The last conscience of the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 212: Firearms not available?
Liang Xin didn't know much about Qiuci, but she knew a little.

Liang Xin thought for a while: "They were originally Oghuz people. The Seljuq Turks split from there and started to go south. Later they mixed with some people from Persia. Originally they should have worshiped Tengri, and later they mixed with Persia. People worship the gods of the Persians, and they will be very hostile to those who have gods different from theirs.”

Fan Chunli: "What's the degree of hostility?"

Lu Amati answered for Liang Xin: "We cannot coexist under the same sky."

Fan Chunli: "This is a bit much."

Liang Xin winked at An Tao, and An Tao said: "In the past few years in Qiuci, our Song Dynasty has recorded tributes sent over ten times. Since he is my nephew in the Song Dynasty in the certificate of credence, I, the Song Dynasty, are going to send tribute." One hundred thousand cavalry are here to help you stabilize the situation. I would like to ask, if I, the Song Dynasty, want to rebuild the Anxi Protectorate, what will be the attitude of King Qiuci?"

Lu Amati replied: "The reconstruction of the Anxi Protectorate does not depend on the attitude of me, King Qiuci, or the attitude of anyone else."

"Thank you." An Tao stood up and bowed.

Lu Amati has already explained it clearly.

Rely on the knife.

Only if your knife is sharp enough can you be qualified to frighten the small clan.

Qiuci is just a part of the Yellow-headed Uighur. There are many large and small tribes there. If they want to convince the crowd, the steel sword is in front, the caravan is in the middle, and culture and education are behind.Not even one less.

Lu Amati added: "My Highness, Princess Kucha, who came to Bianjing this time, my mother is a descendant of the Tang Dynasty, and she is a descendant of a noble family. I, Kucha, intend to serve the Song Dynasty as the master, but the Black Khanate has a strong military and is behind the scenes." The Seljuks who control them are stronger, and it will not be easy to reset the Anxi Protectorate."

Fan Chunli said: "It will definitely not be easy if we continue to rely on support from Bianjing City. But if we can make Qiuci have tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, thousands of sheep and hundreds of horses, that would be the best strategy."

"Yes." Lu Amati agreed with this statement.

The Song Dynasty is too far away from there. Important materials can be transported, but basic materials must rely on local supplies.

Grain, cotton, sheep, etc., as long as the local area becomes rich, in order to protect their own wealth, local talents will gather around the Song people, pick up swords, and face foreign enemies.

No one will be willing to have their happy life ruined.

What's more, they still have a limit.

It is Buddha.

After this was discussed, the banquet officially began.

Lu Amati also knew that he had already expressed his thoughts. He only needed to wait for news from the Song Dynasty to see what kind of development would happen next.

As for Liang Xin's letter hinting at the marriage between Princess Kucha and the prince of Jeju County.

King Qiuci is willing.

After arriving in Bianjing City, people from the envoy also inquired about it. They found out that the Cao family was one of the largest families in Bianjing City, with great honor and unspeakable honor.

The people of Qiuci originally did not want to come to the Song Dynasty for rescue.

Because Song Dynasty himself had countless troubles.

Until the Battle of Hehuang began, the Song Dynasty continued to fight Xixia for half a year. After Xixia's undead army Iron Kites were completely wiped out, the Kucha people received a letter from their family to marry a princess from Qingtang, and Cao Ping After receiving the letter from Liang Xin, I started to think about it.

If the Song Dynasty can support them, they will have the confidence to fight the Black Khanate.

At present, the Privy Councilor of the Song Dynasty proposed that one hundred thousand cavalry would be organized. This gave the Kucha envoy the idea of ​​staying in Bianjing City, and they had to wait for a result.

If there are really [-] cavalry, let alone [-], it is [-].

They Qiuci also dared to pick up the knife and tell the Heihan people one word: No!The atmosphere of the banquet was very good. Lu Amati got himself drunk and no one made him drink.

After Lu Amati got drunk, everyone continued to drink at the banquet.

An Tao came to Liang Xin's table and sat down: "Brother Xin, Chen Guan told me a few days ago that firearms are very useful, but I found that the tax camp did not change the firearms, but just changed the equipment. A batch of bows.”

Liang Xin looked around and saw no one else, then lowered her voice and said: "Nowadays, firearms are just toys. Our weapons supervisor used to make bows and crossbows with horns, bamboo chips, wood chips, isinglass and other materials. The production cycle is at least It will take a year, so how do you replace the horns with very elastic steel plates?”

An Tao knew military skills and nodded silently in approval.

He knew that with Liang Xin's continuous funding, the output of iron and steel was increasing rapidly.

Currently, there are two large new steel mills under construction.

Liang Xin continued: "I told Shen Chong that the legendary Qin crossbow was very powerful. He laughed and showed me a very complicated and expensive foot crossbow. The actual lethality of our crossbow is higher than now For firearms, if you replace the crossbow with steel, use pure steel crossbow arrows, tungsten steel arrowheads, and use a winch to string the crossbow, although the firing is very slow, it can break armor."

An Tao asked: "Bu Renjia?"

Liang Xin nodded.

An Tao asked again: "Distance?"

"The old iron armor can penetrate at fifty paces, while the steel armor can penetrate at thirty paces, but it can only hurt the enemy, but cannot kill it."

An Tao understood, it meant that it could break through armor, but it would also get stuck in the steel pieces.

The new type of steel plate armor can be used as partial three-layer armor, because the steel plate has the same defensive power but is thinner and lighter.Therefore, three layers of armor can be stacked on key areas.

To put it bluntly, in An Tao's view, firearms were used by Liang Xin to deceive outsiders. It depends on what the tax camp he directly manages wears and uses, and that is the real practical thing.

When did we see the tax camp equipped with firearms? Then the firearms have real value and are not toys.

However, it is not considered a toy.

An Tao's son also spent a lot of money to buy a silver-plated gem-plated fragrant wood handle called "Equality of All Beings".

Within seven steps, no one can stop him.

I wanted to shoot a wild boar within seventy steps. I fired out a bag of lead bullets in one afternoon, but only three of them hit the wild boar. In the end, the wild boar was hacked to death by a group of people. Although the lead bullets penetrated the wild boar's skin, , but it did not affect the ferocity of the wild boar at all.

In the evening, all the guests from Liang Mansion left.

Liang Xin was sitting in her room, listening to Cao Tan talking about Princess Qiuci.

Cao Tan: "Maybe it's because Princess Qiuci's mother's ancestors fled to the Western Regions in the late Tang Dynasty. She has a lot of books at home. She also understands our poems and songs. Among the guests today, there are some of my grandmothers from my natal family. Think people are wonderful.”

Liang Xin asked: "What do your two brothers think?"

Cao Tan didn't answer, and said to himself: "It's just that when it comes to female celebrities, she is not as good as me. I heard that she can ride a horse, and she can ride it very well, and she can also shoot on a horse..."

Liang Xin: "Let me ask, what do your two brothers think?"

Cao Tan then replied: "They have no right to speak."

"Your brother."

Cao Tan: "Song Li, concubines cannot be corrected. After all, they are my younger brothers on ordinary matters at home. Sometimes they will be given opportunities to give their ideas. On major matters of the Cao family, they can only obey and not have any ideas." .”

(End of this chapter)