Liu Xie personally experimented with the "Bu-1-3" semi-automatic rifle, and felt good and very satisfied. Then he asked, "How many of these guns are there now?" ”

Jia Xu said: "For the time being, there are only ten, all of them are here." ”

"Can we start mass production?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, but there is no power equipment, and all the processes are made by hand, so the mass production speed is very slow, and it would be good to be able to produce one a day."

The so-called power equipment is machine tools, but the current Han does not have the ability to produce machine tools for the time being.

Liu Xie muttered: "The preparatory work for sending troops overseas takes three months, three months is ninety days, you can only give me ninety guns, plus these ten guns, the total industry is only one hundred guns, and I have 50,000 people in battle, which is far from enough!" ”

Jia Xu said: "Your Majesty, it is really difficult to complete such a huge project." ”

Huang Yueying, who was on the side, said: "Your Majesty, you can mix rifles and crossbows at the same time. ”

Liu Xie nodded: "For now, it can only be like this." Wenhe, I'll give you a hundred elite soldiers, and you train them for me within three months, so that they can become proficient in spear skills. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Any other surprises?" Liu Xie asked.

"Yes, Your Majesty," Jia Xu said, opening a wooden box and taking out a beautiful wooden box a foot long, made of mahogany, with a dragon carved on it.

Jia Xu held the mahogany box in both hands and handed it to Liu Xie, and said, "This is a birthday gift from the Firearms Bureau to His Majesty." ”

Liu Xie turned out to be a wooden box, very heavy, and asked suspiciously: "Oh? For a real birthday present? Didn't you say that you wouldn't do longevity? Why do you still have to do such a gift-giving set? ”

Jia Xu smiled and said: "Your Majesty will know if this gift should be given when you open it and see it." ”

Liu Xie opened the wooden box and found that it was actually a pistol!

A fine revolver eight inches long, and six rounds of ammunition had been loaded, and there were twelve spare rounds in the box. The pistol is beautiful, but the style is very ancient, but for this dynasty, to have such a weapon is already very advanced.

Liu Xie laughed and said: "This gift is good, I like it very much, it doesn't count your violations!" ”

Liu Xie is 20 years old this year, and before his birthday has arrived, he is informing the officials that in order to save money, there will be no birthday this year, and no official is allowed to give gifts, so there is this paragraph just now.

Liu Xie played with this exquisite revolver engraved with a dragon, and asked, "Is there a holster?" ”

Jia Xu said: "Of course there is, but it's ......"

"But what's wrong?" Liu Xie asked.

Jia Xu said: "The holster is no longer here. ”

"Where's that?"

Wen Yin smiled and said: "Here are the concubines." ”

Liu Xie asked curiously, "Why are you there?" ”

Wen Yin smiled and said: "Master Jia said that he wanted to give you a surprise, and specially sent someone to the concubine's mother's house, so that his father told the concubine to make this holster quietly." I made clothes in the Tattoo Clothing Bureau, so the concubine personally designed and produced this holster. ”

After that, he took out a bag and opened it, and sure enough, there was a pair of holsters inside.

This holster is composed of a strap and can be inserted at the left waist, which is very useful, very similar to modern holsters. Liu Xie said: "The concubine has a heart." ”

Wen Yin smiled and asked, "Do you want to wear it now, but you have to wear it under your coat." ”

Liu Xie said: "Put it on now!" ”

After that, he took off his coat on the spot, put on the holster strap on his back, inserted the pistol, and there was a row of small holes in the holster belt.

Wen Yin said and began to put the twelve spare bullets in the cartridge belt one by one, and finally served Liu Xie to put on his coat.

Liu Xie handed the exquisite snatching box to Xiao Luozi and said, "Put it away, don't lose it." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Liu Xie praised Jia Xu: "Old Jia, you have made a great contribution." ”

Jia Xu said very humbly: "Without His Majesty's design, without the efforts of workers and scholars, and without the investment of shareholders, how could Lao Chen do it?" So this feature is for everyone. ”

Liu Xie said again: "Yanyun, this time your Wen family has also made a lot of contributions, the Firearms Bureau, your Wen family is the largest shareholder." ”

Wen Yin said: "Serving the imperial court is the duty of my Wen family. ”

Returning to the Qinzheng Palace, Liu Xie asked: "The matter of going to the Waren Island has been decided, and it is estimated that 50,000 troops will be dispatched." Wenyuan, the composition ratio of cavalry, infantry and logistics units, do you have any suggestions? ”

Zhang Liao said: "Your Majesty, because you are crossing the ocean to fight, although the load is enough, Weichen thinks that the number of cavalry should be reduced, at most 10,000 cavalry. ”

Liu Xie stepped down from the dragon chair and came to the map to look carefully, this is the map of the East China Sea, on the left is the coastline of the territory of the Han Dynasty, on the right is the Japanese Island, above is Liaodong, Goguryeo and Fuyu.

Zhang Liao also walked over, pointed to the Waren Island, and said: "The Waren Island, although there are more than 100 small countries, the combined area of the four large islands is not half the size of my Xuzhou. Therefore, it is perfectly okay to have less cavalry and more infantry, and even 10,000 cavalry is too much. ”

(Note: The administrative division of Xuzhou in the Three Kingdoms is equivalent to the current East China region, so the island is not half the size of Xuzhou.) ）

Liu Xie nodded and said, "The land of projectiles, it's true. Kong Ming, Shi Yuan, several of you strategists have come over and studied together. ”

Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Huang Yueying, Guo Jia, Xu Shu, Chen Yu, Xun Yu and other strategists all gathered in front of the map and began to talk about it.

Xun Yu said: "Your Majesty, as far as Wei Chen knows, from the North Sea to the Japanese Island, even if we have a steamship, we also need to guard against ocean currents and reefs. ”

Zhang Liao said: "Brother Wen Ruo, I won't tell you anything, over the years of shipbuilding, Your Majesty has instructed me to send people to investigate this area many times and draw some hydrographic maps, but it is not clear if it is closer to the Waren Island. ”

Liu Xie beckoned to Nanshengmi and said, "You come here." ”

Liu Xie asked, "You came from the Waren Island, you should be familiar with the hydrology near the Waren Island, right?" ”

Nan Shengmi said: "Your Majesty, you are right, Weichen came this time, and he really brought hydrological data from the waters near my Yamatai Kingdom and the Dog Slave Country. ”

After that, he took out a piece of parchment and handed it to Liu Xie, Liu Xie took it and looked at it, and couldn't help frowning, because this map only depicted a small section of the southernmost coastline of the Waren Island, as well as a few nearby islands, and there was nothing else.

"Finished?" Liu Xie asked.

"Yes," Nanshengmi said, "this is the most precious hydrological data of Yamatai. ”

Liu Xie angrily smashed the map on Nanshengmi's head and scolded: "Are you really here to be funny?" ”