"Master! Master, come and see! ”

Great Song Dynasty, among the Tongling workshops.

As the second large-scale workshop of the Great Song Dynasty, the difference between it and the Jinling Workshop is that Tongling pays more attention to metallurgical casting, and it is also the first real standard arsenal in the Great Song Dynasty.

And early this morning, in the scorching furnace room, a student hurriedly called for his master.

"Master, look!"

He handed a strangely shaped iron shell to the master, who looked at it carefully and asked curiously, "What is this?" ”

"Master!" The student held up a hexagonal bullet that was supplied to the front line: "This bullet is time-consuming, laborious, and very expensive to make. I thought about whether I could improve the gun, and I wondered if the water forging machine could change the way of thinking, the hammer was still the same hammer, but a small hammer was made out of molten iron on the hammer, and then we used fine iron to cast a batch of molds, and the copper plate was formed in three times. ”

He first put a copper plate into a rough die and stamped it, then changed it to a fine mold for secondary molding, and finally put it into the forming die for three forgings.

After three times, one of these hollow copper shells was born, which didn't look very fine, but it was no problem to polish it a little.

"So it's a bullet?"

"No, Master!" The boy said excitedly, "This is the clothes of bullets." I took a closer look at the musket we brought back for repair, and found that the ones that were very worn were the stimulators, and I thought that if I could put clothes on the bullet, it would be convenient to use it for a longer time, and with this layer of clothing, the air tightness would be better, and the force of the excitation would be greater. ”

"Oh? So how do you embed it? ”

"This ......"

Master smiled and touched his head: "Come, Master help you." ”

On this scorching day, the master and apprentice squatted by the stove where the temperature could distort the air, and squatted all day, the clothes on their bodies were soaked and dry, dry and wet, and the big iron tea jar drank cup after cup, but there was almost no urine.

By evening, they had worked together to polish a quirky mold. This set of molds is forged in cast iron, with a hole in the middle of the circle, and a steel bayonet is added to the side of the hole.

They put a copper shell in it, then they measured the scale, then put another bullet in it, then put the mold under the water hammer, and with a roar, they took it out and found that the bullet and the copper case were already one.

"This thing has changed, and the gun has to be changed." The master took out a half-finished musket: "How do you light the fire?" ”

"I'm going to ask the brothers in the Physics Academy......"

"Well, let's talk about it, be humble."

And just when the Tongling Workshop was improving the musket, the new three divisions of Jinling City also ushered in an unprecedented carnival.

It took two and a half years! The warriors who went to Tianzhu to collect seeds are finally back! Thirty-eight of them went, and only two returned, begging along the way, wounded and sick, but they brought back the grain as expected.

After seeing the grain, Si Nong of the New Third Division knelt on the ground and wept, sixty-five-year-old man, sad as a baby, and a group of students surrounded the two warriors who had no human form and entered the palace.

Zhao Xuan personally served tea for him and bowed. And after hearing the stories of these warriors, Zhao Xing's eyes were also wet.

"If it is really as he said, this road is bound to be thorny, and life will be exchanged." Zhao Xing's eye sockets were not deep, and he raised his head forty-five degrees to prevent tears from falling: "Come on, in my name!" Give glory to all warriors, whether they live or die, they are the heroes of my Great Song Dynasty! ”

The two of them cried on the hall regardless of etiquette, which moved the civil and military officials, but after thanking the emperor for his gift, the two of them coincidentally crashed to death on the main hall.

This move made Zhao Xuan stunned, but in addition to being stunned, he finally couldn't hold back his cry.

In the end, Zhao ordered people to reward the 38 warriors with a national gift, and ordered people to take the remaining 36 people to be buried with these two warriors, and buried them in the east of the imperial mausoleum on the side of the Purple Mountain, for future generations to pay homage and personally inscribed as "the tomb of the thirty-eight warriors", and also borrowed the poetry to write a letter without clothes, and ordered people to carve it into a tablet, and the Great Song Dynasty Guozuo with the world.

This matter is a beautiful talk, the news spreads quickly, but there are always different voices, in the face of such a big right and wrong, there are still people who write a sarcastic article overnight saying that the Great Song Dynasty will actually crown the rooster and dog thief as a hero, saying that "it is a thief, not a gentleman", and also said complacently that such people should be imprisoned according to the law.

As a result, fifteen spies of the Imperial City Division broke into the scholar's house that night, broke his leg without saying a word, and then threw him on the street to dry all night before he was saved and saved a life.

And the next day, while this matter had not yet fermented, the official newspaper published the content of the refuting of this remark, the content of which was basically that the style of a gentleman is important, but it is a grace to let all the people in the world eat and eat to their heart's content, and it cannot be used with worldly thoughts.

But no matter what, there are still a few people who take this kind of sword, most of them still know how to be grateful, and the famous five Jinling warriors took the initiative to help the spirits of the thirty-eight warriors to explain everything, and at the entrance of the city, Zhao Xuan even personally came forward to see off and read the eulogy.

When Zhao Xing appeared, all the people who walked with the spirit knelt, and you must know that the Great Song Dynasty never forced the subjects to kneel and worship, and all those who bowed down were sincere.

Looking at the thousands of people crawling under his feet, Zhao Xing seemed to see the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains where Luan Feifeng danced and walked the dragon and snake, and his heart was in a trance with the heroism and ambition of the emperors of the ages, after reading the eulogy, he took a deep breath: "I swear by this, I will live up to the world, and I will not live up to the people!" ”

All of a sudden, the mountain shouted long live. The kind of huge waves that can only be set off by the surging crowd made Zhao Xing's goosebumps stand up, and he finally understood the truth that this water can carry a boat and overturn a boat.

Watching the torrent of huge waves pass by his side, Zhao Xing stood on the high platform with his hands in his hands, silently and silently. I recalled the map sent by Song Dog that was still hanging in the study, and I couldn't wait to draw the rivers and rivers at the moment, and let me end the sea.

"Fetch the wine!" Zhao Xuan stretched out his hand: "Go quickly!" ”

The little eunuch didn't dare to slack off, took out the water and wine, Zhao Xuan personally picked up the wine bowl, poured a full cup and drank it one sip, then poured another glass, raised his head and saluted the sky, and drank it again.

A bowl of heaven and a bowl of earth to sacrifice to the common people, the emperor is full of hideousness. When the people saw the emperor like this, they were extremely excited, and they all saluted when they passed by the high platform.

Zhao Xuan took a deep breath and felt a little drunk, but this slight drunkenness made him more and more heroic: "Come on, I want to help the soul of the hero!" ”

Someone next to him immediately jumped out to stop him, but he was pushed away by Zhao Xing, he untied his dragon robe and walked off the high platform, and entered the crowd, not caring about any safety, he walked to the forefront surrounded by all the people, and began to personally help the spirit.

The nervous urine of the Si Ming Si spy next to him is about to flow out, if something happens to the emperor, they all have to die!

But the emperor did not have an accident, he personally took the people of Jinling City to send the coffin to the Purple Mountain step by step with his feet, and spoke in person, and finally was picked up by the guards, and the people who saw him go away did not know who suddenly shouted "God bless the Great Song" with a trembling voice, and then everyone once again shook the mountain with their own weak strength, so that the cicadas did not dare to make a sound, so that the birds did not dare to land, so that the beasts were frightened, even the stagnant mountains and forests also raised the tiger roar of the wind.

At the same time, Xiao Song was playing with a wine glass, squinting and listening to a report from a person in the mission, saying that Xixia was still planning to play some tricks, wanting to kill three soldiers with two peaches and sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

Xiao Song's eyes just picked slightly, and then said with a smile: "Go and send someone to talk to their envoys, Da Song has no patience, and there is not much time left for them." Whether life or death is in their thoughts, persuade them to behave for themselves and not to play with fire and burn themselves. ”

"Yes."

The envoy bowed his hand to Song Beiyun and said, "The lower official will go and say it." ”

"Wait." Xiao Song paused on the table: "Send back the weapons of their military gods, and tell them by the way, the times are different, and the military gods are no longer gods." ”

"Yes."

Xiao Song turned sideways, half-lying on the chair, he continued to pretend to be sick, and his eyes were also covered with gauze, looking as if he was seriously injured.

This state of pretending to be dead was not until Yan Shu, who had lost a lot of weight, walked in, and he sat up.

"Do you have diabetes? Suddenly lost so much weight. ”

"Don't mention it." Yan Shu sat in front of him and poured himself a glass of water and took a sip: "I haven't had a good night's sleep these days, I haven't eaten a good meal, it's strange if I'm not thin." Tomorrow is the time to see the real thing, are you ready? ”

"It's all set." Xiao Song sat up: "Once the agreement is signed, Da Song will have no worries for ten years." ”

"Just ten years?"

"It won't take ten years." Xiao Song raised three fingers: "At most, in three or five years, the Great Song Dynasty will be able to sweep the Eight Wildernesses, go out of Yumen Pass in the west and reach Shanhaiguan in the east, and there will be no opponents." ”

"Three or five?"

"Three."

"Okay." Yan Shu got up and nodded: "You continue to pretend to be sick, I will go to work, I will believe you in your lifetime." ”

Xiao Song didn't speak, but after taking a nap, he was disturbed again. When he got up, he found Buddha Bonu sitting in front of him, poking his head with his finger.

"To tell the truth, if you slaughter me with one sword, your Liao Kingdom will be much smoother in the future."

Song Gou's words made Qiaoyun, who was not far away, chuckle, and Buddha Baonu said with a dark face: "You are a beautiful flower with your hand on the hilt of the knife, I pulled out the dagger and didn't wait to poke you, the Liao Emperor is afraid that he will die." ”

Xiao Song sat up: "Okay, okay, don't be sour." What are you doing here, knowing that if you come over when you are in Xudu, it will be over if someone finds out, and you still come over? ”

"I'm here to ask you something." Buddha Baonu handed over a stack of papers in his hand: "Help me get through it." ”

Xiao Song took it and glanced at it a few times: "You copy the military system of the Great Song Dynasty?" You're really not afraid of death. ”

Buddha Baonu pouted: "Isn't this asking you, you can tell me what is not done." ”

"What benefits do you give?"

Buddha Baonu chuckled, leaned into Xiao Song's ear and whispered, "Whatever you want, I'll give it to you, as long as you open your mouth." ”

Xiao Song pushed her face away: "Xuzhou Seven Counties." ”

"No."

"Please come back."