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Li Zhu nodded to himself.
"Once the Liao Kingdom is destroyed,"
"The Jurchens who will gain power at that time,"
"They will definitely take advantage of the situation and head south,"
"At that time, the Central Plains will be..."
"There's a high chance that the chaos of the Five Barbarian Tribes will repeat itself."
“My chieftain is worried about this too,”
Xu Guanzhong nodded and said,
"It's because we're worried about the Jurchens moving south,"
"That's why we haven't raised the flag of rebellion."
"If we openly rebel now,"
"With the strength of our Liangshan,"
"They could easily occupy Shandong,"
"But then came the conquest and expansion,"
"It won't take thirty to fifty years,"
"Don't even think about succeeding."
"But what if there is internal strife in the Central Plains,"
"On the contrary, it gave the golden man an opportunity,"
"In the end, we'll all be sinners..."
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"I see,"
Li Zhu nodded in sudden realization.
"I had this question before,"
"The Liangshan forces are already this strong,"
"But they never actually raised a flag of rebellion,"
"Our Huaixi region is far inferior in strength to Liangshan,"
"And Tian Hu from Hebei has already raised the flag of rebellion."
"I've heard that Fang La was captured in Jiangnan,"
"I can't hold back any longer."
"I've been wondering about this for a while,"
"Why is Liangshan the most powerful?"
"There has been no movement at all."
"Now it seems that's how it is."
"I want to rebel against the Song Dynasty,"
Zhao Yuan explained,
"But I don't want the North to become a living hell."
"But Liangshan continues to be like this,"
Li Zhu frowned and said.
"Not taking the initiative to grow and expand,"
"When the Jurchens march south in the future,"
"You probably don't have the power to stop it, do you?"
"This is something we Liangshan need to worry about ourselves."
Zhao Yuan shook his head and said,
"We have our own reasons for doing this."
The reason why Liangshan has not yet raised its flag in rebellion is...
Actively conquer and seize territory.
Besides not wanting to cause chaos in the North...
Another reason,
Zhao Yuan was waiting for Liu Huiniang's muskets and cannons.
The artillery has already been prototyped.
But the musket still posed some problems.
in addition,
Even if it is built,
To enable large-scale production of these two,
It will also take a long time.
However, they wanted to wait for the cannons and muskets to be successfully manufactured.
First, a relatively peaceful environment is required.
After all, pig iron and gunpowder are things that...
Want to make large-scale acquisitions
They all require traveling merchants to purchase and collect them from various places.
If Liangshan really raises its flag in rebellion
To overthrow the imperial court,
It will take at least several years.
During this period,
They fought against the imperial court and obtained Liangshan.
I'm afraid no merchants will dare to come at all.
And like now,
Liangshan did not openly rebel.
Those merchants,
And the various forces behind them.
For that huge profit
They can all deceive themselves.
Pretending not to know the situation at Liangshan.
Continue doing business with Liangshan.
They helped Liangshan collect pig iron, saltpeter, and sulfur.
The Han people are an agricultural people.
There weren't enough horses.
They were also inferior to nomadic peoples in horsemanship.
This made it possible to cope with the invasion of northern nomadic peoples.
Most of the time,
They can only adopt a defensive posture.
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The reason they were able to suppress nomadic peoples so much was that they couldn't lift their heads.
This was largely because the Han and Tang dynasties had a sufficient number of horses.
It allows soldiers to practice their horsemanship skills extensively.
But under such conditions
Liangshan, however, simply did not possess these qualities.
But when Liangshan raised its flag and rebelled...
After fighting with Song Tingzhen,
That's obviously even more impossible.
Previously, Xu Guanzhong and his two strategists...
It's not that I haven't persisted.
We need to start sooner.
Try to destroy the Liao Dynasty before the Jurchens do so.
Before heading south to the Central Plains,
Occupy more territory
With sufficient human and financial resources in place,
It would also be better at dealing with the Liao people.
However, after seeing the cannons that Liu Huiniang had tested...
The three of them immediately agreed with Zhao Yuan's decision.
Cannons and muskets had to appear.
This was clearly the greatest effort needed to deal with nomadic cavalry.
Faced with powerful artillery...
Even if the Jurchen cavalry was strong...
But in the end, it is just a body of flesh and blood.
One shot,
Artillery could easily tear them apart.
What Liangshan is waiting for now is...
That is, the time allotted for manufacturing cannons and muskets.
Liu Huiniang was still continuously improving the cannon casting process.
Now on Liangshan,
They are now able to produce over a hundred cannons each month.
As for the muskets...
Although hundreds have already been handcrafted.
However, because pig iron is not strong enough,
To mass-produce,
It's clearly still quite challenging.
Although Zhao Yuan provided them with advice
But he needed to refine the steel.