The Great Idle Person of the Zhenguan Era.

Summary

The firearm department was in a flurry of activity, with over a hundred skilled craftsmen working to load gunpowder into cannons, producing over 8,000 shockwave-inducing cannonballs per month. Despite this, the emperor issued an edict to double production, citing internal strife in Xue Yan as the reason. Li Su, the head of the department, made a pact with the emperor, offering his head as a wine vessel if the target was not met, but later revealed he had made the pact in Xu Jingzong's name instead. Xu Jingzong was shocked and tried to process this information. Li Su then entered the workshop, observing the artisans' slow efficiency, and proposed changing the production process to an assembly-line method, which he recalled from the Qin Dynasty. However, Xu Jingzong seemed to be genuinely unaware of this concept, leaving Li Su puzzled and wondering why the Tang Dynasty did not adopt this method.

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