Sui and Tang Dynasties: Became Yang Guang's Chief Advisor at the Beginning

"Your Majesty, why don't you move to the bow and crossbow station and let the craftsmen make one to test its power?"

Yang Yu thought about it and said immediately.

"Forget it, I will go with Aiqing."

Hearing the words, Emperor Sui glanced at the memorial on the imperial case, but did not refuse.

"Your Majesty..."

Seeing this, the eunuch on the side seemed to want to remind him, but he swallowed the words when he saw the look on Emperor Sui's face.

……

Shaofu Supervisor, Bow and Crossbow Department.

"See Your Majesty!"

"Meet the King of Qin!"

Shaofu Supervisor Wang Lingyuan led a group of officials to wait at the gate of the Bow and Crossbow Office, and when they saw the two arrived, they immediately bowed and saluted.

"Get up."

Emperor Sui nodded slightly.

"Can the Bow and Crossbow Department be confident in making this thing?"

Yang Yu didn't talk nonsense, he just handed over the design.

Although this enhanced version of Zhuge Crossbow is good, it still depends on whether it can be mass-produced with the industrial level of the Great Sui Dynasty.

If you can't, it's like a chicken rib.

Wang Lingyuan didn't dare to neglect, he immediately waved his hand and called all the nearby craftsmen who were responsible for making bows and crossbows.

A group of people stared at the design drawings and discussed for a while, and finally looked at each other, and an older craftsman came out.

"My lord, this bow and crossbow is a bit complicated to manufacture. But the bow and crossbow are all needed."

"And give me some time, I'll go now."

The older craftsman said directly.

"Go."

Yang Yu waved his hand and let him go directly to make it.

The craftsmen immediately stopped other work at hand and divided the labor to build the samples of Zhuge Lianbo.

……

About half an hour later, Wang Lingyuan personally came over with a sample of the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow he had made.

The crossbow is not composed of simple bowstrings, bow surfaces, etc. like ordinary bows and arrows, and its structure is more complicated.

The most worth mentioning is that the place for storing crossbow arrows is slightly larger, and there are more arrow openings.

In terms of volume, it is slightly larger than ordinary bows and arrows, but far less large than large crossbows such as bed crossbows.

"I don't know how powerful a single crossbow arrow is."

Yang Yu looked at it and murmured.

According to common sense, the power provided by the power system of the crossbow machine is limited. If it is allocated to each crossbow arrow, the power and range will be greatly reduced.

This is also the reason why ordinary bows are more popular than crossbows and have a wider range of applications.

"Is this the Zhuge Crossbow?"

Emperor Sui took it and played with it, his eyes brimming with brilliance.

"Come on, get a leather armor and an iron armor."

Yang Yu pondered for a moment, and said to the craftsmen who were waiting by the side.

After a while, two scarecrows stood opposite.

According to Yang Yu's instructions, they each put on the usual leather armor and two crotch armors made of metal armor.

"Your Majesty, why not experiment?"

Yang Yu pointed to the family members who had prepared on the opposite side, and suggested to Emperor Sui.

The craftsman on the side was also clever, and went straight to the crossbow arrow, which could be fired by pressing it lightly.

"it is good!"

Emperor Sui raised his crossbow and immediately aimed at the dummy in leather armor.

Then, with a little force, he pulled the mechanism fired from above...  

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!!!"

The next moment, a full ten crossbow arrows were fired in unison, galloping towards the dummy, and bursts of air bursts suddenly sounded in the air.

"Pfft-"

……

At a distance of about [*] meters, the crossbow arrow arrived in an instant, directly submerging into the dummy's body.

Ten crossbow arrows were densely inserted into the dummy.

More importantly, the dummy was wearing leather armor, and the leather armor was actually pierced right now!

"Come again!"

When Emperor Sui saw such power, he was in a good mood, so he put a crossbow arrow on him again, and then shot at another dummy wearing a two-crotch armor.

This time, the power is less than the last time, but its lethality is not weak.

Because crossbow arrows are specially made, their arrows have a certain armor-piercing effect.

Although the crossbow arrow did not pierce the iron scales on the two crotch armors, it also left many potholes on it.

If the distance is closer, the power will be improved.

You must know that the armored rate of the army is not high, especially the troops that were put together by the anti-king's men.

Among them, the iron armors that can wear full body protection are generally generals. Even if ordinary soldiers wear armors such as two-crotch armor, they cannot achieve full body protection.

At this moment, Yang Yu had a rough estimate of its power.

If it is shot directly on the ground, the effective killing range should be about [*] meters, but if it is shot on high ground, the killing range can be increased to about [*] meters.

"Not bad!"

Sui Emperor was overjoyed, and he couldn't put it down and played with the bow and crossbow in his hand.

"Wang Jiancheng, how much time would it take if the Bow and Crossbow Department were to make [*] such repeating crossbows and one million crossbow arrows?"

Yang Yu came back to his senses and asked Wang Lingyuan on the side.

"This……"

"My lord, the cost of this bow and crossbow is not low, such a quantity..."

Wang Lingyuan looked at Emperor Sui a little embarrassedly.

The cost of rushing to make such a batch of bows and crossbows is huge, and he is only a fifth-rank official who can't be the master.

"All the resources can be mobilized, you just need to say how long it will take."

When Emperor Sui heard the words, he waved his hand, looking like he was rich and powerful.

"My lord, according to the speed of the bow and crossbow department, it only takes one month to make [*] continuous crossbows and [*] crossbow arrows."

With Emperor Sui's will, Wang Lingyuan didn't talk nonsense, even patted his chest and said.

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Chapter 232

After testing the Zhuge Liannu, Yang Yu went to Fengyang Pavilion and lingered with Ruyi, the girl, and did not leave the palace until sunset.

The Sui Emperor went back immediately and summoned several cronies of civil servants to improve the framework of the entire imperial examination system discussed with Yang Yu before, and formed specific measures.

Immediately afterwards, Emperor Sui personally formulated an imperial decree on this matter.

The next day, the Imperial Palace, the Daxing Hall.

At the court meeting, the Sui Emperor gave a commendation for Yang Yu's disaster relief.But at the moment, he is already the king of Qin, and the awards are only extraneous things such as gold and silver jewelry.

Immediately afterwards, the officials began to report the recent events, most of which were innocuous, and the Sui Emperor simply skipped it here.

Originally, there were officials who wanted to impeach Yang Yu in the main hall, but after seeing the look in the eyes of Emperor Sui, and thinking of the memorials presented two days ago, they knew that nothing could be done, and finally kept silent on the matter.

"Look, Eunuch Li seems to be holding an imperial decree in his hand. Could it be that His Majesty has something important to announce?"

"Could it be about King Qin? I heard that King Qin entered the palace and talked with His Majesty for a long time yesterday!"

"Be careful! Be careful! How can we guess His Majesty's thoughts?" 29

……

All the officials saw the performance of Emperor Sui, and some people suddenly saw what the eunuch was holding, and they started talking for a while.

Seeing that there was no time for civil and military performances in the Manchu Dynasty, Emperor Sui sat up a little and gave Eunuch Li a look at the side.

"Follow the sky, the emperor's edict said..."

Eunuch Li had been paying attention to Emperor Sui's expression, and when he saw his eyes, he immediately walked up to Baiguan.

I saw that he spread out the imperial edict that he had been holding in his hand and read it aloud.

The content inside is of course the announcement of the imperial examination system, and it is extremely detailed.

The imperial examination system mentioned in the imperial decree is different from that of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, and even that of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty a few years ago when he announced the establishment of the Jinshi Branch.

The feeling to the Manchu civil and military is:

The emperor is about to move!

You must know that similar intentions have been issued before, but they were all drizzle, and they did not hurt the foundation of the family at all.