Richanglong, Su Province

The lights are bright, laughter and laughter, the servants and maids, and the servants are also full of smiling faces, and the house is feasting guests and friends, and it is lively.

Tonight's protagonist is, of course, Xiao Ming,

Originally, Xiao Ming was not good at drinking, and when he was in school, he drank and bragged with six roommates in the dormitory, and he would vomit a mess when he drank two bottles of beer at most, and he was nicknamed: Old Rabbit (Two). It wasn't until he stared at him with blood-red eyes and threatened with a beer bottle that people begged for mercy.

But what I drank today was rice wine - Longshan Huadiao, and rice wine from the big altar - daughter red! The wine on the Su family today is all five years and ten years old! The wine tastes mellow and fragrant, but it has a lot of stamina! Xiao Ming is still a little afraid, what are you afraid of? Afraid of making a fool of yourself.

So at the beginning, with only a small cup, with Su Bi Su, the old doctor Langzhong who came forward to toast can still deal with it, but today there is one more person, Yang Zhen and Yang Zifa! This man drank only in large bowls, which was a habit he developed when he was in the western army.

"Brother Xiao! Last time you saved the official, this time you saved Shou Weng's beloved daughter, it's really fateful, come! I salute you three bowls! ”

"Brother Xiao! I am a friend of Shou Weng, and today my nephew will give you three bowls for Shou Weng! ”

"Brother Xiao! So bold, come on, I'll drink three more bowls! ”

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Xiao Ming's eyes brightened the more he drank, although he was wary in his heart, he felt fine, so he didn't take it seriously.

During the banquet, I learned from Su Bi that Su Bi's daughter Su Caier has suffered from epilepsy since she was a child, and it happened that her friend An Daoquan was treated, but it has not been completely well, An Daoquan felt that this woman was young and could not use a sharp needle, but used medicinal stones to recuperate, and she did not recur much over the years.

Xiao Ming just smiled when he heard it, this time to treat Su Cai'er was actually his first clinical acupuncture, and he was a little proud to be able to achieve such an effect, but after hearing An Daoquan's arrangement, he suddenly felt a chill in his back.

When An Daoquan taught him the golden acupuncture method from the beginning, in fact, it had already been calculated at this time, when the seizure occurred, the patient's whole body was tense, and only Xiao Ming, a novice with "miraculous skills", could get the needle, relying on his clumsiness, Xiao Ming's body was caused by the power of the muscles and bones caused by the usurpation of the body, and the yin and yang sequence of the meridians in the patient's body could be strongly adjusted through the golden needle, in fact, after Su Caier's acupuncture, the yin and yang combing of the meridians in the body had been completed, and then after cultivation and conditioning, the root of the disease had been removed, but Xiao Ming didn't know.

When Xiao Ming guessed An Daoquan's intentions, he was secretly surprised in his heart, "The mind of this miracle doctor is unfathomable!" "I thought that ancient people were very simple and cute, but Xiao Ming didn't think so much at this time, especially after seeing the carriage of the Su family, he felt that the IQ and ingenuity of ancient people were no worse than modern people.

Due to drinking a lot of wine and having a distended stomach, Xiao Ming went to the toilet, and he was still very strange, why was the amount of alcohol so good today?

When he came back, someone happened to tell him that the Hangzhou Garrison Mansion had something to find Yang Zhen, so Yang Zhen got up and said goodbye.

"Where does Brother Xiao live now? I'll pay you another day, and then you and my brother will have another drink! ”

"Lord Yang, go slowly, I have something to look for you today, please wait a while, there is something I want you to see, and I want to ask you to do me a favor" Xiao Ming hurriedly stopped, and then motioned for Gu Shouzhen to take out the bow and crossbow.

"Brother Xiao, don't be so polite, you and I hit it off at first sight, besides, I still have the grace to save my life, look at how old I am, just call me eldest brother in the future, I don't know what brother can help you?"

"Haha, that's good, Brother Yang, look at this thing." Saying that, Xiao Ming took out the bow and crossbow that he brought from the cloth bag.

Yang Zhen's eyes were straight at that time, he fought many times with the Western Xia army when he was in the Western Army, and he was very familiar with the weapon bow and crossbow, the bow and crossbow used by the Song Dynasty army was either a giant crossbow machine for long-range shooting or a Zhuge crossbow for close combat, but because the Zhuge Repeater was complex to manufacture and the range was not far, there were very few people who used it, so Yang Zhen himself also used a hard bow in long-range shooting.

Xiao Ming folded the steel piece used as a bow arm on the bow crossbow, formed a right angle to the bow body, stuck it with a circlip, and handed it to Yang Zhen, who took it and looked at it carefully.

Yang Zhen has been skilled in bowing and horses since he was a child, and he has also made many military exploits in the Western Army, but his personality is stubborn and he does not agree with his boss, so he was transferred from the inspection envoy to the judge of the Beijing Mansion of the Hangzhou Garrison Road.

Yang Zhen looked at the guy in his hand, and was pleasantly surprised, although it was dark and inconspicuous, Yang Zhen could completely feel its domineering.

"Can you test it, Brother Xiao?"

Xiao Ming smiled and took out two arrows from the cloth bag, Yang Zhen grabbed them, and rushed out of the living room with one arrow step, came to the courtyard, skillfully loaded the crossbow arrows, and aimed at the wooden flagpole used to pick up the lantern on the wall a hundred steps away.

"Whoosh, whoosh" two arrows, the first arrow shot into the air, he adjusted slightly, the second arrow was nailed to the flagpole fiercely, the pace posture, the operation is simply self-taught.

"Brother Xiao, where did you get this kind of crossbow?" Yang Zhen couldn't hide the excitement on his face.

Xiao Ming and Gu Shouzhen glanced at each other, and both of them were very happy, this first step seemed to have been achieved.

"Lord Yang, this crossbow was invented and made by Brother Xiao." Gu Shouzhen said on the side.

"Is that true?"

Not only did Yang Zhen not believe it, but even Su Bi on the side was a little unconvinced, how do you think Xiao Mingwen is weak, at most he looks like a Lang Zhong, is he still a craftsman?

After Xiao Ming took out the structure diagram and renderings of the crossbow, everyone's doubts were completely dispelled, and there was not only a three-sided view of the crossbow on the map, but also a exploded view of each part of the part, and a note was made next to it.

When Su Bi saw Xiao Ming unfold the drawing, his eyes lit up obviously, and he couldn't help but pounce on it with Yang Zhen to take a closer look.

"Unexpectedly, Mr. Xiao is also proficient in the art of mechanism making, the design of this crossbow is really ingenious, rare and rare!" Su Bi twisted and praised.

"It's over" Xiao Ming arched his hand at Su Bi, turned his head and said to Yang Zhen: "Brother Yang, do you think this thing is of great use to you?" ”

Yang Zhen nodded, "If this thing is equipped, the combat power of my Great Song army will be unstoppable."

"Hehe, okay, this crossbow will be given to Brother Yang."

Yang Zhen was shocked: "Is this true? ”

Xiao Ming nodded, "And this crossbow, Brother Gu's refining workshop, can produce about three hundred in a month, so I want to ask Brother Yang to ......"

Yang Zhen clenched his fists: "I understand, Brother Xiao, I'm going to see the garrison, well, will I also take these two pictures?" ”

"Of course, Brother Yang just take it." Xiao Ming feels comfortable talking to smart people.

Yang Zhen glanced at Xiao Ming at the same time as Su Bi, nodded, and Yang Zhen gave up his hand again.

"Yang said goodbye first, Brother Xiao, please wait for me to reply in a few days, Shou Weng, farewell!"

Everyone got up to see Yang Zhen leave, and the banquet dispersed at this time, and the old doctors in Langzhong also got up to say goodbye, Xiao Ming and Gu Shouzhen also said goodbye, Su Bi saw that it was getting late, so he didn't keep it anymore, and ordered someone to bring over a tray.

Xiao Ming opened it and saw a row of small gold ingots!

"A little consultation fee, not a respect, I hope Mr. Xiao will accept it."

Xiao Ming's eyes lit up, "Ha, gold ingots, it's so magnanimous!" ”

After thinking about it for a moment, he still only took one ingot, "One ingot is enough, Shou Weng, we will visit another day" Su Bi smiled and nodded, and asked people to send him two in a carriage.

"Brother Xiao, give fifty taels of gold at a time, this Master Su is really a rich man!" Gu Shouzhen said to Xiao Ming on the way.

"These gold and silver are still trivial matters, I think this Su Bi is deliberately trying to get along with me, and I can't ask for this."

Why is that? Does he want you to treat his daughter for a long time? Gu Shouzhen was puzzled.

"Then Miss Su's illness has actually been cured, and the rest is medicine stone conditioning, this will be seen when the doctor comes back, Su Bi wants to marry me, on the one hand, for his daughter, on the other hand, I think there is another reason."

Looking at Gu Shouzhen's puzzled eyes, Xiao Ming reached out and patted the seat under him.

"You should be able to guess by looking at this carriage, there must be a master in this Su Mansion, and there must be other things in this Su Mansion, but for us, this Su Master is of great use."

The two went home and didn't say anything all night.

Yang Zhen came to visit early the next morning, and there was another person who came with him, who was also an acquaintance, the head of the Qiantang County errand who was rescued by Xiao Ming from the Mingjiao dungeon last time, Luo Wen Luo Dingbang, and now he has been promoted to the county lieutenant of the Hangzhou Mansion.

When Luo Wen saw Xiao Ming, he immediately knelt down and thanked him for saving his life, but Xiao Ming hurriedly helped him up.

Speaking of the events of that day, Xiao Ming learned that in addition to the destruction of the local Mingjiao branch altar, the officers and soldiers divided their troops into several routes and went to Lin'an and Pingjiang. Jiande, Jiaxing and other places arrested the Mingjiao rebels, except for the Lin'an County Order Guo Huai escaped, the rest of the Mingjiao rebels were all captured, and a lot of weapons, armor, canes and other things were confiscated.

After interrogation, it was learned that Mingjiao had been planning and preparing for many years in the surrounding counties of Hangzhou, and had long intended to rebel. However, due to the fact that the congregations and gatherings mostly choose desolate and hidden places, there is no business in the densely populated places in Hangzhou.

"The prefect has strictly ordered the yamen of various counties under the Liangzhejiang Road to strictly investigate the rebellion of the Demon Sect against the party, and at the same time, 800 miles to urgently report to the imperial court, please send troops to assist, I was shocked to hear that the demon party is about to start an incident recently!"

Luo Wen said all about the recent situation, and his tone was very anxious, but this guy's voice was really like Zhu Jun, and Xiao Ming liked to listen to him.

But Xiao Ming didn't care much about this matter, because he knew that Yang Zhen came to talk about other things, which was what he was most concerned about.

Sure enough, Yang Zhen directly talked about last night.

"Brother Xiao, the garrison decided to directly order five hundred bows and crossbows from last night, I wonder if Shopkeeper Gu has them in stock here?"

Xiao Ming changed him to a cup of hot tea and motioned for him to speak slowly.

"Don't hide it from my brother, I came with Captain Luo this time, in addition to catching up with the old days, I came to talk about the purchase of the Black God Crossbow, as Brother Luo said just now, the Demon Party is imminent, they have been preparing for many years, and the force must be sufficient, and the imperial court has been in disrepute of its armament over the years, and the armor is outdated, once it is chaotic, I am afraid it will ......"

Yang Zhen's expression looked worried, and he hugged his fists at Xiao Ming and said: "I have persuaded the garrison lord to use the silver that the imperial court has used to change the armament of Jiangsu and Zhejiang within five years, and first buy five hundred black god crossbows, and the garrison has made Lord Chen go to the prefect and send the two pictures drawn by my brother to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry Yamen, please consider the situation, if it goes well, at least 20,000 divine crossbows need to be customized, but I don't know ...... price?" ”

"Brother Yang, don't worry, this price is negotiable" Xiao Ming pressed Gu Shouzhen's already excited expression with his eyes.

"Brother Yang, please see" Xiao Ming unfolded the structure diagram, this is a backup.

"In the overall structure of the crossbow, the crossbow arm is the most valuable, this is the refined elastic steel of Brother Gu's refinery, the other crossbow bodies are wooden, the crossbow strings are cow tendons, plus other small parts, the material is not worth a few dollars, but it is expensive in the hand, each crossbow is equipped with five crossbow arrows, and the arrows are also made of stainless steel, which is very sharp, and the overall price is not less than six taels of silver."

Xiao Ming glanced at Yang Zhen and found that he was expressionless, thought for a while and continued: "The body of the crossbow arrow is made of bamboo feathers, this can be universal, we can only provide arrows, and other materials are cheaper, at least five taels or four dollars of silver?" ”

Seeing that Yang Zhen was still noncommittal, Xiao Ming continued: "Except for the one from yesterday, there are two hundred finished products in the refinery, we will sell half and give away according to five taels of silver, how about solving Brother Yang's urgent need first?" ”

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"It's all according to five taels of silver, how about I order fifteen hundred first?" Yang Zhen said with a smile, he originally thought that a divine crossbow would cost at least ten taels of silver, who knew that Xiao Ming was so conservative.

Xiao Ming had a black line in his head, sighed secretly that he still didn't hold his breath, and thought for a while.

"It's a deal!"

Fifteen hundred bows and crossbows According to his thoughts, although there are not many, but at present, the scale of Gu Shouzhen's refining workshop has not yet gone up, at this stage, this is a big order, it turns out that the refining workshop has received an order from the garrison mansion for a maximum of several thousand yuan and a dozen vehicles, and this time it is an order of seven thousand five hundred taels, no wonder Gu Shouzhen has already smiled.

The most important thing is that from now on, the refinery can hitchhike for the government OEM, and at the same time master the core technology, others want to copy it? Not to mention anything else, the spring steel of the crossbow arm itself cannot be made by others.

"What a big deal! Haha, haha! ”