Wang He was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what Wang Lang was talking about. nodded and said, "Erchen understands, my father said before that the army is the last barrier for our human race. ”

Wang Lang nodded and said: "That's right, although we have won the victory now, it doesn't mean that we are safe, we and those dinosaur people belong to different races, although I also want to live peacefully with them, but peace is made by fighting, as far as I know, except for the Shenzhou Continent, the rest of the world is occupied by those dinosaur people, their number is not only a hundred times more than me and us, we are just facing a small country among them as if we are facing a big enemy, if they unite and prepare to eradicate us, Then we are in danger, and after I die, you, as my eldest son, must shoulder the hope of continuing human civilization. ”

Wang He's heart tightened, his father was as strong as a mountain in his eyes, but he didn't expect to mention his death.

"Father..."

Wang Lang smiled and said: "Birth, old age, sickness and death are something that everyone can't escape, and being a father is no exception, you are still young, you have to take advantage of the time to continue to hone yourself, and then I can rest assured that the country will hand it over to you, don't let me down." ”

Hearing this, Wang He suddenly felt that he was very unfilial, he actually doubted his father for the sake of power, and compared with his father, he suddenly felt extremely small. Wang Lang worked hard every day for the fate of the entire human race, but he was jealous of his fellow brothers for his own selfishness.

Wang He got up and knelt on the ground, kowtowed to Wang Lang heavily, and said, "Father, the son understands, I will return to the barracks tomorrow." ”

Wang Lang nodded and said, "Don't be so anxious, since you're all back, go see your mother." ”

"Yes!" Wang He replied in a deep voice.

After Wang He left, Wang Lang sighed, Wang He's sudden return, let him vaguely guess something, as the saying goes, the royal family has no family affection, but he grew up from the homes of ordinary people, how can he give up this most precious emotion of human beings.

He was very reluctant to see that after he left, the brothers would have fratricidal affairs for this right, and then there would really be no hope for mankind.

Shaking his head, he threw the cluttered thoughts out of his head, fumbled in his sleeve for a while, and took the rusty watch in his hand.

This watch is the only thing that still exists in another world.

"With this watch, I think I can make a clock!" Wang Lang muttered to himself.

Without accurate time, it is difficult to carry out basic science, and in addition to helping people determine the time, clocks and watches are mainly used in scientific research.

Wang Lang is now very glad that this watch is a mechanical watch, if the electronic watch wants to find out the mechanical principle of the operation of the clock, it is basically impossible, as long as the watch is taken apart and repeatedly studied, Wang Lang believes that sooner or later this kind of thing will appear in the ordinary people of the Xia Kingdom.

After returning from the north and resting for three days, Wang Lang convened a court meeting, at which several important things were announced, and in addition to a few important things agreed on in the recital, the rest of the minor issues were actively discussed with the officials at the court meeting.

After the retreat from the imperial court, the announcement of the imperial examination to be held in March next year quickly spread through the notice of the government.

The students who learned about this incident were very excited, and after studying hard for so many years, they were finally able to show what they had learned in the examination room.

This time there are many more candidates than before, Xia Guo is now implementing compulsory education, and boys of school age will be forced to enter the school palace to study.

Under this policy, in addition to the small tribes that were later integrated, the number of teenagers who can read and write in the Xia Kingdom has reached thousands, of course, so many people, it is impossible for all of them to take the exam, some self-aware students, after learning literacy and arithmetic, most of them have given up continuing to study, and turned to engage in those technical jobs, and their participation has greatly improved the cultural level of the craftsmen of the Xia Kingdom.

In addition to the imperial examination, another thing that attracted the attention of the people of Xia was that the Ministry of War was preparing to form an overseas expedition, and all healthy young men could sign up, and the risks at sea had been clearly written in the notice.

A few days after the notice was posted, the registration location of the Yamen finally ushered in the first people to sign up.

The bored officials sitting at the table immediately cheered up when they saw someone coming.

"But you want to sign up?" The official asked.

The man nodded and asked, "This official, the reward mentioned in the notice is true." ”

The official raised his eyebrows and said unhappily: "Presumptuous! How can the proclamation issued by the imperial court itself be fake! ”

The man smiled and said, "The official is angry, the official is angry, I'm just sure about it." ”

"In the end, if you don't register, if you don't sign up, you dare to obstruct the official's work here, I'm worried that you will be guilty of obstructing official business!" The official said coldly.

The man hurriedly said, "Sign up!" Application! ”

"Name!"

"He Tie!"

"Address!"

"Chengnan, people from Elm Village!"

"Can you get married, do you have children?"

"I'm married, and I have a son who just turned three years old this year!"

The official took a brush and wrote He Tie's personal information in his cousin, handed it to him and said: "Press a handprint here, press it and wait when you go home, someone will notify you when you leave!" ”

He Tie stretched out his thumb and pressed it on the red mud on the side, pressing the paper with his information written on it.

In the following days after the first registration, dozens of people rushed over to sign up one after another, and in addition to Yancheng, the main cities of Xia Kingdom set up registration locations.

While forming an ocean-going expedition, Wang Lang also followed Mu Feng to the workshop for the research of gunpowder weapons.

"Hand-held artillery can be experimented." Wang Lang asked as he walked.

Mu Feng nodded and said, "The experiment has passed, and there has been great progress. ”

The two came to the experimental site while talking, and Mu Feng hurriedly ordered someone to bring a chair for Wang Lang.

Taking a box from the craftsman's hand, Mu Feng carefully took it to Wang Lang's side and opened the box, and inside was a black hollow iron rod, which looked like a cannon that had been reduced many times.

However, according to the proportions, the barrel of this small gun is much longer.

This thing is very different from the gorgeous musket in Wang Lang's impression, but he knew that this was just a sample, so he didn't say anything, took it in his hand, frowned, and said in a deep voice: "So heavy!" ”

Mu Feng hurriedly said: "This thing uses almost six catties of iron, which is indeed not light. ”

Wang Lang took a closer look, and saw that there was a fire door behind the buttocks of the hollow iron rod, so he said, "Let me see the effect." ”

"Yes!"

After Mu Feng finished speaking, he called a craftsman and asked him to demonstrate it for Wang Lang.

The craftsman's movements are somewhat rusty to load gunpowder and projectiles, and the operation steps are basically the same as those of artillery, except that this thing can be loaded by one person.

When everything was ready, the craftsman placed the iron rod on a bracket and lit the fuse.

"Bang!"

The iron rod made a muffled sound, and after a puff of white smoke, the craftsman hurriedly ran to check the situation of the shooting.

The upper edge of the wooden plank, which was about three meters long and wide, appeared at this moment with a spider web-like hole, and the protective ability of this wooden board was equivalent to the armor of the Xia Kingdom.

The craftsman waved his hand at the wooden wind.

"Your Majesty, it seems to have been hit!"

Wang Lang nodded and walked over with Mu Feng to check the shooting effect.

Seeing that this experiment successfully shot through the wooden board, I was very satisfied, and looked at the distance from the wooden board to the iron bar, which was almost more than 50 meters, and felt that the range was a little close, and such a close distance could not effectively suppress the bow and arrow.

"Move the target back twenty meters."

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid not!" Mu Feng said in a deep voice.

"Why!"

"Your Majesty doesn't know, look at this hole, we are aiming at the middle position, but we hit here, if we move back twenty meters, I'm afraid we won't be able to hit."

When Wang Lang heard this, he suddenly sudden,

This primitive front-loading smoothbore gun can be said to have no accuracy at all, thinking of the tactics of muskets in another world, Wang Lang also figured out the key to it, and said to Mu Feng: "It's okay, the accuracy doesn't matter about it for the time being, I want to see how far its effective killing distance is, you can prepare more planks, as long as you hit." ”

Mu Feng nodded and instructed the craftsman to go and prepare.

The craftsmen were busy for a while, and after about an hour, the craftsmen who had finished preparing lit the fuse again.

"Bang!"

After the smoke passed, the bullets did not know where they had gone.

The craftsman searched for the plank for a while, and finally found the projectile stuck in the plank in an inconspicuous place.

When Wang Lang saw the shooting effect, he frowned and said secretly: "It can be so far off." ”

"Your Majesty, the accuracy of this hand-held artillery is really not ideal."

"This is already very good, although more than 70 meters have not been able to penetrate the plank, but this power is enough, and you must continue to improve." Wang Lang said slowly.

Mu Feng nodded when he heard this.

Since it is necessary to train musketeers, it is definitely not possible to use this burning stick, Wang Lang said: "You will first produce a hundred according to this, but you need to add some things." ”

"I don't know what Your Majesty wants to add!" Mu Feng asked.

Wang Lang walked to the side of the iron rod and said, "You add a wooden stand to this iron rod." ”

As he spoke, he made a two-handed gun shooting motion, and said, "As a single weapon, I want the soldier to be able to shoot in this position." ”

Mu Feng looked at Wang Lang's movements, had a general idea in his mind, nodded and said, "This is not difficult, the main parts have been completed, and these things only need to be handed over to the carpenter." ”

Wang Lang looked at the gunpowder box on the wooden table and said, "By the way, the process of filling gunpowder should also be improved." ”

Mu Feng was stunned for a moment, and asked suspiciously: "Your Majesty, how can this gunpowder filling step be improved." ”

Wang Lang smiled: "Are you now reloading the amount of gunpowder by feeling?" ”

Mu Feng nodded and said, "That's right, Your Majesty, is there anything wrong with this?" ”

"Although this is not wrong, but this is too demanding for the individual, think about it, on the battlefield, in the face of the enemy's charge, even the bravest soldiers will be afraid, it is not at all the same as the usual training effect, this charge is difficult to grasp." Wang Lang said slowly.

Mu Feng thought for a while and said, "There is indeed such a possibility, but this gunpowder must be loaded, and this step cannot be omitted." ”

"This point is easy to solve, as long as you experiment with the optimal charge of gunpowder, you can use paper projectiles to load gunpowder separately, and when the soldiers are using it, they only need to tear the paper packets." Wang Lang said with a smile.

Mu Feng's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this, and he exclaimed: "There is such a method, Your Majesty is really wise." ”

After so many years of training, his skin has long been thick enough, and his face is not red and his heart is not beating when he listens to Mu Feng's compliments, this method is naturally not something he came up with, but just standing on the shoulders of giants.

"From now on, this thing will be called a musket, how long will it take for a hundred muskets to come out?" Wang Lang asked.

Mu Feng thought for a while and said, "It's going to take almost two months!" ”

"So long?" Wang Lang was a little surprised.

Mu Feng replied: "This musket is slightly different from artillery, the cannon can be cast directly, but the musket must be continuously forged, although we have hydraulic forging equipment, but the process is still very complicated, one hundred in two months is already the limit." ”

Wang Lang nodded, he also didn't know much about this kind of part involving actual operation, since Mu Feng said so, there was no more convenient way.

"Well, try to make a hundred muskets out of two, these muskets must ensure the quality, must be repeated trials, try to avoid the occurrence of explosions, and notify me as soon as the muskets are made."

"Obey the order!"

At this time, Wang Lang asked, "Hasn't there been any progress in the glass matter?" ”

Seeing Wang Lang ask about this, Mu Feng sighed and shook his head: "The Ministry of Industry has not given up firing glass over the years, but the progress is very slow, and it does not meet the standards for making telescopes at all. ”

"There is no hurry about the glass matter for the time being, now your energy should focus on weapon improvement, and the glass matter will be natural!" Wang Lang sighed.

The cost of grinding lenses with crystal is too high, not to mention that the production of microscopes is far more complicated than that of telescopes, and if crystals are used, the human and material resources spent on experiments will be unimaginable.

Although there are some regrets, Wang Lang can only give priority to the use of manpower in important places.