This traveler only wants to choose the lowest difficulty

Chapter 264
In the yamen mansion of the general manager of the Longxi Marching Army, Hou Junji frowningly watched with a letter handed over by Wang Dong.

He has a little headache.

Five days ago, three of the dozen or so generals I sent to Wang Dong escaped. They said that Wang Dong was doing the facts there, but he was afraid that they would not be able to do it, so he applied to be transferred elsewhere.

Originally, these military craftsmen were of low status, and Hou Junji would be very angry if they dared to violate his orders, but when the three military craftsmen arrived, Hou Junji did not punish him immediately, but thought about why There are three?
That's right, this wasn't the first time Wang Dong's military craftsmen who made trebuchets reported bad news to him.

A few days before Old Craftsman Wu and others fled to the Yamen of the General Manager of the Marching Army, several appeal letters written by different military craftsmen had already been sent to Hou Junji.Just out of the idea of ​​employing people without suspicion, Hou Junji felt that everyone had their own management style, and he could not interfere in Wang Dong's work just because of the complaints of a few military craftsmen, so Hou Junji always kept these letters. Not sent.

But a few days later, three military craftsmen escaped directly at the risk of disobeying the orders of the army, which made Hou Junji feel that there must be something wrong with Wang Dong's work.

But Hou Junji still felt that if he didn't let someone else do such a small matter, it would seem that he, a Shangguan, was too trivial to manage things. After thinking about it, he decided to give Wang Dong some time to let him Wangdu had to deal with it internally. If another military craftsman came to complain, he would have to interfere with Wang Dong's command.

Then just five days later, he suddenly received a letter from Wang Dong from the school grounds, the content of the letter impressively told him that the trebuchet had been made.

Just as Hou Junji was frowning while reading the letter, there was a voice from a soldier outside the door begging to see him.

"Come in." Hou Junji said.

Soon the door was pushed open, and Old Craftsman Wu and two apprentices walked into the room tremblingly and knelt down in front of Hou Junji.

"Master Wang Huiwang said that his trebuchet has been built. It's only been five days. What was the state of the trebuchet when you came? How could it be built so quickly?"

Hou Junji couldn't help asking him his own questions.

From Hou Junji's batch of materials to Wang Dong for construction until now, the entire manufacturing time is only 30 days. Hou Junji originally thought that it would be considered good if Wang Dong could figure out this thing in half a year, but after 30 days, Wang Dong said yes Went to the school grounds to display the trebuchet. The construction speed was a bit like a joke. He couldn't help asking Old Craftsman Wu.

Old craftsman Wu and his two apprentices couldn't help being taken aback when they heard the words.

When I ran out, the so-called trebuchet was still a pile of parts, and it took only five days for Wang Hui's trebuchet to be finished?No way!

According to his experience in making such large-scale ordnance in the past, even if it is a large-scale military equipment on the battlefield that craftsmen have mastered the engineering details, it will take at least a month to complete. While groping for a production plan, he brought a group of novices who had never made a large-scale trebuchet from scratch, and it was absolutely impossible to make a large-scale trebuchet like he said in such a short time.

Old Craftsman Wu rolled his eyes, and seemed to understand what happened there - the king must have found that the trebuchet could not be built by himself, so he simply put together the last pile of wood and made a new thing, and wanted to do business at night, otherwise How could it be possible to put together the trebuchet in five days?
After thinking for a while, old craftsman Wu said: "Back to your lord, although we don't know what's going on at lord Wang's place these past few days, the trebuchet when we came was just a pile of wood. The wood makes up a huge machine, the villain, the villain can't believe it..."

Hou Junji couldn't help frowning even more when he heard the words, Mr. Wu's words clearly confirmed his worries, don't let this king do something messy to fool himself.

Thinking of this, Hou Junji became a little angry.

Although the cost of trial-producing a trebuchet is not high compared to the maintenance amount required for the entire Tang army system in Longyou, it is a large machine after all. During the time when Wang Dong trial-produced this machine, the Tang army's investment included Including wood, oil, and various metals, there is always an expenditure of several hundred taels, and it takes more than a dozen craftsmen so much time. If Wang Dong works hard to make it, Hou Junji can understand him even if he fails to make it in the end, but if Wang Dong wasted hundreds of taels on him, but in the end he just wanted to use a random thing to frustrate him, and even delayed it for a while to pretend that he was working hard and didn't even bother to do it. This was undoubtedly a great loss to him. Disrespectful.

Hou Junji couldn't help thinking more and more, and after a few seconds, he tapped the table with his fingers and said in a calm voice, "So...then I know."

After Hou Junji finished speaking, he directly instructed the soldiers outside the gate, "Get ready to drive, let's go to the school ground in the east of the city."

After he finished speaking, he glanced at the three Wu Junsmiths who were kneeling on the ground, and said, "You three also go with me."

Hearing this, Wu Junjiang was taken aback for a moment, and then couldn't help but feel elated, obviously Hou Junji was already angry.

He was gloating in his heart—that Wang Cai actually used such a childish method, wanted to spend money and effort, but found that it couldn't be done, so he spread his hands and directly handed over an unfinished project to the top to prevaricate Lord Hou Junji .

This method may still be applicable to those civil servants, but he must not know that Mr. Hou is a fierce general who is born and died, so he will not care about the procedures and how to say it. If he gets angry, he will directly kill him, hehe , Wang Hui wants to play such a clever trick in front of Mr. Hou, it is really good to see.

Wu Jun, the craftsman, his master and his apprentice felt as if they got up and went out in a hurry to get on the bad horses that Hou Junji's military academy had led them, and followed Hou Junji to the Chengdong schoolyard in Shanzhou City.

When he came to the school grounds, he looked inside and saw no large machinery at all. Hou Junji was already angry in his chest, and couldn't help calling for the school ground officials to come out to see him.

"Where's the trebuchet?" he asked directly.

The little principal in charge of the school grounds was taken aback, knelt down quickly, and replied tremblingly: "Master Wang said that the catapult is too powerful, and he was afraid that there would be an accident when it was used in Shanzhou. He took the catapult away yesterday." outside the city?"

Hearing these words, Hou Junji couldn't help being even more angry. Thinking about it, it was unreliable. It would be a big project to push such a large machine out of the city. How did Wang Dong get it out with just a dozen people?

But Wang Hui was promoted by himself after all, and Hou Junji didn't want to shame him loudly in front of the small military academy, so he couldn't help but snorted coldly: "But he's making trouble again, where is Wang Hui?"

The small school quickly replied that it was in the northeast of Shanzhou City.

"Take me there." Hou Junji gave an order, and instead of taking the carriage, he simply led a horse by himself, and rode the horse to the street.

He had a character of trust like a fire, and he rode his horse on a rampage in the street, with the signboard of the Marching Chief's Mansion behind him, and no one dared to stop him.Wang Junjiang and the others chased after him on horseback, feeling even more amused in their hearts, thinking that they had done the right thing by running out this time, and if they worked with this Wang Hui, they didn't know how much responsibility they would have to bear at the moment.

A group of people rushed out of the west gate of Shanzhou City. The guards didn't dare to stop them. They followed the direction directed by the small school and walked for about two miles. They entered an empty woodland outside Shanzhou City. Hou Junji took the lead. Walking angrily, suddenly everyone heard a loud sound of air being torn apart.

In the midst of surprise, everyone suddenly saw a big rock in the forest in front of them, thrown from the sky like a meteor, and after about a breath, "boom"!
All the horses in the team suddenly neighed and screamed.

(End of this chapter)