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Chapter 103 Chapter 106: The Kingdom's Sharp Weapon

Li Hao said casually: "The boy was so handsome by Uncle Cheng's heroic and majestic appearance, and suddenly his shit disappeared."

Cheng Yaojin knew that he was flattering, but he was very comfortable listening to it, alas, damn vanity, Cheng Yaojin got off the horse, patted the dust off Li Hao's body, and said: "Run away when you see this old man, can this old man eat people? "

Li Hao grinned and said, "No, I'm just afraid that Uncle Cheng will whip me."

Hearing this, Cheng Yaojin glared at him with both eyes, and asked, "Usually you don't do bad things, and you are not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night. What have you done?"

Li Hao had already thought up his excuses, and said, "Didn't my Qibaozhai business not cooperate with you? I'm afraid you'll be angry..."

"Bastard!" Cheng Yaojin suddenly glared and yelled, "Is I such a stingy person!" He said so, but he was thinking in his heart, you have cooperated with the emperor, do I dare to fight with the emperor?
Li Hao hurriedly followed his words and said, "Yes, yes, uncle, you have a bright and bright heart, and you have a vast ocean in your chest. Except for the emperor, uncle has the broadest heart in the world today."

"Don't flatter me!" Cheng Yaojin spat, but he felt that he was overjoyed, and wished he could say, "Come on, keep on boasting, keep on boasting."

"Are you here to give gifts?" Cheng Yaojin turned his head and saw Li Hao's ox cart, stepped forward and lifted the curtain covering the cart.

Li Hao hurriedly stopped: "No...this is not..."

However, Cheng Yaojin had already lifted the curtain, and saw several wooden boxes filled with all kinds of glasses and bottles. When he saw these, his eyes lit up immediately. Glass products are good things. Chang'an is very hot, and Qibaozhai is often sold out.

He didn't give Li Hao a chance to speak at all, turned around and slapped Li Hao's shoulder: "Well, good nephew, you really have filial piety. Although your gift is too heavy, I reluctantly accept it as uncle."

As he spoke, he waved his hands behind him, and suddenly someone stepped forward, only to hear him shout loudly: "Take away the ox cart together."

"What the hell? You don't even leave the cow to me?" Li Hao was stunned, and wanted to report to the officials, and then said that he had been robbed by the scissors, but he could only think about it, which official with no eyes would dare Cheng Yaojin.

Li Hao was still in a daze, Cheng Yaojin got on his horse and said, "Today I have an appointment, so I won't keep you. Come to my house to have a few drinks with me some other day." After speaking, he pulled the reins and led the crowd The trilogy went away, leaving Li Hao alone in the wind.

"Your uncle!" It took Li Hao a long time to regain his senses, cursed depressingly, turned around and walked towards Qibaozhai. Fasted.

Li Hao had a very unhappy time this year, because he was robbed on the first day of the new year. Still cursing resentfully that he gave birth to a son without an ass hole, Cheng Chumo lay innocently on the gun.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Lu Zhi and the others finally made a bed crossbow in a hurry, which was exactly the same as the one in the underground secret room. Li Hao took the bed crossbow to the special forces training base and tried it. The average range was 440 meters, and the accuracy was very high. It stands to reason The range of the three-bow arm bed crossbow should be between 550 meters and 600 meters, but in order to save costs, Li Hao did not use the best wood for the crossbow arms, and the production process is not that complicated. Everything is to save costs, so The range doesn't reach that far.

Even if it is only 440 meters, it is very scary, much farther than the crossbow. Li Hao was very satisfied with the result, and went to Tai Chi Palace the next day to report the good news to Li Shimin.

After Li Shimin heard the news, he immediately sent someone to Li Hao's house to pull the bed crossbow to Chang'an, and placed it on the shooting range in Youwuwei camp. Li Shimin took Youwuwei general Qin Qiong and Li Hao to witness the power of the bed crossbow. In fact, he originally wanted to invite all civil and military officials to visit together, but under Li Hao's persuasion, he canceled the plan.

Li Shimin stood ten meters behind the bed crossbow, Li Hao and Qin Qiong stood on both sides of him, Li Shimin said lightly: "Let's start."

Li Hao winked at Lu Zhi, and Lu Zhi stepped forward with five right guards. Lu Zhi issued an order, and the five Jinwu guards followed suit one by one. Four people turned the huge axle together to open the crossbow. Lift an arrow larger than a spear and place it in the crossbow slot.

Lu Zhi issued an order: "Raise the hammer!"

The right martial guard who was shooting the arrow raised a sledgehammer, and his eyes were fixed on the trigger. The trigger cannot be pulled by human power. It must be rammed with a sledgehammer to shoot the crossbow.

"Let go!" Lu Zhi shouted suddenly.

The right martial guard hit the trigger with a hammer, and there was a loud "buzz", and the crossbow shot out immediately, drawing a beautiful arc, and nailed it to a dirt wall more than 400 meters away.

"I won!" Li Shimin couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise, and then realized that he had lost his composure, coughed lightly, and said, "Shubao, poet mad, follow me to have a look."

"Yes!" The two nodded, followed behind Li Shimin, and walked towards the low earth wall.

The closer he got to the earthen wall, the more frightened Li Shimin was. It was only when he got closer that he realized that the earthen wall was not big, with a width of four feet and a height of four feet. The accuracy of the crossbow is already quite terrifying.

When he finally got to the side of the earth wall, Li Shimin was even more shocked when he looked at it from the side. He saw that the earth wall was nearly one foot thick, but it was pierced by a huge arrow, and the arrow remained undiminished, piercing halfway into the ground. How deep is it.

"Good!" Li Shimin couldn't help clapping his hands and praised, "Precise and domineering, what a crossbow!"

Li Hao smiled and said, "Your Majesty, this crossbow has three grooves, which can fire three arrows at the same time."

Li Shimin laughed heartily when he heard the words: "Shi Kuang, well done, I didn't expect you to make such a sharp weapon, you are really my lucky star in Tang Dynasty!"

Li Hao cupped his hands and said: "Serving the Tang Dynasty is a blessing for me. Your Majesty, the country's sharp weapon should not be shown to others. The less people know about this bed crossbow, the better."

Li Shimin nodded with a smile. He finally understood why Li Hao objected to calling other ministers to watch together. He found that Li Hao has become more and more pleasing to his eyes recently, because Li Hao has performed well recently. How can he not be happy to offer this bed crossbow like a big killer.

"Poetry madness." Li Shimin looked at him with his beard stroked, and asked with a smile, "You have made a lot of contributions this time, what reward do you want?"

It's the same routine again, if you want to reward it, you can reward it, and you ask what kind of reward you want, it's not sincere.

Li Hao didn't care so much, he cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I want to ask Your Majesty for an official position."

"Oh?" Li Shimin raised his eyebrows and looked at him in amazement. He had countless guesses, but he never thought that Li Hao would seek an official position. He asked curiously, "What official position do you want?"

Li Haodao: "The official position that I am looking for is called the director of the Datang Science and Technology Research Institute."

Li Shimin was taken aback when he heard the words, frowned and said: "There is no such official position in the Tang Dynasty, you must have invented it."

Li Hao said: "Return to Your Majesty, there wasn't one before, but we can have it in the future."

Li Shimin looked at him in surprise: "You mean... to open an official office called Datang Institute of Science and Technology?"

"Exactly." Li Hao nodded.

Li Shimin frowned and twitched his beard, "Then what is the duty of the Datang Institute of Science and Technology?"

Li Hao cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, the duty of the Datang Institute of Science and Technology is to research and invent new things for Datang, either for war or for civilian use, such as last year's wind-powered waterwheel, Quyuanli, and This bed crossbow belongs to the category of technological research.”

Li Shimin's eyes lit up when he heard the words, "Look, this is a good idea. The wind-powered waterwheel, the Quyuanli, and the bed crossbow all made Li Shimin very satisfied. He naturally hoped that Li Hao could make more of these things, but he didn't like them." I also know that relying on Li Hao alone is not enough. After all, he has limited energy, but if a government office responsible for research is set up and Li Hao leads it, then things will be completely different.

Besides, Li Shimin intends to make Li Hao an official. However, Li Haocai, entering the imperial court at such an age, will inevitably be squeezed out by others, and the post of director of the research institute is quite good. He exists independently and specializes in research and invention. He is said to be an official. He doesn't look like, say no, but he is.

Li Shimin thought for a while, then said: "Go back and write the memorial, and submit it."

Li Hao was overjoyed when he heard the words, knowing that the matter had been settled, he hurriedly thanked En and resigned, and went home to write the memorial.

Watching Li Hao walk out of the Youwuwei camp, the smile on Li Shimin's face suddenly disappeared, and he asked Qin Qiong beside him, "Shu Bao, what do you think of Li Hao's son?"

Qin Shubao said: "Li Hao is straightforward, although he is a bit greedy for money, he is a trustworthy person."

"Is it really credible?" Li Shimin said leisurely, "You don't want to say good things for him just because he saved your life."

Qin Qiong hurriedly bowed his head and saluted, and said solemnly: "Your Majesty has learned from you, and I will never speak of favoritism."

Li Shimin smiled and sighed: "Look at you, why are you so anxious, I just said it casually, but you took it seriously."

Qin Qiong said awkwardly: "I have always been like this, Your Majesty knows best."

"Yes." Li Shimin said leisurely, "You are a person who loves to be true, loyal, brave and benevolent, so I am most at ease with you..." He paused, then sighed again, "It's just this Li Hao, I always love you. Don't worry about him."

Qin Qiong asked in bewilderment: "What is Your Majesty worried about?"

Li Shimin put his hands behind his back, looked up to the sky, and sighed in a long voice: "Li Hao looks like an incomparable jerk, but he handles things with great sense of propriety, never exceeding the slightest bit, to put it mildly, this kid is very smart, to put it harshly, His city is extremely deep."

Qin Qiong was startled when he heard this. After all, Li Hao was his savior, and he was also a person of great affection. Seeing that Li Hao was so suspicious by Li Shimin, how could he sit idly by and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Li Hao really has a big brother. Cai, all civil and military officials in the court know that he is still young, and he must be a little clever to have any kind of city."

"I knew you would speak for him." Li Shimin said lightly, "Actually, why don't I hope that he is playing tricks, but recently, he first intervened in the affairs of the court, offered advice, and then offered this divine crossbow on his own initiative. His previous lazy temperament is completely inconsistent, all of this... is too abnormal."

Qin Qiong said: "Your Majesty, although Li Hao looks like a jerk, he is also a citizen of the Tang Dynasty, and he also hopes that the Tang Dynasty will be prosperous. At his age, he will naturally have a little enthusiasm for serving the country, but he is less than others. Since he is now If you want to serve the country, why should your Majesty do so?"

Li Shimin nodded: "I thought about it too, but I don't know why, but I just don't dare to trust Li Hao completely, maybe... it's because I can't control him."

Qin Qiong didn't know what to say, but Li Shimin said again: "Although I can't trust him like I trust you, I am not a fool. Li Hao has great talent, and his recent performance is also remarkable. If he I have always been loyal to the country, and I will not treat him badly, maybe one day, he can be like you, appointed as a marquis and worshiped as a minister, and maybe he will be among the third princes."

(End of this chapter)