Chapter Ninety-Six: Cao Pi's Great Ambition

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, I'm going to help Concubine Liu cover her ears." Cao Pi waved his hand at Concubine Yin.

Since the emperor was so "willful", Concubine Yin couldn't say anything, so she could only glare at Xiao Liu Guiren more viciously. I don't know if it's because Cao Pi covered his ears and didn't hear it or deliberately, Xiao Liu Guiren ignored Concubine Yin's words, looking at his nose and nose, and his eyes didn't glance at Concubine Yin, so Concubine Yin's eye darts all fell in the air.

At this time, Da Liu Guiren walked behind Cao Pi and stretched out a pair of white and tender soft wattles, which gently covered Cao Pi's ears.

When the concubines saw it, they were immediately envious and jealous, and secretly scolded this fox in their hearts for really seducing people, and at the same time secretly hated why they didn't think of this trick? Can you grab it now? However, there are exceptions, Queen Zhen also looks like she is looking at her nose and nose, she stays quietly on the side without saying a word, her expression is indifferent, and she looks indifferent to the things around her.

In recent years, she has gradually fallen out of favor, and her heart is broken. But she herself also has self-knowledge, her face is getting old, the emperor who used to love her in every way, now she has turned to favor the two concubines Liu, and she goes up to fight for the wind and be jealous is just to bring shame on herself, it is better not to say a word, silence is golden.

Without waiting for these concubines to take further action, "boom", an earth-shaking sound came, even if the concubines covered their ears, they were still so frightened that their livers fluttered and jumped, and Concubine Liu was even more frightened "Oops" and exclaimed, and then involuntarily shrank her head, turned around, and pulled her hand out of Cao Pi's ear, naturally covering her ears.

Seeing that Concubine Liu was like a frightened rabbit, with a look of pity at my sight, Cao Pi's heart was full of pity, he didn't care about the effect of the fire # bombardment, turned around and held Concubine Liu's shoulder with one hand, patted her heart with the other, and comforted her mouth: "Don't be afraid, concubine, I am here, come, come, come, I will give you a crush." ”

The concubines watched Cao Pi's salty pig hands patting on Concubine Liu's plump chest, and their eyes almost burst into flames. If eyes could kill people, the two Liu sisters didn't know how many times they would be killed today.

Guo Dajiang ran over again, and arched his hand to Cao Pi and the concubines: "Please move your majesty and all the ladies to the opposite side to watch the power of the fire # cannon." ”

Because the target of the fire # cannon was a bit large and inconvenient to carry, Guo Dajiang had to come over and ask the emperor and the ladies to go to the other side of the grass and watch the results of the shelling in person.

The other side of the meadow was not far away, about forty or fifty meters, and Cao Pi and the concubines happily went. Soon they were in front of the target, and they were stunned.

The target was a two-inch-thick wooden plank, and a large hole had been blasted out, and that's not even counting the fact that a house about ten paces behind the target, facing the target, had also been blasted out of a large hole. Sunlight peeks through the hole, and you can see the dust flying inside.

The crowd stayed for two minutes before the crowd began to make a lot of noise. "It's, it's terrible!" This is the voice of the Yin Concubine.

"If this is smashed on people...... Concubine Li also expressed her inner horror.

"It's really amazing, it's really worthy of being an artifact, what does it take to stop this?" Concubine Guo was not to be outdone.

"Hui Yu Majesty, Hui Yu Niangniang, the bombardment of this artillery, no matter what shield it is, it is impossible for ordinary walls to block it, but the city wall can still be blocked." Master Guo, who had been waiting by his side, explained in a timely manner.

"Hahaha, with these artifacts, I will be invincible, and domination of the world is just around the corner." Cao Pi laughed wildly.

"Congratulations to His Majesty, congratulations to His Majesty, I wish His Majesty to rule the world as soon as possible and establish an immortal career." When the concubines saw the emperor's ambition, they congratulated him in unison. And Cao Pi looks very useful.

"That's right, that kid Liu Chan has relied on these artifacts to win a few battles, and now we also have these artifacts, his advantages are lost, and he will never be arrogant in the future." Guo Dajiang also came over and flattered the authentic.

"Okay, well, that's right, Liu Chan's kid doesn't have any real skills at all, but he just relies on these strange # obscene skills given to him by Zuo Ci, and now the strange # obscene skills are all obtained by me, see what he still has to rely on. You've all done a great job, and all the artisans involved in the creation of these artifacts have been rewarded. Especially those craftsmen who came all the way from Shu Kingdom, Master Guo, you help me reward them. ”

"All the craftsmen of the courtiers are rewarded by His Majesty!" Master Guo bowed and thanked him. Cao Pi continued:

"Master Guo, immediately instruct to go down, and the entire general supervisor must be mobilized to produce these firearms with all their might. I want to equip all the millions of heroes of the Great Wei Kingdom with these artifacts. ”

Cao Pi said that it was a million heroes, but in fact, Wei did not have so many troops, and the real ones who could fight were only hundreds of thousands, and the elite was only about 100,000. However, if you count the miscellaneous soldiers such as garrisons, tuntian soldiers, and militias in various places, we can still gather enough for one million horses.

"This, this ......" Guo Dajiang, who was still excited just now, suddenly came down in a cold sweat. Not to mention millions, it's not easy to get thousands or hundreds of fire # guns out now. He participated in the manufacturing process of these fire # guns and fire # guns throughout the whole process, and knew that they were not easy to make.

A skilled craftsman, busy for a month, can make a fire # gun with a full calculation. And now the craftsmen who can really be regarded as proficient are those people from Shu Kingdom, and other craftsmen from the former Wei Kingdom have just begun to learn manufacturing methods, and the current skills are still not hot, and no one has been able to make qualified barrels.

In addition to the limitations of the material, it was difficult to drill the chamber out. The chamber of the gun is not made of a mold, iron or copper is melted, and cast into the mold, but it is drilled out with a drill in the middle of a whole iron or copper pillar.

With such a long barrel, such a hard material, such a deep hole, and precision requirements, you can imagine how difficult it is to process. If you add rifling, it is even more difficult, on average, a person produces one barrel a month, and it is still a master master level figure to complete the task.

Shu now generally uses hydraulic and wind-powered machinery to drive drilling rigs, forging hammers, etc., so the processing speed is not known how many times faster than the processing speed of pure manual processing. It's a pity that Xu Jing didn't give the talents who made these processing machinery to Wei and Wu, and finally retained a little advantage for Shu.

They also don't want to think that after so many years of hard work, Liu Hou only has more than 10,000 guns, and about one-third of them were built by Xu Jing and Wu Yi after they took control of the "Ministry of Industry" and forced the workers of the entire "Ministry of Industry" to work overtime day and night.

Before, it has been limited by the lack of the number of guns # and the scale of fire # gunmen has not been able to go up, if fire # guns and fire # guns are so easy to make, it will be his turn to form a million fire # gun troops, Liu Hou has long led a brigade of fire # gunmen to unify the universe.

Cao Pi has only obtained a few craftsmen now, and it is tantamount to an idiot's dream to make firearms on a large scale so quickly. Cao Pi didn't know the situation, he didn't know the price of firewood and rice, he was used to being the emperor, he was used to giving orders, and he thought that a qiē was still the same, as long as he spoke, he would have a lot of subordinates who would break their legs and help him get things done.

However, this time is completely different, and his subordinates also want to help him get things done, but they also need to be able to do it well. Guo Dajiang, who was in a cold sweat, didn't dare to refuse the emperor's crazy idea in person, and he didn't dare to do such a stupid thing as pouring a bucket of cold water on his head when the emperor was in high spirits, after all, he was not playing the ice bucket challenge game now.

Therefore, he had to find a way to persuade in a roundabout way: "When I return to Your Majesty, the minister will definitely urge the craftsmen to work overtime day and night, and try to make as many guns as possible#Cannon......"

Cao Pi was very happy to hear this, and was about to praise him, when he heard him continue: "It's just that it is not easy to make these artifacts, and there are many processes in them, although we will be supervising craftsmen, but there are various industries such as construction, jewelry processing, carriage making, weaving, embroidery, etc., among which there are not many blacksmiths and coppersmiths. If this, this majesty wants to make a large number of guns # cannons, I will be a prisoner is really short of manpower. ”

Hearing this, Cao Pi didn't care, he waved his hand, and said: "What's the difficulty of this, I will make a will to recruit blacksmiths and coppersmiths from all over the world to gather in Xudu, all for you to drive." When the time comes, you can have as many people as you want, and you are afraid that there will be no shortage of manpower. ”

Cao Pi's move cannot be said to have done it wrong, in fact, in feudal society, this is a trick commonly used by the imperial court or the emperor. The emperor wants to do a big thing, or there is a big project to be built, such as building the Great Wall, water conservancy, mausoleum, etc., which requires a large number of people, and in ancient times without machinery and equipment, such a large project often used hundreds of thousands of people.

What if so much labor is needed? Send out a job advertisement to hire people? How much does it cost to hire hundreds of thousands of people to work as coolies? This is obviously unrealistic, so what to do? The benefits of being an emperor were reflected at this time, and in the ancient feudal dynasties, it was very easy to do, and it was enough to issue an announcement to levy conscription.

The law stipulates that every adult man is obliged to fight and work for the country, and those who fight for the country are called military service, and those who work for the country are called hard labor, forced labor, miscellaneous labor, etc., collectively referred to as conscription. Moreover, these conscriptions are all free, which means that if you fight for the country, you are tired and tired, and the state can not give you money.

How easy it is, the key is, how much money is saved, so why everyone is rushing to be the emperor, maybe this is one of the reasons, the whole world, the emperor can give what he wants. A sentence is not the king's land under the whole world, and the shore of the land is not pressed down by the king's ministers, and the emperor can enjoy the offerings of all the people with peace of mind, and if anyone dares to be disobedient, there are all kinds of severe punishments waiting for him.