Chapter Fifty-Six: Military Merit, Captain

(2nd update today)

Yin Zhongda's eyes lit up, and he snatched the repeater in Li Jing's hand with a swift movement that was not commensurate with his fat figure, and watched it over and over, unable to put it down.

Seeing Yin Zhongda, the person who specializes in selling ordnance and weapons, said this, Li Jing had a satisfied smile on his face. Another purpose of his retreat was to consider a way to make money, to get enough gold to fill the bottomless black hole of the three-legged golden toad. If he can make the golden toad condense the mysterious talisman on his back again, it means that he has another chance to use the "Falling Treasure Money" without side effects.

Although Li Bingzhi is in a high-ranking official position, and the income is enough for the family to live a fairly prosperous life, when it comes to using gold as food to raise pets, he is really not enough. Yin Zhongda's family is very wealthy, but Li Jing has his own arrogance, although the relationship between the two families is very close, he still refuses to ask his fiancΓ©e's family for money.

After thinking about it, Li Jing suddenly remembered a "Zhuge Repeater" that he had collected out of interest in his previous life. In the era of high science and technology and the rapid development of various thermal weapons, the "Zhuge Repeater", which once stood at the peak of cold weapons, has long been almost extinct. The one Li Jing owned in his previous life was bought and given to him by his younger brother Li Muwen at an antique auction. Out of interest, Li Jing in his previous life had already disassembled and assembled the "Zhuge Repeater" several times and studied it thoroughly, and even imitated two by himself. With his relationship with the Yin family, Li Jing has a good understanding of the profits in the ordnance business, and a sharp weapon like the "Zhuge Repeater" is not worried about not being able to sell it at a high price.

During the month of retreat, Li Jing spent twenty days completing the condensation and transformation of the Heavenly True Yuan in the Chong Vein, and the rest of the time was used to build this repeater. Because of the spell body, the process of making zuΓ² saved a lot of trouble, and many metal parts that required special tools to make were directly refined by him with real fire.

Yin Zhongda held the crossbow in his hand and looked at it for a long time, but it was difficult to figure out the mystery, so he had to come to Li Jing again for advice. Li Jing smiled and pressed the four dark tenons on the edge of the crossbow box, lifted the upper side of the crossbow box, and showed the inner world in front of Yin Zhongda.

The inside of this crossbow box is composed of two parts, the front foot length is the arrow room, which is vertically divided into ten arrow slots, each arrow slot can hold five iron feather short arrows, and the back five inches long section is the machine spring room, corresponding to the ten arrow slots with ten copper pipes containing powerful machine springs. Rotate the crank on the side of the crossbow box to press the spring, and pull the bracket at the handle to burst the spring and shoot out the iron feather short arrow in the front arrow slot.

Li Jing said: "The large repeater I am talking about has not yet been made, but the principle and structure are similar to this. ”

Yin Zhongda was amazed, and watched it repeatedly for a while, and the enthusiasm on his face gradually cooled down. Put the crossbow box back on the table, turned to Li Jing and said, "Jing'er, although your crossbow is good, it has two shortcomings. ”

Li Jing already knew it in his heart, and said, "What my uncle said is that it is not easy to imitate with others?"

Yin Zhongda's spirits perked up, he knew that Li Jing had a splendid chest, and although he was usually good at laughing, he always had to be in his words when it came to business, so he hurriedly asked: "Since Jing'er has thought of these two problems, she also has a solution?"

"I do have some ideas in my mind, and I am about to ask my uncle for advice. Li Jing nodded, "Let's talk about the first question first, this repeater is complex in structure, if it is completely made by a craftsman from beginning to end, not to mention the length of the manufacturing process, it will take at least three or five years to teach a group of craftsmen who have mastered the full set of crossbow making techniques." Considering that this is too time-consuming and labor-intensive, I came up with a 'flow of work' method. ”

Yin Zhongda was puzzled: "What kind of 'assembly line operation'?"

Li Jing explained: "We can divide the whole crossbow making process into several steps, and correspondingly divide the craftsmen into several teams, each team only focuses on learning and completing one process for which they are responsible, and then passes it on to the next team to complete the next process, so that the continuous transmission is like a stream ......of water."

"Wonderful!" Yin Zhongda exclaimed, "According to Jing'er's 'assembly operation' method, not only can the efficiency of crossbow making be greatly improved, but also the greatest degree can be used to prevent others from stealing and copying." Because each team of craftsmen only masters a part of the crossbow making process, that is, some people are bribed by others to leak secrets, and they can only leak part of the information they know. ”

Li Jing shook his head and pointed to the copper pipe containing the organic spring in the crossbow box: "The method of assembly operation can indeed play a role in secrecy, but if you really want to prevent others from copying this repeater, the key is still here." These springs need to be strong enough to be elastic and tough enough not to break. I have repeatedly smelted a variety of metals, and it took hundreds of times to get lucky. As long as we keep the formula of this metal firmly in our hands, even if the other links are learned by others, he can only create an empty shell that has no appearance and is completely useless!"

Yin Zhongda applauded and laughed: "Since Jing'er has thought things through so thoroughly, if I can't sell this repeater for a good price, I will be in vain for so many years in the weapons business! Speaking of which, there is a good opportunity recently, not long ago Dongyi changed, and the imperial court already had the intention of going eastward. If we do it right, we'll just not be able to make enough repeaters and won't be able to sell them. I'll handle this matter, Jing'er, you just have to sit back and wait for the money to be collected!"

Li Jing arched his hand and said, "There is Uncle Lao." ”

The next day, Yin Zhongda sent someone to see Li Jing and told him to rush to the "Lian Feng" immediately.

Li Jing knew that the matter should have been cleared, and he rode the Black Flame Horse to the "Lian Feng" in a hurry. With his identity, he naturally didn't need to be polite, and went directly to the main hall of the "Lian Feng" to entertain guests. When he arrived at the front of the hall, Li Jing was stunned, but saw a supernatural ink unicorn lying on the side of the steps at the door, which was the mount of Taishi Wenzhong.

Li Jing dismounted, and saw the black flame horse neighing in a low voice towards the ink qilin, which was quite different, so he drove it to the other side of the steps, and seriously told it not to cause trouble, before walking towards the hall.

When I got to the door, I saw Wen Zhongzheng and Yin Zhongda sitting together. I only heard Zhong Dao: "Zhong Da, Your Majesty has decided to order the old man to command the Eastern Crusade after March, how many repeaters and giant crossbows you said can be made in these three months?"

Yin Zhongda thought for a moment and reported two numbers: "How about three hundred crossbows in a row, ten giant crossbows?"

"Too few!" Wen Zhong shook his head and said, "There should be at least five hundred crossbows, and thirty giant crossbows are the best." ”

Yin Zhongda's face was embarrassed: "The process of the repeating crossbow is complicated, the requirements for materials are higher for the giant crossbow, and there are only three months to go, so I am afraid that my 'Lianfeng' is beyond the power of the Refining Front." ”

"Zhongda, don't be in a hurry to complain," Wen Zhong said with a smile, "If you can deliver the goods on time according to the quantity that the old man said, then each crossbow can be increased by 30% on the basis of the price you set!"

The look of embarrassment on Yin Zhongda's face was swept away, and he said angrily: "Contribute to the country, how can you be afraid of difficulties? Taishi can rest assured, Yin Zhongda has been sleepless for the past three months, and he must also make a sufficient number of crossbows for the army to conquer the east!"

Hearing that Yin Zhongda actually had the courage to bargain with Wen Zhong, Li Jing shook his head outside the door and smiled, stepped into the door, and saluted in front of the two.

When he saw Li Jing, a faint light flashed in Wen Zhong's forehead, and he secretly exclaimed in his heart: "This son is close to the consummation of foundation building, and I don't know what adventures he has had in the past three years, and he has cultivated to be refined!"

He was surprised in his heart, but his face was silent, and he smiled and said, "Li Jing, I heard Zhongda say that this repeater was designed by you." With the advantage of this crossbow, our soldiers do not have to be in a passive position when facing Dongyi archers. As the designer of the repeater, you can be said to have made military achievements before you are on the battlefield. ”

Speaking of this, his face suddenly straightened, and he raised his voice and shouted, "Li Jing listens to the order!"

Li Jing was stunned for a moment, then stood solemnly and said in a deep voice: "Li Jing is here!"

Wen Zhong said: "Li Jing, I will recruit you into the army in the name of the generalissimo of the expedition to the east, and grant you the rank of captain of the military academy, and you will be used in my personal guard camp for the time being!"

Before Li Jing could respond, Yin Zhongda was anxious on the side, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Taishi, Jing'er has been away from home for three years, and he has just returned home, is it ......?"

Wen Zhong waved his hand and said: "Zhong Da, now that the country is in trouble, it is the time for men to use force, don't you want to see Li Jing make contributions on the battlefield and shine on the lintel?"

Yin Zhongda opened his mouth and stammered, not knowing how to answer for a while.

Wen Zhong turned his head and asked Li Jing again: "Li Jing, what do you say?"

Li Jing groaned slightly, bowed down and said, "Li Jing is willing to listen to the dispatch of the Taishi!"

Yin Zhongda's face collapsed immediately, and he was worried about how to explain to Li Bingzhi and his wife and daughter.

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