Liu Juntao stayed in Yushan Town for four days, and then took Guo Muying's mother and son to Zhangqiu Town, Yushan Military Bureau, Anshan Town and other places.

The official roads along the road have been paved with cement to harden the road surface, and trees have been planted on both sides of the official road to maintain the road.

At this time, Zhangqiu Town and Ansan Town have both developed into large towns, and the population of both towns has exceeded 50,000!

However, whether it is Zhangqiu Town or Ansan Town, the original city wall has not been expanded, and the increased population is planned outside the city wall.

In other words, neither Zhangqiu Town nor Ansan Town has built a new city wall, which is also what Liu Juntao meant.

After all, now that the Ming Dynasty is strong, at least for nearly a hundred years in the future, no foreign enemies will rush to Shandong.

And the Tiance army is getting stronger and stronger, Liu Juntao is also confident that in his lifetime, he will be able to foresee all the enemies to be strangled clean, so the construction of the city wall is no longer of much significance, and now the city defense in Shandong has stopped building new city walls and expanding the original city walls in addition to maintaining the existing city walls.

After inspecting the surroundings of Yushan Town, Liu Juntao did not continue south to Yanzhou Fucheng, but returned to Jinan Fucheng.

On the way back to Jinan, Liu Juntao received a message from Yang Liben, director of the R&D Department of the Ministry of the Army, that several R&D projects that have been approved by the R&D Department have made breakthroughs, and it is estimated that there will be several major achievements during this time!

Liu Juntao was also overjoyed when he heard the news, and said to Guo Muying like a child: "Let's go back quickly, there are surprises waiting for me at home!" ”

Guo Muying also smiled when she saw this, and said: "My husband is the general soldier of a town, and he is still so unstable, and he is not afraid of children's jokes." ”

The two brothers Liu Guodong and Liu Guoying, who were playing noisily in the carriage, also laughed loudly when they saw this, and Liu Juntao was also full of relief when he looked at his two sons.

A few days later, Liu Juntao and his entourage returned to the capital of Jinan.

After returning to the General Military Mansion, Liu Juntao first settled Guo Muying's mother and son, and then summoned Xiang Qun, Minister of the Military Department, as well as Yang Liben, Director of the R&D Department, and Zhang Baigui, Director of the Military Garrison Department.

After a while, the three of them rushed over, accompanied by more than a dozen men from the military headquarters, who were also carrying several large boxes.

Seeing this, Liu Juntao smiled and said, "I asked you to come to discuss the matter, and you have prepared so many gifts?" ”

Xiang Qun smiled and said, "Of course! These are all gifts from our military department to the general town, and please take a look at the general town! ”

"These are a few of the projects that the military department has successfully developed?"

Xiang Qun looked at Yang Liben next to him, Yang Liben also understood, so he hugged his fists and said; "Qiqi Town, these are indeed a few samples of successful research and development."

"Good!"

Liu Juntao said with a smile: "Open it, this town will be inspected one by one!" ”

Yang Li commanded his subordinates to open a box, only to see that inside was a shrunken gun mount, although it was not a gun mount used in actual combat, but Liu Juntao could also see that this was only shrunk for the convenience of packing, once it was built according to the ratio of one to one, it could be directly equipped with artillery.

Yang Liben introduced: "Zongzhen, this gun carriage is built according to the idea of the town, the whole body is made of hardwood, and in some key parts is made of stainless steel, which is durable, light and simple, and once the artillery is installed, the artillery can be based on the gun carriage, to achieve up and down, left and right any angle of aiming, very fast, and reliable!" ”

Liu Juntao listened to Yang Liben's introduction, and personally fiddled with this gun mount, only to see that the gun carriage is indeed as Yang Liben said, the turntable on the base and the hinge on it are very flexible, and these places are made of stainless steel, which is very strong.

"Good!"

Liu Juntao said with a smile: "With this artillery mount, our army's artillery team will be strengthened!" Herald! The gun carriage project team all enjoys patents, and each person will be rewarded with 50 taels of silver, and those who contribute more will be rewarded with 80 taels! ”

The word patent, Liu Juntao as early as the establishment of the Ministry of R & D Department of the military has put forward that where many project teams under the R & D Department have results, the project team can enjoy the patent right of 30% of the results, and the project team can draw 30% of the results in the future!

It is precisely for this reason that the more than 20 project teams of the R&D Division are like chicken blood, once there is a new R&D project, it will be scrambled, and everyone will work hard day and night to develop it.

Then, Yang Liben opened another box, only to see that it was also a model inside, Liu Juntao recognized it at a glance, this is a god machine gun car!

Yang Liben said: "Headquarters, this god machine gun truck has been successfully developed, each god machine gun truck is 30 times 10 300 rounds, and each god machine gun car is equipped with ten sets of magazines. ”

"What is the range and power of this god gun truck? Has a live shot test been conducted? ”

Yang Liben said with a smile: "Qiqi General Town, the R&D Department has shot seven times in the school field outside the city, and each time the predetermined goal has been successfully completed. The firing range of our kind of divine machine gun truck is about one and a half miles, and the power is huge, and a god machine gun truck can cover the area of at least two rooms! ”

Liu Juntao also nodded when he heard this, and he was very satisfied.

"The project team of the Shenji gun truck will also be rewarded, each person will be rewarded with eighty taels of silver, and the special contributor will be rewarded with one hundred taels! The whole group also enjoys the patent! ”

At this time, Yang Liben opened a slightly smaller box and took out a fire gun from it.

Liu Juntao's eyes suddenly lit up, only to see that this fire gun has seven guns, one in the middle, and the remaining six guns are circular to surround it in the middle, at the root of the gun pipe, there is also a round steel shield, which can protect the head of the fire gunner, this is the thunderbolt that appeared at the end of the Ming Dynasty in the later generations!

Liu Juntao took it over and took a closer look, only to see that the Thunderbolt was also made into a flint hair, and the filling of the seven guns was also borrowed from the method of the Shenji gun car, using an iron shelf, which could be loaded with paper shells for the seven guns at the same time.

At the same time, one of the barrels in the middle is slightly longer than the other six, and there is a buckle at the very front end, which allows the bayonet to be installed for hand-to-hand combat!

At this time, Liu Juntao had a bold idea, that is, the whole army was dressed up in Thunderbolt!

In this way, the firepower of the Tiance Army will reach an extremely terrifying level, and it can even completely suppress the enemy's firepower, allowing the Ming Dynasty to enter the era of all firearms in advance!

However, at this time, Yang Liben, who was introducing the situation of Thunderbolt, said something, which immediately made Liu Juntao give up this idea.

"Commander, this thunderbolt is very sharp and has strong firepower, but it is also very restrictive. For example, it costs seven taels of silver to build a Seiko Jingtai first-year bird gun, and this thunderbolt gun costs thirty-eight taels! ”

Liu Juntao frowned, that is to say, the cost of equipping the soldiers of one battalion with the Thunderbolt can already be worth the cost of five or six battalions!

Although Shandong Town now has a lot of money, it will also feel great pressure in the face of such expenses.

Then, Yang Liben said: "Moreover, although this Thunderbolt has strong firepower, after all, it has seven guns, and the time it takes to reload ammunition after each fire is longer than that of Jingtai's first year-style bird gun, which will make the gap between the army's shooting longer, and if the enemy is an iron horse, it will be very dangerous!" ”

Liu Juntao also nodded and asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

"Air leak!"

Yang Liben said: "There are seven guns in the Thunderbolt Gun, although they are all Seiko built, and the quality can be completely guaranteed, but when shooting, there will inevitably be air leakage." Although it will not hurt the soldiers and will not affect the power, it also causes the range of the Thunderbolt to be inferior to that of the Bird. ”

"How's the range?"

"General Town, the range of the Bird Gun is about 100 steps, and the Thunderbolt is only 60 steps!"

"Sixty steps?"

The distance of sixty paces was indeed a bit insufficient for the Tiance Army, especially when it came to the Iron Cavalry Army.

So, Liu Juntao also sighed and said: "Reward the Thunderbolt project team, each person will be rewarded with eighty taels of silver, and the special contributor will be rewarded with one hundred taels!" The whole group also enjoys the patent! ”

Then, Yang Liben showed and reported the rest of the achievements to Liu Juntao, and Liu Juntao also affirmed them one by one.

Then, Liu Juntao said to Zhang Baigui: "Zhang Sicheng, the Military Armament Department must immediately mass-produce the Shenji gun truck, Thunderbolt, and new gun mount, and this town will fully equip the whole army with these three new weapons after the Spring Festival!" ”