Li Chengqian didn't know when he fell asleep, only that it was already bright when he woke up.

Frowning and walking out of Liu Min's official office, looking at Cheng Hua'an standing by the door with a sword at the door, Li Chengqian asked with a little doubt: "Liu Min, how are they doing there?" Why didn't you call me? ”

"They failed, saying that they didn't have the face to see you, and they were all squatting and crying in the ironworks." Cheng Huaan's waist never seemed to bend, and he never seemed to have a smile on his face, cold as a stone.

"Failed? That's impossible? Wasn't it okay yesterday......" The expression on Li Chengqian's face was even more confused, and he couldn't figure out why he failed.

"Let's go, let's see." After thinking about it and going to no avail, Li Chengqian simply didn't want to, anyway, it wasn't far away, so it would be nice to go over and see it in person.

"Do you want Wu Chen and Cheng Hu to call?" Cheng Huaan looked at a side room on the right and asked.

"Let the two of them sleep, there's no risk here." Li Chengqian waved his hand, signaling that he would not care about Wu Chen and the two of them.

The atmosphere in the ironworks was a little dull, and more than a dozen craftsmen squatted together with sad faces, looking at the hundreds of steel bars about three feet long on the ground in a daze.

"What's the matter? Who's going to talk to Hongu! Glancing around the group of craftsmen, Li Chengqian fixed his gaze on Liu Min's body.

"Your Highness, we have failed, and the steel we have smelted cannot be used at all." Liu Min looked up at Li Chengqian and said bitterly.

"Where did you fail, can't you make it clear at once? You're still not a gentleman, why are you talking so hard! Li Chengqian was originally confused, and he was even more confused when Liu Min said it.

More than ten days of hard work is by no means offset by Liu Min's inexplicable 'failure', Li Chengqian has to ask clearly no matter what.

"Your Highness, please see." Liu Min gloomily picked up a steel bar from the ground, inserted one end into the gap in the stone platform next to him, and then slowly ...... it hard.

The originally straight steel bar slowly bent, and finally bent into a large arc, and then slowly returned to its original shape as Liu Min slowly withdrew his strength.

"Your Highness, you have also seen that this steel is too soft to be used to make knives at all, such soft steel is a waste product, and it is useless at all......" Liu Min glanced at Li Chengqian, who had been speechless for a long time, and a trace of helplessness flashed in his eyes.

But Li Chengqian's next performance completely frightened Liu Min, and even he began to wonder if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was crazy.

Because the expression on Li Chengqian's face was so wonderful, ecstasy, surprise, and confusion were mixed together, and at the same time, he pointed at Liu Min incoherently and scolded with a smile: "Liu Min, you are really talented, you are so talented, do you know that we are developed, you are a genius, a genius!" Now it's not enough to reward you with a county barony, you know? ”

Everyone was stunned, their hearts were sinking, the prince was crazy, and now he was in big trouble.

"Prince, you'd better be able to make your words clear, and you'd better have a reason to talk about yesterday's overnight stay outside the palace, otherwise...... You should go to Zongzheng Temple and stay for a year. In Li Chengqian's messy expression, Li Er's voice came in from outside the door.

"Your Majesty has been seen."

"Well, the son has seen his father."

Li Chengqian, who was in a frenzy, regained a little bit of his senses, looked at the old man with an angry face, and greeted Shi Li with a little embarrassment.

"Hurry up, don't try to fool around." Glaring at Li Chengqian fiercely, Li Er said angrily.

This kid is simply too unreasonable, he didn't say anything outside the palace at night, and he didn't go to participate in the early dynasty, and even inexplicably made a big statement about the prison and promised the title of county man.

Li Er knew that Li Chengqian was busy with the matter of being a prisoner during this time, but he didn't expect Ya to toss to this point.

Li Chengqian was not frightened by the old man's anger, but pointed to a pile of steel bars on the ground and said, "Father, look at what this is first!" ”

"A bunch of knife blanks, is it worth showing off!" Wei Chigong didn't wait for Li Er to speak, he pouted and said, he used to be a blacksmith, so he naturally knew the pile of iron on the ground.

"Knife blanks?" Li Chengqian also disdained the old lieutenant Chi, turned his head to Liu Min and said, "Re-demonstrate what you just did." ”

Lao Liu was glared at by Li Chengqian for a long time, and finally reluctantly picked up a steel bar from the ground, inserted it into the gap of the stone platform, and then pulled it hard.

"Now it's not even a knife blank, it's just some scrap." Wei Chigong said with a grin.

"Prince, what do you have to say, don't sell Guanzi." Li Er's expression was much more serious.

Those who are familiar with Li Chengqian know that this product never fights unprepared battles, nor does it do useless work, so although the people who follow Li Er know that the knife blanks on the ground are already scraps, no one still makes a sound, just watching quietly.

"Father, look at what this thing looks like." Li Chengqian said as he picked up two steel bars from the ground, arranged them in the shape of a cross, and then overlapped with the steel bar that Liu Min had been holding on.

"This looks like a crossbow!" Cheng Fairy probed his brain and leaned over, and after taking a serious look, he said suspiciously.

"Bingo, Uncle Cheng got it right. This is a crossbow, a steel crossbow! Li Chengqian snapped his fingers, threw the two steel bars in his hand aside, and then motioned for Liu Min to slowly let go of his hand.

When the bent steel bar was restored to its original state, Li Chengqian copied it in his hand: "This is one, maybe the strength is not enough, but we can stack the two together, so that we can have enough strength to send the crossbow arrows out." ”

Sluggish, everyone including Li Er looked at the steel bar in Li Chengqian's hand blankly, speechless for a long time. It wasn't until half an hour later that Wei Chi Gongne's words woke everyone up: "What is in this kid's head?" ”

"I don't know what he has in his head, but you must have water in your head." The first thing Cheng Fairy said after coming back to his senses was to belittle the old lieutenant Chi, there was no recruitment, this old man has such a virtue, and he can't change it.

However, Li Chengqian didn't have the heart to pay attention to this pair of living treasures, just copied the steel bars in his hand and said: "There are more than 100 steel bars here, if we don't seek strong destructive power, now in one day, we can produce more than 100 ordinary steel crossbows." ”

A hundred steel crossbows a day? That's still a day's volume, what if the capacity is expanded? How about making ten of the same cauldrons? That's a thousand a day.

Why did Li Chengqian stay outside the palace at night, Li Er no longer had the heart to investigate, and he didn't want to investigate, if this kid could make a thousand steel crossbows every day, even if he slept outside every day, Lao Li didn't care.