"What is this?" Mu Jing walked to the workshop inside and saw a small and delicate crossbow, a little blind, I had never seen it.

"This is the light hand crossbow that my father is working on!"

Chu Zheng said: "This kind of hand crossbow father has studied for a long time, from the current use of the ten-stone light crossbow to improve, but it has not been successful, it is characterized by small size, short crossbow arrows, easy to carry, used for self-defense, but the range is not long, the penetration is insufficient, only a hundred steps of range!" ”

The crossbow is an enhanced type of bow, mainly because it is easy to control, has a long range, and has strong penetration.

The large bed crossbow can even penetrate the adobe walls of some ordinary county towns.

But small hand crossbows are the most difficult to make, because the structure of the crossbow is complex, there are many parts, and it is very troublesome to assemble, even if it is a small crossbow, it has the arms of two people when it is opened, so it has lethality.

The crossbow with the least penetrating power is the ten-stone crossbow, which is the light crossbow currently configured in the army.

Chu Liang, the chief craftsman of the Ming Yi workshop, wanted to transform this kind of small talisman crossbow that was easy for one person to carry on the basis of the ten-stone crossbow, which was a tedious study.

"Where's Master Chu?"

Mu Jing took this light hand crossbow model that had been assembled, but still had many shortcomings, and asked softly.

"Today in the shipyard, the first fighting ship was launched, and the weapons on it, the shipyard supervisor is a little unsure, so please ask my father to discuss!"

Chu Zheng said.

"Jiangzhou Shipbuilding Workshop has built the first fighting ship?" Mu Jing's eyes lit up: "Double-tooth fighting ship? ”

After the Battle of Jingzhou, Mujing invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the construction of warships, of course, there is still not enough technology to make building ships, but it is indeed capable of upgrading some of today's fighting ships.

Gongcao, Bingcao, Hongdu Science and Technology Institute, plus the Military Industry Department jointly sent craftsmen to study the captured building ship, but it extended a lot of craftsmanship.

Thus a warship was developed, called the Twin Tooth Fighting Ship

"Jiangzhou Shipbuilding Workshop was originally transformed from the Ba County Shipbuilding Workshop, we provide shipbuilding craftsmen, since last year has begun to put into development, is to absorb our only building ship technology, the manufacture of double-tooth fighting ship, is a new type of fighting ship, although it is not a building ship, but the initial scale of the building ship, up and down double-layered, combat effectiveness is far above the ordinary fighting ship, the carrying capacity is as high as 800 soldiers, can be regarded as a small building ship!"

Qi Ye, the director of the Military Industry Department, replied: "Today, the first double-tooth fighting ship was launched!" ”

"Great, good, gotta check it out!"

The pastor nodded, and he wanted to take a look, but he opened his pocket watch and looked at the time, sighed again, and said in a low voice: "Forget it, there is not so much time to go to the shipbuilding workshop today, it is already dark when you arrive, next time I will go and see!" ”

The princes on his side have a lot of opportunities, and they don't have so much time to spend here.

The Military Industry Division is here, and the Jiangzhou Ordnance Workshop is also here, but the Jiangzhou Shipbuilding Workshop is in another corner, and it doesn't take long to walk over, but it is continuous, and it will take at least an hour.

His task today is to understand the development stage of the new type of ordnance, so he still continues to inspect the workshops in the Jiangzhou Ordnance Workshop.

"This kind of well is a little peculiar, the water chestnut on it?" Mu Jing stared at the five or six craftsmen in front of him who were combining a well car, the well car is a must for siege equipment, the general well car is divided into two layers, and can carry more than ten soldiers to fight in the city.

But this well car has as many as three layers, and there is still a boxy platform on it, but the water chestnut that looks around is a little scary to Mu Jing.

"Lord, this kind of well car must be an ordinary well car is a lot more complicated, and it is also one layer higher, mainly to deal with the operation of large cities, these parts can be dismantled and transported, and it is much more convenient to transport, and then it is on the battlefield, it is recombined, a car that can carry 100 people to fight, it is the largest well car we have developed at present!" Chu Zheng analyzed: "The above water chestnut is a kind of collision angle, this kind of collision angle, on the battlefield, is for self-protection, after all, the well car is easy to encounter the impact of the enemy on the battlefield, especially the people who defend the city, they are very guarded against the well car, so when my father and Li Gong developed it together, this kind of collision angle was added, and when it was critical, it could be used as a crash!" ”

"Li Gong, you are thoughtful!"

Mu Jing stepped forward to touch it and said with a smile.

"This is all what Chu Lao meant!"

Li Heng is a middle-aged man, born as a craftsman, ancestral craftsmanship, and was later recruited by Chu Liang into the Ming Yi workshop, and is now one of the top craftsmen around Chu Liang, who has participated in many projects, and is a craftsman with talent and ideas.

He said a little modestly: "Lord, in fact, Chu Lao and I just put forward ideas for this improved well car, and it was the craftsmen below who really made them, and they worked very hard to create the current sample well car!" ”

When Mu Jing heard this, he swept over and looked at these sweaty craftsmen, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

A million soldiers are not as good as three thousand craftsmen.

He suddenly felt a little guilty, knowing that these craftsmen were so important, he was still a little lazy, he really shouldn't be, at this time, if someone digs the foot of the wall, it is easy for these talents to be lost.

After pondering for a while, Mu Jing turned to Qi Ye: "Yunxiao, how many craftsmen are there under our command at present?" ”

"There are eight hundred in the Department of Military Industry!"

Qi Ye replied: "As for the other secretaries, I don't know very well, but there are not the most craftsmen in our Military Industry Department, the most must be Gong Cao, under the name of Gong Cao, there are a lot of various craftsmen, and most of our craftsmen are skilled in iron!" ”

Mu Jing said in a deep voice: "In the past, I neglected them a little, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, these craftsmen are great talents, very important, they don't go to the battlefield, naturally there is no chance to make contributions, but they are in the rear for us to build weapons, improve equipment, are great achievements, can not be rewarded, in this way, you get a craftsman's merit book, each of their merits, must be remembered clearly, in the future, on the merits of reward, must not be rewarded!" ”

"No!"

"Also, although the craftsman is not as good as the scholar now, but in the future will not be lower than the scholar's status, can not be unmotivated, from now on, the craftsman is assigned to the level of ability and technology, the higher the level, the better the treatment, I will never treat any capable craftsman under my command!"

Mu Jing said triumphantly to the craftsmen of the Jiangzhou Ordnance Workshop.

"Thank you, my lord!"

"The Lord is benevolent!"

A group of craftsmen were touched by the liver and brain.

Shinong Industry and Commerce.

This has been a class relationship that has been inherited for thousands of years and has been deeply rooted, but now Mujing compares them to the status of craftsmen and scholars, which is the weight of the instrument, the incomparable weight.

Scholars die for their confidants, they are not scholars, they are workers, but it is the same truth, if someone can understand them, they are willing to give everything in return.

That's how simple they are.

Mu Jing looked at them, and felt in his heart, he was not a whim, a person whose soul came from the 21st century, has never obeyed the status of Shinong industry and commerce, he is willing to raise merchants, willing to develop craftsmen, so that they can have a higher temperature, so that they can play a greater role.