"Officials, since the hot pot is so powerful, then don't wait for summer and send troops to the west immediately, so that we can conquer Lingzhou earlier!"

"Yes, brother, since Lingzhou will be destroyed in three days, the Western thief's half of his life will be gone!"

"It's not just a Lingzhou? We should take all the cities of Weizhou City, Mingsha City, Cutta Village, Reward Mogu, Jingyuan Jun City, Pule City, Yaode City, Zhejiang Hui City, Mengjing City, Qinggangxia City, Xiama Village, etc.! Let's see how the Western thieves are still arrogant!"

"Yes, let's set off early and take down all the territory of the Xiping Prefecture, Baotai and Jingsai, the two military departments of the Western thieves. In this way, the Western thieves will be finished!"

"Don't forget that Shatuo and Yingjilizhai on the west bank of the Yellow River have been taken down by these two places. In addition, Mingsha City on the east bank of the Yellow River, the road to the west of the Western thieves is broken, and they can only cross the desert and run west!"

In the Hanyuan Hall of Luoyang Imperial Palace, the generals who had previously been full of doubts about the Western Expedition to attack Xixia were shouting and killing in a blink of an eye.

Moreover, a solid Lingzhou city can no longer satisfy their appetite. With the black technological weapon of "hot pot", they are now planning to take down the territory of Xiping Prefecture (Lingzhou) and Baotai and Jingsai in Xixia. It is really their wish. Xixia is almost over! Even if it is not over, they have to move westward.

Xixia was originally a small country with a small territory, and there were even fewer good places that could be used as a granary for a country. There were only Xiping Prefecture, Baotai, Jingsai Army Division and the government capital Xingqing Prefecture. There were only a bit of plump and rich land around Xiping Prefecture, Baotai, Jingsai Army Division and the capital Xingqing Prefecture.

Especially the Xiping Prefecture (Lingzhou) area is known as the Jiangnan in the Fortress, with hundreds of thousands of acres of irrigated land in the northern region. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the granary of Xixia.

If Xiping Prefecture was taken by the Song Dynasty, the grain output of Xixia would have to be reduced by at least 30%!

Food is the most important thing for the people, and Western thieves have to eat. Without the food in Lingzhou, Western thieves will have a hard time.

Mingsha City controlled by the Baotai Army, Yingjilizhai and Shatuo City, are both important ferries of the Yellow River, and are also the key to the Hexi Corridor of Xingqing Prefecture, the capital of the Western Xia. If it is also taken over by the Song Dynasty, the territory of the Western Xia will be in the same way as the Song Dynasty!

At that time, the Western thieves had to move the capital westward early! Otherwise, when the Song army gained a foothold in Mingsha City, Yingjilizhai and Shatuo City, it would be difficult for them to run away.

After hearing the suggestions of these generals, Zhao Kai just smiled and said, "What you see today is nothing more than the 'hot pot' and gunpowder that has not yet been introduced. It is okay to use 'hot pot' and gunpowder for test shooting or emergency use, but it is still a little worse to take two thousand miles away to attack the Western thieves."

"A little worse?" Yue Fei asked, "Brother, what's the difference? How long does it take to make up for it?"

Zhao Kai leaned his finger and said, "First, the ten-pound 'hot pot' is still a little smaller. It may not be possible to hit the Western thief Lingzhou City. I plan to wait for the twenty-pound 'hot pot' to be made and then equip it with cannons. Oh, it's the pot army!"

From now on, there will be no artillery soldiers, and it sounds like taking the blame!

"Secondly, we don't have a special 'hot pot artillery'. I originally planned to wait for the twenty kilograms of 'hot pot' to be built in a while, and then recruit smart and capable young men to form an Yuqianhuo 'pot' artillery team!"

When Zhao Kai talks about "hot pot", something "Chongqing", "Chengdu", "Haidilao" always comes to his mind. He never tasted good food in his previous life. At that time, he was a high school student and had not much pocket money and could not afford it! Although he is an official, his annual salary is 6 million, he is really rich and powerful. Logically speaking, he has everything he wants to eat, right? But when he asked the imperial chef, they didn't know what chili is!

At this time, Zhao Kai remembered that peppers seemed to be crops produced in the Americas!

This is really not enough to have spicy hot pot before discovering the new world!

In addition to Chongqing hotpot, Zhao Kai still wants to eat Swiss chocolate now. Is it necessary to send troops to Europe like Genghis Khan to grab it in order to taste chocolate?

In addition, Zhao Kai is quite greedy for Australian lobster, Japanese Wagyu beef, Japanese tuna, Japanese abalone, Japanese tempura, Japanese pufferfish, etc., and I have never eaten them in my previous life. I just look at those food bloggers eating them, and I feel greedy for you!

Except for Australian lobsters, they have to send troops to Australia to grab them, and the others are all from Japan, and they are relatively close. After defeating the Jin thieves, they will send troops to bring in the "hot pot" cannon to Japan to ask their emperor for some!

Thinking of this, Zhao Kaiji saliva and then turned his mind back to military and national affairs.

He continued to say: "Third, the sulphur and sulfur we have at hand are not big enough, and we have to let the Wu family and the Pan family expand production as soon as possible. I plan to let the two of them specialize in producing sulphur so that they can increase production as soon as possible!"

Fire nitrate is the main raw material of gunpowder, with a huge demand and the difficulty of refining is not low. Therefore, Zhao Kai planned to let Wu Haogu and Pan Sheng'an's shop specialize in producing fire nitrate.

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As for sulfur and charcoal powder, Zhao Kai is planning to find someone else to make it.

As for the last key process of gunpowder production, Zhao Kai is preparing to take it into his own hands.

However, Zhao Kai did not plan to open a gunpowder factory in the palace. I think no one would open a gunpowder factory at home, right? If this burns, there will be no place to live!

So Zhao Kai’s idea was to temporarily let the upcoming Yuqian Hotpot Artillery Team be responsible for making granular gunpowder by itself anyway. It was nothing more than wetting it and letting the gunpowder gather, then dry it, and then sifting it with a copper sieve. In this way, the legendary granular gunpowder was born!

With the particulate gunpowder, the fixed-packing launching medicine package and flowering bullet can be further developed.

Zhao Kai said this and thought for a while, and said, "Fourth, we must stabilize the Western thieves, and at the same time win over Xiao Heda, he is now the commander of the Western thieves on the Hengshan line, holding heavy troops. Moreover, he is also interested in the Liao Dynasty, and the Western thieves are not the same as the Jin thieves.

If he can take the spirit in me and turn against us after Wei Erzhou, I can grant him the title of the governor of Dingnan Army and the lord of Yin, Xia and Yuzhou!"

The Dingnan Army originally had five states, namely Xia, You, Yin, Sui and Jing. However, in the long-term struggle with the Song Dynasty, Suizhou and Jingzhou were lost one after another, becoming the Suide Army and Mizhizhai of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, only Yin, Xia, and You were left. As for Yanzhou, Shizhou, Longzhou, and Hongzhou, the states on the northern foot of Hengshan were all established by Xixia themselves and the Song Dynasty would not recognize them.

"Official family," Yelu Yujian volunteered without waiting for Zhao Kai to assign tasks, "I can go to Xiazhou again and convince Xiao Heda to remain unmoved when the official family sends troops.

In addition, I hope that the officials can give me 100,000 pieces of Shu brocade and ask me to take it to Xiazhou for Xiao Heda to use."

Rebellion costs money!

It also costs money to win over the enemy generals!

However, most of the money cannot be paid by the Ministry of Revenue. The Ministry of Revenue spends money in a regular manner. It is impossible to bribe or buy such projects. So Zhao Kai had to take it out of his own pile warehouse!

"I'll give you 150,000!" Zhao Kai was generous and waved his hand to add 50,000 to Yelu Yujian.

He now has an annual salary of 6 million yuan. Although this money cannot be all in his pocket, half of it has been put into his pile sealing warehouse, so it is natural to spend money!

"I thanked Xiao Heda for the official family!" Yelu Yuji was naturally happy that this piece of silk was not a decisive! With these fifty thousand pieces, not only Xiao Heda would definitely turn against him, but Yuji himself could also make a fortune.

Of course, Zhao Kai would not care about how Yu Ji made money and bribed money, which was originally corrupt and could not be anti-corruption at all.

He then said: "This time the attack on the Western thieves is based on hot pot and cannons; the other is based on unexpected surprises! Therefore, I do not plan to take troops from Guangwu Mountain or Luoyang to Shaanxi, but want to temporarily convene a large army in Shaanxi. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare in advance and make arrangements early, so effective personnel need to be the Shaanxi Yingtian Envoy and Shaanxi Pacification Envoy. Is anyone willing to volunteer?"

"Brother, I am willing to go to Shaanxi to serve as a pacifier!" Liu Qi was willing to go to Shaanxi to supervise the army.

"Brother, I can go to Shaanxi to serve as the field envoy." He Guan's eldest son He Ji also stood up.

"Very good," Zhao Kai smiled, "When Shaanxi prepares for war, I'll ask you two. When you go back, prepare to take office. I will issue a major edict through the two governments later!"

He brought the topic back to the hot pot artillery team.

His eyes swept around the hall, "Everyone, I plan to set up a pot gun army as soon as possible. For the time being, can you recommend the candidates for generals, generals, deputy generals, and generals?"

"Brother," said Yue Fei, "Xu Qing, the deputy general under my command, and Tang Xian is cautious and reliable in his work, so he should not be able to ruin things."

"Big Brother," said Han Shizhong, "I have Wu Lin, who is from the Huanqing Army under my command, is quite talented, and is young, so I learn things very quickly."

"Brother," said Huang Wuji, "My second brother Huang Wuyanyuan is a student of the family. Now he is in the army and serves as an opportunity in the army. He usually likes to play with equipment and gunpowder. Why not let him follow you!"

Zhao Kai nodded and smiled and said, "Okay, Xu Qing, Tang Xian, Wu Lin, and Huang Wubing, let them come to Luoyang to see me as soon as possible! In addition, each army will draw another 50 soldiers from the Long March Mansion to Luoyang to join the cannon army. Within a month, everyone will arrive!"

Now Zhao Kai has more than 300,000,000 nearly 400,000 government soldiers under his command! These government soldiers will serve in part or all (if the general mobilization is implemented) in four camps and fields, six pacification envoys, one left-behind division (Tokyo left-behind division), two garrison departments (East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-East-Eas

Zhao Kai now requires 50 people from each of the twenty-four military departments to issue, which is a total of 1,200 people.

In addition, he would draw 50 more people from the Imperial Sect and the Second Yulin Army, and would recruit a group of copper smiths, blacksmiths, carpenters, and ches to join the army. He would gather 2,000 people to form a troop. They would be the first generation of smiths in the world!
Chapter completed!