"The official family, you have worked tirelessly for the peace and joy of all ethnic groups in the northwest. You have traveled thousands of miles and are not afraid of arrows and stones. You really have gratitude to the whole country. Your kindness can only be compared with the Buddha who protects the millions of people in the northwest. Your health is the welfare of the millions of people in the northwest. If you don't have your protection and maintenance, how can you survive in the northwest? How can you be safe in the northwest? The little minister has a daughter. Although she is shallow in appearance and cannot be seen by the official family, her hands and feet are quite diligent and can serve her daily life. This is also the little loyalty of the minister, and I hope the official family will reward her with her."

In Lingzhou Palace, Cao Mian, the envoy of Xixia who arrived just last night, submitted Li Ganshun's presentation and gift list, said this long paragraph with emotion. Then he took a few steps back with his eyes and nose, and then clapped his hands hard.

"Dad, Yu Mother is here."

As Cao Mian's applause passed, he heard a clear and pleasant voice from outside the hall, followed by a ring-shaped bell, and the skirt swayed. A girl in red came in. The girl was wearing a red smoky shirt and a narrow-fitting red dress with a round chest, holding a round fan in her hand, and looked graceful. From a distance, she looked like a fairy in the picture came slowly. When she walked in, she saw that she was a beautiful woman full of Western style, with bright eyes, a rhinoplasty, red lips and white skin, and a melon-shaped face with a pointed chin.

Zhao Kai was stunned when he saw this beautiful woman in the Western Regions, and then blurted out: "Hot, hot"

Guo Tiannu, who was standing next to him, heard Zhao Kai say "hot", and quickly asked: "Does the official family think the weather is too hot? Do you want to drink ice drinks?"

"Ah, no need." Zhao Kai reacted, and then looked at the girl from the Western Regions who was respectfully paying blessings to him. It was not someone who traveled over here, but a little beauty from the Western Regions who looked 70 to 80% similar.

"After the Cao family returned to the Yi army, Yu Niang, the daughter of Cao Mian, Guazhou, met the official family." The little beauty in the Western Regions saluted and reported herself to her house in a delicate voice.

"Ah, my little lady is the loyal queen! OK! OK!" Zhao Kai looked at the beauty of the Western Regions in front of him, and smiled with joy.

He is now an official family and there are no shortage of beauties around him. Empress Zhu Fengying, Concubine Pan Cailian, Wu Meiniang, Ren Baolian, and Zang Jinnu all have stunning appearances, not worse than Cao Yuniang.

But Cao Yuniang can make Zhao Kai think of those women who could only meet in their dreams in their previous lives.

Thinking of them, Zhao Kai's poetic nature suddenly became popular and opened his mouth and said, "Lying drunk on a beautiful woman's knee, awakening the power of the world; not asking for the walls of the city, but asking for the killing sword! Hahaha."

Seeing Zhao Kai's reaction, Cao Mian was quite proud that his eldest daughter was now Gan Shun's favorite concubine and gave birth to the crown prince. The younger daughter was even more beautiful than her sister, and she even climbed to the official family of the Song Dynasty. It seems that the Cao family in Guiyi was about to prosper in his generation.

"Official family," Cao Mian continued to promote his daughter and told Zhao Kai, "The little girl Yu Niang was not only the descendant of the Cao family's Guiyi Army, but also the descendant of the Li family of Khotan. Her mother was the daughter of the Li family of Khotan, who was exiled by Guazi, and regarded herself as a Chinese guardian. While the Zhang family's Guiyi Army expelled Tubo and returned to the Tang Dynasty, the Li family of Khotan also expelled Tubo and became a vassal of China again. Later, she also guarded the borders for the country until it was destroyed by the Black Khan Uighurs!"

Zhao Kai sighed softly: "It's a pity that the late emperors of this dynasty are all benevolent kings and are not good at using troops and cannot save Gu Zhong from the Western Regions. But now, with Li Ganshun as the Great Protector of Anxi, I believe that the lost territory in the Western Regions can be restored soon. By then, the Li family of Khotan should be able to restore the land they have taken, right?"

When Cao Mian heard this, he quickly winked at his daughter Cao Yuniang. Yuniang's bright eyes immediately became foggy, and then sighed: "The official family doesn't know that the Black Khan Uighurs are vast, with a large population, strong soldiers and strong horses, and with the help of Western allies, it is not something that the Hexi Army can defeat. Unless the Hexi Army can get some invincible immortal thunder."

"Immortal Thunder?" Zhao Kai was stunned when he heard this and said to himself: What is Immortal Thunder? Isn't it the Song Dynasty now? How could there be something like Immortal Thunder?

Cao Mian saw Zhao Kai's expression and felt a little bit exploding. The "thunder" that caused the heavy losses of the defenders in Lingzhou Diba City should not be a magic trick.

"The official family is your great Song Dynasty heavenly soldiers used to reward Yikou and Lingzhou's thunder! They are all immortal techniques, immortal thunder."

Cao Yuniang is still continuing to test. What she said now is taught by Cao Mian. If you send your daughter to her, you have to inquire about the news that Li Ganshun should ask for. If there is really a fairy by Zhao Kai, then the country of Dabai Gao will be completely stopped and people can fight with the immortals! Otherwise, Li Ganshun would have some thoughts.

"Hahaha," Zhao Kai smiled, "Yu Niang, are you looking for my background for Gan Shun, Brother Cha?"

Zhao Kai had no intention of being angry, but Cao Yuniang was so scared that her calves were weak and she almost knelt down. However, this girl was brave enough, and she continued to deceive people at this time.

Cao Yuniang gritted her teeth and said, "Officials, the wise and wise of the official family is indeed the master who asked his sister to tell her to ask the slave to inquire about the matter of the Immortal Thunder."

Zhao Kai nodded, "This is easy!" He said to Guo Tiannu: "Goddess, go and ask Mei Niang to get a portion of gunpowder, then take a copper pot, and take it together."

Granular black gunpowder is a secret, so you must keep it as much as possible.

There is no need to hide the fried pot, and it cannot be hidden because the wooden pipe fuse used in the fried pot cannot be 100% effective, so sooner or later, there will be someone who picks up the fried pot and studies it.

Although the enemy will be confused about how the granular black gunpowder is made for a while, they must know that it is some kind of gunpowder, and you will know it with a little fire!

Therefore, the enemy filled the powder gunpowder that had not been pelleted into the copper pot and imitated the fried pot with poor power. It was just a matter of time, and the enemy would not let Zhao Kai wait too long!

But copper pots are very expensive!

To create a copper pot, it is not artificial, at least one and a half to two kilograms of copper! To create a 100,000 copper pot, 200,000 kilograms of copper will be gone!

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Can the labor required to build 100,000, 200,000, or even millions of copper pots be borne by the Western Pirates and Jurchens?

If the future war really turns into a war that consumes a lot of copper and gunpowder, Jurchens, Mongolia, and Dangxiang will not have any chance!

This is more than financial resources and handicraft scale!

Of course, the Song Dynasty also lacked copper! The Song Dynasty's industry and commerce were developing rapidly, and currency was relatively lacking. Retrieving millions of kilograms of copper from the circulation field and investing it in military use (casting copper pots and artillery) would definitely have a bad impact on people's livelihood.

Therefore, the "real Song Dynasty" would probably not do such a "hard work for the people and the money".

The "compassionate" civil servants in the court will not make the people short of copper and money in order to pursue the ultimate performance of weapons. Just as they will not use scarce and expensive charcoal to refine military iron in order to pursue the ultimate performance of armor and iron weapons.

Wu Meiniang quickly followed Zhao Kai's wealth and prepared a powdered gunpowder formula, of course, was kept confidential! She also brought this gunpowder, a copper pot, a wooden tube fuse, and a roll of silk cloth to the main hall.

Then she poured the gunpowder into a copper pot in public, wrapped the wooden tube fuse with some silk cloth, and blocked the bottle mouth.

"This is the immortal thunder!" Zhao Kai took the blowing pot, weighed it in his hand, and then said to Cao Yuniang, "Yu Niang, let's go and see how powerful this immortal thunder is?"

"Boom"

With a loud bang, Xiao Heda felt a shaking wave, and a large cloud of white smoke rose from thirty or forty steps ahead of him.

Outside Lingzhou City, on a clearing ground under the city of Dibiao. Zhao Kai had just ordered Guo Tiannu to light a blow-off pot and throw it out. He was showing the power of the bronze pot bomb to Xiao Heda who came from afar!

"Official, is this the power of gunpowder?" Xiao Heda was so shocked that he was speechless. Of course, he had seen gunpowder, but he had never seen such a powerful gunpowder weapon!

"This is the power of gunpowder and copper combined!" Zhao Kai glanced at Gu Zhong of the Great Liao Dynasty and said with a smile, "If it were replaced with porcelain shells and wooden shells, it would not be that powerful!"

In history, China actually had long mastered the secret of gunpowder. Even the granulated black gunpowder appeared in the Ming Dynasty, and the formula of gunpowder was almost fully explored during the Yuan Dynasty. But because it was reluctant to give up copper, it was unable to maximize the power of gunpowder!

However, Zhao Kai was not that cheap. He was an emperor who was "military-oriented"! Moreover, the peak of copper production in the Song Dynasty was 1,000,000 kilograms (annual output)! What's the problem with taking one or two million kilograms for military use? If he made one million fried pots, what barbarians would not have blown up all of them?

In addition, the official money supervisors of the Song Dynasty could cast up to several million stags of copper coins and iron coins a year, and it would be no problem to take out part of the production capacity to convert the copper pot bomb.

People use silk and silk when they lack money. What can’t be overcome with cloth tickets?

Zhao Kai paused and said, "Xiao Qing, this explosive pot will be produced in large quantities in the future, but I don't have much 3,000 in my hand. If you take them to the Heishan Weifu Army Division, you will be able to pass the northern grasslands of the Mobei and find the Dashilinya. I want to join forces with him. He is the lord of the grasslands, I am the Central Plains, and the two countries will always be brothers. What do you think?"

Supporting the Khitans to rule the grassland was Zhao Kai's long-term method to suppress Mongolia. The Khitans of this era have been very sinicized, and they also believe in the so-called Liao and exaggerate the abolition of the Buddhism!

It’s just that you believe in Buddhism and will be abolished!

The Mongols now believe in immortality, so they are very vigorous!

If the Khitans who believed in Buddhism could rule the grassland for a long time, Zhao Kai felt that Mongolia would not have the chance to rise again.

"Official family," Xiao Heda asked, "will you give Dashi Linya some fried pot?"

"Of course!" Zhao Kai smiled, "Or how could he beat the Jurchens?"
Chapter completed!