At two o'clock in the afternoon, it was just dawn, and Master Nie, who had just turned eighteen years old, finally got up.
After Master Nie washed up, he first went to the ironmaking room. After checking the iron ore and coal delivered, he turned around and went to the craftsmanship room that was divided yesterday.
The few carpenters Shouhou brought here yesterday live here.
They rested fearfully all night, had a meal today, and then no one paid attention to them.
This made the wait quite unbearable for them.
Finally, under the eager eyes of the four people, Master Nie walked in with a dozen smart-looking guys.
"Masters, did you have a good rest last night?"
Nie Chen greeted the four of them with a smile.
"Get some rest, Your Majesty, you don't know what you want us to do?"
The four carpenters quickly stood up and saluted.
"Don't call me king. I'm not the king of the mountain. I just want to ask for your help."
"It's like this. I will draw a few drawings later, and then lead you to make things with your own hands. After you learn it, I will teach these crafts to these dozen brothers. When they learn it, I will I'll pay you your wages and send you off the mountain.
Don't worry, the price I offer is twice what you pay for the work outside. "
"Come all with me."
Nie Chen found a table outside, took out pen and paper, and began to write and draw.
What he wants to make is not only repeating crossbows, but also military-breaking crossbows and city-breaking crossbows.
The repeating crossbow is an individual soldier's equipment. It is not powerful and can be picked up and used by one person.
The army-breaking crossbow requires the combined efforts of three people to pull it open. In the case of a battle between two armies, one arrow can penetrate three or four people.
The city-breaking crossbow is a heavy bed crossbow. It can no longer be pulled by manpower. It requires the pulling force of five horses. The crossbow arrows are also made of thick trees. One arrow can break the battlements. It is used for In siege warfare, the effect is no worse than the trebuchet, and the accuracy is much higher than the trebuchet.
Now the main thing is to make the Repeating Crossbow and the Army-breaking Crossbow first, and then purchase the materials needed for the City-breaking Crossbow after selling the money.
In fact, he can teach those people to learn how to make it himself, but people without basic skills will learn very slowly. He has other work to do and is very busy.
He can only find skilled masters first, teach them, and then let them teach others. In this way, he will have time to do other things.
Just when Nie Chen was busy hitting the back of his head with his foot, there was an undercurrent surging in Qingshui County.
Liu's Mansion is located in the center of the city and is a large house.
The Liu family was originally one of the largest households in Weihu County, with business spread throughout the county. Because it bordered the northern grasslands, they often did business with the grassland people and made a lot of money.
They settled in Qingshui County, which is close to the grassland, instead of the county town, just to facilitate business with the grassland people.
During this period, after overthrowing the Nie family, they took over all the Nie family's cloth, porcelain and other businesses and made more money.
It's just that the current head of the Liu family has a gloomy look on his face, and he is not at all happy about taking over the Nie family's business.
White flags were fluttering and white cloth was hung on the wall. The head of the Liu family was sitting in the mourning hall, with a sad face and crying twice from time to time.
People around did not dare to breathe for fear of angering the master. I heard that when Master Liu Chong died two days ago, the master's personal maid accidentally fell while walking. The master was furious and killed her. That maid was beaten to death and buried by the young master.
At this moment, a woman wearing white cloth walked in.
The woman has a graceful and slender figure. She walks with light steps, her back is straight, her hands are placed on her lower abdomen, and she behaves elegantly.
Looking at her face again, she has clear outlines, pointed cheeks, oval face, curved eyebrows, high nose bridge, bright red mouth, and a pair of red and phoenix eyes, with sharp gaze and a heroic spirit between her eyebrows.
Judging by her appearance alone, she is a beautiful woman, but her aggressive eyes reveal her shrewd and capable character.
"Dad, I'm still sad."
Liu Jia sat on the chair, picked up the tea cup, took a sip, and looked sideways at the head of the Liu family.
"How can I not be sad? I am just a son, and he was harmed by a gangster like this. Ouch, my heart..."
The head of the Liu family clutched his chest, feeling extremely sad.
"A piece of trash, let him die if he dies. Why are you sad?"
Liu Jia snorted coldly.
"You... look what you are saying, he is your biological brother!"
"Brother? A younger brother who, together with Nie Chen, is known as the two biggest dandies in Qingshui County. I feel ashamed.
Old man, when I agreed to get engaged to Nie Chen, I wanted to help you bring down the Nie family. Now that the Nie family has collapsed, should I give the things I promised you? "
Looking at his daughter's aggressive eyes, the head of the Liu family sighed.
He named his daughter Liu Jia because he hoped that she could stay at home and not marry far away. Sooner or later she would be able to fulfill her filial piety by his side and be a gentle and respectful woman.
I named my son Liu Chong because I wanted my son to be able to rush forward and make the Liu family's business bigger and stronger and create greater glory.
But who would have thought that the son was a good-for-nothing, spending all day drinking wine and sleeping in flower houses, but the daughter was smart and capable, and managed the family business in an orderly manner.
"Oh, my daughter, I know that you have long wanted to take control of all the family business, and I also know that you have the ability.
Now that your brother is dead, it stands to reason that all our family's property must belong to you.
But since ancient times, there has been no precedent for women to inherit family property. Your uncles, uncles, and cousins are all thinking about the family property.
Now that our family is dead, they are even more eyeing. "
"Humph, a bunch of little ones."
Liu Jia had a sneer on her lips and said quietly,
"Then just kill them all."
The head of the Liu family was shocked.
"you……"
"Dad, don't you want to know who killed Liu Chong?"
"who?"
When the head of the Liu family heard this, he immediately became energetic and didn't care about his daughter's rebellious words just now.
"In the past two days, there have been rumors in the city that Niubaishan has made a fortune recently, and the people who come down to buy things are very arrogant.
Someone heard with their own ears that the minions said that they were not short of money in Niu Kuei Mountain, and they even bought things worth hundreds of taels of silver back.
Dad, tell me, Dingdangxiang Niuhuishan, who has always been poor, how can he have the money to spend like this? "
Liu Jia looked at his father with cold eyes.
"Niujie Mountain?"
"Horse and cow bill?"
The head of the Liu family suddenly had a cold light flashing in his eyes, and his face became increasingly gloomy.
"I remembered that last year, when a batch of our goods was sent here from the county town, the bandits from Niubai Mountain went to rob them without any foresight, but they were repulsed by our bodyguards. Killed several of their men.
Then there was no movement. I originally thought that they were afraid of our Liu family, but I didn't expect that they were just holding back bad news here. "
