There are generally two ways to maintain the credibility of a currency and defeat counterfeit money. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThe first way is to improve the technical content of banknotes, using various high-tech manufacturing banknotes. For example, in later Western countries, plastic banknotes were often used, making it impossible for ordinary counterfeiters to get their hands on them, and finally achieving the purpose of anti-counterfeiting.

But there is another way, which is to punish the counterfeiters severely. This is the method adopted by the renminbi in later generations. The technical difficulty of counterfeiting RMB is not particularly high, and even some peasant women can forge a large number of machines after buying them. However, the punishment imposed by the government authorities on counterfeiting renminbi is very severe, and anyone who forges more than 10 million yuan can be sentenced to death.

This approach avoids the drawbacks of risking new technology. For example, plastic coins have the disadvantage of insufficient friction, and coins often cannot be separated when counting, and it is easy to stick two coins together as one and spend them. With mature old technology, there are no risks associated with new technologies.

For the current Li Zhi, a more feasible approach is the latter.

At present, Li Zhi has not advanced the technological frontier of Fanjiazhuang to the printing industry, and has not yet invented banknotes far beyond this era. These banknotes circulating in Li Zhiling's territory today can be forged with an investment of tens of thousands of taels of silver. But Li Zhi is not too worried about the problem of counterfeit banknotes, because Li Zhi has the ability to kill people far beyond this era, and can kill counterfeiters to the head, which makes the crumbs who are interested in counterfeiting tremble.

Moreover, Li Zhi is constantly improving his killing methods and improving the efficiency of killing.

Li Zhi took his improved rocket, or bazooka, from a craftsman and looked at his men.

Everyone was very curious about the bazooka that Li Zhi was holding in his hand, and they stopped talking one by one, staring at the bazooka carefully.

What Li Zhi "invented" this time was an improved version of the Congreve rocket, which was a 19th-century rocket.

In later history, the British, who built the empire on which the sun never sets, discovered the rocket as a weapon of war when they invaded India, and soon learned to transform him. Obviously, compared to heavy artillery, rockets have the advantages of a fast rate of fire, a long firing range, and flexibility of maneuverability.

In 1805, Colonel Congreve, an artillery colonel working at the Royal Laboratory of the Arsenal of Woolwich, England, used a new type of gunpowder to create a practical rocket weighing 14.5 kilograms, with an arrow length of 1.06 meters, a diameter of 0.1 meters, and a range of up to 1,800 meters.

Congreve rockets were widely used in the Napoleonic Wars as soon as they were equipped. First of all, the French fleet was attacked at Buren, and the results were good. Later, under the personal command of Congreve, the British Royal Navy fired about 25,000 rockets at Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, almost leveling the city.

At the Battle of Lepzig in 1812, the British rocket artillery unit of the Swedish army "scattered a squad of French troops like a pile of ants" with a single heavy fire. Congreve rockets were also used in the war between the United States and Great Britain. In 1814, the British attacked Fort McHenry near Baltimore with rockets.

In the Opium War, the British army captured the Shajiao and Dajiao forts in Guangzhou with rockets, and even bombed Zhenjiang, Ningbo, and Yuyao into flames. The Qing people's record of the "Jingkou Chenglu" describes: "Rockets are like flying stars, or they fall to the ground to make flowers burst."

Obviously, this weapon is a sharp weapon for attacking fortifications.

But the Congreve rocket had the disadvantage of an unstable flight trajectory and could not conduct high-precision shooting. In response to this shortcoming, in 1844 the British inventor William Hale made important improvements. Hale mounted three inclined stabilizing spirals on the tail of the rocket. When the rocket is launched, it is stabilized by causing the rocket to rotate itself due to the action of aerodynamic forces.

The principle is the same as that of the Mini rifle's rotating bullet, which is able to move steadily through the air.

There are some tricks to the manufacture of this kind of tail, and Li Zhi's rocket craftsmen tested it hundreds of times according to Li Zhi's drawings before making a qualified rocket.

With this tail, the spinning rocket can move straight through the air, shooting a straight line with a small curvature. Of course, an absolute straight line is impossible, and the rocket will inevitably fly downwards due to gravity in flight, and the final path must be a parabola. But at a distance of a few hundred meters, this downward deviation is very small.

The modified rocket was actually an oval-shaped straight barrel that looked similar to later rockets, but with a sharp corner at the top. Li Zhi mounted this rocket in a round iron cylinder, and mounted a scope on the round iron cylinder to facilitate aiming, so that the entire rocket installation looked very much like the shoulder-fired anti-tank missiles of later generations.

The generals under Li Zhi's command were a little puzzled when they saw Li Zhi bring out such a strange thing. They stared at each other for a while, and no one understood how this weapon could defeat the enemy.

Li Zhi carried the bazooka on his shoulder, and the sixteen-kilogram rocket and the seven-kilogram launch canister made Li Zhi feel a little struggling. Fortunately, this kind of use is not a long-term operation, and Li Zhi aimed at a small hill three hundred meters away in the scope. A one-meter-wide target area had already been painted on that hill, which was Li Zhi's target.

Li Zhi aimed at the target and shouted, "Ignition!" ”

A rocket craftsman ignites the fuse behind the bazooka, and the fuse quickly ignites the rocket's propulsion with a clattering sound. I saw a huge flash of fire rushing out of the tail of the rocket, and with a bang, the rocket shot out like an arrow off the string, heading straight for the target three hundred meters away.

The rocket steadily hit the target 300 meters away. The tip of the nose of the rocket pierced into the dirt and fixed the rocket to the ground.

Everyone saw the performance of this rocket clearly, and they were very amazed at the rocket that was moving straight, and let out an exclamation of amazement.

However, before the crowd's exclamations landed, the rocket exploded in the target area.

The eleven kilograms of nitrocellulose of the rocket combat department, which was originally confined to a steel shell, exploded violently at this time, and immediately swept through. The shock wave from the explosion swept across a dozen meters of the surrounding area, emitting a strong light that made it impossible to see directly.

The weight of the rocket combat department is heavier than that of an eighteen-pound gun, and the power is much greater than that of an eighteen-pound flowering projectile. By the time the rockets were blown up, there was no trace of the rockets on the knoll in the distance, leaving only a half-meter-deep crater in the ground.

Seeing the power of the rocket, the onlookers turned a little pale.

It's easy to carry and easy to transport. The rocket can be launched on the shoulder, does not require heavy artillery cooperation, and can accurately blast the enemy inside the bunker at a distance of three hundred meters.

This is really a weapon for murder and arson.

Li Zhi put down the rocket launcher and looked at the surprised generals under his command.

"I see that this person who printed counterfeit money is very anxious, and he doesn't seem to be too afraid that we know who he is, nor too afraid that we know where they are printing money." Patting the bazooka, Li Zhi said: "Next, we will wait for this counterfeit banknote factory to surface and let them taste the bazooka." ”