Chapter 684

"Are Bei Liao crazy? He dares to say such words so arrogantly. What is my Song Dynasty? Is my Song Dynasty a minister of Bei Liao or his slave?" Zhao Xu complained in anger with anger.

Sitting beside him was Zhao Ji, who had just been married. Not far away, Empress Meng was chatting with Zhao Ji's wife, Princess Duan, in a low voice, and would look at him at the moment.

"The officials are angry, and the Northern Liao Dynasty has always been arrogant. They have always been like this. You don't need to get angry about their arrogant words." Zhao Ji, who had just gotten married, may have been busy with the government affairs of military weapons supervision for the past few months.

It was less prone to the past and more calm. But now, a pair of gold-rimmed glasses were set up on his nose. No matter how you look at it, you will feel strange.

However, Zhao Ji had no choice but to do anything. He has been so fond of basic physics, mathematics, and geometry over the past few days that he has been so eager to eat and sleep.

After work during the day, I read books and studied by myself. At night, I worked hard to learn these knowledge that he had never been exposed to in the past.

This was in ancient times, without light bulbs, and no one reminded him to pay attention to using his eyes. As a result, in just a few months, his eyes rose from normal to where he needed to wear his eyes to see things clearly.

Some time ago, Zhao Ji wrote to Wang Wu and complained that he now needed to get close to see the handwriting clearly. Wang Yang understood that this guy had become myopic, so he quickly wrote to him to pay attention to maintaining his vision. In addition, he naturally asked this guy to go to the glasses shop to pick a pair of suitable glasses.

And tell Zhao Ji that when you put on glasses, don’t take them off, as this will at least stabilize the degree of your eyes. Otherwise, the degree will become heavier and heavier. In the later stage, the thick lenses at the bottom of the bottle will not allow you to see the world and the beautiful girl clearly.

This scared Zhao Ji so much that he finally became alert. Except when he was sleeping at night, he usually didn't dare to take off the glasses that could keep him vision.

"But now, at the junction of our Song Dynasty and Northern Liao Dynasty, the army of Northern Liao has begun to mobilize. The border village’s report is like snowflakes. How can I ignore it for my brother?" Zhao Xu sighed helplessly.

"After all, peace between the Song Dynasty and the Northern Liao Dynasty has been too long. Whenever the Northern Liao Dynasty takes action, it scares our border troops very much, hum!"

Zhao Ji pushed the glasses on his nose with a very secondary gesture. "In my opinion, the Northern Liao Dynasty at most wanted to move the mobilization of troops to test the reaction of our Song Dynasty. They were not willing to meet our Song Dynasty soldiers at all. Otherwise, why wouldn't we send troops south when our Song Dynasty was in full swing with the Western Xia?"

Although Zhao Ji was not good at becoming an emperor, he was smart enough. After studying hard, he mastered more and more knowledge, and he had his own opinions when analyzing the situation.

"Hey, Shiyilang, do you think so too?" Zhao Xu couldn't help but look at Zhao Ji and said.

Zhao Ji smiled shyly. "For the past few days, I have been writing with Mr. Wushan. The teacher occasionally talks about his triangular relationship between the Song Dynasty, Western Xia and Northern Liao Dynasty. I have seen a lot of things, but I have some simple opinions. It's better if the government doesn't laugh."

"Wang Wushan also talked to me, saying that the Emperor of Northern Liao is now in power, disregarding the people and scattering in vain. The ministers deceived the superiors and concealed the subordinates, committed favoritism and fraud, and corruption, which almost made the entire Northern Liao political arena a mess."

"And now, the Northern Liao Dynasty is very oppressing many tribes in the north, and the tribes are resisting one after another. The Northern Liao Dynasty's court was corrupt, and its troops were even more distant from war and were defeated in succession.

In desperation, he could only support some tribes to drive them, and use armor and swords to help Liao to stabilize border troubles. In the long run, when the knife is too sharp, the Northern Liao will likely be injured by this sharp blade."

"The realization of such a situation has now been revealed. Unfortunately, the important officials in the court have too short-sighted eyes and have not noticed the general trend of these countries. They just think that the Northern Liao army is strong and the horse is strong, so our Song Dynasty may not be able to become enemies."

"Some ministers even think that since the Northern Liao Dynasty is coming in a fierce manner, I, the Song Dynasty, should calm down and avoid riots." Zhao Xu was very depressed and had no choice. Although he was the emperor, he was still the ministers who were doing things.

Even though his will was very firm, the ministers in the court were buzzing all day long like a bunch of flies and mosquitoes, and everyone was upset.

Now, he has finally realized the difficulties of being in charge of the government. If he is not a person with a firm will, he will easily be influenced by the will of the court officials.

Zhao Xu's depression cannot be told to his subordinates. He can only complain to the Empress Dowager occasionally. The real person he talks with is the Empress Meng, and the other is the eleventh brother, Duan Wang Zhao Ji.

After all, if these words were spread out, they would definitely cause shock to the government and the country in the Song Dynasty, so they could not be said to the outside world at all.

Only the person next to the pillow and his brothers can talk about his troubles. What’s important is that Zhao Ji, the eleventh brother, agrees with his point of view very much, so whenever he has free time, Zhao Xu will definitely order Zhao Ji to come to the palace to see him, and then the two brothers drink while bragging while complaining, which has a very common topic.

"...By the way, how have you done the test of the pulley set and the crossbow arms these days?" After complaining, Zhao Xu suddenly thought of the topic that Zhao Ji had been busy with for a while.

That is, how to combine the pulley set with the Song Dynasty's bed crossbow, use the labor-saving pulley set, how to use less animal and manpower, and then shoot the bed crossbow in the shortest moment and time.

As for the crossbow arm test of the bed crossbow, it is considered to replace the crossbow arm with a soft steel crossbow arm that is thicker and tougher than the crossbow arm of the Divine Arm crossbow. In this way, it can not only reduce the production time and process of the crossbow arm, but also shorten the production of the bed crossbow and improve efficiency.

Zhao Ji couldn't help but feel a little more proud on his face. "Don't worry, the No. 7 prototype has been made. After testing, its range can reach the exaggerated range of the Eight Niu Crossbow..."

"And the No. 7 prototype only uses two soft steel crossbow arms. If three soft steel crossbow arms are used, I believe its range can reach a thousand steps."

"Qianbu... wouldn't that be 30% stronger than the strongest Eight-Nuo Bed Crossbow in our Song Dynasty today?" Zhao Xu couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, showing a look of surprise on his face.
Chapter completed!