However, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the rear-loading gun was naturally far away, but the pinnacle of the front-loading gun such as the Minnie gun was naturally not to be missed, and the bottom expansion bullet itself did not have too many technical difficulties, but many people did not expect it.

Once this thin layer of window paper is pierced, the advent of the Minny gun will naturally not be too far away, and as long as this rifled gun is installed by the Fu Han army, it will completely change the current combat mode of queuing to shoot.

After all, in front of a musket with three times the range and more accuracy, the fool will continue to line up to be shot, and even if there is such an iron-headed baby, it will only be knocked over to the ground and then trampled on 10,000 feet.

Of course, after the advent of the era of breech-loading rifled guns, there are also many stubborn old antiques that cannot be accepted. As Prussia, the first to invent and equip the rear-loading gun at that time, there was a general who hated the rear-loading gun so much that he left a last word when he died, asking for a burst of gunfire from a front-loading smoothbore gun on his cemetery, otherwise he would not die.

When the Swiss military delegation visited Prussia at that time, after inspecting the Prussian rear-loading troops, a Swiss general even shouted to everyone: "Eating by mouth is noble, and a Swiss shooter would never be so humble as to shoot with a 'enema' (rear-loading gun) loaded from the tail." ”

Of course, these iron-headed babies were naturally educated by rear-loading guns, and the war situation gradually evolved from queuing to shoot to skirmishing tactics, soldiers need to be scattered and scattered, and with the help of the protection of bunkers, the battlefield tactics began to become more flexible, and it was more conducive to preserving the vital force.

This is naturally a 180-degree reversal of the tactics of lining up to shoot with courage and discipline, so the progress of tactics alone actually took a long time, and it was almost not until the middle of the nineteenth century that the tactics of skirmishing completely became the mainstream among countries.

If Ning Yu could come up with a mini gun in the early eighteenth century, then even if the effect was not as good as that of a breech-loading rifled gun, it was by no means comparable to the current smoothbore gun, at least in terms of weapons, it was a whole era ahead of Western countries, and the tactical innovation could completely suppress the current queue for shooting.

At that time, in terms of the war in the north, Ning Yu could completely use a smaller number of troops to achieve the current war effect? Logistical pressures can also be significantly reduced.

After listening to Ning Yu explain the principle of the bottom expansion bomb? Thunder Camel and the rest of the scientists were shocked, because the bottom expansion bomb is not such a complicated thing? But none of them ever thought in that direction? But after piercing the window paper, there is a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

"Your Majesty? This bottom expansion bomb doesn't sound like it's too mysterious, but we, the craftsmen, really never thought about it? It's really embarrassing...... What if it has been verified? The bottom expansion bullet does have such power, so the development of the new gun must be much faster......"

Although Lei Huozi said that he needed to be verified, he had already believed it in his heart, and he couldn't help but sigh? The Emperor did have an extraordinary talent when it came to weapons....... Wrong? The emperor also seems to be a genius in other aspects, no wonder he was able to level the world at a young age, and it is not without reason.

Ning Yu smiled slightly, and then continued: "The problem of projectiles is basically not very big, but you want to make the power of the rifled gun really come into play?" The propellant also needs to be improved, does Master Lei have any ideas in this regard? ”

Thunder camel touched his increasingly bald head? But he was a little embarrassed, and said, "Back to Your Majesty? We pelletized the gunpowder before, and did it increase its power? But for rifled guns at the moment? But it's not enough...... Now a new gunpowder is being trialled? If this aspect is solved, then the technical difficulties of the rifled gun itself will be gone. ”

Ning Yu nodded, this question is true and normal, because now the gunpowder used by the Fu Han military is still black powder in nature, although the ratio has been improved, and the gunpowder has been granulated, but this cannot change the essence of black powder, so for smoothbore guns, black powder is definitely enough, but for rifled guns, it is a little reluctant.

It's not that black powder can't be used, but the power that can be exerted by itself will be weakened a lot.

Although black powder itself is the most common gunpowder, there are many problems, first of all, its combustion is not sufficient, there are too many residues, especially the burning rate is too fast, which can easily lead to explosion, which will lead to the energy of the bullet is much smaller than that of nitrocellulose gunpowder.

In addition, black powder also produces a large amount of smoke because it is not fully burned, so it often creates large white smoke on the battlefield, which is also a significant feature of the black powder era.

So how did this problem finally solve? The reason is very simple, the famous nitrocellulose propellant in later generations was to improve the problem of black powder, and it was finally developed, and it also has a very down-to-earth name, that is, smokeless gunpowder.

Of course, Ning Yu's understanding of nitrocellulose gunpowder basically only stays at this term, and he is not clear about the details of this aspect, so he can give Lei Huozi a general direction of help.

"Nitrocellulose gunpowder? Is it gunpowder made of cotton? ”

Not only was the thunder camel momentarily ignorant, but other gunpowder experts couldn't help but feel a little dizzy, this thing sounded like it was very complicated....... But they are not to blame, because in history, the advent of nitrocellulose gunpowder itself basically goes to the end of the nineteenth century, more than 160 years from now.

Ning Yu smiled embarrassedly, although he knew that nitrocellulose gunpowder was the best answer, but there was really no way to carry out research and development at the moment, because problems like this need to be further developed by basic chemistry to solve, so it is definitely not something that can be done by one or two people patting their heads.

Then there is no best answer to nitrocellulose gunpowder, but it is not that there is no other way, that is, based on the further improvement of black powder, it is still working the ratio, that is, to develop the brown black powder that is also famous in later generations.

The so-called brown black powder is naturally a kind of black powder, but it has been improved in the formula, and the core means is to reduce the sulfur content and use the incompletely carbonized charcoal as an ingredient, this brown black powder is characterized by a slower combustion rate and stable medicinal properties, so it is not easy to explode, and it is also a good choice for use as a propellant, and brown black powder can be used as a standard propellant for large-caliber artillery, and it has been used until the end of the nineteenth century before being replaced by nitrocellulose gunpowder.

In the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, the Beiyang Navy Division was equipped with brown black powder, while the Japanese Navy used nitrocellulose double base medicine, so this battle was also a decisive battle between the two propellants in a sense, and the result was that nitrocellulose double base medicine completely replaced the status of brown black powder.

Of course, that was already at the end of the 19th century, and in the early 18th century, brown black powder was already very advanced, and for the current research and development force of the Fu Han Army, it was not very difficult to match brown black powder.

Therefore, Ning Yu quickly told Lei Huozi and others about the principle of brown black powder, the key of which is nothing more than to reduce the sulfur content, and then use the charcoal after insufficient carbonization of willow wood as a raw material to make it, the specific ratio details Ning Yu is naturally not clear, but this can completely allow the following people to carry out gradual trial production, and finally be able to find an optimal ratio.

Lei Huozi was overjoyed when he heard this, and on the one hand, he sent someone to write down many points of the day, and on the other hand, he was ready to start the experiment with great fanfare, so everyone's follow-up visit ended hastily.

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With the arrival of the New Year in the sixth year of innovation, Ning Yu also invited Nanjing civil officials and military officials to hold a New Year's banquet in the future according to the old practice of the past, and also immediately followed the ceremony of conferring knighthoods and awards, because this has become a custom, unless there is a particularly large merit, usually the meritorious service is held in the New Year.

The banquet of the monarch and the minister is naturally happy and drunk, but Da Chu has always adhered to the custom of frugality, so he did not put the banquet very extravagantly, and the related expenses were all attributed to the inner treasury, so no one would say that there was a suspicion of working the people and hurting money.

After the New Year's banquet and the award, Ning Yu did not stop his busyness, and soon started another major event, that is, the meeting of the Great Chu Finance Department, in which the interests of all parties were naturally entangled, becoming a distressing mess, which made Ning Yu, the emperor, quite troubled.

After returning to the harem, Ning Yu was also a little bored in his heart, and even began to complain to the more and more graceful queen Cui Xi, "Xi'er, do you know what my good teacher said at this cabinet meeting, he thinks that our Great Chu has been fighting endlessly for many years, and the financial expenditure has been fighting every year, so that the people cannot rest in peace, it is really because I am too fast, I want to slow down and stop, and even the war against the Russians does not need to be too hasty." ”

The emperor's good teacher is naturally the first assistant of the dynasty and the father of the queen, Cui Wancai, which makes Cui Xi a little helpless, she knows that the emperor is ambitious, and she can't wait to do many things overnight, but this is a bit of a conflict with her father's temperament, it is natural for the two sides to have different views, but it makes Cui Xi also a little helpless, after all, no matter how she speaks, her identity and status will be a little inappropriate, so she has to pour tea while admonishing politely.

"Your Majesty, I don't understand military affairs, so it's naturally hard to say anything, but there are some things I can say to my Majesty, after giving birth to Chengze in the past, I always feel that he is just a little doll to be held in my arms, I don't feel a little tired, I can't wait for him to grow up one day, but it's strange to say, now that Chengze is about to go to the Royal School, Xi'er feels that time flies a little too fast......"

Ning Yu naturally understood the potential meaning of Cui Xi's words, so he shook his head with a wry smile, and said softly while drinking tea: "It's indeed because of the anxiety in my heart, it's just that 10,000 years is too long, just seize the day!" ”

Indeed, for Ning Yu, although he has unified the world and has completely become the emperor who holds the power alone, it can be said that all the people in the world are killed and robbed, but because of this, he will feel how difficult it is to make obvious changes in such a huge country.

During last year's inspection, Ning Yu also had a very clear understanding of the current Great Chu, that is, the current Great Chu is at a critical moment, that is, the transformation from a traditional agricultural country to a modern industrial country, and at this critical point in time, there are too many contradictions, too many choices, and too many sacrifices.

For the people, their most intuitive feeling is that Da Chu is becoming more and more powerful, their living standards have also been improved to a certain extent, and the starvation of people is not complete, but it has decreased a lot, but there is another very important problem on the contrary, that is, their lives are becoming more and more tired.

Like many people, although their taxes have been greatly reduced, but the price of food has also fallen, it is basically difficult to sell at a good price as in the past, if you can be self-sufficient, it is not bad, but with the increase of market products, as well as the development of commerce, people's daily consumption has also begun to become larger, and the pursuit has become more, so in order to make their families more comfortable, many people will go to work in factories during the slack time to earn more money.

Although the common people were increasingly loyal to the emperor of Da Chu, they were not completely without complaints, because many industries were gradually washed away with the development of industry, among which the textile industry almost bore the brunt.

Since a large number of steam engine weaving factories have been put into operation, a large number of cheap and exquisite woven fabrics have also appeared on the market, almost completely reshuffling the current weaving market, like those homespun fabrics in the past have been completely forced out of the market by the cost, which makes many weavers who rely on their livelihoods can only give up their own weaving and choose to enter the weaving factories in various parts of the Yangtze River.

When the conflict was intensified to the peak, there were even large-scale riots, and many weavers even rushed into the factories and smashed the steam looms that were being produced, claiming that these machines were all man-eating ghosts, devouring the flesh and blood of their weavers in order to weave cloth quickly and well......

Like these things are just a part of it, there are many things that make people feel sad are also happening, and these are naturally all merged into Ning Yu's hands through various channels, and there are many people's blood and tears in the piles, and these problems are not so easy to solve.

Just like those weavers, no matter how many steam engines they smashed, they could not stop the industrial revolution, and this revolution in productivity was destined to cost the flesh and blood of many people.

In such a situation, how can Ning Yu not be in a hurry? How can you not be in a hurry?