The half-inch-thick scroll was held in an old left hand.

The hand is wide and thick, with thick and short fingers, and the knuckles are protruding, and it can be seen that there is a strong force in it, and what this hand grasps will not be snatched away.

Brown age spots can already be seen on the back of the hand, calluses are worn out on the palm, but it is well maintained, the skin is delicate, and there are not many wrinkles in sight, but there is a scar more than three inches long on the back of the hand, which is bright red.

The edges of the cover of the book in my hand have been sanded, but the pages are clean and well maintained than my hands.

This book is just an ordinary volume, the only difference is that the front and back cover are a piece of paper, which protects the spine, and the title is printed on the spine.

Travelogue of the Nine Domains.

"Your Majesty's ......"

Hearing the voice, the hand holding the book did not move, and the owner of the hand answered in a low voice.

"What's the matter?"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is back, and today he hunted a tiger, three bears, and more than 20 deer, and said that he would sacrifice the tiger skin to His Majesty."

"Let him go and freshen up first and then come over, he is tired for a day and sweats a lot, so he can freshen up and change his clothes so as not to catch a cold and get sick."

"The slave and maid have learned the truth."

The guards retreated, leaving with a sigh of relief.

Yelu Yixin quietly closed the book.

He doesn't like to be noisy, especially when reviewing and reading books, and he doesn't like to be disturbed. However, when the prince returns from a safari, he must report it to him, which will take some risks.

Yelu Yixin did not rely on safari to take over the world, so even if he followed the usual practice, when he patrolled the four directions, he would not take the guards seriously to hunt, but handed it over to the young crown prince.

This kind of forty percent is entertainment, forty percent is customary, and only the remaining two percent are activities of military significance, which are dispensable for Yelu Yixin.

However, he liked to make bowls, especially the taste of sitting in the imperial tent and receiving courtiers from all over the world.

If you want to rule for thousands of generations, a qualified heir is indispensable. His eldest son, being an emperor who can keep it, is already qualified.

But will the one to the south give him a chance to keep it?

The Song people have always refused to admit their identity. Yelu Yixin didn't know how much of the insistence of the Song people was due to their refusal to compromise with the usurpers, and how much was to save the 500,000 silver silk coins. But Jeruyisin doesn't really care about it right now

A paper in the journal Nature gave him an idea of how rich Japan is and how much gold and silver is buried in the ground.

More than half of the benefits obtained by crossing the sea to exterminate the Japanese depended on this article.

But it is precisely because of this that Yelu Yixin became more and more jealous of the governor's affairs of the Song State.

Yelu Yixin looked down at the book that lay on the tiger skin felt.

This is the first edition of "Travels in the Nine Domains", and it has been a short time since it was sent to Yelu Yixin's hands.

I heard that in the Southern Dynasties, after the first edition of this book, it was soon reprinted, three editions, and even more editions.

As far as Yelu Yixin knew, Han Gang's writings, as well as the writings of the Qi Science Lineage, were revised every time.

Therefore, from the bibliophile's point of view, each edition has a collection value, and the first edition is naturally the most valuable.

Yelu Yixin is not a bibliophile, but he does prefer the feeling of holding old books in his hands.

Picking up the book again, he flipped through it. Familiar text, look at the beginning, you will know which paragraph Lu Dao is talking about.

'Xian Shijin reported overnight, Yong Luda defeated the thief with three shots'

The eighth round.

After the stories of two different characters, the object of narration finally turned back to Shi Jin. After Shi Jin left his hometown, he took a steam car and went south along the railway, and in Yangzhou, he came to Xiuzhou to change the steamer, but he was involved in a rebellion for some reason.

This Luda was originally a state in the jurisdiction of the army and thieves, when he was young, he was a novice, and his legal name was Zhishen, but when he grew up, he also joined the army, and was recommended to enter the martial arts because of his merits, and also got an official body, and then because of the wrong hand to kill people after drinking, he was assigned to Lingnan, and then because of fate, he got a degree and became a monk.

'I don't cultivate good results in my life, and I love to kill people and set fires. ’

Although it is a straight praise, it makes people happy to watch.

Ruda lit the fire rope, pulled the trigger, and slammed the shot, hitting the thief's head and chest and back, and the wind was clear. The two thieves in the back rushed up with knives, only to see that Naruda was not in a hurry, and the bullet ignited, and two more bang shots, smashing the second and third generals of Peach Blossom Mountain into their brains one by one, red and white, and flowing to the ground. ’

A few words of fighting, put in the mouth of a storyteller, can lay out thousands of words and thrilling scenes, but in the eyes of Yelu Yixin, what is more important is -

What exactly is an arquebus?

A weapon that can be held in the hand can pierce a person's chest and shatter the hardest skull?

When he first saw this book, he immediately asked people to inquire about it.

He had heard of the musket, a firearm that could be carried with him, a weapon designed to replace the bow and crossbow, but he didn't know what an arquebus was.

At the cost of the lives of four fine craftsmen, the emperor of Liao obtained the pattern of the arquebus, which is relative to the musket, that is, the rhubarb crossbow relative to the crossbow bow, which belongs to the following category. Next, he became more interested in the flintlock pistol that the arquebus had eliminated in the book, because it might be the divine arm bow in the musket.

When an ordinary person is interested, he will begin to work it; And the emperor was interested, but it was thousands of people who desperately met his request.

It didn't take long for Yelu Yixin to know that the Song people were making flintlock muskets, and they had passed the stage of experimental manufacturing, but they could not be mass-produced for the time being.

Yelu Yixin had already considered such a possibility, but the steam car, the steamer, and the core of both, the steam engine, were only a kind of machine that appeared in the "Nature" and only existed in the imagination, but the flintlock pistol had already appeared in the hands of the Song army, and the arquebus eliminated by the flintlock pistol in the book was not equipped in the Song forbidden army at all.

After receiving information about muskets, Yelu Yixin, just like his interest in artillery, immediately sent people to research and manufacture, but it was far more difficult than artillery, and nearly a year passed, and the Firearms Bureau still did not give him a satisfactory reply.

In addition to firearms, "Travels in the Nine Domains" gives Yelu Yixin a lot of information.

In this book of unknown authors, the traces of qi in the book are too deep, maybe it was written by Han Gang, or maybe not, but when the book was written, it must have received Han Gang's guidance.

Han Gang's intention in launching this script should be to reduce the internal and external resistance of the government and the opposition, and at the same time, it is also to tell the world what kind of Song Kingdom he wants. Han Gang's intentions are too obvious.

However, what made Yelu Yixin's heart chill the most was that he was too upright and not afraid of leaking military aircraft at all.

Yelu Yixin knew that this was because Han Gang was full of confidence.

'The Wheel of History'.

This word comes from the ninety-first chapter. Two very common words, a very nonsensical patchwork, make people's hearts burn, but they shudder.

Could it be that Da Liao is destined to become a praying mantis waving his arms in front of the wheel?

But no matter what reason Han Gang passed down this book, he at least gave Yelu Yixin a clear direction.

What Han Gang intends to do and what he will do can be fully understood from this book.

For example, the heavy howitzers that treat the city walls as nothing, such as the muskets that make the crossbow a toy, such as the Shenji battalion that fights in columns and kills the enemy with platoons, such as the train that no longer needs to pull horses, as long as there is water and coal, it can drag a train of ten thousand stones, a steam car that does not stop day and night, such as a steamship that can ignore the direction of the wind, carry goods of ten thousand stones, and cross thousands of miles of dark waves in two or three days, and another example is a fortress that is held by three or five hundred people with guns and cannons, and it is difficult for dozens of times the army to break through.

Among them, some are just fantasies, some have appeared but have not yet become popular, and some are under their noses.

A year ago, Lu Huiqing was transferred out of Hebei, and peace has been restored between the two countries.

However, on the border of Hebei, the Song people are desperately building a walled fort and rebuilding the walled city, and the shape after the completion is peculiar, no longer the horse face is encrypted, but the four corners of the walled city are built into a convex pentagon, and then artillery is set up inside, no matter which side of the city wall and city gate you want to attack, you will be hit by artillery fire from both sides.

It was also in this text that Yelu Yixin Zhilu gave the name of this fortress - the fortress.

From the sixteenth episode.

Built in the wilderness of northeastern Liao, it is a command post in the border area, stationed a garrison with more than 300 commanders, who were besieged by 20,000 captives, but let them leave more than 1,000 lives in embarrassment.

Seeing this for the first time, in addition to sneering at Han Gang's ambition, Yelu Yixin secretly praised him for being worthy of leading soldiers.

If it is the storyteller's book, it is a guard general who shows his might, using a magic spear to pick out 36 enemy generals one after another, killing thieves and abandoning their armor, but in this book, several battles are very realistic. There are no fighting generals who make the storyteller's mouth froth, only realistic offense and defense.

Therefore, when he saw the fortress in the book and learned that the Song people began to build the same type of fortress in Hebei, Yelu Yixin began to let people build the same fortress to test it.

After several performances after the cultivation, Yelu Yixin found that Han Gang did not exaggerate the effect of the fortress at all, as long as the ammunition of the guns and cannons in the wall was endless, and there was no shortage of water in the fort, it was not a solid fortress, and it could become a dangerous pass.

The walled fort on the opposite side of the southern border of Nanjing Road is rapidly changing to a fortress-shaped system, and the prefecture and county towns in the north and north roads of the Song Kingdom have built fortifications at the city gates and four corners in addition to covering the walls with bricks and stones. Once Hebei's fortification is completed, it will be ten times more difficult to invade the Song Kingdom.

However, Yelu Yixin was not in the mood to attack the Song Dynasty for a long time, relying on Japan's gold and silver, relying on the restored field on the Liao-Song border, there was no need to attack the Song State at all.

Instead of hoping to win on the battlefield, it is better to win in the temple.

As long as the Song army does not attack, Yelu Yixin does not want to fight it. As for Han Gang, Yelu Yixin was not worried.

is in the position of a courtier, but has dozens of times more popularity and popular support than the Son of Heaven, how can such a courtier not die? How could the emperor keep him?

Even if he lived to be forty years old, he should not expect to live to be fifty years old, such a person has no need to guard against it.

Ten years at most, and you'll be able to see the difference.

Now, it's better to read a book in peace.