After going to Guiguan, Liu Yan no longer took charge of the world's interests and powers, but he was not completely idle and began to become interested in some things in Lingxi.

In the courtyard of the government, there were piles of flags under several miscellaneous trees. Wei Tuotian talked with several men wearing colorful kosher cloth and fiddled with a crossbow-like shooting tool.

Gao Yue sat on Hu's bed and watched.

These men, both men and women, were sent to Baili New City by Liu Yan and sent them to Baili New City with people and things.

The barbarians in the west of Lingxi were called "Liliao". Like the Dangxiang Fanluo, the Tang Dynasty established dozens of bans in Guiguan, Yongguan and Rongguan. While backing with force, they won over the upper class of Liliao to rule the vast area in Lingxi.

After Liu Yan took office, he saw hundreds of men working in the Guizhou Jingliu Mansion. Their identities were almost the same as those of slaves and had no salary and money. The government only sent them basic rations every month.

After a little questioning, Liu Yan understood that the Lingxi area was very open at this time. Even though the court issued a special policy of "Lingnan rice", that is, each family of Lijia only needs to pay half of the rent and taxes for the people of the Central Plains every year, the local lower-class people are still poor. Coupled with the cruel exploitation of some officials and chiefs, many officials who are unable to survive can only sell themselves as slaves.

In fact, the biggest market for slaves is the Tang people, and there are many servants in the imperial court acting as eunuchs. Therefore, although the Tang government repeatedly issued edicts to ban this slave trade, it would have little effect.

Liu Yan ordered that the Liao people had a skill. If they were all placed in the Jingliu Mansion as servitude, it would not be a proper move. So he took out the money from the mansion to redeem the group of Liao people, and then set up an official village in Guizhou, and directly sent the Liao people salary to them, so that they could do work - weaving and dyeing, making weapons, and processing metals from Lingnan markets. This would not only save the people from difficulties, but also give their value to make great profits for the Jingliu Mansion.

Later, when Liu Yan thought of the senior high school drum, he specially sent him ten servants, and traveled through mountains and rivers along the way, traveling half of the world.

The first skill that Liaoren showed to Gao Yue was this kind of "wooden bow".

In fact, the wooden bow is a wooden crossbow specialized in Lingxi, and it shoots short arrows.

Before Wei Tuotian was bought by Cui Ning, he had been wandering around the west and east of the ridge, knowing the words of Liaoren. After the conversation, he presented this "Li Liao wooden bow" to Gao Yue for inspection.

In the Zhongtu River, Xuanshe area is also famous for producing good crossbows, but these crossbows use traditional styles, using silk ropes as strings, mixing wood and metal crossbow arms and crossbows, and using copper crossbow teeth as triggers (cross machine).

Such crossbows are expensive, and in the case of harsh climates, the shooting performance will be greatly reduced if it is damp.

In Gao Yue's eyes, the crossbow arms and crossbows held by Wei Tuotian are all made of wooden. "The master, the crossbow bow is called the 'carry pole', and the crossbow arms are called the 'gourd'."

Gao Yue looked at it and the bow of this wooden crossbow was arc-shaped and indeed looked like a shoulder pole; while the crossbow arm was a thick wooden board, and a hole was chiseled as an arrow groove, which was narrow in front and wide in the back, which was really like a gourd, and a square hole was chiseled behind to use for string pressing.

Under this wooden crossbow, there is also a wooden handle for hand grip. Wei Tuotian said this is called "dog feet".

After saying that, Wei Tuotian quickly used a hemp rope as a string, and then placed a short crossbow arrow into the arrow groove and pulled it backwards. This crossbow arrow, Gao Yue, looks like a modern missile shape, with two fish fin-like tail wings behind it, used to balance the flight tracks.

To the maximum extent, Wei Tuotian stuck the string with a small bone piece, then picked it up, held the dog's foot with one hand, and then pulled the bone piece with the other hand, and slid it. The crossbow arrow shot out thirty steps away, and nailed it deeply penetrated into the wood piercing on the pile mark, revealing only the two tail wings were still outside.

"Silent." Gao Yue exclaimed.

Then ten men and women, each of whom, had a wooden crossbow, and each shot the crossbow arrows accurately into the target.

"Master, the master always uses these crossbows to hunt. This kind of crossbow is completely fired within thirty steps, and can hit eight out of fifty steps."

Hemp ropes, bamboo and wood blocks are everywhere, and only the cluster heads of crossbow arrows need iron.

This wooden crossbow is indeed simple and powerful, and can be used by both men, women, young and old. It is suitable for our trip to Yuanzhou.

But next, there are still some characteristics of this crossbowman to introduce.

Two officials took out a small pot of pottery, carefully took out a dagger, scraped some brown and black slurry inside, and applied it to a cluster of crossbow arrows.

"Could it be?" Gao Yue was surprised.

Sure enough, after a lamb was pulled out, the man held the wooden crossbow and blew it gently, and the crossbow arrow shot straight into the lamb's hind legs.

The lamb was bleating in pain and limped, but before he could take three or five steps, he fell to the ground, twitched a few times, and died of anger.

"It's a medicine crossbow..." Gao Yue vaguely heard that in the 1980s and 1990s, Miao compatriots in some mountainous areas also used this kind of crossbow to hunt. It is said that once a 150-pound wild boar was shot, and then he ran 500 meters before falling to death. The Miao hunter came forward to observe and found out that the wild boar was shot into the toe by the medicine crossbow when he raised his hooves. Then he stepped on the arrow shaft when he ran away, but he still died of poison after running.

Before liberation, Miao Village also used this kind of crossbow to repel the bandits' invasions.

"This poison was extracted from underground tubers of plants specialized in Lingxi. The effect is indeed terrifying. Even wild boars can be killed with one blow, and killing people is no problem." Gao Yue thought to himself. Liu Yan said in the letter that he hired some staff to boil these poisons in the Jingliu Mansion. If you want it, I can send it to the caravan.

"Forget it, the poison is kept in the cellar of the county government. I would not dare to take it out for the soldiers in the city to use it unless I had no choice. If these irritable brothers and sisters are shooting each other and rewarding each other, it would be terrible."

But this kind of crossbow can still be widely promoted. Gao Yue ordered the manufacturing technology to be taught to the people in the city, especially all the Muwei in Mafang. The idle masters must be equipped, and the women in Fanluo can also have it. It is used to deal with the wolves who harass Mafang every spring and winter. The effect is the best.

The emperor had ordered a sum of money from Daying Curry to provide the needs of Simafang. Among them, Gaoyue's Baili New City was also distributed, so a "wolf hunting reward" was specially set up to reward men and women who raise horses and protect horses (also cows and sheep).

If Liu Yan took the initiative to send the crossbow, then the remaining things were asked by Gao Yue from Liu Yan before.

Now this master is in Guiguan, not far from the sea city in Lingnan, and any novelty can be bought from maritime trade.

So this time, the Liaoren came and brought this kind of thing to Bailicheng:

This thing was bought by Persian merchants and was planted with grass cotton seeds.
Chapter completed!