The structure diagram of the Eight Ox Crossbow is actually very simple, at least for Chu He, a college student.

After Wen Dao's cultivation was improved, his spiritual power increased greatly, and Chu He found that his memory was greatly enhanced, and the things he had seen and forgotten on the earth before were now extremely clear, as if they could be constantly replayed in his mind like a slideshow.

Chu He easily drew the eight-bull crossbow, and after careful calculations, he calculated how much force the steel can withstand today.

It can be said that the composition of the eight-bull crossbow he drew is already the limit of the alloy steel that has been refined today, and if the strength is increased, the steel will not be able to withstand it.

Although he didn't really make this alloy eight-bull crossbow, Chu He knew that his calculations could not be wrong, and this eight-bull crossbow could reach a strength of two hundred stones.

Chu He didn't know the true strength of the great power above the fifth grade.

However, according to his judgment, since the ten-stone strong bow could inflict a fatal blow on a third-grade martial artist, even if this eight-bull crossbow did not rely on internal strength to increase the attack, it would never be a problem to shoot a fourth-grade martial sect or a spirit master.

It is even possible to severely damage or kill the Grandmaster of the Five Rank Copper Furnace and the Fellow Scholar.

Of course, you have to be able to hit the target.

Regardless of the many weaknesses of the Eight Bull Crossbow, such as inconvenient movement and low attack frequency, but its terrifying attack power and amazing attack speed are enough to make up for any of its shortcomings, for the current Chu River, the Eight Bull Crossbow is definitely a big killer, and it is also a big killer that can be mass-produced!

It's not that Chu River didn't think about artillery.

It's a pity that he doesn't know how to cast cannons, nor does he know the configuration of black powder, so he can only give up, and being able to make a Baox crossbow is already a great gain.

Chu He had just finished calculating the various data of the Eight Bull Crossbow, and before he could put down the charcoal, Wu Mei'er jumped in.

In Chu He's study, only Wu Mei'er has the privilege to enter and leave at any time, and others, even Chu Quan and Zhao Muqiu, will not enter his study at will.

Wu Meier is just over six years old, and it is estimated that she has been educated by Wu Shizhu and Liu Fengru, and she no longer hugs Chu He like a koala at every turn, but she still likes to stick to Chu He.

It's a pity that Chu He has a lot of things to do now, but he doesn't have much time to accompany this little girl.

He put down the pen and paper, looked at Wu Mei'er and smiled: "Mei'er, is there something wrong?"

Wu Mei'er puffed up her cheeks and hummed and said, "Hmph, ignore you." You're getting worse and worse now, and you won't take me out to play. ”

Chu He said helplessly: "I don't have time now, I'm busy every day, and when I have time, I'll definitely take you out to play." ”

"Well, how are you reading your book, and how many words do you write now?"

Wu Meier stayed at Shuangxi Academy for only three months, during which Jing Xiong was also in Yizhou for a long time, but she went to Master's class with other students at the academy to listen to lectures, and her schoolwork was not pulled down.

After returning to Qinghe Village, she had no way to continue her studies, so Chu He had to help her find an old Confucian student in Datong County and teach her to read and write.

Although the old Confucian student is a second-class cultivator, he is just an ordinary master in the township and county school, and there is still a considerable gap between teaching and educating people and the master of Shuangxi Academy.

When Wu Mei'er heard Chu He say this, she immediately forgot that she was here to blame Chu He, grinned, and immediately covered her mouth with her hand, and heard her triumphant from her tone: "Hmph, the master said that I am smart in reading, and I can write more than 700 words now." ”

"Brother Chu He definitely doesn't know as many words as me, do you want me to teach you how to read?"

Chu He laughed, he originally wondered why Wu Mei'er didn't come to harass him a while ago, but when he asked, he realized that this little guy began to change his teeth, and his little front teeth fell out, so he didn't dare to see himself.

I guess I haven't seen myself for too long, so I can't help but come here.

He didn't dare to laugh at this girl, otherwise he was afraid that he would ignore himself for a few days, so he smiled and touched Wu Mei'er's little brain: "Mei'er is so smart, she can recognize seven hundred words so quickly!"

"But you are younger than me, and there is a master who is younger than the student, and when you grow up, you can teach me to read. ”

Wu Mei'er thought about it sideways, and then said very seriously: "Well, Brother Chu He is ten years old now, I am six years old, and in five years, I will be older than Brother Chu He, and I will be able to teach you to read and write." ”

Chu He nodded heavily: "Yes, six plus five equals eleven, which must be older than ten years old." ”

Wu Mei'er sneered: "You know how to lie to me, you think I don't know, you will be five years older." Hmph, ignore you. ”

She pouted, waited for a while, and saw that Chu He ignored herself, and couldn't help but say again: "Brother Chu He, I want to eat grilled fish, let's go catch fish, you bake it for me, okay?"

Chu He knew that Wu Mei'er was joking with herself, and this little girl's spiritual power had now risen to twenty points.

Normally, an adult's mental power is only ten or twenty points, in fact, Wu Meier's intelligence can already be compared with that of a ten-year-old child.

He suddenly felt that he might have done something wrong, if he let Wu Mei'er stay in Qinzhou City, maybe Wu Mei'er would have a great achievement in the future.

Five or six years old is the best period for a person's memory, and with Jing Xiong, a fourth-grade bachelor, to teach her, she will definitely not stop at the four-grade realm in the future.

No matter how chaotic Qinzhou City is, Jing Xiong, a fourth-grade bachelor, should have no problem sheltering Wu Mei'er, he is too nervous about her, and taking her back to Qinghe Village is probably killing Wu Mei'er's talent.

Thinking of this, Chu He's heart suddenly moved, and he looked at Wu Mei'er very seriously and said, "Mei'er, I really don't have time now, the grain in the field is about to be harvested, and I still have to watch." ”

"Well, I'll give you a few pages, and as long as you memorize it and can write it silently, I'll take you to catch a lot of fish, bake it for you, and eat it until you can't eat it anymore. ”

Wu Mei'er's eyes widened: "Really, Brother Chu He didn't lie to me?"

Chu He nodded: "I don't lie to you." You wait. ”

As he spoke, he took out a few pieces of mulberry paper.

Writing on mulberry paper, it is not good to write with charcoal, so Chu He took out a brush and dipped it in thick ink, but he wrote down the surnames of the hundred families, the three-character scripture and the thousand-character text in his memory.

Three thousand hundred is the three major enlightenment readings in ancient times, which is different from the thousand-character words of this world.

However, there is certainly merit in being an enlightenment reading that has been passed down for thousands of years.

Chu He's own literary and Taoist cultivation mainly relied on his understanding of all things in heaven and earth and the Tao Te Ching, but he didn't know how to teach Wu Mei'er.

It's like he knows gravity, but it's hard to teach it to others.

Such a scientific concept cannot be explained clearly in a few words, it must be systematically studied, and relative knowledge must be used as the basis, obviously at this time, Chu He cannot do it.

As long as Wu Mei'er can familiarize herself with the three thousand hundred silent writing, Chu He believes that she will definitely make Wu Mei'er's foundation more solid, so as not to waste her talent, and practice Wendao in the future, she can get twice the result with half the effort.

Chu He's writing speed was very fast, and he wrote down all three thousand hundred in half an hour, and then asked Wu Mei'er to sit down, and said with a smile: "Come, I'll teach you how to read these words." You read it after me. ”

"Heaven and earth are yellow, and the universe is desolate. The sun and the moon are shining, and the sun and moon are shining. ”

Wu Mei'er looked at Chu He strangely, but still followed along: "Heaven and earth are yellow, and the universe is desolate." The sun and the moon are shining, and the sun and moon are shining. ”

Before Chu He could read the next sentence, Wu Mei'er asked, "Brother Chu He, what does this mean? This seems to be the thousand-character language that Master Zhang taught Mei'er." ”

Chu He thought for a while before he said: "This is called a thousand-character text, which is similar to a thousand-character language, you can learn it together." ”

"The heaven is round and the place is actually wrong, the sky is endless, and the earth is not square but round. ”

Wu Mei'er's eyes widened, and her little face was puzzled: "How can the ground be round, if it is round, then keep moving forward, won't it fall?"

Chu He opened his mouth wide: "Well, even if you keep moving forward, you won't fall, because the earth has suction power......"

Wu Mei'er blinked: "How can the earth have suction?"

Chu He patted his head helplessly: "Hey, I'll tell you when you grow up later, let's talk about what this sentence means." ”

"This heaven and earth are yellow, and the universe is desolate. The sun and the moon are shining, and the sun and moon are in full bloom, which means that the sky is blue-black, the earth is yellow, and the universe is formed in a state of chaos and obscurantism. The sun is right and oblique, the moon is round and absent, and the stars are full of boundless space. ”

Chu He paused for a moment, feeling that what he said was a little profound, looked at Wu Mei'er and asked, "You understand the universe, right?"

Wu Mei'er hurriedly nodded her little head: "Mei'er knows that Master Zhang has taught Mei'er." ”

This is what the sage of Mozi said, Yu refers to the east, west, south, north, the space in all directions, and the universe refers to the time of the past and the present, which together is all things in heaven and earth. ”

Chu He nodded, and then said, "Okay, let's read the next sentence." The cold comes and the summer comes, and the autumn harvest is hidden in winter. The leap is more than an adult, and the law is adjusted to the yang. ”

Wu Mei'er obediently followed and read: "The cold comes and the summer goes to the autumn harvest and the winter hides the leap into the old age, and Lu tunes the yang." ”

The meaning of this sentence is ......"

......

Chu He explained the thousand-character text, the three-character scripture and the hundred family names to Wu Mei'er very seriously, but he was more and more surprised in his heart, this Wu Mei'er really deserved to be a genius in practicing literature and Taoism, she only read it to her twice, and she was already able to recite it word for word.

Fortunately, when she was asked to write silently, Wu Meier wrote more than 300 words silently, and she couldn't write it anymore, otherwise it would really hit Chu He too much.

She had never learned more than 3,000 words, and many of the new words in front of her were obviously memorized.

The time was approaching evening unconsciously, and when Zhao Muqiu knocked on the door and shouted for dinner, Chu He realized that he had taught Wu Mei'er for three or four hours, and his stomach was growling.

"Well, that's all for today. You can take these three pieces of paper back and read them familiarly, and ask me if you don't understand anything. ”

"Brother Chu He is hungry, Mei'er should stay here to eat. ”

Zhao Muqiu knew that Wu Mei'er was there, and she also asked Mei'er to stay when she was just calling for dinner.

Wu Mei'er grinned, nodded and said, "Hmm." I'll go home first and tell my mother that I'm eating at Brother Chuhe's place. ”

As she spoke, she didn't wait for Chu He to speak, she jumped out of the study with a smile, and didn't forget to take the mulberry paper with her before leaving.

Obviously, she was still thinking that as long as she silently wrote the words on the mulberry paper, Chu He would grill fish for her to eat.

After eating, Chu Quan and Chu He went back to the study together.

"Dad, now that all parts of Datong County have started to collect grain, our grain collection is going well, right?"

Chu He said to Chu Quan with a straight face.

The grain Chu River definitely doesn't feel too much. Even if the attack on Fenglai County is successful, at best, it will be a million stone rice grain.

Once it is completely hostile to the Yellow Turban Army, the Yellow Turban Army will definitely send a large army to come, and no matter how bad it is, it will try to blockade Datong County.

Compared with guarding against the entire vast Qinzhou, it is much easier to blockade Datong County.

In order for Chu He to grow his power, he must recruit enough displaced people, and at least 200,000 people need to govern the people before he is qualified to compete with the Yellow Turban Army.

One million stone of rice grain is nothing to 200,000 mountain people, and it is estimated that it will last about a year.

Therefore, Chu He will not hesitate to take out a large amount of silver to increase the purchase price of grain and accumulate rice and grain as much as possible.

In wartime, food is the foundation, and if silver cannot be spent, it is no different from stone, not even steel.

Of course, it is said that some alchemists can use a large amount of steel, brass, silver, and gold to refine divine gold, heavenly silver, treasure copper, and dark iron to create powerful divine weapons.

Bao copper, that is, the copper mother, such as Li Mu's snake sword contains the copper mother of the center of the earth, and the Qianshan armor of the Chu River is also mixed with a part of the copper mother.

However, this does not make much sense to Chu He.

The alchemists who can refine gold, silver, copper, and iron are extremely rare and rare, and they are all super craftsmen who can create divine weapons.

Chu Quan also knew the importance of purchasing rice grain, nodded and said: "Now the county can't collect taxes, and most of the villagers in Datong County collect some surplus rice and grain in addition to their own food. ”

It's good that the displaced people are rampant, but most of them are from the neighboring county of Fenglai.

The population of Fenglai County is similar to that of Datong County, most of them are controlled by the Yellow Turban Army, and there are actually more than 100,000 people pouring into Datong County.

Of the 100,000 or so displaced people, I am afraid that more than 20% died on the road, while Changding Township collected 780,000, and those scattered in the other three townships were only 20,000 or 30,000.

In such a situation, other townships, of course, will organize young and strong teams to protect their fields and kill displaced people who intend to steal food.

Therefore, even if there are displaced people raging and the impact of war, they cannot cultivate with peace of mind, which reduces grain production, but they do not have to pay taxes of up to 6 or 70 percent of the normal output of rice grain, and the grain that falls into the hands of the villagers is almost twice as much as before.

Chu Quan paused for a moment and said: "Qianyuanwei is now exterminating mountain bandits in various places, collecting displaced people, making the townships much more stable, and villagers have successively transported grain to our Changding Township, and have received seventy or eighty thousand stone rice grain, and it is estimated that it will eventually reach 500,000 stone rice grain. ”

He smiled bitterly: "The problem is that we don't have much silver now." Collect another 20,000 stone of rice grain at most, and the silver will bottom out. He'er, you said three taels of silver and one stone of rice grain, isn't it a bit high?"

"Otherwise, let's slow down the purchase of grain? Anyway, as long as we capture Fenglai County, we will be able to have enough rice and grain, and I'm afraid we won't be able to move it all." ”

Chu Quan was still a commoner of the Shu tribe two years ago, and he used the name of Chu Zhiquan.

In the Three Kingdoms period of the earth, according to the unearthed classics, as well as tombstones, etc., it can be seen that the lowly Shu clan, the two characters and the two characters of the name are used at the same time, and those who can leave their names in the official history are all people of the Shi clan, almost all of them are single names.

In the Western Han Dynasty of this world, there was also a Wang Mang usurping the throne, and after Wang Mang, the nobles of the scholar clan basically used a single name.

Chu Zhiquan's name speaks for his identity.

In just two years, Chu Quan has become a wealthy man who can control hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, but he still can't get rid of the civilian consciousness in his bones.

Seeing the boxes of silver flowing out, there were no more than 200,000 taels of silver in a blink of an eye, so that Chu Quan, who had thought about the cost of ten taels of silver in the past, wanted to break his head, and needed to pull down his face and talk to Chu Quan, who was borrowed from his father-in-law's family, how could he accept it for a while.

Moreover, three taels of silver and one stone of rice are too high, and in the past, one tael of silver could buy one stone of good white rice.

Chu He shook his head: "No, you can't stop collecting grain, I'll find a way to get the silver." After capturing Fenglai County, it is estimated that you can also get a lot of gold and silver. Moreover, I have already asked the eldest brother to take the steel soldiers to other counties, and it will not be long before the gold and silver will be brought back. ”

Even in the occupied areas of the Yellow Turban Army, there are many large families of the noble clan who have no time to transfer, and it is impossible for the Yellow Turban Army to offend and kill all the big households, and these rich families of the noble clan, in order to protect themselves, the need for weapons is even more urgent.

It is not easy to transport steel soldiers for food back to Datong County, and it is much easier to exchange them for silver, and ten or twenty people can bring back 100,000 taels of silver.

Chu He was just a little reluctant to pay for the silver, and when he heard Chu He say this, he didn't say anything more. This son is much better than him.