"It's still Ah Weng and Siniang who are thoughtful, but in this way, it will be hard for you brothers, if you need anything in the future, just send someone to the palace to tell me, as long as I need it in this weapons factory, I will definitely meet it as soon as possible, and the families of those great craftsmen have all settled in Chang'an City?" "Holy man, don't worry, these people's families are all taken care of by the Black Guard himself, and they are foolproof...... It's the first time the great craftsmen have made this cannon, and they are very rusty with the hands, and the little powerful people are also a little impatient to teach......"

"If you don't tighten, if you don't tighten, is it difficult for everything to start at the beginning? Aren't you also slowly figuring out the first Shenwu cannon now? Regardless of the quality, as long as you can make a prototype first, is that a good start? What about others? Speaking of which, I haven't seen that guy for a long time, and I heard that he is so majestic now that even a few of your brothers in charge have to look at his face and behave......"

The second brother of the fishery immediately showed some embarrassment on his face after being ridiculed by Li Mao like this, but they actually understood in their hearts that Li Mao's original intention of saying this was just to reconcile the contradictions between them, after all, at the beginning of the establishment of the factory, Li Mao set an iron law, that is, all professional matters within the factory must obey the arrangements of those great craftsmen, even if the officials and generals appointed by the imperial court are not allowed to interfere with half a point.

"Sage, you are joking, the little powerful man is skilled, which person with real skills has no temper, we are all used to it, as long as he does not participate in management matters, we will not care about him......" "Well, it would be good if you could think like this, he didn't even give me face at the beginning?" As long as it's not a matter of principle, give him some face, go now, hurry up and lead me to see the power of that Shenwu cannon, and tell the craftsmen not to have any psychological pressure, no matter whether it succeeds or not, I will not blame you ......for wait......ing." Then the saint, you go and take a look first, Wei Chen went to the experimental site to see if they were ready, I thought you would come tomorrow......"

After the second brother finished speaking, he immediately walked quickly with a few subordinates to a cave in the distance, while Li Mao and Gu Yu and his party slowly turned into the cement factory on the side, and as soon as everyone walked in, they were deeply shocked by the hundreds of large instruments with gear operation in front of them, especially the old man Gu and Gu Xue, who had never seen much of the world, were almost shocked and shouted.

"Sage, this ...... Are these devices connected with undercurrents the Mohist machine expansion technique of the Warring States Period? Use water power to build steel swords, no wonder, no wonder Datang weapons are so sharp...... "Haha...... Old national teacher, you really have a little knowledge, yes, some of them are the people of the Mo family inheritance, I took a lot of effort to collect them one by one, and you can also look at the grinding tools of these big chariots, and the mature assembly line operation...... Compared to the past, there is a lot of manpower and material resources left! ”

After listening to Li Mao's words, Gu Yu immediately stroked the inch by inch of those large machines like an old child, and kept muttering to himself while touching, "It's really amazing, ingenious, ingenious...... The old man can witness such a miracle with his own eyes in his lifetime, he really dies without regrets, Xue'er, look at the molten iron forged over there, it turns out... It turns out that there are so many other things involved, no wonder our previous technology of the Turkic Khanate can't be made......"

"Old man Gu, this is science, science and technology...... Are the students in Datang Institute of Science and Technology now teaching? If you want to learn, you can go too! The door of the Tang Dynasty Academy is open to the world...... "Can the old man also learn such a secret technique?" This...... Isn't your court afraid that the enemy will learn this method and turn around and make good weapons to compete with the Tang Dynasty? This...... Inevitably, ......"

"Don't be afraid...... What are you afraid of? Some things are useless even if you learn them! "Why?" Even when Gu Yu Lao'er repeatedly questioned Li Mao like a curious baby, Xiao Qiang, the chief technical officer mentioned earlier, also ran over a little overjoyed after hearing that Li Mao had arrived in the factory.

"Your Highness, you're here...... Oh no, no...... It's time to call you a saint, my mother-in-law doesn't know how many times she has reminded me, but I forget every time I say it! Xiao Qiang's face was stained, and his clothes were even only wearing a short sleeve with his arms exposed, if he looked at it from the appearance alone, he didn't look like a lord who was in charge of thousands of craftsmen and led the welfare of second-grade officials, but Li Mao was unusually kind and relieved when he saw his selfless look.

"It's okay, it's okay, how can you call it by the way, I'm not as verbose as them, by the way, you've been eating and living in the factory for the past two years, and I heard that you have left all the family affairs behind, and I heard that the dolls in your house can't remember what your kid looks like...... "Eh...... There are so many things in the factory, I can't spare time, but don't listen to the mother-in-law's complaints, where is the importance of making weapons in personal matters, and in addition, they take care of my family's affairs in a meticulous way, and they don't need us at all, the children have food and drink, and they go to the best school, so I don't need to worry about it? ”

"Okay, it's good if they can help take care of it, if you still need Xiaoqiang in the future, you can just speak, you are different from others and you can enter and leave the palace freely, if you can't find me, go to Qiu Xiang to know if you don't ......" Li Mao said and pulled Xiaoqiang up, and then gave him a big hug, and Li Mao's sudden strange behavior immediately provoked Gu Yu's father and daughter to stare at each other in a daze.

"Sage, I still know, the mother master has already instructed me, but the cannon abrasives in this factory are too expensive to spend silver, and I sometimes feel that the silver is spent like running water, which is really distressing. For now, the furnace can only be re-refined to use as those armors, arrowheads...... Used for ......" Xiaoqiang seems to have been accustomed to Li Mao's intimacy, but what he is most concerned about now is constantly pulling Li Mao to complain about the waste caused by the negligence of craftsmen or immature skills, but Li Mao was made to smile bitterly by his guidance and chattering.

In the end, there was really no way to forcibly stop his words and deeds, and he told very seriously: "Xiaoqiang, now it's different, don't be reluctant to spend money like in the palace, you can study as much as you want!" Although the furnace for steelmaking is made with hands and feet, as long as you are careful not to cause too many lives and spend some silver, I am still willing to do it, let alone a few hundred gold a day, even a few thousand gold? Xiaoqiang, do you know how much benefit the factory can bring to Datang by developing a Shenwu cannon? That is simply impossible to estimate with money, and there is also an improvement in the power of the Thunderbolt Fire Thunder...... Do you know how much the survival rate of the soldiers on the battlefield has increased? Xiaoqiang, I'm not afraid, I'm afraid of waste...... At the moment, we have nothing else in Datang, but there are rich people and ...... Not only do you have to let go of your research, but you also have to keep learning and improving your skills step by step...... Otherwise, more than 100,000 people in this factory would be hiding in the mountain col every day...... Remember that science and technology are the lifeblood of a country......"

After Li Mao finished speaking, he waved his hand, and when Ah Er saw it, he took out a stack of drawings from the backpack behind him and handed them to Xiao Qiang. "Sage, these are all ......" "Yes, they are all gadgets that I usually draw when I am bored, you look at the study, although it is not too perfect, but it can also give you a general idea, the steelmaking furnace drawings that are like a big waist drum, thin at both ends and thick in the middle, you may be able to improve the appearance, I didn't expect it before, but I also found it in the notebook of your grandfather later, his old man is worthy of being a soldier in the era of steelmaking, and even these have dabbled in it......"

When Xiaoqiang heard Li Mao's words, he immediately opened the drawings and looked at them carefully, and Li Mao, who was still explaining on the side, seemed to have been shielded from his brain by him. However, Li Mao seemed to have already seen Xiaoqiang's unreasonable behavior, and turned his head to look at Gu Yu'er.

"National teacher, you now understand why I am not afraid of others stealing technology, just like those splendid articles, everyone reads the same books, the same knowledge, but not everyone can do it, and this technology is the same, not to mention touching the secret recipe, the trick, is to bring these great craftsmen to you, if the other party does not have the help of my national strength like Datang, I am afraid it will not be possible?"

"Sage, you are reasonable, the old man finally understands it now, the important weapon of the country, it is really not a clear thing that can be said in three words, the old man is convinced today, and the name of the country in the Tang Dynasty is worthy of it! The penetration of these hundreds of thousands of craftsmen and tens of millions of silver dollars alone is by no means a ...... that ordinary small countries can afford."

After all, what he said was the truth, he raised a quarter of Datang's financial income to engage in scientific and technological research and development, how can such courage and financial resources be imitated and learned by other countries in today's world, and the most they can do is to buy some obsolete products from Datang.

"Your Highness...... Your Highness...... I see! If you want to make good steel, you need to do this...... You need to add a heat-resistant layer around the stove, and it's not enough to add another layer, haha...... No wonder the previous road broke down after a few days of practice, and if this blower is added to the natural water power in the cave now, it will definitely strengthen the wind dozens of times! That's enough...... That's enough...... And this open-hearth, converter...... It turns out that this can be done, the solvent ...... Limestone is a solvent, as well as fluorite...... Your Highness, why didn't you give these to me earlier, there is even a record of the quenching process on it, horse urine, lard...... Why didn't I think of putting the Mo knife in oil and water to quench and cool down? Eh...... These ......"

Xiao Qiang held the big stack of materials and said to Li Mao more and more excited, and when he said that he didn't wait for Li Mao to reply, he ran to the craftsmen who were standing aside and explained it like crazy, and Li Mao was embarrassed and immediately called Ah Da Ah Er aside and told him, "You go and talk to the guards guarding the periphery, in the future, these materials are top secret in the arsenal, and no small piece of paper can flow out of the mountain pass...... Li Maocai took Gu Xu's father and daughter to continue to wander around in the huge cave.

After seeing Li Mao, the craftsmen here did not show anything like the previous people, as if they were in King's Landing, but the leading officials saluted Li Mao and continued to work on their own. And Lao Gu wants to be constantly stunned everywhere he goes, as if he sees a new world, as if every place here can forcibly refresh his old man's worldview for decades.

"Why does this papermaking technology use water power to make pulp, and doesn't your Datang papermaking use rice flour to fill and precipitate? Why are there so many Chinese herbs stacked here...... Are these star fruit vines, yellow hollyhocks? Li Mao heard what Old Man Gu said so professionally, and he broke through the improved papermaking technique, and immediately became interested again. National teacher, you are really deliberate, peeking at my Datang Baiye, even this papermaking technique is so thorough, yes, there are many defects in the technology and even the selection of materials used by our Datang before, but after several years of exploration and improvement, there has been a great change, what you see in front of you is the result of improvement, a large number of good bamboo grinding pulp will lack toughness, and since the addition of reeds can greatly improve the quality, before all the rice flour bonding and precipitation, but the cost is huge, making the price of paper high, So after many experiments, it has now been changed to traditional Chinese medicine, these are the unique resource advantages of my Datang, the old national teacher, you have learned before, where to find this bamboo in the vast grassland? Haha......" -->