Li Goudan said with some shame: "Goudan also just listened to the conversation between the emperor and Master Li, and suddenly had some thoughts in his heart. Goudan read in the book that in the past, the Ministry of Military Science and Technology often produced more powerful weapons every three or five years. But why hasn't this dragon gun been replaced in the past ten years? ”

Zhao Dongting smiled.

The dragon guns, grenadiers, and cupola cannons were all imitated by him according to the munitions of later generations. How could a craftsman of this age easily improve it?

Even though the Ministry of Military Science and Technology has actually made some improvements to the Divine Dragon Gun and other things in recent years, it is only better than nothing, and there is no improvement in the power of the Divine Dragon Gun and other things. The improvement is only that it is more convenient to carry and transport, such as putting wheels on the grenadier canister. There is really no need to popularize it.

After all, it was already very convenient to carry the dragon gun.

Then Zhao Dongting smiled and patted Li Goudan on the head, and said: "These arms are all conceived by me, they are extremely powerful, how can the Ministry of Military Science and Technology easily develop more powerful arms?" ”

"What about you, Your Majesty?"

Li Goudan's eyes were full of doubts, "Since you can develop these arms, can't you develop even more powerful arms?" ”

Zhao Dongting was slightly stunned, and then sighed lightly, "Arms are used for killing, and they hurt the heavens and peace." Now that the Great Song Dynasty has the Divine Dragon Gun and other things, it is enough, and even more powerful weapons have been developed. ”

Li Goudan scratched his head and said, "Goudan feels prepared, the emperor should take precautions." Just like the original hot air balloon, Goudan read in the book that when the hot air balloon first appeared, our forbidden army in the Great Song Dynasty could often rely on the hot air balloon to be invincible, so that the enemy army would fall in the wind. But later, Dali, Xinsong, and Dayuan also had hot air balloons, and our hot air balloons in Dasong were not so effective. ”

Zhao Dongting was stunned again.

Although Li Goudan was young, his words may not have any deep meaning, but he had to ponder.

In the past, Qin Han took away the manufacturing method of hot air balloons, who knows, in the future, countries will not be able to imitate the manufacturing methods of grenadiers, dragon guns and other things?

Although all these years have passed, countries have not succeeded in preventing it, but in years, decades, who can say for sure?

If you fall behind, you will be beaten.

And if you don't move forward, it will be difficult to avoid the result of falling behind in the end.

Zhao Dongting's face gradually became a little solemn.

The craftsmen of this era are still not to be underestimated, although they are extremely lacking in thermal weapons, but in many aspects, they also have achievements that make Zhao Dongting astonished.

He didn't dare to underestimate it.

Is it really necessary to develop more powerful weapons?

Of course, Zhao Dongting can't do this.

Perhaps he will not be able to imitate the weapons of later generations, let alone the information weapons, and so on. But it is not impossible to imitate an arms that is more powerful than a grenadier.

For example, the famous red-coated cannon in modern times in later generations, Zhao Dongting can completely imitate it now.

Thinking of this, he was suddenly a little moved.

Wasn't the red-coated cannon actually developed by the ancients?

And also foreigners.

Although the countries outside the Central Plains are still far from developing to that point, now the Yuan Dynasty and the Western Xia have mastered the technology of thunder.

And the basis of the thunder is gunpowder.

With gunpowder, who knew that the craftsmen would not be able to concoct weapons that were even more powerful than grenadiers?

If at that time foreign countries have such arms that exceed the grenadiers, but the Great Song Dynasty is still complacent and proud because of the grenadiers, and must not be stunned?

Zhao Dongting nodded to himself in silence.

Then he looked up at Li Goudan and said with a smile: "It's a reminder to me, be prepared...... Be prepared...... Not bad. ”

It was at this moment that he figured out that even if the major forbidden armies were not allowed to have more advanced weapons, the imperial court could reserve such weapons in advance, and they were ready for emergencies.

It's just that I don't know what it would be like to know how Zhao Dongting would feel if he and others, who were ecstatic in the Yuan Dynasty for grenadiers, cupola cannons and other things, if they knew that Zhao Dongting had the idea of improving arms because of Li Goudan's words.

In the following days, Zhao Dongting rarely stayed in the imperial study, but often went to the yamen of the Ministry of Military Science.

This made the adults and craftsmen of the Military Science Department quite surprised and looked forward to it.

It's been a long time since the emperor has studied arms like this.

Could it be that the emperor has some wonderful ideas?

Divine dragon guns, grenadiers and other objects have already shocked them. They really want to see what new things the emperor can come up with.

When the time comes, the power will only be even more surprising, right?

After Li Xiushu learned that Zhao Dongting asked the Ministry of Military Industry to make arms and lease them to her in Western Xia, the purpose of this trip to Changsha had already been achieved.

Although it was rented, she was already satisfied, and she didn't blame Zhao Dongting at all.

Of course, this may have something to do with Zhao Dongting's diligent "conquest" against her in the main hall that night.

She is really satisfied with Zhao Dongting everywhere.

Let Xixia bow down to the Great Song Dynasty, she is also sincere. She didn't dare to say what the monarch would be in the future, but she really planned to rely on the Great Song Dynasty for the rest of her life.

In this way, there is not much difference between renting and selling.

With the arms leased to them by the Great Song Dynasty, they are enough to destroy the four major military divisions.

As for any rebellion in the Western Xia in the future, wouldn't it be better to rent arms from the Great Song Dynasty again?

Although the cost of renting arms is not light, it is still much smaller than buying arms.

But Li Xiushu had no intention of leaving Changsha like this.

Hearing that a master in Chaofu reminded her several times that it was time to return to China, she only said that it was cold and freezing, and it was inconvenient to travel.

Those masters didn't dare to persuade anything more.

After all, they can withstand such cold, but the empress doesn't have the cultivation like theirs.

Before you know it, the end of the year has arrived.

The cold snap has not dissipated.

Although the temperature has not dropped again, the cold continues.

Many coal mines arose in various parts of the Great Song Dynasty, and after Zhao Dongting invented honeycomb coal, it was finally possible that many people did not freeze to death in various places.

But in the Yuan Dynasty and other countries in the north of the Great Song Dynasty, they were worried.

This cold has been invading the north for some time.

And, even more so than in the South.

This is a normal situation, because winters in the north are always much colder than in the south.

Fortunately, Western Xia was still okay, and Li Xiushu took precautions and had already transmitted the manufacturing method of honeycomb coal back to China. Surviving this cold snap should be fine.

And Turandot, who was also in the Changsha Imperial Palace, and then the ambassador to the Song Dynasty, did not have such foresight.

The sudden cold made the territory of the Yuan Dynasty completely devoid of the lively atmosphere of the approaching New Year.

When the cold snap just arrived, the temperature plummeted a lot, and within a few days, there were already people in the Yuan Dynasty who were frozen to death.

The joy of Zhenjin and others because of the successful imitation of grenadiers and other objects has long been washed away.

These days, Zhenjin Xuanji ministers don't know how many times they have discussed, but they have not discussed a way to survive the natural disaster.

In the face of such a cold snap, the people are in need of food and charcoal.

But how can charcoal supply the people of the whole country?

Now the price of charcoal in the central capital of the Yuan Dynasty has long been rising slowly.

Fortunately, a few days after the cold snap reached the north, Zhenjin and others also learned that there was such a novelty as "honeycomb coal" in the Great Song Dynasty.

I heard that the people of the Great Song Dynasty used this kind of thing to keep warm in the cold winter, and Zhenjin was busy sending people to investigate the method of making honeycomb coal.

But this back and forth will naturally delay a lot of time.

By the time the Yuan Dynasty finally got the manufacturing method of honeycomb coal, and when coal mining was mined in various places, many people had frozen to death, and in the places bordering the Great Song Dynasty, such as Nanjing Two Road and Shanxi Road, a lot of honeycomb coal was purchased from the territory of the Great Song Dynasty through some ways, and the initial cold snap was passed.

Only the price, then it is difficult to say.

The people in the Great Song Dynasty were not friendly to the Yuan Dynasty at all, and if they had such an opportunity, they had to slaughter those merchants of the Yuan Dynasty.

None of this is too detailed.

On the day of the New Year's Pass, Zhao Dongting hosted a banquet for the ministers in the court at noon according to the custom. At night, he accompanied the ladies in the dormitory.

Concubine Yang Shu, Empress Dowager Xie Daoqing and others were also there.

The courtyard of the dormitory is quite lively.