May 26, Foshan.

No one in the Liberation Army will look down on the British anymore, especially the powerful naval guns of the British, which makes the Liberation Army dare not underestimate it. Therefore, after the recovery of Guangzhou, the Governor's Office was not moved back to Guangzhou, but was located in Foshan.

When Lin Fengxiang's subordinates arrived in the city through the war-torn Jiangxi, they were also moved by the lively atmosphere of the city. Foshan is far from being as grand as Tianjing City, but it has a liveliness that Tianjing City does not have. At this time, Tianjing City had entered the fifth year of wartime military management. The barracks-like city was fiercely fighting, and the whole city had a strong murderous aura of war.

It is also a wartime "capital", which has experienced a series of wars and killings, and Foshan does not seem deserted. The shops in the market are open, the business is done, and the wharf is also full of boats, and there are all over the place. If it weren't for the armed police stationed in various important places, as well as patrolling and walking patrols, the whole of Foshan would seem to have nothing to do with the war.

The subordinates sent by Lin Fengxiang were very sincere, but he didn't expect that Foshan was not only not far from the war, but more people who had joined the war were running towards the city. Lin Fengxiang sent people to ask for help, but the purpose was not to buy products needed in peacetime. Artillery was made and used for more effective killing, not for farming.

Wei Ze's faction received Lin Fengxiang's subordinates at noon the next day, and after listening to the other party's intentions, Wei Ze only asked one question, "We can only transport these artillery pieces to Ganzhou, but we don't know how far Prime Minister Lin Cheng's side can handle?" ”

Lin Fengxiang's subordinates said: "Back to His Royal Highness the King of Qi, Prime Minister Lin Cheng said that if the King of Qi is willing to sell artillery to us, even if we send troops to attack Jiangxi, we will try our best to escort the safety of artillery." ”

Hearing this, Wei Ze also nodded slightly, "In that case, let's discuss it." ”

Seeing that Wei Ze said so simply, Lin Fengxiang's subordinates hurriedly shouted: "King Qi, no matter how much the artillery is, we will give it." I only hope that the king of Qi can come to the rescue and save the kingdom of heaven! ”

Wei Ze didn't say anything, and continued to walk back without looking back. Weezer has been so busy lately that he doesn't have time to spend so much time on words. The envoy who could take some time to meet Lin Fengxiang was already an extremely face-saving gesture. After checking the messenger, the security department took him to the reception office of the military school. When Weser had heard of the messenger's mission, he went back to his most important work.

The chemical engineering department of the military academy occupies a wide area, among which there are many real rooms. One of the most important tasks of the real yàn room lately has been to sort out the periodic table. Except for the contents of the table except for the lanthanide series and actinide series, Weese would recite them. This is one of the basic courses in high school. When the teacher was in class, he said, "Memorize the periodic table", and everyone began to recite it after class.

After the crossing, Wei Ze sometimes wondered if the "solid basic skills" that the Chinese education system focuses on are a bit of the end of the world. This kind of solid basic skills may be very useful after the apocalyptic catastrophe, at least in the situation where the basic equipment is destroyed, and the basic skills show their power when they are basically restarted. In any case, what Weeser had learned did not seem to be unusable in 1852.

For example, with a beamsplitter, the spectrum of an element can be measured, and trial and error determine the spectrum of the element, which can naturally prove that the element is indeed in existence. As long as the majority of technicians admit that elements exist and establish their own worldview based on the idea that the world is made of elements, the rest of the technology exhibition will be relatively easy. The majority of engineering dogs are not easy to believe in religion and accept the concept of socialism, and a large reason is that they naturally establish a materialist world view in the process of learning knowledge. Whether God exists or not, this is an unknown world. But the atom is a real being, and it can be manipulated and used by human beings.

Of course, science is one of Weeser's long-term efforts. There are more urgent needs in real life. With the periodic table, the spectrum and a series of studies, the scientific research department of the Governor's Mansion began to try to establish the periodic table. What needs to be done is to purify the elements, and this is what the small real rooms are doing now, and the scientific community of the European powers of this era is almost doing the same thing.

The real yàn needs a large amount of ore, and the entire base is providing the collected ore to the real yàn room. With this massive foundation, the "big luck" thing was finally born. Among the ores provided by Gui County, there is actually high-purity bauxite trihydrate. Wei Ze was not engaged in prospecting, he did not know that Guixian County belonged to the later Guigang City, let alone that there was a bauxite mine with the largest reserves in China. Aluminum trihydrate is an ore of aluminum hydroxide, which has high purity and is very suitable for smelting aluminum. The reserves in Guigang City are as high as 200 million tons.

After heat treatment, a gray powder is generated. The spectroscopy showed that it was an oxide, and based on the molecular weight calculation, Weeser probably deduced that it was aluminum, which made him very excited.

In the entire monetary system of the Governor's Office, the auxiliary currency is the most important product. Wei Ze wanted to replace copper coins with paper bi, and the copper, lead and other metals in copper coins are very important to the metal processing industry, and copper coins are also very important to everyone's daily life. Seeing so many metals being used like this, Wei Ze was very unhappy in his heart.

Now there is aluminum, which, according to prospectors, is still large-scale, high-purity aluminum. This opens up a perfect source for coins. The hard bi of aluminum alloy is naturally a high-tech product in this era, which is difficult to imitate, and it is much more convenient than copper coins.

In high school textbooks, not only are there electrolytic aluminum far away, but even the basic electrolytic aluminum production equipment and key points are the same. As a result, this project has become a focus in the near future. After the basic materials such as motors, graphite, cryolite, aluminum fluoride, calcium fluoride, magnesium fluoride and other basic materials are completed, small-scale production in the real yàn room begins.

However, industry will inevitably bring the consequences of pollution, and Wei Ze has deeply realized the power of industrial pollution, but after the small-scale production of aluminum, the entire experimental area of the Guangfu Governor's Mansion has proposed whether it is possible to drive this real room to the barren mountains and mountains. The emissions of electrolytic aluminum are too polluting.

Wei Ze came over this time to see the amount of electrolytic aluminum, and secondly, he was also ready to negotiate with the real staff to move the real room. The exhaust gas of electrolytic aluminum contains hydrofluoric acid and fluoride, which are very toxic and not suitable for setting up factories in cities.

The personal safety of the personnel in the real room also needed to be put on the agenda, and after an afternoon of discussions, a plan was made to establish a new aluminum base. This base is located at least in a sparsely populated area with abundant hydropower resources that can be used to build small hydropower stations.

Also participating in the discussion were the electric power majors of the Department of Physics, and the hydropower station is theoretically easy to solve, but the magnetic part of the motor is not easy to solve. The magnetic part directly affects the electrical efficiency, and how to design this part is a new and big problem. Industrial production cannot be played with, and a large number of designs are completed by relying on reality. The design of electricity requires a large amount of copper materials, and the fastest way to solve copper materials is to recycle a large number of copper coins for smelting.

Faced with this question of "the egg or the chicken", Wei Ze, an engineering dog, led a group of guys who were rapidly evolving towards the engineering dog to discuss repeatedly, and finally reached a plan of "first meeting the recent needs as much as possible, and transforming while exhibiting".

Once we had a plan, we started talking about it, and we were initially thinking about what parts needed to be renovated, and soon the discussion became about which parts didn't need to be renovated. As all the participants now need to transform all their technologies, "make do with it first" has become the final conclusion.

After discussing this, it was already evening. The next thing to be discussed in the arrangement was the issue of selling artillery to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and there was no need to go to the Standing Committee for such matters, but only to the General Staff to discuss. From the staff headquarters is located near the military school, it is convenient to call up personnel.

"Do you want to sell artillery to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?" Weeser asked.

"Do they give money?" With the case of the last purchase of live cap technology and the technology of transforming fire cap guns, the people from the General Staff immediately asked.

"Give money." Weese replied.

"Why don't you sell it if you give money?" Hu Chenghe replied immediately. And the rest of the General Staff also nodded.

"So what kind of artillery are you selling them?" Weeser moved on to the next question.

"What else does this need? All the artillery bought from the French was sold to Lin Fengxiang. Hu Chenghe said briskly.

"Isn't that inappropriate? Will those guns be nearing the end of their service life? Lei Hu asked a little apprehensively. The French twelve-pounder mountain howitzer was cast in bronze and was very strong and durable. However, this kind of sturdiness and durability is also relatively speaking, and bronze artillery also has its own lifespan. The use rate of the twelve-pound mountain howitzer purchased by Weeser is very high, from training to actual combat, each gun has basically had about 15o shots.

The rest of the General Staff felt that Lei Hu's construction was very reasonable, no matter what happened now, after all, everyone had worked in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and they had also cooperated with Lin Fengxiang a lot. More importantly, the officers of the Liberation Army were very sensitive to the matter of artillery bombing. The reason why the Liberation Army eliminated other artillery pieces early was because the life of those iron cannons was very bad, and there were explosions from time to time. In the event of an explosion accident, the artillerymen who have worked hard to train will suffer lossless losses. Everyone may not really feel that they can't stand Lin Fengxiang, but after such a long time of training, everyone can't accept the matter of the artillery explosion.

Seeing everyone like this, Hu Chenghe asked, "In addition to the twelve-pounder cannon, we don't have any other artillery." Did you sell the three-inch cannon to Lin Fengxiang? ”

This problem made everyone feel even more difficult, and the new three-inch gun adopted the forging and center digging process, and the gun body was very strong. The gun carriage was modeled after the British gun mount, which was used not only for the French twelve-pounder mountain howitzer, but also for the British artillery captured in the Battle of Foshan. With such a gun mount, the artillery was able to easily keep up with the infantry on the march. This is one of the fundamental reasons why the field units of the Liberation Army are moving fast and fighting hard.

When attacking Ganzhou, the city of Ganzhou was already a hell for the Qing army, and it was also one of the famous "training ranges" for the artillery of the Guangfu Army. According to the records brought back by Lei Hu, only eight guns fired in three rows, and more than 200 Hunan troops on a length of 80 meters at the head of the city were solved, and those more than 200 Hunan troops were either killed or seriously injured, and completely lost their combat effectiveness.

When such a good thing was sold to the Taiping Army, everyone found it not easy to accept. By now, all within the General Staff have realized that the identity of the Taiping Army will become an enemy on the road to the unification of China. It's not a matter of whether it will be born, but when it will be born. Now that too much is given to the Taiping Army, it is inevitable that there will be a suspicion of being an enemy.

Seeing everyone's embarrassed looks, Hu Chenghe continued: "We rely on modern military knowledge to fight wars, and the artillerymen have repeatedly trained and learned. If the three-inch cannon is sold to the Taiping army, then the three-inch cannon will be ruined. Besides, what is the processing accuracy of our shells and what materials are used. Can the Taiping Army make such shells? ”

The three-inch gun has the characteristics of fierce firepower and good accuracy. A large part of this is due to the modification of the shells, which used column-shaped shells for howitzers of this era. The Guangfu Army also cut the front end of this column-shaped shell, and the warhead part presented a flat-headed streamlined shape, which not only increased the flight degree of the shell, but also was more conducive to the stability of the shell's flight. During the test, the new three-inch gun fired 12 shells in a row, and the difference in the landing point was only two meters.

Everyone knows the artillery strength of the Taiping Army, and such an excellent artillery cannot wield its full strength in the hands of the Taiping Army. From artillery training to artillery shell manufacturing, the advanced design concept of the three-inch gun even the Guangfu Army could only completely obey Wei Ze's arrangement, not to mention the military level of the Taiping Army.

Looking at everyone's faces, Hu Chenghe continued to expound his opinion, "There is another problem, if the Qing army captures this kind of shell, they will imitate it. ”

This question seems relatively new, and many people are a little stunned. Wei Changrong said: "If the British have this ability, I still believe it. Did the Manchus have this ability to imitate? ”

Lei Hu, who originally supported the sale of three-inch guns to the Taiping army, sided with Hu Chenghe this time, and said: "The Qing army is smarter than we think. I attacked Ganzhou and captured a large number of weapons and baggage of the Hunan army, and the weapons of the Hunan army had completed the leap from arquebuses to muskets at this time. During the interrogation of the Hunan prisoners, it was learned that the Hunan army had set up an arsenal and that the fire caps had been able to produce their own. Moreover, the Hunan army imported a lot of artillery, and with the production technology of mercury thunderate, the Hunan army even completed the imitation of the foreign devil's fire pipe......"

This news was also heard for the first time, and he frowned slightly. Perhaps it is a problem with the description in the history books, Li Hongzhang is a completely Westernized Westernist, and Zuo Zongtang is an enlightened person who does not oppose the introduction of Westernization. Wei Ze's impression of Zeng Guofan was that he was an executioner who was completely uninterested in Western technology, but he did not expect that in the intelligence collected so far, Zeng Guofan not only introduced a large number of foreign guns and cannons, but also introduced technology and engaged in imitation.

The generals of the Guangfu Army did not have the feeling that Wei Ze had that only a traverser had, and after listening to Lei Hu's introduction, Wei Changrong nodded, "Otherwise, let's vote, let's see if we sell them a twelve-pound cannon or a three-inch cannon." ”

The result of the vote was that everyone was in favor of selling the twelve-pounder cannon to Lin Fengxiang. There was no problem in selling some artillery to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and there was always a shortage of silver. But even if they agreed to sell artillery, everyone thought that there was no need to sell it to Lin Fengxiang.

Seeing this result, Wei Ze suddenly remembered a sentence, people will eventually become egoists.

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