Liu Tan was watching Li Buyan, who was debating whether or not to punish him, when he suddenly heard someone say, "Li Buyan, how can you speak to His Highness like that?"
Liu Tan turned his head reflexively and immediately wanted to throw the bow in his hand away: When did Huo Guang come?
Huo Guang came over and said slowly, "Your Highness is so busy with government affairs that he has no time to practice riding and archery. If I hear you do that again, you can go copy the Zuo Zhuan."
Li Buyan immediately apologized to Liu Tan honestly: "I was wrong, Your Highness, please don't blame me."
Liu Tan waved his hand: "My aim is a little off."
Huo Guang whispered softly, "There's a trick to this."
Liu Tan's eyes suddenly lit up. It was too late for him to practice archery now. If there was a shortcut, that would be great.
Anyway, he doesn't need very good basic skills, he can just deal with the spring hunt in front of him.
It has to be said that compared to Li Buyan, Huo Guang is obviously more suitable to be a teacher.
Patient and meticulous, speaks softly and tactfully.
It was a pity that Liu Tan was not a good student. After Huo Guang had taught him hard for a long time, he could only barely make his arrows hit the target, and even then he still missed eight out of ten times.
Until the end, Huo Guang felt a little melancholy. He probably couldn't understand why some people couldn't learn such a simple thing as archery.
However, when he saw Liu Tan looking dejected, as if the cat ears on his head were drooping, he immediately comforted him and said, "Your Highness's strengths are not in this. Don't be discouraged. Spring Hunt..."
Huo Guang paused before saying, "Spring hunting doesn't necessarily require prey. Your Highness, just relax and treat it as a leisurely outing."
Huo Guang felt a little guilty when he said this. The Han Dynasty was a martial nation, and the spring hunt was actually a place for everyone to show off themselves. Although leading troops to fight at this time also required strategy, everyone would still look for someone who was stronger and had higher martial arts skills.
Therefore, many generals of the Han Dynasty actually rose to prominence through hunting in the spring and autumn seasons.
However, these are not that important to Liu Tan. In any case, he can't lead the troops himself again, so... it's not bad to just treat it as a trip.
However, Liu Tan was not convinced. Li Buyan just said that Liu Fuling shot the deer, but Liu Tan didn't really care. What Liu Tan cared about was whether Liu Qumao would take the opportunity to cause trouble.
This guy is just a fly... Never mind, he is the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty after all, give Liu Che some face, he is still a little higher than a fly.
This person certainly couldn't cause any harm to Liu Tan in the short term, but it was quite annoying that he came over and made a few noises for no reason.
Liu Tan didn't want Liu Qumao to talk about this matter again.
Liu Tan looked at the bow in his hand and thought, isn't it just the aiming that's wrong?
If you don’t have enough skills, you can make up for it with equipment!
It's about time something like a sight appeared.
Liu Tan let out a long sigh. He originally thought that after making the toilet, he could take a break and wait to return to the Northern Border Country. He didn't expect that he would have to make something for the sake of face.
But think about it, this is a good thing for long-term development.
Even if it may be like horse harness, even if it appears, it is currently a plaything of the nobles and is not equipped to the army at all. This is due to financial limitations.
The Han Dynasty is now in a state of prosperity and looks prosperous, but in fact its finances have become extremely tight.
Otherwise, what if there are no generals? As long as you are willing to fight, even if it is impossible to produce Wei Huo again, there will always be generals who are almost useful.
Unfortunately, even Liu Che does not dare to start a war easily now.
Liu Tan sighed as he began to work on the sight.
Sights come in both simple and complex types. If it is for equipping archers, he would probably choose the simplest one because it has low cost and can be promoted the fastest.
But now he wanted to use it himself, so he chose a more complicated one - a five-pin sight.
The five-pin sight is considered to be one of the more user-friendly mechanical calibrators. Liu Tan first came into contact with this thing because a rich second-generation friend of his played with a compound bow. He once joined in the fun and bought 36 arrows on a group buy to try it out.
The result...how should I put it, he felt pretty good at the time, after all, he had professional guidance. Although the results were not particularly good, at least he was on target every time.
This also led to his previous arrogance, thinking that if Liu Fuling could do it, he could do it too.
Then... I was taught a lesson by the traditional bow.
It turns out that without the scope, he's no different from a loser.
The focus of the five-pin sight is the peephole and aiming frame on the bowstring, and in the aiming frame there are a level bubble and five aiming pins.
The so-called spirit level sounds very high-end, but it is actually just a transparent hollow tube filled with colored liquid, but not full, leaving a small section of air bubble.
The most important part of the spirit level is the bubble. There is a scale at both ends of the spirit level. When the bubble is in the middle, just within the scale range, it is in a balanced state.
This serves to assist in adjusting the sight. In fact, it is better to have it, but it is also possible without it.
Of course, the most important thing is that if the sight really wants to be promoted and must have a level bubble, it will easily get stuck on this.
Because when Liu Tan made the bubble he used a transparent tube made of polished crystal.
Even so, the transparency is not very high. These days, crystal is really a luxury. If it is really a necessity, not to mention ordinary soldiers, even many middle-class people may not be able to afford it.
So Liu Tan felt that it was dispensable. Anyway, archers these days were fighting without sights, and even a sight without a horizontal bubble could greatly improve their combat effectiveness.
But Liu Tan made it for his own use, so he might as well add it.
The level bubble is actually not the point. The point is the aiming needle. The aiming method of the sight is three points in one. The advantage of a five-pin sight over a single-pin sight is that it does not require more adjustments. Any of the five needles can be used for aiming, but if it is a single one, you have to find it.
The most troublesome thing about the sight is actually the lack of light.
The needles of sights in later generations are all illuminated. Now Liu Tan must have made something that can illuminate, so he can only find a way to make something that can emit light by itself, such as fluorite.
Oh, these days, fluorite is called night pearl, which is a very precious thing anyway. Liu Tan could already imagine that if someone knew that he used night pearl powder to act as a fluorescent agent, they would say he was extravagant.
When they heard that he wanted to grind the night pearls into powder, both Miao Rui and Bigo were shocked.
You should know that even in the imperial palace there are not many night-shining pearls, and any night-shining pearl is very precious.
Miao Rui and Bi Gao desperately held Liu Tan to prevent him from taking action.
Liu Tan: ...
Isn't it just fluorite? It's precious, but it's not worth risking your life for, right?
In the end, Liu Tan had to settle for the second best and choose ordinary paint. Anyway... he didn't need to aim at night, the sight could be used as long as there was light.
The five aiming pins should be placed on two wooden pillars respectively. After all, the aiming frame is relatively small, and if they are all placed on one wooden pillar, they cannot be separated at all.
However, during the installation, Liu Tan encountered the biggest difficulty in making the sight - the flexible adjustment part.
All parts of the sights of later generations can be adjusted. For example, the sight placed on the bow can be adjusted forward and backward, the aiming frame can be adjusted up and down and left and right, not to mention the aiming pin.
However, those adjustments are based on developed industries, and many things cannot be made now because the adjustment requires too much precision. Manual work may be able to meet the requirements, but anything that relies on manual precision has nothing to do with promotion.
Liu Tan finally chose to set the size according to his own habits during production, and then prepared to let Huo Guang and others experiment and collect data separately, and then take the average value.
Just as Liu Tan was about to call someone over to test it, Bi Gao came over and said, "Your Highness, the toilet that was sent to His Majesty is broken."
Liu Tan was stunned for a moment before realizing that they were talking about a siphon toilet. He couldn't help but wonder, "What's wrong?"
This shouldn't be the case. Although this thing was originally intended for Liu Ju, it has also undergone rigorous inspection. It's only been a few days, and it's broken in less than half a month?
At that moment, he thought of many possibilities, such as ceramics are not suitable for making water pipes, or pig stomachs are not suitable for making floating balls, or even the water plug is not waterproof.
In fact, there are only a few places where problems are likely to occur.
However, Bigo said, "It is said that the pressing mechanism is broken."
Press the switch? The water release button?
Liu Tan was shocked: Is his father suffering from frequent urination?
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