Ningze's secret research institute is located in an extremely remote and rarely visited valley north of Huajun City.

This place is very far from the city, completely deviating from the official road, and there is no people around it for a hundred miles.

The elite soldiers guarding the valley, except for necessary people, cannot enter and exit easily. It is completely a military base.

The Secret Institute looks very simple, just a row of mud houses built temporarily.

The "technicians" inside are just a group of Taoist priests who can refine alchemy. If someone accidentally breaks in, he probably thinks this is a Taoist temple.

Of course, in addition to these Taoist priests, there are also craftsmen with superb skills.

Now everyone is busy in the simple workshop, working and communicating carefully.

"The Marquis is here!" I don't know who shouted, instantly attracting everyone's attention.

Everyone put down their work, quickly left the workshop, and went out to greet them.

Sure enough, Ning Ze followed his confidant Wang Wei and came slowly on a horse.

"See Marquis!!" The soldiers of the defenders here, as well as all the craftsmen and Taoists, knelt down together.

"Get up!" Ning Ze turned over and dismounted and strode forward.

Wang Wei, wearing a ghost mask, followed closely behind.

"How is the research progress of each department?" Ning Ze straightforwardly asked a goatee-bearded master.

This old Taoist is the head of the research institute. He was originally a charlatan who cheated everywhere and often refined pills to cheat money. Later, he was arrested. Seeing that he was skilled and had strong understanding, Ning Ze impressed him through some means and sent him here for management.

Other Taoist priests recruited them on their own initiative, and some were arrested for committing crimes like this old Taoist, so they were sent here.

The old Taoist name is Xuan Ling, and his real name is Zhang Dadan, and he is indeed quite bold.

Seeing Ning Ze asking, Xuan Ling replied respectfully: "Report to the Marquis, all departments work overtime, try hard to experiment according to your requirements, and never slacken! But it is very difficult. Another person was accidentally killed by the bomb some time ago..."

“Too careless?”

"Yes, too careless!"

"I said that everything here is extremely dangerous and there is no need to be negligent." Ning Ze frowned, "Have the family handled it?"

"Don't worry, the pension has been delivered to the family."

"Listen, the same sentence - careful, careful, more careful!" Ning Ze said seriously, "I said that if I don't care, I'll just joke about my own life!"

"Please rest assured, the marquis will definitely manage it strictly to ensure that such things will not happen again!" Xuan Ling replied respectfully.

"Yeah!" Ning Ze looked around. All the craftsmen and Taoist priests on the scene were precious assets, and he felt sorry for losing anyone.

Although some people died, they became accustomed to it, and no one wanted to quit.

First, those who die in an accident are too careless; second, the salary here is very good, with a monthly salary of 5 taels of silver, and those who perform well can get an official position. Not to mention that Ning Ze once personally guaranteed that even if the retired people do nothing, the government will pay a monthly salary to support them, and will not have to worry about food and drink for the rest of their lives.

The construction period is ten years. You can become an official after retirement or go home to be an ordinary citizen. Of course, choosing to stay and continue working is better, and high officials and generous salaries are no problem.

Ning Ze invested heavily in this research institute.

In addition to the funds allocated from the management warehouse, I also subsidize some of them and require continuous excellence, so labor costs and manufacturing costs are very expensive.

The previous explosion crossbow came from this research institute and was completely spent on money.

There is no way, it is too difficult to make ancient crafts so exquisitely!

Advanced lathes and other things are currently unavailable and there are no conditions to support them.

"The musket is still in the research and development stage?" Ning Ze asked the "researchers" on the scene and all the craftsmen to return to their posts and turned to Xuan Ling and asked.

Xuan Ling immediately showed an awkward expression: "Mr. Marquis, we have been developing according to your requirements, but it is difficult to meet the standards."

"Take the orphan and see!"

"Here!"

Xuan Ling took him to one of the workshops, where he was busy, with various wooden models and metal parts placed around him.

Ning Ze picked up a few parts casually and looked at them carefully, then shook his head: "No! Nothing can be done at all! None of them met the requirements."

"Mr. Marquis, we are still in the exploration stage. After all, the part you have described is not specific enough. But please rest assured, we will do our best to make objects that meet the Marquis' requirements as soon as possible!" Xuan Ling said respectfully.

"Well! Give me some snacks. Gu invested huge amounts of money here to produce results as soon as possible!" Ning Ze threw the parts back, "Although Gu is just a description of a general description and you need to explore the others by yourself, Gu believes in you because everyone is the best!"

"Thank you, Marquis!" Xuan Ling replied excitedly, "We must do our best to complete the entrustedness of the Marquis."

"Well! Actually, you don't need to think too complicatedly," Ning Ze took out the bamboo crossbow while speaking. "Some principles of muskets and crossbows are the same. As long as you conduct research on the current basis, I believe there will be results soon."

"Don't worry, Marquis, we must do our best!"

"Take the orphan to see the progress of the other places."

"Here!"

Xuan Ling took Ning Ze around and carefully checked the current progress of each research point.

To be honest, it was not satisfactory. It was not much different from the last time I came here. I was stuck in the key technology and couldn't get through it.

This disappointed Ning Ze very much.

After all, they are all ancient people. They ask them to study things that are beyond the times, unless Ning Ze himself knows it very well and can fully teach the other party.

Like him, he had only a few understandings and could only give a general model. It was not that simple to ask these ancients to study on their own.

After a round and sighed slightly, "The progress is still too slow, you need to work harder!"

"Don't worry, Marquis, we will do our best."

"Well~ By the way, the cost of the explosive crossbow arrow is made. Have you ever thought of a way to suppress it for me?" Ning Ze asked.

Xuan Ling quickly replied: "Hao, wait!"

He turned around and ran to a workshop, and after a while he came back with a special crossbow arrow, and respectfully presented it: "This kind of arrow costs very little."

After taking the crossbow arrow and taking a casual look, Ning Ze shook his head disappointed and said, "Leading? What I want is collision ignition, not this simple crossbow arrow that cannot be used when it is wet on rainy days. The cost of compressed collision ignition explosion crossbow arrows is not to let you change it to a more backward way!"

"Mr. Marquis forgive me!" Xuan Ling said quickly, "But the craftsman with the best skills at present cannot make the crossbow arrows simpler. If you want to save costs, such crossbow arrows are the simplest."

"What Gu wants is the best and what Gu wants is progress. You are all outstanding talents, so you can definitely think of ways, so don't worry. This kind of lead explosion crossbow arrow is too affected by the weather, and the chance of damage caused by mistakes is quite high. The crossbow soldiers are all elite. If you want to use it, use it to ensure the lowest combat losses. Of course, if you can enhance the safety of lead explosion crossbow arrows and make it more stable, you should not consider small-scale applications."

"I understand!" Xuan Ling answered respectfully.

"You still need to speed up the research and development, but I invested huge amounts of money, and the cost was not small!" Ning Ze said seriously.

"Yes! We will never slack off and will do our best to meet the Marquis' requirements."

"Yeah~" Ning Ze was disappointed. He was about to turn around and call Wang Wei back to the city when he saw a person on the side running over.

"Mr. Marquis!" This man was a craftsman, holding a small ceramic jar in his hand.

"What's the matter?" Ning Ze turned to the man.

"Sun Liu'er, I want to ask the marquis to see this thing!" The craftsman carefully held the pottery jar and raised his head to answer.

"What is this?" Xuan Ling asked on the side.

"This is a thunder that the villain created after studying for a long time in accordance with the instructions of the Marquis!" The craftsman replied respectfully.

"Thunder bomb?" Ning Ze frowned and looked at the jar in his hand. It looked like an ordinary clay pot, and there was nothing special about it.

So he turned to look at Xuan Ling, after all, he was the person in charge here.

Xuan Ling also looked puzzled and quickly said to Sun Liuer: "Xiao Liu, are you alone in the workshop and not sleeping late at night to make this pottery jar? What the Marquis said about thunder is not like this!"

In fact, Ning Ze asked them to develop bombs and grenades, but it turned into thunder in their mouths.

Researching this is actually particularly dangerous. Poor gunpowder combination or other reasons will cause violent explosions. As a result, many people died, and once stopped research and development, temporarily focusing on muskets and explosive crossbows.

Unexpectedly, Sun Liuer was still secretly studying it. However, the pottery jar in his hand was too far from the grenade and bomb, right?

Facing Ning Ze's puzzled gaze, Sun Liuer said respectfully: "Marty, Caomin tried every means to create thunder, but after thinking, combined with the ignition method of the explosion crossbow arrow, this kind of special thunder was developed. This kind of thunder cannot be thrown, and can be buried as a trap where the enemy must pass. Once the enemy step on it, it will trigger the flint and then explode like an explosion crossbow arrow!"

"Landmine?" Ning Ze showed a surprised expression when he heard this.

"Landmine?" Sun Liuer immediately said when she heard the word, "The Marquis is indeed wise! This name just corresponds to the thunder made by Caomin."

"Have you created a landmine?" Ning Ze looked at Sun Liu'er carefully, thinking that he seemed to have never mentioned the knowledge about landmines. This person could actually imagine this from the bomb principle. Could it be a genius? Could it be that he is also a time traveler?

I thought it was impossible! If he was really a time traveler, he would have recognized what he did in this world. As a time traveler, he would have been able to recognize him.

Furthermore, Sun Liuer's attribute panel cannot see any information related to time travel, so it is impossible!

Sun Liuer didn't know what Ning Ze was thinking, so she said respectfully: "Caomin wants to ask the marquis to see the power of this thing!"

"Have you tried it?" Ning Ze asked.

"Caomin only created this thing with a sudden idea based on what the Marquis said, but it has not been verified yet!"

"I dare to bring it without verification?" Xuan Ling was anxious, "I'm so bold!"

"It's okay!" Ning Ze said, "It's better to be a coincidence than to get there. Gu is very interested, so hurry up and have a test!"

"Mr. Marquis, please come here!" Sun Liuer quickly led the way.
Chapter completed!