Feng. Earl Dewis did not know much about the so-called smokeless gunpowder, and Lin Haijiang continued: "Smokeless gunpowder actually refers to gunpowder that produces less solid residue when it explodes, such as **, nitrocellulose with high nitrogen content, etc. ”

Lin Haijiang smiled: "Around 1845, the Swiss chemist Schönbay accidentally knocked over a bottle full of nitric acid and sulfuric acid during an experiment. The solution flowed on the table, and he couldn't find a rag for a while, so he hurried out and got a cotton apron from his wife to wipe the table. The apron was soaked in solution, [***], and he was afraid that his wife would blame him when she saw it, so he went to the kitchen to dry the apron. Unexpectedly, when I approached the stove, I could only hear a plop, and the apron was burned clean, without a trace of smoke or ash. Afterwards, Schoenbay carefully recalls what had happened, and realized that he had synthesized a new compound that could be used to make explosives. For this reason, he repeated the experiment many times, and when he was sure that the results were correct, he named it fire wool, also known as nitrocellulose. ”

Feng. Earl Dewis nodded slightly and said, "I know this, but that thing is very unstable, and it is a problem to use and transport." ”

Lin Haijiang nodded and said: "But dissolve the nitrocellulose in ether and ethanol, add an appropriate amount of stabilizer to it, and become a gelatinous substance, after pressing it into flakes, cutting strips, and drying and hardening, there may be unexpected effects. ”

Only by letting smokeless gunpowder come out in advance can Lin Haijiang realize his machine gun dream, and the upgrading of gunpowder has higher and higher requirements for artillery steel, and with it, artillery technology is changing with each passing day.

Lin Haijiang and Feng. The conversation of Count Deweiss was bitter for several German and Chinese translations, because the two sides exchanged professional terms and professional surnames, and the translation of individual word collections had to be repeatedly discussed and confirmed before translation, and they were all busy with sweat, and more often they were dumbfounded, because they had never heard of the words mentioned by Lin Haijiang?

Feng. Earl Dewis recorded all the accurate words of Lin Haijiang through a translator, and he was already keenly aware of the application and effectiveness of smokeless gunpowder, but in the end, he couldn't help but ask about the source of Lin Haijiang's intelligence.

Feng. The Earl of Dewis suddenly realized a problem, that is, in his contact with Lin Haijiang today, he predicted that Lin Haijiang was likely to bring about a great change in Prussia?

Subsequently, Lin Haijiang asked Feng. The Earl of Dewys feels a little weird? This guy who is ahead of everything actually wants a lot of grenades? Hand grenade?

Feng. The Earl of Dewys couldn't tell the difference between the two. Aren't they all for grenadiers?

In desperation, Lin Haijiang had to patiently explain that the grenade he needed was a special ammunition used for throwing, which was generally composed of two parts: the projectile body and the fuse. The best grenade can be divided into anti-killing, destruction, burning, smoke, lighting and training and other distinctions and functions, anti-personnel grenades are best and meticulously divided into defense (fragmentation) type and offensive (blasting) type, the requirements for grenades are small in size and small in mass, because the volume and mass of the grenade directly affect the load size of the soldier, affecting the entire tactical implementation of the soldier and the combat effect when the soldier is in close contact.

Moreover, in order to ensure that the grenade achieves the expected optimal effect, the material must be changed and the processing process must be improved to the extent that it can be controlled by man. For example, fully prefabricated or semi-prefabricated fragments are used to control the number of fragments and the shape of fragments, adjust the matching relationship between the charge and the projectile body, ensure the fragmentation speed, improve the shape of the projectile body, control the fragmentation speed, and so on.

Lin Haijiang also proposed that in addition to the delay fuze, it is also necessary to detonate the fuse and ignite the fuse, that is, to apply it to the special weapon of landmines.

Lin Haijiang said that he would buy 500,000 gold marks of ammunition and grenades, as well as mines. Earl of Dewis surprised? So many grenades for this madman? Is he such a grenadier again? Where did he want to drop all these grenades?

Feng. Earl Dweis feels that the world is getting more and more crazy, 500,000 gold marks of grenades and mines? After all, he has a specialization in art, and he still can't figure out the difference between a grenade and a grenade that Lin Haijiang said? Now that there is a cannon? What else do you want a grenadier for? Is he going to guard the castle?

Back to the room to rest and wait for the dinner party of Feng. Earl Dewis was helpless for a while, he knew that many people were destined to be disappointed when he went back this time, because the business of the one million gold marks would be scraped off by the Corus family and the Buron family, but only if they could make the kind of grenades and mines that Lin Haijiang demanded.

And Lin Haijiang, who returned to the room to rest, was also helpless, the total value of the contract he had just signed had exceeded 20 million taels of silver, which was equivalent to saying that he was almost about to become a proletarian again.

Lawrence, who originally brought his daughter to visit and thank Lin Haijiang, found that Lin Haijiang was looking at the charts? And after looking at it very seriously, he smiled meaningfully and pulled his daughter away, Lawrence knew that this cooperation could be said to have completely drained Lin Haijiang's bulging wallet.

He didn't understand what evil Lin Haijiang had fallen into? Bite the bullet and send money to the Prussians?

And at this moment, Lin Haijiang, who was full of fighting local tyrants and dividing the land, stood in front of the chart for a long time, and the feeling of having no money in his pocket made Lin Haijiang very uncomfortable, so he wanted to find the next unlucky guy as soon as possible.

Lin Haijiang does not look at his looting behavior purely from a moral point of view, he looks at it from an economic point of view, and the economic crisis is transferred! It's normal! In later generations, the United States of America, which was the only one, often did this, but the Americans were thick-skinned and did it extremely righteously, and they were relatively weak-minded, but theoretically the motives and goals of both sides were the same.

At the dinner, all the maritime forces staying in the old port sent the so-called congratulatory gifts, who dared not invite Lin Haijiang, the big boss of the old port? Then he just doesn't want to mess around in the Strait of Malacca, because Lawrence, the actual manager of the old port, is not a big-hearted guy, and if he doesn't give Lin Haijiang face, it will be like a big slap in the face of Lawrence.

The consequence was that the two ironclads that were running fast and equipped with new breech guns were driven to the skies and had no way to go to the ground by a few large ships, and the pirates who were now operating in Malacca would rather offend the plundering fleet of the British East India Company or the British Far East Fleet than provoke the spirited madmen who were idle and looking for trouble in the old port.

Even the plundering fleets of the East India Company of the British Empire had to pay tolls, and who else could afford to mess with the Dutch, British, Spaniards, and Portuguese in the Old Port? The most important thing is that the British, who are fighting in the dark in the Balkans, have no time to take care of this so-called trivial matter, while the Spanish and Portuguese have no strength, and the only Dutch who can make a difference and are willing to send ships to the East are loyal partners of the Old Port forces, which also makes the British can't help but have some scruples, and between this delicate balance, the Old Port forces are quietly growing and developing.

The dinner was held in two places, and Lin Haijiang could explain that he wanted to bring Feng Haijiang. The Earl of Dewis and others were brought to the small banquet hall, and the office hall of the Governor's Palace in the Old Port became a paradise for pirates, and strict security measures were implemented for the banquet Lin Haijiang, not only confiscated all weapons, but also allocated security personnel according to the ratio of the number of guests to two.

But the pirates who have always been arrogant and domineering do not have so many scruples, and now with the old port, which is a paradise for selling stolen goods, it can be said that their income has increased, and the goods that can only be discarded before such as antiques, tea, spices, silk, etc. can now be traded in the old port for money, and in the old port you can also buy the route and schedule of the British warship route, which is simply an unimaginable good thing for the pirates.

Unconsciously, the pirates developed an inexplicable sense of belonging to the old port, some pirates who could not find a sense of security in the old harbor even often docked their ships in the old port, and some people sent their families to the old port to settle down, waiting for the opportunity to move to Calcutta and other places, so as to secretly clear their future identities, so that their families could return to Europe with the accumulated wealth to become rich families.

However, the high tax rates and strict rules of the old port also made pirates complain, but these were nothing compared to this.

Compared with the noisy hall, the melodious violin accompaniment in the small banquet hall is accompanied by Lin Haijiang and Feng. Earl Dewys and others frequently raised their glasses, and what shocked Lin Haijiang the most was that Lawrence's daughter turned out to be a blonde beauty? But what does Lin Haijiang think of Cluna who doesn't look like Lawrence?

So Lin Haijiang, who seized the opportunity, ran very dirty and ridiculed Lawrence, but Lawrence failed to understand Lin Haijiang's too subtle words, but was very happy and chattered to tell Lin Haijiang that Clona looked very much like her mother.

This made the filthy Lin Haijiang feel defeated and injured!

This visit has gained a lot from Feng. After accepting the souvenirs that Lin Haijiang weighed, the Earl of Dewis patted his chest and promised that he would send someone to help Lin Haijiang find some of the people on the list and buy their patents after he returned.

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