When he met Lei Lingzhen in the restaurant, Chao covered his heart to make friends, but he just showed a friendly attitude, and didn't go too far, or say any soliciting.How to say it, Lei Lingzhen is also a high-ranking officer, although he is only one of the managers of the army's logistics department, he is not something that Chao Gai can recruit.It's not that he doesn't have the strength, but even if he recruits such a talent, there is no way to let it play its maximum role for the time being.However, none of this mattered, and after talking to Ling Zhen at the wine table, the two of them talked a lot about machinery such as stone cannons.Although Chao Gai did not specialize in mechanics in his previous life, he knew a lot about some mechanical principles.However, Ling Zhen used the mechanical knowledge that the Great Song Dynasty had at this time to build a catapult that could smash stone bullets out of fifteen or sixteen miles.The two chatted quite happily, and Ling Zhen was even more excited.In the Great Song Dynasty, it is an environment that pays attention to 'everything is inferior, only reading is high', and engineering designers like Ling Zhen are not valued at all.If it weren't for the fact that he was an officer in the army, I was afraid that his status would be even lower.Because of this, there are very few guys who can talk to him and get to the point.Most of the officers who belong to the logistics department of the Taiwei Mansion are guys who make a profit, and there are very few people like Ling Zhen who are dedicated to engineering technology.The kind of trebuchet that can fire stone projectiles to a range of fifteen or sixteen miles was originally designed by Ling Zhen himself.The only craftsmen who could discuss the design of engineering ordnance with him at his level were the extremely experienced old craftsmen under the Ministry of Works.With Ling Zhen's identity, it is also difficult to discuss and study with these old craftsmen.Besides, in this era, craftsmanship is quite important and conservative, although the identity of the craftsman is low, the craftsmanship can live a relatively nourishing life, and it can be eaten for a lifetime, how can it be easily exposed?
Under such circumstances, Ling Zhen can also research and create a powerful trebuchet, which is not simple!
Although Chao Gai had never built trebuchets, with his knowledge of machinery and his simple and solid ethical foundation, it was too easy to figure out what Ling Zhen was talking about.Therefore, Ling Zhen was excited, regarded Chao Gai as a companion with a common language, and took advantage of the strength of the wine to talk about it, and poured out some of his ideas and mastered techniques.Chao Gai's expression was calm, acting as the best listener, saying a little bit of his understanding at the critical moment, always being able to get to the point, and being able to scratch Ling Zhen's heart, which made this rare military engineer in the Great Song Dynasty so excited that he didn't know why, and said too many things that should be said and should not be said.This banquet didn't stop until nightfall, and when Ling Zhen left, he was still reluctant, and he turned around again and again to tell Chao Gai to come to his house if he was free, or continue to talk in this restaurant."
Ha, what an out-and-out tech nerd!"
Chao Gai couldn't help but chuckle out loud as he looked at Ling Zhen's appearance of turning back three times in one step, and the importance of this guy in his heart rose a few points.There is no shortage of recklessness in the rivers and lakes under his command, as long as he is willing to raise his arms and shout, the number of Shandong heroes who are willing to take refuge will not be less, and even the heroes of the entire north are willing to defect!
But he has absolutely no need, it is right that the righteousness of the heroes in the rivers and lakes comes first, but his own weakness is not small, that is, he is used to being free and casual, and he cannot be strictly restrained by the army.The reason why the Song Jiang Group makes Chao Gai feel like a bandit group is that here, there are too many reckless people in the rivers and lakes under him.Even if there is Thunderbolt Fire Qin Ming and Zhen Sanshan Huang Xin to help train the army, it will be useless, most of the middle and high-level under Song Jiang are from reckless backgrounds, they themselves are the destroyers of military discipline, once there is a war and like to do things according to habits, all kinds of evil things are not less, just more discipline and organization than bandits.It is no wonder that in the story of the Water Margin, after the reunion of Liangshan, in addition to the existence of the top four, the next five to nine are all officers and generals from the forbidden army, and among the thirty-six generals in Tiangang, there are more generals who are capable of being born in the forbidden army.If there were no generals and officers from the forbidden army as the backbone of the Liangshan army, it would be extremely difficult for the Liangshan group to develop to the top.Without gossiping, seeing Ling Zhen's figure disappear into the night, Chao Gai and his party returned to the inn leisurely."
Owner, you value this thunderbolt so much?"
Wu Song was extremely curious, and he really couldn't help but ask on the way."
This guy is a great talent, if anyone gets him and uses it well, it will be easy to attack the city!"
Chao Gai said directly: "You also heard it just now, this guy has made an artillery truck that can shoot out fifteen or sixteen miles away from the stone projectile, and how many male cities in the world can withstand the bombardment of continuous stone shells?"
”The voice was not loud, but it was like a thunderbolt in Wu Song's ears, and he couldn't help but change his face with his concentration.As long as he thought about the terrifying scene of stone bullets falling from the sky, with Wu Song's strong psychological quality, he couldn't help but be terrified.Sure enough, it's a talent, and it's an extremely powerful talent!"
It's a pity, the court looks down on such a talent, otherwise how could the two barbarians of Western Xia and Liao have the courage to fight with the Great Song Dynasty?"
Chao Gai chuckled and entered the temporary inn with an inexplicable expression.As usual last time, the entire inn was packed, and only Chao Gai and Wu Song lived, as well as the thirty elite villagers who accompanied them.After returning to the inn, Chao Gai immediately ordered Zhuang Ke to bring a pen and paper, and with a strong memory, he recorded all what Ling Zhen said on the wine table.He copied the relevant content about the gun carriage again, and finally left about 30 pages of relevant records, with a happy smile on his face.Although he didn't know what the artillery cart Ling Zhen built looked like, as long as the artillery cart was made based on these recorded things, even if it was not as powerful as Ling Zhen's original general, it was quite a powerful thing, a strategic weapon like a nuclear bomb!
Fortunately, after his martial arts entered the transformation of strength, he didn't know what was going on, his physical fitness was getting stronger and stronger, and his memory was getting better and better, although he couldn't do it, but he wanted to forcibly memorize some talking points, but there was no problem in the slightest."
Owner, you're really, amazing!"
Wu Song kept watching Chao Gai busy, busy until midnight, and when he saw Chao Gai sorting out such a thing, he couldn't help but show admiration for a while."
Haha, there is no way to recruit such talents at a certain time, but it is good to get some good things through him, and we may be able to use them in the future!"
Chao Gai laughed and was full of joy, today's harvest was really great, so big that he couldn't believe it for a while.Now that he has befriended Ling Zhen, Chao Gai wants to get more ideas about building and making ordnance from him, so he simply changed his itinerary and stayed in Bianliang, Tokyo, with peace of mind, and chatted with Ling Zhen all day long.This guy is really a technophobia, and although he also doubts Chao Gai's motives, as soon as he talks about his research in mechanics, he immediately brows and ignores everything else.Every time they get together, Chao Gai can get a lot of real information from this guy's mouth, which is completely recorded by him and protected as the most important information he carries with him.The so-called reciprocating the peach, Chao Gai was very generous to help Ling Zhen pay off all the debts of the family, and also gave 500 yuan to the Ling family as a meeting gift.made a bold and generous move, and all of a sudden, the entire Ling family had a good opinion of him.Even if Ling Zhen reacted later, his family was not allowed to be estranged from Chao Gai.I have to say that the current Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army is rotten.Once, Chao Gai took advantage of Ling Zhenxing's head and casually asked him to take him to the Jiazhan Treasury to see and learn, and Ling Zhen agreed to come down.As a result, three days later, he was taken smoothly to the warehouse area of the Jiazhan Warehouse, allowing him to have a good look at how well-equipped the Great Song Forbidden Army was.The armament of the Great Song Forbidden Army is indeed excellent, all kinds of weapons are readily available, swords, guns, arrows, halberds and armor are very sophisticated, and the number of reserves is also quite sufficient.He doesn't care much about these things, and even if he is greedy, he can't get his hands on it, so he just has an unclean eye and no worries.What he was most interested in was Ling Zhen's masterpiece, the trebuchet that could throw stone projectiles fifteen or sixteen miles.What a big guy!
This is Chao Gai's emotion after seeing the real thing, the trebuchet is as high as five zhang and all kinds of wooden arm machinery to see him dazzled, this thing is not much better than the siege of the building car, it is quite inconvenient to move.Although I was a little disappointed, this thing is so poor that it doesn't have much support for field warfare, but it's still quite useful for siege.It's just a pity, according to Ling Zhen's statement full of regret, this is something he made out in his spare time, not a standard equipment in the army, and no one pays attention to it at all.There is a lack of like-minded and hands-on companions around you, as well as energy, so it is a pity that such a powerful trebuchet cannot be miniaturized.Chao Gai only chuckled noncommittally, and after he went back, he had a physical comparison, and he had great confidence in whether he could build a trebuchet with six or seven percent of the power of the original.After that, Lei Lingzhen suddenly received an order from the Taiwei Mansion to go to Qingzhou to serve in the Huyanzhuo Army, plus he had some scruples about Chao Gai in his heart, and after receiving the order, he said hello to Chao Gai, and left Tokyo Bianliang in a hurry without saying anything about his peers.And Chao Gai himself was also invited by Cai Dagongzi to speak, and asked him very vaguely when he would return to his hometown, obviously he had been stranded in Bianliang, which made Cai Dagongzi very disdainful.Chao Gai didn't talk nonsense, he directly indicated his attitude of leaving tomorrow, and then was gifted out of Cai Jing's mansion, as for the side hall where Cai Dagongzi received him, he didn't care about the nearly ten hidden hands at all, and he didn't point it out directly.On the second day, the group that had already packed their luggage left Bianliang directly...... ：。
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