And everything, perhaps, can start with this little glass.

"Let Wu Ping go to the imperial study," Li Xinchen got up, "I'll go over immediately." ”

Speaking from the heart, Wu Ping was a little nervous.

This was the first time he had met Li Xinchen alone, and he had met this young monarch who single-handedly defeated the Northern Zhou Dynasty and divided the Southern Chen.

But this does not mean that Wu Ping is afraid of Li Xinchen, on the contrary, for the Bashu people led by Wu Ping, especially the Bashu craftsmen, they want to thank Li Xinchen the most.

Craftsmen are the third class of society, which means that they have their own jobs from birth, but they have to face a very embarrassing problem, that is, their social status is very low. This means that when there is war and people are displaced, they are less respected and cared for.

Wu Ping is a good craftsman, but in the troubled times, it is a problem for everyone to be full, who still thinks about where to use craftsmen, and building a house is to solve it by himself. So before Li Xinchen entered Shu, Wu Ping actually had a very poor life, his master was to manufacture and repair large bow and crossbow equipment for the government, but when he came to Wu Ping, he could only be a carpenter.

But fortunately, Li Xinchen changed all this, and Wu Bing still can't imagine how he felt when he heard that this new ruler needed a large number of craftsmen.

It's also a little ashamed, at that time he thought that Li Xinchen was going to build a palace for himself - this is very common for kings in troubled times, after all, no one knows that their throne can sit for a few days, so it is better to have fun in time.

Chen Shubao and Yu Wenyun are very experienced in this regard.

But Wu Ping found out that he was wrong.

Li Xinchen was a person who really wanted to build a powerful Bashu, and he did not repair the palace, but first gathered people to build a workshop.

Watching the huge workshop rise from the ground, watching the strong men working back and forth, and looking at the grandeur of assembly line production, Wu Bing really regretted why he was born ten years early, otherwise he would have more energy to devote to this vigorous construction in his prime of life.

But even so, Wu Ping is also the biggest hero of the Chengdu Workshop.

Ouyang Mo needed to coordinate the industrial construction of the entire Bashu, and he was very old, so in fact, the Chengdu Workshop, the largest workshop under Li Xinchen's command except for the Southern County Shipyard - the shipyard was mainly because of its size - was almost built by Wu alone.

Thinking of the magnificent workshop built on the mountain, thinking of hundreds of sweaty craftsmen, and thinking of the breathtaking huge assembly line production, Wu Ping was fascinated.

It's his heart's work.

This is also why Wu Ping was a little apprehensive when he saw Li Xinchen, the first task of the Chengdu workshop now is to produce thunderbolts, and at this time, Wu Ping and they have transferred a small number of people to test new materials, even if this thing is indeed very beautiful by mistake, but in front of His Royal Highness, who has always been pragmatic, will it be appreciated, in fact, Wu Ping has no bottom in his heart, if His Royal Highness is angry because of this, and feels that they are not doing their job, then the final loss must be the Chengdu Workshop.

However, Li Xinchen was surprised by Wu Ping, and asked with great interest: "How long does it take to fire the same thing?" ”

"Your Majesty, this time it is actually an unintentional move by everyone, if you want to find out the way, your subordinates think it will take at least three to five days." Wu Ping hurriedly said, he was not sure what methods they had adopted at that time, and he had to try little by little when he went back, if he was unlucky, he was afraid that he would not be able to get it out in ten days and half a month, but here Wu Ping of course did not dare to directly explain it to Li Xinchen, otherwise wouldn't it seem that he was too incompetent.

Glancing at Wu Ping, who was a little entangled, Li Xinchen could probably guess something, and couldn't help laughing: "Okay, this king gives you a month, not only to burn the same thing, but also to ensure that there are as few bubbles and impurities as possible in it, can you do this?" ”

Of course, a month is enough, Wu Ping breathed a sigh of relief, I don't know if his mind was seen through by Li Xinchen, and he didn't dare to slack off: "Obey!" ”

Li Xinchen nodded, glass is a good thing, if it can really be launched at this time, it not only means that people have one more material to choose when building houses, but also means that magnifying glasses, glasses and even telescopes can be one step ahead. You must know that clairvoyance and glasses have appeared in the Ming Dynasty, but this kind of thing is generally made of precious crystal or tortoiseshell, which is definitely not something that ordinary people can afford.

Glass, on the other hand, has a similar effect to crystal and tortoiseshell, but the cost is much lower than the latter two. The large-scale firing in later generations told Li Xinchen that as long as he could master the key to it, then glass products could enter thousands of households.

Not to mention clairvoyance, that is, the important role of telescopes in the military.

Li Xinchen's attention made Wu Ping feel that he had not come in vain, and he was even more determined to concentrate a few backbones to attack the fortification when he went back.

Thinking of something, Li Xinchen then asked: "Since it is a coincidence, then let's talk about the output of thunderbolts in the workshop now, and how much can be replenished to White Emperor City?" ”

The thunderbolt is a large-scale trebuchet jointly built by Li Xinchen and Ouyang Mo, and its blueprint is a large-scale trebuchet invented by Liu Ye during the Three Kingdoms period, which has shown its style in the previous battle of Xiangfan, and is also the largest trebuchet in this era.

For the Shu Han army, which is destined to conquer the world in the future, the thunderbolt is of course indispensable. It's just that such a huge machine can't be produced in all places, the original southern county workshop has been converted to shipbuilding, and the workshops in Hanzhong and Xiangyang are still under construction, so the Chengdu workshop is the only place under Li Xinchen's command that can produce thunderbolts at this stage.

Wu Ping, of course, was familiar with these data, and hurriedly replied at the moment: "Your Highness Qiqi, now about twenty units can be produced every month, of which four to five are supplied to the Xiangyang front, two to three are supplied to Hanzhong, and one to two are supplied to the northwest, so there are only about ten units that can be shipped to Baidi City every month." ”

Li Xinchen frowned, to be honest, the number is still a little small, after all, in Li Xinchen's imagination, hundreds of thunderbolts broke out at the same time, and they could definitely have the momentum of destroying the withering and decaying. However, Li Xinchen also knew that there were no brick walls on the city walls of this era, and these ordinary rammed earth city walls were actually difficult to withstand the concentrated attack of seven or eight thunderbolts.

What's more, the products of the Chengdu Workshop cannot only be supplied to the White Emperor City, not to mention that there is still a certain gap on the Xiangyang front, and Hanzhong and the Northwest also need the help of thunderbolts.

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