(Ask for collections, ask for red tickets, ask for suggestions)

Now the only problem is the manpower to make the Soul Breaker Crossbow.

Bows and crossbows are still a matter of large salvos to produce great lethality, and if they are only equipped with a few or a dozen, they can only deter a single enemy, and a large melee with hundreds of people will only be a drop in the bucket.

But relying on Tang Long alone, even if he was exhausted, it was impossible for him to make too many soul-breaking crossbows in a short period of time.

Zheng Fei asked Tang Long, "How long does it take to train a warsmith who can make a Soul Breaking Bow?" ”

Tang Long pondered for a moment and then replied, "If there is some foundation in blacksmith skills, no matter how smart and diligent people are, they can only make soul breaking crossbows...... A month should be enough. If you don't have any foundation, it's hard to say. ”

Zheng Fei listened and groaned, "A month...... It's okay, but where are you going to find so many blacksmiths......? ”

Zhu Gui next to him stepped forward and said, "Big leader, there are many people on our Liangshan who have done handiwork before going up the mountain, the big boss only needs to give an order, and he should be able to gather some people, and find some more people for them to learn from scratch. We can also send people down the mountain to find some blacksmiths around the mountain, so that they can join us in Liangshan, and we can also gather a lot of people in a short time. ”

Zheng Fei listened and asked Tang Long, "Leader Tang, is what Leader Zhu said feasible?" ”

Tang Long thought for a while and said, "It's feasible, it's feasible, but the Divine Arm ...... Oh no, the production process of the Soul Breaker Crossbow is very complicated, and it's easy to learn how to do it, but if you want to make the things that are made of good quality and durable, you still have to rely on skilled hands, and the little brother has another way, I don't know if I should talk about it or not. ”

Zheng Fei said, "If the soup leader has something to say, he will say it. ”

Tang Long said, "The best candidates to make the Soul Breaking Crossbow are still those military craftsmen, as long as I can find a few more military craftsmen to cooperate with me, not only will the quality of the Soul Breaking Crossbow be guaranteed, but if I want to make any other weapons in the future, it will be twice the result with half the effort!" ”

Zheng Fei's eyes suddenly lit up! I secretly said in my heart, "That's right! This Tang Long alone has brought him so many benefits, if he can get more military craftsmen to help, wouldn't he be able to create any weapon of the Great Song Dynasty in the future? ”

But he heard Lin Chong say, "It's just that this military craftsman is an unusual blacksmith, and they are all under the control of the army or the government, how easy is it to talk to them?!" ”

Tang Long smiled and said, "What Leader Lin said is true, but this military craftsman has always been an ancestral craft, just like the younger brother, he has been serving in the army since the generation of his great-grandfather, if it weren't for the younger brother's greed for gambling, maybe the son will inherit his father's business at this moment and be serving in the army." And there are some ancestral warsmith families that can be called the big families that make weapons, and the whole family is good at making weapons, such as my ancestor came from one of the warmaker families. ”

Lin Chong nodded and said, "I also know this, there is a family of military craftsmen in the Bianliang Forbidden Army named Gongsun, who has been working for the forbidden army for generations and making weapons, and his craftsmanship is really extraordinary!" My iron spear is from his family, but does it have anything to do with us? ”

Tang Long didn't answer and asked, "I wonder if you leaders have ever heard of the 'Bow and Crossbow Case' during the period of Emperor Shenzong?" ”

Bow and crossbow case?

Everyone is a character in the rivers and lakes, if you talk about any allusions to the rivers and lakes, everyone may have heard of it, but if you want to ask them what the court does, few people really know.

But when Zheng Fei heard the words "Shenzong" and "Bow and Crossbow", he couldn't help but move in his heart, and immediately remembered something and said, "But when Emperor Shenzong was in power, he randomly inspected the weapons made by the Bow and Crossbow Academy?" ”

Tang Long was stunned for a moment, he never expected Zheng Fei to know about this, and after glancing at Zheng Fei in surprise, he said, "The big boss is really well-informed, and he even knows the 'bow and crossbow case'." ”

Zheng Fei smiled noncommittally, he only knew that Song Shenzong had spot-checked the bows and arrows made by the Bow and Crossbow Academy, and the result was that he was unqualified three times in a row, Shenzong was furious, but he didn't know what happened later, and now when he heard Tang Long ask, his answer was just a blind cat meeting a dead mouse.

But Tang Long's mood at the moment was very complicated, he wanted to show off several times, but he was broken by Pang Wanchun and Zheng Fei successively, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that this Liangshan was really hiding a dragon and a crouching tiger.

Tang Long continued, "Since you know about the case, I won't go into details. On that day, Emperor Shenzong was furious at the corruption of the bow and crossbow courtyard, and severely punished the bow and crossbow courtyard up and down, although the corrupt officials were taken down a lot, but also affected a lot of innocent skilled craftsmen. Among them, several families who had been making weapons for generations were convicted and sent out, and they were separated from the army and the bow and crossbow courts. The reason why today's bow and crossbow courtyard is under the technology, in addition to the corruption of officials, is also that the 'bow and crossbow case' really hurt the vitality of the bow and crossbow courtyard. After those military craftsmen were assigned, some of them have completely disappeared, and I don't know if there are any descendants. But there are still traces of several families, and the younger brother happens to know that three of them have settled in their distribution place, and have multiplied to this day, at this time it has only been more than 20 years since the 'bow and crossbow case' incident, and I think that many of the skilled craftsmen in their clan have survived, and the craftsmanship has not been lost. ”

Zheng Fei was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Where is their distribution place?" ”

"It's not too far from here, it's on Nashamon Island (Note 1)!" ”

Salmon Island?! Zheng Fei and the others were all shocked when they heard this, just because this distribution of Shamen Island can belong to one of the more serious types of distribution land, and these ordinary military craftsmen will be assigned there, you can imagine how angry Emperor Shenzong was at the beginning!

"But it's cheaper!" Zheng Fei thought about it and immediately said, "Leader Tang, are you sure you can find them and bring them to my Liangshan?" ”

Tang Long nodded and said, "The ancestor of the younger brother has a lot of connections with those two families, and the younger brother is willing to give it a try!" ”

"Good!" Zheng Fei nodded, and then said to Tang Long, "Leader Tang, if you do this, it will be a great credit to my Liangshan!" ”

After saying that, Zheng Fei glanced around at the leaders and said, "Wu Song, Wang Jin, and Shi Yong listen to orders!" ”

The three of them immediately hugged their fists and said, "Here!" ”

Zheng Fei said, "The three of you immediately bring enough silver taels and go to Shamen with Tang Long, no matter what method you use, you must bring those people back to Liangshan for me!" ”

The four of them said in unison, "Yes!" ”

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Shamen Island: It belonged to Dengzhou in ancient times, and now belongs to an archipelago in Yantai, Shandong. After the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, Taizu ordered all military criminals to be exiled to this island, and later not only military criminals, but also some other serious offenders, such as murderers, corrupt officials, and political prisoners, also began to be exiled to Shamen Island, becoming one of the harshest penal colonies in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Even at that time, the people would say to those corrupt officials and corrupt officials who hated them deeply: so-and-so must be shaman, have no family wealth, and imprison his children and grandchildren!