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With a loud bang, the music in the hall of Blenheim Palace stopped abruptly, and the gentlemen and ladies who were still dancing were stunned by the sound and looked out of the door. Outside, it was quiet, the night had completely deepened, the sky was full of stars, and there were no dark clouds, but where did this thunder come from?

"George, how's it going? The power of this ammonium nitrate explosive is satisfactory, right? Just when the room full of guests was full of question marks, Zhu Jishi said triumphantly to the Duke of Marlborough: "If the old guards of the Emperor Napoleon were equipped with ammonium nitrate grenades during the Battle of Waterloo, I am afraid that the Duke of Wellington would have fled the battlefield in embarrassment, right?" ”

The Duke of Marlborough had a calm face, as if he had anticipated the power of ammonium nitrate explosives, and only replied lightly: "It's a pity that it's not 1815, otherwise Emperor Napoleon would have sold Versailles and would have scraped together enough gold francs to buy ammonium nitrate grenades." ”

"Louis. King Philip will also pay a lot of money for ammonium nitrate grenades," Zhu Jishi took over the topic and said with a smile: "His army is fighting with Abdo in Algeria. What about Kadir's army fighting a war to the death, and I suppose the French military alone had an order of more than £100,000, right? ”

"If Louis. King Philip doesn't buy ammonium nitrate grenades? Jardine came down from his office on the second floor to see the bomb explode with a cane, and he said coldly: "I think the French army will be enough to defeat the Algerian barbarians with the weapons they have!" ”

"Then I'll sell the ammonium nitrate grenade to Abdu. Kadir! Zhu Jishi analyzed with a smile, "As far as I know, European countries have always been extremely sensitive to advanced weapons, if the British Army and the French Army are equipped with ammonium nitrate grenades, presumably Spain, Austria, Prussia, Tsarist Russia and the Ottoman Empire and other military powers will soon follow suit...... I think that the appearance of ammonium nitrate grenades will soon completely change the current mode of operation of the European Army, and no one will dare to fire muskets at close range, and the grenadiers will definitely become the masters of the battlefield. ”

Duke Churchill lit a cigar and took a few puffs, although he still had a faint smile on his face, but there were already waves in his heart.

Aren't their lobster soldiers of the British Empire just close to the distance and line up to fire, which is a killer trick in the market? At the Battle of Abraham's Plains in 1759, James Brown. The 4,800 British troops under the command of Wolf fired their first platoon of guns when they were 18 meters away from the engaged French troops, knocking out 530 French troops in one shot, and 700-800 in the next two platoon shots, thus establishing the victory of the Battle of Quebec in one fell swoop.

If ammonium nitrate grenades had been equipped with British and French armies by that time, would they have been able to line up to close the distance to 18 meters? I'm afraid that the horizontal formation of the two sides has already been blown up by grenades that rained down! The tactics of line infantry shooting in line will most likely disappear from the battlefield after this engagement...... Because it only takes a few cavalry or light infantry to throw grenades at the line of infantry and they can be blown up in piles in rows!

Thinking of this, the duke nodded slowly and said to Zhu Jishi: "Jason, let me think about it for a few days...... By the way, the prom isn't over yet, right? There are a lot of upper-class socialites waiting to meet you, a great scientist from the East. ”

A big deal of 50,000 pounds, of course, can not be done in a few words, Zhu Jishi nodded at the duke with a smile, and turned around and walked towards Blenheim Palace.

"William, what do you think?" The Duke of Marlborough asked Jardine's Road.

"It's inconceivable that there is such a genius among the Chinese, could it be that the wisdom of all China has reached him?" Jardine shook his head, and suddenly increased his tone, "But I still mean this, such a person is always a threat to our British Empire, and we had better eliminate such a threat in time!" ”

"Threats? William, what are you going to do? Just find a crime and put him in jail? Duke Marlborough shook his head, "I think you've been in China for too long, and even your way of thinking has changed a little. He paused and asked again: "By the way, Prince Albert seems to be very interested in this Chinese, and he thinks that this Chinese is very likely to become a powerful figure in the Chinese government in the future, do you think this possibility exists?" ”

"Weishenme would have such a strange idea?" Jardine asked rhetorically, puzzled.

"Is it strange?" The Duke of Marlborough took a cigar in his mouth and said with a smile on his face: "Isn't this obvious? The Chinese imperial court will soon learn the lessons of the Sino-British trade war, and then it will start reforming, and then they will be in great need of someone like Zhu Jishi, and if I were the emperor of China, I would definitely appoint him as prime minister. ”

Jardine sneered and shook his head, "The Chinese Emperor might cut off his head!" Duke, I'll make this bet with you for a thousand pounds! ”

"Beheaded?" Duke Marlborough was stunned for a moment. Jardine said coldly: "This Chinese probably hasn't realized that there is no way for him and the Qing emperor to coexist, either he was killed by the Qing emperor, or the Qing Dynasty was overthrown by him!" ”

"What? Could there be such a thing? The Duke of Marlborough glared at Jardine.

Jardinen snorted coldly: "This is obvious, every Westerner who really understands China will come to the same answer." If the latter possibility arises, the prophecy of the Emperor Napoleon will probably come true! Duke, in order to avoid this possibility, we had better not let him go to the East......" He suddenly lowered his voice, as if to say to himself, "But even if he does go to the East, I am afraid that nothing good will end, because the Tatar dynasty still has a fairly solid power base in China. ”

The Duke of Marlborough smiled heavily and said, "William, there are some things that we should not think about too much, and I think the owner of Windsor Castle has already made a full plan. ”

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"Jason, how's your college preparations? I heard that Prince Albert wrote to the Governor of Hong Kong for you to claim land. ”

After displaying the bomb, Zhu did not go to the room arranged for him by Duke Churchill to rest, because he met Countess Isabel in the hall of Blenheim Palace. It turned out that after she participated in today's masquerade ball and danced with Zhu Jishi, Countess Isabel took Zhu Jishi's hand and left the dance floor, and then found a seat to sit down and start chatting.

"That's really going to be Prince Xiexie, but my university hasn't started preparations yet." Zhu Jishi beckoned, summoned a waiter with a cocktail plate, took two glasses of Serta water, and handed one to the countess. "Now my main task is to make money, to make a lot of money. After all, running a haode university is very expensive. ”

"Oh, you're such a noble man." The countess looked at him with a smile, "I think every Chinese will thank you for everything you have done in the future." ”

Zhu Jishi took a big sip of cold Serta water and said with a wry smile: "Maybe they will hate me......"

"Hate you?" The countess blinked her big azure eyes and wondered, "Weishenme wants to hate you?" ”

"Because I woke up a good dream from them, you say hateful?" Zhu Jishi said with some emotion. Even if he doesn't know history, he knows the attitude of the Manchu magnates towards reform, not to mention any thorough reform, that is, the Westernists engaged in the kind of reform of "middle school for the body, Western learning for use", and they also faced many obstacles, but fortunately he only planned to be a guide, and did not really want to participate in the reform of the Manchu Dynasty, otherwise it would not be a matter of being hated!

"Haha, Jason, you're so interesting." The big beauty giggled, "Isn't the British fleet and artillery enough to wake up that sleeping nation?" ”

Zhu Jishi smiled helplessly, isn't this the case with the Qing Dynasty in history? I don't know how many times I've been beaten, and I'm still half-asleep.