"Why are you so brainless!" Guo Qi said to Ling Jing: "If you don't open this king, you won't open it yourself!" Tang Bi took the key to open the door. ”

"No!" Tang Bi immediately beckoned the two of them to escort Ling Jing to find the key, and soon brought over a large number of keys, no matter how you look at it, there must be a hundred and ten, and these keys have inscriptions corresponding to their respective warehouses.

After the spear warehouse was opened, Tang Bi first led people into with torches, all the spears were neatly placed on the weapon rack, Guo Qi took one casually, and then asked Tang Bi: "How is this spear?" ”

Tang Bi took the spear and danced twice and said, "Lord Wang, this spear is quite good, much better than the spear we used in the barracks at the beginning. ”

Hearing Tang Bi's words, Guo Qi smiled with great satisfaction: "Then what are you waiting for, don't send someone to move quickly." ”

"No, I'll arrange it at the end." Tang Bi happily took the order and left.

Under Guo Qi's supervision, the doors of various warehouses were opened, and a team of young men began to move things from the warehouse to the outside.

Guo Qi beckoned to Tang Bi and said, "What's the matter?" Why didn't that storeroom open? ”

"Lord Wang, that warehouse is a miscellaneous warehouse, and there is a mess in it, all of which are some shabby things." Tang Bi reported to Guo Qi.

"I didn't see it! How do you know it's inside! Maybe there's something good! Go and open. Guo Qi instructed Tang Bi.

Guo Qi came to the door of the miscellaneous warehouse, and the two guards immediately stepped forward to open the lock, and pushed open the door of the miscellaneous warehouse together, and as the door opened, a burst of dust came to his face.

"Cough, cough, cough...... This storehouse has not been opened for many years. Guo Qi waved the dust and said; Ling Jing! Get him. ”

After Ling Jing came over, he saluted Guo Qi with a sad face and said, "The villain sees the prince." ”

Seeing Ling Jing's appearance, Guo Qi said to Ling Jing: "This arsenal has to be moved by the king, and after the king leaves, they will probably not let you go, but this king is not the one who crosses the river and demolishes the bridge, so you can take your family and go to Yongzhou with the king." ”

Ling Jing understood that the Yongwang in front of him was determined to eat himself, even if he objected, it was useless; Ling Jing stiffened his head and said, "Ling Jing thank you Lord Wang. ”

Guo Qi is indeed in love with Ling Jing, in the current corruption of officialdom, Ling Jing's dedication is enough to impress Guo Qi; After going to Yongzhou, it is impossible for Guo Qi to take care of so much money, food and ordnance, which requires a big housekeeper to take care of Guo Qi, and Ling Jing is the most suitable person.

Looking at Ling Jing's appearance, Guo Qi also knew that people were not very happy, but Guo Qi was confident that Ling Jing would be completely taken under his command.

"It looks like this miscellaneous library hasn't been opened for many years, you should know what to put in it!" Guo Qi asked Ling Jing.

"The prince forgives the sin, I don't know what villains are put in this miscellaneous warehouse, and the miscellaneous warehouse has not been opened since the villain came here; The villain heard that there were some damaged and dilapidated ordnance inside. ”

When I entered the miscellaneous warehouse, I didn't see any weapon racks, but I saw all kinds of weapons stacked on the ground, knives with curly blades, broken Ge, guns, and bows and crossbows with broken strings piled up in several piles, some of which were to be repaired, and some of which were to be rebuilt, but they were forgotten for various reasons.

Originally, Guo Qi didn't believe that there was a pile of rags in it, but now seeing is believing, and he can't help but be a little disappointed; Just when Guo Qi wanted to leave, he could vaguely see through the shining firelight that some boxes were neatly placed in the corners of the walls inside.

Walking to the box, Guo Qi said, "Open the box." ”

Tang Bi immediately beckoned two subordinates, opened one of the wooden boxes of one zhang and nine, a smell of tung oil emanated, the whole wooden box was full of straw, Tang Bi picked up some straw and saw a long pole as black as ink, Tang Bi seemed to realize something, and immediately pulled away all the straw on it, and the five-pole and eight horse lances were lying in the wooden box, and there was a cowhide blade sheath on the blade of the horse lance.

"Lord Wang, it's a horse lance, a horse lance." Tang Bi said in surprise.

Guo Qi immediately stepped forward and took out one of the horse lances, only to see that the upper part of the horse lance was engraved with 'Liu Wu system of Luodu lance workshop in March of the seventeenth year of Kaiyuan Dynasty'; these short words have already made the origin of this horse lance very clear, this is made by the Luodu Weapons Supervision Lance Workshop in the seventeenth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty of the Great Qi Dynasty, and the person who made this horse lance is named Liu Wu; Kaiyuan is the year name of Qi Jingzong, and it has been more than 80 years since then, and this horse lance is still the same as when it was just made.

The horse lance is a noble weapon in the weapon, not only because of the lethality of the horse lance, but also because the horse lance is difficult to make and the cost is extremely high; A good lance is very particular, first of all, the lance is not any natural log at all, but to take the best tough wood as the main trunk, and then peel it into a uniform thickness, and then glue it with special fish glue.

The selection of materials is generally based on the high-quality topwood of bow-making, followed by mulberry and rattan; It is necessary to soak it in oil repeatedly, and it has been soaked without deformation and no longer cracking, which completes the first step, and this first step alone takes nearly a year.

After a year, take out the strips, air dry them in a cool place for several months, and then glue them with high-quality lacquer glue to form a handful of thick and eight lengths, and then wrap the hemp rope in the outer layer, and when the hemp rope is dry, it is then coated with raw lacquer and wrapped in kudzu cloth; Dry one layer and wrap one layer after another, until the knife cuts it, and the lance makes a metal-like sound without any damage.

After the lance is done, remove its tail, truncate it to about one zhang six, install a lance blade made of stainless steel in front, and install a lance made of red copper at the rear end; After continuous adjustment, the final qualified standard is a hemp rope hanging at the tail of the lance two feet, and the entire Zhangba horse lance can be kept horizontal in mid-air and the ends of the two ends do not fall to be qualified; The result is a lance that can be used on a horse to ensure that the rear end of the lance is held and the blade is forward.

It takes three years to build such a qualified lance, and it is light, tough, strong and durable; When charging with the help of horsepower, the person who wields the horse can stab the opponent under the horse by simply picking off the enemy's weapon; The glued pieces and the horizontal hemp rope and arrowroot cloth can ensure that the horse lance can withstand more force when impacting, so that the horse lance will not break due to the force bending even when sprinting, and it has great elasticity, which can really be described as a magic weapon of the cavalry.

However, such a horse lance, it takes three years to make, and the yield is only about forty percent, the wood, lacquer, and glue used in the production of the horse lance are all extremely expensive materials, so the cost is often high and scary.

In Daqi, in addition to the use of horse lances by the clans, only the royal forbidden army and the personal hussars of the vassal kings were equipped with standard horse lances, but this was not a large number; Due to the difficulty and high price of production, the horse lance has been gradually replaced by a long spear.

In Daqi, the horse lance has become a status symbol, and ordinary people have no access to the horse lance at all.