A letter was sent to the Nine Heavens in the morning, and was demoted to Chaozhou Road for eight thousand people at night!
This is a poem Han Yu wrote to his nephew in despair after learning that he was demoted, thinking that he would never return to Chang'an in his life. The whole poem is full of infinite sadness, which makes people read Finally, I couldn't help but burst into tears.
However, regardless of Han Yu's pitiful situation, in fact, if you count from Chang'an, it is only 2,500 miles to Chaozhou. Even to Guangzhou today, it is only three thousand miles away.
But just over two thousand miles, in the Tang Dynasty at that time, was enough to make people despair! It can be seen from this that the twenty-eight thousand miles traveled from Xiao Han's mouth is probably beyond the understanding of people of this era. It is no wonder that young people are so shocked.
"Master Marquis, didn't you say that these pirates should all die? Then what are you doing with them? Just throw them into the sea to feed the fish!"
In the cabin of the big ship, Ma Laoliu was muttering behind Xiao Han. He had long been unhappy with the guy named Wu.
What the hell! You're a fucking prisoner, and you still dare to put on airs and make conditions. I really don't know how to write the word "death," right?
"You want to throw him into the sea to feed the fish?"
Xiao Han was stroking a cannon with great interest at this time. Hearing this, he glanced back at Ma Laoliu and said with a smile: "Okay, if you can go to that place to find the things, I will Immediately chop him into pieces and throw him into the sea to feed the fish!”
"Me?" Ma Laoliu was so frightened by Xiao Han's weird smile that he shook his head like a rattle: "Ahem, don't be joking, Mr. Marquis, I can't go that far!"
"You can't go? Then prepare things for him honestly!" Xiao Han snorted and scolded angrily.
Just now, he had made a deal with the young man: he would let him live, prepare a boat, food, drinking water for him, and even tell him the secret recipe of the artillery when he comes back!
And Xiao Han has paid so much, and the only thing the young man has to do is one thing: cross the sea, go to the other side of the sea, and find the seeds of those strange plants for him!
This transaction is very simple and very rough!
At least in the eyes of others, if he were the Master Xunfu, the first thing he would do after gaining freedom would be to run away! Run as far as you can, what’s the deal? Go to hell!
However, what shocked others was this: after the Master Xunfu made sure that Xiao Han was not joking, he hesitated for a moment and then seriously made preparations, ranging from food, clothing, medicine, needlework, to ship personnel, etc. There are countless things listed, and it really looks like you are going thousands of miles away.
Perhaps, among these people who were stunned, only Luo Shixin understood why the young man listened to Xiao Han's words.
Nothing but hatred!
He hates Xiao Han, hates Li Shimin, and hates the bastard who took away all his family property!
However, after seeing Xiao Han's weapons, the young man's hatred could only turn into endless sadness!
He is arrogant, but not arrogant and ignorant! With such a nearly invincible weapon, the young man immediately realized that his swords and weapons were so ridiculous.
Therefore, his hatred gradually turned into a desire for these weapons! After all, with this kind of weapon, not to mention fighting against the Tang Dynasty, even if young people want to go overseas and establish a country, it will become easy.
Xiao Han, on the other hand, caught the young man's desire and let him obediently enter his web, willing to be the moth that flies into the fire.
I just wonder if Xiao Han will fulfill his promise and tell him the secret of the artillery if the young man really comes back successfully one day.
About artillery.
By the way, Xiao Han originally didn't want to cast this kind of thing, because the smelting and casting technology at this time was not perfect. Casting a small cannon was okay, but large casting tools like this would basically have a lot of impurities, bubbles, or Cracks are mixed in.
If these things exist in those Buddha statues and bronze statues, there is naturally no problem. They just need to be polished and painted.
But casting cannons? Forget it then, only a devil would dare to use a cannon that no one knows when it will explode!
Of course, the reason why Xiao Han gave up making cannons was that in addition to the problem of exploding the barrel, there was another most critical issue, and that was transportation!
A forged cannon weighs several thousand kilograms at least. In this era without cars and roads, how do you want to pull a cannon weighing several kilograms to fight all over the world? He probably died of exhaustion before hitting the enemy.
However, due to various reasons, Xiao Han gave up the cannon, but the lunatics at the Fire Research Institute refused to give up!
Since Xiao Han succeeded in researching those small iron pipes, those madmen immediately plunged into the research of cannons!
During this period, no one knows how many pipes were blown up and how many people were injured before they finally made the prototypes of these cannons.
This new type of cannon abandoned the iron pipe and instead used brass with better flexibility and ductility to make the barrel. In order to withstand the huge pressure generated instantly when the gunpowder explodes, these barrels are ridiculously thick. , even the thinnest part must be as thick as a fist!
From this point of view, a cannon must weigh at least two thousand kilograms. If it is placed on land, not even a horse, let alone an ox, can pull it!
Fortunately, these cannons were eventually installed on such large ships. With the support of ships, these cannons were given the best possible destination.
"The cannon is not fixed firmly enough. It is best to use iron chains to block it to prevent it from hitting something when the wind and waves are too strong! Well, these sandbags are good. When firing, they can be used as cushions behind them to reduce the recoil of the cannon. This is the shell... Why are they all solid? Are there no blooming bombs? What about incendiary bombs?"
Stroking the cold barrel, Xiao Han tried hard to recall the scene when he first watched Pirates of the Caribbean. Because the cannon in front of him is exactly the same as Captain Jack's cannon except that it is larger, so there are some things that we can really learn from.
"Ahem, what are blooming eggs? What are burning eggs? Whose chicken laid them?"
Ma Laoliu has been honest for a while since he was scolded by Xiao Han just now. He is afraid that if he does something wrong, he will be sent 20,000 miles away by Xiao Han! However, when he heard Xiao Han talking to himself, his bad-mouthed habit recurred, and he couldn't help but ask again.
"Flying chicken!" Xiao Han was dumbfounded by Ma Laoliu's question. He patted the cold cannon body and replied angrily.
"Flying chicken? Flying pheasant?" Ma Laoliu touched his head with a confused look on his face. He had eaten pheasants before, and he had eaten quite a few. They looked quite good-looking, but they were actually very thin and weak. Not very oily and not as delicious as the old hens at home.
