But just like Shi Wei's wheel gun, cost is the biggest bottleneck.

The cost of making a magical gun is as high as 80 guns! The construction time is as long as 100 days!

The general of the imperial guard of the Song Dynasty, the horse army, is fully equipped with a thirty-gun armor, a pair of forty-gun vests, two bows, one arrow, and three swords!

Altogether, it’s not as expensive as this gun!

If you really want to arm a 2,000-man Shenji Battalion, you will need 160,000 guns alone, plus supporting facilities, daily training, ammunition reserves, consumption, gun elimination and updates...

The cost will be no less than 400,000 yuan a year. What a concept!

A few years ago, Han Qi suggested recruiting 180,000 Shaanxi warriors. Each person would be given a regular registration fee of 200 pickles per month, 400,000 taels, which would be enough to recruit more than 100,000 volunteers in Shaanxi and Hebei. If only the army was raised, it would be able to support 200,000 people.

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And that’s not even counting artillery and mules and horses!

Su You comforted Shi Fu: "It doesn't matter. Once the sample is out, the next step is how to do addition and subtraction. Now, haven't we also reduced the cost of the simplified version of the wheel gun to hundreds of dollars?"

Military research and development is a waste of money. There is no doubt about this. Fortunately, Suyou is really profitable.

Those who make money also have weapons.

The extensive application of copper parts with various leather goods such as brass belt buckles, buttons, concealed buckles, rivets, and keyholes has undoubtedly brought great convenience to the military.

There are also sealed kettles, squeeze quivers, swords, gun heads, bow arrows, crossbow arrows...

There are also stamped plate armors and helmets...

But weapons are not the most profitable thing. The most profitable thing is always luxury goods.

The research on glass glaze in Meishan has already developed to a very advanced level.

In addition to ordinary blue, red, yellow, green and white, a variety of bright colors such as sky blue, sapphire blue, emerald blue, chicken blood red, grape purple, purple red, decorative red, bright yellow, turmeric, stone green, plum green, milky white and so on have been developed.

of coloring matter.

Therefore, there is now a kind of exquisite copperware in Yizhou, which is more profitable than military weapons!

Use a red copper plate to make a device body, and then use flattened copper wire to stick it to the carcass according to the designed pattern. After welding with a blowtorch, bluing, bluing, polishing, and gold plating, you can get a beautiful treasure.

Cloisonné enamel bronze.

This thing brings together metal processing technology, ceramic art technology, and glass technology. Except for Sizhou, it is really impossible to do it anywhere else in the Song Dynasty.

First of all, the products include religious ceremonial equipment, ritual vessels from Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, idols, niches, pagodas, seven treasures, eight treasures, auspicious animals, etc., as well as practical and furnishing items such as furnace tripods, cloud tablets, and candle holders.

There are also ordinary household supplies, daily study utensils, vases, flower pots, sedan bottles, aromatherapy, washbasins, hand stoves, slag buckets, mirrors, hanging screens, lamp holders, hat stands, fish tanks, wishful thinking, fasting cards...

The lowest-end but the most popular ones include portable sachets, hairpins, fangs, wags, pendants, hats, hooks, blades, wings and other decorations.

Of course, this thing can no longer be called cloisonné. Even enamel does not have a name. The name of the craft has become filigree glass inlay.

There is another profitable business, that is Seluluo.

Pure natural plastic, made of camphor and nitrocellulose, which is also very expensive nowadays.

However, no matter how expensive it is, some people can afford it. Celluloid sheets of various colors, translucent or opaque, are stacked and rolled to create realistic ivory patterns and tortoise shell patterns, which can be easily molded in boiling water.

Items that previously had to be made from precious materials such as ivory and tortoiseshell can be obtained.

By adding various pigments and additives, the luster of pearls and mother-of-pearl can also be imitated...

For example, Suyou made a huge fake oyster shell. The nacre in the middle of the oyster shell formed a pattern of a low-relief Buddha.

I also made a fake ivory, but apart from being huge in size, the cross section of the ivory has a Buddhist swastika pattern in the center.

There is also a pearl as big as a bowl...

These three things were just nonsense, and they were finally sent to Kuizhou and handed over to Zhang San. Su You was looking forward to seeing how many good things Zhang San could get back by taking them to foreign countries.

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The first magical gun must naturally adhere to Shi Fu's consistent style, with extremely gorgeous carvings.

Su You looked at Shi Fu embedding gold wire on the barrel of the gun, and his tone was full of anger: "I am trying to reduce the weight of the gun, and you are trying to increase it for me."

Shi Fu didn't bother to pay attention to him: "This is something donated to the official family. Of course it must have a royal style."

Su You touched his chin: "Hong Jiang and Uncle Gao Guo are probably going to regret it. When I was in Weizhou, I asked them to give me hundreds of kilograms of soft iron, but they didn't give me even a kilogram."

Shi Fu took a small hammer and a round-headed nail and hammered on the magic gun. He was very excited: "A steel-core lead bullet can penetrate a ram helmet from two hundred paces. This is the strongest individual soldier in the world."

instrument!"

Su You said with a smile: "Then you have to shoot accurately. I heard that the imperial army of the Song Dynasty only tested the strength of the martial arts, not the accuracy of the head. The crossbow can fire four stones, but it can't shoot accurately within seventy steps."

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Shi Fu sneered: "It's a forbidden class in Beijing. On weekdays, it leads the ceremonial guard. When not on duty, it has to be a smuggler for the palace commanders. How can you make money if you don't have the strength..."

At this moment, Tang Yan came over and excitedly held the newspaper: "Mingrun, you really guessed it right!"

Su You smiled and said: "Wang Jiefu has entered the court?"

Tang Yan said excitedly: "That's right! Now Uncle Lu Hui, Sima Junshi are Hanlin bachelors, Zhang is the Hanlin's imperial edict, Zhao is aware of the admonition academy, and Wang Jiefu will also enter the court and become a Hanlin bachelor and a lecturer."

"This is a prosperous court! There is hope in the court, and there is hope in the Song Dynasty!"

Su You touched his nose: "Hehe...hehe..."

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The appointments of Sima Guang and Lu Gongzhu were made in March, "Guang Lei made a solid speech."

Zhao Xu refused and said: "The gentlemen of ancient times were either learned but not literary, or were literary but not learned. Only Dong Zhongshu and Yang Xiong can be called both. When I come to Aiqing, you are the third one, why do you want to

decline?"

Sima Guang said: "A Hanlin scholar wants to draft an imperial edict, but I can't write four or six parallel prose."

Zhao Xu said: "It doesn't matter, you can just use ancient Chinese style like the imperial edicts of the Han Dynasty."

Sima Guang said: "There is no such story in this dynasty."

Zhao Xu was also a little annoyed by Sima Guang's excuse: "Is it possible that you can promote Jinshi to a higher level, but not to the fourth or sixth level?!"

Don't think I've forgotten that you were sixth in the A-level examination!

After Sima Guang came out, Zhao Xu continued to send his servants to Hemen to force Sima Guang to accept the accusation, but Sima Guang paid homage but refused.

Until Sima Guang retreated to the outer court, he was still refusing. The emissary finally forced the notice into Sima Guang's arms, "Guang had no choice but to accept it."

Later, Zhao Xu asked Wang Tao, who was still in the court at that time: "Does Gongzhi Jiguang deserve to be a bachelor?"

Wang Tao was full of praise: "Your Majesty uses these two people, so why should the world worry about not being able to cure it!"

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Old man Zhao knows Jianyuan and has a little story.

When the old man entered Xie, Zhao Xu asked him: "I heard that Qing came to Shu and followed him with a harp and a crane. His administration was simple. Is this evil?"

Zhao Pian sighed: "The cunning boy in Shu is not here, so this time Qinhe must be preserved."

Zhao Xu laughed loudly: "Yes, there should be a white turtle."

Zhao Pian then said: "The new system in Sichuan originated from Meishan. Since it is effective, why bother to change it? Local officials will always love to overthrow the predecessor's measures and blindly change the system, thinking that the merits are not achieved and they are nameless.

Li. I am not willing to do this kind of thing."

Zhao Xu nodded: "By the way, I have one thing to explain to your beloved. In the past, those who returned from Shu would have to go to the provincial government. Now that you are asked to serve as a remonstrance officer, the ministers in the DPRK are quite suspicious."

"Actually, I have admired the style of the 'iron-faced censor' for a long time, and I want to rely on you for your words. Why do you need to save the government if you have great power? I love you, don't you think so?"

So after Zhao Pian returned, he immediately went to the court to explain morality, appoint Fu Bi, avoid evil and right, eliminate extravagance, signal orders, level rewards and punishments, keep secrets, be prepared for any danger, do not count pardons, and tolerate ten remonstrances.

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As for Wang Anshi's edict, it is even more exaggerated.

After Wang Tao was impeached, Zeng Gongliang understood Zhao Xu's background, so he strongly recommended Wang Anshi and wanted to use him to contain Han Qi.

In addition, Han Wei and Wang Anshi, who were close friends of Zhao Xu, were also close friends of the article. They would recommend him whenever they had nothing to do. Therefore, Zhao Xu had long admired Wang Anshi very much.

Wang Anshi has been unable to resign, but now that the mourning period has expired, Zhao Xu is worried about gain and loss: "Anshi has been too tired to summon him in previous dynasties, or he may think it is disrespectful. If he can't summon him now, is he sick? Is there something wrong?"
Chapter completed!