It is not easy to make mirrors, just like the various products of Song Jiu's previous life, the quality must be guaranteed, and the packaging is also needed. Not only the mirror itself, but also the embellishment of various inlays and edging, and the embellishment of the pictures and texts behind it, it is also necessary to invite a large number of craftsmen of various kinds, and even famous painters to write beautifully.

This is not up to Song Jiu, and the various stewards and dealers will do it for him.

In the future, it will be necessary to recruit some stewards and practitioners, and it is useless for students to grow up, lacking their practical ability and entertainment ability. It can only be said that the two will play a supporting role.

But Song Jiu also has to run to the glaze workshop from time to time, one is the technical research problem, the other is the production problem, see the efficiency, Song Jiu had to recruit 30 workers, more than 80 people, Song Jiu with the division of labor assembly line production arrangement, improve speed and efficiency, these two improved, the cost will also decrease, but also conducive to the secrecy of some technology. However, it is not enough to divide one point, at the beginning of the hurry, more than a dozen glass craftsmen are helpless. Song Jiu had to come over and think about adjusting.

Things continue to come one by one, one less is easier, the glass is officially mass-produced, and the research will continue in the future, but that is not the main task, Song Jiu will reduce another task. Mirrors began to circulate, first from the Pan family.

Mrs. Tian presented the mirror given to her by Song Jiu to Zhao Kuangyin, preparing to go south, and I don't know when Lu Dao will come back, besides, Tian can't ride a horse, she must take a boat, and it will take four months to go back and forth, Pan Li'er gave the mirror to her mother.

Tian accepted it, but before that, some of Pan Li'er's best friends also saw it. So he went home and asked his respective husbands and brothers to ask Song Jiu for it. All were rejected by Song Jiu. This is not a vegetable, turning a cheap vegetablet into a luxury. Fear of gossip is a gradual turn of luxury into everyday items. Not afraid of gossip. Besides, Song Jiu is really short of money.

In June, the Mirror Conference, by the way, publicly debugged some equipment in the playground.

At the end of May, the official installation of the glaze began, and at the same time, the interior decoration was carried out, and all kinds of expensive leno felt blankets, as well as silver tableware and ivory tableware, were also transported to the main store and inn in a steady stream.

Don't pretend to look just feel tall, a pretend. Several buildings began to deform and become more and more beautiful. More than a dozen painting boats slowly sailed to the edge of the small rainbow bridge. Then, with the help of Yuping's relationship, he invited all the famous leaders in the capital to come over.

The painting boat lives for free, does not charge any money, Song Jiu does not want to become a bustard himself, this money will not be earned, how the heads of various lines and fans make money, Song Jiu will not ask. Even in the future, they will spend money to build some beautiful houses behind the opera house for them to live in. It is also free of charge. It has nothing to do with Song Jiu whether the court will collect money, but Song Jiu will also not charge them a penny.

There is only one condition, they are here, and they take the time to spend a little time every day to train the women who bought them from the store. How to entertain guests, as well as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, dancing and singing. Poetry and poetry have nothing to do with them, and Yuping can come and teach them. You can also let some decent students come and teach.

The effect is not too ideal, and only two people are invited to the really famous line. It's the same thing with other prostitutes.

But this thing must be there, not only will it attract some popularity, but there will also be customers in the main store who will name the head of the line to perform, it is impossible to go to the city to invite the head of the line to come, it is too far away, it is unrealistic.

There are too many people who are proficient in this, and many of them are more expert than Song Jiu, and even better than Yuping. Xiangyan's profession has taken the initiative to ask for battle, Song Jiu has no objection to this situation, but strictly affirms, you can teach, you can't touch those women, these are good words. Also, some dances and clothes, this Song Jiu must come in person, but that will be in July.

The wine workshop was finally built, and this was the real peak of money, and more than a dozen cars pulled money from Song Jiu's house every day. But Song Jiu's main focus was on the playground.

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The date of the Mirror Meeting has finally been set, June 15.

Before starting, Song Jiu wrote a letter and asked Zhao Kuangyin to come to Hezhou, or the ministers of the Western Mansion to come to Hezhou, the stone cannon was improved, and there was an important instrument, no less than the stone cannon.

At this time, the military of the Song Dynasty was still in the first place, and Bashu gradually calmed down, but as Song Jiu said, the grievances were very deep. However, Jinghu Lake is gradually settling down, but there are barbarian threats in the west of Jinghu, Southern Han threats in the south, and Southern Tang threats in the east, which cannot be said to be good. When the Southern Han Dynasty pacified Jinghu in the Song Dynasty, they directly sent troops to attack Binzhou, and the hostility was clear. Although the Tang State was a vassal, it sent a large amount of gold and silver a year, but the river was forbidden to trade, and the military was developed internally. If Li Yu hadn't done a good job, with the national strength of the Southern Tang Dynasty, no matter how dangerous the Yangtze River was, it would not be easy to win.

Wu Yue is okay, but it's not easy to say, what if the Qian family suddenly repents? Not to mention that some of Fujian's powerful forces are beyond the reach of the whip.

There are also strong enemies in the north, the Northern Han and the Khitan.

Therefore, the military was the first priority of the Song Dynasty at this time.

In fact, Song Jiu sometimes thinks about history and thinks it is very funny, at this time the Song Dynasty was in crisis, including the box soldiers, there were less than 300,000 troops, and there were only 100,000 forbidden soldiers who could really fight. Later, the Song Dynasty unified the Central Plains, and the forbidden army even grew to more than 800,000, more than 500,000 box soldiers, and a large number of strong men, archers, and soldiers, who have always been in a weak military position.

It cannot simply be said that the Song Dynasty emphasized literature and light military force, that is a crude statement.

Song Jiu didn't know what the problem was.

Song Jiu went to the court in front of him, and Zhao Kuangyin came to Hezhou with a large group of ministers. This is impossible to put in the palace to test the test, it is said that it is a ten-stone stone bullet, and it can be thrown into hundreds of zhang, God knows where the road falls, don't the Qianyuan Palace in front of it is built, the big stone of the grinding plate falls, and what hall is smashed to pieces, is it time to cure Song Jiu's crime?

If the power is so great, not to mention the palace, the entire capital cannot be tested, it can only be in some school military fields, as well as in the vast military camp, which is not an area that Song Jiu can enter. Therefore, Song Jiu can only be on the river island, and the western half of the area is still empty, even if it is a hundred stones, it doesn't matter.

A large crowd arrived.

It didn't disappoint everyone either, and Song Jiu pushed a device to Hezhou and began to assemble it. That's the good thing about the big screw, no matter what kind of bush crossbow he has. Or the current stone cannon can be turned into a part of the loading, unloading and transportation. Assemble it when it's time to use. It's a little bulky, but it can still be transported.

It's the hottest time. Although the river breeze was blowing, everyone couldn't help but sweat on their foreheads. However, no one complained, there were some large stones on the side of the stone cannon, which were chiseled into a circle, which was conducive to throwing the cannon to rotate and throw it farther. But some of the stones are huge.

Song Jiu took the students to assemble it, it must have been very bulky, like a monster standing on the river island. But because of the use of some steel, its volume still can't catch up with the largest ten-pin cannon in the Bashu military camp. The number of operators has also been reduced, to only sixty or seventy.

This is a large trebuchet, and it could be a little bigger, but that design will be more difficult and more manpower to operate. If it's bulky, it's not applicable!

It can also be miniaturized, and the more miniaturized Song Jiu is, the more important it is, but in order to show its power, this freak was finally created.

The lifting object is still made of stones, a giant blue-striped stone weighing more than four tons. There were many civil servants who had never been on the battlefield. Watching this huge blue-striped stone being twisted up by the winch, the sweat on his forehead became denser.

Song Jiu said: "Your Majesty, let's start with the big one." ”

Have a dozen soldiers put the big stone on the stone cover.

Zhao Kuangyin looked at this stone and broke out in a cold sweat. Q: "How much does it weigh?" ”

It's definitely more than ten stones.

"Your Majesty, twenty stones."

For the sake of intuition, Song Jiu asked the guards to put some cars in the distance one after another. These cars are all kinds of vehicles that are used in construction and waste. Most repairs can't be repaired, which is also an inevitable result. For more than a year. Just the construction of Hezhou, I don't know how much cargo has been pulled by the road.

Instead of cutting the cable, it still has a rope hook like a bush crossbow. There is a bracket, and this cable is too thick to be cut. The machine bracket opened, and the blue stone fell on the sandbag, and the horizontal wood at the other end was quickly warped, not only the warping wood, but also the thick spring below, which was so fast that it was not visible to the naked eye, and then slapped the boulder. This beat of Song Jiu is impossible to calculate, but it is estimated that there is at least tens of thousands of catties of force. Of course, its shortcomings are very obvious, the operation is slow, cumbersome, there are many soldiers to operate, and the manufacturing itself requires a huge cost, and the stone bullet has to be polished. Its military value is inferior to that of real artillery, and it can only be said to be artillery. But it should be more powerful and more reasonable in design than the legendary return cannon.

The big stone was thrown out of the city, and it fell nearly a hundred paces, a distance of more than forty zhang, but it was also the siege distance, and this distance was enough for it to cause damage to the soldiers defending the city. As it fell, hit a car. The car is a big car, and although it can no longer be used because of wear and tear, it is still a car. However, with just one blow, it was smashed into pieces.

Song Jiu then asked the soldiers to carry a stone weighing ten stones, and its distance was even farther, more than seventy zhang, less than one hundred, but it also proved that what Song Jiu said was true. Then Song Jiu continued to operate. Unlike the stone cannon of the Song Dynasty, it can also be adjusted. By adjusting the distance, you can adjust the angle of the stone projectile to reduce the range, so that the stone projectile can be thrown higher and the power of the stone projectile will be greater.

At the end of the stone is two stones, which are also the smallest stone bullets, and they can be smaller and farther, but with such a huge stone cannon, the firing speed is slow, and it is not worth firing one stone projectile. It was so small that it was so fast that it was almost invisible, and the stone projectile flew out.

The official ran to measure, and landed two hundred and twelve zhang away, Zhao Pu muttered: "Since then, there has been no defense line in Bianshui. ”

The Yangtze River and the Yellow River cannot be thrown over, but this distance can envelop most places in Bianshui, from one side of the river to the other side of the river.

Zhao Kuangyin also muttered: "It's too cruel, if there is such a thing, why is it difficult to conquer Shouchun City back then?" ”

Not only that, but even the tourists watching from afar looked silly.

This is precisely what Song Jiu is most unhappy about, these weapons come out, mostly for siege warfare, not for field warfare. However, the biggest enemy of the Song Dynasty was in the west and north, and there were not many siege battles, and field battles were the main ones. Especially with the rise of Western Xia, how many walled cities are there?

But others can't imagine that there are still many enemies, and the Southern and Northern Han and Southern Tang will have to carry out siege warfare, so it also has a huge role.

Song Jiu said again: "Your Majesty, please come here." ”

Bring the monarch to the top of a hilltop tower on a dirt slope in the playground, above which is a small, unenclosed three-story tower, which is actually a pavilion, with no walls, only a few concrete reinforced columns, and a solid stone staircase, and nothing else inside. It is also necessary to decorate, but now the future will be too decorated, good things are on the third floor, the third floor began to be installed, but the third floor has no walls, only carved railings, to ensure the safety of tourists.

There was a shelf inside, on which was placed a bamboo tube that could be rotated and adjusted, and Song Jiu said, "Your Majesty, look." ”

Zhao Kuangyin leaned up to look, and first scared him as well, but he was a cow, and he quickly calmed down, and kept only Song Jiu's instructions to adjust and look, and then looked up at Song Jiu, with a blank expression in his eyes. Zhao Pu was curious, and he also leaned up to look, his expression was exactly the same. Although the tower is not small, it is a tower in the end, one is the scenery, the other is the amusement project, so there are only dozens of important ministers who can go up, so they are attached one by one to see, all of them are exactly the same expression. Zhao Kuangyin asked, "What kind of thing is this?" (To be continued......)