After the three of them finished speaking, everyone cast admiring glances at them, although it was due to the imperial power and the warning I just made, but their hearts were also quite open-minded and open-minded, after all, everyone was a little uncomfortable in their hearts, and how frank they were, it was also rare. Seeing their statement, I also praised them: Very good, I am very pleased with your loyalty to the court. Then he looked at the old rules and continued: As the saying goes, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your weapons, a strong army is inseparable from excellent weapons, Chen Aiqing, what is the current situation of the weapons superintendent?

When Chen Gui saw me asking, he felt a salute and replied: Emperor Qiqi, after nearly two months of familiarity with the ordnance superintendent, there are several feelings, one is that the imperial court currently has a wide variety of ordnance, the second is that the quality of ordnance workmanship is rough, some are even placed in warehouses all year round, and some are ordnance left over from the previous dynasty, and the third is that there is a serious shortage of professional craftsmen, resulting in relatively backward ordnance research and development. The emperor's instructions are that in terms of firearms, Xiaguan has upgraded the original bamboo barrel to a metal barrel on the basis of the original bamboo barrel, and has not yet made great progress and breakthroughs.

For the problem of the old rules, I am not very familiar with the other except for the musket, and looked at Tong Guan and others, and saw that everyone nodded one after another, I knew that although the old rules have only been in office for two months, the lack of a basic grasp of the ordnance, which I am deeply satisfied, after all, he did it with his heart, and the matter of the musket is not in a hurry, after all, the current technology, materials are still lacking, not able to break through it all at once, after all, the requirements for this barrel are relatively high.

At this time, the seed master stood up and said: Emperor Qiqi, what Lord Chen said, the lower officials also feel the same way, there are yellow birch bows, white birch bows, white birch bows, hemp back bows, etc., crossbows have black lacquer crossbows, yellow birch crossbows, white birch crossbows, female yellow birch crossbows, double bow bed crossbows, three-bow bed crossbows, bucket crossbows, second three-bow bed crossbows, jumping crossbows, wooden crossbows, stepping crossbows, large cicada crossbows, small cicada crossbows, hand-shot crossbows and so on. There are also dozens of guns, axes, maces, knives, etc. Due to the large number of ordnance in the army, its workmanship is not excellent, and China's territory is vast, the islands in the south, the Xixia in the northwest, the Liao, Jin, Dali in the south, etc., as well as bandits in various parts of the country, etc., due to the different application occasions and regions, so it leads to many types of ordnance, resulting in craftsmen can not focus on research and development.

As soon as the master finished speaking, the old rules also continued: There is also that cannon is more complicated, there are more types, one is the gun carriage, the big wood is the bed, the lower four wheels, the upper building of a single rod, the head of the pole Shi Luo Kuangmu, the upper cannon tip, the high and lower about the city shall prevail, push the apprentices to come and go, in order to facilitate the convenience, its casting and use of a quasi-regular artillery method. The second is a single-tip cannon, with four front and rear foot pillars (one zhang eight feet long in front, six inches out of the mountain pass, wrapped in iron leaves, and one zhang six feet five inches long in the back), the upper fan (eight feet five inches long, except for the elevation oblique, leaving six feet five inches, the lower fan (one zhang three feet long, in addition to the elevation oblique, leaving one zhang), the upper will peach one (eight feet five inches long, in addition to the elevation oblique, four feet five inches), the lower will be one (one zhang three feet long, except for the elevation oblique, leaving nine feet), deer ears four, both ends of the clamp shaft (one foot one inch long, five inches wide, three points thick). Axis 1 (7 feet long, 1 foot diameter), 2 heads of wood (7 feet long, 1 foot diameter), 16 wedges (1 foot 8 inches long, 4 inches wide, 3 minutes thick), tip 1 (2 feet 5 feet long, 4 inches in diameter, 2 inches 8 minutes in diameter), 1 owl head (2 feet 5 inches long, 2 inches wide, 3 inches thick), pole 2 (2 feet long, 4 inches in diameter, 2 inches in diameter), iron double scorpion tail 1 (1 foot 2 inches long, 2 catties in weight), 2 iron bundles (each weighing 7 taels, 7 inches in circumference), 18 wolf tooth nails, 2 strings (2 feet 5 feet long, 12 sons with hemp 1 catty and 8 taels), Pi Wo 1 (eight inches long, six inches wide, six (five feet long, each with two catties and eight taels of hemp), 40 ropes (four zhang long, four catties of hemp). All cannons, forty people dragged, one person set to place, put fifty steps away, the stone weighs two catties.

There are also double-tip cannons that need to be dragged by 100 people, one person to set off cannons, a distance of 80 steps, and a double-tip cannon that can fire stones weighing up to 25 catties, and a double-tip cannon that can be firearmed, and then a double-tip cannon that needs 157 people to drag and one person to set off a cannon, a distance of 50 steps, can fire a five-tip cannon weighing 80 catties, and two people need to be dragged and two people to set off a cannon, and a seven-tip cannon that needs 50 people to drag and one person to set off a cannon, a distance of 58, a whirlwind cannon with a firing weight of 3 catties, and two people to put it, The hand cannon weighing half a catty, there are 70 people dragging it, one person putting the cannon, 50 steps away, the tiger squat cannon weighing 12 catties, and there are sleeping car cannons, column belly cannons and so on.

Listening to Chen Gui talk about artillery, I thought of the principle of lever, and I had the idea of improving the cannon, so I said: You love to chat, for siege, defense and field warfare are very important artillery, I mention a few words by the way, Chen Aiqing's so-called cannon just now is to set up a lever, one end is to place the cannonball, and the other end is pulled by people with ropes, and the energy of manpower is converted to the projectile body through the lever. As a result, the projectile flies out and hits the target. The imperial court is only according to the different roles and application scenarios, divided into many types of artillery, the only disadvantage of this kind of artillery is that the labor consumed is huge, such as seven cannons need 250 people to pull, this is still a cannon, if it is ten, fifty units, then how many people are needed to pull it, obviously this is not a large-scale production and equipment for the army.

Then we can imagine, since we want to use so many people to pull, why not use heavy objects to replace it, for example, we are using manpower to pull this end, directly place a large frame of stone or a large piece of iron, used to replace the power of manpower pulling, and at the other end of the throwing rod, we make a movable iron hook to hook the throwing rod, so that only the hooked live hook needs to be removed when firing, the original human pull of the end of the heavy object naturally falls, thus driving the other end of the throwing rod The stone has been fired by firearms, from the mechanical aspect, The heavier the suspension, the farther it can be launched, which not only saves labor, but also saves effort. I don't know what you Aiqing thinks?

After I finished speaking, there was silence for an instant, and even the slightest breathing of each other could be heard, time passed slowly every second in such an atmosphere, except for Cai Mao, they are all people with military expertise, and they understand very well what I am talking about, this technology, sometimes like a layer of window paper, you pierce it instantly, everyone will suddenly realize, it is so simple, but usually you have to imagine it out of thin air, but you really can't think of anything.

Then suddenly Chen Gui suddenly knelt down and said: My emperor is a great talent, such a delicate design, it is really unprecedented and unprecedented, Xia Guan just carefully considered the emperor's words, and felt that this move was very wonderful, so that not only can save a large number of manpower to pull, but also can be configured according to the needs of the battlefield to suspend heavy objects of different weights to meet the needs of different battlefields. Although it is only a simple improvement, it has the effect of doing more with less. What Xia Guan thought was that the wooden frame of the artillery cart was changed to an iron frame, and then wheels were installed at the bottom, and a push rod was installed on the frame of the artillery cart to facilitate movement and transportation. In addition, firearms or stones such as earth-shattering thunder can be used on the projectiles, which can be used flexibly according to the different needs of the battlefield.

After listening to the detailed description of the stereotype, everyone came back to their senses, and they all knelt down and said: My emperor is a great talent! I am also very impressed by the understanding of stereotypes, imagination and logical thinking skills, and I can make so many detailed improvements after my simple description. At this time, Zhi Yanzhi hurriedly said: Emperor Qi, what Lord Chen said just now is very reasonable, especially the cannon will be launched to shake the sky, before the battlefield will be filled with gunpowder, the shell is wrapped in pig iron, after igniting the fuse and throwing out, the pig iron shell will explode into pieces, and the armor soldiers of the Liao army who killed will flee into the desert, this thing is very wonderful, if it is thrown out as a boulder, when the two armies face each other, you can blow up more than half of the enemy's cavalry.

Everyone began to make eye contact excitedly, and it could be seen that they were all very excited. When I saw this, I said lightly: All Aiqing, please get up, the so-called art industry has a specialty, I am just throwing bricks and leading jade, Chen Aiqing is worthy of being an expert in ordnance, just a little understanding, you are also people who know the military, you should understand that the army is not sharp, and you are empty-handed. As for the wide variety of other ordnance, I mean that according to the actual needs of the battlefield, we will reduce its types and specifications, select a few commonly used ordnances with good battlefield use effects, focus on R&D, transform and upgrade, and put them into large-scale production, and give priority to equipping the new army of the Great Song Dynasty, in addition, all ordnance will be kept strictly secret from the outside world, and once leaked, it will be punished as treason. Everyone responded excitedly.

A moment later, the ruling and privy councillor made Cai Mao stand up and report: Emperor Qi, the lower officials learned that the Fanchang iron mine on Jiangnan East Road has a method of strengthening iron smelting, specifically because most of the furnaces of their iron ore are built along the mountain, so as to reduce the construction man-hours, enhance the firmness of the furnace, and facilitate operation and production. The upper platform is used to materialize, and the lower platform is used to supply air, slag and iron. The volume of the furnace is not large, the furnace cavity is mostly pear-shaped, adapting to the change law of logistics decline and expansion, air flow rising and contracting, the furnace can be moved, there is a square iron furnace and a trapezoidal wooden bellows connected, and there is a wooden frame under it that can be lifted. This kind of bellows blows air by opening and closing the wooden box cover, there is a flap on the cover plate, there is a flap at the junction of the wooden box and the air duct, one is the air inlet, the other is the air outlet, the cover plate is fanned, the two doors are opened and closed alternately, and the two wooden bellows are used alternately at the same time, so that the air can be blown continuously. This type of bellows is very large, which can significantly increase the air volume, air pressure, and strengthen the iron smelting process. As long as the iron-smelting process is strengthened, the manufacturing level of ordnance is bound to be raised by a grade.