Chapter 263: New Firearms
At that time, Zhao Ji of Song Huizong was smart, sensitive, and full of enterprising vitality.
In 1100 AD, that is, in October of the third year of Yuanfu, Zhao Ji issued an edict to the whole country, saying that he had no prejudices against Yuanfeng and Yuanyou, and everything only depended on whether it was beneficial to the country. Anyone who harms the interests of the country, whether it is Yuanfeng or Yuanyou, will be spurned together with the people. A month later, Zhao Ji once again ordered, "I want to use the Grand Duke to be upright, eliminate the friends, and then change the yuan to the establishment of Yasukuni." It shows a kind of impartiality and the spirit of removing the old and making the new.
In the early years of Huizong, the weather was myriad; The young emperor is energetic. It is impressive and hopeful.
But how has all this changed? And how did it change beyond recognition and embark on the exact opposite path? Why did Song Huizong and Zhao Ji change in the coming years? Compared to him at the beginning of his ascension, how can it become unrecognizable at all? This is a rather confusing question.
Sun Hui, who was familiar with history, knew that four hundred and seventy years later, a great emperor Wanli Emperor had also undergone similar changes. However, there are obvious traces of the changes of the Wanli Emperor that can be traced. After the death of Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant at that time, Emperor Wanli suddenly discovered that Zhang Juzheng, the "teacher" he had always revered and even feared, turned out to live a two-faced life: there was a huge gap between what he said in front of public and what he said in front of him and what he did behind his back. As a result, the emperor, who had a rather simple personality and was quite talented, was greatly stimulated, which led to great changes in his later years.
In the later sect leader Daojun Emperor, he could not find a reason for such a change in any way. Looking around, I can only helplessly attribute the reason for this change to the emperor's innate frivolity, artist temperament and the influence of Cai Jing. It was the combination of these factors, which reinforced each other, that made the emperor what he would be in the minds of later people.
If an artistically talented man like Cai Jing and an ambitious man like Wang Anshi had been the prime minister of the empire, the artist emperor might have been a different person.
Zhao Ji's easily influenced personality is actually more obvious in his son Zhao Huan.
Li Gang listened to Sun Hui's narration and recalled the past events, and he also thought it was true.
Zhao Ji actually likes honest and upright ministers very much, not to mention far away, just say that last time Li Gang was entrusted by Zhao Huan to go to Jiangnan to "recover" Zhao Ji, Zhao Ji also said to him face-to-face, "Every time I listen to the conversation of the ministers, I always feel that it is either treacherous or flattering; And you are upright and upright, I can only rely on people like you. ”
It's a pity that after he tricked Zhao Ji back, he made him a senior prisoner......
And now, it seems that there is no chance to correct the mistake.
Sun Hui and Li Gang were talking, but there was a gust of wind outside the window, and then a figure fell.
Li Gang was startled, and then he heard the voice of the maid of the princess's mansion: "Madame is back...... Ah! Madame is injured! Then a young woman's voice said, "Don't worry, it's fine." ”
Sun Hui knew that it was Hu Liying who came back, and when he heard that she was injured, he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, Li Gang was about to get up and say goodbye when he saw this, but Sun Hui waved his hand to him to signal that he didn't have to.
"Sanniang, Mr. Liang Xi is here, you came in and met Mr. Liang Xi." Sun Hui knew that Hu Liying still maintained the image of "Yuren Immortal", so it was better to take the opportunity to dispel Li Gang's concerns that he was using illusions to confuse people, so he shouted.
"Okay." Hu Liying understood what Sun Hui meant, not to mention that if she returned to the image of a normal woman now, she would be naked, so she answered, pushed open the door, entered the living room, and bowed to Li Gang.
Seeing the incomparably beautiful Hu Liying in front of him, Li Gang stood stunned on the spot, speechless in shock, and forgot to return the salute.
"What's hurt? Fought with Jin Bing? Sun Hui couldn't help but be taken aback when she saw that one of Hu Liying's calves was tied with a strip of cloth, and immediately got up and walked towards her, "Let me see." ”
"It's all right." Hu Liying said, but Sun Hui was still not at ease, although he knew that Hu Liying also had the ability to heal quickly and self-healing like himself, he shouted to the maid to bring a basin, towel and wound medicine, and stepped forward to untie the cloth.
I saw that although the wound on Hu Liying's calf had scabbed, it could still be seen that it was a penetrating wound from a sharp weapon, and the wound was irregular, obviously not caused by a sharp arrow.
"What did you hit here?" Sun Hui frowned and asked in a deep voice.
"That's exactly what I flew back to tell you." Hu Liying said, turning to Li Gang, "Mr. Liang Xi, do you remember the 'Thunderbolt'?" ”
Hearing Hu Liying talk about the "thunderbolt cannon", Li Gang came back to his senses, bowed his hand, and said: "The 'thunderbolt cannon' mentioned by Madame, I used it last time Jin Yu came to attack, but because the number was small and the operation was illegal, I failed to achieve many results. ”
Sun Hui, who is familiar with the history of the development of firearms in ancient China, of course knows what Hu Liying and Li Gang said about the "thunderbolt cannon", although it has the name of "cannon", but it is not a tubular firearm in the mouth of later generations, but a kind of throwing firearm, similar things such as tribulus fireball, smoke ball, poison smoke ball, fireball, iron-billed fire harrier, bamboo fire harrier, etc., the preparation method is basically the same, all of which are equipped with gunpowder and iron tribulus terrestris, fire rat (similar to a tribulus terrestris of a lethal weapon, that is, a piece of thin wood embedded in the iron hook thorn, Put it into the fireball at the same time as the thistle terrestris to form a secondary kill after the explosion) and the poison is mixed into a clay iron pot or multi-layer paper ball, and finally coated with the ignition material. This kind of firearm is mainly thrown into the enemy position with a stone-throwing machine to achieve the effect of burning the city or siege equipment, causing fire, poisoning and creating obstacles, and it also has a certain lethality to people and horses, but it mainly plays a deterrent role.
But when Sun Hui saw the wound on Hu Liying's leg, she faintly felt that what injured her was an explosive firearm that was more advanced than the "Thunderbolt Cannon"!
He had a lot of combat experience on the Soviet-German battlefield, and he was keenly aware that her leg wound was very similar to the fragments produced by the explosion of weapons such as grenades!
Hu Liying's answer confirmed his judgment.
"Mr. Liang Xi, the last time the Jin soldiers came to attack, I also participated in the battle at the head of the city, and I saw the 'thunderbolt cannon', and its sound was indeed like a thunderbolt, but although the explosive force could pierce the iron armor, I did not see the Jin soldiers being bombed." Hu Liying said, "This time I went to Taiyuan to investigate the military situation, and found that there was a soldier in the Jin soldiers, who threw me with a small iron can of burning medicine, and I knew that it was a 'thunderbolt', and he hurriedly flew into the air to dodge, but unexpectedly, its explosive power far exceeded that of the 'thunderbolt', and it was pierced through the leg and shin by the fragments of its explosion. ”