The study room of the Hall of Grace is simple and simple. There is an orange-yellow wooden couch, but the color is not the lacquer, but the color of the golden silk nan itself. The smooth wood surface looks a little old, as if it is badly worn, but because of this, it has a beautiful streamer in the grain.

Guo Shao sat down on the collapse and reached out to take out a wooden model from the soft and delicate yellow robe. It is the arquebus mechanism presented by the ordnance superintendent.

He took it in his hand and looked at it over and over again, and the general structure was already understood, but he still calmed down and continued to look at it carefully.

A thing, as long as you are patient and observe, time will make people see a lot of things clearly. This is Guo Shao's life experience. His fingers touched the end of the mechanism, his mind firing over its transmission.

Soon Guo Shao discovered a problem. Pull the trigger and let the end of the fire rope be pressed down to ignite**, this process is no problem...... But ** to push the projectile out of the barrel, there is a problem!

Airtightness. In order for the fire rope to accurately ignite the ** in the hole, the opening of the hole is very large; The holes dug in this model are also very large. With such a large hole and no airtightness, how can the chamber pressure be generated?!

Not long ago, he asked Zan Jurun to cast a physical test, and with such a design, the projectile could not be shot out after a hundred tests.

In the past, there was no such problem with direct ignition with an open flame, because the lead wire can be made very thin, the lead hole is not much larger than the eye of the needle, and the chamber pressure will not disappear.

Guo Shao pondered for a long time, and felt that it was impossible to ignite the hair and shoot medicine directly with a fire rope; You also have to add a primer pot on it, and use the burning primer to ignite the ** that fires the projectile.

It didn't take long for him to discover another problem: this ignition method might cause the hole to be blocked and dumb fire. The barrel is not easy to clean...... Perhaps the tail of the barrel should be made into a part that is easy to disassemble and clean.

Guo Shao used to think that gunpowder guns were very simple and backward weapons, but only now have he discovered that there are many problems.

From muskets to arquebuses, the components suddenly become more complex; Moreover, the fire bolt for the ignition of the fire gate was of little use, and there was obviously no motivation to progress to the complex arquebus, which should have been a slow process.

But Guo Shao knew that the arquebus was more advanced and did not need any reason, and his own will forcibly promoted this development.

Guo Shao stood up, walked to the table, put down the wooden model, picked up the brush and began to describe the problems he had found, as well as some ideas for re-improvement.

At this time, the light in the doorway dimmed slightly, and he felt that someone had come in.

Guo Shao glanced sideways slightly, and found that the person who came in was Dong Sanmei.

Guo Shao didn't speak, but wrote in detail.

"Giggle......" Guo Shao buried his head and heard a small sound, and when he looked up, the teacup was already on the table, the lid was also opened, and the water in the cup was shaking from side to side. He glanced at Dong Sanmei again and saw that she was afraid.

"What's wrong?" Guo Shao asked.

Dong Sanmei suddenly knelt on the ground: "I'...... When the slave heard about the reincarnation of His Majesty's Dayi, I was very scared. ”

Guo Shao immediately put down the brush, stretched out his hand to help her up, and said kindly: "Such rumors, ordinary people have never seen me gullible, how can the third sister still believe it?" If you look at me carefully, where is the god and monster? ”

Dong Sanmei lowered her head.

Guo Shao said a few good words softly, because he showed no signs of irritability, Dong Sanmei really raised her head and looked at Guo Shao carefully...... It was extremely rude to look at the emperor, but Guo Shao obviously didn't care about those rules here.

Dong Sanmei looked at it for a while, Guo Shao smiled and said, "Am I the same as others?" ”

Dong Sanmei blushed and said, "It's all my fault that I'm stupid and disturbed His Majesty to do big things." ”

"Nope." Guo Shao looked at her patiently and seemed to be listening to her. He felt that taking a short moment to take the people around him seriously might be able to create a different atmosphere...... Especially for a young girl like Dong Sanmei, her psychological ability to resist pressure may not be high.

Dong Sanmei whispered: "Your Majesty is so good to me, fortunately I met Your Majesty......"

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The next day, Guo Shao strode into the meeting hall on the east side of the Jinxiang Palace, looking back left and right, and felt that the demeanor of the generals was not the same as before, and that posture was really a bit like worshipping a Bodhisattva. However, Guo Shao believes that people who can become generals are a little knowledgeable, and it is impossible to believe those inexplicable rumors.

He sat down in the upper chair and said, "Get up, all of you, and sit down to discuss matters." ”

At this time, Wang Pu turned his head to look at the position, Guo Shao glanced at him, and said: "Today's discussion of military aircraft, except for all of you here, no news shall be leaked. ”

Everyone responded.

Guo Shao fell silent and looked sideways at Wang Pu. Wang Pu stood up and arched his hand: "The Privy Council, in accordance with His Majesty's will, plans to capture the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun. All the public can express their position and explain the reasons......"

Before the words fell, Shi Yanchao said, "When does Your Majesty want to fight?" ”

Wang Pu was stunned and looked at Wei Renpu next to him.

Shi Yanchao said: "I don't believe that there is a battle that Your Majesty can't win, please be the striker at the end!" ”

Yang Biao pulled a horse face, looked at Shi Yanchao coldly, and looked sideways at Li Chuyun, the highest military rank, without saying a word.

Only then did Li Chuyun speak: "The morale of the generals in front of the palace is very high, and the last general has no objection to continuing to use troops. ”

Yang Biao said simply: "Your Majesty said that where to fight, the last general will go wherever he goes!" ”

Han Tong, Gao Huaide and other generals fought one after another, and everyone didn't say any reason, but none of them opposed the use of troops! This meeting made Guo Shao a little surprised, and he determined the result, that is, to start a war with the Liao State, and the forbidden army did not have any unwillingness to do so...... The overall system of the Great Zhou Dynasty still continues the situation of "five dynasties and ten countries", military priority, as long as the army supports it, there will be almost no substantial resistance to launching a war!

Guo Shao has always had the habit of independent thinking, but the people around him will still affect his weighing and judgment. Because he believed that these high-ranking civil and military ministers were not simple-minded people. The generals died on the battlefield and experienced the fierce power struggle in the Central Plains, and most of them were at least generals in the (post-)Han Dynasty, and they were unable to stabilize their current status.

At this time, Wei Renpu got up and bowed: "The minister has a word. ”

Guo Shao maintained a fast and calm tone: "Deputy Envoy Wei has something to say, but it doesn't hurt to say it. ”

Wei Renpu said indifferently: "The Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun are the land of 'China', and sooner or later they will have to be taken back.

Although Wu Yue and the Southern Han Dynasty no longer threatened the Great Zhou, they were always unwilling to surrender under the edict, and the people of the world still did not really understand the force of the Great Zhou, and the affairs in many places were unresolved. Maybe the strongest Liao army at this time, we haven't really competed yet.

Attack the land of clouds first, you can kill two birds with one stone. The Great Zhou shocked the world, and depending on the spread, it could complete the great cause of dominating the world more quickly. ”