In the spring of 1863, with the cooperation of Charles and Linar, the standard weapon of the Lorraine Regiment was finally finalized, and later historians commented that the rifle, called the XL-1 model, was "of epoch-making significance." ”

Although Charles was still dissatisfied with this rifle, at the current level of industry in the Lorraine region, this front-loading rifled gun fired by the fire cap was the highest level that could be achieved.

The development of firearms is limited by various industrial conditions, and even if the Shire now comes up with the blueprints and design concepts of the breech gun, they will not be able to solve the various restrictions and difficulties in a short time.

The rate of fire of the breech gun is several times that of the breech gun, and while obtaining several times the fire projection density, the heat dissipation pressure of the barrel also increases exponentially, and the forging requirements for the barrel must be increased a lot, and the sealing of the breech gun has been a difficult problem to solve perfectly before the metal cartridge case comes out.

Every little detail has to be called in technical personnel to tackle technical problems, and Charr lacks this kind of talent, which is why Charles asked Linar to provide fifty skilled craftsmen.

Of course, many technical ideas Charles didn't want to share with others, so after the trial production of the XL-1 rifle began, Charles finally entered the factory in person, restored his identity as a science and engineering man in his previous life, and gathered reliable people to form a technical research laboratory to prepare for the war that was very likely to occur in the future.

Perhaps Linar saw another value in the XL-1 rifle, and she also accelerated the renovation of the Lorraine steelworks in exchange for in-depth cooperation with the Charles, and Pruth's skilled workers worked more than fourteen hours a day to express enough sincerity.

The whole Lorraine began to get busy, every day there were recruits from all over the city of Nancy, Charles had to go to the barracks every day to reconcile the contradictions between the various battalion commanders, the difficulty of managing an army of tens of thousands of people was not comparable to managing hundreds of people, Charles spent every day in learning, summing up experience.

This is only military, civil affairs are not satisfactory, originally Charles has brought in a lot of collaborators from the United Commercial Company, these days has been carrying out mines, trade investment, but they are not interested in agriculture, there is no intention to invest in agriculture.

As a result, spring ploughing has begun, but the manpower, water conservancy and animal power of the entire Lorraine cannot meet the requirements of the Charles, either there is a shortage of people or cattle, which makes the lord of Charles anxious every day.

"I'm going to form a secretariat, at least three, nay, five capable secretaries, all of them with long legs, or I won't be able to soothe the fatigue in my heart. ”

Charles worked for three days and nights, solving several key problems with the grenade, dragging his tired body upstairs, and after throwing himself on the big bed, the loneliness in his heart could not stop flooding.

What kind of life is it to be able to tire a transcendent person to the point of exhaustion, and to make a man who is surrounded by beautiful women all day long feel lonely!

Tiredness also has the benefit of being tired, that is, falling asleep quickly, there are no midnight movies in this world, and when you are alone, you have nothing to think about but to go against the big bed.

But not long after Charles fell asleep today, he woke up smartly, instantly touched the long sword in his hand, and "Cang Langlang" drew the sword out of its sheath.

"MLGB, it's not over yet, is it?"

As Charr drew his sword, the curtain by the window shook slightly, and a figure appeared in Charles's bedroom.

Ever since the last time Loew Bell had crept into his bedroom, Charles had reverted to sleeping with his sword in his arms, and he didn't expect to use it again today.

"Huh? You were able to sense me in advance? Bourman really concealed your strength, and that loyal and honest fellow also learned to play tricks?" the visitor casually walked to the chair opposite Charles and did it, as casually as if he had entered his own house.

He is a man with black hair, his hairstyle is not the wavy curls that are popular on the mainland, it looks somewhat similar to Charles's hairstyle, he looks very young, but there is a free and sophisticated taste in the man's demeanor, and Charles believes that this kind of bearing must have been honed by time.

This guy is a tender old thing.

"Are you a thief, or a robber?"

The reason why Charles was able to sense the arrival of this guy in front of him in advance was naturally because of the promotion of the middle rank of the transcendent, although the promotion was a warrior system rather than a hunter system, but the perception ability still increased significantly, and the confidence of the battle also increased a lot, for this kind of transcendent who has not yet reached the high level, there is no fear as before.

"Oh, I'd like to go through the gate, but it might cause you a lot of trouble, so I'll do it in a way that doesn't notice me, so I'm not a thief, I'm not a robber. The man who pretended to be tender turned his head to look at the window and said very seriously.

"Since knowing who you are will cause me trouble, then you shouldn't come to me again, I've had enough trouble, so please leave now, I don't want to know who you are, I don't want to know what benefits you will bring me, and I don't want to have anything to do with someone who comes uninvited and is still a window. ”

The man who pretended to be tender was stunned, he kept looking at Charles with a winning gaze, he was sure enough to move Charles, but Charles's series of snatches held all the words he wanted to say in his heart, what is "I don't want to know what benefits you will bring me?"

I haven't taken out the benefits yet! How do you know if you like it or not? Are there any people in this world who don't like it?

"But you're already related to me, I'm Sfantos, and your father has been a classmate and friend for many years, but later because of some differences in philosophy, we broke off contact with each other, and we swore to each other that we would never see each other again in this life, even at a funeral........."

A bitter smile appeared on the corner of the man's mouth, "I sat outside Nasser for a day on the day of the funeral, and finally added a bouquet of flowers to him at night when no one was around........."

Charles felt Sfantos' sentimentality, but he remained unmoved and said, "My father is dead, if you miss your friendship, you should go to his cemetery to mourn, you don't need to have anything to do with me here........."

Sfantos smiled, carefully took out a drawing from his bosom and handed it to Charles, "Do you think I'm here because of your father? ”

Charles didn't answer, but his extraordinary eyesight allowed him to see at a glance that the contents of the sketch were in an iron box under his bed.

An antique microscope, the only item that Charles crossed over.

"You're the same guy as Loew Bell, no wonder they like to walk through the window!"

Charles immediately thought of the clumsy thief, who had also come for the microscope, and the window through which she had walked.

Instead of being angry at Charles' sarcasm, Sfantos pointed to the two pinyin words on the sketch and asked, "Do you know what these two words mean?"

“LingXiu？”

Charles looked at the two big words on the drawing, and said with a sneer: "If I say that this is what the leader means, can you believe it?"

Sfantos' eyes lit up suddenly, and he looked like the captain of a trek sailing ship in a storm seeing the lights on the harbor lighthouse.

"I certainly believe that we have ......... It's been too long!"