Liu Bei had long heard of such a thing as artillery, and had been fantasizing about when he would be able to have one.

If only I could make a... This is the capital to fight with Cao Cao, and it is also a good thing to inspire the people!

"Lord, don't worry too much about artillery!"

Zhuge Liang shook his black and white feather fan: "I have already sent someone to inquire about the production method of this artillery, and this thing also has shortcomings!" ”

"Downside?" Liu Bei's eyes widened in surprise.

"Yes, although the artillery is like a divine soldier descending from the sky, but to make the artillery, a large number of bronze tools are needed, and the bullet of the artillery is a big iron ball, and the principle is a bit similar to alchemy, I have been studying it recently!"

"This...."

Liu Bei took a deep breath, and then said with emotion: "In this way, you really rely on the military advisor." ”

This conversation also gave Liu Bei a shot in the arm, ready to continue to fight with Cao **.

As long as the artillery can be made, it will at least not be too much of a loss on the frontal battlefield.

But now......

In fact, Zhuge Liang is also in the bottleneck period.

Regarding Cao Shuo's invention, Zhuge Liang himself has actually been paying attention to it, but the best work is a replica of Cao Shuo's hot air balloon.

Many things look very easy, but when you actually build them, you will encounter many small problems, and you will also find difficult places inside.

For example, the simplest hot air balloon fuel, and the proportion of balloons, if there is no result of the afterlife, I really don't know how many trials it will take to really succeed.

The same is true of the problem of the casting of artillery.

Without any experimental data, it is completely impossible to do it directly.

And if you want to have data, you have to do experiments, but you don't know how much time it takes at a time.

** ratio is the ultimate problem.

Anyone who knows a little about alchemy knows that sulfur, saltpeter and charcoal, as long as they are mixed together, will explode.

But the proportions of the three things are different, and the power of the explosion will also change.

The proportions are not right.... Maybe it's just a firecracker, or it's really alchemy.

And even if the proportions are right, how to make the best effect is also a huge problem.

But these things .... Cao Shuo knows all about it, and it is strictly confidential.

At that time, the people involved in Cao Shuo's artillery project were all strictly trained, and no matter what, the production method could not be leaked.

There is also the range of artillery, which requires a lot of mathematical calculations and experimental demonstration formulas, even if Cao Shuo specially stuffed Zhuge Liang, he may not be able to understand it.

And with the development of time, Cao Shuo himself has actually gone further and further in the two aspects of artillery and **, and has constantly developed a lot of new things.

In addition to science and technology, Cao Shuo is still studying a lot of things about the economy.

For example, it is winter now, and Cao Shuo has already sent people to plant a lot of cotton, and now a lot of cotton is sold to Jiangdong and Jingzhou.

In economics, this is called dumping.

To put it simply, my products sell at a lower price than yours, so customers buy my things.

But at the national level, dumping is really terrible.

With the continuous influx of Cao Shuo cotton, the textile industry in Jiangdong gradually lost its way to survive.

Once the Jiangdong textile industry goes bankrupt, Cao Shuo will do whatever he wants here, and he can price it however he wants, and the money will flow into Cao Shuo's hands.

Recently, the carriage and the pair of silver-plated mirrors have made a lot of money in Jiangdong and Jingzhou, and they all ended up in Cao Cao's hands.

After more money, you can build the Cao Wei area more powerful, and you can also develop the shipbuilding business that Cao Shuo has in mind.

"Young Master Cao Shuo, what type of big ship do you want us to make?"

Many craftsmen who had escaped from the Jingzhou area in Jiangdong had already arrived at Cao Shuo's side at this time.

"Haha, now, I'll let you open your imagination!"

Cao Shuo laughed, and then said to everyone.

In fact, after they came to Xuchang... One of the things I found the most is that Cao Shuo is really powerful.

They have all heard of this rebel son of the Cao family, and when they saw Cao Shuo for the first time, there was more or less fear in their eyes.

But a week later, Cao Shuo took them to start learning, and they also found that Cao Shuo turned out to be an omnipotent person, which simply refreshed their understanding!

In addition to learning about shipbuilding, these shipbuilders also had to read a lot of things about numbers, English, and even graphics.

And these are actually courses that Cao Shuo has arranged a long time ago.

What Cao Shuo has to do now is not only to have hundreds of craftsmen who work for himself, but also to develop the industry thoroughly.

In the future, if you want to go to sea exclusively, you must have a lot of powerful warships and the like, and if you want to build many warships, you must have shipbuilders for generations!

"What's the size of the largest ship you've ever seen?"

At this moment, Cao Shuo threw such a question to these people.

Suddenly, the shipbuilders were boiling.

Among them, the one who spoke the most was a shipbuilder from Jiangdong, but no matter how much he compared, he couldn't surpass Cao Shuo's room.

"Huh!"

Cao Shuo glanced at the crowd, smiled and said: "Hundreds of you are the students I recruited in the first phase, and the warship you want to build this time will refresh everyone's cognition, exceeding the entire Huaxia and even the whole world by ten times or even dozens of times!" ”

"Dozens of times? How is this possible? ”

An old man with a gray beard suddenly widened his eyes.

At this time, Cao Shuo continued to speak: "What you have to do is not just a warship, you can even understand it as a fortress on the sea, about fifty zhang high and a thousand zhang wide.......

"Huh? What is Cao Shuo talking about! ”

The jaws of the craftsmen were about to drop to the ground.

Cao Shuo's words are really outrageous, how can there be such a powerful warship in this world?

Moreover, how much wood does a thousand-zhang warship cost?

"Everyone, you have to believe that as long as our faith is strong enough, we will definitely be able to build such a powerful warship!"

Cao Shuo looked at them at this time and said categorically: "The knowledge I am teaching you now is just to let you see this!" ”

As he spoke, Cao Shuo took out a huge drawing.

Subsequently, the Flying Tigers helped Cao Shuo spread it out and nailed it to the wall, so that these craftsmen could watch it carefully.

"This.... How could there be such an amazing thing in the world? ”

At this time, many craftsmen directly exclaimed that it was impossible, thinking that Cao Shuo's drawings were just imaginary things.