The legend of the king of crossing

Chapter 58

Although I have never asked about Fang Ling's background, I believe that Fang Ling will never harm me.I smiled and said, "Well, exactly, Longya is an organization whose goal is the rise of the Song Dynasty, and one of its goals is to destroy the Mongolian Tianya."

When Fang Ling heard this, he was shocked and said: "Brother, isn't the rise of the Great Song Dynasty a matter of the court? Don't tell me, brother, you don't know, you don't want to rebel, right?"

Fang Ling's reaction was the same as Xiao Tian's back then, as if establishing such an organization meant rebellion.

"Ling'er, why must you think that the rise of the Great Song Dynasty is just a matter for the court?"

"Brother, doesn't Da Song Jiangshan belong to the Zhao family?"

"Yes." I looked at Fang Ling with a blank face and said, "The Great Song Dynasty belongs to the Zhao family, and it also belongs to you. Mine belongs to the entire Song people."

The more Fang Ling listened, the more confused he became: "Didn't the ancients say that the whole world is the king's land?"

This kind of consciousness is deeply rooted in the hearts of people in feudal society, and according to the historical process, it will take eight or nine hundred years before it can be transformed.

I didn't know how to explain it, so I had to say: "Ling'er, well, let me say this, comparing the Song Dynasty to a family, and the emperor is the head of the family, so the rise and fall of this family is not just related to the head of the family. As for The words of the ancients are all time-limited."

Yuan Ji said with a smile, "My lord's mind is beyond me and ordinary people, we just need to believe it. However, my lord once said that everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. I think it is very correct."

"The rise and fall, everyone is responsible?"

I nodded and said: "Exactly, if the people of my Great Song Dynasty can be like the Ouyang family, where the government and the people are united, how can the Mongols be so rampant? One-on-one, we should be able to beat it."

Fang Lingruo realized something, and after a moment of silence, he said: "Brother, I can't fully understand what you said for a while, all I know is that my brother is always right, I believe in brother, not to mention that Ling'er and Tianya have a brother to kill each other. revenge."

I looked at Fang Ling, and I was moved for a while. To be able to gain the trust of others is a kind of happiness in itself.

I briefly described the basic structure of Longya. Of course, I have modified the supervision of officials by the Ministry of Supervision.

"Brother, can Ling'er also join Longya?"

"Naturally, we welcome anyone who can fulfill this purpose."

"Understood, I will tell my brother after Ling'er asks my father."

"Well, no problem. Ling'er, your bodyguards have traveled all over the world, have you heard of the Heavenly Dao League?"

"I, I haven't heard of it." Fang Ling seemed a little evasive.

"Oh, it seems that the Tiandao League is really mysterious." I didn't pay attention to Fang Ling's words and demeanor, and continued, "Sir, Linger, do you have any acquaintances who know the head of the Ouyang family in Central Sichuan?"

Yuan Ji thought for a while and said, "My lord, I am not familiar with the current head of the Ouyang family, but the Daoist master of the Dragon and Tiger Sect has always had a good relationship with the Ouyang family. If you have any questions, you can ask Daofa to tell you."

"Well, that's very good. Wait for me to edit a book and ask Wenzhang to send someone to Dao Fa and ask him to pass it on to the Ouyang family. The general meaning is to hope that the Ouyang family can join hands with Longya, and don't fight recklessly when the enemy and us are far apart. Save your strength and wait for the right time. Sir, choose one of Longya to accompany you in this matter, to show my sincerity."

"Yes, son, I will arrange it in a while."

Three days later in the evening, Quan Jiu and I had dinner with the Queen Mother, and as soon as we got back to Ninggan Palace, Xiao Qi came to report: "Shen Yiqiu and Quan Jue have arrived at the Gunpowder Department at the foot of Luoshi Mountain in the afternoon."

"Okay." I said happily, "Xiaoqi, inform them that I will go after the court meeting tomorrow."

In the court meeting the next day, I made a long story short and rejected Ma Tingluan and others’ request to cancel the public land law again, and asked Jia Sidao to cooperate with the Ministry of Education to immediately formulate a supervision method. Those who break the law will be severely cracked down, and the land transaction will be suspended. If the government's money is insufficient, they would rather postpone it.

I know that the national treasury was unable to make ends meet last year, and the situation is now showing signs of distress.I say, during the middle ten days of the imperial court, the focus will be on the financial constraints of the state treasury. Dear dear ministers, please consider this matter in advance and make more suggestions.

According to the practice of the court meeting, there is a rest every ten days, and it is a ten-day holiday. During the big moon, you can take an extra day off, then there are three days in the big court, and six days in the small court. The so-called big court is a court meeting to discuss important matters.

I was eager to go to the Gunpowder Department, so I ordered, "Chuan Lan Yu, Shen Mo led a hundred guards to escort him, I want to move to the Gunpowder Department to watch a new type of fireworks, all dear friends, retreat from the court."

Although it was still early, there were obviously many more people along the road, and many of them expressed admiration and hoped to meet me, the real dragon emperor who was destined by heaven.It seems that the fact that the first emperor entrusted a dream has added a lot of color to me, at least in the hearts of the common people, most of them believe this statement.This is similar to tricks such as Han Gaozu cutting the white snake, and it was really effective in feudal society.In fact, this also represents the aspirations of the people, hoping that a wise king will come down from the sky and let them have enough food and clothing.

Of course, people can only see my car from a distance.

The accompanying imperial guards obviously increased their protective heart, and no one was allowed to come within ten meters of the car at all.

Yun Zhongfei, who was guarding the gunpowder department, was already waiting in front of the door. When I entered the back room, I said to Yun Zhongfei, who was guarding the door: "Zhongfei, you have worked hard."

The gun room of the Firearms Workshop.

Shen Yiqiu Quanjue was chatting happily with Yun Bofei and the others, and he didn't even notice when I came in. It wasn't until Wen Tianxiang, the weapon supervisor, coughed twice that they saw that I had entered the house.

"Subordinates, Chen Dongping, Yun Bofei, Peng Chong."

"Crassman Shen Yiqiu, Quanjue."

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live."

"Get up, there is no need to be so big in informal occasions, everyone sit down and continue."

The five of them saluted Wen Tianxiang, Yuan Ji and others before sitting down.

Yun Bofei, the new manager of the Firearms Workshop, excitedly picked up a sample musket on the table, and reported: "Your Majesty, take a look, this is a gun barrel made of pig iron. It was designed from the gun drawings and the barrel has been tested for its resistance to compression."

This sample musket is about 1.5 meters long without the butt, and has a caliber of [-] mm. The top-grade matchlock gun on the market.

I encouraged: "This is the first proofing, it's pretty good."

Yun Bofei said: "Your Majesty, last night, my subordinates talked with Mr. Shen and the whole brothers for a whole night. The problem we encountered before has already become clear. This subordinate expects to make a second sample soon. Thank you so much this time. Mr. Shen and Quan brothers are gone, this subordinate asks the emperor to keep the two of them in the Gunpowder Department, and this subordinate is willing to act for them."

Shen Yiqiu hurriedly said: "Guan Yun is polite, if we only talk about the accomplishments of this musket, I feel that I am not as good as the emperor and Guan Shi."

I smiled: "You don't need to be humble, each has its own strengths. As for Mr. Shen and Quanjue, it will take some time before they can live in Lin'an for a long time. This time I specially invited the two of you here, hoping to gather the strength of everyone. , to solve the musketeer's current problem."

Master Yun Bofei of the Firearms Workshop, Master Peng Chong, Director of the Gunpowder Department Chen Dongping, and Shen Yiqiu, a top scientist of this era, genius Quanjue sat with me, a time traveler, and began to talk about the true meaning of the world's first gunpowder. on the matchlock gun.

Although Chen Dongping didn't know much about muskets, he was a good hand in crafting and had the level of a master.

At the beginning, these few people were still a little restrained. Most of them were me talking or asking questions, and they answered.

Scholars like Yun Bofei, unlike Wen Tianxiang and Lu Xiufu, who always have a subconscious awe of the emperor, are more obsessed with their own research fields.Gradually, everyone let go, you say something, I say something, and start arguing with others to stick to your own point of view. No wonder when later generations talk about madmen, they mostly refer to scientific madmen.

Time passed in the debate, and one problem after another was resolved.

In the end, according to my knowledge, it was determined that the barrel was made of wrought iron (iron with low carbon content), and there was a quasi-center at the front end of the barrel, and a rear sight to form the aiming device; Shaped blunderbuss holder, the shooter can put the side of the face close to the blunderbuss holder to aim and shoot; and it is determined that the matchlock ignition device proposed by Quanjue is the first solution, and Yun Bofei’s is the second solution. Unified on this important device issue After seeing it, together with the projectiles that were improved from the gunpowder formula in the early stage, the prototype of the musket was basically determined.I then proposed to find a way to reduce the weight of the musket to just over ten catties, which would require reducing the diameter and length of the barrel. Of course, these also need to be improved step by step.

Yun Bofei recorded the conclusions one by one, and after a brief discussion with Peng Chong and Chen Dongping, he decided to start making new samples immediately. The craftsmanship of the Gunpowder Division is much better than Quanjue's Qiuquan Villa.

What I saw on the faces of Yun Bofei and others was no longer joy, but fanaticism.

After all, this is the first firearm in the world. Although no one has ready-made experience and everyone is groping while crossing the river, they are full of expectations for this epoch-making hot weapon. Of course, most of this expectation comes from my understanding of firearms. attention.