I was engaged in infrastructure construction in the Han Dynasty [Transmigration Book]

Gongshu was stunned by Liu Tanwen on the spot, and when he realized it, he was extremely embarrassed and ashamed, wishing he could disappear on the spot and never come.

Liu Tanyu said earnestly: "You have to solve the problem independently, otherwise, if I have something to do, wouldn't you all do nothing?"

Gongshu also covered his face and ran away, almost forgetting the basic salute, Liu Tan couldn't help sighing as he looked at his back.

He felt that the Gongshu family might not be aware of the things he brought up, but they hadn't directly sorted out knowledge that was easy to understand. They even felt that Gongshuyi and the others were too young to use them, so they hadn't taught them yet. .

He doesn't mind telling these people what he knows, but the problem is that he hopes these people can draw inferences from one instance, and let him do it, what are these people doing?

But on the matter of the hand crossbow, Liu Tan has basically solved everything, and the rest is to install a micro-sight on it.

After he ordered this matter down, he decided that if Gongshuyi also came to ask him about this, he would beat someone up!

Fortunately, this time Gongshu was smart enough not to come to him, but made a miniature sight by himself.

This kind of thing is nothing to them. After all, although they didn't make the sight, but in order to make an adjustable sight, Gong Shuyi almost took apart the sight and studied it over and over again.

So adding sights is much easier.

Liu Tan took the freshly baked crossbow and went to the shooting range to try it out, and he was relieved to find that his accuracy for shooting moving targets had improved a lot.

Then it is to test the lethality. I have to say that the short range hand crossbow is really a big killer. Basically, one arrow kills a child.

Liu Tan held the hand crossbow and thought for a while, his aim had risen so much, wouldn't it be a hundred shots if he was replaced by someone else?

He originally wanted to call Wei Deng over to try, but he happened to run into Huo Guang who came to deliver the paperwork to him.

So he simply handed the crossbow to Huo Guang, and then he squatted aside to read the documents.

Most of these documents revolved around Hushi. Liu Tan read them one by one, and the more he looked at them, the corners of his mouth rose. Hushi finally adopted the method Liu Tan said before, the Xiongnu used the territory of the Huns, and the Han people used the territory of the Han.

But Liu Tan's focus is not on this, he is looking at various materials, such as salt and grain.

He said before that it would be negotiated according to one-third of the Huns' request, but if he looked at the data, he would probably give the other party a quarter of the amount.

At this moment, Huo Guang had already played with the hand crossbow enough, he came over and asked, "What do you think, Your Highness?"

Liu Tan raised his head to look at Huo Guang, and found that the other party was still calm and calm, as if he had walked a few steps after tossing for a long time, without even a drop of sweat, he couldn't help being very jealous.

He smiled and asked, "Aren't the Huns mad?"

Huo Guang laughed loudly: "That's why I said to leave the matter to Jiang Tingwei."

Jiang Chong not only speaks in a strange way, but the most important thing is that he also understands the Hun language. Before meeting the Xiongnu, he made up the history of the Xiongnu, and he can laugh back no matter what the other party said.

Not only did he piss off Captain Zuo who was facing him, but even the strange-looking translator couldn't stand it anymore. The strange smile on his face has never been maintained since he saw Jiang Chong.

Liu Tan said with great satisfaction: "Okay, that's good, tell them, we want to choose an auspicious day, just... after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, let's make a Lantern Festival."

At this time, although the [-]th day of the first lunar month has been valued, the term Lantern Festival or Shangyuan Festival has not actually been formed. The Shangyuan Festival was originally based on the Taoist theory of "three yuan", and now Taoism does not know where it is. Where did the Shangyuan Festival come from?

So Liu Tan doesn't use this name. As for Yuanxiao... Although there are glutinous rice these days, it seems that there is no such thing as Yuanxiao.

Let's just talk about the Lantern Festival, he really wants to make a symbolic festival.

Huo Guang was a little surprised: "Lantern Festival? What is that?"

"Well, it's just lanterns." After speaking, Liu Tan remembered that the era paper hadn't been promoted yet, where did the lanterns come from?

He waved his hand and said, "Don't ask. I'll show you when I get it out later. Anyway, the market needed for the mutual market has not been established. It's useless to say anything now. Let's talk about this crossbow first. How about it?"

Huo Guang's eyes lit up and he said, "Close-up sharp weapon!"

Liu Tan was very proud: "And it's very convenient, right? I've improved a lot when I hold the hand crossbow and move the target."

Huo Guang held back his smile, nodded and said, "Yes, but this thing can only be used as a toy for the time being, and I'm afraid it won't work if you want to use it on the battlefield."

Liu Tan explained: "Didn't I say before that I want to open a bodyguard agency? This one is for those guards. We have guards for long-distance, and this one is for short-range use."

Huo Guang shook his head: "This is not what I said. I observed that it is not easy to put arrows on the hand crossbow, so unless you knock down the opponent in one shot, it will be useless after one round. The opponent is aware of the danger of the hand crossbow. I won’t give you a chance to shoot an arrow.”

Liu Tan pondered for a long while and said, "What you said is also reasonable, then...you can only try your best to make Liannu."

Huo Guang was smart enough not to ask what Liannu was, anyway, his highness would always show them the finished product.

He just said: "If Your Highness has no doubts, I will inform Jiang Tingwei to let them sign the document."

Liu Tan nodded and waved, "You can figure it out."

Anyway, neither Huo Guang nor Jiang Chong will suffer a loss. On the contrary, if he is allowed to make a decision, they can lose something, so this thing is left to them.

Liu Tan's mind is full of what to do with Liannu.

The easiest way is to make a quiver underneath, arrange the arrows one by one, and then place an automatic push-in device at the bottom of the arrow, once the arrows above are shot, the arrows will be pushed up automatically when the crossbowman winds up. Embedded in the arrow slot.

But it's easy to say, but it's a bit complicated to do. First of all, there must be an additional linkage device between the string and the crossbow, and the arrow slot must also be movable, so that the arrow can be put up.

When the string is pulled back, the arrow grooves retreat, and the sword box pushes the crossbow bolts in.

So here comes the question again, how can the arrow groove return to its position automatically after winding?If it is not in place, the bottom of the crossbow is empty.

Liu Tan went back to the study with the crossbow in hand, and suddenly realized after picking up the pen—why did he have to think on his own, wouldn’t it be enough to leave it to Gongshu?

He remembered that this linkage device was used in some mechanisms of the Gongshu family, so let them study it.

As soon as Liu Tan put down his pen, he called Gong Shuyi over, but although he asked Gong Shuyi to do it, he still talked about his previous thinking.

Gongshu also asked thoughtfully: "How many arrows does Your Highness wish to store in the arrow box?"

Liu Tan picked up the crossbow and observed, "Of course, the more the better, but too much may increase the weight and volume of the crossbow, so it's best not to exceed the position of the trigger below, and try to design as much as possible within this range. A quiver of crossbow arrows."

Gongshu also smiled and said, "It's not too difficult. With the spring His Highness gave you earlier, it's much easier to push it in automatically. Your Highness, wait a few days, and we'll make it out as soon as possible."

Liu Tan supported the desk with his hands and said, "If you really make it useful, I will reward you a lot!"

Although strictly speaking, Liu Tan is raising the Gongshu family now, but if you want the horse to run, you have to feed more grass. Rewards are a must, otherwise why would they do things for you?

The most important thing is that Liu Tan must tie these people tightly to him. He may have a lot of things to do in the future, and those things should be beyond the current level of technological thinking. People, the loyalty of the person you are looking for is very important.

It is good to choose from slaves, but slaves are basically illiterate, and naturally they have not received systematic education. Let Liu talk about how long it will take to train slaves from a young age. Does he have to personally fight in this process? ?

Obviously it is impossible, the Gongshu family is very easy to use, and it is also considered current affairs, so Liu Tan decided to observe more.

After handing over the matter to Gongshuyi, Liu Tan was mainly busy with the issue of the mutual market.

The first thing is to stockpile goods. He will definitely divide a small piece of this cake in the mutual market. He will not touch salt and grain. The imperial court will personally send people to negotiate prices and sell them.

All he wanted to sell were commonplace things like cloth.

The cloth of the big man is very popular among the Huns, especially the silk fabrics, which are the most lacking in the Huns.

However, when the preparations began, Liu Tan found out very sadly that even the northern border countries were short of cloth, let alone the Xiongnu.

There are too few places in the north to grow mulberry trees, because they have to pay taxes.

Yes, you have to pay taxes for planting trees, and silk products can be regarded as luxury goods, and the tax rate is still very high.

In addition, when everyone is short of firewood in winter, it is useless to know that mulberry trees can raise silkworms and weave cloth. You have to survive the winter before talking about other things.

After Liu Tan thought about it, he felt that the geographical location of the Northern Borderland was so good, and the Silk Road would be a necessary place in the future after the formation of the Silk Road, so it was necessary to vigorously develop ceramics and silk fabrics.

These two things are the favorite things of the Western Regions. In terms of ceramics, Liu Tan has an exclusive recipe here, which is considered to have taken the lead, and then he discovered...his industrial area has not yet had time to build a porcelain kiln!

After quickly writing down the schedule, he called Huo Guang. He could eat ceramics by himself, but silk fabrics had to be made by the people below.

This kind of thing that he didn't "invent" is not easy to compete with the people.

Huo Guang looked at the note written by Liu Tan and said helplessly: "Your Highness, isn't the most important thing now is how to build and plan the market?"

Huo Guang was also very surprised. Before building the city, Liu Tan had always been very active. Even the design of the city had to be done by himself, and he would not hand it over to others. Why is there no movement this time?

Liu Tan rested his chin on one hand and said, "This time, we don't care this time."