Chapter 374: The River Changes

"Let's look at this drawing, this is actually a cannon battle, but it is steel or copper, and the fuse of the cannon is here, and when it is ignited, the gunpowder in the chamber will explode."

"Due to the constraints of the barrel, a large amount of gas produced instantaneously can only be released by pushing the projectile, which acquires an extremely high muzzle velocity due to its strong force......"

Hong Jiang held his chin with his hand: "Back then, Xiao Tzurin, a famous general of the Liao State, was shot and killed by our army with a three-bow bed crossbow under the city of Lanzhou, and our three-bow bed crossbow was launched on the city, and the range could be as far as a thousand steps, is it necessary to do this?" ”

Gao Shilin also nodded: "Well, Mingrun is indeed not very reliable, in comparison, it is still pleasing to Zhiping riding a knife." ”

Shi Tong didn't dare not give face to his master: "Well, Master's idea...... Master, let me estimate the use of this big assault rifle - erect the cannon body, fill the gun, put down the cannon body, fill the projectile, solidify, insert the fuse, aim, ignite...... Master, this thing is forged and bored in bronze, and the tube is up to an inch thick, how heavy is it? ”

Su You was not convinced: "If it weren't for the fact that you didn't make enough wrought iron, it would be much lighter to use wrought iron!" ”

Gao Shilin waved his hand: "It's okay, even if it's one size smaller, it will cost two hundred catties!" If my brother has 200 catties of wrought iron, he can immediately produce 500 catties of good steel, which is nearly 200 riding knives and 300 crane shin crossbows! Mingrun, you have become a monkey, this account can't be counted? ”

Su You shouted: "You guys! If Lao Tzu is in the Second Forest Department, it is rare to come to you! Can't give up a few hundred pounds of iron?! ”

Hong Jiang hurriedly became a peacemaker: "Eh, Mingrun, this wrought iron is really bad to practice, otherwise, I will call the shots and give you 500 catties of lead!" ”

"You wait, wait for our furnace to come up, when we can produce 10,000 catties of steel in a day, hundreds of catties of wrought iron, just like that!"

Su You was mad, stood up and turned around to leave, walked a few steps and turned back to grab the drawing: "A thousand catties!" Without wrought iron cannons, Lao Tzu also needs lead! ”

Hong Jiang hurriedly surrendered his hand: "No problem!" In the future, Mingrun will have things like Zhiping riding knife and cast steel armor-piercing cone, even if you take it out, the more we have, the better! ”

Gao Shilin also nodded again and again: "Mingrun's things are still reliable most of the time, but this time...... Why don't you cook a meal for everyone to cool off? ”

Su You jumped like thunder: "Lao Tzu is not cheap enough to ...... this one"

Things in Shangzhou did not go well, and the three people who knew the most about metallurgical technology in the Great Song Dynasty did not support Su You, which shows that his suggestions were indeed too advanced.

Back in Weizhou, the tax revenue of the field was a full 60,000 yuan, and Su You finally put his mind at ease.

The red-clothed monks of the Erlin Department have already set off to visit relatives in the Tibetan Department, since they are relatives, don't be stingy, Su You asked them to bring cheese, tea, and glass beads decorated with snow beads, as well as exquisite Buddhist scriptures.

Everything else is easy to say, this Buddhist scripture is a waste of Su You's old nose.

Because the Great Song Dynasty banned books from Western Xia and Liao, even Goryeo was banned because they sold books to Great Liao at a high price after taking them from the Great Song Dynasty.

However, Su You thought that Buddhist scriptures, such as those that bring peace to the world, might as well have more in the Tibetan Ministry, so he got a batch from Dali through the Erlin Ministry.

This is the entrepot trade of the Eight Classics, and the fire mark of Yazhou Rongchang clearly indicates that this thing is from Dali Buddhism, and it has nothing to do with the Great Song Dynasty.

Wow, a generation of heroes.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Tubo Dynasty, which had confronted the Tang Dynasty and dominated the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for more than 200 years, rapidly declined and collapsed in a series of internal and external troubles.

The royal family was slaughtered, and the races were scattered and not united.

In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, a Tibetan royal family, descendants of the Yalongjue A royal line, fled to the Turpan region in later generations in order to escape the clan war and warlord secession.

In the third year of Song Taizong's Taoism, a Tibetan child was born in Turpan, and he was the "son of the Buddha".

When he was twelve years old, a Tibetan man named He Lang Yexian brought him back to Hezhou from the Western Regions.

At that time, Tibet itself had long been divided, and in the Helong area, "ethnic groups were scattered, with thousands of large families and hundreds and ten small families, and there was no reunification."

After the Western Xia became strong, the southern invasion of the Great Song Dynasty, the Western Uighurs, and the living space of Helong and Tubo was squeezed step by step.

In the first year of Jingde of Song Zhenzong, Li Jiqian's son Li Deming used a plan to capture and kill Pan Luozhi, the leader of the Six Grains of Xiliang and Tubo.

The various tribes of Helong and Tubo lost their unified leaders and became a plate of scattered sand, and there was a great danger of being swallowed up by the Western Xia army, and the situation was very urgent.

Although the young man is nominally the supreme king of Zampu Tubo, he is actually a puppet.

At that time, Hehuang was actually ruled by Li Lizun, a great monk of the Hao warlord, who was trapped in Kuozhou and sent people under the fence.

When he grew up a little, because he lost peace with Li Lizun, he had to lead the crowd to Miaochuan, and was supported by the local Tibetan general Wen Qiqi.

In such internal and external troubles, the fight against the trend rises.

Tibet is a precious species. He took Wen Qiqi as the judge, that is, the prime minister, and soon had 60,000 or 70,000 troops.

In the tenth year of Song Tiansheng, Wen Qiqi launched a palace coup d'état, intending to abolish the Gang and stand on his own, but was quelled by the Gang Guy's backhand.

In order to expand their power, the Naju clan migrated to the Qingtang Dynasty, which was Xining in later generations.

At this time, Li Lizun was dead, and the influential leader of the Tubo people was left, and he finally took control of the Tubo power in the entire Hehuang region.

After he became pro-government, he changed the foreign policy of defecting to the Western Xia and making enemies of the Song Dynasty in the era of Li Lizun and Wen Qiqi, and vigorously advocated "joining the Song Dynasty to resist the Xia", which was strongly supported by the Great Song Dynasty. He was awarded the title of General Ning Yuan and the training envoy of the Aizhou Regiment; Soon added to the Baoshun Army Festival to observe the post; Then he added the envoy of the Shun army and the leader of Miaochuan.

For his own sake, the Great Song Dynasty also sent a lot of military staffs, grain and cloth to help Hehuang and Tubo develop their arms.

The pro-Song policy caused Li Yuanhao's uneasiness.

In the third year of Song Renzong's Jingyou, Li Yuanhao led the army to conquer Hehuang.

At that time, the son of the plane personally defeated the strong men of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Khitan national fortunes, but he couldn't stand up for a while in front of the negotiators.

With his long-term military experience, he ordered to hold on to Qingtang, not to engage the enemy army, and wait for the Western Xia army to be exhausted.

At the same time, he sent people to inquire about the reality of the Western Xia army.

When he learned that the Western Xia army had marked the shallow part of the water with a banner during the operation of crossing the Huangshui, he made a very naughty decision - to let his subordinates secretly move the flag to the deepest part of the Huangshui.

A few days later, the elite Tibetan army led by the Elder Brother rushed towards the exhausted Tangut people.

The Western Xia army was defeated, and the most unfortunate thing was that when they fled, they rushed to cross the river marked by the flag-planting place, but they took the initiative to jump into the deep water and rapids, and were drowned.

This battle swept away the invincible Western Xia army, and then "broke Yuanhao by a few strange tricks", and Li Yuanhao no longer dared to invade the territory of Yuanhao.

It is a great prestige.

The Tubo tribes of the state armies such as Xi, He, Tao, Min, Die, Tang, Huang, Shan, Kuo, and Jishi all brought their own lunch boxes and gathered under the banner of the Tubo, and even some of the Tubo tribes that originally defected to Western Xia have gone anyway.

Even some of the Uighur tribes that had been scattered by the Western Xia were brought under his command.

The territory expanded rapidly, reaching the Sandu Valley in the southeast, bordering the Qilian Mountains in the north, and bordering the Great Song Dynasty, Western Xia, Uighurs, Khotan, Lugan and other countries, with a land area of 3,000 li and a population of one million households.

However, the good times did not last long, and since the beginning of last year, the people have become seriously ill, and there are faint signs of split in the Hehuang and Tibetan regimes.

The eldest son, Blind Felt, originally lived in the Niche Valley, but suddenly moved to Hezhou this year, the second son Mo Felt Ju Zongge, and the third son Dong Yu, each entangled in a group of sub-forces, all waiting for a sigh of relief.

The hearts of the Tibetan people began to dissipate again.

The red-clothed monk from the Erlin Department is called Gido Gyaltsen, and in addition to the profound Dharma, he is also an expert in languages.

In order to make him outstanding, Su You also specially prepared a pure gold magic bell for him, a pure silver vajra, polished and smooth, decorated with bas-reliefs, inlay with gold patterns of right-handed white conch, and snow baba rosaries.