Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty Chapter 737: Rare Treasures

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Korea's dispatched envoy by sea has landed in Dengzhou, and the performance is sent to Tokyo first.

Guo Shaoguanzhi is written in neat Chinese characters. First, the rituals, music, and attire, who claimed to be Gaoli, respected the style of Tang Dynasty, the same as the Central Plains. I heard that the emperor of the Central Plains was very happy to defeat the Liao State. Congratulations on the table. Then he scolded the country of Liao in a big way, and the phrase "the country of beasts" impressed Guo Shao the most.

If these curses were passed to the Khitan royal family, I don't know how Xiao Simwen and others felt.

In the early days, the imperial court sent people to contact Goryeo, which was an attempt to get Goryeo to attack Liao. However, the efficiency at this time was too slow. When the Zhou army had already captured Youyun, Gao Li had just made a successful friendship with Da Zhou.

Because of the Goryeo envoys landing, the officials in the DPRK prepared the emperor to ask about things about Goryeo. For a while, many people talked about Goryeo.

The gossip does not distinguish between ancient and modern, and the most talked about is not the series of national policies or customs of Goryeo... The first thing Guo Shao heard was a gossip: the queen of the king of Korea, Wang Zhao, is his My sister.

The fathers of the king and the queen are both the king of Korea, Wang Jian, and the queen is a princess, followed by the surname of his mother, Huangfu, who are half-brothers and sisters of the same father. this is okay too?

Guo Shao was very curious about it. In this era, even modern brothers and sisters cannot get married. However, he quickly thought of a TV series in a certain country in later generations, and suddenly realized it.

...... At the end of Xuanren's third year, the Korean envoys met and paid tribute to a rare sword.

The **** moved the sword to the Hall of Yangde. Because it was a rare thing, he was very careful. When it was, Lu Duoxun, the minister of rites, had just received the Korean envoys and came to meet him.

Unexpectedly, Guo Shao had no interest in the sword. He was playing with a matchlock that had just been sent by the military supervisor, and he didn't even look at the sword.

This fire gun is made very finely. The wood is inlaid with good wood above the gun tail, and it is carved with gilt auspicious clouds. The barrel is flat and smooth, with butter on it, and the inside and outside are carefully polished and smooth, and the inside is drilled with an awl. Smooth and smooth.

The fire rope soaked in plant ash, the mechanism and reed of the firing device are forged with brass, which is still very delicate and ingenious.

This object is a gift to the emperor, and it pays more attention to decoration, just like an artwork. But the mass-produced firecrackers are definitely not so exquisite, otherwise the cost is too high.

Guo Shao couldn't put it down when he saw this thing. No sword can arouse his interest anymore. Even if that sword can really cut iron like mud, it is still a knife, and it is just a rare thing that cannot be copied in large quantities.

He noticed the threaded connection used at the bottom of the firecracker... probably the way to make it is to carve the thread out of wood, make a sand cast iron core, and then forge the tail. This structure makes it easy to disassemble the barrel and clean the residue.

There is also a stack of files on the Jiangning Mansion Report on the table. The new sea ship has been roughly completed, and there are three ships in total. Guo Shao has decreed that after the Jiangning Shipbuilding sea trial, the ship will be transferred to Dengzhou (Shandong); the guard Si Shuijun sent some soldiers to take over the ship. Next year, when the Korean envoys return to China, these ships can be used to send them. go back. It also ordered the Ministry of Industry to send personnel to Dengzhou to build a new port.

Lu Doxun glanced at the Goryeo sword that was placed on the table, and bowed and said, "Your Majesty, Goryeo seems to be rich in swords."

Guo Shao raised his head and said: "Oh? I have never heard of it."

Lu Duoxun said: "They once paid tribute to Liao, and they also gave swords."

Guo Shao knew that Lu Duoxun had something to say after listening, and wanted to borrow something. So he put down the matchlock and listened with interest.

Lu Duoxun continued: "However, after the Liao State destroyed the Balhae State, the relationship between Korea and Liao State deteriorated. This is because the Goryeo State tried to plot the Balhae State for a long time, and moved the population to operate Xijing (Pyongyang); unexpectedly The Liao State started first and swallowed all the land of the Bohai State. The Liao State is strong, and it is more difficult for Korea to acquire the old land of the Bohai State, so it resents the Khitan."

Guo Shao nodded and said: "So it is."

At this time, the Liao Kingdom was defeated in Youzhou and lost a large area of ​​Youyun, but its strength was still great; it would also be beneficial to have Goryeo restraining it.

Lu Duoxun said: "This time, the Goryeo Kingdom sent envoys to ask me to send troops to recover Yingzhou and jointly attack the Khitan. From the view of the ministers, Goryeo saw the defeat of the Liao army and once again saw the old land of Bohai, still ambitious. ."

Hearing his ambition, Guo Shao played with the firearm in his hand and glanced at the sea-going ship data file on the table. He not only showed a smile: "There is nothing wrong with all countries seeking self-reliance and aggressiveness." /

However, the imperial court has no intention of launching troops to fight again with the Liao Kingdom. Shilang Lu can reply to the envoy of the Goryeo Kingdom, and this matter will be discussed later. "

Lu Duoxun clasped his fist and said: "Chen Zunzhi."

Guo Shao turned around and looked at a large, simplified picture on the wall. Recently, due to the visit of the Korean envoys to Beijing, he also has some personal understanding of the situation of Korea.

This place had more space in the early ancient times, and the situation will be worse as it goes back.

At the turn of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Goguryeo was a relatively strong country. Certainly because of the threat to the border of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Sui and Tang dynasties would not hesitate to mobilize the army for several crusades.

However, after the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan rose to the northeast, and the grassland forces that had been threatening the northern part of the Central Plains also moved in winter. Not only is it threatening the Central Plains, it is also compressing the space of Korea. From this time on, they will not only face the Central Plains dynasty, but the nomads will also become an important factor threatening their survival.

(In the future, the threat of the herders and hunters will continue to the east, and Korea will have one more day. The national maritime threat can be said to be caught in the middle by various forces. It can be carried on forever. It is also a very tenacious crowd.)

Guo Shaodao: "In the past, my dynasty wanted to regain the clouds, so I wanted to use the Goryeo kingdom to contain it; now, the Goryeo state wants to occupy the old land of the Bohai State and wants my dynasty to send troops to Liaodong. All countries are planning for their own."

In the Hall of Yangde, there are only one official and a few court ladies, Guo Shao Jun and his officials. Guo Shao asked openly: "Goryeo seems to have been established after the destruction of Silla and Baekje. Can there be internal enemies in the country?"

Lu Duoxun said: "After the Wang family established the country, he implemented the policy of graciousness and gentleness, and the ministers heard that the country was stable."

Guo Shao nodded thoughtfully.

...Recovering the land of the clouds will have a great impact. However, the speed of information transmission at this time was limited, and no changes were felt when they first defeated, but with the passage of time, the influence of Zhou and Liao gradually became prominent.

Until the beginning of the fourth year of Xuanren, the emperor's envoy from Fusang Country Pingjing sent the letter of credence and paid tribute to congratulations. In order to create the political achievements of "all nations come to Korea", the Ministry of Rites of Tokyo and the Hakka Province gave generous rebates to the letter. The tributary system really caused the Central Plains dynasty to suffer financial losses, but if it did not, other countries would not have the motivation to take the initiative to pay tribute.

Guo Shao decreed to talk to the envoy of Fusang about the establishment of a business relationship between the two countries (previously the Central Plains war was turbulent, but the private sea trade was never cut off), and secretly ordered the Privy Council’s soldier Cao Si to mix into the caravan and go to Fusang to understand the situation in the distant place .

Although diplomatic relations are a major event, Guo Shao’s attention is not on this, but he just handled it smoothly. He has been conceiving a revolution in military power.

And matchlock guns have also been manufactured in batches. Guo Shao not only reads the newspaper, but also observes in the colonel.

Officially experimenting with firearms are more than 100 people from the "Shenhuo Capital" of the Huben Army. This small group of people has not been able to expand in the Huben Army because there is really no record, but the establishment has been retained and has not been revoked... The emperor himself All the people who were established under the decree, no one withdrew casually.

The people of Shenhuodu have used bronze guns for two years, and by this time they are already very skilled. Matchlock guns and bronze guns are completely different things, but the mechanism and usage steps are the same. The current firearms were originally based on bronze guns with improved barrels.

The soldiers removed the small bamboo tube from the belt, took their teeth to bite the plug, and then poured the gunpowder weighed into the gun_mouth, then used the cleaning rod to force the softer lead shot in, and then took the small The gunpowder in the gourd is shaken in the firing pool, and it is ready for fire.

There was a "crack" on the school field, the smoke filled with gunpowder, and the targets in the distance were full of holes. Firearms really work! After all, if gunpowder burns and pressurizes in a closed space, it will expel the lead bullets. Everything is an objective law, and there will be no exceptions.

The new firearm has an effective range of 50 steps, and within 30 steps, it can wear most of the chain armor and scales. As for accuracy...Anyway, the orientation won't be wrong, it's more accurate than the bronze gun with a larger hole.

Shenhuo needs three rows of firing in turn, and its organizational system is different from the ordinary army with four teams and one team with more than 20 people. Shenhuo has only three teams. The organizational system of the army is based on tactics. The organizational system changes only when weapons tactics change; perhaps the military system will gradually change.

The range of this thing is much shorter than that of step bows and crossbows. For example, a god-armed hand like Guo Shao can shoot 100 steps with a step bow and still have accuracy! Moreover, the operation is complicated and the rate of fire is very slow... But compared to the combat effectiveness of a step bow, its ability to penetrate armor at close range is stronger than that of a crossbow.

As for the shooting range, it surpasses riding.

After several months of improvement experiments, the military supervisor Zan Jurun's statement is: the distance is between walking and riding a bow and arrow. The strongest armor piercing is near, it is long; the shot is slow and complicated, and the aim is uncertain. It has no flexibility for riding and shooting, but it is short.

But Guo Shao has a different view. The biggest advantage of this thing is that after a group of farmers understand the queue and military discipline, they can immediately have a not weak combat effectiveness.

They may not be able to win battles with elite soldiers, but the price of having hundreds of thousands of elite infantry in Da Zhou is that it has taken decades to make the whole world sore.

Guo Shao was very happy after seeing the performance of Shenhuodu. When he returned to Beiyuan, he briskly picked up a stone by a lake and threw it on the lake to play. The stone leaped briskly on the surface of the water, making a few ripples.

The ministers who accompanied him were very happy, but he might feel that Guo Shao was a bit frivolous at this time.

At this moment, Guo Shao pointed to the surface of the water and said, "As soon as our artillery hits a hole, we can actually try other methods."

Zan Jurun said: "The stone cannon shells are too heavy. If the angle is too small, they will fall to the ground in front of them."

Guo Shao said: "Then think about it. Let's make the ‘blooming bomb’ in the wrong direction, I’m afraid it’s useless (unless a howitzer)."

A few people can’t answer.

Guo Shao ignored it, looking at the ripples on the lake for a long time, just like his mood at this time, brisk and not calm.