Great Tang’s Talented Little Landlord

Li Wangyou thought that after he came up with an improved bow and crossbow, he could also slaughter all sides, he was very excited, leading Niu Wu and the others out of Chang’an City and rushed straight To the valley of Cuiwei Palace.

Yan Liben heard the report from his subordinates that his teacher came, and he quickly greeted him and paid respect: “Disciple Liben has seen the teacher, why did the teacher come to the Ordnance Workshop today?”

Dont blame Yan Liben for asking like that. Li Wangyou is a complete lazy person with a lot of ideas, but he is basically unwilling to do those trivial things.

The valley where the Imperial Family Palace of Cuiwei Palace is located is now almost turned into the first industrial base of Great Tang, with black smoke billowing every day, and the sound of hydraulic forging hammers.

However, Li Wangyou rarely comes here. If there is anything, Yan Liben goes to him for advice. Therefore, Yan Liben was curious to ask when he saw Li Wangyou suddenly appear.

Li Wangyou said: “Liben doesn’t need to be polite, I’m here for your help today as a teacher.”

“What does the teacher need? Just ask Liben to do it.” Yan Liben Replied respectfully.

“I need you to let the craftsman, who will be the supervisor, help me build a crossbow.”

Yan Liben hearing this is a bit strange. My teacher needs a crossbow, so I just ask Cheng Yaojin. Those military bigwigs just ask for it, why do they need to fight again?

Although Great Tang bans crossbows among the folks, Li Wangyou is naturally not among them. Who can say that he wants to play crossbows?

“Master, do you need to break the crossbow or the hornbow crossbow? The discipline has to be sent to the master, no need to re-make it.”

Li Wangyou shook his head:” No, no, the crossbow for the division, but not the two military standard crossbows, but a new crossbow designed for the division.”

Yan Liben hearing this, immediately came to interest .

As a general and junior supervisor, apart from painting, he is most interested in the manufacture of these institutions. He heard that his teacher has a new crossbow to build, and he quickly asked: “Master, do you have drawings? “

“You let someone send me paper and pen, and I will show it to you.” Li Wangyou asked someone to send me paper and pen, and began to draw Yan Liben the crossbow bow he imagined.

Compared with ancient crossbows, the modern crossbows of later generations have a much larger formidable power.

Even a civilian-grade crossbow, the muzzle velocity of the arrow fired is 100 meters per second. The modern composite crossbow has a more scientific design. Not only the appearance is similar to that of firearms, but most of them are equipped with scopes, perfect aiming equipment, better comfortable experience, and naturally high shooting accuracy.

Li Wangyou has read information on the Internet. Many sophisticated modern composite crossbows can accurately hit a coin at a distance of two hundred meters, and their accuracy is almost comparable to a sniper rifle.

Nowadays, Great Tang’s crossbows are mostly made of natural materials such as bamboo and wood, and the energy efficiency of the arrows is low. It is completely incomparable with later modern composite crossbows.

Of course, Li Wangyou is also impossible to create a composite crossbow for later generations in Great Tang.

Those composite crossbows can not only be manufactured by knowing their appearance, but they involve many modern subjects such as material science, human engineering project science, mechanics, etc., which are far from his second copy of Electron business. Professional college students can understand.

But Li Wangyou can find ways to improve the accuracy of the crossbow and reduce the tension of the crossbow string.

At least he planned to use steel instead of wood to manufacture the crossbow.

Nowadays, with the use of hydraulic forging hammers, the ordnance workshop located in the valley of Cuiweigong can forge many Hundred Refinements steels every day.

Thousand hammers, hundred refinements of steel, Li Wangyou feels that it should be possible to use the manufacture crossbow.

As for the shape of the crossbow, he directly copied the appearance of later generations of crossbows. If the crossbow arms and bowstrings are removed, the appearance is not much different from that of a sniper rifle.

Li Wangyou even intends to fix the monocular Telescope, which was built by the supervising craftsman, on the crossbow as a scope. He didn’t believe it. When this new crossbow was built, he would not be able to hit prey.

As for the drawings drawn by Li Wangyou, Yan Liben became more surprised as he looked at it. He couldn’t help but ask: “Master, the crossbow arms of your crossbow are drawn so thinly, it seems that there is no wood to make. It doesn’t break like this.”

Li Wangyou shook his head: “Wrong, Liben, the crossbow arm I painted does not use wood, but is made of steel.”

“Steel sheet? How… how is this possible? How can this steel bend like this?” Li Wangyou’s words left Yan Liben stunned. In his perception, steel is basically impossible to bend like this.

Li Wangyou didn’t think there was anything wrong, as it should be by rights replied: “Naturally, the crossbow arms are made of spring steel…”

, Suddenly felt wrong and paralyzed. It seems that Great Tang doesnt have spring steel, right?

China has been unearthed since ancient times, and it seems not at all metal springs. The soft sword that can be wrapped around the waist and used as a belt is just made up in the wuxia novel. There is no such soft metal sword in reality.

Yan Liben certainly doesnt know what spring steel is, but the crux of the problem is that he doesnt understand…

Li Wangyou knows that the spring steel of later generations is quenching and In the tempered state, the steel maintains its elasticity. It is a steel specially used to manufacture springs and elasticity components.

As for how to make this spring steel, he doesn’t know anything.

Li Wangyou remembered that he used to visit the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi’an. The Qin Dynasty bronze swords are displayed in the museum. He clearly remembered that the museum’s commentary once said that when the bronze sword was unearthed, it was bent to 45 degrees by the pottery figurines.

But when the archaeologists carefully removed the pottery figurines and took out the sword, the bronze sword rebounded quickly and returned to its straightness.

Since the Qin Dynasty was able to do it, there is no reason why the craftsmen of Great Tang could not do it?

He scratched his head in annoyance, and asked: “Liben, you don’t know, is there any steel that can have elasticity? Is there no steel that can be restored after bending?”

“Master, this…disciple is really unknown. How about I ask a few generals who specialize in craftsmen to make weapons and see if they know?”

Soon , In several Ordnance Workshops, old craftsmen who specialize in making weapons were found. For Li Wangyou’s question, several old craftsmen also looked at each other in blank dismay and did not know how to answer.

They require steel to be hard and wear-resistant, but they have never thought of using steel to manufacture the arms of the crossbow.

Although Huaxia has an iron bow, it is not made of steel to make the bow, but metal is mixed with bamboo, wood, and tendons, and iron bars are inlaid on the back of the bow. As for the bow arms that bend under force, they are still made of bamboo, wood, and tendons.

Seeing all the old craftsmen shaking their heads, Li Wangyou was naturally disappointed.

This new type of crossbow, if you use bamboo or wood to manufacture the crossbow arm, it is not impossible, but obviously the formidable power is far inferior to the crossbow made of spring steel. Moreover, if the crossbow arm is made of bamboo and wood, the weight will be a lot heavier. He who has small arms and legs, how willing to carry a dead crossbow to hunt.

However, since the metal spring steel sheet cannot be used, he can only retreat and fix the other parts of the crossbow first.

At least he has to make a crossbow that he can pull the crossbow string and shoot the prey from a long distance. Otherwise, after ten days, his bet with the dudes may be lost, and Li Wangyou would be reluctant to send the little nurses in the hospital to Cheng Chumo and their sluts.

While he was depressed, an old craftsman rubbed his hands cautiously, and said nervously: “Count of Hu, the villain has accidentally made a broken sword, a sword The body can be bent…”