How did Fan Yu know that his letter to the Privy Council had been ignored, and he was now busy guiding the work in the Bow and Crossbow Academy.

Although it is called the Bow and Crossbow Temple, there are bows, armor, swords, and stirrups all within the scope of manufacture.

Therefore, Fan Yu also built his original hydraulic stamping machine in the bow and crossbow courtyard. Next to the bow and crossbow courtyard is the Bianhe River, and there is no shortage of water power, which also makes the conditions for the construction of waterwheels.

Now is not the time to build a watermill in Caoqiao Town, and it will take a long time to build a waterwheel. Fan Yu instructed the matter to continue, the craftsmen and materials were ready-made, but in two days, several sets of primitive hydraulic stamping machines had been built.

Fan Yu redesigned the mold of the armor, first let the craftsmen create it in the same way, and tried to produce a new armor.

This armor is neither chain mail, nor chain mail, nor plate mail, but is made of iron pieces of various sizes connected together.

If you only look at the helmet of this armor, you think it is a deeper iron pot. It wasn't until a ring of neck guards was attached that it looked like a helmet. Compared with the helmet made earlier, it is really difficult to see grandma's house. But there is one point, this helmet is stamped out, and it is stamped into shape in just the blink of an eye, which is too fast, so that many craftsmen are amazed.

Of course, it's not just a helmet that's ugly about this armor, it's ugly as a whole. Because the armor designed by Fan Yu has no decoration at all. It is mainly to improve protection, and it is also to facilitate the saving of manufacturing costs.

The original small pieces of armor were magnified several times by Fan Yu as a whole. The torso is divided into two sides, but more than 40 pieces of armor are fully covered. This is done to facilitate stamping, and also to save labor when connecting the armor. As for the arms and legs of the armor, a layer of ring-shaped iron plates was fixed on the outside with small iron rings.

Finally, the arm part is attached to the torso, and when worn, it can be worn on the body as if it were a garment.

This armor looks very ugly, but it is much faster to make than the thousands and hundreds of tiny pieces of armor that used to be.

Fan Yu repeatedly asked people to try on this new set of armor and modify it at any time. In the end, he was satisfied, and then he dismantled the armor and ordered the craftsman to make a mold for hydraulic stamping.

The first set of armor was made in only two days because of the small number of parts and easy assembly. It took two more days to make several revisions, and it took two days to make the mold. This amount of work is not worth mentioning at all for the Bow and Crossbow Academy, which has thousands of craftsmen.

On the seventh day, Fan Yu stood beside the hydraulic press with a group of craftsmen.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you have prepared the iron materials, and today you will see how fast you can make a new pair of armor." Fan Yu glanced at these craftsmen, and continued: "Unplug the pin of the waterwheel and start!" ”

The craftsmen who had been prepared for a long time stepped forward to start work.

As the huge waterwheel turned, the sound of ramming and crashing came, which made everyone deafening.

In just a moment, in front of everyone, a stack of new armor parts appeared.

Fan Yu ordered people to start assembling on the spot, and soon a new armor appeared on the ground in front of him.

The speed at which armor is made is also a bit frightening, and it takes only about two hours from stamping parts to assembling them. One of the most time-consuming parts is the assembly time. This kind of rush efficiency was unimaginable before.

It's just that this armor is still a blank, and it needs to be further polished, trimmed and lined to be considered a complete armor.

This new type of armor Fan Yu has tried to wear it, and it is more than forty pounds heavy. However, this was only a bit heavy for Fan Yu, and it was really much lighter for those soldiers who used to wear step armor.

He hasn't been on duty here yet, but he has a small yellow door in the palace to invite him.

Fan Yu called Xiao Huangmen over and asked, "What are you here to invite me to the palace for?" ”

"Master Qiqi, Li Niangniang's eyes can already see. Therefore, send a small one to invite the Hou Ye into the palace. This little yellow door said very politely.

Fan Yu turned to these craftsmen and said, "Fifty pieces of new-style armor will be made today. You can have more, but not less. ”

Many craftsmen received their orders and went back to their own things.

Only then did he turn to Xiao Huangmen and said, "Speaking of my mother's eyes, I have prepared a gift for my mother, and I ask my father-in-law to wait for me for a while." ”

Speaking of gifts for his stepmother, Fan Yu naturally knows what to give. Cataract is an eye disease, and if it is treated with a gold needle extraction, the lens of the lesion in the eye is pulled aside. Only in this way will people regain their sight again.

But this also has a disadvantage, that is, it will make people's eyes unable to focus, and become farsighted.

Therefore, the gift prepared by Fan Yu is a pair of glasses.

The frames are made of tortoiseshell turtles, while the round lenses are made of high-purity natural crystal, which are carefully polished by expert craftsmen into convex lenses and set in the frames.

Fan Yu has many craftsmen here, and it is not difficult to make this thing, and there is even a sandalwood box padded with satin, which is specially used to hold glasses.

When the little yellow door saw the wooden box in Fan Yu's hand, he complimented: "This wooden box in the hand of the Hou Ye is worth a lot, and the treasures in it must be even more valuable." ”

Fan Yu said with a smile: "This thing is just a piece of heart for my mother, and it is not priceless, but it is just a novelty." However, for the mother, it is very practical. ”

As Xiaohuangmen entered the palace, before the people arrived at Cining Palace, they saw from a distance that the official's guard of honor had entered Cining Palace.

Obviously, the official family also got the news and came before him.

Fan Yu held the sandalwood box in his hand, and entered the Cining Palace under the leadership of Xiao Huangmen, and saw that the official family, the stepmother and the Empress Dowager Yang were already present in the main room.

The official family and the Empress Dowager Yang were staring at their stepmother's eyes, their expressions indescribably curious.

"Sister, your eyes are clear now, but why can't you see clearly?" Empress Dowager Yang was surprised: "Could it be that you can't see my face clearly so closely?" ”

"Mother, can't even I see clearly?" The official Zhao Zhen is also asking.

Empress Dowager Li blinked, rubbed it twice, stared at the two of them, and said, "Since the imperial physician gave me the eyelids, in fact, that's it. It's hard to see, but it's much better than not seeing anything. However, as Imperial Physician Wang said, it is very clear to see things in the distance. Even when geese flew in the sky, I could see the feathers on their bodies, and I don't know why. ”

As he was talking, he heard Xiao Huangmen say: "An Le Hou Fan Yu, come to visit the Queen Mother." ”

Empress Dowager Li raised her eyes to look over, because Fan Yu was still far away, but she could see Fan Yu's face clearly at a glance.

"I didn't expect that Yu'er, this child, is now with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and it is rare that he is still extremely filial, what a good child." Empress Dowager Li smiled kindly: "Yu'er, come to my mother's place and talk to my mother." In the past few days, I have been blindfolded and recuperating in the palace, but I have been suffocated. ”

Official: ......

Mrs. Yang: ......

Your old man can't see the two of us clearly, but he can see this righteous son An Lehou clearly, it's really unreasonable.