This traveler only wants to choose the lowest difficulty

Chapter 263 Unreliable

The production of a large-scale gravity trebuchet is definitely a large-scale scientific research work at the national high-tech level in this era.

The dozen or so craftsmen who came to Wang Dong were all the elites among the elites carefully selected by Hou Junji from the entire military craftsman system in Longxi. The skills of these people will be judged by everyone in future generations. There is no problem with national vocational and technical qualification level two or higher in the field you are engaged in.So everyone came to Wang Dong with the mentality of solving scientific and technological problems and started working. However, after doing the work, Wang Dong's various operations gave all the craftsmen a headache.

Mr. Wang's attitude towards the production of this trebuchet mainly highlights the rough word.

It is completely different from the craftsmen's idea of ​​everyone concentrating on making a high-quality goods together. In the whole trebuchet production, Wang Dong has an obvious idea of ​​making do with what he can do. manner.

Nails are used to nail the wood that does not match, and an iron wire is used to enter the place that is severely worn, and some places are stuck and cannot be pushed, and oil is poured into it desperately.All the behaviors are as if they are going to run away after finishing this ticket.

A military craftsman who can achieve this level has some ambitions in his heart. Many people can't understand Wang Dong's rough production standards, so they began to carefully make suggestions to Wang Dong during the production process.

For these suggestions, Wang Dong's attitude is to listen to them with an open mind, and never accept them. Here, he also found that Mr. Wang is simply reckless. They even helped Mr. Wang improve his rough craftsmanship out of kindness. For one thing, Wang Dong would be very angry and say that they were delaying the construction period. Under such circumstances, some craftsmen finally began to want to run away. After working for half a month, three people proposed to quit angrily.Then something happened that made everyone feel even more chilled. Wang Dong didn't express any regrets about the withdrawal of these three people.

"Hmph: There's nothing we can do if we go, anyway, we still have to do our work—does Wang Hui really dare to say that?"

"Isn't that right? He didn't really say much after hearing that you left, Master. Alas, it seems that he really doesn't respect us craftsmen."

Hearing this, a bearded old craftsman in the shed who looked to be in his fifties couldn't help shaking his hands with anger, and slammed a jug of wine on the table.

Although the status of craftsmen is not high in this era, it is compared with those scholars. In the eyes of ordinary people, these craftsmen have the ability to eat, and they don't need to work in the fields all day like farmers, so in At this time, the people actually still had a lot of social status.And the identities of the artisans that Hou Junji can order personally for Wang Dong to use are even more unusual. Most of them are artisans who joined the army. Military merit belongs to craftsmen, and if they are good at learning, they will become officials. If they work a little higher, they can also become officials.

The reason why we are so afraid of Wang Dong's behavior is actually because the work of these craftsmen in the military is not just about making simple equipment. They also need to engrave their names on the equipment that they supervise or make. If something goes wrong with the equipment during use, they are also responsible.

In the past few days, all the craftsmen agreed that Wang Dong's construction method will definitely go wrong in the end, and once something goes wrong, regardless of whether Wang Dong is guilty or not, the craftsmen who engraved their names on the final weapon must have escaped. Don't get rid of the relationship, in the face of such a Shangguan, everyone can only think of a way to resist, to persuade Wang Dong, Wang Dong disagrees, and directly confront Wang Dong head-on, everyone still dare not, after thinking about it, Old Craftsman Wu is planning to Scare Wang Dong by resigning.

He originally thought that no matter how arrogant a literati like Wang Dong is, as long as he understands some things, he will know that his work is inseparable from the help of these old craftsmen. Afraid of making things worse, they started to keep him. At this time, their craftsmen can raise some opinions on Wang Dong's blind command.

But he didn't expect that after he said he was resigning, what he got from Wang Dong was an understatement of "let him be."When he heard his disciple relaying such words to him, Mr. Wu was really angry.

As the second-to-last tier of scholars, farmers, commerce, and craftsmen, although they usually earn a relatively high income from the private sector, they always feel that they will be discriminated against. With this level of technology, the most important thing is their own face.Wang Dong looked down on them like this, which was already a bit insulting.

When old craftsman Wu was gnashing his teeth in anger, his apprentice hurriedly poured a cup of tea for the master and said, "Master, you should calm down, and think of a way first, and then let Mr. Wang go on like this. We spent a lot of time, and finally we can do it." What comes out, if it is useless, we all have to bear the responsibility."

Old Craftsman Wu thought for a moment and asked his disciple, "What did the other master craftsmen say?"

"Those masters who came from the pass saw Lord Wang being so arrogant, they were terrified at first. Before, they dared to say that they were against Lord Wang, but now they are silent."

Old craftsman Wu couldn't help snorting when he heard that.

"After all, these artisans from the pass have not fought on the battlefield before. How would we know the risk of being a military artisan in our Longxi land? If we follow the Shangguan's temperament like this, if something goes wrong, people will lose their lives on the battlefield. , the final matter is not our military craftsman's responsibility?"

Old Craftsman Wu took a sip of his wine, and finally sighed: "According to Wang Hui's method, the final product will definitely not work. This task is impossible to do. We might as well report it to Lord Hou Junji as soon as possible."

The disciple was startled when he heard the words, and whispered: "What if the king will take revenge on us?"

Wu Laojiang couldn't help laughing when he heard this, "There's no way he can make this trebuchet. When the time comes for Master Hou to blame him, he can't even protect himself, so how can he take revenge on us? We should act when the opportunity arises. If we are in danger, we should jump off the ship as soon as possible. Let's go to Hou first." Let me tell you, sir, as the culprit."

After discussing with these two disciples in this way, Mr. Wu left the shed next to the school without saying a word that afternoon, and went straight to the marching army yamen of the general manager of Longxi.

The three master craftsmen became fleeing households, and all the military craftsmen were quite anxious after hearing the news. Some people rushed to report to Wang Dong, but Wang Dong was not very nervous when he heard about it, and told everyone to continue doing their own things. , just asked He Luo to report to Hou Junji, and asked them to find out where the three craftsmen were.

Anyway, the general work of the trebuchet has been done now, and the rest is nothing more than installation and maintenance. After three people ran away, he had to ask everyone to work overtime.

After much deliberation, Wang Dong decided to apply for a little overtime subsidy for everyone, and then get some overtime meals, thinking that he could be regarded as a warm-hearted boss.

When the craftsmen saw that the three Longxi craftsmen had run away, Wang Dong didn't react at all, but their hearts were cold. They finally understood that Wang Dong really didn't care much about their work. They were all military households, and violating military orders was a serious crime. Seeing that Wang Dong was so tough, they no longer dared to disobey them, so they continued to do things according to Wang Dong's wishes.

However, everyone is quite worried about this bean curd dregs project that has been put together by patchwork. When discussing in the workshop, it has been secretly ventilated. When the catapult fails to be manufactured, how will I get rid of the blame? I even wrote quietly. A few lists complained about Wang Dong's various outrageous behaviors during the production process, and everyone quietly pressed their fingerprints on them, so that there would be evidence when the lawsuit was filed.

In this turbulent environment, Wang Dong's trebuchet began to be assembled at a rapid speed day by day.

(End of this chapter)