Chapter 374: Changes in Hehuang

"Let's look at this drawing. This is actually a firecracker, but it's made of steel or copper. The fuse of the firecracker is here. After it is ignited, the gunpowder in the chamber will explode."

"Due to the constraints of the gun barrel, the large amount of gas generated instantly can only be released by pushing the projectile. Due to the strong force, the projectile will acquire an extremely high muzzle velocity..."

Hong Jiang put his hand on his chin: "Back then, the famous Liao general Xiao Taolin was shot dead by our army with a three-bow bed crossbow at the foot of Chanzhou City. Our three-bow bed crossbow, when fired from the city, could shoot as far as a thousand steps. It is still necessary.

Do this?"

Gao Shilin also nodded: "Well, Mingrun is indeed not very reliable. In comparison, Zhiping riding a sword is more popular."

But Shi Tong did not dare not to give face to his master: "Well, this is what master is thinking... Master, let me estimate the use of this big gun. Stand up the barrel, fill it with powder, put it down, fill it with projectiles, punch it, and insert it."

Fuze, aim, ignite...Master, this thing is forged and bored out of bronze, and the tube is one inch thick, how heavy is it?"

Su You was unconvinced: "If it weren't for the fact that you didn't make enough wrought iron, forging wrought iron would be much lighter!"

Gao Shilin waved his hands: "Come on, even if it's a smaller size, it still costs about two hundred kilograms! If my brother has two hundred kilograms of wrought iron, he can immediately produce five hundred kilograms of good steel. This is nearly two hundred kilograms of steel.

Knives, three hundred crane-shank crossbows! Mingrun, you are already as skilled as a monkey, how can you still settle this debt?"

Su You shouted: "You! If I were in the Second Forest Department, I would come to see you! I can't give up hundreds of kilograms of iron?!"

Hong Jiang quickly became the peacemaker: "Well, Mingrun, this wrought iron is really hard to mess with. Otherwise, I will make the decision and give you five hundred kilograms of lead!"

"Just wait a minute. When our big furnace is up and can produce 10,000 kilograms of steel a day, a few hundred kilograms of wrought iron will be the same thing!"

Su You was so angry that he stood up and turned around to leave. After walking a few steps, he turned back and grabbed the drawing: "One thousand catties! If we don't have wrought iron cannon, I also want lead!"

Hong Jiang quickly handed over his hand: "No problem! Mingrun will have Zhiping swords and cast steel armor-piercing awls in the future, so feel free to bring them out. The more we have, the better!"

Gao Shilin also nodded repeatedly: "Mingrun's products are reliable most of the time, but this time... How about you cook a meal for everyone to calm down?"

Su You was furious: "I'm not that lowly yet..."

Things in Shangzhou were not going well. The three people who knew the most about metallurgical technology in the Song Dynasty did not support Su You, which shows that his suggestions were indeed too advanced.

After returning to Weizhou, Su You finally felt relieved when the tax revenue from the market was collected into the treasury and a total of 60,000 yuan was obtained.

The red-clothed monks from the Erlin tribe had already set off to visit relatives in the Fan tribe. Since they were relatives, don’t be stingy. Su You asked them to bring cheese, tea, and sherpa decorations to the red-clothed monks from the Fan tribe.

Strings of glass beads, and exquisite Buddhist scriptures.

Everything else is easy to talk about, but this Buddhist scripture took a lot of effort from Su You.

Because the Song Dynasty banned books from Xixia and Liao, even Goryeo was banned because they took books from the Song Dynasty and sold them to the Liao Dynasty at a high price.

However, Su You believed that Buddhist scriptures, which could bring peace to the world, might as well have more Buddhist scriptures in the Tibetan tribe, so he brought a batch from Dali through the Erlin tribe.

This is a serious re-export trade. The fire seal in the Yazhou Forgery Market clearly indicates that this thing comes from the Dali Buddhist Kingdom and has nothing to do with the Song Dynasty. Prefect Xiao Su will not let anyone take advantage of these things.

He is a great talent of a generation.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Tubo dynasty, which once confronted the Tang Dynasty and dominated the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for more than two hundred years, rapidly declined and collapsed amidst a series of internal and external troubles.

The royal family was slaughtered, and the ethnic groups were scattered and disunified.

In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, a descendant of the Tubo royal family, the Yalongjue'a king line, fled to the Turpan area in later generations in order to avoid clan wars and warlord separatism.

In the third year of Emperor Taizong's reign in the Song Dynasty, a Tubo child was born in Turpan. He was Xisiluo, which means "son of Buddha".

When he was twelve years old, a Tibetan man named He Langyexian brought Susiluo back to Hezhou from the Western Regions.

At that time, Tibet itself had long been divided, and in the Helong area, "the ethnic groups were scattered, with thousands of large families and hundreds of small families, and they were never unified again."

After the Xixia became powerful, they invaded the Song Dynasty from the south and the Uighurs from the west, and the living space of Helong and Tubo was gradually squeezed.

In the first year of Jingde reign of Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, Li Deming, the son of Li Jiqian, used a trick to capture and kill Pan Luozhi, the leader of the Tubo Liugu tribe in Xiliang.

The various tribes in Helong and Tubo lost their unified leader and became a piece of scattered sand. They were in great danger of being swallowed up by the Xixia army. The situation was very urgent.

Although the young man Zusiluo is nominally the supreme king of Zampu and Tubo, he is actually a puppet.

At that time, Hehuang was actually ruled by the wealthy warlord and great monk Li Lizun, who was trapped in Kuozhou and lived under the shelter of others.

After he grew up a little, he lost peace with Li Lizun, so he had no choice but to lead his troops to Miaochuan, where he was supported by the local Tubo general Wen Buqi.

Amid such internal and external troubles, Jisiluo rose against the trend.

Tubo valued nobles. He took Wen Buqi as his prime minister and soon had sixty or seventy thousand troops.

In the 10th year of Tiansheng's reign in the Song Dynasty, Wen Buqi launched a palace coup with the intention of abolishing Ziansiluo's self-reliance, but was suppressed by Zuxiluo.

In order to expand his power, the whole family moved to Qing and Tang Dynasties, which became Xining in later generations.

At this time, Li Lizun was dead, and the only influential leader among the Tubo people was Xi Siluo. He finally took control of the Tubo regime in the entire Hehuang area.

After he took office, he changed the foreign policy of Li Lizun and Wen Buqi who had taken refuge in Xixia and became enemies of the Song Dynasty. He strongly advocated "alliance with the Song Dynasty to fight against the Xia Dynasty" and received strong support from the Song Dynasty. He was awarded the title of General Ningyuan and the training envoy of the Aizhou regiment.

; Soon he was appointed as the military governor of the Baoshun Army; then he was appointed as the military governor of the Baoshun Army and also the chief of Miaochuan Army.

For its own sake, the Song Dynasty also sent a lot of military sticks, food and cloth to help Hehuang and Tubo develop their armed forces.

Xisiluo's pro-Song policy made Li Yuanhao uneasy.

In the third year of Jingyou reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty, Li Yuanhao led his army to conquer Hehuang.

At that time, the son of the plane personally defeated the powerful men of the Northern Song Dynasty and Khitan who had national destiny, but he couldn't stand up to the enemy.

Long-term military experience allowed Xisiluo to order to stick to the Qingtang Dynasty and not fight the enemy until the Xixia army was exhausted.

At the same time, people were sent to find out the true and false status of the Xixia army.

When he learned that the Xixia army used flags to mark the shallow water when crossing the Huangshui River, Xisiluo made a very naughty decision and asked his men to secretly move the flags to the deepest part of the Huangshui River.

A few days later, Zushiluo led an elite Tibetan army to charge at the exhausted Xixia people.

The Xixia army was defeated. The most unfortunate thing was that when they were escaping, they scrambled to cross the river using the flag-planting spot as a sign. As a result, they jumped into the deep water and drowned in nine out of ten cases.

This battle destroyed the invincible Xixia army's majesty. After that, Xisiluo "defeated Yuanhao with countless strange tricks", and Li Yuanhao never dared to invade Xisiluo's territory again.

As a result, his reputation grew.

The Tubo tribes from the Xi, He, Tao, Min, Die, Dang, Huang, Shan, Kuo, Jishi and other prefecture armies all brought their own lunch boxes and gathered under the banner of Zuo Siluo. Even some Tubo tribes who had originally surrendered to Xixia have turned their backs anyway.

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Even some Uighur tribes that were dispersed by Xixia returned to his command.

The territory expanded rapidly, reaching Sandu Valley in the southeast, Qilian Mountain in the north, and bordering the Song Dynasty, Xixia, Uighur, Khotan, Lugan and other countries. It covered an area of ​​three thousand miles and had a population of one million households. It was like a separatist force.

However, the good times did not last long. Starting last year, Xi Siluo fell seriously ill, and the Hehuang-Tubo regime showed signs of splitting again.

The eldest son Xiang Xiang originally lived in the niche valley, but he suddenly moved to Hezhou this year. The second son Mo Xiang was Ju Zongge, and the third son Dong Xiang was entangled in a group of factions, and they were all waiting for their death.

The people of Tubo began to lose their temper again.

The great red-clothed monk who came from the Erlin tribe was called Jiduo Gyaltsen. In addition to his profound Buddhist teachings, he was also a language expert.
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