Guo Shao got a copy of the letter from the eunuch, but it was written by Zhang, the concubine of the harem.

He saw that the words above were written neatly and neatly, and he felt very pleasant and pleasing to the eye. He also thought that Zhang was the concubine of Cao Bin, the leader of the Tang army stationed in the South. He immediately looked at the content. Zhang said that she was pure and had few desires, and was quiet and inaction. He thought that she became a monk in the Sanqing Palace and took the Taoist name himself "Xuanzhen Immortal Master".

Guo Shao didn't know Zhang, and his only impression was that she and Cao Bin had was that she had a relative relationship, and he thought he should treat him well. However, in the harem, he knew too few people and didn't care much about the matters in the harem, but he felt a little deeper. He immediately returned the memorial to the eunuch: "Leave it to my princess to deal with it."

...The imperial study room was placed with some items that Guo Shao used in daily life, next to the desk was a book of "The Book of Changes" and a book of "Tang" compiled in the Jin Dynasty; there was also a volume of the official position system of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and a volume of list of civil and military officials above the fifth rank in the country.

There are also weapons such as swords, bows, crossbows in the corner of the wall. A few days ago, a minister wrote a letter to him that it was not good to place weapons in the palace, but Guo Shao ignored it because he liked these things.

Guo Shao hasn't read the "Book of Changes" and "Book of Tang" yet. The reason for the place here is that he always wants to see it. There is a very strange situation. Guo Shao has been in ancient times for several years, but he actually lacks an in-depth understanding of the cultural thoughts of this era. The profession of Gan Wufu has been fighting for a long time and has not been exposed to these things. But now he is the emperor. Since he is the ruler of the world, he always feels that he should truly understand the ancient Chinese thoughts and concepts, so he wants to read some classics gradually.

In Guo Shao's idea, even if he has something to be busy every day, he will always have a lot of time to read books. But in fact, this is often not the case. Many things in front of him will make him feel impatient and feel a little tired when he is empty. And those classics are very difficult to read, so he has not turned over a page after he has been putting them for a long time.

Fortunately, you don’t have to spend too much effort on the memorial, otherwise you will be even more dragged.

Guo Shao turned his head and looked at Zuo You who was sitting in front of the desk. Zuo You was holding a brush, concentrating and calm, sometimes holding a pen and meditating, and sometimes writing like a cloud. He admired these civil servants very much, but he was very determined in the face of piles of desks.

But maybe they enjoy it. In this bright palace on the high platform, the sunshine sprinkles in from the delicately crafted windows, the quaint and grand and exquisite environment, the fragrance of the ink inkstone drifts in the air; Moreover, this is the center of the country and the center of power, which is called "in the sky" by the world, which itself gives high meaning. People come into contact with wise ideas, important remarks that influence the world, and their words and deeds are elegant and polite... These are also a kind of enjoyment for people.

Guo Shao withdrew his gaze, put down the brush in his hand, got up, picked up a crossbow in the corner of the wall and started playing with it.

He is a sharpshooter, but he never uses a crossbow, but uses a bow... Although it takes a lot of effort to operate a crossbow, the technical content is very low. However, the technical content of making a crossbow is very good. Guo Shao's crossbow is a composite crossbow used by individual soldiers. It has a relatively complex structure and is not light.

The disadvantages of crossbows are: first, the manufacturing cost is very high, and it requires craftsmen with superb skills; second, it is heavy, and it is easy to damage. Animal skin glue is also afraid of tide, and small brown ropes are not afraid of tide, and the consumed crossbow arrows also require a large number of craftsmen to make. In short, the materials are very expensive, and the army equipped with a large number of crossbows are very expensive and the logistics pressure is huge. The advantages are also obvious: the requirements for the quality of soldiers are not high, and it is easier to train crossbows.

... On the imperial desk in front of Guo Shao, there was a booklet of his. The handwriting was still not very good, but now he wrote it neatly.

The above records some of the military ideas he had always thought about: the farming dynasty dealt with nomadic peoples like the Liao army, not because of the inferior national strength, but because of the difficulty in effectively converting national strength, population, and resources into force.

Just like the current Zhou army, more than 100,000 elite soldiers were elite soldiers trained for decades of melee battles, so they naturally had combat effectiveness; but after successively annexing Shu Kingdom, the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Nanping, the economy and population increased several times, but their strength did not increase substantially. This is because elite soldiers and generals can not be expanded by money and food alone.

If you want to use the vast majority of the population and resources to quickly convert it into force, you only have one idea: if a strong man trains for a few months, he can form a combat-capable army.

Therefore, Guo Shao's eyes were focused on the crossbow in front of him. This kind of weapon could realize that kind of military idea relatively inefficiently. If he had 100,000 elite soldiers in his hands, hundreds of thousands of combat-capable crossbow soldiers, and could be continuously supplemented by soldiers, the country's war potential would be very strong... In addition, before defeating the Liao Kingdom, we should not rush to use civil servant politics, and we must maintain the military and national system to ensure sufficient combat effectiveness.

...There is another thing that can replace the crossbow. Guo Shao's booklet has two big words: Fire_gun.

Guo Shao didn't know how to build this thing, because he had never studied this kind of thing in his previous life.

But he understood what fire_gun is: from the perspective of the long-term development direction of human weapons, heat_weapons must be a kingly way. But when the short-term technology is immature, fire_guns may not be more powerful than bows or crossbows.

Even if it is made, the disadvantages in the early stage are that the range, rate of fire, and accuracy are far inferior to those of the bow and crossbow; the advantage is that the cost is definitely lower than that of the bow and crossbow, and even the training cost is lower. The short-distance armor-piercing ability may be stronger than that of the bow and crossbow.

But when you think of the resources consumed by crossbows, they must be squeezed out from the people, resulting in social contradictions and hunger; and the armor-making technique may be leaked in the medium and long term. Guo Shao firmly believes that fire and guns are the way out!

Guo Shao had thought about the firearm several times, but he had no idea. This time, when the enemy country stole the armor-making technique, he thought about it more eagerly.

Even if the opponent has plate armor one day, I have a fire gun. As long as I keep the technology ahead, the opponent will never catch up with me.

...Guo Shao didn't know how to make fire guns, but he knew that this thing would definitely be made without industry.

In feudal society, technological progress was very slow, and the gap between the Song and Ming dynasties may not be obvious... Anyway, there were shotguns in the Qi Jiguang era, and Western Europe also used firearms on a large scale before the Industrial Revolution. Obviously, it was not something produced by industry and machine tools.

Guo Shao immediately summoned the military weapon supervisor and Privy Councilor Zan Ju Run.

When Zan Jurun followed the eunuch into the imperial study room, he did not see Guo Shao. The eunuch guided him, so he walked into the back room... The place where files were piled up behind the imperial study room. But now it was a different situation, with pictures and notes on the wall. The notes were written on the note, but the minister obviously could not raise his head and look around on the wall.

After the etiquette, Guo Shao said, "I want to hand over one to Mr. Zan to do it."

"I dare not, don't dare..." Zan Jurun hurriedly said, "Your Majesty's errand, I will do my best to do my best."

Guo Shao said: "I want to build a military weapon workshop. This workshop will not create anything for the time being. As long as I try it according to my ideas, we need to develop a brand new weapon... First of all, we have to learn from the lessons. This time we must keep it confidential and not let the secrets be easily leaked."

Zan Jurun bowed and said, "I keep it in mind."

Guo Shao stood in front of a layout map of the imperial city with various house patterns, pointing to a place, "Just in the northwest corner of Beiyuan, draw a piece of land in the imperial city and build a wall. Most people will never have the chance to sneak into the imperial city."

"Here." Zan Jurun responded.

Guo Shao also said: "There is no need for too many craftsmen, but they need to carefully select them. Those who have no problems with their backgrounds should be named and made by the clever and smart young craftsmen. They can bring a wife and concubine to live in Beiyuan. It is strictly forbidden to enter and exit; if you have special reasons to take leave, you need to escort them from the Provincial Internal Affairs Bureau."

Zan Jurun bowed and asked, "Your Majesty, what should I prepare in this military weapon workshop? What kind of craftsman are they?"

Guo Shao blurted out: "Blacksmith."

Zan Jurun was not careful and his expression was slightly strange. Guo Shao also remembered one of his names "Guo Blacksmith" and looked at Zan Jurun for a moment. Zan Jurun immediately lowered his head and bent down to look respectful.

Guo Shao waved his hand, and Zan Jurun bowed and thanked him, and retreated out of the back room.

Guo Shao sat on the stool, looking at the surrounding drawings and pieces of paper, as well as various files placed on the wooden rack, rubbed his forehead, and felt his mind a little confused.

But he was still a competitive martial artist and thought to himself: I don’t believe in evil anymore. I have done the emperor, but I can still be bullied by the Liao Kingdom?

Guo Shao felt that he had a mysterious power that transcends the present and ancient times, and was even more self-inflated under the stimulation of the emperor's reputation! He felt that he could do everything and had infinite power, but he was trapped by some inexplicable limitations and could not fully exert his full strength. He must realize his ability! Just like a mathematics doctor, unwilling to teach only elementary school mathematics, he would think that his ability was useless and he was depressed...

He picked up the brush, easily drew a barrel on the paper, and then stopped. Of course he knew what the gun looked like, but first of all, the barrel made him a little confused. What method did the ancients in later generations use to make the barrel?

Guo Shao first ruled out the drilling process on the iron rod... Obviously it is impossible. This is not a problem of how much effort it takes, and it is impossible to do it. Not to mention using manual drilling and drill bit tools, technology is difficult to solve; even if you use modern machine tools, can such a long pipeline be drilled on the iron rod? The middle must be biased. There is a slight direction error. The deeper the drilling, the greater the distance, the more difficult it is to use a machine tool.

There are only two ways to do it, casting, polishing, or forging?

Guo Shao wrote two methods on paper, first analyzing them one by one... It is not possible to cast iron and then polish them. He especially remembered the lessons learned when making toys not long ago. The iron-casting things are unevenly cooled and there are many sand holes. Unless they are made of a rough and short musket without airtightness, the inner walls of things made in this method are too rough and difficult to process.

Guo Shao also doubted the ability to withstand the pressure of the forged barrel. After all, it is not a seamless barrel. Will it be unable to withstand the pressure of gunpowder and explode?

Guo Shao thought for a long time and was a little confused about how the ancients realized fire-gun manufacturing. Imagination alone would definitely not work. He planned to try it out by himself... Because he dared not over believe in the system innovation of ancient craftsmen, because they had never seen anything related, they could only imagine out of thin air and had no systematic theoretical knowledge; their craftsmanship was all taught by previous experience, so thousands of years of technological progress were very slow.
Chapter completed!