Iron Dynasty

Your Majesty, do you want to send a secret guard to Europe to continue assassinating them?

In the imperial study, Li San looked a little guilty. After the war in the south was over, he returned to Qingzhou.

No need, the appearance of the Da Yu people and the British people is too different. This is just like the Westerners in the Da Yu country, they will definitely be stared at.

This incident is indeed not very pleasant for Xiao Ming, but the loss of talents is inevitable. For the sake of money and status, there are always some people who are willing to leave their conscience and commit betrayal, whether it is contemporary or ancient.

Instead of wasting energy on this matter, it is better to concentrate on development, so that domestic talents can have a comfortable environment, and even attract Western technical talents to come.

Yes, Your Majesty. Li Sanqing breathed a sigh of relief. This time he tried his best. This time both the French and the British made great efforts to protect those people, and their strength was limited. After all, the army had not yet attacked them. Guangzhou.

Lying on the chair and looking out the window, Xiao Ming sometimes had to admit the fact that the ability of the secret guard was also limited, it was impossible to keep an eye on everyone, and it was impossible to succeed every mission.

The real solution to the problem still requires a strong comprehensive national strength, and in the face of scientific consciousness and the rise of national consciousness in Europe, the issue of technological imitation will continue to appear in the future. the rule of.

Without mentioning this matter, Xiao Ming said to Li San: By the way, now that Jiangnan has settled down, you will recall the idle personnel and let them go to the Japanese country and the western colonies to listen for information. The country is so happy, now it's time for them to pay the price.

Li San nodded excitedly, the civil strife was settled, and now the Great Yu Kingdom radiates unprecedented potential, and unanimous externality is their next strategy.

Having said this, Xiao Ming asked Li San to go back, and then asked Song Changping, Su Liangcai, and Lin Wentao who had been waiting outside the door for a long time to come over.

See Your Majesty, Your Majesty.

The three said in unison.

Nodding slightly and letting the three of them flatten, Xiao Ming looked at Song Changping and said, You came to see me, could it be that there has been some new progress in the rifle?

Yes, Your Majesty, this time Xiguan is here to stop the manufacture of falcon rifles and produce a new type of rifle that Xiguan has just successfully tested.

Oh? Xiao Ming showed interest, he said, What kind of rifle is this?

Rotate and pull the bolt-action rifle. After the trigger is pulled, the firing pin will pierce the paper shell bullet and hit the primer to detonate the bullet. Compared with the falcon rifle, the stability is much higher, and the air tightness when the gunpowder explodes will also be It has been improved a lot, and the lower official thinks that this kind of rifle is more convenient than using a flash cap.”

Song Changping said word by word.

Xiao Ming showed a smile. In fact, the Falcon Rifle was just an upgrade made by Xiao Ming who didn't want to waste the feudal gun, but this kind of revolving bolt-action rifle is the future direction of the development of firearms.

According to Song Changping's description, he basically determined that the rifle he made this time is similar to the Dresser rifle. The main point of this kind of firearm is the bolt that can be rotated and pulled back, and the hollow position of the bolt is a spring and A firing pin, by pulling the spring back and pulling the trigger to release the spring pressure, allows the firing pin to pierce the ammunition. This principle is actually not difficult.

The hard part is the strength of the firing pin. The weakness of contemporary Dresser rifles is the fragile firing pin.

However, now that the Great Yu Kingdom has long had high-strength alloys that can produce sufficiently hard knives, it is naturally no problem for them to hit them.

In addition to the firing pin, another problem is the air tightness of the breech gun. Compared with the breech gun, the breech gun cannot be compared in terms of air tightness, which is why the breech gun It appeared in the fifteenth century, but has not been used on a large scale.

Because of the poor airtightness, the range and power of the breech gun will be reduced, but the relatively flexible combat method makes up for this shortcoming.

As for the real solution to the airtightness problem of the breech gun, it is the appearance of metal shell bullets, but unfortunately, he has not yet been able to build a production line of metal bullets.

Thinking of this, he looked at Su Liangcai. Now that more than a year has passed, the thermal power plant in Qingzhou has been in full swing. In order to fully support him, the cabinet gives money and others unconditionally.

Everyone is waiting for Qingzhou to enter the electric age, and among these people, Xiao Ming yearns the most, because from the electric age, he naturally understands the benefits of electricity.

And these days, when he was searching for the content of technology spar, he also discovered the technology of nuclear fusion power station.

Because once this technology is realized, it will mean the advent of the era of unlimited power.

But although this is very tempting, he can only think about it now. After all, it is still far from the current level, and he has a long way to go.

This rifle is indeed very characteristic. Since this is the case for subsequent rifles, we should switch to this rifle. However, the airtightness of the breech gun still needs metal shell bullets to solve this problem. You need to consider this issue.

While speaking, Xiao Ming looked at Su Liangcai, Su Liangcai, although this problem belongs to Song Changping, it would not work without your electricity. The production of metal shell bullets requires stable energy and mechanical power.

The purpose of Su Liangcai's visit this time was the thermal power plant. He said: Your Majesty, the thermal power plant will basically be completed in the second half of the year, but the current production of transmission lines is a problem. One is copper and the other is electric wire. Insulation, that's a big problem.

Speaking of this, Xiao Ming's head suddenly became too big. For Da Yu, where copper resources are scarce, copper is money. With the improvement of industry, copper is used in more and more places, whether it is wires or motors. Lots of copper.

But even so, there are still some copper extrusions. The most important thing is the insulating skin. In the field of wire and cable, the insulating skin is generally divided into two categories: plastic and rubber.

Plastic is out of the question at the moment, rubber is there, but not much, and even if the Dutch sell him rubber it's a high price.

If the price of rubber cannot be lowered, future industrial development will obviously be limited.

Let's use rubber to produce insulated wires. Roll the copper wire in the hot rubber, and it will be the wire after cooling. If you don't understand, go to Lu Tong, he will help you solve this problem. Things can't be delayed. Xiao Ming made up his mind.

For him, Qingzhou industry has encountered a bottleneck now, and some things cannot be produced without electricity, such as aluminum.

In addition to electroplating, as well as electrolytic production of chemical gases.