Chapter 0513 Treasures are difficult to offer (wish brothers and sisters, happy new year!)
Zhang Shixun's cheeks turned purple in an instant. He spoke several times, but could not utter a single word.
He really didn't read the file on the style of the Western Regions. Not only did he not read it, but most of the officials in the court didn't read it either.
They were either busy impeaching Wang Zeng or impeaching Lu Yijian, or they were busy sneaking into the fireworks alley, so they had no time to read Lao Shizi's dossier on the style of the Western Regions.
All the civil and military officials remained silent amidst Zhao Zhen's cold voice.
Zhang Shixun was on the muzzle of the gun, and they were not willing to suffer punishment along with Zhang Shixun.
His blind lies were caught on the spot by Zhao Zhen and exposed on the spot. No one could save him.
It is the most fundamental way to serve as an official in the court.
"From now on, the errands you are doing will be handed over to my subordinate Zuo Shilang. You can concentrate on your home and give me a good look at the files on the features of the Western Regions. I will give you a test every ten days.
I will give you five chances. After five times, if you are still so ignorant.
I will strip you of all your official titles, confiscate your property, and drive you out of Bianjing City."
Zhao Zhen shouted loudly.
All the civil and military officials lowered their heads, not daring to say a word.
Anyone can see that Zhao Zhen has been angered by Zhang Shixun's ignorance, otherwise he would not have touched Zhao Zhen's brow in front of the civil and military officials of the court, without leaving any words or words to Zhang Shixun.
, the end will definitely not be too good.
The Zhao Zhen of today is no longer the Zhao Zhen of the past.
His kindness was reserved only for a few people in the court who sincerely helped him.
Facing other people, he is only domineering, arrogant and ruthless.
Zhang Shixun trembled and prostrated on the ground, wailing: "I thank the Lord for your kindness..."
Zhao Zhen snorted coldly and did not look at Zhang Shixun again.
Du Yan glanced at Zhang Shixun who was lying on the ground, sighed inwardly, took a step forward, and said loudly: "I'm going to report to the officials. I'm already halfway through the file on the features of the Western Regions. I think I already know something about the Western Regions.
As far as I know, there is no Shengshengchuan in the Western Regions, so I doubt what the bandit officials reported in the emergency report."
After hearing Du Yan's words, Zhao Zhen's expression softened, "Du Aiqing's words are enough to prove that Du Aiqing listened to my order and went to the Western Regions style file.
As Du Aiqing said, there was no victory over Sichuan in the Western Regions before.
"Deshengchuan" is the name Kou Aiqing specially changed for the Dachuan Valley in order to celebrate our army's victory."
"Dachuan Valley?!"
After Zhao Zhen finished speaking, Du Yan repeated the place name and was slightly stunned. A simple map appeared in his mind involuntarily.
Before Du Yan came back to his senses, Zhao Zhen continued: "I know that some of you still don't believe it. Chen Lin, please pass on the urgent report and let the civil and military officials of the court see how my Kou Qing fought.
A shocking victory."
Chen Lin received the urgent report from the Long Case and sent it to Lu Yijian.
Lu Yijian hurriedly took the urgent report and read it carefully.
Just when Lu Yijian was making an urgent report, Zhao Zhen spoke again, "After reading the urgent report, don't be picky and picky, and don't say anything about the need to suppress the military to avoid being domineering.
Kou Qing was a civil servant, not a military minister.
Whether Kou Qing is wrong or not, it doesn’t matter what you say, it’s what I say.
If anyone has any objections, I can give him three thousand Japanese soldiers and let him lead them to the Western Regions.
If he can achieve the same feats, I will take back what I just said."
The civil and military officials looked very ugly, but they did not speak. They all looked forward to seeing the urgent report in Lu Yijian's hand.
Lu Yijian quickly read the emergency report and said with admiration: "It's amazing... I might as well..."
While speaking, Lu Yijian handed the urgent report in his hand to Zhang Zhibai, who was waiting anxiously beside him.
After Zhang Zhibai received the urgent report, he couldn't wait to start.
Zhao Zhen saw the urgent report falling into Zhang Zhibai's hands, and slowly spoke again, "After you have read the urgent report, let's discuss it together and see how to reward Kou Qing, how to reward the Japanese soldiers, and how to reward them."
How to reward those righteous soldiers who helped the soldiers kill the enemy, how to reward the Danshan tribe who were willing to stick to our Song Dynasty and help our Song Dynasty defeat the 140,000 elite soldiers of Huangtou Huihe in the battle of Shengchuan."
After Zhao Zhen said this, he stopped talking.
The urgent report was circulated among the civil and military officials.
Everyone who read the emergency report widened their eyes in shock.
Everyone who had not read the emergency bulletin stood on tiptoe, eager to see what was written in the emergency bulletin.
After reading the urgent report, Wang Yunsheng, the Minister of Industry and Industry, decisively raised his hands to Zhao Zhen and said, "I would like to congratulate the officials and my great Song Dynasty."
Hearing this, Zhao Zhen nodded with great satisfaction, "Wang Qing is good..."
When Wang Yunsheng heard this, a bright smile appeared on his face.
After Du Yan read the document, he frowned.
Zhao Zhen saw that Du Yan looked wrong and squinted his eyes slightly.
Du Yan bowed his hands to Zhao Zhen and muttered: "I want to know what the red barbarian cannon, the musket, and the invincible mine cannon are, and who made them, and why they are so powerful, even more powerful than the bed crossbows made by the imperial court.
Good things for good."
Zhao Zhen was slightly stunned, not expecting Du Yan to ask this question.
He has never seen three objects before, so he doesn't know what they look like.
He only knew that Kou Ji was highly skilled in craftsmanship and could always come up with something very powerful.
Zhao Zhen thought for a moment and looked at Wang Yunsheng, "Wang Qing, please tell the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty what muskets, red barbarian cannons, and invincible mine cannons are."
Wang Yunsheng had already defected to Kou Ji.
So when Kou Ji built the muskets, red barbarian cannons, and invincible mine cannons, he didn't hide it.
Instead, he specially called him to the forging workshop outside the city and explained the three weapons to him in person.
And told him to remember it.
Because once the three weapons appear in front of people, they will definitely be asked about them.
If he can't explain why then, he will definitely be laughed at.
After being instructed by Kou Ji, Wang Yunsheng paid special attention to the three weapons, so when Zhao Zhen asked about them now, he was confident.
"Going back to the official house, the muskets, red barbarian cannons, and invincible mine cannons are all firearms developed by the Foundry Supervision Committee of the Ministry of Industry and the Weapons Forging Workshop of the Forging Steel Workshop."
"firearm?"
Everyone in Chui Gong Hall who had read the emergency report was stunned.
Du Yan pondered: "I have heard about firearms, but the lethality of firearms is limited. When used in war, the effect is not obvious, so they have been abandoned as ordnance.
How did the Ministry of Industry develop highly lethal firearms?
And how is it forged?”
Facing Du Yan's question, Wang Yunsheng smiled and said: "General firearms are naturally not very lethal. But the firearms cast by our Ministry of Industry and the forging steel workshop are different.
Hundreds of tigers running together have now been gradually sent to the military camps. I believe you have all seen it.
The musket is a weapon developed on the basis of Hundred Tigers Running Together that can be controlled by a single person.
Gunpowder was used instead of the bowstring as a boost.
Use iron balls instead of arrows as murder weapons."
Du Yan frowned and said, "A round iron pellet is more lethal than a sharp arrow?"
Wang Yunsheng smiled and said: "Everyone should be familiar with the medicine-haired puppet. When the medicine-haired puppet explodes, it can shoot hundreds of feet into the air. The wood chips carried into the air by it can also hurt people.
The same goes for iron pills.
Driven by gunpowder, it is extremely lethal.
The leather armor penetrated with one blow.
It is lighter than a crossbow and easier to maneuver than a crossbow.
What's more important is that as long as an individual, with a little training, can skillfully use a musket.
It takes two to three years to train a qualified crossbowman.
It only takes seven days to cultivate a musketeer."
As soon as these words came out, all the civil and military officials in the palace took a deep breath.
Civil and military officials had never seen muskets and did not intuitively experience the lethality of muskets.
But they can understand a thing or two about the time it takes to cultivate musketeers and crossbowmen.
What was the most powerful weapon of the Song Dynasty?
Bu Renjia?!
wrong!
The most powerful thing in the Song Dynasty was the crossbow.
The Song Dynasty had the most powerful crossbows in the world.
Their number is unmatched by any other country except the Song Dynasty.
The crossbow was one of the main combat weapons of the Song Dynasty.
Plays an important role on the battlefield.
There was no shortage of bows and crossbows in the Song Dynasty.
But the Song Dynasty was in short supply of crossbowmen.
If the emergence of muskets can replace bows and crossbows and can be easily controlled, the combat effectiveness of Song Dynasty's soldiers and horses will rise sharply.
All civil and military officials in the court stared at Wang Yunsheng with shocked eyes.
Gao Chugong couldn't wait to ask: "What is the red cannon? What is the invincible mine cannon?"
Wang Yunsheng smiled and said: "If the musket is a crossbow, then the Hongyi Cannon is equivalent to a bed crossbow. It is more convenient to operate than a bed crossbow and more lethal than a bed crossbow."
"Um……"
Wang Yunsheng pondered for a moment and said metaphorically: "One shot from the Crossbow can make a deep hole in the city wall. One shot from the Hongyi Cannon can make a huge gap on the top of the city."
Combining the power of the trebuchet and the crossbow is the power of the red barbarian cannon.
As for the invincible mine cannon, it's like a drug-haired puppet buried in the ground."
"The bang that exploded from the ground could not only overturn the soil above its head, but also overturn the horses and cavalry running on the soil to the ground."
"..."
Wang Yunsheng gave a rough description, and everyone in the civil and military court looked confused.
Although Wang Yunsheng's description was very intuitive, they could roughly guess the power of the three weapons.
But they still want to see it with their own eyes.
"Does the Ministry of Industry have it? Can you show it to all of us?"
Lu Yijian asked in a deep voice.
Zhao Zhen also looked at Wang Yunsheng very curiously.
Wang Yunsheng smiled bitterly, "No..."
Gao Chugong was anxious when he heard this, "It was made by the Ministry of Works, but the Ministry of Works will have no idea."
Wang Yunsheng smiled bitterly and said: "It is true that the Ministry of Industry made it, but the forging process is not available in the Ministry of Industry."
Du Yan said with a dark face: "Kou Ji secretly hid the forging technology of military and national weapons?!"
Wang Yunsheng rolled his eyes, "This thing was developed by the Kou Libu and his people. Do you think he needs to keep it privately?"
Du Yan blushed and said in a deep voice: "Why is such an important military weapon not presented to the imperial court?"
Wang Yunsheng spread his hands, "I can't offer it, and I don't dare to offer it."
As soon as these words came out, the expressions of all civil and military officials in the court changed.
Du Yan stared, threw himself in front of Wang Yunsheng, and roared: "What do you mean by this?"
Wang Yunsheng said seriously: "At the beginning of the development of artillery, red barbarian artillery, and invincible mine artillery, the bandits and I both petitioned the imperial court to allocate part of the money for the development of new ordnance.
But what did you do?
You all joined forces to stop this, claiming that the imperial armaments were sufficient.
Not only were we not allowed to develop ordnance, we even applied for imperial approval to build land for ordnance research.
Now that new ordnance has been developed, the imperial court sees the benefits and wants to seize it.
Do you think the Kou officials will agree?"
Du Yan snorted coldly: "What can't we agree to? It is our duty as ministers to contribute to the country. Besides, Kou Ji presented new ordnance. The imperial court will not forget his contribution and will compensate him for the time spent in developing the ordnance."
A waste of money.”
Wang Yunsheng said quietly: "Can the court afford ten million strings?"
Du Yan stared in astonishment and said angrily: "That's nonsense. Even pure gold weapons are not worth so much money."
Wang Yunsheng smiled bitterly, "I told the officials the same thing, and then they took out a list and gave it to me. After reading the list, I couldn't say anything similar again.
We are not craftsmen, so we don’t know the manpower, material resources, financial resources, and mental effort that craftsmen expend when developing a new thing.
A Hundred Tigers Running Together was presented to the imperial court free of charge by the bandits.
But do you know how much was spent in the development process of Baihu Qibeng?
A full million strings.
From simplifying the crossbow, turning the crossbow into a barrel, and then integrating the barrel crossbow into a bundle, it seems simple.
In the middle, countless manpower and material resources were spent on trying it out step by step.
The same goes for muskets, red cannons, and invincible mine cannons.
Especially the red cannon.
The total weight is a hundred kilograms.
It has been tried with pig iron, wrought iron, copper, iron, steel, and other materials.
In order to verify whether there is any danger, it is often necessary to cast a dozen of them in batches and try them one by one.
Regardless of pig iron and wrought iron, you should be clear about the value of these three materials: copper, iron and steel."
When the civil and military officials in the court heard this, they all opened their mouths, not knowing what to say.
After a long time, Gong Gong sighed deeply, "In the past, when my father helped Emperor Taizu make the crossbow, he did spend a lot of money."
Wang Yunsheng nodded slowly and added: "The craftsmen worked hard and spent countless money and effort to develop something, but the imperial court only rewarded it with some copper coins and then took it away easily.
Over time, if the folk craftsmen created good things, how could they present them to the imperial court?
They would only take their things, escape from the Song Dynasty, and defect to Xixia and the Liao Kingdom.
In Xixia, the Liao Kingdom exchanged high-ranking officials for marquises.
Everyone knows that the Kou Mansion has a large group of craftsmen, and you also know that these craftsmen can always develop good things that can benefit the country and the people.
I believe you all are envious of the fact that the Kou Mansion has such a large group of capable people.
But who among you has actually seen the courtyard where the craftsmen of the Kou Mansion live?"
Wang Yunsheng pointed at himself, "I've been there. I've seen them working day and night to develop things. I've seen them spend a lot of precious materials in order to develop things."