Ye An did not intend to scare Wang Gongchen with empty words. In fact, as a civil servant and a censor, this guy can be said to be quite proficient in politics and has skills in framing, but his sensitivity to military affairs is far less than that of others.
Civil servant.
If he had been replaced by Xia Song, Fan Zhongyan, or any one of Han Qi, I am afraid that he would not have said such threatening words in front of him.
So after Ye An left, he asked Pei Chengwen to take Wang Gongchen, the imperial censor of the Song Dynasty, around Hexi to see more, especially the political system and military.
I don't expect him to learn, it's just another form of threat.
I originally thought that when Wang Gongchen came, I needed to have a good political game with him, but who would have thought that he turned out to be a fool!
As an envoy, he took things for granted and used the so-called slogan of "loyalty to the emperor and patriotism" as a sharp weapon. Even if Ye An himself wanted to be "loyal to the emperor and patriotism", he could not sacrifice the interests of the entire Hexi.
At first, he had to accept the Tokyo banknotes himself and exchange them at the same price. This was no longer as simple as robbery, but he planned to drag the Hexi banknotes to die with him when the Tokyo banknotes were bound to die!
How could years of hard work and planning be ruined in one day? Ye An would never use Hexi's economy and future to support the Song Dynasty!
It would be different if it was Xia Song, Fan Zhongyan and others who came and sincerely asked themselves to help the Song Dynasty tide over the difficulties and help Tokyo Banknote overcome this crisis of trust. Even if the gold and silver from Hexi were used to attack the Song Dynasty, it would be different.
It doesn't matter if Song Dynasty pays money for support.
It's nothing more than losing some money, or providing a large amount of copper coins to stabilize prices... but in the end the benefit still goes to Hexi.
It's easy to say anything, but the prerequisite is to speak well, not to use all kinds of threats, and finally put forward the condition of dying together.
Unfortunately, it was Wang Gongchen who came.
Once a censor gets used to being a censor, he will often find fault with others unconsciously, and his personal moral character will have problems. This does not mean that he is morally corrupt, but that he will intentionally or unintentionally put himself on the moral high ground to order others.
It seems that if others don't listen to him, they are acting against nature...
This kind of person is very scary. If you follow him, he will take it for granted. If you go against him, he will think that you violate the laws of nature and human ethics.
Therefore, Ye An did not follow him or go against him, but chose to threaten him more simply and crudely.
Since the threat was to be made, it had to be comprehensive, thorough, merciless, and no room for mercy, so Pei Chengwen led this guy to visit Liangzhou City for three days.
On the first day Wang Gongchen was reluctant, on the second day he became eager, and on the third day he was completely shocked and numb.
Because Pei Chengwen treated him to visit the factories and commercial developments in Liangzhou City on the first day, and took him to visit the various functional departments of Liangzhou City on the second day, which was completely different from the official government system of the Song Dynasty.
As for the third day, it was entirely to satisfy Wang Gongchen's "curiosity". For this reason, Di Qing personally led the cavalry battalion in an armored charge, allowing him to most intuitively feel the power of the northwest cavalry. Of course, the deterrence of firearms was also indispensable.
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Hexi's muskets can already perform rotating loading locks, but the so-called rotation is not the mature back-pull rotating locking, but a rotating locking method in which a metal rod is connected to the powder chamber.
When the metal rod is erected, the gunpowder bin at the rear of the musket is also erected. After filling the paper shell fixed charge or directly loading the gunpowder, put the projectile in front of the gunpowder bin, lower the metal rod, and the gunpowder bin is closed.
At this time, put down the sealing mechanism, and then you can rely on the hammer to fire.
The craftsmen of Hexi Firearms Department have overcome the biggest difficulty, the air tightness problem, which mainly relies on the advancement of Hexi's hydraulic machine tool technology and the traditional mortise and tenon structure.
Iron tools can also be constructed using mortise and tenon joints. As long as the precision is sufficient, the air tightness problem can be greatly solved, and the power of the musket will naturally be greater.
Hexi Ironware Company is the foundation of many industries. For this, Ye An invested the most manpower and material resources, and the harvest was quite rich. The hydraulic machine tools include not only lathes, but also milling machines, grinders, drilling machines, planers, slotting machines, and boring machines.
Hexi has now mastered almost all the basic lathes needed for later generations of industry. Coupled with the development of hydraulic drive, speed adjustment and other technologies, "high precision" is not difficult for this era.
This is how the current breech-loaded rotating locking musket came about, and it was named "Guiweinian musket" or "Guiwei musket" based on the chronology of the zodiac signs.
The firing speed of this kind of musket is already very fast. Coupled with professional training and scientific shooting formation, the effective firing is very spectacular. Three rows of soldiers take turns loading and ready to fire. The speed is so fast that it is like a massive invasion.
So after watching it once, Wang Gongchen left in a daze, muttering: "The firearms of the country are so decadent!"
Three days later, Wang Gongchen knew that this was Ye An's last warning to him. There was nothing to say at all. There was no point in hanging on at this time. The only thing he could do was to remember everything he saw in Hexi.
Report to the officials.
So from the day he planned to leave, Ye An and everyone in Liangzhou City did not see Wang Gongchen. He was either in the post or in the car, using his memories to constantly outline the current appearance of Liangzhou City, and quietly let go
Servants drove carriages around Liangzhou City.
He only saw Liangzhou Prefecture, and there were many more places in Hexi that he did not see, but this did not prevent him from improving the entire Hexi through the system of Liangzhou Prefecture.
There are not many people who have truly seen Hexi, but there are even fewer people who can record and analyze everything in detail like him.
Although Wang Gongchen is a disgusting censor, sometimes his cleverness is really quite good, especially after being a censor for so many years, he has a unique vision.
He may not be a reformist like Fan Zhongyan, nor a supporter of reform like Du Yan or Han Qi, but he is definitely a person who knows the benefits and dangers.
Especially when he saw in Liangzhou City that the system and armaments here were completely different from those of the Song Dynasty and had a more efficient management method, he knew that there was no comparability between the two sides.
Now he has understood that if the imperial court takes action against Hexi, it will be difficult for the Song Dynasty to crush it economically or militarily, and it will have to pay a huge price...
Don't do things that are not worth the loss. Just like using troops against Li Yuanhao now, Hexi may still be able to contain Li Yuanhao. At least Hexi is still nominally part of the Song Dynasty.
If Hexi is pushed too hard, if Hexi colludes with Dangxiang... Wang Gongchen does not dare to think about it anymore.
One prefecture was already enough to give the Song Dynasty a headache, but now there was Hexi, and its development was astonishing. Wang Gongchen, who was in the carriage, recalled the slogans he saw in the streets and alleys of Liangzhou City.
Those so-called rhetoric of "recovering China", "regaining the old land" and "the mountains and rivers remain the same" seem to be verbal and written criticisms of Dangxiang and the Liao Dynasty, but if they are placed on the Guo Dynasty...
Wang Gongchen didn't dare to think about it anymore. Just the look in the eyes of those children who were studying made his heart tremble.
Turning back and taking a look at the tall and majestic Liangzhou City Wall from the car window, Wang Gongchen did not have a hopeful face like the passers-by around him, but felt a stream of cold air rising from the soles of his feet to the sky.
Hexi, which seems to belong to the Han family and the Song Dynasty, has embarked on a completely different path.
It doesn't make any sense to say that there is no one who has come before, and Wang Gongchen only knows that this road is completely different from that of the Song Dynasty, and that is enough...