"Roman Fire? Burst Magic?"

Of course, Ji Yi understood what the Caliph and Sultan wanted. He smiled and said, "We don't know what Roman fire is. The one who burned the Pu family warships on the Sanfoqi Strait was a fierce turbulent oil cabinet. The fierce turbulent oil was mined from the ground. The oil cabinet was something that could spray fierce turbulent oil out. If you want to get the fierce turbulent oil cabinet, you can send scholars to study at Yuntai University.

As for the explosion magic, it is just a gunpowder weapon, not a magic weapon at all. However, I can't make it. If you want to learn it, you can also send scholars to study at Yuntai University. Moreover, I also want to invite scholars from your country and the Roman country in the West to give lectures in the Song Dynasty in the East. The scholars from the Song Dynasty and the Western world can communicate with each other."

The design of the turtle oil cabinet is no secret to the Arab Empire. They have already had similar things. I just don’t know how to extract Roman fire turtle oil. Although light crude oil is quite good, it is still far worse than Roman fire. Roman fire should be a refinery of oil, similar to gasoline, extremely flammable and explosive!

As for gunpowder, it is actually not a secret in the Song Dynasty. There are gunpowder filled with fireworks and firecrackers among the people. However, black particle gunpowder is a secret. Except for Jiehe Shangshi Gunpowder Institute (a combination of the Shangshi Chamber of Commerce and Yuntai Academy and several professors of studying physics from Yuntai Academy), there is no second gunpowder workshop in the Song Dynasty that can produce granular black gunpowder.

Of course, the secret of granular black gunpowder will not be exported to the Arabs. However, the method of making non-grained gunpowder does not have much military value in Ji Yi's opinion. It can be taught to the Arabs. In fact, Ji Yi didn't know that the formula of granular gunpowder and ordinary gunpowder was almost the same. He thought that they were two completely different things.

Moreover, after learning about the collection of books in Nietzschemeian University and the academic attainments of the Tianfang scholars of this era in studying things, Ji Yi and Li Gang both believed that it was necessary to invite a group of Arab scholars to give lectures in the Central Plains.

When trying to translate Euclid's "Geometric Original", Li Gang and Wan Sisheng, Wanmud, Bai Siwen and others encountered great difficulties. Among them, Li Gang, Wanmud and Bai Siwen had low Arabic skills and it was difficult to translate academic collections (Li Gang learned Arabic from the Wan father and son on the way to Baghdad). Only Wan Sisheng, who had studied at the University of Mitzheni, had this ability, but Wan Sisheng was not a rational scholar. He was just a religious scholar who had read Aristotle's works. He had a poor foundation in natural science and could not understand "Geometric Original" at all, so he naturally had many difficulties in translating.

It is already so difficult to translate a "Geometry Origin". It is absolutely an unimaginable huge project to translate all the vast collections of academic essays in Nietzschemeian University into Chinese. To complete this huge project, it is absolutely impossible to rely on merchants or imams who are proficient in Chinese and Arabic. The participation of rational scholars must be required, otherwise it will be missed if they are forced to translate it.

So Ji Yi wanted to use gunpowder weapons as bait to attract a group of rational scholars to the Song Dynasty.

In addition, Ji Yi now knows that most of the books in Nietzschemean University were copied from Western Rome and Greece. So he wanted to imitate Rome, Greece (actually a country) and the Italian Peninsula as an envoy of the Song Dynasty.

"What? The envoy wants to invite Rome scholars?" Of course, the Caliph did not want the envoys of the Song Dynasty to contact Rome directly, but he could not detain Ji Yi's mission. There was a fleet behind Ji Yi that was stuck in the Sanfoqi Strait and could exert influence on the Indian Ocean at any time!

If the mission is really detained, the Tiankhan of the Peach Blossom Stone does not have to send his fleet to Arabs. He only needs to use trade and tax means to support the Ismayi faction that was enemy of Baghdad (the Shiite mainstream at that time, with Fatima as the leader), which is enough for the Caliphs of Baghdad and the Sultan of Isfahan to drink a pot.

The Caliph exchanged glances with Sultan Muhammad I, and the Sultan also said: "That's right, Rome now has no civilization and rationality, and only Christian barbarism and ignorance."

The two of them were translated word by Wan Sisheng, and after returning to the old man Wan, he added: "The envoy, the Romans' Crusaders are fighting against the Tianfang Cult, and the Caliph and the Sultan will inevitably worry that we will form an alliance with the Romans..."

Ji Yi smiled. He had known the thoughts of the Caliph and the Sultan for a long time, and was prepared. So he said, "His Majesty the Caliph, His Highness the Sultan, was the purpose of the mission to go to Rome. First, it was to search for the knowledge of the Greek sages of Rome; second, it was to mediate the conflict between the Tianfang religion and Christianity. Because no one in my mission could speak Roman dialect, I wanted to invite Mr. Hayam and Mr. Ansari to accompany the mission to Constantinople to serve as a mission's communication.

Moreover, the envoy can also assure His Majesty the Caliph and His Highness the Sultan that as long as you admit that there is actually only one peach blossom stone, our country will not establish any official liaison with the other two caliphs."

The Caliph and Sultan exchanged views in a low voice. The method proposed by Ji Yi seemed to be feasible. If Hayam and Ansari act as the translator of the mission, nothing would have happened.

"Okay!" said the Caliph, "Let Hayam and Ansari bring other scholars we have assigned to accompany the envoy to Rome.

As for whether your war with the Karakhan Dynasty is the internal affairs of the Taohua Stone, it still needs to be investigated, which may take several months to a year. After this matter is found out, let’s discuss the issue of exchanging gunpowder weapons with books from Nietzschemean University.”

Ji Yi smiled and said, "Then let's go to Constantinople first."

...

While Ji Yi was about to travel west to Rome, Wu Haogu was about to travel east to return to Kaifeng Prefecture.

He has been in Shaanxi and Shuofang (Lingzhou now belongs to Shuofang Road). During this period, in addition to paying attention to the Battle of Anxi, he was supervising the reorganization of the Western Army and Shuofang Army.

Wu Haogu left Beijing this time, at the beginning, he was the General Military Aircraft of the Sixth Route in Shaanxi, responsible for the reorganization of the sixth Route. Later, he added a Shaanxi and Shuofang Seventh Route in Shaanxi, and was also responsible for supervising the reorganization of the Shuofang Route.

According to the plan, the Western Army, which did not include the Hedong Fulin Army, will be reorganized into six generals and stationed in the Sixth Route in Shaanxi. In addition, as many as 150,000 military households need to arrange land and live in the Sixth Route and Shuofang Road (the official land of the Sixth Route in Shaanxi has not been divided enough). This is a huge and complex project, and even with cooperation between the Western Army, it is not so easy to complete.

After all, the Western Army has been intricate for so many years, no matter how it is done, it is impossible to be transformed in a short period of time. Moreover, people are not as sad as the Hexi Army, carrying the pain of national destruction, so naturally nothing can be changed.

After all, the Western Army was adapted as a victor. Everyone is a hero of the court, so how can they not take care of it at all?

However, Wu Haogu is also a good talker, so it will not be too difficult for ordinary Western Army generals to be. As long as he can explain it, he will turn a blind eye.

The reorganization of the Shuofang Army was much smoother. The Shuofang Army was a new army, which was originally a system of government troops. Moreover, it was established for a short time and no mixed interest groups had been formed within it. With the reputation of Gao Qiu, Tong Guan and Wu Haogu, what kind of reforms would not be able to be changed?

Therefore, while the Western Army was still slowly advancing the reorganization, the Shuofang Army had already completed the reorganization quickly. A total of five generals were formed, plus 2,000 knights, and a total of 27,000 combat soldiers. Among them, Lingzhou controlled by Gao Qiu had one general and 1,000 knights, and the Shuofang Road Strategy and Pacification Envoy Department controlled by Tong Guan had five generals and 1,000 knights.

However, unlike the Shaanxi Army, although Shuofang Army also mainly uses the Tianfu soldiers, the military households are not as many as tens of thousands, and they can only be gradually cultivated and cannot be granted at once. Otherwise, they are all soldiers of the same age, what should I do if there is no one in five years? Therefore, professional officers and non-commissioned officers can be granted immediately, but the soldiers' land must be taken slowly. After the service period of a group of military soldiers expires, the land will be granted according to their performance and personal wishes. Because the service period of the Tianfu soldiers is five years of active service plus twenty years of reserve, it takes up to 25 years to complete the land grant of 125,000 military households.

Of course, not all Shuofang Army officers will be granted land. Only officers who are willing to settle in Shuofang and have served in Shuofang Army for a long time can receive 1,000 acres of land.

When the Shuofang Army successfully completed the reorganization of the army and the Hexi Army's Western Expedition was progressing smoothly, Wu Haogu was also appointed as the Propaganda Envoy of the Fifth Route of Hebei in the summer of the first year of Daguan.

The administrative divisions of Hebei in the Northern Song Dynasty included Jingluo Road and Transportation Road. Jingluo Road was divided into Damingfu Road, Gaoyangguan Road, Zhending Road, Dingzhou Road, and the coastal roads (Coastal Maritime Bureau) that were later established, and the transportation roads were two Hebei East and West Roads. However, sometimes the imperial court also established Hebei Road Pacification Envoy or Hebei Road Transport Ambassador. It all depends on the actual situation in Hebei, and there is no fixed number.

This time, Wu Haogu was going to serve as the Hebei Xuanfu Ambassador, who was quite famous, but in fact he was a sent-on with limited power and a very stubborn task.

Because while appointing Wu Haogu to pacify Hebei, the court did not abolish the following five strategic routes. At the same time, it did not give Wu Haogu the power to act cheaply and control the five routes. Instead, he was responsible for the rectification of the five routes of the imperial guards in Hebei and the establishment of the new prefecture army.

This is really a bit difficult! Who doesn’t know that the Hebei Imperial Guard is a tofu? And there are many shortcomings and complex internal relationships, which is very troublesome.

Moreover, the fifth route of Hebei has their own pacification and commander. Except for Mi Youren on the coastal route, the other four routes are commanders and prefects. They are all senior civil officials who can follow the commanders of Wu Haogu?

Hebei’s army reorganization is a troublesome no matter how you look at it!
Chapter completed!