The Goryeo envoy was sent by sea and landed in Dengju, and the performance was first sent to Tokyo.

Guo Shaoguanzhi is written in neat Chinese characters. First of all, the self-proclaimed Goryeo Lile and well-dressed are all respectful of the Tang style, the same as the Central Plains. I heard that the emperor of the Central Plains was very happy to defeat the Liao State, and congratulated him. Then scolded Liao in a large paragraph, and the sentence "country of birds and beasts" impressed Guo Shao the most.

If these scolding words reach the Khitan royal family, I don't know how Xiao Siwen and others feel.

In the early stage, the imperial court took the initiative to send people to contact Goryeo, originally trying to let Goryeo attack on the back of the Liao State. However, the efficiency at this time was too slow, and by the time the Zhou army had already captured Youyun, Goryeo had just made friends with the Great Zhou.

Because the Goryeo envoy landed, the officials of the court and the central government prepared the emperor to ask about Goryeo, and many people talked about Goryeo for a while.

Gossip does not distinguish between ancient and modern, and the most talked-about thing is not a series of national policies and strategies of Goryeo, or customs and customs...... The first thing Guo Shao heard was a gossip: the queen of Wang Zhao, the lord of Goryeo, was his own sister.

The father of the king and queen is both Goryeo Taejo Wangjian, and the queen is a princess, with the surname of her mother, Huangfu, and is a half-brother and sister. Is that okay too?

Guo Shao was very curious when he heard it, not to mention that in this era, even modern brothers and sisters can't get married. However, he quickly thought of a TV series from a certain country in the future, and suddenly it dawned on him.

…… At the end of the third year of Xuanin, the Goryeo envoy met with him and paid tribute to a rare sword.

The eunuch moved the sword to the Yangde Palace, because it was a rare thing, and he was very careful. At that time, Lu Duoxun, the attendant of the Ministry of Rites, had just finished receiving the Goryeo envoys and came to meet him.

Unexpectedly, Guo Shao had no interest in the sword, he was playing with an arquebus just sent by the ordnance supervisor, and he didn't even look at the sword.

This fire gun is very finely made, and the fine wood inlay above the tail is also carved with gilt auspicious cloud patterns; The barrel is straight and smooth, buttered on top, carefully polished inside and out, and smoothed with an awl drill on the inside.

The arquebuses soaked in plant ash, the mechanism of the firing mechanism and the reeds are forged from brass, and they are still very delicately made.

Because this thing was given to the emperor, it was more decorative, just like a work of art. However, the firecrackers made in batches must not be so delicate, otherwise the cost would be too high.

Guo Shao couldn't put it down when he saw this thing, what sword couldn't arouse his interest at all, even if that sword could really sharpen iron like clay, it was still a knife, and it was just a rare thing that couldn't be copied in large quantities.

He noticed the threaded connection used at the bottom of the firebolt...... Probably the method of making it is to carve the threads out of wood, then make a sand casting core, and then forge the tail. This construction facilitates the disassembly of the barrel and the cleaning of residues.

There was also a stack of files on the table of the Jiangning Mansion's report, and the new sea vessels had been largely completed, a total of three. Guo Shao has ordered that after the sea trial of Jiangning Shipyard, the sea ship will be transferred to Dengzhou (Shandong); The Guards sent some soldiers to take over the ships, and the Goryeo envoys could be used to send them back when they returned home next year. It was also ordered that the Ministry of Industry send people to Dengzhou to build a new port.

Lu Duosun glanced at the Goryeo sword that was resting on the table, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the Goryeo Kingdom seems to be rich in swords. ”

Guo Shao raised his head and said, "Oh? I have never heard of it. ”

Lu Duoxun said: "They once paid tribute to the Liao State, and they also gave swords. ”

Guo Shao heard that Lu Duoxun had something to say, and wanted to borrow things to play. He put down his arquebus and listened with interest.

Lu Duosun continued: "But then the Liao State destroyed the Bohai State, and the relationship between Goryeo and the Liao State deteriorated. This is due to the fact that the Goryeo State plotted against the Balhae Kingdom for a long time, and the migrating population ran Xijing (Pyongyang); Unexpectedly, the Liao State attacked first and swallowed the land of the Bohai Sea. The Liao State was strong, and it became more difficult for Goryeo to obtain the old land of the Bohai State, so they resented the Khitan. ”

Guo Shao nodded and said, "I see." ”

At this time, the Liao State was defeated in Youzhou and lost a large area of Youyun, but its strength was still very large; There is Goryeo in its belly and back, and there are also benefits.

Lu Duoxun said: "This time, the Goryeo Kingdom sent an envoy to ask me to send troops to recover Yingzhou and jointly attack the Khitan. In the eyes of the ministers, Goryeo saw the defeat of the Liao army, and once again peeked at the old land of the Bohai Sea, and still had ambitions. ”

When Guo Shao heard the ambition, he played with the firearm in his hand again, glanced at the sea ship data file on the table, and not only smiled: "It is understandable that all countries have the idea of self-improvement and enterprising.

However, the imperial court has no intention of raising troops to fight again with the Liao State recently, and Lu Shilang can reply to the envoys of the Goryeo State, and the matter will be discussed later. ”

Lu Duosun clenched his fists and said, "The minister obeys the order." ”

Guo Shao turned around and looked at a sketchy picture hanging on the wall. Recently, because of the Goryeo envoy's visit to Beijing, he also had some personal understanding of the situation in Goryeo.

This place was relatively spacious in the early antiquity, and the further you go, the worse it will become.

At the turn of the Sui and Tang dynasties, Goguryeo was a relatively powerful country, and it must have been because there was already a threat to the Sui and Tang borders, so the Sui and Tang dynasties did not hesitate to mobilize large armies to crusade several times.

However, after the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan rose to the northeast, and the grassland forces that had been threatening the northern part of the Central Plains also moved in winter. Not only is it threatening the Central Plains, but it is also compressing the space of Goryeo. From this time on, they will not only face the Central Plains Dynasty, but also the nomadic tribe will become an important factor that threatens their survival.

(In the future, the threat of the herdsmen will continue to be in the east, and Goryeo will have one more day of maritime threat, which can be said to be sandwiched between various forces, and it is also a very tenacious group to be able to carry it all the time.) ）

Guo Shao said: "In the past, our dynasty wanted to recover Youyun, so I wanted to use the Goryeo Kingdom to contain it; Now the Goryeo Kingdom wants to occupy the old land of the Bohai Kingdom, and wants our dynasty to send troops to Liaodong. Countries are planning for their own devices. ”

There are two Guo Shaojun ministers in the Yangde Palace, and there is only one official eunuch and a few palace maids. Guo Shao asked in a bright and bright manner: "It seems that the Goryeo Kingdom was established after the destruction of Silla and Baekje, can there be internal enemies in its country?" ”

Lu Duoxun said: "After the establishment of the Wang family, he implemented the policy of pushing grace and tenderness internally, and the ministers heard that the country was stable. ”

Guo Shao nodded thoughtfully.

…… The recovering of the Land of Clouds has a great impact. However, at this time, the speed of news transmission was limited, and there was no change at the beginning of the victory, but as time passed, the influence of Zhou and Liao gradually became apparent.

Until the beginning of the fourth year of the reign of Shinin, the imperial envoy of Heiankyo in Fusang Province sent a letter of state and paid tribute. In order to create the political achievements of "all nations coming to the dynasty", the Tokyo Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Guest Affairs gave a generous return. The tributary system is really a loss for the Central Plains Dynasty in terms of goods, but if it is not, other countries will not have the motivation to take the initiative to pay tribute.

Guo Shao ordered to discuss with the envoys of Fusang about the establishment of trade between the two countries (in the past, the Central Plains was in turmoil, but the civil maritime trade was never cut off), and secretly ordered the Privy Council soldier Cao Si to send a fine work to the caravan to Fusang to understand the situation in the distance.

Although diplomatic relations are a major event, Guo Shao's attention is not here, but just handled it easily. He has been conceiving a change in military power.

And arquebuses were also made in batches, and Guo Shao not only read the recital, but also went to the colonel to observe it himself.

The official test of firearms is more than 100 people in the "Divine Fire Capital" of the Tiger Army, and this small group of people has not been able to expand in the Tiger Army, because there is really no record, but the establishment has been retained and has not been revoked...... In the past, the emperor personally ordered the establishment of a capital of people, and no one withdrew casually.

The people of the Divine Fire Capital have used bronze guns for two years, and they are already very skilled at this time. The arquebus and the bronze gun are completely different things, but the mechanism and usage steps are the same, and the current firearms are originally based on the bronze gun and the barrel is mainly improved.

The soldiers took off the small bamboo tube from the belt, bit the plug with their teeth, and then poured the weighed ** inside into the muzzle, and then used the strip to poke the softer lead pellet into it, and then took the ** in the small gourd and shook some in the firing pool, and then prepared to fire.

The school field was "crackling", the smoke was filled, and the distant targets were full of holes. Firearms do work! After all, if you burn and pressurize in a closed space, you will shoot the lead bullet out, everything is an objective law, and there will be no exceptions.

The effective range of the new firearm is 50 paces, and within 30 paces, it can wear most chain mail scale armor. As for accuracy...... Anyway, the direction will not drift wrong, and it is much more accurate than the bronze gun with a large hole.

Because Shenhuo needs three rows to shoot in turns, the establishment is also different from the ordinary army, which has four teams and a team of more than 20 people, and Shenhuo only has three teams. The military structure is formulated according to tactics, and the structure only changes when weapons and tactics change; Perhaps the military system will gradually change.

The range of this thing is much closer than that of a foot bow and crossbow, for example, a god arm of Guo Shao's level can shoot a hundred steps with a foot bow and still have accuracy! And the operation is complicated, and the rate of fire is very slow...... However, compared to the combat effectiveness of the infantry bow, the ability to pierce armor at close range is stronger than that of the bow and crossbow.

As for the range, it surpassed that of mounted shooting.

After a few months of improvement experiments, the ordnance superintendent ordered Zan Jurun's statement that the distance was between stepping and riding a bow and arrow. The closest armor piercing is the strongest, which is long; The shooting is slow and complicated, the accuracy is uncertain, and there is no flexibility in riding and shooting, but it is short.

However, Guo Shao has a different view. The biggest advantage of this thing is that after a group of farmers understand the queue and military discipline, they can immediately have not weak combat effectiveness.

They may not be able to win a hundred battles, but the price of the Great Zhou having hundreds of thousands of elite infantry cavalry of the forbidden army is that it took decades to make the whole world smashed.

Guo Shao watched the performance of Shenhuo Capital, and was in a very comfortable mood, and when he returned to Beiyuan, he briskly picked up a stone by a lake and threw it on the surface of the lake to play. The pebble jumped briskly on the surface of the water, and jumped a few ripples.

The accompanying ministers were very happy, but they might feel that Guo Shao's behavior was a little frivolous at this time.

At this moment, Guo Shao pointed to the water and said, "Our artillery smashes a pit, in fact, we can try other methods." ”

Zan Jurun said: "The stone cannon shell is too heavy, if the angle is too small, it will fall to the ground in front of you." ”

Guo Shao said: "That's the idea." Let's do that '***' road in the wrong direction, I'm afraid it's useless (unless we make a ** cannon). ”

A few people couldn't answer.

Guo Shao ignored it, and looked at the ripples on the lake for a long time, just like his mood at this time, light and not calm.