The night before, Lu Bu and Pang Tong talked about building flying kites.

But he was not a carpenter, and although he had such thoughts, he didn't know where to start.

Early in the morning, he had more than a dozen carpenter-turned-soldiers selected from the army.

The soldiers stood in a row, looking at Lu Bu intently.

Lu Bu walked back and forth twice in front of them: "You are all carpenters? ”

"Yes!" More than a dozen soldiers replied in unison.

Zhang Liao leaned over to Lu Bu and whispered, "Wenhou, these soldiers are the best carpenters in the army. ”

"What are you doing in the military?" Lu Bu asked again.

This time the soldiers' answers were different.

Most of them were miscellaneous soldiers, but they also had two sword and shield bearers and a captain.

Lu Bu nodded: "It's a pity for people like you to die if they are sent to the battlefield." If I leave you behind, will you or not? ”

The soldiers looked at each other, none of them too much to stay in the rear.

Go into battle to kill the enemy and establish meritorious deeds, once they have made meritorious deeds, their lives will be rewritten.

Staying in the rear, without a chance to make meritorious contributions, their lives may always be the way they are now.

Judging from the expressions of the soldiers, they were not very reluctant, and Lu Bu said: "Actually, meritorious service does not necessarily have to go into battle to kill the enemy, if you can build more ordnance to kill the enemy, what is the difference between the merit and killing the enemy?" ”

I didn't understand how I could make war feats without killing people, and more than a dozen soldiers looked dazed.

"I want to ask you, as a carpenter, who do you think your ancestor is?" Lu Bu diverted the topic.

The Wu Chang replied: "Back to Wenhou, the carpenter's ancestor is a public loser. ”

The public loss class is actually Luban.

He reverted to the surname Gongyi and was a native of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period.

At that time, people often put the name of the country in front of people's names, and over time, more people only knew Lu Ban, and did not know his real name.

Lu Bu nodded: "Since you know that your ancestor is Lu Ban, you should have also heard that he once created something called a flying kite." ”

Of course, carpenter-turned-soldiers had heard of flying kites, but none of them had actually made them.

"Have any of you ever made a flying kite?" Lu Bu then asked embarrassing questions.

More than a dozen people bowed their heads.

At this time, they were extremely ashamed in their hearts.

The patriarch once created the flying kite, but those of them who have inherited the craft for thousands of years don't even know what the flying kite looks like.

"Haven't made a flying kite, have you ever made a kite?" Lu Bu asked a different question.

I don't know what a flying kite looks like, but the soldiers really made kites.

Wu Chang lowered his head with shame on his face and replied: "Back to Wenhou, we have made kites, but that thing and flying kite ......."

"But anything that can fly, without the help of external impulses, is either catapulted into the sky or glides into the sky." Although he didn't know how to do flying kites, Lu Bu knew the most primitive flying principle very well: "Especially kites, all of them glide into the sky." What I want you to do is a kite that can glide into the sky, but these kites need to be able to carry the weight of a person. ”

Lü Bu did not tell the craftsmen that what he needed was the most primitive glider.

The idea of using kites instead of gliders makes it easier for craftsmen to understand.

Even so, the craftsmen looked at each other.

Kites can fly into the sky, but they can't figure out how to send people to them.

Even if a person flies into the sky with a kite, how to control the landing is also a trouble.

If you are not careful, you are likely to fall to pieces.

Puzzled in their hearts, the craftsmen refused to say it, and they didn't want to disturb Lu Bu's good interest.

"Are you wondering how you can send people to the sky when a kite is so small?" Lu Bu asked them.

was pierced by Lu Bu, and the craftsmen nodded subconsciously.

"Actually, I'm going to build something besides kites." Lu Bu said: "But that thing is more troublesome to control, and it requires not only carpenters, but also leather craftsmen. ”

The night before, Lu Bu didn't say anything at all, except for the flying kite, he planned to build something else.

Pang Tongyi, who was beside him, had a blank face.

He asked in a low voice, "Wen Hou didn't say that he wanted to build anything else last night, why did he suddenly bring it up again?" ”

"I didn't think of that last night." Lu Bu lowered his voice and replied: "It was also a sudden inspiration just now." ”

"What is Wen Hou going to build?" Pang Tong asked suspiciously.

"You may wonder what I'm going to make." Lu Bu said to everyone present: "In addition to kites that can carry people, I also plan to build hot air balloons. ”

The crowd was even more confused, where had they heard of such a thing as a hot air balloon.

In fact, when Lu Bu said it, he was also beating drums in his heart.

It has only been half a month since Gao Shun came here, and it may be possible for him to build a glider in half a month.

However, to build a hot air balloon......

He wasn't sure he would succeed.

But until then, it's still possible to make a Kong Ming lantern......

"Wenyuan!" Lu Bu instructed Zhang Liao: "Go find a few leather craftsmen and get a few lighter oil lamps." ”

I just heard that he was planning to build a hot air balloon, and Zhang Liao, who didn't know what it was, responded.

When Zhang Liao was looking for a cobbler, he was still muttering in his heart.

Since the Battle of Xiapi, Wen Hou has created more and more strange things.

Needless to say, what toothpaste, toilet water, just the bed, has subverted people's bedtime habits.

By the time they left Pengcheng, the bed that Lu Bu had made was out of stock.

After the trial of the original person who received the bed, it was indeed more comfortable to sleep in a bed than on the floor.

To create something that subverts cognition, Lu Bu is now going to build a kite that can carry people.

With his imagination, Zhang Liao could still imagine what that thing looked like.

But the hot air balloon he just talked about made Zhang Liao confused, and he didn't know what it would look like.

It didn't take long for Zhang Liao to select a few leathermen from the army.

Most of the soldiers under Lu Bu's command were Qingzhou Army.

Qingzhou Army was born in the Yellow Turban, and many of them were farmers or small handicraftsmen before joining the army, and of course there were many craftsmen with craftsmanship.

When the cobbler arrived, Zhang Liao asked him to fetch a few oil lamps.

According to Lu Bu's instructions, the oil lamps they took were relatively light.

However, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were no materials such as glass or tin aluminum, and clay was used to make oil lamps.

The density of clay is relatively large, and the weight is also relatively heavy.

Picking up an unlit oil lamp, Lu Bu was also weighing it in his heart.

The oil lamp is heavy, and the material made into balloons is also leather, which is definitely heavier than paper, and the Caihou paper of this era is so rough that it is impossible to use it to make Kong Ming lanterns.