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Chapter 102 Chapter 105: The Kingdom's Sharp Weapon

After Li Hao returned to the ground, he took the blueprint of the crossbow on the bed and came to Taiji Palace again. It was about the same time as yesterday, and it was also sunset.

Coincidentally, Li Shimin was eating dinner again, which meant that Li Shimin's meal time was still very regular, and that wasn't the point, the point was that Li Hao was here.

When he heard that Li Hao asked to see him, Li Shimin was stunned and said to himself in a daze, "Why is this kid here again?"

Bewildered, he still announced his meeting with Li Hao. After Li Hao entered the hall and saluted, Li Shimin put down his chopsticks and asked with a smile, "Poetry Maniac, didn't you come here specially for lunch?"

Li Hao's face turned black immediately, and he said: "Return to Your Majesty, Hao You is presenting the sharp weapon of the country. It is related to the country, so I dare not neglect it."

"Oh? The sharp weapon of the country?" Li Shimin's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and he hurriedly asked, "Where is the sharp weapon?"

Li Hao raised the envelope with both hands: "Your Majesty, here are the drawings."

"Submit it!"

Xu Lian hurried down and presented the envelope, Li Shimin opened the wax seal, unfolded the blueprint and took a look... I didn't understand!Can he understand it? He is not a professional, at most he knows that it is a crossbow.

Carriage crossbows and bed crossbows are actually similar. In the Tang Dynasty they were called chariot crossbows, but in Song dynasty they were called bed crossbows. Carriage crossbows are much smaller than bed crossbows. Naturally, they are not as powerful as bed crossbows. However, there are wheels under the base of the cart crossbows. , it is much less labor-saving to transport than a bed crossbow.

In fact, these two kinds of crossbows were born in response to the times. The Tang Dynasty was strong and attacked everywhere, and the easy-to-transport crossbows were naturally more suitable. In the Song Dynasty, culture was more important than military, let alone attacking, and basically spent most of the time on defense. Territory, defend the Northern Song Dynasty and defend the Southern Song Dynasty.

In fact, the army of the Song Dynasty was quite capable of defending the city. Since they often defended the city, the heavy and powerful bed crossbow came into being, and the chariot crossbow was gradually eliminated.

"Li Hao...you are painting... a crossbow?" Li Shimin asked Li Hao uncertainly.

Li Hao shook his head and said: "No, Your Majesty, this is a bed crossbow." Li Hao corrected.

Li Shimin looked at the blueprint carefully again, and stared, "This is obviously a crossbow!" His little eyes seemed to say: "Don't lie to me, I have read a lot of books!"

Li Hao said helplessly: "Your Majesty, its base is similar to a chariot crossbow, but its body and arms are bed crossbows."

"Oh?" Li Shimin raised his eyebrows and looked at him, "What's the difference between the two?"

Li Haodao: "The bed crossbow is larger than the cart crossbow, with a longer range and greater power."

Li Shimin shook his head and said: "No, the cart crossbow is already very big, and it is extremely inconvenient to transport. If the bed crossbow is bigger, not to mention the cost is more expensive, it will be very inconvenient to transport."

Li Hao said: "Your Majesty, although this bed crossbow is big, it can be disassembled. Take a closer look at the disassembly diagram on the left. Both the arm and the body of the crossbow can be disassembled. After dismantling, the base becomes a wooden cart, which is comparable to a cart crossbow. It's much lighter, and this is the way to break it down."

Hearing this, Li Shimin stared at the diagram on the left for a while, finally understood a little bit, narrowed his eyes and said, "It's interesting."

Li Hao continued: "Your Majesty, as we all know, the arm of the crossbow is the most expensive, and it takes a lot of time. It is rumored that it takes three months to make the arm of a crossbow, which can no longer be measured by money. Something, but this bed crossbow does not have such a problem. You see, the arm of this bed crossbow has three arms, which is two more arms than the cart crossbow. Since the quality requirements of the crossbow arms are too high, we will win by quantity , In this way, the cost does not rise but falls, and the working hours can be shortened from three months to two months."

"Your idea is indeed very good." Li Shimin praised and frowned suddenly, "It's just that if you really want to do it, I'm afraid it may not be feasible."

Li Haodao: "Your Majesty, why don't you let this minister try it out? Your Majesty does not have to pay for the cost of the trial production. If the minister pays for it himself, it should be considered as a meager contribution to the Great Tang."

Li Shimin looked at him in surprise, and said after a long time: "Shikuang, why are you so generous today?"

Li Hao was embarrassed when he heard the words, and blinked quickly: "Your Majesty, I have always been very generous."

"Are you drunk without drinking, and started talking nonsense." Li Shimin laughed and scolded, "Okay, I won't keep you today, you go back, and report to me as soon as the bed crossbow is built."

"According to the decree, I will take my leave." Li Hao bowed and bowed, and exited the Ganlu Hall.

As soon as he left the gate of the main hall, he saw a short figure walking towards this side, followed by an eunuch and two court ladies. Although the face could not be seen, from the short figure and walking movements, Li Hao One can tell at a glance that it is Li Mingda, the Princess of Jinyang.

Li Mingda approached and saw that it was Li Hao, his little face immediately bloomed, and he bowed obediently: "Si'er met Mr. Li."

Li Hao returned the salute: "Meet Her Royal Highness Princess Jinyang."

Since it was midwinter, the night wind was even colder, Li Mingda's face was flushed red from the cold, Li Hao squatted down and covered her cheeks with warm palms, and scolded: "Sir, you are not good, am I right?" I told you that you can’t blow cold wind, you see, it’s so cold, if you catch a cold, you’ll get sick again, and you’ll have to take a lot of medicine.”

Li Mingda suddenly seemed to have done something wrong, lowered his head and said: "Si'er knows I'm wrong, Si'er just misses my father."

"Well, Si'er is really filial." Li Hao stroked her yellowish hair affectionately, and said, "But Si'er can't come out and run around in the cold in the future."

"Yeah! Listen to Mr. Li!" Li Mingda nodded vigorously, looking at Li Hao with big eyes.

Li Hao was turned into a bud in an instant, and he cried in his heart: "Li Shimin, you must have saved the earth in your previous life, and you are lucky to have such a good daughter in this life."

Li Hao stood up and said to the eunuch behind Li Mingda: "Prince servant, when the little princess goes out, she must pay attention to windproof and keep warm, don't think I'm long-winded, if something happens to His Highness, it will only be you who will be unlucky. "

The eunuch hurriedly said: "The county man's lesson is that the young one must take good care of the princess, and even if the young one freezes to death, he would not dare to let the princess suffer from the cold."

Li Hao waved to Li Mingda: "Sir, sir, go back first."

Li Mingda bowed to him again: "Sir, go slowly."

Li Hao suddenly seemed to take her home as his daughter, but he didn't dare, because Li Shimin would take his head, so he could only smack his lips helplessly, then turned and left slowly.

After returning home, Li Hao specially vacated the room and asked Lu Zhi to take the craftsmen in to make the bed crossbow. Anyway, this time it was ordered by the emperor, so he can make it openly.

The cost of a normal crossbow is usually around [-] guan. This time, Li Hao only gave Lu Zhi and the others a budget of [-] guan. This sharp weapon is bound to be mass-produced. If the cost is too high, then it will be meaningless.

It's New Year's Eve again, Li Hao remembers that he went to Tuyuhun with the army during the New Year's Eve the year before last, he was imprisoned in Dali Temple during the New Year's last year, and this year he can finally spend the New Year at home. Hao was preparing to write Spring Festival couplets in the study, Qin Su was very excited after hearing this, and volunteered to grind ink for him.

However, when Li Hao just wrote a couplet, Qin Su lost all excitement, looked at the couplet with a worried face, and then asked Li Hao, "My lord, do you want to stick this couplet on the door?"

Li Hao blinked: "If it's not on the door, is it on the floor?"

Qin Su suddenly felt very embarrassed and wanted to remind him that the words were too ugly, but she was too embarrassed to speak. At this moment, Turandot walked in, and when she saw the couplet on the table, she held it in her hand and exclaimed: "My God, Whose word is this, it's ugly!"

Li Haodun felt so ashamed, and snatched it away: "What do you know, you are outside... the girl outside the door, you probably can't even write..."

"Who said I can't write!" Turandot immediately became competitive when she heard this, went to the back of the table, picked up a brush and spread out the paper, and wrote stroke by stroke. She didn't write quickly, but to be honest, the handwriting was very correct , at least much better looking than Li Hao's handwriting.

Li Hao suddenly felt very embarrassed, and hurriedly said: "Ah, it smells so good, I'll go to the kitchen to see what good food Aunt Jin cooked today..." After saying that, he ran away as if to escape.

Seeing this, Qin Su covered her mouth and laughed straight away. Seeing her smile, Turandot asked blankly, "What are you laughing at? My writing doesn't look good?"

"You write very well." Qin Su said, "I am Mr. Xiao. He has outstanding literary talent, but his handwriting is ugly. You have just learned it for half a year, and your handwriting is much better than his."

Turandot was very happy to be praised by her, and suggested: "Then let's write this year's Spring Festival couplets together."

"Okay." Qin Su nodded, and together with Turandot they wrote the Spring Festival couplets.

Due to the increase in the number of people in the family, two big round tables were set up for this year's New Year's Eve dinner. Li Hao was very happy. He hadn't been this happy for a long time. I haven't contacted my brother for a year, and I really miss them.

Although Li Hao had something on his mind, he didn't show it. First, he gave everyone a big red envelope, and then took everyone to play poker and watch the year. The 11th year of Zhenguan ended on this night.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, on the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, Li Hao was fully dressed and took an oxcart of glass products to Chang'an. He was going to give New Year's gifts. Although he made a lot of money, he was still reluctant to give too expensive gifts. Glass products are The best choice, low cost, and face.

It stands to reason that Cheng Yaojin has the best relationship with him, he should be the first to go to Cheng Yaojin's house, but Li Hao didn't, because he knows Cheng Yaojin too well, his home is a dragon's pond and a tiger's den, if he goes in, can he come out whole? The last one to go to his house.

However, as one wished, when he was passing by the door of Yaojin’s house, it happened that the door opened, and by chance, Cheng Yaojin came out, the two of them looked at each other, they were both stunned for a moment, Cheng Yaojin suddenly shouted excitedly: "Brat!"

Li Hao's hair stood on end, and he lashed the cow's butt with a whip, shouting, "Run!"

The old gun ox was in pain, and he ran with his four legs apart, and the car full of glass products thumped.

"Stinky boy, run away there!" Cheng Yaojin yelled, just as his horse was sent out, he got on the horse and chased after him.

How could a cow outrun a horse, let alone dragging a cart, Cheng Yaojin quickly caught up with Li Hao, reached out to grab Li Hao's collar, lifted him up, and laid him across the horse's back On, still in that long-lost posture, so shameful.

Li Hao danced wildly: "Let go of me, let me go, you old bastard!"

"Yo, dare to scold me!" Cheng Yaojin raised his hand and slapped his buttocks. With such force, his buttocks were so painful that his intestines were trembling, and he felt a little like shit from being slapped. .

Li Hao suddenly had an idea: "Oh, I'm going to shit, let me down quickly! Hurry up, or I'll drag you onto my horse!"

Cheng Yaojin was startled when he heard the words, his horse was his darling, and he loved it so much, how could he be willing to let Li Hao's filth be stained, so he threw him off the horse and threw Li Hao seven times Meat and eight vegetables.

Li Hao got up while rubbing his buttocks, gritted his teeth and cursed: "Old bastard, when you get old and can't walk, I'll take you to bungee jumping, and I'll ask you if it's exciting after jumping. If you answer wrong, it's a big ear... "

"What are you mumbling about?" Cheng Yaojin asked in a broken voice.

Li Hao smiled all over his face: "I'm praising Uncle Cheng for his wisdom and martial arts, and his power is boundless."

"Although I haven't read many books, I'm not stupid!" Cheng Yaojin snorted coldly, "Aren't you going to shit?"

(End of this chapter)