Chapter 792: Gun Grenade

Autumn and July, see you in the daylight.

The changes in the sky, coupled with the death of the important minister, made Zhao Ji feel a little hairy, and ordered Tianzhang Pavilion to wait for Han Zhen to go to Hedong and end the boundary negotiations with the Liao State as soon as possible.

The Liao State once again put in a new negotiator, the initiator of the dispute, Yelu Puxi, who ordered him to "go to the right frontier".

As soon as this baby arrived, all previous negotiations were overturned.

Zhao Ji asked Yu Wang Anshi what to do, Anshi pondered for a long time, and said: "If you want to take it, you must take it." ”

So he agreed to Xiao Xi's request, and took the watershed of Huangwei Mountain as the boundary, and Xiao Xi left Bianjing.

When Han Jin went to sign the treaty, the Liao people turned their faces again and demanded that the entire Huangwei Mountain must be given to the Liao State.

Negotiations are again at an impasse

In August, Geng Yinshuo, there is an eclipse of the sun.

Zhao Ji was even more panicked and asked Han Jin to end the negotiations as soon as possible.

So "with all his might, he abandoned the land for seven hundred miles." ”

Therefore, the Liao State promoted Yelu Puxi as the Xuanhui envoy of the Southern Court.

Huang Lian, who participated in the negotiations, sighed: "Dividing the water and painting the realm, it is dangerous to lose China." ”

Later, the Liao people included the "two non-cultivated land" agreed by the two countries into the territory, and directly pushed the national border to the Yanmen area.

When Su You received the report, he was testing new guns and bullets in the Yijin Army, and he was so angry that he hit the target to a pulp.

The first three returning ships of the ocean-going fleet have returned, and this is a bit of a fierce profit.

After Ryukyu and Maruka sold a batch of goods and imported money, the materials in exchange for them were already piling up.

So Zhang San ordered the other ships to continue sailing, leaving some people to recruit locals to build warehouses to store supplies, and then the three empty ships were stuffed with spices, precious wood, precious stones, minerals, seeds and other good things, and returned in advance.

I can't finish this trip, and I have to go back and forth a few times.

Among them, there is a good thing - Tianfang glue.

Because Suyou attaches great importance to the collection of gum plants, after the fleet found this thing, it was sent back as soon as possible, and some seeds were also collected.

Unfortunately, this thing still cannot be used as rubber.

However, as the ancestor of playing with glue paint, the research team of Sitong Firm soon discovered that this is an extremely good water-soluble colloid.

It is very versatile, and the most critical is that it can be used as a substitute for egg whites.

The earliest process is to sieve the three powders of black powder to get a uniform fine powder, and then according to the test ratio, mix it with egg white, put it into the pump cylinder where the thinnest refill is made, extrude it into a thin strip, and cut it into small particles when it is semi-dry.

Send it to a cool place in a clean environment, and after the egg whites are dry, they become gunpowder particles.

Today's gunless drugs have a more refined and reasonable ingredient ratio, and they are partially replaced by ammonium nitrate.

Today's test is the effect of replacing egg whites with Tianfang gum.

There is also a new weapon, which is also going to be tested today.

When Liu Henghu was exterminated, the troops found that using ambush cannons to deal with bandits hiding on the cliffs required too high the technical requirements of the gunners. This is Guo Huai in the army, and if he is replaced by another gunner, he may really have to be delayed for a long time.

If you find a problem, you need to solve it.

Su You instructed the arsenal to develop a small sky-shaking thunder that can be used by individual soldiers, which can be launched through the magic machine gun, and the effective distance is far beyond that of hand-thrown.

In fact, it is the product of the miniaturization of the tail barrel grenade and the ammunition of the ambush gun.

Using the gas generated by the empty bomb as the thrust of the projectile, a small sky-shaking mine with a tail is launched, and the explosion is triggered by hitting the target with a firing pin at the head of the projectile.

Wang Zhongzheng was unimpressed by Su You's annoyance, and tried methodically one by one: "Shaobao doesn't have to be like this, didn't you say it?" The truth is only within the range of the cannon, and I don't think it will be too long for the Liao people to understand this truth. ”

Su You rolled his eyes: "If you are poor, you will put aside the controversy, and if you are poor, you will have it since ancient times, right?" ”

Wang Zhongzheng was happy: "Tut-tut...... Shao Bao is worthy of being a reader who has a black belly at home, I like this sentence! ”

After speaking, the muzzle of the gun pulled the trigger slightly upward, "Bah! With a bang, a spindle-shaped grenade with a tail pipe tail fin flew out and flew to a dirt wall more than a dozen zhang ahead at a speed that could be seen by the naked eye.

"Good! This thing is vicious! It's so suitable for someone like me who can't a gun! Wang Zhongzheng was facing Su Shaobao, and there was never no lack of vicious words in his mouth.

Su You's mouth also lacked morality: "Although you are an internal envoy and you can't operate a gun, you should also learn more!" What are you doing? I'll have to record the number of debris and the range of damage in a while, this thing isn't for you to shoot blindly......"

Wang Zhongzheng shook his head: "No, no, no, I think it can be a three-stage formation and shoot flat......"

"You can't be so mad." Su You shook his head: "The process of this thing is much more complicated than the nitrocellulose medicine bag, the same cost is different power, and now the labor cost of Liangzhejiang Road is very expensive, and a few hundred dollars are gone......

"Now that the cotton is about to mature, the next will be an endless supply of nitrocellulose cotton, and the daily subject training of the artillery army can be carried out in a big way, pay attention to dangers, operate safely, and continue to summarize and improve the drill code."

Wang Zhongzheng said: "I want a horse!" I want a horse-drawn gun carriage! ”

"Yes" Su You nodded: "I will give you two hundred river crossing horses first, and they will be allocated to special personnel, which belong to the logistics management of the Yijin Army, and they will be raised in Niutou Mountain." ”

Wang Zhongzheng was overjoyed: "Ouch, this relationship is good!" I thought it was a small southern horse! ”

Su You said with a smile: "What do you think, a thunderbolt cannon is 1,500 catties, how can Nanma pull it?" Now Sitong has opened up a livestock base in Jinhua, Wuzhou, mainly raising horses and buffaloes, and this year the imperial court has a policy, so it must be used well. ”

This is after the rice is ripe in August, the imperial court has sent several good policies, first of all, the official households, that is, the Ding households who rent state land, and the service money is halved.

The second is the Department of Transportation, Huainan and Jiangdong have a small disaster this year, and the two Zhejiang roads have a bumper harvest, and the two Zhejiang roads are ordered to supply rice to more than one million stone in the prefectures and counties, reduce the direct to the people, and the amount is completed, and the people are allowed to sell themselves.

Sitong business will organize the capacity, Zhejiang mila to Huainan, Jiangdong to make the difference, the farthest trip, take the sea route to Xinzhou! Sold to the surrounding five armies!

This is the first time in the Great Song Dynasty to "replace Cao with the sea" attempt, today's Kuizhou type of big ship, full load of 200 tons, but the boat is only 16 people, with the high speed of the schooner, can be reached in January.

Whether it is time, labor costs, or deductions along the way, it has been reduced a lot.

This year, the grain price of Taihu Lake has dropped to 50 wen a bucket, and if it drops again, it will hurt the peasants.

In later generations, when many people talked about the Tang Dynasty, they liked to talk about the five coins of doumi.

But they selectively forget, or someone selectively guides, resulting in many people not knowing that at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, in September of the first year of Dazhong Xiangfu, Jingxi, Jingdong, Hebei, Hedong, Jianghuai, Liangzhejiang, Jinghu, Fujian, Guangnan, and almost all the country.

Considering the economic volume of hundreds of thousands of guan in the Tang Dynasty and millions of guan in the Song Dynasty, and the currency depreciation inevitably brought about by the economic volume, the doumi qiwen of the Great Song Dynasty is cheaper than the doumi wuwen of the Tang Dynasty, I don't know how much!

It can only be said that historians in the past were not economists, and they did not consider the problems thoroughly, and it was not until later generations of academic research entered the multidisciplinary linkage that everyone began to pay attention to these problems.

In fact, low food prices are not necessarily a good thing.

The law of economics is a process of stimulating consumption and production through slow inflation, light exploitation, boiling the people's frogs in warm water, and the proceeds of course go to the issuers of the currency.

Therefore, with the extension of a country's currency, there will be a currency depreciation, and the people will say that "money is worthless".

In the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, grain prices did not rise for 40 years, and then soared to more than 100 wen and one bucket in a short period of time, which fully shows that the previous low price was due to human intervention.

One hundred and twenty years later, the price of grain in the Tang Dynasty rose to 83 wen and one bucket, which was still "still cheap", and the price of 100 wen and one bucket was endless in the history books.