Lu Chengqi nodded and said, "Yes, if this rifle has the same range as a bow and arrow, and is one hundred and fifty steps away, then my Dashun army is invincible in the world." The advantage of the pen & fun & pavilion rifle is www.biquge.info lethality, even if the range is not as long, it is not comparable to the bow and arrow. It's just that the barbarians are quite good at riding and shooting, and my Dashun horses are insufficient, and the mobility can't keep up, and the field battle is very disadvantaged. ”

Wang Shao nodded and said, "The infantry is against the cavalry, and the battle damage is more than three times. If the rifle can have a long-range advantage, the cavalry is not allowed to get close to it, and there is no need to be afraid. ”

Lu Chengqi waved his hand and said: "A charge of a few hundred steps, the cavalry only needs a dozen breaths, and no matter how fast the rifle is, it can't shoot much." If you want to kill enemies in a wide area, you need to supplement them with other units. The Khitans' abductors and horses are powerful, and they are good at interspersing and outflanking, and our Dashun army has poor mobility and can only defend passively. Therefore, the two flanks must be equipped with cavalry, and after the middle army, there must be cannons, and the riflemen must be protected by sword and shield men in front of them, and pikemen in the rear. If you cooperate properly, you are not afraid of the Khitan cavalry. But it can't be completely victorious, after all, the Khitans have four legs, and my Dashun army can't catch up. ”

The two discussed all the way and returned to Chang'an City, and it was getting late. Wang Shao has not been home for several months, and today Lu Chengqi specially gave him a night off, after all, he will spend the next six months in the Royal Military Academy.

The success of the Royal Military Academy made Lu Chengqi a little overjoyed, not only in a few months, more than 100 officers were transformed into a group of real soldiers, and a few of them could be instructors, so even if all the members of the Royal Military Academy went to the forbidden army to be the head of the teaching, they were not afraid that no one in the Royal Military Academy would teach Wang Shao. And Lu Chengqi's task to Di Qing was to select good seedlings from the forbidden army, send them to the Royal Military Academy for further study, and then go back to enrich the middle-level officers of the forbidden army.

An army that is truly valuable are veterans and qualified middle and lower-ranking officers. Without these two kinds of people, this army would not have much combat effectiveness, and after a big battle, the losses would definitely be very serious.

Lu Chengqi, who had been running around for a day, returned to Renming Palace, and Zhou Zhiruo was already looking forward to it. Lu Chengqi took her into his arms distressedly, and said softly: "Didn't I say it, I deal with state affairs, Zitong, you eat first." If you don't eat so late, what if you are hungry? ”

Zhou Zhiruo's face was full of happy smiles, and she said, "The concubine is waiting for Your Majesty, and she is happy in her heart." ”

Lu Chengqi thought in his heart: "For a long time, I am afraid that the queen will become a deep resentful woman." But the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, this is my bottom line. However, it is possible to let Zhiruo do something. He immediately said: "Zitong, I see that you have nothing to do every day, and there is no way. There's one thing I can do, maybe you can do it, can you dare to give it a try? ”

Zhou Zhiruo looked at Lu Chengqi with beautiful eyes, surprised and delighted, and said, "What can a concubine do?" ”

Lu Chengqi said that he had a plan to adopt orphans and establish a welfare home, but Zhou Zhiruo agreed without saying a word, and said: "The concubine must run the welfare home with her heart, and if the treasury does not support it, the concubine can also withdraw money from the imperial village." ”

The Huangzhuang under Lu Chengqi's name has always been managed by Zhou Zhiruo. Now Lu Chengqi vigorously supports business and sells a lot of Huangtian, and now Lu Chengqi doesn't know how much Huangzhuang earns. Zhou Zhiruo showed the Huangzhuang account book to Lu Chengqi, but Lu Chengqi was surprised: "There is an income of 600,000 yuan in January, Zitong, are you robbing?" ”

Zhou Zhiruo said unhappily: "How can the emperor speak, isn't this the credit of His Majesty?" His Majesty asked his concubines to send people to run teahouses, newspaper houses, docks, fleets, etc., and the bulk of the ship's revenue is still our fleet. Your Majesty was surprised that the income was too high, is he saying that the concubines compete with the people for profit? ”

Lu Chengqi apologized again and again, and said: "It's because I used the wrong words, Zitong is not to blame." It's just that this is competing with the people for profit, and I don't agree with this statement. If it weren't for my support, how could there be so many new things? There is nothing more business in the world than to follow the trend and seek profit. Although I know that this newspaper is good and the ocean-going fleet is profitable, but no one tries it, so what's the use of me talking more? It's better for Huangzhuang to set an example and really make money, then people who follow the trend will appear. ”

Zhou Zhiruo turned her anger into joy and said: "Your Majesty has a lot of truths, and the concubine can't say anything about you." ”

Lu Chengqi smiled, held her soft, and said: "Besides, I use the money and silver I earn for the people of Dashun and use it in welfare homes, etc., I can live with the people of the world, have a clear conscience, and have the confidence to compete with the people for profit!" It's just that Zitong is suffering, and the welfare institute will rely on Zitong to support it in the future. ”

Zhou Zhiruo said happily: "For Your Majesty's worries, it's too late for the concubines to be happy!" ”

Lu Chengqi pondered for a while and said: "It's the same as the newspaper, this time I won't contribute money from the household department, and directly from my inner treasury, I will allocate money to buy land and build houses and recruit children. I will also issue a secret decree that the Inspectorate will send homeless orphans to welfare homes. ”

The two chattered about the welfare home again, and the night passed in a flash.

Since the establishment of the cabinet system, Lu Chengqi's work has been very easy. After approving a few relatively large political affairs, Lu Chengqi has no work, he is a person who can't sit still, thinking of the rifle he is very interested in, his heart is itching, and he ordered: "Come on, go out of the palace in micro-clothes, and set up the ordnance supervisor outside the city!" ”

For the arrival of the little emperor in three days, everyone in the ordnance prison was no longer surprised, but they felt that the little emperor attached too much importance to them, and everyone was full of enthusiasm.

And the three most powerful people in the ordnance superintendent, Su Song, Shen Kuo, and Tang Xun, are arguing about how to improve the rifle. Seeing Lu Chengqi coming, they unanimously asked Lu Chengqi to comment on the theory to see whose plan was good. Lu Chengqi listened to their accounts and drawings one by one, and said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about money and silver, why don't you make your own people?" Learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses to make a good rifle. ”

When the three of them heard this, they felt that this was the truth, and they stopped arguing. Lu Chengqi was taken by them and went to see the workshop on how to make gun barrels. I saw that the molten iron smelted from the blast furnace flowed into the prepared steel plate mold, and after it cooled down a little, while there was still residual temperature, a barrel was made with a roll of an iron rod that was thick at the back and thin at the front. It's just that this process, which is simple to say, is difficult to do, making ten barrels, and there are only three or four qualified products, and the scrap rate is too high. There is no way, there are no machine tools in this era, and they can only be manufactured by hand, and the yield rate can be about half, which is actually good. Those waste products can also be recycled into molten iron and rolled again, which is not very wasteful.

In fact, the sulfur content of coke is also a lot, but the ancient people were indeed smart, after the first failure of blast furnace steelmaking, Tang Xun searched for more than a month, only to find that placing limestone in the furnace can greatly reduce the sulfur content and improve the quality of iron.

In this way, the molten iron smelted in such an earthen blast furnace finally met the requirements that the barrel could be manufactured in large quantities. It's just that the scrap rate is still too high, mainly because the quality of these cokes is uneven, and the sulfur content is more or less, resulting in excessive brittleness of the steel.

After Lu Chengqi heard about it, he told them that aluminum powder could be added to deoxidize, and after forming molten iron, caustic soda was put in while it was hot, so that qualified steel could be produced stably.

Lu Chengqi originally thought that there was no caustic soda in ancient times, but he didn't expect that the ancients already knew how to make caustic soda. Add water with quicklime and then add miscanthus to make caustic soda. If it is too troublesome, it is also the fastest and most convenient way to make alkali directly.

Lu Chengqi didn't understand, the ancients still had a very good understanding of chemistry, why did chemistry not form a systematic science?

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