In the middle of the barracks is a material and food warehouse, with hundreds of large tents, surrounded by huge fences, and the guards are very tight. This is the first time Fanning came to this warehouse. The official who accompanied him to inspect the warehouse was named Yan Jing, who was a civilian soldier who served as a treasurer.

The two of them came to a large tent. Yan Jing looked at the guards with an arrow and turned to Fan Ning and said, "Chief Fan, this is the firearm warehouse!"

On the night when the natives attacked the military camp two days ago, it was the first time Fanning saw the Song army's firearms, which made him quite interested.

Fan Ning followed Yan Jing into the gunpowder warehouse. This expedition brought not many firearms. After all, they would not encounter powerful enemies. Each firearm only brought dozens of pieces, at most, fire thunder, which is the porcelain fire thunder launched the day before yesterday. The porcelain fire thunder is as big as a tea pot, weighing about two or three kilograms, and it is flat and round. It is covered with a porcelain hat. The porcelain hat is in the porcelain hat. When using it, you must pull out the porcelain hat to ignite the fuse.

In addition to porcelain fire thunder, there are also several paper fire thunders next to it. There are a rack of bamboo thunders inside, and more than a dozen layers of paper are baked outside. However, whether porcelain fire thunder or paper fire thunder, the lethality is not strong. There is almost no shock wave during the explosion, and it only hurts people by the iron nails and porcelain pieces that burst during the explosion.

"Why are there no iron fire thunder?" Fanning asked back.

Yan Jing smiled bitterly, "Iron Fire Thunder is of course the best. The imperial court offered a reward for making Iron Fire Thunder ten years ago, and the bonus has increased to 20,000 yuan, but so far, no one has been able to create it."

Fan Ning suddenly remembered what Di Qing said to him, "In addition to offering a reward to create powerful crossbows, the imperial court also offers a reward to make firearms." Does the rewarded firearm refer to iron fire thunder?

At the beginning, Fan Ning was thinking about the divine arm crossbow and never considered the issue of firearms. In fact, he also knew that the development of firearms ran through the entire Northern Song Dynasty, and the appearance of firearms still changed with the changes of gunpowder.

For example, from the original paper fire thunder, it gradually evolved into ceramic fire thunder and porcelain fire thunder, which is why the power of gunpowder is constantly increasing. Early gunpowder could not open porcelain bottles, and it mainly played a role in burning, which shocked the enemy's war horses, etc.

Now that firearms have been developing for nearly a hundred years, the power of gunpowder is constantly improving, and they can already blow up thick porcelain bottles. The court naturally considered the possibility of blowing up iron shells. It must have begun research and is also offering rewards for effective solutions.

Of course Fan Ning knew that at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Gang had already used Iron Fire Thunder when he was guarding Tokyo, but it was very unstable and squibs often appeared, which shows that the formula problem has been solved, but the quality of the gunpowder is not good enough, and the squibs are caused by burning and not supplementing.

By the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the war once again triggered the development of gunpowder technology, and finally caused hugely powerful thunder, which was very powerful.

There are records in historical books that 'Iron can hold medicine and lit it with fire. The cannon fires and its sound is like thunder. It sounds like thunder. It is heard a hundred miles away. It is over half acre of the surrounding area. The fire lit the armor and iron.'

That is, the killing distance is 300 square meters, and the iron armor is penetrated by debris near the explosion point.

In fact, this is not the most powerful thunder. The thunder used in the battle between the Song and Yuan dynasties was approaching the power of explosives. A thunder blew down the city wall, and all the soldiers within a hundred feet of the surrounding area were shocked to death.

If it is just a solution to the gunpowder formula, it is very simple. Fanning can now come up with the formula for black gunpowder in later generations. The key is how to improve the quality of gunpowder, such as the size of a grain, how can an iron can be as big as a wine jar, and how can the gunpowder inside fully burn and burst out with its maximum power?

Therefore, the combustion speed must be ensured. Otherwise, the gunpowder will explode after only half of the burning, and the remaining black gunpowder will be wasted. This requires experiments again and again to find the best solution.

It’s just a pity that this expedition did not bring any gunpowder raw materials, otherwise he could have tried it well.

At this moment, the guard waved at the door, Yan Jing walked out, and came back for a moment and said to Fan Ning: "Ship Di sent someone to find Yushi Fan!"

Fan Ning was stunned, then put down the porcelain fire thunder in his hand and walked out quickly. A soldier stood outside the warehouse gate. It was Di Qing's personal soldier. When he saw Fan Ning come out, he hurried forward to salute, "Report to the Censor Fan, Shuai Di, please go to the big tent, there is something important."

"What happened?" Fanning asked.

"It seems that the natives from the north are coming and want to talk to us!"

This news made Fan Ning very happy, and this was the result he was most looking forward to. In fact, the result could be reached by anything. It is not necessary to kill one to death. Fan Ning quickly walked towards the central army tent.

There were more than a dozen natives sitting cross-legged in the central army's tent, wearing chaotic beards, wearing animal skins, with timid eyes and nervous expressions. One of them could speak Japanese, and officials in the Song army could speak Japanese, so that they could communicate with each other.

At this time, Fan Ning walked into the central army's tent, and Zhao Zongshi hurriedly came up and said, "This is the natives of the northwest tribe. They want to negotiate with us and hope that both sides will be safe."

Fanning smiled and said, "Aren't these natives full of hatred for us? Why did you think of negotiations?"

"I just talked to them for a moment. They and the northeastern tribes are both small tribes. The two tribes have less than a thousand people in total. Ten years ago, they moved from a large island in the north. It should be Sakhalin Island. They are often bullied and oppressed by the peninsula tribes. Half of the food they harvested have to be handed over. The women are also plundered by the other party. This time we destroy the peninsula tribes. They are both happy and scared. I hope we can allow them to stay on Maoren Island."

The result was beyond Fanning's expectations. He thought for a while and asked, "You said they moved from Sakhalin Island, why did they move here?"

"You can ask them directly!"

Fanning nodded, walked up to him and bowed with his fists. An interpreter next to him said a few words in Japanese. The other translator also told a group of people. More than a dozen people quickly got up and saluted Fanning.

Seeing that they had no fierceness in their eyes, most of them were kind and timid, completely different from the natives on the peninsula, Fanning also had a slight affection for them.

He waved his hand and asked everyone to sit down, and said with a smile: "I heard that you came from the big island in the north, why did you come to Maoren Island?"

Translation, one of the men who looked like a leader said a few words. The Song Dynasty translator said to Fanning: "They said that it was too cold and there was less food. The Maoren Island was much warmer. They were often bullied by people here, women were stolen, and life was very sad."

Fanning found that although they were also very short, they were still slightly different from the natives here. They were not as dark as the natives here, and their faces were more obvious, and their appearance was a bit like Khitans.

Fanning remembered a saying that although they were all Ainu people and had similar living habits, the Ainu people on Hokkaido migrated from Southeast Asian islands, but the Ainu people on Sakhalin Island were a branch of the Black Shui Mori, called the Kushuobu, which seemed to have moved to Sakhalin Island during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

At this time, Di Qing said next to him: "Civil Fan, they said that the Mao people in Japan are also very fierce and will not tolerate them moving there. They hope to stay on Mao people Island. I and Zhao Jun also think that's OK. These people are very simple and kind, completely different from the natives before, and they will help us to go north to Sakhalin Island in the future. What do you think?"

Fan Ning thought for a while and said, "Then let them become the people of the Song Dynasty. The captured women and children can be given to them. Our conditions should be good."

The translator said Fanning's meaning, and the eyes of more than a dozen people on the other side had an unconcealable excitement. It was probably because he heard that the women and children were given to them, and more than a dozen people knelt down and kowtowed to Fanning to thank him.

Women are a kind of wealth for them, and many of them are originally their wives and daughters, and were snatched away by the natives of the peninsula.

Two days later, more than a dozen elders from another tribe also came to the Song army camp. The two tribes finally reached an agreement with the Song army. They were willing to become citizens of the Song Dynasty, no longer called Mao people, but changed their name to the Kun tribe of the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty did not impose taxes on them, and only symbolically paid a bear skin and a few pairs of deer antlers to the Song Dynasty emperor every year. The Song army agreed to move to the peninsula, where the food was richer and the climate was warmer.

In order to thank the Song army for returning the abducted wife and daughter to them, the Kun people gave the Song army three hundred bear skins, which was the wealth they had accumulated over decades.

The Song army gave them two sets of Song Dynasty clothes and a lot of food and salt each, which finally gave them farewell to live a summer life wearing animal skins.

This is also Fan Ning's idea. Since the Kun people have become citizens of the Song Dynasty, while retaining their beliefs and customs, they also try their best to get closer to the Song Dynasty people.

We must establish schools, teach their children to learn Chinese, change their clothes, teach them to farm, weave cloth, change their eating habits, and prolong their lifespan. Perhaps decades later, they will gradually become Chinese and identify themselves as the Song people from the bottom of their bones.

Ten days later, the Song army left 500 people to guard the military camp, and the remaining troops advanced in a mighty manner under the leadership of the Kun hunters.
Chapter completed!