Chapter 55: Listening to the Thunder in the Silence (continued)

The acceptance meeting of the thunderbolt was "successfully closed" in the western suburbs of Yecheng, and the guests appreciated the power of the thunder, and the prime minister Wei Chi Yuan was very satisfied with the sharp weapon presented by Shannan. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Between Shannan and the imperial court, there are many exchanges of interests involved in the thunderstorm, and the court's allocation of more than 10,000 war horses in Shannan is just a 'deposit', and now the thunderbolt is successfully accepted, and the remaining 'final payment' can be settled.

After talking with Yu Wenwen for a while, he said a lot of encouraging words such as "Young man, do a good job, I am optimistic about you", Wei Chi Hui took the lead in returning home, and the rest of the people also left one after another, but Yu Wenwen was not in a hurry to leave, and stayed where he was to chat with his father-in-law.

That day, the court would meet him 'pounce on the palace', and when he returned to the embassy to recuperate from his injuries, Wei Chishun came to visit, and he also met when he handed over the secret recipe of the thunder, after all, the two were Weng's son-in-law, and they talked about more topics.

The thunder is considered to be a smooth handover, and many affairs between Shannan and the imperial court have also been straightened out, and there is nothing special about it next, and after the Shannan delegation returns, Yuwenwen will stay in Yecheng for three months.

During this time in Yecheng, only Yu Chishun's family can be regarded as Yuwenwen's relatives, just like Yu Chishun was in Anlu before, but now he has lost a position among Weng and his son-in-law.

Seeing that his son-in-law's eyes narrowed slightly, as if he was beginning to suffocate the water, Wei Chishun couldn't help but knock: "It's here, I'll visit the Duke of Shu in a few days, and I'll accompany you, don't make any extraneous branches." ”

He mentioned that his father used the title of "Duke of Shu" instead of "Prime Minister", in order to dilute the color of officialdom and appear closer, after all, his son-in-law is also his father's grandson-in-law, and it is much more calm to visit as a junior.

"Wei Angong, are they also there?" Yuwenwen asked,

"I don't know, after all, it's just an ordinary family banquet, presumably Duke Wei An and Duke Xidu won't come."

Hearing what his father-in-law said, Yu Wenwen nodded, and visited the Prime Minister's Mansion as him, not to the point where he needed Wei Chi and Wei Chi Youqi to sit together, but he didn't want too many people.

Yuwen Wen is not afraid to face the men of the Wei Chi family, but these people are all masters who lead troops to fight, and the amount of alcohol should be similar to that of his father-in-law.

If you get drunk and have sex, it won't be good if something happens!

After drinking too much, he went crazy on the spot, and when he saw a woman, he shouldn't be able to talk about it, Yu Wenwen was just worried that there were many people around him after he woke up, a beautiful and disheveled maid woman, and he would be bloody when he got a hit in the back.

He doesn't like the feeling that the situation is out of control and at the mercy of others, just like taking Diyejia before, how disgusting it is, how disgusting it is, and how much it is not addictive, whether it is intentional or unintentional, Yuwenwen has already sent someone to check quietly.

After talking with his father-in-law for a while, he pushed the boat and proposed to visit the Xiandu Garden by the way, which was temporarily zoned as an experimental land for the thunderbolt, so Wei Chishun, who was specifically responsible for the production of the thunderbolt, was the master.

"I'll test it again later, don't be scared." Wei Chishun explained, and when he saw that his son-in-law nodded, he sent an official to lead the other party around, and he was accompanied by several soldiers to make sure that everything was perfect.

Xiandu Garden has been abandoned for several years, although it is now renovated again, and there are soldiers guarding everywhere, but Xiandu Garden covers a wide area, except for the place where the thunder is made, it is strictly defended, and it is inevitable that there will be chickens and dogs and thieves in other areas.

The son-in-law's identity is slightly special, but nothing can happen, otherwise Wei Chishun will not be like his father to explain, and it will be difficult to explain to his daughter Wei Chi Chifan.

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Yu Wenwen stood on the 'Zhongyue Song Mountain', looking at the surrounding cottage east, south, west, and north Yue quite emotional, this former royal garden is really magnificent, the soil is dug for the mountain, the pond is the sea, there are flowers and trees everywhere, and the eyes are lush and green.

It's just that it has been dilapidated for many years now, and looking at the remains of the buildings submerged in the sea of trees, he suddenly has a ridiculous feeling in his heart, as if he is in the jungle of the Americas, and in front of him is the ruins of a Mayan city.

The prosperous building in the past is now empty, and the birds and birds that fall on it are chirping, which seems to tell the lively scene of the year.

"Seeing him rise up a tall building, seeing him feasting guests, seeing his building collapse..."Yu Wenwen muttered, turned his head and walked down the mountain, while acting as a tour guide, listening to him hum, he only felt that his words were full of sadness.

Yu Wenwen walked on the forest path, looking at the flowers and plants on both sides, thinking about things in his heart, the camp of the Wei Chi family was quite shocked, and he was also thinking about it while he was envious.

When talking to his father-in-law, Yuwenwen wanted to say that he would be introduced by his father-in-law in the future, and he would visit Wei Chi Dan and Wei Chi You's mansion respectively, but after thinking about it, he still gave up, he just wanted to go by himself, and let his father-in-law go is not happy.

The father-in-law and the two younger brothers are half-brothers, and the relationship between them is the same, like the stepmother in the usual sense, the stepmother Wang is not very good to Wei Chishun, who is not her own, and only thinks about digging all the dishes on the plate to her two sons.

All kinds of 'black history' of Wei Chi Hui's family, Yu Wenwen once heard his wife Wei Chi Chi Fan mention one or two, since Wei Chi Hui continued, there was a feeling of fire in the backyard in the house.

Yu Chi Hui's original match was Princess Jin Ming, the daughter of the Yuan Bao Torch of the Western Wei Emperor, who gave birth to Yu Chi Yi, Yu Chi Kuan and Yu Chi Shun.

Although Yu Wenwen doesn't know the specific age of this 'fifth uncle', the other party is close to his brother's age, and his name is 'Youqi', so it can be thought that Yu Chi Hui loves this son a lot.

In ancient times, it was called "Qi" at the age of 60 years old, according to the age of Yu Chi Youqi and Yu Chi Hui, Yu Chi Hui was about 60 years old and had the fifth son, "Youqi" means to bless him as an old man, and the meaning of the love for the young son in the name could not be clearer.

At this time, Wei Chi was over the age of six, and his energy was naturally not as good as before, and the relatively young Xu Xian Wang was energetic and had the means to take care of the affairs of the house, and he was extremely protective of his two sons based on human nature.

Therefore, the relationship between the first three and the last two sons of Yu Chi Hui is not very good, and the three sons left by the Yuan family are now gone, and the remaining Yu Chi Shun is naturally alone.

Yu Chishun has no son, and basically has no chance to take over the mantle of Yu Chi Yuan, and he can't threaten Wang's son Wei Chi Xuan or Wei Chi Youqi, thinking that in the eyes of Wang, the threat has decreased a lot.

But Wei Chi Hui has been calling his son back thousands of miles away, it will definitely be of great use, and I don't know if the Wang family will blow the pillow wind and fan the yin wind to light the ghost fire, so as not to endanger his son's status and share an extra family property in the future.

It was with this in mind that Yu Wenwen wanted to help his father-in-law, and the secret recipe for thunder, he only handed it over to Yu Chi Shun, and in front of Prime Minister Wei Chi Yuan, he said, "If there is a leak, please behead the Duke of Angu County to set an example" Yunyun.

Although there is an idea of a small pit, but it is more important to help his father-in-law, no matter what the secret, the fewer people who know, the better it is to keep it secret, anyway, what Wei Chishun knows, it is not difficult for Wei Chi Shun to know.

Wei Chishun is responsible for the production of the thunder, as long as Wei Chi is not too partial, then this is the only business, Wei Chishun has a greater say among his peers with this sharp weapon.

The reason why I thought of these is that Yuwen Wen has a fantasy, and he fantasizes that he can provoke the infighting of the Yu Chi family and achieve the benefits of the fisherman's profit, but if he thinks about it, unless Yu Chishun has a son, who can he pass on such a hard fight.

Wei Chi Yi had five sons, Wei Chiyi was killed, his sons were still minors, and they were imprisoned in Chang'an by Yang Jian, and they didn't know how to live or die; Wei Kuan died early, leaving no heirs.

Wei Chidun left Chang'an three years ago, and his family was then trapped there, and later after a prisoner exchange, his wife and children came to Yecheng; His younger brother Wei Chi Youqi is married and has a son. Just by virtue of whether he has an heir or not, Wei Chishun will definitely not be able to fight.

Unless there is a son, this is not impossible to solve, Wei Chishun can inherit one from his brother Wei Chiyi's son, but the key is that those few can come back alive, and they must be normal people, not castrated, this is not a joke.

When Yuwentai founded the Western Wei Dynasty, his nephew Yuwen Shifei fell into the hands of the powerful minister Gao Huan, and was killed not long after, Yuwen Shifei's son Yuwenxuan was young, although he survived but was castrated and sent to the palace as a eunuch.

Later, the Eastern and Western Wei exchanged prisoners, and Yuwenxuan returned to his uncle Yuwentai, but he was disabled and could not reproduce children, and it was his uncle Yuwenhu who passed on his young son to him to continue the incense.

Yuwen Hu regent, killed the lives of two cousins who were emperors, and was killed by the third cousin of the emperor, Yuwen Yong, his sons were all killed, and Yuwen Hui, the son who succeeded Yu Wenxuan, was not spared, and Yuwen Xuan became a lonely man again, and finally died in the war of the second year of the elephant, and was extinct.

In view of this, Yu Wenwen feels that it is very possible for Yang Jian to play performance art eunuchs, so don't get too much hope, if Wei Chishun has no son, it is not interesting to fight around, although the son-in-law is also half a son...

Anyway, it is impossible for Yuwen Wen to become Yu Chiwen!

"Xiyang Jungong, the hour is coming." The clerk on the side suddenly reminded that when Yu Wenwen heard this, he remembered that his father-in-law mentioned that he would try to explode a thunderbolt, but this place was quite far away from that venue, so the sound would not be deafening.

Yu Wenwen now came to a large pond at the edge of the forest, looked at the calm water, stood quietly and waited for the loud noise to come, many birds fell from the trees in the forest, chirping from time to time.

The surroundings gradually quieted down, and at this moment, suddenly a dull thunderclap came from the east, startling countless birds and finches in the forest, seeing the flocks of frightened birds hovering in the sky, Yu Wenwen's thoughts also flew into the sky.

Two years after the advent of the thunderbolt, there is still a helpless emergence of technology diffusion, and sooner or later it will spread to all countries.

Thunder is made of gunpowder barrel or bag, gunpowder composition is very simple, but in history until the late Tang Dynasty by the alchemist discovered, its characteristics were discovered by people and then put into the military, but this form of thunder did not appear until the Song Dynasty.

Yuwen Wen advanced the appearance time of the thunder by four or five hundred years, and from the moment it was put into battle, the diffusion of technology was inevitable, after all, such a sharp weapon was wanted by everyone, and once the imperial court thought about it, Shannan would not be able to cover it.

Unless they set themselves up as kings and do not submit to others, but their strength is too weak, that is impossible.

Not only that, but the gravity trebuchet has also spread out, this simple structure of the siege machine, in fact, is not surprising, compared with the human trebuchet, the principle is simple but separated by a layer of window paper.

Based on the speculation that the Sui State may have mastered the gravity trebuchet technology, Shannan took the initiative to dedicate the drawings of the gravity trebuchet to the imperial court, and the Sui State, which suffered from the gravity trebuchet, really mastered this technology, and the attack and defense of the two sides returned to the starting point again.

The continuous reinforcement of the city defenses in various cities on both sides weakened the power of gravity trebuchets, and it was likely that it would be difficult to reproduce the battle example of taking only a few days to break through Xiangyang, and Chen Guo in Jiangnan would not take long to obtain this technology.

'Thankfully, no artillery was introduced, otherwise it would have been doomed. Yu Wenwen thought in his heart, the shadow of the diffusion of technology was the reason why he did not dare to let the artillery "come out".

The war continues, as soon as there is a breakthrough in military science and technology, unless the holder can quickly pacify the enemy country, the various forces will naturally follow suit, war is the best catalyst for scientific and technological progress, Yuwenwen knows the structure of artillery, but he does not dare to make it into battle.

Artillery and muskets are a major innovation in the use of gunpowder, and artillery is a sharp weapon for field warfare, siege, and city defense, and the size of national strength directly affects the number of artillery.

Casting artillery requires a large amount of metal, cannonballs are no exception, gunpowder requires a large amount of saltpeter, sulfur, and these Shannan are lacking, once all parties have an arms race to cast cannons, Shannan will definitely be at the bottom.

The problem of nitrate, Yuwenwen has a secret method to solve, but sulfur is very difficult, there is not much natural sulfur in Shannan Prefecture, and the use of pyrite to prepare sulfur is "high-tech", and the output of gunpowder cannot go up, not to mention the large amount of copper required for casting cannons.

The metal of the cast cannon can be bronze or iron, but the difficulty of casting the iron cannon is greater than that of the bronze cannon, whether it is iron or copper, there is no big mine in Shannan today, and if the raw materials are insufficient, don't want to compete with others to make cannons.

And the power of the artillery is obviously far greater than the thunder, and the principle is not complicated, Yu Wenwen's concern is that once the artillery comes out, the forces of all parties will master this high-tech weapon sooner or later.

The Central Plains is just that, if the Turks in the steppe have artillery, it will be a disaster.

Just like the Later Jin at the end of the Ming Dynasty in later generations, when there was no artillery unit, it was just a disaster in Liaodong, and it was unstoppable after having artillery, and the Ming army could not defeat the Houjin army in the field, only by virtue of the strong city to hold on and wait for reinforcements, but the other party had siege artillery, and everything was over.

Today's Central Plains is full of disputes, and the Turkic army on the grassland, with its strong mobility, can unscrupulously enter the Central Plains to "fight the grass valley", the Central Plains army can only defend the city, the main force such as the strong wall and the clear field to rescue, once the Turks get artillery, the city can not be defended.

The Turks, who were originally the former overlord of the grassland, Rouran, were iron forging slaves, and the metallurgical level was not bad, and then became the new overlord of the grassland, an empire with many cavalry, and mastered such sharp weapons as artillery, the scene was too beautiful, Yuwenwen didn't dare to think about it.

It took three or four hundred years for gunpowder to appear in the late Tang Dynasty to the prototype of artillery in the Yuan Dynasty.

'Boom... In the future, on the battlefield, what should the Tiger Forest Army do if it encounters a ferocious thunderbolt? It's time to prepare for a rainy day...' )