Bianjing. Imperial City, Back Garden.

Emperor Zhao Zhen still didn't seem to be in good spirits, but he carried a flintlock pistol in a more stupid way than Han Qi.

The gun is a high-quality gun, just the materials, craftsmanship, and carving of the wooden gun handle show ingenuity everywhere.

I heard that you have to 1 tube before shooting, which is called foreplay and warm-up.

Khan, the so-called Hearing Series, this gun was transferred to Han Qi by Dayan, and Han Qi was sent to the capital to try it for the emperor in order to buy a gun endorsement for Hedong. Changing hands so repeatedly, I don't know who they heard say, "Before shooting, you have to 1 tube".

So now, Lao Zhao took the rag and wiped it without listening.

Another year-old Fu Kang Di Ji watched the performance of the emperor's father excitedly next to him.

I saw that the people around me were unconscious. Now Lao Zhao, who is in Long Aotian's mentality, is even more proud, and said with a smile while wiping the gun, "This was developed and created by Wang Yan, and he gave it to Han Qi." Han Qi has filial piety, and sent to the capital to me with 800 miles, called a flintlock pistol, I heard that it is extremely magical, it can subvert the existing way of war, and it has been studied for a long time according to the manual, and today I am the first test shot, I hope it will have an effect. ”

Fu Kang Di Ji said curiously: "Why didn't Da Yan give it to you directly?" ”

Zhao Zhen said: "This kid doesn't take the usual path, I protect him, because the hatred of Tala is already very great." So he is very clever in this matter, if he gives it to me directly, it will be the 'nonsense' of the old masters, and they will all say that I am confused and lose my mind with children's playthings. But after Han Qi approved it, it was another concept. ”

After a while, the personnel in front of him were emptied, and Lao Zhao opened fire on the rockery at a distance of 200 steps.

A burst of fireworks made everyone jump in fright. I really didn't expect the movement to be quite big.

Lao Zhao, who shot the gun, was so frightened that he threw the gun and ran, and then looked at the flintlock pistol that fell to the ground in horror.

In front of them, the sand and gravel were flying and sparse, and the rockery was missing a piece of the flintlock pistol at close range.

"Your Majesty's mighty light shines on the Great Song Dynasty!"

Lao Chen immediately smiled and patted the horses, in fact, he himself may not think it was very powerful, Lao Chen asked himself if throwing a stone in the past could cause more damage than this.

The current emperor is generally like a bear child, but he still has the knowledge, twisting his beard proudly, waiting for the person next to him to finish shooting the horses before he praised: "I really didn't expect the child to create something extraordinary?" There is no shortage of innovation and prodigies in my Great Song Dynasty, but in my opinion, the best one is Wang Yan. Han Qi said to me, don't despise the flintlock pistol as powerful as the Divine Arm Crossbow, but because of the low threshold, it is easy to train sergeants, and the price is terrifyingly cheap. Han Qi personally told me that the purchase price of this item was only one-fortieth of the Divine Arm Crossbow. ”

"What!"

"What......"

Everyone around me was shocked, wasn't it a dream?

The people here are all people from the Imperial City Division, except for the Fu Kang Diji who came to join in the fun, and they are all insiders. Accustomed to the use of the Divine Arm Crossbow, they do think that the power of the flintlock pistol is only enough, but if it is really obtained at a low price, it is obviously a subversion.

"Old servant, dare to ask Your Majesty, what is the effective range of this flintlock pistol?" Lao Chen asked.

Zhao Zhen really didn't know about this, so he looked at Di Qing. Because it was handed over to Di Qing for testing before.

Di Qing said: "I heard Han Qi Xianggong say that this gun is a special high-quality product, and the range has greatly surpassed the Western Xia version of the Divine Arm Crossbow by more than 600 steps, but the mass production version can't reach it, only 450 steps." If you don't consider the projectile method, it does just happen to exceed the range of my Great Song Divine Arm Crossbow. ”

The performance gap of the production version is still large, and the arrows are only used for projectiles, so it is still inferior to the Divine Arm Crossbow overall.

At this point, the attachés of the Imperial City Division, as well as the emperor's somewhat lost mentality, felt that it was not perfect.

However, Di Qing is really a military genius, and among the people here, he is the only one who understands Wang Yan's train of thought best, and he hugged his fists and said: "Your Majesty clearly sees that the flintlock pistol is indeed imperfect, but its biggest feature is to subvert the rules of war, there are too few crossbows, and the training of the long-hand is too difficult, so with the experience of the minister, qualified longbowmen cannot be trained in less than two years, and the training cost is too high, and the cost of qualified arrows is not low." Therefore, this innovation of Lord Xiao Wang is of great significance to my Great Song. As far as the minister's long-term experience in battle is concerned, for ordinary people, the biggest difficulty on the battlefield lies in psychological pressure. The need for real swords and guns to fight face-to-face and bloodshed, this psychological process is difficult for most people, only a very small number of surviving veterans can slowly adapt, so throughout the history of wars, often overcome the psychological barrier of brave armies, as long as they do not make obvious strategic mistakes, they are usually invincible. ”

Di Qing is definitely qualified to speak in this regard, because he has really taken the lead in fighting countless times, and he is so persuasive that others don't understand it very well, so they have to nod frequently.

Di Qing continued: "The purpose of the flintlock pistol is not to be powerful, but to give psychological comfort to ordinary sergeants, so that they can avoid the concept of swords and knives to carry out long-range strikes. Therefore, the minister dared to say that if he could really equip a large number of troops, it would indeed greatly improve the morale and lack of morale of our non-elite troops in the Great Song Dynasty. ”

After a pause, Di Qing said again: "In the battle of Song and Xia, Zhang Fangping famously said that the more soldiers whose quality is not up to par, the more counterproductive it is. It turned out to be true, most of the malnourished peasant children were forced to take up swords, under the conditions of fear to the limit and lack of training, but also to go into battle, in the face of real swords and real guns, as soon as there were many dead people, some people wanted to retreat, so that a trend was formed, and negative emotions spread in the army like a plague, on the contrary, trapping the hands and feet of the elite who could fight. Therefore, the minister believes that the problem of war is first and foremost in the elite soldiers, and the first battle is very critical, and it is necessary to have an absolute elite to win the first battle, and the team behind can be brought well. This is the tactical intention of the minister at that time, he did not use 20,000 Tianwu troops, and only attacked Kunlun Pass with 800 elite cavalry. ”

Di Qing is eight hundred elite horses have won a great victory in Kunlun Pass, this is a fact, everyone can only accept it.

Zhao Zhen also heard some feelings, nodded and said, "Go on." ”

However, Di Qing was almost finished, and concluded: "Judging from the experience of the ministers, Zhang Fangping Xianggong put forward the essence of war that everyone was unwilling to face at the theoretical level, while Wang Yan actually solved the problem raised by Zhang Fangping Xianggong at that time with a flintlock gun. ”

Di Qing praised it so much, and the emperor with Long Aotian's mentality felt more and more YY, it felt really not covered, I used Zhang Fangping and raised Wang Yan It was really a stroke of genius, who said that I blindly covered up and connived and would not use people?

At this point, the emperor was embarrassed to praise the child too much, and instead twisted his beard and said: "I just said, Zhang Fangping is really my minister of the Great Song Dynasty, and there is a reason why I used him to use him against public opinion back then." But they always don't understand me, and think I'm conniving. A few days ago, they were stunned by some of Zhang Fangping's small mistakes and did not let go, so that I could not come to the stage, which was worse than Bao Zheng back then, and finally forced Zhang Fangping to submit his resignation. ”

Manager Chen said: "Since it is as magical as Di Shuai said, this thing should be equipped with a lot of equipment." ”

However, it is easier said that this is the real political problem, and even a blatant change of law.

There are too many problems and vested interests involved, Zhao Zhen has this thought, but when he thinks about it, he has a big head, and he doesn't talk about it, so he really doesn't have the courage to go this way when he is not in good health after this serious illness.

The flintlock pistol is not without faults, there are a lot of faults, and there are a lot of things that can be found if you really want to find them, and the literati who do this kind of thing are always very powerful, and the gods can be found out by them.

Once too many faults are discovered, and the traditional arms suppliers add fuel to the fire, it will cause a lot of problems from the military point of view.

There is one thing Zhao Zhen is not confused, there is a reason why Han Qi Fubi likes to kill officers. The Great Song Dynasty was a very large group of middle and high-ranking generals, who did not care about combat power or the performance of weapons, simply put, which armaments brought them great benefits, and they shouted that they were useful and accepted them. Others refuse.

At that time, Di Qingjiao, who really understood the military, became the privy deputy envoy, and only mentioned that "the Great Song Dynasty does not need to rely too much on cavalry and divine arm crossbows", which is almost a situation where everyone shouts and fights. At that time, Ouyang Xiu was the fiercest, but he was just a troll who was taken advantage of.

Zhang Fangping also jumped out and pumped Di Qing. That is just Zhang Fangping's belief that Di Qing's politics are incorrect, and that after the deep-rooted atmosphere of the Great Song Dynasty has been cultivated, the dynasty is in a period of internal and external troubles and strong enemies, and it is not appropriate to move the military system on a large scale. It doesn't mean that Lao Zhang thinks what Di Qing said is wrong.

Considering this, the emperor has recently seen Wang Yan's reverse change method that is not publicized from the grassroots level, and the emperor thinks that it has some effect, and now Wang Yan's ability to resist risks is still too weak, and his reputation is not enough, and Zhang Fangping has been bitten down by them.

The flintlock pistol is only in the early stage of research and development, there are still too many problems, and the production capacity is far from enough. At this time, there is no ability to subvert the military system, and if you preach in advance to let those warlords and bureaucrats rebound in advance, it is a fool's behavior.

From here, Zhao Zhen shouted praise for Wang Yan in his heart, and the child didn't even promote this thing outside Funing County. Then he was very clever to avoid suspicion, in order not to be impeached for "privately making a secret weapon", the child did not publicize it but gave this thing to Han Qi, Han Qi is such a person, there are a bunch of people who hate him. But no one would ever say that he had "bad intentions." Then Han Qi also sent the first gun, so that the emperor knew these things in advance.

In this way, it is very perfect, and while I know it in my heart, Funing County and Hedong do not publicize it, but use it as a pilot to carry out this change from the bottom. In this way, in the case that the flintlock pistol does not violate the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, it will not become a political issue, and it will be met with the fire of that group of people at the beginning.

There will definitely be noise, but it is not a national problem, and Han Qi and Wang Yan have become accustomed to being accused of things like "messing around and causing trouble". The pure old masters of the Great Song Dynasty can't be said, but these two bad deeds are really not that important to be sued.

In addition, Han Qi can't do anything else, so he will kill officers for deterrence, so theoretically, if the flintlock pistol does not violate the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, it can really only implement this change in the Hedong military system, which is the pilot area with the least resistance. This matter is a match made in heaven, only Han Qi can be shocked, and he is willing to pull such hatred.

If you change to other bureaucrats, it is like Di Qing's "unmotivated recruit", even if he is a loyal person who wants to do things, but once there is resistance, he will offend people, so he would rather wait and wait for the general climate. But Zhao Zhen knows very well that if no one does it, everyone is waiting for the big climate, there will never be a so-called big climate.

This is the root of the Great Song Dynasty.

Hedong has Han Qi in charge politically, and he is a person who is full of stains and is not afraid of being poked in the back, and militarily Hedong has become the best reform pilot area. Because as we all know, the southern part of the mainland is the stronghold of conservatives and corrupt Confucianism, and the situation is the most complicated and the thinking is the most conservative. Shaanxi and Hebei, one faced the Western Xia, the other faced the Liao, and after the easy reform shook the morale of the army and subverted the original defensive method, once something went wrong, no one could pay the responsibility.

So thinking of this, Zhao Zhen was in a good mood, it was really luck, no matter the region and the personnel involved, or the best pilot area for change, it would not be too difficult to extinguish the fire if it failed, but once it succeeded, when there was really a subversion one day, relying on the Hedong military system and the prodigy Funing New Army, it would be able to withstand the border troubles on the east and west lines of the Great Song Dynasty, so it would be time to really draw salaries from the bottom of the traditional military system.

There is never a secret to reform, and we must be able to not rely on what has been done in the past. This is the self-reliance that children always talk about.

Uncle Zhao has no executive power, and is known as scheming and making fewer decisions, but he just likes to think about it, and he likes to think about the benefits. So he fooled himself, thinking of the incomparable chicken blood here, even if Han Qi and Wang Yan themselves didn't have so many intentions, they just kept trial and error, and they became into this situation by doing it, but Uncle Zhao also thought that it was a match made in heaven, and he was very satisfied with his "employment strategy".

"From beginning to end, my way and judgment have been infallible."

At this point, Lao Zhao announced with his head held high: "Regarding the actions of the child Funing County and Hedong Han Qi, I just know it, there is no need to deliberately publicize it, and there is no need to deliberately keep it secret." Just treat it as if it were a normal occurrence. ”

Di Qing and Manager Chen hurriedly bowed down to show their understanding.

Lao Zhao felt tired, and said before leaving: "Spread my will, add Wang Yan's official title to Shilang, and add the Privy Council Editing and Repair Officer." In addition, Wang Yan likes to make new affairs and research and development the most, in order to avoid his worries, I specially gave him a royal manufacturing brand, so that he can do his best to invent. Then he left.

The Privy Council Editorial is a dispensable petty official, not a permanent clerk, a bit like a technical petty committee, but it is really an official series of the Privy Council. Speaking of which, it's really more suitable for people who like to write strategies and compile textbooks.

Then Wang Yan was the ninth rank before, and now he is promoted to the eighth grade, is his political performance good, and jumping two levels in one breath is also very common for petty officials. Anyway, the law is always that the lower the level, the easier it is to be promoted, and the more difficult it will be in the future, and at a certain point there will be a ceiling, for example, if you are not a person trusted by the emperor, and if you are not a jinshi, there will be a ceiling.

And with the system of the Great Song Dynasty, the county magistrate is the central commissioner, and it is very common for this kind of person to hold some central positions in the capital, but the strange thing is that people who are generally not Jinshi will not be like this, the emperor is really a bear child now, and without the bloodline of Jinshi, he promoted the little boy Wang Yan to two levels, and also added the title of Privy Council editor. This is indeed rare.

The most awesome is the royal manufacturing brand, which is almost equal to the number two craftsmen and supervisors. So theoretically, Wang Yan is now legal to make the Divine Arm Crossbow. In terms of production authority, it is larger than the military manufacturing supervision of the Ministry of War, and it is at the same level as the craftsman supervisor......