The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 95 Development of Firearms
Zhao Dongting frowned slightly, and all the ministers talked about it when they heard the news.

The court of the Southern Song Dynasty had just arrived in Leizhou, and it hadn't been a few days of stability. It didn't expect that the Guangxi battlefield would be tense.

Zhao Dongting is also troubled, what he lacks most now is time.Although firecrackers have been improved, they have not yet been manufactured in batches. Although there are many reserves of landmines, they are not very suitable for tough battles.Artillery has encountered difficulties in propulsion devices.

Although he came from modern times, he was not an expert in military industry before, and it was not easy to make artillery out of thin air.

After the discussion among the ministers subsided, he asked: "Does the military aircraft order allow us to send troops to help?"

Su Liuyi was a little dazed, and clasped his hands and replied, "That's not true."

"Then just wait a little longer!"

Zhao Dongting said: "Our army has just rested and recuperated, and now the New Year is approaching. After the New Year's Eve, when the food, grass and equipment are ready, we will send troops to Guangxi again, and help the army to expel the Yuan thieves."

The ministers shouted, "The emperor is holy."

Zhao Dongting said again: "All the officers and men stepped up their drills, and the weapon workshop will distribute the improved weapons to the troops as soon as possible."

Yue Peng and other generals, as well as the imperial envoys from Weapon Workshop, all stood up to take orders.

Zhao Dongting nodded, "Which Aiqing still has something to play?"

No one speaks anymore.

He stood up and walked downstairs, "Then go and bury the father-in-law!"

All the monarchs and ministers left the political hall and walked towards the side hall.

Yun Jin, Yue Wu, and Ying Er were already waiting there. Seeing Zhao Dongting, Yun Jin knelt on the ground, "Your servant kowtows to the emperor."

Zhao Dongting asked her to get up, and walked into the side hall first.

The coffin has been set up inside, and Li Yuanxiu's body is still lying on the mat.

Zhao Dongting ordered the superintendent of funerals to start helping Li Yuanxiu into the coffin.

The coffin was filled with gold, silver and jewels.Li Yuanxiu was going to be buried with the ceremonies of a duke, so the ostentation was naturally not small.

When the eunuch of the funeral director slowly carried Li Yuanxiu's body into the coffin, many people in the hall wept secretly.Li Yuanxiu has devoted himself to the court of the Southern Song Dynasty in the past few decades, and many ministers in the court have been friends with him for the past ten years.

From the beginning to the end, Zhao Dongting didn't say a word, just stared at the coffin.

As long as Murongchuan is not dead, there seems to be an inextricable knot in his heart.

In this way, Li Yuanxiu's encoffining ceremony was not over until near noon, and even Concubine Yang Shu came to express her condolences in person.

Such a battle should be unprecedented among eunuchs in ancient times.

Yun Jin knelt in front of Li Yuanxiu's coffin and didn't get up until the encoffining ceremony was over.Both legs were numb, if not for Yinger's quick support, she almost fell to the ground again.

Zhao Dongting left the side hall, and hurried to the weapon workshop to develop his artillery, even the meals were sent to the weapon workshop by the eunuch.

Now the Southern Song Dynasty is too weak, and improved weapons are not enough to compete with the Yuan army.After all, there were return guns in the Yuan army, and this weapon was a big killer in the era of cold weapons.However, the power of the trebuchets in the Southern Song Dynasty was not capable of confronting the return cannons, so it was never able to confront the Yuan army head-on.

Zhao Dongting only wanted to develop artillery, which would be able to restrain the returning artillery of the Yuan army.

To put it bluntly, the return cannon is just a large trebuchet.

It's just that he knows the principle of artillery, but he doesn't even have a cannon for reference, so it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice.

Some of the things he thought of, even gun barrels, are difficult to manufacture with the current smelting process.

I just don't know if unified artillery has been developed in Europe in this era.

Zhao Dongting knew that time was running out, if Guangxi was defeated, Leizhou would be in jeopardy, and maybe the Southern Song Dynasty would have no chance to stand up.Even he could see this clearly.

In the evening, he still hadn't made any progress in the development of the artillery, and he was inevitably a little upset, so someone called Su Liuyi over.

As soon as Su Liuyi arrived, he asked, "Master Su, do you know where we can get artillery?"

Su Liuyi knew that Zhao Dongting often came to the weapons workshop these days, but he didn't know that he was secretly developing artillery. Looking at the artillery wheels and various barrels placed in the house, he stared in surprise and said: "Your Majesty, you often come here Is this making artillery?"

Zhao Dongting nodded and said, "Yes!"

Su Liuyi had a ghostly expression on his face, and he couldn't even close his mouth.

He just thinks that the emperor is too difficult to use common sense to figure out, not to mention the strategy at a young age, he can develop landmines, improve weapons, improve firearms, and now he has started to study cannons.

He couldn't help thinking, could it be that the emperor is a god from the sky who came down to earth to make it happen?
Such as landmines, Zhao Dongting's new smelting method, etc., are really unimaginable technologies for people in this era.

Also, he had seen Zhao Dongting's improved firecracker, and he was shocked at that time.Originally, the firecrackers of the Southern Song Dynasty could only be shot single-shot, and most of them used bamboo tubes. Iron tubes and copper tubes were rarely used. The bullets (bullets) inside were only stones, iron blocks, etc., and their power was very limited. Can't even wear armor.

However, Zhao Dongting's improved firecrackers are all made of new steel barrels, and Ziyi is even made of brass wrapped gunpowder, which is extremely powerful.

The scarecrow that was used to test the power was directly blown to pieces by the Zimao shot from the firecracker, but it made all the officials dumbfounded for a long time.

It's a pity that due to the limited number of craftsmen, the number of firecrackers and gunpowder guns produced is still extremely limited.

Su Liuyi's eyes suddenly burned, staring at Zhao Dongting.

Zhao Dongting was almost frightened by his eyes, wondering, "What's wrong?"

Su Liuyi smiled obsequiously and said: "The emperor has the resources of the sky, I just think about how amazing the artillery developed by the emperor will be."

He looked here and there in the room, and asked, "Your Majesty, what kind of artillery are you developing? Why are they so different?"

The artillery in the Southern Song Dynasty was all trebuchets, and Su Liuyi naturally didn't know what the gun barrels and gun mounts in the room were for.

Zhao Dongting didn't know how to explain it, so he frowned and said, "Did you see this thing when you were fighting the Yuan army?"

As he spoke, he even made gestures and gestures, which was the style of artillery in ancient times.

Su Liuyi looked at it in a daze, with a puzzled face, "I haven't seen it before. Your Majesty, where can such a small artillery come from in the world?"

The word artillery has been equated with the trebuchet in his mind.

Zhao Dongting was also very helpless, but he couldn't remember when Europe invented artillery.But looking at it now, even though artillery was invented in Europe, it has not yet spread to Asia.

"what!"

Suddenly, he slapped his thigh fiercely, and said with a smile: "What kind of artillery is I studying! Isn't the grenadier much easier to make?"

In the past, he was on the edge of a dead end and put all his thoughts on the artillery.In terms of craftsmanship, the grenade is obviously simpler.

Su Liuyi watched dumbfounded from the side, but almost didn't think that the emperor had lost his mind again.

In an instant, he was a little flustered.

The emperor has twin souls, this soul is such a genius, wouldn't he suddenly go crazy and have to exchange for that soul again?
Up to now, Su Liuyi was deeply reluctant for Zhao Dongting to return to his original appearance.If he turns back to that childish child, the imperial court may have no hope.

Fortunately, what reassured him was that Zhao Dongting quickly calmed down and just waved at him: "You go out first!"

Su Liuyi looked eagerly at the parts in the room, like a little daughter-in-law, full of reluctance.He really wanted to see how the emperor fiddled with these things.It's just that Zhao Dongting ordered that if he wanted to see it again, he had to leave obediently, and he had to help Zhao Dongting take it to the door.

Zhao Dongting's eyes lit up, and he swept away all the scattered parts on the table, and drew a sketch hastily.

There aren't too many parts in the grenade. The ingenuity lies in the triggering device. He still thinks it is possible to overcome this point.

Moreover, Zhao Dongting had studied grenadiers in the past, so he knew the structure and principle of grenades well.If he hadn't been devoting himself to developing artillery these days, and many things had happened, he wouldn't have thought of grenadiers until now.

As long as there is this thing, there will be capital to confront the Yuan army head-on.

The return gun has an extremely long range, but is it as powerful as the explosives of the grenadier?

It was not until late at night that Zhao Dongting came out of the weapon workshop with a happy face, and he didn't even eat the food that the eunuch brought him.

At this time, he was holding a stack of drawings in his hand, all of which were detailed drawings of the grenadier's components.

Some craftsmen were still standing outside, Zhao Dongting called the little official over, handed the blueprints to him, and said: "Let the best craftsmen make these things for me as quickly as possible according to the blueprints I drew. "

The clerk glanced at the blueprint with the help of the dim light, and secretly swallowed his saliva.

These emperors always asked them to create these weird things, which was really a great test of their craftsmanship.

Fortunately, the drawings this time seem to be simpler.Practice makes perfect, and now this little official can understand Zhao Dongting's drawings.

"Little leader."

After regaining his senses, the small official of the weapon workshop quickly agreed.

Zhao Dongting was in a rare good mood, and patted him on the shoulder, "After I make it, I will reward you a lot."

Then he strode out of the weapons workshop.

The little official looked at his shoulder that had been patted just now, in disbelief, "Your Majesty... just patted me on the shoulder?"

In his opinion, this is undoubtedly a great honor.

How many people can the emperor be so intimate with?

For a while, the little official seemed to be in full bloom, full of energy.

That night, he dragged the old craftsmen in the workshop to study all night.

Of course, Zhao Dongting obviously didn't know that his unintentional actions would actually make the little official so excited.

(End of this chapter)