Dressed as the Queen Mother to grasp the script of a strong country

Within the Huoyao Dynasty.

It snowed heavily for many days. Cattle, sheep and other livestock froze on the ground and gradually lost their vitality.

The people looked at the cattle, sheep and other livestock on the ground and cried bitterly.

Fire shines in the imperial court.

"Great Khan, Huoyao has suffered a snowstorm this year that has not been seen in decades. I am afraid that the people will soon have nothing to eat."

"The Great Khan, the great Jin destroyed the sunset, the dynasty was first established, the emperor had just taken over the throne, and the court was unstable. It was actually the time when I, Huo Yao, marched."

"I need to think carefully about the march." Emperor Huoyao said.

"Great Khan, why don't you send an envoy to the Jin Dynasty to explore the strength of the dynasty, so that you can think about it carefully."

"I second the proposal."

"I second the proposal."

"That's it."

In Liang Meng Palace.

After learning that the envoy from the Huoyao Dynasty was coming to Daijin, Liang Meng felt that the weasel was not well-intentioned in paying New Year greetings to the rooster.

Huoyao and Dajin are adjacent to each other, and are separated by a large river. This means that in winter, the river will be frozen, and it will be very convenient to march when it is frozen.

The Huoyao Dynasty is located in a cold land, and their main occupation is animal husbandry. They are tall and tall, eat meat all year round, and are easily affected by the weather. When there is no food to eat in the cold winter, they often invade Sunset and loot Sunset's food.

Thinking of this, Liang Meng became nervous.

"It seems that Huo Yao's mission to Daijin this time is because the cattle and sheep were frozen to death by the heavy snow and came to Daikin to explore the military strength." Liang Meng dreamed.

"military power?"

"Huo Yao is recognized as the strongest military man. The only veteran generals in Dajin's court who can command the fight on the battlefield are Commander Jiao and Commander Liang. They are still too few. The rest are still teenagers with no battlefield experience, let alone repairing canals. Building the Grand Canal has put Daikin's treasury in jeopardy, and we can no longer fight at this time." Liang dreamed.

Liang Meng was very worried.

Without any further delay, Liang Meng left the palace and headed to the Institute of Metallurgical Engineering.

"Li Qingfeng and Gongsun Mo meet the Queen Mother."

"stand up."

Liang Meng stopped talking nonsense and directly told Gongsun Mo and Li Qingfeng about something called muskets and gunpowder.

"Gunpowder?" Gongsun Mo asked.

"Gunpowder is the explosive pill that the Queen Mother said when she came to find Qing Feng." Li Qingfeng said.

Liang Meng nodded.

"And the musket is where the explosive elixir is placed." Liang Meng wondered how to talk about the gun.

"Put gunpowder on the arrow."

Li Qingfeng and Gongsun Mo tried it.

At this time, the arrow would be unable to control its direction and fly randomly, and then with a bang, the arrow would break into two sections and fall to the ground.

The three of them looked at this scene.

Liang Meng saw the bamboo planted in the yard.

Liang Meng then said: "Put the explosive gunpowder in the bamboo and put the sharpened bamboo inside. When the gunpowder is ignited, the sharpened bamboo will be ejected."

Li Qingfeng and Gongsun Mo listened carefully.

"Isn't this sharpened bamboo similar to bows and arrows?" Gongsun Mo said.

"Will this sharpened bamboo be fired as far as a bow and arrow?" Li Qingfeng asked.

Liang Meng shook his head.

In Liang Meng's memory, it seems that such gunpowder cannot launch sharpened bamboo very far.

"If we use bamboo, won't it explode?" Li Qingfeng said.

"What Brother Li said is true, but what if we use copper or iron?" Gongsun Mo said.

"Copper, iron?" Li Qingfeng asked.

The two of them were thinking about it, and Gongsun Mo and Li Qingfeng were very happy.

They seem to be creating a new type of weapon for Daikin.

Liang Meng was very happy to see that the two of them could think of weapons like fire tubes based on their descriptions.

Fire tubes are not enough. Cavalry combat defeats infantry combat. In the era of cavalry combat, if you want to compete with cavalry, you need the same cavalry combat or a method of warfare that surpasses cavalry combat.

Cavalry combat requires horses and warriors. If Daikin wants to remain invincible through the same cavalry combat method, it needs to solve the problem of the strength of horses and warriors.

If a new combat method is adopted - firearms, it will not be limited to horses and warriors.

Firearms are not afraid of horses. Just like bows and arrows, firearms can kill enemies at a distance of several meters. This will eliminate the advantage of fast cavalry combat speed, and then defeat the cavalry combat method, which is a great advantage to be undefeated.

The reason why bows and arrows cannot defeat cavalry in combat is because pulling the bow and arrow requires strong arm strength and the bow's toughness.

The toughness of the bow allows the arrow to be shot far, but this requires the archer's strong arm strength and the materials used to make the bow.

However, in agricultural society, the materials for bows were except wood and bamboo, which means that bows and arrows have reached the peak of the limitations of the times.

Guns are a must instead of bows and arrows.

Thinking of this, Liang Meng said once.

"Now replace the sharpened bamboo with iron pills and copper pills, and then light the gunpowder." Liang Mengdao

"If the sharpened bamboo is replaced by iron pellets and copper pellets, the iron and copper cylinders will need to be narrowed." Gongsun Mo said.

"Light the gunpowder in the iron cylinder, and the iron pellets will come out." Li Qingfeng said.

Liang Meng asked when he saw Li Qingfeng was confused.

"Any questions?"

"But if this fire is put into an iron cylinder and then ignited, it will need to keep lighting the torch to ignite the gunpowder."

Liang Meng then understood what Li Qingfeng said was that putting gunpowder inside and then igniting it with fire would take time and be easily discovered by the enemy.

"Would it be better to use a string to connect the gunpowder?"

Li Qingfeng seemed to be inspired.

"But what if it's a rainy day?" Gongsun Mo asked.

Li Qingfeng, who was originally excited, fell into deep thought when he heard Gongsun Mo's words.

"rain?"

"There is a kind of stone called flint, which can produce sparks upon impact, which may be able to alleviate this problem."

"flint?"

"Stones that can be ignited by impact."

Li Qingfeng and Gongsun Mo secretly remembered this thing called flint.

The method of impact ignition to make fire provided ideas for Li Qingfeng and Gongsun Mo.

"The Queen Mother, but just like when we tied gunpowder to the arrow, the arrow would fly randomly in the air. According to Gongsun Mo, even if it is in an iron cylinder, wouldn't the iron pellets fly around?"

"If it flies randomly, won't it mean that the iron pill won't fly too far?" Li Qingfeng said.

"Is it possible to increase the power of gunpowder?" Li Qingfeng asked.

The knowledge of Li Qingfeng and Gongsun Mo has reached the limitations of their times.

"The power of the gunpowder needs to be stronger. Qing Feng, you might try wetting the gunpowder and then drying it to see if it will be more powerful." Liang Meng said.

"Yes." Li Qingfeng nodded.

"But it's not enough to just increase the power of gunpowder. We also need to solve the problem of iron pellets flying around." Liang Mengdao.

Liang Meng remembered that in order to solve the problem of bullets flying around, the straight lines inside the iron cylinder were changed to spiral lines.

"Is it possible to change the smooth part inside the iron cylinder into a spiral to make it uneven?"

Li Qingfeng and Gongsun Mo took note of it secretly, and then went to experiment.

The two of them could not imagine how the iron pellets would behave inside the iron cylinder that was changed into a spiral.

Liang Meng continued to add questions that Gongsun Mo and Li Qingfeng could not raise due to their cognitive limitations: "Have you ever thought about how to pack iron pills?"

"Iron pills?" Gongsun Mo asked.

"Isn't it the same as loading iron pellets from the front of the iron cylinder?" Li Qingfeng asked.

"If we load iron pellets from the front, wouldn't the enemy be able to detect them? Time is life on the battlefield. Loading iron pellets from the front will take more time," Liang Meng said.

Li Qingfeng and Gongsun Mo pondered.

"The Queen Mother, if you don't load the iron pill from the front, how can you do it?" Li Qingfeng asked.

"If we can't let the enemy discover it, we need to come from the rear?" Gongsun Mo said.

"The rear? But there is already gunpowder in the rear?" Li Qingfeng said.

"Is it possible to combine gunpowder with iron pills?" Liang Meng said.

"Combined?" the two asked.

Liang Meng nodded.

The bullets in modern society combine gunpowder and bullets.

Li Qingfeng and Gongsun Mo thought deeply.

Liang Meng didn't pay attention to the two people's contemplation and started talking again.

"You can try to see whether a round iron pellet or an arrow-shaped iron pellet is better," Liang Meng said.

Liang dreamed that this was the entire history of the development of muskets. From the beginning, gunpowder was discovered and put on bows and arrows, and then fire tubes were invented from bamboo to iron and copper. Because fire tubes have two shortcomings, one is that they will be discovered if you hold a torch when lighting, or they cannot be used in rainy days; the other is that they cannot be used in rainy days. aim.

In response to these two shortcomings, the matchlock gun that ignited the rope appeared, and later the flintlock gun that could be ignited by hitting flint with a machine. Later, it was discovered that mercury fulminate solved the problem of being unable to be used in rainy days.

To solve the problem of aiming a spiral rifle appeared.

In order to solve the problem of firing iron pellets from the front, the prototype of modern rifles that combined gunpowder and bullets appeared.

in the restaurant.

Jing Huan and Liu Xingzhu dressed up as men and came to the restaurant to eat.

There was a lively scene in the restaurant.

"Why are there so many young men in the restaurant?" Jing Huan asked.

"They are about to take the provincial examination. Some of them have to leave Beijing and return to their hometown to take the provincial examination, and then they have a farewell banquet." The waiter said.

"I see."

Jing Huan and Liu Xingzhu were taken to the second floor.

The two people who had just approached the restaurant saw Zheng Boying and others gathering together.

Sitting next to them were two strong men. One of them had a serious look and was clearly the master of the two, while the other looked even more stupid.

A little further away, you can see soldiers wearing armor.

"Jing Huan, we'd better leave." Liu Xingzhu suggested.

When Liu Xingzhu saw Liu Ruhui and others, they were afraid of being recognized.

"Imperial examination." The stupid-looking person said.

The serious-looking man glanced at the stupid man.

The man consciously stopped talking.

Jing Huan and Liu Xingzhu saw it.

Liu Ruhui and others were in high spirits, and everyone was pushing and pushing them.

Liu Ruhui bumped into the serious-looking man with his body.

When the stupid man saw Liu Ruhui's movements, he immediately stood up with a fierce expression, as if he wanted to fight.

The excitement of the crowd stopped suddenly, and Zheng Boying and others looked this way.

Liu Ruhui realized that he was rude and said, "Brother, don't blame me. Liu Ruhui will apologize to brother."

"Sit down," the serious man said.

Then the man who heard the order sat down.

"It doesn't matter." The man said coldly.

The two of them were too serious and not approachable, so Liu Ruhui had no choice but to sit down.

Zheng Boying and others seemed very curious about the identities of the two people.

However, he felt that the two of them were difficult to get close to, so he did not choose to talk to each other and continued with his farewell party.

"These two people are too serious." Liu Xingzhu said.

"Let's leave quickly." Liu Xingzhu said.

Just as the two were about to leave.

Then I saw two beggars coming in from nowhere. An old lady and a little girl were begging in front of each table.

Two beggars came to them.

The stupid man drove them away.

"Go away."

But the two beggars hoped to get some charity and pleaded pitifully.

"Okay, please give us something to eat."

The serious man glanced at the silly man, who was about to take action.

"Brother, stop it, they are just beggars who are too hungry." Zheng Boying said.

Then he handed a few copper coins to the two beggars.

The stupid man looked at Zheng Boying with dissatisfaction.

Just when the stupid man took action, Zheng Baiying and others who didn't know kung fu were stunned.

Liu Ruhui, who knew a little bit of skill at this time, defended Zheng Baiying from the man's attack.

Both fell to the ground.

Serious men know that they do not know martial arts.

Then the serious man glanced at the silly man, and the silly man kicked Zheng Baiying to the table where soldiers were serving.

"It doesn't even make people feel comfortable eating."

The group of officers and soldiers eating stood up angrily and looked at the stupid man.

The officers and soldiers took out the weapons on the table and ran to teach this stupid man a lesson.

In just a few blows, the officers and soldiers were knocked to the ground.

The guests on the second floor had left one after another for fear of hurting innocent people.

The stupid man smiled disdainfully and walked back.

He saw the two beggars still kneeling there.

The little girl was frightened and cried, and the old lady comforted her. The stupid man was impatient and seemed to stretch his legs to kick her.

At this moment, Jing Huan took action to stop the stupid man.

At the same time, the serious man shouted: "Stop."

Jing Huan, who withdrew his attack, felt pain in his legs.

He looked at the two of them warily.

The serious man did not expect that there would be people who knew kung fu in the restaurant.

Then he signaled the stupid man to attack.

Jing Huan could only resist.

The stupid man completely crushed Jing Huan and became even more careless.

Jing Huan seized the opportunity, took out the Tao Yao in his hand and pointed it at the stupid man's neck.

The serious man watched this scene and knocked Tao Yao down.

The stupid man stopped attacking.

On the second floor, Jing Huan fell to the ground and his weapon fell to the side.

"too weak."

Then he glanced at the stupid man. He was so weak that you almost let him take advantage of him.

The stupid man received the look and lowered his head without saying a word.

Then the two of them left the restaurant.

"Dajin's soldiers are not enough." said the stupid man.

The serious man nodded.

"This is just the strength of ordinary soldiers. Fighting is not limited to these. We also need to check the cooperation of ordinary soldiers, the command of the soldiers, the treasury of Dajin, and the various forces in the court."

The stupid man nodded.

A few nights later, there was an endless stream of carriages in the palace and the lights were brightly lit.

The emperor sat in the main seat.

Liang Meng and Tuoba Lanrou were on the left and right sides.

The officials sit on one side and the Huoyao envoys sit on the other side.

Huo Yao's envoy walked into the room and said: "The Great Khan sent his ministers here to establish friendly relations with Dajin. The way to show friendship in Huo Yao is to play a game of polo. I hope the emperor will not reject Huo Yao's desire to have a relationship with Dajin." Daikin’s wish for friendly diplomatic relations.”

"Polo?" the emperor asked.

The emperor thought.

in the hall.

"Your Majesty, there is heavy snow now, and the dividing river between Dajin and Huoyao is frozen. Huoyao's cattle and sheep have been killed and injured numerously. I'm afraid Huoyao has ulterior motives for coming."

"Yes, your Majesty, I hope your Majesty will agree." The envoy said.

Everyone in Daijin knew that the request made by Huo Yao's envoy today had ulterior motives.

"Polo is a way of friendly diplomatic relations, and I, Daikin, naturally agree to it," the emperor said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Then everyone started feasting.

Dai Jin prepared beef and mutton for Envoy Huoyao.

Liang Meng looked at the Huo Yao envoy who was eating beef and mutton with his hands, and felt very tired.

An inspiration appeared in Liang Meng's mind.

Then Liang Meng ordered Hongyu to give the tea to Huo Yao's envoy.