The prince of heaven only wants salted fish

Although Hezhou is not too far from the capital, it would still take more than a day to get there quickly. Now that Li Heng has been pulled down, many matters in the court depend on the emperor Jicheng. Therefore, in this case He also specially made time to rush to Hezhou, which is almost as unexpected as you can imagine.

Wen Renen's expression was a little embarrassed after hearing this: "Your Majesty, you have to worry..."

He thought of the rumors these days and asked again: "I heard about the great victory on the front line recently? Your Majesty is really a master of troops."

"No way," Jicheng said casually, "The main reason is that Li Heng is too stupid - well, Bei Xia is about the same, so I just set a trap for them by the way."

"When they realize what went wrong, this war will not be so easy," he continued. "To scare the Northern Xia people away, Daning's current army alone will not be enough."

At this point, Jicheng smiled: "——That's why I came here to care about your research status."

Wen Renen: "..."

He lowered his head in shame: "I told Your Majesty that it would be completed within three months. I'm afraid I am arrogant."

"I thought that since I have experience with small wooden kites, it shouldn't be difficult to make this large mechanical kite, but the larger volume means greater weight, and if it is to be used in war, it needs to fly higher. That's fine," Wen Ren'en said with a bitter smile, "Anyway, the transformation is not as simple as ordinary people think."

Jicheng asked again: "What about the transformation of the Liannu?"

Crossbows and arrows are important weapons. If they can be fired faster and more frequently, their role in war will be immeasurable.

Wen Ren'en said: "We have some clues about the transformation of the Liannu, but the current improvement method requires too high craftsmanship, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to achieve mass production..."

Jicheng: "..."

Sure enough, we still can't have too high demands on the mortals of the small world.

He sighed: "Oh."

Wen Renen and his disciples: "..."

Although you know that you didn't handle things smoothly, isn't your sigh too connotative?

Immediately a young man came out and said, "Your Majesty, what do you mean by sighing?"

He sounded quite unconvinced: "Although our progress is not very ideal, Master and we are working hard!"

Jicheng: "Oh?"

The young man mustered up his courage and continued: "Master didn't want to disappoint you, so he promised that it would take three months. But how can the machine technique be so simple? If you want to achieve big results, let alone three months." Months, three years or even thirty years are possible!”

"Besides, your demands are not low," he said angrily. "With all due respect, Master's machine skills are unparalleled in the world. He is still unable to fulfill your demands. I am afraid that only gods in this world can accomplish all these within three months." Perfect!”

Wen Renen looked like he was going to reprimand his apprentice, but Jicheng waved his hand with an interesting look on his face: "Seriously?"

The young man nodded, seemingly sincerely thinking so.

So Jicheng nodded and walked into the manor: "Then take out your design drawings."

A playful smile appeared on his face: "I would like to try to see if I can be this god."

Wen Renen and others: "...Huh??"

A group of people walked into the inner room. Wen Renen took two apprentices into the archive room where the information was stored to get drawings. The remaining apprentices were responsible for serving tea and water to Jicheng. After finishing their work, they huddled in the corner of the studio and whispered. .

"Your Majesty... want to see the drawings?"

"Master has already gone in to get it, can we still have a holiday?"

"No, I mean, does His Majesty really know how to read the drawings? If I understood him correctly when we were outside earlier, he meant that he wanted to change it himself?"

"Y-should?"

"What do you mean you should? If you can, you can, if you can't, you can't! Is there any reason why it should or should not be done in the art of mechanism?"

"Then do you think His Majesty will do it or not?"

"……have no idea."

"Since Your Majesty said he wanted to see it, maybe he has an idea?"

"How can he be better than Master? I bet your Majesty can't. If you say you look at the drawings, it's probably just pretending."

Jicheng sat on a chair and drank tea, listening to all the speculation.

After a while, Wen Renen came out with the drawings. The two apprentices behind him helped arrange the things and then rushed to his brothers: "Do you know? We just heard Master say..."

Before they finished speaking, they felt Wen Renen's secretly warning gaze, and a group of people shut up in silence: "Well, let's go out first, that master."

"Yes, yes, so as not to disturb His Majesty from looking at the drawings!"

After they went out, they began to talk, pushing and shoving: "Come on, tell me, tell me, what did Master say?"

"Master said that when he and Your Majesty first met, Your Majesty broke the flying kite he made!"

"——Why did your Majesty break that flying kite? I spent a whole night repairing it!"

"Is it fixed?"

"No! It's so broken that it's like a mess. I'm not telling you, most people really can't dismantle it that thoroughly."

"Hahahahahahaha, so your majesty, do you think you can do this or not?"

The laughter of the apprentices gradually faded away. Wen Renen and Jicheng in Tuliu's studio looked at each other: "..."

Wen Renen said awkwardly: "Young people are more lively, Your Majesty."

After saying this, he remembered that this little Majesty was sixteen years old and younger than all his disciples.

Jicheng stared at him and groaned, took a sip of tea, lowered his head and looked at the drawings.

After a moment, he reached out and pointed out several locations on the drawing: "Here, here, and here. The dimensions of these locations can be changed."

"And here, the craftsmanship requirements for a single part are too high, so try splitting it into several parts to assemble it," he said. "It doesn't hurt to increase the size. At this stage, our main focus is on defense. Just on the city wall.”

Jicheng mentioned a series of areas that could be improved and their approximate dimensions. It took Wen Renen a long time to react: "...Your Majesty, do you really understand the mechanism?"

At the right time, Jicheng turned to the next page of drawings. He raised his eyes and looked at Wen Renen with cool eyes: "What do you think?"

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He originally didn't want to study specifically, but who made the efficiency of the person in front of him too low?

Before Wen Renen could answer, Jicheng directly took out the design drawings of the large-scale machine kite, glanced at it and said: "Since the increase in size will increase the weight, it is better to consider lighter materials."

"In addition, try to increase the area of ​​the wings and make the lower abdomen flatter. This should also increase the buoyancy."

Wen Renen: "...Your Majesty, wait!"

Jicheng looked up at him again, and Wenrenen laughed twice: "Well, you just spoke a little too fast, can you say it again, Cao Min takes a piece of paper and writes it down!"

Jicheng: "..."

"...No, I'll just write it down."

Wen Renen said anxiously: "The common people still have a few questions about mechanism skills. I wonder if I can ask your majesty for advice as well?"

Jicheng: "...you say."

The next moment, Wen Renen turned around and rushed out of the studio, frantically calling to his disciples: "Where are those things in my room? Go and get them for me...Forget it, I'll go by myself!"

"You go to the warehouse and prepare all the tools and materials! Your Majesty will start working on it after the drawings have been revised!"

"The rest of you, don't be idle, go in and grind ink and spread paper for His Majesty, don't delay the progress!"

When the last command came out, Jicheng heard a scream. A moment later, two apprentices walked in. One of them rubbed his butt with a painful look on his face, while the other hurried over to help Jicheng grind the ink.

After tea time, Wen Ren'en hurried over with a box in his arms. By this time, Jicheng had already changed the drawings, and Wen Ren'en's disciples had also returned, holding the drawings and exclaiming: "So it can still be like this!"

"Your Majesty is really secretive!"

"No wonder I can dismantle Master's flying kite into pieces like this! It turns out that I can do this only after seeing through its structure!!"

When Wen Renen went up, he sent his apprentices to the workbench to work according to the new drawings. He himself held the box and put it next to Jicheng: "Your Majesty, this is what the grassroots have learned from decades of research on mechanism skills. During this time, they met I have gone through a lot of problems, but unfortunately I can't solve them. I just found out today that Your Majesty has such achievements. I wonder if you can take a look and help the common people solve their doubts. "

Looking towards the box that was almost half a person tall, Jicheng couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth: "..."

He covered his lips and coughed twice: "I've been traveling all day and I'm really sleepy. I'm going to rest first. Let's talk about the mechanism technique later."

Wen Renen nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay, it's the common people who were negligent."

He turned around and kicked the two disciples' butts and asked them to clean up Jicheng's room. Jicheng waved his hand and said, "I've brought people with me, and they will be ready. For now, it's better for you to make things first."

Wen Renen said yes again and again, personally sent Jicheng out of the studio, and hurried back.

Jicheng went back to his room to wash up and take a nap. When he woke up again, it was already dark outside. He got up and went to the front hall to eat some food. From a long distance away, he could hear the cheers coming from the test site: " It actually worked!”

"Your Majesty, God!!"

Wen Renen didn't know where he got the news that Jicheng had woken up, and he had already appeared in the front hall: "Your Majesty, are you awake? The repeating crossbow has been made. According to your improvement method, the difficulty of the craftsmanship has been reduced. , and the crossbow-arrow is even more powerful! And after what you said, I also have some new ideas for the production of the mechanism kite."

He rubbed his hands and said, "I wonder if your Majesty has time now..."

Jicheng: "..."

"...Bring it over and let me take a look."

Wen Ren'en was indeed very knowledgeable in the art of mechanism. Some of the questions he raised required Jicheng to ponder for a while. However, his time was limited and he could only answer part of them in the remaining time on Zhuangzi. Then he set off to catch up. Returning to the capital - he is still the emperor after all, and cannot disappear from the public eye for too long.

There was no problem with the manufacturing of the Lian Nu, and it wouldn't take too long for Jianyuan to arrive. Jicheng asked Wen Ren'en to send a few apprentices directly to the border battlefield: Time is precious now, and the Northern Xia people may launch the next attack at any time. In order to To allow the repeating crossbow to be used on the battlefield faster, the manufacturing of its parts and arrows will be handed over to different workshops. After arriving at the border as quickly as possible, they will assemble it on the spot.

After hearing Jicheng's method, Wen Ren'en couldn't help but praise: "Manufacturing different parts separately can both keep confidentiality and improve efficiency. How could your Majesty come up with such a good idea?"

Jicheng paused, and his expression suddenly became complicated: "This is called assembly line operation."