Don't be a prince

Yang Du, who visited the construction site of the college, was very satisfied.Originally, when he heard that there were still people doing big projects in the year of the catastrophe, he was still taken aback, for fear that the old things at the end of the Sui Dynasty would happen again.But who would have thought of this, only to realize that the so-called big project is also a means of disaster relief.

After arranging guards to send old Mr. Yang Du to live in Chang'an, Li Chengqian returned to his tent and then dealt with the pile of pulley blocks.

When I was in high school, I learned the pulley block. I still remember that I could always get more than [-] points in the physics test.But looking back now, the things that I remembered clearly at the beginning were squeezed to nowhere by the various convenient trails in the city.

The fixed pulley is to change the direction of the force, how much can the movable pulley double the force?

Trying while remembering, under Yan Liben's ignorant gaze, Li Chengqian was able to compete with this pile of wooden pulleys.

The appearance of cement made Yan Liben admire the prince very much. Although he couldn't understand what the prince was doing, he still followed around and was ready to build a new wheel for the prince at any time.

The process of seeking knowledge is arduous, even with a slight impression to recall the memory.

A simple block of pulleys allowed Li Chengqian to spend a month on the construction site. He didn't even return to Chang'an after his younger brother was born.

During this period, Zhang Yun, the emperor's personal eunuch, came once and couldn't figure out what the prince was doing, but seeing that the prince was fine, he left.

Yu Shinan was sent over by Li Gang. When he saw a room full of wheels, he thought Li Chengqian was just playing around and lost his temper.But after talking to Li Chengqian for a few words, the old gentleman apologized with shame, and then returned to Chang'an with peace of mind.

Time soon came to the end of July, and on the construction site by the Weishui River, the construction was still in full swing.Locusts, almost disappeared.The bugs that were rampant throughout Guanzhong before were all dried and crushed and piled up in the warehouse of the farm.The farm has doubled in size and is trying to turn all the locusts into eggs and poultry meat.

Some of the disaster-stricken people had no choice but to accept relief from the government, but more of them gathered at the construction site by the Weishui River, exchanging their labor for meals and copper coins.

At the beginning of August, Li Chengqian finally ended his retreat and asked six guards to carry a huge box and two small boxes out of the tent.

There was originally a large stone at the location of the college's office building.In order to lay the foundation, the craftsmen led people to plan to dig out the stone.

But who would have thought that the deeper and deeper the digging, the result is still unable to see the whole picture of this boulder.It wasn't until digging more than ten feet that the whole picture of the stone was finally revealed.

Manpower cannot deal with it. In desperation, stonemasons can only use the most primitive method, burning stones and pouring water, hoping to destroy this stone little by little.

Seeing the stones in the pit, Li Chengqian smiled, and immediately ordered the workers to clean up the site.

I have never studied mineralogy, so I don't know the type of this stone, but judging by its dark and solid appearance, it is not something that can be dealt with in a day or two.

"Brother Huang, you can figure it out. I heard that you have a way to deal with this stone?"

Seeing Li Chengqian, Li Tai immediately moved over.

He tried to pull the stone up with a pulley, but hundreds of people pulled hard, and the rope broke, and the stone remained motionless.

"Of course there is a way. When you used the solid pulley to lift the stone, is the dragon gate you built still there?"

Hearing what Brother Huang said, Li Tai immediately ordered several carpenters to push the gantry crane over.He predicted that although the gantry crane is made of wood, it can bear the quality of this stone.

Yan Liben patted the tin box with the tendon rope inside, and said in surprise: "Your Highness, are you going to use this thing to lift the stone?"

He couldn't figure it out, the prince just fiddled with wooden wheels in the tent for a while, and then secretly ordered the blacksmith to make some iron wheels, so that he could deal with this huge rock?

Soon, Li Tai brought over the gantry crane he led the craftsmen to make.The best beef tendon rope is mixed with hemp rope, and the thick rope will never break.After instructing the craftsmen to assemble the pulleys to the gantry crane, Li Chengqian stepped aside.

The nimble craftsman has already gone to the pit and put the thick rope on the stone again.

Connected.

This time, there was no need for hundreds of people, only a dozen or so strong men pulled the rope. Amid the sound of the rope being tightened, Yan Liben, who was standing by the pit, suddenly danced with his arms and legs: "It's moving! It's really moving!" ! Work harder!"

"Hey! Hey!"

Accompanied by the sound of the chant, the boulder, which had caused everyone to worry to death during this period, was really lifted up, and the appearance of floating in the air was full of courage.

Now there is no need for orders, the artisans know what to do.

Although the gantry crane built by Li Tai was crude, it took into account such convenient things as "wheels". After hundreds of people pushed and pulled it, the huge boulder got out of the pothole along with the gantry crane.

Li Tai stood on the sidelines and watched the whole process. He saw with his own eyes that the boulder was shifted under human power, and he was so shocked that his hands were almost stuffed into his mouth.

This....

It was just a tin box, how could a huge boulder that hundreds of people were helpless be dragged up by a dozen strong men?

Solid pulleys definitely don't have this ability. Brother Huang has been stuffy in the tent for so long, what did he put in the box?

At this moment, Li Tai had no choice but to raise the status of the emperor's brother in his heart.

It is so easy to dominate this kind of power. Could it be said that Brother Huang really obtained the power of a god?

After everything is made, it needs continuous improvement in order to become perfect.The same is true for the pulley block. Just when everyone was happily preparing to throw the stone to the ends of the earth, the iron box on the gantry crane made a sound of collapse, and a dozen strong men who were maintaining the boulder in the air suddenly felt that the rope in their hands had recovered ten thousand times. It was so heavy that he was dragged and fell to the ground on a big horse.

And the boulder also fell to the ground, and the ground subsided suddenly.

Fortunately, there is no fear of death running around under the stone.

After comforting the frightened migrant workers, Yan Liben approached Li Chengqian with a sad face: "Your Highness, it seems that your magic box needs to be adjusted again. This huge rock has just fallen in front of the location of the office building, and has not completely left the academy. scope."

After speaking, he also looked at the small iron box held by the two princes' personal guards.

"Don't look at it, this iron box is not the same as the big iron box, it is not used to hang boulders. However, since the stone has left the confines of the house, Yigu sees that there is no need to make any effort to get it out. Just right , aren’t you a good carver? Put half of this stone back into the soil, level out a plane on it, and engrave aphorisms on it. After the stone is buried, build a small garden around the stone and plant flowers. Isn't it beautiful too?"

Hearing this, Yan Liben walked around the stone, imagined it for a while, and found that after this treatment, the appearance of this stone here is really not abrupt.

"Damn-headed, Dayu told us not to control the floods, we can't always follow the rules when we think about things!"

After ordering the guards to take down the broken pulley block, Li Chengqian was ready to return to Chang'an.

History has its own stubbornness. After all, my mother added a younger brother to herself, and the name she chose happened to be Li Zhi...

Retreating to practice, no, it's because I have been tinkering with the pulley block for so long, Li Chengqian felt that it was time to write a letter asking the big bosses in the court to look squarely at the craftsman.

Now that he has traveled to this era, he can't just keep doing things like this.Many people regard the throne as the ultimate goal, but Li Chengqian doesn't think so.

After returning to Chang'an, Li Chengqian did not go back to the East Palace directly, but came to the Military Weapons Supervision Department, and went directly to Chief Superintendent Ouyang Shuo for something.

The military inspector never thought that he would be visited by the prince, and Ouyang Shuo had long been salivating when he saw that the inspector had made a fortune.With the best wishes and the best smiles, I received His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

However, when he heard that the prince wanted an eight-ox crossbow to play with, his beautiful smile suddenly turned bitter.

"Okay, my prince, don't you know that the eight-ox crossbow is an important weapon for the military and the country, how can you give it to you privately? Not to mention getting one for you, even if you let outsiders touch it, it will be considered as negligence by my military supervisor. Up and down, the head of the project is not guaranteed!"

After kicking Ouyang Shuo, Li Chengqian said angrily, "When I was alone on the bank of the Weishui River making fake crossbows, why didn't I see Yan Liben crying like you?"

"Although Yan Liben also participated in the production of the eight-ox crossbow, he only took the carpenters under his command to be responsible for the production of the ballista and crossbow arm. The most important part is still top secret, and even he dare not investigate. Since Wang Shichong, After Dou Jiande was pacified, look at the generals who sent troops in the Tang Dynasty. Which of the generals carried the eight-ox crossbow when they went out? We all know that the eight-ox crossbow is powerful, but how can it be used in ordinary battles? Even if it is It is generally used to shoot arrows and nailed to the city wall for soldiers to climb. If it is used to deal with people, it is a shame!" Recommended reading../../

Li Chengqian grew his mouth...

Weapons are too powerful to be used against people?No, although "kindness" is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, but when you are out to the outside world, you are too stupid to use weapons kindly!

Weapons have been used to deal with people since they were made. Do you have to exchange the lives of soldiers for enemies who can be killed with weapons?

During the conversation, he unknowingly walked to the warehouse of the Military Weapons Supervision, and Ouyang Shuo leaned against the door in a very lonely manner.You can go in, but you have to split him in half.

Li Chengqian didn't want to hack this guy to death, the dignified prince would embarrass a small official, and it would be too ugly to spread the word.

Reluctantly, he returned to the Eastern Palace, and he even sighed after eating.

Be kind to foreign enemies, this is a bad habit that has been handed down since ancient times!Needless to say, it is all caused by thoughts such as "benevolence" and "goodness".

It's just that you are kind to the enemy, but the enemy may not be kind to you!

The soft is afraid of the hard, this is a divine sentence that can be regarded as Guigao at any time.

Want to not be bullied, be weak, be kind, can it work?

Li Chengqian has understood a truth ever since he beat up the sneering senior punks in the orphanage with his bare hands when he was a child, and never dared to point fingers at the students in the orphanage again.

Goodwill, that can only be given to the enemy after having the absolute right to speak.

Li Gang knew Li Chengqian's plan, so seeing him sighing, he didn't come to persuade him.

If he was asked to make a choice as an old man, he would definitely not stand up for the craftsman.Putting artisans under the status of commoners is not the practice of one generation or two.Li Chengqian wanted to go against the grain and fight against the unspoken rules of hundreds or thousands of years, which meant hitting a stone with an egg.

Depressed, he didn't sleep in the middle of the night, so he just stayed in the room tinkering with the pulley block, and didn't roll back to bed until he succeeded in the experiment on a bow with a force of about five stones.

Chapter 171 Transformation of the Eight Bull Crossbow

Li Jing and Niu Jinda seldom came to the East Palace, and they passed on all the things in the minds of the two veterans to Li Chengqian without reservation.

There are no such messy things as "Evil Resisting Swordsmanship" and "Seven Injuries Boxing" in this world. Two people's battles are nothing more than comparing physical fitness and experience.

In terms of experience, although he was only chopping pillars and punching sandbags, since Chang Sun Chong and others appeared, he also had the opportunity to fight against real people and accumulated a lot of experience.

Li Chengqian's physical fitness is not at the limit. Although he is only nine years old, although he is taller than a child, he is far from growing to the limit.Although the body has gained great strength through exercise, the strength of a nine-year-old child is still not comparable to that of an adult no matter how hard he exercises.

Bows and arrows require strength to be used.

With a bow of one stone, the arrows shot out were soft. According to Yu Tai, they probably couldn't even pierce the Turkic leather armor, let alone shoot people to death.As long as he talked about bows and arrows, he would show off his master's archery skills.

Yu Tai, this guy, never brags.

"When His Majesty begged Liu Heita, Liu Heita was in formation in Feixiang, and His Majesty personally led the soldiers to attack.

There was a Turkic general who was extremely brave and had killed many of our generals in battle.When the two armies were about to break up and hand over troops, His Majesty shot him with an arrow engraved with 'Admiral Tiance', and the arrow pierced his chest, and he died immediately.

Later, His Majesty took me and two cavalry out to investigate the enemy's situation, and met three famous generals of the enemy.Behind these three people, there are still large troops following.I advise Your Majesty to stay out of the way for the time being and beware of being surrounded.As a result, His Majesty shot three arrows in a row, and all three were killed. The army was terrified when they saw this scene, and they didn't dare to catch up.

Also..."

Listening to Yu Tai's long-winded talk about the glorious history of His Majesty the Emperor, Li Chengqian felt his head was as big as a bucket.

I just want to try archery, you son of a bitch, you need to use my achievements to overwhelm others!

A kick landed on Yu Tai's leg, and he was about to shoot an arrow.

But this kick still didn't make him shut up. Standing aside, Yu Tai was still chattering about the essentials of archery.For example, "stand on the b-ray, with your left shoulder facing the target", "put the arrow on the arrow rest, with the main feather facing you, and the nock groove on the bowstring and arrow button".Very verbose.Mobile terminal../

Under Yu Tai's worried eyes, the arrow in Li Chengqian's hand shot out and hit the bull's-eye!

but....

It's a spare target leaning against the wall next to it...

"You don't need to listen to Yu Tai, as for archery, it's up to you how you feel comfortable."

Hearing this voice, Li Chengqian had to put away his bow and lower his waist.

Li Shimin strode out from behind the tree next to the martial arts arena. Behind him was still a long line of eunuchs and maids of the Eastern Palace.

Damn it, you sneak up here every time, and the people who grab me won't let you know, you're the emperor, or a member of the paparazzi!

I was slandering in my heart, but I still had to greet him honestly.

He glanced at the arrows in Li Chengqian's back quiver, and curled his lips.Walking to the side of the martial arts arena, he picked out a thick enough arrow and returned with a four-stone bow.

Just like in wartime, he stuck three arrows into the ground on the right side of his body, took off his dragon robe and threw it to Zhang Yun.

Three arrows were shot out in less than two seconds.

Each shot hit the bull's-eye steadily, and the landing point was extremely close.

"Your Majesty's archery skills are still the same, and the last general yearns for it!"

Seeing with his own eyes that the emperor did not lose his skills due to life in the deep palace, Yu Tai immediately knelt down on one knee and flattered him.

Perhaps, this is not flattery, because such archery skills cannot be praised too much.

"See it."

"I see, my father's archery skills are far beyond my reach."

"Shit!"

Smiling and patted Li Chengqian on the head, Li Shimin stretched out his right hand, pointed to the scar on the tiger's mouth and said: "I don't know how many injuries I have suffered on the tiger's mouth. But the most memorable thing for me is the first time. The scars are cut by the bowstring when practicing the bow. There is no such thing as a good archer, they are all the result of practice accumulation. Let me tell you something, Hou Junji, forget it, you don’t know it. You just need to know, don’t I was discouraged by the momentary failure, as long as I practice more, I may not be the strongest shooter in Datang."

Li Chengqian nodded, although many things depend on talent, but hard work the day after tomorrow can still bridge the gap.

As for Hou Junji?Heh, although I have never met anyone, but I really know this grandson.

If history continues as usual, this guy is the one who conspired with Li Chengqian.

As for archery, Hou Junji was quite flamboyant in his early years. He couldn't learn archery, so he said he was brave.Although he has achieved the position of the Duke of the State by "doing nothing" these years, he is still a mediocre person after all.

Not to mention that this bastard wanted to learn the art of war from Li Jing, but he couldn't get it, so he asked the emperor for orders.After learning a little bit, he was still angry at Li Jing for hiding his secrets, and played Li Jing's rebellion, which is extremely hateful.When this incident happened, Li Jing drank for a long time in the East Palace, and even passed out.

Li Jing was drunk, of course not because he was impeached.With his military achievements, he has long been used to being picked out by the speech officer and impeached for nothing.What really depressed him was his impression in the emperor's mind.Obviously, the prince has been accepted as a disciple, and he has taught him everything.

But when he replied to the emperor, "This is Hou Junji who wants to rebel. Now that the Central Plains are stable, the art of war I taught him is enough to control the four barbarians. Now Hou Junji is studying the art of war for his ministers. He will have a different ambition." "Finally, the emperor still didn't believe his words, but told him not to hide his secrets, and gave some more to Hou Junji.

No way, in terms of loyalty, he, Li Jing, as the stone lion of the Tang mansion, still can't compare with the owner's loyal dog.

Seeing Li Chengqian's weird expression, Li Shimin couldn't help but stretched out his hand to beat him again.

If you are attacked while thinking about something, you will fight back.So Li Chengqian immediately retracted his neck and handed the bow up.

The dragon's claws did not touch the bow, but passed through, and stubbornly landed on Li Chengqian's head.