"Your Majesty, what should you name your child?" Zhang Wanxi asked.

Li Ji is not a cultural person, and he is a little rustic and easy to support: "How about calling it a big flower?" Li Dahua. ”

Zhang Wanxi glanced at him: "Okay, you're not afraid of other people's jokes, and you're not afraid that your daughter will grow up and blame you, you can call it."

"Then call Li Xiaojuan, Li Xiuzhi, Li Cuilian, Li Yuxia ......"

Of course, this is a joke, with such an unreliable father, Zhang Wanxi kicked him.

Li Ji was honest: "How about calling her Qingyang?"

Zhang Wanxi shook her head: "It's not good, Qingyang Wanxi, my father named me Wanxi, how can our child be above her mother."

It's really not good at naming Li Ji, if it is too modern, it will be too disobedient: "Then it's still the queen, you can give it to her, you can't live for me."

Zhang Wanxi thought for a while: "This child suffered so much when he gave birth to her, I hope he can grow up and be safe and happy all his life."

Li Ji: "Li Ping'an, Li Xile."

Is this still my father, Zhang Wanxi sighed leisurely: "Yingying upstairs girl, Jiaojiao is the window, just call her Ziying."

"Ying?"

"Balance and abundance, I hope our children will be able to live a happy and full life in the future."

Wishing for a happy child for a lifetime is the wish of every parent.

Li Ziying, the first child of Emperor Li Ji of the Tang Dynasty, was named Princess Chang'an when she was born. In order to think of the meaning of Chang'an, the former capital of the Tang Dynasty, and then it is Changle and tranquility.

In the steel plant, batches of steel are produced in large quantities. The weapons supervisor rushed to work day and night, and it was easy to do things with money, and now the people around Luoyang City were rich and the labor force was abundant.

Thin pieces of armor, spears, bows, and crossbows, as well as various agricultural tools and iron pots, were all taken from iron tools from the iron works.

These days, Li Ji took Li Baoguo and others to soak in the fire weapons prison every day, and he wanted to study the progress of firearms.

The system was unreliable, and Li Ji could only rely on his memory to study flowering bullets and arquebuses.

Li Ji had read books on this subject before, but he had almost forgotten them.

With fine iron and gunpowder, as long as you know the principle of arquebus, it is not difficult to make it.

The structure of the arquebus, which has a barrel, a butt, a trigger, and a mechanical structure for firing, can basically be regarded as the prototype of the gun in the future.

However, due to the limitation of the fire rope, there are many inconveniences when using it, especially when the weather is bad, or when you need to wait for a long time, it is not easy to maintain the fire head. What's more, the gunman was full of small bags with gunpowder, and the two swaying fireheads made people pinch a cold sweat from time to time.

Although arquebuses could be crafted and even equipped for the army, Li Ji had greater ambitions, he wanted to make smoothbore guns.

In fact, as long as you understand the principle, the production of smoothbore guns is very simple. In the last century, earthen guns were heavily equipped among the people, most of them were used for hunting, and many earthen guns were made privately.

Don't underestimate these earthen guns, although there is no smoothbore line, they are as powerful as Seiko firearms.

In particular, the iron sand or steel balls pushed by black powder are shot out into a fan, which is extremely powerful in the effective range.

Breech charge, black powder or yellow powder is used for collision fire, and shotgun fires iron sand or steel balls.

The accuracy of the target after ejection is not as high as Seiko's gun, but the explosive strength is comparable to Seiko's gun, or even stronger.

At this point, Li Ji really knows. He had one of these guns at home, and when he was a child, his grandfather often took him up to the mountains to hunt hares.

It's a pity that it was handed over later, Li Ji clearly remembered that his grandfather took rhubarb and carried this old earthen gun, and he didn't need to aim at all when he saw wild things. A shot swept through, and the iron sand was like rain that poured out, and the hare was killed with one shot.

However, this hare skin has too many bullet holes and is not worth much. He still remembers the scene when his grandfather would sell dozens of hare skins from his family during the Chinese New Year and bargain with the dealers who bought them.

When Li Ji was a child, he played with the flintlock device on the earthen gun, and he also removed the trigger parts, for which he was beaten well.

However, theory and practice have always been two different things, and Li Ji convened the R&D personnel of the Ordnance Supervision to go through countless experiments. Dismantled and disassembled, and the early dynasty was canceled, which caused opposition in the court.

The emperor should do what your emperor should do, you don't go to the dynasty early, and you study gunpowder. Scientific research is misleading.

"Queen Mother, take care of Your Majesty. Your Majesty has abandoned the government in the past few days, and I don't think about politics, and I am afraid that I will miss the country in the long run. Dugu Zhen took a group of old ministers to Jishan Palace to cry.

"Yes, the house is full of sparse voices under the door. The minister went to find His Majesty, but was scolded by His Majesty, saying that I have to worry about everything, and what do you courtiers do. There is really nowhere to put the old minister's face, this national policy is naturally approved by His Majesty, how dare the ministers trespass. This is not a war, and Your Majesty is not a pro-conscription. Kong Lin also followed.

Yu Shi Cui Yuan was short-tempered: "Queen Mother, Your Majesty disregarded the physique, and actually went to the weapons prison to follow that group of strange and skillful subordinates to engage in weapons." This Son of Heaven should have the responsibility of the Son of Heaven, how can he act recklessly. ”

Empress Dowager He sighed: "The mourning family is old, and His Majesty has his own sense of what he does." Besides, if you don't listen to what you say, what's the use of me trying to persuade you? ”

The ministers looked at each other, this is not like the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother is the most important on weekdays, how can she be so indulgent to Your Majesty today.

But he didn't know that although the Empress Dowager He was a woman, she was more far-sighted than most men, and he knew that Li Ji had his own reasons for doing this.

It is not modest to say that Datang can have today, not because of a certain minister or a certain general, but because of Li Ji.

His own son, since he ascended the throne, Empress Dowager He can't understand him. There is always something unexpected about this emperor, which makes people feel incredible.

There are too many mysteries and too many puzzles in Li Ji. Not to mention the trivial things, even if the gunpowder is made of local materials, what is the matter with the tens of thousands of pigs and those grain crops.

Officially, it was transported from overseas through the Grand Canal, and Empress Dowager He also sent someone to inquire, but there was no such thing at all. Moreover, with such a big movement, how much materials, money and food were obtained, but the household department did not lose a penny, and Li Ji did not have private money at that time.

Empress Dowager He asked sideways, but Li Ji was always vague, and Empress Dowager He stopped asking. Fighting Wang Jian and Zhu Youwen this time was almost as simple as dealing with a three-year-old child, and the entire court was ready to fight and fight a big battle. But no one expected that it would be so easy.

No matter what deviant things are done now, as long as there is no harm to Datang, Empress Dowager He will ignore it. In fact, this time to accept the concubine, Empress Dowager He still felt that Li Ji must have no other reason, so she did not force it too much. Otherwise, if you really end up from the beginning, Empress Dowager He would have already selected dozens of beauties for him.

The ministers went to Jishan Palace to beg, but they didn't expect to touch a gray nose, so they had to go back in a gray way.

Courtiers also have rest days, one day off every Saturday, that is, six days of work and one day off.

The emperor has stopped picking on his son, and so many government affairs are piled up. It's all lost to the ministers, don't think about this rest day.

Everyone went to sue, and it was not all for Datang. This time, it was Dugu and Kong Lin who picked the head, and they were the leaders, and they were given to the two of them.

When they don't have a good time, they will drag all the courtiers into the water, and if I don't rest, you won't think about it. All ministries have to work overtime and are not allowed to take vacations.

Li Ji is probably addicted, and a month has passed, and he is still nesting in the weapons prison. Dugu and Kong Lin brought their ministers to invite them several times, but Li Ji ignored them. In the end, when they were in a hurry, Li Ji dropped the cup and scolded them.

Dugu harms the villain, steals and cheats. Kong Lin was disrespectful to the old man and incited his courtiers. The scolding was extremely ugly, and the emperor became more and more shameless, and then the ministers did not dare to come again.

didn't dare to come, so the ministers went to Zhang Wenwei's mansion to incite it, hoping that Zhang Wenwei would come forward to invite the emperor back to Hanyuan Palace.

No matter what Zhang Wenwei said, he was the emperor's father-in-law, and Li Ji didn't dare to scold, after all, the queen was here.

Zhang Wenwei couldn't resist everyone, so he went to the weapons prison.

"Your Majesty has abandoned the government and indulged in these strange tricks and weapons prisons, have you ever thought about Li Min?" Zhang Wenwei went straight in.

Li Ji studied the cannonball in his hand, which was different from the solid projectile, which was a flowering projectile that everyone had studied day and night.

"Li Min, I've thought about it. I don't want to be a common person, what am I doing here? ”

Zhang Wenwei asked rhetorically: "Since Your Majesty is for the sake of the people, why did you abandon government affairs and come to this weapons prison?"

"War, I want to fight." Li Ji stroked the heavy projectile: "Isn't there Dugu Yi and Kong Lin in the government affairs office, only by researching these firearms can I defeat the feudal town and work for the benefit of the people."

"These are naturally developed by people from the armament supervisor and the gunpowder workshop, and His Majesty's duty is to pay attention to the world and review and approve the performance." Zhang Wenwei said word by word.

Li Ji stopped playing with cannonballs, he looked at Zhang Wenwei: "It's Dugu who hurt them to spoil you, you are my father-in-law, I don't dare to scold you, I'm afraid of being tactful."

Li Jitian shamelessly stood up and walked out with the cannonball: "Let's go, Guozhang, follow me to try the power of this cannonball."

Living up to expectations, the flowering bomb was finally developed. A hole was made in the cast-iron projectile body, which was plugged with a wooden "letter tube" and detonated by slow-burning gunpowder inside the "letter tube".

In fact, it is not difficult to develop flowering bombs, but the difficult thing is the explosion time of the signal tube slow-burning gunpowder. After countless experiments, the Ordnance Supervisor has basically mastered the time of the explosion of the letter tube.

Li Ji was thick-skinned and didn't care. Zhang Wenwei had no choice but to follow and take a look.

In the Weapons Supervision Field, the bronze cannon in the past was replaced by a fine iron cannon. It's lighter and more accurate.

In ancient times, the level of steelmaking was not good, and the furnace temperature was not high, resulting in forged pig iron being too brittle, wrought iron being too soft, and it was not easy to grasp the melting point, with more bubbles, poor structure, and less strength than copper cannons. It is far less convenient than using copper, that is, the cost is more expensive, but it is familiar with it, and it is also safe and reliable.

Hundreds of times are refined into steel, and the refined iron from the blast furnace iron factory has changed this shortcoming. The advantages of the small steel cannon began to appear, and what Li Ji experimented with was the flowering shell of the iron cannon this time.

The steel used in blast furnace steel plant adopts the heat treatment process of high-temperature normalizing plus low-temperature quenching and tempering, so that the composition and structure of the steel are homogenized, and the grains are further refined to obtain good comprehensive mechanical properties.

Although these small steel cannons still have a lot of flaws, they are fully qualified for these shells that are only fired with black powder.

At the artillery field, Li Baoguo led the gunner to put the flowering shell into the barrel of the gun and aimed it at a target three miles away.

This time, the cannon was equipped with two large iron wheels. Maneuverability is more flexible, weight is also lighter, and the firing range is longer.

Li Baoguo's contribution was indispensable, and Li Ji named this cannon "Baoguo Cannon".

The leads have also been replaced with new ones, and the leads have been soaked in nitric acid, which is more resistant to moisture. The gunner ignited the fuse, and soon smoke came out.

"Bang!" With a bang, the shell was perfectly discharged and accurately hit the target.

"Boom!" With a bang, a target three miles away successfully exploded.

"It's done! It's done! Li Baoguo threw away the hat on his head excitedly, and the people in the weapons prison also shouted and shouted excitedly. Blossom bombs, fuck, the rhythm of this era that conquers the whole world.

Li Ji could see clearly through the single-hole telescope that although the large target in the distance deviated by a few meters, the power of the explosion did not diminish in the slightest. When the shells landed on the ground, they exploded, scattering fragments in all directions. If this falls on the enemy's position, it will not be a problem to kill the enemy's commander with one shot.

Li Ji looked back at the stunned Zhang Wenwei: "Guozhang, what is the power of my cannon?"

Zhang Wenwei wiped her sweat, what kind of monster did her daughter marry. The fairy spells in myths and legends are nothing more than that, Li Ji is fortunate to be an emperor, otherwise he will be suspected of being a demon and doing evil.

"Hooray! Banzai! ...... "The mountains shouted the tsunami, and the soldiers of the weapons supervisor knelt on the ground and shouted one after another, and they all knew that all this was inseparable from the emperor's guidance.

Li Ji laughed and fell to the ground.

"Your Majesty!" Zhang Wenwei and Li Baoguo were shocked and grabbed them one after another.

Li Ji is not sick or crazy. Probably because he was too excited, the success of the experiment made his brain hurt like a pinprick, and the system upgrade progress bar soared from 85 percent to 91 percent.

Probably because of this, Li Ji fainted. The system raised by the son of a son really lives up to its name, Li Ji does not agree to call him the bouncing system, the system raised by the son of a dog is worthy of the name.

This alarmed the imperial doctors, and these imperial doctors took turns to check Li Ji's pulse, and after looking at it and asking about it. It was concluded that the emperor was not sick, but was just too excited.

Li Ji didn't care about this, the Baoguo cannon was successfully developed, and the next step was to manufacture it in large quantities. With the strength of the country, it is made hundreds of doors, so that cutting the feudal domain is simply poking tofu with chopsticks, which is easy.

However, Li Ji was not satisfied with this, he still wanted to use the earth gun. The parts of the smoothbore gun are just like that, and anyone who knows a little bit about science can figure it out.

With the concerted efforts of Li Ji and the Ordnance Superintendent, the first smoothbore gun was successfully produced. However, Li Ji didn't have the courage to experiment, and it wouldn't be fun in case he blew up.

Although it is said that it is black powder, the iron sand that is fired. Even if it is blown up, it will not cause much damage, Li Ji didn't want to be blown into pockmarks, so Li Baoguo accepted this task with honor.

Li Baoguo held a smoothbore gun and pointed it at a target within tens of meters.

This shotgun doesn't need to be aimed at all at all, just a shot at it.

Charges, fillings are quantitative. The gunpowder was divided into small packets, the breech was charged, pounded with iron bars, and filled with iron sand.

Li Baoguo took aim, and then pulled the trigger. Li Ji realized that this gun, like a bow and crossbow, has recoil.

The trigger was pulled, and gunpowder erupted. Iron sand flew at a rapid speed, and a fully armored dummy on the opposite side became a sieve.

The dummy was brought to Li Ji, and Li Ji was shocked that this thick iron armor was easily penetrated. It's terrible!

PS: Thank you for the reward that I hope will rest when I am tired.