"Mom, even seven or eight pounds or ten pounds of stone can make your head break and your bones break, right?" Meng Jiucheng's face changed into a ferocious expression.

Refugees have to produce and live, and they have to build houses in the future, so tools are naturally indispensable. This is what Meng Jiucheng had thought of. This time, Boss Sun did not send food, but a batch of tools such as axes, saws, chisels, shovels, and picks were brought in. There were also several carpenters among the refugees, and the main material was wood all over the mountains.

Of course, the stone casting machine built in this way must be discounted in terms of strength and power, but Meng Jiucheng feels that it is still enough to deal with the mobs formed by ordinary people. Even if the quality is not durable enough, Meng Jiucheng has to solve the crisis in front of him. In the future, of course, the better the manufacturing will be, and the more refined the materials you choose.

As he was drawing and calculating, he knocked on the door twice. Mu Xiaowei walked in and said that Sanming had summoned the carpenters and waited in the worship hall.

"Let's wait a moment." Meng Jiucheng hadn't finished drawing, but it was only five or six minutes later.

Mu Xiaowei sat in the chair casually and looked at it. Except for the graphics that could be slightly understood, the rest were tadpole texts (Arabic numerals). She couldn't help but look at Meng Jiucheng in surprise and admiration, and said, "The Taoist master painted the inverted elephant catapult, but I don't know any of them."

Meng Jiucheng nodded and said, "To be precise, it should be called a stone thrower. The one I drew has made some changes to save manpower, is easy to use, and is of the same size and shape, but the power is even more enhanced." As he said that, he pushed a drawn drawing and asked Mu Xiaowei to take a closer look.

Mu Xiaowei looked carefully for a while and said, "If the mechanism is clever and the Taoist priest said it was OK, it would be fine. But if you only throw a stone to smash it, it may still have limited power and cannot be called a weapon to defeat the enemy."

"It's true." Meng Jiucheng smiled helplessly and said, "It's a pity that there is no raw material, so we can't make gunpowder thunder anymore."

Mu Xiaowei lowered her eyelids and thought for a while, and asked tentatively: "I have no knowledge. I just think the gunpowder thunder made by the Taoist priest is amazing, but I don't know how it compares to the iron fireballs of the Jin Kingdom?"

In the late Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin soldiers won the battle against Bianjing, but they also witnessed the power of the Song army's rockets, thunderballs and other weapons.

After occupying the Central Plains, the Jin people also began to learn the technology of making and using firearms, and first used the iron-shell explosive firearm "Iron Fireball" in the early 13th century. Later, the Jin people made and used the enhanced version of the iron fireball with greater explosive power, called "Sky Thunder".

There is no doubt that the improvement of gunpowder from arson and cauter to explosive performance is possible. However, the formula did not reach the optimal level in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and the power of the explosion was naturally inferior to the "cannonballs" designed by Meng Jiucheng.

At that time, popular practices were also mixed with gunpowder, such as croton, arsenic, wolf poison, etc., and using burning poisonous smoke to hurt people, was considered the earliest chemical weapon in history!

"How can the iron fireball of the Golden Man be compared with the gunpowder thunder I made?" Meng Jiucheng was quite confident, and this was the case.

"The Taoist priest is really amazing." Mu Xiaowei seemed to believe it very much, and there was no suspicion in her eyes, but she kindly reminded: "The so-called "every man is innocent and is guilty of possessing a treasure. In this chaotic era, he will conquer and kill. A strange man like the Taoist priest is afraid that he will attract the attention of all parties, right?"

Meng Jiucheng's eyes rolled and rubbed his nose, thinking that Mu Xiaowei was such a smart woman. He just wanted to defeat the enemy and really ignored this. It seems that the gunpowder thunder did not have it now, so it was not necessarily a bad thing.

There is a saying that when the gun strikes the bird. It is very suitable to describe Yang Aner now, and he is called Wang Jianguo and is in full swing. It is also so swaying that when the Jin army counterattacked in the next two years, the Jin army first attacked him fiercely, causing him to be defeated first.

Speaking of Meng Jiucheng, although there is no power, it would not be a rare thing if the name of gunpowder thunder is spread and it will attract the covetousness of all forces.

"Miss Mu's words are extremely true." Meng Jiucheng thought quickly, bowed gratitude and said, "I will pay attention in the future."

"Below?" Mu Xiaowei was stunned for a moment and laughed, "The name Taoist priest has changed. Should she return to secular life?"

It is certain that you will return to secular life, why don’t you treat the girl?

Meng Jiucheng grinned but did not answer directly, but his expression could make people guess the answer.

Mu Xiaowei blinked, pursed her lips and said, "We have to return to the secular world, and told Qiao E that she wants to make achievements. I guess she wants to conquer all directions?"

Meng Jiucheng stretched out his thumb, praised Mu Xiaowei's intelligence, and said seriously: "Famousness and fame are only taken from the horse, and he is worthy of a hero's husband."

"Since that's the case, why don't you join the Red Jacket Army?" Mu Xiaowei asked curiously: "Not to mention other families, Yang An'er has taken over several states and is in full force. With the talent of the Taoist priest, or only offering gunpowder and thunder, he can also be reused."

Meng Jiucheng shook his head and said, "The Red Coat soldiers are scattered, there is no stable money and food, and they are of different quality, and they are not in line with each other. They may be destroyed and defeated by the Jin army. Besides, Yang Aner, if he is too arrogant to claim the kingship, he will be recruited to attack the Jin army. In my opinion, although Yang Aner claims to have hundreds of thousands of soldiers, he is mostly a mob, which is difficult to resist the attack of the elite Jin army."

Mu Xiaowei thought about it, nodded without understanding, and said, "It's better to watch the development of the situation first. The Red Coat Army is indeed of good quality, and some people's killing and plundering are even more fierce than the Jin people and the Mongolian people."

Mu Yi and his daughter were wandering around, and they had experienced a lot and saw a lot. Some things were indeed not heard by others, but seen with their own eyes, and what they said was naturally not false.

Meng Jiucheng nodded and agreed.

This is indeed the case in history. Those who rebel against the Jin Dynasty or surrendered to the Song Dynasty were groups formed by their own armed forces, and many of them were like bandits.

Although most people were named after the Song Dynasty, there were only those who truly returned to the Song Dynasty and deeply understood the righteousness of the nation. Most of them raised the banner of rebelling against the Jin Dynasty and supporting the Song Dynasty in order to survive or seek profit. The actual purpose was to obtain property and food.

Of course, the Han people in the north were brave and aggressive, and were familiar with the geographical situation in the north, so they could have been the pioneers of the Song court's restoration of their hometown.

Unfortunately, in history, the Song court defended the inside more than the outside, and suspicion and doubt about the northern people, which eventually led to the rebellion of the Northern Army. In the end, it became the main force of the Mongolians to destroy the Song Dynasty - the Han army. The Northern people were therefore ranked among Mongolians, and ranked third among the Semi people, and above the southerners at the bottom.

Now that the war begins, all parties have mixed forces, their minds and components. When the Jin army counterattacks in the future, it will be like a big wave to wash away the sand, and a group of cartilage and rats will reveal their true colors. Those who truly rebel against the Jin Dynasty will certainly be defeated, but they are still determined to continue fighting.

Although Meng Jiucheng wanted to develop on his own, he was also determined to surrender to powerful forces, but now is not the time. He always had to wait until the people's hearts came out and the truth was revealed, and he could decide if he knew who was true and who was false.

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Chapter completed!