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Chapter 43 The idea of ??the steel crossbow and telescope

Soon the soldiers who placed wooden targets visited the dummy target and left the shooting range of the crossbow.

"Prepare, aim, shoot arrows, go down, change arrow cassette, aim, shoot arrows, go down..." Under the command of a hundred households, ten soldiers were operating the crossbow in an orderly manner.

"I didn't expect that this crossbow is so convenient and fast to operate. Let's go and see how the crossbow works." After saying that, I took everyone to the dummy target and walked to the dummy target.

When I walked to the wooden target, I saw that the wooden target at 500 steps had been completely penetrated by the crossbow arrow. I knew that the wooden target at 700 steps was also shot by the crossbow arrows and was covered with arrows. It can be seen that the effective killing distance of this crossbow can be as high as 200 meters, and this Gongshu is naturally a talent. While thinking about what happened today, I slowly walked towards the lobby of the Ordnance Department.

Wooden-structured crossbows can indeed be equipped on a large scale, but just like my sudden idea about special operations, if this crossbow is used in southern water towns or tropical jungles, wooden weapons are very likely to be deformed, which will cause a lot of unnecessary trouble for future special operations soldiers. Since the Tang Dynasty already had weapons that combine soft and hard work, the Song Dynasty should have no problem, and the birth of each new weapon cannot be replaced with another group of soldiers, so while I walked, I thought about how to arrange this matter.

After arriving in the Ordnance Department, I took the people directly to the inner hall. As soon as I sat down, I said to Ling Zhen.

"Ling Aiqing, are all Han people in our Ordnance Division?"

"Reply to the emperor's words, there are some people who are in this dynasty who are officials of Goryeo and Fusang." Ling Zhen was very confused by my words, but he still answered my questions in detail.

"Find them out and kill them all. From now on, all the officials and craftsmen in the Ordnance Department must be Han people, and they must be Han people of pure blood."

"But the emperor, those ministers are doing well, why do you want to kill them?" Ling Zhen asked

"I have my own reason, you can implement it immediately. In addition, you can arrange to leave two thousand soldiers in the artillery battalion. As the experimental personnel of new weapons in the future, and other artillery soldiers, I will transfer them back to the imperial guard camp, and the carrier-based artillery you designed must be configured on our naval warships. And you must learn to teach the naval generals to use and maintain artillery. I don't hope that one day in the future, when I am about to set sail, our naval officers and soldiers will not use artillery, and you and your subordinates, as professional artillery research and user personnel, must constantly innovate our existing artillery as soon as possible. Have you made clear what I mean?"

"Yes, the emperor will definitely not let the emperor down"

"Well, very good, and the morale is very strong. Ling Aiqing, you will do all these things and I am satisfied. I will add you to the viscount." My words moved Ling Zhen to kneel on the ground and bowed to me again and again. If it weren't for the emperor, he would have jumped up and hugged me. Then I naturally told Gongshu that I was confused about the wooden crossbow tools. After hearing what I said, he fell into deep thought. I didn't want to interrupt his thoughts, so I said to Ling Zhen again.

"Ling Aiqing, do you know Liuli?"

"This minister knows that although glassware is widely used now, due to the complex production process, many ordinary people cannot afford glassware. Moreover, glassware is colorful and beautiful, so its price has always been high."

"Oh, that's how it is, do you know that crystal mirror?"

"Crystal Mirror? I haven't seen it before, but Crystal Memorial has seen it before."
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