Tao Yao was very interested in Su Wen's whimsical ideas. He took the blueprints and found several painters to start preparing the firearm designs on the blueprints.
She also discovered that everything from battleships to gunpowder, artillery fire, grenades and firearms... was not something Su Wen came up with in a flash.
This is a huge military industry series. Even a Mohist saint would not be able to come up with so many things at once.
In other words, Su Wen should have had this idea a long time ago.
During the five years of sleeping, Su Wen's consciousness was probably deducing this military-industrial system every day, so that he could easily pick it up.
One thing to say is that if there had not been a war in the imperial court, Su Wen's system would have been impossible to implement systematically in a short period of time.
With only the financial and material resources of Qingshan Academy, it is okay to just design, but if you want to turn its ideas into reality, it will be extremely difficult.
Now that the royal family has opened its treasury, resources are supplied in unlimited quantities, and supporting the system built by Su Wen is naturally no problem.
Tao Yao was even more keenly aware that if Su Wen could do this, he would probably take this opportunity to step into the rank of a sub-sage or even a saint of the Mo family.
Tao Yao herself is a knife dealer of the Mo family. From the drawings provided by Su Wen, she opened up a new horizon and saw the opportunity to be promoted to Sequence Six.
The firearm blueprint provided by Su Wen is just an idea. If she can turn it into reality and understand the mechanical path in it, she can naturally find the cornerstone of strength to be promoted to sequence six and become the Mo family's sub-sage in one fell swoop!
The Mo family has not seen a sub-sage for many years.
Not to mention the 500 years that Taoyao stayed in the Spiritual Prison, even in the era she lived in, going back hundreds of years, she had never heard of a Mohist sub-sage appearing in the world.
In the past thousand years, the person who borrows knives seems to be the end of the Mohist family's extraordinary life!
The Mohist extraordinary people are also aware of this problem. After exploration, they found that Mohist thought has reached its extreme. In other words, even if the descendants of the Mohist masters mastered 100% of the thoughts of the Mohist sages and acted according to the Mohist teachings, they would be the ones who borrowed the knife.
The end of the road.
All Mohists realize that their school must innovate and innovate in order for the school to have a future.
But there are differences on how to change it.
One group believes that it is necessary to innovate in Mohist thought to provide literary style for later Mohists. The other group believes that Mohists should be chivalrous and righteous, and promote the Mohist idea of universal love and non-aggression everywhere, so as to use the induction of heaven and man to awaken more of the power of Mohism.
; There is also a group of people who believe that the way out for Mohism lies in the development of technology, using skills to enter the Tao, and ultimately opening up a brand new path that is different from the past.
The three Mohist factions argued endlessly about this and conducted a series of discussions, but in the end they failed to achieve any effective results.
Looking at the depicted military blueprints, Tao Yao was enlightened and instantly understood where the path for the Mohist technical faction lay.
Seeing the opportunity, Taoyao would naturally not miss the chance to reach the throne of Mojia Yasheng for hundreds of years.
Otherwise, with her character, how could she work for the Liang Dynasty? After all, she was a figure from the previous dynasty and had no good feelings towards the dynasty that had imprisoned her for three hundred years.
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Su Wendu admired the production progress of the arsenal.
In just one month, the first floating battleship quietly took off one night.
Thirty feet long, equipped with seventy-two cannons and a hundred soldiers, the battleship, which was named "Pingyan No. 1" by His Majesty the Emperor, quietly circled Daliang City without detecting anything unusual. After all, for some time,
The alert level in Daliang City has been raised to the highest level. There are usually boats floating in the air, patrolling in all directions, to guard against enemy attacks.
Therefore, even if the battleship is floating in the air, even if it is seen by spies, it can only be regarded as a new ferry produced in the arsenal, and there is not much fuss.
As for the arsenal, within a month, countless spies and spies of all types were caught.
The Yan State, Chu State, Rouran, as well as various university sects, sects, and even spies from the chamber of commerce are all interested in the things in the arsenal.
Su Wen was not polite. He didn't bother to care about where these spies came from. Anyway, the entrance and the wall were painted with the words "Investigate military intelligence, behead if caught". Anyone who dared to turn a blind eye would be caught and chopped, and there would be no chance of death.
innocent.
The confidentiality work in the arsenal is even tighter.
Su Wen staggered different assembly lines and distributed them in different areas and different factories. Each craftsman was only responsible for the parts in his own position. He had no idea what the use of what he made was, and he would not let people from different areas do it on weekdays.
The craftsmen mingled together. In addition, the craftsmen in the arsenal were not allowed to leave the designated area, and they lived separately from their families, and they were strictly guarded against keeping secrets.
Su Wen also knew that such a move would lead to a lot of public dissatisfaction, so he still came up with a corresponding strategy to build a family area in the open space inside the arsenal, so that craftsmen could bring their families to live.
Then he also gave a timetable. When the war is over, the confidentiality level of the arsenal will be lowered. At that time, relative freedom can naturally be restored.
With Su Wen's comfort, the craftsmen's original worries disappeared. After all, in the past, they also undertook royal tasks. Many of them had never seen the light of day and could only hide in darkness and be isolated from their relatives for many years.
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Now that they have been transferred to the arsenal, their treatment is much better than before, and their spirits are high.
Ji Changge personally boarded the ship and inspected the "Pingyan No. 1". He was full of praise for the ship and said on the spot that more resources should be mobilized and more shipyards should be opened for production.
However, Su Wen said that the arsenal has reached its limit and production capacity can be expanded not by adding more people but by adding more money.
Ordinary craftsmen can naturally be obtained through recruitment and training, but the core of the battleship ultimately relies on the formation of the Mohist extraordinary.
Moreover, each battleship must be equipped with a Mokist activation formation. The number of Mokists ultimately determines the size of the battleship.
However... although the Mohist family is a well-known and upright sect, and its influence is not small, the number of Mohist extraordinary people in the whole world is very small. Moreover, most of the Mohists of the technical school are extremely rich, and they are recruited into the arsenal...
It's almost impossible.
Therefore, the arsenal can only rely on the Mohists trained by the royal family in the past, and then use the old to introduce the new on this basis to cultivate more basic sequence Mohists. The progress is very limited.
"The Mo family...will finally prosper the world!"
After hearing Su Wen's explanation, Ji Changge sighed.
But neither Su Wen nor Tao Yao were overjoyed when they heard this. Both of them thought it was ridiculous.
The Mohists originally advocated universal love rather than aggression, and advocated peaceful coexistence of all countries, but now, a large number of Mohists are producing murderous weapons for the Liang Dynasty, especially the artillery. The newly-cast Kaixin Cannon is not only blessed with gunpowder,
It is also infused with spiritual crystals, which can blast it five miles away. After the explosion, the damage area will cover a hundred feet in radius. People under the power of the explosion will be blown into a blur of flesh and blood, which is horrible to watch.
During the test of the cannon, the ink researcher who participated in the research shouted that it would harm Tianhe and that this thing should never be used on the battlefield, but he was held down by several companions and dragged away.
Are you kidding me? Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were spent. Dozens of ink masters and extraordinary magicians worked day and night to calculate and adjust the proportions of gunpowder and spiritual crystals. After repeated trials, the happy cannon was successful. The phrase "hurts Tianhe" was enough.
If we kill it, wouldn't all the previous hard work be in vain?
A weapon of war must have a powerful killing effect so that it can end the war as quickly as possible and achieve the effect of ending the war with war.
After the battleship "Pingyan No. 11" completed its trial voyage, Su Wen also received a brand new order.
He stopped what he was doing and rushed to the battlefield with Taishi Qu Tanmo.
This task left Su Wen a little confused.
It was only after Nangong came to the door and explained to him that Su Wen knew what had happened.
The Taishi of Yan State invited the Taishis of Daliang and Jingchu, and the three parties gathered in Bolang City to discuss the battle.
The debate between historians and officials is an inherent tradition.
But before, it was held every ten years. During each debate, the Taishi officials from the Three Kingdoms had to be present to exchange their experiences on the path of historians.
In fact, they are competing for the first place among historians.
There is no reward for the winner, and there is no reward for the loser.
However, after every debate, the country that wins the battle will receive special care from heaven in the next ten years, with good weather and prosperous national power. On the contrary, natural and man-made disasters will occur frequently, as if the winning side has passed on all the country's bad luck.
No one can explain why this is true, but it has been like this for hundreds of years, so no country dares to be careless, and historians regard it as a top priority and carefully prepare debates.
Originally, this historian's debate was supposed to be held next year, but Yan State lost this debate in the last round, so this round of debate can be advanced by one year, or postponed by one year.
After the Yan State brazenly launched a war, the historians of the State of Yan issued an invitation to advance the debate among the historians of the Three Kingdoms by one year.
Moreover, it was a designated place, and he was even more furious up and down the beam.
Bolang City is a large coastal city in the Liang Kingdom. Because it is close to the Yan Kingdom, commerce and trade is very developed.
Bolang City is located at the mouth of a large river. It is a huge city located on both sides of the river. One city spans two prefectures, and it is also unique in the entire Daliang Kingdom.
However, with the invasion of the Yan State, the northern part of Bolang City has been occupied by the Yan State. The Daliang army could only guard the southern city. The two sides fought countless battles around the three bridges connecting the two ends of the city. There were also countless warships.
There were countless battles on the river and at the mouth of the sea, with countless casualties on both sides. Just the number of soldiers killed in battle and missing exceeded 100,000.
The State of Yan set the historian debate in Bolang City. Firstly, it had the intention of humiliating the Liang Dynasty. Secondly, it also wanted to use this advantage to suppress the momentum of the Liang Dynasty, so as to defeat the Liang Dynasty and achieve greater success in the war.