Chapter 468 Italian Cannon
Zhao Xu was furious and handed Wu Kui's answer to Wang Tao. Wang Tao immediately impeached Wu Kui for being the prime minister and deceiving the world.
The wind direction gradually changed, and Tai Jian began to call the group to keep warm.
The methods of the bosses were so powerful that Wu Shen begged Wang Tao to keep his job, and impeached Wu Kui for having no monarchical intentions and counting five crimes.
At the same time, Zhao Xu issued a hand-written edict to Shao Kang, the Zhizhigao, intending to bypass Zhongshu and let Shao Kang draft the edict directly.
It's useless to just have a platform to remonstrate and shout. Wu Kui has left his position and someone has to take his place! So Zhao Xu went to Zhang Fangping's job again: "Wu Kui, let me replace him."
How could Zhang Fangping follow the little emperor's temper? After resigning, he turned to do Zhao Xu's work: "Han Qi has been suing for so long. If Wu Kui is dismissed, he will never rise again. Han Gongxun is in the royal family, and I hope that your majesty will restore Wu Kui."
When Kui was in power, he sent an edict to Han Qi to distinguish it from beginning to end."
The implication is that if a veteran of three dynasties supported two emperors and was impeached and resigned because of a minor offense such as not checking attendance on time, I am afraid that all the people in the world will say that you are a cold official, right?
Sima Guang wrote a letter to the original admonition team: "Wu Kui has a great reputation. Now that Wang Tao has dismissed Wu Kui, I am afraid that all the ministers will be uneasy and lure him away one after another. It is not appropriate to watch and listen from all over."
Then Zeng Gongliang joined the party and asked Wu Kui to stay.
The old die-hard Han Wei finally spoke: "The prime minister's really domineering words should be punished by Wang Fa. This is a very serious crime."
"If Wang Tao's impeachment is true, then Prime Minister An is not guilty?! If Wang Tao's impeachment is false, dismissal from office will be frivolous!"
"Now His Majesty wants him to be a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy. It is clearly a promotion... The matter has been delayed for so long and cannot be settled. I would like to ask Your Majesty to judge the right and wrong among the ministers."
Strictly speaking, these are all people in Zhao Xu's camp. Wang Tao is now eager to show off his behavior and his accomplices are waiting to see his joke.
This also told Zhao Xu that Tai Jian was too hasty and played too much, which was a wild way. Now he has made a big own mistake, and there is no other way except to sacrifice the car to protect the commander.
Zhao Xu finally surrendered completely. If the two sides were to fight, no one knows who would win.
So he called Wu Kui to the Yanhe Hall to express his condolences, reset him, and jokingly found a way out for him: "King Cheng must have been suspicious of Duke Zhou, hahaha..."
Wu Kui was restored to power, and Shao Kang was dumbfounded, because he had already drafted the edict to demote Wu Kui, which contained the words "The imperial censor Zhongcheng was impeached. The yin and yang are not in harmony, and the ruling is to blame. Wu Kui's words were reversed, and the minister lost his position."
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Zhao Xu had no choice but to write another letter to Shao Kang, telling him not to make trouble: "If there is no other, it will be heard by anyone who wants to sit up or lie down!"
It means that I don’t like Lao Wu either, but there is nothing I can do about it, Lao Shao. Only in this way can the lying old man stand up quickly... "Gai Zhiqi".
Soon after Zhao Xu came to power, the first battle between Taiwan and the government ended in a mess, with Wang Tao being demoted to Chenzhou.
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Su You actually has some influence in the DPRK now. He has many teachers and friends.
Even Sima Guang felt that he could be saved.
Therefore, as soon as the news of Taiwan's remonstrance spread, countless letters flew from Bianjing to Sizhou.
But in fact, all the letters did not arrive as quickly as Sitong's Wangyu Pavilion.
Su Youqi was there every day, selflessly studying how to drill holes for copper pillars, and didn't care about the ups and downs in the court.
I am very stable in my heart. The Song Dynasty's best year now is only a surplus of about 7 million yuan a year. If there is a war or a disaster or a national mourning, it will definitely be in deficit.
There is an economic crisis on one side, and a hard currency reserve worth more than one million guan on the other. The censors can use him to attack him, but they can't influence him at all.
Theoretically, the bronze wares of the Song Dynasty were the exclusive concern of the imperial court, and could only be purchased by officials.
However, Su You, who traveled from later generations, would of course formulate a perfect avoidance policy.
Although 60% of the copper material is used as the reserve of the Dizhou Forwarding Department and for the exchange of goods with other forwarding departments, don't forget that the Gao and Yang families still have 40%!
So Suyou gloriously became a downstream manufacturer, broker, agent, and chief of the shipping department.
The Gao and Yang families soon discovered that if they handed over the copper material to Su You to take care of it, they could earn much more than if they handled it themselves!
Jianchang Mansion, surrounded by areas controlled by the Song people, became a deep processing base for brass and white copper!
Pieces of exquisite brass products were processed and became imported products with Dali labels. Suyou deducted part of them as customs duties and then sent them to Kuizhou and sold them to the wealthy Jiangnan East Road, Huainan West Road, and Liangzhe Road.
, Fujian Road.
As for how much money other people made by selling it to Bianjing, Liao, Korea, Japan, and Cochin, that is someone else's business. The philosophy of Stone Trading Company is always to only earn its own reasonable share and leave enough profit margin for others.
The most important thing is that Sitong Company itself is involved in such a transaction. The giant schooner has been built. The most important product on Zhang San and the Qian family's sea trade trip is Dali brass and white copper!
The Song Dynasty banned copper and iron from leaving the country, but the problem is that the warehouses of the Song Dynasty kept them. These are Dali copper, Dali copper, Dali copper!
Su You said plausibly that this was a poverty alleviation project. In order for the Dali brothers to bathe in the kindness of the Emperor and Song Dynasty, they could also earn some transit transportation fees and transaction introduction fees!
It's a bit scary to earn money this way, so now Su You has enough copper and iron for him to make nonsense!
Kapok is rich in Kapok in Yizhou, which is the highest quality nitrocellulose raw material.
With the addition of copper and iron, Su You opened up a huge military industry testing area on the riverside ten miles outside the city.
The technical backbones of Sitong Company, under the leadership of Shi Fu, are working on the core technology of artillery.
According to Su You's intention, casting, front loading, smoothbore, flintlock, and single-body ammunition were all put aside.
With sufficient experimental materials and high-precision processing equipment, if we want to do something high-end, we must start with breech-loaded rapid-fire cannons! No matter what, we have to reach the level of the French 75 rapid-fire cannons during the Eight-Power Allied Forces' invasion of China!
This thing is the only artillery Su You is familiar with. It is what Li Yunlong calls an Italian gun. Its official name is "Schneider M1897 75mm field gun".
During World War I, Italy imported a batch from France. After the war, a large number of second-hand goods were eliminated and sold to the Nationalist Government by arms dealers.
During the civil war, the Eighth Route Army obtained some of the cannons, and the cannons were inscribed with Italian characters. However, it was too much to expect Li Yunlong to understand the ins and outs of these cannons, so they called them "Italian cannons."
Everyone has personal heroism, and Su You also hopes that one day he can stand in front of the battlefield and shout: "Second Battalion Commander, where is your mother-in-law's thunder cannon? Pull it up to me!"
It’s so beautiful just thinking about it.
Then, reality slapped Su You back hard, making Su You dizzy.
Thirty times the caliber, a caliber of 75 mm, twenty-eight riflings, a 2.69-meter barrel, an improved double-safety screw-type breech block, and a weight of 1.5 tons.
The most critical thing is the revolutionary hydraulic recoil and retraction device. Most of the recoil generated when the artillery is fired is transferred to the gas storage bottle by the energy storage tube, so that the artillery can remain in place.
And the shooting angle does not need to be adjusted.
Therefore, it is able to fire thirty rounds of 15-pound shells per minute at such a high-density output while producing almost no displacement, allowing the gunner to easily adjust the shooting elements to correct the impact point between each shot.
It is undoubtedly a dream for Su You to come up with this thing based on fifteen years of metal machine tool processing.
He knows the principle, but it has to be turned into a real thing, hehehe...
On the contrary, thanks to Shi Fu's great efforts, the inner rifling of copper tubes has been smoothed. From the earliest hook knife broaching to combined ring knife broaching, the efficiency has improved a lot. However, correspondingly, the cutter head has not kept up, and the loss is relatively large.
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So Su You retreated to the next best thing, forget about the iron guy, it would be the same to get a small bronze cannon for fun first.
The next best thing is to forget about the hydraulic parking device. Using only a brass O-ring as a sealing device will cause hydraulic oil to leak, and it will only work a few times before you have to refill it.
So Su You used steel springs to retreat, but the effect immediately dropped greatly, which was better than nothing.
Chapter completed!