A half-inch thick book was held in an old left hand.

The hands are wide and thick, with short five fingers and protruding knuckles. It can be seen that there is a strong power in it. The things caught by this hand will not be stolen.

Brown old-age spots can be seen on the back of the hand, and calluses are ground on the palm of the hand, but they are well maintained, with delicate skin and no wrinkles are seen, but there is a scar over three inches long on the back of the hand, which is bright red.

The edges of the book in my hand have been worn, but the pages are clean and well maintained than hands.

This book is an ordinary book. The only difference is that the back cover is a piece of paper, which protects the spine, and the title is printed on the spine.

Nine Domain Travel Notes.

"His Majesty……"

Hearing the sound, the hand holding the book did not move, and the owner of the hand responded in a low voice.

"What's up?"

"Your Highness the Crown Prince is back. Today, he hunted a tiger, three bears, and more than twenty deer. He said he would present the tiger skin to His Majesty."

"Let him go and wash and come over. After being tired for a day, he sweats a lot. He washes and changes clothes to avoid getting cold or getting sick."

"I understand."

The guards retreated, feeling relieved when they left.

Yelu Yixin quietly put the book together.

He doesn't like to make noise, especially when reviewing memorials and reading books, and he doesn't like to disturb people, as everyone close to him knows. However, when the prince leads a crowd to hunt back, he must report it to him, and this will take some risks.

Yelu Yixin did not rely on hunting to seize the world, so even if he followed the usual rules and patrols around the world, he would not take the guards to hunt, but instead handed them over to the young crown prince.

This kind of activity that is 40% entertainment, 40% is a routine, and only 20% of military significance is left, which is optional for Yelu Yixin.

However, he liked Nabo very much, especially when he sat in the imperial tent and met ministers from all directions.

If you want to rule for generations, a qualified heir is indispensable. His eldest son, as an emperor who can be successful, can be considered qualified.

But will the one in the south give him a chance to stay true to his success?

The Song people have never been willing to admit their identity. Yelu Yixin doesn't know how much the Song people insisted because they refused to compromise with the usurpers, and how many were to save the 500,000 silver and silk annual monies. However, Yelu Yixin doesn't care much now.

A paper from the journal Nature made him know how rich Japan is and how much gold and silver are buried in the ground.

Most of the benefits of crossing the sea to destroy the Japanese are due to this article.

But it is precisely because of this that Yelu Yixin became increasingly afraid of the political affairs of the Song State.

Yelu Yixin looked down at the book on the tiger skin felt.

This is the first version of "Journey to the Nine Domains" and it has been sent to Yelu Yixin for quite some time.

I heard that in the Southern Dynasty, this book was soon reprinted after its first edition, third edition, and even more editions.

As far as Yelu Yixin knows, Han Gang's works and Qi Xue's works will be revised every time.

So from the perspective of a book collector, each version has the value of collection, and of course the first version is the most valuable.

Yelu Yixin is not a book collector, but he does like the feeling of holding old books in his hands.

He picked up the book again and flipped it open. He looked at the beginning of the familiar words and knew which paragraph he was talking about.

‘Xian Zhoutong reported the news overnight, Yong Luda defeated the thief with three shots’

Chapter 8.

After the stories of two different characters, the subject of the story finally turned back to Zhou Tong. After leaving his hometown, Zhou Tong took a steamer and headed south along the railway. He came to Xiuzhou to change the steamship, but was involved in a rebellion for some reason.

This Luda was originally a military thief in the central government. When he was young, he became a novice monk and his name was Zhishen. However, when he grew up, he returned to the secular world and joined the army. Later, he was recommended to martial arts for his merits and became an official. Later, he was killed by mistake after drinking and was sent to Lingnan. After that, he got a certificate of tribute and became a monk.

‘I have never cultivated good results in my life and I love to kill and set fire.’

Although it is a straight line of praise, it makes people feel very happy.

‘Luda lit the fuse, pulled the trigger, and shot it with a bang, making the thief's head open to the chest and the back, and it was airtight. The two thief's heads behind came up with knives, just watching Luda ignite the fire, and then bang two more bangs, smashing the two kings and three kings of Taohua Mountain one by one, red and white, flowing all over the ground.’

A few words of fighting can be put into the mouth of a storyteller, and it can produce thousands of words and thrilling scenes, but in Yelu Yixin's eyes, what is more important is-

What exactly is a medlin?

A weapon that can be held in the hand can penetrate a person's chest and break the hardest head?

When he first saw this story, Yelu Yixin immediately asked someone to inquire.

He had heard of muskets, a firearm that could be carried with him, a weapon designed to replace crossbows, but he didn't know what a medley gun was.

After paying the lives of four masters, the emperor of Liao obtained the pattern of a colloid gun. Compared with the musket, the yellow crossbow belongs to the following category. Next, he became more interested in the flintlock gun that eliminated the colloid gun, because it might be the divine arm bow in the musket.

When ordinary people become interested, they will begin to work hard on it; when the emperor becomes interested, hundreds of people work together to meet his requirements.

It didn't take long before Yelu Yixin knew that the Song people were making flintlock muskets, and they had passed the stage of experimental manufacturing, but they could not be mass-made for the time being.

Yelu Yixin has considered that such a possibility, but steam cars, steam ships, and the core of both - the steam engine are just machines that only exist in imagination in Nature. The flintlock rifle has appeared in the hands of the Song army, and the flintlock rifle in the book, which was eliminated by the flintlock rifle, was not equipped in the Song Dynasty's imperial army at all.

After obtaining information about muskets, Yelu Yixin immediately sent people to study and manufacture just like his interest in artillery, but it was far more difficult than artillery. Nearly a year passed, and the Firearms Bureau never gave him a satisfactory reply.

In addition to the firearm, "Nine Domain Travels" gave Yelu Yixin a lot of information.

This book is not well-known for its author. The traces of qi in the book are too deep. Perhaps it was written by Han Gang, or perhaps not, but it must have received Han Gang's guidance when it was written.

The purpose of Han Gang's launch of this script should be to reduce the resistance between the government and the outside world, and to tell the world what kind of Song Dynasty he wants. Han Gang's intention is really too obvious.

However, what made Yelu Yixin feel the most cold is that he was too open and not afraid of leaking military operations.

Yelu Yixin knew that this was because Han Gang was full of confidence.

‘The wheel of history’.

This word comes from Chapter 91. Two very ordinary words, very nonsense, are pieced together, making people feel angry, but they are chilling.

Could it be that Daliao is destined to be a mantis waving his arms in front of the wheel?

But no matter what the reason Han Gang passed on this book, he at least gave Yelu Yixin a clear direction.

What Han Gang intends to do and what he will do can be fully understood from this book.

For example, heavy howitzers that regard the city walls as nothing, muskets that make crossbows become toys, such as fighting in rows and shooting enemies with platoons, such as no longer need to pull horses, as long as there is water and coal, they can drag the ten thousand stone trains, steam cars day and night, such as steamships that can ignore the wind direction, carry ten thousand stones of cargo, and steamers that cross thousands of miles of dark waves in two or three days, and three hundred people holding guns and cannons, and it is difficult for dozens of times of the army to break through.

Among them, some are just fantasies, some have appeared but have not been popularized, and some are under the nose.

A year ago, Lu Huiqing was transferred from Hebei and peace had been restored between the two countries.

However, on the Hebei border, the Song people were desperately building a fort and rebuilding a hamlet. Their appearance was special after the construction was built. Instead of encrypting the horse's face, they built the four corners of the hamlet into a convex pentagonal shape, and then putting cannons inside. No matter which side of the city wall and gate they wanted to attack, they would be attacked by artillery fire from both sides.

It is also in this story book that Yelu Yixin knew the name of this fortress - the lever.

From Chapter 16.

Building in the wilderness in northern Liaodong, it is a command post in the border area. A garrison guarding more than 300 garrisons were surrounded by 20,000 eastern captives, but it left more than a thousand lives and left in a panic.

When he saw this for the first time, Yelu Yixin, in addition to sneering about Han Gang's ambition, secretly praised him for being a soldier.

If it is a storyteller's book, it is a defender who showed his power and used a magic gun to pick 36 enemy generals one after another, killing the thief and throwing his armor. However, several battles in this book are very realistic. There is no fighter who makes the storyteller flock, but only realistic offense and defense.

So when I saw the fortress in the book, I learned that the Song people began to build the same type of fortress in Hebei, and Yelu Yixin began to ask someone to build the same fortress to experiment.

After several acting after the completion of the work, Yelu Yixin discovered that Hangang did not exaggerate the effect of the brink of the brink. As long as there are constant ammunition for guns and cannons in the walls and no shortage of water in the fort, it is not a solid fortress, it can become a dangerous pass.

The fort opposite the southern border of Nanjing Road is rapidly changing into a prism-shaped castle. In addition to bricks and stones, the county towns of Zhoucheng within the two roads of the Song Dynasty also built artillery towers at the city gates and four corners. Once the village defense in Hebei is completed, it will be ten times more difficult to invade Song State.

However, Yelu Yixin was no longer in the mood to attack Song. He relied on the gold and silver of Japan and the restoration of the Liao and Song borders, and there was no need to attack Song State at all.

Rather than hoping to win on the battlefield, it is better to win the battle than to win.

As long as the Song army did not come to attack, Yelu Yixin would not want to attack. As for Han Gang, Yelu Yixin was not worried.

In the position of a minister, there are dozens of times the expectations and the people who are worthy of the emperor. Why shouldn't such a minister die? How could the emperor keep him?

Even if he can live to forty, don't expect to live to fifty. There is no need to be prepared for such a person.

At most ten years, you will be able to see the truth.

Now, it’s better to read books with peace of mind.
Chapter completed!