When Li Qi found Nalan Jin, Nalan Jin was still living happily in his mansion as usual.
Regarding this prince, Li Qi really couldn't figure it out. The emperor of the Snow Kingdom liked him and valued him very much.
"Why did Brother Li want to come to my place today?" Nalanjin asked.
Li Qi smiled and said, "I haven't seen the Fourteenth Master for a long time, so I just thought of coming over to see the Fourteenth Master."
Nalan Jin smiled and hugged Li Qi's shoulders and said: "I heard that you have helped my sister earn a lot of money in the palace recently? You happen to be here today, why don't you treat me to dinner?"
"Master Fourteenth, what are you talking about? It's an honor for me to invite Master Fourteenth to dinner." Li Qi said as he took out some gold tickets from his clothes and handed them over, "Master Fourteenth, this is my heart.
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Nalan Jin looked at the golden ticket that Li Qi took out and said with a smile: "I don't dare to ask for this."
"Why?" Li Qi asked.
"These golden tickets are all given to you by my imperial sister. If she knows that they fall into my hands, I'm afraid she will come to find me again."
Nalan Jin smiled and said: "My imperial sister is a person with clear grudges. She and you are doing business together, and no one can touch the money she gives you."
Li Qi didn't expect that Nalan Rong was still such a domineering person. It would be good if he did business with such a person, at least he would not lose money.
After exchanging a few pleasantries, Li Qi suggested that Nalan Jin be invited to have dinner at the most prestigious restaurant in Xuedu City.
Nalanjin did not refuse and immediately asked someone to prepare a car.
The two of them took the car to the restaurant.
After sitting down in a private room, Li Qi was rich and asked the store to bring all the delicious food and drinks.
When the store owner saw that Nalan Jin was coming, he naturally did not dare to neglect him.
"Fourteenth Master, this time I came to see you, I actually have something I want you to help me with." Li Qi smiled.
Nalan Jin said: "I don't know what's going on?"
"I want some black oil." Li Qi said.
"Black oil?" Nalan Jin frowned and asked, "What does Brother Li want black oil for?"
"It's like this. It's been freezing recently and I want some black oil to keep warm." Li Qi said.
Nalanjin smiled and said, "Can't you just go to the oil pipe department and buy it directly?"
The Oil Pipe Department is a place that specializes in selling black oil in Snow Country. Common people who have established a business will go there to buy black oil, but the quantity of this black oil is controlled.
The quantity that each person can buy per month is limited.
"Fourteenth Master, you also know that there are many people under me, and many of them are reluctant to buy black oil, but they have to make clothes for me. I can't just watch them get frostbite, right?" Li Qi said with a smile.
Nalan Jin said disapprovingly: "I see, it's a trivial matter. I'll have someone say hello to the oil pipeline department later. If you want as much as you want, just go and get it."
"Thank you, Master Fourteen." Li Qi cupped his hands and said.
Li Qi wanted black oil not really because of what he said.
The main reason is that he has thought of something that he can exchange with Lu Xiuying.
The Snow Country is rich in black oil, but they don't know how to use it.
When he was in Snowstorm Valley before, Li Qi had seen how they used black oil to fight.
It's nothing more than putting black oil into a wooden barrel and then lighting it with a rocket.
Although this method is good, it can only be said to be impossible to use it when the two armies are actually fighting.
When two armies are fighting, once a fight breaks out, when you move the oil barrel over, who knows whether the other side will give you a chance to light it.
Besides, even if it is ignited, it will still hurt others and yourself.
The only way to solve this pain point is to make the oil barrel hit the target accurately.
To achieve this level, Li Qi thought of something: a catapult!
There were no catapults in this era, and the production of catapults was not complicated.
Think about it, if you put the oil barrel on the catapult and throw it out, wouldn't it just hit where you want it?
The purpose of Li Qi's black oil now is to test whether the effect of throwing the black oil on the ground can produce huge power.
The next day, Li Qi went to the Oil Pipe Department. With Nalan Jin greeting him, Li Qi easily obtained a lot of black oil.
After finding a warehouse in Xuedu to store the black oil, he went to find Lu Xiuying.
He asked Lu Xiuying to find him an open space outside the city. It should not only be private, but also where no one would disturb him.
Lu Xiuying didn't ask any questions. He easily got a piece of land because he wanted to offer sacrifices.
Twenty miles west of Snow Capital City, there is an abandoned mountain villa.
On this day, Li Qi and a group of people came to this villa in a mighty manner.
On the carriage, Tang Yun asked: "Sir, is the throwing device you mentioned really feasible?"
Li Qidao: "I don't know yet. It's my first time doing it, but I know the principles. As long as I follow the principles, there shouldn't be many big problems."
Tang Yundao: "Can we trust the craftsmen we brought here?"
Li Qi shrugged and said, "Is there anything unbelievable about this? Lu Xiuying sent her here anyway. If anything goes wrong, it will be her own problem. As long as I make that thing, the deal with her will be completed."
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After saying that, Li Qi sighed and said: "I have been in Snow Country for so long, and I miss Daxia a little bit. In a while, Snow Country and Daxia will go to war. I hope this war will end soon."
Tang Yundao: "Sir, you invented this oil barrel throwing machine for Snow Country this time. What will happen if Daxia loses this battle?"
Li Qidao: "It would be better if we lose. Then I will follow the army back to Beijing. Anyway, I am not the commander. If the sky falls, there will still be a tall man to hold it up. And the machine for throwing oil barrels has not been built yet. Specifically, we can quickly
I don’t know either.”
After arriving at the villa, Li Qi and his party moved in.
More than a hundred craftsmen came this time, all sent by Lu Xiuying to Li Qi.
On the day he moved in, Li Qi asked Tang Yun to arrange for people to cut trees, while he himself was drawing the drawings of the trebuchet.
Li Qi considered many types of trebuchets, including elasticity, torsion, and manpower.
However, these types of trebuchets are too troublesome to make and require the most processes.
The simplest is the gravity trebuchet.
The gravity trebuchet is nothing more than using the principle of gravity and leverage to project what needs to be thrown.
The accuracy may not be that great, but if you throw a lit oil barrel, the power would be extraordinary.
Throwing it into the crowd, the fire oil explodes and contaminates people. The lethality is huge.
Although the power of fire may be weakened in an icy and snowy environment like Snow Country, it should not be underestimated.
After all, if something like oil is contaminated on the body, the temperature will be very high, and it may make people disabled in an instant.