"It's really not dangerous? The soldiers of the Jin Kingdom won't attack Dading Mansion when the three families meet, right?"

Cai You frowned, always thinking that this matter was unreliable.

The Zhao Song royal family has the problem of hereditary timidity... His Highness Ding Wang's courage is probably not too great. If the Jurchens suddenly came over, they wouldn't be scared to get into trouble, right?

"No, no." Wu Haogu waved his hand and said confidently, "How could it be? The Jurchens were going to deal with the Great Liao, not our Great Zhou! Our Great Zhou army has elite troops of the 18th Division, more than 200,000 invincible soldiers, and hundreds of cannons. How dare the Jurchens fight us?"

More than 200,000 invincible soldiers and hundreds of cannons are of course the full form of the Great Zhou Republic Army.

However, the Great Zhou army is not yet at this level. There are more than 200,000 troops, but most of them manage farms at home. A considerable number of hundreds of cannons have not been produced yet!

The sixteen infantry divisions of the Great Zhou each had an artillery battalion, and the two cavalry divisions had two cavalry artillery teams. Each artillery battalion had three artillery teams and one engineer team. There were a total of fifty artillery teams, each with four bronze artillery guns, with a total of two hundred artillery guns.

There are also two artillery brigades managed by the Ministry of War and the Dujun Pilot Department. With full corps, there are eight artillery battalions and twenty-four artillery teams, and 96 artillery pieces.

In addition, the artillery branch of the Knights Academy is also equipped with more than a dozen teaching artillery pieces.

In other words, the theoretical number of full artillery artillery in the Great Zhou Army should be more than 300.

However, only two-thirds are being compiled now, and dozens of cannons cannot be used due to quality problems. It is not that the Tianjin Artillery Factory and the Yanshan Artillery Factory (the two artillery factories are commercial arsenals invested by Wu Haogu personally) cut corners. Instead, the artillery has just been invented and is still in the exploration stage. If the technical exploration is too radical, problems are likely to arise.

In addition, the yield rate of cast guns is not high, about ten percent. The detection methods are insufficient, so it is not surprising that some artillery that has problems has left the factory.

However, even with all kinds of shortcomings, the Zhou army's artillery troops were still a daunting force.

Their existence caused any enemy who attempted to defeat the first-level Zhou army with a dignified formation to suffer a crushing defeat.

Hearing Wu Haogu showing off his martial power, Zhang Shuye just smiled slightly, "Head of the People's Republic of China, I heard that the artillery of the Great Zhou Dynasty is invincible, but unfortunately I have not seen it with my own eyes. I wonder if I can see the true appearance of the artillery?"

"Okay!" Wu Haogu smiled, "Zhang Shumi wants to see, how can this head of state be irresponsible? There are cannons in the Artillery Branch of the Knights College outside Tianjin, and they will be tested every day. Shumi wants to see, and can arrange it at any time."

"Then thank you, the head of state, I can always open my eyes."

Of course, Zhang Shuye's words are fooled. In fact, he has seen cannons.

Because the new Song army now has cannons!

Of course there is! Although the Song Dynasty in this time and space has many internal problems, it is not a backward country.

Wu Haogu's Great Zhou was blessed by the empirical school, while the Song Dynasty had scholars from the rational school. Even Song Daozong himself is now addicted to mathematics and has mastered the knowledge in "The Original Metaphysics".

Therefore, the cannon made by Wu Haogu opened the golden finger, which could not be kept secret for the rational scholars of the Song Dynasty for too long.

Last time Mi Youren took the fleet to Shanghai to scare Ji Yi, he had already leaked the secret.

Scholars from the Shanghai University of Arts and Sciences Academy made imitations with wood before Mi Youren left Shanghai.

And people also know that your cannon is fired with gunpowder, and professors from the Shanghai University of Arts and Sciences also have a sense of smell and can smell the smoke.

As for the best proportion of gunpowder, they had known it for a long time, and even had a quest for black gunpowder! Many professors from the University of Arts and Sciences are simply students who graduated from the Natural Science Academy of Yuntai Academy. Although the Natural Science Academy does not teach gunpowder formulas and methods for making black gunpowder, they can't resist the possibility of doing chemical experiments!

Rational inference, empirical test, logical analysis, and Ji Yi provided endless scientific research funds... Black gunpowder is not an atomic bomb, so if you can't figure it out, rationalism and positivism will be too failure.

With black gunpowder, I saw the appearance of the cannon, picked up round shells, and then went on reverse engineering. Isn’t it just to cast a cylinder with bronze?

There is also a metallurgy college in Yuntai Academy in Haizhou. Ji Yi recruited many students from it and opened an iron factory in Haizhou in the name of the Hailu Maritime Control Department, specializing in the manufacture of "counterfeit" Qingtang Warts and Japanese swords.

With such technical strength, casting a cylindrical bronze is certainly not a problem.

But the cast bronze cannons are always blown up... This is also a normal phenomenon!

To what extent the bronze cannon barrel needs to be processed, what measures should be used to prevent the explosion, and how to inspect it, all these need to be explored and practiced for a long time.

Positivism is used to guide this kind of practical exploration...it is nothing more than mistakes, spending "tuition", spending time, and slowly accumulating experience.

So I cast several Qingtang cannons with thickened barrels and sent them to Kaifeng Prefecture for people from the Privy Council and the Military Arts Supervision.

Zhang Shuye naturally attached great importance to advanced weapons. He personally observed the artillery bombardment and was also very surprised by the power of the cannon. At that time, he ordered the military weapon surveillance to imitate it!

At the same time, he was also very interested in the original artillery equipped by the Zhou army and wanted to witness their power.

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After arranging Zhang Shuye to see the cannons, he also found an excuse to send troops to Dading Mansion. Wu Haogu finally felt much more relieved and began to have the heart to deal with other official duties.

As the head of the Republic, Wu Haogu actually did not have too many official duties. Because the current administrative system of the Republic was upgraded from the original Youzhou government.

The original left and right officials were upgraded to the six departments including the left and right ministers, soldiers, officials, rituals, households, labor, and punishment, and became six departments, including legal affairs, education, agriculture, animal husbandry, markets, and silver and money. The original name was retained.

In addition, the General Military Command was renamed Dujun Military Command, while the General Military Command still used its original name. The office of the left and right officials is called the Left and Right Minister's Office.

There are two government offices, two departments, six ministries and six supervisors, and it is certainly not difficult to be the head of Wu Haogu.

Moreover, the Great Zhou Republic is not very big, there is not much work, and there is also a relatively complete local autonomous system.

Therefore, the head of state Wu Haogu is not too busy with the Taoist emperor Zhao Ji.

The most important government affairs he has to deal with at the moment are not how to govern the Zhou Kingdom, but how to build a new oriental diplomatic system.

Head of State, small hall.

"Now we have sent ministers with the Song Dynasty and set up embassies for each other. This is a good model and can be promoted. Next, we should also send ministers to the Great Liao, Jin, Japan, Goryeo, Jiaozhi, and Hexi..."

"Hexi is not an independent country, is it suitable to send ministers?"

As I wish, Mi Youren, who became the left prime minister of the Great Zhou Republic, heard that Wu Haogu was going to send an envoy to Hexi and quickly reminded him.

"It's not a country, but it's almost the same." Wu Haogu shook his head, "Send a minister! Let Gao Lian be the first minister to Liangzhou, and at the same time, as an envoy to mourn Zhang Yuan, he will worship Zhang Yuan on his behalf.

In addition, if possible, pick up Zhang He and Zhang Liao from Liangzhou."

Gao Lian is Gao Qiu's younger brother. He has been living in Wuhaogu in recent years. This time, he also had a share of the nobles. He got a noble citizen and tens of thousands of acres of private land. However, there was no suitable official position for him to do, just a free meal.

But this time Wu Haogu found him a suitable errand to Liangzhou.

The Zhang family and the Gao family have close ties, one owns Hexi and the other belongs to Lingzhou, and they rely on each other to live a life.

Therefore, Zhang Zhuo can ignore Wu Haogu's requirements, but he cannot help but give Gao Lian face.

If Wu Haogu and Gao Lian came forward together, Zhang Zhuo could only let his two younger brothers take refuge in Tianjin.

However, there were still accidents in the rescue of Zhang He and Zhang Liao, two losers in the Hexi political struggle.

It can be said that the action has failed before it even started!

Because before Gao Lian left Tianjin, Zhang He and Zhang Liao were tied up and held in front of Zhang Zhuo, who was still wearing mourning clothes.

When Zhang Yuan's two sons saw Zhang Zhuo, they all cried like tears and begged for life.

The political struggle in Hexi is not as rich as that of the Great Zhou Republic. The Great Zhou Republic is also too rich, and their route is the capitalist route, so when the struggle is always left, it will not be done to kill everyone.

Anyway, if you are not on stage, everyone has enough wealth to enjoy, so why bother making it too ugly?

That Gao Yongchang was killed by his brother. If it were in the hands of Wu Haogu, he would definitely not die.

But Hexi is different. The Hexi Grand Education and Reform Group faces cruel sectarian struggles and cannot be lenient at all!

Moreover, Hexi is a barren land, and there is no extra wealth to support the failed sect leader.

So the struggle in Hexi has always been full of blood!

Zhang Zhuo just said coldly: "Second brother, fifth brother, don't blame me for being a brother's cruelty. You two are so unfilial. Before my father's body was cold, you escaped from Liangzhou, one ran west to Gaochang, and the other fled to the east to Yuzhi's army... What do you want to do?

Unfortunately, the Gaochang Uighurs have long been declining and have protected their best brothers at all. As for Yu Zhiyu, he has long been mine!"

Zhang Yuan’s youngest son Zhang Liao couldn’t believe his brother’s words and cried and shook his head, “Impossible, Impossible, Tongdao Yu is a bachelor of Yuntai, how could he surrender to you?”

Zhang Zhuo sneered: "Why can't it be? I dare to cause military chaos in Hedong and kidnap Tong Guan back to Shuofang. Do you think Yu Tongdao and Liu Long will fight against me for you, a coward?"

Zhang He was a little tougher than Zhang Liao. He didn't cry at this time and scolded his younger brother, "What do you want him to do? It's just a death! Don't lose the face of the Zhang family's man in front of this unfilial son!"

"This is almost the same!" Zhang Zhuo waved his hand and said to Feng Mingshan, who was leading people to escort Zhang He. Zhang Liao said: "Drag them out and behead them! In addition, kill all their sons, and leave no one left!"

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