Chapter 4 Next year's day is not my death day

Since providing Paul Mauser with sketches and ideas, Jochen's name as a genius has become even more famous, and both his grandfather, William I, and his parents, Crown Prince Frederick and his wife, have placed greater expectations on him, so that he has access to more information and technology.

Jochen also used this as an excuse to visit the Royal Arsenal in Oberndorf, which had not yet been reorganized into the Mauser Arms Building Joint Stock Company (Note 1), so it was considered a royal property, and the little guy who was usually bored in the study and collection room all day was willing to go far away, even if it was a "business trip", and Crown Prince Frederick and his wife were not only worried but happy to see it.

During a visit to the Royal Arsenal, Jochen met Paul's brother, the bearded William Mauser, and was as surprised as Jochen was in William I's study, with his age-appropriate conversation, serious learning spirit, and unique personal insights. The reason for this was, of course, to make a deep impression on Paul Mauser (Note 2) and to lay the groundwork for his future involvement in the Royal Arsenal, so that Paul Mauser could help him realize the design of a new rifle guided by his own ideas and squeeze out the Army's unsuccessful 1888 Commission rifle after the advent of smokeless powder bullets in the future.

"Yochen, did you get a good result this time?" Jochen, who had gone far away and had basically achieved his goal, was naturally in a good mood and saw his son happy, so Crown Prince Frederick was naturally very happy about it.

"Yes, Dad, Mr. Mauser Jr. is very efficient, the immature sketch I originally gave him has basically been designed according to the idea, it is estimated that the prototype gun will be produced in a few months, and soon we in Germany will be able to equip ourselves with more advanced rifles!"

"It's also because of our genius little Joheng!"

"Dad, I learned a lot from meeting Mr. William Mauser in Oberndorf this time. And Dad, I have an idea. ”

"It's best if little Yoheng has a harvest, if you have any ideas, tell your father."

"Dad, listen to Mr. Mauser, in terms of weapons, now all countries are making new attempts, just as we are doing now, the development of the bead gun will inevitably get faster and faster, and the inherent defects of the barrel design will inevitably be replaced by a new design, and we are already doing it, others will definitely do it, so many new technologies and new ideas will appear, and constantly improving the continuous shooting ability is the inevitable development direction, so on the one hand, we must continue to improve, On the other hand, it is also important to explore the technology of other countries, and the black used now. There are many problems with gunpowder bullets, and although the fire cotton cannot be used as a propellant because it is unstable, its advantages are also there, so I hope that the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences will strengthen the study of the stable cotton wool, and on the other hand, keep an eye on the French and the British, especially the French, who are still very technical in the field of chemistry. Also, if there is any news or progress, I hope to let me know as much as possible. ”

"Haha, that's a good idea, I'll talk to His Majesty the Emperor, but Jochen, don't underestimate our own chemists, they'll be able to figure it out. We don't have Lavoisier, but our chemists are very good. Crown Prince Frederick, who thought his son knew this "world's best mind" (Note 3), said with a smile that he looked up at the French.

"I don't mean Lavoisier, but I can't say Vière," Jochen muttered quietly.

"Okay, you're tired from a long trip, go rest and spend time with your mother."

"Okay, Dad."

Crown Prince Frederick thought that after Wilhelm I said Jochen's idea, he received the attention of His Majesty the Emperor, so he not only asked the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences to start solving the problem of the stability of the cotton wool, but also increased the attention of other countries to the development of technology, and even brought the development of German intelligence agencies to a higher level.

And our Yoheng classmate returned to the rhythm of his life as a bookworm, and was able to begin to contact some of the latest information on foreign technological development, which made him find new fun, splicing these materials to trigger his memory, sorting out various military technology development processes in his mind, and then recording it in Chinese Simplified Chinese, which became his own little secret.

And in the following time, in addition to proper exercise, little Joheng became a complete otaku. Because the following 1879 was extremely important, because in this year, he was hung up because of diphtheria, in this era when there was no penicillin and erythromycin, it was almost helpless to treat this airborne infectious disease, so a year ago, under the pretext of wanting to learn the Compendium of Materia Medica, he asked Liu Xihong (Note 5), the German ambassador of the Qing Dynasty at that time, to help find a Chinese medicine teacher as a guise to get three prescriptions that could have a certain effect on diphtheria, and even prepared medicinal materials. Of course, these small actions made Joheng use learning as an excuse and selling cuteness as a means to hide it.

"Radix radix, radix radix, mountain bean root, skullcap, honeysuckle, forsythia, burdock root, peppermint, raw licorice, and earth hyssop root are used to treat cold and fever; Radix Radix Radix, Shengdi, Ophiopogon Radix, Chuanbei, Red Peony, Danpi, Radix Radix, Radix Radix Root, Hyssop Root, Mountain Bean Root, Smallpox Pollen, treat yin deficiency and dryness; Coptis chinensis, skullcap, cork, gardenia, raw gypsum, green limestone, fresh bamboo drain, soil hyssop root, red peony, and raw rhubarb treat epidemic poison attack throat. These old men have never seen them, I don't know where His Highness knew about them? ”

"Teacher Li, I also wrote it down inadvertently when I was reading a book, and now I think about it, so I want to ask the teacher if these three recipes are useful?"

"Your Highness, although the old man has not seen it, from a pharmacological point of view, it should be a rare prescription, and it should not go wrong. Although it is a pity that I can't see the ancient books that record the prescriptions, I don't know if His Royal Highness can borrow the old man to study these three prescriptions. ”

"Teacher Li just take it, after all, I won't be a doctor in the future, and the prescription for me is useless, it's great to be able to help patients."

"Your Highness is benevolent, this is a blessing for the sick." (The above are all in Chinese, as for whether this old Chinese medicine doctor speaks this taste, you should not delve into it)

But after so much preparation, little Joheng, who was still worried about his life, found strangely that not only did he not have any signs of illness, but even his cousin Princess Mary and Aunt Princess Alice, who also died of diphtheria a few months earlier than him, did not get sick, although the news that his cousin and aunt had a severe cold reached Berlin, and was scared enough to choke on it as a precursor to diphtheria, but the news of the cure made the little guy dumbfounded.

In this way, the time entered 1879, and the frightened little Johen Joheng became more and more calm, in order to fight the damn germs, the little guy even pretended to have a cold, and he wanted to wear a mask all the time, and the mother sighed how her son was steady like a little old man, but the little guy was not in the mood to care about his own evaluation rose again, but the days passed day by day, and there was no sign of illness. And the secret signing of the German-Austrian Treaty of Alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary in Vienna on January 7 certainly has nothing to do with the fact that we have too late to care about our little guys.

Finally, on March 27th, this day was the day when Joechen returned to the arms of the Lord in history, and on this day the little guy even stayed in the study for a whole day and did not come out, and finally, when night fell, he reluctantly went out to go back to his room to sleep, refused to close his eyes and tossed and turned in bed, and finally fell asleep with difficulty in tossing and turning.

Wake up under the influence of the biological clock, slowly open your eyes, the chaotic brain slowly becomes clear, when the eyes are clear, the little guy sat up one by one, looked at the morning light shining through the window, realized that this was the rising sun on March 28, the little guy jumped up.

"Yay! I see the sun today! Today next year is not my death day! Thank God! Ah no, thank God you old man! "Well, the excited little guy didn't realize it was next year's yesterday. Although it is a big and chemical house, although it can be accepted calmly in the face of this crossing, but although it is young and old, it does not mean that Joheng can really deal with it calmly when facing this new day.

"Fuck your sister's diphtheria! Fuck your sister's untimely death! I'm going to die in bed when I'm 100 years old! I...... Ahem, ahem, ahem......... cough cough cough cough ...... "Look, pretending to be forced to be struck by lightning." The excited shouts were interrupted by a violent cough - little one...... Choked on my own saliva.

The court maid, who hurriedly pushed the door in, brought a glass of water and patted the little one on the back.

'Ah, to be saved, to die not of diphtheria, but to choke to death by your own saliva, that is a big joke. Be careful to stay calm in the future, well, calm. Jochen, who was thinking silently, unconsciously showed a relieved smile on his face.

And although the maid didn't know what happened to make the usually steady little prince nervous early in the morning, it could be seen that the little prince was in a good mood today. Ah, by the way, the first few sentences of the little guy are shouted in Chinese, otherwise it is estimated that it will be messed up.

A new day begins.

Note 1: In 1897 Paul Mauser took full control of the shares of the Royal Arsenal and reorganized it into the Mauser Arms Manufacturing Joint Stock Company, which became Mauser's private property.

Note 2: Wilhelm Mauser would have been hanging in 1882, and Paul Mauser would eventually become a giant in the design and manufacture of German rifles, and the Gew.98 rifle used by the German army in World War I was his classic design.

Note 3: The mathematician Lagrange once lamented Lavoisier's death in the French Revolution: "They could have cut off his head in the blink of an eye, but his mind would not grow another one in a hundred years." ”

Note 4: Paul Marie Eugène Viele, the inventor of B gunpowder, produced the world's first smokeless gunpowder in 1884, and the emergence of B gunpowder quickly led to the development of bullets.

Note 5: Liu Xihong, who served as the German ambassador of the Qing Dynasty from April 1877 to August 1878, was one of the first diplomatic envoys of modern China to go abroad.

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