Shaoxi Mansion is undergoing huge changes unconsciously, and Li Xiang's money is also making a lot of money! Artillery production has entered the stage of large-scale, and 50 tiger squat cannons, 10 rocket artillery, and of course, salt mines and coal mines have also been opened every month. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Along the way, cement factories and ironworks were also opened, and even these factories used electricity, and even the emperor, who was thousands of miles away, was amazed by Li Xiang's actions! Fortunately, most of these guns were sent to various armies in Sichuan, ready to be used against the Mongols.

Of course, the Mongols also got the news that the Great Song Dynasty had come up with some very powerful firearms that were even more powerful than the ones they got from the Jin Kingdom. But the Mongols would not believe that the Song army could defeat them with these firearms.

At this time, Li Xiang is ready to develop a water army again! It is important to know that the role of the navy in the war is also very large, especially to fight along the Yangtze River, it is necessary to have a gunboat equipped with artillery and self-walking, and in the future, the navy can also be allowed to go to the sea.

So Li Xiang and Li Kang built a shipyard on the edge of the Tuojiang River in Shaoxi Mansion, using the original abandoned wharf.

Of course, these boats are still made of wood, and the boats are not too big, after all, this is an inland river, and if the boat is too big, it will definitely not work. A total of eighteen hundred-ton ships were built, which was not small in the Great Song Dynasty.

Each of these ships is equipped with 8 tiger squat guns, but the power is the use of steam engines, which can be said to have a relatively high degree of automation. There are thirty sailors and soldiers on each ship, which can be regarded as a small and large-scale naval army, of course, it cannot be compared with the naval army of the imperial court, mainly because the number is much different, but these ships are real gunboats, and they are revolutionary and do not need people to row.

Li Xiang didn't know if these cannons could be used on the ship, so on this day he took a large group of thirty or forty people to the shipyard, and saw these big ships ten zhang long, more than two zhang wide, and one zhang and two or three feet above the water, but without sails, everyone showed a smile of excitement and curiosity. The recruits, in particular, were so excited that they were doing somersaults and handstands on this big ship, chasing and laughing with all their hands.

Li Xiang looked at these ships and said to Li Kang: "Father, I want to finish the affairs of the navy first, and then further consider how we should go in the future. Now the Mongols should not be able to attack Sichuan, maybe until next year, it should not be the time for us to focus on these aspects. ”

Li Kang said with a smile: "When it comes to the army and the war, you can rest assured. A few days ago, I asked someone to excerpt the relevant articles from Fu Yanqing's "Personnel and Military Laws," Xu Dong's "Tiger Classics," Liu Zhen's "Treatise on the Essentials of Soldiers," Chen Guan's "Situation," "Selecting Generals," and "On Military Training," Hu Dan's "Commanders' Essentials," and Jingtai's "Frontier Ministers' Essentials," and other books. However, shouldn't our city guards also give a few 'Tiger Squat Cannons' to practice, in that case, they can be invincible both offensively and defensively in the future. ”

Li Xiang said: "Father just doesn't say it, I have already made preparations, the 'tiger squat cannon' used by the city guards is not a few, but needs dozens to hundreds of them to form a special artillery." ”

Li Kang lowered his voice and asked: "My God, with dozens or hundreds of 'mother and child cannons' to form a special artillery, what do you want to do with this?" ”

Li Xiang smiled and whispered: "Didn't we discuss it before, as soon as the time comes, we will kill Chengdu Mansion and march into western Sichuan to regain the territory occupied by the Mongols. If we don't prepare early, we people are afraid that we will have a fate to go and no life to return. ”

"Good!" Li Kang was greatly excited, slapped his left palm with his right fist, and said arrogantly: "I have a large area of land taken by the Mongols in the Great Song Dynasty, maybe it is your hand to get them back." If there is really that day, it can be regarded as growing the ambition of our Han people and raising the prestige of our Han people. ”

Li Xiang: "I think, it is not enough to recover the lost territory, if it is possible, we will collect the elite soldiers of Mongolia and use them for my use, and with my powerful naval army, we will form a hundred battles of heroes." Only then can it be called a country where the people are rich and the country is strong, and it can be called a state of etiquette that has been inherited for thousands of years.

On the third day of November in the fifth year of Baoyou, the second cold snap of this year came to Sichuan from the northwest, and yesterday it was still sunny and cloudless, and it was only necessary to wear a jacket to go out, but today it suddenly became surprisingly cold. Fortunately, when the walkers and heads from various monasteries reported the dawn before dawn, they shouted Buddhist phrases such as "Pudu sentient beings save the suffering and save the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas", and then reported the time, and added a reminder of "the sky is cloudy, the cold is attacking people, and more clothes are added".

The sky was bright, Li Xiang was woken up by Zhao Er's yelling, and before he could get angry and curse, Zhao Er unceremoniously broke into the room and pulled him up from the bed: "Son, you can't be too lazy as a commander than a soldier." You see, I've been waiting for my son for almost half an hour, but who knows that my son is still sleeping in bed, how can this be reasonable. Let's go, let's go, we finished installing the machine today, and we're going to test it today, and Childe explained to me the truth of this steam engine, but I haven't understood it yet. ”

Zhao Er's face was serious, and the eyes were full of ridicule and teasing: "Let me catch it once, at least it will make you unable to sleep so comfortably, see what you can do with me." ”

"I said Zhao Er, let me lie down for a while, you didn't pay attention to what you said the day before yesterday, and now you are about to rivet to death before you say that you don't understand." Li Xiang has been very tired these days, and finally has a little more time today, and he wants to make up for the sleep of the previous few days.

Zhao Er exclaimed in surprise: "Ah, how can that work?" ”

His voice was so loud that it could deafen people's ears, and he didn't care that the young magistrate was talking to him in a consultative tone, so he threw the clothes beside the bed to Li Xiang and said: "The water vapor sprays onto the spoon and pushes the wheels, and then transmits it from the gears to the gyrocopic propellers on the shaft......"

Li Xiang interrupted him angrily and said, "How many times have I told you, it's a propeller." Don't be gyrocopic all the time, gyro paddle screaming. I was really back, and I was woken up early in the morning by your screaming and pulling, and I couldn't sleep in peace. ”

"Okay, the propeller is the propeller, and it should be okay to let the son take advantage of it." Zhao Erda grinned and said, "Tuo...... Oh, the propeller pushes the boat away, after the master explained it, I was a little clear. But I just can't figure out why when the water is boiled and turned into steam, it has so much strength. Not counting the 60 spoons that were the size of a small bowl and mounted on wheels, and even the propellers weighing hundreds of pounds like a big dustpan were moved, and they spun so fast that the fish in the water couldn't escape and be killed? (To be continued.) )