When the Yong'an Canal flowed through Chang'an City, from Jingyao Gate, and through a dense forest, an artificial tributary leading to the depths of the woods suddenly appeared, and part of the river water poured into the tributaries, flowing straight into the depths of the woods. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The water bent deep in the woods, and the ground in front of it descended three to four meters to a vertical wheeled water mill. On the ground, a wooden bench made of two people is placed in the open space, with two iron shafts at each end, and a planer knife that can be slid from side to side is fixed on the side. On the shaft on one side of the bench, there is a wheel, which is connected to the waterwheel of the water mill.

At this time, Li Shimin was standing next to the pedestal, and not far from him, four Chang'an merchants were kneeling on the ground, not daring to raise their heads. He watched as the craftsmen fixed a piece of wood to the bench through the iron shafts on both sides, and the two craftsmen adjusted the planer knife left and right as required, and then connected it to the transmission device between the water mill, and with the push of the water, the machine soon began to quickly turn the wood, and soon a log that could be used to make wheels was ready.

"This is the machine you said could make money?" Li Shimin pointed to the simple hydraulic lathe and asked Baiqi.

"Your Majesty, you see that this lathe uses water power completely, and the efficiency is many times higher than that of manual labor, in addition to wood like now, it can also mass-produce weapons such as bows and arrows, as long as some improvements are made on this lathe!"

Li Shimin turned around and asked the four Chang'an businessmen who were kneeling on the ground: "I ask you, how much does it cost you to use this lathe?" ”

The elderly merchant at the front buried his head in the ground and said, "Back to Your Majesty, the grass people have had a written agreement with General Bai before, and on the premise of ensuring that they provide sufficient and correct timber, the cost of using the lathe is calculated according to five hundred yuan per month, and it will be cleared every half a month. ”

"What do you do with these sizes of wood?"

"Your Majesty, these are used to make wooden furniture such as chairs." The older merchant slammed his head on the ground and replied cautiously.

Li Shimin glanced at the white chess, and the latter immediately clenched his fists and said: "Your Majesty, the agreement between the minister and them is written in black and white, and it is placed in the minister's house." In addition, the minister also sold the furniture design drawings to them, and now it is believed that there are many new styles of furniture in Chang'an City. ”

"It turned out that you made it, and the Chen's family has recently added some of these tables and chairs, and they are indeed much more comfortable to use than before!" The old Wang Jue said with a smile: "Especially with those leather sofas, the old man's waist is not as painful as before!" ”

Li Shimin waved the four merchants back, and then, led by Baiqi, through the outer area guarded by the Tang army, to the deeper part of the woods, where there was a large clearing and two rows of tall and spacious houses appeared in front of him.

Two rows of houses occupy a large area, with an empty aisle paved of green bricks in between. In the middle of each row and every two houses there was a smaller aisle, with a well and several benches, on which the craftsmen and their apprentices sat and rested, and when they saw that white was coming, they immediately got up. Bai Qi waved his hand, signaling that he didn't need to, and then continued to walk inside with Li Shimin.

"What's in these houses?" Dai Xuan looked curiously at the houses on both sides and asked White.

"Some of the houses inside are empty, and they are going to be used for production workshops in the future when the basic technology is mature." White explained.

The group came to the end of the aisle, where on the side near the current, there was a much larger factory, the house had no front and rear doors, it was directly opened, and on the side there was a row of waterwheels larger than the outside. At the door of the house hangs a sign that reads "Hydro Workshop".

"Your Majesty, this is one of the cores of the Cloud Breaking Army, the Hydraulic Workshop!" White said proudly to Li Shimin.

A group of people entered the hydraulic workshop, and the craftsmen inside saw Li Shimin's arrival, and they were so frightened that they immediately knelt down and did not dare to raise their heads.

"Hehe, no need to be polite, I and the ministers are here to see your contributions to my Datang!" Li Shimin stepped forward with a smile, helped the gray-haired craftsman in front of him up, patted him on the shoulder and said with a pleasant face: "Uncle, I ask you, what is the use of this hydraulic workshop?" ”

Seeing the old man looking at him, and then Li Shimin's sharp gaze followed, Bai Qi smiled bitterly and said, "Uncle Wang, you just say it." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Uncle Wang carefully led them to the workshop, which was divided into two production lines: carpentry and ceramics. Among them, on the production line of the ceramic workshop, the water power drives the ceramics to make embryos, which makes people shine. Uncle Wang let his apprentice demonstrate the operation process while introducing the principles and methods.

When everyone came to the other woodworking production line, Uncle Wang said proudly: "Your Majesty, in the eyes of the grass people, those ceramic productions just now, in the eyes of the grass people, are just a waste, if it weren't for Bai Xiaohou's insistence, the old man would have withdrawn it a long time ago!" At this point, he glanced at White dissatisfied, and then continued to point to the line in front of him. On the production line, sawing, milling, grinding and other processes are arranged in an orderly manner, and the wood is stably divided on the machine tool, and finally a uniform arrow stalk comes out.

"My husband is right, that kid from white chess always worries me, get used to it, that's it!" Li Shimin laughed, stepped on the white chess with Uncle Wang, and said happily, he walked to the end of the production line, picked up a few arrow stalks and compared the size, and then asked: "These arrow stalks seem to be different from the usual ones, and the size is different." ”

"Your Majesty is wise!" Uncle Wang stepped forward and said, "These are the crossbow arrows of the hand crossbow that the little marquis is going to do, and the tolerance is reduced to ten percent!" ”

"Oh, the crossbow?" Li Shimin and the other ministers were very interested and looked at the white chess pieces one after another.

Bai Qi smiled bitterly and said, "Uncle Wang, you are going to expose all my old bottoms!" ”

Uncle Wang's rough hands were covered with calluses, rubbed his hands, and said with a grin: "Little Hou Ye, a few of us old guys, according to the design drawings you gave, have already made samples!" ”

Bai Qi's eyes lit up, and he asked in surprise: "Uncle Wang, where are the samples, show me!" ”

Uncle Wang took the key to open a metal toolbox beside him, in addition to some common tools such as screwdrivers and wrenches, there was also a gray cloth bag, from which he took out one piece after another, and then carefully assembled them.

After the assembly was completed, Bai Qi took it from Uncle Wang's hand excitedly, and held it in his hand, and his mood was surging. This is a redesigned repeater inspired by a game he got from a later life, with the help of the appearance of the Moon Chasing Repeater. The whole body of the repeater crossbow is made of pig iron, the shape of the support hand is like a rifle, but the length is only about 50 centimeters, and the crossbow wings on each side are tied with a thick ox tendon, which is connected to the arrow groove clutch. On the side of the smooth arrow trough, there is an arrow box, which can place fifty crossbow arrows, and can automatically feed the repeater when firing arrows. Underneath the slot, White uses a trigger design like a later pistol, with a continuous gearing device that greatly enhances the performance of the repeater.

Li Shimin took the repeater from Baiqi's hand, looked at the smooth lines and design, and couldn't put it down, turned his head and asked Baiqi: "What is this repeater called?" ”

"Your Majesty, this repeater is called chasing the moon!" White asked someone to bring the finished crossbow arrows, load them in the arrow slot, and then fill them with arrow boxes, and led them to the shooting range behind the workshop, and opened the safety cover on the trigger.

"Your Majesty, aim the center of the cross in the crosshair at the target, and you can pull the trigger." White pointed to a small round wooden cylinder on the crossbow of chasing the wind, which made a cross shape as a target star, although this practice is extremely unscientific, but in the absence of optical equipment, white can only use such a method.

Pulling the trigger, fifty bolts roared, one after the other, like lightning towards the target fifty paces later.

"Good!" Cheng Yanjin shouted, and the others also shouted, and in less than ten breaths, Li Shimin fired all fifty-one crossbow arrows, of which almost forty hit the target.

Li Shimin smiled and handed the wind-chasing crossbow to Cheng Yanjin, who came forward: "Zhijie, you come and try!" ”

Seeing Li Shimin's Longyan Dayue, although Bai Qi couldn't bear to spoil his mood, he still stepped forward and said cautiously: "Your Majesty, due to the high production cost of the Wind Chasing Crossbow and the difficulty of the process, it can only be supplied to the Cloud Breaking Army now!" ”

Li Shimin hated white chess very much at this time, and pointed at white chess very unhappily and said: "You talk about it, if you don't convince me, I will discount you today!" ”

Threaten yourself again! Bai Qi said helplessly: "Your Majesty, this wind-chasing crossbow is all made of pig iron, when making molds before, Uncle Wang and they spent half a month, you see the previous parts, each piece of mold requires accurate manual polishing, and it can only be used after repeated measurements." Now the key problem is that we lack raw materials, we have no surplus raw materials to produce, and at most we can only make more than 200 moon-chasing repeaters! ”

Li Shimin pondered for a while, and said to Cui Guoli next to him: "Xuanyin, how much pig iron is used by the military department to make weapons?" ”

"Your Majesty, there is some ore in the treasury of the Ministry of War now, and pig iron is used to make agricultural tools and weapons, but there is not much left!" Cui Guoli thought about it seriously for a while and replied to Li Shimin.

Bai Qi was overjoyed, and immediately said to Cui Guoli: "As long as we can provide iron ore, we can smelt it, and it is even possible to produce something better than pig iron, and even we can help produce farm tools in the future!" ”

Li Shimin asked solemnly: "Boy, this is a military matter, and it is definitely not child's play!" ”

White nodded heavily: "The minister naturally understands!" ”

Looking at Cheng Zhijie and a group of other old guys who were holding the moon-chasing crossbow and testing it over there, Li Shimin suddenly turned his head and said to Cui Guoli: "Xuanyin, your Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry jointly write a piece of music for me, listing clearly how much ore and pig iron can be handed over to the Weapon Development Department of the Cloud Breaking Army, how much money should be charged, and what obligations the Weapons Development Department should undertake, and write them down to me clearly!" ”

Cui Guoli was overjoyed, bowed down and said, "Yes, Your Majesty!" ”

Bai Qi looked at Li Shimin dumbfounded, when did His Majesty Taizong become such a philistine: "Your Majesty, this is not fair!" "White decided to fight for the rights.

"You kid is the best at playing tricks, I have to guard against it, lest I be taken advantage of by you again, and my military department and the engineering department have no place to reason if they suffer losses!" Cui Guoli next to him nodded sympathetically.

The two of them dropped the messy white chess pieces in the wind, pulled Uncle Wang, and continued to visit other workshops of the Weapons Development Department.