Li Goudan said a little embarrassedly: "Goudan just heard the conversation between you and Lord Li just now, and he suddenly had some thoughts in his mind. Goudan read it in the book. In the past, the military department often produced more powerful weapons in three or five years. But why has this Shenlong gun and other objects not been replaced after ten years?"

Zhao Dongting laughed.

The dragon gun, grenade cannon and sky cannon were all copied by him according to the arms of later generations. How could craftsmen of this era easily make improvements?

Even though the Military Department has actually made some improvements to Shenlong Guns and other objects in recent years, it is only better than nothing, and has not improved the power of Shenlong Guns and other objects. The improvement is just to carry and transport more conveniently, such as installing wheels on grenade launchers. This is really not necessary to popularize it.

After all, it is already very convenient to carry the Shenlong gun.

Then Zhao Dongting smiled and patted Li Goudan's head, saying, "These arms are all thought of by me, and they are extremely powerful. How could the Military Science and Technology Department easily develop a more powerful arms?"

"What about you, Your Majesty?"

Li Goudan's eyes were full of doubts, "Since you can develop these arms, can't you develop more powerful arms?"

Zhao Dongting was stunned and then sighed softly, "Martial artillery is used for killing and killing, and it hurts the sky. Now the Song Dynasty has enough objects such as the Dragon Gun. What are the more powerful weapons developed?"

Li Goudan scratched his head and said, "Goudan feels ready for anything, and the emperor should prepare for the future. Just like the hot air balloons, Goudan reads it in the book. When the hot air balloons just appeared, our imperial guards in the Song Dynasty could often rely on the hot air balloons and make the enemy descend. But later, Dali, Xinsong, and Dayuan also had hot air balloons, so the hot air balloons in our Song Dynasty were not so useful."

Zhao Dongting was stunned again.

Although Li Goudan was young and his words might not have any profound meaning, he had to ponder.

In the past, Qin Han took away the manufacturing method of hot air balloons. Who knows that in the future, countries will not imitate the manufacturing method of grenade launchers, Shenlong guns and other objects?

Although so many years have passed, countries have not been able to successfully prevent it, but who can say it correctly after several years or decades?

If you fall behind, you will be beaten.

If you stop moving forward, it will be inevitable that you will fall behind in the end.

Zhao Dongting's face gradually became a little solemn.

The craftsmen of this era should not be underestimated. Although they are extremely lacking in thermal weapons, they also have achievements that shocked Zhao Dongting in many aspects.

He dare not underestimate it.

Do you really need to develop a more powerful arms?

Of course, Zhao Dongting couldn't do this.

Perhaps he could not imitate the weapons that were quite today in later generations, and it was even more impossible to imitate information weapons, etc. However, it was not impossible to imitate arms that were more powerful than grenade launchers.

Just like the famous red-clothed cannon in later generations, Zhao Dongting can now be completely imitated.

Thinking of this, he was suddenly moved.

Isn’t the red-clothed cannon also developed by the ancients?

And he is a foreigner.

Although the countries outside the Central Plains have not yet developed to that point, the Yuan Dynasty and the Western Xia have mastered the technology of thunder.

The basis of the sky-burning thunder is gunpowder.

With gunpowder, who knows that those craftsmen cannot tinker with weapons that are even more powerful than grenade launchers?

If foreign countries had such arms that exceeded grenade launchers, the Song Dynasty would still be complacent and proud of the grenade launchers, and would not be stunned?

Zhao Dongting nodded in silence.

Then he looked up at Li Goudan and smiled and said, "You have reminded me that you are prepared for any trouble... Are you prepared for any trouble... are not bad."

But at this moment he realized that even if the major imperial guards did not allow more advanced weapons, the imperial court could reserve such weapons first, which was ready for emergencies.

But I don’t know that Zhen Jin and others who were ecstatic for grenade launchers, sky cannons and other objects in the Yuan Dynasty, if they knew that Zhao Dongting had the idea of ​​improving the arms because of Li Goudan’s words, they would not know how they would feel.

In the following days, Zhao Dongting rarely stayed in the imperial study room, but often went to the military department office.

This surprised the craftsmen and craftsmen from the Military Science Department and were quite excited.

The emperor hasn't studied arms like this for a long time.

Could it be that the emperor has any wonderful ideas?

The dragon gun, grenade launcher and other objects have already shocked them. They really want to see what new things the emperor can do.

At that time, the power will be even more surprising, right?

After Li Xiushu learned that Zhao Dongting asked the Military Industry Department to rush to rent the arms to her in Xixia, the purpose of this trip to Changsha had been achieved.

Although it was renting, she was already satisfied and did not blame Zhao Dongting at all.

Of course, this may have something to do with Zhao Dongting's diligent "conquest" of her in the hall that night.

She was really satisfied with Zhao Dongting everywhere.

She was sincere in making Xixia bow to the Song Dynasty. She dared not say anything about the future monarch, but she really planned to rely on the Song Dynasty for the rest of her life.

In this way, there is no big difference between renting and selling in her opinion.

With the arms rented to them by the Song Dynasty, they were enough to destroy the four major military departments.

As for any rebellion in the Western Xia territory in the future, wouldn’t it be enough to rent arms from the Song Dynasty?

Although the price of renting arms is not light, it is always much smaller than buying arms.

However, Li Xiushu had no intention of leaving Changsha like this.

I heard that a master from Chao Mansion reminded her several times that it was time to return to China. She only said that it was cold and it was inconvenient to travel.

Those experts dare not persuade them any more.

After all, they can withstand such coldness, but the empress does not have the same cultivation as them.

Before we knew it, the end of the year was coming.

The cold current did not dissipate.

Although the temperature did not drop again, the cold continued.

Many coal mines emerged in various parts of the Song Dynasty. After Zhao Dongting invented honeycomb coal, many people in various places were finally frozen to death.

But in the Yuan Dynasty and other countries in the northern part of the Song Dynasty, they were just worried.

This cold has invaded the north for some time.

Moreover, it is even more so than the south.

This is a normal situation, because winters in the north have always been much colder than in the south.

It was still fine in Xixia, but Li Xiushu prepared for the future and had long passed on the manufacturing method of honeycomb coal back to China. It should be okay to survive this cold current.

But Tolando, who is also in the Changsha Palace, and the ambassador to Song, do not have such foresight.

The sudden cold made the Yuan Dynasty completely without the lively atmosphere of the New Year coming.

As the cold current arrived, the temperature dropped sharply. Within a few days, there were already people in the Yuan Dynasty who were frozen to death.

The joy that Zhen Jin and others successfully imitated the grenade launcher and other objects was long gone.

During these days, the ministers of the Xuanji ministers had discussed the real gold for many times, but they had not discussed the way to survive the natural disaster.

Faced with such cold waves, the people need food and charcoal.

But how can charcoal be supplied to the people across the country?

Now the price of charcoal in Zhongdu of the Yuan Dynasty has long been rising.

Fortunately, after the cold current reached the north for several days, Zhen Jin and others learned about the novel "honeycomb coal" that appeared in the Song Dynasty.

I heard that the people of the Song Dynasty used this kind of thing to keep warm in the cold winter, and Zhenjin rushed to send people to investigate the method of making honeycomb coal.

But this happened a lot of time.

By the time the Yuan Dynasty finally got the method of manufacturing honeycomb coal, and when coal mines were mined in various places, many people had frozen to death. Only Nanjing Road, Shandong Road and other places bordering the Song Dynasty, they purchased a lot of honeycomb coal from the Song Dynasty through some channels, and survived the initial cold current.

It's just a price, that's hard to say.

The people in the Song Dynasty were not friendly to the Yuan Dynasty at all. With such an opportunity, they would have to kill the merchants of the Yuan Dynasty.

Nothing is done in detail.

On the day of the year, Zhao Dongting invited all the ministers in the court as usual at noon. At night, he accompanied the girls in the bedroom.

Concubine Yang Shu, Empress Dowager Xie Daoqing and others were also there.
Chapter completed!