"Xiao Zhao, let's go first, see you in the restaurant in the evening."

"Walk slowly, don't send it." Zhao Dezhao sent Wu Lingqing and Shang Haobin out of the study, and then asked Xiao Guizi to bring Zhao Pu into the study.

Zhao Pu was wearing a plain round-necked robe today, and his shirt was stained with the petals of plum flowers in the courtyard. The crossbow was intrigued, he had never seen such a small hand. Crossbow, he heard the ordnance supervisor Wei Pi say, this little hand. The crossbow can also be disassembled, and one of the purposes of coming here today is to see this hand. Crossbow.

Zhao Pu bent down and picked up this hand from the ground. Crossbow. This one hand. When the crossbow is not on the bowstring, it is in the shape of a "C", and the material used for the bow arm is not ordinary birch, but some metal material on the outer bread of the light wood, which emits a cold light.

Zhao Pu didn't get down to business, his attention was already on the small and somewhat weird hand. The crossbow was intrigued, and instead of putting on the bow and arrow, he held it in his left hand. The handle of the crossbow, and his right hand began to pull the bowstring towards the buckle, and his strength was not great, and it was a little laborious, and he reluctantly put the bowstring up.

Zhao Pu pointed to a circular convex lens set up on the Wangshan Mountain of the strong bow and crossbow team, he looked at the lens and said, "Your Highness, what are the things on this Wangshan Mountain?" ”

"Oh." Zhao Dezhao looked at the object on the Wangshan Mountain and said, "Mr. Zhao, this is also Wangshan, also called a sight, this lens has a cross star scale on it, the purpose is to facilitate aiming without deviating from the direction, and where this lens is, especially distant objects, can be aimed through this Wangshan." The Western Han Dynasty began to crossbow "Wangshan" engraved with a scale, the role is equivalent to the ruler on the modern firearm, easy to adjust the angle of the crossbow according to the target distance, improve the hit rate of shooting, but Zhao Dezhao added modern lenses on the basis of Wangshan, and for the lenses, Zhao Pu also knew the matter of clairvoyance, and now the clairvoyant mirror is used more among the generals of the Song Army.

Zhao Pu will be handed. The crossbow was raised, and then his right eye looked through the position of the upper bowstring to look at the mountain, and the convex lens on the mountain was very clear, and the distant objects were also enlarged, so that they could see more clearly.

Zhao Dezhao opened the window as he spoke, and the wind outside the house blew in, and the plum flowers also floated in, "Mr. Zhao looked at the plum tree outside the window, and then pointed the lookout (scope) at the wind chimes tied with red ropes on the plum tree. ”

Zhao Pu did as Zhao Dezhao said, but he didn't put the arrow on it, but aimed the lens at the wind chime, and his eyes saw the wind chime at the end of the red rope in the distance from Wangshan.

"See clearly, Your Highness." Zhao Pu said, and then Zhao Pu put his hand again. The crossbow was taken down, but the wind chimes in the distance were blurred in sight, only the red rope was still dazzling.

"This thing is like a clairvoyant, you can see the prey in the distance clearly, improve the chance of hitting, but now the range has not increased much, I plan to let the craftsmen of the ordnance supervisor discuss the development again, this hand. The range of the crossbow is increased by 100 paces, only this hand. The positions of crossbow arms, bows, and machines should also be improved. Zhao Dezhao suddenly felt that this thing was like a Barrett sniper rifle. Some of the performance of the gun could not keep up, so he designed such a type of bow and crossbow to temporarily replace the fire. Gun.

Although it is not as good as fire. The gun, but for the crossbow, it is also a tool for hunting, and its structure can be divided into three parts: the arm, the bow, and the machine. The "arm" is generally wooden; The "bow" is across the front of the arm; The "machine" is installed in the place behind the arm deviation. The most important part of the crossbow is the "machine", the crossbow machine is generally made of copper, mounted in the crossbow "Guo" (box-shaped), in front of which is the "tooth" (hook) for hanging strings, and behind the "tooth" there is a "lookout" (for aiming).

Zhao Pu was very satisfied with this, and he put his hand. The crossbow was taken down, and then gently placed on the table, "This crossbow is very good, Your Highness, the minister once remembered that it was recorded in the "Examination of the Work Record" that there are six kinds of bows, which are the king's bow, the arc bow, the clamp bow, the dang bow, the Tang bow and the big bow, the king bow and the arc bow are used for defending the city and the chariot battle, the clamp bow and the dang bow are used for field hunting, and the Tang bow and the big bow are used for practicing shooting. I went to the Great Song Dynasty Bow and Crossbow Institute to make more than 1,650,000 pieces of horn bows, and more than 6.2 million yellow birches and black lacquer crossbows made in Zhuzhou. The bows and crossbows made by the Bow and Crossbow Courtyard and the Ordnance Supervisor have improved a lot in recent years, and with the improved gunpowder, the strength of our Great Song Army has increased a lot. In the future, if this thing is used in infantry and cavalry, it will be of great benefit to the enemy! ”

"What Mr. Zhao said is very true." Zhao Dezhao said, "Compared with the previous crossbow, this bow has increased a lot of excellence, and its bow body is light and strong, which is one of them; It is easy to open the bow and has good elasticity, and the other is also; The ligaments of the bowstring are soaked and combed with glue soup to make them flexible before they can be used to make bows; Secondly, when making the bow body, the bow dry material is bent in the opposite direction of the bow, and then the horn pieces and tendons are pasted to make the length of the bow "knot" moderate, so that the bow will be strong and powerful; And this lookout mountain, the lens of the clairvoyant lens is used, so that it can be fired after aiming at the target more accurately, so as to improve the hit rate. ”

Zhao Pu seemed to have an understanding, he listened to Zhao Dezhao, the king of Wei, talk eloquently, and he was very good at the production of bows and crossbows, and he admired it very much, "His Royal Highness's words made the ministers extremely impressed." This time I went on a northern expedition in the Great Song Dynasty, the forbidden army was equipped with a longbow, a horn bow, a slight bow, and a lot of lattice bows, and this war was about to break out, and the army needed this thing was also in short supply, and the minister received the official family to sparse, requiring some craftsmen to be mobilized from the capital ordnance supervisor, armor workshop and the supervisor to go to the north, and now the war is approaching, although the grain and grass of the Liao army are burned, but the enemy retreats west to Taihang, and this battle has to be discussed in the long run. It is because today's ministers come to the palace that they also ask the ordnance supervisor, the armor workshop, the bow and crossbow courtyard, etc., to allocate weapons such as armor, bows, crossbows, gunpowder and so on. ”

Zhao Dezhao looked at Zhao Pu and said: "This time the north is very important, my father also wants to capture Jinyang City in one fell swoop, he is afraid that the hundred-legged insect will die and not stiffen, and the Great Song Dynasty does not want to waste more time on the issue of the Han Kingdom. I'll ask the chiefs of the prison to arrange it quickly. Yesterday, Wei Pi, the ordnance supervisor, told me that there are more than 10,000 arms and crossbows, 3,800 horn crossbows, more than 110 wooden crossbows, more than 800 large wooden crossbows, more than 16,000 bamboo pole crossbows and large bamboo crossbows, and more than 1,000 Fuyuan crossbows. Then open up the passage to Jinyang, but this is a lot more laborious. ”

Zhao Pu listened, a little dumbfounded, and a little happy, this time the main purpose of the Song army going north was to attack and destroy the Han State, but Zhao Pu had some worries, he still said bluntly: "Your Highness, do you think Your Majesty is too risky." ”

"No, Mr. Zhao, this is the best opportunity to go north, if you go south from Yingzhou, attack Yizhou, and then go south to Jinyang, I don't know what Mr. Zhao thinks?"

"Yingzhou to the dragon's head, Yanmen and the north and south of the mountain corresponding, the Liao army in this place Zhangguo army festival degree envoy, and Yingzhou also stationed a lot of Liao army, is the land of three gangs and four towns, and Huanzhou in Shuozhou and Yingzhou in the middle of Shuozhou Shuozhou for the Shunyi army festival degree envoy, Shuozhou south choke Xinzhou, Yanmen Pass, north from Yunzhou two hundred miles, and Yunzhou is the king of the north, its status is more dangerous, is to Yun, Ying, Huan, Shuo four states if occupied by my Song Dynasty, our army can take the north, thistle, and the people of these four states are fierce, more than a strong general, our army this time to the west, Occupy the Flying Fox and the rest of the Taihang Seven Mountains first, and then you can go south to Daizhou, Xinzhou, and Taiyuan Mansion," Zhao Pu said, and his eyes showed a gleam.

"Mr. Zhao, you are from Youzhou Ji."

"Yes."

"Now that I am determined to win Youzhou, I will definitely recover the occupied land in the future."

Zhao Pu was full of joy, and then sighed in anticipation: "When my Song master goes north, the coffin can also be returned to his homeland after weekdays." ”

"Mr. Zhao, now it's a happy event, how did you talk about that matter."

"The minister has killed the scenery."

Then Zhao Pu said: "Your Highness, recently there is a minister who feels young and promising, and I recommend it to His Highness." ”

Zhao Dezhao asked, "Oh, what is this person's character?" ”

Zhao Pudao: "This person eats a lot of food, and he likes meat very much, and he once said bluntly in front of his ministers, respectively, Xia and Fen; Feudal; filial piety; Tsutaka Tsuki; Juxian; Taixue; Jitian; Election of good officials; prudent sentencing; punishment of adultery, etc."

"It doesn't matter how much you eat, as long as you have talent, I will be under your command, Mr. Zhao, I don't know who this person's surname is?"

Zhao Pu arched his hand slightly: "This person's name is Zhang Qixian." Now temporarily living in the minister's mansion, if His Royal Highness is interested, you can go and have a look. ”

"Zhang Qixian?" Zhao Dezhao exclaimed in surprise. Zhang Qixian is also a generation of talent in history, in history Zhang Qixian has served as a general judge, privy envoy deputy history, branch of Xijing Luoyang Taichang Temple and other official positions, but also led the border army and the Khitan war before and after 21 years, in the political, military, diplomatic have made great contributions, Zhang Qixian in the government is also lenient sentence and punishment reduction, advocating with the people to recuperate.

Zhao Pu on the opposite side looked suspicious and asked, "Your Highness knows?" ”

Zhao Dezhao regained his complexion and said calmly: "Oh? No, Mr. Zhao, I was abrupt for a while, but since it was recommended by Mr. Zhao, I would bother the government in a day or two. ”

Zhao Pu shook his head and said, "Your Highness, the minister should let him come to the palace." ”

"No, talents are rare, not to mention that young people always have a sense of pride, and I plan to see it for myself."

"Your Highness is like this, and it is also the blessing of my Great Song Dynasty and the example of the world."

ps. Thank you for the cold dance, the book friend 1052873 for the reward!