Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 281
In the middle of the barracks is the material and grain warehouse, with hundreds of large tents, surrounded by huge fences, and the guards are very tight. This is the first time for Fan Ning to come to this warehouse, and the official who accompanied him to inspect the warehouse is called Yan Jing. A civilian soldier who served as treasurer.

When the two came to a large tent, Yan Jing showed a command arrow to the guards, then turned to Fan Ning and said, "Fan Yushi, this is the firearms depot!"

On the night when the natives attacked the barracks at night two days ago, Fan Ning saw the firearms of the Song army for the first time, which aroused his interest.
Fan Ning followed Yan Jing into the gunpowder warehouse. This expedition did not bring many firearms. After all, he would not encounter powerful enemies. He only brought dozens of each kind of firearms. The most were fire mines, which were launched the day before yesterday. Porcelain fire mine, the size of a porcelain fire mine, is like a tea pot, weighs about two or three catties, oblate, with a porcelain cap on it, and inside the porcelain cap is a matchlock. When using it, you have to pull out the porcelain cap to light the matchlock.

In addition to porcelain fire mines, there are several paper fire mines next to them. Inside, a frame is made of bamboo and covered with more than a dozen layers of paper. However, neither porcelain fire mines nor paper fire mines are very lethal. If there is no shock wave, only the iron nails and tiles shot out during the explosion will hurt people.

"Why is there no Iron Fire Thunder?" Fanning turned around and asked.

Yan Jing smiled wryly, "Of course Iron Fire Thunder is the best. The imperial court offered a reward for making Iron Fire Thunder ten years ago, and the reward has been increased to [-] guan, but so far, no one has been able to make it."

Fan Ning suddenly remembered what Di Qing had said to him back then, "In addition to offering rewards for making crossbows, the imperial court also offered rewards for making firearms." 'Could it be that the firearm offered for the reward refers to Tie Huo Lei?
At the beginning, Fan Ning was only thinking about the magic arm crossbow, and never considered the issue of firearms. In fact, he also knew that the development of firearms ran through the entire Northern Song Dynasty, and the development of the shape of firearms still changed with the change of gunpowder.

For example, from the initial paper fire mine, it gradually evolved into pottery fire mine and porcelain fire mine. War horses and more.

Now that firearms have been developed for nearly a hundred years, the power of gunpowder is also constantly improving. It can already smash thick porcelain bottles. Naturally, the imperial court has also considered the possibility of smashing iron shells. It must have started research and is also offering rewards for effective solutions.

Of course Fan Ning knew that at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, when Li Gang guarded Tokyo, he had already used iron fire thunder, but it was very unstable, and squibs often appeared. This shows that the formula problem has been solved, but the quality of gunpowder is not good enough. .

By the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the war once again spurred the development of gunpowder technology, and finally it was able to cause a powerful thunderstorm, which was very powerful.

There is a record in the history books, "An iron pot containing medicine is lit with fire. When the cannon ignites, the sound is like thunder. It can be heard hundreds of miles away. The fire is more than half an acre. When the fire is lit, the armor and iron will penetrate." '
That is to say, the killing distance was [-] square meters, and the iron armor was pierced by fragments near the explosion point.

In fact, this is not the most powerful thunder. The thunder used in the Song and Yuan battles was already close to the power of explosives. A thunderbolt knocked down the city wall, and all the soldiers within a hundred feet were killed.

If it is just to solve the gunpowder formula, it is very simple. Fan Ning can come up with the formula of the later black gunpowder now. The key is how to improve the quality of the gunpowder, such as the particle size, how to ensure that the gunpowder inside is fully burned , bursting out with the greatest power?

Therefore, the burning speed must be ensured, otherwise, the gunpowder will explode only halfway through burning, and the remaining black powder will be wasted. This requires trial and error to find the best solution.

It's just a pity that this expedition did not bring gunpowder raw materials, otherwise he could have a good experiment.

At this moment, the guard waved at the door, Yan Jing went out, came back after a while and said to Fan Ning: "Di Shuai sent someone to find Fan Yushi!"

Fan Ning was startled, then put down the porcelain fire thunder in his hand, and walked out quickly. There was a soldier standing outside the warehouse door. It was Di Qing's personal soldier. Yu Shi, Di Shuai invites you to the big tent, there is something important to do."

"What happened?" Fanning asked.

"It seems that the natives from the north have come and want to make peace with us!"

Fan Ning was overjoyed by this news, and this was the result he was most looking forward to. In fact, everything can be negotiated, and it doesn't have to be a life and death. Fan Ning walked quickly to the big tent of the Chinese army.

There are more than a dozen natives sitting cross-legged in the large tent of the Chinese army, with shaggy beards and animal skins, their eyes are timid, and their expressions are quite nervous. One of them can speak Japanese, and some officials in the Song army can also speak Japanese. Japanese so that we can communicate with each other.

At this time, Fan Ning walked into the tent of the Chinese army, and Zhao Zongshi hurriedly greeted him and said, "This is a native of the northwest tribe. They want to negotiate with us and hope that both sides will live in peace."

Fan Ning smiled and said, "Aren't these natives full of hatred for us? Why did you think of negotiating?"

"I talked with them just now. They and the Northeast tribe are both small tribes. The two tribes combined have less than 1000 people. They migrated from a large island in the north ten years ago. It should be Sakhalin Island. They are often used by peninsula tribes. Bullying and oppression, half of the harvested food has to be handed over, women are also plundered by the other party, this time we wiped out the peninsula tribe, they are both happy and scared, I hope we can allow them to stay on Maoren Island.”

This result was beyond Fanning's expectation. He thought for a while and asked, "You said they moved from Sakhalin Island, why did they move here?"

"You can ask them directly!"

Fan Ning nodded, and walked forward to salute Fan Ning. An interpreter next to him said a few words in Japanese, and the other interpreter also said something to a group of people. More than a dozen people quickly got up and saluted Fan Ning.

Fan Ning saw that there was no ferocity in their eyes, most of them were kind and timid, completely different from the natives on the peninsula, and Fan Ning also had a slight liking for them.

He waved his hand to ask everyone to sit down, and said with a smile, "I heard that you came from the big island in the north, why did you come to Maoren Island?"

After translating, one of the leader-like men murmured a few words, and the Song Dynasty translator said to Fan Ning: "They said that it's too cold over there, and there's little food, but Maoren Island is much warmer. Oppressed, women are taken away, and life is hard."

Fan Ning found that although they were also short, their appearance was slightly different from that of the natives here. They were not as dark as the natives here, and their faces were more prominent, and their appearance had a bit of Khitan characteristics.

Fan Ning thought of a saying that although they are all Ainu people with similar living habits, the Ainu people in Hokkaido migrated from the islands in Southeast Asia, but the Ainu people in Sakhalin Island are black A branch of Shuimohe, called the Grotto Department, seems to have moved to Sakhalin Island during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

At this time, Di Qing said beside him: "Fan Yushi, they said that the Maoren in Japan are also very vicious, and they will not tolerate their migration there. They hope to stay in Maoren Island, and Zhao Shijun and I also think Yes, these people are simple and kind, completely different from the previous natives, and they will help us go north to Sakhalin in the future, what do you think?"

Fan Ning thought for a while and said, "Then let them become citizens of the Great Song Dynasty. The captured women and children can be given to them. Our conditions should be good."

The translator explained what Fan Ning meant, and the eyes of the other party's dozen or so people could not conceal their excitement. It is estimated that when they heard that the women and children were given to them, a dozen of them knelt down and kowtowed to Fan Ning to thank Fan Ning.

Women are a kind of wealth for them, and many of them were originally their wives and daughters, but were snatched away by the natives of the peninsula.

Two days later, more than a dozen elders from another tribe also came to the camp of the Song Army. The two tribes finally reached an agreement with the Song Army. Kun people.

The Song Dynasty did not tax them, and only paid a symbolic tribute of a bear skin and a few pairs of antlers to the Song Emperor every year. The Song Army agreed that they moved to the peninsula, where the food was more abundant and the climate was warmer.

In order to thank Song Jun for returning their abducted wives and daughters to them, the Kun people gave Song Jun [-] bear skins, which were their wealth accumulated over decades.

Song Jun gave each of them two sets of Song Dynasty clothes and a lot of food and salt, so that they finally bid farewell to the life of wearing animal skins for summer.

This is also Fan Ning's idea. Since the Kun people have become the people of the Song Dynasty, while retaining their beliefs and customs, try to make them closer to the people of the Song Dynasty.

We need to build schools, teach their children to learn Chinese, change their clothes, teach them to farm and weave, change their eating habits, and prolong their lifespan. Maybe decades later, they will gradually become Sinicized and identify themselves with Song people from the bottom of their hearts. identity of.

Ten days later, the Song army left 500 people to garrison the barracks, and the rest of the army, led by the Kun hunters, marched towards the grassland in the north by land and water.

At this point, the curtain of Jinglue Kunzhou finally slowly opened.

(End of this chapter)