Chapter 792 Rifle Grenade

Autumn, July, see you in the sun.

The sudden change in the weather and the death of an important minister made Zhao Xu feel a little upset. He ordered Tianzhang Pavilion to wait for Han Zhen to go to Hedong to end the boundary negotiations with Liao as soon as possible.

The Liao Kingdom once again introduced a new negotiator, Yelu Puxi, the initiator of this dispute, and ordered him to "rectify the borders."

As soon as this baby arrived, all previous negotiation results were overturned.

Zhao Xu asked Wang Anshi what to do. Anshi pondered for a long time and said: "If you want to take it, you must give it to me."

So he agreed to Xiao Xi's request and used the Huangwei Mountain watershed as the boundary, and then Xiao Xi left Bianjing.

When Han Zhen went to sign the treaty, the Liao people turned against each other again and demanded that the entire Huangwei Mountain must be given to the Liao Kingdom.

Negotiations stalled again

In August, Geng Yin Shuo, there will be an eclipse on the sun.

Zhao Xu became even more panicked and asked Han Zhen to end the negotiations as soon as possible.

So "I tried my best to fight with him, and I abandoned the land seven hundred miles from east to west."

Therefore, the Liao State promoted Yelu Puxi to be the envoy of the Southern Court.

Huang Lian, the censor of the Song Dynasty who participated in the negotiations, lamented: "If we divide the painting realm, we will lose China."

Later, the Liao people included the "two uncultivated lands" agreed by the two countries into their territory, and even pushed the national border directly to the Yanmen area.

When Su You received the report from Di, he was testing new bullets in Yijin Army, and he was so angry that he shot the target into pieces.

The first three returning ships of the ocean-going fleet have returned, and this is a bit of a profit.

After Ryukyu and Mariuka sold a batch of goods and imported money, the supplies in exchange had already piled up.

So Zhang San ordered the other ships to continue sailing, leaving some personnel behind to recruit locals to build warehouses to store supplies. Then the three vacated ships were filled with spices, valuable wood, gems, minerals, seeds and other goodies and returned early.

I couldn't finish it in one trip, so I had to go back and forth several times.

Among them is a good thing - Tianfang glue.

Because Suyou attaches great importance to the collection of gum plants, the fleet sent it back as soon as they discovered it, and also collected some seeds.

But unfortunately, this thing still cannot be used as rubber.

However, as the ancestors of playing with glue paint, the research team of Sitong Company quickly discovered that this is an extremely good water-soluble colloid.

It has a wide range of uses, and most importantly, it can replace egg whites.

Su You has been engaged in the granulation of gunpowder since he was a child. The earliest process is to sift three kinds of black powder powder to obtain a uniform fine powder, and then mix it with egg white according to the experimental proportion, and put it into the final manufacturing process.

Squeeze out the fine pen refill into thin strips, and when it is semi-dry, cut it into small particles.

Place it in a cool place in a clean environment. After the egg white dries, it becomes gunpowder particles.

Today's gunpowder has a more refined and reasonable composition ratio, and is partially replaced with ammonium nitrate.

What I’m testing today is the effect of using Tianfang Glue instead of egg white.

There is also a new weapon that will be tested today.

When wiping out Liu Henghu, the troops discovered that using ambushes cannons to deal with the bandits hiding on the cliffs required too much skill for the gunners. This is because Guo Huai was in the army, and if he were replaced by another gunner, it might really take a lot of time.

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If you find a problem, you have to solve it.

Su You instructed the arsenal to develop a small sky-shattering mine that could be used by individual soldiers and could be fired with a magical gun, with an effective range far beyond that of a hand-thrown mine.

In fact, it is a tail tube type rifle grenade and the product of miniaturization of the ammunition of the Volvo Cannon.

The gas generated by the blank bomb is used as the thrust of the projectile to launch a small thunder mine with a tail fin, and the striker on the head of the projectile hits the target to trigger an explosion.

Wang Zhongzheng ignored Su You's anger and tried methodically one after another: "You don't have to be like this, Shaobao, didn't you say? The truth is only within the range of cannons. I think the day when the people of Liao understand this truth,

It won’t be long.”

Su You rolled his eyes: "If you are poor, you will put aside disputes. If you are rich, you will put aside disputes since ancient times, right?"

Wang Zhongzheng was very happy: "Tsk, tsk, tsk... Shaobao is worthy of being a shady scholar. I like this sentence!"

After saying that, the muzzle of the gun was slightly upward and the trigger was pulled. With a "Bang!" sound, a spindle-shaped grenade with a tail tube and tail fin flew out from the muzzle and flew towards a wall more than ten feet ahead at a speed visible to the naked eye.

, with a "boom", the earth wall and several targets in front and behind the wall were blown up and down.

"Okay! This thing is vicious enough! It's perfect for people like me who don't know how to use guns!" Wang Zhongzheng said to Su Shaobao, and there was never a shortage of vicious and complimentary words in his mouth.

Su You also had a bad mouth: "Although you are an emissary and don't know how to operate a cannon, you still need to learn more! What are you doing? You will also record the number of fragments and the killing range. This thing is not for you to shoot flatly...

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Wang Zhongzheng shook his head: "No, no, no, I think it is completely possible to line up and shoot in three stages..."

"You can't be so crazy." Su You shook his head: "The technology of this thing is much more complicated than the nitrocellulose medicine pack. The cost is the same but the power is different. The labor cost of Zhejiang Road is very expensive now. One piece costs hundreds of dollars...

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"Now that the cotton in Zhejiang and Zhejiang is about to mature, there will be endless nitrocellulose. The artillery force's daily subject training can be carried out. Pay attention to dangers, operate safely, and continue to summarize and improve the drills."

Wang Zhongzheng said: "I want horses! I want horse-drawn artillery carriages!"

"Yes." Su You nodded: "I will give you two hundred river crossing horses as a priority, and they will be assigned to dedicated personnel. They belong to the logistics management of the Yijin Army and will be raised in Niutoushan."

Wang Zhongzheng was overjoyed: "Oh, the relationship is so good! I thought it was a short Nanma!"

Su You smiled and said: "What are you thinking? A thunderbolt cannon weighs 1,500 kilograms. How can a southern horse pull it? Now Sitong has opened a livestock breeding base in Jinhua, Wuzhou, mainly raising horses and buffaloes. This year the imperial court has policies, so we must do it well.

Take advantage of it.”

These were several good policies sent by the imperial court after the rice ripened in August. The first was that for official households, that is, Ding households who rented state land, their service fees were reduced by half.

Next is the Department of Shipping and Documentation. There were minor disasters in Huainan and Jiangdong this year, and the two Zhejiang Roads had a good harvest. The prefectures and counties where the two Zhejiang Roads supplied more than one million dan of rice were ordered to reduce the amount directly to the people, and the quota was completed, and the people were allowed to sell it themselves.

Sitong Company organized transportation capacity and took Mira from Zhejiang to Huainan and Jiangdong to earn the price difference. The farthest trip was by sea to Xinzhou! It was sold to the surrounding five armies!

This was the Song Dynasty's first attempt to "replace the canal with the sea". Today's large Kuizhou-type ships are fully loaded with two hundred tons, but there are only 16 people on board. With the speed of a schooner, it can arrive in one month.

Whether it is time, labor costs, or deductions along the way, they have been reduced a lot.

This year, the price of grain in Taihu Lake has dropped to 50 cents per dou. If it drops further, farmers will be hurt.

Many people in later generations like to talk about the atmosphere of the prosperous Tang Dynasty in terms of five coins per bucket of rice.

But they selectively forgot, or someone selectively guided them, resulting in many people not knowing that at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, in September of the first year of Dazhong Xiangfu, Jingxi, Jingdong, Hebei, Hedong, Jianghuai, and

In Zhejiang, Jinghu, Fujian, and Guangnan, the same is true for almost every country in the country.

Taking into account the economic size of the Tang Dynasty, which had a surplus of hundreds of thousands of guan, and the Song Dynasty, which had a surplus of several million guan, and the inevitable currency depreciation caused by the size of the economy, seven coins per dou of rice in the Song Dynasty were cheaper than five coins per dou of rice in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

I don’t know how many!

It can only be said that historians in the past were not economists and did not consider the issues comprehensively. It was not until later academic research entered multi-disciplinary linkage that everyone began to pay attention to these issues.

In fact, low food prices are not necessarily a good thing.

The law of economics is a process of stimulating consumption and production through slow inflation, light exploitation, and boiling people's frogs in warm water. Of course, the benefits go to the currency issuer.

Therefore, as the national destiny of a country increases, the currency will inevitably depreciate, and the people will say that "money is worthless".

Taking the Tang Dynasty as an example, apart from the fact that food prices did not rise during the forty years of the founding of the People's Republic of China during the prosperous Kaiyuan period, and then skyrocketed to more than a hundred cents per dou in a short period of time, this fully demonstrates that the previous low prices were due to factors of human intervention.
Chapter completed!