The news that Brother Yelvxiu, the great king of the South Branch of Liao Kingdom, was defeated and returned from Fuxing Pass spread quickly. Under the deliberate exaggeration of the people, the news was also spread out of shape. For the first time, Brother Yelvxiu led the fifteenth army.
Thousands of elite troops were later added to the army by 150,000. It turned out that Brother Yelvxiu led 300,000 elite troops to attack the Fuxing Pavilion, but was beaten by Yang Dezheng and sent back with a heavy defeat.
The news spread to the Song Dynasty, and the people of the Song Dynasty were shocked. In the past, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Guangyi, led 300,000 elite troops to the north to attack the Liao Kingdom, but was killed by Brother Yelvxiu with 100,000 Liao soldiers, leaving behind his armor.
A few years later, His Majesty Zhao Guangyi, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, led 400,000 elite troops to the north to attack the Liao Kingdom, but was killed by Brother Yelvxiu with 200,000 troops, leaving behind his armor and armor.
Then Chai Rong, the founder of the Zhou Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty, and Zhao Guangyi, the current emperor of the Song Dynasty. After forty years, the three of them went north to conquer the Liao Kingdom, but all failed. As the saying goes, there is no harm without comparison. In the past, we could compare with Zhao Guangyi
Yes, it’s Chai Rong and Zhao Kuangyin. All three of them are losers. That’s why the eldest brother doesn’t laugh at the second brother.
But now, Yang Dezheng actually defeated the Liao Kingdom's 300,000 elite soldiers with 70,000 troops, and they were still new soldiers. After another comparison, the gap became clear. All of a sudden, the Yang family's status began to increase infinitely.
, and Zhao Heng's status began to decline. People all said that the Yang family was good at fighting. As for the fact that the Yang family occupied Fengzhou and Shengzhou and became the local emperor, it became a heroic act in the hearts of the people.
The common people don't understand politics. They only understand one thing, that is, whoever has the ability should eat meat. If you have the ability to take back the territory from the Liao people, it doesn't matter whether it is handed over to the court or you can play with it yourself. That's all.
Heroes. Suddenly, many heroes rushed to the northwest to join Yang Dezheng.
At the same time, the news that Yang Dezheng defeated 300,000 Liao troops at Fuxingguan also reached the Song Dynasty. After Zhao Heng and the civil and military officials got the news, their jaws dropped. It was hard for them to imagine that
, how Yang Dezheng used 70,000 troops to defeat the Liao Kingdom's 300,000 troops. They didn't want to believe it, but the news from many sources verified it and confirmed the matter.
Suddenly, the direction of the court began to shift. Some courtiers who had originally clamored to wait until Gao Hu and Ding Wei suppressed the Fu family's rebellion were ready to annihilate the Yang family, began to speak good words for the Yang family. They felt that the Yang family
Since it can withstand the Liao Kingdom's 300,000 elite soldiers, it can also withstand the imperial court's 300,000 forbidden troops. Plus a Zhejia, how about 400,000 to 500,000 soldiers and horses to win?
The imperial army of the Song Dynasty was mostly composed of infantry. Moreover, four to five million soldiers and horses went out to fight, which was enough to cooperate with nearly two million civilians. With so many people eating horses and chewing them every day, it was money. Although the court said
I recently got a sum of money that Cao Bin seized from the Dali Kingdom, but I am still short of money. In such a big country, money is needed in all aspects.
From the moment they saw the money, the civil servants had already planned the money where it should be used. For example, the dams of the Yellow River needed to be repaired, the channels of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal needed to be dredged, etc. For these two reasons, they did not cause any harm to the Song Dynasty.
Any loss would only encourage the two most famous generals of the Song Dynasty to spend a lot of money on crusade, which was not worthwhile.
At least in the eyes of the civil servants, if the Zheyang family did not raise the flag of rebellion or proclaimed themselves king, they were all Song officials and could not be punished. The civil servants advocated appeasing the Zheyang family and relying on the Zheyang family
He used his own strength to resist the Liao Kingdom, but all the generals remained silent.
Because Privy Councilor Cao Bin chose to remain silent in this matter in order to avoid suspicion. So they also chose to remain silent. Zhao Heng still wanted to attack the Zheyang family in his heart.
How can he allow others to sleep soundly? The existence of the Yang family for one day is a provocation to his majesty.
Zhao Heng quarreled with the civil servants in the court for a day, and finally the two parties broke up unhappy. After Zhao Heng returned to the harem, he started a new round of beatings. Wang Jin quietly waited on the side. Chen Lin praised
Holding a memorial, he silently entered Zhao Heng's bedroom and placed it on Zhao Heng's dragon case.
Although Zhao Heng was venting his anger, he saw Chen Lin entering the dormitory. "Is this a report about Fuxing Pass? Bring it over and let me have a look." Chen Lin picked up the report and put it in Zhao Guangyi's hand.
Zhao Heng opened the report with a look of resentment. After just one glance, his pupils shrank and he took a breath of cold air and said: "That little beast of the Yang family has a kind of power that can wipe out 60,000 Liao troops in an instant.
?Is this true? Or are the people below you exaggerating the abilities of that little beast from the Yang family?"
Chen Lin stood aside with a bow and said solemnly: "It is indeed true. I also know the seriousness of this matter, so after receiving the report from the people below, I sent someone to investigate the matter thoroughly. Moreover,
Someone was sent to get some soil from Fuxingguan. After inspection by the master craftsmen who were in charge of the supervision, it was suspected to be gunpowder. The slave had also tried it with gunpowder from the cannon factory in the capital, but it didn't have much power.
Therefore, the servant guessed that Yang Dezheng should be in control of a strange kind of gunpowder, which is extremely lethal. According to the investigation, when this kind of gunpowder explodes, the effect is like an earth dragon turning over. It can instantly engulf all enemies around it."
Zhao Heng had a sullen face and held the report tightly, "No wonder that little beast dares to go against me so blatantly. It turns out he has such a magical weapon in his hand."
Zhao Heng held the report and walked around the dormitory with his hands behind his back. This was Zhao Heng's unique behavior when he was meditating on his strategy. Zhao Heng walked in the dormitory for a full half an hour before he said: "
If he really has such a magical weapon, I really can't deal with him for the time being."
"Bang!" "What a hateful little beast." Zhao Heng slapped the dragon case, cursed in a low voice, and then ordered Chen Lin, "Hurry up and send someone from the Appeasement Department to find out this thing for me.
.You must try your best to help me get this thing.
As long as this kind of magical weapon is in my hands, I can easily create achievements that are a hundred times more magnificent than those of Emperor Qin and Han Dynasty. When the time comes, who else will dare to accuse me behind my back?" Chen Lin said lowly.
He nodded and said solemnly: "I understand, this slave."
The next day, morning.
Zhao Heng changed his attitude towards the Zheyang family yesterday and half-heartedly agreed to the request to appease the Zheyang family. Zhao Heng promoted Zhe Yuxun's title and promoted Zhe Yuxun's official position, acknowledging the Zhe family's support for the family.
The ruling power of Linzhou. Zhe Yuxun's founding Duke was promoted to Founding Duke, and at the same time, among his many titles, he added the title of Linzhou Town Governor.
The edicts given to the Yang family are much more interesting. Yang Yanzhao was promoted to Daizhou Military Envoy, a fifth-rank mighty general. Yang Dezheng was promoted to Daiguo Gong, a first-rank official, and was also given the title of Kaifu Yi Tongsan.
Si, who held the position of Feng and Sheng, acted as the general manager of the army and horses of the three states. In Zhao Heng's conferment, Yang Dezheng, a little treacherous man, was promoted high, but Yang Yanzhao was suppressed low.
Zhao Heng wanted to use this method to disgust the Yang family and his son, and at the same time sow discord between them. Some courtiers questioned in the court whether it was too much to seize the Yang family in this way? In the end, everyone ignored it.
.Because the court officials knew very well that the canonization of the Zheyang family was all in vain.
First of all, the people of the Zheyang family have never received salaries from the imperial court since they captured Linzhou, Shengzhou, and Fengzhou. Therefore, the official positions given to them were just a false name, and they did not need to be paid salaries at all.
Secondly, even if the imperial court does not enshrine the Yang family, can it block their right to rule the five states?
The answer is, it is simply impossible. Even if the imperial court does not ennoble the Yang family, they are still doing whatever they have to do in the northwest, and no one can stop them. The imperial court's ennoblement is just for reputation. It is also a kind of appeasement.
When the imperial court frees up its hands, it will definitely eliminate the Zheyang family. The canonization of the Zheyang family is just a delaying tactic. Of course, both the courtiers and Zhao Heng had their thoughts in the canonization edict.
.That is, from beginning to end, there is no mention of the Northern Jin Kingdom that was previously canonized. This is the biggest foreshadowing left by Zhao Heng and Wenchen in the canonization edict.
In other words, as long as the Zheyang family accepts the imperial edict, then Linzhou, Fengzhou, and Shengzhou can be regarded as the territory of the Song Dynasty in name. In the future, the Song Dynasty will destroy the Zheyang family.
By that time, these three places could be legitimately taken back. The edict to seal the Yang family was drafted very quickly.
When the dynasty was about to disperse, the edict came out. Just as the officials were nominating candidates to read the edict, a letter, which cost 800 miles, was rushed and sent to Chui Gong Hall.
After Zhao Heng looked at the mailbox with red feathers, he almost fainted. Is there a rebellion again? Under the spotlight, Zhao Heng quickly opened the mailbox and read the letter inside. Unexpectedly,
No one rebelled again. But the news reported inside was indeed a shocking thunderbolt.
Gao Lin died in battle in Gusu... Gao Lin died?! Gao Lin, the number one general in the Song Dynasty military, died.
Zhao Heng immediately fell down on the throne. Among the many generals in the Song Dynasty, Gao Lin was his most loyal supporter. Although Gao Lin usually liked to make small moves secretly and eliminate some dissidents. However, Gao Lin
His support for him has not changed. When he ascended the throne, if Gao Hu had not been there to comfort many generals, I am afraid that his throne might not have been secure.
Now Gao Lin is dead. "How could this happen?" Zhao Heng sat slumped on the dragon chair, looking up to the sky and murmuring. The ministers looked at Zhao Heng who had lost his temper and were a little confused. They all couldn't wait to take a look at Zhao Heng's hands.
The letter inside was urgently needed. Zhao Heng sat paralyzed for a quarter of an hour. After Wang Jien repeatedly reminded him, he sat up. He said in despair: "Change the edict on canonizing the Yang family...
"
Let’s talk about the matter in Fengzhou and transfer it to Youzhou.
Yang Peng's series of actions in Youzhou shocked the Queen Mother Xiao, indicating that Yang Peng had united with General Yang, and the Liao Kingdom was also in a panic. Yang Peng was not Yang Dezheng, and his methods were vicious. The Queen Mother Xiao is no longer able to
Taking the Song Dynasty as an opponent, Yang Peng is now the main opponent of the Liao Kingdom. Because Yang Peng's military power is too powerful and cannot be competed by the Liao Kingdom, Empress Dowager Xiao is also thinking of ways to deal with Yang Peng.
At this time, Yang Peng handed over Youzhou to Liu Zhiliang and came to Tianjing New City. Tianjing New City had Zhang Xiang and others for military matters, and his master Lin Qing'er and Qibu Shangshu for civil matters.
Back in Tianjing New City, Yang Peng had nothing to do every day, so he was wondering if he could invent some new weapons to improve the combat effectiveness of the army.
To make a new weapon, the most critical thing is new gunpowder. If black powder is used, the current flintlock rifle is basically the limit of black powder weapons. There is no black powder firearm in history that is stronger than the flintlock rifle.
.Only by developing new gunpowder and distributing it can the power of guns and artillery be greatly improved.
However, although Yang Peng knew some chemical knowledge, there was no mineral classification in this era. If Yang Peng wanted to produce new gunpowder, he would be faced with minerals with various Chinese names. Just to understand what compounds these minerals actually are, I am afraid that
It will take Yang Peng a lifetime.
It was impossible for Yang Peng to develop a systematic chemistry by himself. Yang Peng thought for a while and decided to go to the Taoist priest Cao Shoudao. Cao Shoudao was good at alchemy and knew a lot of chemical knowledge. Cao Shoudao still lived in the west of the city.
In the small courtyard, Li Zhi knocked on the door, and a boy of thirteen or fourteen years old opened the door. The boy with his head in a horn has grown up.
Yang Peng smiled and said: "Little Taoist, I'm looking for your master, Taoist Master Cao." The young man agreed, ran in quickly, and shouted: "Master, Master! A high official is here to see you!" After a while,
Cao Shoudao, wearing a robe, came out. He had not seen him for several years, and he had a few wrinkles on his face, but he was still in good spirits. When he saw Yang Peng, he quickly knelt down and shouted: "Cao Shoudao has met King Yan."
!”
Yang Peng helped Cao Shoudao up and said with a smile: "Taoist Master Cao, I'm here to disturb your Qing Xiu again!"
"It's what I asked for!" Yang Peng laughed loudly, walked into Cao Shoudao's yard, and said straight to the point: "Taoist Master, do you know about sulfuric acid and nitric acid?" Cao Shoudao was stunned and asked: "What is that? Poverty.
I don’t know!”
Yang Peng explained: "Perhaps Taoist Master Cao knows it, but it's just called by a different name. The so-called sulfuric acid is an oil-like thing, but it is corrosive. If it comes into contact with paper or raw meat, it will corrode the things to black with just one touch. The so-called sulfuric acid
Nitric acid is a kind of water made from saltpeter. If it comes into contact with wool and other objects, it can turn these fibers yellow."
Cao Shoudao pondered for a moment and said: "The king of Yan talked about nitric acid, but I don't know. But the sulfuric acid that uncle mentioned is somewhat similar to the green vitriol oil that I refined. This thing is so overbearing that even if it encounters iron, it will
It can corrode and rob. This substance is somewhat viscous, just like oil."
Yang Peng's eyes lit up and he said: "What the Taoist said is probably dilute sulfuric acid. Can the Taoist bring some for me to see?" Cao Shoudao said: "This thing is overbearing and difficult to store. I make it fresh when I need it.
Yes. Since uncle wants it, I will burn some and show it to him."
Yang Peng nodded and said: "That's very good!" Cao Shoudao nodded and went to tinker. He invited Yang Peng to the yard inside to watch him how to make green vitriol oil. He took out many bottles and jars: including
A large crucible, a curved porcelain tube, a straight porcelain tube, two large porcelain jars with side openings, and a small porcelain jar with a bottom full of mesh holes.
He dug out some raw materials from several jars, which was green vitriol. There were many earthen stoves built in the yard of Cao Shoudao's house. At this time, Cao Shoudao chose a stove kiln with an opening at the top, and its air outlet and top opening
Separate. Cao Shoudao placed the crucible inside, put in the alum material, covered the pot lid, sealed the edges with clay, inserted the curved porcelain tube into the top opening of the stove, put it on the tubular hole of the crucible lid, and sealed it with clay.
Insert the other end of the bent porcelain tube into the large porcelain vat. The lid of the porcelain vat should be sealed with clay. Connect the side holes of the two porcelain vats with straight porcelain tubes. Finally, put the small porcelain vat on top of the porcelain vat, and seal the space between the vats with clay. Play with it.
After collecting a lot of things, Cao Shoudao finally started to light the crucible.
After burning for a while, when acid gas emerged from the sieve at the bottom of the small tank, Cao Shoudao poured well water into the small tank. After a while, bubbles appeared in the well water. Those bubbles were quite big at the bottom, but when they were raised upward
During the movement, it became smaller and smaller, gradually disappeared, and apparently dissolved into the water.
As more and more gas dissolved in the well water, the well water became more and more viscous. After burning for a while, Cao Shoudao looked at the heat, nodded and said: "It's almost done." He covered the bottom of the crucible.
Huo carefully lifted the water tank out and said, "King Yan, this is green vitriol oil."
Yang Peng looked at the jar of green vitriol oil and nodded. Cao Shoudao found a scrap iron stick from the house and put the scrap iron stick into the green vitriol oil. After a while, there were tiny
Small bubbles emerged from the iron rod little by little, and the colorless green vitriol oil turned into light green.
Yang Peng knew that this was the reaction between dilute sulfuric acid and iron, producing ferrous sulfate and hydrogen. Of course, there is a large amount of sulfurous acid in this green vitriol oil. But sulfurous acid is not stable. As long as it is left to stand for a period of time, sulfurous acid will
It will be oxidized into sulfuric acid. With sulfuric acid, Yang Peng can produce nitric acid. Li Zhi was happy and said: "Taoist Master Cao, how much money can you sell me for this set of technology?"
Cao Shoudao said: "Your Majesty, this set of things I have looks simple, but in fact it is very effective. Not an inch of green vitriol is wasted, and not a trace of green vitriol oil leaks out. This is a skill passed down by the ancestors. If Uncle wants to
Buy it, I will sell it to the prince at a price of one hundred taels."
Yang Peng blinked his eyes and secretly thought that this Taoist priest really knew how to do business. In the past, the mercury refining equipment was sold to him for one hundred taels, but now the green vitriol oil technology cost another one hundred taels. Yang Peng licked his lips and made a counter-offer.
Said: "Taoist Master, this equipment looks far less complicated than Mercury's set of equipment, how can it be sold for one hundred taels?"
Cao Shoudao stroked his beard and pondered for a long time, then said: "Eighty taels! Eighty taels sold to uncle. No more, otherwise I will be sorry for my master." Yang Peng smiled and killed several more with Cao Shoudao.
However, Cao Shoudao insisted on eighty taels for the sentence price. Speaking of which, Cao Shoudao helped Yang Peng solve the source of the sulfuric acid, and his credit was not small. Yang Peng had no choice but to pay the Taoist eighty taels.
Bought his technology.
After Cao Shoudao got the money, he gave the set of pots and pans to Yang Peng's personal guards. Everyone took Cao Shoudao back to the General Military Mansion. Cao Shoudao guided Yang Peng's personal guards in the backyard of the General Military Mansion.
He built a small earthen stove and taught his guards how to use it and what to pay attention to.
Yang Peng stood aside and listened for a while, and then realized that there were many tricks in it. There were several key points in how to heat the crucible. If he had to figure it out on his own without anyone's guidance, it would probably take him several months and burn out countless raw materials and materials.
Only the equipment can be found.
These eighty taels of silver were not too deceptive to say the least. Yang Peng's personal guards learned Cao Shoudao's technique and practiced it several times on the spot. After confirming that they had mastered it, Cao Shoudao left the general military mansion with a fly whisk.
After getting dilute sulfuric acid, Yang Peng will start to make concentrated sulfuric acid. Only by getting concentrated sulfuric acid can nitric acid be made. It is quite difficult to make concentrated sulfuric acid from dilute sulfuric acid. Because sulfuric acid cannot be purified by simple distillation. Want to
To purify sulfuric acid through distillation, it must be vacuum distillation. Vacuum distillation requires a vacuum pump or similar equipment, which is simply not available to Li Zhi now.
But Yang Peng had played with sulfuric acid before. At that time, the government controlled the concentration of sulfuric acid and did not allow stores to sell concentrated sulfuric acid. Only 70% of sulfuric acid was sold. At that time, Yang Peng studied many methods to purify sulfuric acid, and finally found the simplest and easiest way.
The most common purification method is electrolysis of dilute sulfuric acid.
The so-called electrolysis of dilute sulfuric acid actually means electrifying dilute sulfuric acid. After the sulfuric acid solution is energized, the water in it will be electrolyzed into hydrogen and oxygen, while the sulfuric acid will be preserved. After being energized for a long time, the dilute sulfuric acid will become
High concentration of concentrated sulfuric acid.
Yang Peng has made a simple generator before, and this time the generator came in handy. However, to decompose the water in dilute sulfuric acid, a larger power generator is needed. Human power cannot achieve such power, and it needs to be used
The steam engine drives the generator to rotate. This time Li Zhi made a larger copper coil. The copper wires were all insulated with a thick layer of lacquer, which was driven by the steam engine and placed in two large magnets.
Yang Peng found several graphite crucibles used for steelmaking, and cut two pieces of graphite from them to make electrodes. The two electrodes were connected to the two poles of the generator and put into the dilute sulfuric acid solution. When the steam engine started, the coils were driven by the steam engine.
The steam engine is driven to rotate at high speed in the magnetic field, generating electricity. The power of this steam engine is quite large, and the current generated is not small. As soon as the two graphite electrodes are put into the dilute sulfuric acid solution, the solution seems to be boiling, and large amounts of electricity are constantly coming out.
Big chunks of bubbles.
After half an hour, a large porcelain basin of dilute sulfuric acid was electrolyzed into less than half of the basin of viscous liquid. Yang Peng took a small wooden stick and put it into the viscous liquid. In an instant, the small wooden stick was corroded into
Charcoal. Obviously, this is the concentrated sulfuric acid Yang Peng needs.
Concentrated sulfuric acid is almost ready. After preparing concentrated sulfuric acid, you still need to use concentrated sulfuric acid to make nitric acid before you can finally use nitric acid to make new gunpowder. With sulfuric acid, making nitric acid is very simple. Just put saltpeter and concentrated sulfuric acid together and slightly
By heating, nitric acid gas can be obtained. By letting the nitric acid gas pass through cold water, the nitric acid will dissolve into the water, gradually forming a high-concentration nitric acid solution.
However, Yang Peng had never made nitric acid before. He only knew the principles and equations of the reaction. The first time he heated saltpeter and concentrated sulfuric acid in a sealed crucible, what he got was a pot of viscous liquid. Yang Peng was stunned at that time.
, the nitric acid in the secret channel should not be sticky.
As a result, the guard platoon leader named Zhang Yu who was working as a handyman for Yang Peng said: "My lord, I'm afraid the fire was too strong and the sulfuric acid burned into water vapor. I'm afraid this sticky pot is still sulfuric acid."
Only then did Yang Peng realize. He secretly thought that the sulfuric acid and saltpeter must have boiled over before the sulfuric acid and saltpeter had time to react. Yang Peng did not expect that the platoon leader who was doing his chores was so smart, and he could figure out what it was at once.
I am so sulfuric that I think faster than myself.
"How do you know this is sulfuric acid? Do you know what sulfuric acid is?" The guard platoon leader said calmly: "Hasn't the prince been telling Taoist Master Cao about sulfuric acid, sulfuric acid? Sulfuric acid is this sticky green vitriol oil, and I understand it.
Got it!"
Yang Peng looked at the smart guard platoon leader and secretly thought that Zhang Yu was so clever and could be put to great use. But not for the preparation of this new type of gunpowder. Yang Peng was still prepared to keep the preparation of this new type of gunpowder a secret. This picture
Yu was so smart that he could figure it out while watching, so Yang Peng couldn't keep it a secret.
Yang Peng waved his hand and said: "Zhang Yu, you go back to the barracks. You are not needed today. Call that slow-moving Xiao Youke and ask him to help me." Zhang Yu was stunned, not knowing that the prince
Why not let him do odd jobs? He also wanted to take the opportunity to get acquainted with the prince so that he could get greater opportunities to serve in the future. Unexpectedly, the opportunity was lost all of a sudden. Did he say the wrong thing? Zhang Yu quickly agreed, feeling a little disappointed.
He walked down and called another guard platoon leader over.
What happened after all? Let’s look at the breakdown next time.