Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

Wang Si, a native of the Song Dynasty, really doesn't know what this is.

If Xu Guangqi or Sun Yuanhua, the ministers of the late Ming Dynasty, were here, they would immediately recognize that this thing is the Hongyi cannon!

Hongyi cannons have requirements on the quality of iron, but it is not difficult to make cannons with iron from the Song Dynasty.

With the level of craftsmanship of the Song Dynasty, it is not impossible to manufacture artillery.

But it will definitely not be produced all at once, let alone mass-produced all at once.

But Zhao Ning had to give the Military Weapons Supervisor a hint first, and let them explore by themselves.

"Officials, what is this, please forgive me for being stupid."

"This object is called a cannon. It is made of iron with a hollow in the middle. You can understand that it is like an iron bamboo."

"Iron bamboo?"

"That's right, put an iron ball inside it, fill it with gunpowder, the gunpowder explodes to generate thrust, and push the iron ball out."

In fact, the principle of artillery is not difficult. The Song Dynasty has already used gunpowder on a large scale, so it is easier to understand artillery.

But it still takes a little time and requires a certain practical foundation.

"I know, I will try."

"No hurry, I won't ask you to give this to me soon. The most urgent thing now is weapons that can be mass-produced immediately, such as trebuchets and thunderbolts."

"Yes."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Ning changed the topic back. He looked at Li Chong and said, "Li Qing, let's go and see the armor."

Chapter 35 Inferior armor, forcing me to kill?

Li Chong said: "Officials, I will send someone to bring the armor."

"No need, I'll go and see for myself."

"Officials, the place where the armor is stored is being repaired, and it may be inconvenient in the past."

"Where is the armor?"

"In the armory."

"Where are the crossbows and knives?"

Li Chong replied: "In the military crossbow and arrow warehouse and the Nanwai warehouse."

"Take me to check it out."

"The official family..."

"Why, what's the inconvenience?"

"No...no inconvenience."

Zhao Ning first came to the armory of crossbows and inspected the crossbows, including bed crossbows and god arm crossbows.

The military flag crossbow arrow library is an arsenal for storing crossbow arrows, but the place where crossbow arrows are produced is called the bow and arrow yard.

The production capacity of the bow and crossbow academy in the Song Dynasty was very strong. According to historical records, the bow and crossbow academy manufactured more than 1650 million pieces of various bows, crossbows, arrow clusters, and bowstrings every year.

This shows that the division of labor assembly line in the Song Dynasty was already very developed, and the professionalism of each post was also very high.

Although the external armed force is weak, the production capacity of the armed forces has beaten any country in the world at the same time.

而且军备制造体系是有完善的管理制度的，例如规定每7人9日比较造弓8张，8人6日造刀5副，3人2日造箭150支。

These are all specific tasks that are clearly stated.

Zhao Ning went to the Nanwai warehouse to get some swords and iron bones.

Finally, I arrived at the Armor Armor Depot.

Li Chong was going to arrange for someone to pick up some armors, but Zhao Ning stopped him. He went in himself and visited the armor storehouse.

Then, he immediately took out several armors.

He also ordered people to hang the armor on the wooden man.

Then let the guards with him start testing these armors.

First, shoot with crossbow arrows, the arrow clusters hit the armor and cannot penetrate, leaving only some shallow dents.

Then he used a knife to chop it, but the knife couldn't split it, until the iron bone was used, and a large piece of the armor was obviously dented, and even the threads in some places became loose.

Zhao Ning couldn't help being startled, Tie Guduo's armor breaking was not what the history books boasted about.

You must know that this kind of fish scale armor in the Song Dynasty has very high defensive power. The weight of this armor is as high as 50 catties. In addition to holding blunt weapons such as axes and iron bones, a Song infantry can bear the weight almost quickly. 70 catties.

With this kind of equipment, swords have no effect at all, and only blunt weapons can kill the enemy.

So if you open the history books, you will find that the famous generals of the Song Dynasty used blunt weapons.

This kind of heavy infantry in the Song Dynasty was called Infantry Armor.

It is said that the famous Iron Buddha of the Jin Army was adapted from the Burenjia.

"Go, go and spot check some more armors, come here, Zhao Ding, you take someone to spot check."

"Yes."

Zhao Ding led the imperial guards to conduct random checks around the area.

He took a turn around himself first, observed very carefully, and then led people around to randomly sample.

Finally, hang the extracted armor on the wooden man and start the test.

Li Chong on one side was already sweating profusely.

Jing Chao was holding a crossbow in his hand, and shot an arrow at the armor he had just taken. With a muffled sound, the armor was pierced by the arrow!

Zhang Shuye was taken aback, he immediately walked over, touched the place where the armor was shot, and then examined it carefully.

"This iron... there is something wrong with this iron!" Zhang Shuye said in a deep voice.

Zhao Ning said, "Try all those pairs too."

Jing Chao then tested ten more in a row, eight of which were shot through.

Zhao Ning picked up a knife and slashed across, leaving a deep mark. After a few more knives, the armor was cut through by the knife!

Zhao Ning threw it aside casually, his face darkened: "Is it because the crossbow and the knife are too powerful, or is the material of the armor too poor?"

Li Chong was so frightened that he quickly knelt down: "Forgive me, the officials, these armors are all from a long time ago, and they may have deteriorated over time."

Zhao Ding said: "These armors were cast in the last three years. When I was selecting them, I checked the marks on them."

"What's going on? Tell me!"

"Forgive me, these ministers don't know."

"As the inspector of the Military Weapons Supervision, tell me that you don't know?" Zhao Ning grabbed a piece of iron bone and smashed it on the armor in front of him, smashing the armor into pieces, furious. Said, "What use do I want you for!"

Li Chong was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and shivered.

"Zhang Shuye, Zhao Ding, and Jing Chao stay, and the rest go out."

"Yes."

The rest went outside.

Zhao Ning looked at Li Chong and said, "Say, what's going on?"

Li Chong hesitated, Zhao Ning said: "Is that why you don't want to live by yourself? You don't want to live by yourself, and you still want your family to be buried with you? Don't think that I dare not dare the Yi people!"

"Officials, spare your life! Officials, spare your life! When I took over the Military Weapons Supervision, I found some such inferior armor. I was going to give feedback to the higher authorities. At that time, Cai Jing was in power, and when the Guochao united with the Jin people to destroy the Liao Dynasty, In troubled times, no one cares about it."

Li Chong is smart, Cai Jing is dead, he knows that it is best to put the blame on a dead person.

"Who did you report to?"

"Chen...you should die!"

"Speak! What the hell is going on?"

"The minister should die!"

"Jing Chao!"

"Chen is here!"

"Drag it out and chop it up."

"Yes!"

"Excuse me, the official! Say it! Say it!"

"slow!"

Jing Chao stopped.

"It's King Yun, it was King Yun who asked his ministers to do this."

King Yun?

Zhao Ning was taken aback, Zhao Kai?

"Do you know what you're talking about?"

"I know clearly that it is King Yun."

"Why did he let you do this?"

Li Chong said timidly: "A pair of armor used to have 40 guan, but this inferior armor now has 20 guan."

Zhao Ning took a deep breath, as if a volcano erupted in his heart.

"How many copies of this poor quality have you made?"

"Made...made..."

"Say!"

"15 pairs were produced, and the rest were from before the minister came, the official family, and the rest were from before the minister came, and it has nothing to do with the minister."

It seems that at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the armaments were slack and the weapons were rotten. The rumors are true!

"Don't you know that soldiers on the front line will die if they wear this kind of armor!"

Zhao Ning was so angry that he walked back and forth: "Do you think they will die anyway, and they will wear the same clothes!"

"Shameless! You are greedy even for this kind of money! The moths of Guochao! Moths!"

Zhang Shuye quickly said: "The officials calm down, the Eucharist is important."

"Do you have any evidence of King Yun's participation, show it!"

Li Chong looked confused, and he said: "The minister will give money to King Yun regularly."

"Evidence! You can't let me go and investigate a prince just because of you!"

Li Chong's face was as pale as paper.

"The iron for forging the armor was provided by King Yun, and it was transported from his iron smelting factory."

Zhao Ding said: "The inferior quality of these armors has nothing to do with the raw materials of iron, but with the method of forging. Your statement does not prove that King Yun was involved."

Chapter 36

Zhang Shuye said: "Officials, if there is nothing to interrogate in a short while, let's hand it over to Dali Temple first."

Zhao Ning didn't ask this matter any more.

He flicked his sleeves and walked out.

"Zhao Ding, you should temporarily take up the post of the Military Weapons Superintendent, check the military equipment for me carefully, find out all the unqualified military equipment and weapons, and report how much you need to make up."

"Yes."

"There is one more thing for you to do."

"Please order from the official."

"This case is no small matter. I want Dali Temple, the Ministry of Punishment and the officials of the Yushitai to cooperate in the trial, and the Imperial City Division will supervise it. You will also participate in it and assist. What do you think?"

Zhao Ding took on so many tasks at once today, he didn't dare to hesitate, he just said: "Officials, ministers speak lightly, I'm afraid they won't be able to do it."

"This is easy to handle. You can lead the prefect of Kaifeng, the co-prefect, and you will get out after you straighten out the affairs of the General Armament Supervisor. I originally wanted to let Zhang Shuye handle this matter, but he is too busy on defense and has no time to worry about it. I can only work hard on you."