"Hmm... Back to Your Highness, after you said so, I really have never seen the guys in his stall in the past two days. Wei Gao thought for a while and exclaimed.

"That's right... This king suspects that this Ma Shuangquan either cashed out his stall because of poor management, and wants to trick you before leaving, of course, there is a second possibility..."Li Zhi said no more.

"Your Highness, what is the second possibility?" Wei Gao was curious.

"Do you really want to hear it?" Lee Chi Rao has an interesting taste.

"Your Highness, don't make fun of me..."

"This second possibility, that is, this horse may have been.... Dead.." Li Zhi said lightly.

"Dead? How is this possible...," Wei Gao exclaimed.

As soon as he thought that the fat man was dead, Wei Gao was afraid and sympathetic for a while, no matter how he said it, he was also a peer, and suddenly heard that he might have died now, and he couldn't help but sigh.

"Of course, this is also the king's guess, you can go back and observe carefully, if you find anything wrong, come to the king immediately, you know?"

"Know.. Know. Wei Gao nodded repeatedly.

"Don't be me joking with you, don't talk about it, listen to this king! Otherwise, you don't know how you lost your life..."Li Zhi said lightly.

Wei Gao asked in disbelief: "Could it be that the person who killed Ma Shuangquan will still come to kill me?" ”

Li Zhi's eyes suddenly became solemn, staring at Wei Gao, and suddenly smiled: "Haha, I scared you... Don't worry, this is all the king's speculation, not necessarily true, of course, don't worry, this king will send someone to secretly protect you..."Li Zhi comforted.

"Thank you, Your Highness, I will definitely pay attention to it." Wei Gao said sincerely.

If Wei Gao only dealt with Li Zhi on the surface at the beginning, now listening to Li Zhi's words, he suddenly paid attention to it, if this Ma Shuangquan ran away, it shouldn't be like this, he didn't have such a motive, so Wei Gao was more inclined to believe that he was dead, so he couldn't help but start worrying about himself.

He Wei Gao didn't say anything more, and after briefly instructing him to pay attention to details, he sent him away.

After Wei Gao left, Li Zhi looked at Xue Bing and said with a smile: "You kid is very clever, you don't have to do those chores in the future, follow this king." ”

Xue Bing was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Thank you, Your Highness!" In the future, I will only look forward to His Highness, you tell me to go east, I will never go west...", and then said a bunch of words such as swearing allegiance to the death.

Li Zhi was tired of hearing these flattering words, and waved his big hand and said: "Okay, this king knows your loyalty, and it just so happens that this king has something that you need to do." ”

"Nishichi?"

Li Zhi smiled and scolded: "You kid is really clever, that's right, this king ordered you to go to the West Market to inquire whether what Wei Gao said is true, if it is true, you will ask this king about the details of this horse Shuangquan, otherwise you will go back quickly!" ”

"Yes!" Xue Bing was full of joy, and left in a hurry after receiving the order.

After Xue Bing left, Li Zhi frowned slightly, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it, it was difficult.

Li Zhi stood up and stretched lazily, and said in a loud voice: "Come on, prepare the carriage and horses."

......

Wei River, after a few days of construction, there is a building on the side of the Wei River, on the surface and the normal building is no different, but there is a hole in the inside, of course, if there are good things to observe carefully, you can see the difference of this building, the building is completely submerged in the river from the surface of the river, but in fact, the craftsman from the bottom of the building to support the pillar to support half of the brick wall, otherwise, there is no cement, how can the building sink in the water.

In the building, the water wheel rotates rapidly under the impetus of the river, and through a series of transmission devices, a forging hammer is driven to continuously knock on the forging platform, making a series of dangdang sounds, deafening, resounding throughout the building.

Seeing this, Li Zhi hurriedly stepped forward to watch, only to see a craftsman clipping a piece of red-hot iron and putting it under the forging hammer, and then with a clangling sound, a piece of spark immediately splashed and splashed everywhere, which caught him off guard and did not expect the force to be so great, only to see that the iron block smashed out of a big pit in an instant.

I saw that he wiped a handful of sweat, but the movements of his hands were not slow, he accelerated the movements of his hands, and constantly adapted, and it took him a long time to gradually adapt to the tapping speed of the hydraulic forging machine.

In this way, it usually takes two or three craftsmen to forge a stick of incense without interruption to turn the iron into an iron bar, but now it takes less than two or three minutes to forge it with just one hydraulic forging machine.

This amazing efficiency amazed the craftsmen around them. More fast-responding craftsmen hula suddenly surrounded him, touching and knocking, feeling extremely novel.

Seeing this, Li Zhi nodded with satisfaction and said, "That's right, this efficiency is fantastic!" Director Zhao, what do you think? Li Zhi turned his head to Zhao Jiujiang and asked.

Zhao Jiujiang had long been immersed in shock, unable to recover for a long time, and said in surprise: "It's a miracle... Your Highness, you are really a god, this is obviously our commonly used water suspension, but after you have changed it like this, now it is just..."Saying that, Zhao Jiujiang has run out of words.

After a while, Zhao Jiujiang suddenly said: "Your Highness, there is a suggestion for the humble position. ”

"Say it." Li Zhi was a little curious about Zhao Jiujiang's suggestion.

"I propose that we can connect the plate armor production department of our forging workshop of the Foundry Bureau with this hydraulic forging hammer, so that the production efficiency of plate armor can be improved a lot." Zhao Jiujiang couldn't figure out Li Zhi's temper and asked.

After hearing this, Li Zhi smiled without thinking: "Haha, has Director Zhao forgotten the original intention of this king to design this hydraulic forging hammer?" ”

Zhao Jiujiang was puzzled.

"Didn't Ben Wang design the hydraulic forging hammer to improve the production efficiency of plate armor? At the beginning, you came to Benwang and said that the person in charge of the production of plate armor in your forging workshop came to complain to you. Li Zhi said quietly.

Zhao Jiujiang remembered that a few days ago, he went to the Xinwang Mansion to ask to see Li Zhi.

A little embarrassed, I asked for the hammer forging machine with my old face, but I didn't expect that this was originally prepared for the Foundry Bureau.

Seeing this, Li Zhi did not expose his embarrassment, but said: "Of course, these four hydraulic hammer forging machines cannot be completely used to produce plate armor, you have to keep a forging hammer machine for this king to forge iron sheets, and this king will keep it for other purposes." ”

"Ironhide?" Zhao Jiujiang was puzzled.

"Well, it's the iron sheet, this iron sheet is different from the forging of plate armor, it is thinner, so the forging time will be longer, so it is not suitable to be forged manually, so you must supervise this king."

"I wonder what His Highness is using this iron sheet for? Is it worthy of a lowly position? ”

Li Zhidao: "This is not necessary, you will return to the Foundry Bureau for this king in a while to concentrate on the development of the machine, this iron sheet is used, and this king will go to the Foundry Bureau to find someone." ”

Li Zhi didn't want Zhao Jiujiang to delay these trivial matters all the time, so Li Zhi didn't plan to hand over the affairs of the still to Zhao Jiujiang, this still has a simple structure, and as long as there are drawings, any experienced craftsman in the Casting Bureau can complete it.

At present, the scale of the casting bureau is larger, and it has become the yearning place of craftsmen all over the world.