[I didn't change it yesterday for some reason, and I ask you to bear with me, but I really can't help it. This is the first update of the day. 】

Xu Liang walked into the factory, and the noise suddenly entwined.

This is just the place to post-process the cast barrel, check the barrel for defects such as cracks, trachoma, burrs, etc., and then polish the qualified barrel to a smooth finish.

But hundreds of people worked together around a dozen cannon barrels, and the rustling sound filled the ears. This kind of sound, when you listen to it, makes people's hearts hairy, and the whole body is uncomfortable.

The craftsmen and small workers working in the factory have cotton paper balls stuffed in their ears, and when they want to speak, they have to amplify their voices, like quarrels.

No one noticed that Xu Liang came in, and this fellow of the Firearms Bureau, who suddenly became the lucky one of the officials, went from a craftsman to an official, and quietly walked to a corner of the factory.

Several small workers are surrounding a thick barrel, carefully polishing it with scrapers and grinding stones.

This bronze barrel was much thicker and longer than the other barrels being processed in the same plant, far superior to the barrel of another city defense gun not far away, from caliber to outer diameter to length.

However, the polishing of the small workers pays much more attention to the outer wall of the barrel than the inner wall. As if grinding a mirror, the bronze barrel is polished to a remarkable finish.

When Xu Liang approached, he clearly saw his distorted image from the barrel.

The barrel looks polished, and the gun carriage is already ready, just waiting for tomorrow's installation, and two days later for test firing. If the test launch is successful, it can be delivered.

This is already the third one, and before the New Year, a fourth heavy gun of the same model will be built and delivered to the Shenji Army.

Seeing that the third cannon did not delay time, for the delivery of the fourth cannon on time, Xu Liang can now finally pat his chest to Lu Shang.

However, this is not an artillery that can be sent to the battlefield after all.

Time flies quickly, and it has been half a year since Xu Liang was transferred from the Mint Bureau to the Firearms Bureau, but his original mission has never been completed.

Two months ago, during the last test, the chamber of the gun exploded again. Wanting to fire a hundred-pound bullet out of the cannon and fill it with gunpowder in the barrel is simply not something that the barrel of the cannon made today can afford.

The wall of the barrel is thickened again and again, but as long as the problems of transportation and installation are considered, the barrel will be too thin. Only by increasing the weight regardless of the need can it withstand the explosion of gunpowder.

But now the artillery has exceeded 10,000 catties, and if it is heavier, how can it be used? What artillery carriage can hold up?

"It's still warm here."

A man rubbed his hands together and walked in trembling.

Xu Liang looked back, it was Zang Yin, one of the leaders of the Firearms Bureau.

This is the son of the prison officer Zang Zhang, unlike his brother who is in charge of the horse chopping bureau, he is a talkative person, and sometimes he doesn't pay too much attention to dignity, but he has been drawn out by his father with a whip since he was a child, and he is like a fish in water in the firearms bureau.

When Zang Yin saw Xu Liang, he said hello loudly from afar, "Tiju, come so early?" ”

Xu Liang nodded, ignoring it.

Zang Yin had long been used to it, walked to Xu Liang's side, rubbed his hands and stomped his feet, "It's still warm here...... Why do you have to come and see this thing every day? It's all come to this point, what else can change? You don't need to reload, the charge is halved, just listen to a sound, are you still afraid of exploding. ”

Xu Liang's voice was low, "It should be used in front of the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven." ”

"That is, to look good." Zang Yin broke through, and then patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, tomorrow will definitely be as bright as a mirror, drag it to the imperial city, and ensure that the Liao envoy does not dare to look at it." ”

Xu Liang snorted, and Zang Yin gaged, which made his mood a little better.

The Liao people's Zhengdan envoy is indeed coming soon.

In the past two days, there have been more reports about Liaoguo in the two express newspapers. There is also a lot of news about Goryeo and Japan. Last month, a group of Japanese monks came to Xiuzhou at the mouth of the Yangtze River, saying that they had come to ask for help from the Great Song Dynasty, and whether or not to let them enter Beijing was discussed in the court and published in the newspapers.

In addition, the newspaper also said that the young master of Liao has been in poor health recently, and he may have an accident. Following Xuanzong and Zhangzong, in another half a year, I don't know what sect will be added to the imperial lineage of the Liao State.

Mentioning this, Zang Yin sneered and said unscrupulously: "In fact, it's not all the same, it's all the injustice of several lifetimes." ”

Xu Liang's face was blank, looking ahead, when he didn't hear it.

What kind of injustice is the Taishi of Liao? It was obvious that the powerful minister wanted to usurp the throne, and he killed the emperor when he felt that he was in the way. Xu Liang doesn't read much, he can only know a few hundred words, but he says that there are more than three points, and Sima Yi's family knows a little bit about how to do it.

This is indeed a long-cherished injustice, otherwise a six-year-old child, who doesn't even have a complete soul, how can he kill his father?

The powerful ministers who killed the monarch and the emperor who killed the father were both great rebellions - the crime of killing the father may be a little more serious, and the accidental manslaughter is one level lower, but it will not be inferior to the courtier's killing the king.

Manslaughter like this is recognized in the world as the injustice of a previous life. As for what kind of injustice is, there are different opinions, but no one dares to discuss it in public.

But one thing can be confirmed, the current emperor can still reign, it is the result of Wang Pingzhang and Han Shenzheng, who are deeply favored by the first emperor, and they will repay the kindness of the first emperor even if they die.

"No matter how the emperor of Liao changes, this time he defeated Goryeo and Japan, and the envoy sent by Liao still doesn't know how to be proud." Xu Liang didn't answer, and Zang Yin said alone, "But they can't be proud, on our side, there is only one Anxi Protectorate, and they defeated Black Khan's 100,000 army and beheaded thousands." ”

"Hmm." Xu Liang had a rare reaction.

Wang Sunsin's victory in the Western Regions, both inside and outside the capital, both officials and people, felt honored.

The Liao State had just conquered Goryeo and Japan, harvested tens of millions of people, expanded thousands of miles of land, and grabbed countless gold and silver goods, and it was the time to be complacent.

The upper echelons of Japan and Goryeo were all killed, and the peasants of Goryeo became the tribes of the Khitan aristocracy. As for Japan, although it does not have many resources, it is much larger than Goryeo, and its household registration is several times that of Goryeo.

But on the side of the Great Song Dynasty, although he spent a whole year recuperating and recuperating, on the Western Regions side, he still fought a battle with the Black Khan people, and his exploits were never lost to the Liao people - thinking that Goryeo and Japan together could not compare to the vast territory of the Western Regions.

Throughout the autumn, the victory in the Western Regions was cheered both inside and outside the capital.

Black Khan is a big country in the West, with hundreds of thousands of armor, and after learning that the important place of Shule was captured, as soon as the snow melted, he immediately raised troops to the east.

More than 100,000 soldiers divided into two routes, one from the north road to take Beiting and Gaochang, and the other from the south road, trying to recover Shule. In addition, there were some reinforcements from the northern Turkic tribes of the Black Khan.

After Wang Sunchen's hands were replenished, there were only more than 6,000 officers and soldiers. In the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, the total number of Tibetan troops who obeyed his orders was only more than 30,000 people. The only thing that can be regarded as fortunate is that because of the requisition of a large number of tribal soldiers in the Black Khanate, the Anxi Protectorate got the information one step earlier, and Wang Sunchen was able to make targeted arrangements.

After leaving 2,000 Han troops to defend Shule, Wang Sunchen raised his troops to the north. did not retreat to Yangji Bali, Beiting or even Gaochang, but directly took the Yili River Valley, the only route for the Black Khan's northern expedition. This was originally the territory of the Black Khanate, and the Black Khanate army was unprepared for the long-distance attack on Wang Sunchen, and tens of thousands of troops were defeated in the hands of the Han coalition army led by Wang Sunchen, the protector of Anxi. This great victory of a thousand-mile attack beheaded another great khan of the Black Khanate, who claimed to be the Lion King, and beheaded a total of more than 10,000 people.

The 2,000 Han troops who stayed in Shule, plus more than 10,000 Gaochang soldiers from the north, adopted the tactics of clearing the wilderness, moved away all the residents, took away all the grain stocks, destroyed all the towns in the Shule area except for Shule City, and then retreated to the reinforced and repaired Shule City, which lasted for a month.

No matter whether the Black Khan people used ladders or dug tunnels, they did not capture Shule City, but instead suffered heavy casualties from the endless arrows on the city. And the black sweat people worked hard to build a good catapult, but they couldn't resist the iron spear shot by the bed crossbow.

In this way, it dragged on until the logistics of the Black Khan could not support it, and the news of the fiasco of the main force came. Wang Sunchen defeated the main force of the Black Khan army in the Yili River Valley, beheaded the Black Khan Great Khan, and then indulged the Tibetan army to plunder the Yili River Valley, and led more than 3,000 Han troops back to the south, and wanted to make a run in Shule City, but unfortunately the speed of the army's march could not catch up with the messenger's gallop day and night, and when he arrived at the city of Shule, the Black Khan Army had withdrawn for six days.

After this battle, the Black Khanate had no ability to invade the east again for a short time. The country is already divided, and the Eastern Black Khan is now greatly injured, and the next step must be careful to deal with the attack of the Western Black Khan, and there is no time to recover the lost land.

The newspapers did not say such details, such as massacres, looting, fortifications and other methods that were not suitable for publicity, were not published, but in the yamen, which was closely related to the military, even if Xu Liang didn't want to hear it, the news would drill into his ears.

But the victory in the Western Regions is too far away, and it is useless to scare the Liao people.

Xu Liang knew very well that no matter how many victories there were in the Western Regions, the eyes of the imperial court would always be on the north. When the envoys of the Liao State came south, all the court wanted to see was his expression of fear of the Great Song Dynasty. Otherwise, he would not have gone to great lengths to urge the Ordnance Supervisor to create this kind of thing that is glamorous on the outside and can only scare people as soon as possible. It's just that if you want to be scary now, you can't necessarily scare people.

has been in the Beijing division for a long time, Xu Liang doesn't think that the news that this artillery is just a good thing can hide how many people, especially there are many big mouths here who still dare to say anything, glancing at Zang Yin next to him, Xu Liang shook his head, those ministers above, it has been too long since they cannibalized the fireworks of the world.