Fan Ruzeng hurriedly complied with the order, and then talked about the third thing: "There is another important matter to report to Your Majesty, which Your Majesty has specially explained." After more than a year of searching, the intelligence agent of the Secret Service Department at the intelligence station in Richmond, USA, finally found the doctor named Richard Gatlin confessed by His Majesty. A few days ago, he had been brought back to Shengjing, and how to arrange it was for His Majesty to decide. ”

Feng Yunshan remembered that he seemed to have mentioned the person who invented the Gatling machine gun, and asked the Secret Service Department to find someone. Naturally, to bring this Gatling is to let him invent a dense fire machine gun, at this time, it should still be called a hand-cranked multi-barreled rifle.

It's not that Feng Yunshan can't invent this kind of Gatling machine gun on his own, he originally knew some mechanical principles, and there are many mechanical technicians under his command now, but he is not far away to study these in person, and it is difficult to worry about it, it is better to directly find the original inventor to save much trouble. Moreover, in this way, the appearance of the Gatling gun in the United States was also avoided. Although the invention of this machine gun in other countries cannot be avoided from this, it can at least be delayed for some time.

In fact, the rifles of the Chinese Empire have exceeded the level of even the most powerful Britain and France in the world for ten years. But Feng Yunshan was still not satisfied, since God had given him this opportunity, he had to make full use of his advantages and maximize the weapon superiority of the Chinese Empire. Therefore, after the invention of the Mauser rifle, he did not rest on his laurels, but continued to let the Mauser brothers continue to improve. At the same time, the development of machine guns with intensive firepower is also his focus on the content.

In today's wars, artillery on the battlefield is becoming more and more important. In particular, the use of howitzers, one shot down, several or a dozen infantry were killed and wounded. Even if the range, accuracy, and rate of fire of the Mauser rifle surpassed the rifles of the European powers, Feng Yunshan felt that it was not enough to be safe. After all, the frontal combat of infantry nowadays depends more on the power of artillery. In particular, the appearance of grapeshot shells of this howitzer put the infantry's rifles at a disadvantage, Feng Yunshan knew this process, so he prepared in advance to develop rapid-fire infantry weapons.

Think about it, with a Gatling gun or a Gatling cannon, and the Chinese Empire has already developed a metal cartridge case, if it can be perfected, a Gatling gun can fire 200 or even 400 rounds a minute, which is comparable to the firepower of dozens or hundreds of ordinary rifles. If you really want to encounter a frontal battle or defend a fortress, a few such Gatling guns can hold off the attack of thousands of troops, this kind of artifact, but in later generations it has the name of "battlefield lawnmower". It would be even more perfect if there was a Maxim heavy machine gun in the future.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan carefully advised: "Treat this Gatling well, don't allow him to make any mistakes, and arrange him in the artillery factory of the Shengjing Machine Manufacturing Bureau first." He was instructed to set up a separate Gatling machine gun factory to develop small machine guns, machine guns of the same caliber as rifles or even smaller, referred to as machine guns for short. Whatever he needs, he should be ready. ”

Fan Ruzeng hurriedly wrote it down. He was talking to the emperor about top-secret matters this time, so he would write down any of the emperor's wills, and when he would go out, he would hand them over to the messengers, who would draft them and then report them to the emperor for approval before officially circulating them.

At the end, Feng Yunshan felt a little tired, and just wanted to wave his hand away Fan Ruzeng to rest by himself, and suddenly asked again: "There are more and more spies in your secret service department now, you must strengthen management and supervision, and you must not have internal problems!" By the way, how is the war going on in India, and the Sikh Kingdom, the Bengalis, and other princes are still fighting on their own? ”

Fan Ruzeng replied: "Yes, Your Majesty! If it weren't for the chaos in Britain and the rebellion of the Irish, Britain really didn't have the troops to reinforce India, even if our Chinese Empire had been providing some weapons and material support, I am afraid that the Sikh Kingdom and those Bengalis would have been defeated by the British long ago. As for the princes from all over India, they are just a bunch of wall grass, not only do they not unite against the British at this time, but they also attack each other, and take advantage of the British powerlessness to take care of the surrounding princely territories, which is not a big deal, at most it can only add chaos to the British! ”

Feng Yunshan sighed: "It's not surprising that Ah San's inferior roots are there. However, although the Chinese Empire is now strong, the biggest and most dangerous enemy is Britain, after all, he is the world's first power. So, no matter what happens to them, we still have to help them. The people of your secret service department have to concentrate their efforts recently, send more people to support which princes, and try to make them each team and deal with the British ** team together. There will always be those who will understand that only by driving away the British can they really have their own territory. The main thing, of course, is to continue to support the Sikh kingdom and the Bengalis. ”

Seeing Fan Ruzeng nodding, Feng Yunshan continued: "I asked the Ministry of Finance and Taxation to allocate another two million Holy Yuan funds to your Special Service Department. Intensify the recruitment of intelligence agents in India and Europe. For the Bengalis, encourage them to establish an independent state, and in addition, let the Kingdom of Burma and the Kingdom of Nepal also send more troops to attack the British army, promising them that all captured British weapons and property will belong to them, and at the same time showing them that if they capture those territories in the north of Hindustan, the empire can support them and annex the region! ”

Fan Ruzeng couldn't help but be overjoyed, the emperor allocated funds again, and his secret service department was much better. He thought of something, so he mentioned it casually: "Thank you Your Majesty for your kindness to the Secret Service Department!" Your Majesty, a while ago, Weichen went to the Ministry of Finance and Taxation to receive the 200,000 Holy Yuan rewarded by our Secret Service Division, and now he is going to the Ministry of Finance and Taxation again! After speaking, he rubbed his hands happily.

Feng Yunshan couldn't help but ask curiously: "Why did the Ministry of Finance and Taxation reward your secret service department?" ”

"Your Majesty, have you forgotten? When the empire's tea was in trouble, there were internal traitors who sold the tea seedlings to the British and were smuggled to India for planting. Wechen asked the spies of the secret service department to mobilize the Indian people who believed in Hinduism, saying that the tea seedlings were snake trees, and when they grew up, they could attract many poisonous snakes to come, so that the Hindus people hated the tea seedlings, so the tea seedlings that the British had worked so hard to transplant were destroyed. To this end, the Ministry of Finance and Taxation specially rewarded the Special Service Division. This is what your Majesty promised. After listening to Fan Ruzeng's words, Feng Yunshan was a little embarrassed. He really forgot about it, so he said seriously: "That's a joke!" ”

Unexpectedly, this Fan Ruzeng relied on himself to be a cronie, and muttered reluctantly: "Your Majesty is the king of the empire, and you have no jokes!" If you say that the reward is good, you will be rewarded! ”

Feng Yunshan pretended to glare: "What a reward!" The Secret Service Department is an intelligence agency set up by me for the Empire, and there are rewards for completing various tasks, so isn't it really a secret service!? Nonsense! You kid isn't in shape in front of me! This time, for the sake of your secret service department, I will spare you because of the destruction of the tea seedlings in India. Go back and tell the spies in India to carefully check all parts of India, and on that island of Ceylon, there can be no Chinese tea seedlings to spread. If you have to get your reward of 200,000 Holy Yuan back, I will also ask you if you have to get it back! ”

Fan Ruzeng pretended to be trembling with fright, which made Feng Yunshan laugh again, stood up and walked to Fan Ruzeng's side, kicked Fan Ruzeng with a, and then laughed to himself.

Only when he gets along with the old subordinates in the former Boy Scout Army alone, especially a confidant like Fan Ruzeng, Feng Yunshan will show a little bit of his character in later generations, and no longer pretend to be majestic all day long, even if he is actually extremely majestic, after all, he has been the emperor for many years, and the power of power has increased his majesty day by day, and even some of the original so-called old brothers with calm personalities are also trembling and conscientious when facing him, which makes him very helpless.

Fan Ruzeng showed a mysterious look again, and said cautiously: "Your Majesty, don't blame Weichen for talking too much, there is still something on Weichen's side." A lot of tobacco is cultivated in the Bengal area, because after the Indian rebellion, although the production of tobacco soil was greatly reduced, there is still a lot of it. But two years ago, after our Chinese empire occupied the Nanyang area, it blocked the passage to transport tobacco to the east, and the British because of the annihilation of the expeditionary fleet, and Bangladesh has not been completely calm, Kolkata and Dhaka and other places have been backlogged more and more, our secret service department specially communicated with the local underground merchants, Your Majesty, do you want to buy those tobacco at a low price? Then ship it to the Americas or Europe and sell it, but it is very profitable! ”

Feng Yunshan glanced at Fan Ruzeng playfully: "What's the matter, your secret service department is short of funds?" I just asked the Ministry of Finance and Taxation to allocate another 2 million holy dollars from the treasury to you, and this side is eyeing the business of this Bengali tobacco land? What a plan you have made by the Secret Service Division! ”

Fan Ruzeng said with a hippie smile: "Your Majesty, the Secret Service Department is really poor!" Nowadays, money is needed to build intelligence stations and recruit intelligence agents all over the world. Especially in Europe, if you want to recruit local spies, how can you let them work for our Chinese empire if you don't have enough money? It's all a matter of losing your head, otherwise, so far away, why does Your Majesty think they obey my orders as an Oriental boy? Your Majesty, as long as Your Majesty allows our Secret Service Department to do this business, Weichen promises that he will never sell it to the country to poison my Chinese people, and there will be no need for the Ministry of Finance and Taxation to allocate money from the treasury in the future. ”

"That's what you said!" Feng Yunshan laughed, "I'll depend on you!" After speaking, Feng Yunshan yawned, he was middle-aged and lacked energy.

Fan Ruzeng hurriedly retreated with a happy face, humming a song, and almost bumped into Liu Shengbang who came in.