Boom –

Boom ————

June 1752 was an ordinary day

The climate in early spring is very pleasant, with blue sky and white clouds, neither hot nor cold, which is most suitable for outings.

However, Peter and his friend, the president of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Mihai . Vasilyevich, however, was firing cannons in the castle of toys.

"How's it going, Your Highness? The power of the improved gunpowder pack is amazing, isn't it? ”

Mihai asked proudly, armed with a torch.

"Haha, it's really amazing, I estimate that this distance has increased by at least more than a third, so that it is enough to offset the gap in the artillery itself."

Peter boasted with admiration when he observed the landing point of the shell with a monocular.

"Your Highness, there is more than one good thing, this time I also brought a new cannon"

"Oh? Are you sure? Hurry up, I'm going to see how powerful it is! ”

After a while, the two of them walked over to something that was covered by a rainproof cloth.

"Your Highness, please see"

"Huh? Isn't this a mortar? ”

I saw that after the rainproof cloth was removed, a short, thick pitch-black cannon was revealed.

Peter walked around the cannon a few times, stroking his chin all the time, as if thinking about something.

"The barrel of the cannon is longer than the average mortar, but it is shorter than the cannon, but the caliber is not much smaller than the mortar cannon. Is there anything special about this cannon? ”

"Haha, Your Highness forgot? Since His Highness last said that he wanted a high-powered close-range direct-fire cannon, I have ordered people to study a new type of artillery, and after repeated experiments, it turned out that this short, thick barrel cannon just met His Highness's requirements."

"But... How do I feel that this cannon should be heavy? It's going to be a lot of work for the army to carry, right? ”

"Your Highness, rest assured, this cannon can fire cannonballs with a larger diameter under the same weight, especially suitable for siege and fortification, I will show Your Highness once to know how powerful it is."

"Yes, yes"

Boom ————

The recoil of the short and thick cannon was amazing, and it fell back by as much as six or seven meters.

However, a makeshift brick wall that was the target was blasted to pieces.

"Wow! How much is that? Worthy of a 32-pound shell! ”

Peter exclaimed.

"It's just that the recoil is really a little..."

"So I just said that this kind of cannon is more suitable for siege, and if you deal with fixed targets, as long as you fix it in advance, it won't be much of a problem."

"Well, in that case, it can actually be installed on a battleship, right?"

"The words of the battleship ... It's going to need something to hold it in place... However, if it is a battleship, it is better not to install it on a large ship, otherwise the speed of the big ship itself will be slow, and if the cannon fire is close, it will not be able to hit."

"Understood, I think this kind of cannon can be mounted on a frigate, and after a quick approach, a row of grapeshot bullets will be fired, and with the power of this artillery, a salvo is enough to dismantle a medium battleship"

"Haha, Your Highness, this is a good idea"

"By the way, did you start planting the cherry tomatoes I talked about last time?"

"Oh, cherry tomatoes... I've already told someone to try it, but you know the weather in St. Petersburg, and it's not good to say if it will be successful."

"Oh, can't you just ask someone to go south to try planting? And potatoes, corn, carrots and so on."

After discovering that cherry tomatoes could be grown in the palace's conservatory, Peter immediately turned on foodie mode, urging Mihai to breed new varieties all winter.

"Your Highness, you can embarrass me, the fertile land in the south is the royal property, and I am not qualified to move it."

"Oh, you just said that I told you to do it, it's really troublesome!"

"Okay, then I'll try again..."

Mikhail Murphy, who had made great achievements in both science and literature. Vasilyevich. Romanosov, who was a very close friend of Catherine II in history, recommended the works of many well-known thinkers and philosophers in France and other European countries, such as Voltaire and Rousseau, for Empress Ye, and had a great influence on Empress Ye's ruling ideas in the early days of her reign. His main scientific achievements include the discovery of the law of conservation of chemical mass, the second law of thermal energy, the existence of an atmosphere on Venus, and so on, and he founded the famous Moscow University. Because of his great contributions to the field of science and education, he was later called Peter the Great in the history of Russian science.

But since he met our time-traveling Peter, the great scientist Mihai can't help but open some strange tech trees...