Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

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In late autumn, it was the annual grand opening ceremony for the students of the academy, so Zhao Kuo also came to the academy again, presiding over the opening ceremony this time as a routine.

Zhao Kuo couldn't help but feel a little moved when he saw the group of new school students who saluted him respectfully and with excited expressions on their faces.

Unknowingly, so many years have passed, the students of the Academy have graduated several times, and the familiar faces of Zhao Kuo before have all been scattered as officials in various parts of Zhao State.

But of course, this does not mean that there is only melancholy of parting, because it means that Zhao Kuo's influence has slowly penetrated into all corners of Zhao State together with these school students.

This time the mountain opening ceremony was quite smooth, so smooth that Zhao Kuo himself felt a little bored.

"I hope the abdomen can really bring me some surprises."

While eating pickled fish, Zhao Kuo walked towards the secret workshop where the Mo family was with a few followers.

Among the many schools of study and engineering, the Mohists can be said to be the one that relatively few people choose, because the Mohists who came to the academy mainly focus on engineering technology, and they are completely irrelevant to being an official. , so naturally it is very unpopular.

But this also has an advantage, that is, those who come to the Mohist school and choose to become students are usually those who have a real strong interest in engineering technology, such people are generally quite willing to conduct research, and can endure loneliness , it can be said that one is stronger than ten.

But people in the academy could vaguely feel that on the side of the Mohist workshop, he was actually guarded very strictly.

If any student who does not belong to the Mohist faction wanders around here at will, he will be questioned by guards who appear from nowhere, and then be driven away.

Su Li was also a little curious, and said to Zhao Kuo: "I heard that the Mohist family also made many very exquisite utensils before. Could it be that the Lord wants to make these utensils with the help of the Mohist family this time?"

Hearing this, Zhao Kuo couldn't help laughing: "Actually, I have already told Fuzhen what I want to make, but with the technology of this era, I'm afraid it should be relatively difficult."

Zhao Kuo wanted many things, such as muskets, cannons, airplanes, cars, ships, etc., but the problem was that Zhao Kuo didn't know the drawings of these things, nor did he know what kind of materials and materials these things needed. process to make.

Therefore, the traverser is not omnipotent.

For Zhao Kuo, he felt that the best thing he offered as a traveler was actually an idea.

Since Zhao Kuo traveled from more than 2000 years later, he is very clear about how it has evolved in the past 2000 years, so Zhao Kuo is also very clear about how to make the whole of China use the fastest speed. Follow the most correct path towards modernization.

While other nations were still scrambling left and right on the wrong road, troubled by civil strife and aggression and unable to move, the Huaxia nation, under the leadership of Zhao Kuo, was striding forward towards the correct road of modernization. It is one of Zhao Kuo's biggest advantages.

During the conversation, the two had already entered the Mohist workshop. As Zhao Kuo, this was of course unimpeded.

As the leader of Zhao Kuo's entourage, Su Li noticed something, that is, those guards from Chi You Army around Zhao Kuo actually stayed outside the Mohist Workshop, only Zhao Kuo brought Su Li into the room. this workshop.

This is definitely a very rare thing for Zhao Kuo, and it also proves how much Zhao Kuo cares about this place.

This also caused Su Li to mutter in his mind, could it be that there is really something magical about this place?

It was at this time that a foul smell suddenly floated into Su Li's nose, making Su Li unable to bear the urge to cover his nose.

Just when Su Li was still thinking about what it was that stinks, a disheveled guy appeared in front of Su Li.

"You are finally here, Jun Hou. I have been waiting for you for a long time."

The unkempt guy said to Zhao Kuo with a very natural expression.

What surprised Su Li was that Zhao Kuo didn't change his face at all. Instead, he patted the disheveled guy with a big smile, and said with a very kind and natural expression: "My big-bellied craftsman, how old are you?" I haven't showered in years, it's so dirty.

Later, I will arrange to send some beautiful maids to serve you and take a good bath. "

Su Li's eyes almost popped out.

Just from this title, one can know that the person in front of him is one of the sacrificial wines of the academy, the real leader of the Mohist family.

You must know that Zhao Kuo has always been very disgusted with beauty tricks, and he would never give away his maids to others, even his confidantes like Li Mu and Xu Li are no exception.

Today, Zhao Kuo actually offered to use the maid in his own family to serve the belly in front of him, which is simply unprecedented.

After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, Fuzhen waved his hand casually and said: "What's the use of women, being with women will only affect the progress of my research on science and technology.

There's no use taking a shower, anyway, as long as you don't have too many lice on your body. "

Su Li: "" The nobles in China are not like those in Western Europe in the Middle Ages. They considered it a beauty not to take a bath. Some kings even proudly claimed that they only took a bath once a year.

For Chinese nobles like Su Li, they attach great importance to bathing and bathing. Even the rulers, the kings, call the days when the nobles have a holiday every month, which means to let these nobles Used for rest and bathing.

Fu Zhen, as the current leader of the Mohist school, is also a world-renowned university student, and he is definitely the more detached one among the nobles.

Such a guy doesn't even care about taking a bath, it really makes people speechless.

Just when Su Li was still in a daze because of Fu Zhen's abnormal behavior, Fu Zhen said to Zhao Kuo impatiently: "Mr. Wu Xin, I didn't call you here today because of such trivial things as whether to take a bath or not. I have created something that is absolutely earth-shattering, and you must be the first to see its birth."

Su Li was ashamed after hearing Fuzhen's words. To be honest, Su Li had never seen him in all these years. Who would dare to talk to Zhao Kuo in such a completely impatient manner.

But Zhao Kuo didn't think it was different at all, and still said with a smile: "That would be the best. To be honest, I have been looking forward to your new achievements."

For Zhao Kuo, a scholar like Fuzhen who only does research, of course, will have some eccentricities more or less. This kind of low EQ dialogue with Zhao Kuo is completely understandable.

As long as you really can help me research something good, such as muskets, cannons, airplanes, ships, etc., let alone being impatient, I don't care if you scold my whole family.

Fu Shinichi mentioned that this thing obviously came out, and the spirit immediately led Zhao Kuo to the playground of the experimental workshop that was both familiar and unfamiliar to Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Kuo glanced at Su Li, who was clearly confused, smiled and said to Su Li: "Do you remember the explosives?

It was researched by this big belly craftsman. "

After hearing this sentence, Su Li froze immediately.

As the current leader of the Nightingale intelligence system, it is impossible for Su Li not to know the existence of explosives.

However, since Su Li joined the core layer of Zhao Kuo's confidant for a relatively short time, he really didn't know that explosives, a big killer, were actually researched by the confidant in front of him.

After knowing this matter, Su Li immediately felt awe towards Fu Zhen, and the little thought in his heart disappeared without a trace.

At this moment, Su Lifa felt in his heart, let alone a few maids, even if dozens or hundreds of maids were all sent to Fuzhen, there would be absolutely no problem.

Fu Zhen didn't know in his heart, even if he knew what Zhao Kuo and Su Li were thinking, he probably didn't care.

Fuzhen went directly to a box on the playground, took out something from the box, and showed off to Zhao Kuo like a treasure: "Wu Xinjun, look, this is the musket you asked me to make earlier. Now I've got it out."

"Musket?"

When hearing this word, Su Li was obviously a little confused, he didn't know what it was.

But for Zhao Kuo, the word musket was simply the biggest piece of good news that fell from the sky, which directly made Zhao Kuo a little unsteady on his feet, and even his voice began to tremble.

"Is it really a musket?

Let me see now. "

Zhao Kuo almost snatched this weapon from Fuzhen's hand, which looked exactly like a musket in Zhao Kuo's impression, and put it in his hand to examine it carefully.

The long barrel, the familiar trigger, and the wooden butt have to be said. If this thing is placed in later generations, then everyone will definitely think that this should be the kind of musket in the style of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Zhao Kuo took a deep breath and said to Fuzhen, "Is this fired with a matchlock?"

Fuzhen nodded and said: "Yes, this is fired with a matchlock. The more advanced musket you told me before is still not available for the time being, but give me another five or ten years." time, there shouldn't be too many problems."

Zhao Kuo didn't really care about it, although the Vulcan gun was only a relatively elementary type of musket.

However, this is a step from scratch, as long as it is slowly developed and improved in the future, this is of great significance.

With the birth of muskets, Zhao Guo can officially announce that it has entered the era of hot weapons. As long as it continues to develop in the future, cold weapons will be eliminated sooner or later.

Zhao Kuo suppressed his excitement, and under Fuzhen's guidance, he put in the gunpowder and projectiles carefully, and then took out the fire knife and flint to light the matchlock.

Then Zhao Kuo raised his gun, and according to the memory of his previous life, he aimed at the straw man in the middle of the playground not far away.

With a "bang", flames burst out from the barrel of the musket, and Zhao Kuo felt his shoulder against the butt shake violently, and then there was a hole in the straw man's head in his sight.

Zhao Kuo let out a long breath and smiled.

It did work.

The world's first musket was thus born.

Beside Zhao Kuo and Fuzhen, Su Li stared at this scene with wide eyes in disbelief.

The scene in front of him can be said to be completely beyond Su Li's comprehension ability. He doesn't know why a thing that looks like a fire stick can be sprayed out with a single shot, and it can even shoot so far away. The straw man's head was shot through.

Zhao Kuo put down the musket in his hand, laughed loudly, and patted Fuzhen's shoulder vigorously.

"Very good, really great, I really didn't expect you to make it so quickly."

For Zhao Kuo, it was thought that muskets could be developed within 20 years. Unexpectedly, Fuzhen gave Zhao Kuo such a big surprise. He had already helped Zhao Kuo less than 10 years after coming to Zhao Including the development of muskets.

Fuzhen looked at Zhao Kuo with a joyful face, and laughed.

For Fuzhen, the joy of making a musket is secondary. What is really important is Zhao Kuo's unconditional trust and recognition of Fuzhen's ability.

In this world, many people just lack parents who praise them, are unwilling to praise them, their teachers are unwilling to praise them, and even their friends rarely praise them.

No one knows how much such a person desires to be praised and recognized by others in his heart.

For Fuzhen, Zhao Kuo is such a confidant, and only Zhao Kuo can praise and recognize Fuzhen from the heart.

Fuzhen said: "In fact, although the first version has been produced, many processes still need to be improved. If you want to mass-produce, it may take four or five years."

Su Li couldn't help but feel a little disappointed after hearing this, because in Su Li's opinion, if it really had to wait until four or five years later, then the unification war in the whole of China might have been completely over.

But Zhao Kuo seemed very interested, and said to Fuzhen with a smile: "There is no problem at all. From today on, just tell me what manpower you need. All the resources on my side will be tilted towards you. I will strive to use the most Mass-produce our muskets as quickly as possible!"

For Zhao Kuo, there is actually no need to use muskets for things like unifying the war.

Let's leave the magical weapons like muskets to those European barbarians to enjoy them!

Chapter 1009 Which country to fight first

The musketeer is indeed very important to Zhao Kuo. With this thing, Zhao Kuo can be more confident when he conducts power-seizure operations in the future. You must know that musketeers are definitely a super weapon in dense urban terrain .

That's why Zhao Kuo was so excited to mobilize all the resources to Fuzhen, and let him quickly get out this musket.

Even if it is not possible to form an army, as long as a few hundred can be built, then other armed forces in Handan City will be able to be swept away in a coup in the future.

After leaving the academy, Su Li couldn't help expressing emotion: "I've heard the story of the contest between Mo Zi and Lu Ban before, but now I don't expect that the descendants of the Mo family can actually create such a magical weapon .

If Mozi knew underground, he would be very proud that his disciple suppressed Lu Ban's descendants. "

Zhao Kuo couldn't help smiling when he heard this sentence, but he didn't express any opinions.

In fact, the most important reason why Fuzhen can make muskets without any hammer is the idea that Zhao Kuo provided to Fuzhen.

If there is no idea, hot weapons and cold weapons are actually two completely different categories. Even a master of cold weapons like Fuzhen has no way to make muskets.

But all in all, for Zhao Kuo, good news has indeed dominated the past year.

South Korea is also destroyed, and Li Mu's acting skills seem to have successfully deceived Zhao Wang, allowing Zhao Kuo's secret development to advance smoothly again.

In addition, the successful manufacture of this musket allowed Zhao Kuo to gain a powerful force beyond this world once again.

Once Zhao Kuo is able to train tens of thousands of the entire Chi You army into qualified musketeers in the future, there will be very few, and this world will definitely not be a joke.

You must know that during the Opium War, the regular troops of the British and French allied forces were only a few thousand people, and they still defeated the tens of thousands or even 10,000+ troops of the Qing Dynasty.

This is the cross-era crushing of hot weapons against cold weapons.

After returning to his mansion, Zhao Kuo regained his composure. After all, success was already within reach.

Now, what Zhao Kuo has to do is to make Zhao Guo's excessive power more natural as much as possible, and try to make people die less in the process of seizing power.

Time passed so slowly, and in the following time, there were almost no major changes in Zhao Guozhong. Everyone may have spent a lot of energy in the fierce fighting in the first half of the year, so the next step It is silently cultivating power.

At this time, another piece of news came out, which also attracted everyone's attention.

Queen Li became pregnant again and gave birth to a child to King Zhao, but this child was not a prince but a princess of Zhao.

Zhao Wang's love for Queen Li was reflected at this time. Although it was said that the princess had no inheritance rights, Zhao Wang immediately wrote the princess's name into the ancestral temple, and even gave the princess a canonization manor.

You must know that King Zhao himself has several sons and has no fiefdom. This can be said to be a naked preference.

Because of this incident, the grandparents of the princes also caused some disturbances. They all sent memorials asking King Zhao to canonize all the sons who had not yet obtained fiefs, but King Zhao refused without hesitation. .

Obviously, in the entire harem of the Zhao Kingdom, except for Queen Li, other women are actually just objects for the King of Zhao to vent.

No one will pay much attention to this kind of items used to vent, so they will not pay much attention to these by-products that are only brought about after venting.

Zhao Kuo couldn't help but sigh after hearing these words.

This is the real reason why many princes and princesses who were born in imperial families in history were not happy.

If you were born in another family, even if your parents don't pay attention, you can still find a way out with your own efforts.

But if a person born in an imperial family does not get the attention of his father, then the possibility that he or she wants to find another way out is zero.

But for Zhao Kuo, this kind of emotion is only fleeting, because when winter comes, Zhao Kuo will face another problem, which is also a problem that the entire Zhao country faces and needs to be solved.

On this day, Zhao Kuo walked into Zhao Guo's palace in a carriage, and looked up at the sky. The sky at the moment was very gloomy and cloudy, and snowflakes were slowly falling from the sky, decorating the earth into a beautiful landscape. Wrapped in silver.

Zhao Kuo actually doesn't like winter, because winter is too cold, and because every winter, there will always be news from all over Zhao that those victims who were crushed by the snowstorm lost their lives.

Whenever he heard these news, Zhao Kuo couldn't be in a good mood, because in Zhao Kuo's view, these were his people.