The first question is agriculture, and the second question is engineering, but they are all common sense questions. Fu Bi is well aware of these contents.

Fu Bi handed the question to everyone and asked, "You should know the answers to these two questions! Who can tell me?"

A group of officials looked at each other, and many of them had their faces flushed, and no one could answer them. Fu Bi was stunned, "Don't you know?"

An official raised his hand and said, "I know how to make a fine linen robe, but I really don't know about the wooden cotton cloth."

Another official said: "Our family used to plant wheat, and I knew the yield per mu of wheat. My father said that it was about 200 kilograms, so I don't know anything else."

"You haven't gone to the field by yourself?"

The official shook his head, "I started studying at the age of five and went until I was admitted to the imperial examination at the age of twenty-four. I didn't let my family get involved in the farmland affairs."

Fu Bi asked again: "How many of you come from the countryside?"

Most of the dozen officials raised their hands, and Fu Bi was a little annoyed, "Are you all like him and have never touched farm work?"

Everyone was silent, which was considered to have admitted Fu Bi's conclusion.

Fu Bi snorted, picked up his pen and wrote down the answer. The reason why he knew the answers to these two questions was because he had been a county magistrate and cared about the suffering of farmers. In addition, he visited a textile workshop a few years ago and knew that the textile process of wooden cotton cloth, including rolling cotton, thread drawing, spinning, and weaving, is not very similar to hemp textile.

Although muffin cloth is very popular now and almost everyone wears it, there are not many people who know how to weave it. It is understandable that the second question is not answered, but if the first question cannot be answered, it would be too much.

Soon, hundreds of papers were collected, and all kinds of answers were available, but there were no one who answered them completely correctly. Almost half of the students handed in the blank paper.

Fu Bi sighed long, "Forget it!"

He shook his head and turned around and left the Imperial Academy.

When they returned, Fu Bi and Fanning were in a carriage.

The two sat down, and Fu Bicai said earnestly: "You have run a college of engineering before, which is actually a great concession from the court. Why are you not satisfied? You still have to continue to divert students in county-level schools. I don't know what to say about you. If you change this, how many people have benefited you? Aren't you afraid of thousands of old scholars in the world poking your backbone? Why did Wang Anshi look for you and give you the dominance? You are still too young."

Fan Ning smiled, "Wang Anshi did not intend to give me the dominance. This is the condition for me to support him. This must be the one who must be the leader of this matter. This is related to the great Han people's life. I don't want to suddenly realize that the Western barbarians have come far ahead of us after hundreds of years. As for some corrupt scholars who want to scold me, they will let them scold me. I can't sacrifice the future of the nation for the interests of some corrupt scholars."

"But you already have a school of engineering, isn't it enough?"

Fanning shook his head, "Most of the students in the School of Technology are young craftsmen. What they learn is how to make utensils well instead of creating them. Many people are even illiterate, which is a pity.

Our scholars are the smartest and most creative group. They will record the accidental discoveries of many craftsmen, study them, and thoroughly understand the principles in them. After generations of accumulation, one day they will build their own farming machines, and one person can cultivate hundreds of hectares of fields. They will build flying machines in the sky, from the capital to the Luzon Palace, and in one hour, they will invent the most powerful firearm in the world, launch from Bianliang, and directly blow up Shangjing of the Liao Kingdom."

Fu Bi was stunned when he heard this, "Will these appear?"

"It will definitely appear. Maybe our generation won't see it, but it will definitely appear in the future."

Fu Bi sighed long, "You have a vision that ordinary people do not have. Maybe you are right. Although I voted against the teaching reform, since it must be implemented, I also hope that it will succeed. As you said, in a few hundred years, my descendants can also board a flying machine and travel in the sky."

The sensational reform law was finally over, and Zhao Xu also specifically contacted Wang Anshi. All reform plans were temporarily frozen, and the entire court's energy was focused on responding to the threat from the Liao Kingdom.

Zhao Xu immediately issued an order, and Fan Ning also served as the Privy Councilor, fully responsible for the combat preparations of the Liao Kingdom.

It was already December. On the morning of that day, Fanning came to the Firearms Bureau to inspect the Firearms Bureau. The Firearms Bureau was located outside the North City. After two expansions, it covers an area of ​​nearly 1,000 acres. It includes a small hill dozens of feet high. Many firearm tests were conducted in the small hills.

In fact, the most powerful iron fire thunder in the Song Dynasty has been manufactured in Kunzhou. No one in the Beijing Firearms Bureau knew its structure, formula and production craftsmanship. This was the intention of the late emperor Song Renzong. He was very clear about the intelligence capabilities of the Liao Kingdom. As long as the firearms were made in the capital, the Liao Kingdom would soon learn to learn to use them. Under the temptation of the Liao Kingdom's heavy profits, few people could resist it.

The various firearms of the Song army also appeared in the Liao Kingdom shortly after they were launched, which is very evident. However, the Iron Fire Thunder has been born for more than ten years, but the Liao Kingdom has never been able to create them, which shows that Song Renzong's decision was still very wise.

Fan Ning came to the Firearms Bureau today because the Military Crossbows Institute invented a powerful crossbow that could eject 50 kilograms of heavy objects to two hundred steps away, which is equivalent to a medium-sized catapult.

The crossbow was first used to eject stones, so it was called a stone cannon, also known as a pike. It was only after the Song Dynasty used a large number of firearms and was renamed a cannon. It was not the same as the artillery in later generations. It was just a kind of crossbow.

Compared with catapults, the biggest advantage of the crossbow cannon is that it occupies a small area and shoots accurately, but its weakness is also obvious. Its range is only about a hundred steps. Compared with the catapults with a range of three or four hundred steps, it is much less powerful. It does not require accuracy when defending the city. In addition, many large cities have wide heads and can install catapults, so the crossbows gradually lose their function.

However, after the emergence of the Iron Fire Thunder, the projection accuracy is relatively high, especially in water battles of large ships, which require a powerful firearm with high shooting accuracy. Whether it is an iron fire thunder or a tiny oil tank, it must be accurately projected onto the opponent's ship, and it must also be projected from a long distance. The crossbow cannon is very suitable, but its range is too short, so it is of great significance to the warship and even the city guarding.

On the test ground of the Firearms Bureau, a strange-sized crossbow was placed on the grass. The crossbow was about one meter long. Its principle was a large crossbow, which used the slowly accumulated elastic force to eject the stone.

This crossbow has an iron winch on both sides. Three people at each station turn the iron winch together. The secret to the improvement of this crossbow is that it uses a high elastic rubber belt to replace the principle ribbon. The ejection ability has greatly increased and the range has also doubled, generally between 150 and 200 steps.

A soldier placed a fifty-pound iron fire thunder in his shooting pocket. It was just an expired and invalid iron fire thunder. There was no need to ignite it. When the soldier pulled the copper pole below, he heard a loud "bang!" and the iron fire thunder was shot out and accurately hit a large wooden board 150 steps away.

The officials around looked at Fanning, and Fanning nodded and said, "The range has indeed increased, but I still have a small question. For example, the other party's wooden board is a ship. I hit it, and you also saw it. It did not shoot through the hull, but fell into the sea. Unless it was very accurate and waterproof, it exploded at the moment of falling into the water, and the air waves and water waves overturned the big ship, but do you think it was easy to achieve?"

The officials of the Crossbow Court obviously had prepared. An official stepped forward and said, "There are two solutions. One is what my husband said, try to explode before falling into the water. The impact of the explosion can still seriously damage the other party. However, this requires the precision control of the Firearms Bureau, which is more difficult. Another solution is to install sharp nails on the iron fire thunder shell, just like caltrop thorns, so that it can be nailed to the boat when it hits the boat."

Fanning turned around and asked, "Is there such an iron fire thunder?"

A Firearms Bureau official nodded, "Yes!"

He immediately sent someone to get a special iron fire thunder, which was indeed three one-foot-long iron spikes on it, which were very sharp. The official said to Fan Ning: "This is called a long nail thunder. It was originally used to deal with the city gate. It can be nailed directly to the city gate or against the ships of the Liao Kingdom."

Fanning nodded and smiled: "The ships of Liao Kingdom do not need this kind of long nail thunder. Ordinary iron fire thunder can penetrate it. I just consider the use of naval wars in the future."

Fanning thought for a while and said to the officials of the Crossbow Academy: "Box cannons are generally not placed on the deck, but in the cabin. I suggest adding a pipe in front of the crossbow cannon, and the pipe extends outside the cabin, and the iron and fire thunder are shot directly through the tube. Is it feasible?"

Several officials thought for a while and said, "The problem should not be big!"

"There are also safeguards. If the crossbow fails or the ejection fails, there must be a way to quickly send the burning iron fire to the sea and never blow up your own ship."

"Let's go back and think about this!"

Several officials had big heads, and they immediately thought of backup ejection, but it was OK, but they had to think about it carefully.

"My husband may take one or two months."
Chapter completed!