Crossing the God of Warring States System

Chapter 40 Arrangement
"Prince, these are some skilled craftsmen that Linzi City has found. It may not be enough, but we haven't found too many people in such a short period of time."

Xue Wen briefly introduced the people he brought back.

After Xue Wen's introduction, the craftsmen bowed to the ground one after another, and saluted Zhou Zihao respectfully, "Untouchables, pay homage to the prince."

Zhou Zihao hurried forward, bowed to them politely, and said with a happy expression: "You don't need to be too polite, you will be members of my Prince's Mansion from now on."

Those skilled craftsmen felt relieved when they saw that the prince was treated so politely and approachable. They started to come here with Xue Wen because they knew that he was from the prince's residence and they were not easy to offend.

Of course, many people agreed to come over because they heard that the prince has many skills.

"Thank you, Prince."

Hundreds of people stood up together, looked at Zhou Zihao, and waited for his order.

Zhou Zihao glanced at everyone, and then said: "I think everyone should know what I am looking for you to do. These things are as simple as eating for you, so don't be too nervous."

"Everything is under the prince's arrangement."

The voice was a bit loud, which made Zhou Zihao a little uncomfortable with such a speech.

Zhou Zihao held a bow and crossbow that could be fired continuously, and raised it in front of them, saying, "This is a crossbow that can be fired continuously. I don't know if any of you can imitate it?"

They stared at the continuous bow and crossbow with expressions of curiosity and awe at the same time. They didn't expect the prince to even create such a thing.

Then, Zhou Zihao demonstrated it in front of them and said, "I think you all know what this thing means to us Daqi, right? With this weapon, our country of Qi can increase the hope of victory, and at the same time, the people of Qi country And less sacrifice."

Seeing Zhou Zihao's demonstration was already shocking enough, but coupled with his explanation, my admiration for the prince became even deeper, because they had participated in wars more or less, and most of them had to retreat behind the scenes with injuries.

They were very moved by the prince's actions. A prince who thinks about the country is a blessing for the country.

At this time, a middle-aged man walked up to Zhou Zihao, took the bow and crossbow, looked at it carefully, stroked it up and down, with sharp eyes, and exclaimed: "It really is a magic machine, even Lu Ban, who was best at making tools back then, might not to reach that level.”

Zhou Zihao thought, that's for sure, this is the pinnacle of cold weapons in later generations, and it can definitely reach the craftsman level of Lu Ban.But what surprised him was that this middle-aged man seemed to have something to do with Lu Ban.

Zhou Zihao looked at him, maybe this person has something to do with Lu Ban, and asked, "What's your name? You mentioned Lu Ban as soon as you came up, so do you have something to do with Lu Ban?"

The middle-aged man put away his bow from his crossbow, bowed his body and replied: "My name is Craftsman Zhang, and I am determined to be an outstanding craftsman to benefit the society. I first hired Zhang Ban, a disciple of Lu Ban, and then I used to be an apprentice with Lu Ban. , can be regarded as having obtained Luban's inheritance, but we are not as good as the previous generation, and we can't catch up with the glory created by Xianzu, so we can only worship.

My family has been craftsmen for generations. When I saw this crossbow, I thought the ancestor was still alive. "

Zhou Zihao's eyes lit up immediately, because he just needed such a person with inheritance to complete more work, so he just took this to test, so he said to him: "Then I will hand this to you to imitate, you can be sure ?”

Craftsman Zhang quickly accepted it, and said firmly, "I will be able to complete the imitation alone, but..."

Zhou Zihao looked at him hesitant to speak like this, and thought it was a lack of money, so he promised: "Don't worry, as long as you make it in batches, you will definitely have the money at that time."

Craftsman Zhang hurriedly said: "I mean, I have discovered something new in the process of making it, can I improve it?"

Zhou Zihao suddenly realized that he was wrongly blamed, and said with a smile, "Of course."

Craftsman Zhang smiled knowingly. His wish was to be an excellent craftsman. His usual talent was not that high and he couldn't invent it by himself. Although he had invented some tools, most of them were not very practical.

Seeing this bow and crossbow today seemed to open a door for him, allowing him to realize something. This feeling is really amazing.

Then Zhou Zihao gave him the structural diagram and instruction manual of the crossbow, asked him to organize people to make it, and asked Xue Wen to record it, and rewarded him ten taels of silver.

Craftsman Zhang held these, and he was a little confused. He had just received the task and was rewarded. Ten taels of silver was quite a lot. For ordinary people, they could live for several months.

The other craftsmen also looked at Craftsman Zhang with envy. Of course, the envy was only for a while, because they knew that the prince must still have a lot to do.

Then Zhou Zihao took out a set of light armor. Although this armor is made of iron, its defensive power is much different from that of this era, because it is not only light, but also resistant to cutting.

Just after introducing the armor, several metallurgical craftsmen came to check the material, and they found that this iron was quite different from the black iron they smelted.

Because the iron of Zhou Zihao's armor and iron suit is very pure, without too much dross, it is relatively tough.

The metallurgist said: "Prince, we can't make this metal yet. We can only use black iron instead, but the effect is not very good."

"Black iron?" Zhou Zihao was a little puzzled. Although he studied materials before, he studied plastics and didn't know much about metals. "Can you show me what you said about iron?"

"Yes, you see." He took out black iron from his bag, "This is better than bronze because it is lighter than bronze and has a higher yield."

Zhou Zihao took over the black iron, and only then remembered that this period was the golden age of the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, which meant that the technology of iron making was not yet mature, as can be seen from the black iron.

This black iron contains many different substances, but the iron content is relatively large. From this, we can know that I want to improve the iron-making technology, so that Qi can enter the Iron Age early.

In this way, industrial ideas can be implemented faster, and by then, selling iron directly can make a lot of money.

After thinking about it, he said to the metallurgist: "I will solve the material problem when the time comes, and you just do it. Do you have confidence?"

The metallurgists didn't expect the prince to be able to solve this problem, but they tried many methods, but they couldn't make black iron like armor and iron clothes.

The metallurgist said: "With confidence, I will definitely complete the task."

Zhou Zihao nodded in satisfaction, and then ordered some more advanced farm tools to be built quickly.

Then I was thinking about the next energy development, so as to meet the needs of mass production. It seems that the dream of an industrial empire still has a while, and the matter of war must be taken seriously.

(End of this chapter)