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During the Northern Song Dynasty, the manufacturing of firearms had begun to take shape. There were Guangbei siege works in the city of Bianliang. There were more than 5,000 craftsmen and ten works under their jurisdiction, including gunpowder works and fireworks that specialize in the production of firearms.

The prosperous population and low fire resistance level of building materials led to frequent fires in Bianliang City during the Northern Song Dynasty, and even arrived, with countless small fires and large fires occurring at least one or two every year.

There are many reasons for fires, such as accidental fire, artificial arson, lightning strikes, etc.

Among them, the most harmful and most difficult to extinguish fires are gunpowder and fire.

It can be said that just two moves and one move will be a huge disaster.

Take a huge fire caused by fire during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty as an example:

At that time, a "worker" (technician) of the fireworks used too much force when loading gunpowder, and sparks splashed. In an instant, the cannon sounded shaking the sky, the earth shook, and all the workers in the fireworks were blown to death. Houses within three miles were either shaken or burned down. A rough count was that the total number of people who died in the fire was as high as more than 1,300.

The court learned from his mistakes and concluded: Gunpowder and Fireworks store a large amount of saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal and even gunpowder on weekdays, all of which are flammable and explosive items, which can easily cause fires. Once a fire is caused, it will definitely affect the surrounding residents and cause huge disasters.

Therefore, the court ordered the relocation of gunpowder and fire to an uninhabited land in the northwest corner of the city, and built some houses there for the craftsmen who were gunpowder and fire and their families to live there.

At this time, people believed that gunpowder and firefighting, which caused huge casualties at every turn, were ominous places. Therefore, if nothing happened, almost no one in the city of Bianliang would go to a place with a radius of ten miles.

Originally, there were two battalions of troops and one battalion of potential fire soldiers stationed near Gunpowder and Fire Grave.

Later, with the outbreak of the war, all gunpowder and gunpowder weapons were moved to the city wall, and the troops of the third battalion were transferred to defend the city, leaving only two craftsmen and their families to continue to make gunpowder and weapons.

After the Jin people captured the outer city of Bianliang City, gunpowder and fireworks were not affected because they were too far away from the main city area and too remote. Although the craftsmen of the two works and their families had some speculations about the situation in Bianliang City, they did not act rashly because they did not face the danger directly.

That day, when Han Qing sent Zhao Hui to hide the 20,000 sets of armor, countless crossbows and feather arrows, and spear tips that were enough to arm 100,000 people, Zhao Hui didn't know where to hide at first. After all, there were too many things, and it was impossible for ordinary places to hide so many things.

So Zhao Ying asked the fifty people he picked out: Does anyone know where so many soldiers can be hidden?

One of the fifty people turned out to be a hidden fire soldiers made of gunpowder. He said to Zhao Sheng: "The villain originally had a warehouse that stores fireproof equipment in the camp, and he would definitely be able to hide these weapons.

There are still many vacant barracks there, which are enough to hide these armors.

In addition, there are many warehouses for gunpowder and fireworks, which are usually used to store gunpowder and firearms, but now they should be idle."

Han Qing once saved the life of this Qianhuo soldier on the battlefield. This Qianhuo soldier was grateful and loyal to Han Qing. Zhao Ying believed what the Qianhuo soldier said.

So, Zhao Xie took the fifty people to send the weapons, crossbows, feather arrows, and spear tips to gunpowder to hide them in the hidden fire camp behind.

Later, Han Qing stole more than 80,000 stone grains and was sent there one after another to hide.

After Han Qing heard about gunpowder and fire, he took the time to go to gunpowder and fire, and falsely passed the imperial edict: "The court has ordered me to take over the two things with full authority. You and others will perform their duties, and I have my own orders."

After saying that, Han Qing also gave Liang Liang and Zhao Huan the imperial edict to the Gunpowder and the Fireman.

Han Qing was wearing a military uniform of a seventh-rank military officer, and there were hundreds of fully armed soldiers behind him. Who dared to check what the imperial edict was written in his hand?

After stabilizing the craftsmen of gunpowder and fire, Han Qing ordered people to give each craftsman a bucket of rice and said to them: "You don't need to worry about everything. I have to do everything. You just need to do what I have to tell you."

After that, Han Qing, the ace explosion hand of later generations, cleanly improved the gunpowder formula, production methods and production processes, and formulated reward and punishment measures. Then, the craftsmen of the two works and their families put down all their work and focused on gunpowder to fully produce new gunpowder.

And gunpowder became Han Qing's base camp.

After saving Jiang Xuan, Li Fu, Lu Wan and others, Han Qing also sent them to gunpowder and asked Zhao Xuan to train them according to his own method.

Soon, the Jin people came to ask for war horses. Zhao Huan, who was immersed in the dream of successful peace talks, ordered all war horses in the city to be handed over to Kaifeng Prefecture.

Considering that horses are living things that are not easy to hide and they also use precious food and grass, Han Qing left only one of the best war horses to use as his mount, and handed over the rest.

Not long after, the Jin people asked for military armor, and Zhao Huan ordered that no one should leave behind a strong arm.

At this time, many soldiers realized that the Caotou King in the turbulent times, whoever has military armor is the boss, so they are not willing to hand over the military armor they have.

Unfortunately, there are Jin people oppressing outside and Zhao Huan's guards suppressing inside. How could they protect their weapons?

In the end, under the pressure of Zhao Huan's imperial edict and the guards, they were all forcibly put out weapons.

Han Qing was not as ignorant as these soldiers, but "honestly" handed over all the luxurious military armor worn by more than 3,000 people at the first time.

After handing over the military armor, all the soldiers in the city, except for Zhao Huan's guards, were all deposed from their martial arts. Even Zhao Huan's guards only had a small number of swords and guns in their hands, and most of them used sticks as weapons.

Although Han Qing's three thousand men were not disbanded, they were soon submerged in countless defeated soldiers because they were not equipped with luxurious armor and lost their mission to guard the palace.

Because of taking the initiative to guard the granary, Han Qing had a relationship with Mei Zhili, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

Mei Zhili felt that Han Qing was capable, steady, humble and wise. The key was that Han Qing had more than 3,000 soldiers who listened to him very much.

So, no matter what mission Mei Zhili performed, she liked to bring Han Qing with her and asked Han Qing to protect him.

After a while, the two of them became in love.

With Tome in charge of the ritual, Han Qing was about to reach the barracks made by gunpowder, making it truly his own residence.

Later, some Song army defeated soldiers took the opportunity to make trouble. They wore black clothes or shaved their foreheads and pretended to be Jin soldiers, robbed and killed people everywhere, and even forced women into households. More than 70 women were plundered from the back of Xuan Rengao. Even the wife of Zuo Yan, the commander of the four-box, was abducted and used a hundred taels of gold to redeem them.

The defeated soldiers caused chaos and killed a lot, which had seriously endangered the safety of the powerful and powerful in the city.

Zhao Huan, the king and his ministers had to study the matter of extermination.

Mei Zhili took the opportunity to recommend Han Qing to Zhao Huan, saying that Han Qing was loyal and brave enough to entrust major events.

Zhao Huan had a good impression of Han Qing, especially when Han Qing listened to him, he obediently handed over all the war horses and armor he had in his possession, and there was no complaint at all afterwards.

Therefore, Zhao Huan ordered Han Qing to be promoted to the commander of the Fenjun, the Right Wu Dafu, Tongzhou Defense Envoy, to assist Kaifeng Prefecture's patrol and the imperial guards, to jointly operate and arrest the rebellious people.

Because of this job, Han Qing got 100 swords, guns and a thousand sticks, and became one of the few powerful figures in the city with force.

That night, under the command of Kaifeng Prefectural Order Xu Bingzhe, Han Qing, Zuo Yan and Fan Qiong personally led the troops to arrest all the evil people who took advantage of the situation.

All of these evil people were beheaded by Fan Qiong, and their heads were hung beside the thoroughfare and displayed in public.

The next day, Zhao Huan issued an order to Kaifeng Prefecture, ordering him to issue a notice to recruit the dispersed envoys and soldiers, and ask them to return to the team immediately, and the court will still provide food for them.

At this time, many defeated soldiers were still wandering around the city of Bianliang to harm the enemy, especially the soldiers recruited by Guo Jing, Fu Linzheng and others were all vague people who could not fight or defend. When the city was trapped, these people were the first to disperse and took the opportunity to cause trouble, often pretending to be Jin people and robbed good people for evil.

But in order to stabilize the situation in Bianliang City, Zhao Huan would rather continue to waste food to support them.

Shortly after the Kaifeng Prefecture announcement was issued, a group of defeated soldiers walked out of the streets and alleys, returning to the team one after another, scattered among the barracks...
Chapter completed!