In fact, in successive wars, the spread of technology is very rapid. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 For example, in the original history, the Mini rifle was used by the French army in Africa in 1846, and was imitated by the British five years later, in 1851. Another example is breech guns, after the breech gun appeared in the Civil War in 1861, only three years later, in 1864 the British began to learn equipment.

In the course of a continuous war, any country that reveals a new weapon will quickly learn how to make it as long as the other competitors are at the same level of industrial technology. And for Li Zhi, who has been in Chongzhen for 21 years, the Dutch is such an ambitious contender.

The scope is not a high-tech thing, and when Li Zhi installed the scope for the Tiger Army rifle, he thought that this weapon would be imitated by the enemy. The twenty-first year of Chongzhen was 1648 AD, and at this time, the telescope technology in Europe was very mature, enough to produce rifle scopes comparable to Li Zhi.

The Dutch saw Li Zhi's rifle with a scope on the front line in Huai'an, and it was not difficult to imitate it.

In the process of the Dutch co-opting the Japanese, the new rifle copied by the Dutch was undoubtedly a key thing.

"If Japan is willing to form an alliance with us, we will teach you the production process of this new rifle," Kuyt said. ”

Toshikatsu Doi looked at the sniper rifle on the tatami mat, his face cloudy.

Kuyt grabbed his rifle, looked at it with his eyes on the scope, and said, "Your Excellency Doi, this rifle is basically the same as Li Zhi's rifle, and it can shoot at targets at a distance of 580 ELL meters, that is to say, it can hit a distance of 1,380 Japanese feet. ”

Hearing Kuyt's words, Doi Toshikatsu's face gradually calmed down.

If Doi Toshikatsu was also preparing to tie up Kuyt to see Li Zhi just now, and would rather be severely punished by Li Zhi than fall to the Dutch, the appearance of this rifle suddenly changed Doi Toshikatsu's choice.

If he gets the same weapon as Li Zhi, then of course the Tokugawa shogunate will no longer be afraid of Li Zhi. Japan even has more than 200,000 troops that can be mobilized, and if the same weapons as Li Zhi are used, Li Zhi's 100,000 people are not afraid at all.

In this way, Doi Toshikatsu recalled the humiliation that Li Zhi had inflicted on the Tokugawa shogunate over the years.

After thinking about it, Doi asked, "So what do the Dutch need?" ”

Kuyt smiled, "What we need does not harm the interests of the Tokugawa family in the slightest, and we only ask the Tokugawa family to grant the East India Company exclusive trading rights." ”

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Li Zicheng stood among the fields in Dongming County, Shandong, looking at the rich fields around him, and felt that he was not in the Chongzhen period.

After the Chuang army was defeated by the Tiger Ben army in Henan, Li Zicheng retreated to Xi'an, Shaanxi. He thought that Li Zhi would chase after him relentlessly, but he didn't expect that after the Tiger Ben Army occupied Tongguan, he would no longer advance.

Li Zicheng sorted out the remnants of the army in Xi'an, and waited for two months without waiting for the news that Li Zhi's army was attacking Xi'an, so he sent a large number of fine workers disguised as refugees into Shandong and Tianjin to find out the news.

In the end, Li Zicheng was really curious about Li Zhi's strong strength, so he simply disguised himself as a merchant and went to Shandong to see Li Zhi's territory.

The so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is invincible.

However, as soon as he entered the Shandong realm, Li Zicheng was shocked. Shandong's affluence and comfort are hard for Li Zicheng to believe.

The disaster year in Shaanxi and Henan is too terrible, and the countryside in Shandong is too rich, and this contrast is too strong.

In this chaotic world, the people of Shaanxi followed Li Zicheng to kill people and set fire to a bowl of gruel. But it turned out that in Shandong, Li Zhi actually built a paradise that benefited the people of a province.

Li Zicheng and his three entourages stood on a small mound by the river, looking at the golden wheat fields in the western suburbs of Dongming County, where there was no camera, and they were speechless.

Dongming County is located on the plain, and Li Zicheng came all the way to see such continuous wheat fields on both sides of the road. The endless wheat fields are like a sea of gold, rising and falling in the breeze of late spring and early summer.

Wasteland is barely visible on either side of the road.

Song Xiance disguised himself as a bookkeeper and followed Li Zicheng's side, he looked at the surrounding terrain and said, "King Chuang, the fields within a radius of several miles are all pumped and irrigated by water trucks. The watermills were by the river, and they were the shacks. You see, the water pumped out by the waterwheel flows down these straight canals into the fields to irrigate the crops. ”

"I just went to see those waterwheels, and it was very labor-saving. Dozens of waterwheels can irrigate thousands of acres of drought. ”

Li Zicheng sighed: "Li Zhi's waterwheel turned wasteland into fertile land, which is really wonderful. It is no wonder that the people of Henan are rumored to be extremely rich in Shandong. After a pause, Li Zicheng said curiously: "It's just that Shandong people have developed so much dry land, where are there so many people to cultivate?" ”

Li Zicheng was sighing there, but he saw Song Xiance pointing a mile away and said, "King Chuang, look there, it seems that wheat is being cut over there." ”

Li Zicheng took a closer look and found that there was a huge machine pulled by four oxen in the dry field, Li Zicheng was stunned and said, "Go!" Check it out! ”

Li Zicheng was wearing satin clothes at this time, and he was a businessman, and he was not afraid of being discovered by local farmers. He walked to the animal harvester with three retinues to take a closer look at how the Shandong people harvested the crops.

Walking in front of the harvester, Li Zicheng only saw the wheat stalks flying around, and the harvester of the harvester crackled. The four oxen moved the reaper forward, and the closed reaper seemed to have a very fast knife in it, constantly cutting the stalk of the wheat. The abundant wheat enters from the harvester, and when it comes out from the other side, only the stalks on the ground remain.

Of course, harvesting with a machine is not as delicate as manpower, and the machine will always leak some wheat in the corners and corners. So there was a woman next to the harvester who was using a sickle to cut the missing wheat.

Li Zicheng looked at this strange machine and was speechless for a moment.

Song Xiance spoke with his Henan accent and shouted to the farmer next to the harvester: "Dude, what kind of machine is this, why is it so powerful." ”

Henan is now Li Zhi's territory, and among the several farmers who operate the harvester, Li Zicheng and others are dressed as Henan businessmen, but they are not suspicious, but they just smiled: "I don't know this?" It's a harvester! ”

Song Xiance asked curiously: "Brother, how many acres of wheat can this harvester harvest in a day?" ”

The farmer heard Song Xiance's thick accent and said with a smile: "Fellow countryman, do you want to buy a harvester to go to Henan?" ”

Song Xiance nodded and said, "I do have this idea." I just don't know if it's easy to use or not. ”

The farmer wiped his sweat with a towel, walked up to Song Xiance and said, "Fellow, this harvester can harvest thirty acres of dry land in one day. Three people can harvest 300 acres if they work for ten days. ”

"But it's not enough to have a harvester, you also have to buy a seed drill invented by the prince, with a dragon tail car for irrigation, so that such a person can plant a hundred acres of dry land."

Hearing the peasant's words, Li Zicheng's eyes widened.

Three people harvesting 300 acres of wheat? One person cultivates a hundred acres of dry land? Li Zicheng has also cultivated the field, and his parents have cultivated the field all their lives, but he never thought that this field could be cultivated like this.

Li Zicheng's parents have been working very more than 20 acres of dry land.

This machine is truly amazing.

If one person cultivates so many fields, what will the peasants be like?

If the people of the world are like Shandong, where will anyone rebel with them?