Chapter 447 Xingzhou Bow
In addition to the support of this garrison, the support of Jingqiang Village is also needed for the cultivation of Tuntian in this section of the Guye River Basin between the county seat of Liangu and the city of Linzhou. Because these potato and sweet potato seedlings need to be transported from Jingqiang Village.
Of course, in addition to these seedlings, some of the agricultural tools needed to open up the fields also need to be provided by the Jingqiang Village Iron Workshop.
In addition, there are some other things that also need the support of Jingqiang Village, so Zhong Hao decided to go to Jingqiang Village in the next few days in order to coordinate.
According to the season, the end of April and the beginning of May can already be regarded as summer, but the climate in Linzhou Prefecture is colder than that of the Central Plains and Jiangnan, and the temperature is still in spring.
When it is sunny, the weather is still refreshing and pleasant, the sun is warm but not blazing, whether you are traveling or at home, it is the most comfortable day of the year.
The plum trees in the small courtyard of the state government where Zhong Hao lived have grown lushly, with emerald green leaves, and plums only the size of fingertips are hidden in the leaves. When these plums are ripe, it is good to use them to make some plum wine to drink.
When Zhong Hao was eating in the courtyard with Ye Yihan and Cao Keyao, Ye Yihan and Cao Keyao heard that Zhong Hao was going to Jingqiang Village, so they had to follow them to Jingqiang Village together, they wanted to go to the school in Jingqiang Village to be gentlemen, and they thought it was too boring to stay in Linzhou City.
Ye Yihan heard Cao Keyao say a while ago that there can be a female gentleman teaching in the school in Jingqiang Village, so he has been trying his best to persuade Cao Keyao to persuade Zhong Hao to agree to them to go to Jingqiang Village to do things, and today I heard Zhong Hao say that he was going to Jingqiang Village, so he strongly asked them to go to Jingqiang Village as well.
Zhong Hao is not the kind of old-fashioned master, and after thinking for a while, he agreed to Ye Yihan and Cao Keyao's request.
Inju is not Tokyo, nor is it Qingshu, and there are too few entertainment activities here. It can be said that in addition to Chang'an, it is not an exaggeration to say that the entire Kansai region is a desert of entertainment culture.
Don't talk about ordinary people, even high-ranking state officials like Zhong Hao, their usual entertainment activities after duty are just reading books or playing chess with Cao Keyao and Ye Yihan. The complicated and diverse entertainment activities in the interior of the Great Song Dynasty are really few in the border city of Linzhou. Of course, there are also Qing~Lou restaurants and the like, and some rich businessmen and gentry can still have some entertainment.
But Zhong Hao is now a general judge in Linzhou, a civil official who is a serious man, so he naturally has to pay attention to his identity, and it is not good to go in and out of the land of fireworks from time to time. Otherwise, if it is seen, I am afraid that there will be a lot of criticism. Besides, he came to Linzhou to be accompanied by two flower-like, charming and lovely concubines, and the fireworks in Linzhou, a bitter cold place, are afraid that the prostitutes in the building will definitely not be comparable.
You must know that this Ye Yihan has been elected as the Oiran of Qingzhou. This Oiran in Qingzhou, the land of Jingdong Road and the prosperous Dayi, is not comparable to the ordinary prostitutes in the land of Linzhou, it is simply the gap between heaven and earth.
Of course, in fact, the green ~ building in Linzhou still has some merits compared to the green ~ building in the interior, that is, there are many exotic beauties in the green ~ building here! For example, the dancers in Qiuzi in the Western Regions, the prostitutes in Khotan, and the Uighur beauties in Ganzhou are also famous. In this Linzhou City, this beauty in the Western Regions is a major feature.
However, although Zhong Hao also wanted to see the customs of these beauties in the Western Regions, Fu Ruozhu agreed that Ye Yihan and Cao Keyao came to Linzhou An important reason was to let them watch Zhong Hao, and not let him go to the wind ~ flow at will, nor let him go home again. Even Zhong Hao could only think about these beauties in the Western Regions in his heart, but he really couldn't put them into action and really see them.
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Regarding the matter of reclamation of barren tuntian, Zhang Wenyuan, the governor of this state, basically let Zhong Hao do it, and he is still the shopkeeper in this matter.
Zhang Wenyuan is old, and he is powerless about these pioneering things. Zhang Wenyuan is not from a Jinshi background, but his career is also very bumpy! He has been at the level of a county-level cadre all his life, and now that he is old, he has become this Zhizhou, and he is already very content. According to his temperament, as long as he finishes this term in peace, he plans to be a leader, and in all fairness, he does not plan to toss. However, he also knew that the reason why he was able to serve as the governor of Linzhou, and sent this very capable Zhong Tong to judge him, was to toss some movement. It was Zhang Wenyuan who naturally wanted to support Zhong Tong's judgment.
Zhong Hao planned to go to Jingqiang Village today, but before he left, Yang Huaiyu came.
Yang Huaiyu heard that Zhong Hao was going to Jingqiang Village, and couldn't help but be interested, saying that he would also go to Jingqiang Village. It's mainly greedy for the soju of this Jingqiang Village Wine Workshop, anyway, he doesn't have much to do in the Zhenxi Army, and it's okay for him to leave for a day or two, he just asked Yang Yong, who was on his side, to go back and talk to his daughter-in-law about Coke, and then follow Zhong Hao.
When he was about to leave, Yang Huaiyu remembered that he had come to find Zhong Hao. Yang Huaiyu took a hard bow from his war horse bow bag and said to Zhong Hao and Wang Hou: "Big brother, how about you look at this two-stone bow?!" ”
It turned out that when Zhong Hao took Ye Yihan and them to visit the Red Mansion that day, when they were on top of the Red Mansion, this Du Yong was laughed at by Cui Qi for not being able to ride and shoot. After returning, Du Yong begged Zhong Hao to get him a bow and arrow, and he wanted to practice riding and archery.
There were some bows and arrows in the arsenal of the Linzhou Prefecture Ya, but those standard bows and arrows were not challenging for Du Yong to use. The standard infantry longbow in the Great Song Dynasty army is a stone bow, and this standard mounted archery bow is an eight-bucket bow. Being able to pull this stone bow is enough to be selected for the forbidden army.
Unexpectedly, this Du Yong was born with divine power, he had never pulled a bow and shot an arrow, and the first time he used this eight-bucket riding bow, he pulled it and played the same, that is, the stone of the longbow was not challenging in his hands.
When Zhong Hao saw it, he couldn't help but be interested in Du Yong's strength. So let Yang Huaiyu change him to a harder bow with more strength, and see if he can pull it away, preferably two stones. If he can draw the two-stone bow, he can be used as a sniper against the party in the future, and snipe the enemy leader with a bow and arrow.
In fact, both the Western Army and the Xia Army have some people who are born with divine powers, and many of them have been trained to be sharpshooters. Some warriors who are born with divine power can even pull out the three-stone bow, if you have the talent of archery, train it, and you can become the legendary "Condor Shooter" here! This "Condor Shooter" is the super sniper of this era.
When the two armies face each other, they sometimes line up against the enemy. If there is such a "condor archer", they can often kill the opponent's main general at the beginning of the war, which is naturally heavy for the enemy's blow and can greatly increase their chances of victory.
Of course, there are not too many ancient snipers like this kind of "Condor Shooter", and it is said that there are only a few in the Great Song Dynasty. There were more Western Xia and Khitan, after all, they were a cavalry people. No one has an exact number on how much. This is mainly because these "condor archers" are treasure-like figures in various countries, and they are used as strategic weapons at critical times, and they are naturally well protected. And they generally hide their identity as "Condor Shooters" in case they are secretly killed by enemy countries, after all, this "Condor Shooter" poses too much threat to the enemy's commander.
Those who can open a three-stone strong bow have the capital to become a "condor shooter", and this "condor shooter" is very rare. This also shows that there are very few people who can open a three-stone strong bow.
There are few people who can open a three-stone strong bow, so it naturally doesn't make much sense to make a three-stone strong bow, so this three-stone strong bow is also difficult to find. Although there are many good shooters in this Western Army, these three-stone strong bows are also rare. Of course, Zhong Hao didn't expect this Du Yong to be able to open these three stone strong bows, and he felt that he would be very useful if he could open two stones. Therefore, when Zhong Hao asked Yang Huaiyu to change the hard bow, he said that it was enough to have a hard bow with two stones.
Zhong Hao took the hard bow, glanced at it and asked, "Is this the Xingzhou bow?!" How powerful?! ”
Zhong Hao has also been in the northwest, and knows that most of the strong bows in the western army are made in Xingzhou. This bow is rough and unadorned, but the bowstring and bow body are very rigorous and powerful, like the style of the Xingzhou bow.
The Xingzhou bow in Zhong Hao's mouth had to be a bow made by the official of the Xingqing Mansion in Western Xia. Xingqing Mansion is the former Xingzhou, although since the Western Xia set the capital of Xingzhou, it was renamed Xingqing Mansion, but in the population of the Great Song Dynasty, it is still used to call Xingqing Mansion Xingzhou.
Although the armament of the Great Song army was also based on bows and crossbows. Long-range attacks have always been valued in the military. When they went into battle, whether they were carrying spears or swords and shields, they inevitably brought a bow or a crossbow.
However, the party members have always attached importance to bows and crossbows. Crossbows are used in the army, and due to technical reasons, the party members cannot make a hard crossbow with outstanding strength. However, the longbow manufacturing technology of the party members is famous for its excellence, and it can make high-quality bows and arrows. In particular, the official construction of the Xingqing Prefecture Bow and Crossbow Courtyard is even higher than the production of the Tokyo City Commander.
Although the bow is a little more difficult to master, it is easy to make and easy to maintain. And because of the complex structure of this crossbow, it is easy to be damaged and difficult to maintain, so in this crossbow, the party gives priority to the development of hard bows. Anyway, in the development of this crossbow, the party has priority in technology, and it can't compare to the Great Song Dynasty, so he simply gave up and mainly developed a hard bow to suppress the Great Song Dynasty on the bow and crossbow.
It is precisely because of this that the proportion of crossbow equipment in the Great Song army is much higher than that of the Western Xia army.
However, the party members are naturally good at shooting, and although this bow and arrow are more difficult to master than the crossbow, it is not difficult for them in the slightest. And this bow and arrow is relatively simple to make and easy to maintain. The crossbows equipped by a large number of Great Song Dynasty were slightly inferior to the Western Xia army in terms of long-range attack capability because of their complex structure, easy damage and responsible maintenance.
In the northwest, a well-made Xingzhou bow can often be sold for more than 20 times. At this price, there are still many people in the Great Song Dynasty who are eager to buy it.
Of course, the price of a Xingzhou good bow of twenty guan is the price of the black market on the border of Song and Xia. The Xixia people are not stupid, this Xingzhou good bow is the housekeeping weapon of the Xixia people, and it is naturally not allowed to be sold to the Great Song people.
However, just like the unscrupulous merchants who sold their weapons to the enemy in the Great Song Dynasty, there were also merchants who privately sold the Xingzhou bow to the Great Song army in Western Xia. This Xingzhou bow is naturally equipped with the elite troops of the Western Xia, and naturally only the army has this Xingzhou bow, so it can be known that these merchants who sell Xingzhou bows are all related households in the Western Xia army. Of course, from the perspective of the Great Song Dynasty, the more unscrupulous merchants who sold the advanced weapons of Western Xia, the better.
"Big brother's eyesight is rising, hehe, this hard bow is indeed made in Xingzhou. Hehe, this bow is the treasure of the Baojing Army, and it is full of strength of two stones and three buckets, and the strength of a little bit can't be pulled at all. The younger brother used his strength to eat, but he could only pull more than half of it, and he couldn't pull the bow at all. In the past, there was a man named Han Wu in the Baojing army who could shoot this bow, but this Han Wu died in a battle when the Baojing army went to Hengshan to fight the Xia people two years ago. This bow is useless in the Baojing Army. This time, the eldest brother said that you wanted me to change a strong bow, and the younger brother thought of this one. But Bao Jingjun can say that if your follower named Du Yong can be full, he will send you. If you are not satisfied, you can't use this bow, and you have to return it to others. ”
Zhong Hao took the longbow handed over by Yang Huaiyu and pulled it hard, wrapping the bowstring of horsehair and human hair so that his fingers hurt. Sure enough, it is a hard bow that can kill, and it is definitely not a toy for wall decoration.
"Is there a wrench?! Big brother, I'll try it first! Zhong Hao asked Yang Huaiyu. Zhong Hao couldn't help but be interested when he saw this strong bow with two stones and three buckets today!
Zhong Hao has now practiced Qi Channeling Technique for a small time, and his strength has increased greatly, and now he is no longer the weak scholar he used to be. After coming to Linzhou, although Zhong Hao's official duties were complicated, he still practiced this qi conduction technique every day, and practiced the Yunfeng sword technique without stopping, and his physical condition was maintained well. Seeing this strong bow with two stones and three buckets today, Zhong Hao couldn't help but want to test his strength.
"Wrench?! Big brother, you want to shoot this bow?! This kind of strong bow is not a joke, you can cut off your fingers if you are not careful, big brother, don't mess around. ”
Yang Huaiyu couldn't help but be a little stunned when he heard that Zhong Hao was going to open this strong bow with two stones and three buckets, and felt that his jaw was shocked. Yang Huaiyu has the impression that his eldest brother is a standard weak scholar, and Yang Huaiyu is extremely admired for his eldest brother's other skills, but only this force value makes Yang Huaiyu feel very speechless.
In the past, Yang Huaiyu relied on his own force value to be far higher than his eldest brother, so he could find comfort in his heart. Today, when I heard that my eldest brother was going to open this one, which is also a strong bow that people with natural divine power are dissatisfied with, I couldn't help but be a little surprised.
This kind of strong bow with more than two stones is not a joke, and if you are not careful, you will really hurt yourself, so Yang Huaiyu heard Zhong Hao say that he wanted to try it, so he naturally spoke out to dissuade him.