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Chapter 856 Assisting in solving the case

will serve as a prisoner.

The roar of the machine was endless. Accompanied by the general craftsman Jiao Yunzhe, Zhao Junsheng visited the factory where the general supervisor forged armor. Four large stamping machines punched steel blocks of the same size into pieces of slightly curved plate armor. The plate armor was moved to the punching room by the workers to punch holes in the corners.

The plate armor after punching is dragged to the grinding room by the strong men with a cart, where the craftsmen polish it, smooth the edges, corners and spikes, and then are lined and laced by other craftsmen to fasten the two plates Together, a complete plate armor is thus made.

"Here is the helmet production room. The steel ingots are also stamped into the helmet blank by stamping method, and then the leftovers are filed off with a steel file, and then polished and equipped with inner cushions, warm cushions, laces and feathers. The feather has become a finished product!"

Zhao Junsheng stayed in front of the stamping lathe for a while, watching the process of the stamping machine stamping steel ingots into plate armor and helmets. This production speed is already very efficient under the stamping machine that uses water impact as power.

"The process arrangement and the distribution of the number of craftsmen are well done!" Zhao Junsheng praised, and then asked: "Can the work efficiency of each workshop be further improved?"

Jiao Yunzhe said: "In terms of process and manpower allocation, we have already done a good job. If we increase the incentive mechanism, it should be slightly improved. If we want to improve it, we can only find a way from the stamping speed of the machine, but at present From the perspective of the impact force of the water flow in the Longshou Canal, if you want to increase the punching speed of the machine, you must increase the impact force of the water flow to speed up the rotation of the impeller, unless you can increase the water flow in the Longshou Canal!"

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and asked, "How is the wear of the impeller shaft and impact machine?"

"There is no problem with the punching machine. A punching machine can be used for more than ten years, but the loss of the rotating shaft is very large, and the replacement is very frequent!" Jiao Yunzhe said.

Zhao Junsheng pointed to the rotating shaft connected to the punching machine and said: "Listen, the friction sound of the rotating shaft is too loud. This should be due to too much friction. If the friction is large, the wear on the rotating shaft must be greater, so I think it should be Find a way to reduce the friction of the shaft!"

Jiao Yunzhe shook his head and said: "There seems to be no good way to do this. With such a fast rotation speed, the friction force will inevitably be very large, unless its rotation speed slows down!"

"No, I think you can put some oil on the friction parts of the shaft, it should increase the lubrication!"

Jiao Yunzhe was thoughtful, and replied: "I will ask someone to try it later!"

"In addition, I also suggest that you can find a way to reduce the friction area of ​​the shaft. Just imagine, if two carriages are equipped with wide wheels and narrow wheels, which one is easier to pull? It must be the carriage with narrow wheels that is easier to pull. , if you don’t believe me, you can find someone to try it out!”

"promise!"

Zhao Junsheng walked to the sluice next to the workshop again. A huge torrent was rushing out of the opened sluice and landed on a huge impeller underneath. The power is transmitted to the punching machine through a complex gear set.

If it is necessary to reduce the punching power, it can be controlled by raising and lowering the height of the sluice. The higher the sluice rises, the more water will be released, and the greater the impact force will be, and vice versa.

Now the military standard equipment of the dry army, especially knives, swords, spearheads, armor, etc., are stamped by stamping machines, because the steel ingots used are all smelted by secret methods, and its toughness, firmness, and sharpness are excellent. Fixed, so it can be relatively uniform in terms of performance. Only the weapons and armor used by high-level generals are purely handmade.

After inspecting the production situation of the general supervisor, Zhao Junsheng returned to the palace to continue handling government affairs. When Yujia arrived at the gate of the palace, the eunuch on duty reported next to Yujia: "Your Majesty, the King of Shu is at the gate of the palace, and it seems that he wants to have an audience!"

"Let him come over!" Zhao Junsheng opened his eyes.

"promise!"

Seeing the accompanying eunuch waving to him, Zhao Ping immediately walked over to follow Yujia and clapped his hands: "I have seen my father!"

"Stop, let him come up!"

The Yujia stopped, and Zhao Ping got on the Yujia, lifted the curtain and bent over and walked in.

Zhao Ping bowed again, Zhao Junsheng pointed to the opposite side: "What's the matter?"

"Report to Father, I have two matters to report to Father!"

"Speak!"

"No! First, around midnight last night, Prince Wen He's entourage officer Handa and thirteen guards were killed in the Town God's Temple in Yipingfang. After hearing the smell of blood and discovering the corpse, the Zuojinwuwei Yamen quickly ordered martial law in the four surrounding workshops, prohibiting any passage. After an hour-long search, the murderers were caught, a total of 16 people, led by the Sogdian businessman An Dashi, when Jin Wuwei captured them, An Dashi and his guards were in a shop in Dongshi. The shop was under his name. The soldiers found bloody swords and ten strengths from the shop Crossbows, and after passing the inspection, those officials and guards who were killed died under the arrows of these swords and crossbows!"

Zhao Junsheng felt strange: "In the middle of the night, why did the Yanda envoys and guards go to the Temple of the City God? What's wrong with An Dashi? Why did An Dashi kill them? Now the Yanda people are ruling Tocharistan, and An Dashi Aren't you worried that your hometown in Tocharostam will be copied by disgusting people?"

Zhao Ping nodded: "Yes, this is also something that my ministers and other subordinate officials don't understand, just like my Dagan envoy was killed by a Dagan businessman in Jiankang City when he was sent to the Southern Dynasty. His abnormal behavior is really puzzling! However, the Imperial City Division is currently interrogating An Dashi and his followers, and I believe they will be able to win the battle soon!"

Zhao Junsheng asked, "What's the second thing you want to report?"

"Father, do you still remember the Central Plains swordsman?"

"It seems to have some impression!"

"It's the time to assassinate the envoy of the Kepantuo Kingdom, the assassin who assassinated the senior officials of the Wei Kingdom six times in a row 20 years ago!"

Zhao Junsheng slapped his forehead: "I remembered, by the way, what's his real name?"

"Liu Suifeng!"

Zhao Junsheng chuckled: "What a poetic name! You mentioned him so suddenly?"

"Since the assassination case of the envoy was solved half a year ago, he was also rounded up and caught by us. After the interrogation of the three divisions, he was sentenced to be executed by Qiu Hou. It is still more than half a year before Qiu Hou, so he has been imprisoned. The sky prison is waiting for the time to cut! After the case of the Persian Prince Belus being assassinated by more than a dozen killers outside the city, our Imperial City Division inspected the bodies of several slain Persian warriors and found that their fatal injuries were almost They are all on the same part, the position of the knife edge is only different from the front and back, and the strength is slightly different. It can be judged that those assassins have the same killing moves, which means that someone is training a large number of assassins! Father, think about it, how much is this? Seriously, how harmful is it to my law and order if someone trains a large number of assassins?"

"So what? What do you want to say?"

"Father, we don't know much about the situation in the world of assassins and killers, and we don't know their martial arts skills. We can't judge the inheritance of those assassins and killers, but someone knows..."

Zhao Junsheng was surprised: "You don't mean to ask Liu Suifeng to help you solve the case?"

Zhao Ping cupped his hands: "Father has a keen eye, and he can see what I'm thinking at a glance! I have met him in the prison, and described to him the shape and depth of the wounds on the corpses of those Persian warriors, and asked him if he knew He said he knew the ways of these assassins, and there was a way to find those assassins. My son asked him to assist the Imperial City Division to solve the case, and he agreed, but he also had a condition, that is... he hoped to be exonerated! "

Zhao Junsheng understood Zhao Ping's thoughts, "Do you want me to issue an amnesty to him?"

"······Yes!"

"Impossible!" Zhao Junsheng shook his head and flatly refused, "Innumerable people have died at his hands over the years, and it is absolutely impossible for a heinous person like him to be pardoned!"

"Father..."

Zhao Junsheng raised his hand: "Go and tell him, if he can assist the government to solve this case, I will let Dali Temple consider exempting him from the death penalty, and if another case is solved, the sentence will be changed to 20 years. A major case, the sentence will be reduced by one year!"

"No! If you want him to assist in the detection, you must bring him out of the sky prison, but he is a death row inmate. The sky prison needs a joint interim release letter from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment, and because he is the one who assassinated the envoy. For a repeat offender, neither the Dali Temple nor the Ministry of Punishment dared to do anything special, and said that only the emperor's handwritten letter would be handed over to him!"

Back in the Imperial Study Room, Zhao Junsheng wrote a handwritten letter. Due to official needs, he decided to temporarily hand over the death row prisoner Liu Suifeng to the Imperial City Department for custody. If the department absconded or had other problems during the guarding period, the department of the imperial city should take responsibility for everything, and ordered Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment to cooperate with the department of the imperial city.

Zhao Ping immediately went to Dali Temple after getting the handbook, and then went to the Ministry of Punishment, and brought Liu Suifeng out with the temporary handover letter issued by the two yamen.

Liu Suifeng is a tall and thin man in his 40s, with disheveled hair and clean prison clothes. He has a cold face and heavy shackles on his hands and feet.

He was brought into the mortuary, and Zhao Ping signaled to an assistant next to him to remove the white cloths from the corpses of all the Persian warriors, exposing the wounds on his neck.

But when Liu Suifeng saw the knife wound on the neck of the corpse, his eyes narrowed and his eyes became serious, his expression was completely different from before.

"Have you ever seen this kind of knife wound?" Zhao Ping noticed the change in Liu Suifeng's face.

Liu Suifeng looked at all the knife wounds on all the corpses. After a long time, he sighed: "More than 20 years ago, there was another person who debuted with me. He is my senior brother. We were taught martial arts and killing skills by the same person. , but what we have learned is different, and each has its own characteristics. At that time, his reputation in this industry was much greater than mine, and every time he stabbed, he would leave a cross wound on the body of the deceased as his mark. The famous tricks that assassins have always used are mysterious and ostentatious! The wounds on these corpses are all caused by his famous stunt backhand knife! The backhand knife uses force in a way that people think is impossible, which makes people hard to guard against!"

Chapter 857 Who is the target?

"what is his name?"

"Yang Xiao, he has a name in Jianghu, called the Envoy of Prisoners!"

"What is the origin of this name?"