The World Online

Chapter 179: 400 Thousand

In reality, everyone's personal assets had been tabulated and turned into a bunch of numbers. As for the use of these numbers, the federal government didn't reveal.

In the morning, Ouyang Shuo called Sun Xiaoyue to ask about her Grandfather recruiting sScientists.

Based on her summary, her Grandfather had contacted 20 odd scientist in this half a month. They were all in the Dali region and Sun Xiaoyue brought them around to get used to the game environment.

Apart from that, Ouyang Shuo asked Sun Xiaoyue to do another thing—investigate the Cui family in the Dali region, especially what kind of reaction they had to Cui Yingyu disappearing.

After upgrading to a county, Ouyang Shuo finally had the ability to make contact with the Cui family. Since Sun Xiaoyue was in the Dali Region, he wanted her to help join the two both parties.

In the afternoon, Song Jia made a call to Ouyang Shuo.

Ouyang Shuo's soldier token and message had succeeded as expected. Song Jia and Yuanping's marriage had been indefinitely delayed.

After Song Jia learned of the news, she totally admired Ouyang Shuo and would often call him.

At night, Ouyang Shuo got online on time.

After completing his cultivation, Ouyang Shuo didn't remain in the lord's manor. Instead, headed toward the east region. In a large part of half a month, although they hadn't completed the city walls, the Organization of the city was already in place.

The bow and crossbow workshop, armory division workshop, weapons workshop and alchemy workshop were located in the east region.

Ouyang Shuo walked into the Bow And Crossbow Division workshop, the secretary-cum-manager, advanced bow maker Wu Peng went up to welcome him and said respectfully," Sire!"

In olden society, such people were called artisans and their societal status were very low. Hence, they all had very low self esteem and treated their lords with a lot of respect. Maybe only the only exception was the secretary of the Armoury Division, advanced blacksmith Wang Tao.

Ouyang Shuo nodded and asked,"Secretary Wu, how many crossbow machines has the division made?"

The structure of the crossbow can be split into three parts: arm, bow and machine. The arm was mostly made of wood, the bow was placed across the front portion of the arm, and the machine was fixed around the back of the arm.

The crossbow machine that Ouyang Shuo asked about was the most important portion of the crossbow, the machine.

It was mainly made up of copper, but it could also be made of iron. The front was the 'teeth' used to hang the string and behind that was a connecting link. Engraved on it was the angle and the distance. This was similar to the scope of a modern gun, and based on the distance of the target, the user adjusted the shooting angle to increase accuracy.

At the bottom of the casing was the input link used to fire the bolts.

When the user fired the crossbow, they pulled the string and hooked onto the ;teeth', which placed a bolt onto the bolt channels. After aiming through the connecting link, the user squeezed the input link to cause the 'teeth' to sink downward. This released the string from the hook and shoot the bolt out at high speeds.

20 days ago, not long after the upgrade of Shanhai city, Ouyang Shuo suddenly visited the Bow And Crossbow Division workshop. He asked them to focus on rushing a batch of crossbow machines and create a quantity not less than 100 thousand.

They naturally had doubts about their lord's weird request, but as they felt inferior, Wu Peng didn't ask and just followed the orders.

The crossbow machine wasn't like bows and the materials were easy to find. Moreover, they were also very easy to make and only required stone and iron ore. Unlike the production of bows and crossbows that were affected by the factors of the materials such as the bow strings, horns and leathers, hence, their production rate was limited and couldn't increase much anymore. As the Bow And Crossbow Division still had to care about crafting bows and crossbows, they could only make an extra 500 crossbow machines a day. To date, they made just exactly 10,000 sets.