Traveling to another world and becoming a local owner

After having Fusheng's family settled down, Zhang Ling hurried back to his room. He had been wanting to make something for a while. If he couldn't find a blacksmith, he would draw out the scattered parts and take them separately to find someone to customize them.

As his family business slowly grew, Zhang Ling felt a little uneasy. Money is attractive, and if he made a fortune every day, it would sooner or later attract the covetousness of others and cause some unnecessary trouble.

Temporary well-being only means that you are not rich enough. If you want to continue to grow, if you don’t have the guarantee of strength, sooner or later someone will have evil intentions.

Zhang Ling wrote quickly, and a huge crossbow slowly appeared on the paper.

When he was in college, he had a roommate who was very fond of military equipment. When others were talking about luxury cars and beautiful women, he was always chattering and telling Zhang Ling about various guns and weapons, from their origins to their development and military applications.

Influenced by what he saw and heard, Zhang Ling would occasionally pay attention to some of these in his spare time. For a science and engineering man, these things seemed full of temptation. Once you get into them, you can't extricate yourself. When Zhang Ling was in the library, he also read a lot of such books, among which there was a pinnacle of cold weapons - the compound crossbow.

Although crossbows exist in this world, they have a short range, low power, and are difficult and time-consuming to load, so they are rarely used. Both hunters and the military prefer bows and arrows.

The biggest difference between a repeating crossbow and an ordinary crossbow is that the former can load multiple crossbow arrows at a time and quickly wind up the bow, so that the time it takes to shoot an arrow is no more than one second, while the latter can only load one crossbow arrow first, then laboriously draw the bow to its full length before shooting.

The working principle of the compound crossbow is derived from Zhuge Liannu. It is equipped with a quiver, which can be loaded once and fired multiple times. It consists of two parts: the crossbow body and the quiver, which are connected by a movable bolt. The quiver can also be designed in two types. The small quiver can hold ten crossbow arrows, and the large quiver can hold twenty.

When using it, you only need to put the crossbow arrows into the quiver in advance, and then push the handle on the quiver. The lower end of the quiver is grooved, and a thimble is installed at the bottom of the groove. When the handle is pushed forward, the quiver moves forward and tilts. The front half faces down, and the back half rises. Due to the change in position, the crossbow string will be stuck in the groove. Then pull the handle back, the quiver will reset, and the thimble will hit the crossbow body to lift the crossbow string. The taut crossbow string will be ejected instantly, and drive the crossbow arrow to be fired.

The small compound crossbow is 60 cm long and has an effective range of 100 meters. The larger crossbow is 100 cm long and has an effective range of 200 meters. The crossbow blade is made of spring steel, which has excellent elastic limit and fatigue resistance to ensure that the crossbow has sufficient elastic deformation ability and can withstand large loads.

It was almost noon when Zhang Ling finished drawing the blueprint of the compound crossbow. After a quick lunch, he hurriedly found Fusheng and Cao Shuan.

"You two take a look at this thing and see if you are sure you can make it." Zhang Ling spread the blueprint out on the corridor in the backyard and said excitedly.

"Master, is this a crossbow? Why does it look so strange?" Fusheng leaned over and took a closer look, looking confused. Although this thing looked somewhat similar to an ordinary crossbow, its shape was too strange.

"Yes, young master, why is there a box on it?" Cao Shuan couldn't help but ask curiously.

"This is called a compound repeating crossbow, you can just call it a repeating crossbow! The one above is the quiver, you just need to..." Zhang Ling patiently explained to the two of them the working principle and manufacturing method of the repeating crossbow.

"My God, young master, how did you come up with this kind of thing? It's incredible just by listening to it, it's simply unbelievable!" Fusheng roughly understood it and immediately exclaimed.

"If we had something like this, wouldn't we be invincible on the battlefield?" Cao Shuan also looked stunned, with a hint of excitement in his eyes.

"Well, that does make sense, but this thing has to be made first. Don't spread this matter out for the time being, you two should quickly think of a way to make it." Zhang Ling stood with his hands behind his back, looking solemn.

"Young master, where are the spinning wheel and loom?" Cao Shuan couldn't help but ask when he heard this.

"Don't worry about those things for now. We can deal with them slowly when we have time. Anyway, we don't need them now." Zhang Ling waved his hand.

"Okay, Master."

"Young master, to make this thing, we must have blacksmithing tools, and we also have to build a blacksmithing furnace." Fusheng hesitated for a moment and said with a sad face.

"These are simple. I'll ask Daniu to accompany you to the county later to buy some blacksmithing tools and pig iron. If you can't buy pig iron, go to Xia's shop and ask Manager Zhao to help you think of a solution. As for the furnace, I can ask someone to make one for you." Zhang Ling touched his chin, thought for a moment, and answered immediately.

"Okay, young master." Upon hearing this, Fusheng nodded quickly.

Zhang Ling then found Daniu, took out two hundred taels of silver notes, and asked him to take Fusheng to buy some of the best blacksmith tools, and also bring back some pig iron and jujube wood.

"Shuanzi, put down what you are doing and make a bellows first. I will draw the blueprint for you right now." After Zhang Ling said that, he immediately ran back to the room.

Soon, he came back in a hurry with a sketch of a bellows.

"This is it. It's very simple. First, make a big wooden box, and then..." Zhang Ling pointed at the picture and explained carefully.

"This is easy. Give me two hours and I guarantee it will be done." After listening to this, Cao Shuan nodded, then took the blueprint and ran excitedly to find wood.

After instructing a few people, Zhang Ling went to the brick kiln himself and invited the lame man to his home to work as a calcining furnace for blacksmithing.

The lame man's craftsmanship was well-known in the surrounding area. If he hadn't broken his leg while repairing a pavilion for a wealthy family when he was young, he wouldn't still be living in a remote mountain village like Wangshan Village.

When the lame man heard that Zhang Ling wanted to build a calcining furnace, he immediately found two strong men from the brick kiln.

Ironwork will certainly make noise, so Zhang Ling chose the abandoned cowshed outside the yard as the site. Although it was a bit shabby, it had a large space and good air circulation. If the place was small, not only would it be difficult to work, but it would also be easy to get carbon monoxide poisoning.

The lame man's hands and feet were very nimble, and it was obvious that he could not have done it without twenty or thirty years of hard work. Two villagers, one mixing mud and the other carrying bricks, still had some of what he needed.

Before Fusheng and his men came back, a calcining furnace more than half a person tall had been built. Zhang Ling also specially asked him to leave a square hole at the bottom of the side of the furnace and extend it outward for a distance with stone bricks.

"Xiao Ling, the furnace is not dry yet. If you are in a hurry to use it, wait an hour or two, put some woolen grass in it, and heat it. Before the furnace is completely dry, do not use firewood and charcoal directly." The lame man put away his tools and gave instructions.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Ling thanked him politely and insisted on paying him his wages, but the lame man refused. The two men refused for a long time. Finally, he had no choice but to accept one or two taels of silver as payment for the materials and the two men's wages.