Tong Guan also wanted to stay in Leize to monitor the Liangshan bandits to prevent them from making a feint and making a surprise attack.
And without an edict, he, Tong Guan, could not leave his post without permission.
Especially now that he was defeated and was displeased by the emperor, Tong Guan did not dare to act rashly, lest he give people clues.
However, the matter of assisting the Liangshan thieves and bandits in negotiating peace is of great importance.
Most people, Tong Guan, do not trust him at all and are not at ease, so he can only handle it with his own confidants.
After much thought, Tong Guan sent Bi Sheng back to Beijing and wrote a personal letter to Bi Sheng to hand over to Song Jiang.
Since the last time he ran into trouble in Liangshan, Song Jiang has also lost a bit of favor in front of Emperor Daojun.
What's more, since the spread of football, those professional players with Cuju background have quickly mastered the way of playing football, and they can play it better than Song Jiang and others.
This made Song Jiang's importance in front of Daojun Emperor Zhao Ji drop a bit.
Tong Guan believed that as long as Song Jiang knew that the Liangshan gang wanted to recruit people, he would definitely find a way to facilitate this matter so as to restore the emperor's impression.
Accompanied by Bi Sheng, Wu Yong entered Beijing together.
Shi Jin led an army of 50,000 to intimidate Tong Guan.
After receiving Wu Yong's message, he stopped the army's advance.
Originally, this action was not to intimidate Tong Guan, but it was also a drill to test the new soldiers' marching ability.
Familiarity with formations.
The performance of those new recruits made Shi Jin very satisfied, and he safely handed over the army to Lin Chong's command, and continued to put pressure on Tong Guan and the court.
However, Shi Jin took Li Kui, Lu Fang, Guo Sheng and others back to Liangshan after a long absence.
Since going down the mountain, Shi Jin has not returned to Liangshan for nearly a year.
Hearing that Shi Jin was coming, Ruan Xiaoer personally set up a small boat to pick up the marshal and cross the water.
Sitting on the boat, looking at the familiar Liangshan waterfront, Shi Jin was in a trance.
He had lived here for nearly four years.
It seemed like yesterday that he went up the mountain to assassinate Wang Lun and became the leader of Liangshan village.
After sighing, Shi Jin quickly came to his senses, crossed the golden beach and walked towards the village.
Now most of Liangshan's army is no longer on the mountain, but the characteristics of Liangshan that are easy to defend and difficult to attack make it difficult for Shi Jin to completely abandon it.
The original cottage has now become the largest weapons workshop of the Liangshan Army, with four furnaces and more than 300 blacksmiths.
Each ironmaking furnace is 6 meters high, with a base diameter of 3 meters.
It is conical on the outside.
The area around the furnace bottom is smaller than the furnace belly, and gradually shrinks from the furnace belly to the furnace top.
The furnace body is made of larger red sandstone, and the inside is coated with refractory mud.
These four iron-making furnaces can be said to be the highest level of iron-making in the Northern Song Dynasty.
The golden leopard Tang Long has returned from the south with tungsten gold.
Shi Jin came back to Liangshan specifically to inspect metallurgical technology.
As soon as he entered the village, Shi Jin saw Tang Long, the golden leopard.
However, he now looked as if he hadn't taken a shower for a month.
He was wearing clothes full of holes, a hair style like a bird's nest, and a pair of eyes like goldfish bubbles, always staring at the towering stove.
Shi Jin was surprised to see Tang Long's current appearance.
He said: "Brother Tang" When Tang Long heard someone disturbing him, he didn't even raise his head and scolded directly: "Don't bother me and get out of here."
Seeing that Tang Long dared to be so unreasonable to the marshal, Lu Fang was furious.
Just when he was about to step forward to teach the golden leopard Tang Long a lesson, Shi Jin stretched out his hand to stop him.
Shi Jin shook his head and signaled Lu Fang not to disturb Tang Long.
Shi Jin could see that Tang Long was addicted to his own world and did not mean to offend him.
Shi Jin was always very tolerant of such people, especially the technical talents who were seriously studying what he had explained.
Shi Jin didn't pay attention to the stove that was sending out billowing heat waves.
He walked up the stone steps and observed what was going on inside the stove.
In the furnace, the iron ore has melted and turned into molten iron flowing downwards.
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But another type of ore, which should be the tungsten gold mentioned by Tang Long, has not melted yet.
Tang Long was very anxious when he saw it and shouted loudly.
"Speed up the blower and increase the heat."
After hearing the order, several big men on the side of the stove immediately shouted slogans and pushed the lever back and forth hard to blow the wind into the stove.
As the wind increased, the temperature in the stove became higher, and several sparks splashed out along with the wind.
Shi Jin quickly stepped back when he saw it, but Tang Long let the sparks burn him, his eyes just staring at the stove, observing the situation.
The sparks fell on him and were extinguished quickly, but they burned his clothes and left some scars on his body.
No wonder he was nicknamed Golden Leopard because he was burned by these sparks.
Tang Long didn't care at all when the sparks burned him.
I saw that the tungsten that was thrown in finally melted as the temperature of the furnace increased and merged into the molten iron.
Tang Long finally smiled.
My grandfather's wish for many years finally has a chance to come true.
I can finally master tungsten steel, forge peerless weapons, and become famous.
As the molten iron flowed out of a stone trough, Tang Long quickly shouted, "Pour the molten iron into the cement formwork quickly."
To cast the gun barrel, you cannot just beat it out.
You can only pour it into a template, wait until it cools, and then slowly beat and polish it into shape.
When the molten iron was completely poured into the mold, the blacksmiths quickly sealed it, and then eight big men worked together to carry it and move the cement mold to another dry stone chamber with a lot of lime to let it cool naturally.
At this time, it cannot be put into water to cool down quickly.
Otherwise, once the barrel of the barrel bursts or becomes severely deformed due to uneven heat and cold, the barrel will no longer be usable.
Under current conditions, only natural cooling is possible.
It wasn't until he saw the cement mold safely placed in the stone chamber that Tang Long felt completely relieved.
He wiped the sweat off his face and took out a bamboo tube hanging from his waist.
Just when he was about to raise his head to take a sip of water, he realized that Marshal Shi Jin was standing beside him at some point.
Tang Long quickly put down the bamboo tube and said, "Damn it, you didn't even know that the marshal was coming."
Shi Jin smiled and said, "Brother Tang, you're welcome.
I came here without notifying you in advance.
I'm an uninvited guest, so please don't take offense to me."
Tang Long said with some embarrassment: "Is the marshal here to see those tungsten steel?
This is not a slight slight, but the tungsten steel is small and has just been refined not long ago.
Please give the marshal a little more time.
We can explore the best comparison between tungsten and pig iron and make the best tungsten steel.”
Shi Jin hurriedly reassured: "Brother Tang, I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry.
I understand this.
Don't worry.
I'm not here today to urge you to refine tungsten steel as soon as possible.
That's it.
Recently, we have probably obtained more than a dozen tungsten steel.
Thousands of catties of copper, I want you to forge them all into artillery."
Tang Long was afraid that Marshal Shi Jin was an outsider and thought that tungsten steel could be used directly after it was refined.
You must know that even tungsten steel will be very different.
Not every type of tungsten steel is suitable for making gun barrels.
Now he heard that Shi Jin had not come to force him to use tungsten steel to cast the gun barrel, but continued to use bronze.
Tang Long breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This is no problem.
I understand the casting of bronze.
When the bronze is delivered, I will ask my men to cast it."
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Shi Jin nodded and said: "You have already cast bronze cannon twice, so I believe you are familiar with it.
This time I hope that the cannon cast will be a light cannon of one thousand to two thousand kilograms.
You also know that the six thousand kilogram cannon is too heavy. , even if it is transported by carriage, it is very troublesome, and it can only be placed on the city wall or on a ship.
This time I hope to forge a cannon suitable for land use."
When Tang Long heard this, he pondered for a while and said: "The first two times were just the first time forging artillery.
I was afraid of making mistakes, so I forged that big thing.
Now I am familiar with it.
Marshal, don't worry, there is no problem at all."
Shi Jin nodded and said, "That's good.
Brothers have worked hard during this period.
Those blacksmiths will each be rewarded with thirty taels.
Brother Tang, you will be rewarded with five hundred taels."
Hearing Shi Jin's reward, Tang Long hurriedly shouted: "The marshal has rewarded everyone, why don't you thank the marshal quickly?"
When the more than three hundred blacksmiths heard this, they were immediately happy and shouted in unison: "Thank you, Marshal!"
Shi Jin smiled and said: "Everyone, keep working hard to forge better weapons so that the soldiers will shed less blood.
Don't worry, as long as you work hard, I, Shi Jin, will not treat you badly
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