"Master only teaches how to do it, and as for whether to do it or not, it is up to each of them to do it. A certain intention is to gallop on the battlefield and make contributions. ”

……。

Baili Wuji asked tentatively: "If there is chaos today, the various forces are divided, and the central government is in vain, I don't know how you think to deal with it?" ”

"Put them all in cages and take them under your rule."

Baili Wuji is speechless, this seems to be Du Guangting's personal disciple, it should be Baili Wuji's personal disciple.

"I ask you again, now that the Khitan country is strong, if one day the army goes south, the first to bear the brunt is the Jin State, if you are the emperor of the Jin State, how to deal with it?

Peng Xiao lowered his head and pondered, and after a breath, he raised his head and said: "Contact all the candidates from all over the world, know it for profit, move it with affection, and fight the Khitan together." ”

"Knowing the benefit, how to know? Move with emotion, how to move? ”

"Xiaozhi Yili is to use the land under the jurisdiction of the Jin State to lure him, rather than to give it to the Khitans, it is better to give it to those candidates. moved with affection, he told them that the Khitan would go south, and once the Jin Kingdom fell, they would be next. ”

Although the idea is immature, the idea is remarkable. Baili Wuji said secretly in his heart.

The dignified Emperor Shi Jingjiao of the Jin Kingdom is not as good as a young man who is not as weak as the crown, hey, the Jin Kingdom will not perish, and there is heavenly reason.

Baili Wuji said: "Peng Xiao, a certain response, you can go to the post of general of the special operations army, are you willing?" ”

Peng Xiaoying said: "King Xie Chu." ”

"Peng Xiao, you can have words."

"Master didn't give it."

"In this way, this king gives you the word - Pingliao."

"Uh......."

Peng Xiao still responded: "Thank you for the word." ”

In my heart, I slandered, this word is really not good.

……。

On this day, the armory, together with the ship yard, invited the king of Chu to watch the trial voyage of the steam water wheel ship.

Baili Wuji led the officials to the Xiangshui to watch.

When the chimney on the ship began to smoke, the waterwheel boat gradually moved up and went faster and faster.

After running smoothly in the water for half an hour, the waterwheel boat stopped.

I want to strike.

But this has already amazed the officials of the Chu State, including Baili Wuji.

Although the strike came after the last, everyone understood that this was already a small problem, the general trend was not far from the real steamship.

Baili Wuji and the craftsmen discussed some issues, first of all, the speed, the artificially stepped waterwheel ship, in the downwind, can travel sixty miles in an hour, and the speed of the steam waterwheel ship is obviously not as fast as the artificially stepped boat.

Secondly, the steam boiler is too large, and most of the space of the entire waterwheel ship is given to steam equipment, and if you want to install weapons or personnel on the ship, the space is very narrow.

Baili Wuji still praised them and encouraged them to continue to improve.

……。

The first day of August.

There is good news from the armory workshop that Baili Wuji wants to hope for day and night.

The artillery was built successfully.

Two four-inch guns and one five-inch gun were successfully trial-produced. Breech guns, coarse caliber, gradually thickened from the muzzle to the tail, with cylindrical lugs on both sides of the center of gravity of the gun body, which can be used as an axis to adjust the angle of fire.

The four-inch cannon has a length of six feet and seven inches, and the cannon body has five round hoops and weighs 1,000 catties. The five-inch cannon has a gun body length of eight feet and two inches, and the gun body has nine round hoops, weighing 1,600 catties.

A crucible iron-making workshop was specially set up, and iron was smelted on a scale of 1,000 people, and it took 100 days to accumulate enough for 4,000 catties of iron to cast these two cannons. The cost is indeed high, but after mass manufacturing, the cost will come down, and the ironmaking process will improve day by day.

The report said that more than 10 guns had been test-fired, and the breeches had not cracked or even exploded.

Baili Wuji went to watch the test firing. The maximum firing range of the five-inch gun was more than five miles, and the effective firing range could reach six hundred zhang, nearly four miles. The maximum firing range of the four-inch gun was more than four miles, and the effective firing range could reach 330 zhang, two miles. Once launched, the earth shakes the mountains, and the mountains crack the rocks, which is undoubtedly a siege weapon.

Due to the experience accumulated in the manufacture of gunpowder for several years, the artillery institute has also developed three types of projectiles fired by artillery, solid bullets, shotgun shells, and flowering shells. There are also some characteristic poison bombs, such as hollow bombs with arsenic, paprika, and so on.

Baili Wuji was very excited on this day, and after rewarding the craftsmen of the armory, he ordered to make every effort to achieve mass production. At the same time, the idea of reloading the gun was proposed, which required the improvement of the transportability and detachability of the gun.

……。

After going back, Baili Wuji felt that the artillery had appeared, and the plan needed to be changed.

When Xu Shiming and Sun Guangxian were summoned and said that they were going to form sailors, they were taken aback.

The two thought that Baili Wuji was going to rekindle the war again, and they strongly persuaded Baili Wuji to rest and recuperate with the people.

Baili Wuji couldn't cry or laugh, and waited for the two to vomit bitter water.

"Xu Xiang, Sun Xiang, I misunderstood, this king set up a naval army just to make money, and he doesn't want to go to war."

"Make money?" Xu and Sun looked at each other in astonishment.

"Yes. Xu Xiang can know the proportion of gold and silver exchange in Chu and the surrounding countries? ”

"The Central Plains is one to ten, the Chu State is one to eleven, and other countries such as the Southern Tang Dynasty and Shu are one to twelve or thirteen." Xu Shiming replied.

Baili Wuji smiled and said, "If there is a place where gold and silver are exchanged for one to five, do you think this business is not done?" ”

"Naturally." Xu Shiming and Sun Guangxian replied in unison.

"That's good, this king set up a naval army, that is, to go to that place to do this business, originally this king planned to form it in the first half of the year, but now the artillery has been successfully manufactured, and when Yang Shi's Hezhou is completed next year, you can form a fleet, what do you think?"

Do you need to ask? Xu Shiming and Sun Guangxian slandered.

Xu Shiming asked, "Where is what the king said?" ”

Baili Wuji pretended to be mysterious and said: "The secret of heaven must not be revealed." ”

"The silver produced in the mines of Chu began to be hoarded, and the two of them immediately began to arrange the exchange of silver with the gold in stock to various countries, remember, it must be swift and confidential, except for the three of us, the fourth person must not be allowed to know."

"Yes."

……。

The tenth day of August.

The king of Chu, Baili Wuji, issued an order to form a water division of the Xingwang Mansion.

Yu Cunzhong, the defense envoy of Gyeongju, selected 2,000 soldiers from the former Shu Navy Division who were captured in the defense of Chung County to be on standby at Xingwangfu.

Ordered the four armies of the Black Flag Army to select 3,000 soldiers who were familiar with water to stand by in the Xingwang Mansion.

Lingxing Wangfu ordered Zhou Zong to recruit 3,000 strong men who were familiar with water in the coastal area to stand by.

After the order was issued, Baili Wuji fell into hesitation.

Hesitating who will be the governor of this water division.

With 2,000 veteran sailors and 3,000 Black Flag soldiers as the backbone, plus 3,000 newly recruited sturdy, the shelf of this sailor has been erected, and now it is the only leader.

After some filtering in my brain, a name jumped out - Peng Xiao.