After searching for a long time, the arrow His Majesty shot was found.
Looking around again, Lao Wang scratched his head and asked the young eunuch beside him, "Have you found the arrow shot by the county prince?"
Several young eunuchs shook their heads.
Lao Wang searched again and finally found the two arrows shot by the county lord on the edge of the field farther away.
He looked up again to where he had just shot the arrow, nearly three hundred steps away.
Following His Majesty, Lao Wang was also familiar with the skills of cavalry and archery, and also knew the archery skills of various generals.
Your Majesty uses a stone bow, which is relatively light to use.
It's good to be able to shoot two hundred steps, but it's even better to hit the target three points into the wood.
The arrow in front of me was five inches deep into the soil, and the soil on the field was so solid that it was difficult to pull it out even if it was inserted into it.
What kind of strange power is this?
Lao Wang returned to His Majesty's residence with the arrow and talked about it.
Li Shimin was a little surprised at first, "Three hundred steps away?"
The prince bowed and said: "It's not bad."
Li Shimin drank the tea to sober up and said, "I only have so much energy. This child was not properly disciplined when he was young. He was a country boy at the beginning. He was not taught how to ride, shoot, read or play. Look at the bad habits in him. His clothes are not decent, his conversation is... You're being arrogant, you're over 20 and you've already missed the best time to practice archery."
The prince also let out a long sigh. In His Majesty's words, the county prince was so unworthy, but he was still very kind to others.
His Majesty spoke ill of the county prince, and the eunuch couldn't interrupt him, so he could only deal with it quietly.
The children were taking a nap, and Li Yuezheng was talking to Queen Changsun.
"How can a husband and his mother say such things?" She whispered: "If my daughter hadn't argued so hard, my husband would have installed the toilet next to the bedroom."
Seeing the queen smiling, Li Yue felt indignant, "I want to make a statue of the bear and put it in Huaqing Pool. How can anyone make a statue of a bear and put it in their own yard?"
Zhang Yang walked to the door of his house and saw his wife and the queen talking in a low voice. They bowed briefly and walked home.
Empress Changsun whispered: "As long as he treats you well, my mother will be relieved. Which man doesn't have some bad habits?"
"It is not a bad habit to place the toilet next to the bedroom."
When Zhang Yang walked into his home, a group of children fell asleep leaning on the bear, and he himself was sleeping soundly.
The maids themselves were sweating profusely and even wanted to fan the princesses and princes.
The little bear seems to have reached a harmonious relationship with the children. It is a beautiful thing to be fanned in this hot summer. It is enjoying it at the moment, regardless of the children sleeping on its belly and back.
Little Sizi lay on the bear's head, holding the bear's nose with one hand and sleeping soundly.
Walking back to the bedroom, there are two desks in the bedroom, one is Li Yue's and the other is his.
Smelling a hint of fruity aroma, Zhang Yang walked to her table. A bowl of cream was placed on the table with various kinds of dried fruits and a lot of smoothies in it.
Although my daughter-in-law's cooking skills are not very good, she does have a lot of wonderful ideas for making such snacks.
Zhang Yang picked up the small wooden spoon on the side and finished the bowl of smoothie in one go. He returned to his desk with satisfaction and started drawing.
After a while, the children also woke up.
Li Yue walked back to the bedroom and looked at the empty bowl on her desk without speaking for a long time.
Looking at the man who was making a small model, she walked forward with an empty bowl.
Noticing the resentful gaze, Zhang Yang raised his head and asked, "What's wrong?"
Seeing her empty bowl again, she cleared her throat again and explained: "I tasted it and it tasted good."
Li Yue pursed her lips, "I wanted to keep it to drink."
Zhang Yang added: "If you have nothing to do, make one more bowl. We have plenty of dried fruits at home."
Because there are so many children at home, there is a lot of food prepared, including dried meat, dried fruits, and some melons.
I wanted to finish talking with my mother and taste it by myself, so I left for a long time, but when I came back, I was drunk by my husband.
Zhang Yang added: "Don't put so many raisins next time, it's too sweet."
Li Yue took a deep breath, "My husband just drinks my stuff secretly, why are you so picky?"
"Give you some pertinent suggestions for improvement."
Li Lizhi came quickly, "Sister Huang, it's time to go to class."
After calming down his emotions, Li Yue walked out of the room in frustration.
Zhang Yang was trying out his own small model of an earth mine. He pressed the trigger point on the top and then released the trigger to expand it and sink it, and the spring bounced it open.
The model is correct, but whether it will be so good in actual operation is another matter.
Zhang Yang packed up the drawings and walked out of the house. At this moment, the blacksmith shop was preparing to move, and the work for these days had stopped.
Master Jiang said with a smile: "Xiao Zhang, where have you been these days?"
Zhang Yang cleared his throat and explained: "I have been helping His Royal Highness the King of Wei in Chang'an for the past few days."
"You have to serve His Highness King Wei well. The old man has some dirty work here. You have to become an official." Master Jiang warned, "Only when you enter the official career can you truly stand out."
"My master wanted me to work as a blacksmith before."
"What's the point of being a blacksmith?"
Zhang Yang walked into the blacksmith shop and asked, "How are you doing with the drawings you gave to the master before?"
Master Jiang heard this and opened a box, which contained several discs, which were all parts for making earth mines.
At present, the casting technology is not high, and we can only make this simple earth mine.
I have seen related technologies in museums before, but the development in some remote places has not been so fast, and there are still many earth mines in the fields.
At that time, I carefully observed the structure of earth mines.
I don’t know if what I think is right.
You have to try it carefully to know.
Master He Jiang moved this heavy box out. The outer shell of the clay pot-sized earth mine was made of thin pieces of polished iron, and now it looked shiny.
Master Jiang sat aside and watched the splicing process, "It turns out they can be put together."
Zhang Yang assembled it according to the drawings, "Huh? The edge is too big, it seems the size is wrong."
"Old man, I'm going to polish it."
Master Jiang was diligent in his work. He took the outer edge of the disc and polished it for a long time, then carefully wiped it clean and handed it over.
Zhang Yang tried again, "Well, it's much better this time."
Master Lao Jiang sat down cross-legged again and suddenly smiled.
Zhang Yang said in surprise: "Master, why are you laughing?"
Master Jiang added: "When I first met you in Chang'an City, a clean young man came to work. Now I see that you are still so clean."
Zhang Yang looked at the old master's hands, which were covered with calluses. There were also a lot of dirt on the fingerprints and gullies.
"I haven't asked you in all these years, are you married and starting a family?"
Zhang Yang kept assembling it with his hands, "I'm married. I have a daughter who is seven months old."
The old master asked again: "Where are your parents?"
He asked in a low voice, but when Zhang Yang was silent and didn't answer, Master Jiang understood clearly, "The war back then left too many orphans and widows. It must have been difficult for you when you were a child."
Zhang Yang smiled and said, "It was okay when I was a kid. I met a lot of good people."
"I used to go around looking for places where the government distributed porridge, eating and drinking, but I couldn't get hungry."
"Then I followed a Taoist priest, and he was very kind to me. Later, he found a sweetheart, and the sweetheart gave birth to a child for him. He said it would be difficult to raise a child, so he kicked me out."
"Then there was a severe drought in Guanzhong. I stayed on a mountain alone for half a year, with nothing to eat or drink."
"...After that, a bunch of gangsters came to the mountain. They were not smart. I followed them and ate and drank freely for more than half a year. If the government hadn't been chasing them, I would have fooled them and made them willing to worship me. The leader becomes the bandit leader of a local bandit."
"It's a pity that the world is not good. The government is suppressing rebellions everywhere. When we reach the mountain, and people's hearts are not ancient, the bandits abandon me and run away. Originally, I was going to be punished with hard labor, so I sent these bandits to the place where they fled. I sold it to the government and they exempted me from hard labor.”
"After that, there was still a severe drought in Guanzhong. I followed a group of refugees to Chang'an City, eating and drinking under the escort of the government."
Listening to this boy's experience, Master Jiang took a breath and said, "You just came here like this?"
Zhang Yang took out a bag of gunpowder and poured it into it, and carefully installed the trigger primer. "You see, I lived quite well during the years of exile."
"What about before?" Master Jiang asked again.
"What happened before..." Zhang Yang hesitated for a while and said, "That's it, it's the same as everyone else."
Master Jiang patted him on the shoulder, "It's easy to listen to what you said, but it's difficult to reach Chang'an City alive."
"It's not bad. We Guanzhong villagers help each other a lot. I'm alone and no one makes it difficult for me."
Master Jiang clicked his tongue and said: "A person like you can live well even if you are left in the mountains, hahaha! You are a hard-working person."
Zhang Yang carefully installed the safety buckle, tied a ring, and the earth mine was assembled.
"Next time when my child is older, I will bring him to Master Jiang to meet him."
"Okay, okay." He couldn't help but nodded, "I don't know whose girl you married, she must have a good life."
"She is very nice, loves money and is a bit picky."
Zhang Yang put the earth mine into a wooden box as he spoke, "Master Jiang, let me try it first. If it works, we can continue to cast it."
Master Jiang smiled and nodded, "You go ahead. The matters assigned by His Highness King Wei must be handled well."
"Don't worry."
Zhang Yang walked into Lishan Mountain carrying Tu Lei. This was a forest where few people usually set foot. It was also the sunny side of Lishan Mountain. The emperor and his entourage were on the other side of Lishan Mountain.
After carefully checking the surrounding area to confirm that no one was around, he dug a hole in the ground, carefully lowered the earth mine, and buried it with earth again.
I don't know how noisy this thing is. If it alarms anyone, just find an excuse to fool them.
After planting it, slowly pull out the safety ring, and an earth mine is buried.
Step by step away from the earth mine, Zhang Yang picked up stones along the way, from big to small.
One meter away, Zhang Yang threw stones towards the place where the earth mine was buried.
It didn't explode the first time, and it didn't explode the second time. I threw a fist-sized rock again, but there was still no reaction.
Zhang Yang frowned and typed out the drawing again and looked at it carefully.
At this moment, a rabbit happened to pass by. As he was looking around, Zhang Yang threw a stone at it in annoyance, trying to drive it away.
The rabbit ran away when he saw this, and accidentally stepped on an earth mine.
I saw the rabbit stepped on Lei Gang and ran three or two steps away. There was an explosion, clods of soil flew everywhere, and the birds and beasts in the mountain fled in all directions.
The rabbit was lying not far away without any movement.
Zhang Yang put away the drawings and was satisfied, "Brother Rabbit is so strong! Brother Rabbit has a good trip."
The scene was in a mess, clods of earth were flying everywhere, and the mines had long been blown to pieces.
Looking at Brother Rabbit's condition again, half of his body was covered in blood and flesh and he couldn't bear to look at it. Zhang Yang clicked his tongue and said: "From now on, my earth thunder will be called, Rabbit Thunder! Brother Rabbit, just close your eyes. Lishan will be grateful for your feat today." From now on, I have the confidence to protect myself.”
"The Tang Dynasty is also strong because of your feats."
"Because of your feat, no foreign enemy will dare to offend you in the Central Plains."
…
After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Yang buried its body and felt happy.
After cleaning up the scene, I took the drawings home.
There is a problem that I have never considered before. Even with a triggered primer, the sensitivity of the primer is still a big problem.
There was no response after being hit with rocks several times. It is possible that the primer hit the primer, but the primer did not burn, so it did not detonate.
It is a bad trigger situation. In this case, whether the earth mine explodes or not is completely related to luck.
It's like an old appliance. You press the switch again and again, and you can't tell which time it turns on.
This is what happened to Brother Rabbit. His luck is really overwhelming!
There are still many shortcomings, especially the composition of some primers that need to be improved.
Zhang Yang walked all the way, holding a pen and writing experimental records and results on the drawings.
It's not very powerful, and can kill a rabbit at most.
It is enough to deal with war horses and pedestrians.
If you want to increase lethality in the future, there are many ways to look for it.
After recording these, I have already arrived at the door of my house.
His wife was coaxing her crying daughter at home. Zhang Yang saw two bowls of smoothies on the table, so he picked up one of them and ate it.
Xu Hui stood aside with dull eyes.
Xiao Wu was also a little at a loss.
Zhang Yang asked doubtfully: "What's wrong?"
Xu Hui pursed her lips and said nothing, her eyes full of grievance.
Xiao Wu added: "I will give half the bowl to Xiao Hui, and we will eat together."
It turned out that the bowl he was eating belonged to Xu Hui, and the two little girls were preparing to eat with wooden spoons in their hands.
Is there no one in this family who prepares a bowl of smoothie just for me, the man of the house?
Li Yue held the child in her arms and said doubtfully, "My husband smells so much of gunpowder smoke."
Zhang Yang put down the drawing and said, "The experiment was successful."
First she glanced at the two little girls in the yard, and she whispered: "My husband went to do an experiment, did anyone find out?"
Zhang Yang nodded and said, "It's right where we set off the fireworks. Very few people go there. Your father's guards are all on the east side of Lishan Mountain."
Li Yue was still a little uneasy, "Is that thing really going to blow people up?"
"It won't kill people. It's not that powerful. If someone steps on it, the skin will be torn apart. With the current treatment conditions, if it is serious, the entire leg will be destroyed."
Li Yue has played with firecrackers and knows the lethality of explosions. "Husband, we only want to protect ourselves."
"I've already given this thing a name. It's called Rabbit Thunder."
"Rabbit thunder?"
"This thing was possible because of the feat of a rabbit. I will always remember it in my heart, but the rabbit meat still has to be eaten."
