Shi Jin stopped tapping his fingers on the book case, this Yan Aguda was already preparing for an uprising and rebellion, and he had to speed up!

Shi Jin said to Zhu Gui, "Brother Zhu Gui, although the Zeng family is nominally Liao, they are from the Jurchen clan. The Liao State was very jealous of the Jurchens, so they adopted the strategy of high-pressure exploitation to restrict the development of the Jurchens. The exploitation of the Liao State made the Jurchens very dissatisfied. The Wanyan Aguta I asked you to monitor is a member of the Wanyan tribe in the Jurchen tribe, and this Wanyan Aguta wants to revolt against Liao. This Zeng family is afraid that he sent the Great Song Dynasty to prepare grain and grass weapons. ”

Zhu Gui suddenly realized when he heard this, and said: "I see, no wonder the imperial court will allow this Zeng family to raise so many soldiers and horses." It seems that the Great Song Dynasty wants to drive the wolf and chase the tiger, and sit on the mountain to watch the tiger fight. ”

Seeing that Zhu Gui didn't seem to care about the Jurchen tribe at all, Shi Jin shook his head.

Over the past hundred years, the strength of the Great Liao has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people of the Great Song Dynasty.

In the Great Song Dynasty, including the common people, they all thought that as long as they could destroy the Great Liao, Yanyun would be in the bag of the Great Song Dynasty!

In their opinion, as long as there is a way to weaken Da Liao, it is a good strategy!

Now Shi Jin said to others that the Jurchen clan would be stronger than the Liao State in the future, and he almost let the Song Dynasty perish, but I am afraid that no one will believe Shi Jin's words.

Shi Jin didn't want to warn others, no one would believe it, so why bother spending that energy.

What's more, if you rebel yourself, sooner or later you will have to fight against the Jurchen clan.

Shi Jin said to Zhu Gui, "Brother Zhu Gui, you should pay more attention to this Zengtou City in the future." They want to prepare military rations and weapons, and it is inevitable that they will hit us with their ideas. Be careful and vigilant, lest one day they be overshadowed! ”

Zhu Gui nodded and said, "Zhu Gui will ask someone to keep an eye on these people at all times!" ”

Shi Jin thought for a moment and asked, "I asked you to find a carpenter and blacksmith before, how is it now?" ”

Zhu Gui thought for a while and said, "Big brother, there are already 73 blacksmiths and 51 carpenters going up the mountain. ”

Shi Jin subconsciously said, "So little! ”

When Zhu Gui wanted to apologize again, Shi Jin said, "Okay, I know you've done your best." So be it! Send someone to tell the carpenters and blacksmiths that as long as they teach one apprentice, the monthly money will be increased to five hundred yuan. After an apprentice leaves the school, he will be rewarded with another silver tael. We also have a lot of family members in Liangshan, as well as some disabled soldiers. You can let them learn a trade! ”

Zhu Gui said with a smile, "In this way, I'm afraid that those craftsmen are all vying to recruit apprentices." ”

In ancient times, those craftsmen and doctors easily did not recruit apprentices, because they were afraid that the apprentices of the church would starve to death to the masters!

Take carpenters as an example, in ancient times, ordinary people did not have a high income, and it was normal for a piece of furniture to be passed down for three generations.

The market in a village is so big, one or two people are full enough, and if there are seven or eight carpenters, how can they make money to feed the family.

Therefore, in ancient times, many masters taught their apprentices slowly, and it was normal to teach for ten or eight years.

There are even some even more deceitful people, who used apprentices as cheap labor for ten or eight years, and when they finally came out, the master still left a hand, so that the apprentices did not learn completely.

However, what Shi Jin wants to build here is bows and arrows, guns, large quantities, and fast consumption, not afraid that they will finish it, but afraid that they will not finish it.

Haosheng explained to them that he believed that they should teach their apprentices for monthly money.

Money is the best way, and it is also the only way for Shi Jin now.

After Shi Jin took Tao Zongwang to inspect the back mountain, he planned a forbidden area on the right side by the water.

Let Tao Zongwang lead people to build two wooden houses and a tiled house here.

Forty blacksmiths and thirty carpenters were then placed here to build and develop new weapons.

Both to protect and monitor the group of carpenters and blacksmiths, Shi Jin sent 200 soldiers to garrison here.

There are two kinds of weapons that Shi Jin asked these carpenters and blacksmiths to build and develop, one is the crossbow.

The manufacture of good bows is too time-consuming, and Shi Jin is not in a hurry.

Although the operation and carrying of a crossbow is not as convenient as that of a bow, and it is more laborious.

But compared to the bow, the crossbow is more suitable for the current situation of Liangshan.

Shi Jin had some carpenters try to make crossbow frames out of wood, and then some blacksmiths tried to make crossbow frames out of iron and copper.

Shi Jin wanted to see if the bow and crossbow made of that material were more cost-effective and suitable.

The other is to make grenades and artillery, according to the Great Song Dynasty, that is, earth-shaking thunder and thunderbolt cannons.

Firearms had already appeared during the Great Song Dynasty.

During the Song Dynasty, Shenzong set up an ordnance supervisor in charge of the country's ordnance manufacturing, which employed more than 40,000 workers and set up ten workshops, each producing gunpowder and gunpowder weapons accounted for one workshop, which can be seen that firearms had a very important position in the Song army.

The main firearms in the Song army are the Thunderbolt and the Thunderbolt.

The Earthquake Thunder is somewhat similar to modern grenades, with a cast iron shell and a fuse, which is used to determine the length of the lead according to the distance of the target.

When detonated, it can blast the pig iron shell to pieces and pierce the iron armor.

However, the gunpowder of the Song Dynasty was not yet up to the level of black powder, so the thunder created was a bit big and not powerful enough.

The infantry couldn't throw it far at all, so they could only throw it down directly when defending the city. Or throw it out with a catapult.

As for the thunderbolts, they were wrapped in cardboard and filled with fuses, lime powder, etc. After the catapult is thrown out and explodes, it explodes like a firecracker, the sound is like thunder, the paper cracks and the lime disperses into smoke, and the eyes of the people and horses are squinted, and the characters do not see each other.

The firearms of the Song Dynasty were very primitive, and Shi Jin asked the blacksmith to carefully build a musket and use the carefully developed black powder to fire bullets, but it was realistic and ruthless to slap Shi Jin.

If someone said that the effective lethality of the musket of black powder could reach 100 meters, Shi Jin could only laugh!

Black powder can only be applied to front-loading guns, because black powder combustion is inadequate and there is a lot of residue.

If the person who lit the firecracker will be clear, after the firecracker is over, the black smoke fills the ground, and the ground is full of ash.

If black powder is used as ammunition, and after a few shots, the residual ash will block the gun boring and must be piped.

Therefore, black powder is not suitable for use as breech rifles, machine guns and other guns at all.

The power of the front-loading gun under the black powder is within 50 meters, and even if the bullet still has impact power at a distance of 50 meters, it can only depend on faith whether it can hit.

It is precisely because of the poor hit rate of the front-loading gun and the poor effective killing range that the platoon gun tactic was born.

Everyone walks forward in neat steps, and when they can see the corners of each other's mouths, you shoot, I shoot. Whoever is afraid of death shoots first, generally loses. Those who dare not continue to play for fear of death will also lose.

Moreover, the smoke of black powder is very large, and after a round, I am afraid that the black fog will be filled with the position. The enemy can't see you, and you can't see the enemy.

Of course, the most important thing is that the musket under black powder is not much more powerful than the bow and arrow. Even in the West, it has long been mixed with crossbows, pikes, and cavalry.

It was not until the advent of yellow gunpowder that it led to major changes in modern military affairs, and the bow and arrow completely declined.

Black Powder Shi Jin also knew the formula, but Yellow Powder Shi Jin couldn't do anything about it.

Due to the limitations of gunpowder and the amount of copper and iron, the musket was not suitable for Shi Jin's needs for the time being, and Shi Jin valued artillery more.

However, artillery has relatively high requirements for metallurgical technology, and for the time being, blacksmiths have not been able to forge qualified artillery for Shi Jin.

All Shi Jin could do was continue to spend money on the blacksmiths' experiments, praying that they would soon forge qualified cannons for their own use.

While Shi Jin was supervising and inspecting the blacksmith's forging cannon chamber to see if there was anything that could help the blacksmith, a guard ran in and shouted, "Big leader, Zhu Gui leader asks to see you!" ”

When Shi Jin heard that he ran out of the gate of the fence of the forbidden area, Zhu Gui handed over a letter to Shi Jin.

"Big brother, Wu used to believe that the sixth brother Wang Ding has been rescued. Hua Rong was also imprisoned by Liu Gao, and he will be escorted to the state capital in the near future. However, his subordinates just got the news that Song Jiangzheng, nicknamed Shi Yu, was calling friends and recruiting a group of people in the rivers and lakes to rescue Hua Rong. Big brother, you see? ”