Thank you for the invitation. I am in the Ming Dynasty and swear not to be an official!

Chapter 63 Zhu Yuanzhang’s confusion
Mao Xiang's trip took a long time. Liao Tiancheng waited for news while supervising the work every day and actively building the three-eyed gun.

With Geng Bingwen constantly providing ore, Liao Tiancheng was making rapid progress.

One hundred blacksmiths can produce one hundred muskets in ten days.

In fact, because the workmanship of bird guns is more complicated, it is more time-consuming than the previous fire guns.

It would take the same number of blacksmiths in the past ten days to make a fire blunderbuss.

To be fair, it would take half a month or even 20 days to make a gun.

But Liao Tiancheng almost unified the muskets. Except for the sights, which came in several different styles, they all used the same mold.

In this way, everyone repeats the same work every day. After the efficiency is improved, the time consumed by the bird gun and the fire gun is almost the same!
The only problem is that Liao Tiancheng recently discovered that his blueprint for the gun was lost.

"Mad, was eaten by a mouse?"

Liao Tiancheng was very angry, but this place was a newly built camp, how could rats get in?
Stolen?
That’s not possible!
There is a maid Zhu Yuqing next to him, and Liao Tiancheng feels that with her nature, it is impossible to steal the blueprints.

Besides, there’s no point in stealing it!
Fortunately, the blacksmiths are already familiar with the craft and can continue to produce muskets even if they are lost.

But Liao Tiancheng was afraid that this thing would fall into the hands of foreigners, and in the end he would attack the Ming soldiers.

In order to find the drawings, Liao Tiancheng had to find Zhu Di.

"Lost the drawing? Just throw it away. It doesn't matter."

Zhu Di was very calm about this.

"King Yan, if that blueprint is sold to the Yuan people, we will be the ones who suffer in the future! Hurry up and take someone to look for it. Our place has no front and no shops. Even if someone stole it, it's still here!"

But Zhu Di searched for several days and still couldn't find it.

Liao Tiancheng could only pray in his heart that this thing would not wander outside, otherwise the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty would suffer disaster in the future, and he might be impeached.

On the Yinmagou side, Liao Tiancheng was worried, and on the Yingtianfu side, Zhu Yuanzhang was also troubled.

"What's going on? I heard that Liao Tiancheng's shotgun is always accurate and can even hit the bull's-eye! What kind of thing are we making? It just can't hit the bull's-eye and misses the target frequently! Who can tell us what it is? Condition?"

Zhu Yuanzhang even came to ask the blacksmith himself, but the blacksmith in the court was helpless and no one could explain the reason.

Xu Da was on leave for three months in Yingtian to visit relatives. He originally wanted to take a batch back to Shanxi for his subordinates when he left. However, when he saw that there was no progress in the past month, he felt very depressed.

After returning from the palace that day, Xu Da suddenly had an idea.

This bird gun was painted by my daughter Xu Miaoqing. Was there something wrong with her painting?

So Xu Da hurriedly came to ask his daughter.

"Miaoqing, is there something wrong with your drawing? I've been trying for more than a month, but I still can't solve the problem of inaccurate shooting."

Xu Miaoqing, however, was very confident in her memory: "If there is a problem, it is also Liao Tiancheng's picture that has a problem!"

Xu Da shook his head for a while: "According to Mao Xiang and King Yan, the muskets made in Yinmagou can almost hit the target, but the ones we make always miss the target. The difference is too big!"

As a result, Xu Miaoqing even doubted herself.

"Has the range been increased?"

"The range is no problem. It can indeed reach a hundred paces away. In other aspects, it is similar to the one at Yinmagou. The only problem is the inaccuracy. It is really different! Miaoqing, if you think about it again, it is Isn't there a mistake somewhere?"

Xu Miaoqing still shook her head: "Impossible! By the way, dad, let my brother-in-law send the drawings back for a look. Do you know?"

Xu Da thought for a while, lowered his voice and revealed the news to Xu Miaoqing: "Actually, Liao Tiancheng's drawings were secretly sent back by King Yan a few days ago. The recently built blunderbuss was made according to his drawings." Xu Miaoqing I was stunned for a while, feeling a little ashamed.

He had plagiarized Liao Tiancheng's drawings, and now Zhu Di simply took away the original drawings!

If he hadn't leaked the secret himself, Liao Tiancheng would definitely not have lost the drawings.

Liao Tiancheng, I can’t help you, little girl...

But since Liao Tiancheng's drawings couldn't produce a qualified gun, Xu Miaoqing felt instantly relieved.

"In that case, it's not the daughter's problem. I think if you and His Majesty want to know the problem, you still have to ask Liao Tiancheng himself, or simply bring back a few blacksmiths over there."

Xu Da smiled bitterly: "This method is good, but it concerns your Majesty's face! Your Majesty is a face-loving person. Stealing pictures is embarrassing enough, but the key point of stealing pictures is that you have failed! Ask Liao Tiancheng again, is that not throwing His Majesty's old face in the face? Rubbing under the soles of people’s shoes?”

Xu Miaoqing stuck out her tongue: "This won't work, that won't work either. Why don't we wait for Liao Tiancheng to come back and answer your questions? I think if he knew that the government couldn't make a qualified musket, he would probably laugh at the show. If you don’t bow your head, others won’t be too lazy to be good people.”

But Xu Da was a rough and tumble man, and soon he thought of another solution that was not a solution.

On this day, Xu Da held a banquet at home and called his eldest daughter Xu Miaoyun back.

"Miaoyun, King Yan must have missed you a lot since he has been away from home for so long, and you must have missed him too."

Xu Miaoyun immediately covered her pretty face: "Dad, you are so disrespectful to me, why do you say anything?"

"Hey hey hey, dad is here, why don't you understand? In this case, you go back to the palace and talk to the queen, and then go to Yinmagou to see King Yan."

Xu Miaoyun was immediately overjoyed: "Really?"

"Of course it's true! But as a father, I have something to ask of you."

"After you go, ask King Yan why the same drawings of bird guns are made so different!"

Xu Miaoyun readily agreed.

"Father! I want to go too!"

Xu Miaoqing put down her bowls and chopsticks, ran to Xu Da and shook Xu Da's arm.

"what are you going to do?"

Xu Da was confused.

"My daughter has nothing to do at home and is almost going crazy! When my sister goes out from the hospital, she will be bored with everyone around her. We can keep company to relieve her boredom if we go together! Besides, if King Yan doesn't understand, my daughter might be able to help. , ask Liao Tiancheng what happened!"

Xu Da laughed dumbly: "How could King Yan not understand? He is with Liao Tiancheng every day, so he naturally understands."

"If he really understood it, would he not tell His Majesty? I think there is a good chance that he doesn't understand the trick."

Xu Da thought for a while and felt that it was not impossible.

"Okay, then you will come too, but you can't act recklessly this time. You are the daughter of Wei Guogong, so you have to look like a lady, do you understand?"

Xu Miaoqing nodded without hesitation and agreed firmly.

However, after Xu Miaoqing left, Xu Da looked at his daughter's back and began to think about it.

"This child is about to get married. Shouldn't she find a husband in advance?"

(End of this chapter)