Early in the morning, Gu Panxi, who couldn't fall asleep tossing and turning, touched the bed.

Today she wants to see two people, two important people, and she can't help but feel worried.

One, naturally, is Lai Lao Liu, who came to report the intelligence.

The other is the skilled craftsman that Temuzi patted his chest to find.

Gu Panxi will not question Tie Muzi's statement of connections, but for the level of skilled craftsmen he can find, Gu Panxi, as a modern person who has crossed over, can't help but have doubts.

This is the era of cold weapons, can you really understand how to make a pistol?

After Gu Panxi finished talking about the pistol last night, he also specially learned about the scientific and technological level of today's Dawu. Dawu now has artillery, although the range is limited, the power is average, and the risk of exploding the chamber is relatively high, but it finally has the basis for firearms. Thanks to this, Gu Panxi felt a little relieved, otherwise I really didn't know how to look forward to the arrival of this skilled craftsman.

After washing, Gu Panxi continued as usual, and went to the back garden for morning exercise first. Just when she was sweating like rain and was running up, Temuzi appeared.

"Stinky girl, the person you want, I found it for you!"

Hearing Tiemuzi shout like this, Gu Panxi immediately turned around, ran towards him quickly, and shouted, "What? Hurry up, please! ”

Temuzi blew his beard and glared: "I went out of the city to invite someone for you in the dark, and I rushed back with someone in the early morning, and I didn't sleep all night, and you didn't even say a word of thanks?" ”

Gu Panxi scratched his face and said with a smile: "Lao Tie, you are a capable person who works hard, this concubine thanks you, doesn't it seem to be angry?" ”

Tie Muzi snorted coldly, surprisingly not entangled with Gu Panxi more. He turned around and shouted outside, "Lu Shorty, come in!" ”

Hearing that it was a "short man", Gu Panxi subconsciously lowered his head, ready to greet this special guest. Who would have thought that in her sight, she only saw a pair of big feet walking forward and backward. She looked up in amazement - my God! This "Lu Shorty" is at least one meter nine tall!

Gu Panxi was speechless, and blurted out: "Lao Tie, what are you calling blindly?" This uncle is so tall and mighty, much taller than you, you are cheeky and call others shorty! ”

Temuzi hurriedly explained: "What do you stinky girl know! Rural people pay attention to the cheap raising of children, and they can bless the children to grow up quickly, which is the name of his father! As a teacher, I have known this Lu dwarf since I was a child, and I have called him that since I was a child! ”

Lu Shorty is a tall and sturdy half-old man. According to what Temuzi said, Lu Shorty should be the same age as him, and he is a friend who has played since childhood, but because Tiemuzi is proficient in pharmacology, he maintains himself to be youthful, and the wrinkled Lu Short, with a mottled beard, stands next to him, not at all like his friend, but like his uncle!

Lu Xiaozi scratched the messy hair on the top of his head, and said with a smile: "Don't care what kind of dwarf is tall, these don't matter." Princess, how do you want to call the grass people, then how to call it! The important thing now is that Amu said that the 'pistol' you designed, quickly take it out and show it to the grass people! ”

"Amu" is naturally Tiemuzi, seeing that Lu Xiaozi calls Tiemuzi like this, Tiemuzi, who has always wanted to save face, has no objection, and their relationship is indeed not ordinary.

When it comes to "pistol", Lu Xiaozi's eyes lit up, which shows that he is indeed an idiot who focuses on his craft. Gu Panxi didn't say much polite words, and neatly took out the design of the pistol that had been added to the details last night, and handed it to Lu Xiaozi with both hands.

Lu Xiaozi carefully unfolded the design drawing, and then crossed his legs, sat on the ground, and studied it with relish.

Gu Panxi didn't bother, just watched from the side. Temuzi was bored, so he ordered someone to bring a breakfast, and went to the rocks by the lake in the back garden alone, chewing it slowly and methodically.

In the silence, there is a peaceful place.

"Wonderful!"

Lu Xiaozi's scream made Tiemuzi almost choke in fright, and Gu Panxi also stumbled back and almost sat on the ground.

Lu Xiaozi was excited, he couldn't hide the ecstasy in his heart, came to Gu Panxi's side, and asked urgently: "Princess, such an exquisite design, you really came up with it?" ”

For this question, Temuzi is actually very curious.

Gu Panxi didn't dare to be greedy, so he could only say confusedly: "No." Concubine Ben only heard it from a well-informed servant in the former Prime Minister's Mansion. At that time, he was very curious, asked carefully, and asked him to draw a pattern, which was remembered in his heart. ”

This statement, if Shi Feiqing was present, he would have asked Gu Panxi: How can this servant of the Prime Minister's Mansion teach you all kinds of quirky words, and can teach you to design a pistol?

Lu Xiaozi and Tiemuzi both listened to Gu Panxi's excuse for the first time, and they didn't think it was strange, they nodded in unison, and sighed that Gu Xiang still recruited many talents, but unfortunately it was destroyed in that fire.

Lu Xiaozi pointed at the drawings drawn by Gu Panxi with great interest: "This design that uses gunpowder is really wonderful...... It's like shrinking the size of the artillery, the smaller it is, the more difficult it is to craft it...... Here the barrel should be lengthened to improve accuracy......"

Lu Xiaozi crackled and said a lot to himself, and at the end, he couldn't help but look up and sigh: "Alas! A master who can design such a delicate machine, how can I be a poor man? It's really unblessed, unblessed! ”

Gu Panxi laughed twice, in fact, Lu Xiaozi's words, she went into her left ear and out of her right ear halfway through. What she really cares about is whether Lu Short has the means and confidence to make a pistol!

"Mr. Lu, Concubine Ben won't beat around the bush anymore, I hope you don't want to spit out - Concubine Ben wants to ask you, are you sure to build this pistol?"

"Absolutely!" Lu Xiaozi raised his hand and patted his face, "This face is all thanks to the skillful hands of the grass people, so that he has a little face in the rivers and lakes." Such an exquisite design, since it is in the hands of my Lu dwarf, even if I am bankrupt, I must also build it! ”

Seeing Lu Xiaozi's pride, Gu Panxi was also a little excited, "Okay! Uncle Lu, this concubine will entrust you! You want money, or materials, or population, or even places, as long as you can say it, this concubine promises...... Do your best to get it. ”

Lu Xiaozi thanked him again and again, and then began to introduce his workshop and employees.

In the suburbs outside the city of Le'an Mansion, Lu Xiaozi has a small workshop, and there are two helpers who are a few years younger than Gu Panxi.

Lu Xiaozi said that in order to make a pistol, it is necessary to smelt steel, which first requires the furnace to have a high enough temperature. In other words, he could only do it in his own workshop, and demanded more people and more coal.

Gu Panxi nodded again and again when she heard it, and she couldn't figure out the technical things. She only knew that seeing Lu Xiaozi's confident and energetic appearance, it seemed that the matter of making a pistol was quite dramatic.

Gu Panxi couldn't help but celebrate in her heart: With this pistol, the concubine will take a look, who else dares to come to the concubine's room in the middle of the night to put incense!

After thinking about it like this, she turned her head and begged, "Uncle Lu, how long do you think it will take to build this thing?" ”

Lu Xiaozi grabbed his head with one hand, and kept tapping with the other, as if he was calculating something.

"Don't hide it from the princess, the grass people's ability is limited, and this thing is too fine. Just by finishing the rough blank, I'm afraid it's still possible. If all goes well, the grass people thought, two weeks, at least two weeks, and the prototype will be born. ”

Two weeks......

Gu Panxi sighed, that was the day when the truth of the case of the noble man's witchcraft would be revealed. If there is really a certain force behind the witchcraft of the noble people, then Gu Panxi will be very troublesome, and he wants to find someone to make a pistol, but he can't use it at this critical juncture!

However, this kind of complaint, Gu Panxi can't show it. She patted Lu Shorty's shoulder and said, "Uncle, it's really hard for you." I hope that on the day the pistol comes out, this concubine will be able to witness you with her own eyes and fire the first shot! ”

Lu Xiaozi was sincerely frightened when he heard this, and hurriedly shirked it. But Gu Panxi insisted again and again that Lu Xiaozi must fire the first shot and keep it as a souvenir. Lu Xiaozi accepted it with a smile, but he had already begun to think about how to shoot this first shot.

Gu Panxi carefully asked the location of Lu Xiaozi's workshop, and how many silver taels and manpower he expected would need. As a result, Lu Xiaozi's answer made her gasp suddenly.

With a mouth, Lu Xiaozi will first ask for a hundred taels of silver!

Shi Feiqing was originally incorruptible, and after adopting Gu Yuefei, he began to help the poor in large amounts of money on a regular basis, plus the daily expenses of Zhao Wangfu are not small, and the various personnel expenses of firewood, rice, oil and salt add up, which is an amazing number, and it is really that the landlord's family has no surplus food. Gu Panxi wanted to fund Lu Xiaozi to make guns, so he had to pay out of his own pocket.

According to the conversion ratio of the Black Lotus system, a little resentment value can be exchanged for one or two silver. One hundred taels of silver, that's one hundred points of resentment. Gu Panxi has managed to save 134 resentment points recently, which has wiped out most of his head. And that's just a budget number, and it's likely to continue to increase in the future!

If you want to develop science and technology, you really have to cut meat!

Gu Panxi covered his bloody heart, and said with a wry smile: "It's okay, concubine, you have money!" Uncle Lu, you can rest assured and boldly roll up your sleeves and work hard! ”

Lu Shorty was overjoyed.

The problem of manpower is much easier to solve. Lu Xiaozi wanted to add ten more young people, so Gu Panxi asked Zhao Zhong to find ten young, strong, clever and obedient subordinates in the palace, and asked them to follow Lu Xiaozi to the workshop and cooperate with his great cause of making guns.

But Gu Panxi is still not at ease. If you decide to build a gun, you have to do it well. She was afraid that Lu Xiaozi's workshop was outside the city of Le'an Mansion, and she couldn't reach it, and those opponents hiding in the shadows would take the opportunity to sabotage, so she thought about it, and in order to prevent it, she decided to let Zhao Zhong pick out ten loyal people from the palace soldiers, put on civilian clothes, and go to Lu Xiaozi's workshop with those ten subordinates.