Listening to the words of Shen Chazhuo, deputy director of the Ordnance Department, Lin Zhe nodded, last year he asked the Ordnance Department to carry out the research and development of machine guns, of course, this research and development does not mean that the Ordnance Department will develop it itself.

In fact, the Ministry of Ordnance is just an administrative department, and there is no technical ability, the Ministry of Ordnance R & D work is the use of outsourcing system, specifically once the Ministry of Ordnance has a new weapons project, will carry out R & D bidding, usually three weapons companies are selected, and then respectively signed a preliminary R & D contract, give a certain amount of R & D funds, the enterprise is to carry out preliminary theoretical research, and put forward a detailed design plan.

The follow-up ordnance department will sign a R&D contract with the enterprise for one of the schemes, and provide part of the R&D funds for the enterprise to complete the final design.

Then it is to place an order for procurement, and the company began to invest its own funds in the laying of production lines, and carry out follow-up improvement and research and development, and began to supply to the military.

So this is a little different from the ordinary business model, it is not that what the company produces will be sold to the military, but what the military needs, what the company develops and produces.

In this process, although the Ordnance Department also provides a certain amount of research and development funds, it generally only occupies a small part of the project research and development, generally not more than one-third, and the majority of the research and development has to be borne by the enterprise itself, and the construction of the production line has to be borne by the enterprise.

But then again, the wool is out of the sheep, although the company bears a large amount of capital investment in the early stage, but they often calculate these costs in the price of the weapon, so there will be a weapon in the first few orders of the price is more expensive, the later orders are cheaper. Overall, the smaller the quantity ordered, the more expensive the average price. The more quantities ordered, the cheaper it is, because companies need to flatten the cost of R&D and pre-production line construction in these orders.

Here and the only supplier of steam engines in China. The reason why Linde Machinery's shipboard steam engines are so expensive is because the number purchased by the military is small, and at the same time, these high-power steam engines are not used by ordinary civilian ships, because the use cost is too expensive, and the operating cost is too high for ordinary cargo ships.

The number of purchases is small, and every year to improve and upgrade, and develop a larger power steam engine, these are all require a lot of research and development costs, Linde Machinery Company naturally will not do a loss-making business. Therefore, the cost will be passed on to the ex-factory price of the shipborne steam engine, and the navy will pay for it.

The development of this machine gun is almost the same as that of other weapons.

Lin Zhe nodded and said: "Well, it's not bad, you guys continue to pay attention to this matter, I hope to see the demeanor of machine guns in next year's exercise!" ”

Lin Zhe did not directly explain what plan to let the Ordnance Department adopt, because there was no need to prompt at all.

Lin Zhe knew that in this era, the only choice for machine guns was the multi-barreled hand-cranked machine gun represented by Gatling, and everything else was unreliable, including the gas-guided machine gun proposed by the Royal Arms Company. If this gas-guided machine gun is placed in more than ten or twenty years, it will definitely be an epoch-making weapon, but now, let alone domestic. Even in countries such as the United Kingdom, it is unlikely that gas-guided machine guns will be developed and produced.

Lin Zhe knew this, but the people in the Ordnance Department were not stupid, although they did not have the knowledge of later generations. But they were also able to see the technical risks posed by the air-guided machine gun, and now the Royal Arms Corporation has not even worked out the basic theoretical design. How is it possible to get the people of the Ordnance Department to invest heavily and procure.

Funnel machine guns too, now there are so many problems. If the Huguang Arms Company fails to solve these problems, the people in the Ordnance Department will not purchase them.

Therefore, realistically speaking, the only machine gun that the Chinese army can use in the next ten years or so is a multi-barrel hand-cranked machine gun.

This is the inevitable choice of historical development and domestic industrial technological capabilities, and Lin Zhe will develop like this whether he says it or not.

Historically, after the Gatling machine gun was put into service in the United States in batches, Britain, Russia and other countries were successively equipped with multi-barreled hand-cranked machine guns, and even the Manchu Dynasty was not willing to be lonely, imitating and serving many 'Green guns'.

After watching a military exercise in Beiping, Lin Zhe officially embarked on the journey back to Nanjing.

Return the same way, arrive in Tianjin first, and then take the Yanhuang Royal Cruise to Shanghai, where you will take a short rest.

But when he left Shanghai, there was one more person on the Yanhuang Royal Cruises, and that was Qi Lin, the daughter of Qi Xuanyun.

The first time Lin Zhe met Qi Lin was at the first royal dinner held after arriving in Shanghai, and Lin Zhe noticed this woman that night.

Although this woman is wearing the retro Hanfu that many young women wear, but the whole person looks very unique, when the ministers and their families came forward to greet one by one, Lin Zhe found that this woman was a little special, and even ran with Qi Xuanyun all over the South Seas, and also went to India, and also went to various places in China.

Later, this woman and Fang Deconcubine had a very happy conversation, and was even taken to Lin Zhe by Fang Deconcubine for a while, saying that Qi Lin was very good at choreography, and said that she wanted to invite her back to Nanjing to help her choreograph for the Royal Dance Troupe.

So, when Lin Zhe returned to Nanjing from Shanghai, this Qi Lin boarded the Yanhuang cruise ship, and at this time her identity also became a royal employee, and her official name was the choreographer consultant of the Royal Dance Troupe.

This is on the same boat, and it is natural to see more than a few times.

When you see a lot of this, something that is not only common will happen.

Lin Zhe is not a junior brother, he knows very well what kind of gaze this woman looks at him, that gaze is the same as the little white face in the Korean stick seen by the brainless fans of later generations, and the stars that emerge from the eyes are as bright as fireworks at night.

Since this woman took great pains to get close to Fang Defei, and then successfully appeared by her side, Lin Zhe did not say anything, but pushed the boat down the river.

Anyway, this woman is also beautiful, well-informed, and can speak fluent English, which is much more interesting than the ladies in her harem.

And don't worry about her bad intentions, her father is Qi Xuanyun, and her uncle Qi Xuanbian are all imperial officials who were born as staff members of the Yamen in the business zone in the early years. And it's a Taoist-level official, so it's unlikely that he's a spy or something.

Since everyone has taken the initiative to come up. Lin Zhe naturally won't push it out!

Of course, although Lin Zhe already planned to push the boat down the river. But it didn't say that he ate this woman directly on the Yanhuang, sometimes foreplay is still very important.

And he also has to worry about Fang Deconcubine's thoughts, after all, this woman can be regarded as the only woman he really likes in this world, unlike Queen Chen Jing who is just a responsibility and obligation, it doesn't matter what other concubines do, Lin Zhe is good to Fang Deconcubine, which is well known.

If Fang Defei knew that Lin Zhe ate Qi Lin when she stayed with her every day, she would probably be furious, and Lin Zhe would also feel a headache if this woman played a small temperament, and she couldn't fight it. You can't scold, and it's a trouble to coax it when the time comes.

Moreover, Fang Defei kindly brought Qi Lin to Nanjing, which can be regarded as having a great impression of Qi Lin's daughter, and wants to do the Royal Dance Troupe with her, you must know that she knows that Qi Lin is leaning close to her just to get close to Lin Zhe and rob her man, and it is estimated that she will have the intention of killing Qi Lin.

Qi Lin's arrival can be regarded as a small highlight in life for Lin Zhe, who is entangled in military affairs every day. And it's the kind with very bright colors.

When on the boat, Lin Zhe would occasionally communicate with Qi Lin in English and talk about some so-called foreign literature topics, and these two half-buckets of water, who knew nothing about foreign literature, could still talk quite happily.

After returning to Nanjing. Lin Zhe has returned to his previous life again!

Although this time the patrol is to take a whole government affairs team on patrol together, it is impossible to take all government affairs with him, and the affairs in the hands of Lin Zhe who can be sent on the way out are some more important affairs. And the rest of the mundane things are piled up.

So in the first few days after coming back, Lin Zhe spent a lot of time dealing with the backlog of government affairs. I basically work until after 10 o'clock in the evening every day.

This made Lin Zhe have to sigh, he really can't be idle when he is an emperor.

In fact, it is easy for Lin Zhe to be idle. As long as the power is appropriately lowered, it is enough to let the cabinet directly deal with many affairs, but as a founding emperor, Lin Zhe, like Zhu Yuanzhang and Qin Shi Huang, has a great desire for power and has a natural wariness of decentralization.

So until the last resort, Lin Zhe will not easily decentralize power, even if it is to work harder for this, it doesn't matter, anyway, he also thought about being an emperor who messes around every day, this huge country has been defeated, and it is fortunate that he will govern this country well, and it is already his only remaining pursuit to take this country to become a powerful country on the earth.

He sometimes thinks that after a few decades, when his physical condition deteriorates, he will relax appropriately and no longer work so hard to grasp everything in his hands every day.

But now, the country is not strong, and the country is not stable, the empire is in the midst of a deep reform from the inside out, China is in the midst of a great change that has not been seen in thousands of years, Lin Zhe has to personally check the gates, because the slightest carelessness will cause a catastrophe.

It is difficult to open the country, but it is even more difficult to reform!

Lin Zhe still needs to do a lot to reform China from a traditional agricultural country to a modern industrial country.

And each one of them is very important.

Lin Zhe was busy, but Qi Lin was uncomfortable.

On the way back to Nanjing on the Yanhuang, she could clearly feel Lin Zhe's good impression of herself, and many exchanges made her discover that His Majesty the Emperor's insight was far beyond ordinary people, and his thinking mode was also very different from ordinary people, all of which made her deeply fascinated.

It's a pity that she hasn't seen Lin Zhe in the half month since she arrived in Nanjing.

was invited to Fang Deconcubine a few times, but she couldn't meet Lin Zhe, which made her a little disappointed.

But disappointment is disappointment, but she didn't give up, there are not many men in the world who can be looked at by her, and most of them have already started a family, so she Qi Lin is naturally unwilling to be a lover or something, but Lin Zhe is different, he is the emperor of the empire, and he can marry many concubines justifiably.

Twenty days after Qi Lin arrived in Nanjing, she finally saw Lin Zhe again, and that was when the Royal Dance Company performed for the first time. (To be continued.) )