In the southern suburbs of Xianyang City, there is a huge manor built against the mountains.
There are tall walls surrounding the manor, which looks like a small castle from a distance.
To the left and right of the main gate of the manor, there are two majestic bronze statues holding spears.
Right above the gate is a huge plaque that reads: Gongshu clan.
This is where the famous Gongshu family is located.
Unlike Qin Mo who worked for the Shaofu, the Gongshu family was an independent 'family business'.
This family mainly builds advanced weapon samples for the Qin Army, and then hands them to the Central Military Manufacturing Company for mass production.
It is equivalent to the military weapons development company of later generations.
Although there were no soldiers standing guard outside the manor and there were only two bronze statues, no one dared to approach the manor.
Not to mention climbing over the towering walls.
People within a ten-mile radius had legends that the Gongshu clan could transform bronze vessels into human-shaped weapons, which they could use to fight and attack cities.
Moreover, there are countless hidden bronze weapons in Gongshu's manor. As long as he approaches the manor, he will be shot mercilessly by various hidden weapons, which is so terrifying.
At this time, a huge bronze brazier was burning in the main hall of Gongshu Manor.
To the left, right and above the brazier, there are seven tables with seven men of all kinds kneeling on them.
The man sitting in the main seat is a rickety old man with a white beard, while the men sitting on the left and right are mostly middle-aged, and everyone looks powerful.
"Master Zhang just sent someone to deliver a message, saying that he would come to visit the Gongshu family. What do you think?"
The old man sitting in the main seat spoke in a hoarse voice, unhurriedly.
"Hasn't Shaofu Zhang always had a close relationship with the Mo family? Why do you want to visit my Gongshu family?" One of the middle-aged people asked with a frown.
The old man glanced at him lightly, shook his head and said: "I don't know what he meant. Now the Great Qin is going to war against the Xiongnu, Donghu, and Qiang at the same time. It needs the help of my father-in-law Shu. Our energy should be focused on developing weapons. Bar!"
"What the patriarch said is absolutely true!"
Everyone nodded slightly and agreed.
At this moment, a younger middle-aged man suddenly said: "Then who will receive Mr. Zhang?"
"Let me tell you first, I am busy and have no time to receive anyone. If the clan leader hadn't summoned me, I wouldn't have wanted to come here."
"Yes, yes, me too. If there's nothing else, I'll leave first."
"Wait, there's me, the clan leader, I'm leaving."
As he spoke, everyone, including the younger middle-aged man, stood up one after another, bowed to the old man, and then left the main hall.
Seeing this, the old man did not stop them. He turned to look at a middle-aged man sitting on the far left.
"Gongshu Cheng, it's up to you to receive Master Zhang."
"yes."
In the Gongshu family, only those who have no research results will be assigned family affairs.
And this middle-aged man is obviously not as good as the middle-aged men just now, so he has no choice.
At the same time that Gongshu decided who would receive Zhang Cang.
On a road outside the manor, a carriage was slowly advancing.
"Sir, the Gongshu family is in front of us."
Zhang Cang, who was sitting on the carriage, introduced Zhao Hao with a smile.
Zhao Hao nodded slightly, pondered for a few times, and then asked: "Why doesn't this person from the Gongshu clan want to set foot in Xianyang City?"
"Young Master should be aware of the grudge between Gongshu Ban and Mozi. In fact, before Qin Mo defected to Qin, the Gongshu family was the first family to defect to Qin. However, the Gongshu family did not like to travel around the world and only liked to specialize in studying equipment. This caused most people to I only know the Mohist family, but I don’t know the Gongshu family.”
"Later, the Gongshu clan was slandered by the remnants of the Six Kingdoms led by Yan Dan, which led to its lower and lower reputation, and finally established the orthodoxy of the Mohist clan."
When Zhang Cang said this, he paused and then changed the topic: "However, Your Majesty thought that the Gongshu clan had made great military exploits in order to wipe out the six countries, so he specially gave them this fiefdom to build a manor belonging to the Gongshu clan, so that they could concentrate on their work. Develop weapons without interference from the outside world.”
Zhao Hao suddenly realized, and then said with a strange expression: "So, the Gongshu clan is unwilling to set foot in Xianyang City because one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers?"
"Haha, the young master's description is apt. It is true that there is no room for two tigers in one mountain."
"Hey, what's the point of this? They're just on the same journey but different styles. I really don't understand."
Zhao Hao shook his head and sighed, then suddenly thought of something and looked at Zhang Cang: "I have confirmed what you said to my father. Let's wait and see what happens."
"Son."
Zhang Cang reacted for a moment, looked around quickly, and found nothing unusual, then said cautiously: "He is just a madman, I'm afraid."
"Don't worry, I have asked my senior brother to protect you secretly. Just pretend that nothing happened and do as he said," Zhao Hao comforted calmly.
"But."
"Okay, we're here."
Zhao Hao waved his hand to interrupt what Zhang Cang wanted to say, and looked ahead as if nothing had happened.
At this time, a middle-aged man and two young men were standing at the door to greet them.
Seeing this, Zhang Cang stopped talking, quickly adjusted his attitude, stepped out of the carriage, and greeted Gongshu Cheng: "Everyone, Gongshu, it's been a long time, how are you doing?"
"Young Master Zhang is here in person, and the flowers are shining brightly. It's naturally great!"
Gongshu Cheng came forward with a smile and saluted Zhang Cang.
Zhang Cang returned the greeting and said with the same smile, "This visit is not for official reasons. It's because Young Master Hao has heard about Gongshu's name for a long time and wants to come and have a look. I wonder if it can be convenient?"
"Gongzi Hao?"
Gong Sucheng frowned, as if he was trying to remember which young master it was.
At this moment, Zhao Hao stepped forward with a smile on his face: "Everyone in Gongshu doesn't know Hao, but Hao can understand. After all, Hao rarely shows up outside the palace."
"Um?"
Gongshu Cheng was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but follow the sound, but saw a child about ten years old slowly walking towards him.
"Let me introduce you. This is Your Majesty's Thirteenth Prince, Young Master Hao." Zhang Cang raised his hand to indicate.
"oh."
Gongshu Cheng was stunned, and then he quickly saluted Zhao Hao: "Gongshu Cheng, greeting Gongzi Hao!"
"Excuse me, have you guys developed any new equipment recently?"
Zhao Hao waved his hand and asked casually.
"It's a shame to say that the Gongshu clan was honored by His Majesty's favor to build equipment for the empire. Now it seems that the company is stuck in a bottleneck and has no new equipment output, but the Gongshu clan is studying how to improve the smelting technique!"
Gongshu Cheng answered truthfully.
Zhao Hao smiled and shook his head: "Bronze forging has reached its peak. Even if we study bronze alloys, we will not make much progress. We might as well study iron tools!"
"oh?"
When Gongshu Cheng heard Zhao Hao's words, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "Young Master also knows the art of smelting?"
In his opinion, iron tools were far inferior to bronze tools in terms of sharpness and toughness.
No research required at all.
This Young Master Hao doesn't know anything, and he still comes here to teach me. It's really ridiculous.
But Zhao Hao did not answer Gongshu Cheng. He only took a brief look at Gongshu's manor and said with interest: "Before I came here, I heard that this manor is not simple. I wonder if it is the same as the rumors."
"Does the young master know the secret?"
Gongshu Chengpi asked with a smile, saying to his heart that you can tell that my last name is yours.
Zhao Hao was honest and shook his head directly: "No."
It is indeed a waste!
Gongshu Cheng thought this in his mind and was about to speak when he heard Zhao Hao say again: "But I can break through this manor without any effort!"
"Master, what do you mean by this!?"
Gong Shucheng's face turned cold and he asked solemnly.
He felt that even if Zhao Hao was the prince, he could not run wild on the Gongshu clan's territory. After all, the Qin Dynasty governed the country by law, and the prince's crime was the same as the common people.
Moreover, the First Emperor was wise and wise, and it was impossible for him to condone his son's wanton behavior.
Coupled with Gongshu's overbearing mechanism skills, which combine offense and defense, even the Mohists would not dare to destroy Gongshu's mechanisms lightly, let alone a prince who had some knowledge of mechanism skills.
Therefore, even when facing Zhao Hao, Gong Shucheng was neither humble nor overbearing.
Zhao Hao glanced at him sideways and said with some humor: "Don't misunderstand me, Gongshu. I have no other intention, I just want to show you something fun."
With that said, he gestured to Yan Le on the carriage behind him: "Go."
"promise."
Yan Le accepted the promise, took out a bamboo tube from the cloth bag, jumped off the carriage, walked to a position about ten feet away from the carriage, and lit the bamboo tube fuse under the confused eyes of Gong Shucheng and others.
Then quickly put it away.
Just listen to the sound of "sizzling", coming faintly from the direction of the bamboo tube.
At this time, Gongshu Cheng and others looked at Zhao Hao with strange expressions.
Zhao Hao smiled and said nothing, and then thunderbolts rang out from the sky, accompanied by a loud bang. The two young men beside Gong Shucheng were so shocked that they fell down directly holding their heads.
Even Zhang Cang, who had been prepared, almost fell to the ground.
The horses, which were far away from each other, heard the sound and began to neigh loudly.
Soon, the air was filled with a pungent smell, and everyone was shocked and speechless.
What is this?
Are there demons and ghosts sealed in that bamboo tube?
Did you just break through the seal and get struck by lightning? !
Everyone looked in the direction of the bamboo tube in astonishment, waiting for the monsters to appear.
But what was waiting was not monsters, but Zhao Hao's words that seemed to be smiling but not smiling; "Do you believe everyone now? I want to destroy your manor, so I don't need to try my best!"
"this"
Gongshu Cheng opened his mouth, but hesitated. After a long while, he mechanically turned his neck, looked at Zhao Hao blankly and said, "What is this?"
"A gunpowder firecracker!" Zhao Hao replied casually.
"What is a gunpowder firecracker?"
"This explanation makes me a little thirsty. I wonder if everyone can treat me to some hot tea?"
"Huh? Oh oh oh"
When Gongshu Cheng heard Zhao Hao's words, he realized that he and others were outside the door. He quickly apologized to Zhao Hao and bowed to signal him to come in: "Young Master, please come inside. I apologize for not knowing the etiquette and neglecting the Young Master!"
"Haha, it doesn't matter. I, the Qin Dynasty, value craftsmen, etiquette is nothing. Only Confucian scholars value those things."
Zhao Hao smiled and waved his hand, and then followed Gongshu Cheng into the manor.
When he came to the hall, Zhao Hao looked at the brazier and said with a smile, "Gongshu is really considerate. He knew we were coming and warmed the house in advance."
"hehe."
Gongshu Cheng smiled awkwardly and did not answer. He turned to the two young men behind him and ordered: "Hurry and prepare tea for the young master."
"No need to bother, just have some hot tea, I'll talk and leave."
Zhao Hao waved his hand, found a table at random, sat down and said, "Actually, I came to Gongshu today to ask for your help!"
"help?"
Gongshu Cheng was stunned and looked at Zhao Hao with some confusion.
Zhao Hao nodded solemnly: "Yes! Just to help. You saw the gunpowder firecracker just now. I want to make a gunpowder weapon."
"Gunpowder weapons? Do you have a picture?"
"Yes! But only you can see it, others will die if they see it!"
"Ah? This"
Gongshu Cheng was so surprised that he was speechless.
Zhao Hao glanced at him and said calmly and indifferently: "You can choose not to look or not to help. The choice is yours."
"No! I want to see it!"
Before Zhao Hao could finish his words, Gongshu Cheng immediately made a decision and said: "I am willing to help you!"
"Haha, why is this? We just met, why don't you think about it?"
"Young master, you don't know. My Gongshu family has always dreamed of developing a mechanism that can completely crush the Mohist family. However, your gunpowder firecracker has given me, Gongshu family, hope!"
Gong Shucheng's expression was vaguely excited.
As we all know, the most proficient in mechanism skills in the world are Gongshu Jia and Mohism.
And the two of them, because of their ideals, always hate each other and always want to crush each other.
"In that case, let's take a look at the drawings first."
Zhao Hao was happy and took out a blueprint directly from his arms and handed it to Gong Shucheng.
"What is this?"
Before Gong Shucheng even looked at the content on the drawing, he was first attracted by the drawing itself.
Zhao Hao was slightly stunned and turned to look at Zhang Cang.
Zhang Cang said with some humor: "Don't blame me, sir, the paper produced by the workshop has not been delivered here yet, they don't know about it."
As he spoke, he looked up at Gong Shucheng and explained: "This thing is called rice paper. It is a kind of writing instrument. Don't study this. It was created by the young master. You should mainly study the content on the paper."
"I never expected that the young master, with his great talent, could create such exquisite things."
Gongsucheng came back to his senses and praised with emotion.
Zhao Hao smiled awkwardly but politely, saying to himself that he was acting cowardly again for no reason, how troubled he was!
However, Gong Shucheng did not dwell on the paper. Instead, he followed Zhang Cang's words and focused his attention on the drawings.
He saw an instrument similar to a 'crutch' drawn on the drawing, which he had never seen before.
"This picture was painted by Young Master?"
Gong Shucheng just took one look and was shocked by the picture.
Because this picture not only draws the 'crutch', but also draws side views, cross-sections, and component style drawings.
Moreover, there are detailed labels on each picture, so that people can see at a glance what kind of materials are used in this place, what size they are made, and what their functions are.
For everyone with an institution like Gongshu Cheng, just by looking at the picture, the whole picture of the thing will appear in their mind.
"The thing in this picture should be a weapon. There is a mechanism similar to a crossbow under the handle. It should be fired by pulling the mechanism. Also, the front end of this thing is cylindrical, not like a short arrow. Yes, it seems to be firing some kind of hidden weapon."
Gong Shucheng quickly deduced the function of the firearm from the drawings and roughly analyzed its principles.
"Since this is called a gunpowder weapon and there is no launching device, I guess gunpowder is the focus of the launch. Is it the principle of the gunpowder firecracker just now? If so, it must be very powerful and can be said to be extremely domineering."
Gong Shucheng seemed to be immersed in this beautiful drawing. His expression was sometimes solemn, sometimes happy, and sometimes crazy. He even forgot about Zhao Hao and Zhang Cang beside him. He couldn't help but slowly stood up and walked back and forth with the drawing, as if he was thinking about more. Many mysteries.
"Gongshu Cheng!"
Zhang Cang saw that Gong Shucheng looked like he was about to become possessed. He subconsciously glanced at Zhao Hao and found that Zhao Hao was looking at him with interest. He couldn't help but call him out quickly before waking him up.
"Ah? Oh! Young Master, Mr. Zhang, I'm sorry, I lost my temper."
Gongshu Qiu Rumeng woke up and quickly saluted Zhao Hao and Zhao Hao, but he held the drawing tightly in his hand, as if he valued it more than he did his wife.
"It doesn't matter. Now that you've seen the drawings, can you fulfill my request?"
"Reporting to you, sir, Gongshu Cheng will certainly live up to your expectations. I just don't know what the name of this thing is?"
Zhao Hao thought for a while and slowly said three words: "Vulcan Gun!"
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