230. The prosperity of firearms
She took her parents away.
Zhao Dongting led Qin Han and his ministers to the Political Consultative Hall and stood in sequence in the Political Consultative Hall.
Lu Xiufu, Zhang Shijie, Xiang Dongyang, Chen Wenlong, Su Liuyi, Liu Hongyi and others were in charge of the army, and all the ministers of the various political departments were listed.
Zhao Dongting had just returned at this time. Although many people were puzzled by Ying Er's affairs, no one said it at such a moment.
Originally, the ministers should have avoided talking about the emperor's harem. Moreover, the war is approaching, so Isn't it a question of this in the Political Consultative Hall to ask for scolding?
After Zhao Dongting sat down, Chen Wenlong took the lead and looked ashamed. "Emperor, I went to Dali to go back without any success. Please punish the emperor."
With the current situation in the Southern Song Dynasty, Dali really needed troops to send aid. He failed to convince Duan Zhixing. Although Lu Xiufu and others did not say anything about him, the other ministers did not dare to say that his deputy state command was not wrong, Chen Wenlong felt ashamed. He knew how much hope Zhao Dongting had for his mission to Dali.
All the ministers looked at Zhao Dongting, and some of them were close to Chen Wenlong and even planned to be listed as Chen Wenlong for mercy.
However, what they didn't expect was that Zhao Dongting was actually smiling, "It's okay, it's okay, Lord Chen has worked hard for this trip."
The person Qin Han mentioned who could convince Duan Zhixing was directed from Pingnan, and the ministers in the palace didn't know about this at all.
At present, everyone only thought that Zhao Dongting was magnanimous, and now they admired Zhao Dongting a little more.
At this age, he is able to be civil and military, good at fighting, and can govern the country. He has such a broad mind. The little emperor is not comparable to any emperor of that generation in the past.
"The emperor is wise!"
Someone took the lead in flattering, holy farts, and then the sound of flattering in the entire hall was out of control.
Zhao Dongting was too lazy to stop them. He knew that this was an old problem and accepted it calmly.
When all the ministers calmed down again, he looked at the Secretary of the Military Science Department Xu Yuesong, who was in charge of the Military Science Department, "Mr. Xu, the Military Science Department has also developed new weapons recently?"
Xu Yuesong came to Leizhou from Lin'an and followed the imperial court. He used to be the chief official of the Weapons and was ranked in the seventh rank.
Now, Zhao Dongting attaches great importance to the development of weapons without exception. He has also reached the top and became the third-rank Shangshu.
Although this Shangshu does not have as much real power as Chen Jianghan, after all, he is also a third-rank official, right?
Xu Yuesong had never been named by the emperor in the Political Affairs Hall like this before, and even saw it was rare. He was so excited that he was a little trembling, and even his face was constantly shaking. He hurriedly stepped out and knelt down and said, "Back to the emperor, the Military Science Department has not developed new weapons recently."
This made Zhao Dongting wonder if his trembling was because of fear.
However, it was not beyond Zhao Dongting's expectations that no new weapons were developed. He could not be disappointed.
It is not easy to develop thermal weapons. With current technological level, he can't hope that Xu Yuesong can develop missiles, right?
The Military Science Department was able to find a different approach and develop thunderbolt cannons and dragon guns, which made him quite satisfied.
In this era, it is probably difficult to make improvements in gunpowder, and only slight changes are made on the transmitter.
He nodded and looked at the Secretary of the Military Industry Department Li Qingyun, "Mr. Li, how many weapons in the Military Industry Department are in stock now?"
Li Qingyun also followed from Lin'an, and was just Xu Yuesong's deputy before. At that time, the weapon shop was integrated with research and manufacturing, but now it is separated. The chief Xu Yuesong became the Minister of the Military Science Department who supervised the research on weapons, while Li Qingyun, who used to be in charge of inventory, became the Minister of the Military Industry Department.
The Military Industry Department is responsible for manufacturing and hoarding weapons.
Although these two departments are not in charge of many people, their status in the current Southern Song Dynasty is unparalleled and important.
When Li Qingyun heard Zhao Dongting calling him, he was even more excited than Xu Yuesong. He quickly knelt down and said, "Report to the emperor, in addition to the weapons sent to the various armies, the Military Industry Department now has 840 grenade bullets, more than 4,000 thunderbolt cannons, and 12,000 Shenlong guns. In addition, there are more than 140,000 sky-bombing thunders, more than 20,000 grenade bullets, and no matter the iron bullets of Shenlong guns."
"hiss……"
After listening to Li Qingyun's report, even Zhao Dongting couldn't help but suck in the cold air.
In the past two years, he has indeed urged the Ministry of Military Industry to speed up the production of weapons, but he never thought that he would create so many weapons.
This was far beyond his expectations.
He was happy, but he was a little confused, "How can the progress of the Military Industry Department be so fast?"
Li Qingyun looked at Lu Xiufu and said, "The State Council ordered the Lord to recruit more than a thousand craftsmen for our Military Industry Department."
"oh……"
Zhao Dongting looked at Lu Xiufu and nodded when he saw Lu Xiufu nodding.
Although Lu Xiufu was a civil servant, he obviously still had some understanding of military trends. He was undoubtedly very good at recruiting people for the Military Industry Department.
Zhao Dongting was originally worried that the Military Industry Department would not have enough weapons reserves, so he promised Wen Tianxiang and Zhang Jue that he would issue two hundred thunderbolt cannons and five hundred Shenlong guns to each army and need to speed up the production. Now, there is obviously no such worry.
Wen Tianxiang and Zhang Jue have a total of eleven military horses, which means they have to be equipped with 2,200 thunderbolt cannons and 5,500 Shenlong guns. In this way, the Military Industry Department can still have about 2,000 thunderbolt cannons and more than 6,000 Shenlong guns left. If you add a grenade tube, you can simply assemble a complete army of thermal weapons!
However, according to his defensive arrangement, the Southern Song Dynasty's troops were quite dispersed, and it was not realistic to completely equip these thermal weapons to an army.
The defense line was too long, and the Yuan army could completely break through the army without thermal weapons.
After thinking for a while, Zhao Dongting waved his hand and said, "Apart from Tiankui, Tiangang, Tianji and Tianxian, each of the eleven armies was equipped with 300 thunderbolt cannons and 600 Shenlong guns. The Ministry of Military Industry continued to speed up the rush to make the rest, and I have other arrangements."
Li Qingyun received the order.
But at this time, Liu Hongyi was a little anxious.
His Huanglong Imperial Guard guarded Leizhou, and his armor and weapons were distributed a lot, but they didn’t have hot weapons!
He looked at Zhao Dongting with a gaze and said, "Emperor, the Yellow Dragon Imperial Guard..."
Zhao Dongting saw Liu Hongyi's face and naturally knew what he wanted to say. He smiled and said, "This time our army and the Yuan army will definitely be an unprecedented battle. General Liu, I will give you the full power of logistics supply. Our army's front is spread along the Xunjiang River and the Yujiang River, and the pressure of transporting food and grass is quite high."
Liu Hongqing felt aggrieved like a young wife.
I want to fight a war!
I want to go to the front line to fight!
Master, are you really not seeing it or pretending not to know?
Zhao Dongting naturally pretended not to know.
Most of the soldiers of the Huanglong Imperial Army came from Leizhou and were very ties at home. He did not want them to go to the front line in his heart.
However, looking at Liu Hongqian's expression, he had to say again: "Besides, the Yuan army is likely to raid Leizhou by sea. General Liu, the things you need to worry about are heavier than the front line. So, after I have distributed the firearms of each front line, the remaining firearms will be distributed to your Huanglong Imperial Army. How about it?"
Liu Hongyi was unwilling to accept the order and reluctantly said, "Yes."
He is a passionate man, which can be seen from the fact that he would rather counter-revolutionize Li Jun than help the Song court.
He was naturally full of hope to lead his army to the front line to fight with the Yuan army, but unfortunately, Zhao Dongting did not give him this opportunity.
In fact, he knew vaguely what Zhao Dongting thought. But understanding did not mean that he did not want to go to the front line to kill the enemy.
The general died in a hundred battles, and the horse was wrapped in a body. Few loyal and brave generals like Liu Hongyi were willing to do what they could do.
Thinking about the fact that their Huanglong Imperial Guard was called the Imperial Guard, but what the Xiang Army did, Liu Hongyi felt really wronged.
But Zhao Dongting did not care about him anymore, but looked at Chen Jianghan and said, "Mr. Chen, how are the food and grass prepared?"
Personal wishes are too insignificant in the face of the general trend of the entire country.
It is impossible for Zhao Dongting to let Liu Hongyi go to the front line to kill the enemy just because he wanted to go to the front line.
Killing an enemy will kill people!
Chen Jianghan's problem in the blink of an eye is afraid that he will never be able to change in his life. He blinked his eyes and said, "Go back to the emperor, I have already prepared... to prepare the army for a total of two months of food and supplies."
Zhao Dongting said in surprise: "So little?"
Chen Jianghan looked bitter, "This is all the food and grass that can be collected from Leizhou and Qiongzhou."
Zhao Dongting also knew that Chen Jianghan had probably tried his best to have so much food, so he might be saving money.
He pondered and said, "If you have extra money, why don't you go to Yue Li Dynasty to buy some?"
The Vietnam-Lee Dynasty is now Vietnam.
Chen Jianghan said: "Your Majesty, the Li Dynasty of Yue is afraid there is no surplus grain..."
The situation in the Yue Li Dynasty was not as good as that in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was very poor.
Zhao Dongting waved his hand and said, "Buy as much as you can!"
It’s a pity that the shipping line is not yet developed now, otherwise he would even have the idea of buying food and grass from further afield.
Thinking of this, he suddenly looked at Qin Han at the end of the hall and smiled, "Qin Han, can you see if you can let the king of Dali support us with some food and grass?"
Qin Han's eyes kept twitching.
He regretted death now. If he had known, he would not have taken the matter of persuading Dali on himself.
Isn’t this asking for trouble?
Little did they know that since Zhao Dongting learned about the situation in Shu, he is now full of the intention of exploiting Qin Han.
Don’t you have an ambiguous attitude and a mysterious and mysterious attitude?
I will just ignore what you think, and let’s get some benefits from you first.
Zhao Dongting had already mastered his skills in his previous life.
Chapter completed!