In the Northern Han court in Jinyang, there were many people who wrote a letter to discuss the Great Zhou Dynasty's attack on the Northern Han Dynasty.
People used various signs as evidence, and some said that the main attack direction of the Zhou army had turned to the north.
There are also saying that the Great Zhou did not take back the military power of the imperial guards, and just wanted to continue to be invincible.
In short, after the Great Zhou successively annexed large tracts of land such as Shu Kingdom, Southern Tang, Nanping, and Wuping, it is now a superpower in the south, and its national strength and population are already in competition with the Great Liao. In contrast, the territory of the Northern Han is really too small... The territory is too small, and people, food, money and materials are all very poor, which cannot support a large-scale long-term war.
Moreover, the Great Zhou Emperor Guo Blacksmith was a pure martial artist and had a reputation.
The Northern Han lord Liu Jun faced a great threat to force and could not sleep or eat.
The ministers wanted to share the worries of the country.Someone suggested talking to the Great Zhou Kingdom, but even Liu Jun himself felt that he could not talk.
The resentment in Hedong and the Central Plains was too deep; the Northern Han and Zhou dynasties also had too deep resentment.
Emperor Taizu of Zhou rebelled and destroyed the Han Dynasty; and the founding emperor of the Northern Han Kingdom was the younger brother of Emperor Gaozu of the Later Han Dynasty. The Lord of the Northern Han Dynasty always believed that the Guo family had conspired to seize the country of their Liu family, which was completely a feud.
The Northern Han Kingdom claimed to be the nephew of the Great Liao Kingdom and sought asylum from the Liao Kingdom, and the camp they stood in was completely hostile.
Plus there are more old hatreds: the Battle of Gaoping when Chai Rong ascended the throne, the Northern Han Kingdom has always supported hostile operations in Shu, Southern Tang and other places... and the hatred that fought between the two sides over the years.
Sometimes, for the sake of interests between the two countries, even the enemy country can be negotiated.However, some countries are indeed unable to talk about, and the Northern Han and Great Zhou are just unrelated.I can only rely on fighting...
So some ministers suggested that Zhao Kuangyin be more reused, thinking that Zhao Kuangyin was a good general and was familiar with the military and political and tactics of the Zhou State.
But Liu Jun quickly politely refused, saying that the Northern Han Dynasty was not short of good generals, such as Yang Wudi (Yang Ye) and these were all selected by the battlefield... In fact, Liu Jun did not fully trust Yang Ye because Yang Ye's younger brother was a defensive envoy in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Compared to Zhao Kuangyin and Guo Blacksmith, Yang Ye was not as good as Zhao Kuangyin in the position.
But Liu Jun believes that the difficult thing about Zhao Kuangyin is to control this guy is that Yang Ye is a pure military general, and Zhao Kuangyin is like Guo Shao.
Liu Jun was unwilling to see Zhao Kuangyin gaining power in the Northern Han Dynasty from the bottom of his heart.
Although Liu Jun was worried, he was not yet in a state of burning fire... After all, whether the Zhou army wanted to use troops against the Northern Han was still in the speculation stage. There was no sign inside and outside Tokyo that the Zhou army was mobilizing troops to prepare for military use.
...Besides, although the Northern Han Kingdom is small but strong, it is not a country that is easy to bully.
Liu Jun was busy trying to find a way to prepare for martial arts. He heard that Zhao Kuangyin's men had captured the armor-making craftsmen, so he sent someone to take over the prisoners and be responsible for the matter.
Liu Jun had seen that kind of armor with his own eyes and attached great importance to this matter. The person sent was Li Xin, a member of the Privy Council.
Li Xin was a very talented civil servant. When he met the prisoners, he knew that the craftsman named Lu had no goods in his stomach. He didn't even have a name, and he was called Lu Da.
Li Xin's heart skipped a beat and knew that this job was difficult to handle.
If a person has something hidden in his stomach, as long as it falls into his hands, there are a hundred ways to make him spit it out; but if that person has nothing in his stomach, how can he spit it out?
Li’s family affairs, should we come in with torture instruments?A clerk asked.
Lu Da's body trembled as he heard it, and his face turned pale.
Li Xin raised his head slightly, his bright little eyes swept across Lu Da's face, and said: No need for now.
Look.The clerk answered with his fists.
Li Xin calmly looked through the file in his hand and read the matters recorded on it about this person.
In order to save his life, Lu Da betrayed a Zaojiafangfang, named Sun, and killed the whole family in that Fangtou... Seeing this, Li Xin remembered Lu Da's expression just now, and was convinced that this person was not a hard-working person, and had been forced to the end of the road, and it was useless to force him too much.
Is the death of the Sun Fangtou family related to you?Li Xin asked, his tone not fierce.
Lu Da cried and nodded.Xu Jun next to him cursed: Don’t you have a long mouth?Lu Da hurriedly replied: Yes, it’s related...
Li Xin turned his head to look at the head of Xu Jun, and the man bent down and stopped talking.Li Xin said again: If you flee back to Zhou State now, will the government want to settle the score with you?
Lu Dao: Yes.
Li Xin waved: Take off his shackles and handshakes.
Lu Dabian was grateful and thanked him very much.
Li Xin said again: You are here for the time being. Now think about what you saw in Zaojiafang.As long as what you say is useful, you will have food and water to drink today.Do you understand?
Lu Da nodded quickly, thought for a while, gestured and said: A big hammer, iron!Bang bang bang bang...
Li Xin frowned and still picked up the pen to record it.
Lu Da reached out and rubbed his temples, thinking hard: There is such a big one, weighing at least a few thousand pounds!The chain was pulled up and fell down again, with an anvil underneath... The armor was pounded out below!
Li Xin asked: How many thousand kilograms, nine thousand, three thousand?
Two or three thousand kilograms, or one or two thousand kilograms?It's very heavy anyway!Lu Da frowned.
Li Xin asked: Do you still remember anything?
Lu Avenue: There are wheels on the wall, and the iron chains pass through the next door. I have never been to the next door...
Li Xin nodded, no longer asked, and said, "Just look at it, give him water later."After saying that, he got up and left, walked to the door, and ordered his subordinates: Go and hire some blacksmiths to come back first.
……
drive!Guo Shao, who was wearing a slut, shouted and led his group to ride a horse in the northern garden of the imperial city.A wall in front appears at the end of the grass.
It seemed like a small town with brick walls and walls were built on them. However, the city wall did not consider military defense functions and was relatively thin and short, which was the experimental workshop set up by military weapon supervisors.
Now Guo Shao has done a good job in confidentiality. The small city has only one gate, which is almost isolated from the outside. Moreover, the small city itself is inside the wall of the imperial city, and it is even more difficult to contact the outside world.
Moreover, there is no place for the world to know about it, and only the two yamen of the Military Arts Supervisor and the Provincial Department of Eunuchs.
This place is now developing firearms according to Guo Shao's wishes.
The first test of the firearm has been conducted. The military weapon supervisor, Jurun, wrote a memorial today, but Guo Shao was not very satisfied... It was not that Zan Jurun lacked ability or the article was not well written, but in fact the memorial was written very beautifully and very detailed; but it always lacked the rigorous logic. The ancients' thinking habits did not have that kind of method of classifying the categories, which may be because they had never seen it.
So Guo Shao planned to go for a trip to see the situation himself.
As soon as I entered some temporary houses, they were the living area of the craftsmen, and then entered another door and arrived at the workshop area soon after.
There are all kinds of tools, iron, charcoal and bellows used by blacksmiths. Guo Shao felt familiar and intimate when he arrived.
A group of dozens of people knelt on the ground and shouted: Your Majesty will live forever.
stand up.Guo Shao said casually.
Zan Jurun and two civil servants stood beside Guo Shao and took him to see things.When I arrived in a room, I saw a row of metal tubes of different colors on the chopping board.
Zan Jurun said: Your Majesty, they are all made according to your will.Please see, this branch is a cast iron pipe, and five pieces of the same iron pipe have been cast in total.After casting, slowly drill and grind the inner wall smoothly, but the iron was cold slowly and there was no way to have sand hole bubbles; the iron pipe was relatively narrow, and the size of the lead ball was just right when testing the gun... it was blown up.The cast iron is too brittle and the inner wall is not too smooth.
Guo Shao nodded slightly.
Zan Jurun pointed to another larger one: this branch is also a cast iron pipe, but the pipe wall is thicker, the diameter is larger, and it is short and thick.The gun was not broken, but it could only be shot ten steps away and could not penetrate the wooden board.I personally think that this thing is not practical, worse than a shuttle gun (javelin), and it is troublesome.
He changed another one and said: This thing is made of cooked iron after repeated forging and wrapping it with an iron rod as the core; then drill and polish it smoothly.The lead pellet is of the right size.I put gunpowder and tried it, and the iron pipe forging joint was opened...
Zan Jurun reported several types of metal pipes in a row.
All of them are Guo Shao's meaning... Because Guo Shao couldn't remember the process of musket barrels at all, he used the classification test method: as long as the method can be thought of, try to create one of them, and then test the performance one by one.
The technology of casting and forging is completely a craft that blacksmiths in this era can easily do.The only novelty is the classification experiment method and conception.
Zan Jurun said for a while and pointed to a blue-gray tube: It is made of bronze and is also the best branch.First cast it with bronze, then grind it smoothly. The bronze is softer than iron, and it is easier to drill... However, there are often some debris inside, and it still cannot be made too smooth.When you fire the lead balls, you can hit the farthest. You can wear thin wooden boards at forty steps and iron armor at twenty steps, and you can wear no accurate head... It is still much inferior to the crossbow.
After hearing this, Guo Shao was the best thing in comparison, so he picked it up and looked at it.
Once you hold it in your hand, you feel it is heavy, and then it is thicker and shorter; the diameter is not big and the pipe wall is very thick.
He looked at it for a while and always felt something was wrong.
He had never seen a real musket, but he had seen the gunpowder gun for bird shooting and he had also seen it on TV; it was completely different from this one.
In his impression, the musket was much thinner and not such a thick stick.
As for why this copper tube is a bit short, Guo Shao is also a blacksmith, and he knows the craftsmanship. He casts such a small diameter tube as a whole and cannot make a sand mold that is too long.
And after hearing from Zan Jurun, it takes forty steps to wear thin wooden boards, and twenty steps to be more lethal, and there is no accurate idea... Guo Shao felt even more heartbroken. Thinking about shooting an arrow, he could still keep his mind accurate by shooting a hundred steps!
This gap is too far.
However, when I think about it, an ordinary sharpshooter is not as good as his own when using bows and arrows. He only needs to maintain accuracy and lethality for only a few dozen steps away, so I feel a little relieved.
People used various signs as evidence, and some said that the main attack direction of the Zhou army had turned to the north.
There are also saying that the Great Zhou did not take back the military power of the imperial guards, and just wanted to continue to be invincible.
In short, after the Great Zhou successively annexed large tracts of land such as Shu Kingdom, Southern Tang, Nanping, and Wuping, it is now a superpower in the south, and its national strength and population are already in competition with the Great Liao. In contrast, the territory of the Northern Han is really too small... The territory is too small, and people, food, money and materials are all very poor, which cannot support a large-scale long-term war.
Moreover, the Great Zhou Emperor Guo Blacksmith was a pure martial artist and had a reputation.
The Northern Han lord Liu Jun faced a great threat to force and could not sleep or eat.
The ministers wanted to share the worries of the country.Someone suggested talking to the Great Zhou Kingdom, but even Liu Jun himself felt that he could not talk.
The resentment in Hedong and the Central Plains was too deep; the Northern Han and Zhou dynasties also had too deep resentment.
Emperor Taizu of Zhou rebelled and destroyed the Han Dynasty; and the founding emperor of the Northern Han Kingdom was the younger brother of Emperor Gaozu of the Later Han Dynasty. The Lord of the Northern Han Dynasty always believed that the Guo family had conspired to seize the country of their Liu family, which was completely a feud.
The Northern Han Kingdom claimed to be the nephew of the Great Liao Kingdom and sought asylum from the Liao Kingdom, and the camp they stood in was completely hostile.
Plus there are more old hatreds: the Battle of Gaoping when Chai Rong ascended the throne, the Northern Han Kingdom has always supported hostile operations in Shu, Southern Tang and other places... and the hatred that fought between the two sides over the years.
Sometimes, for the sake of interests between the two countries, even the enemy country can be negotiated.However, some countries are indeed unable to talk about, and the Northern Han and Great Zhou are just unrelated.I can only rely on fighting...
So some ministers suggested that Zhao Kuangyin be more reused, thinking that Zhao Kuangyin was a good general and was familiar with the military and political and tactics of the Zhou State.
But Liu Jun quickly politely refused, saying that the Northern Han Dynasty was not short of good generals, such as Yang Wudi (Yang Ye) and these were all selected by the battlefield... In fact, Liu Jun did not fully trust Yang Ye because Yang Ye's younger brother was a defensive envoy in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Compared to Zhao Kuangyin and Guo Blacksmith, Yang Ye was not as good as Zhao Kuangyin in the position.
But Liu Jun believes that the difficult thing about Zhao Kuangyin is to control this guy is that Yang Ye is a pure military general, and Zhao Kuangyin is like Guo Shao.
Liu Jun was unwilling to see Zhao Kuangyin gaining power in the Northern Han Dynasty from the bottom of his heart.
Although Liu Jun was worried, he was not yet in a state of burning fire... After all, whether the Zhou army wanted to use troops against the Northern Han was still in the speculation stage. There was no sign inside and outside Tokyo that the Zhou army was mobilizing troops to prepare for military use.
...Besides, although the Northern Han Kingdom is small but strong, it is not a country that is easy to bully.
Liu Jun was busy trying to find a way to prepare for martial arts. He heard that Zhao Kuangyin's men had captured the armor-making craftsmen, so he sent someone to take over the prisoners and be responsible for the matter.
Liu Jun had seen that kind of armor with his own eyes and attached great importance to this matter. The person sent was Li Xin, a member of the Privy Council.
Li Xin was a very talented civil servant. When he met the prisoners, he knew that the craftsman named Lu had no goods in his stomach. He didn't even have a name, and he was called Lu Da.
Li Xin's heart skipped a beat and knew that this job was difficult to handle.
If a person has something hidden in his stomach, as long as it falls into his hands, there are a hundred ways to make him spit it out; but if that person has nothing in his stomach, how can he spit it out?
Li’s family affairs, should we come in with torture instruments?A clerk asked.
Lu Da's body trembled as he heard it, and his face turned pale.
Li Xin raised his head slightly, his bright little eyes swept across Lu Da's face, and said: No need for now.
Look.The clerk answered with his fists.
Li Xin calmly looked through the file in his hand and read the matters recorded on it about this person.
In order to save his life, Lu Da betrayed a Zaojiafangfang, named Sun, and killed the whole family in that Fangtou... Seeing this, Li Xin remembered Lu Da's expression just now, and was convinced that this person was not a hard-working person, and had been forced to the end of the road, and it was useless to force him too much.
Is the death of the Sun Fangtou family related to you?Li Xin asked, his tone not fierce.
Lu Da cried and nodded.Xu Jun next to him cursed: Don’t you have a long mouth?Lu Da hurriedly replied: Yes, it’s related...
Li Xin turned his head to look at the head of Xu Jun, and the man bent down and stopped talking.Li Xin said again: If you flee back to Zhou State now, will the government want to settle the score with you?
Lu Dao: Yes.
Li Xin waved: Take off his shackles and handshakes.
Lu Dabian was grateful and thanked him very much.
Li Xin said again: You are here for the time being. Now think about what you saw in Zaojiafang.As long as what you say is useful, you will have food and water to drink today.Do you understand?
Lu Da nodded quickly, thought for a while, gestured and said: A big hammer, iron!Bang bang bang bang...
Li Xin frowned and still picked up the pen to record it.
Lu Da reached out and rubbed his temples, thinking hard: There is such a big one, weighing at least a few thousand pounds!The chain was pulled up and fell down again, with an anvil underneath... The armor was pounded out below!
Li Xin asked: How many thousand kilograms, nine thousand, three thousand?
Two or three thousand kilograms, or one or two thousand kilograms?It's very heavy anyway!Lu Da frowned.
Li Xin asked: Do you still remember anything?
Lu Avenue: There are wheels on the wall, and the iron chains pass through the next door. I have never been to the next door...
Li Xin nodded, no longer asked, and said, "Just look at it, give him water later."After saying that, he got up and left, walked to the door, and ordered his subordinates: Go and hire some blacksmiths to come back first.
……
drive!Guo Shao, who was wearing a slut, shouted and led his group to ride a horse in the northern garden of the imperial city.A wall in front appears at the end of the grass.
It seemed like a small town with brick walls and walls were built on them. However, the city wall did not consider military defense functions and was relatively thin and short, which was the experimental workshop set up by military weapon supervisors.
Now Guo Shao has done a good job in confidentiality. The small city has only one gate, which is almost isolated from the outside. Moreover, the small city itself is inside the wall of the imperial city, and it is even more difficult to contact the outside world.
Moreover, there is no place for the world to know about it, and only the two yamen of the Military Arts Supervisor and the Provincial Department of Eunuchs.
This place is now developing firearms according to Guo Shao's wishes.
The first test of the firearm has been conducted. The military weapon supervisor, Jurun, wrote a memorial today, but Guo Shao was not very satisfied... It was not that Zan Jurun lacked ability or the article was not well written, but in fact the memorial was written very beautifully and very detailed; but it always lacked the rigorous logic. The ancients' thinking habits did not have that kind of method of classifying the categories, which may be because they had never seen it.
So Guo Shao planned to go for a trip to see the situation himself.
As soon as I entered some temporary houses, they were the living area of the craftsmen, and then entered another door and arrived at the workshop area soon after.
There are all kinds of tools, iron, charcoal and bellows used by blacksmiths. Guo Shao felt familiar and intimate when he arrived.
A group of dozens of people knelt on the ground and shouted: Your Majesty will live forever.
stand up.Guo Shao said casually.
Zan Jurun and two civil servants stood beside Guo Shao and took him to see things.When I arrived in a room, I saw a row of metal tubes of different colors on the chopping board.
Zan Jurun said: Your Majesty, they are all made according to your will.Please see, this branch is a cast iron pipe, and five pieces of the same iron pipe have been cast in total.After casting, slowly drill and grind the inner wall smoothly, but the iron was cold slowly and there was no way to have sand hole bubbles; the iron pipe was relatively narrow, and the size of the lead ball was just right when testing the gun... it was blown up.The cast iron is too brittle and the inner wall is not too smooth.
Guo Shao nodded slightly.
Zan Jurun pointed to another larger one: this branch is also a cast iron pipe, but the pipe wall is thicker, the diameter is larger, and it is short and thick.The gun was not broken, but it could only be shot ten steps away and could not penetrate the wooden board.I personally think that this thing is not practical, worse than a shuttle gun (javelin), and it is troublesome.
He changed another one and said: This thing is made of cooked iron after repeated forging and wrapping it with an iron rod as the core; then drill and polish it smoothly.The lead pellet is of the right size.I put gunpowder and tried it, and the iron pipe forging joint was opened...
Zan Jurun reported several types of metal pipes in a row.
All of them are Guo Shao's meaning... Because Guo Shao couldn't remember the process of musket barrels at all, he used the classification test method: as long as the method can be thought of, try to create one of them, and then test the performance one by one.
The technology of casting and forging is completely a craft that blacksmiths in this era can easily do.The only novelty is the classification experiment method and conception.
Zan Jurun said for a while and pointed to a blue-gray tube: It is made of bronze and is also the best branch.First cast it with bronze, then grind it smoothly. The bronze is softer than iron, and it is easier to drill... However, there are often some debris inside, and it still cannot be made too smooth.When you fire the lead balls, you can hit the farthest. You can wear thin wooden boards at forty steps and iron armor at twenty steps, and you can wear no accurate head... It is still much inferior to the crossbow.
After hearing this, Guo Shao was the best thing in comparison, so he picked it up and looked at it.
Once you hold it in your hand, you feel it is heavy, and then it is thicker and shorter; the diameter is not big and the pipe wall is very thick.
He looked at it for a while and always felt something was wrong.
He had never seen a real musket, but he had seen the gunpowder gun for bird shooting and he had also seen it on TV; it was completely different from this one.
In his impression, the musket was much thinner and not such a thick stick.
As for why this copper tube is a bit short, Guo Shao is also a blacksmith, and he knows the craftsmanship. He casts such a small diameter tube as a whole and cannot make a sand mold that is too long.
And after hearing from Zan Jurun, it takes forty steps to wear thin wooden boards, and twenty steps to be more lethal, and there is no accurate idea... Guo Shao felt even more heartbroken. Thinking about shooting an arrow, he could still keep his mind accurate by shooting a hundred steps!
This gap is too far.
However, when I think about it, an ordinary sharpshooter is not as good as his own when using bows and arrows. He only needs to maintain accuracy and lethality for only a few dozen steps away, so I feel a little relieved.
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