Shi Jin stopped tapping his fingers on the desk.
Wanyan Aguda was already preparing for an uprising, and he had to speed up.
Shi Jin said to Zhu Gui, "Brother Zhu Gui, although the Zeng family are nominally Liao people, they are Jurchens.
The Liao Kingdom is very afraid of the Jurchens, so it adopts a high-pressure and exploitative strategy to restrict the Jurchens." development of Liao.
The Jurchen people are very dissatisfied with the exploitation of the country.
The Wanyan Aguda I asked you to monitor is from the Wanyan tribe of the Jurchen people.
This Wanyan Aguda wants to revolt against the Liao Dynasty.
I am afraid that he was sent by the Zeng family to prepare for it.
"Forage and weapons."
Zhu Gui suddenly realized what he heard and said: "So that's the case.
No wonder the court allowed the Zeng family to keep so many soldiers and horses.
It seems that the Song Dynasty wanted to drive away wolves and tigers and sit on the mountain to watch the tigers fight."
Seeing that Zhu Gui seemed not to care about the Jurchen tribe at all, Shi Jin shook his head.
Over the past hundred years, the power of Liao Dynasty has penetrated into the hearts of Song Dynasty.
Everyone in the Song Dynasty, including the common people, believed that as long as the Liao Dynasty could be destroyed, Yan Yun would be the winner of the Song Dynasty.
In their opinion, any method that can weaken Daliao is a good strategy.
Now Shi Jin is telling others that the Jurchen tribe will be stronger than the Liao Kingdom in the future and almost caused the Song Dynasty to perish.
I'm afraid no one will believe Shi Jin's words.
Shi Jin didn't want to warn others, no one would believe him, so why bother spending that energy.
What's more, if you rebel, sooner or later you will have to face the Jurchen tribe.
Shi Jin said to Zhu Gui, "Brother Zhu Gui, pay more attention to Zengtou City in the future.
If they want to prepare military supplies and weapons, they will inevitably target us.
We must be careful to avoid being tricked by them one day."
Zhu Gui nodded and said, "Zhu Gui will ask people to monitor these people at all times."
Shi Jin thought for a moment and asked, "I asked you to find a carpenter and blacksmith before.
How are you doing now?"
Zhu Gui thought for a moment and said, "Brother, 73 blacksmiths and 51 carpenters have gone up the mountain."
Shi Jin subconsciously said, "So few."
When Zhu Gui wanted to apologize again, Shi Jin said: "Okay, I know you have tried your best.
Let's send someone to tell the carpenters and blacksmiths that as long as they teach one apprentice, they will pay five hundred cents per month.
One apprentice will be a master.
Finally, I will reward you with one tael of silver.
We now have many family members and some disabled soldiers in Liangshan who can learn a trade."
Zhu Gui smiled and said, "If this is the case, I'm afraid those craftsmen will be scrambling to recruit apprentices."
In ancient times, those craftsmen and doctors easily refused to recruit apprentices, at least because they were afraid of teaching the apprentices and starving the masters to death.
Take carpenters as an example.
In ancient times, ordinary people's income was not high, so it was normal for a piece of furniture to be passed down to three generations.
The market in a village is only that big, and one or two people can satisfy it.
If there are seven or eight carpenters, how can they make money to support the whole family?
Therefore, many masters in ancient times taught their disciples slowly, and it was normal for them to teach for ten or eight years.
There are even some who are even more deceitful, using apprentices as cheap labor for ten or eight years.
When they finally leave, the master still has some tricks to keep the apprentice from learning everything.
However, what Shi Jin wants to make here are bows, arrows, and gun shafts.
They are large in quantity and consumed quickly.
He is not afraid that they will finish the work, but that they will not be able to finish it.
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Haosheng explained it clearly to them, believing that they would teach the disciples for monthly money.
Money is the best way, and it is also Shi Jin's only way now.
After Shi Jin took Tao Zongwang to inspect the back mountain, he planned a restricted area near the water on the right side.
Let Tao Zongwang lead people to build two wooden houses and one tiled house here.
Then forty blacksmiths and thirty carpenters were placed here to build and develop new weapons.
In order to protect and monitor this group of carpenters and blacksmiths, Shi Jin dispatched 200 soldiers to garrison here.
There are two kinds of weapons that Shi Jin asked the carpenters and blacksmiths to build and develop.
One is the powerful crossbow.
Making a good bow takes too much time, so Shi Jin can't wait any longer.
Although the operation and carrying of crossbows are not as convenient as bows, and they are more laborious.
But compared to bows, crossbows are more suitable for Liangshan's current situation.
Shi Jin asked some carpenters to try to make crossbow racks out of wood, and then asked some blacksmiths to try out iron and copper to make crossbow racks.
Shi Jin wanted to see which kind of material made the crossbow more cost-effective and more suitable.
The other method is to make grenades and artillery.
According to the Song Dynasty, they are thunder and thunder cannons.
Firearms already appeared during the Song Dynasty.
During the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty, the Ordnance Supervisor was established to oversee the country's arms manufacturing.
The Ordnance Supervisor employed more than 40,000 workers and had ten major workshops.
The production of gunpowder and gunpowder weapons each occupied one workshop.
It can be seen that firearms played a very important role in the Song army. status.
The main firearms in the Song army are thunder cannons and thunder cannons.
Shocking mines are somewhat similar to modern grenades.
The shell is made of pig iron and is equipped with a fuse.
When used, the length of the fuse is determined based on the distance of the target.
After detonating, it can blow the cast iron shell into pieces and penetrate the armor.
However, the gunpowder in the Song Dynasty was not as good as black powder, so the thunderbolts produced were a bit big and not powerful enough.
The infantry can't throw it far at all, so they can only light it and throw it down when defending the city.
Or throw it with a catapult.
As for the thunder cannon, it is wrapped in cardboard and contains fuses, lime powder, etc.
After being thrown out with a catapult and exploded, it exploded like a firecracker.
The sound was like thunder, the paper cracked and the lime dispersed into smoke.
The eyes of the men and horses were narrowed, and the figures were indistinguishable.
Firearms in the Song Dynasty were very primitive.
Shi Jin asked a blacksmith to carefully build a musket and fired bullets with carefully developed black powder, but reality gave Shi Jin a slap in the face mercilessly.
If someone else said that the effective lethality of a black powder gun can reach 100 meters, Shi Jin could only laugh.
Black powder can only be used on muzzle-loading guns because the combustion of black powder is incomplete and leaves a lot of residue.
Anyone who has lit firecrackers will know that after the firecrackers are set off, black smoke fills the air and ashes are everywhere.
When black powder is used as ammunition, after a few shots, the remaining ash will block the bore of the gun and must be cleared.
Therefore, black powder is not suitable for use as breech-loading rifles, machine guns and other firearms.
The power of the muzzle-loading gun with black powder is effective within 50 meters.
Even if the bullet still has impact from 50 meters away, whether it can hit can only depend on faith.
It is precisely because of the poor hit rate and poor effective killing range of front-loading guns that the platoon gun tactic was born.
Everyone walks forward in neat steps.
When we can see each other's mouths clearly, you shoot and I shoot.
Whoever is afraid of death and shoots first usually loses.
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Those who dare not continue playing for fear of death will also lose.
Moreover, the smoke of black powder is very strong.
After a round, the position will be filled with black mist.
The enemy cannot see you, and you cannot see the enemy.
Of course, the most important thing is that the power of a musket powered by black powder is not much greater than that of a bow and arrow.
Even in the West, they have been used mixedly with crossbows, spears, and cavalry for a long time.
It was not until the emergence of yellow gunpowder that it led to major changes in modern military affairs, and that bows and arrows completely declined.
Shi Jin still knew the formula for the black powder, but there was nothing he could do for the yellow powder.
Due to the limitations of gunpowder and the quantity of copper and iron, muskets were not suitable for Shi Jin's needs for the time being.
Shi Jin valued artillery more.
However, artillery requires relatively high metallurgical skills, and for the time being, the blacksmith cannot forge qualified artillery for Shi Jin.
All Shi Jin can do is continue to spend money for these blacksmiths to experiment, and pray that they can forge qualified artillery for his own use as soon as possible.
While Shi Jin was supervising and inspecting the blacksmith's forging of the cannon barrel, and seeing if there was anything he could do to help the blacksmith, a guard ran in and shouted, "Big boss, Chief Zhu Gui wants to see you."
When Shi Jin heard that he ran out of the gate of the restricted area fence, Zhu Gui handed a letter into Shi Jin's hands.
"Brother, Wu Lai sent a letter saying that the sixth brother Wang Ding has been rescued.
Hua Rong has also been imprisoned by Liu Gao and will be escorted to the state capital soon.
However, my subordinates have just received news that Yuncheng County Supervisor, nicknamed Timely Rain Song Jiang is calling for friends and recruiting a group of people from all walks of life to rescue Hua Rong.
"Look, big brother":