Chapter 737 Rare Treasures

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Goryeo sent envoys to take the sea route and had already landed in Dengzhou. He sent the message to Tokyo first.

Guo Shao saw it, and wrote neat Chinese characters.

First, he claimed that he was rituals, music and clothes and clothes respected the Tang style, which was the same as the Central Plains.

I heard that the Central Plains Emperor was very happy to defeat the Liao Kingdom, so I expressed my congratulations.

Then he cursed the Liao Kingdom in a long way, and said that the country of beasts impressed Guo Shao the most.

If these slanderings were passed to the Khitan royal family, I don’t know what Xiao Siwen and others would think.

In the early stage, the court took the initiative to send people to contact Goryeo, originally trying to get Goryeo to attack both sides and back in the Liao Kingdom.

However, the efficiency was too slow at this time. When the Zhou army had already captured Youyun, Goryeo had just made friends with the Great Zhou successfully.

Because the envoy of Goryeo landed, officials in the court prepared the emperor to ask about Goryeo, and many people were talking about Goryeo for a time.

The gossip is not divided into ancient and modern times. What is most talked about is not a series of national policies and strategies of Goryeo or customs and customs... Guo Shao first heard a gossip: the queen of Goryeo king Wang Zhao was his own sister.

The king and queen's father were both Wang Jian, the Taizu of Goryeo. The queen was the princess and followed her mother's surname Huangfu, and was a half-sibling of the same father.This is OK?

Guo Shao was very curious when he heard this. Mo Lun is not able to get married in this era even if it is modern brothers and sisters.However, he soon thought of the TV series from a certain country in his later generations, and suddenly realized it.

...At the end of the third year of Xuanren, the Korean envoy visited him and paid a rare sword.

The eunuch moved the sword to Yangde Hall because it was a rare thing and was very careful.At that time, Lu Duosun, the Minister of Rites, had just received the Goryeo envoy and came to meet him.

Unexpectedly, Guo Shao had no interest in the sword. He was playing with a colloid gun just sent by the military weapon surveillance, but he didn't even look at the sword.

The musket is very finely made, with good wood above the tail of the gun inlaid, and the pattern of gilded auspicious clouds is carved; the barrel is straight and smooth, with butter on it, carefully polished and smooth inside and outside, and the inside is smoothed with awl drill.

The fuses soaked in wood ash, the mechanisms and reeds of the firing device are forged in brass, and are still very delicate and ingenious.

This thing is something given to the emperor and pays more attention to decoration, just like a work of art.However, the mass-made muskets must not be so exquisite, otherwise the cost would be too high.

Guo Shao couldn't put it down when he saw this thing. A sword could no longer arouse his interest. Even if that sword could really cut iron like mud, it was just a knife, and it was just a rare thing that could not be copied in large quantities.

He noticed the threaded connection used at the bottom of the musket... The roughly the method is to carve the threads from wood, then make sand to cast the iron core, and then forge the tail.This configuration facilitates disassembly of the barrel and cleansing residues.

There is also a stack of files reported by Jiangning Mansion on the table. The new sea ship has been roughly completed, with a total of three ships.

Guo Shao has issued an order to transfer the sea ship to Dengzhou (Shandong) after the sea trial of Jiangning Chuanfang; the navy of the Guards sent some soldiers to take over the sea ship, and the envoys of Goryeo will return to their country next year, so these sea ships can be used to send them back.

The Ministry of Works also issued an order to send people to Dengzhou to build a new port.

Lu Duosun glanced at the Goryeo sword that was placed on the table and bowed: Your Majesty, the Goryeo Kingdom seems to have a wealth of swords.

Guo Shao raised his head and said: Oh?I have never heard of it.

Lu Duosun said: They once paid tribute to the Liao Kingdom, and they also gave away swords.

After hearing this, Guo Shao knew that Lu Duosun had something in his words and wanted to borrow things to play.Then he put down the rifle and listened with great interest.

Lu Duosun continued: However, the Liao Kingdom later destroyed the Bohai Kingdom, and the relationship between Goryeo and Liao Kingdom deteriorated.This is because the Goryeo Kingdom has been planning to the Bohai Kingdom for a long time and migrated its population to manage Xijing (Pyongyang); unexpectedly, the Liao Kingdom took action first and swallowed up all the lands of the Bohai Kingdom.The Liao Kingdom was powerful, and Goryeo wanted to gain the old land of the Bohai Kingdom and became more and more difficult, so he hated the Khitan.

Guo Shao nodded and said: So that's it.

At this time, the Liao Kingdom was defeated in Youzhou and lost a large area of ​​Youyun's land, but its strength was still very strong; it was also beneficial to have Goryeo restrained it from both sides.

Lu Duosun said: This time, the Goryeo Kingdom sent an envoy to ask our dynasty to send troops to recover Yingzhou and jointly attack Khitan.In the eyes of my ministers, Goryeo saw that the Liao army was defeated and once again looked at the old land of the Bohai Sea, but still had ambitions.

When Guo Shao heard the ambition, he played with the firearm in his hand and glanced at the sea ship information file on the table. He not only smiled: All countries have the intention to strive for self-improvement, but they are in ambition.

However, the court has no intention of launching troops to fight with the Liao Kingdom again recently. Mr. Lu can reply to the envoy of the Goryeo Kingdom. This matter will be discussed later.

Lu Duosun clasped his fists and said: I obey the order.

Guo Shao turned around and looked at a simple large picture hanging on the wall.Recently, when the Goryeo envoy arrived in Beijing, he also had some personal understanding of the situation of the Goryeo Kingdom.

This place had more space in the early days of ancient times, and the situation would be worse as it went later.

At the juncture of the Sui and Tang dynasties, Goguryeo was a relatively powerful country. It must have been because it had already threatened the borders of the Sui and Tang dynasties that the Sui and Tang dynasties would mobilize the army to attack several times.

However, after the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan rose to the northeast, and the grassland forces that had always threatened the northern part of the Central Plains also moved in winter.

It not only threatens the Central Plains, but also compresses the space of Goryeo.

From now on, they will face not only the Central Plains dynasty, but also the nomadic peoples will become an important factor threatening their survival.

(In the future, the threat from the hunting nation will continue to be in the east, and Goryeo will have another Japanese threat at sea. It can be said that it is sandwiched in the middle by various forces. It is also a very tenacious group of people who can withstand it.)

Guo Shao said: In the past, our dynasty wanted to regain Youyun, so he wanted to use the Goryeo Kingdom to restrain him; but now the Goryeo Kingdom wanted to occupy the old land of the Bohai Kingdom, and he wanted our dynasty to send troops to Liaodong.All countries are planning for themselves.

In Yangde Hall, there was only one official and a few palace maids.Guo Shao asked openly: The Goryeo Kingdom seems to have established a country after the destruction of Silla and Baekje. Can there be internal enemies in its country?

Lu Duosun said: After the founding of the country, the Wang family implemented a policy of promoting kindness and gentleness to the country. I heard that the country is stable.

Guo Shao nodded thoughtfully.

...The regaining of the land of secluded clouds has a great impact.

However, the speed of message transmission was limited at this time, and no changes were felt when the victory was just over. However, as time went by, the influence of Zhou and Liao gradually became apparent.

Until the beginning of the fourth year of Xuanren, the Emperor's envoy from Heianjing, Fusang Kingdom, sent a letter of state and paid tribute to the court.

In order to create the political achievements of all nations coming to the court, the Tokyo Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Gastroenterology gave a generous return.

The tribute system was really a loss in the Central Plains dynasty in terms of wealth, but if this was not the case, other countries would not have the motivation to take the initiative to pay tribute.

Guo Shao issued an order to discuss the two countries' communications with the envoys of Fusang (in the past, the wars in the Central Plains were in chaos, but civilian maritime trade was never cut off), and secretly ordered the Privy Council's military officer to send a detailed plan to sneak into the caravan to Fusang to learn about the distant situation.

Although diplomatic relations are a major event, Guo Shao’s attention is not here, he just deals with it casually.He has been conceiving a change in military power.

The convex guns were also made in batches. Guo Shao not only read the report, but also went to the colonel to observe them personally.

The official test of the firearm was the Hu Ben Army and the Divine Fire Capital. This small group of people had not been expanded in the Hu Ben Army because they had no record of war, but the establishment was retained and not revoked... No one had withdrawn casually by the emperor's previous order.

The people in Shenhuodu used bronze guns for two years and were already very skilled at this time.

The comb rope gun and the bronze gun are completely different things, but the mechanism and usage steps are the same. The current firearms have only mainly improved the barrel based on the bronze gun.

The soldiers took off the small bamboo tube from their belts, bite the plug with their teeth, then poured the scaled gunpowder into the muzzle, and then stabbed the softer lead balls in with a strip. Then they shook some of the gunpowder in the small gourd into the firing pool, so that they could be ready to get angry.

There were crackling sounds on the school ground, and gunpowder filled with smoke, and holes were all over the targets in the distance.

The firearm is indeed useful!

After all, when gunpowder burns and boosts in a closed space, it will knock out the lead bullet. Everything is an objective law and there will be no exception.

The new firearm has an effective range of fifty steps and within thirty steps, most of the mail scales can be worn.As for the accuracy... the direction will not be wrong anyway, it is much more accurate than a bronze gun with a larger hole.

Because the Divine Fire requires three rows of shooting in turn, the system is different from the ordinary army, the first and the first team of more than 20 people. The Divine Fire only has three teams.

The military system is formulated based on tactics. Once the weapons and tactics change, the system will change; perhaps the military system will gradually change.

The range of this thing is much closer than that of step bows and crossbows. For example, Guo Shao's level of divine arm can shoot 100 steps with step bows and can achieve accuracy!

Moreover, the operation is complicated and the firing rate is very slow... but compared to the combat power of the step bow, the close-range armor-piercing ability is stronger than that of the bow and crossbow.

As for range, it exceeds riding and shooting.

After several months of improvement experiments, the military weapon supervisor Zan Jurun's memorial said: the distance is between steps and bows and arrows.

The strongest armor piercing near the distance is the long one; the launch of the battle is slow and complicated, and the head is uncertain, and there is no flexibility in riding and shooting, which is short one.

However, Guo Shao's views are different.The biggest advantage of this thing is that after a group of farmers understand the queue and military discipline, they can immediately have strong combat effectiveness.

They may not be able to win the elite soldiers of hundreds of battles, but the price of the Great Zhou having more than 100,000 elite infantry cavalry in the imperial guards was that it took decades to make the whole world defeat the whole world.

Guo Shao was in a very comfortable mood after watching the performance of Shenhuodu. When he returned to Beiyuan, he picked up a stone by a lake and threw it on the lake to play.

The stone jumped lightly on the water surface, causing several ripples.

The ministers accompanying him were very happy, but they might think that Guo Shao's behavior was a bit frivolous at this time.

At this moment, Guo Shao pointed to the water and said: Our cannon hit a pit, but we can actually try other ways.

Zan Jurun said: The stone cannon shell is too heavy. If the angle is too small, it will fall to the ground in front of you.

Guo Shao said: Then think of a solution.If we do the "flower bullet" in the wrong direction, it is of no use (unless we make a howitzer).

Several people couldn't answer.

Guo Shao ignored it and looked at the ripples on the lake for a long time, just like his mood at this moment, light but not calm.