"Don't be angry, Lord Pei, my family official is seriously ill and has not recovered, if there is anything that offends Your Majesty, I hope that Your Excellency will say a lot of good words in front of Your Majesty." In addition to Hong Tao and Pei Ying in the house, Lian'er was also there, and when she saw that the horse refused to beg for mercy, she couldn't help it a little and wanted to help say a soft word.

"Shut up, how can you be a woman who can make noise about such a major event in the court? Serve the pony well, don't let the eldest princess worry is your duty! Unexpectedly, Pei Ying immediately turned her face, and she didn't dare to raise her head when she trained Lian'er, and she was not so honest when Hong Tao trained her.

"Lord Pei, Your Majesty's mood can be understood, but the production of armor can not be accelerated just by talking, with the current scale of Wujin Xing, three craftsmen with a daily output of twenty is the most suitable, no matter how fast it is, the quality cannot be guaranteed. If more manpower is mobilized, the progress of other processes will be affected. If Your Majesty really needs more armor, and when the land freezes after the beginning of spring, the minister will build two more waterwheels and hire more manpower, and it will not be difficult to have 100 bodies a day. ”

Hong Tao didn't dare to stand up for Lian'er, because the status of women at this time was really not so high, high enough to participate in talking about government politics. Especially Lian'er's identity, she can be a lady when the princess is away, but she is still a maid in front of the princess, and the master has a part in interjecting when she talks.

But on the issue of output, he still has something to defend himself, and it is understandable that he is anxious, but science is science, and it cannot be transferred by human will. It cannot be said that the emperor ordered the production of 100 sets of armor per day, and the iron-making furnace would shorten the smelting time and the punch would speed up the fall.

I really can't give in on this issue, and I can't do it myself after I get used to this problem. Another day, the emperor suddenly ate something that he didn't digest, slapped his head, and let himself get 100,000 arrows a day, and he couldn't continue to agree!

"When did Your Majesty say that you want too much armor?" Pei Ying also let the horse say that he was confused, twenty is not enough? How much more?

"I don't know what Your Majesty's will is?" Guessed wrong? Didn't the emperor think that the production speed was slow?

This made Hong Tao even more incomprehensible, the quality of the armor he sent was definitely fine, it had been tested several times, as long as no one burned it with fire, there would be no problem.

"Can you really produce twenty armor a day with three craftsmen? Now that I think about it, a certain family is going to verify it for His Majesty. It doesn't hurt to have a little less, I will show Your Majesty that the craftsman is not lazy, and the horse has not deceived the king, but it is indeed not easy to produce in the cold weather. Pei Ying seemed to understand the meaning of the concubine a little, he misunderstood the emperor and his own purpose, and thought the opposite.

"Could it be that Your Majesty thinks that the minister is joking? Please Master Pei move, hearing is false, seeing is believing. Hong Tao also realized the problem, he had only heard of it being too slow, but he had not heard of it being too fast, how could he catch up with this kind of strange thing.

I don't believe it, it's so easy to do, go to the punch made by Jin Huo and see where it is. I knew that Pei Ying was here for this, and he shouldn't have been invited into the house at all, Lian'er was really wronged by this training.

Returning to Jinhuozuo again, Pei Yingcai noticed that there was a very strange building standing behind the house near the bank of the Bashui River, saying that the house did not look like a house, and that the ladder was too thick.

"What kind of stone is this?" The first thing I felt when I approached was that the ground was flat and hard, which was not the same as the stone in the palace.

"It's not stone, it's made of 10,000 catties of molten iron. Not only the ground, but also the two pillars and the middle platform are made of pure iron, and the upper half can be lifted and lowered by a water wheel, and can be formed in an instant with different molds...... Big head, go get some semi-finished products and show them to Master Pei. ”

In fact, it is not clear how many tons of iron Hong Tao used in this primitive press, but it doesn't matter, the ancients have always been not very interested in numbers, just flickering high, thousands of catties, ten thousand catties are very pleasing sayings.

As for the structure, principle, and working method of the stamping machine, don't talk nonsense with an old man like Pei Ying, he can't understand it if he talks too much, the easiest way is to come to an on-site operation and let him see it with his own eyes. How to convey it to the emperor when he goes back, that is his task, and it has nothing to do with him.

"Divine power, stainless steel is like paper and silk in front of this thing, it is really divine power!" Soon Pei Ying saw how that ugly and incomparably ugly armor came about.

Just send the steel plate of suitable thickness into the middle of this iron platform that can be opened and closed up and down and press it with a mold, and then hit the mold by a huge hammer on it, one at a time, and the formed armor piece will come out, exactly the same as the one given to the emperor. If you calculate it this way, 20 bodies a day seems to be a little less, and 200 is not too much.

"Master Pei must not think so, this thing is just one of the processes, the steel needs to be cast and forged after being baked, before it can be turned into a thin and uniform plate. These nails cannot be used directly, and they must be used for heat treatment, polishing the corners, pasting the seam lining, and assembling to be qualified. None of these processes are missing, and what these three people are doing in front of them is inseparable from the support of hundreds of craftsmen, and even more inseparable from the difference between His Majesty's Shengming and the Lord's thoughts......"

Just now, I thought that twenty bodies a day was bragging, but now I want to have two hundred bodies a day, Hong Tao really can't cry or laugh, and he has to continue to explain, killing can't make Pei Ying and the emperor feel that this thing is particularly easy.

"Pei Ying is a foolish person, don't worry about the horse, I will pass on your words to Your Majesty word for word, where is the little kite?" Pei Ying shook his hand to stop the colt from going on, and looked left and right, his face was a little unsightly.

"Uh...... I gave him a new name, Wasp, and at this time I was supposed to test a new weapon for my subordinate by the river to the north, and I don't think I knew that Master Pei had arrived. ”

Wasps are addicted to one thing these days and have to play with it for a long time every day. That thing Hong Tao didn't want to make it on a large scale, because the conditions didn't allow it, so he could only use it as a secret weapon and hand it over to the wasp to practice, and the more neatly he played, the safer he would be in the future.

This kind of hidden weapon is actually a reverse compound pulley crossbow, which is made of spring steel plate as a crossbow arm and a steel drill made of steel as an arrow, and the size is very small, only more than a foot wide and less than two feet long, and it does not look like a weapon.

But within a distance of twenty meters, this thing is still very vicious, the stainless steel crossbow arrow has no arrows and arrow feathers like chopsticks, it is a steel rod, and no armor can stop it, and it is directly pierced.

And its rate of fire is quite fast, it can be wound with one hand, and the nine crossbow arrows are all packed in a rectangular box, and one of them will automatically fall when fired, and will be attached to the magnet of the arrow groove, and it will not fall when swinging and running.