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Zhao Lei didn't know how much effort Pan Fusheng made for the benefit of Shitan and how many landlords and businessmen he united, but what he knew was that in just a few days, the imperial court received a recital from the officials of the Great Song Dynasty, and the purpose of these recitals was very clear and unified, and it was agreed that the Great Song Dynasty was in a bad situation in the face of the scorching pressure of the Western Xia and the Liao State, and the defeat of Gyeongju should make the imperial court vigilant, and it was urgent to train a new army.

And Zhao Lei is not a person who sits and waits for the right to fall, during this time, he even played a series of twists and turns, pointing out the huge gap between the cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia and the cavalry of the Liao State, and pointed out that the Great Song Dynasty can fight against the Western Xia and the Liao State, only the powerful infantry, but the strength of the infantry, but in the defense, all kinds of powerful defensive weapons, is the main reason why the Great Song Dynasty can deter the Western Xia and the Liao State, so that the enemy does not dare to invade, Zhao Lei believes that if you want to change the situation of the passive defense of the Great Song Dynasty, the only way is to vigorously display the mobility of various powerful defensive weapons, establish a sound arsenal to improve the yamen, recruit the world's good craftsmen, improve all kinds of weapons, so as to achieve the goal of being able to compete with the Western Xia and Liao cavalry in the field.

Although Zhao Lei's idea is good, his purpose is very clear, in a vain attempt to change the military policy of Western Xia and Liao from defense to offense, otherwise why improve the weapons that can compete with Western Xia and Liao in the field!

Since the Great Song Dynasty lost the sixteen states of Yanyun. has always adopted a passive defensive strategy against Liao and Western Xia, but now Zhao Lei is trying to change in vain, so you can imagine how much shock it will cause.

Above the court, because of Zhao Lei's letter, it became a mess, with Prime Minister Lu Yijian and Li Di and privy envoys as the officials. It was unanimously believed that passive defense was the best way to resist Western Xia and Liao, and active attack was the way to death, so they unanimously opposed Zhao Lei's proposal.

And many officials in the area of Song Shou, Cai Qi, and Wang Su, the head of the household department, supported Zhao Lei's methods, organized and trained the new army, improved the weapon, and kept the enemy out of the country.

The two groups of people who were on the tip of the needle against Maimang did not give in to each other, arguing in the court every day, citing scriptures. refuted the other party's reasoning, and copied the official Zhao Zhen's head.

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Ling Tian Pavilion was the most luxurious study room of the official family in the Imperial City Forbidden, and Ling Tian Pavilion would only be used when important ministers were summoned alone.

On the night of the last day of the first lunar month, Zhao Lei was summoned by the official Zhao Zhen for the first time in Lingtian Pavilion.

The official Zhao Zhen's face was very bad. The quarrels in the court these days made him a little irritable, and the delay in Zhao Lei's research made him a little annoyed.

"Zhao Aiqing, how is your research, you want someone to give you the best craftsman in the arsenal, and you want to allocate a lot of things to you in the warehouse. It's been more than a month now, isn't there any progress at all? The official Zhao Zhen looked at Zhao Lei with a very unhappy face, and asked in a stern tone.

Respectfully Zhao Lei who stood in front of the official Zhao Zhen. As early as a few years ago, when he proposed the formation and training of the new army, he came up with three drawings of gunpowder weapons, one was a gunpowder arrow that was easy to make, and the other two were drawings of homemade grenades and mines.

Zhao Lei thought that with the Great Song Dynasty's understanding of gunpowder, this kind of thing should be easy to make, but the reality was very disappointing to Zhao Lei, although Zhao Lei had the most skilled craftsman in the gunpowder of the armament. There are also many test materials and raw materials allocated to him by the government, but these three backward and simple things in Zhao Lei's opinion have not been able to be made for a long time.

What made Zhao Lei depressed was that the gunpowder exhibition of the Great Song Dynasty maintained the lowest state of gunpowder application, and the military exhibition of gunpowder was only to use the mechanical force of long-range weapons bows, crossbows and stone throwers to throw gunpowder weapons to the enemy, so as to achieve combat purposes such as burns, obstacles, poisoning, and fumigation.

Although Zhao Lei knew that the source of the lethality of gunpowder ground explosion was the ratio of nitrate, sulfur and charcoal, he did not know the specific proportion at all, so he could only instill what he knew to the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty gunpowder, and then let the craftsmen configure the ratio of nitrate, sulfur and charcoal in the gunpowder by themselves, and then make black powder that could explode in the test.

However, Zhao Lei was very frustrated by the succession of the test, and in more than a month, hundreds of clever craftsmen actually only tested gunpowder that could vigorously push crossbow arrows, and black powder, which could cause a strong explosion, but there was no progress at all.

However, for Zhao Lei, being able to make gunpowder that vigorously pushes crossbow arrows is enough to deal with the official Zhao Zhen's inquiry, and as for black powder, he has enough time to wait for the results of the test.

"Back to the official's house! Although the minister has not made the most powerful new weapon, the gunpowder arrow cart has already been made. Zhao Lei was neither arrogant nor humble, and said indifferently to the angry Zhao Zhen.

"Gunpowder Arrow Car! Is it the ballista that can shoot gunpowder arrows at the same time or in batches? Hearing Zhao Lei's confident words, the official Zhao Zhen immediately became interested and asked curiously about Zhao Lei.

"Not bad! The rocket car made by the minister, weighing 80 catties, can hold up to 120 rockets, the maximum range of gunpowder arrows is 550 meters, the effective range is 350 meters, 200 meters can penetrate any heavy armor, the most important thing is that it is very convenient to load and unload gunpowder arrows, you can load and unload at will on the battlefield, give the enemy's cavalry a major blow, the biggest feature is that it is light, the gunpowder car filled with gunpowder arrows is only 150 catties, a war horse can pull, if it is a mountainous terrain, a strong soldier, It can also move a rocket car without gunpowder arrows, the lethality is very amazing, and the mobility is not weak, and it can wield strong combat effectiveness regardless of defense and offense. Zhao Lei proudly said slowly to the official Zhao Zhen.

"What about raw material consumption?" Zhao Zhen, an official, asked him about the issues he was most concerned about.

"The raw material consumption of the rocket car is reduced by half compared to the three-bow ballista, and one can be made with eight hundred taels of silver, and the production of a gunpowder arrow is twice as high as that of an ordinary bow and arrow, and it requires a large amount of nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, which is not precious, and the discount is only half a penny of silver (one penny of silver is equal to seventy-seven mo)!" Zhao Lei carefully explained to the official Zhao Zhen. Said.

Hearing Zhao Lei's answer, the official Zhao Zhen was extremely happy and said excitedly: "Has the first rocket car been made?" ”

"Yes, and a lot of gunpowder arrows have also been made, do the officials want to see the power of the rocket car with their own eyes!" Zhao Lei said to the official Zhao Zhen with a smile.

"No need, since Zhao Aiqing is so confident, tomorrow I will drive Jin Mingchi, and let the hundred officials of the court take a good look at Aiqing's ability!" The anger on the official Zhao Zhen's face completely subsided, and he said to Zhao Lei happily.

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Jinming Pond is located outside the Xinzheng Gate of Bianjing, the water area is vast, it was built in the fifth dynasty of Zhou Shizong Xiande four years (957 AD), because of the preparation for the attack on the Southern Tang Dynasty at that time, the northerners do not know the nature of the water, so they dug this large pool for training the water army.

Song Taizu Jianlong years in the side of the pond set up the Shenwei water army, on the pond to practice water warfare, Taiping Xingguo two years (AD 977), Taizong imitated the Han Dynasty to teach the story of the pool, mobilized more than 35,000 soldiers to dredge the Jinming Pond, and led the Jin River water into the pool, but also selected the army in the Jiang quasi-national soldiers good at water, the establishment of the Tiger Wing Water Army, in the side of the pond camp to teach the practice of the boat water battle, the place here as a "naval training base".

After the construction of the Northern Song Dynasty many times, the various facilities in the pool were gradually improved, and the function of the pool was slowly replaced by the training of the water army for water entertainment performances, and the Jinming Pool then became a royal garden with a huge scale, complete layout and beautiful scenery, but it still has the function of a water 6 training base.

On the first day of February, the sky was cloudless, the sky was clear, and the spring flowers were blooming, but Bianjing was still as cold as winter in early spring.

In the early morning in the imperial city of Bianjing, the civil and military officials of the imperial court, who were waiting outside the imperial palace, suddenly heard the holy decree handed down by Gan Ling, the new personal servant of the official family, and asked the civil and military officials of the imperial court to wait for Jin Mingchi.

The bewildered officials of the imperial court, under the leadership of the seven important ministers, could only go to Jinmingchi to see what the official Zhao Zhen was going to do.

In a pavilion in the royal garden of Jinmingchi, the official Zhao Zhen sat in a dragon robe with a smile on his face.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" Lu Yijian, Li Di and other seven important ministers of the imperial court led hundreds of civil and military officials to Jinmingchi, and when they saw Zhao Zhen, the official in the pavilion, they all knelt down and bowed loudly.

"No rudeness!" The official Zhao Zhen said casually, and then motioned to King Meng, Lu Yijian and other seven important ministers to come forward and speak.

"I don't know what happened to the official family letting Weichen come here today?" Lu Yijian, as the prime minister of today's palm print, immediately asked in a cautious low voice after entering the pavilion.

"Look over there!" The official Zhao Zhen pointed to the small mountain bag facing the gazebo, and said indifferently to Zhao Yuanyan, Lu Yijian and others.

Zhao Yuanyan and Lu Yijian turned their heads to look at the small mountain bag a mile away from the pavilion, only to see that on the mountain bag, there was a straw man target densely covered with heavy armor, and three hundred meters away from the pavilion, a strange car was parked there, this car was very strange, it was like an iron plate on the battlefield, two car wheels were about one meter long car plate, on the car board on an iron frame, was a square long iron plate one meter high and two meters long, among the iron plates, it was a small hollow cylinder like a beehive, and next to the strange vehicle, Zhao Lei led more than a dozen craftsmen and was loading strange fine steel arrows on the hive iron plate.

What is Zhao Lei doing? What's that weird car? Why did the officials call them here? And what is the dummy on the hill bag? One mystery after another made the court officials in the pavilion puzzled, and they could only pay more attention to the actions of Zhao Lei and the officials.

Among them, the seven important ministers of the imperial court looked at Zhao Lei in the distance and the strange car he fiddled with with a confused face, and they looked up at the dense thousands of targets on the mountain, and their hearts were cold, and they immediately understood that what Zhao Lei was fiddling with now must be a weapon, and it was a new weapon with great power, and this weapon must have been studied under the willingness of the official Zhao Zhen, otherwise the official family would not let them come to Jinmingchi to see Zhao Lei test weapons over there.

The powerful new weapon, the smart minister in the pavilion, has already begun to think at this time, at this time, the official family and Zhao Lei are starting to build momentum for the training of the new army, if the new weapon is really successful, what reason is there for the training of the new army.

"That's it! Take a look! Zhao Zhen, an official sitting in the pavilion, looked at Zhao Lei's waving red flag, and excitedly said to several important ministers around him, he also saw the rocket car for the first time, of course he wanted to see the rocket car as Zhao Lei said.

The seven important ministers watched intently as Zhao Lei held the torch and gradually ignited the six fuses on the rocket car.

Rumble! I heard a loud bang, and the top two rows of twenty rockets of the rocket car, driven by the gunpowder at the tail of the arrow, were as fast as lightning and shot towards the target on the hill bag like thunder.

The first round of gunpowder arrows on the rocket car had just begun, and the second round also roared, and the gunpowder arrows rushed out angrily and shot at the target on the hill, followed by the third round, the fourth round, and finally the sixth round of rockets.

One hundred and twenty rockets, turned into a sparse rain of arrows, and shot at the grass-man target on the hill.

Bang bang! The steel arrow hits the straw man's target, and the subway armor is covered. With the sound of metal penetrating, it shot directly through the iron armor and nailed the straw man target to the hill bag.

Zhao Lei stood behind the rocket car, not caring about the lethality of the rocket at all, and took the craftsman behind him to install a plate of twenty gunpowder arrows on the shooter on the gunpowder car with the prepared gunpowder arrow mounting plate, and waited for one hundred and twenty gunpowder arrows to be loaded and picked up the torch. Ignite again.

Whoosh! Hundreds of gunpowder arrows threatened again, wrapping the hill around the straw man target and knocking down a large piece.

Zhao Lei in front of the rocket car, looking at the target on the hill bag that was shot with thousands of holes, smiled slightly, and ordered a few people to check the situation on the hill, and then took the craftsmen behind him, pushed the rocket car, and walked towards the pavilion.

In the pavilion, except for the excited official Zhao Zhen, other civil and military ministers, looking at the tragic situation of the straw man target on the hill, looked at each other in shock, and looked at each other speechlessly, they knew. Just by virtue of today's powerful weapon, they have no reason to refute Zhao Lei's training of the new army.

"Chen Zhao Lei, I've seen the big and official families,!" Zhao Lei came to the pavilion and said respectfully to the official Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen, who was in a good mood and had an amazing power in the rocket car, said to Zhao Lei with a smile: "Zhao Aiqing is flat!" ”

"What's that thing behind Lord Zhao?" Lu Yijian looked at the rocket car behind Zhao Lei, which was taller than a person, and asked in surprise.

"It's called a rocket car, and it can shoot a hundred and twenty arrows at the same time. The range is long, powerful, light and easy to operate, it is a new weapon that Xia Guan has just seen, and it is ready to be used to equip the new army" Zhao Lei squinted his eyes and said indifferently to Lu Yijian, and at the same time mentioned that this weapon is a new weapon specially equipped with the new army, and expressed to these ministers in the pavilion that the officials have agreed to train the new army.

"Equip the new army! The new army has not yet begun to be organized and trained, and even if it does, there will not be a year or two for the new army to wield its combat effectiveness at all, and this kind of weapon and equipment for the new army is not too wasteful, the world thinks that this kind of rocket car should be directly equipped with the Beijing forbidden army and the border army to resist foreign enemies! The privy envoy Wang Shu looked at the rocket car behind Zhao Lei, and said loudly to the official Zhao Zhen with very red eyes.

Zhao Lei looked at Wang Shu, who was blushing and competing for the rocket car, and said with a slight smile: "Lord Wang's words are really ridiculous, the rocket car is like this now, how to ration the forbidden army and the border army, besides, the power of a single rocket car is not as good as a hundred crossbowmen, people have to concentrate a large number of rocket cars, in order to wield huge lethality, if it is rationed to the forbidden army and the border army, it will undoubtedly disperse the lethality of the rocket car, and after two years, all the rocket cars will be equipped with the new army, with the production capacity of the military weapons of the Great Song Dynasty Ministry of Industry, wait two years later, can reach the scale of 1,000 rocket vehicles, so that the new army can wield a powerful lethality, in Weichen's opinion, the new army equipped with rocket vehicles is enough to fight against the most elite cavalry armies of Western Xia and Liao. ”

"Lord Zhao's words are even more ridiculous, such a powerful rocket vehicle, no matter what army it is equipped with, can raise the combat effectiveness of the army to the level of fighting against the elite cavalry of Western Xia and Liao, there is no need to train a new army at all!" Wang Shu looked at the sarcasm in Zhao Lei's eyes and said angrily.

Idiot! Lu Yijian, Li Di, Zhao Yuanyan and others thought at the same time when they looked at Wang Shu, they didn't expect Wang Shu to be so idiotic, knowing that Zhao Lei was a rocket car for the new army, and he actually wanted to seize the right to use the rocket car, you must know that Zhao Lei has the support of the official Zhao Zhen behind him, and he is impatient to seize Zhao Lei's things.

Zhao Lei looked at Wushu with a sneer, he had a backlog of materials Wang Shu, why did the privy envoy oppose him everywhere, although Wang Shu served as a privy envoy as a civil official, but the people of Jiangmen, his wife was a person who was high in Jiangmen, and he had a great relationship with Jiangmen Cao's family, after all, Jiangmen fired the position of the queen, and after getting out of the abolition, he drove out Shang Yang and many other turmoil, but in the end he was robbed of the benefits by Queen Miao supported by Zhao Lei, although he was very dissatisfied with Jiangmen, although he didn't dare to do anything to Zhao Lei on the surface, after all, the Great Song Dynasty still has the world of doctors, and Zhao Lei is literary and romantic, Recognized by the Beijing literary circle, he became a well-known newcomer in the scholar class, and in this case, the door was even more afraid to move, but the small and medium-sized actions in the dark have not stopped, for example, when Zhao Lei went out to celebrate, they hired Jingpi to disrupt the Zhao family's folding fan shop and medicine shop, which was undoubtedly a provocation and warning to Zhao Lei.

But Zhao Lei knew that Wang Shu was going to be unlucky today, after all, the rocket car was something made by him and the official family for the new army, Wang Shu actually wanted to snatch the rocket car, Zhao Lei was sure that Wang Shu would not be able to work long in the cardinal farmers and herdsmen.

Sure enough, hearing Wang Shu's words about snatching the rocket car, the official Zhao Zhen snorted coldly and said coldly: "Zhao Aiqing's plan has been agreed, the new army is imperative, and Zhao Aiqing is ready to pull out the weapons to the new army, and Zhao Aiqing's case and iron case will be merged with the national weapons institute, and the new army will be established after the yamen, and the military materials in the living room will not only supply the new army, but also supply all the armies of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Aiqing will serve as the new army training envoy, in charge of the new army training and logistics yamen." ”

After the official Zhao Zhen finished speaking, Zhao Zhenyuanyan, King Meng, Li Di and Lu Yi Jian'an, Song Shou and Cai Qi, who participated in political affairs, and the privy envoy Wang Shu and others were all stunned.

If Zhao Lei and Zhao are in charge of the case, the iron case, the three yamen judges of the ordnance institute and the new army training envoy, that is to say, Zhao Lei will become the first minister of official finance, politics and military since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty.

The seven important ministers of the imperial court glanced at each other, and finally even Zhao Yuanyan, the king of Meng, couldn't help but whisper to the official Zhao Zhen: "Official, I'm afraid this is not appropriate, the training of the new army is originally a very heavy work, if Zhao Daguan is allowed to take care of the three ya, I am afraid that Lord Zhao will not even have time to sleep by then!" ”

Hearing Zhao Yuanyan's opposition from the side, the official Zhao Zhen waved his hand and said casually: "This is not a problem, I will arrange a few people to share Zhao Aiqing's work, so that Zhao Aiqing has enough energy to train the new army."

Absorbing the words of the official Zhao Zhen, King Meng Zhao Yuanyan finally understood, it turned out that Zhao Lei was only nominally managing the Sanya and the New Army, just like Song Shou, although he was in charge of the three envoys, but the actual power was all in the hands of the three deputy envoys, and Zhao Lei estimated that it was the case, the three Ya had their own real power controllers, and Zhao Lei was just the nominal official in charge of the New Army and the Sanya.

"I wonder who the officials are going to let share the work of the new army?" Li Di asked carefully, he had already thought about it, if Zhao Lei found Wang Su and others to join the new army, he couldn't let the new army appear anyway, after all, Zhao Lei, Wang Su and others were too close, once they controlled the new army, the control of the official family over the new army would be weakened, and the emergence of a strong military force in Beijing that was not controlled by the imperial court and the official family was definitely not a good thing.

"Zhao Aiqing recommended Hanlin Bachelor, the third class court sentenced Zeng Gongliang to serve as the logistics judge of the new army, the Ministry of Industry Tuntian Wai Ding Du and the Chengdu Prefecture Governor Xue Xiang served as the deputy judge of the logistics of the new army, and the Kaifeng Prefecture promoted Han Qi to serve as the deputy envoy of the new army, Zhao Aiqing's recommendation can be objected to!" The official Zhao Zhen asked indifferently to the seven ministers of the imperial court.

Of course, I knew that Zhao Yuanyan, Li Di and others were worried, if it weren't for the people recommended by Zhao Lei who had nothing to do with him, Zhao Zhen would not have handed over the four yamen to Zhao Lei so easily.

Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, Xue Xiang and Han Qi! Lu Yijian, Li Di and others heard these people recommended by Zhao Lei, and pondered for a while, now these people are indeed the best candidates for the formation and training of the new army, among these people, Han Qi is the person of King Meng, and Zeng Gongliang is the person who is afraid of death, Ding Du and Gongxiang are the children of officials and ministers who have been shaded, and they assist Zhao Lei, basically dispelling Zhao Lei's authority and the worry that the tail will not be lost.

"Now that the officials have made up their minds, the ministers agree to train a new army!" When Zhao Yuanyan, the king of Meng, heard that Han Qi would become the deputy envoy of the training and control of the new army at the same time, he was the first to stand up and agree with Zhao Lei.

"Agreed!" Song Shou also echoed and said.

When King Meng, Zhao Yuanyan and Song Shou agreed, and the officials looked like they had not achieved their goal, and the others could only agree to the training plan of the new army.

"Zhao Lei listened! I have appointed you as the new training envoy, responsible for the formation and training of the new army and the logistics yamen of the new army! The official Zhao Zhen saw that the seven important ministers on the right side of the court finally agreed, and immediately said to Zhao Lei with a smile.

"Thank you!" Zhao Lei was overjoyed and thanked him and said that he had finally achieved his goal now, organizing and training the new army, and at the same time controlling the Xuan case, the iron case, and the military reform of the Great Song Dynasty, which finally kicked off.

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