The first emperor of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 17 Development of Gunpowder
Li Ruoshui was choked by Zhao Huan's words, he opened his mouth, and said helplessly, "How can the ancestor's law be changed casually?"

Zhao Huan rolled his eyes and said: "Wrong, I didn't change it casually. When dealing with our traditions, we must extract the essence and discard the dross, so that our Great Song Dynasty can prosper forever, and I can create a world like the Emperor of Qin, Han and Wu. Great feat."

The Song Dynasty began with the great ancestor Zhao Kuangyin, who emphasized literature over military affairs. The advantage of this was that the rebellion in the Song Dynasty was suppressed to a large extent, but the same also caused the Song Dynasty's military strength to be weak, and the territory area was the smallest in all dynasties.

Hearing what Zhao Huan said at this time, all the generals present were all excited, but many civil servants showed a little worry.

"Your Majesty..." Li Ruoshui wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Zhao Huan.

"Zongze, this matter is still in your hands. Now you will be the head of the ordnance department and start preparing. I will give you a month. After one month, I must see this thing equipped with the army. Inside." Zhao Huan said to Zong Ze.

Zong Ze took a cursory glance at the silk script that Zhao Huan handed over. It was different from the blueprint Zhao Huan gave him last time. This time Zhao Huan gave him ingredients. Zong Ze felt more like an ingredient of medicine, sulfur , saltpeter, charcoal...

"Your Majesty, I don't know what these things are for?" Zong Ze asked with some doubts.

"To make explosives, I only know that explosives are composed of these three things. You need to find someone to test the ratio. Remember, this thing will explode violently when it encounters fire. When you find someone to experiment , you must be very careful, and you must not act rashly and hurt people's lives." Zhao Huan urged.

Zong Ze has heard of saltpeter, which is often used by those old-fashioned alchemists, but he didn't expect this thing to have such power. It's no wonder he heard that some veterans will appear in the alchemy. Thinking of the furnace explosion, Zong Ze couldn't help feeling a little scared.

"By the way, you can grab some Taoist priests to help with the development. This group of people is good at this. Now is the time when the country needs them, so it's up to them to help." Zhao Huan said to Zong Ze, Zhao Huan knew very well , Taoism prevailed in the Song Dynasty, but this Taoism did not bring any benefits to the Song Dynasty. On the contrary, because of feudal superstition, it directly led to Zhao Huan's delusion in history to use Liujia soldiers to break the Jin army, which led to the city being broken and captured.

Although this kind of thing will not happen again now, Zhao Huan is still brooding over this matter. Now that he has the opportunity to clean up these old-fashioned people, he will naturally not let it go.

Zong Ze is a smart person, and he understood Zhao Huan's meaning from a catch word. Although he didn't know how these old-fashioned people offended Zhao Huan, Zong Ze understood that this group of people had no good fruit to eat. .

By the time the discussion was over, it was already afternoon. After coming out of the imperial study, Zhao Huan couldn't help shivering when he was blown by the cold wind of the first month. It was really cold this day.

The personal eunuch next to him, Wang Shuo, hurriedly put a blanket on Zhao Huan's body, and asked in a sharp voice, "Saint, where are we going tonight?"

It was only then that Zhao Huan realized that he was already a family man, and his wife was the empress Zhu Lian who wanted to run away from the beginning.

"Let's go to the queen's place to spend the night." Zhao Huan stayed in the camp of the imperial forest army all night last night in order to meet the Jin army. Only now did he realize that he is the emperor. Thinking of this, Zhao Huan couldn't help laughing, he didn't expect that a big otaku in later generations would be able to hug left and right here.

Arriving at Zhu Lian's Ziwei Palace, Zhu Lian was very happy to welcome him from the door.

"Your Majesty, are you tired? I cooked tremella and lotus seed soup for you. You can drink it while it's hot to relieve your fatigue." Zhu Lian brought a bowl of lotus seed soup to Zhao Huan with a smile. At this time, She even dismissed her maidservants and wanted to serve Zhao Huan herself.

Zhao Huan looked at the exquisite queen in front of him, and thought of the Jingkang incident, she was taken away by the Jin army along with him, and because she couldn't stand the insult of the Jin army generals, she hanged herself to death on the way, Zhao Huan felt a pain in his heart, He reached out to take the lotus seed soup in Zhu Lian's hand, but he didn't drink it, but put it aside.

When Zhu Lian saw Zhao Huan took the lotus seed soup, he was overjoyed at first, but when he found that Zhao Huan put down the lotus seed soup again, he became nervous, but at this time Zhao Huan held his hands.

"Following me all these years, it's hard for you!" Zhao Huan said to Zhu Lian with emotion.

Zhu Lian didn't expect Zhao Huan to say such words suddenly, she was a little at a loss, tears began to fall down, she quickly knelt down, and said to Zhao Huan: "Your Majesty, forgive me, my concubine was also confused yesterday, worried Our Bianjing city will fall, and that’s why the little eunuch is going to deliver the letter, and I hope His Majesty will forgive us..."

Zhao Huan's actions frightened Zhu Lian. The so-called being courteous for nothing, is either rape or robbery. Zhu Lian has heard that the little eunuch who spread the rumors yesterday has been beheaded by Zhao Huan. Could it be that Zhao Huan is going to abolish it now? Lost yourself?Zhu Lian became a little panicked.

"Hey, get up and talk!" Zhao Huan didn't expect Zhu Lian to react like this, and was a little surprised.

"The concubine found out that she has sinned against His Majesty, please forgive me!" Zhu Lian knelt even harder.

Zhao Huan walked over, pulled Zhu Lian up, and said, "I don't blame you for what happened yesterday, but I feel ashamed in my heart. I didn't have the ability to protect my people and women, and people beat me to the house. It's the door."

Hearing what Zhao Huan said, Zhu Lian quietly observed the expression on Zhao Huan's face, and made sure that Zhao Huan was not joking. Only then did he know that he really didn't blame himself, so he relieved himself and turned to comfort him. Zhao Huan said: "Your majesty, you have done a good job. Now the Jin army has been repelled by your majesty. Now people in the palace have spread the word that you are an emperor like Qin Huang, Han Wu."

Zhao Huan couldn't help but shook his head, it seemed that there were no secrets in the deep palace, what he had just said in the morning, the queen would already know in the evening, it seems that the secrecy discipline should be strengthened.

This thought flashed by, and Zhao Huan turned to Zhu Lian and said, "Leave the front matter to me, but the rear area, as the mother of a country, I will leave it to you."

(End of this chapter)