The news that Da Song was tossing soon spread to Da Yuan. The Mongolian nobles on the side of the Great Yuan didn't think it was a big deal, according to Mongolian culture, since Zhao Jiaren had such a great contribution, he should have found a mountain a long time ago, gathered the heads of the various factions of the Great Song Dynasty, and held a Great Song version of the Hulitai Conference. Zhao Jiaren was appointed emperor of the Great Song Dynasty.

If there is anything that can surprise the Mongolian nobles, it is that the protagonist can endure until now to start seizing power. According to Kublai Khan's idea, the protagonist should have seized power long ago.

Moreover, Kublai Khan's attention was attracted by the historians and the Yu family who fled north. Waiting anxiously in the palace, Kublai Khan felt that it was really inconvenient to be emperor. If it had been the Great Khan of the Mongols, he would have had more freedom.

When the guards finally reported, "Bo Yan and Hao Ren are here." ”

The Great Khan immediately ordered: "Let them in at once." ”

Not long after, Bo Yan and Hao Ren strode into the Golden Palace. They were followed by Kublai Khan's bodyguards, who carried several pails. Boyan stepped forward and said, "Great Khan, I have already got the drawings. ”

"Bring it!" Kublai Khan stood up eagerly.

Immediately, a guard tidied up the table, then opened the bucket and pulled out some drawings from it. Laying the drawings on the table, Kublai Khan put on his glasses and looked at them carefully. Hao Ren, a firearms expert, pointed to the drawings and told Kublai Khan, "The Yu family has relatives who work as errands in the Song State Firearms Factory, so they made their own firearms drawings. The firearms of the Song Kingdom were actually wrapped in double layers of wrought iron to make the barrel......"

Kublai Khan listened carefully, and he personally commanded the most fierce battle of Huaxian in the Yellow River Campaign. The Song army displayed ghostly military tactics in front of Kublai Khan, leaving the Mongol army completely unable to deal with it. After much review, Kublai Khan found that the Song army was very similar to the Mongol army, they developed tactics based on the military equipment they had, and the military core of the Song army was their firearms.

Mongolia has long had gunpowder, and after seeing the sharp firearms of the Song army, the Mongolian army is also imitating them. However, no amount of imitation can create a slender musket with great lethality. The Yu family's in-laws are a firearms assembly factory, and those parts and components are made elsewhere and sent to the assembly plant. A lot of knowledge is about the structure of the musket, but not about the key components. Even so, after this explanation, Kublai Khan was able to understand how big the gap between Mongolia and Song was.

After talking about the structure, Kublai Khan was already impatient to ask, "Can you start copying it right now?" ”

Hao Ren looked up at Boyan a little embarrassed, but Boyan still looked cold and didn't speak. Hao Ren said stiffly: "Great Khan, Song Jun's wrought iron winding barrel is light and strong, mass-produced, and the quality and size are the same. The price turned out to be only one-twentieth of the barrel of a Mongolian musket. Song Guo's steel leaf springs are also mass-produced, and the price is also very low. If we make it, the price will be about 20 times the price. ”

"You say we make a musket, and the price is twenty times that of the Song Kingdom?" Kublai Khan understood Hao Ren's hint.

"The wooden butt is not so expensive, and we are craftsmen here, so it is not enough to be twenty times." Hao Ren explained.

Kublai Khan was already a little impatient, and he asked angrily, "How much does that get?" ”

"Fifteen times. It had to be an arquebus. Hao Ren secretly scolded Boyan for his unrighteousness in his heart, and had to say.

Kublai Khan did not get angry, but asked unhappily: "Why not the latest musket gun!" ”

"The fire cap inside the fire cap gun, we have no idea how they made it." Hao Ren said almost to himself. Inside the fire cap is mercury thunderate, which is produced by the military industrial enterprise of the highest security level of Song Jun. The employees in it have to check the three generations, and as long as there is a problem in the three generations, don't think about going. Even if there is no problem in the three generations, these people can only live in a huge factory. Secrecy is very tight.

Kublai Khan was silent for a moment, and then asked, "Did the Shi family and the Yu family hide a hand?" ”

Hao Ren couldn't answer at this time. This is very easy to suspect that the Shi family and the Yu family fled to Mongolia, and they must have hoped that they would be safe. For the sake of yourself, it is a very understandable choice to hide a part of the technology. After a moment of silence, Hao Ren wanted to say that the Shi family and the Yu family would be arrested and tortured, but he felt that this was not appropriate, so he did not say this suggestion.

Kublai Khan's Great Khan saw that Hao Ren did not speak, and he himself felt that torture was inappropriate, at least not for now. Give the Shi family and the people of the Yu family a certain amount of time, let them think it out for themselves and then obediently hand over more information. Anyway, they can't run back to the Song Kingdom. Giving them high-ranking officials or severely torturing them was Dayuan's choice.

"Hao Ren, if you make a musket according to the method of the Song Kingdom, how much does a musket cost?" The Great Khan asked more realistic questions.

"I did the math. It's about the same price as we cast a one-pound cannon. Hao Ren replied immediately.

"Nonsense!" Kublai Khan said angrily. A pound of artillery can fire a pound of shells 70 paces (100 meters) away, and in the Song army's combat style, their muskets began to shoot at this distance, and even most of the time, the Song army would shoot at a closer distance. At the same price, the artillery is much more powerful than the musket in terms of cost performance.

Boyan said: "Great Khan, we might as well build it first." Maybe the historian has something else hidden that he hasn't said. Moreover, we have invested heavily in the purchase of Song Guo muskets, and we can also compare the muskets with the drawings. ”

"Don't you compare, I don't believe it." Kublai Khan said dissatisfied.

Boyan replied coldly: "It's already compared, probably right." Just wanted to check it out again. If the gap between the two sides is all in the price of wrought iron, we will have to do our best to get the secret technique of Song Guoye iron. ”

"What happened to the people who were planted in the Song captives we returned?" Kublai Khan asked.

"Song is very strict with their censorship. No news yet. Boyan replied.

Hao Ren knew that those Song people must have been mixed with Da Yuan's fine works. It's not particularly difficult to pretend to be a Song person, as long as you can speak southern dialect. The Great Yuan continued to invade the south over the years and occupied a large territory, and there were many Song people on those territories. In addition to these Song people, there are also Song people who have been taken captive. Among them, there are not too few people who are willing to give Dayuan a detailed work. It is a good way to select some people to be sent to the Song Kingdom, or let them escape back to the Song Kingdom.

"Okay. As Boyan said. Let's build it first. Kublai Khan gave the order, and his voice was full of unwillingness and even anger. originally thought that the gap between Mongolia and the Song Kingdom could be leveled, but after working hard, I found that the gap between the Great Yuan and the Song Kingdom was many times larger than imagined, so big that people were a little desperate. Even the joy of obtaining information has turned into a new pain. If we didn't know the gap between the two sides, maybe Mongolia would still be happy because of ignorance.

On the way out, Hao Ren said to Boyan Dashuai with some unhappiness: "Dashuai, the cost of let's build a musket is only 20 times that of Da Song." ”

"Maybe more." Boyan replied coldly.

In fact, this is what Hao Ren is most worried about. The craftsmen of Dayuan are craftsmen, for example, the gang in the Firearms Bureau are all firearms. They might get the iron from the ironsmiths, and the parts and guns would be made by the Firearms Bureau. According to the information provided by the historian and the Yu family, all the things in the Song Kingdom were ordered from outside. The musket factory where the Yu family was located was just assembling the parts. This shows that the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty do not quarrel with each other!

And ripping is an old problem among Dayuan craftsmen. Therefore, the craftsmen of Dayuan are the leading craftsmen and have absolute power, and the other craftsmen must obey and obey again.

Therefore, Da Song's side looks at things that can reduce costs, and it is a nightmare on Da Yuan's side.

Hao Ren and Boyan returned to their homes at the palace gate, and not long after, someone went out from the capital to Zhigu Village. After arriving in Zhigu Village, the news was secretly transmitted, and on March 13, when most of the people in the six departments of the Great Song Dynasty signed the persuasion form, the news reached Hangzhou. At about the same time, the express newspaper from Guangzhou also sent the list provided by Jia Yidao and some letters to Hangzhou.

The fact that the Anti-Rape Committee immediately dealt with the information made many things that were not very clear to the Anti-Rape Committee become clear. The influence of Shi Miyuan's family is far greater than everyone initially thought. Shi Miyuan's cousin Shi Songzhi promoted a large number of people when he was the prime minister. The ability of this voter is not bad, and the ethics are not bad. For example, Wu Qian, who Zhao Jiaren used, was promoted by Shi Songzhi.

As for Jia Yidao, he can also be said to be Shi Miyuan's line in a sense. Because Shi Yanzhi, who promoted him, is Shi Songzhi's younger brother and Shi Miyuan's cousin. Looking carefully, these Jinshi in the court, that is, the Jinshi in the last ten years, can completely wash away all the relationship networks of Shi Miyuan's faction, and the others have to be more or less tainted. This is the same as Zhao Jiaren himself and those Song traitors are also related to each other.

Mastering this network, Zhao Jiaren began to act. The first thing was to officially announce the deprivation of Empress Dowager Yang's honorific title. Zhao Jiaren did not hide this matter, in addition to the official announcement, he also published the news on the front page of the "Da Song Daily" and commented.

Make peace with your enemies when their loved ones fall into the hands of your enemies. Just such a reason is enough to shred the credit of Empress Dowager Yang. However, when Zhao Jiaren mobilized local cadres to collect the people's reactions, Zhao Jiaren was greatly surprised. Even locally, the reaction to this incident was not violent. The people have no concept of Empress Dowager Yang, they just know that she is the mother of the current petty official family.

As for a woman's mistake, it seems that everyone doesn't think it's a big deal. But in the officialdom, these people know how serious things are.