Goryeo sent envoys to take the sea route and had already landed in Dengzhou. He gave the message to Tokyo first.

Guo Shao looked at it and wrote neat Chinese characters. First, he claimed to be Goryeo and his clothes were respected by the Tang style, which was the same as the Central Plains. He heard that the Central Plains emperor was very happy to defeat the Liao Kingdom and expressed his congratulations. Then he scolded the Liao Kingdom in a long way, and said "the country of beasts" that impressed Guo Shao the most.

If these slandering words were passed to the Khitan royal family, I don’t know what Xiao Siwen and others would think.

In the early stage, the court took the initiative to contact Goryeo, and originally tried to let Goryeo attack both sides and back in the Liao Kingdom. However, the efficiency was too slow at this time. When the Zhou army had already captured Youyun, Goryeo had just made friends with the Great Zhou successfully.

Because the Goryeo envoy arrived, the officials in the court prepared the emperor to ask about Goryeo, and many people were talking about Goryeo for a while.

The gossip is not divided into ancient and modern times. What makes people talk about most is not a series of national policies or customs and customs... Guo Shao first heard a gossip: the queen of the Goryeo king Wang Zhao was his own sister.

The king and queen's father were both Wang Jian, the Taizu of Goryeo. The queen was a princess. She followed her mother's surname Huangfu and was a half-sibling. Is that okay?

Guo Shao was very curious when he heard this. In this era, even modern siblings could not get married. However, he soon thought of the TV series from a certain country in his later generations, and suddenly realized it.

...At the end of the third year of Xuanren, the Korean envoy visited him and paid a rare sword.

The eunuch moved his sword to Yangde Hall, and was very careful because it was a rare thing. At that time, Lu Duosun, the Minister of Rites, had just received the Goryeo envoy and came to meet him.

Unexpectedly, Guo Shao had no interest in the sword. He was playing with a colloid gun just sent by the military weapon surveillance, but he didn't even look at the sword.

The musket is very finely made, with good wood above the tail of the gun inlaid, and the pattern of gilded auspicious clouds is carved; the barrel is straight and smooth, with butter on it, carefully polished and smooth inside and outside, and the inside is smoothed with awl drill.

The fuses soaked in wood ash, the mechanisms and reeds of the firing device are forged in brass, and are still very delicate and ingenious.

This thing is given to the emperor and pays more attention to decoration, just like a work of art. However, the mass-made muskets must not be so exquisite, otherwise the cost will be too high.

Guo Shao couldn't put it down when he saw this thing. A sword could no longer arouse his interest. Even if that sword could really cut iron like mud, it was just a knife, and it was just a rare thing that could not be copied in large quantities.

He noticed the threaded connections used at the bottom of the musket... The roughly the method is to carve the threads from wood, then make sand to cast the iron core, and then forge the tail. This structure facilitates dismantling the barrel and cleaning the residue.

There is also a stack of files reported by Jiangning Prefecture on the table. The new sea ship has been roughly completed, with a total of three. Guo Shao has issued an order to allow Jiangning ships to be transferred to Dengzhou (Shandong); the navy of the Guards Department sent some soldiers to take over the sea ships. Next year, the envoys of Goryeo will return to their country, so they can use these sea ships to send them back. The Ministry of Works also issued an order to send people to Dengzhou to build a new port.

Lu Duosun glanced at the Goryeo sword that was placed on the table and bowed, "Your Majesty, the Goryeo Kingdom seems to have a lot of swords."

Guo Shao raised his head and said, "Oh? I have never heard of it."

Lu Duosun said: "They once paid tribute to the Liao Kingdom, and they also gave away swords."

After hearing this, Guo Shao knew that Lu Duosun had something to say and wanted to use things to play. So he put down the rifle and listened with interest.

Lu Duosun continued: "But later the Liao Kingdom destroyed the Bohai Kingdom, and the relationship between Goryeo and Liao Kingdom deteriorated. This was because Goryeo planned to the Bohai Kingdom for a long time and migrated the population to manage Xijing (Ping_Rang); Unexpectedly, the Liao Kingdom took the initiative to swallow up all the lands of the Bohai Kingdom. The Liao Kingdom was powerful, and Goryeo wanted to gain the old land of the Bohai Kingdom more and more difficult, so he hated the Khitan."

Guo Shao nodded and said, "So that's it."

At this time, the Liao Kingdom was defeated in Youzhou and lost a large area of ​​Youyun's land, but its strength was still very strong; it was also beneficial to have Goryeo restrained it from its back.

Lu Duosun said: "This time, the Goryeo Kingdom sent an envoy to ask our court to send troops to recover Yingzhou and jointly attack Khitan. In the eyes of his ministers, Goryeo saw that the Liao army was defeated and once again looked at the old land of the Bohai Sea, but still had ambitions."

When Guo Shao heard the ambition, he played with the firearm in his hand and glanced at the sea ship information file on the table. He not only smiled: "There are no mistakes for countries to strive for self-improvement, but they are enterprising.

However, the court has no intention of launching troops to fight with Liao Kingdom again recently. Mr. Lu can reply to the envoy of Goryeo. I will discuss this matter later."

Ludoson clasped his fists and said, "I obey the order."

Guo Shao turned around and looked at a simple large picture hanging on the wall. Recently, because the Goryeo envoy arrived in Beijing, he also had some personal understanding of the situation of the Goryeo Kingdom.

This place had more space in the early days of ancient times, and the situation would be worse as it went later.

At the juncture of the Sui and Tang dynasties, Goguryeo was a relatively powerful country. It must have been because it had already threatened the borders of the Sui and Tang dynasties that the Sui and Tang dynasties would mobilize a large army to attack several times.

However, after the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan rose to the northeast, and the grassland forces that had always threatened the northern Central Plains also moved in winter. Not only did they threaten the Central Plains, but also compressed the space of Goryeo. From then on, they faced not only the Central Plains dynasty, but also the nomadic peoples would also become an important factor threatening their survival.

(In the future, the threat of the hunting nation will continue to be in the east, and Goryeo will have another Japanese. The threat from its own country can be said to be sandwiched in the middle by various forces. If you can withstand it, you are also a very tenacious group of people.)

Guo Shao said: "In the past, our dynasty wanted to regain Youyun, so he wanted to use the Goryeo Kingdom to restrain him; but now the Goryeo Kingdom wanted to occupy the old land of the Bohai Kingdom, and he wanted our dynasty to send troops to Liaodong. All countries are planning for their own countries."

In Yangde Hall, Guo Shao and the king and minister had only one official and a few palace maids. Guo Shao asked openly: "The Kingdom of Goryeo seems to have destroyed Silla. After Baekje established his country, will there be internal enemies in its country?"

Lu Duosun said: "After the founding of the country, the Wang family implemented a strategy of promoting kindness and gentleness to the country. I heard that the country is stable."

Guo Shao nodded thoughtfully.

...The regaining the land of the secluded clouds had a great impact. However, the speed of message transmission was limited at this time, and no changes could be felt when the victory was just over. However, as time went by, the influence of Zhou and Liao gradually became prominent.

Until the beginning of the fourth year of Xuanren, the Emperor's envoy from Heianjing, Fusang Kingdom, sent a letter of nationality and paid tribute to the court. In order to create the political achievements of "all nations come to the court", the Ministry of Rites of Tokyo and the Ministry of Gazette gave a generous return. The tribute system was indeed a loss in the Central Plains dynasty in terms of wealth, but if this was not the case, other countries would not have the motivation to take the initiative to pay tribute.

Guo Shao issued an order to discuss the two countries' communications with the envoys of Fusang (in the past, the wars in the Central Plains were in chaos, but the civilian maritime trade was never cut off), and secretly ordered the Privy Council's military officer to send a detailed plan to sneak into the caravan to Fusang to learn about the distant situation.

Although diplomatic relations are a major event, Guo Shao's attention is not here, he just deals with it casually. He has been conceiving changes in military power.

The convex guns were also made in batches. Guo Shao not only read the report, but also went to the colonel to observe them personally.

The official test of the firearm was more than 100 people from the "Shenhuhuo Capital" of the Hu Ben Army. This small group of people has not been expanded in the Hu Ben Army because they have no record of war, but the establishment has been retained and not revoked... No one has withdrawn the Yidu people who were established by the emperor himself before.

The people in Shenhuodu used bronze guns for two years and were already very skilled at this time. The comb rope gun and bronze gun are completely different things, but the mechanism and usage steps are the same. The current firearms have only mainly improved the barrel based on bronze guns.

The soldiers took off the small bamboo tube from their belts, bite the plug with their teeth, then poured the scaled gunpowder into the mouth of the gun, and then used a strip of softer lead balls to force it in, and then shook some of the gunpowder from the small gourd into the firing pool, so that they could be ready to get angry.

The school ground was "crackling" sounded like a crackling sound, and gunpowder filled the smoke, and the targets in the distance were full of holes. Firearms could indeed be used! After all, gunpowder burned and boosted in a closed space, and would knock out the lead bullets. Everything was objective and ruled, and there would be no exceptions.

The new firearm has an effective range of fifty steps and within thirty steps, most of the mail scales can be worn. As for the accuracy... the direction will not be wrong anyway, it is much more accurate than a bronze gun with a larger hole.

Because the Divine Fire requires three rows of shooting in turn, the system is different from the ordinary army, one capital and four teams, and one team of more than twenty people, the Divine Fire only has three teams. The military system is formulated based on tactics. Once the weapons and tactics change, the system will change; perhaps the military system will gradually change.

The range of this thing is much closer than that of step bows and crossbows. For example, the divine arm hand of Guo Shao’s level can shoot 100 steps with step bows and has accuracy! Moreover, the operation is complicated and the firing rate is very slow... But compared with the combat power of step bows, the close-range armor-piercing ability is stronger than that of bows and crossbows.

As for the range, it exceeds riding and shooting.

After several months of improvement experiments, the military weapon supervisor Zan Jurun's memorial said: the distance is between steps and rides between bows and arrows. The strongest armor piercing is the longest; the shooting is slow and complicated, and the head is uncertain, and there is no flexibility in riding and shooting, which is short.

However, Guo Shao's views are different. The biggest advantage of this thing is that after a group of farmers understand the queue and military discipline, they can immediately have strong combat power.

They may not be able to win the elite soldiers of a hundred battles, but the price of the Great Zhou having more than 100,000 elite infantry cavalry in the imperial guards was that it took decades to make the whole world defeat the whole world.

Guo Shao was in a very comfortable mood after watching the performance of Shenhuodu. When he returned to Beiyuan, he picked up a stone by a lake and threw it on the lake to play. The stone jumped lightly on the water surface and made several ripples.

The ministers accompanying him were very happy, but they might think that Guo Shao's behavior was a bit frivolous at this time.

At this moment, Guo Shao pointed to the water and said, "Our cannon smashes a hole, but we can actually try other ways."

Zan Jurun said: "The stone cannon shell is too heavy. If the angle is too small, it will fall to the ground in front of you."

Guo Shao said: "Then think of a way. If we do the 'flower bullet' incorrect direction, it will be useless (unless we make a howitzer)."

Several people couldn't answer.
Chapter completed!