Radiant, this is what Han Qi looks like now, even if he stood there and didn't say a word, but the kind of aura he showed proved it.

More than a year ago, Han Qi was just a member of the Fa Reform faction with an unstable foundation, and he could not even be called the leader of the Fa Change, at most, he could only be called Fan Zhongyan's assistant.

If it weren't for Renzong's efforts to protect the young talents and protect them, they would probably have to be degraded along with Fan Zhongyan and others, and it would be almost impossible to return to the court.

At that time, Han Qi, who went to the northwest, had such an idea, but fortunately, Zhao Xin appeared and brought a longbow and a fortress, as well as explosives, these three things were perfectly combined together, creating the Battle of the Northwest.

Without any of them, there is no way to complete the Battle of the Northwest.

After more than a year, Han Qi has become a different person, he is already the most meritorious existence in the entire Northern Song Dynasty, occupying Lingzhou, almost the entire Hetao Plain, and incorporating it into the system of the Northern Song Dynasty, helping the Liao State, taking Xingqing Mansion, destroying Western Xia, and solving the worries of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Later, because of the guidance of the benefit, he won the Lingzhou agreement, and with the help of the Lingzhou agreement funds, he built the water conservancy system of Lingzhou, which solved the problems of the entire northwest in one fell swoop, and Han Qi had enough confidence to face any problems in the court.

In the entire Spring Festival meeting, the most eye-catching and rewarded was Han Qi.

With Han Qi's credit, these rewards are not only not much, but a lot less.

After all, several credits, no matter which one of them, fall to any person, and they are all credits that are difficult to reward, and these credits, when they fall on one person, are either unsealable, or they are as they are now, greatly reduced.

For this, Han Qi didn't care at all, relying on the cooperation with the Ding Navy, the Han Qi family had already gained enough benefits, and when the money reached a certain point, it was meaningless.

Han Qi's goal is to realize his ambition in life and change the entire Northern Song Dynasty with his own will, rather than making a huge amount of money.

But even if the reward is reduced many times, in absolute numbers, it is already very considerable, and the simple monetary reward is more than 20,000 yuan, and there are things like fiefdoms, these things are more, and it is an honor.

The fief cannot be directly used by the nobles, it is more of a data, and after collecting a certain amount of data, a part of the fee is reduced and handed over to the nobles.

This part of the money is very small, each household, may only be a little bit, even if it is actually sealed hundreds, or even thousands of households, the annual money is not much.

In order to prevent the emergence of powerful ministers, the Northern Song Dynasty carried out a certain system for these, even if it is expensive to slaughter and care, it is already good to be able to seal thousands of households, and thousands of households, how many are per year, and it is already good to be able to have hundreds of runs.

The rich rewards make everyone look sideways, adding up to tens of thousands, under the premise that thousands of dollars have become huge wealth, tens of thousands of dollars are definitely a very big wealth.

The focus of the court meeting, after arriving at Han Qi, was a little dull after that, as the Marquis of Dinghai, Zhao Xin was also among the rewards.

Renzong knows very well that Zhao Xin does not particularly value these, and Zhao Xin is not short of money.

The money given to Renzong alone is a few million, close to ten million, and any reward will not have much effect on him.

Besides, Zhao Xin's sensitive identity, coupled with Zhao Xin's low-key style, it is impossible for Renzong to put him in the spotlight and give him a reward that complies with the rules, neither high nor low.

Han Qi is the focus of the entire court meeting, Zhao Xin, is just a small transparent, although there are some people who pay attention to him, but when Zhao Xin is not inconspicuous at all, there is almost no change.

Out of the court meeting, there are still a few days, after the end of the year, Zhao Xin's trip to Bianliang is about to come to an end.

Bianliang's itinerary is quite successful, the biggest purpose, the construction of the railway, has been basically completed, and saw the mother of this body, and set a variety of new products of the navy, in Bianliang sales are very good, glass products as the core of some precious glass artworks, has become the current new trend of Bianliang.

As long as there is a year of fermentation, you can get a large amount of funds, next, the number of rare glass products, will gradually decrease, ordinary glass products, will become the mainstream, these have been in the Navy began to popularize, at least, large flat glass made of glass mirrors, also began to gradually use, open window net few, will become the standard equipment of the Navy.

However, today, there is a special guest from the Dinghai Hou Mansion, Han Qi is here.

In fact, among these governors in the Northern Song Dynasty, including Ye Qingchen, the relationship with Zhao Xin is relatively good, that is, Han Qi, it can be said unceremoniously that Han Qi's achievements in the northwest, most of the achievements, are directly related to the Dinghai Navy.

Without a longbow, it is impossible for Han Qi to organize a force that can compete head-on with the heavy cavalry of Western Xia and Liao, without a fortress, facing the 100,000 cavalry of Liao, they have only one way, that is, inside, facing 100,000 cavalry, except for a few cities in the northwest, others cannot resist at all.

As for whether or not Xingqing Mansion can be captured without gunpowder, it is a question.

Although it is said that it is not so reliable for Western Xia to learn from the Northern Song Dynasty, Xingqing Mansion is the base camp of Western Xia after all, which is the nest of the Li family for hundreds of years, especially after the establishment of the Western Xia, the existence of Xingqing Mansion as the capital is a huge investment.

Green bricks and glutinous rice, tall city walls, complete fortifications, and quite a lot of soldiers and preparations, it can be said that Xixia has done everything to the extreme, Yuan Hao at that time, it was not a wrong idea, let alone a simple Liao army, even if Han Qi practiced with the Liao State, facing the city that was defended to the extreme, it was difficult to take it down completely.

The biggest possibility is that after besieging the city for several months, or even a year, after greatly weakening the power of Western Xia, in the end, the besieging army, food and grass could not be sustained, and then retreated, and the possibility of taking it down was almost non-existent.

In fact, the reason why the Western Xia was able to fall in the Southern Song Dynasty, and even when the Jin State was destroyed for about a hundred years, it was taken by the Mongols, which proves this.

The Song army, which is known for its defense and first-class siege ability, faced the cities of Western Xia, like the end of a strong crossbow, and could not penetrate Lu Mian, and there was no way at all.

Xingqing Mansion is the strongest time, facing this city, even if it is really the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao State, they use the power of milk to fight, and if they are defeated, their own losses will be heavy.

The appearance of explosives changed everything, even if Baozhou had used it, but I didn't expect that Xingqing Mansion was used so smoothly, and the defense of Xingqing Mansion was a grade higher than that of Baozhou, and at the same time, there were more garrisons in Xingqing Mansion, but on the contrary, for the siege of the city, even if it was the dominant defender, after the city was broken, the psychological blow to the defenders was also huge, and the results went without saying, the elite troops of Western Xia were almost all lost in Xingqing Mansion, and Western Xia perished.

Han Qi is mainly here to thank him, although, in the communication between the two sides, a lot of words of thanks have been said, but now that they have really met, they will say it face-to-face.

At the level of Han Qi, there are not so many concerns, Zhao Xin's true identity, if you talk about the entire Northern Song Dynasty, among the people who know, Han Qi is the earliest.

In the Baozhou Mutiny, Renzong sent Han Qi to go at that time, with only one purpose, that is, to rescue Zhao Xin, although the hope at that time was a little slim, but Zhao Xin's identity was still clearly informed.

Even unceremoniously said, if you say that in the political arena of the Northern Song Dynasty, I am afraid that only Han Qi knows Zhao Xin best.

When he was in the Daimyo's Mansion, he already understood that the strength of Zhao Xin's control was terrifying, and a terrible steel factory, as long as he wanted to, could be converted into an arms production factory at any time, and the war potential of the Ding Navy could be seen.

Because of this, Han Qi's attitude towards Zhao Xin is more complicated, he is close and vigilant.

The reason for the closeness is that there is such a powerful person, who is always looking for something new, and can find him to help when there is some special need.

The reason for vigilance is that anyone who wants to ascend to that position does not want to have a strong existence, which will always be a hidden danger for a strong central government.

No matter how good Han Qi is, it is impossible to look at the problem across history, and it is impossible for him to know that a thermal weapon like a musket will make an epoch-making change in combat effectiveness.

The training of a soldier also takes at least two or three years, and even these soldiers, on the battlefield, are still a time bomb, there is no knowledgeable recruits, to the battlefield, facing the brutal killing and collapse, abound, on the battlefield, it is simply a tool that is accurate to the extreme, especially in frontal combat, a place collapses, the chain reaction, I am afraid that the gods will not be able to save it.

But thermal weapons are different, there is no will and fighting, especially when hot weapons against cold weapons, it is almost a queue to shoot, there is no problem of will, coupled with the characteristics of thermal weapons are easier to use, ordinary people, with a half-month of training, you can reluctantly take it out and use it, really train for more than 3 months, it is already a relatively mature army, and then join a few battles, that is, elite.

From the very beginning, Zhao Xin was not prepared to build a large-scale army, no matter how he managed the Dinghai Navy, he was dependent on the existence of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was impossible to bypass the Northern Song Dynasty, and the existence alone, as long as the infantry was formed on a large scale, it would inevitably be discovered.

In fact, in the early days of thermal weapons, the infantry was not the most transformed, and the increasing power of weapons inevitably required heavier and thicker barrels, and it was impossible to endlessly increase the caliber of artillery compared to the land, and it was easy to say a lot when it came to the sea.

In World War II, the limit even appeared more than 800 mm artillery, this is not a large mortar, that thing on the battleship, almost not, the range is short, the power is not great, the real naval guns, all have enough pipe-to-body ratio, powerful.

The weight of a complete naval gun can even reach more than 150 tons, not including the lower compartment and the upper protective devices, plus the spare ammunition, it can easily exceed 200 tons, and the weight of the 16-inch gun, the weight of the simple warhead, is more than 1.2 tons, even if it is 50 pieces, it is more than 60 tons.

On the contrary, on land, the weight of the artillery is limited, similar to the previous large mortars, more by the gun carriage, transported on the railway, even after arrival, to deploy, you also need to add concrete supports, otherwise there is no way, the recoil of a single shot is enough to destroy the railway and the gun car.

But at sea, there is no such problem, even in the Song Dynasty, the highest can build more than 5,000 ships, which is more than 1,000 tons, on a ship of more than 1,000 tons, maybe more than 100 tons of artillery, which is very difficult, but about 10 tons, it is very easy.

On land, under the complex terrain conditions of the railway not being built, it is very difficult to say 10 tons, even if it is hundreds of kilograms, and it must be driven on special roads.

Since the appearance of artillery, it was initially used on land, but when the first artillery was loaded on the ship, the development of naval artillery far exceeded that of land-based artillery, and in war, artillery often became a limitation, a restriction that slowed down the speed of marching.

Even in the period of World War I, there are also for a certain battle, you have to wait for artillery, the history of the great Vegeta cannon, that's it, World War I, from August 3 to the next morning, from the front of the Liege Fortress, but it was not until August 13, that is, 9 days later, the arrival of the Great Vegeta cannon, the war was restarted, it took 4 days, the opportunity to destroy all the batteries, this took the Liege Fortress.

As the direction of development, the navy has higher technical requirements and is more closed, once it goes to the sea, it is difficult to contact the army with the land, and it is easier to hide.

Han Qi couldn't see this, just looked at the current development of the Dinghai Navy, and there were no military attempts, which made Han Qi relax a lot of vigilance, although the Dinghai Navy is still a very rich place, but no matter how rich he is, as long as he gets involved in the military aspect, it doesn't matter.

The purpose of Han Qi's coming this time is very simple, he wants to ask, what is going on with this railway, that is, after coming back, he came into contact with this matter, after the conference, he learned a little, and after discovering that this railway contains countless mysteries, he went directly to Zhao Xin to ask for clarification.