"Report! Traces of shelling were found one mile across the river!"
Li San, who had the fastest legs and feet, disliked the inconvenience of slowly waving flags, so he flew down from the mountain peak and rushed to Li Chongrun carrying many broken branches and leaves.
"What? One mile across the river?"
Li Chongrun didn't quite believe his ears. It was nearly four miles away from both sides, and the impact point of the shell was still one mile away from the river. Even a kindergarten graduate could calculate it. The shot just now actually traveled five miles? That is,
2500 meters?
"It's unlikely."
Ignoring the cheering group of teenagers, Li Chongrun squatted on the ammunition box containing stone eggs and scratched his head.
The historical record is that the maximum range is 1911 meters. What went wrong? It can actually perform beyond normal?
"Check the artillery again. Check the whole process carefully and don't miss any details! If there is any problem, it will cause death!"
While he arranged for the political commissars to carefully inspect the artillery, Li Chongrun continued to wonder what was the reason for the extraordinary performance of this launch.
Because stone bullets are lighter than iron bullets? The angle is hand-carved by a carpenter. There may be some errors, but according to the experience of participating in large forums in my previous life, no matter how high the angle is, it will not increase the range.
Suddenly, Li Chongrun thought of a reason. His current position was on a platform that was blasted by an explosive pack halfway up the mountain. It seemed that the altitude was higher than that on the river.
The Yangtze River estuary in the Tang Dynasty did not enter the sea at Shanghai like in modern society. Instead, it gradually spread out into the sea in a trumpet shape from Runzhou and Yangzhou, more like a large Qiantang River estuary.
That's why there are Tang poems about Runzhou, that is, the river in Zhenjiang would say: The tide is flat on both sides, the wind is blowing and the sail is hanging. Zhang Ruoxu, a Yangzhou native, would write such words as the spring river, the tide is even to the sea.
So at this time, the Yangtze River opposite Runzhou is really at an altitude of 0 meters.
So there is actually a drop of nearly 100 meters from where I am now to the river, which is why there is an extra range of nearly 500 meters.
Although Li Chongrun, who was relieved, had solved one of his doubts, he muttered, "I thought it was my protagonist's aura that exploded, but it turned out it was just because of the extra horizontal throwing motion." He went to the gun emplacement to check the artillery.
"Everything is normal!" Every political commissar who came to learn how to operate the artillery carefully inspected it and found that except for some vague scratches in the barrel, the entire artillery only had some traces of being blackened by gunpowder.
"Okay. Cool down the artillery and prepare the experimental charge pack for firing!"
Before the artillery was produced, Li Chongrun had already led the political commissar brigade to explode in the barren mountains of Runzhou for three days. He also studied new ways to play with various explosives, which was comparable to the grannies who became popular with blasters at Station B in later generations.
host.
This propellant pack was an invention at that time.
Li Chongrun led a group of young men to fire artillery happily in the mountains for two days, until the back station hoe couldn't bear the torture anymore. The rotating gunner who inspected the artillery found two small cracks, and caused
The gunpowder had also been squandered, and the group of people dragged the cannon, which was originally golden but was smoked blue-black by the high temperature and gunpowder residue, back to Yangzhou.
"Wow, your expression looks just like the guest who just got off the boat."
When Wang Rong heard that Li Chongrun had returned, he hurried from Dongchang to Li Chongrun's office. "Could it be that you and Alan went out for two days to have fun? Young people should be more restrained!"
"You stinky boy, how dare you talk to me in a pornographic manner? Could it be that you are in love with spring? Tell me, which girl do you like? I will give you some advice on chasing girls, I..."
"You don't have much experience, do you?" Wang Rong gave him a huge roll of his eyes angrily: "The bait has been spilled. When you come back, we can have a banquet. Here is the list of guests prepared for the banquet. Look.
After a while, if there’s no problem, I’m going to send a message to invite you.”
"That cannon is really good! If we get a dozen or twenty more, not to mention the Taihu water bandits, even the barbarians in the north will have no choice but to be good at singing and dancing from now on."
Li Chongrun said some jokes about later generations while checking the list in his hand. He picked up a pen and crossed out a few names on it and added one more. Li Chongrun threw the list back to Wang Rong: "That's it, no need.
So many people.”
Wang Rong took a look at the list and saw that among the names that had been crossed out were the big shopkeeper of the Lu family firm and the official of the Shipping Department named Wu.
What was added was a merchant who specialized in selling tea sets and porcelain from Yuezhou. Although he was somewhat powerful, he was much inferior to the seven major merchants.
"This relative named Wu is from the Wang family in Jianchang." Wang Rong kindly reminded him.
"Her Royal Highness the Princess will be arriving soon. It would be better for us to draw some clear lines. After all, my cheap uncle is also a relative of King Jianchang."
"You dog officials have as many minds as a honeycomb." Wang Rong said angrily.
"When I wanted to appoint you as the chief secretary of the palace, you didn't want to do it yourself. Otherwise, you would be one of the dog officials now." Li Chongrun cried out for himself. The largest official he could appoint was from the fifth rank.
A long history, already
Gave it to Chen Zi'ang. The biggest official position that can be given to Wang Rong is the sixth rank of the royal palace. Speaking of it, it is the sixth rank. If you go to the local level, you can already be a high-ranking official like the governor of Xiazhou, but I don't know why.
Wang Rong was determined not to do it.
"There's nothing interesting about making money as an official. If you don't do it, you still want to make a dozen or twenty bronze cannons. Where do you get so much money? This thing is really made of money! We bought so many bronze Buddha statues before.
The total is only enough to build eight doors."
Wang Rong suddenly understood why Li Chongrun wanted to cross out the head of the Lu family. "You want to attack the Lu family?"
"It's not that I want to attack the Lu family. It's the Taihu water bandits who want to attack the Lu family. I am willing to rescue them. I think it won't be difficult to ask them for two workshops in the future."
The next day, the most lively rumor in Yangzhou city was no longer how much money the Song family and the Wang family had made through the investment promotion meeting, but that there were two merchants from the Western Regions who wanted to sell a set of glazed wine sets.
The King of Linzi paid a shocking price.
"Hey, have you heard? I heard that the young prince spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy that set of drinking utensils."
"What kind of news is this? I heard that Her Royal Highness the Princess is coming to Yangzhou to visit her daughter. The prince spent a lot of money to buy this as a betrothal gift and is preparing to propose marriage to his future mother-in-law."
"How did I hear that this is a gift that the prince is preparing to present to His Majesty for his eightieth birthday?"
When the rumors outside became more and more confusing, the protagonist of the rumors, Li Chongrun, was holding an exquisite clear glass cup and drunkenly bragging to others.