After a long time, it was Han Qi who broke the calm, he picked up the musket, and said calmly: "If it's just this power, this musket is not terrible, but his terrible thing is that it is universal!" ”

Universality, this is also the military of the Northern Song Dynasty, has been studied, why the longbow will be stronger than the traditional bow and arrow, the fundamental reason is not the range, but the power, the production capacity of the Northern Song Dynasty in the past, enough to make the entire forbidden army, all become archers, but no, only those who have talent can become archers, otherwise, forcibly become archers, but it is a little bad.

The longbow has low requirements, is easy to shape, and even as long as you follow orders, you can enter the longbow team, at least, play a role in a short time.

But this weapon is more terrifying than the longbow, the whole way of use, as long as there is no problem with intelligence, you can simply learn, you can shoot, you can go to the battlefield to kill, as for the accuracy, although you need to practice slowly, but it is also much stronger than the longbow.

You must know that his personal soldiers, it only took half a day, it seems to be the same, a few hundred meters away, can hit the target, will not miss the target, perhaps, his personal soldiers, the strength is stronger than ordinary people, but ordinary people, even if they are literati, as long as they master the technology, they can also fight decently.

Among these high-level officials present, most of them are civilian officials, but almost one-fifth of them have been engaged in military affairs, one or two of them are younger, and they take the initiative to try, Han Qi told one by one, in fact, when it comes to the fixed ammunition of the firearm, the operation has been simplified a lot, and the magazine does not have to be considered first, as long as there is a bullet in it, pull the bolt, and then shoot.

Renzong is in front, of course, it is impossible to let these people operate it personally, but it is still possible to simulate it without bullets.

There are a lot of discerning people in these, and after trying the musket a little, combined with what Han Qi described, after the use of various muskets by the Dinghai Navy, you can simply get some rules for the use of muskets, no wonder, the Dinghai Navy did not develop the longbow on a large scale.

This is also a problem that they have been considering before, the longbow has been valued by the Northern Song Dynasty since it was popularized in the forbidden army, and all the trees suitable for longbow materials have been registered and monitored, and there are special people to protect them, perhaps this will make the cost of the longbow rise a little, but it ensures sufficient production and controls such a strategic material.

Although the production capacity of the Dinghai Navy is quite high, most of their raw materials are not produced, once a large amount of wood used in longbows is imported, as well as silk threads, they will definitely be discovered, in fact, after the large-scale hunting of longbows, these timbers have been controlled.

In this case, the Ding Navy wants to be equipped with a small number of longbows, such as thousands, one or two thousand, this is no problem, if there are more, it will not work, this is also the fundamental reason why they have been ignoring the Ding Navy before, in the eyes of the vast majority of courtiers, the Ding Navy is probably just a rich landlord, at most, a little force.

That's right, Zhao Xin didn't take the road of longbow at the beginning, but in the early days of ascending the Dinghai Navy, because of insufficient armaments, he was equipped with some, and the main defense was the fortress.

Later, with the gradual development of the Dinghai Navy, the garrison force has always maintained a considerable scale, and the rotation is relatively frequent, but in terms of weapons, it is only the simplest weapon, which is used to train the whole discipline.

Since the birth of war, long-range weapons have considerable advantages over melee weapons, if it is said, the Dinghai Navy has not encountered Niu Dali, there is no leapfrog development, and it will not choose the longbow, although the longbow is very good.

When developing bow and crossbow weapons, Zhao Xin had many choices, for example, the steel crossbow of later generations, which was more powerful than ordinary crossbows, and the same, it could be mass-produced, but physics was not as good as chemistry, and with muskets, there was no need to climb the technology line on this.

In the end, after a discussion, no one had a good solution, and in the end, Renzong set his eyes on Zongzheng, who was Renzong's uncle's generation, who was over 70 years old and had been very low-key in the court.

Some of the important ministers saw that Zong Zheng was about to come out to speak, and they were shocked, no matter how much the form deteriorated, this was not a good move, and even Han Qi, including Han Qi, did not think that Zhao Xin would return to his original identity.

After crossing that class, crossing that class, then it can't go down anymore, Zhao Xin became the emperor of the Liao State, and naturally there is a group of followers, not the original lonely people, it is impossible to let go of this identity and return to the Northern Song Dynasty.

Even Han Qi and Jia Chaochang, such heads of the East and West Mansions, took the initiative to propose, and the other important ministers were not particularly in favor, Renzong was also thinking about it, now for Zhao Xin, he can no longer be regarded as a child, he is an emperor, so what he thought before, perhaps, is really a little reckless.

A discussion, at this point, has come to an end, the news that Han Qi brought back is very shocking, they thought that the navy would be very powerful, able to destroy the Liao State, and did not recognize his strength, it was definitely sitting in the well and watching the sky, but it was so strong that it was enough to beat the Liao State, and even beat the Northern Song Dynasty, which was more or less unacceptable.

This matter of the Dinghai Navy is like a huge shadow, completely shrouded in the political arena of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Dingjun Navy has gone from a small border state to the Liao State, and now, it can even directly threaten the Northern Song Dynasty.

Whether it is a million forbidden army or a fortress, these things cannot be resisted, the Northern Song Dynasty does not have the slightest sense of security, and the reason why it can exist now is not because the Northern Song Dynasty is strong enough, but because the Ding Navy has not yet put its mind on the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the end, Renzong, who was interested in the revival, took the initiative to disperse the party, Han Qi himself, what else did he want to say, after all, there is another strategic thing, for example, the location of the Dinghai Navy, as well as the huge maritime power under its control, even the Liao Kingdom in the north, and even the more distant North Kingdom thousands of miles away, can be landed on a large scale, so the closer Northern Song Dynasty has no problem.

However, Han Qi didn't say it, he couldn't even solve it with artillery and muskets, not to mention this strategic problem, he could just push it flat, it didn't mean much to talk about it, and besides, he didn't have a solution to it.

Faintly, in Han Qi's heart, a thought came to mind, muskets and artillery, I'm afraid that only muskets and artillery of the same level can deal with them, so ships, the same.

So it's especially important to figure out how these things are made.

This idea, not only Han Qi has, but also some of the shrewd ministers, have also paid attention to this problem, if the Northern Song Dynasty can be copied, maybe with the huge financial resources of the Northern Song Dynasty, it can equip some of it, maybe it can't be as good as the Ding Navy, how to say, it can also have a little resistance.

Soon, someone proposed to divide the 20 guns brought by Han Qi and have them studied by special craftsmen.

Han Qi left 2 as a souvenir, 18 of them couldn't be studied, I'm afraid 20 of them, it would be difficult to study anything, and the rest were distributed to those outstanding craftsmen.

At present, the Northern Song Dynasty has not only developed steadily in all aspects, but also the treatment of craftsmen has been improved because of the emergence of the Ding Navy, although most of them have been poached by the Ding Navy, but the rest have also been valued, not only the treatment has been improved, but the personal means have also been improved.

At the very least, it will not appear, the kind that is unhurried in the workshop and flies when it arrives at the Dinghai Navy, after learning and summarizing, the production efficiency has been improved many times compared to the previous one.

Although they have never touched such weapons, there is no difficulty in simply using guns, and even the basic skill of disassembling guns when Dinghai targets is also taught by Dinghai.

The overall firearm is not easy to imitate, but the basic structure can be disassembled, indeed, many things can be replaced with iron, and some of them can be replaced by the better fine iron of the current Ministry of Industry, but there is no way to solve the two things, the barrel and the spring.

This is an area that has never been studied in the Northern Song Dynasty, the former is steel with super flexibility and hardness, even in the Dinghai Navy is in a high-end position, similar to the Northern Song Dynasty, even ordinary crude steel can not reach mass production, and it is impossible to meet the needs at all, of course, there is a simple way, that is, thickening, this opinion was put forward, but it was vetoed by Han Qi, because if it is thickened, this weight is too big, really the weight of a gun, more than 80 catties, which is for users, It's also a huge burden.

The same is true for springs, springs with sufficient hardness and elasticity, which are considered high-end goods in steel, and the same is true in later generations, let alone the Northern Song Dynasty.

The firearm is going well, but when it comes to the bullet, it gets stuck, Zhao Xin once said casually, the firearm is just the most basic thing, with a gun, if there is no bullet, it is a burning stick.

In Han Qi's view, firearms are very large and complex, with many parts, and they are made of steel, which should be difficult to copy, but after real research, it is bullets that are difficult to copy.

Small, much smaller bullets than firearms, after opening, are simple cartridge cases and bullets, and in the middle part, there are different colors and different distributions of powder, these powders, so that any craftsman can not recognize what this is.

The propellant, as well as the entire launch mechanism, is the core of the entire Dinghai Navy, that is, in the top-secret laboratory, under the guidance of Zhao Xin, with nitrocellulose as the core, and then added some different things, the smokeless gunpowder made is not only powerful, but also has no residue, which is the best propellant.

Even in normal history, it took decades, hundreds of years, and slowly walked the road, but Dinghai had such a golden finger as Zhao Xin, which could be made, and the Northern Song Dynasty lacked too many things.

In fact, bullets and firearms, their technical content, is quite far behind, after having a few machine tools, with some steel, even if it is a small workshop, you can also process firearms, but bullets, unless it is the kind of reloading, the real bullet production line, the whole world, with manufacturing capacity, there are not many.

18 firearms, divided into different groups, separately researched, but the results are very small, even mentioned is unlikely, bullets are even more so, I don't know how many bullets were disassembled, in the end just figured out, the powder in the bullet, should be a kind of gunpowder, but what it is, I don't know, the power is very great, much higher than black powder, if you use black powder instead, it can't be fired at all.

Zhao Xinxin's golden finger spanned different firearms, and the things finally made, the Northern Song Dynasty couldn't even understand it, let alone imitate it, and the crushing of technology brought about it was like this, and such a result made the high-level leaders of the Northern Song Dynasty who had high hopes for imitation suddenly feel cold.

The display in the Imperial Garden is just the beginning, and next, whether it is the Eastern Mansion or the Privy Council, they all hold meetings, large-scale meetings, from the level of the governor to the ordinary middle-level officials, after all, after the Dinghai Navy took the Liao State, this could not be hidden.

The news immediately spread, before, only the important ministers of the DPRK and the central government knew, even Jia Chaochang, who was hostile to the Ding Navy, did not dare to say indiscriminately at this juncture, you know, I thought that the Ding Navy was Han Qi's help, and in order to break Han Qi's arm, I started, who knew that the Ding Navy was so powerful.

Replace Liao, become the emperor, and be on an equal footing with Renzong, this is not enough, the key is that he is Renzong's own son, God knows how to develop in the future.

Now, it spreads, the first thing to know is those who were sent to the palace The children of the clan, they were selected, in the past few years, the most important thing is to study, because up to now, the eldest is only a teenager, and he has not yet learned, Renzong's age is not too old, his health is still very good, there is no need to choose, or according to the fixed rules, slowly cultivate for a period of time.

But now, they have already withdrawn, and there is no possibility of coming back, but now they are suddenly rising, they are concerned about chaos, without thinking, Zhao Xin has become the actual control of the Liao State, and the Northern Song Dynasty can be on an equal footing, they take it for granted that Zhao Xin has the credit for destroying Liao, returned to the Northern Song Dynasty, and took back the position of heir, which makes people who have worked hard for several years for this position, how can they accept it.

These princes were first in chaos, first through various channels, began to influence the small and medium-level officials, and then through the high-level help, the situation suddenly became chaotic, this moment, Zhao Xin's identity, from a small number of people to know, suddenly turned into most people know, should not know this identity of small and medium-sized officials, and even some wealthy landlords in Bianliang, but also through the aspect of the clear know, this news can not be controlled, in an instant, the situation in Bianliang, there are signs of out of control.