"died?"
"Really shot to death!"
"Why is the armor of this old man so unreliable?"
"Cutting corners... profiteers!"
"Oh, you are harming others and yourself!"
"The profiteer will not even give up his life!"
"We can't learn from him..."
Seeing Zhang Guanghui fall to the ground after being hit by an arrow, the leaders around him who were waiting to take over as the emperor began to talk about it - the hatred between colleagues was indeed genuine! Not only did no one sympathize with Zhang Guanghui, some even called him a profiteer! Judging from their attitude, it is obvious that they want to draw a clear line with Zhang Da's profiteers...
Zhao Kai was kind-hearted and could not bear to offend Zhang Guanghui again, so he said to Guo Tiannu: "Tiannu, go and have a look. If you can save her, let the doctor come and save her. If you can't save her, put her in a coffin." Went out to bury it.”
After Guo Tiannu received the order, she called two Tiance soldiers to go forward and collect the body. But before they could get closer, Zhang Guanghui, who was lying on the ground, suddenly started shouting: "I'm not dead. I'm really not dead. I blocked it." , blocked it, Amitabha...I knew I could block it! Wuwuwu..."
Still alive! It turns out that I was scared and fell down. I am still a bit timid and need to practice more!
But as long as he doesn’t die, there will be plenty of opportunities to try arrows in the future!
Zhao Kai breathed out and said to Guo Tiannu: "Go and have the armor tested. If it's intact, it's considered to have passed!" Then he said to Chen Qian, the leader of the Imperial Merchant Company, whose face turned pale and whose breathing seemed a little difficult: "Chen Xingshou, it's your turn... A man must be brave and fearless. Don't be like Zhang Xingshou and fall down in fear!"
Chen Qian tried his best to smile a little and said to Zhao Kai: "Fuck, the common people have taken the order!"
You can't be scared and lie down!
This is an imperial edict. If you lie down, you will resist and disobey the edict... The consequences will be serious!
Just when Chen Qian mustered up the courage to walk to the "Arrow Testing Stand" to use as a target, Guo Tiannu and two Tiance soldiers had already brought the armor that had just been worn on Zhang Guanghui. Sure enough, it blocked the wooden feather arrow shot by Zhao Kai - the only damage caused by the wooden feather arrow to the armor was that some of the black paint on a leaf of armor was knocked off.
Zhao Kai nodded with satisfaction, "In the past, when Shen Mengxi was also the warden of weapons, he also wanted to build a warlock armor. He tried many times but failed. I didn't expect that this problem was solved by me with such a simple method. ..... Shen Mengxi is so smart, why can't he think of this?"
Guo Tiannv was from the Liao Dynasty and had never heard of Shen Kuo and Shen Mengxi. However, she still had some ideas. She smiled and said to Zhao Kai: "This Shen Mengxi wants to be a civil servant. He doesn't have to wear armor and go into battle to brave the Khitan and Dangxiang people." The arrows charge, so you can’t put too much effort into making the wart armor!
And the generals who led the troops in the Song Dynasty did not have much real power. They could not control the arms supervision, iron smelting supervision and iron smelting affairs in various places. At most, they could only get a good armor for themselves, so how could they care about the soldiers below? "
Zhao Kai thought for a moment and felt that it made sense. The reason why I put so much effort into making the cold-forged armor even at the risk of Zhang Guanghui and Chen Qian's lives is because I have to wear this kind of cold-forged armor to fight against thieves!
In addition, the soldiers who followed Zhao Kai to the front line must also have good armor to protect themselves and save their lives...otherwise they would all ask the Jurchens to shoot them to death, and Zhao Kai himself would not be able to protect himself!
Moreover, Zhao Kai himself was an official, and he was the founding official who reopened the Song Dynasty. Today, he shot Zhang Guanghui to death with one arrow. It was not because he was unkind, but because Zhang Guanghui was treacherous and deceitful, seeking his own death. No one would speak for him. One sentence.
So even though he learned from Helianbobo, no one dared to say that he was wrong!
Thinking of this, he nodded and said to himself: "The military is the most important thing for the country, and it is also the key to the survival of the ruler... The ruler must personally observe it!"
At this time, Guo Tiannv had already handed a loaded divine arm bow to Zhao Kai, "Guan family, Chen Xingshou is already standing, you can shoot him!"
Without saying a word, Zhao Kai took the Divine Arm Bow and fired an arrow at Chen Qian's exposed armor on the "Arrow Testing Stand"!
This time, only a soft sound of "dang" was heard, and no one fell to the ground in response. The armor created by risking one's life is indeed reliable - in fact, it is not that difficult, and there is no need to open the golden finger at all. It is nothing more than strictly controlling the processes of mineral processing, iron smelting, frying and forging, and not cheating, so that you can create qualified cold forged armor.
After the arrow test, Zhao Kai did not leave immediately. Instead, he called the thirty-four smelting masters who were watching and said to them with a smile: "Today I personally tried the cold arrows made by Zhang Xingshou and Chen Xingshou." The forged armor... is indeed good armor. This is what I and my soldiers want!
If you can make such armor, you can also go to Luoyang and open an iron workshop. Three years from now, one of Zhang Xingshou and Chen Xingshou will step down as the leader, and each of you will have the opportunity to take his place...work hard!
In addition, next spring, I will open various subjects in Luoyang to recruit practical scholars, including the Iron Smelting Department! Anyone who is proficient in iron smelting and writing can take the exam regardless of their status. If he can get it, I will give him an official title immediately. If you have talented people in your family, you might as well let them try it. "
Technological progress can't just be based on Helian Bobo's methods... Zhao Kai still has a golden finger to open!
So he has long been thinking about opening various subjects to select talented people. It was originally planned to start this matter in the second year of Hongwu, but now that the Jin soldiers came to join in the fun, Zhao Kai had to postpone the collection of practical materials and deal with the five-pronged army of the Jin thieves first.
After Zhao Kai finished this trial of arrows (which should be done frequently), he convened a small court meeting in his palace in Guzhen.
Not many officials followed him to Guzhen. Most of the courtiers who followed him on his eastward tour returned to Luoyang to celebrate the New Year after finishing their trip to Kaifeng Mansion. Only He Guan, Yelu Yujian, Yue Fei, Dong Jingang, Li Fuchen, and senior generals such as Han Shizhong, the commander of the imperial camp who were ordered to guard the Guangwu Mountain Camp, followed him across the river for inspection, and are now in Guzhen.
In addition, the three big bosses sent by Zhao Kai in Hebei, Liu Ziyu, the camp envoy in Hebei, Ma Kuo, the pacification envoy in Hebei, and Huang Wuji, the commander of the various armies in Hebei, were also in Guzhen, so they were also called to participate in the military meeting.
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"Officials, this time the golden thieves came in five groups. The total number of troops is expected to reach hundreds of thousands. The battlefield starts from Longyou in the west and ends at Canghai in the east. It is extremely vast... It is really difficult for our army to deal with it comprehensively. Therefore, I It is suggested that the imperial court should tighten its control in Hedong to ensure that Taiyuan is not lost first. In Hebei, it should gather heavy troops and take a defensive position first to ensure that Xinde, Cizhou and Xiangzhou are not hindered, and then make progress. As for the Western thieves... .. Then you might as well promise to cede the three prefectures of Feng, Fu, and Lin, as well as the land west of Hexi of the Jinning Army, with a yearly coin to slow down their troops."
The one who was advising Zhao Kai to cut off the land and pay the money was the monk Ma Zhima who came here after a long journey. In order to facilitate communication, Ma Zhi shaved his head, put on monk's robes, and pretended to be a great monk from Mount Wutai. Many people in Liao believed in Buddhism, and Medicine Master Guo's name was derived from Medicine Buddha. Naturally, he was a disciple of Buddhism, and there were many monks around on weekdays. There are many horse monks coming in and out of his house, but they don't attract anyone's attention.
"Official family," after Ma Zhi finished speaking, Yelu Yujian immediately took over the topic, "I can go to Xingqing Mansion... I can ask Xiao Heda to come forward, and I can also catch up with Brother Richard ( Qian Shun's brother-in-law, the commander-in-chief of the Western Xia Dynasty). As long as he has 300,000 years old coins plus the three prefectures of Feng, Fu, and Lin, and the land of Jinning Army in the west of Hexi, he will definitely be able to gain peace and tranquility for several years. When the officials defeat Jin Thief, are you afraid that you won’t be able to take back your territory?”
"Guan family," He Guan also spoke, "I also think we should temporarily negotiate peace with the Western bandits... After all, the three prefectures of Feng, Fu, and Lin, as well as the Jinning Army's land west of Hexi, cannot be defended. We should have already I was ready to give up.
In addition, the Western Bandits are located in the northwest border. If the imperial court wants to send a large army to fight, it will be a long journey and the transportation will not change. It is difficult for a large army to last, and the Western bandits are accustomed to fortifying walls, clearing fields, and clinging to key points, which makes me lose ground in both advance and retreat... If we do not send out large troops to fight, the Western bandits will take advantage of the opportunity of the Shaanxi armies to march eastward and harass the areas along the border of Shaanxi. . Moreover, the three prefectures of Feng, Fu, and Lin, as well as the land west of the Jinning Army in Hexi, will also be occupied by the Western bandits, which is really not worth the loss. "
Although He Guan was from Kaifeng, he had been serving in the Western Army for a long time after being selected as a martial artist, and he was quite familiar with the situation in the northwest.
The current military strength of Xixia is incomparable with that of Li Yuanhao's era, but it is still difficult for the Song Dynasty to win it... because the party aristocratic group of Xixia is very stubborn and will not give in to the Song Dynasty easily—— Historically, Genghis Khan was so ferocious that he beat Xixia six times, even until he died of illness. One can imagine how stubborn he is!
In addition, all the people in Xixia are soldiers! During wars, hundreds of thousands of people are often drawn out... no less than Zhao Kai's soldiers!
Of course, Xixia's hundreds of thousands of troops are very full of water, and there are not many troops with real combat effectiveness. But the terrain of Xixia is very special. If you don’t count the Hexi Corridor, it is a desert surrounded by mountains. If the army attacks from the east, it will have to cross the desert, and the water sources in the desert will be destroyed by the party members (using dead bodies). animal carcasses destroyed) and difficult to drink. And gradually, there is no place to get supplies in the desert, so food and grass have to be transported thousands of miles, which is extremely costly!
If you don’t attack from the east, you can only attack Lingzhou from the south. In the historical Shenzong Dynasty’s five-pronged expedition to Xia, the Song armies on both sides of the east were blocked by the desert. Although Li Xian in the west Lanzhou was captured, but before reaching the hinterland of Xixia, only the two southern routes were able to break through to the vicinity of Lingzhou.
But the problem is... Xixia is also very good at defending the city! Moreover, there are no trees near Lingzhou, so it is difficult to build siege equipment. It would be even harder to besiege because the logistics and transportation simply cannot support it...
Therefore, in the eyes of He Guan, Yelu Yujian, Ma Zhi and others, it was better to give him a few hundred thousand to avoid disaster.
"No!" How could Zhao Kai agree? That is a loss of power and an insult to the country!
He snorted: "If the Western thief wants to fight, then I will accompany him to the end. I will not cede the territory! No marriage! No payment! And I will use thunderous momentum to defeat the Western thief first!"
