In the face of huge money, being reserved or something is, Xu Rui still didn't stand the temptation in the end, like an ant on a hot pot, pacing back and forth in the back hall, but his eyes never left the stack of silver tickets.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Jinwu was relieved, but he was no longer in a hurry, picked up the teacup with a smile, and took a sip, Liang Tongfang and the others also saw that Xu Ruiding still had stock, and they looked at each other a few times, and they were all happy.

Although Xu Rui is young, he has repeatedly created miracles, and every time he makes a move, it is unheard of and eye-opening, and everyone present is curious about what surprises he can make this time.

After hesitating for a moment, Xu Rui stared at the stack of silver tickets and stomped his feet, gritted his teeth and said: "That's it, I originally wanted to use it as a killer feature, since a few elders are interested, let's let everyone take a look first." ”

Xiao Jinwu knew this, and immediately laughed, and several other people also showed joy on their faces, waiting for Xu Rui's next words.

Xu Rui turned his heart sideways, pointed to the courtyard outside the door and said, "Please come with me!" ”

After speaking, he walked to the courtyard first, beckoned a subordinate, whispered a few words to him, and the subordinate nodded again and again, and trotted all the way to the firewood room.

Everyone walked with him to the courtyard and were confused when they saw this scene.

Xu Rui said: "Don't worry, my lords, I'll let you see a good show in a while." ”

When everyone heard him say this, they couldn't help but look forward to it even more, and they couldn't help but be curious, waiting for what Xu Rui said.

In a short time, more than a dozen mermaids rushed out and stood in various corners of the courtyard, each carrying a circular target with a diameter of three feet in his hand.

Xu Rui came to the middle of the courtyard, at least seven or eight meters away from the targets in each corner.

When everyone was wondering what he was going to do, Xu Rui looked at the weather vane that had just been installed on the roof yesterday, and suddenly took out a small crossbow from his waist.

The crossbow is no more than two palms long and wide, extremely small and delicate, except for a square bulge on the back.

However, to everyone's amazement, Xu Rui disregarded the lives of his subordinates, and raised his crossbow to shoot at a target.

With a "dang", the crossbow string moved, and a palm-sized crossbow arrow flew out, nailed right to the heart.

The reason why crossbow arrows in the era of cold weapons have always been inferior to bows and arrows is that in addition to the long winding time and the easy occurrence of firepower vacuum, there are mainly two huge defects that are difficult to overcome, one is that crossbow arrows are difficult to wind on horses, which is not conducive to cavalry combat.

The second is that most of the crossbow arrows have no arrow feathers, and their stability in the air is extremely poor, and like the earliest muskets, they cannot accurately control the landing point, so that a large-scale salvo is required to achieve the effect.

And Xu Rui's crossbow in the back hall used a living person to hold a target, and a slight mistake would cause casualties, and he was so bold that it really surprised the generals.

Before everyone could recover from the surprise just now, Xu Rui suddenly turned around and pulled the trigger on the rest of the hearts.

"When, when, when......"

The crossbow strings made a series of crisp sounds, and the deadly crossbow arrows the size of palms flew out one after another, all of them were right in the heart, and everyone was a person who had been on the battlefield for most of their lives, and they immediately gasped when they saw this scene.

Xu Rui's crossbow arrow accuracy is too amazing, even a sharpshooter who is good at using a bow is just that, but the most shocking thing is not this, but he shot six or seven arrows in succession, but did not see any winding movement.

Could it be that his crossbow doesn't need to be wound and mended?!

Without waiting for everyone to react, Xu Rui aimed the crossbow arrow at the last person, and that person was none other than fifteen-year-old Xu Ange.

At this time, An Ge put an apple on his head, closed his eyes, and looked peaceful.

Everyone was shocked when they saw this scene, and they were afraid that Xu Rui would be overconfident and cause some accidents.

"Little friends can't!"

Xiao Jinwu's face changed, and he hurriedly spoke out to stop it, but after all, he was a step slower, Xu Rui opened one eye and closed the other eye and aimed slightly for a moment, and then decisively pulled the trigger.

"Dang!"

The crossbow string made another crunch, and the palm-long crossbow arrow rang out.

At this moment, time seemed to stand still, and everyone present held their breath and stared at An Ge.

It's just a moment, but it's like 10,000 years.

Finally, with a "snap", the crossbow arrow accurately hit the apple on An Ge's head, the sweet juice mixed with the flesh splashed away, and the crossbow arrow stuck in the apple and rolled to the ground, and An Ge was unharmed!

"Whew"

The people present suddenly breathed a long sigh of relief, shocked but annoyed by Xu Rui's nonsense, until this moment, they still had palpitations when they remembered the scene just now.

However, Xu Rui didn't give them a chance to open their mouths to reprimand, only to see that he suddenly pressed the bulge on the back of the crossbow and flicked it gently, and the bulge immediately fell from the back of the crossbow.

Then, he took out another identical bump from his pocket and put it on, and then took out a palm-sized, round "wooden ball".

There is a small iron hook at one end of the wooden ball, hook the iron hook to the bowstring, and then shake the handle on the other side to pull up the ten bowstrings together like a fishing rod to reel in a fishing line.

However, after more than a dozen breaths of effort, Xu Rui had already re-wound the string, raised his hand and fired another round of rapid fire, and the ten crossbow arrows hit each heart again, and everyone was stunned.

In fact, this crossbow does not have much technical content, and the reason why it can achieve such an effect is that Xu Rui has applied several key small techniques on it.

First of all, he changed the arrow of the crossbow arrow from a triangle to a cylindrical shape, and left a thread in the slot where the crossbow arrow was fired, so that when the crossbow arrow was driven by the bowstring and fired, it would start to rotate like a bullet, which greatly enhanced the stability of flight.

Secondly, he used the principle of three-point and one-line aiming of firearms, installed an aiming slot on the crossbow back, and calculated the flight trajectory of the crossbow arrow through experiments, and constantly adjusted and corrected the angle of the aiming slot, so that the aiming slot was extremely accurate, and in a short distance, without strong winds, it could achieve the amazing effect of pointing where to hit.

Third, he used the spring principle to load the basic "standardized" crossbow arrows into the magazine on the back of the crossbow, realizing a similar way of feeding ammunition as a firearm, and then using a simple machine to correspond to ten crossbow arrows to achieve continuous firing.

Finally, he used the winch principle to design a simple winding device, which helped the bow and crossbow to be wound quickly like a fishing rod reel, which greatly shortened the fire vacuum period of the crossbow arrows and solved the problem that the crossbow arrows could not be wound on the horse.

Of course, there is no such thing as taking advantage of the advantages and not suffering losses in the world, and the realization of so many functions will naturally leave some defects.

For example, because the bolt needs to rotate in the thread, the muzzle velocity is greatly reduced, which also reduces the range and power, so the effective range of this crossbow is only 20 meters away.

For example, wooden slots are not as durable as the steel barrels of firearms, and for every fifty or sixty bolts fired, the hand-carved threads are smoothed out and lose their effect.

Fortunately, Xu Rui adopted a modular design, and the card slots shot by the crossbow arrows could be replaced, so that this hand crossbow was not too short-lived.

In addition, the world is still in the age of cold weapons, and all parts are produced by hand, and it takes not only highly skilled craftsmen but also a lot of time and money to "standardize" all accessories, including crossbow arrows.

In the process of option, the eliminated non-conforming parts even far exceed the qualified products, which greatly increases the cost of this crossbow and increases the risk of use.

If it weren't for Xu Rui's extreme confidence in his shooting skills, and the first batch of accessories were carefully selected by himself, otherwise he would really not dare to let a living person hold a target, let alone shoot the apple on An Ge's head.

After all, as long as there is a little flaw in the accessories, it may cause irreparable accidents.

These details were not understood by those present, but this did not prevent them from seeing the value of this hand crossbow.

Know that it takes at least three years to train a qualified archer, and only three months to train a qualified crossbowman!

What does it mean to be able to wind quickly, fire in bursts, and shoot accurately?

Ordinary infantry will gain the ability to fight with cavalry, hard-to-find sharpshooters will become irrelevant, the cost of war will be greatly reduced, and it will be a revolution in war!

Where can several generals still be able to watch, and they immediately swarmed around, all with red eyes, like hungry sharks.

Xiao Jinwu is a disciple of the Martial Saint, and he is good at martial arts, but he is low-key, and his status is not low, and he rarely uses kung fu.

But at this moment, he had already thrown Feng Ya aside, and with a slight touch of his toes, his body immediately flew up from the ground, drawing an arc in mid-air like a fish swimming in water, passing over everyone's heads, and being the first to come to Xu Rui.

Xu Rui was startled, and before he could react, he only felt that the crossbow in his hand had already reached Xiao Jinwu's hand.

Xiao Jinwu held the crossbow with both hands and looked at it carefully, and suddenly raised the crossbow and pulled the trigger on the pillar on the side.

"When, when, when" There were three crisp sounds, and three palm-length crossbow arrows were nailed to the pillars accurately, exactly where he wanted to shoot.

"Hiss......"

Xiao Jinwu didn't know the bottom in his heart, he didn't dare to shoot the arrow target held by the living person, but even if he just tried like this, he was shocked.

Although he is a disciple of the Martial Saint, he can shoot crossbow arrows at most half a point stronger than ordinary crossbowmen, and he can also shoot wherever he wants to shoot at this level, this hand crossbow is simply a legendary artifact!

"What's its name?"

Xiao Jinwu asked in a deep voice.

The more he looked at this hand crossbow, the more he liked it, his hands gently touched the body of the crossbow, he couldn't put it down, even if he asked Xu Rui questions, his eyes never left the hand crossbow.

Xu Rui naturally understands that as a general, his love for weapons sometimes surpasses that of the best beauties in the world, and he was not so obsessed with firearms when he first came into contact with them.

"The name is Qingluan."

Xu Rui said lightly.

"Qingluan ......"

Xiao Jinwu muttered a few times, nodded, stuffed the silver ticket in his arms to Xu Rui and said: "I want this Qingluan crossbow, and I will add another 10,000 sets, and the deadline is one year to complete!" ”

"How much? 10,000 sets! ”

Xu Rui couldn't believe his ears.

Xiao Jinwu didn't have the slightest joking look on his face, and when he saw Xu Rui smiling, he seemed to be trying to play tricks again, so he immediately straightened his face.

"I purchased this crossbow from you on behalf of the Ministry of War, Xiaoyou must not put that profiteer's face on the table again, otherwise you will drink the blood of hundreds of thousands of soldiers of my Great Wei!"

Hearing him say this, Xu Rui also gave birth to a little solemnity, as a commander, two lives, no matter what world he is in, Xu Rui retains a sense of awe for those soldiers who fight on the battlefield.

Just want mass production in the age of cold weapons, how is this possible?

Xu Rui smiled bitterly and briefly explained the basic principle and production process of this crossbow.

The people present were amazed when they heard that the production process of this crossbow was so complicated, and that the cost of manufacturing and using each hand crossbow was as high as 100 taels, and they were even more disappointed to learn that its effective range was only 20 meters.

However, even if everyone was disappointed, Xiao Jinwu did not, he took the Qingluan crossbow into his pocket, and asked in a deep voice: "This crossbow was originally made by you for self-defense, is it because the size is too small, so it will reduce the range and power?" ”

Xu Rui nodded, according to his thoughts, Qingluan mainly for self-preservation, more attention to surprise, power is only secondary, if you don't count the cost, you can work the materials and size, and create a large repeating crossbow with a range of more than a hundred steps.

Although still inferior to a bow and arrow, at a distance of 100 paces, this repeater can even be used as a weakened version of a semi-automatic rifle.

If we continue to invest more and develop optical sights, we can even create larger, longer-range, and more accurate single-shot crossbows, which are specifically designed for sniper missions.

Xu Rui changed his idea to a language that everyone could understand, and the people present were stunned for a while, they didn't expect that a small hand crossbow could be derived from so many versions.

If it can really be like Xu Rui said, no, as long as it is half as he said, then the way of war in this world may be completely changed.

Imagine that the so-called sniper crossbow that can shoot through light armor at a distance of 300 meters and heavy armor within 100 meters, as long as this thing appears, what advantage does the Black Flag Army, which is famous for its heavy armor, have at all?

Xiao Jinwu even suspected that Xu Rui's original intention in designing this crossbow was to go to the Black Flag Army.

In the battle of Jingyang, many people who were very important to Xu Rui did not survive, although he did not show much in peacetime, but it can be seen that he was full of hatred for the army of the Southern Dynasties, especially the terrifying Black Flag Army.

"How much does a large repeating and sniper crossbow cost?"

Xiao Jinwu stared at Xu Rui's eyes and asked the most critical question in a deep voice.

Xu Rui counted on his fingers and told the truth: "If you don't count the replacement of accessories, a large repeating crossbow will cost about two hundred taels and a sniper crossbow will cost six hundred taels." ”

"Hiss......"

As soon as these words came out, the people present suddenly gasped, the cost is so high, not to mention equipping the whole army, even if it is just equipping a main force, it is an astronomical amount.

However, Xiao Jinwu was not moved in the slightest, as if he had expected it, he nodded calmly and said: "Within a year, the military department will ask for 5,000 large repeating crossbows and 1,000 sniper crossbows, and the unit price will be according to the number you said!" ”

"What?!"

This time, not only everyone present, but even Xu Rui was in place.

5,000 large repeating crossbows and 1,000 sniper crossbows, adding up to 1.6 million taels!!

The annual fiscal revenue of Dawei is only 780 million taels, and this alone accounts for more than 2% of the national finance!

According to the law of the market, once the commodity enters the stage of mass production, the cost will naturally drop sharply, and if the problem of handmade production can be solved, the cost will fall off a cliff, and the money saved is net profit!

Xu Rui roughly calculated, if he put some thought into it, he was sure that he would be able to reduce the cost of the two weapons to at least half of the original, so that he could earn 800,000 taels a year just for this transaction!

Obediently, selling arms is much more promising than selling aphrodisiacs!

Xu Rui's eyes widened, and he sighed with emotion in his heart.