New grenade fuse? Wang Chaohong was naturally very interested in this, and the ultimate goal of his proposal to increase the number of artillery was to strengthen the artillery fire density of the army, if there could be a new type of grenade fuse.

Of course, if there is a new grenade fuse, more artillery will be able to fire grenades and more artillery will have to be equipped.

A hundred divisions is not too much, and two hundred or more is even better.

It was always Wang Chaohong's idea that the more artillery pieces, the better, and the more powerful the better, not too much.

The people who are concerned about the new grenade fuse are not only Li Xuan and Wang Chaohong, but in fact, it is the relevant officers of the Ordnance Department of the Privy Council who are more concerned about this matter, especially Colonel He Haoyuan, the chief of the Grenade Section under the Artillery Department of the Ordnance Department, who is specifically responsible for this matter.

Although his grenade section is responsible for all howitzers, almost every officer in the grenade section knows that if you want to be promoted and make a fortune, the hope lies in the new fuse.

Because many of the military's R&D projects are routine projects, only a very small number of them are key projects, and the new fuse project assigned to the grenade section is the only key project in their department.

If you succeed, everyone will be promoted and make a fortune, and if you fail, you will continue to stay up, and you may even lose your official position.

The test of the new fuze two days later was crucial for many people, including Colonel Ho Ho Yuen, and even enough to affect the fate of their lives!

Although many ordnance equipment, including the new grenade fuse, are actually responsible for the research and development of the Royal Institute of Technology, the military's ordnance department is the institution that issues many research and development tasks.

The R&D procedure for ordnance products is generally the demand put forward by the field troops, the ordnance department is responsible for bidding, and the combat department is responsible for specific allocation.

In the case of bidding, it is also divided into finished product bidding and sample bidding.

Sample bidding, in fact, is that there is no ready-made product, the Ministry of Ordnance will issue a bidding contract to many R & D institutions, provide R & D funds, after the development of samples, after testing, purchase a part of the large-scale testing, if possible, then start mass procurement.

So in fact, a lot of the funds for the research and development of ordnance are provided by the military, and the Royal Institute of Technology is no exception.

Of course, if the Royal Institute of Technology comes up with something good, the military will buy it directly.

Grenade fuses are no exception, and the military has long been eager to see howites that are safer and can be used for long-barreled artillery, so both the army and the navy have invested a lot of money in research and development.

As for the three major weapons companies, although they also have research and development, but to be honest, their technical strength is too poor, and today's three major weapons companies are basically the role of manufacturers, and research and development is not their strong point.

Two days later, on the day of the live-fire test of the new fuze, He Haoyuan got up early, and under the service of his wife, he finished dressing, put on a straight military uniform and got into a carriage and went out, he first went to the office compound of the Ordnance Department, and after having a morning meeting with his subordinates, he began to deal with daily official business, and then went to the weapons test site of the Royal Institute of Technology in the afternoon.

It is not the test site of the three major weapons companies, but the weapons test site of the Royal Institute of Technology, the Royal Institute of Technology has many research and development tasks, and often needs to conduct various live-fire tests, so they themselves also have a small weapons test site, the scale is not large, but there is no problem in conducting live-fire tests in the early stage.

However, He Haoyuan has not yet started to work, but he has received an urgent report that it is not only himself and several generals of the military who are watching the live ammunition test of the new fuse today, but His Majesty will also go to watch it in person.

This was a disruption to his plans.

Not to mention him, even the bigwigs of the Ordnance Department were alarmed, they didn't expect that this was just an early fuse live-fire test, and the Son of Heaven would go to watch it.

You must know that there are many research and development tasks of all kinds, and there are many early tests of all kinds of messy weapons, and the Ordnance Department will arrange a live-fire test at both ends of three days.

But the Son of Heaven will go to see it in person, and they are generally preparing new weapons that are finalized, and the early tests are generally not going, after all, many early tests are unsuccessful, and many new research and development projects can be finalized and produced very few in the end.

Many of the military's R&D projects are operated by casting nets to catch fish, not to mention the others, there are at least a dozen R&D projects of various types of fuses alone, and it would be good to succeed in the end.

No matter why, since the Son of Heaven is coming, then the preliminary live-fire test of this new type of fuze is extraordinary, regardless of whether it is successful or not, but the whole process needs to be arranged foolproof.

So, he originally planned to wait until the afternoon to go to the test site, where he was still in the mood to deal with other official business, so he directly took someone to the Royal Institute of Technology first to start the preparatory work.

It's not that things like preparing for the Son of Heaven's trip, those are naturally handled by the Guards and the Hanlin Academy, and it is not his turn to be a small army colonel to intervene, what he has to prepare is the actual test at that time.

Originally, he didn't have much hope for this fuze live-fire test, because he had presided over similar tests several times, but each time it failed.

However, this time, he desperately hopes that the live-fire test can be successful, even if it cannot be put into mass production in the end, but at least there must be progress, otherwise, when the time comes, the Son of Heaven will say: You have been doing it for so long, have you not achieved any results at all?

In this case, it is estimated that his future in the army will be completely ruined, and without the Son of Heaven to say anything, the bigwigs of the Ordnance Department above will kick themselves out and replace them with someone to preside over the work of the grenade section.

Nervous and nervous, he ran to the Royal Institute of Technology, where he met several key members of the project team for this new type of fuze.

Although most of the four or five people in front of him were about twenty years old, and even one was still a little kid who was only fifteen years old, He Haoyuan, who was already in his thirties, didn't dare to put any elders or bosses in front of them.

This is not to say that He Haoyuan is low-voiced because of today's special circumstances, but he doesn't dare to put on a score in normal times, these students of the Royal Polytechnic Ruan are all demons, and the freshman is okay to say, but above the sophomore year, he can't afford to offend a small army colonel.

And strictly speaking of official positions, he is not as good as the project leader led by this small project team.

Bi Zifei, the leader of this project team, is a junior at the Royal Institute of Technology, just listening to the identity of this junior is awesome enough, and this person is also a fierce person in the junior year of the Royal Institute of Technology, ranking fourth in the internal junior exam, and it is very likely that he will be promoted to the senior this year.

This person is not only the leader of this small project team, but also the head of the mechanical department of the Royal Institute of Technology.

Bi Zifei's official position is not low, he was specially awarded the official status of the third grade, and the Son of Heaven personally gave him a house, just to protect his personal safety, there are more than a dozen bodyguards.

Even those cabinet bigwigs, when they saw this person, they had to laugh and say that they were the head of the department.

Well, although he is only twenty years old!

Although He Haoyuan didn't dare to offend people, he still asked a lot of questions, and asked back and forth, that is, whether the test could be successful, how sure he was, etc., this question was a few more words, which annoyed Bi Zifei and threw down a sentence: "Before the live fire test, how do we know if we can succeed!" ”

Then he drove He Haoyuan out, Bi Zifei was busy, this fuze research and development is just one of his many research and development projects, he is so busy every day that his feet don't touch the ground, how can he have spare time to play Tai Chi with He Haoyuan.

He Haoyuan, who was kicked out, was not angry, as a civilian officer of the Ordnance Department, he dealt with the Royal Institute of Technology twice in three days, and knew that the students in the Royal Institute of Technology were basically a group of crazy people, and there was no need to be angry with them.

But isn't it, if it's not a genius, how can it be in a blank, this relies on a few thin booklets given by Li Xuan to learn so many things, if genius and madman, most of the time are synonymous.

Although he was still a little worried, there was no way out, so he could only deal with the specific preparation for the live-fire test first, praying for the success of the test in the end.

In the afternoon, He Haoyuan was waiting outside the test site with a group of military colleagues, dozens of students and administrative officials from the Royal Institute of Technology, and several main leaders of the three major arms companies who hurried to the test site after hearing the news!

At this time, the test site had been fully taken over by the Guards, and the test personnel who were originally prepared were all replaced by soldiers of the Guards.

The surrounding area is also fully monitored by the Guards to ensure that there are no surprises!

No one dares to ignore the safety of the Son of Heaven, even the students of the Royal Institute of Technology, who usually have their nostrils facing the sky, will obey the arrangements of the guards one by one.

As time passed, after waiting for about half an hour, He Haoyuan and the others finally saw the arrival of the holy car!

First came a group of soldiers of the Guards, then a large group of cavalry, then the chariot of the Son of Heaven, followed by a group of civil officials in carriages and military generals on horses

The Son of Heaven temporarily decided to come over to watch the test in person, and both the cabinet and the military did not dare to slack off, and there should be a lot of preparations.

A moment later, in the voice of greeting the emperor, Li Xuan, who was dressed in civilian clothes, walked out of the carriage, then nodded slightly, and raised his hand slightly: "Zhong Aiqing is flat!" ”