Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 737 Step by step

Of course, Yang Yuan would not lead his army south alone. This was a fight for the Song Dynasty, and the other two armies also had to contribute.

He needs to ensure that the battle is settled in one go, create established facts, and avoid further recurrence.

As for the Wumeng area used as a bridgehead, he was not worried.

The Wuman tribe has lived in the Wumeng area for generations. The Wuman tribe has intermarried with the people in Dali for generations, so the relationship between them is very close.

However, even with such a close relationship, they did not have the courage to fight against the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty.

The imperial court only allowed the passage of the Wuman leaders, but did not deprive them of their autonomy.

Moreover, once the imperial court occupied Liangshan Prefecture, travel and commerce would continue, which would only benefit the Wuman tribe and not cause any harm.

What's more, there are seven large tribes in the Wuman area, namely Ayulu, Ameng, Kuishan, Baoman, Luluman, Momilan and Wudeng.

There are many small tribes under it.

The patriarch of a large tribe is called the Big Ghost Lord, and the patriarch of a small tribe is called the Small Ghost Lord, because they believe in ghost witches.

This kind of system is already in disarray and there is no need to worry about it.

After thinking for a long time, Yang Yuan gradually came up with a plan in his mind, and returned to his desk to start dealing with the documents at hand.

Fan Qing is a simple-minded girl. Yang Yuan agreed with her to be his bodyguard for three years, so she fulfilled her duties conscientiously.

She followed Yang Yuan silently every day and witnessed with her own eyes how busy Yang Yuan was. It was not an exaggeration to say that he was busy with all kinds of things.

Handle official business, review official documents, meet with officials, gentry, and celebrities, plan a series of things for next year, and plan for the longer-term future...

However, when Fan Qing was quietly looking at Yang Yuan, she would always unconsciously think of what she saw that night.

Since that night, Fan Qing would deliberately avoid Yang Yuan's bedroom when patrolling, for fear of seeing or hearing anything again.

But, just seeing it that one time was enough.

The more she didn't want to think about it, the more she would think about it from time to time.

In fact, what she saw in her dreams would be more concrete and clear.

The dream that was once shrouded in fog has become clear this time.

What was particularly terrifying was that she actually became one of them.

Every time she had such a dreamy night, she would wake up much earlier than Mei Zhen in the morning.

She would sneak out of bed, change into new clothes, fetch a basin of well water, and wash her clothes.

The material of her robe was naturally of excellent quality, and was no longer the coarse cloth she had worn on Mount Emei.

However, she did not notice the difference and was quietly adapting to this change.

Yang Yuan asked Liu Yanran to take charge and prepare a generous betrothal gift for Dao Feifei's family.

Yang Yuan also appointed a wedding envoy, Han Qianchen.

This time, Han Qianchen was not going to explore for mineral deposits, but actually to survey and map the geography.

The real task of this wedding envoy was to survey the most accurate and detailed road conditions from the Song Dynasty to Dali.

When the news of Yang Yuan's proposal to Dao from Dali Kingdom spread in such a high-profile manner, it immediately confirmed a rumor that had originally only been circulating secretly.

That is, Yang Fushuai loves beauty.

Therefore, when wealthy and powerful people from all sides came to visit Yang Yuan again, they most often brought beautiful women with them.

The Sichuan-Xiamen region is blessed with beautiful mountains and rivers and has always been a place that nurtures beauties.

In addition, whenever there was unrest in history, the Sichuan-Gangshan region was the best choice for nobles from the north and south to seek refuge, which brought many beautiful women.

Moreover, Sichuan borders the Jin, Western Xia, Tubo, and Dali kingdoms, and the ethnic mix is ​​even greater.

So over time, the beauties in Sichuan and Xia naturally become as bright as the stars in the sky.

Moreover, the women here combine the best qualities of beauties from all over the world.

Therefore, it is very easy to collect some beauties to present to Marshal Fu.

Some people even found some mixed-race beauties for Yang Yuan, some with white skin, some with brown eyes. Compared with Han women, their bodies were particularly hot.

Although Yang Yuan deliberately emphasized the fact that he was lustful...

But the Wu family has Mei Zhen, and Dali has Dao Nu, so it will be almost done for now.

But sometimes not wanting something is also a problem.

In desperation, Yang Yuan came up with a solution.

He received visiting gentry from all over the place in his back house, and Yanran and Duozi accompanied him.

Once someone handed over a gift list, Yang Yuan would immediately pass it to Yanran and Duozi without even looking at it.

One of these two people was once the imperial concubine of the Song Dynasty, and the other was a woman who had served as queen-empress dowager-queen-empress dowager in real history.

Because she was so beautiful, the new crown prince could not control himself. Even though he was slandered by the world, he insisted on making her the queen dowager as his queen.

The stunning beauty of these two women is more than one in a million.

In addition, her long life in the palace has cultivated her temperament and manners, which are elegant and gorgeous, and rarely matched.

Therefore, when the two of them sent back the beauties who came to their door, no one could find fault with it.

Soon, the wealthy and powerful people from all sides understood a truth.

Yang Fushuai is lustful and picky about food.

He doesn't want anyone whose family background is not noble.

He doesn't want anyone who isn't as pretty as Concubine Liu and that Japanese beauty.

This is not easy to handle.

Yang Yuan finally found some peace and quiet.

Fan Qing saw all of this, and his impression of Yang Yuan changed greatly.

Although this person has his hobbies, he can still exercise restraint and will not indulge himself and lose his ambition.

On this day, someone came to the mansion, looking very excited.

Soon, Yang Yuan, who received the letter, rushed out of the study excitedly.

Fan Qing stepped out naturally and wanted to protect Yang Yuan, but was rejected by Yang Yuan.

"It's not convenient for you to go where I'm going today, so you should stay at home."

After Yang Yuan finished speaking, he mounted his horse, and rode away with a group of guards following the messenger.

Fan Qing stood there, looking a little hurt.

She has become accustomed to being with this man.

However, although Yang Yuan's words were tactful and his attitude was gentle, she felt a prick in the heart.

She suddenly realized that... I was just an outsider...

On Mount Santai, Yang Yuan, accompanied by Xiao Qianyue, excitedly tested a series of new firearms.

Hand grenades, land mines, explosive packs, swarms of rockets...

But what matters to him most is the gun.

Although Yang Yuan didn't understand the specific production process, even if he hadn't eaten pork, had he seen a pig run?
Even if he only talked about some simple principles and structures that he knew, it was enough to give the craftsmen of that era a more correct idea of ​​the concept of muskets, avoiding detours and the process of exploration.

The lethality is touching, and the "flame-throwing gun" that can only be used to harass or scare people was directly passed over.

Their research and development directly entered the firearm stage.

The accuracy of gunpowder has now reached the standard,
The technology of making a matchlock gun is actually not difficult. Once Yang Yuan explained it, the craftsmen understood it.

However, the difficulty lies in improving the steel manufacturing process.

There is fine steel that has been tempered through thousands of times, but with current technology, it is impossible to mass-produce it.

If it cannot be mass-produced, then it has no value in being popularized.

Weapons that can be mass-produced and equipped can only be made of inferior quality steel.

In this case, in order to prevent the tubular firearm from being shattered by gunpowder, the wall of the tube needs to be thick enough, so it should actually be called a "cannon".

This mini cannon that can be held in the hand is a musket.

However, with Yang Yuan's description, the musket made by Xiao Qianyue and his team is still different from the muskets invented in history.

Their muskets are between muskets and bird guns.

Because we have granular gunpowder, fixed gunpowder, sights, bayonets and so on.

It’s just because of the quality of steel that it cannot really become the key to replacing cold weapons.

Metallurgical technology...

When it comes to this, Yang Yuan is also completely clueless.

"Mr. Xiao, do you know any master craftsman who is good at metallurgy?"

Xiao Qianyue frowned and shook her head slightly.

"Then find him. Open recruitment. No matter who he is, as long as he is skilled in smelting, I, the Tongchuan Jinglüe Anfushisi, will hire him at all costs."

Yang Yuan sighed softly. It was a pity that he could not grant official positions to craftsmen. This was a power that belonged exclusively to the emperor.

However, craftsmen were neither granted imperial favor nor participated in the imperial examinations, and they could not be counted as military officers.

Otherwise, his recruitment order would surely cause a sensation throughout the world.

Nowadays, the only way to impress people is to offer a large sum of money.

Xiao Qianyue said: "This fire gun is now stuck in iron smelting, but I am helpless in this regard.

Since this fire charger does not meet Commander Fu's requirements, should we not make any more except for these few samples?"

"No, even if it is not the most ideal weapon in my mind now, I will make it."

Yang Yuan said: "If we don't manufacture, how can we find out what problems there are in the mass manufacturing process?"

"No, if you find it in use, what areas need improvement?"

Yang Yuan said: "The current fire guns cannot replace swords, spears, swords and halberds, but they are not useless fire sticks. I will use them for a good purpose."

Under Yang Yuan's arrangement, militias were formed in various places in central Sichuan.

Yang Yuan decided that after he moved the capital to Jianzhou, he would use the Jianzhou militia to practice and test the use of firearms.

Firearms are completely different from previous cold weapons, and their use will inevitably form completely new tactics.

Moreover, this new tactic will inevitably give rise to a new military system.

Under the premise that it cannot replace cold weapons, if we rashly try to use the regular army with a mature system, once something goes wrong, it will cause serious consequences.

However, this problem does not exist at all when using militia for trial and error.

Yang Yuan instructed: “Mr. Xiao, firearms are heavily dependent on logistics, and their damage rate is much higher than that of swords.

Therefore, the more precise the manufacturing standards are, the better, and they must be strictly unified.

In this way, if there is damage and the baggage cannot be delivered in time, the damaged firearm can be dismantled and reassembled into a still usable firearm.

Especially ammunition, so it can be universal."

Xiao Qianyue nodded solemnly and said, "If we want to manufacture in large quantities, we need to build another workshop and recruit a large number of craftsmen.

Where does Fu Shuai plan to set up this place? "

"Let's set it up in... Pengzhou."

Yang Yuan smiled slightly, thinking that it was time to let the Wu family reap some benefits.

Moreover, the military factory was located there, and it was also convenient to transport Longzhou's saltpeter mine there.

At the same time, there are iron mines near Pengzhou.

Yang Yuan planned to turn the Wu family, who had decisively turned to him when Yang Yuan's future was uncertain and had risked everything for him, into an arms dealer.

If the Wu family benefits, more wealthy families in the Sichuan-Xiamen region will see the rich rewards they can get by joining him.

The firearms research and development base is located in Tongchuan Prefecture, the firearms manufacturing base is located in Pengzhou, and the firearms training base is located in Jianzhou.

Yang Yuan plans to conduct its first actual combat test in Dali.

After leaving Santaishan, Yang Yuan immediately told Fan Jiang as soon as he returned to the pacification office: "Wu Yuan, the head of the Wu family in Pengzhou, is currently in charge of the preparations for the construction of the Chidao in Langzhong.

Send someone to inform him that Chi Dao should be handed over to a trusted deputy, and have him come to Tongchuan Prefecture to see me immediately!"

In secret, Fan Qing heard it clearly.

In the evening, Fan Qing and Mei Zhen still had dinner in the room they lived in together.

Influenced by Yang Yuan, more and more people in the mansion like spicy food, and Mei Zhen is one of them.

Whenever she eats spicy food, she smiles from ear to ear and she can almost eat spicy food.

Fan Qing seemed to have a poor appetite and was eating rice grain by grain.

When she saw Mei Zhen's appetite and curved eyebrows, she felt uncomfortable.

Whether she was happy or unhappy, she couldn't hide her expression at all.

So, Mei Zhen pouted and said, "I didn't provoke you, why are you doing this?"

Maybe there was too much vinegar in the dish of "Winter Bamboo Shoots and Tofu" in front of me.

Fan Qing didn't even notice the sour taste in his tone:
"Congratulations, Xiaozhen. Fushuai is going to invite your father to come and marry you!"

(End of this chapter)