A letter was sent to the Nine Heavens in the morning, and was demoted to eight thousand people on Chaozhou Road in the evening!
This is a poem Han Yu wrote to his nephew in despair after learning that he was demoted. He thought he would never return to Chang'an in his life. The whole poem is full of infinite sadness, which makes people read Finally, I couldn't help but burst into tears.
However, regardless of Han Yu's pitiful situation, in fact, if you count from Chang'an, it is only 2,500 miles to Chaozhou. Even to today's Guangzhou, it is only 3,000 miles.
But just over two thousand miles, in the Tang Dynasty at that time, was enough to make people despair! It can be seen that the twenty-eight thousand miles from Xiao Han's mouth is probably beyond the recognition of people of this era. You know, no wonder young people are so shocked.
"Master Marquis, didn't you say that these pirates should all die? Then why are they left alive? Just throw them into the sea to feed the fish!"
In the cabin of the big ship, Ma Laoliu was muttering behind Xiao Han. He had long been unhappy with the guy named Wu.
What the hell! You're a fucking prisoner, and you still dare to put on airs and make conditions. I really don't know how to write the word "death," right?
"You want to throw him into the sea to feed the fishes?"
Xiao Han was stroking a cannon with great interest at this time. Hearing this, he glanced back at Ma Laoliu and said with a smile: "Okay, if you can go to that place and retrieve the things, I will Immediately chop him into pieces and throw him into the sea to feed the fish!"
"Me?" Ma Laoliu was so frightened by Xiao Han's weird smile that he shook his head like a rattle: "Ahem, don't be joking, Mr. Marquis, I can't go that far!"
"You can't go? Then prepare things for him honestly!" Xiao Han snorted and scolded angrily.
Just now, he had made a deal with the young man: he would let him live, prepare a boat, food, drinking water for him, and even tell him the secret recipe of the artillery when he comes back!
And Xiao Han has paid so much, and the only thing the young man has to do is one thing: cross the sea, go to the other side of the sea, and find the seeds of those strange plants for him!
This transaction is very simple and very rough!
At least in the eyes of others, if he were this young master of Xunfu, the first thing he would do after gaining freedom would be to run! Run as far as you can, what kind of deal is that? Go to hell!
However, what surprised others was that after the Master Xunfu made sure that Xiao Han was not joking, he hesitated for a moment and then seriously made preparations, ranging from food, clothing, medicine, needlework, to ship personnel, etc. There are countless things listed, and it really looks like you are going thousands of miles away.
Perhaps, among these dumbfounded people, only Luo Shixin understands why young people listen obediently to Xiao Han's words.
Nothing but hatred!
He hated Xiao Han, hated Li Shimin, and hated the bastard who took away all his family property!
However, after seeing Xiao Han's weapons, the young man's hatred could only turn into endless sadness!
He was arrogant, but not arrogant and ignorant! With this nearly invincible weapon, the young man immediately realized that his own swords and weapons were so ridiculous.
Therefore, his hatred gradually turned into a desire for these weapons! After all, with these weapons, not to mention fighting against the Tang Dynasty, even if young people want to go overseas and establish a country, it will become easy.
Xiao Han, on the other hand, caught the young man's desire and let him obediently enter his web, willingly becoming the moth that flies into the fire.
I just wonder if Xiao Han will fulfill his promise and tell him the secret of the artillery if the young man really comes back successfully one day.
About artillery.
By the way, Xiao Han originally didn't want to cast this kind of thing, because the smelting and casting technology at this time was not perfect yet. Casting a small cannon was okay, but large casting tools like this would basically have a lot of impurities, bubbles, or
Cracks are mixed in.
If these things exist in those Buddha statues and bronze statues, there will naturally be no problem. They just need to be polished and painted.
But if you want to cast a cannon? Forget it, only a devil would dare to use a cannon that no one knows when it will explode!
Of course, the reason why Xiao Han gave up making cannons was that in addition to the problem of exploding the barrel, there was another most critical issue, and that was transportation!
A forged cannon weighed at least several thousand kilograms. In this era without cars and roads, how did you have to pull a cannon weighing several kilograms to fight all over the world? You probably died of exhaustion before you hit the enemy.
However, due to various reasons, Xiao Han gave up the cannon, but those lunatics at the Fire Research Institute refused to give up!
Ever since Xiao Han succeeded in researching those small iron pipes, those madmen immediately plunged into the research of cannons!
During this period, I don’t know how many pipes were blown up and how many people were injured before they finally made the prototypes of these cannons.
This new type of cannon abandoned the iron pipe and instead used brass with better flexibility and ductility to make the barrel. In order to withstand the huge pressure generated instantly when the gunpowder explodes, these barrels are ridiculously thick.
, even the thinnest part must be as thick as a fist!
From this point of view, a cannon must weigh at least two thousand kilograms. If it is placed on land, not even a horse, let alone an ox, can pull it!
Fortunately, these cannons were eventually installed on such large ships. With the support of ships, these cannons were given the best possible destination.
"The cannon is not fixed firmly enough. It is best to block it with iron chains to prevent it from hitting something when the wind and waves are too strong! Well, these sandbags are good. When firing, they can be used as cushions behind them to reduce the recoil of the cannon. This is the shell...
Why are they all solid? Are there no blooming bombs? What about incendiary bombs?"
Stroking the cold barrel, Xiao Han tried hard to recall the scene when he first watched Pirates of the Caribbean. Because the cannon in front of him was exactly the same as Captain Jack's cannon except that it was larger, so there were some things that he could really learn from.
one time.
"Ahem, what are flowering eggs? What are burning eggs? Whose chicken laid them?"
Ma Laoliu has been honest for a while since he was scolded by Xiao Han just now. He was afraid that if he did something wrong, he would be sent 20,000 miles away by Xiao Han! However, when he heard Xiao Han talking to himself, he became so mean-mouthed
The problem happened again, and I couldn't help but ask again.
"Flying chicken!" Xiao Han was dumbfounded by Ma Laoliu's question. He patted the cold cannon body and replied angrily.
"Flying chicken? Flying pheasant?" Ma Laoliu touched his head with a confused look on his face. He had eaten pheasants before, and he had eaten quite a few. They looked quite good-looking, but they were actually very thin and weak.
It's not very oily and can't taste as good as the old hen at home.
