Chapter 63

Li Jingnan sees Hua light snow facial expression to change, immediately nervous, "what's the matter? What's wrong with the weapons? "

Hua Qingxue was silent for a moment and told him, "some time ago Some Liao soldiers sneaked into the barracks and took away our craftsmen. "

When Li Jingnan heard the speech, his eyebrows almost stood up! "Liao soldiers have mixed up in Qingzhou camp?! What about Fu tingye? He didn't find out? "

"The other party disguised as seriously wounded Qi soldiers were sent to the barracks, the general did not know." Hua Qingxue didn't mention that he was nearly taken away. He sighed, "the Liao soldiers are ready. We can't defend them, and the general can't take care of each other."

Li Jingnan slapped his hands on the table! Along with the cup of wax gourd tea just now, it shook a few times.

"These Liao dogs! I'll kill them all sooner or later! "

Li Jingnan grew up in the shadow of the invasion of Qi by Liao soldiers since he could remember. His hatred for the Liao people was deep-rooted.

At first, Hua Qingxue didn't feel much about the countries on both sides of the country. However, as he became more and more intimate with Fu tingye and Li Jingnan, he lived here again, and gradually developed feelings for Daqi.

Accordingly, she also began to have a sense of resistance against Daliao, especially after blacksmith Liu's affair. Although Hua Qingxue was not a Qi person, her position was basically consistent with that of Qi people.

Hua Qingxue's voice was stuffy: "the Liao soldiers are standing still now. They must be making new weapons. Once the weapons are finished, they will attack again."

Li Jingnan's small face sank, and his good mood was swept away.

Although he was young, he was also very clear that the national strength and military strength of Daqi were too weak and weak compared with that of the Liao Dynasty. Taking the initiative to attack was like hitting the stone with an egg! But this passive waiting for the other party to hit the door, it is really suffocating!

Finally, Hua Qingxue made a new weapon. He thought he saw the hope, but he only won one battle, so he was taken away by the Liao army!

Can't Daqi really defend the world?

"Well, don't wrinkle your face. Frown every day when you are so young. Be careful that you will grow old quickly." Hua Qingxue doesn't want Li Jingnan's mind to be too heavy. He tries to make his tone relaxed. "Don't worry about the barracks. The general has already stepped up training a group of archers to reinforce the long-range attack ability of the army. I mean the same thing. The liaobing soldiers make the surrounding countries cold in the name of iron cavalry, so we don't need to go to the tough."

Li Jingnan remembered that Hua Qingxue had made a bow with a range of 400 steps. He felt a little better and nodded with approval, "yes, we should develop our own advantages in the future. If we can't compete with cavalry, we should fight long-range archers!"

"But The Liao people are good at riding and shooting. If they come up with this kind of bow one day, we will... "

"It's a matter of time." Hua Qingxue said.

Li Jingnan was stunned and looked at the light snow in Xianghua.

"Once on the battlefield, there will be damage. As long as the Liao soldiers capture a few of our bows and arrows, dismantle the structure, and find craftsmen to ponder for a few days, we can certainly find the mystery." Hua Qingxue's voice is still soft, but his words are extremely cruel. "So it is sooner or later that the bow and arrow are copied. We can't put all our hopes on the bow. It may help us win once or twice, but it will never be permanent."

Listen to Li Jingnan, small face tight, pursed lips silent.

Hua Qingxue knows how much he wants to give Liao soldiers a heavy blow. Therefore, when she looks at Li Jingnan like this, she can't bear to

"You come, I'll show you something." Hua Qingxue stands up and takes Li Jingnan to the west house.

Xiaodouzi, the eunuch in close proximity, also follows with a low eyebrow and drooping eyes.

Hua light snow seems to be very taboo, to small beans said: "you wait outside first."

Xiaodouzi is stunned and then goes to see Li Jingnan.

He has always been close to serve, even if Li Jingnan squats in the thatched cottage, he has never left!

Besides, the Emperor didn't say anything. Why is she?!

However, Li Jingnan almost didn't think about it. He waved his hand in disgust and said, "wait outside."

“……” With his head down, he stood under the eaves.

Hua Qingxue closed the door immediately.

"What are you going to give me? It's so mysterious... " Li Jingnan curious into the house, see the whole wall is all wooden shelf! It's full of handmade soap, and I'm surprised!

"Wow You did it all by yourself? "

"Yes, I'll make two pots every day after I'm proficient." Hua Qingxue casually took a piece and handed it to him, "did you use up those I sent you last time? Don't use it. Use this batch of new soap. It's better than the old one

Li Jingnan even nodded, and did not polite to her, "that you install more for me, I send a few pieces to the mother."

Hua Qingxue a listen, Empress Dowager should also use her Hand-made Soap? What a wonderful feeling!

She laughed and said, "well, I'll give you more decoration for everything. You can reward the minister's wife and help me advertise!"

"What is advertising?" Li Jingnan looks at her inexplicably."It means to promote."

After reading the Hand-made Soap, Hua Qingxue goes to a table, picks up a handful of paper with various strange patterns, searches several times, and takes out several pieces from the paper and hands them to Li Jingnan.

"New weapon, I haven't shown it to a second person." Hua Qingxue's tone of voice with rare pride, "if you do it, I can guarantee that even if the Liao soldiers steal this thing, they can't do it."

Li Jingnan listen, dare not underestimate, seriously look.

But when he looked left and right, he could not see what was painted on the paper

"What is this?" He tossed the paper in his hand and looked at it, "it's round. It can't be chopped or chopped. How to use it in the battlefield?"

"Use with these." Hua Qingxue handed him several other pieces of paper.

Li Jingnan still can't understand.

He was a little frustrated. "Tell me directly, what's the use of this thing?"

"This is called gunpowder. You can understand it as a firecracker 100 times more powerful than fireworks." Hua Qingxue put all the drawings in front of his eyes and explained one by one, "once we make gunpowder, we can start to make rockets, muskets and guns. Each weapon has a strong lethality!"

"Than fireworks A hundred times better? " Li Jingnan felt a little unimaginable, and her expression became a crumpled mass.

About because In this great Qi Dynasty, the power of fireworks and firecrackers is so weak that ordinary people can listen to it at most.

Hua Qingxue thinks that the problem should be in the purification of this link, resulting in the saltpeter did not play its due role.

In fact, during the Song Dynasty, gunpowder weapons were already very developed. Not only did the prototype of muskets exist, but thunder and thunderbolt guns were born in the Song Dynasty.

Unfortunately, although the Qi Dynasty was close to the Song Dynasty in all aspects, its military power It's hard to say.

The original ancient gunpowder, that is, the mixture of nitre, sulfur and charcoal, has not attracted people's attention and is difficult to be used in the battlefield. However, after improvement, the combination of potassium nitrate, sulfur and carbon according to a certain proportion has great power! Almost as good as the post-modern explosives!

Huaqingxue's biggest headache now is not the production of gunpowder, but the selection of materials for the lead part, which should be inflammable, uniform in speed, and have a certain resistance to moisture.

The most conservative method is to use cotton thread to weave thick thread, but the disadvantage is that it is too easy to get damp, and it is very likely to extinguish in the middle of the way in case of bad weather.

The lead doesn't work, no matter how powerful the gun is.

Hua Qingxue is still trying to extract sodium chlorate.

-- sodium chlorate releases oxygen when heated, and oxygen is the best fuel for combustion. As long as it is mixed into cotton thread, all her worries can be solved.

These problems are too difficult for Li Jingnan to understand. Hua Qingxue can only explain them roughly.

“…… In short, the general has agreed to set up a firearm battalion. He has sent people to assist me. If it goes well, we will soon have the first artillery. " Hua Qingxue put away the drawing she had recently drawn, and there was some longing in her eyes, "they will certainly become the most courageous group of soldiers in Daqi."

"But he didn't report it to the court!" Li Jingnan frowned, a little bitter.

Even if you want to do something like this, you must report it to the imperial court first!

"The general is probably worried about me..." Hua Qingxue was embarrassed with a smile. "He was afraid that I would be punished if I failed, so he helped me carry it and reported it to the imperial court. Isn't he going to wait for the court to approve the money? It's going to be a long time. "

Li Jingnan reluctantly accepted this explanation, and said unhappily, "you can rest assured, as long as it is beneficial to the country and the people, I will certainly approve it! But It's really hard to get money out of the Treasury. When my father was in power, he had been reducing taxes and recuperating, so these years The Treasury really doesn't have much money. "

Hua light snow nodded to show understanding, the tone is very sincere, "the first emperor is a good emperor."

A simple and plain sentence, I do not know how, Li Jingnan heard but feel a bit sour nose.

After the death of the late emperor for such a long time, he had never heard anyone say so about his father Even when the empress mother mentioned her father, she was not satisfied with her face.

He deliberately raised a big smile, trying to cover up the eyes of the red trend, and said, "it happens that I am visiting in private, so I will live here for a few days! See how you make new weapons. How about that? "

Hua Qingxue nodded with a smile, "OK, let you see. If you are satisfied, remember to go back and allocate money to me. Although the general said that he had money, I was a little worried that he would make his face fat. After all, if this thing was to be mass-produced, it would not be a matter of a day or a matter of tens of thousands of taels of silver..."

Li Jingnan has held his head high, "then you can find the right one by looking for me. Fu tingye is a great general. How much salary can he get every year? Even if the king can set up a private name to collect taxes and collect wealth, it is also the king who has just been granted this year, and can not save much money! No matter how empty the Treasury is, it must be richer than Fu tingye! "

Hua Qingxue couldn't help laughing when she heard Li Jingnan show off her wealth.Li Nan laughed at herself.

He couldn't say why he trusted China so much.

Maybe it was the short time when Ren Qiu was in trouble and depended on each other Maybe it's because Hua Qingxue always comes up with a strange theory?

She is full of incredible, just like those pancreatin soap on the wooden shelf. If you say it, you can make it.

Many strange things seemed easy to her.

So

Li Jingnan looked at the stack of drawings on the table and thought: this time, she will be able to do it.

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