Chapter 19 Repeating Machine Crossbow
Song Tianming coughed out all the fish soup in his mouth.
"I have something to do at night. I plan to invent a powerful weapon. Then I will hunt you a white-headed tiger to make soup."
"What will your husband do when seven or eight families in the village come to propose marriage?"
Are you waiting here together?
Song Tianming hurriedly stated: "Everything is back, even if the wedding team is coming, I won't choose it. Anyway, I already have three wives before I was twenty years old, and the government can't do anything to me."
"What do you mean is to marry after you are twenty?" Zhou Yi followed up and caused trouble.
"No, no, there are three wives in this life, so I will never marry you."
As soon as he finished speaking, the old family also came to make trouble.
"Mr. Xiao Song, my girl has been familiar with you since she was a child. She is already sixteen this year, so why don't you marry me?"
Song Tianming took some quarrels to get rid of the old clan.
With the current production capacity of textile workshops, it is definitely impossible to digest with the Shiliba Township of Xiahe County. New markets must be developed to make long-term profits for textile workshops.
The Nujiang River originates from the Qinling Mountains, enters the Dagan, and flows through the six prefectures and thirteen counties.
The Nujiang section of Luyang County is narrow and the water flows rapidly.
The best fishing section is located in dozens of villages in the three counties of Jinling County in the downstream, but Song Tianming does not have time to go to Jinling County to develop the market at this stage.
Anyway, fishing nets are easy to store, so you don’t worry about expiration.
Now Dongpan Township has a clear division of labor. Women weave nets, men fish, and surplus laborers either serve crops or work as temporary workers in textile workshops. The elderly and weak are all going up the mountain. In addition to collecting raw materials for fishing nets, they can also dig some bamboo shoots and wild vegetables. After all, winter is coming soon.
It is precisely because of this that Xiaomai was attacked by wild boars in Wangfu Mountain and almost died.
In addition, now all the fish in Nujiang are fishing in the Nujiang area, and the big fish flee to the deep water area and dare not rise easily, resulting in a significant reduction in fish harvests.
Song Tianming turned his gaze to Wangfu Mountain.
As the saying goes, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools.
Since you want to go to the mountains to hunt, you must have a good job.
Ordinary bows and arrows can only hunt pheasants, rabbits, and other beasts such as wild boars, and they must use the Three Stone Bow.
The three stone bow requires an arm strength of up to 300 kilograms to be controlled, so it is basically equipped with the army.
Those who can draw three stone bows are all brave soldiers in the army.
In addition to being expensive, the Sanshibing is also a material controlled by the government, and its range and accuracy are also very average.
So what Song Tianming wanted to do was a ten-in-one crossbow.
Because the continuous engine crossbow has almost no requirement for arm strength, even women and children can easily control it with a little training.
Not only for hunting in the mountains, but also for the ability to protect yourself in the future.
The continuous crossbow machine consists of five parts: frame, crossbow bow, crossbow string, arrow cassette, and crossbow arrow.
The rack, crossbow and arrow cassette are all made of wooden structures, and you can find a carpenter to do it.
The difficulty lies in crossbow strings and crossbow arrows.
The crossbow string determines the handling and attack power of the crossbow machine, and the crossbow arrow determines the penetration and accuracy.
At this stage, the best materials for crossbow strings are beef tendon and raw cowhide. Unfortunately, it is now in an era where people cannot eat, and killing plowing ox is a death sentence.
Song Tianming tried to replace it with other materials, but after several tests, the results were not ideal.
The crossbow arrow designed by Song Tianming is a triangular arrow. The wound is triangular and is extremely difficult to heal. The arrow has a bloodletting groove. If the injured person is not treated, he will bleed and die.
It’s just that Song Tianming overestimated the iron smelting level of this era. There were too many pig iron impurities circulating in the market, and the intensity did not reach the expected effect.
Should we use the stupidest method to make steel?
Time-consuming and labor-intensive, the most important thing is that it is extremely inefficient.
Song Tianming still felt a little arrogant. Although the 21st century college student is a third-rate student, he must not use this primitive method to make arrows and cannot afford to lose this person.
After the incident in Nuyang Township last time, the old minister must know Song Tianming whether it is big or small.
Even if you can't pull yourself away, you will let your little daughter come over. It's not clear whether it's unintentional.
Of course, after experiencing Song Tianming's thunder, the other villages were extremely peaceful, and they were basically trivial matters.
"What are you busy with recently? You can't see anyone."
I feel that Song Tianming is a bit abnormal recently, or I would just be bored in the house and write and draw on paper. It is not poetry or landscape painting, but it is all strange patterns.
Otherwise, I would hide in the open space beside the pond behind the house and tinker with wood. Another time, I would be even more outrageous. I would beat the big hammer for most of the day.
What? Are you going to change your career and become a blacksmith?
Cheng Hu was asked by the old villager and thought something was wrong.
"I'll go and ask tomorrow."
The old minister said solemnly: "Cheng Hu, now our Dongpan Township is counting on the young gentleman, so don't make trouble."
“Save.”
Cheng Hu found Song Tianming with a black face by the pond.
"Sir, what are you doing?"
Song Tianming happened to be in a bad mood because of repeated failures in the experiment, so he happened to find someone to talk to.
"Huzi, the family is fine."
Cheng Hu originally had three brothers, and both brothers sacrificed their lives for the country. His two sisters-in-law were accompanied by five children and a frail and sick mother.
Cheng Hu became the pillar of the family. He was sixteen years old, with a calm personality and thoughtful thoughts.
Not even ten years old, he often went to Song Tianming's house to ask Mr. Song about everything.
Mr. Song all said that if Cheng Hu had the opportunity in the future, he would be granted the title of marquis and ministers.
"Everything is pretty good. My mother's health is also good. Now she can go to the fields to work."
Actually, no mother has any illness, she is just hungry.
There are so many children in the family, and the elderly can only pick food from their mouths. They have to be malnourished for a long time and work hard, and in the end they are almost bedridden.
Since Song Tianming took the countryside to fish, life has been getting better and better day by day.
After the meal at home was ready, Cheng Hu went to the doctor to ask for a prescription for recuperation. After raising her, the elderly's health gradually improved.
For this, Cheng Hu was grateful to Song Tianming, but was shy to express himself.
"Sir, what are you busy with recently?"
"I'm going to build a weapon..."
Suddenly I heard the noisy in the front yard, mixed with Zhou Yi's crying sound.
Chapter completed!