Li Ruixiu sent Mr. Du away and returned to the study, his wall was nailed with a full set of design drawings of the Fran cannon, originally just to decorate the wall to feel the atmosphere of scientific research, but now it must be studied more deeply. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Li Ruixiu carefully took down the drawings, compared the size and the other size of the Furlong cannon in his mind, and began to carefully draw the small-mass cannon on the drawing, and sure enough, as he thought, the small-size Furlong cannon did not simply reduce the mass and design size, but made changes in the details and replaced the components.

Li Ruixiu sighed that everything in the fairy world is like this, it seems to be the same shape, but the inside is very different, just like he used to make hand-cranked generators and animal-powered generators, there are thousands of differences between sizes, and there are not just simple size changes.

On the other side, King An left the science and technology park angrily, he was angry not for anything else, but suddenly found that he had forgotten that Li Ruixiu was Li Lufeng's own grandson, and forgot that the soldiers who were persecuted to death by the Li family, and hated his incompetence even more.

Back in the camp, King An immediately ordered someone to redraw two more copies of the drawings of the Furlong machine gun, and sent them to the Ministry of Industry and the Inner Government Supervision Bureau respectively, plus his own weapon battalion, and the three Furlong machine guns with their own research of small quality can really be handled by a mere Li Ruixiu.

With the opening of Meng Jiyue's small battalion, King An had to keep an eye on the affairs of the army, and after a few days, his pro-army was also opened, which did not mean that the mountain was deserted on the mountain, and the mechanical battalion was supplemented with more soldiers who were reluctant to smelt steel for the front line day and night.

Li Ruixiu drew a full set of Furlong machine guns but couldn't wait for Mr. Du, so that people went out to inquire before they understood that although there was a lot of trouble under the mountain these days, King An had already left, that is to say, King An had no time to deal with the problem of artillery recently, but Li Ruixiu was not in a hurry, after experiencing such things, his heart had already been quieted, and he came up with the design plan of the steel bar, Li Ruixiu sent people down the mountain to collect iron ore saltpeter, and prepared to build a scientific research building first.

Liu Fu and Li Zhan went to the city but returned empty-handed, Li Ruixiu asked through the window, Li Zhan replied: "Back to the master, that saltpeter is not the season, it stands to reason that the pharmacy merchants have hoarding on hand, and the small one also went to the Juxin Chamber of Commerce in the city, but the steward said that the court has recently conscripted, and all the saltpeter has been bought by the people of the Chinese army, and the general takes the holy decree to lead the army, and the people of the household department follow behind the ass to cooperate, and when there is no money, they will deduct the goods and use taxes to offset the goods, so all the merchants are very willing to sell, Mo said the capital, It is said that in this 100-mile radius of the prefecture and county, where they can go, the Chinese army has sent soldiers to buy it, and even the unused saltpeter prepared by the rich and noble people has been confiscated for military use. ”

Liu Fudao: "Master, the small one is almost the same here, the iron ore was controlled by the imperial court, and now the northwest is at war, this time I don't know why the amount of iron ore needed by the Chinese army is very large, and the yamen under the Ministry of Industry is more strict, and even the price of iron pots and iron basins on the market has doubled, and the blacksmith shop can only recycle and repair, and the iron-making work has been stopped." ”

Li Ruixiu sighed when he heard this, the Chinese army is stepping up efforts to smelt refined steel, to a certain extent, this is all caused by him, no wonder the fairy world always talks about resources, saving, in order to save resources, but also make the already cumbersome process more complicated, he thought about it and asked: "The price of coke has also risen."

Liu Fudao: "Back to the master, you are really clever, the price of coke this winter is not only rising, the market is out of stock, the farmers on the outskirts of the city take advantage of the slack to cut down trees to burn charcoal, the wages of the craftsmen who can burn charcoal go out to work have risen 3 times, even with these big families in the city, everything is not enough charcoal, so you can only endure the cold, it is said that now seven or eight old people have frozen." ”

Liu Fu may feel a little funny when he says this, and there is a smile in his tone, and then he said: "Fortunately, the master bought a lot of coke in advance, and our house has prepared a charcoal fire for winter, and the princess's mansion has also sent a lot of silver charcoal, which is wide enough to loosen it for two winters, and even our subordinates can live comfortably." ”

Li Ruixiu couldn't laugh at all, he couldn't imagine that armaments would have such a big impact on the market, not only steel, but all his experiments on high temperature had to be stopped, and the experiments he prepared that had nothing to do with high temperature were not at all.

Over there, Li Zhan continued to gloat and said: "Not only these, grain, cloth, dye, wood, leather, these things were originally in the south of the country, but now they are being made by the Chinese army, and they are even more rising, and it is also thanks to our family's foundation, sir, you don't know, the life of the five or six officials in the capital is almost unbearable, and they stay in the yamen every day to rub charcoal." ”

Li Rui cultivated: "I know, you two should go down and rest first." The two said yes, each went back to be busy with the things at hand, Li Ruixiu began to pace in the room, he could hear from the mouths of the two of them the extent of the lack of materials this winter, with King An's personality and financial resources, it will take a while for the equipment of the Chinese army to be replaced, and the iron and saltpeter on the market do not need to be extravagant now.

He flipped through the plans he had, and sighed for a while, now that he was cured of fuel, he could only study circuits and those things that used electricity, and it seemed that many projects were actually restricted everywhere.

After thinking for a long time, Li Ruixiu planned to improve the process of glass first, and make a beaker test tube with enough transparency to facilitate his quantitative experiments in the future.

Firing perfect quality glass also requires high temperatures, and Li Ruixiu still has a certain amount of coal and charcoal on hand, so he dares to open a kiln to burn glass on a small scale.

This time, Li Ruixiu plans to get started by himself, the raw materials are very simple, mainly quartz sand, soda ash, limestone, feldspar, the key step after these things are purified, and soda ash is the shortcoming of all these raw materials.

The soda ash used in the glaze factory is the "mouth alkali" traded with Mongolia, this thing is shipped back all the way to the high price, the supply is still very difficult, now the northwest is fighting, Zhangjiakou, the north pass are blocked, Li Ruixiu has seen the trade map in the book, knowing that the supply of mouth alkali must have been cut off, the glaze factory is now too busy to take care of himself, he can only find a way to make soda ash by himself.