Smiling awkwardly, Yuan Qi hurriedly diverted the topic: "According to a certain opinion, if this kind of ballista wants to achieve the best effect, it is not possible to use ordinary wood, it must be made of jujube wood, jujube wood is hard, insects are not easy to stay, and water resistance is also very good, it is the best choice for making ballistas." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The thinking of Wang Yezi and the others was immediately pulled back to the selection of ballistae by Yuan Qi's words, and they could no longer care about the resentment against Yuan Qi. In fact, the people who will be imprisoned have a common characteristic, that is, the desire to explore the unknown, which is extremely strong, and they are proud to create things that are not in this world with their own hands, this trait, in the eyes of ordinary people, may be a little paranoid, a little eccentric, but Yuan Qi knows that this trait is the driving force for them to explore the unknown, and in later generations, almost every accomplished scientist can find the shadow of this trait.

After thinking for a moment, Wang Yezi said: "Yes, the tolerance of jujube wood to tension is much higher than that of ordinary wood, if you use jujube wood to make ballistas, you don't even need to improve, the power and range of ballistas will also go to a higher level, I didn't expect that the prince and the marquis will also dabble in the way of the general." ”

Yuan Qi smiled, and then explained the principle of the three-bow bed crossbow in the later Song Dynasty to Wang Yezi and others, and pointed out the characteristics of the three-bow bed crossbow, which is a gun and three sword crossbows, that is to say, the three-bow bed crossbow can be equipped with four crossbow arrows, one is as thick as a halberd, and the other three are similar to the body shape of the long sword.

With Yuan Qi's narration. The minds of Wang Yezi and the others were suddenly opened. Many things in later generations, people are not without the wisdom to make them, but no one will think about them at that level, which is caused by the limitations of the times, not that people do not have this ability. Of course, Ma Jun's thinking is still relatively advanced, he can touch the bypass, invent water turning wheels and other utensils that are conducive to farming.

Ma Jun, who had an epiphany in Yuan Qi's narration, couldn't wait to turn around and walk towards the ballista behind him, he had some ideas, and he needed to compare them with the ballista entity before he could make a conclusion. Because he was too immersed in the improvement of the ballista, Ma Jun even forgot to salute Yuan Qi and retire, and directly treated Yuan Qi as air.

Yuan Qi looked at Ma Jun's back with some consternation, then shook his head and laughed, this is simply the workaholic in the mouth of later generations, he will only focus on research and work, and his whole mind has no place to accommodate anything other than research, and even the basic etiquette of the boss is ignored. In later generations, Yuan Qi has seen a lot of similar people, they are the backbone of the enterprise, the company relies on such people, constantly developing products, and generating profits, but this kind of people, it is difficult to get promoted, because of their temperament, so that the boss loves and hates them, and while relying on their technology, they will not give them the opportunity to be promoted. However, Yuan Qi is very open-minded, and he only has love for Ma Jun, but no hate.

Wang Yezi defended Ma Jun on the side: "Junhou, Deheng (Ma Jun's word) is obsessed, but he doesn't mean to snub Junhou......" Yuan Qi waved his hand generously, and said with a smile: "A certain can understand, and a certain does not mean to blame Deheng." Originally, he wanted to tell Deheng a few other things, but now it seems that he can only bother Lord Wang to relay it to him. ”

As soon as he heard the story of Yuan Qi and other rare things, Wang Yezi's mind was immediately attracted, and he instructed a craftsman to greet the other disciples, and then ran to the room in person, brought a chair out, and brought Yuan Qi a pot of tea by the way, which was developed by Yuan Qi and sold by the Taishi Chamber of Commerce. Dare to love, Wang Yezi is afraid that Yuan Qi will be thirsty halfway through, it will be too disappointing, looking at Wang Yezi's appearance, he is ready to dig out all the things in Yuan Qi's stomach.

Subsequently, the people who were sent by Wang Yezi to greet other disciples also came back, and there were ten people behind him, this is Wang Yezi's personal disciple, counting Ma Jun, who was meditating on the ballista on the side, a total of nineteen people. These nineteen people were all taught by Wang Yezi, and each of them had extraordinary skills. At the same time, they are all students who graduated from Yenching University, and their loyalty to Yuan Qi is undoubted, so Yuan Qi is not worried about the research and development of new weapons, which will be leaked out during the research and development process.

In fact, as early as two years ago, Yuan Qi standardized the management of the general supervisor, and adopted the method of assembly operation for the production of the part of the general supervisor's ordnance, and the core secrets were only in the hands of a few people such as Wang Yezi and Ma Jun, and the core components of each weapon were completed by them personally, and most craftsmen just cast some parts that looked very ordinary, and they didn't know how the core components were made. In addition, the installation of the weapon as a whole is carried out by another group of craftsmen, who are only responsible for the installation and do not participate in the casting. Yuan Qi adopted this method of assembly operation and divide and conquer to ensure as much as possible that those new weapons in the army that crossed the era would not be explored by other princes. So far, except for the world-famous horse chopping knife and Rahu Dragon horn spear of the Tiangui Army and the Flying Dragon Army, there are no secrets at all, and other advanced weapons are still unique to Yuan Qi, and other princes can't imitate them if they want to break their brains. And the horse chopping knife and dragon horn spear, without Yuan Qi's original Tiangui Eight Slash and Flying Dragon Nine Style, they can't exert any power at all, even if other princes follow suit. It's also a chicken-like existence.

Looking at the nineteen outstanding craftsmen in front of him, Yuan Qi's heart felt very steady. With the gradual maturity of the students in the middle school of Yenching University, more and more good craftsmen will appear in their ranks in the future, and gradually expand the scale of the prison, and wait until one or two years later, advanced weapons such as ballistas can be mass-produced and equipped in the army on a large scale.

Accompanied by joy in the heart. Yuan Qi described in detail the principle of the other two types of big killers on the battlefield. The first piece. The name is Tiannu Sanhua, and its principle is similar to that of later mines, except that the internal filling is different from mines, which is the use of fire oil with a certain amount of nitrate, sulfur and other mixtures. Fill into a watermelon-sized iron bullet. Then or throw it by hand. Or it can be thrown with a stone thrower, or it can be buried in the ground to make a trigger, once the outside of the iron bullet is violently impacted. Or if the fuse is triggered, an explosion will occur, and the iron sheet on the surface of the iron bomb will be blown open, shattered into fine pieces of iron, and shot in all directions, so it is called the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers. This thing was conceived by Yuan Qi according to the principle of mines in later generations, and its difficult problem to overcome is how to adjust the ratio of the filling inside the iron bullet, and the thickness of the iron bullet, which should not be too thick or too thin, not only to ensure that it can be exploded, but also to ensure that the internal filling will explode after being shaken. Yuan Qi did not dare to guarantee that this thing would be developed, but in the history of later generations, during the Ming Dynasty, there was a trigger-type mine, indicating that the ancients had a fairly mature technology for the use of gunpowder. Now that Yuan Qi has the Fuyu oil field in his hands, he can use the solidified oil to develop a new gunpowder with sulfur and nitrate, which is more comprehensive than the three-element system that was first published in the Sui Dynasty.

Compared with the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers, the second killing weapon told by Yuan Qi is much more realistic. This is a new type of warship, and the Han Dynasty conventional building ships and warships are different, Yuan Qi proposed this way of shipbuilding, the entire side and the bottom of the ship, is an inverted triangle shape, rather than the conventional flat-bottomed shape. This kind of warship is somewhat similar to the warships of later generations, which is more conducive to riding the wind and waves, and greatly accelerates the speed of the warship on the water. In order to maximize the speed of the new warship, Yuan Qi proposed that a more advanced method should be adopted than hand paddling, that is, pedal paddling. The strength of human legs is far greater than the strength of the arms, so the use of foot pedals is certainly more effective than the way of hand paddle to speed up the speed of a warship. For Ma Jun, who was able to invent a pedal water wheel, Yuan Qi firmly believed that this would definitely not be difficult for him.

At the same time, Yuan Qi also separately proposed a large weapon that should be widely installed on warships - the slap stick. The so-called clap stick is to use the principle of leverage, coupled with the assistance of mechanical force, to install two hard and thick wooden poles on the battleship in a V-shape, one wooden pole is used as a fix, and the other wooden pole is a weapon to kill the enemy. When the lever is in operation, the fixed wooden pole is stationary, while the killing wooden pole is tied to the head of the pole with a heavy object, and then it falls from a high altitude to inflict damage on the nearby enemy ship, or break the hull of the enemy ship. It is like a huge fly swatter, swatting flies fiercely, and like a crane at a construction site in later generations, it loses control and falls from a high altitude, its power is self-evident.

If these three cross-era weapons can be developed and then equipped in the army, the combat effectiveness of the three armies of the Yuanqi horse, infantry, and naval army will be greatly improved, and by that time, the troops of the Yuanqi will become semi-mechanized troops, which will be enough to dominate the world in this era.