Great Tang princess

Chapter 238 New Organizational Structure

At noon the next day, Li Yuechen came to Renshou Hall to have lunch with his parents.

After lunch, Zhang Chengxin came over to make a pot of tea for them, and then quietly retreated out.

Li Yuechen looked at the teacup in front of him, blew lightly twice, and then asked tentatively: "What do you think of the second brother?"

"Ok?"

Perhaps because he didn't understand the key to his daughter's question, Li Zhi raised his eyebrows in doubt.

"Yesterday's spring plowing ceremony, I saw that my brother was not in a good mood after he came back, so I went to ask..." Li Yuechen roughly explained what happened yesterday.

After listening to her explanation, Li Zhi and Wu Zetian looked at each other: "What do you think of Chen'er?"

"Me?" Li Yuechen was a little puzzled, not knowing why he suddenly asked his opinion.

But he still replied honestly: "I think brother brother may be too sensitive... Mother-in-law will never trust outsiders but brother brother?"

However, Li Zhi shook his head: "Although I don't trust outsiders, the key depends on whether Erlang is trustworthy. If you can't even handle these things well, how can you become an emperor?"

"But he is still the crown prince after all, can't Grandpa teach him the way of the emperor?" Li Yuechen asked a little puzzled.

But Li Zhi's answer was still unexpected: "There are some things that cannot be taught, it depends on whether one is born with the material."

"This……"

For such an answer, Li Yuechen didn't know what to say.

Because from the bottom of her heart, she also agrees with this theory. Some things are really innate, like an instinct engraved in genes, which cannot be taught the day after tomorrow.

Wu Zetian next to him also chimed in: "The crown prince is the only test to become an emperor. If he can't pass it, it means he is not suitable."

Hearing this sentence, Li Yuechen couldn't help sighing. Although he agreed with his father's theory, he still felt a bit stuck in his throat.

Want to say something, but don't know what to say.

Li Zhi smiled suddenly: "Chen'er, do you know how I sat on the throne?"

Didn't you lie down and win?Li Yuechen complained in his heart.

The first emperor had three legitimate sons, the eldest Li Chengqian rebelled, the second eldest Li Tai said he wanted to kill his son and pass on to his younger brother, and finally the third eldest Li Zhi won...

Of course, I dare not say this, I just shook my head: "Looking at the history of the country, it is because my grandfather is filial and won the favor of the late emperor..."

"This is just the most basic point, the key is that I'm smart enough!" Li Zhi suddenly replied.

I didn't see it... Li Yuechen shook his head in his heart. At least from the history of the country, he felt that he had won by lying down.

"Then grandpa means... the second brother is not smart enough?" Li Yuechen asked back.

Li Zhi nodded, and the health care ball in his hand twirled: "He is a little clever, but if he wants to be an emperor, there is still not enough. It depends on whether he can be smarter. For now, I am willing to give him some. Time, let him continue to grow."

……

In the end, he didn't get a clear answer from his parents, and Li Yuechen felt a little helpless.

Seeing the back of his daughter leaving, Li Zhi couldn't help shaking his head: "It's a pity that Chen'er will be wronged and die alone..."

After all, now that gunpowder has been made, such a person is too important to the royal family!

It can be said that once this thing came out, it was impossible for the royal family to allow this princess to marry off!

Although he once said that only the best people in the world are worthy of his daughter, but now that he has made this decision, Li Zhi, who is a father, also feels a sense of unbearable heart.

Wu Zetian got up, came to sit beside him, and lightly grabbed his hand: "Your Majesty, don't be sad, didn't Chen'er himself say that he doesn't want to marry?"

"It's just a child's joke. How can you be careless when you reach a certain age in the future?" Li Zhi shook his head.

"It's okay, just find some noodles to raise. Your Majesty doesn't have to worry about it." Wu Zetian said, and then refilled him with a cup of tea.

In the Tang Dynasty, it was not uncommon for most princesses to raise noodle heads after they opened their houses. This is not something worth recording in history books.

Li Zhi didn't say anything, just lowered his head and gently blew on the tea in front of him.

……

In the following time, Li Yuechen was busy designing military supplies and equipment.

Now that canvas is available in this era, consider military backpacks and combat vests.

The ceramic protective plate cannot be made in a short while, so it is better to stuff the iron plate inside the vest first.

Now that the manganese steel has been made, a few millimeters thick steel plate should be able to withstand the attacks of swords and arrows.

Li Yuechen asked the military supervisor to try to make it, and try to make it as thin as possible under the premise of ensuring that it can withstand most swords and bows and arrows.

As for military vests and backpacks, just use the current canvas.

A few pockets should be made on the outside of the vest. You can put some iron ingots to bear the weight during normal training, and you can put some grenades and the like during combat.

These things are actually not difficult, as long as they follow the template of the future army.

The most important thing is actually the weapon.

Because of the convenience of crossbows, Li Yuechen's idea is to replace all the main weapons of this army with crossbows, and completely discard bows.

Things like crossbows can already be regarded as a kind of firearm. With a pull of the trigger, even a child can kill a burly man with it.

However, there is a key problem that needs to be solved, the reload speed.

Even for a professionally trained soldier, being able to shoot ten arrows in 1 minute is considered excellent.

But this speed is still too slow. If you want to increase the rate of fire again, you must find a way to make a continuous crossbow.

There are some records about Zhuge Liannu in the history books, but it should not be what Li Yuechen imagined.

According to the original sentence in "Wei's Spring and Autumn Annals", "Ten arrows shoot from one crossbow", Li Yuechen felt that this thing should refer to firing ten arrows at the same time.

From this point of view, this continuous crossbow is probably not an individual soldier's equipment, but a large-scale weapon such as a bed crossbow.

The most critical problem is that, as a weapon, it has not been handed down on the battlefield... Li Yuechen personally feels that the biggest reason may be that it is not practical!
So this thing can no longer find inspiration from ancient times, but should focus on the future.

In some countries where civilians can hold weapons, Li Yuechen has also seen a kind of individual crossbow in the future special forces.

It has a deep groove like a clip, and ten arrows can be pressed into it at a time, and then each time the string is fired, the next arrow will be jacked up.

Even such a structure is used in bows and arrows, becoming a kind of arrow box that can be fired continuously.

Moreover, the crossbow string is connected to a pulley, coupled with devices such as an eccentric wheel, and can be wound with one hand.

The only thing that is worse than firearms is that it is a purely mechanical structure and does not use gunpowder to fire, so there is no way to automatically wind it, and it needs to be wound manually after each shot.

But since he has made his own compound bow, he should be able to make this kind of crossbow too.

It took Li Yuechen three days to come up with a rough design. After getting it to the Military Weapons Supervisor, he explained it to them and made a rough model with mud. Only then did these craftsmen understand what they wanted. What kind of weapon to make.

For the craftsmen, this weapon is also a big challenge, but they all said that they can try it.

According to Li Yuechen's thinking, this crossbow should be able to hold ten arrows, and the crossbow should be able to hold ten arrows under the same bow as his own.

In this way, plus an arrow placed in the firing position before the battle, the soldiers have 21 chances of rapid fire.

For scouts like them who don't participate in large-scale battles and are only responsible for going deep into the enemy's rear, and occasionally encounter small-scale enemy troops, it should be enough.

Of course, we must not forget the emergency weapons. Li Yuechen thought about it and drew on the paper the appearance of a future military dagger, the kind with serrations on the back of the knife.

This weapon is mainly used to feel the whistle, such as when you need to sneak into the enemy camp.

As for the melee weapons, each person should be equipped with a horizontal knife. Anyway, they usually wouldn't fight the enemy head-on.

At this time, it means that the situation is too dangerous to run away.

In fact, she originally wanted them to make a three-edged bayonet, but she had only seen pictures of that kind of thing on the Internet, not the real thing.

And still the same sentence, since it was finally eliminated, it probably shows that its practicality is not that high.

From Li Yuechen's point of view, this thing is probably not as mysterious as it is uploaded on the Internet, and from the perspective of structure alone, the function is probably relatively simple.

Not to mention that our country was still very poor at that time, and the three-edged bayonet was probably just a helpless choice.

……

During this period of time, Li Yuechen was basically busy with these things, and before he knew it, half of February had passed.

On February [-]th, it was another court day. Li Yuechen came to the passage early and listened to the news with Shangguan Wan'er.

First, they reported some general news, Shangguan Wan'er took notes quietly, Li Yuechen also yawned against the wall, feeling a bit boring.

However, a minister soon reported that Tubo Zanpu had passed away, and his son Qi Nuxi Nong succeeded to the throne.

Hearing this news, Wu Zetian raised his eyebrows slightly behind the empty dragon chair, and Li Yuechen in the passage had the same expression.

"At this time, Tubo Zanpu has passed away, can you take a picture?" Wu Zetian, who was behind the bead curtain, asked lightly.

Tianhou asked this question, and the ministers below immediately began to talk about it.

To be honest, Li Yuechen didn't think it was very likely, as the same sentence said, the soldiers couldn't go up, and they couldn't get to the door of the house at all.

If the problem of Gao Fan cannot be solved, it is impossible for Tang Jun to go up. At present, there is no solution to this thing.

Master Liu Rengui didn't say a word, now that he is in the limelight in the court, he should not be too conspicuous.

Since it is already the age to retire, it is better to give young people more opportunities.

After discussing for a long time, it was finally Pei Xingjian who said: "Report to the Queen of Heaven, now that Tubo Qinling is in power, there is nothing to do!"

Li Yuechen in the passageway nodded, the current Lun Qinling is just like the original Changsun Wuji, almost emptied the emperor.

At least their country is still peaceful, and it is indeed not a good time to plot against Tubo.

And because they did not plunder enough supplies for the New Year last year, I heard that Tubo killed many slaves in order to save food.

Now that Lun Qinling has completely become a powerful minister, it is conceivable that he will definitely regroup and take other actions in the future.

If Tubo wants to continue to maintain independence, it is impossible to go on like this forever. Next year at the latest, there will definitely be another war!
However, the Mangshan training ground will not be officially put into use until at least May. Li Yuechen only hopes that there will be no fighting this year. Even if it can be delayed until next year, this army will be able to play a huge role.

……

The grenade has been successfully produced, but it has not been completely successful. Li Yuechen feels that there is still a need for a method that can reduce more costs.

The current cost of steel balls is still a bit high, so consider whether they can be replaced by other things.

After thinking about it carefully, I decided to transfer some people to set up a weapons development department to deal with these things.

After two days, she told her father about this idea.

After listening to his daughter's request, Li Zhi waved his hand directly: "Chen'er, you can do it yourself, whoever you want to order it at will!"

With the emperor's authorization, Li Yuechen immediately started to form it without saying a word.

The new institution was named Datang Academy of Engineering by Li Yuechen, and it was decided to select Wang Gangdan from the Gold and Silver Workshop and several experienced weapon craftsmen from the Military Weapons Supervisor as the first batch of academicians.

There is a reason for choosing such a name. Considering the high degree of confidentiality, the status of these people must be raised from "artisan" to "official".

Only in this way can it be avoided to the greatest extent that someone uses their power to explore the secrets of various weapons.

At the same time, their rank and treatment are not within the existing bureaucratic system, but they have to be independent and directly under the jurisdiction of the royal family.

Li Yuechen spent an afternoon writing out an organizational structure report and handing it to his father for his approval.

After seeing it, Li Zhi smiled with relief: "Chen'er has always been impeccable in his work, so let's do it like this!"

"Okay!" Li Yuechen nodded, "However, I still hope that Grandpa can provide a candidate for the dean. In the future, the child will mainly focus on training the army and has no time to manage it."

In fact, this is to tell Li Zhi that this institution belongs to him, the emperor, not the princess, and it is good to arrange someone he trusts to be the dean.

"Hmm..." Li Zhi was very happy with his daughter's sensibleness. After thinking about it, he turned his head and asked, "Does Mei Niang have a suitable candidate?"

Hearing asking himself, Wu Zetian thought for a while: "The concubine thinks that Pei Bishu, the current supervisor of the Shaofu, should be able to take on this important position."

Although she doesn't get along with Pei Xingjian, she can't recommend her own people for everything, that's too obvious.

Besides, Wu Zetian was so generous that even Shangguan Wan'er dared to use it, let alone Pei Xingjian's nephew.

Hearing the answer, Li Zhi nodded, sipped his tea and said, "Okay, let Pei Bishu be the dean of this engineering institute! For other candidates, you can choose according to Chen'er."

"Grandpa, don't worry, I'll just leave this matter to my son!" Li Yuechen smiled confidently.

(End of this chapter)