Now is a short truce, and in addition to the intensive work of reorganizing and training the troops, we are also facing the start of civil affairs work in the Zongcheng area.

Society and economics are considered by some to be a vast and profound systematic science. But in Wang Yan's view, it is pseudoscience.

Basically, everything that is uncontrollable and unquantifiable is regarded as pseudoscience by Wang Yan, probably based on the fact that industrial products can control the quality, output and form, and the operation of silicon-based chips can be controlled to extremely high stability and low error rate. But all kinds of Nobel Prize-winning brick-makers can always make a mess of the world economy, and all kinds of Nobel Peace Prize-winning saints can always make a mess of the whole world through war.

So this is uncontrollable pseudoscience, even Wang Yan knows nothing about crossing the river in the future, so Wang Yan didn't plan to use this complicated and pseudo idea to communicate with the cow, which is to talk to the cow.

Now that there are more and more people gathering in Zongcheng, it is not too difficult for Wang Yan to manage this group of people well. But there is an unavoidable problem, here Wang Yan has military command, but civil affairs and people's livelihood affairs still have to be carried out through the Woo Lu regime.

There are many ideological conflicts in management and pacification.

He always said that he didn't want to take care of things when he was old, so he handed over the management of civil affairs to Dong Yu, who was the successor, and asked Dong Yu to cooperate with Wang Yan.

It is more difficult to communicate with Dong Yu, and his braincase structure is more simple and crude than that of Woo Yu. He thought he was a strong man, and he didn't want Wang Yan to participate in the management of the Qiang people, nor did he accept excessive handouts from the Song State.

Dong Yu and Qingyi knot ghost chapter believes: trading is everything, bartering things, and exchanging hearts for hearts.

Wang Yan was a little powerless to complain about their simplicity. Their great barbarism really prevented Wang Yan from continuing to "win the hearts of the people" in this area to a certain extent.

As a result, the Song State now only has a military presence in this area, and there is no civil and popular existence.

Pig teammates are always there.

Dong Yu's essence is the same as that of Lu Gongbi who was injured, they don't care about the lives of the people, and they also think that the people are not qualified to participate in the war. Subconsciously, they feel that the only reason for the existence of the people is to dedicate their labor and all their resources to let the elite complete the "defense of the homeland and the country".

This line of thinking seems to be fine to a certain extent, and there are indeed not many soldiers in the war. But is it actually analyzed: if the starting point is not concerned about the people and has an elitist mindset, which one will he protect? For which country?

Almost all elites have one thing in common: there are many families, all over the Song, Xia, and Liao. Therefore, relying on them to defend the country is basically a false proposition. The word elite is not necessarily derogatory, and elite people are not necessarily negative figures. However, technically speaking, "there is a specialization in technology", and the society needs to divide labor, peaceful development, and technology can leapfrog them, but they must not be able to defend the country.

Wang Yan and Dong Yu's current conflict of thinking is here.

Now Dong Yu not only began to refuse the material aid of the Song State on behalf of the people of Hehuang, but he also wantonly confiscated the materials and copper coins in the hands of the people and used them to trade with the Song State.

Dong Yu's theory is that it is necessary to concentrate the resources that can be mobilized in the hands of the capable clan guards to carry out the great cause of counteroffensive. Then, we don't need the Great Song Dynasty almsgiving, I still have the ability to barter things and exchange money for things.

Dong Yu is this virtue. This is probably the reason why Wang Anshi couldn't help but send troops to beat him many years later.

Then Dong Yu's behavior will not only damage the voice of the regime, but also reduce the legitimacy and justice of the Song army in Hehuang.

This is a random punch to kill the master. Dong Yu and Qingyi's brainless actions of the ghost chapter really broke the strategy of "demagoguery" in the Hehuang area to a certain extent.

It is difficult to deduce how these will evolve in the future, but for the sake of military morale and the political correctness of "not interfering in the internal affairs of the war", Wang Yan has no choice but to avoid the ideological conflict with Dong Yu and win the battle first.

"Let him go, it will always rain, and my mother will always get married. Pass on my order, tomorrow the Song army will carry out a centralized test launch of the 'Fire Dragon', and invite the largest number of Tibetan people to watch and stand up! ”

At the camp headquarters in the evening, Wang Yan pinched the corners of his eyes and gave this order.

In short, civil affairs cannot interfere now, but there must be no problems with the people's will in the ministry. So showing off your military and technological muscles at the right time is also a shot in the arm, and it will give everyone a visible hope......

The next morning, instead of frost, it snowed for the first time of the year.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the Song army had temporarily trained artillery and pushed a total of two phases of more than 70 field guns nicknamed Fire Dragon to a specific area on the north bank of Huangshui.

After the cover was lifted, the onlookers, whether old or children, let out exclamations one after another, like ocean waves.

Everyone has heard of the fire dragon, but basically has never seen it, it turns out that this is the artifact of the total annihilation of the Nantong secret department at the angle of the mouth?

In Wang Yan's view, the field artillery that was used to facilitate mobility was not obscene enough and the caliber was not enough. For the artillery party, caliber is justice.

But the mentality of human beings towards beautiful affairs is actually the same, although they don't know the principle and power of the fire dragon for the time being, just that exquisite craftsmanship can convince all the Tibetan people.

In order to facilitate maneuvering, wheels need to be designed, and theoretically, except for the Song Dynasty, no one in the world today can make such wheels.

Because the strength of the material is not up to standard, it must be stacked, but after the strength is enough, it forms a stupid big black coarse, and it is basically impossible to maneuver in the field.

Therefore, in addition to using the latest generation of stick bearings, the wheels of the fire dragon are made of wood, not steel.

The machinery factory that had received the task of developing field artillery before the four crossings of the Huangshui by the Volunteer Army temporarily invited Shen Kuo, the "Machinery Industry Bureau", to Funing County, and the team formed by Shen Kuo gathered with Lao Luo's team for public relations, and finally selected a special wood with a specific gravity of only about 0.8 for a quick treatment similar to the material process of the god arm bow.

Through repeated immersion in oil and special oven baking, the maneuvering characteristics of the fire dragon were finally solved.

After repeated tests by them, it has been able to support the firing and maneuvering of field guns of this caliber, and the damage to the wheels is within the controllable degree, but the disadvantage is that it cannot be repaired, and it can only be integrated and replaced with the assembly.

What is the price to pay?

The collection of special wood and the repeated baptism of exquisite craftsmanship resulted in the cost of the wooden wheel maneuvering system, which was much higher than that of the metal cannon body made by the boring machine.

The summary is: the combat unit volume is much lower than Zhang Fangping's batch of Shenwu heavy artillery, but the cost is much higher.

Materials science is the pinnacle of industrial manufacturing, and nothing else is there.

The fire dragon's wheel system is almost comparable to the material process of the Divine Arm Bow, and Shen Kuo has done it at this point. Shen Kuo's technical nerd was not talking wildly at that time, he did have different wood treatment experience from Lao Luo's father.

And at the same time as publicizing the fire dragon wheel, Shen Kuo, a technical house, had additional experience and wrote to Wang Yan to inform him: I finally know the reason why the power of the Great Song Divine Arm Bow is inferior to that of the Xixia Divine Arm Bow.

Shen Kuo said that the root cause is not in the "bow arm thrust", but in the overall design of the arrow and the bow.

In fact, after Shen Kuo arrived in Funing County in mid-September, based on interest, based on the spirit of the instructions of Da Yan, director of the Machinery Industry Bureau, to "comprehensively surpass the technology of the military department", and had funds, the big man designed several Shen Kuo version of the divine arm bow for testing.

It was concluded that the thrust of the crossbow arm of the Great Song Dynasty version of the god arm was too large, and the elastic release speed of the material was not fast enough, which on the contrary caused the result that the arrow speed was not enough, the shooting distance was not up to standard, and the penetration was not up to standard.

At first glance, this theory is quite bizarre. But the big goose in the war was shocked by it, because it reminded Wang Yan of the uncle playing with the slingshot in later generations, and the uncle who wanted to strengthen the power added three times the rubber band, but shot with the same five-millimeter caliber steel ball, which on the contrary slowed down the bullet speed and caused the range to be insufficient power.

This is because under the premise that the thrust is enough, too many and too wide rubber bands are equivalent to "bloated tissues", so it is not the thrust that determines the elastic speed at that time, but the "elastic release speed of the material" as Shen Kuo said.

The thrust of the slingshot is definitely greater than the reinforced rubber band, but if it is not used to push a larger bullet, the excessively large rubber band, especially the three bands tied together, are out of sync and pull each other, which greatly reduces the speed and efficiency of the elastic release, which reduces the speed of the bullet and leads to "fluttering".

At that time, the uncle couldn't figure it out, and Wang Yan didn't bother to help him figure it out, so he was busy downloading the little sister film.

But all the truth is in reality, and this theory has now been summed up by Shen Kuo.

Therefore, based on this theory, Shen Kuo's method of modifying the Divine Arm Bow is outrageously simple: on the contrary, he weakened the thrust of the bow arm, optimized the amplitude of the bow arm, and the thrust was weak, but the rebound speed and efficiency were greatly enhanced, so after a little reduction in the weight of the special arrow, the arrow speed was effectively improved, and now, the range and penetration have surpassed the Western Xia version of the Divine Arm Crossbow by almost one percent.

At that time, the big goose shhh In order to catch up with this "strategic technology" of Western Xia, the Great Song Dynasty almost fell into the old path of Maozi in later generations: stupid, big and coarse, and if the technology was not enough, he would pile up materials to make up for it.

The so-called one point brings up one face, based on these new theories, in addition to the dragon wheel technology, including the new version of the flintlock pistol The power has also been improved.

Without changing the existing gunpowder process ratio, flintlock pistol technology and structure, Shen Kuo only readjusted the gunpowder paper pack capacity and bullet quality, and achieved the result of increasing the range and bullet speed again.

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This will make the group of bureaucratic and technical nerves in the Ministry of War, as well as the old Luo Dad in the Northwest and their team, cover their faces and be embarrassed.

But it can't be helped, technology is everything. The current Great Song Dynasty has officially entered a period of rapid technological change, and if it is backward, it is necessary to cover its face. This time, even the old Luo Daddy team, which was known as a bug in the early stage, was hung up by Shen Kuo's team and played a wave.

Living here, the Great Demon King wrote a letter to encourage Shen Kuo's team to say: Collective second-class merit, and another fifth of the people have been transferred from "career to administrative".

Khan, the Great Song Dynasty is not a later generation. In later generations, civil servants were called administrative editors, but in the Great Song Dynasty, administrative editors were official literary officials. So naturally, it also brought up the bloody emotions and fighting spirit of Shen Kuo's team.

As for how the Great Demon King found a way to get out of the hands of the rich old man and help them apply for the administrative department, they didn't care, that was the division of labor and pressure of the Great Demon King. It's definitely very difficult, but the Great Demon King basically doesn't talk empty words, and sooner or later he will honor it if he gives some time.

Lao Luo's father and their grassroots group are now considered to be hard-working, and originally Da Yan wanted to make them a career editor, but since they were slapped in the face by Shen Kuo this time, they might as well be lewd and talk about it slowly.

Because one of the things that the entire Zhongshu Sect hates very much about Wang Yan is that he touches the high-voltage line indiscriminately and uses the system of the imperial court as his own favor. It increases the bloat of the organization and makes it the equivalent of a group of "unlearned" guys mixed in with the administrative team.

You can't blame them, the thinking of ancient and modern China and foreign countries is the same, and people who have a compilation don't like to compile for others, otherwise where can they find a sense of superiority? In later generations, people with hall-level armor have no sense of superiority over Ma Yun, but in the Great Song Dynasty, people with hall-level armor can despise Ye Qinghua, and even Princess Zhao Yunxi can go and tease her.