"Your Majesty, this is the latest news from the Firearms Research and Technology Agency, saying that the kind of thing that Your Majesty wants has been made, and they have also made a new type of firecracker; Full production has begun. Xiao Zhuozi said excitedly.

"Really?" Li Liangzuo said excitedly: "This is really good, with these two firearms, it is much easier to dominate the world." ”

Although the firearm was also made before, it was far from the difference in range and power, but it was only used as a new experimental weapon to equip the Praetorian Guards guarding the palace as a study of new tactics and did not go to the battlefield, and now all the Janissaries guarding the palace have all been incorporated into the Imperial Forest Army, which has expanded to 3,000 people, the use of firearms has been quite mature, with the new firearms, this army can quickly form combat effectiveness.

Li Liangzuo walked around the imperial study several times, and then said to Xiao Zhuozi: "Go and prepare horses for me immediately, and then select three hundred guards from the Fire Gun Army to join me in Xingqing Mansion, and also go to inform the King of Chu, the King of Jin, and the King of Hengshan to go to Xingqing Mansion, I will leave now, and let them come and join me as soon as possible." ”

"Yes, the minion will do it." Xiao Zhuozi immediately took the order and left.

Li Liangzuo didn't clean up and ran directly to the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and after the Imperial Horse Supervisor rode on the Whirlwind (Black Wind's grandchildren), he rode his horse directly out of the palace, Xiao Zhuozi didn't dare to slack off, and immediately took dozens of guards to catch up first, and at the same time ordered the three hundred fire gun guards to come to escort immediately.

There are thousands of miles from the new imperial capital of Daxia to Xingqing Mansion, and to cross the Yellow River in the middle, Li Liangzuo can be said to have traveled all the way to two days and one night, the whirlwind can not be described as a good horse that travels thousands of miles in a day, and Xiao Zhuozi and the dozens of guards have long been thrown to where they have gone, and Li Liangzuo has even caused a great sensation wherever he has passed, after all, Li Liangzuo's body is wearing a dragon robe, this solo action is too dangerous for Li Liangzuo, fortunately, nothing happened, Li Liangzuo actually did not know Xingqing Mansion, and came directly to the Firearms Research and Technology Bureau.

Li Liangzuo came to the Firearms Research and Technology Bureau and came in smoothly after handing over the token, Jin Bohang hurriedly came to see Li Liangzuo without bothering to wash, and bowed to Li Liangzuo: "Weichen Jin Bohang to meet Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live." ”

"Hurry up!" Li Liangzuo helped Jin Bohang up and said; "I remember when I saw you, I was a young man! In the blink of an eye, so many years have passed, and Aiqing has experienced vicissitudes of dealing with gunpowder weapons every day. ”

"It is an honor for Weichen to serve His Majesty." Jin Bohang said: "Your Majesty, why is it that you are alone, and there are no guards to protect you, you are also ......."

"Aren't I in a hurry? So let's go faster, let's go and meet the artillery! Li Liangzuo couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart and said.

"Your Majesty, don't be impatient, this firearm has been built, and you are not afraid of the next day or two, you can rest first; This journey is hard enough, you can rest for two days so that Wechen can prepare. Jin Bohang persuaded Li Liangzuo.

Li Liangzuo touched his waist and said, "It seems that I am really old, what was this journey in the past!" This time, I almost didn't break up this old bone! Just listen to you! Don't bother too much, just find me a place to sleep. ”

"Your Majesty, please ......"

Li Liangzuo's sleep is a whole day! When Li Liangzuo woke up again, everyone else had already arrived, everyone else was okay, but this trip made Li Xiaoren miserable, Li Xiaoren had lived more comfortably than Li Liangzuo in the past two years! The body has long been not as good as before, and it is already quite good to be able to run with it.

In the past two days, Li Liangzuo visited the Firearms Research and Technology Bureau, watched the production of artillery and guns, and the production of gunpowder has been handled here, in order to prevent accidents, this is the most elite place of the Great Xia Empire, and the most skilled craftsmen of the Great Xia Empire are all here! The craftsmen here are basically knighted, except for apprentices, of course, the average apprentice will not be able to produce an apprentice for 20 years, and most of the busy people here are apprentices, and their level is already quite high.

"Your Majesty, this is the artillery made by Weichen according to your requirements, but our artillery is made of bronze, although it is relatively powerful, and it is also very bulky, and the price is also very expensive." Jin Bohang said to Li Liangzuo; "According to His Majesty's request to cast the artillery with iron back then, due to the quality of the refined iron, there has been no breakthrough."

"It's okay, it's pretty good to be able to build it slowly." Li Liangzuo said with a smile.

Under the leadership of Jin Bohang, Li Liangzuo and others came to the warehouse, all the artillery was covered with red cloth, after all the red cloth was uncovered, Jin Bohang said to Li Liangzuo: "Your Majesty, please see, this is the artillery cannon we cast, a total of ten, two of the 4,000 jin type, two of the 3,000 jin type, two of the 2,000 jin type, two of the 1,500 jin type, and two of the 1,000 jin type; The firing range ranged from ten to two miles. ”

Li Liangzuo nodded and said, "This range is far more than that of a catapult. ”

Just as everyone was watching, a shirtless young man hurriedly ran to Jin Bohang and said, "Dad (second uncle), we have trained a furnace of fine iron again, and this time the cannon will definitely be fine." ”

Jin Bohang immediately reprimanded the two: "Look at what you two are doing, don't hurry back to the iron-smelting room." ”

"Wait." Li Liangzuo suddenly shouted, "You just said that you have refined a furnace of refined iron, can you let me go and see it?" ”

The two immediately knelt down to Li Liangzuo and said, "Meet Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live......

"Get up! Jin Aiqing, come along! Li Liangzuo said with a smile.

Under the leadership of the two young men, Li Liangzuo came to the iron-making room, where dozens of blast furnaces stood in the courtyard of the entire iron-making room, where five to ten tons of iron would be baked every day, of which the refined iron was used to make weapons and arrows, and ordinary iron would be used to make agricultural tools, or transported to the blacksmith shop outside to make pots and pans, etc., which could be regarded as generating income, which was allowed by Li Liangzuo.

There is a unique blast furnace in the yard, and the ultimate goal of even steel is to reduce the carbon content, and to desulfurize, dephosphorize, and deoxygenate, and the temperature requirements for the furnace fire are also very high, and at the same time, if you want to train a good alloy steel, you also need to add a certain amount of other ores; From Li Liangzuo's point of view, first of all, this blast furnace meets the temperature requirements of steelmaking.

At the moment when the molten steel was released, Jin Bohang said: "Okay! What a fine iron! It may be possible to cast a cannon with this kind of fine iron. ”

Li Liangzuo also nodded and said, "It is indeed a good fine iron." ”

Li Liangzuo studied metallurgy in his previous life, and he was able to judge the quality of the molten iron by observing the molten iron, and this molten iron could be smelted in a small factory in later generations, but it was not easy to smelt this molten iron in this era. Although Li Liangzuo is full of confidence in artillery, Li Xiaoren and others still have this question.

The second is more ......

(End of chapter)