On the whole, Shen Kuo's political speculation can be said to be a failure, not only did not let him get much benefit, but made his reputation and personal morality ruined. The www.biquge.info of the pen is often criticized for its repeated speculation, and its moral character is also often criticized. He was given the cold reception of several generations after his death. After his death, no one built a monument for him, and no one wrote an epitaph for him. Even his life biography is only attached to the "History of the Song Dynasty. Shen Yu Biography", but not a separate biography.

Zhong Hao feels that Shen Kuo is still quite kind, his nature should not be so bad, and his political failure is probably mainly because although Shen Kuo has a high IQ, he really does not have the emotional intelligence to engage in politics. This speculation is not necessarily that he is essentially a villain, and it is very likely that in this political whirlpool, his emotional intelligence is really not enough, so he makes wrong choices again and again.

Zhong Hao felt that finding a way to let Shen Kuo concentrate on scientific research and avoid this political whirlpool might also be a very good thing for him! This will also prevent him from being criticized for his personal morality because of his clumsy political methods and repeated speculative failures!

Although Zhong Hao wants to change the greatest scientist in history so that he will not be disgraced by various political failures, this matter needs to be considered in the long term and guided slowly, and it is far from being solved by one or two conversations.

Zhong Hao felt that Shen Kuo was clearly a pedantic character who liked to study in later generations, and his emotional intelligence was not so high, in fact, it was very possible to guide him to change his thoughts.

At a banquet, Zhong Hao and Shen Kuo drank quite happily.

Shen Kuo was very disgusted with many scholars of this era when he mentioned the matter of marching in the army, and he was still quite interested in military affairs.

He asked Zhong Hao to tell a lot about dealing with and fighting against the Tanguts, and he also asked a lot about going south to quell the rebellion.

In the end, Shen Kuo said with a smile: "Brother Wei has also done some research on this crossbow, and has made some innovations to the sight of the standard crossbow in the Great Song Army, which can increase the shooting accuracy of this crossbow a lot, and effectively increase the lethality of this standard crossbow." If Wenxuan returns to Hexi in the future, he will give you this drawing for his brother, you can study it, and then use this military crossbow with a new style of Wangshan, maybe it will have some effect on your development in Hexi! ”

Zhong Hao listened and hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Haha, then the little brother thank you Brother Cunzhong first!" Hehe, but the thing developed by Brother Cun must be great, even if you don't go to Hexi, the younger brother is quite interested! ”

"Hehe, that's the case, I'll send you the drawings of this leaky pot and this new type of crossbow with Wangshan when I have time!"

Shen Kuo entered Beijing this time, not only to participate in the lock hall exam, but he also made two plans! He brought a lot of some of his useful research results, thinking that if he failed the exam, he would see if he could be appreciated by a certain high-ranking official with these novel and useful researches!

This time I met a friend like Zhong Hao with similar interests, Shen Kuo was still very generous! Since Zhong Hao wanted to see it, he naturally sent it to him.

Zhong Haozhi was interested because he knew that Shen Kuo also had a lot of inventions and transformations in military equipment. Historically, Shen Kuo once presided over the upgrading and modification of the Divine Arm Bow, a weapon of mass destruction in the Great Song Dynasty--- so that its effective range was increased from 240 steps to 350 steps.

Moreover, during the period of Wang Anshi's reform, when Shen Kuo presided over the military supervision department, he also developed and invented the earliest "body armor" in history, which could not be shot through with a strong bow and crossbow.

Of course, whether it is the modification of the divine arm bow and the "body armor", it will be a matter of the future, at that time, after Shen Kuo was in charge of Wang Anshi, his official rank was relatively high.

Now don't say that this divine arm bow has not been invented yet, even if it is invented, in fact, the standard process must be a secret, and it is not something that people of Shen Kuo's level can access.

However, it is obvious that Shen Kuo is now very interested in this ordnance manufacturing.

Zhong Hao is now very interested in the standard crossbow that he has developed to improve the Wangshan type, and he wants to see it.

Shen Kuo was more generous than Zhong Hao in this regard, and agreed to give Zhong Hao the drawings without hesitation.

Shen Kuo probably doesn't have any patent concepts, nor does he have any awareness and plans to make money, he developed these things, probably out of hobby, and secondly, to show his intelligence, of course, it is estimated that he also has the desire to create something for the benefit of the country and the people for the Great Song Dynasty. The intellectuals of this era still have some very simple plots for the country and the people.

Regardless of whether Shen Kuo has those clumsy speculations in politics in the future, at least Shen Kuo is still very honest and straightforward now, and Zhong Hao feels that he is still a friend worth making.

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Shen Kuo spoke very well, and when he went back that day, he asked someone to send Zhong Hao the copper leakage pot and the blueprint of the crossbow with Wangshan.

In the Great Song Dynasty, the long-range attack weapon of the bow and crossbow was basically equivalent to the firearms of later generations. In addition to the strict control of firearms in later generations, bows and crossbows were also prohibited weapons in private possession in this era.

In the Great Song Dynasty, in addition to bows and crossbows, in fact, long weapons such as big guns and horse lances, as well as armor, are also illegal items in private possession.

But obviously, when Shen Kuo was studying this military crossbow Wangshan, he had a standard military crossbow! Shen Kuo is also a master bookkeeper, and his family is also an official family, although he is a civil official, he can still do it if he uses a few crossbows for research.

Moreover, Shen Kuo said that he had the developed military crossbow with Wangshan and had finished products, but because these things were violated, it was inconvenient for him to bring them to Tokyo, so he just came to Tokyo with the drawings.

However, Shen Kuo not only gave Zhong Hao the drawings, but also noted the detailed methods and installation methods on them, and even the materials used in what parts were very detailed.

Obviously, Shen Kuo is very serious about doing things.

There are many good things in history, which are often lost because the records are too simplistic. For example, the Quyuan plough has only eleven words in the history books, which makes it strange how future generations can learn to make it without losing it. This is also a common problem of those literati who write books, often thinking that the more concise the words, the more they appear to be at their level.

However, if you write a biography like this, you can write a story like this, and you have to pursue the most concise as possible, then this is a bit nonsense. To use so few words to discuss this advanced technology and object, after hundreds of years, who can understand!

Obviously, Shen Kuo is still very focused on scientific research, and he has not learned the sour and rancid problems of those literati.

Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Bi Tan" records all the research results have this detailed description, which is one of the reasons why "Meng Xi Bi Tan" has a very high status in later generations. Because the technologies he recorded can be easily learned and used by future generations according to the records.

It is illegal for ordinary people in the Great Song Dynasty to privately possess military crossbows, so it is naturally difficult to exchange this military crossbow, but for generals like the Yang family, it is naturally possible to hide them.

This one has no swords, guns, bows and arrows, and armor, is this still a gate? Without this thing, how can you let your children learn martial arts and riding archery? If you can't learn martial arts and cavalry archery, how can you fight for the country? Therefore, this gate naturally has a reason to have this sword, spear, bow and arrow, and armor.

There are long weapons, bows and crossbows, and armor in this house, which is naturally not against the rules for Jiangmen! However, there is a limit to this number, and this bow and crossbow needs to go to Kaifeng Mansion for the record, in case something happens, it is well documented!

Although the imperial court allows the Jiangmen family to have this long weapon, bow and crossbow, and armor, if you hide too much of a general, you will be guilty of a taboo! Therefore, the general gate also means a few pairs of weapons and bows and crossbows at home, and then a few sets of armor to show their identity as a general, and the meaning is over.

If you don't dare to put on a lot of weapons and armor at home, it is estimated that if any of them really do that, those civil officials will soon be able to participate in their "attempted rebellion".

The Yang family also belongs to the Jiangmen family, and naturally there are bows and crossbows at home for the children to practice archery.

Although the Yang family's collection of bows and crossbows is not much, it is enough for Zhong Hao to study.

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At that moment, Zhong Hao went to tell Yang Huaiyu that the addition of a new style of Wangshan to this crossbow can greatly improve the accuracy.

Yang Huaiyu was very interested, and immediately went to get a standard military crossbow, and started research with Zhong Hao.

Anyway, there is still some time before the release of the list, and Zhong Hao feels that no matter what he plans to do next, he will not be able to make a decision until after the release of the list. Just have nothing to do, study the crossbow in this Wangshan area, and pass the time.

Yang Huaiyu has always been very interested in these ordnance, and when he heard that his eldest brother had a new gadget in hand, he was very excited.

When he was in Hexi, Yang Huaiyu had really seen his eldest brother's various wonderful methods.

Speaking of which, Zhong Hao may not necessarily go to the border in the future, and he may not be able to use this developed thing, but their Yang family will definitely fight at the border! If you are grateful for the sharp weapons, you will naturally benefit a lot, so Yang Huaiyu is very cooperative with Zhong Hao's research.

Although Shen Kuo didn't remind himself to keep it secret, Zhong Hao was still very measured, these ordnance technologies could still be kept secret, and they had to be kept secret.

Therefore, Zhong Hao did not agree with Yang Huaiyu's opinion that a craftsman should help manufacture and install this Wangshan, but decided that they would do it themselves.

Anyway, it's okay these days, this is to add a lookout mountain, it's not too difficult, and Shen Kuo gave the drawings, as well as the detailed production and installation methods, if you don't get it again, it will be too piggy.

Zhong Hao was obviously not a pig, so it took him two days to put this new style of Wangshan on the crossbow and debug it.

Of course, it is said that Zhong Hao did this, but in fact, most of him did theoretical guidance work, and it was Yang Huaiyu who did the specific work.

However, Zhong Hao feels that this kind of rough work can be done by any person, and theoretical guidance is the real soul of things, not something that ordinary people can do.

Zhong Hao, as the eldest brother, naturally has to do this difficult thing.

Yang Huaiyu tested the crossbow, and sure enough, the accuracy of this crossbow was greatly improved, and the target fifty steps away could easily shoot the red heart with this new type of Wangshan crossbow.

Of course, these fifty steps easily hit the bull's-eye, it was Yang Huaiyu.

Zhong Hao himself tried it a few times, hehe, the result was ...... Anyway, it can shoot at a target fifty paces away.

Although the bowstring of this crossbow is relatively hard, it can be easily hung with the help of two wing wheels, and it does not need to be like a hard bow, which requires a lot of arm strength to shoot arrows, and the operation is relatively simple, but Zhong Hao, a beginner, still can't control its accuracy well.

This is mainly due to the fact that when this crossbow is fired, the "recoil" is still very large. Whenever the trigger is bracketed, this crossbow has a large shaking amplitude, which makes Zhong Hao, a beginner, very unaccustomed to it.

Of course, this has something to do with Zhong Hao's weak arm strength. If a warrior who often fights hard, if his arm strength is strong enough, he can still easily and stably use this crossbow.

This arm strength is strong, and it can control the shaking amplitude of this crossbow, which will naturally increase the accuracy of its shooting.

Zhong Hao has been fine these days, but he has really practiced using this crossbow many times. After a few days of practice, his shooting accuracy has really improved a lot.

Generally speaking, after this Wangshan, the shooting accuracy of this crossbow can still be greatly improved. Moreover, the use of this Wangshan is very simple, and there is no need for any special training.

This is a very useful and practical invention.

As soon as Yang Huaiyu has good weapons and good things, he always can't forget to exchange for his father Yang Wenguang's Zhenxi Army, and this time is no exception.

As soon as this Wangshan was verified to be very practical by his own hands, Yang Huaiyu immediately wrote to his father to tell him about it, and wanted to send his redrawn drawings to his father by the way.

Zhong Hao felt that this research result was also Shen Kuo's, although Shen Kuo was so happy to show himself, but Yang Huaiyu wanted to take it to his father, he should at least have to say hello to Shen Kuo, which was also a minimum of respect.

Of course, Shen Kuo developed this thing for the Great Song Xingwu, and after telling him, he should definitely have no opinion. Except for the army, this thing is useless anywhere else. Ordinary people dare to hide a crossbow to play, even if they want to hide a play, it is not so easy to get it.

At that moment, Zhong Hao and Yang Huaiyu went together to explain to Shen Kuo that Yang Wenguang's Zhenxi Army wanted to use this research result!

Shen Kuo naturally had no opinion on this, and agreed very happily.

Of course, Yang Huaiyu is also a bold person, and it is inevitable that he will not be a little reluctant to use other people's things, and he feels that the last time Shen Kuo went to his house, he was entertained by Zhong Hao, and he did not entertain him personally, so he was a little embarrassed, so he had to take Shen Kuo to Panlou to drink a meal of flower wine.

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