Cui Jing looked a little uneasy.

This sudden change made him feel that things were not so simple.

But he still chose to compromise.

King Xiang is about to enter Beijing.

His Majesty's attitude is sincere, at least impeccable. The saying that people are dying is a great rebellion, but then again, even if a person is ruthless, when he knows that his life is short, this hard heart will be melted.

It was King Xiang's entry into Beijing that made Qin Shaoyou start to be concerned.

Li Longji was killed by Qin Shaoyou himself, although the prime minister Li Dan wrote the book as soon as he 'learned' the news, and cut off his robe with Li Longji, talking about Li Longji as his crime and deserving of punishment, and even praised Qin Shaoyou, saying that when Qin Shaoyou was in danger, he put down the rebellion and killed the first evil, which was really a model for people and ministers. But what does this person really think of Qin Shaoyou?

Although Li Longji was passed on to Li Hong, after all, he is Li Dan's son-in-law, and the relationship between the father and son is very good, and they have close contacts, and even this rebellion, I am afraid that Li Dan, who is far away in Jizhou, may not be unaware, he is more like a smart standard-bearer behind Li Longji, and he uses Li Longji's value to the extreme.

And now, the matter is lost, because Qin Shaoyou is defeated.

Will Li Dan not hate himself?

His Majesty was soft-hearted at this time, and he was only afraid that he would create a great trouble for Qin Shaoyou.

Fortunately, Qin Shaoyou is a free and easy person, King Xiang is still in Jizhou, what is the hurry, everything is unclear now, why worry about it.

His mind was instead on the artillery team of the Tiance Army.

The artillery corps consisted of five hundred people. It seems that there are a lot of people, accounting for nearly 20% of the entire Tiance Army, and the Tiance Army is still expanding, but even so, it also accounts for about 10%, and it is Wang Er who leads the team. Wang Er has now become an old soldier, and the reason why he chose him is only because he is relatively calm.

The artillery camp is temporarily separated from the military camp of the Tiance Army, one is in Henan, and the other is in Hebei. Arrive at the artillery barracks.

Ten miles near here, no one is allowed to approach, and it is the people who maintain the order who are levied, in order to need, Qin Shaoyou organized all the village households into twenty pavilions, one hundred li, and each li is about forty households, and every month. Each of them needs to be assigned three or five strong men to be responsible for the following civil defense. However, this is different from the free expropriation of the imperial court, on the surface, Zhuangzi is also requisitioned for free here, but in fact, the vast majority of the Zhuang households here have a livelihood, and although these people have to contribute to Zhuangzi, they are workshops or other places. You are also willing to release people, and the salary that should be paid is the same, you don't go to work and are requisitioned to be a man, and this is the money when you go out to work to produce, so everyone is happy to serve at that time. Many of the recruitment places are grabbed by young people, after all, working is more boring.

Their main task is to perform some simple drills, either to maintain law and order, or to be responsible for a guard similar to the perimeter of the artillery barracks.

The drill of this artillery battalion, unlike others, is actually not less physically demanding than that of the Tiance Army, because this kind of 'red-coated cannon' that has been improved countless times is still relatively cumbersome, according to Zhuangzi's plan, at the moment only one hundred and fifty guns are made, fifty are used for storage and replacement, and one hundred are used for drills and operations. Five people serve a cannon, with a gun commander, two gunners, and two auxiliary guns.

The duty of the gun commander is to check the maintenance of the artillery, although the artillery is just trained with a hundred forging, but after all, it is much worse than the steel of later generations, and if you want to play the maximum effect, maintenance is the most important thing, the tea oil that each gun needs to consume every day needs to be as much as half a catty, and this can not be eaten, but the price of tea oil that can be specially maintained is low, but seven or eight dollars a catty, but storage and transportation are a lot of costs.

In addition, the gunner was responsible for the storage of gunpowder, as well as the training of gunners and auxiliary guns.

The gunner's duty is to calibrate and ignite, the auxiliary gun is filled with gunpowder, and the loading of iron bullets, this is a very primitive artillery, bulky and rough, because of this, the stability is not too high, if ordinary people use, the amount of gunpowder is used too much, there is a danger of exploding, but once used less, the power is obviously insufficient, plus calibration, it must also be based on experience, so the requirements for the operator are extremely high, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, although firearms have begun to be used on a large scale, However, it often cannot be used as a factor to determine the battlefield, the biggest reason is that the Ming and Qing dynasties could not train a group of truly professional gunners, often sent messengers casually, and rarely made drill plans in peacetime, and when it came to the real battle, or the gunners were inexperienced, so that the effectiveness of the artillery was minimized, and as a military attaché, because of the perfunctory, the use of artillery was not enthusiastic, so the corresponding tactics were not formulated, coupled with the poor maintenance in peacetime, the final result, On the contrary, firearms have become a weapon that is not powerful enough to hurt others, but because of frequent explosions, they have become a sharp weapon to hurt oneself.

In this regard, the Tang Army or the Zhou Army is completely different, there are more professional martial artists in this era, coupled with the fierce folk customs, the people in the army are far from being like those in later generations, and they are vigorously suppressed by the civilian group, so that the people who join the army are often criminals or some military households, and there are hardly any good families or civilian children who are willing to enter this kind of ninth-rate business.

As for the Tiance Army, the respect for the martial artists is even more extreme, because Zhuangzi is rich, and he also attaches great importance to the Tiance Army, so he can often enter the Tiance Army, most of the salaries are rich, the treatment is also excellent, and the soldiers are full of food, but they have become the object of envy.

This is also why, although the red-coated cannon is an imitation of the Franc machine gun, but in the East at that time, it was far from realizing the sharpness of the artillery, on the other hand, the Franc machine man was able to better use firearms, but saw the sharpness of firearms, so he went deeper to study, and finally stood out and completely left the East far behind one of the important reasons.

Fortunately, there was no such atmosphere at this time, and Qin Shaoyou was not worried that the various ills of firearms in the Ming and Qing dynasties would appear in this era, but paid more attention to the improvement of artillery.

Every day when he arrived, the morale of the artillery team was often boosted, and after a few hours of physical training, it was time to practice professional skills.

Of course, this is also the place that Qin Shaoyou is most interested in, sometimes Yang Wulian will follow Qin Shaoyou to observe, the nearest direction of this guy is not artillery, but gunpowder, because in many exercises of the artillery team, he gradually found that the improvement of artillery can greatly exert its power, but gunpowder is also the top priority, to improve artillery, it must go through drills or actual combat tests again and again, and then make some corrections according to its shortcomings, such as a few days ago, Yang Wulian found, The sealing of gunpowder gases was the key to the key, and it had a great effect on boosting the power of artillery, so he began to pay attention to this direction.

As for other attempts, he was also quite involved, so he talked to Qin Shao endlessly.

Today, the two of them were strolling in the upper reaches of the stream not far from the school grounds, Yang Wulian looked red, he almost didn't care whether Qin Shaoyou was interested in what he said, and seemed to be talking to himself: "Grandpa, originally this hundred forged steel to cast cannons, of course, there are benefits, but there are also a lot of disadvantages, once the operation is not good, there is a danger of exploding, originally I wanted to use copper to try, although the cost of this copper is higher, but if it can improve the problem of exploding, it is also worth the money, but it's a pity...... This copper cannon was made, but I found that I was still taking it for granted, the copper cannon was good at everything, not easy to blow up, but it was lighter, but this copper was too soft, and every shot would cause the muzzle to expand, and the shooting accuracy and firing range decreased very quickly. Therefore, after thinking about it, if you want to solve the current problem once and for all, the only way is to make better steel, in fact, this is not difficult, it is nothing more than a hundred forgings into a thousand forgings, as for the rest, we have to try again. ”

"The rationing of gunpowder is also a problem, if there is more medicine, it will not be successful, and if there is less, there must be a degree, I have let the artillery battalion try many times, only to know that now this artillery, the amount of a cannon is the best in a pound of four taels or eight dollars, and the amount of this medicine is difficult to measure, does each artillery commander carry a scale?" Speaking of this, Yang Wulian laughed self-deprecatingly: "But to solve it, it's not impossible, why not make a workshop with a dosage of medicine, let people specifically measure the dosage, and then wrap it in oiled paper, a package of medicine is a catty of four taels and eight dollars, which also saves the trouble of the artillery team, and the operation is more convenient." ”

"And ......"

At the beginning, Qin Shaoyou was still listening attentively, after all, Qin Shaoyou was indeed interested in this, but when this guy met him, he chattered endlessly, completely ignoring his own feelings, so Qin Shaoyou was a little unbearable, but he had to endure it and occasionally echo a few words.

Since Qin Shaoyou pretended to be the best listener, this inadvertently, but it also contributed to Yang Wulian's conversation, so the conversation box was opened, and it was even more flooded.

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The first chapter is delivered. (To be continued......)