"It should be equipped on a large scale immediately!" Luo Haitao of the Navy shouted: "With this kind of gun, our army will be invincible in the world!" ”

Li Jinghuai reminded with some dissatisfaction: "Our army is invincible in the world. ”

"What, you Army don't want this gun?" Luo Haitao sneered: "That's right, please ask the commander to give us the navy." ”

"This gun has no gunpowder, is not afraid of the dampness of the medicine pool, has sufficient range, accuracy, and power, and is definitely a weapon of naval warfare, equipped with our navy's marines, so that even a transport ship without guns can easily overwhelm the enemy ship!"

"Hehe, Luo Haigou, you really think too much." Li Jinghuai smiled disappreciatively and said, "Who is the navy equipped with such a good weapon used to fight?" Those broken widows who don't dare to come out lately? Or the pirates of the Li family? ”

"If we really want to equip it, we can only equip our army, we still have to fight the Mengwu Tartars, we have to fight the Party Item Tartars, and we have to fight the Jiang ......, hehe, anyway, our army will fight wherever the young marshal points to!"

"But, I'm curious, what about the production of this gun? Without the ignition powder, what about the production of that fire cap? Without this, this gun is not much different from a burning stick, right? ”

"Master Li, don't worry." Tang Long continued: "The existing flintlock pistol can be directly transformed into a firing gun, and the output is no problem." ”

"As for the fire cap...... this is actually not difficult, we promise to prepare 60 rounds per gun each time."

One of the base reserve ammunition of the flintlock musketeers of the Qi army is 60 rounds.

However, Xu Shiyang said at this time: "60 rounds is not enough, according to the 90 rounds of reserve ammunition." ”

Judging from the history of the era when Xu Shiyang came, the history of firearms development actually developed all the way towards foolishness: the earliest muskets needed veterans who could shoot at the enemy within ten paces; The arquebus era still required skilled fighters who had been trained for several years, otherwise there was a danger of detonating the gunpowder that carried them; After the popularization of flintlock pistols, the army could already pull a strong man from the field and educate him with a leather whip and a military stick for three months before sending him to the battlefield.

After that, the firing pistol, the firing pistol, and the bolt-action rifle generation had lower requirements for soldiers from generation to generation, and by the time of Acre, firearms had become so simple that any black child could use them (whether they are easy to use or not is another matter).

However, in tandem with the development of simplified firearm operation, the consumption of bullets is also on the rise: with a musket, you will never be able to shoot 10 shots in one battle; The flintlock musketeers of the Napoleonic era usually had 60 rounds of ammunition; During World War I and World War II, bolt-action rifles were 120 rounds; In the era of assault rifles after World War II, everyone liked to diffuse at any suspicious target, so much so that the Mi Guokee equipped the rifle with a burst limiter.......

With the development of warfare technology, the accuracy of firearms has become more and more accurate, but few people have paid attention to accurate shooting, and the tactic of spilling ammunition in large quantities in order to suppress the enemy has become popular.

Generals who are in the early stage of the reform of military weapons are usually unaware of this, but Xu Shiyang, a traverser, knows that preparing the gunner according to the amount of ammunition for the flintlock pistol will definitely suffer at a loss.

"It seems a little too early to think about what the rifle will really do, but we can do some preparations."

Xu Shiyang finally said:

"All divisions, military academies, and marines of the army must send pacesetters to form an experimental unit, and we will first experiment and change equipment, and in half a year I will organize a large-scale live-fire exercise, and the commanders of all departments must think carefully about how you plan to use the weapons in your hands before that, and after the exercise, we will write new infantry regulations."

"Yes!"

"By the way, Commander, can this gun be sold to civilians?"

"Of course, but be careful, no matter what kind of firearms they are, they are not allowed to be sold to commoners and slaves without a license!"

It is still important to maintain the generation gap of weapons.

……

Xu Shiyang left Dengzhou on the tenth day of February, and Xu Muhe was already impatient to wait.

When he was still on the road, the king of Qi repeatedly sent eunuchs to urge, but Xu Shiyang still didn't care and chose to take the four-wheeled carriage newly produced by the First Locomotive Factory of the Ministry of Industry instead of riding a fast horse back to Quancheng.

The choice to take the carriage was not because Xu Shiyang's life began to become extravagant, but because he wanted to use this opportunity to personally test the performance of the existing carriage, and at the same time to see the level of road administration construction in Qi State.

It turned out that both of these things were done well, so Xu Shiyang suggested that the First Locomotive Factory promote this new four-wheeled carriage to foreign markets.

Xu Shiyang also designed a logo for the new carriage and gave it a nice name "Mercedes-Benz".

In this way, he rode into Quancheng in a classical version of the Mercedes-Benz, and then was gloriously stuck in traffic .......

When the Schönbrunn Palace was built, in order not to disturb the people as much as possible, the palace was actually built on the outskirts of Quancheng, so in Xu Shiyang's mind, the area around Schönbrunn Palace should be relatively desolate.

But in fact, with the economic development of Qi and the increase in population, the service facilities around Schönbrunn Palace have also begun to increase rapidly—such as snack shops that provide breakfast for officials in the early dynasty, tea shops where eunuchs and palace maids rest, and shops that attract various dim sums and perfumes consumed by Schönbrunn Palace staff, etc., the center of gravity of Quancheng has gradually begun to shift to the vicinity of Schönbrunn Palace.

In addition, the residential area and related offices built around Schönbrunn Palace to facilitate the commuting of court officials, as well as the public transportation institutions (public and rental carriages) that Xu Shiyang strongly supported to promote horse-drawn carriages, .......

Xu Shiyang hadn't been back to Quancheng for more than a year, and he didn't realize how stupid it was to take a carriage to Schönbrunn Palace these years.

So Xu Shiyang, who made a stupid deed, could only choose to get out of the car and walk to Meiquan Palace: "Nima, no matter what era the traffic in the capital is perverted!" ”

Fortunately, not too many people cared about this little episode, and no one knew what stupidity Xu Shiyang had committed.

On February 15, not long after Xu Shiyang entered Meiquan Palace, he was immediately summoned by Xu Muhe, the king of Qi.

This time, King Qi only summoned Xu Shiyang alone.

Since there are only father and son, then some words can be said directly.

"Shi Yang, when do you think it is better to be called emperor as a father?"

"Actually, anytime now." Xu Shiyang replied: "But the child's suggestion still has to wait for an opportunity." ”

"What's the trigger?"

"Wait for a Longdao Emperor to be stupid and give us a chance to tell the truth." Xu Shiyang said with a smile: "This can't stop the mouths of today's Shilin, but it can be used to persuade the people and history." ”

"Well, it's understandable for the father."

Regarding this matter, Xu Muhe has always understood everything, and there is no need to explain too much at all.

"If my father can't wait, he can use a full set of emperor's honor guards now, just save some face for Jiangnan on the surface, and don't take the last step for the time being."

Xu Shiyang said in an indifferent tone:

"It's really not good to always use the prince's guard of honor to face the envoys of the vassal countries, and the warlords of the Han land will also worry about our future, there was no way before, we still had to wear the skin of the Great Zhou, but now the Tartars are gone, and the court only has the value of a skin for us."