The last conscience of the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 147 Experiments

Clan and family are not just words.

Family first, country later.

The Cao family is a wealthy family of this generation, with hundreds of branches alone, and the family rules are quite strict.

The eldest daughter of the direct eldest son, I am writing a letter to do something.

reject?Do you take your ancestral hall seriously?

Liang Xin said: "In Jizhou, there is also such a place. During the Chinese New Year, it is wrapped in cotton quilts and sent to the Xijin Mansion of the Liao people. A courgette is three coins. I don't know if it is appropriate?"

"Hahaha." Gao Shilin laughed loudly: "You are siding with the enemy."

"Forget it." Liang Xin gave up the idea.

Gao Shilin added: "I'm afraid it's too late this year, but maybe next year. Even if a courgette doesn't cost one or two silver, seven coins is more appropriate. Three coins is too cheap. The Liao people have such craftsmanship, but they can't make it in winter." Come to a shed like this where you can eat fresh vegetables.”

"Then, try?"

Gao Shilin nodded seriously: "You can try it, but it's just to make a little money. It's not the Brother Xin I know."

Liang Xin: "Those who earn money are brothers. Soldiers, if you have a few more pieces of meat per meal and a few hundred bucks a month, they will fight with you. What is the purpose of being a soldier and getting paid and fed? Why is the Western Army so strong? Because the generals know the soldiers and the soldiers know the generals, and since the Western Army has money to make, they will be stronger.”

Gao Shilin asked again: "Are you afraid that the Western Army is too strong?"

Liang Xin smiled: "No matter how strong you are, it can be stronger than truth and justice. As long as the four strongest soldiers and horses of the Palace Front Division are equipped. Let alone ten times, it is a hundred times the number of troops... Well, I was wrong, a hundred times this number It was so scary that they didn’t dare to move ten times.”

Gao Shilin: "Show me your truth and justice."

"Row."

Liang Xin agreed and left the others here to continue working on the vegetable shed. She only called Shen Chong.

Shen Chong brought his apprentice, the eunuch Ning Ren, the son of his father's disciple, who almost died.

The four of them left quietly.

The weapons supervisor is in Bianjing City, but the important laboratory of the weapons supervisor is hidden in Huangzhuang.

Shen Chong showed Gao Shilin the first thing he saw.

appeared in history.

More than 100 years later, the Southern Song Dynasty officially appeared, with very serious shortcomings.

At this time, Shen Chong made this to test the principle.

It uses giant bamboo, a very hard bamboo, loaded with gunpowder, then loaded with fuses, and loaded with projectiles.

The firing range can reach about 150 steps, and the killing range can also be 75 steps.

Gao Shilin had seen it: "This..., I'm afraid it's not easy to use."

Shen Chong: "It's really not easy to use. It's just for testing gunpowder. It will be discarded after using it for three times at most. If it is used for the fifth time, it will explode. If it is made of pig iron, use three or five together, plus a wooden handle. , can be used hundreds of times, and if the projectile is within a hundred steps, anyone without armor will die."

Gao Shilin saw a prototype, the five-eye system.

Then, an old elm wood was hollowed out and covered with iron hoops.

A three-inch shot put broke the bamboo rafts two miles away.

Shen Chong asked: "What if it is made of copper? Commander Gao thinks that the infantry armor can bear it?"

Gao Shilin nodded silently.

If there were a hundred of these things lined up in a row, the Liao army's thousands of cavalry, even heavy armored cavalry, would probably only be killed.

Gao Shilin took out another hard one.

The original Thunderbolt Cannon of the Song Army was improved. It was originally a throwing or throwing cannon.Now add a primer instead, rely on the primer to eject to a distance of [-] steps, and then explode.

The thunderbolts were also replaced with new designs, wrapped in paper with broken iron nails or something inside.

When this thing explodes in the air, it's a slap in the face.Then there is the one buried on the ground. He has not yet figured out how to stabilize it by crushing it. If he arranges the formation in advance and relies on people to ignite it, he already has a sample.

A small thunder cannon popped out and exploded three feet high.

Whether it's against cavalry or infantry, this thing can hurt a group of people at a time, and it's a three-way attack.

Gao Shilin felt his anus tighten: "Who came up with such a sinister thing?"

"It's our family." Ning Ren stepped forward: "Whether it's Song Jia or Liao Jia, no kind of armor will protect the three routes down."

"You, talent."

What was Gao Shilin thinking in his heart? Ning Ren was a eunuch. This thing bounced off the ground with a primer and exploded three feet high...

It really only took a eunuch to come up with it.

After reading Liang Xin's truth and justice, Gao Shilin asked again: "How do you feed the soldiers and horses of the front department? The money given by the treasury is getting less and less. You want more from the treasury. Those scoundrels must There’s going to be trouble.”

Liang Xin: "Salt, sugar. How about it?"

"Salt? Sugar?"

Liang Xin replied: "As long as I am willing, I can arrange [-] million kilograms of salt every year, just arrange a child of the Cao family, bring hundreds of Cao family servants, and have thousands of households. At the moment, there is just no way to transport it back."

"Are you telling a joke?" Gao Shilin didn't believe it.

Liang Xin gave Gao Shilin a simple explanation: "In the third one of the three major salt fields, sea water rushes to the beach, leaving part of it when the tide goes out. When the sun shines, the salt concentration in the water becomes higher. This happens every day, and when the tide rises, some of it is left behind. Water, when the tide recedes, water will remain, and over and over again, more and more salt will slowly be stored at the bottom of the pool. If it is stored for several months, it will be like digging out sand, just basket by basket."

"Yes, there is such a good place, but what about the first and second ones?"

Liang Xin replied: "The first was in Danzhou, and the second was in the Tang Dynasty when people were cooking salt and growing reeds."

"These two places." Gao Shilin shook his head helplessly.

One was too far from the Liao Kingdom, and the other Danzhou was an overseas place in the Song Dynasty, too far and too remote.

Gao Shilin asked: "Tell me the second one, where is it?"

Liang Xin: "It's two hundred miles away from the place where my father-in-law once took charge, that is, by sea. There is a beach on the southwest side of Dayi Prefecture. I call it Budai Beach because there is so much salt that it can be packed in cloth bags."

Gao Shilin asked again: "Then, what do you need me to do?"

Liang Xin shook her head: "I'm waiting for the opportunity."

"When the time comes, don't forget to tell me. By the way, let's get married. I have a niece at home. Do you think Brother Yang is suitable? Anyway, there are many marriages between the Gao family and the Cao family."

Liang Xin asked: "That niece?"

Gao Shilin: "My fifth brother's mother's surname is also Cao."

"Brother Yang's...cousin."

"If you do the math, you can say that the daughter of his aunt's cousin is his cousin."

Liang Xin: "Why did you mention it to me?"

Gao Shilin: "Aren't you and Brother Yang the second best in the world?"

Liang Xin thought about it and said, "I'll go back and mention this to my eldest wife."

"Okay." Gao Shilin said no more.

Liang Xin went on to talk about salt: "In Budai, there are 35 kilograms of salt for every one thousand kilograms of sea water."

Gao Shilin: "Is this more or less?"

Liang Xin: "In the Mingzhou and Huating areas, there are only seven kilograms of salt for every one thousand kilograms of sea water."

Gao Shilin: "You...really learned knowledge from heaven? You actually understand such weird knowledge, really, really..." Gao Shilin didn't know what to say.

(End of this chapter)