"This big tube is not difficult to make, and the big bell in the temple is still difficult to cast!"

"The Buddha statue is even more difficult! This tube looks not difficult at all, it's just a hole in the middle of a big stick!"

"Wow! What a thick stick... Hey, there are two balls under the stick?"

"Miss Dinggu, that's not a ball, it's a wheel. This barrel is mounted on the wheel and pulled by eight horses."

"Eight horses? How heavy is that?"

"It looks very light, why do you have one or two thousand pounds!"

"A thousand or two thousand pounds are cast in copper? How expensive is that! Can I use iron?"

"You have to use copper... Haven't you heard of it? Gunpowder is fierce when it encounters copper!"

"If you use copper, just use copper. It takes two thousand kilograms of copper for a barrel, and add one thousand kilogram to calculate the labor cost... It is only three thousand kilograms, how much is that?"

"It's just a thousand guan, but it's only one million guan to build a thousand large tubes. Compared with the entire Jin Kingdom, what is it?"

"Yes! It's nothing at all!"

"This money must be paid! You can even sell it in a bad way!"

Wanyan Zonggan, the four Jiedushi and three Jiedushi representatives have made a speech, and the matter of casting large tubes has been finalized.

Big tubes are really not that expensive!

Even if the yield rate is not too high at the beginning, only 10%, a cannon will cost 3,000 guan. It is too much for a cannon that failed to cast. The copper material is still there. Although there is loss, most of it can still be recovered.

Not to mention the rich Southern Song Dynasty, it was even the bitter Western Xia (it may not be bitter now). If you really have to tighten your belt and put on the horse-casting tube, one or two hundred "big tubes" will not be a problem.

As for the Great Jin Kingdom, can I save less wealth in the years of robbing the Great Liao and the Song dynasties? There is no need to use the gold and silver in the treasury. Wanyan Zonggan and the seven Jiedushi below will make up some money and cast a thousand large tubes.

This time, Wanyan Zonggan summoned the Jiedu and the Jiedu representatives to Daxing Mansion to let everyone gather money to cast cylinders, hot pot and thunder.

And the people below can tell whether the money is important or the country is important. They are basically figures of the founding generation of the Dajin Dynasty. They can start from a tribal alliance, overthrow the Daliao, and make such a big Dajin. Of course, they will not be so confused that they want money but life!

Wanyan Zonggan coughed, and the discussion below stopped immediately, and everyone looked at Wanyan Zonggan.

Wanyan Zong nodded and said, "Since everyone is willing to pay, let's spend money to make big copper coins together... Let's make some materials first and get three million kilograms of copper! If we can get all of them, we don't have to melt the copper coins to cast the cannon."

He said this, and pointed at Wanyan Dan, "Hela's territory is small, so he doesn't have to produce this copper." Then he said to Hebule, "Hedong Town is poor, so there is no need to produce copper anymore... But now if there is no copper, when the cannon is cast, you can only get a few less pieces."

Of course, Wanyan Dan had no objection. His territory was shrunk to the edge of western Liaoning, and Zhao Kai could not reach it at all, so he told Wanyan Zong: "Everything is what my uncle is."

Hebule was a little unhappy. He had participated in the Battle of Black Mountain! The dozens of small tubes of the Song army beat the Jin soldiers all over the ground, and even people like Wanyan Loushi were sieve!

Now the Song State has upgraded the tube, and the small tube has been changed to a large tube... If the Mengwu people don't have a large tube, will they still be alive if they fight next time?

"Marshal Du," Hebule said with a calm face, "Isn't it just copper? I even go to steal and rob, and I have to make enough numbers!"

Wanyan Zonggan was waiting for this sentence. He Bule could not steal the territory of the Datong Jiedushi. He could only steal the territory of the Song Dynasty or the Daliao (Yelu Dashi)...

"Okay! Since there is this sentence from the Grand Master He (the governor), let's continue to discuss how to cast a big tube!" Wanyan Zonggan looked at the big guy and said with a smile, "Three million kilograms of copper... The Marshal's Mansion pays 120,000 kilograms, how about the remaining six families equally?"

"Okay," Wanyan Yan smiled, "Isn't it just a family of 300,000 pounds... I'll buy some temples and melt the Buddha statues in the temple?"

"Yes!" Hebule slapped his thigh and laughed, "The girl is right. The temples left by the Khitan are covered with copper!"

The Mongols now believe in the Heaven of Eternal Life, while the Jurchens believe in the main shamanism. They are all savage! It is not a big deal to steal the Buddha statue as a cannon material.

"Bronze is easy to deal with, where are the craftsmen?" Wanyan Zongbi asked, "We have many blacksmiths in our hands, but there are no coppersmiths!"

During the Great Jin Dynasty's expedition and confrontation, many craftsmen were also captured, but mainly blacksmiths, and they did not catch any copper smiths.

"This is easy!" Wanyan Xiyin smiled, "We can pretend to donate money to the temple to build Buddha statues. Those bald donkeys will naturally find a good coppersmith for us... When the coppersmith arrives, we will copy the temple. Isn't that all?"

"A clever plan!" Wanyan Zongbi slapped his thigh, "Brother, just do it!"

Wanyan Zonggan nodded and asked again: "So... where should the big tube be started to be cast?"

As soon as these words came out, the hall suddenly became quiet.

Wanyan Zonggan said carefully: "Zhao Kai is dragging on the war now, and he must be accumulating the number of tubes... It can be seen that this large tube is not easy to build! We are starting slowly. If we don't work together, we may not have many tubes available when Zhao Kai comes."

As he spoke, Wanyan Zong smiled dryly and turned his gaze to Wanyan Dan, who was 13 years old.

Wanyan Tan immediately spoke, "It's better to put it in Jinzhou!"

Wanyan Tan is now a harmless person. Putting the tube factory on his territory is indeed the most reassuring thing.

Wanyan, who was present, nodded in agreement, and naturally there was no reason to object.

Wanyan Zong smiled dryly and said, "Since everyone has agreed... let's implement it separately! But we can't just cast big tubes, gunpowder, fried pots, flasks, hotpot cannons, etc., and we have to build them quickly! These don't have to be placed in Jinzhou, so we can just go back and build them by ourselves. If we encounter any difficulties, come to Daxing Mansion to ask us for help."

Of course, he said this to Hebule. The few military governors present had the most desolate territory. It was probably difficult to gather all the resources for fried pots, hot pots and gunpowder, so they could only rely on the Marshal's Mansion.

......

"Ouch, oh, oh, pull hard..."

At the foot of Yingtian Mansion, at the foot of Niutou Mountain, there was a depth of a military restricted area surrounded by wooden fences. With the sound of labor horns, a gate was mounted on a four-wheel gun mount. The seemingly huge gun had been pushed into the gun position by several gunners.

This is a cannon similar to a 10-jin long cannon, and perhaps it is a little heavier (the cannon heavier). The cannon is very thick and extremely deterrent.

Now that the cannon has been in place and the muzzle has been flattened, several gunners began to fill the muzzle bags and shells in a hurry. After the filling, they inserted a lead at the fire door of the cannon. A cannon leader took one from a soldier next to ignite it, and then nervously waited for the order to fire.

Zhao Huan and Zhu Lian were already standing behind a wall of sheep and horse dozens of steps behind the cannon waiting to be fired. There were still several civil and military officials standing behind them.

Today, Zhao Huan and Zhu Lian were looking at the test shot of a 12-pound long tube - the Southern Song Dynasty had the ability to make money!

The Jin Kingdom was still thinking about where to go to make copper and copper smiths. The Southern Song Dynasty had already cast all the cannons... If I really wanted to play bronze cannons, the Southern Song Dynasty was really a cheating existence!

The Southern Song Dynasty is now the country with the largest copper production in the world - its copper production is more than the output of all other countries in the world (including the Northern Song Dynasty)!

With more copper, there will naturally be more copper smiths, and the technology of casting copper will naturally be higher.

Nowadays, the Japanese had to cross the ocean to cast a large Buddha statue, and they spared no expense to invite craftsmen from the Southern Song Dynasty... You can imagine how good the craftsmen in the Southern Song Dynasty were.

So before Yu Yunwen sent someone to send the sketch of a 10-jin large cannon back to the Southern Song Dynasty, many hot pot cannons had been cast here, and they also began to try to make casserole cannons.

But with the arrival of the 10-jin large-tube drawing, the trial production of the casserole cannon stopped - the bigger the tube, the better, right? The bigger the tube, the bigger the meatball, the bigger the power!

Therefore, Zhao Huan, Li Gang, and Zhao Mingcheng unanimously agreed that small casseroles should be given up and cast large tubes... Didn't the Northern Song Dynasty build 10 kilograms? The Southern Song Dynasty built 12 kilograms of bullet-weighted tubes!

Too heavy to transport?

It's okay, the Southern Song Dynasty's tubes were mainly placed on fortresses and warships... Zhao Huan, Li Gang, and Zhao Mingcheng have now given up their plan to attack the Northern Song Dynasty from land and Northern Jin Dynasty, and have turned to "blocking and defending the sea".

The so-called "block defense" means building a large number of castles along the river and along the Huai River, and then setting up artillery as the foundation of lasting defense.

And "Haijin" of course launched an attack from the sea!

The Southern Song Dynasty was a strong ship and a powerful force!

Their "grenadier ships" can be beaten to all directions, let alone tube ships? Since they can be beaten to the ground, they naturally have to take an offensive.

To take an offensive, you have to carry the big t-tube with stronger attack capabilities onto the ship... What is one or two thousand pounds of pounds by shipping? It is not a problem at all, so the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty also hope to make big t-tubes.

"Boom..."

Big Twin finally started roaring, it was really shaking the earth!

Almost as the earth was shaking, a tall brick wall pointed to at the corner of the two or three hundred steps, suddenly collapsed!

"I've been beaten, I've been beaten..." Zhao Huan looked pale when he saw this scene, and muttered, "There's not too much time, the time is not too much..."

The queen Zhu Lian next to her was also scared and her chest was fluttering quickly. When she heard her husband's words, she asked casually: "Official family, when will there be no more!"

Zhao Huan said: "We don't have much time in the Southern Dynasties... Because the Jin thieves can't stop the third brother, our Southern Dynasties is the next target of the third brother!"
Chapter completed!