"How's the matter of Mingjiao handled?" Zhao Ji didn't comment on Cai Jing again, and suddenly thought of Mingjiao's matter.

Each of the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism sent more than 20 disciples with strong martial arts skills to join the Iron Wall Guard, and Zhao Ji had tested their origins and their skills, and was very satisfied and could be trusted. Although there is no problem with his own safety, the development of Mingjiao makes Zhao Ji very uncomfortable. Buddhism and Taoism do not interfere with secular regimes, but the Mingjiao organization is not a pure religion, and it can be said that they are a gang with secular purposes.

"It's been arranged." Li Xiang'an's voice trembled a little, it may be that the last assassination left a psychological shadow on Li Xiangan.

The government hall has already sent an envoy to Huangtou Huifu under the escort of more than 200 masters from the two Buddhist and Taoist families. The Mingjiao altars in the Great Song Dynasty have also been figured out. If the head of the Ming Sect can come to the Hajj, everyone will naturally be happy. If he does not come, the envoy will buy the yellow head and borrow troops to attack the top of the light. The Mingjiao altars in the Great Song Dynasty will also be completely erased.

"Hmm." Zhao Ji nodded.

In fact, Mingjiao also left a deep psychological shadow on Zhao Ji. I think Zhao Ji is also proficient in martial arts and has strong strength. But for the assassin of Mingjiao, there was no platform for the martial arts in the army to be displayed. In front of the swordsmen who are proficient in assassination and personal martial arts, Zhao Ji's martial arts are really not enough.

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The following month became very busy. The port of Huangpu has been closed to merchants, and all goods must go to Hangzhou to go ashore and transfer to Shangjing by land. Nearly 2 million people will be divided into 20 groups to go to Liuqiu. In addition, a large number of materials will be transported to the chicken coop in more than 40 times. The maiden voyage was particularly important, and the officials in Beijing were already busy, and many things were checked over and over again. They all know that if this matter is not done well, then the official family will let their heads fall to the ground.

For officials in Beijing, the pressure is very high. Zhao Ji did not personally inspect again, lest the officials in Beijing be too nervous and affect the efficiency of work. Of course, Zhao Ji was not idle. Almost every day, the leaders of the water thieves who have been recruited will be entertained, and now they should be called the generals of the eighth regiment of the Haiwei Army, and this regiment is also commonly known as the water thief group. Perhaps it was because the later generations of Zhao Ji were very fond of pirate stories when he was a child, so it was very speculative to talk to them, and Zhao Ji was very clear about their methods of rampaging on the sea, which surprised the generals of the pirate group.

In addition to attracting the generals of the water thieves through banquets, Zhao Ji often brought a large amount of meat and water wine to inspect the water thieves, Zhao Ji almost used eighteen methods, so that ordinary water thieves not only felt the emperor's grace, but also realized that the imperial power was unmatched. Let them be respectful and afraid, so that they can be controlled, this is Zhao Ji's purpose.

Shangjing, Dongcheng.

Zhao Ji took more than a dozen iron wall guards and generals of the water thief group to march between the major workshops in the Third Ring Road outside Shangjing East City. There are so many workshops that let the water thieves know what it means to be powerful.

"Your Majesty the Emperor of the Heavenly Empire, I don't know where you want to take us to inspect this time?" The Japanese water thief Jiro Koizumi asked in unfamiliar Chinese.

"Yes, every time we go to a workshop, the Holy One will give us a reward, I don't know what it will be this time, I have been thinking about it in my heart. The last time I went to the shipyard, the Holy Grace gave us more than 200 big ships at one time. And on that occasion in the silk weaving workshop, the Holy One gave each of us ten pieces of silk. I took the silk back to the mansion that God had given me, and my wife was so happy that she tossed me all night. Bai Bo said with a grin.

"The white-eyed wolf is in a hurry?" Xiao Yiyuan said jokingly.

"Hahaha." The crowd laughed.

"This time, there is no reward. But you'll like it better. Hey, hey, hey. Zhao Ji also smiled and said mysteriously.

chatting all the way, everyone soon followed Zhao Ji to the rocket manufacturing workshop. This workshop is close to Xiaojin Mountain, east of the sea, with a small port, covering an extremely large area.

"Knock on the Holy One!" As soon as they entered the workshop, Tong Wenjiang and his apprentices rushed to salute.

"Flat, the giant has worked hard, I will keep your merits in my heart, and I will give you the best reward. Now, how many people are there in the Mo family? Zhao Ji helped Tong Wenjiang up, first encouraged, and then asked about the recent situation of the Mo family.

"Thank you. Hehe, he has accepted more than 60 apprentices, and they are all tribute students. Tong Wenjiang replied with a smile.

Tong Wenjiang, one of the cabinet assistants. Compared with when he first met Zhao Ji, he was much more confident, with a pair of eyes that were originally dull, but now they were shining with wisdom. Wearing a four-grade purple robe, he is becoming more and more official.

"Well, that's good. You said you improved the bazooka car, I'll come and take a look. What do you think? Has the cost come down? Zhao Ji nodded and said.

"Shengshang, don't worry, let Weichen introduce the Shengshang one by one, and the Shengshang will definitely be satisfied." Tong Wenjiang smiled and whetted Zhao Ji's appetite.

"It's not that I'm in a hurry, it's these guys who are in a hurry." Zhao Ji pointed to the water thief generals behind him.

"Holy Lord, generals, please follow me." Tong Wenjiang took Zhao Ji and others into the Xiaojinshan mountain col behind the workshop.

"Old Thirteen, are you ready? Let's go! Tong Wenjiang shouted.

"Master, here." Old Thirteen responded.

Then the old thirteen brought a group of craftsmen to push a thirteen-pin cannon. This trebuchet, known as the Thirteen-Tip Cannon, was thirty meters high, ten meters long, and five meters wide, with six wheels mounted on the base, and also used a large number of pulley blocks and springs.

"This is the new and improved Thirteen Pins, and the main improvement is the use of a large number of pulleys and springs. Although it is more bulky than the previous one, it is very easy to disassemble and install. The biggest advantage of the improvement is that the manpower used has been halved and the projection distance has been increased by at least ten times. It used to take at least four hundred people to operate, but now only two hundred people are enough. The firing range has been increased from 70 to at least 650 steps. Tong Wenjiang introduced.

Zhao Ji took the generals to look at this thirteen-tip cannon, and the generals of the water thieves were very surprised, such a thing could project six hundred and fifty steps!

During the Song Dynasty, one step was about one meter five. Six hundred and fifty steps, nearly a thousand meters. This distance is insane! Zhao Ji's later generations studied history, and he still knows a lot about ancient catapults, and it is already remarkable that he can generally hit a hundred meters.

"Very well, I want to see the power of this seven-tip cannon." Zhao Ji was a little impatient, because this was likely to be a military revolution.

Hearing Zhao Ji say that it depends on the power, the old thirteen hurriedly commanded the craftsman to push the thirteen cannons forward and aimed at the small gold mountain in the distance. Then he carried more than a dozen bags of sand to press down on the gun mount. On the other side, a dozen craftsmen pushed a large cart with a dozen thunderbolts on it.

"Wait, that's a thunderbolt?" Zhao Ji was very clear about the gunpowder weapons of the Song Dynasty, but this thunderbolt was very different, and Zhao Ji hurriedly stopped.

Tong Wenjiang was stunned for a moment, and then said embarrassedly: "Shengshang, that is indeed a thunderbolt, and Weichen's thirteen-pronged cannon is just to project that thunderbolt." The thunderbolt was made by the Shaodong family, and I originally wanted to take that kid as an apprentice, but that kid didn't want to stay in the civilization school, so he went to the Tiangong school. That kid is a genius who has improved the thunderbolt bomb in half a year, and is very famous in the Tiangong Academy. The self-proclaimed heir of the domineering mechanism has been working against me. I improved the bazooka car on my side, and he improved the thunderbolt on his side. ”

"Li Zhanma's eldest son?" Zhao Ji recalled and remembered that when he sent the Mo family to the civilization school, he did bring Li Zhanma's eldest son Li Peixiong with him.

"Yes, it's the eldest young master." Tong Wenjiang did not forget his roots, even if he became a member of the fourth grade, he did not forget that he was born in the Li family racecourse.

"Why, if he improves the thunderbolt, he can't improve the thirteen-pin cannon, and he still needs to trouble the giant? What about the heirs of the domineering tricks? Young people, the blood is vigorous, and the giant has to bear more! Zhao Ji looked old-fashioned, not knowing that he was also a young man.

"How so? After the improvement of the thunderbolt bomb, the military department attached great importance to it, so it ordered the four universities to go all out to develop 13 guns, so as not to have bullets and no artillery. Hehe, Weichen developed it first, but he robbed the young owner of the credit. Tong Wenjiang said with a smile, but he also understood Zhao Ji's words, competition must be benign and cannot cause hostility.

"Well, we should all strive for the top. Well, let's try the cannon! Zhao Ji nodded with a smile and commanded.

"Yes. Prepare the gun. Tong Wenjiang bowed his hand and agreed, and then ordered the old thirteen cannons.

Lao Thirteen commanded 200 craftsmen to control the thirteen cannons, put thunderbolts on the cartridges, and then ignited the fire, and 200 or so people pulled the ropes and shook the levers, and the cooperation was very tacit.

The thunderbolt flew with sparks to the small mound two miles away, and with a loud bang, the small mound was blown down, and the trees on it fell and burned to charcoal.

"My goodness." The generals of the water thieves were not mentally prepared, and they were all shocked and fell to the ground.

"So powerful? Tell me about it. Zhao Ji forced his composure, although he was a little mentally prepared, but this power exceeded Zhao Ji's estimate of the gunpowder weapons of this era.

"Shengshang, since the imperial court opened all the monopolies, the demand for copper and iron has skyrocketed, and the first batch of merchants who opened mines have made a lot of money. However, because the four universities have been absorbing many craftsmen with special skills according to the meaning of the saints, the output of copper and iron has increased rapidly. Coupled with the people who opened the mines, the scale of the mines became larger and larger, and the price of copper and iron did not rise much. Tong Wenjiang explained.

"What does this thunderbolt have to do with copper and iron production?" Zhao Ji didn't know why Tong Wenjiang said this.

"It's a big deal. Copper and iron production increased, but prices did not. This meant that there was a large amount of copper and iron that could be used to make weapons. Let's just say that this thunderbolt has copper inside and iron outside, gunpowder in the middle, and a large amount of iron sand is added. If it was placed in the past, there was not so much copper and iron to make this, there was a lack of iron in making knives and guns, and there was a lack of copper in coinage, where was there copper and iron to make this. Now it's different, some are copper and iron, and I'm not afraid that I won't be able to buy it. However, this copper and iron is also heavily smuggled, and many merchants smuggled it out of the Great Song Dynasty, and even the people of the merchant alliance are doing it. Tong Wenjiang explained.

"Is there any leakage of the new process after the transformation process?" Zhao Ji is more worried about this.

"This saint can rest assured, what merchant is willing to sell such a profitable thing." Tong Wenjiang said with a smile.

"No, if you ask the cabinet to report to the government office, you must strictly prohibit merchants from selling craft technology without permission, especially gunpowder technology. Let the Department of Commerce of the Ministry of Household Strengthen Supervision and Supervision. Zhao Ji said solemnly.

This thunderbolt is so powerful that the city walls in the future will no longer be meaningful!

"Yes. Holy. "Tong Wenjiang is a cabinet assistant, and these things are within his purview.

"Okay, what else is there besides this thirteen-pin cannon and thunderbolt?" Zhao Ji was very interested.

"And the bazooka car, with a range of two hundred and fifty paces. Fifty rockets can be launched in a quarter of an hour. Green Dragon Knife, Golden Armor, Star Picking Bow, Moon Bow, Sunset Bow. These have been improved to save more energy. This is a bed crossbow, this is a winch, and this is an assault gun. These are Mitsubishi arrows, these are armor-piercing arrows, these are rockets ready for tandem. Tong Wenjiang took Zhao Ji and others to start a warehouse visit one by one.

"Assault rifles?" Zhao Ji picked up a assault rifle, which was not made of bamboo, but copper inside and iron outside, and it was still poured.

The assault rifle was a firearm that only appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty. I didn't expect that the increase in copper and iron production could bring so many chain reactions.

"Isn't it possible to eliminate with bazooka cars, bed crossbows, winches? How powerful is this assault rifle? Zhao asked.

"The rocket launcher car is too expensive to build, and it's too wasteful. After the rocket is launched, although the power is great, but after the gunpowder on the head of the rocket bursts, the rocket is wasted, and there is no way to recycle and reuse, so it can only be rebuilt. The assault rifle did not have a range of thirty paces, but it was quite loud and only frightening, and it was not practical on the battlefield. However, it is very powerful, and no matter how good the armor is, it can't stop the nest, so build some for the iron wall guard, and next time the white-clothed assassin dares to come again, beat him into a sieve. Tong Wenjiang said with a smile.

"Oh, the assault rifle was made specifically to protect me? Hehehe, well! However, there are still many improvements to increase the range. Zhao Ji said with a smile.

"Thirteen cannons, thunderbolts, bazooka cars, how many have been built? Are they all equipped to the armies? Zhao Ji asked again.

"Because it's too expensive, it doesn't make much. The treasury is empty, where do you dare to build more? Besides, the officers and soldiers of all armies like the Blue Dragon Sword, the Golden Armor, and the Star Bow, and they don't like these novelty things very much. It's just that the government hall said that the saint likes these things, and he will make some of them to make the saint happy! Tong Wenjiang said with a face.

"Oh, hahaha. Let's build less and improve more, the treasury is empty, and there is no way. After it was built, it was equipped to the seventh regiment of the Shangjing Naval Guard, and more craftsmen were sent to teach the sailors how to use it. Zhao Ji laughed, his heart full of helplessness.

Zhao Ji remembered that the Roman Empire in history had a weapon called a ballista, just like the situation of the rocket artillery car and the thirteen-pin cannon.

In the Roman Empire, there was a legion of five thousand men, and each legion had a full forty ballistas. It was with such advanced weapons that the Roman Empire laid a vast empire. Giant ballistae can knock down the city wall at a distance of 400 meters, and ordinary ballistae can penetrate the enemy's phalanx at a distance of 200 meters. The enemies of Rome exclaimed: henceforth the might and valor of mankind was of no more value! The conquest of the Roman Empire was not based on barbarism, but on civilization. What kind of powerful scientific and technological support was behind the brilliant military achievements of the Roman Empire? This can be seen from the ballista. Zhao Ji is to promote the development of science and technology, at least not to let the technology that has appeared be buried by history.

The Romans also developed the first repeating ballista. Around the 2nd century BCE, Diossos of Alexandria devised this landmark weapon: spare arrows were stored in V-shaped "magazines", and the reciprocating motion of the ballista through a set of pentagonal gears and chain mechanisms automated, and the ballista was constructed with remarkable precision.

This weapon has been unknown in the past and has only recently been confirmed through historical sources. This discovery immediately upended the conventional wisdom: Leonardo da Vinci was recognized as the inventor of the chain in the past, and now it is known that more than 1,000 years ago, the ancient Romans knew how to use the chain to achieve reciprocating movements! Unfortunately, despite the greatly increased fire density of the repeating ballista, at the time of low productivity, it was saddled with the notoriety of "wasting ammunition", and thus quickly disappeared after a flash in the pan, and the earliest burst weapons died so young.

Looking back 2000 years later, people still have the same view about the newly born machine gun, and how difficult it was to fight against the forces of habit between new things. That's why innovation is so valuable.

and the Mongol Empire, which once conquered the world, raised a huge artillery force, so that on the way to the west, it was able to capture a city in one day and destroy a country in a month.

Therefore, Zhao Ji made up his mind that no matter how expensive it is, it will be built. It's a big deal to build less, but also to make sophisticated weapons.

"Report." A soldier hurriedly ran into the workshop and gave Zhao a military salute.

"The Holy One, in front of the Imperial Palace, gathered a lot of merchants, all of whom said that they wanted to meet the Holy One. Now that it's making a lot of noise, the cabinet invites the saint back to the palace? The soldier said breathlessly.

"Merchant trouble?" Zhao Ji's brows furrowed.

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