However, after hundreds of rounds of test firing, this new weapon with an all-round innovation was nailed to the trigger, and it was completely thrown into the cold palace and put on the shelf......

There is no other reason, the Sierta magic powder gun after the technological special leap forward is not born for actual combat. Even if the technical level comprehensively surpasses the five or six semi-automatic rifles in the Sierta army, the cost problem makes it have to be shelved.

The British Army's SA80 gun clan used it even more stumblingly, and was ridiculed by netizens on the Internet as a British infantry exercise bayonet with a certain chance of firing ammunition - this was not changed. Because reloading a whole family of guns requires not only a simple retraction - and then a new rifle, but also a change in the entire ammunition, logistics, spare parts system. Even the ammunition boxes on the trucks have to be replaced, so you can imagine how much it costs to replace the rifles.

What's more, the Red Dragon Regiment's "copy invention" is still five or six years behind, a full hundred years behind, so naturally it can't make any noise. You also need to use oil-paper wrapped magic powder (of course, you can also use a plastic shell, unscrewed when you use it) The rate of fire of the bullet is definitely not faster than that of a semi-automatic rifle, and even if it is fast, there is no demand. If the Cierta Army infantry had used a manual Lebel M1886 and a Schneider Mle1897 - the Miss 75 gun, they would still have been able to beat known enemies to the ground, not to mention the standard equipment of soldiers in the sixties.

You know, the eight-story audit department of the new co-working building in Mendong City has said a word-

"Any unreasonable attempt to develop and equip new equipment for the sake of otherworldly operations should be completely eliminated at the first opportunity."

Zooming in to the level of scientific research, the classrooms of the entire Mendong No. 1 Middle School that are now used as warehouses are full of these "trial works".

The blackened shell of the magic rocket after the test launch, the steam engine copied according to the surviving data in the hands of the Red Dragon Regiment-it is still a model without any technical improvements, the prototype refrigerator led by the fat chef that uses freezing magic for heat exchange, and the magic lamp flashlight that uses the principle of lenses are all placed on the ground.

Of course, that's the end of the "small production". The second task of the Red Dragon Regiment is naturally to cooperate with the research institute to explore the nature of magic. Providing sufficient resources to ensure the Red Dragons' own scientific research, as well as the means of subsistence distributed to them, is at best a preparation for this final step.

It has to be said that magic powder does have its advantages when used as an explosion and power source. Explosive magic is free of residue.

Experiments in a closed room have shown that all powder has turned into a mixture of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide after the blast magic is cast, and the mass inside the glass enclosure remains conserved.

After the Cryo spell is cast, the surrounding temperature increases significantly compared to before the cast, except for the individuals who are cooled. And the amount of powder consumed determines the power of the explosion and the degree of cooling.

Fireball, the wind magic that can blow all kinds of wind, the ice magic that condenses the water vapor in the air into an ice pick and combines the wind magic to shoot at the enemy, in the end, has not escaped the clutches of conservation of mass and energy.

In fact, if you think about it, isn't coal mining the same thing?

For hundreds of millions of years, the sun's rays poured into the plants, and the plants on the earth gradually turned into peat due to geological changes, a process that lasted for thousands of years - and the peat that went through a long period of coalification is the coal we see today.

The Industrial Revolution, fueled by the high calorific value of coal, was the basis for humanity on the portal side to dominate the entire bilunar planet. Whether it is Wales or the Ruhr, they are all well-known coal and iron complexes. And with coal, there is an environment where blast furnace steelmaking can be made.

The difference between the two is that most of the current coal mining applications revolve around coal chemical industry - the dry distillation products of coal are widely used in chemical industry, and the coke after dry distillation can still be used to make steel. The most important point is that the coal mines are being dug less and less and cannot be regenerated.

Magic powder, on the other hand, embodies powerful renewable energy characteristics, although it has no chemical use now, but other uses are surprisingly wide, and in the hands of those who use it, it can also confuse people's senses - the scene under Garcia City, everyone in Mendong City still remembers it vividly.

The first goal of studying the origin of magic is, of course, as it literally says, for the sake of even more unknown secrets. And the second goal is a blatant agenda - since Elta lacks all kinds of convenient natural resources that are easily accessible here on Earth, can magic powder be used as the blood of industrialization to replace the lack of various energy sources?

This is certainly not the main contradiction in front of Elta, but it is also necessary to prepare for a rainy day. After six months, Cierta has been able to become self-sufficient in food, and a new batch of food crops is about to be harvested. However, the proportion of Sierta to the whole country is at most equivalent to that of Qin during the period of the Six Kingdoms - and there is almost an entire country waiting to be fed outside. For Unification Elta, there is no need to rush to the extent of using magic to provide energy to expand the scale, in other words, industrial magic - or magic industrialization, or steampunk industrialization - no matter what, there are so many names, anyway, the process of that kind will not really enter the house until at least after Elta's national unification. As the saying goes, you have to eat one bite at a time, and that's the truth.

Although the major clerks in Mendong City have begun to complain that the work is not easy at all, they are immersed in the mountains and seas every day, and the money for supper has to be paid by themselves, and the words are almost every day, every month, when punching in, and when going to the toilet, they talk to the toilet...... But in fact, things like the industrialization of magic have not been spread out at all, and even worse, there are more than that. For example, the "Mendong City No. 1 Middle School", which looks very beautiful, is now simply an ornament - not to mention Gihat, Yatzferna - that is, Miss Huoyan, and Sergeant Cierta Sergeant Cadet is not enough in quantity and quality. It's the only elementary school in Elta at this stage that has only opened to the level of the first grade, and after the middle school is opened, ah no, isn't the junior high school an ornament?

In Mendong City, it is the "night school" that plays a more adequate role than these two. From first-aid knowledge, to firewood, rice, oil and salt identification, literacy and vocabulary, basic arithmetic, everything is taught, and they come and go freely, and the small classes set up in the factory are very popular with workers.

If Elta is to truly industrialize and take over the burden on the other side of the portal, the basic talents of secondary school education required can be said to be almost incalculable. Of course, the vast majority of the Elta people in the illiteracy rate pie chart have already passed the appropriate age for education - when it is okay to be a construction worker, it is not impossible to receive training to drive a crane, but let him direct the construction on the spot and direct the pouring of concrete, it is not enough, and he will not be accompanied.

Secondly, after the power of Sierta unified the country, it was inevitable that a large number of Elta's native intellectuals would be needed to destroy Elta's original knowledge structure with their own hands - the system of asking for nobles, magicians, and the blessings of the two moon gods would bear the brunt of the uprooting. Fortunately, Elta itself is a country that lacks devout followers of the Bilunar Sect, otherwise Sierta would not even be able to stand on a solid foundation - thinking of this, I can't help but laugh bitterly, this is "those who have attained the Tao have much help, and those who have lost the Tao have little help".

Of course, Mendong City is not prepared to use intellectuals to make Elta's "motherland red". Just as the "Seed Plan" was shattered by the invasion of the Bilunar Church, the expanded version of the Seed Project after the unification of the whole territory was to allow these intellectuals to use their solid knowledge to gain prestige in the township, and of course this would be assisted by the newly appointed El Ta magistrate - or they themselves would be magistrates. Completely brainwashed -- who, educated, and change their minds, will connect Elta's new regime with the people at the bottom -- or in the same sentence, it is not to make the mountains and rivers of the motherland red, and everyone revolves around the sun -- but to enter the villages and villages for the new system of acres and acres, and to use the life and labor force of industrial revolution and agriculture as the foundation.

Is this very beautiful and looks very mirror-filled vision? Not. As a matter of fact, the measures taken after the reunification must be planned in advance, either by the city of Mendong or by the new district office.

Because when Miss Elf stuffed breakfast buns and roasted wheat, Yatzfilna and Gihart yawned in class, and dodged Luo Aya's chalk from time to time, Prancys listened to Doniva talk about the royal past with a cup of strong tea, and Huang Yuan was still editing the translation of next week's commentary, the time had quietly shifted to the middle of the year - half a month on the earth side would be the New Year, and two months after that would be the Spring Festival praised by everyone.

There is no problem with the Spring Festival, but the important thing is because of the budget of the new district. The budget required by the entire Atlas has been just an expedient measure since the first half of the year, and the administrative structure of the new district office (excluding various confidential plans of the portal base) has gradually become clear, and the separate budget has become an impossible hurdle to escape.

Of course, the audit of the budget cannot pass through the National People's Congress, let alone through the "Mendong People's Congress" that has not yet been formed and will never be formed, and the money has long been turned into physical objects before passing through the door, so in fact, except for the unopened scattered money and banknotes that are transported to the other end of the portal, the economic crime of "taking advantage of the position" of Chinese nationals in Sierta may be really minimal.

The function of the budget is mainly to force the new district office to come up with a perfect timetable for the construction of Mendong City and support Cierta to become a complete country, an industrial output area, and an important market. The content of the budget is irrelevant. This budget should include a timetable of more than a dozen major categories and nearly 100 sub-categories such as infrastructure, agriculture, industry, transportation, health, education, joint logistics (including police and firefighting), and electricity.