Gan Qi is going to Quanzhou to take up his post, and there is a problem, that is, Zhao Zonglan has just become pregnant.

Things are always like this, and in this day and age, when a wife is pregnant, it is never an excuse to refuse business.

If Gan Qi really went for more than a year, Gan Qi would not be able to see the moment the child was born.

Taking Zhao Zonglan with him is also an unrealistic thing, the long journey in this era is too tiring, it is really not suitable for a pregnant woman, if Zhao Zonglan really wants to go to Fujian with Ganqi, there is a chance that he will have a miscarriage.

Gan Qi was leaving, Zhao Zonglan was silent, and slowly arranged for Gan Qi, what clothes to bring, those pen and ink to bring, which people to take with him to guard, and those people to serve by his side. A royal woman, knowledgeable and courteous, not noisy, not noisy, not sad, under the emperor's order, only left the pain in her heart.

Isn't there such a poem? Suddenly, I saw a strange willow color, and the penitent husband was looking for a marquis. I don't know if Zhao Zonglan has a little intention of repenting her husband to find a marquis at this time, maybe she has never thought about letting Gan Qi pay homage to the marquis......

The family and the country are important, and the children are long.

Zhao Zonglan didn't cry, but Wu Qiaoer couldn't cry anymore, and even Zhang Shuyuan secretly cried.

Gan Qi sat in the courtyard, watching everyone busy, Gan Ba was also instructed by Wu Qiao'er to go out, buy this and that, buy things that Quanzhou does not have, such as watermelons, even if watermelons can't stay for a long time in midsummer, they have to buy some for Gan Qi to bring.

After packing up and counting the things, Zhao Zonglan opened his mouth and said: "Husband, let Sister Shuyuan accompany you to Quanzhou, so there is someone waiting for you." ”

Gan Qi nodded: "Well, with Shuyuan and Chunxi." ”

Gan Qi looked at this home in his heart, and the sadness of parting was actually not strong, and he came back after only two years, which is probably the difference between men and women.

"Husband must take care of himself along the way, and be more careful......"

Gan Qi comforted: "There are still a few days, don't be sad, just count the things, don't rush to load the car." ”

Zhao Zonglan nodded, touched her stomach, and had something to say, but she didn't open her mouth after all.

Ganchi went out and went to the blacksmith shop on the docks first to get some things back.

The most important of these things is a steel pipe and a spring blade.

The steel pipe was pulled out by this old blacksmith with a solid iron rod that was forged repeatedly, what kind of process is this? It is to hollow out and polish the solid iron rod into a small steel pipe, more than a foot long. This process was quite inefficient, and it took the old blacksmith and several apprentices several days and nights. That's the barrel.

The spring sheet is also a makeshift thing, and the elasticity is good, but due to the material, the tolerance is definitely not good. That is to say, the more times this spring is used, the worse the elasticity will be, and even deformity. For the sake of insurance, the spring blade should naturally be prepared more, and the elasticity will have to be replaced if it is not good.

The musket is easy to say, even in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, in fact, it already exists. The so-called assault rifle, with a bamboo tube, is filled with gunpowder, the fire rope is ignited, and something is fired inside, just because of the limitations of gunpowder and materials, the power is touching. But this thing is already a musket, and to be more serious, this is an arquebus.

Back home, Gan Qi began to assemble his own flintlock pistol, in fact, the principle is very simple, in the toys of children in later generations for the New Year, there is such a thing as a flintlock pistol, a plastic gun, pull it, snap, just snap.

This gun, with a hard barrel, just without rifling, the barrel is too short, and there is no talk of accuracy at long distances, there is a spring trigger, and there is a flint under the hammer. It's just a crafted process, and it's really not suitable for mass production.

After loading the gun, Gan Qi fired a few more shots, and he was quite satisfied. He took the gunpowder he had made himself, some iron sand and iron beads, and went out.

To the wilderness, beside the Bianhe River. Ganchi began to fiddle with his flintlock pistol, pouring a little gunpowder, stuffing it with a ball of paper, poking it down, and pouring in some iron sand.

"Get out of the way and get behind me." Gan Qi and Gan Ba shouted.

Several people quickly ran behind Ganqi, Ganqi pulled the trigger with a little nervousness, and with a bang, the fire flashed, and the smoke billowed out.

Gan Qi only felt a huge force coming from his arm, and he unconsciously jumped up.

The target was a willow tree by the river, and everyone gathered around to see it.

A large chunk of bark was long gone, and the white trunk had been shattered. It's just the appearance, and it doesn't go into it.

Ganchi shook his head, only to find it unsatisfactory.

Gan Ba on the side looked surprised: "Big brother...... This thing is so powerful. ”

Ganchi did not answer, and cleaned the barrel of the gun with a small iron bar wrapped in a strip of cloth, and then poured in gunpowder, this time Ganchi increased the amount of the medicine, and then stuffed it tightly with a paper ball, and then stabbed it with an iron bar, and pulled the hammer on it, so that the reed was also wrenched.

Then he pulled the trigger again on the willow tree, and the hammer struck the flint, and the flint flashed, but the gun did not go off.

Gan Qi was not discouraged, he knew that the flintlock pistol had such a flaw, that is, there was no guarantee that every shot would be successful, and it could guarantee that eight or nine out of ten shots would be successful, which was already the top of the craft.

However, the problem is not big, the firing is not successful, you only need to use your thumb to pull the hammer up again, and you can fire it again immediately, and this process does not take a second.

The gun finally rang out, and this time the force was even greater, and the shock made Ganqi unconsciously take a step back.

A puff of smoke rose, and Gankey raised his hand and waved, walking up to the willow tree a few steps ahead of his head.

This time, the willow tree was a blur, and under closer inspection, a lot of iron sand was one or two inches deep into it.

With this effect, Gan Qi was satisfied and could kill people.

Gan Ba was stunned on the side: "Big brother, this thing, others used it to set off firecrackers, and in the hands of the eldest brother, it has such power, killing people and killing people, it's not a problem, my good boy, big brother, give me one too." Give it to all the brothers, one for each person. ”

Gan Qi said with a smile while cleaning the chamber of the gun: "It's not difficult to have another one or two, but if you want everyone to have one, it will be unrealistic, this musket is too labor-intensive, Old Man Zhang took a few apprentices, so many days, before he took out a barrel." If you want to build more, you have to put a lot of effort into transforming the crafting process, and it is not a matter of half a moment. ”

The barrel of the musket is the most important thing, and if you want to make a qualified barrel, it is helpless to hollow it out. In other ways, such as casting, the process is not qualified. In this era, it is okay to cast metal utensils and make some containers, but there is a great hidden danger in making gun barrels, in which bubble impurities are inevitable, so the explosion of this kind of thing will inevitably happen in large quantities.

Even in the Ming Dynasty, the musket is still not easy to use, and the reason why the artillery can be used is because the barrel is constantly thickened, and the iron hoop is used to strengthen the gun chamber, which can ensure that the artillery can be used. This also leads to the fact that any cannon weighs thousands of pounds, or even a ton. But it is impossible for a musket to make dozens of catties to use, then it is meaningless, and it really becomes an iron lump.

The manufacture of gun barrels, China has been until the Qing Dynasty, many places are still using grinding wheel drills to drill solid iron rods, in fact, it is a hollowing out method, but the process is slightly improved, there are special manual machines for drilling gun barrels, I think it is much faster than Zhang Blacksmith's pure handmade work.

Technological progress is the future of firearms.

Gan Ba was a little discouraged, his brain circuit was a little different, and he took the lead in righteousness and said, "That...... If the brothers don't have any, then I don't want to forget it. ”

Gan Qi had already reloaded the gunpowder, this time not with iron sand, but with an iron ball, wrenched the hammer, and fired another shot.

After a burst of smoke, I looked at the old willow tree again, shook it violently a few times, and when I stepped forward, I saw that the iron beads were deeply embedded in the trunk of the tree, and I didn't know what three inches were.

"Big brother, this thing, so close, can break the armor." Gan Ba once again expressed his shock.

Gan Qi nodded: "It's not difficult for the musket to break through the iron armor." Because the iron armor is more than hard, the toughness is a little worse, and it is too brittle, but there is a kind of cotton armor that is more effective against muskets. ”

The cotton armor is an armor made of fibers, and the cotton is repeatedly beaten to make the cotton fibers tightly combined to make the armor. The appearance of this armor is the thing worn by the Eight Banners Army of the Qing Dynasty, all white, with many rivets.

Iron armor developed to its peak in the Song Dynasty, and with the arrival of the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, it slowly fell behind, because iron armor really couldn't stop the musket. In the middle and late battlefields of the Ming Dynasty, the musket was one of the main weapons, and the cotton armor came into being.

"Cotton armor?" Gan Ba was a little stunned, because in this era, there is no cotton in China, to be precise, there is no large-scale promotion of cotton. Today, cotton is only available in the Western Regions. The Chinese have not yet put on cotton clothes and cotton jackets, and the raw materials of cloth are really linen and silk.

Even at this time in China, there was no "cotton" next to the word "wood". There is only the word "cotton" next to "纟", and the cotton of sheep is also this cotton.

Gan Ba reminded him like this, and Gan Qi's mind was running fast, cotton came from the Western Regions, and now things from the Western Regions are extremely common in Quanzhou.

Gan Qi couldn't help but think about going back to Quanzhou this time, in case he found cotton, it was a big harvest, cotton was too important, not to make any cotton armor, it was to keep warm, the importance of cotton is irreplaceable, low cost, large production, and of great significance to northern China.

Freezing to death is also a great cause of casualties among the ancient Chinese. With cotton as a crop, there will be a big deal about this phenomenon. Even for the military has a great role to promote, in the cold and freezing places, every soldier wears a big cotton jacket, I don't know how many soldiers' lives can be saved.

Thinking about it, Gan Qi packed up the musket and everything, pinned the musket to his belt, a little uncomfortable, thought about it, and prepared to get another holster, so that it would be comfortable to pin it on his waist.

Packing up the muskets, Ganchi was ready to start packing up.

It's time to leave Bianliang, and Gan Qi went to the palace to say goodbye.

This time, Zhao Shu saw Gan Qi in the bright light, and he was not afraid of any tongue when he said goodbye.

Seeing Zhao Shu, it was Gan Qi who had a lot of things to explain to him. The most important thing is to respond to all changes with the same, no matter what happens, just sit at home and don't go out and see no one, and that's it.

I'm afraid that Zhao Shu is in a hurry and wants to go out and walk around, then it will be a big trouble.

However, Gan Qi is still relieved at this point, Zhao Shu has been cautious for twenty or thirty years, and has long been accustomed to this state, Zhao Shu is a calm person, which Gan Qi is not so worried.

Zhao Shu is someone who doesn't have to worry too much, but Han Qi is someone who can't help but worry.

To deal with Han Qi, Gan Qi's back hand must naturally be kept.

Gan Qi went to see Feng Jing again, and the two discussed for a long time.

Gan Qi went to see Zhang Tangying again and explained many things. There are some things that should have been done by Zhang Tangying's younger brother Zhang Shangying in history, but many things suddenly came ahead of schedule, and Zhang Shangying has not yet come to work at the Yushitai.

After explaining many things, Gan Qi began to deal with many things in his business, and he had to explain what he should explain and arrange. This time, at least for more than a year, in order to run the business normally for more than a year, Gan Qi set up a banquet every meal, invited a confidant shopkeeper one by one, put his heart in his heart, knew how to reason with emotion, gave money and favors, and finally naturally gave many words.

Finally, he said goodbye to Bao Zheng, Wang Anshi and others.

went to say goodbye to the emperor again, and asked the emperor for a few people. The emperor encouraged Ganqi again, and agreed to the few people Ganqi wanted. Gan Qi didn't want any big shots, but a few military men such as Shi Honglei and Zhi Kexing, who could be regarded as guards along the way. Shi Honglei was ordered by the Privy Council to serve as the governor of Quanzhou.

Gan Qi finally set off, on the Bianhe wharf, boxes of things were carried to the boat, Gan Ba and Zhou Tong followed Gan Qi together, and brought more than 40 men with big shoulders and round waists. Di Yong stayed in the capital and took care of many industries.

Shi Honglei and Zhi Kexing also brought a team of iron armor, thirty or forty people.

Gan Qi also brought a few account keepers to the south, and apart from people, Gan Qi treated the most with money.

There are some things that Ganqi has never said explicitly, but taking so much money south means that Ganqi has other things to do. The land of Quanzhou is the most developed place in the shipbuilding industry of the Great Song Dynasty, and the shipbuilding industry of the Great Song Dynasty is also the world's leading in terms of contemporaries.

Even at the beginning of the Age of Discovery, China's shipbuilding technology also beat the world, and the ships of the West were not worth mentioning in front of Zheng He's fleet. In the early days of the Western Voyage, there was no place for people to live.

Of course, Zheng He's fleet, that is, the final climax and carnival of ancient Chinese navigation, then ...... There is no then.

The trade objects of Quanzhou in the Song Dynasty were mainly Arabs, of course, there were also Persians, but at this time, Persia had long been MSL, and there were some overseas immigrants who were not of this sect. There is also Zoroastrianism, or Zoroastrianism, which is the origin of Manichaeism, that is, the sect of the Fangla uprising. There are also some Nestorianism, which is a branch of Christianity, and there are some regular Catholics today. These are gathered in Quanzhou.

The porcelain, silk, tea and other valuables of the Great Song Dynasty departed from Quanzhou, passed through the South China Sea, crossed Malacca, and crossed the Indian Ocean to the Arab world. The Arabs then passed through the Mediterranean, and then they could go to Europe, and now the most business-savvy and seafaring people in the Mediterranean are the Venetians, who carry goods from the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea to the northern shore of the Mediterranean, and become gold.

The overland Silk Road was almost cut off in the Great Song Dynasty, which also forced those Western Hu people to come by sea, which is the reason for the rise of Quanzhou, because it is too profitable to go to China.

The ships of the Great Song Dynasty will also go to sea, take the initiative to transport goods out, and the South China Sea of later generations will salvage the shipwrecks of the Song Dynasty again and again, and all kinds of exquisite items in them are counted in tens of thousands.

The Northern Song Dynasty was still in its infancy, and by the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, this trade route had already formed a very large scale. However, the court of the Song Dynasty did not turn its attention to Quanzhou until the year of Dezhezong, and began to set up Quanzhou City to manage maritime trade, and when it arrived in the Southern Song Dynasty, it lost the vast north, and the capital also reached Hangzhou, and Quanzhou was not so far away, and Quanzhou still had money in this place, which was exactly what the Southern Song Dynasty needed in a corner of the country, so the Southern Song Dynasty really regarded Quanzhou as a thing.

It's just that in Quanzhou during the Southern Song Dynasty, the power of foreigners had really taken shape, and in the late Southern Song Dynasty, even the officials of the city department were foreigners. This also directly led to the later tragedy, when the foreigners were defeated and retreated in the Southern Song Dynasty, the emperor was not allowed to enter Quanzhou to garrison, and killed more than 3,000 children of the Song Dynasty clan in Quanzhou at one time, and even helped the Mongols to hunt down the Song Dynasty emperor.

The man who hunted down the emperor of the Song Dynasty was named Pu Shougeng, and because he helped the Mongols, he was prosperous and rich all his life, and he also turned Quanzhou into his own kingdom. It was not until the Ming Dynasty that Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne that Pu Shougeng's grave was dug out, and the Quanzhou Pu family was designated as the remnant, and all the men were in the army, and they were not allowed to study as officials forever.

Gan Qi went to Quanzhou, two things, to manage the Hu people, and to put an end to future troubles. And then it's about making money, making money for the court, and making money for yourself. Even Ganch wanted a fleet of his own.

On the canal, Ganchi rented two boats and sailed south.

In Bianliang City, Han Qi is in a good mood, and now after all, it is his best move, Gan Qi is willing to be strong, but he is a child, and between the palms, the big trouble has been eliminated.

Next, Han Daxianggong can do what he wants.

Under the running of Han Daxianggong in all directions, things are slowly getting almost the same, Gan Qi has been on the canal for thousands of miles, and no one can stop Han Daxianggong's big event. As soon as this matter is completed, Han Daxianggong will never have to worry about it in his life.

In the court again, Han Qi directly opened his mouth to play: "Your Majesty, about the matter of the new prince, the old minister thinks that it can be implemented now, Zhao Zongge, the prince of the country, benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith, everything is complete, and it can be reused. ”

"The minister seconded the proposal."

"The old minister seconded the proposal."

Weichen seconded.