"I'm not being naive; I'm just being prepared."
Xiao Yu led his horse away from the palace, muttering to himself, "After all, there's still Mulan, Aoxue, Xianxian... Even if I'm exceptionally talented, I still need to drink more goji berry water beforehand, so that I won't be defeated later."
At the same time, I also feel that there is some unfairness between men and women.
When a man is defeated, his fighting ability is greatly reduced... especially for ordinary people, who lose the ability to fight after being defeated.
But women are different. Even if a woman is defeated, she can continue to fight. In other words, they are invincible, even if they keep begging for mercy.
Similarly, the recovery ability is also very unfair!
"So it's right to plan ahead."
Xiao Yu led his horse out of the inner city and into the outer city. He spurred his horse and galloped to the workshop as fast as he could.
Upon arriving at the workshop, I first poured myself a large glass of hot water and then added a handful of goji berries.
After drinking the water, he went outside to patrol.
Under Xiao Zhan's leadership, everyone was repeatedly hammering the red-hot iron block.
To convert pig iron into steel, some of the carbon needs to be removed through the steelmaking process. In ancient times, this was usually achieved through repeated heating, forging, and quenching.
Each heating and forging process gradually reduces the carbon content in pig iron, while making its structure and composition more uniform and dense.
"The progress is very good. After a certain amount of wrought iron is hammered out, we will use the steelmaking process to turn this iron into steel."
After giving Xiao Zhan some instructions, Xiao Yu returned to the house.
The design blueprints for the Qi Family Knife will be further optimized.
Having optimized the design of the Qi Family Knife, Xiao Yu picked up a clean sheet of white paper and began to think.
"Now that we're at the workshop, we should naturally manufacture some lethal items."
"This world only has crossbows, but no repeating crossbows... When I was in the army, I happened to read a book about cold weapons. If I combine it with the crossbows of this world, I should be able to design a repeating crossbow."
"If we could create a crossbow that could fire ten shots in a row, and pair it with the Qi Family Saber and a spear made of fine steel, who would dare to provoke the Xiao Prince's Mansion?"
Without further ado, Xiao Yu began drawing the design of the repeating crossbow on paper.
Crossbow bolts generally have a higher hit rate than bows and arrows, and they can be released instantly... Moreover, the range of a bow and arrow depends on the soldier's strength, but crossbow bolts do not have this problem.
These are advantages that bows and arrows do not possess!
The repeating crossbow's destructive power and explosive force are several times, or even ten times, that of the bow and crossbow!
"But designing it is not so easy."
Xiao Yu rubbed his temples and muttered to himself.
Although I have the knowledge from my previous life, I still need to constantly refine the details.
Before we knew it, it was noon.
"Ersha, what are you drawing on the paper?"
This time, it was Da Sha who brought food to Xiao Yu. After seeing the crossbow design drawings that Xiao Yu had made, he asked curiously.
"This thing is called a repeating crossbow."
Xiao Yu put down his brush and looked Da Sha over. In just two days, because he had been constantly forging iron by the furnace, Da Sha had visibly become much stronger and more robust.
"The repeating crossbow is for riding?"
Da Sha asked, looking puzzled.
"It's hard to explain."
Looking at Da Sha's appearance, Xiao Yu guessed that he had never even seen a bow and crossbow, let alone a repeating crossbow, so he gave up on explaining and said, "I'll show you when it's made."
"good."
Da Sha didn't think much of it, put the food on the table, and said, "Er Sha, eat quickly."
"Let's eat together."
Xiao Yu said.
After finishing his meal, Xiao Yu decided to go out for a walk and check out the other workshops... This official factory not only produced swords, but also spears, armor, bows and arrows, and all kinds of supplies were produced by different craftsmen.
Xiao Yu decided to find one of each weapon and then take it back to his room to study it slowly.
Besides small workshops.
Xiao Yu walked to a workshop that made crossbows, took out a silver ingot from his sleeve, and said, "Master, I'm from the workshop next door. I'd like to take two crossbows back to study."
"Yes, yes."
Upon seeing the silver in Xiao Yu's hand, the craftsman readily agreed.
He then put the silver away and said to the two craftsmen beside him, "With so much silver, I'll treat everyone to a song at the brothel after work."
"good!"
Seeing the potential benefits, the other engineers all smiled and agreed.
After taking two crossbows, Xiao Yu continued to wander around other workshops.
Before long, he was carrying several items: a crossbow, a breastplate, a sword, and a spear.
"Tsk tsk tsk."
Just then, a mocking voice came from behind: "I wonder if you're here to forge weapons or to go shopping, hehe."
That familiar voice belonged to Ye Qun, who had provoked Xiao Yu earlier.
How dare you jump in front of me?
Xiao Yu raised an eyebrow, his gaze sweeping over Xi Yequn, his eyes conveying: What? Didn't you learn your lesson from the beating you received last time?
Seeing Xiao Yu's ambiguous smile and provocative gaze, Ye Qun subconsciously flinched.
He took a half step back, then thought, "Why should I be afraid of him?" He snorted coldly and said, "Xiao Yu, don't think everyone is afraid of you. Eunuch Wei is in our workshop, here on His Majesty's orders to inquire about the progress."
No wonder he jumped so much; it turns out that Eunuch Wei's arrival made this kid feel valued.
However... even in front of Eunuch Wei, I still dare to hit you!
"Feeling the pressure?"
Seeing that Xiao Yu remained silent, Ye Qun assumed that Xiao Yu was afraid and said even more smugly, "It's obvious who His Majesty values more! Xiao Yu, I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of weapon you can use to report to His Majesty in ten days."
"Don't let it come to a bad end. Losing the bet is one thing, but making His Majesty angry could cost you your head!"
He became more and more smug as he spoke.
"I'll wait ten days for you and your senior brother to kneel down and admit defeat."
Xiao Yu was too lazy to waste words with him, so he left a sentence and prepared to turn around and leave.
At this moment, Eunuch Wei came out of the workshop, followed by Ouyang Ye with a fawning expression. Ouyang Ye bowed and said, "Please wait, Eunuch. Please report to His Majesty that I will certainly live up to His Majesty's expectations and forge a sharp weapon that can cut through a samurai sword."
"That's good."
Eunuch Wei nodded slightly.
Just as he was about to leave, he saw Xiao Yu, and a smile appeared on his previously expressionless old face: "Your Highness, this old servant was just looking for you."
Compared to her arrogant attitude towards Ouyang Ye just now, she was practically a different person.
"Eunuch Wei."
Xiao Yu bowed politely, then glanced furtively at Ye Qun, whose face was ashen, and asked in a low voice, "Kid, can you tell the difference?"
"..."
Ye Qun's face was ashen, and he remained silent.
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