After taking a general look at the iron case and the case under his jurisdiction, Li Zhong easily felt that he was facing a big problem.

The treatment of the craftsmen is a mess, the management is extremely chaotic, and the craftsmanship is disorganized, which are all shortcomings.

There is only one advantage, the appropriation of the imperial court seems to be very sufficient, according to Chai Rong's meaning, translated into the vernacular, that is, no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in weapons.

It's a pity that although Chai Rong is ambitious, he is a layman in science and technology. Comrade Lao Chai only knew how to spend money stupidly, but he couldn't understand that most of the money he invested fell into the hands of corrupt officials and businessmen.

Regarding ironmaking, Li Zhongyi does not have much valuable clue for the time being. All he knew was that the fewer impurities, the greater the blast, and the higher the temperature, the better the iron would be smelted.

In particular, the quality of iron smelted by using coke is much higher than that of iron made with charcoal.

After Li Zhongyi went home, he thought about it all night, and finally decided to use the Divine Arm Bow as a breakthrough first.

For the Divine Arm Bow, Li Zhongyi at least knows that the general shape, repeated and realized, within a few months, can produce certain results.

It is surprisingly difficult to improve the technology of ironmaking, and it is definitely the top technology in this era.

In the official hall of the case, Li Zhongyi used a black charcoal pen to draw several imaginary sketches of the design of the divine arm bow on paper while reading the official documents exchanged for the case.

Sharpening knives and cutting wood, since the weapons workshops of the Great Zhou Dynasty are already in this rotten phase, Li Zhongyi pondered, first made dazzling political achievements, and smashed out the long-range artifact of defeating the enemy, the divine arm bow, first, and then talked about other things.

Zhou Chong saw that Li Zhongyi had been staying in the official hall, and his heart gradually became more steady, and many suppliers asked him privately what the new deputy envoy of salt and iron liked.

This gang of profiteers, Zhou Chong understood in his heart that the purpose of these businessmen asking this was not to use things like money, beauties or antiques to secretly pull Li Zhongyi into the water?

In fact, Zhou Chong also wanted to pull Li Zhongyi into troubled waters, but Li Zhongyi had just taken office, and he still couldn't figure out his temperament and temperament, so he didn't dare to act rashly.

When Li Zhongyi estimated that the residences of his craftsmen and the venues for the real yàn were ready, he changed his schedule and rested time, and just reported to the Sansi Yamen every day, turned around, and plunged into the bow and crossbow workshop.

Li Zhongyi didn't know who was more skilled among the craftsmen under him, so he simply adopted the system of taking turns to be the head of the team. Let the oldest craftsmen lead the three groups of bows, crossbows and arrows, a total of fifteen people.

"How many days will it take to make it like this?" Li Zhongyi took out the first sketch and asked Jiang Xiaosan, the leader of the bow class.

Jiang Xiaosan looked left and right, but he didn't understand the picture drawn by Li Zhongyi, he arched his hand with a little weakness and said: "Back to the deputy envoy's words, please forgive the villain for being stupid......"

After all, Li Zhongyi is a layman, so he explained his idea in detail.

One time was not enough, Li Zhongyi explained again, Jiang Xiaosan understood Li Zhongyi's true intentions, and he replied: "Back to the deputy envoy, this is not difficult." The villain only needs to use hemp rope to ...... this The hoop was attached to the bow arm and could be done in a quarter of an hour. ”

Li Zhongyi nodded with satisfaction, and immediately ordered someone to give Jiang Xiaosan a finished crossbow and ask him to tie the iron ring on his foot to the bow arm.

At the same time, Li Zhongyi ordered his entourage to erect a few arrow targets, and when they were ready, they would realize the power of the first divine arm bow of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Jiang Xiaosan didn't look at the age of fifty, but his hands and feet were not slow, and in less than a quarter of an hour, he made the divine arm bow that Li Zhongyi imagined.

Li Zhongyi asked Li Xiaoqi, who was an old hunter before, to step on the iron ring that had just been tied to the bow arm with his foot and slowly wind it.

Who knows, the bowstring has just been hit by the crossbow machine, and the sound of the bow arm clicking actually cracks.

Scum bow, Li Zhongyi scolded secretly, and had to ask people to bring ten good crossbows, and let Jiang Xiaosan's group carefully select them.

After screening, Jiang Xiaosan's class consisted of a total of five craftsmen, and at the same time made five crossbows with similar foot strings.

This time, Li Xiaoqi was wound up smoothly, but when he shot from about a hundred meters away, the crossbow arrow without feathers actually deviated from the target by more than three feet.

Li Xiaoqi shot three arrows in a row, not to mention the bull's-eye, and he didn't even touch the edge of the target.

Li Zhongyi asked Li Xiaoqi: "Why did you miss the shot?" ”

Li Xiaoqi touched his head and thought for a while, and explained: "There is no wind today, and the villain thinks that it is likely that the crossbow arrow is wrong." ”

Li Zhongyi called Huang Xiaoyi from the archery-making class to his side, and asked him with a smile: "What are the things that affect the accuracy of crossbow arrows?" He waved his hand to signal him not to panic.

Who knows, this Huang Xiaoyi said: "Back to the deputy envoy, the villain thinks it should have something to do with the adjustment of Wangshan." ”

Oh, Lookout? Li Zhongyi immediately became interested and asked Huang Xiaoyi: "According to your estimate, how should Wangshan be adjusted?" ”

Huang Xiaoyi lowered his head and whispered, "The villain is not very clear. ”

Come on, Bai asked, Li Zhongyi was a little depressed in his heart, and his original high interest was instantly lowered a lot.

Perhaps because Li Zhongyi's love was not good, Huang Xiaoyi hesitated for a moment, and finally reminded in a low voice: "Back to the deputy envoy, there was originally an old craftsman in this bow and crossbow workshop who was the best at making bows and crossbows, but he was just ......."

"Just something?" Li Zhongyi roughly guessed the reason, and simply spoke for Huang Xiaoyi.

Huang Xiaoyi lowered his head and whispered: "The old craftsman's name is Guo Liu, and Yang Zheng has taken a fancy to his Peugeot daughter and wants to take her as a concubine, but he refuses." As a result, the tools were lost in the shed, and Yang Zheng insisted that Guo Liu stole them and put them in the firewood room. ”

Li Zhongyi sighed secretly, this is a typical bloody plot, and he actually let him meet it.

"I know." Li Zhongyi didn't ask Huang Xiaoyi why he wanted to stand up for Guo Liu, the reasons were nothing more than so many things, apprenticeship, marriage contract, or kindness.

Li Zhongyi ordered someone to find Yang Zheng and told him in person that due to the development of secret weapons, Guo Liu needed to be transferred for help.

Seeing that Yang Zheng was a little hesitant, Li Zhongyi knew his worries, so he said coldly: "If it is the dead Guo Liu who is handed over, you know the consequences." In addition, there are some thoughts that you shouldn't have, and I advise you not to be delusional. ”

Li Zhongyi's glorious deeds of getting hundreds of thousands of stone grains alone and defeating Liang Guobin, who had an unusually strong background, had long been spread throughout Kaifeng City, Tokyo.

Yang Zheng knew that he was at a loss, so he had to quickly send someone to release Guo Liu, Li Zhongyi personally diagnosed Guo Liu's pulse, and felt that there was no big problem except for physical weakness, so he was relieved, and casually prescribed a prescription and ordered someone to get the medicine.

Huang Xiaoyi saw that Guo Liu was helped over, and he was sincerely happy, and hurriedly ran over to ask for warmth, looking so intimate.

Li Zhongyi told Jiang Xiaosan to take good care of Guo Liu, turned around and left the bow and crossbow workshop. Yang Zheng saw that Li Zhongyi didn't mean to take him under the knife, and he put down a hanging heart.

In the era of cannibalism this person, similar to what happened to Guo Liu, there were so many that Li Zhongyi couldn't control it at all.

According to Li Zhongyi's estimate, Chai Rong's war against the Northern Han Dynasty has begun, and judging from the amount of grain hoarded, it is at least enough for 100,000 Zhou soldiers and more than eight months of military rations.

Historically, due to the many natural disasters in the Great Zhou Dynasty in recent years, the Yellow River always bursts its banks, and the lack of food has become inevitable.

As a result, the progress of Chai Rong's Northern Expedition was slowed down, and he repeatedly delayed the time of the northward march, and died halfway through the road with hatred.

Now, with the help of Li Zhongyi, a "foreigner", Chai Rong's preparation of grain and grass is at least two years faster than in history.

Chai Rong had food in his hands, and he arranged for Li Zhongyi to reorganize the armament, not to fight, but for what?

Li Zhongyi returned to the yamen of the three envoys, drank two sips of tea, and looked through some official documents of the Xuan case and the iron case.

Studying the matter of the divine arm bow, Li Zhongyi is a layman, and he must rely on the craftsmen to slowly explore.

Once this long-range strike weapon is successful, the mobility of the Zhou army is certainly far weaker than that of the Khitans, but the ability to defend in array will be greatly strengthened.

Li Zhongyi only knew the formula of gunpowder, but he didn't understand how to make an arquebus, let alone a flint.

However, Li Zhongyi believes that this divine arm bow, whether it is the firing degree or the effective range, should be far above the arquebus with cumbersome loading steps and a very short range.

Moreover, in the bow and crossbow workshop, the number of crossbows that have been made is amazing, and what Li Zhongyi lacks now is only the time for real yàn and transformation.

After half a month of careful recuperation, Guo Liu's body gradually recovered his health, but his body was still relatively weak.

When Li Zhongyi went to visit Guo Liu, Guo Liu was leaning on the bed drinking medicine, Guo Liu was bluffing, struggling to get off the ground and salute.

"No need to be polite." Li Zhongyi walked over quickly, raised his hand to stop Guo Liu, and said softly and comfortingly, "You are a patient, you are in a hurry, you don't have to pay so much attention to courtesy." ”

"Thank you Shangguan for the rescue, otherwise, the villain will ......" Guo Liulao burst into tears and was grateful.

Li Zhongyi smiled and said, "There will be nothing going on at your house, I have already ordered it to go down." ”

After getting Li Zhongyi's promise, Guo Liu arched his hands and said some grateful polite words indiscriminately.

Guo Liu thought that Li Zhongyi would ask him about making bows and crossbows, but Li Zhongyi didn't say anything except leave fifty yuan of money and left. Guo Liu opened his mouth, wanting to stop Li Zhongyi, but in the end he didn't scream, and watched Li Zhongyi's back disappear from sight.

Li Xiaoqi asked Li Zhongyi with some curiosity: "Childe, why don't you take Yang Zheng down directly?" ”

Li Zhongyi turned his head to look at Li Xiaoqi, and said lightly: "I am the deputy envoy of salt and iron in charge of weapons, not the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion or the county order of Xiangfu." In the world, there are so many similar things that even if I want to manage them, I can't manage them.

Li Zhongyi has never regarded himself as a saint, and he is indeed very sympathetic to Guo Liu's experience.

However, although Guo Liu suffered some hardships, after all, there was no irreparable "major event".

When it comes to buying grain, Li Zhongyi has already offended Zhang Yongde and Li Chongjin fiercely. Yin Zhanjurun, Kaifeng Mansion, was also pushed down by Li Zhongyi and pushed the boat down the river.

In this context, even if Li Zhongyi sent Yang Zheng to Kaifeng Mansion, there would be no satisfactory results. r1152

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