From mentioning AK47 to farming in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 125 Encouraging Invention and Creation

Inside the closed management of Montenegro, there are endless sounds of machines every day.

Since Zhao Tai was helpless but patiently taught Pan Yi how to use the machine tool, he finally freed himself from that helplessness.

During this time, the needle gun was trial-produced, then calibrated, and then trial-produced.

It is not as simple as imagined to create such a thermal weapon that is ahead of its time, even if Zhao Tai has copied the parameters and drawings.

He didn't know when the needle gun would achieve its intended effect and start mass production.

Pan Yi and the others are responsible for all of this. It's useless even if Zhao Tai is in a hurry, let alone he is not in a hurry.

Needle-fired guns are in trial production, and the handmade guns have not stopped. No matter how small the output is, no matter how hard it is, Zhao Tai will not stop it. After all, he upholds the belief that only what he has is truly what he has.

Although the needle-fired gun was not manufactured, there was a constant sound of gunfire in the shooting range of the arsenal. It was Zhao Tai's personal guards practicing guns.

They are not only practicing guns, but also practicing various skills every day.

For example, the weight-bearing running, jungle off-road survival, and obstacle running in later generations have not fallen behind.

It is Zhao Tai's expectation for the personal guards to train them as special forces.

These personal guards were originally selected from the army as elites. Their physical fitness can be said to be one in a million, and they are so resourceful regardless of the cost. They have enough food and meat. I expected in my heart, I am afraid that Zhao Tai will doubt whether there is something wrong with him.

It is definitely not acceptable to let the guards practice like this in the arsenal. After all, the shooting range belongs to the arsenal's testing ground, not the training ground.

A more suitable place should be the barracks, which belonged exclusively to the Montenegrin army, and Zhao Tai specially asked people to rebuild it after the rifle team appeared.

Everything is getting closer to the hot weapon army of later generations, even the training of soldiers is basically the same.

This is when the militia training manual comes in handy, even if there are mines, cannons, and planes on it, people can't understand it.

However, some knowledge of how to fight with hot weapons has been applied.

They will be the first batch of soldiers trained, but they will never be the last batch.

As for their usefulness, Zhao Tai has already planned it in the future. If they are not used as instructors, they will be sorry for their status as the first batch of spearmen.

He didn't go to see Zhao Tai's training. For training, he was still a soldier with hot weapons. Zhao Tai was no better than these soldiers who were new to hot weapons.

As for saying that he is well-informed, can provide some guidance, and even improve some tactical essentials, it is bullshit.

It is one thing to have insight, but another to the actual situation. Bluntly applying high-probability situations is superfluous.

It's better to let them train by themselves, ponder by themselves, and improve themselves.

After all, the post-war summary system in the army is not a decoration. It can be summarized after the war, but why not after training.

"My lord, these training methods are quite impractical, but most of them are really eye-opening for my subordinates. It's just that training like this consumes too much material. A small part is okay. If you really want to train like this, you will exhaust Changshan's money and food." I’m afraid it’s hard to afford it.”

You Kan gave Zhao Tai the improvement plan of the training plan while expressing his own opinion.

What he said was correct, not to mention that in the ancient times when supplies were scarce, even when the country was first established a thousand years later, there was no way to train soldiers according to the standards of special forces.

Not to mention guns and ammunition, but food and meat are flawed.

Even if Zhao Tai brought out the high-yielding crops to make his subordinates achieve a bumper harvest, they would not be able to supply them.

"The officer you said knows in his heart that it would be good if this kind of elite soldiers can train three to five thousand in the future. If you want the whole army to be like this, let alone you, even this officer does not have the ability to solve it."

It's just that he can afford three to five thousand, and no amount of Zhao Tai can bear it. Zhao Tai understands these things very well.

"The supply of bullets is insufficient, do you want to reduce some live ammunition training?"

Zhao Tai would not comment too much on some training improvements. After all, even You Kan was more professional than him in this regard.

Zhao Tai didn't expect the shortage of bullets, but he soon realized the reason. Paper shell bullets sounded like they had no technical content, but they were actually like that.

But don't forget that the production technology in this period was generally low, even in Montenegro.

"Yes, my lord, after I waited for the training regardless of the cost, everything else was okay, but every time I applied for ammunition, the staff in the warehouse of the arsenal would complain to their subordinates, saying that the output of ammunition could not keep up with the consumption during training, even Production day and night cannot meet demand."

If I remember correctly, there are now 500 people in the arsenal. The emergence of machines and the separation of production from the ironworks have solved the problem of insufficient manpower in the arsenal.

Expanding the scale of production is something that will happen in the future. We can't let 500 people provide guns and ammunition for tens of thousands of people. That's unrealistic.

It's just that in this case there is no problem with the gun, but there is a problem with the bullet. If the gun has no bullets, it is no different from a fire stick. It is likely that it is not as easy to use as a cold weapon long gun.

"Then reduce some live-fire training, and I will ask Pan Yi to deal with it."

Said to ask Pan Yi to deal with it, but in fact Zhao Tai was thinking about a series of actions after coming to Montenegro.

He always feels that although many things are developing in a good direction, it seems that many things are too rushed.

Even the appearance of machines makes the arsenal and the army very happy, but this kind of happiness is vain and has no foundation, and if something goes wrong, it will turn into bubbles.

It is caused by overthrowing the seedlings and encouraging them. If you don't solve it and don't wake up, it will become more serious later on.

"You go down first, and by the way, call the two stewards Pan Yi and Shi Yu over. I have something to discuss with them."

"Here."

Watching You Kan walk out of the courtyard, Zhao Tailiu was left alone, pacing around the courtyard with his hands behind his back.

Some things need to be resolved once they are known. For example, people’s minds need to do some work.

"Meet the lord, why did the lord call his subordinates to come?"

Pan Yi and Shi Yu walked into the courtyard step by step, their appearances were not neat, and even Shi Kai was covered in dust and didn't have time to deal with it.

"Here it is. It's not a big deal. I called you here to hear what you think of the current situation."

As soon as Pan Yi mentioned this, his face was full of joy, and he didn't think too much about Zhao Tai's purpose for asking this question.

"The subordinates only feel that the form is very good. I believe that the trial production of the needle-fired gun will be successful in a short time. The key is that the machines are extremely easy to use. Once the trial production is passed, the guns will definitely be mass-produced. This is something that the subordinates and the staff of the arsenal are very familiar with. confidence."

This statement is only a matter of issuing a military order and patting his chest to confirm the authenticity of the words.

"The subordinates also feel the same. The chain saw has played a great role in the construction aspect. Only with it can the progress of the project be accelerated, and the current situation in Montenegro is now."

They were very honest, but it made Zhao Tai see something different.

It seems that after various more convenient things were taken out, the personnel of various ministries had already become dependent on those things, and did not think too much about others.

"The development is indeed very good, even the best in the entire Central Plains and the world."

"But have you two thought about what will happen if they are broken and I can't take them out?"

The two subconsciously wanted to refute and destroy their trust, but it was more like a joke to say that Zhao Tai couldn't come up with new ones.

Subconsciously, they all believed that that situation could not happen.

But thinking about it carefully, they seemed to understand what Zhao Tai meant, but Zhao Tai didn't give them too much time to think.

"Machine and tools are easy to use, but you can't put all your hopes on me. You need to know that strength sometimes runs out. How can I be omnipotent alone."

"And these things may be sufficient in Montenegro, but looking at the whole county, a state, or even the entire Central Plains, their role will be extremely limited. They are not used on a large scale, and they are not things that can be created at this stage. I mean, two Maybe understand?"

Dependency, the great form of vanity is like a dream, it disappears when you wake up.

What Zhao Tai has to do is to pull them out of their dream, and he cannot destroy this good foundation by trying to encourage others.

"My lord's words are very reasonable, but are my subordinates going to abandon them and not use them?"

Pan Yi did a good job in the arsenal. After all, the hand-forged guns were also produced under his leadership.

But when it comes to other issues, it's too bad.

"Why don't things work so well? I'm here to tell you, don't live by those things. You have to learn to create them yourself. Don't pursue how advanced you are. At least you have to get rid of the shackles of purely relying on human power."

Zhao Tai can move a lot of things, as long as he has money, but he had a realization long ago that moving everything is convenient, but in the end it will only ruin this era.

Dependency is a likely phenomenon, which makes people lazy and uninspired.

Even if no one in this world chokes him, he will choke himself, leading to a certain sense of self-improvement.

He will never allow this to happen.

Both of them were craftsmen. Although the arsenal and the building are two systems, they are still inseparable from tools in essence.

By now, no one will take tools, especially advanced tools, seriously.

It's just that with the pearls and jade brought by Zhao Tai in front of him, there is something laboriously produced in his mind. If it is not as easy to use as these, then just use it directly.

Not to mention that they have this kind of concept, even later generations have this kind of concept very seriously.

It was only with the development that the idea of ​​self-research and self-development gained the upper hand at a certain moment and became the mainstream idea.

There will be people in later generations who will get stuck, but Zhao Tai does not have one here, so he is purely dissatisfied with himself. If there is no opponent, he regards himself as an opponent and as a goal to catch up and surpass.

"My lord, do you want us to invent and create ourselves? Even if the technology is backward?"

Shi Wei understood what Zhao Tai meant, but it pained him to have to spend manpower, material and time to produce backward products even though he had the best to do.

But neither of them felt that this was asking for trouble. Just like Zhao Tai said, what if these are gone in the future.

Do you just stare?

"That's what it means. I will allocate a special amount of money and food to encourage invention and creation. As long as it is useful, you can reward the creation based on its practicality. This reward applies to the entire Montenegro people, not limited to arsenals and craftsmen. As long as it’s practical, there’s a reward.”

"Here."

As soon as he finished speaking, You Kan walked into the courtyard, Zhao Tai waved the two of them to retreat, and You Kan made a sound.

(End of this chapter)