As a civil official, if he is interested in guns, it is only a superficial interest, in fact, most civil officials are practicing shooting only because they are "good at the top" -- just last summer, His Majesty, who had not yet ascended the throne, personally led several ministers of the palace to hunt wild ducks in the reeds by the river. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Unlike the Manchu nobles who rode and shot in the hunting grounds with their masters, His Majesty was longer at hunting with guns, and naturally required his courtiers to learn it. Because of this, shooting has naturally become something that officials at all levels must learn, and even in school, they also need to learn to shoot, and even shooting is included in their academic performance like martial arts.

In short, whether it is "good at all" or basic knowledge, at least knowing how to shoot is the basic requirement for an officer. But most civil officials may be proficient in shooting, but they are only limited to this, and they have no hobby for weapons.

The same is true of Hu Linyi, who is a civil official! At most, he is the one who has been on the battlefield, and he understands the importance of guns better than ordinary civilian officials!

Of course, it's not guns that are of interest!

Hu Linyi thought silently in his heart, he was more interested in the Hou Ye in front of him than the gun.

Of course, he couldn't say that. As for this gun, it's just an excuse!

"Hey, it wasn't that His Majesty cleaned up with guns and cannons, and since then, I naturally like these foreign guns and cannons!"

When the half-truths and half-truths came out of Hu Linyi's mouth, Xu Shushan took out a rifle from the side and handed it to Hu Linyi.

"Well, that's what I said last time, five shots!"

I took the rifle and looked at it carefully, it didn't look much different from a Han-style rifle.

"Although it is a new type of rifle, in order to save costs, it is still designed to use the old machine as much as possible."

While Hu Linyi was playing with the rifle, Xu Shushan explained.

"Like the Han-style rifle, it is a manually operated rifle with a rotating rear pull-out bolt and a magazine-type feed, which uses an integral magazine and is loaded with a single shot or a bridge clip through the shell ejection port at the top of the receiver. The magazine is located in front of the trigger retainer under the butt, and it has a capacity of 5 rounds, but in reality its magazine can only be pressed into 4 rounds, not 5, and the top one must be pushed into the chamber; The magazine has a hinged bottom cover that can be opened for emptying the magazine or for cleaning and maintenance. ”

While explaining the rifle, Xu Shushan took out another bridge clip.

"This is a 5-round bridge clip used in the new rifle, the bridge clip is made of steel skin, and when loading, it can be directly stuck in the bridge clamp slot, and then you can press the bullet and load it ......"

When explaining the principle of the new five-shot rifle, Xu Shushan couldn't even remember what made her have a ray of inspiration, and designed this rifle on the basis of borrowing from the Han rifle, especially this bridge clip, which is perfect.

"Its caliber is 7.62 mm, because the current problem of the production of new gunpowder has not been solved, so the use of black powder ...... is still used for the time being."

The new type of gunpowder in Xu Shushan's mouth is actually smokeless gunpowder developed by C.F. Schönbein, a professor of chemistry at the Ministry of Engineering, which was first applied to mortars as early as two years ago, thus fundamentally solving the problems of mortars being easy to block, not firing fast, and having poor medicinal power.

However, nitrocellulose, which uses camphor as a plasticizer, has encountered some problems in production, resulting in limited production so far, and is only used for mortar ammunition packs with a faster rate of fire. According to the experiments of the arsenal, if the new gunpowder is used, the power of the guns produced by the factory will be greatly improved. It is precisely for this reason that the arsenal set up a new smokeless medicine production workshop three months ago to provide enough smokeless medicine.

“…… If you use smokeless drugs, its performance will be greatly improved......"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa......"

When Xu Shushan explained, Hu Linyi pulled the bolt of the gun from time to time, watched the bullets that flashed with copper light fall on the table, and withdrew the last bullet, imagining that on the battlefield, the soldiers were shooting there with this kind of repeating pistol, imagining that tens of thousands of enemy troops were defeated under the guns of Han officers and soldiers.

Hu Linyi said suddenly.

"Master Hou, if nothing else, after the canal thaws, the Han army will go on a northern expedition!"

The canal in the mouth of Hu Linyi refers to the Grand Canal of the two provinces of Sulu, compared with the Manchu Qing Dynasty and other armies, the Han army is the most logistical, the reason why the attack on Henan is to build the railway to Zheng County, now the railway has been repaired to Zheng County, crossing the Yellow River is Zhili, this is the middle line, which takes the railway as the artery, and the mobilization of troops and the transportation of logistics materials are all based on the railway as the artery.

As for the eastern front, it is to use the Grand Canal as the artery and river transportation as the logistics core, which is what the Han army is best at, and in order to ensure the smooth operation of the Northern Expedition, as early as last year, the Han army ordered more than 20 steam tugboats to tow ships in the canal, transport troops and supplies.

It's just that now because of the ice of the Grand Canal, the Northern Expedition of the Han Army has been postponed due to logistics. It may be a secret to the outside world, but for Hu Linyi, it's not a secret.

"The three routes of land, river and sea are on the Northern Expedition at the same time, if everything goes well, by the end of this year, the whole country can be pacified!"

Seeing Hu Linyi take the initiative to mention this matter, Xu Shushan immediately cooperated and said tacitly.

The reason why he chose Hu Linyi was because he knew that this civil official from Hunan Province had an influence on Huguang officials, and only Lin Zhiping could compare with him in the court, but compared with Lin Zhiping, Hu Linyi had been famous for a long time, and he did not have the regional views of ordinary Hunan people, so he knew that the officials of Hunan and Hubei provinces respected him.

As for Zuo Zongtang, when he was the governor of Hunan, he offended the gentry by tens of thousands, so naturally he was not respected by Hunan officials, and only Hu Linyi was the most suitable after thinking about it.

The reason why Hu Linyi took the initiative to mention the Northern Expedition was also because of the changes in the DPRK today, for him, who was convinced that the Han army would win, the victory of the Northern Expedition was only a matter of time, and the real problem of the Chinese Dynasty was the center and the DPRK.

Of course, also in the harem!

Because of this, after receiving Xu Shushan's call, as the governor of Hubei, he immediately came to Hanyang, which may be the best excuse and reason for him.

"When the country is rejuvenated and pacified, it is the day of the great rule of the world, and if the world wants to be governed, in addition to the unity of the monarch and the minister, it must also be ......"

Looking at Xu Shushan, Hu Linyi said with a smile on his face.

"Recently, I heard that Concubine Rong has added a prince to the royal family, and His Majesty has another son, which is really gratifying!"

Congratulations?

Indeed, for the royal family with thin people, even if there is another son, it is just two sons and one daughter, and the royal family is so thin, which is really rare in the world.

But this kind of joy is not necessarily a joy for Xu Shushan.

"Hmmm! A happy event indeed! ”

Xu Shushan nodded first, and then said.

"Your Majesty's inheritance of the unification and the birth of Feng Ji are indeed gratifying!"

This sentence actually tells Hu Linyi that compared to the emperor's eldest son Zhu Fenghai, the name of the emperor's second son is not named after the rules set by Emperor Gao.

"It is indeed a happy event, I heard that the Hanyue Railway Company intends to issue 50 million yuan of railway bonds, one is to acquire the Jiangbei Railway, and the other is to extend the railway from Zheng County to Jingshi ......."

Although both of them understood what the other meant, at this time, whether it was Xu Shushan or Hu Linyi, both of them were playing dumb, and neither of them was the first to say it. The reason why they didn't say it couldn't be simpler, if they intervened in the royal affairs as courtiers, it would be a heinous crime.

Throughout the ages, I don't know how many courtiers died because of this matter, although the Chinese Dynasty abolished the crime of Zhulian, but everyone knows that this is a taboo for ministers!

Although it is a big taboo, it will inevitably involve it, especially the power of Concubine Rong is so strong -- with the full support of the officials and businessmen of the two Guangzhou, especially the Hanyue Railway Company, which is eager to try to monopolize the railway, and the reason why it has this ambition is also simple -- the Hanyue Railway has made a profit of millions of yuan in the past three years, and the way of sectional construction, sectional operation, and sectional income has made the Hanyue Railway quite profitable, and according to the analysis of the outside world, it can recover all the investment in 15 years.

It is precisely because of the success of the Hanyue Railway and its rich returns that the railway has become the most popular industry in China, and even those founding dignitaries and subordinate officials have invested in the railway.

For outsiders, this is a business opportunity, but for Hu Linyi, this is a crisis! This is a crisis of the surge in the strength of Guangdong Province, although on the surface there are quite a lot of officials from the two lakes, but in fact, the influence of a Luo Bingzhang is more than the influence of hundreds of Huguang officials, if you add the Cantonese officials and the Hanyue Railway, especially the Rong Concubine who is located in the railway company has great influence, Hu Linyi naturally only feels "a lot of pressure".

"It's not just this railway, I heard that Pan Shiliang planned a railway construction plan in addition to building a railway school in the north last month, saying that it would take 20 years to build 80,000 kilometers of railways,"

Before last year, Xu Shushan would have felt that Pan Shiliang was dreaming of an average of 4,000 kilometers of railways every year. But when the railway company announced its total revenue last year, the railway became the most popular emerging industry, and the gentry in Hunan, Hubei and other places who missed the Hanyue railway subscription were even more annoyed.

For this reason, when the Hanyue Railway Company first stated that it would raise 50 million yuan, it immediately attracted the gentry from Huguang and other places to subscribe, and many local gentry even sold land one after another in order to subscribe for shares, so that the land prices in Hunan and Hubei fell one after another.

Building railways is not about technology, it's about money! As long as you have enough funds, you don't need to think about anything else! It only took two months to raise 50 million yuan, which is enough to build more than 1,000 kilometers of railways, and according to estimates, after the people realized the convenience and profits of building railways, they raised 20,000 yuan a year to build 5,000 kilometers of railways without any problems, and the railways in the future will only be built more and more, and the more and more they will be repaired.

Because of this, in Xu Shushan's plan to expand the influence of the Hanyang Group, there is a plan to establish a locomotive branch factory in the north and build a large steel plant, the reason why the locomotive factory is to build a locomotive factory in the north is to enable the Hanyang Group to continue to monopolize locomotive manufacturing, and reduce the possibility of others entering the industry by building new factories, as for the construction of large steel plants, it is because the large-scale construction of railways means that the demand for steel will increase in the future. Compared with the south, the north has more abundant coal and iron resources, and can use its minerals nearby to build new coal mines, railways, coking and ironmaking.

Therefore, Xu Shushan will not oppose the large-scale construction of the railway, but not opposing does not mean agreeing, because the people who implement it have problems!

"80,000 kilometers of railway, its ambition is not small!"

Hu Linyi sighed and looked into the distance. He also lamented the people, the group of people who implemented this plan, to be precise, their ambitions are not only the railway, the railway, now it is not just a road, it will involve the interests of all parties.

"If this is the case, I am afraid that in less than 20 years, this Chinese railway will be completely owned by it, and then it will ......"

Staring at Xu Shushan, Hu Linyi did not speak, but waited for him to speak.

"At that point, I'm afraid the traffic will have to be swayed by it!"

Xu Shushan, who knew what he was thinking, casually chimed in, saying that it was not only the traffic that would be swayed, but the government might even be swayed by that time. Just like what Xu Shushan is doing accurately, but the Hanyang Arsenal is completely different from the Hanyue Railway Company, because the largest shareholder of the Hanyang Arsenal is the government, which is the government, while the Hanyue Railway Company, the government only has less than 15% of the shares.

"Indeed, therefore, I intend to write to Your Majesty to prevent him from acquiring the Jiangbei Railway!"

Just when Hu Linyi's words fell, he heard a slight strange sound outside, at first he was not attracted by this sound, but just looked at Xu Shushan, this will be a cooperation, the first cooperation between the two. In the same way, it is also sending a signal to them -- the officials of Huguang do not want to meet the officials of Guangdong Province!

Maybe the strange sound was too harsh, seeing that Xu Shushan didn't give an answer for a while, Hu Linyi didn't feel anxious, because he knew that the person in front of him was his best partner, and the reason was very simple, his sister was the current queen, and with Concubine Rong there, it was impossible for him to stand on the side of Guangdong Province.

When he was thinking like this in his heart, Hu Linyi inadvertently looked outside, and when he looked in the direction where the voice came from, his eyes instantly widened, and he muttered in surprise.

"So, what is that?"

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