The weather is getting colder and it is already snowing in Tokyo.The snowflakes ran around in the wind, stirring together with the black smoke on the chimney of the dirt house in Zaojiafang, like smoke ash.
Zan Jurun and a few people walked into a room, put away the umbrella and shook the snowflakes on his robe. He immediately frowned and hid his nose with a handkerchief. A choking burnt smell came to his face with a heat wave!
The house was very noisy, and the noise made my ears buzzing and it was very uncomfortable.
The Bian River has frozen, and it is the dry season.
But the donkey in the basement pulled the huge rotor and made a sound of chewing teeth, which drove a whole row of blowers to blow the air towards the stove. The blast furnace with bricks and mud was built outside, which was the main heat source of high temperature in the house.
There is also the sound of blacksmith swaying a hammer and beating.
Zan Jurun looked over and saw a few blacksmiths with naked upper body. Huang Cancan's muscles were covered in sweat, waving his hammer to hit him.
Soon, a big man wearing a thin torn linen top came over and was wiping the white dust on his face with a sweat towel.An official in front said: If you report to Zan to assist in the administration, he is Xu Sheng.
The big man also bent down and said, "You are the young man to meet Zan and assist in the administration."
Zan Jurun looked him up and down and said: Do you think you can improve the firearm barrel?
The man who called Xu Sheng answered loudly, otherwise he would not be able to hear it. He said: I don’t know yet, it would be better if Zan assisted in government two days late!There is a need to wait for the iron fermentation to melt.There is no blast furnace in Beiyuan, but there is one in Zaojiafang. I'll come here to try it.
Xu Sheng was a blacksmith from Beiyuan Fire Equipment Factory. He asked to come to the Bianshui workshop. Only then did Zan Jurun hear what he was doing.
Beiyuan Na Fire Appliances Workshop is a workshop dedicated to testing new firearms, which is relatively small; while Bianshui Zaojia Workshop has a huge demand for iron materials, and has built its own blast furnace for melting iron. Xu Sheng said he wanted a blast furnace, so he came here to test it.
Zan Jurun attaches great importance to this matter.
The royal family set a piece of land in Beiyuan to test the firearms for military weapons supervisors. They raised so many people and cost a lot of money every year. However, after several years of development, they have not made a name for themselves... It was a flowering bullet that actually required a whole stone to penetrate the air and cast it with a catapult cart. It was really useless.
In the past, whether it was the removal method of saltpeter dissolving and filtration, the burning of gunpowder pellets faster, or the bronze guns or mortars, they were all the ideas that Guo Shao had personally come up with, and the firearms were just implemented.
Now that the end of the year is approaching, Zan Jurun is going to summarize the achievements of the military weapons supervision offices this year... When writing the memorial of Beiyuan Fire Weapons, is it said that spending money and food is useless and there is no effect?
This made Zan Jurun feel very difficult.Fortunately, this craftsman has brought him some expectations recently.
Can you try it?Zan Jurun asked.
Xu Sheng hesitated and said loudly: Anyway, the gun pipe is cast, and the hole must be large and the body must be thick; gunpowder will run away, and it will not be far away!It also needs to be used to forge and wrap.
Wrapped with a cold stick as the core and iron plate?Zanju Run said, hasn’t it been tried?
Xu Shengdao: Yes, the cooked iron is too soft and deforms when it is fried; it is slightly hard and crispy, and it is cracked when it is fried.But I thought about it and there are two things that are inappropriate, one is that the iron material is not good, and the other is that the gunpowder is not good.
Zan Jurun turned around and said to a clerk who was accompanying him: Write down what he said.
Look.The clerk quickly took out his pen and ink from his bag to prepare.
Xu Sheng said again: The gunpowder we use is too strong, it burns too fast, and it is easy to explode the iron pipe; but there is little smoke, and the projectiles cannot rush far in the chamber.The gunpowder can be used to blow things up, but it is not very useful to fire lead bullets.I re-adjusted the ingredients and added more charcoal.
In addition, the iron forged gun barrels is too mature and soft, slightly hard and crispy.I tried many ways, adding limestone can improve... But before, I added limestone powder while honing the iron, and the slag was beaten into the iron material.Now I think of a new way and add it to the furnace molten iron!
Zan Jurun asked: What is the reason?
Xu Sheng looked confused: The little one doesn’t know that the three generations of the small family are all blacksmiths, relying on experience.
He pointed to the large stove behind him that was heating up and said: After the molten iron was recast into pieces, I repeatedly burned red and forged it, and made it mature.Then use this cooked iron to re-forge the gun barrel.
Zan Jurun said: If you succeed, you will be rewarded with 100 cents of money!
Xu Sheng widened his eyes: Zan assisted the government with one word!
Zan Jurun said decisively: As long as you succeed, I will reward you even if I use my salary!
However, it will take at least one month to be tested. Zan Jurun can’t wait, and it will be next year in more than a month!
He wrote the collected memorials, which was better than writing about waste of money and food and nothing.
...On the day, as soon as Guo Shao walked into the study of the East Palace, he saw that there were many memorials on the imperial case, most of which were persuading to change the national name and had been classified. He threw it aside and refused to give a reply, and then refused.
You have to be fully prepared. If you take the initiative to change the country's title and become the founding emperor, it will be very ugly; you must let many people support you and reluctantly do this... Although Guo Shao himself also founded and became the emperor.
Moreover, Guo Shao still has some things he hasn't thought about and can't be too anxious.
The imperial guards were not awarded the title of a hero when he ascended the throne, and now he should consider it... Moreover, the current imperial guards' military power system is suitable for frequent large-scale war situations, but it is not conducive to ensuring the security of imperial power.
This is an unquestionable fact.
In history, the reason why Zhao Kuangyin released his military power with a glass of wine was also seen as the risks.
Guo Shao also wants to make a cup of wine to release his military power?
He denied this approach because his military philosophy was completely different from that of Zhao Kuangyin... and according to that method, the court now does not have that much money to redeem the military power of the generals.
Guo Shao decided to wait a little longer.
At this moment, a memorial from the Military Arts Supervision came into Guo Shao's eyes.
Most of his other memorials were sent to the ministers of the Political Affairs Hall and the Privy Council for handling at their discretion, but they were very interested in the memorials of military weapons... The ancient literati did not attach much importance to technology, but Guo Shao's ideas were different after all.
In the memorial written by Zan Jurun, it mentioned a craftsman named Xu Sheng's attempt to improve the gun barrels.
Guo Shao was very involved in his view and only thought it made sense... In my impression, the musket seemed to be not Huang Cancan's copper cast, but really an iron pipe!
It was only after I tried using iron pipes many times before that I had created a musket that looked inappropriate.
As for the principle of adding lime powder to iron material?
Guo Shao thought about it for a long time but couldn't understand it. He picked up the pen and drew some chemical equations on the paper. Unfortunately, his chemistry knowledge was limited to middle school, and he forgot most of it!
If he studied metallurgy, he might be able to figure it out now, but unfortunately it is not.
Guo Shao also has half a pot of water, and he has only a few understandings of many things.
Fortunately, he worked as a blacksmith for his livelihood before, and he still has some understanding of the craftsmanship at this time.
He could not understand the craftsman's craftsman's craftsmanship principle, guessing that iron ore contains too much sulfur or any impurities affect the strength of the metal, and the added materials can remove impurities?
No matter what, we must encourage craftsmen who can innovate!When Guo Shao picked up his pen, he remembered that Zan Jurun was in this study.
Guo Shao raised his head and said: Zan assists in government affairs.
Zan Jurun hurriedly got up and walked over and bowed, saying, "I am here."
Guo Shao returned the memorial to him: If this Xu Sheng can really be made into an iron gun barrel, tell him that he will receive a heavy reward!In Tokyo, I will pick up a house, and I will allocate a piece of official land in Kaifeng Prefecture, and give me another 1,000 guan of money.
Zan Jurun was surprised, after all, he was just a little craftsman.
However, Guo Shao has always been generous with what he cares about, and he pondered for a moment and said: Find a vacancy in the Military Equipment Supervisor and increase his official position.
Zan Jurun couldn't help but say: This person is a craftsman, I'm afraid he doesn't even know a lot of big words.
Guo Shao said: This matter is of great effect. If Xu Sheng can make a contribution, even a craftsman can bear the heavy reward.I also want him to be a demonstration. Those who are talented are not only good at writing.
Zan Jurun had no choice but to worship: Your Majesty is wise.
After a moment, Guo Shao accidentally found a very interesting memorial on the imperial case: written by Fan Zhi.
He actually persuaded Guo Shao to find the country and become emperor!
Because there were too many people persuading this matter, the memorials were classified, and Guo Shao almost didn't notice it... Fortunately, Fan Zhi's memorial was placed at the top, so it was easy to see. It was probably because of the memorials of several cabinets who paid great attention to Fan Zhi's memorials and did it on purpose.
In my heart, Guo Shao personally doesn’t like Fan Zhi very much!
He stood up and walked outside the screen, and all four cabinet officials stood up.Guo Shao turned to look at them and asked: What do you think is how to restore Fan Zhiguan?
Several people looked at each other, Zuo You clasped his fists and said: Before the Northern Expedition, Duke Fan strongly opposed it and said arrogantly that Your Majesty could not win.Now that Your Majesty has returned to the court with victory, he is very tolerant of Duke Fan, which is the heart of Donghai.
In fact, Fan Zhi disobeyed Guo Shao at the beginning, and opposed Fu Jinzhan's rule and caused a lot of trouble.But Zuo You didn't mention it.
Moreover, Zuo You advocated the resumption of Fan Zhi's official position, and the reason was not what he said... the most critical reason was not easy to put it in a clear way!
Fan Zhi's identity is very special. He was an old minister during the late emperor's period and was never accepted as a confidant by Guo Shao.
At this moment, many old ministers of the previous dynasty would take a wait-and-see attitude in their hearts... After all, the emperor will be the same as the ministers!
If Fan Zhi, the person who jumped around with the dragon beard, would the old ministers and officials of the previous dynasty still worry about their own position and interests?
Since they are all officials and are not foreign races who have entered the Central Plains.
As long as his own interests are protected, Guo Shao put himself in his shoes: if he is such an official, he will definitely be an official, and he does not want to oppose the emperor's founding of the country and becoming emperor.
As for what reason Zuo You said was not important, his attitude was the most important.I guess Zuo You and others have also seen this.
Sure enough, Huang Binglian and the other three also said one after another: Your Majesty is generous, and the world is back.I believe that the talent of Duke Fan and Prime Minister are very fortunate to be forgiven by Your Majesty.
Guo Shao was also very straightforward in his work. When he heard that the four of them had the same attitude as him, he turned around and said: Come on, come to Fan’s mansion to send an order, and ask him to go to the government affairs hall tomorrow. He will do whatever he was in the past and now.
The eunuch on duty was Cao Tai, and his voice was a little weak: I obey the order.
Zan Jurun and a few people walked into a room, put away the umbrella and shook the snowflakes on his robe. He immediately frowned and hid his nose with a handkerchief. A choking burnt smell came to his face with a heat wave!
The house was very noisy, and the noise made my ears buzzing and it was very uncomfortable.
The Bian River has frozen, and it is the dry season.
But the donkey in the basement pulled the huge rotor and made a sound of chewing teeth, which drove a whole row of blowers to blow the air towards the stove. The blast furnace with bricks and mud was built outside, which was the main heat source of high temperature in the house.
There is also the sound of blacksmith swaying a hammer and beating.
Zan Jurun looked over and saw a few blacksmiths with naked upper body. Huang Cancan's muscles were covered in sweat, waving his hammer to hit him.
Soon, a big man wearing a thin torn linen top came over and was wiping the white dust on his face with a sweat towel.An official in front said: If you report to Zan to assist in the administration, he is Xu Sheng.
The big man also bent down and said, "You are the young man to meet Zan and assist in the administration."
Zan Jurun looked him up and down and said: Do you think you can improve the firearm barrel?
The man who called Xu Sheng answered loudly, otherwise he would not be able to hear it. He said: I don’t know yet, it would be better if Zan assisted in government two days late!There is a need to wait for the iron fermentation to melt.There is no blast furnace in Beiyuan, but there is one in Zaojiafang. I'll come here to try it.
Xu Sheng was a blacksmith from Beiyuan Fire Equipment Factory. He asked to come to the Bianshui workshop. Only then did Zan Jurun hear what he was doing.
Beiyuan Na Fire Appliances Workshop is a workshop dedicated to testing new firearms, which is relatively small; while Bianshui Zaojia Workshop has a huge demand for iron materials, and has built its own blast furnace for melting iron. Xu Sheng said he wanted a blast furnace, so he came here to test it.
Zan Jurun attaches great importance to this matter.
The royal family set a piece of land in Beiyuan to test the firearms for military weapons supervisors. They raised so many people and cost a lot of money every year. However, after several years of development, they have not made a name for themselves... It was a flowering bullet that actually required a whole stone to penetrate the air and cast it with a catapult cart. It was really useless.
In the past, whether it was the removal method of saltpeter dissolving and filtration, the burning of gunpowder pellets faster, or the bronze guns or mortars, they were all the ideas that Guo Shao had personally come up with, and the firearms were just implemented.
Now that the end of the year is approaching, Zan Jurun is going to summarize the achievements of the military weapons supervision offices this year... When writing the memorial of Beiyuan Fire Weapons, is it said that spending money and food is useless and there is no effect?
This made Zan Jurun feel very difficult.Fortunately, this craftsman has brought him some expectations recently.
Can you try it?Zan Jurun asked.
Xu Sheng hesitated and said loudly: Anyway, the gun pipe is cast, and the hole must be large and the body must be thick; gunpowder will run away, and it will not be far away!It also needs to be used to forge and wrap.
Wrapped with a cold stick as the core and iron plate?Zanju Run said, hasn’t it been tried?
Xu Shengdao: Yes, the cooked iron is too soft and deforms when it is fried; it is slightly hard and crispy, and it is cracked when it is fried.But I thought about it and there are two things that are inappropriate, one is that the iron material is not good, and the other is that the gunpowder is not good.
Zan Jurun turned around and said to a clerk who was accompanying him: Write down what he said.
Look.The clerk quickly took out his pen and ink from his bag to prepare.
Xu Sheng said again: The gunpowder we use is too strong, it burns too fast, and it is easy to explode the iron pipe; but there is little smoke, and the projectiles cannot rush far in the chamber.The gunpowder can be used to blow things up, but it is not very useful to fire lead bullets.I re-adjusted the ingredients and added more charcoal.
In addition, the iron forged gun barrels is too mature and soft, slightly hard and crispy.I tried many ways, adding limestone can improve... But before, I added limestone powder while honing the iron, and the slag was beaten into the iron material.Now I think of a new way and add it to the furnace molten iron!
Zan Jurun asked: What is the reason?
Xu Sheng looked confused: The little one doesn’t know that the three generations of the small family are all blacksmiths, relying on experience.
He pointed to the large stove behind him that was heating up and said: After the molten iron was recast into pieces, I repeatedly burned red and forged it, and made it mature.Then use this cooked iron to re-forge the gun barrel.
Zan Jurun said: If you succeed, you will be rewarded with 100 cents of money!
Xu Sheng widened his eyes: Zan assisted the government with one word!
Zan Jurun said decisively: As long as you succeed, I will reward you even if I use my salary!
However, it will take at least one month to be tested. Zan Jurun can’t wait, and it will be next year in more than a month!
He wrote the collected memorials, which was better than writing about waste of money and food and nothing.
...On the day, as soon as Guo Shao walked into the study of the East Palace, he saw that there were many memorials on the imperial case, most of which were persuading to change the national name and had been classified. He threw it aside and refused to give a reply, and then refused.
You have to be fully prepared. If you take the initiative to change the country's title and become the founding emperor, it will be very ugly; you must let many people support you and reluctantly do this... Although Guo Shao himself also founded and became the emperor.
Moreover, Guo Shao still has some things he hasn't thought about and can't be too anxious.
The imperial guards were not awarded the title of a hero when he ascended the throne, and now he should consider it... Moreover, the current imperial guards' military power system is suitable for frequent large-scale war situations, but it is not conducive to ensuring the security of imperial power.
This is an unquestionable fact.
In history, the reason why Zhao Kuangyin released his military power with a glass of wine was also seen as the risks.
Guo Shao also wants to make a cup of wine to release his military power?
He denied this approach because his military philosophy was completely different from that of Zhao Kuangyin... and according to that method, the court now does not have that much money to redeem the military power of the generals.
Guo Shao decided to wait a little longer.
At this moment, a memorial from the Military Arts Supervision came into Guo Shao's eyes.
Most of his other memorials were sent to the ministers of the Political Affairs Hall and the Privy Council for handling at their discretion, but they were very interested in the memorials of military weapons... The ancient literati did not attach much importance to technology, but Guo Shao's ideas were different after all.
In the memorial written by Zan Jurun, it mentioned a craftsman named Xu Sheng's attempt to improve the gun barrels.
Guo Shao was very involved in his view and only thought it made sense... In my impression, the musket seemed to be not Huang Cancan's copper cast, but really an iron pipe!
It was only after I tried using iron pipes many times before that I had created a musket that looked inappropriate.
As for the principle of adding lime powder to iron material?
Guo Shao thought about it for a long time but couldn't understand it. He picked up the pen and drew some chemical equations on the paper. Unfortunately, his chemistry knowledge was limited to middle school, and he forgot most of it!
If he studied metallurgy, he might be able to figure it out now, but unfortunately it is not.
Guo Shao also has half a pot of water, and he has only a few understandings of many things.
Fortunately, he worked as a blacksmith for his livelihood before, and he still has some understanding of the craftsmanship at this time.
He could not understand the craftsman's craftsman's craftsmanship principle, guessing that iron ore contains too much sulfur or any impurities affect the strength of the metal, and the added materials can remove impurities?
No matter what, we must encourage craftsmen who can innovate!When Guo Shao picked up his pen, he remembered that Zan Jurun was in this study.
Guo Shao raised his head and said: Zan assists in government affairs.
Zan Jurun hurriedly got up and walked over and bowed, saying, "I am here."
Guo Shao returned the memorial to him: If this Xu Sheng can really be made into an iron gun barrel, tell him that he will receive a heavy reward!In Tokyo, I will pick up a house, and I will allocate a piece of official land in Kaifeng Prefecture, and give me another 1,000 guan of money.
Zan Jurun was surprised, after all, he was just a little craftsman.
However, Guo Shao has always been generous with what he cares about, and he pondered for a moment and said: Find a vacancy in the Military Equipment Supervisor and increase his official position.
Zan Jurun couldn't help but say: This person is a craftsman, I'm afraid he doesn't even know a lot of big words.
Guo Shao said: This matter is of great effect. If Xu Sheng can make a contribution, even a craftsman can bear the heavy reward.I also want him to be a demonstration. Those who are talented are not only good at writing.
Zan Jurun had no choice but to worship: Your Majesty is wise.
After a moment, Guo Shao accidentally found a very interesting memorial on the imperial case: written by Fan Zhi.
He actually persuaded Guo Shao to find the country and become emperor!
Because there were too many people persuading this matter, the memorials were classified, and Guo Shao almost didn't notice it... Fortunately, Fan Zhi's memorial was placed at the top, so it was easy to see. It was probably because of the memorials of several cabinets who paid great attention to Fan Zhi's memorials and did it on purpose.
In my heart, Guo Shao personally doesn’t like Fan Zhi very much!
He stood up and walked outside the screen, and all four cabinet officials stood up.Guo Shao turned to look at them and asked: What do you think is how to restore Fan Zhiguan?
Several people looked at each other, Zuo You clasped his fists and said: Before the Northern Expedition, Duke Fan strongly opposed it and said arrogantly that Your Majesty could not win.Now that Your Majesty has returned to the court with victory, he is very tolerant of Duke Fan, which is the heart of Donghai.
In fact, Fan Zhi disobeyed Guo Shao at the beginning, and opposed Fu Jinzhan's rule and caused a lot of trouble.But Zuo You didn't mention it.
Moreover, Zuo You advocated the resumption of Fan Zhi's official position, and the reason was not what he said... the most critical reason was not easy to put it in a clear way!
Fan Zhi's identity is very special. He was an old minister during the late emperor's period and was never accepted as a confidant by Guo Shao.
At this moment, many old ministers of the previous dynasty would take a wait-and-see attitude in their hearts... After all, the emperor will be the same as the ministers!
If Fan Zhi, the person who jumped around with the dragon beard, would the old ministers and officials of the previous dynasty still worry about their own position and interests?
Since they are all officials and are not foreign races who have entered the Central Plains.
As long as his own interests are protected, Guo Shao put himself in his shoes: if he is such an official, he will definitely be an official, and he does not want to oppose the emperor's founding of the country and becoming emperor.
As for what reason Zuo You said was not important, his attitude was the most important.I guess Zuo You and others have also seen this.
Sure enough, Huang Binglian and the other three also said one after another: Your Majesty is generous, and the world is back.I believe that the talent of Duke Fan and Prime Minister are very fortunate to be forgiven by Your Majesty.
Guo Shao was also very straightforward in his work. When he heard that the four of them had the same attitude as him, he turned around and said: Come on, come to Fan’s mansion to send an order, and ask him to go to the government affairs hall tomorrow. He will do whatever he was in the past and now.
The eunuch on duty was Cao Tai, and his voice was a little weak: I obey the order.
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