"Okay, now that you've decided, let's go to the Water Guard first. First arrange a position for you as a squad leader, and if you are strong and competent enough, you will be directly promoted to platoon leader and be in charge of fifty people. However, the convoy currently only has ten centipede ships as warships, and the combat effectiveness is very weak, what weapons do you think should be appropriate? ”

"Water warfare starts from 300 meters away, and the most powerful weapon is the Divine Arm Crossbow, which can shoot a meter-long arrow from 400 meters away with a single arrow. Three arrows can shoot 300 meters, and 200 meters can break heavy armor. When the arrow is made, a cloth soaked in oil is tied underneath the arrow, and when it is fired, it ignites, and can quickly burn the sails and even the hull of the enemy ship. Soldiers can use crossbows, bows, springboards, spears, and short knives for long-range battles. (In order to unify the unit of measurement and make the expression clear and clear, the step, ruler, and zhang were all changed to meters.) ）

Chao Gai was overjoyed, Kong Yang was very knowledgeable, much more knowledgeable than the three brothers of the Ruan family.

"Brother Kong, you should report to the Water Guards first. Learn the most basic training first, as long as you learn well, I will give you a promotion soon. ”

Kong Yang thanked Chao Gai, and the water escort team reported under the leadership of the people.

Sending Kong Yang away, Chao Gai thought for a moment, left Zhuangzi and went straight to the Limin Iron Factory, and after three inspections by guards, Chao Gai came to the weapons workshop presided over by Tang Long.

Just in time for lunch, there were quite a few people in the workshop, twenty skilled blacksmiths, twenty apprentices, and ten small workers. In addition, there are fifty-one people in Tanglong, all of whom are not wearing shirts, and there are more than ten forged coke stoves in the workshop, and the temperature is very high. The meal was in a nearby shed, with five generous tables and stools of long stools.

Tang Long saw Chao Gai and said with a smile: "My brother is here, have you eaten?" ”

Chao Gai touched his stomach: "I've been busy all day, and I haven't eaten dinner yet, so let's eat here when I catch up." Saying that, Chao Gai was going to the shed.

Tang Long smiled: "Brother, let's go to Director Zhang's arrangement, hehe, we are a group of rude blacksmiths." ”

"Haha, where did my brother come from, brother, I'm just a farmer, let's eat together." Chao Gai laughed.

Tang Long took the bowl and chopsticks to Chao Gai, the craftsmen were still a little restrained, Chao Gai picked up the big black bowl and looked at it and said: "Don't look at me, I can eat very well, let's compare who eats more, you will know in a while." ”

Everyone laughed, and after a while, the room brought food, four porcelain pots on each table, a pot of fried fish, a pot of goose stewed beans, and the remaining two pots were all eggplant, plum beans and other seasonal vegetables.

Chao Gai picked up a big horse spoon and dug up a bowl of vegetables, picked up the steamed buns and lowered his head to eat, and everyone next to him also started to eat. The food in the ironworks is second only to the guards, and it is better than that of the carpenters and the long-term workers of the farm, and the taste is not very good, after all, the cooks are ordinary people, but they can definitely eat well.

"Brother Tang Longxian, how is the meal, is my brother's arrangement worthy of the craftsman?" Chao Gai asked.

Tang Long said: "The current meal is not to say, one word, good." When I was making swords at the sword workshop under the Tai Governor's Mansion in Tokyo, I had pickles and sorghum rice porridge for breakfast every day. At noon, it is the nest of green cabbage leaves and sorghum noodles. In the afternoon, I eat rice with a lot of sand, and I can only eat dishes with meat a few times during the New Year's holidays. At that time, I thought about when I could have meat, fish, white rice, and big steamed buns every day. Sometimes I drool when I dream of something delicious. ”

"Haha." Everyone laughed.

"Now I have finally fulfilled this wish, I eat and drink well every day, and the salary is still very high. To say that the treatment of the craftsmen of our weapons workshop is almost ten times that of the craftsmen under the Taiwei Mansion. The big guy who said Tang Long couldn't stop nodding. There was no supervisor in the workshop, no one beat and scolded, and every mature craftsman paid the family a full settling-in allowance as soon as he came, and Chao Gai also promised to build a house near the ironworks soon, so that these craftsmen could bring their wives and children.

"It's good to be satisfied, if there is anything inconsiderate in logistics, just go to Zhang Tiehan, if Zhang Tiehan can't solve it well, go directly to me, and make sure that every brother eats well and sleeps well." Chao Gai repromised.

The craftsmen are still very satisfied, you must know that the status of craftsmen in this era is low, the treatment is poor, and it is not easy to find a job with a good salary and good accommodation.

After eating, Chao Gai and Tang Long came to the guest room next to them, which was equivalent to Tang Long's office.

Tang Long said: "What kind of knife did my brother take this time?" ”

Chao Gai took out a piece of paper, on which was drawn a tiger tooth saber, only slightly changed, the blade is still strong, but there is no such exaggerated serration, the handle is a more practical solid wood handle, the length has been adjusted, the blade is twenty centimeters long, and the handle is fifteen centimeters long.

"This is called the Tiger Tooth Saber, and it belongs to the short knife that you carry around." Chao Gai said.

"This is a sharp short knife, how to build it?" Tang Long asked.

"Use the best steel to make a black blade, not so bright, but it must be sharp, durable, and as Tang knife and Kaishan knife as an absolute boutique."

"This brother rest assured, the steel that Xie Gang has fried has been getting better and better recently." Tang Long said.

"In addition, you get a steel seal, and all the fine swords cast in this workshop are marked with steel seals." Chao Gai proposed.

Tang Long said: "What is good to print." ”

"Just print a leopard character, so that everyone knows that this is a weapon created by the Golden Leopard Tang Long, and your fame will be famous at home along with the sword."

Tang Long's face bloomed with joy, and there was no craftsman who didn't want to be famous.

Tang Long thought for a while and said: "Brother, although I dare not say that each of the weapons I supervised is a sword and sword, but 100% of them are very sharp, my brother should keep it for our own team training, why take it out and sell it." ”

Chao Gai said with a smile: "At present, we will create three varieties of Tang knife, Kaishan knife, and tiger tooth knife." The main thing is that I take it to make friends with heroes and give it as a gift, and I will only sell it after I build enough for my own use. The reason why we're selling it is because I'm going to make you even more powerful weapons. ”

"What weapons." Tang Long asked.

"Divine Arm Crossbow." Chao Gai said, "There are currently ten warships used on warships. ”

Tang Long really knew how to make this thing, after all, Tang Long belonged to the world's top weapon forging masters, and he had enough steel. Of course, Tang Long is not an immortal, and he still can't build a crossbow that can fire continuously.

After a long discussion, two ballistas were finally decided.

One is a long-range crossbow with an arm length of one meter five, a large arrow with a launch length of one meter two, and a theoretical range of up to four hundred meters. The second is called the three-arrow crossbow, which can shoot three 80-centimeter-long arrows at once, with a theoretical range of 300 meters, and the winch is light and fast. Both of these crossbow covers are required to be fixed to a two-wheeled miniature frame car, and the crossbow can rotate 360 degrees and up and down 90 degrees.

"Are you having trouble?" Chao Gai asked.

Tang Long said: "It's not difficult, just let the sample car come out." ”

"You only need to do this part of the crossbow, as for the car below, you just need to draw a fine sample, or build a prototype car, and I will arrange for the carpentry workshop to do it, and they will be transported here after they are ready, and you will assemble it. Wouldn't it be faster to work together like this? You also have to slowly carry out the assembly line production here, divide the utensils to be made into several parts or steps, and each craftsman only builds the part or accessories that he is most proficient in, and finally assembles them after they are all ready. This is also convenient for future maintenance, and the accessories must be universal, so as to facilitate the maintenance of weapons, otherwise it will not be used several times to build it, and it will not be able to be repaired, which is not a waste. ”

Tang Long said: "I heard Director Zhang Tiehan say this, I have started slowly recently, and it must be great after adopting this method." If those officials in the Tokyo Armory Workshop can ask for this like my brother, we and Da Liao will definitely not lose the battle. ”

"Why is that?" Chao Gai asked puzzled.

"Brother, please think about it, we have fewer cavalry and more infantry in the Great Song Dynasty. There are many cavalry in Liao, if our infantry is equipped with more crossbows, can the cavalry of Liaoguo rush to the front? There is nothing that the officials and masters of the Tokyo Weapons Workshop dare not fish, such as dialing wrought iron on it, they can replace it with pig iron, and dialing steel on it, so they let the craftsmen use wrought iron, and it is strange that they can't eat enough and can't wear warm clothes to create good weapons. Therefore, the failure rate of the Divine Arm Crossbow is very high, so he and Liao Guokai have fewer defeats and more defeats. ”

Chao Gai said: "You reminded me like this, you have to set up a position, this person can not know how to build, but you must understand the quality of swords, bows and crossbows and other weapons, weapons must be inspected by this person before leaving the factory, once there is a problem, this person must be held responsible." At the same time, this person should also inspect the materials purchased by the factory, and put forward the unqualified and unsuitable materials in time to avoid bad consequences. “

Tang Long wrote them down one by one, and agreed very much with Chao Gai's ideas, thinking that although Chao Gai was born in the rivers and lakes, he had a clear eye for doing things, and he had rules to follow, and he did not rely on brotherly righteousness to do things.

It was already the middle of the night when Chao Gai left, and the four guards were sleepy but still followed.

"You four just sleep here, I'll go to the factory opposite."

Chao Gai left the guards and went to a secret factory not far away, and the guards checked Chao Gai's waist card before letting him go. This is Xu Meng's workshop, he came with Li Kui, but compared to Li Kui, he is unknown, and few people know what he is doing.

The lights in the workshop were on, and there were more than a dozen cast-iron cannons piled on the ground, some large and some small.

The craftsmen had already slept peacefully, and only Xu Meng was thinking about things with a paper tube, trying left and right, always feeling right and feeling wrong.

"Why don't you sleep so late?" Chao Gai said.