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"Nothing, I mean, this is a bit like a deadbolt for a door, this thing can be called a bolt." Liu Zhang hurriedly covered up.

"Deadbolts, bolts, really, this thing will be called a bolt in the future."

The three scientists immediately nodded in agreement, secretly praising the lord that although he was young, his thoughts and vision were still very sharp.

Liu Zhang took the sample in Pu Yuan's hand, checked it, it was a little heavy, much heavier than the existing bow and crossbow, and looked at the barrel part, as if there was no rifling.

"Here, let's try two shots." Liu Zhang handed the gun back to Pu Yuan and proposed.

Pu Yuan took the gun, loaded it, took aim, and pulled the trigger.

"Boom!"

The bullet is a little loud and the sound is a bit loud.

Looking at the target in the distance, a big hole has been blasted.

Pull the bolt, reload, and pull the trigger again.

"Boom!"

It's a bit loud indeed.

Pu Yuan fired a few shots in a row, Liu Zhang observed it, and the impact point was a little scattered, it was estimated that there was no rifling, and the accuracy was not very good.

I tried a few shots, and the effect was okay.

"Yes, we've finally got this thing out, and it's worth all the effort we've taken so long. But if this detail is more refined, it will be perfect. One is that this barrel part can be rifled, just like the guide rail we first tested, this rifling is to stabilize the flight direction of the warhead. In this way, the accuracy can be improved. Also, this gun feels a little heavy, it's more than ten or twenty pounds, it's too heavy. ”

Liu Zhang put forward several rationalization suggestions based on his memory, and the three of them also wrote them down one by one.

Finally, Liu Zhang asked again: "Have you discussed mass production?" ”

"After Yuan Zhi came back, I discussed it with him, and I also discussed it with Bing Cao on a small scale, and I was not very optimistic." Huang Chengyan replied.

"What's the situation?"

Yuan Zhi felt that the cost was too high, and this musket, compared with the strong crossbow in the current army, had no obvious advantages except for being more powerful and having a longer range. Bing Cao is also not very optimistic, and his willingness to change clothes is not obvious. ”

"The advantage is not obvious?"

"That's right. The testers of the military believed that this musket had several drawbacks: first, it was too loud, which the flying army would definitely not like, and the new army would not like it too much; The second is that the rate of fire is not fast, and the shooting is reloaded, which takes a lot of time, and cannot be fired continuously, it is not as good as a strong crossbow, and it is not as good as a repeating crossbow; The third one, as the lord said, is a bit heavy. If you add this gun, bullets, grenades, water bottles, plus sapper shovels, plus marching uniforms, a non-commissioned soldier, seven, seven, eight, eight, eight, and eight, must have a load of dozens of pounds, they will definitely not like it. ”

Also, this musket is so loud that the flying army that performs special operations will definitely not like it, and as for the new army, it is necessary to pursue the speed of shooting, this musket is not as good as a crossbow arrow, and it cannot be fired in bursts, and it is so heavy, no wonder it is not very optimistic.

However, the most important thing is in Xu Shu, and the most important thing is the problem of money.

"Okay, I know, let's go back and talk about it again and determine the time for mass production. The future research direction of this musket is to solve the problem of continuous firing. You can consider designing a magazine like the repeater's magazine, which is pushed by a spring and automatically loaded, so that the rate of fire can be increased. And then there is one more, that is, we can start the study of artillery, that is, the study of large bullets. ”

"According to the lord, isn't the artillery about the same as the musket of today?" Liu Hong couldn't help but ask.

"Yuan Zhuo, you are wrong, artillery is much more technical than muskets, and it requires the knowledge and participation of your mathematics and science colleges."

"Really?" Liu Hong was a little unconvinced.

In his opinion, isn't artillery just a large musket, and it is necessary to set up another project and make great efforts to study it.

"The bullets in the musket have a limited amount of gunpowder in them, and the bullet has no explosive power, so if it hits the target, it will only cause puncture damage. And artillery is far different. First of all, there is a lot of gunpowder in the primer in the artillery, and the range will be much longer than that of the musket. Moreover, the shell of the artillery, the warhead has gunpowder in it, and if it hits the target or hits the target, it will explode and cause huge damage, which requires us to carry out accurate ballistic calculations to calculate the landing point of the shell. One is the research design of artillery shells, and the other is the precise calculation and control of ballistics, which is the focus of artillery research.

Yuan Zhuo, the Faculty of Mathematics and the Faculty of Science, will gradually become a new force in the research of new weapons in the future. And artillery is the king of the battlefield in the future. ”

"Really?" Liu Hong asked in disbelief.

No wonder he didn't believe it.

At present, among these colleges in Chengdu, the School of Science and the School of Mathematics are at the bottom, and even the School of Law is inferior. Although Liu Zhang did not lean towards and take care of these two colleges, and even forcibly stuffed the School of Science and the School of Mathematics into many research projects of the School of Engineering, even so, the two schools of the School of Mathematics and the School of Science are also in a worrying situation.

After all, students who go to school in schools still have to consider their own future development in the end, and the future of choosing a career is worrying when they come out of the School of Mathematics, at most they will go to be Mr. Bookkeeper, a little better, maybe they can go to Hucao Yamen to calculate accounts and make a statistic, budget or something, not only is it not good to choose a job, but also what is Mr. Bookkeeper or Hucao Yamen Accountant and the like, which does not require any advanced mathematical knowledge, and people who are familiar with arithmetic are also fully competent.

And the Faculty of Science is even worse. The Faculty of Science spends all day studying some theoretical knowledge, and once you leave the campus, you don't know what you should do, you don't know what you can do. The best future is to stay in the university and continue to do research. However, the School of Science and the School of Mathematics do not have any projects of their own, and most of them can only get some leftovers by the School of Engineering.

Therefore, Liu Hong has been lamenting all night for his two colleges, and he has been worrying about the future of these two colleges. Even if Liu Zhang attaches importance to these two academies, if you can't do it yourself, it will be useless. It seems that there is a harmonious atmosphere in the school, but in fact, there is still strong competition and comparison inside. For example, to put it simply, if your college has no money, if you have no projects, if you have no fame, then you will not be able to recruit good students, and if you have no good students, you will have no projects, no money, and no status, and in the long run, the situation will only get worse and worse.

At present, the Faculty of Letters is the nominal boss of the Academy, and it is blessed with unique resources, and the entire government system in Kansai, the training and training of officials, etc., are basically the business of the Faculty of Letters, as well as the Dahan New Newspaper, the public opinion guidance under Liu Zhang's rule, and even the public opinion orientation of the entire Han world, are in the hands of the Faculty of Letters. It can be said that it is black and white;