of his encouragement, watching and talking about chess became a tradition of Apache Duel Cards. Many people felt that playing Duel Cards would be boring if there was no one around to point fingers. Of course, this is a story for later.

On the first day, no one could beat Ma Shao. Even though Ma Shao had bad luck at times, the students' understanding of the cards was too shallow and they could not recognize all the words, so they could not win.

The same thing happened on the second day, and it was not until the third day that a student finally defeated Ma Shao.

"There must be a... Yu-Gi-King." As he said this, Ma Shao took out a rough wooden crown.

Ma Shao slowly put the wooden crown on the winner's head and handed him the card: "Now, you are the King of Games. Go and accept the challenge of others."

"Wooooooooooooooooooo——" The middle school boys immediately cheered.

Then came the battles for the throne.

The duel cards quickly became popular among the Apaches, and the spread of text also accelerated. For this reason, Ma Shao also specially commissioned people in the tribe who were good at painting to help make more cards.

It was noon that day.

The Chinese class hosted by Ma Shao had just ended, and the students couldn't wait to get into the card duel again.

On rainy days, find him with a newspaper.

"What's wrong?"

"Let me tell you some good news first." Rainy Day smiled, "The Great Chief finally agreed to my proposal and decided to let you serve as the war chief of the Plains Tribe."

The war chief was naturally the position in charge of war affairs. Originally, the position of war chief of the Plains Tribe was vacant, but with Ma Shao's amazing performance in the previous battle, plus his contribution in making stirrups and strong bows, it was almost a matter of course for him to become the war chief.

Unfortunately, due to the strained relationship between Ma Shao and the chief, this matter was never accomplished.

Fortunately, Yutian repeatedly proposed this matter to the chief. Especially after Ma Shao created characters, Yutian was completely convinced by him and fully supported him to be the war chief.

The chief couldn't stand the constant nagging on rainy days, and with the support of many tribesmen, he finally agreed.

"Thank you." Ma Shao said. Becoming a war chief meant that he could directly train the warriors of the entire plains tribe.

"By the way, when the ceremony is held, don't forget to ease the relationship with the chief." Rainy Day waved his hand nonchalantly and said casually.

"I see."

Then he picked up the newspaper on a rainy day and pointed to an inconspicuous corner: "Look at this news."

Although commercial newspapers during this period were just starting out, they already showed signs of what would become UC in later generations. All kinds of eye-catching gossip news increasingly occupied the pages, while political and economic news were rather unpopular.

After some hard reading, Ma Shao finally understood the content of the news:

On June 8, Captain Hayes and Captain Walker led 15 Texas Rangers and easily defeated more than 80 armed Comanches. They were able to achieve such a record because all members of his team were equipped with Colt revolvers.

"Is this Colt pistol the one you bought?" asked Rainy Day.

"That's right." Ma Shao nodded.

Although he had known that people would realize the power of the Colt pistol, he did not expect it to happen so soon.

After this battle, people who once looked down on Colt may have to re-examine the power of revolvers.

In addition, the Captain Walker mentioned in the news is probably the Walker in "Walker's Pistol".

It was with the advice of Captain Walker that Samuel Colt further improved the design of the revolver and launched the Walker revolver, which performed brilliantly in the Mexican-American War.

Rainy Day: "I wonder if this news will result in us not being able to buy revolvers, or if that Smith will raise the price?"

"It's possible." Ma Shao said, "We need to prepare early..."

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As it turned out, they were worrying too much.

Captain Walker's battle took place in the Republic of Texas, while Colt's factory was located in New Jersey, USA, thousands of miles away.

And it was only last month that Morse, the Morse code writer, successfully sent the first long-distance telegram in human history - a distance of forty miles.

Therefore, except for some major international news, the speed at which most information spreads is not significantly different from that in the feudal era.

He had not even heard of it by the time Smith delivered the ordered revolvers to the Apache camp.

In this way, the Apaches got 200 Colt pistols at a low price. Of course, the low price was only relative to the price before Colt went bankrupt. The actual price paid by the Apaches was not low, and it was twice as expensive as the last 200 rifles.

If sold normally, a Colt pistol would cost about $50, four times the price of many rifles. It was like luring fools with a lot of money, and most people would lose interest once they saw the price.

No wonder Colt went bankrupt.

Such an expensive price also brought trouble to Ma Shao.

Last time, Apache had already bought two hundred rifles, which led many people to think that the musket procurement plan had come to an end and there was no need to buy more guns, especially such expensive guns.

In order to persuade people to buy Colt pistols, Ma Shao had to risk his reputation and lobby each of his close clans one by one.

Fortunately, people still respected him and he was now the war chief. After his full lobbying, the two hundred Colt pistols were finally bought.

"Is this gun really worth so much?" Shi Ya looked at a Colt revolver again and again, wondering.

Ma Shao had been asked this question countless times and felt a little guilty: "Well... a good gun needs a suitable tactic to match it. I think we should do some training."