Although Cao Wei had accepted the petition earlier, he knew that Kou Zhun and the three of them would sooner or later dismantle the Xiang army in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and he also knew that the martial artists would not be able to escape this catastrophe.

It's just that when the matter comes, it is inevitable that some sadness will arise in my heart.

I think that at the beginning, when the Great Song Dynasty was founded, the Wuxun family was so glorious.

Those civil servants, who saw them and had no way to bow their heads?

Those scholars, how could they be as high as they are today, one by one, like servants, stopping them in the street, kneeling down in front of them, and taking articles to serve.

As long as they show a smiling face, those who read can happily not find the north.

It seems that now, the martial artists have no glory, but they are suppressed and targeted everywhere.

"Farewell ......"

Cao Wei got up, arched his hand, and left the Kou Mansion a little depressed.

Kou Ji looked at Cao Wei's departing back and sighed secretly.

No matter how miserable other martial artists are, he will not have any pity in his heart.

But in the face of Cao Wei, he couldn't be hard-hearted.

Cao Wei is a famous general, a famous general who has fought for the Great Song Dynasty for decades.

He is different from those proud soldiers who have merit.

Since he came out, he has always been hardworking and resentful, like an old cow, running around for the Great Song Dynasty.

Even when he is seriously ill, there is no time to stop.

Still in accordance with the order of the first emperor Zhao Heng, he sat at the border pass.

If it weren't for the appearance of Kou Ji, which disturbed the original trajectory of the Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid that he would have to run around for the Great Song Dynasty to death.

"It's hard for you to be forced to participate in the struggle for power, even if you are not suitable for power......"

Kou Ji sighed in his heart, got up and left the side hall.

Cao Wei got the news from Kou Ji, and after going back, he discussed it with Li Zhaoliang.

Cao and Li instantly waved their flags and toner cartridges.

No longer fighting with Zhu Neng.

Without the support of the Cao and Li families.

Wu Xun's voice shouting in the court hall was obviously weaker.

Ma Yuanfang took this opportunity to write to the imperial court, asking the imperial court to depose the power of the general to oversee the casting of ordnance, which dealt a painful blow to the martial artists.

Without waiting for the martial artists to react.

The courtiers followed in asking for the removal of the general as the overseer of the power to forge ordnance.

For a time, everyone in the prison will shout and beat.

Kou Zhun and the three of them did not give the martial artists a chance to fight back at all, and with the condemnation of the officials, they took away the power to cast ordnance as a supervisor and handed it over to the Ministry of Industry.

Kou Ji got his wish and got the power to cast ordnance as a prisoner.

Up and down the Ministry of Works, there was jubilation.

and shall be in prison, but the earth shall mourn.

After the power to cast ordnance was taken away.

He was appointed as a lieutenant colonel and hanged himself in the house.

on this.

Up and down the government and the opposition, no one has mercy.

The struggle for power has always been bloody.

It doesn't stop because of the life or death of an inconsequential person.

The martial artists ended miserably in the battle for the right to be the prisoner, and they hid in the house one by one, refusing to go out.

The civil servants celebrated as if they had won the battle.

However.

They haven't been celebrating for long.

Ma Yuanfang once again wrote to the imperial court to request that the general be deposed as a prisoner, that the power of the right school office and the Zhen official office in the prison be returned to the Ministry of Industry, and that the power of the left school office in the prison be owned by the young government supervisor.

The two offices of the right school office and the Zhen official office will be in charge of casting, and they are in charge of casting related to people's livelihood.

The powers of the Zuo School Office are somewhat duplicative with those of the Shaofu Supervisor, and they are in charge of the casting of all necessary goods in the palace.

Ma Yuanfang's invitation is also reasonable.

However, this move touched the interests of some civil servants.

How could the ministers agree.

The Wenchen had just won the martial arts, and they were in the limelight.

In the face of Ma Yuanfang's invitation, he resolutely wrote a letter to refute it.

Seeing this, the martial artists decisively wrote in support of Ma Yuanfang.

They are hurt in prison, and how can they watch those civil servants enjoy the benefits of being in prison alone.

Although Ma Yuanfang wrote the book, it harmed the interests of the martial arts.

But it did not prevent them from helping Ma Yuanfang and dealing with the Wenchens.

For a while, the civil and military forces in the court were pinched together again.

Hurting each other.

And Kou Ji, the initiator, didn't have the heart to deal with their fight.

The Ministry of Industry has obtained one of the core powers of forging ordnance, and now that the Manchu Dynasty is fighting with the civil and military, Kou Ji can just take the opportunity to implement the power of forging ordnance.

Since the Wrought Iron Workshop in Ruishengzhuang was allowed by the inner court to extract iron from the Third Division, it has been working day and night.

During this period, more than a dozen blast furnaces were cast.

In addition to supplying the Ministry of Industry to make agricultural tools, most of the forged steel is stored in the warehouse in the workshop.

Under the guidance of Chen Jing, after opening the door of the warehouse where the steel was stored.

Zhu Neng, who was standing at the door, was stunned.

"This ...... This...... So much ......"

Looking at the neat yards in the warehouse, like silver ingots, Zhu Neng secretly swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said in dismay.

Kou Ji stood beside Zhu Neng, looked at the steel in the warehouse, and said with a little disgust: "It's still too little......

Zhu Neng narrowed his eyes, stared at Kou Ji, and roared: "With such a warehouse, there are ten wrought iron workshops in your Ruisheng Village. Forge all of them into blades and armor, which can equip 200,000 soldiers and horses.

That's it, you're too little? ”

Kou Ji stared at Zhu Neng and corrected seriously: "It's Ruishengzhuang Forging Steel Workshop!" ”

"What's the difference?"

Zhu Neng questioned.

Kou Ji nodded and said, "Of course there is a difference!" Although steel is made of iron, it has fallen out of the category of iron. You can't always keep calling for new ideas.

To distinguish it from other iron materials, I call it steel. ”

Zhu Neng waved his hand and shouted, "Help me what it's called, you answer my question first." ”

Kou Ji laughed in a low voice: "Steel is very useful, not only can it be used to forge blades and armor, but it can also forge other things, and the amount used is naturally large. So I said, the steel stored in this is not enough.

Just the two guards of the dragon god under your command, this time to replace the armament, you will have to use half of the stock.

Not to mention the other forbidden troops of my Great Song Dynasty. ”

When Zhu Neng heard this, he stared at Kou Ji vigilantly and said, "We have agreed in advance, when you can use these new materials to cast blades and armor, we will first help my subordinate Dragon God Second Guard to cast." ”

Kou Ji nodded and said with a smile: "This is natural...... I'll take you to see the place where blades and armor are made. ”

Zhu Neng nodded without hesitation.

Kou Ji took Zhu Neng and walked around the warehouse to the forging workshop by the Wuzhang River.

As soon as I arrived outside the workshop, I saw two shirtless men, dragging a person, around the back of the forge workshop.

"It's ......"

Zhu Neng asked Kou Ji with some doubts.

Kou Ji smiled indifferently and did not speak.

Chen Jing said with a smile on the side: "Since the steel forged by our steel forging workshop has become famous in Bianjing City, it has been peeped at. It's just that the Ministry of Kou Gong has always been very strict about the method of forging steel, so those who peep have not been able to get it.

In addition, the imperial court issued a new law, and the method of forging steel has been made a secret.

So those who peep, it's harder to peep.

Some of them gave up on the idea of peeking into forged steel, and settled for the next best thing, thinking about the method of making utensils out of steel. ”

When Zhu Neng heard this, he squinted his eyes and muttered: "They want to learn the method of making utensils from steel from Ruishengzhuang, and then buy the folk plowshares, return to the furnace, and forge other things?" ”

Chen Jing nodded slowly.

At present, several months have passed since spring ploughing, and the number of plowshares implemented by the people has increased instead of decreasing.

What is greasy in it, half of the people in Rui Shengzhuang know it.

This matter was discovered by Chen Jing first, and he sent someone to tell Kou Ji.

After Kou Ji sent someone to investigate, he confirmed Chen Jing's statement.

So a ban was placed in the forge workshop, and more than a dozen people with ill intentions were found.

The man who was taken away by two shirtless men just now was obviously also a suspicious person.

The personnel on Ruisheng Village are not complicated, and almost all of them are from the disaster victims.

As early as when they entered the village, Koji registered them and recorded their past.

There are also some people who are craftsmen from Koufu, Caofu, and Liufu.

On the three mansions, there are documents of their origins.

Under careful comparison, the people who mixed in behind were easy to find out.

Such people have long been cleared up.

Now it has been found out that it is the people in Ruisheng Village who received black money behind their backs and were rebelled.

Chen Jing was hindered by his face, but he only explained the reason to Zhu Neng, but he didn't talk too much.

Kou Ji can be said to be as kind to the people in Ruisheng Village.

Now that such ungrateful people have come out, how can they go around preaching?

Chen Jing wouldn't say it, and Kou Ji naturally wouldn't say much.

Kou Ji led Zhu Neng into the forging workshop, and saw thousands of men with big waists and round waists, shirtless, shouting trumpets, forging blades and armor.

The scene was in full swing, and Zhu Neng's eyes lit up.

"If these people can be given to me, I will definitely be able to train them to be soldiers."

In the selection of talents in the army, I have always liked to choose tall and very large people.

Only in this way can we afford to carry those dozens of pounds of heavy shields, wear those dozens of pounds of foot armor, and fire the extremely powerful bed crossbow.

Zhu Neng has two major preferences in his life.

One delicious.

Two good pawns.

Kou Ji heard Zhu Neng's words, shook his head decisively and said: "That's not good, these are all craftsmen who help the forbidden army forge armor and blades, if they are given to you, who will forge armor and blades for you?" ”

Zhu Neng thought for a while, nodded and said, "That's ...... too."

After a pause, Zhu Neng proposed again: "Why don't you wait for them to help the dragon god two guards under my command finish forging the blades and armor, and you send them to my command, and I will help you train them?" ”

As soon as Zhu Neng's words came out, Kou Ji understood his thoughts.

His pity is true.

But he also had other things on his mind.

After these craftsmen finished forging the armor and blades of the Dragon God Erwei, they went to Zhu Neng's training under Zhu Neng, and I am afraid that they will not be able to come back in a year.

During this period, Zhu Neng's Dragon God Second Guard was the second army equipped with steel helmets and steel knives in addition to the Tiger Army.

Zhu Neng can take advantage of the armor to help the two guards of the dragon god and return to the top of the forbidden army.

Zhu Neng just mentioned it casually, but he didn't expect that Kou Ji actually nodded and agreed.

"If Uncle Zhu thinks that they are really talentable, it is not a bad thing to send them to you and train them for one or two."

When Zhu Neng heard this, he stared at Kou Ji with a stunned expression.

Kou Ji laughed in a low voice: "After all, I have to let my family take advantage of it." ”

When Zhu Neng heard this, he laughed, patted Kou Ji's shoulder and said, "You're right, you have to let your family take advantage of it." ”

Zhu Neng only felt that Kou Ji was very good to him.

Find out his mind and think about him.

Looking at Kou Ji's gaze for a moment, he was even more satisfied.

Hearing that Kou Ji likes to raise iron beasts, he is thinking about whether to send someone to catch a few more and let Kou Ji raise them to play.

However.

How did he know?

The forging workshop in Bianjing City was nothing at all in Kou Ji's eyes.

As early as a year ago, the ordnance forging workshop located in the deep mountains of Baozhou had reached the scale of the Bianjing City ordnance forging workshop.

And in the distant Leizhou, a workshop whose scale is not weaker than the forging workshop in Bianjing City is rising in the hands of those thieves in Leizhou.

Those thieves in Leizhou are very comfortable in the sparsely populated land of Leizhou.

However, with the patrol guards who were secretly dispatched, in less than a month, they were all reduced to prisoners and became the laborers in the hands of Kou Ji.

Help Kou Ji build a treasury to save money, and help Kou Ji build a workshop for forging ordnance.

With the iniquity they bore on their bodies, they would probably have to labor to death.

Leizhou is a secret base for Kou Ji.

Koji would never tell anyone.

Nor will anyone leak the news.

Kou Ji accompanied Zhu Neng and tested the newly forged blades and armor in the workshop.

In Zhu Neng's satisfied laughter, he took Zhu Neng and left the ordnance forging workshop.

Out of the workshop, walked dozens of feet.

Zhu Neng saw a small workshop made of bluestone and independent of the entire Ruisheng Village, and was slightly stunned.

A keen sense of smell tells him that there are good things in it.

Zhu Neng asked Kou Ji almost without any hesitation.

"What's in there?"

Kou Ji didn't hide it, and said lightly: "Cannon battle? ”

Zhu Neng was stunned and said, "Cannonball? ”

Koji nodded.

Zhu Neng groaned: "You want to use gunpowder on the battlefield? ”

Kou Ji still nodded.

Many people feel that after the ancients invented gunpowder, they used it for entertainment, but rarely used it on the battlefield.

Not really.

As early as the Tang Dynasty, gunpowder was used on the battlefield.

Lu Zhen's "Chronicles of the Nine Kingdoms" of the Song Dynasty recorded that during the time of Emperor Wai of the Tang Dynasty, Zheng Wangfan led his army to attack Yuzhang, "launched a flying fire" and burned down the city's Longsha Gate. This is probably the earliest record of a siege with gunpowder.

However, gunpowder has a limited effect, and a very large amount of gunpowder is required to deal damage to the enemy.

So it has not been taken seriously.

It wasn't until the advent of artillery and muskets that it was slowly taken seriously.

Coincidentally, Zhu Neng saw a craftsman who used gunpowder on the battlefield.

Zhu Neng frowned and said: "When I was young, in Jizhou, I saw Shi Pu, the training envoy of the Jizhou regiment, who made rockets, fireballs, thistles and other things with gunpowder, and demonstrated martial arts to the first emperor.

The spectacle was spectacular, but the effect was very limited.

It is difficult to break through heavy armor.

On the contrary, it can hurt the legs and feet of the enemy's horses and restrain the enemy's cavalry attack.

But compared to bed crossbows and heavy crossbows, they are inferior.

So it is rarely used on the battlefield. ”

Zhu Neng said this, Kou Ji naturally knew.

Since the advent of gunpowder, the ancients have been trying to apply gunpowder to warfare.

From the Tang Dynasty, it was applied to trebuchets to make "flying fire", and then to rockets, fireballs, thistles, thunderbolts and other objects that appeared in the Song Dynasty.

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