No matter how good the steel elasticity is, it can't play with the naturally formed bamboo and wood muscles, which the Romans have practiced, and the torsion ballista made of metal has shrapnel twisted red, and there is no torsion ballista made of cattle and sheep tendons to shoot far.

Indeed, the steel crossbow that Wang Hou played, both in range and weight, is weaker than the Han crossbow currently equipped, but why does Wang Hou still get this thing? It's really because it's cheap!

Don't look at the crossbows that are now equipped with mostly wooden bows, in fact, those things are more expensive than steel! First of all, the crossbow arm is not any wood, it must be a few tree species such as oak, and there are requirements for the growth period of the tree, which is still the first step!

After that, the bow arm has to go through the shade drying, repeated painting, and it takes more than a year to make a qualified crossbow arm or compound bow, and the pass rate is less than half, but what about the steel crossbow? An hour before Wang Hou's whim, the crossbow machine in his hand was still a large piece of wood lumps, two large pieces of metal lumps, in the crossbow machine mold brought by Xu Du, the red-hot steel juice was watered, and after it was cooled, it was put into the crossbow carved by the carpenter, and then Wang Yuan was asked to hit the steel piece for half an hour, and the crossbow arm was beaten, and this thing came out.

If you really calculate the cost, a bucket of wheat.

This is the capital to win by quantity! Even if the performance is beaten by the bow and the active strong crossbow, you can change the equipment method! Spanish Grand Phalanx!

Or the archers are used as a separate long-range support unit, and the steel crossbow is equipped with a part of the infantry that was originally used for melee combat, the first two rows are fought with halberds, and the last three rows are used for crossbows, once the phalanx and the local phalanx come into contact with each other, the infantry in the first two rows is enough to undertake the task of melee combat in a short time, and the last three rows use crossbow arrows to shoot in the air, and the attack power of the entire phalanx will undoubtedly be increased by a few points.

And Wang Hou is bad enough, the first batch of experimental weapons is not equipped with his own army, after Wang Yuan commanded and created a thousand crossbows, Wang Hou planned to equip Zang Bajun, whether it was good or bad, let the allies finish the experiment.

Just like the Emperor of the Apocalypse in later generations, Wang Yuan was still good at striking iron, after getting the order, he was quite excited to burst his strong muscles again, and talked about the hammer, but he carried the newly built crossbow to the door, looking at the lively scene inside, Wang Hou still shook his head dissatisfied.

Beside the river, he ordered the construction of six waterwheels, the axes of which were attached to the cast gear levers, which could drive twelve water hammers, but twelve water hammers were too few for a workshop of several hundred people.

If you want to increase production capacity, you have to use your brains on these machinery, looking at the coal burning in the coal stoves, suddenly an idea suddenly jumped into Wang Hou's mind, Lao Tzu coal is now not lacking, can you get the steam engine out of the situation!

Although it seems a bit fantastical to get a steam engine in the late Han Dynasty, but the most difficult thing to invent is to make something out of nothing, thinking of this idea, now Wang Hou is equivalent to cheating, the principle of the steam engine is already in his mind, if this thing is made, instead of manpower to forge steel, for a while, Wang Hou's mind instantly appeared in the punk style of the factory, the machine spewing steam clanged out like a mountain of swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks and forks, when the time comes, regardless of Mr. Cao, Mr. Liu, or Mr. Sun, crying and shouting to stuff the gold, silver, copper cloth and beautiful women into his arms, hugging his thighs and calling the boss, he was sitting on the gold mountain with his arms crossed and laughing......

"Dong Weng !!"

The sudden shout made Wang Hou come back to his senses suddenly, Ziyu quickly pumped his saliva back, and returned to the appearance of a dog in the state pastor, his left hand pretended to be behind his back, and his right hand stroked his mouth and coughed lightly, Wang Hou asked reservedly.

"Jia Beijia, what are you doing?"

It's really panting, and in the morning he was sent to receive the third batch of minerals sent by Taishan County, and planned to take advantage of the cold winter to build a highway in the mode of Wang Hou's Xuchang Guandu last year, but just came back, he saw that not far from the sea, a group of strong men were already holding pickaxes and began to dig the soil, and inquired, it turned out that Wang Hou was going to start building the Rizhao Mansion after building the ironmaking workshop, and this guy was so panicked that he was out of breath and crawled to find the door.

"I heard that Dong Weng is about to build the official residence of Rizhao City, and when he set off from Xu Du, he asked for a feng shui painting scroll from the gods, and dedicated it to Dong Weng for the purpose of building the official residence!"

As he spoke, he panted and handed over a picture scroll with both hands, but he didn't take it at the first time, the corners of Wang Hou's mouth couldn't help twitching first, good guy, if you really call it out, you have to pay it back, on weekdays, he pulls Yu Ji's tiger skin to make a big banner, which makes people buckle back to their heads? And I really don't know how old-fashioned these family bureaucrats are! On this picture scroll, the most standard layout of the Han Dynasty government is really drawn! Is it so hard for these guys to accept the Bauhaus minimalist style that he is so proud of?

But he didn't refuse, and took the drawings handed over by Jia Xu, and he replied with a meaningful smile.

"After a while, the state pastor instructed the craftsman to build according to the map! Don't be careful! ”

"The state pastor is wise!"

It's really unwilling to live in Wang Hou's ugly square house, the first time I saw Wang Hou so good, he was relieved that a rare sycophant also slapped it, and for a while it was a pleasure for the guests and hosts, a small and a big two foxes made a "sincere" giggle together, and Wang Yuan got goosebumps at the laughing end, so he couldn't hang a hammer and smashed his hand.

…………

People are under low eaves and have to bow their heads! At present, Qingzhou is still Yuan Tan's territory, and Cao Cao's main strength is in the hands of the warlord Zang Ba, if he wants to mix well under Zang Ba's nose, even if Wang Hou is the state pastor, he has to give him an eye slap.

So at the beginning of the third month of the sunshine, Wang Hou appeared again in the county office of Zangba, Ju County.

It's just that this time, Zang Ba changed his indifference when he saw him a few times, and his eager appearance was like seeing a local tyrant, and he personally greeted him in the courtyard, not to mention, and as soon as he met, he warmly hugged his fists and bowed down.

"Zang Ba visits the state pastor, these are all for Ba?"

The corners of Wang Hou's mouth couldn't help twitching again, one bully at a time, there is always a sense of déjà vu to meet the old man in the TV series?

However, the corners of his mouth twitched, but he still forced out a difficult smile, and followed by a heavy fist.

"The general is born and dies, and the peace of one side is guaranteed! Hou can be comfortable in the sunshine, but also thanks to the general's work, the caravan from Mount Tai in the first half of the month encountered thieves, thanks to the courage of the general, this is to break the thieves, keep the thick food, Hou remember, this little bit of strength, please don't postpone the general! ”

Postpone? Zang Ba didn't drool, it was good, and he hugged Wang Hou with a greeting, he couldn't wait to get to the iron box brought by Wang Hou, and opened it with a bang, wrapped in straw, in the cold weather, the heavy armor that was frozen with a layer of blue light was suddenly revealed in his eyes.

After weighing the armor twice, Zang Ba went to another box in admiration, and then opened it, and the cold light flashed layer upon layer of more than 20 ring-headed steel knives suddenly appeared in front of him, picked up a handful casually, slashed at the air, and listened to the sound of the wind, Zang Ba couldn't help but let out a long roar of admiration.

"Good knives!".

This time it was a lot of blood, but Wang Hou didn't have any pain, and even his pupils showed an indescribable light, watching Zang Ba open a box by box, and the corners of his mouth showed a meaningful and indescribable smile.

"If the general likes it, it's fine!"