Chapter 141 Conspiracy
This is a carriage that looks very ordinary from the outside. Similar vehicles are not uncommon in the north. However, when you walk into the car, it is extremely gorgeous inside. The best silk and satin are used to wrap seat cushions, and the gorgeous Persian carpet is laid at your feet. The most surprising thing is that the windows are actually made of translucent glass from Venice!
The car is good, and the two horses pulling the car are better. The pure black fur is very beautiful, with a light and handsome head, a long neck and beautiful shape, a short back and waist, slender limbs, and a developed tendon.↖ Born in the north and spent a long time in the shogunate of Jinlianchuan, Liu Xiaoyuan also knows horses. He just took a look and knew that this was a good horse that was chosen from thousands of miles apart.
Such horses are rare in the Mongolian army, and there is probably not a single horse in the Southern Dynasties, but now they are used by the Pu brothers to pull a cart!
The car was very spacious, and Liu Xiaoyuan and the Pu brothers sat opposite each other without feeling crowded. There was a small table among the three of them, with a few snacks on the table, a pot of wine, and three pairs of bowls, chopsticks, cups and plates.
Pu Shougen picked up the silver pot full of fine wine, poured a glass of wine for Liu Xiaoyuan, Pu Shousheng and himself, and said with a smile on his face: "This is the Sydney wine produced in the Musivad Kingdom in the West. It takes three years to transport it to Quanzhou, and it is worth as much as gold. If Your Majesty the Great Khan cannot allow our Pu family merchant ship to enter the Dashi Sea, such fine wine will disappear in Quanzhou."
This is actually a Sydney wine produced in Spain!
Liu Xiaoyuan, who was so fainted that he could not tell the difference between wine and tea, picked up the wine glass and took a sip, but could not taste good or bad. He just nodded slightly and praised: "It is indeed a good wine. If you can't drink it again, it would be a pity. But as long as you are dedicated to doing things for the Great Mongolian, wouldn't such wine be much? Even in Quanzhou, the Great Khan can also give it to you!"
Pu Shousheng and Pu Shougeng looked at each other and found themselves trembling slightly. Now that the Mongolian Khan is personally in charge of attacking Sichuan, he thinks he will be able to win soon. Once Sichuan loses, Jinghu will be difficult to protect, and then the Mongolian army will be able to go east. Jiangnan is not the treasure in the Great Mongolian bag? By then, the Pu family will be the master of Quanzhou!
Pu Shougeng smiled reluctantly and tried his best to calm his voice: "Your Majesty Meng Dahan is so kind, even if we are crushed, it is difficult for us brothers to repay you. I just don't know where the Great Mongolian can use our brothers to serve us?"
Pu Shousheng hesitated for a moment, and his voice trembled, and he spoke: "Supervisor Liu, in order to save the people of Jiangnan, we can return all over the world as soon as possible, and our Pu family will spare no effort to save our lives. However, the Song army is cruel and scheming. If our Pu family launches too early, we will be afraid of losing a big deal..."
As soon as he said that, Pu Shougeng shook his eyes: "For the unification of the world and for the thousands of creatures in Jiangnan, it is worth it even if we die!"
Liu Xiaoyuan smiled and raised his hand, interrupting the brothers' performance of singing and harmony. This Kublai Khan's confidant seemed to be very calm. It seemed that what was going on was not a conspiracy to determine the life and death of millions of people, but an ordinary game.
"The weak Song Dynasty can resist the Great Mongolia for more than 20 years. There are some good ministers and soldiers who do not know the current affairs. Jia Sidao, who guards the two Huai Rivers, is one. Chen Dexing, who builds the starting stone, and Chen Jian, who is now guarding Diaoyu City, is also one. Liu Zheng, Lu Wende, Gundam, and Xia Gui are all a little brave. But the general trend of the world's unity is like this, how can a few people who are chariots who are not chariots? The purpose of a certain family coming to the south is to eliminate these people who do not know the current affairs for the Great Mongolia. The two only need to help a certain family do this, and the Pu family can always maintain Quanzhou!"
The Pu brothers nodded silently. As long as they didn't raise the flag and immediately threw themselves into Mongolia, everything was easy to say. Whether it was assassination, bribery, or spreading rumors, the Pu family had some ways. Liu Xiaoyuan still smiled: "In addition, when the Great Mongolians marched to the east, the Pu family's fleet would need to work hard to seal the sea route for the king and ministers of the Song Dynasty to flee south. In any case, they could not be allowed to run from sea route to Nanfan."
"This matter is for our brothers!" Pu Shougeng patted his chest and said, "On land, our Pu family's troops may not be able to compete with the Song soldiers, but when we arrived at sea, our Pu family had 2,000 large ships and more than 100,000 sailors. It was no problem to defeat the Song Dynasty naval army!"
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When Liu Xiaoyuan and the Pu brothers were plotting to get rid of a group of good ministers and warriors in the Song Dynasty, Chen Dexing and his Pili navy were not idle either in Guazhou on the bank of the Yangtze River. On the one hand, brainwashing, training and training of cadres were all accelerating. One by one, the 13th century Chinese, who were originally quite simple and normal, have all become extreme nationalists by super-high-intensity ideological education!
On the other hand, the work of building a three-layer oar-mounted ship was not lost. In mid-March, the first three-layer oar-mounted warship was built, and a trial sail was conducted on the river near Guazhou, with a speed much higher than that of the same load. The 23 wing wheels of the vehicle and the ship (the number of wing wheels installed by the ship is also limited by the length of the hull) are driven by 92 thighs, while 174 wooden oars are driven by 348 arms. The output between the two should be comparable. However, the 13th century technology could not create high-efficiency transmission devices in later generations, and the wooden transmission system was too easy to wear, which further weakened the transmission efficiency. Therefore, in the Southern Song Dynasty, the wooden oars, which should have been eliminated by the wing wheel, once again boarded the warships of the Southern Song navy, and there were warships where wooden oars and wing wheels coexisted.
After the three-layer oars-mounted warship showed its high speed, the work of building more three-layer oars-mounted warships was fully launched. Not only did the Yangzhou shipyard start day and night, but the Jiankang shipyard and Zhenjiang shipyard, which belong to the Yangtze River Arrangement Department, were also ordered to build three-layer oars-mounted warships together for countercurrent combat in Sichuan River.
At the same time, Chen Dexing did not forget to carry out his "killing khan plan". This time, the magic weapon used to "murder" the Mongolian Khan was the very common three-bow bed crossbow and a specially made giant arrow that looked like a spear!
Guazhou Daying Shooting Range.
A carefully crafted three-bow crossbow was placed flat on the ground, and the crossbow body was raised upwards, obviously to be shot. The three-bow crossbow, also known as the eight-bow crossbow, is probably the farthest weapon in the era of cold weapons. A well-made eight-bow crossbow can shoot directly up to three or four hundred steps, and the farthest shooting distance can reach a thousand steps, which is almost equivalent to 1,500 meters in later generations. However, even the crossbow is at the end of the powerful crossbow. Not only does it greatly reduce the lethality, but it is also difficult to hit the target. Therefore, the distance at which the three-bow crossbow truly shows its power on the battlefield is only two or three hundred steps.
Chapter completed!