A month later, Yamamoto was reinstated by the officer, but Togo Heihachiro was dismissed from his current military position. Moreover, the Tokyo government was worried that Togo Heihachiro would run to the southwest, and although no definite evidence was found at Togo Heihachiro's home, only a handwritten letter from his own brother and Saigo Takamori, it did not allow him to move freely, but sent him to work in a shipyard in Kobe.

After Liu Xian saw the completely different fate of the two people, he could only sigh that character determines fate.

Whether it is in the cognition of Liu Xian in the original time and space, or in the understanding of him in this life, Togo Heihachiro is a taciturn person who is not good at showing off and boasting. Such a person is an old scalper at work!

And what about Gonbei Yamamoto? Since he was a teenager, he was not a peaceful person.

At the age of eleven, he participated in the Sa-British War, helping to carry cannonballs at the Benten Battery, and at the same time carrying cannonballs with Togo Heihachiro, and the gunner was none other than Oyama Iwa, the earliest field marshal in Japan in the original time and space (this battery can be described as priceless). It was from this battery that the captain and deputy captain of the British fleet flagship Yuriales were sent to God.

In 1869, he studied at the Naval Drill Institute as a Satsuma tribute student. Gonbei Yamamoto was in the second phase of the Naval Academy, and when he was in the Navy, he was one of the most troublesome students for instructors. In addition to the instinctive resistance to the enemy who met in the past, there was also the conceit of "Lao Tzu came from the battlefield", and he did not take those big-nosed instructors who had no actual combat experience in his eyes at all, and he got drunk and fought in groups all day long, and even the British instructors dared to fight when the fire came.

Major Douglas's earnest admonition to "be a gentleman" was of no use to these ruffian-like students. Later, only the most primitive method of "expulsion" could be adopted. In 1872 alone, 158 students were expelled, and Yamamoto Gonbei was the most stubborn of the second term. But he was able to escape the fate of being expelled, which shows his ability.

At that time, Yamamoto Gonbei was messing around. And it's not just about drinking and fighting. Once, when I went to a prostitution house in Shinagawa with other non-commissioned officers to drink flower wine, I fell in love with a young prostitute. That night, Ensign Yamamoto hired a few people to help him set up a ladder on the back wall of the brothel and stole the young prostitute out of the brothel. And that young prostitute was the later Yamamoto Gonbei wife Tsusawa Tokiko.

In the end, Gonbei Yamamoto graduated from the penultimate among 17 people in the same period, but in a blink of an eye, he was able to study in Germany.

The Tokyo government still has a large number of talented people. will not kill innocents indiscriminately, and the plan to kill people with a knife. And in the final analysis, the cause of this incident is the lack of confidence of the Tokyo government.

When people are not confident, they become very sensitive; If the government is not confident, it will become sensitive. You have to take care of your fragile glass heart.

At the beginning of Saigo Takamori's army. Why didn't the Japanese government in Tokyo worry about the rebellion of a large number of Satsuma officers in the navy?

Isn't it because he is confident that his strength is absolutely strong and the Southwest Domain Army?

As a result, now the big guys behind them are not strong, one country has become two, and the latter has begun to establish a modern navy. And all of a sudden, there are still two 3,000-ton central artillery armored ships, and this strength is to catch up with the rhythm of Tokyo.

From the Meiji Emperor to the rank and file officials and soldiers, the pressure on the Tokyo government was on the verge of exploding. And it was at this time that it was reported that the southwest government was going to dig the foot of the Tokyo wall, and the Tokyo government as a whole was not good.

When Liu Xian got the telegram from Japan, he didn't feel that his plan had failed. Isn't this already borrowing a knife to 'kill' Heihachiro Togo? As long as this person left the front line of the Japanese Navy. The value of Heihachiro in Dongxiang in Liu Xian's mind does not exist. The 'God of War' without weapons is still a bullshit God of War.

As for Yamamoto Gonbei, Liu Xian didn't count him as a real target. This person's political talent should still be above his military talent. Such a 'catastrophe' is just a small hurdle, this is the true feeling that Yamamoto Gonbei gave Liu Xian.

In any case, however, the establishment of Japan's Southwestern Fleet greatly tensed the atmosphere in the Japanese archipelago. But both sides were restrained. In particular, the Tokyo government, Ito Hirobumi made it very clear to the Japanese ministers and the Meiji Emperor: "Britain is still entangled in Egypt and healing the wounds of Afghanistan after the war. I don't have the energy to take care of Japan in the short term. Before the end of the Sino-Russian war. Japan must not afford to start a war lightly. ”

The time has come to the sixth year of the new Qin, that is, the second half of 1882 in the Western calendar.

Liu Xian received the news of another bumper soybean harvest in Northeast China. I received news that the immigrants from Sakhalin Island and Trans-Khinganling were worry-free about winter food, and received a war report from Xinjiang. The Russian army hit its head in front of the Qin army's defense line, and at the same time received the good news that China's steel production exceeded one million tons.

Shijingshan, a remote place of the Academy of Natural Sciences.

Liu Xian held an inconspicuous rifle in his hand and gently pulled the bolt.

Today is a good day, the wind is beautiful and the weather is refreshing. The hot summer has passed, and the cool autumn makes Liu Xian feel extremely comfortable.

With 'Bang! A gunshot broke the silence of this remote place. Liu Xian raised his gun and aimed it at a target erected 50 meters away, but when he didn't see him pull the bolt after shooting, he kept pulling the trigger and shot all five bullets in one go, and the target 50 meters away was filled with five small holes lined up in a row.

Not bad! The real semi-automatic rifle, four years after the invention of smokeless gunpowder, after Liu Xian wiped out a little knowledge of firearms in his head, this 7.62mm caliber semi-automatic rifle was finally born with difficulty.

Today is the day when this rifle is finalized, as long as it can pass Liu Xian's hand, next month this rifle will be submitted to the Equipment Department of the General Logistics Department to receive a real gun inspection by the Qin army.

Liu Xian had a satisfied look on his face. Standing behind him were guards, attendants, soldiers from the General Logistics Department, and the leader of the design team for this semi-automatic rifle, the Belgian firearms designer Stellence. Hazard.

This is a typical European talent who has been pulled to the East by a good salary. He was originally one of the gunsmiths of the Royal Arsenal in Württemberg. Mauser was his former colleague.

I came to China from Europe, five years younger. Hazard and his companions finally perfected the rifle in their hands as best they could.

For several years, the Hazard team used smokeless gunpowder produced in the real yàn chamber to fill ammunition. Because one of the starting points of this semi-automatic rifle was to produce the performance of smokeless gunpowder, a new type of gunpowder.

Liu Xian didn't know much about gunpowder and firearms. But if he doesn't know anything about the famous smokeless gunpowder. Then he would really be ashamed of the many military history novels he had read.

As for semi-automatic rifles, automatic rifles, and the Makqin heavy machine gun that was about to appear according to the original historical trajectory, that is, the gunpowder gas emitted by the bullet during shooting was used to make the rifle complete a series of actions such as unlocking, unshelling, feeding, and re-locking, realizing the automatic continuous shooting of the single-barreled gun and reducing the recoil of the rifle. Coupled with the canvas bullet chain and the water-cooled type, this is all the 'inspiration' that Liu Xian gave to the gun designers!

After paying a certain amount of money and wanting to work for a long time, Liu Xian finally waited for the production of this decent semi-automatic rifle. As for fully automatic rifles and light and heavy machine guns, the products of the design groups are far from ideal.

Now smokeless gunpowder in the arsenal of the Qin army can be produced on a large scale and at low cost. But there is still a shortage of guns to use them.

Even this semi-automatic rifle in Liu Xian's hand. In the end, what kind of evaluation can be obtained from the Equipment Division, it is not necessarily. The 50-meter target is too ill-intelligible. A qualified rifle must also have an effective killing distance of at least three or four hundred meters, its accuracy, lethality, and adaptability in different natural environments, and the continuous firing volume of the barrel.

But in any case, this is a weapon of an advanced level in the world. Semi-automation is thoroughly understood, and the foundation of future fully automatic rifles and light and heavy machine guns is solid.

"Hazard. Don't be burdened, I'm happy with your work. Liu Xian smiled at Hazard. Then he handed the rifle to the attendant next to him.

Hazard breathed a sigh of relief. The Shijingshan Academy of Natural Sciences' generous salaries and allowances, as well as their impressive status in Chinese society, make it difficult for Adjara to raise the idea of leaving China now. And with the satisfaction of His Majesty the Emperor, it is the best news for Azar. Even if this rifle does not pass the verification of the Chinese military in the end. I also have enough dignity to continue to stay in China.

Hazard had no idea what Liu Xian attached to semi-automatic rifles. Even if the semi-automatic rifle is ultimately unqualified, it is unlikely that Liu Xian will let anyone from Azar's design team leave. Liu Xian did not believe the thin entente signed by this group of Europeans. In front of interests, it is a piece of waste paper.

After seeing this semi-automatic rifle. Liu Xian also went on to see the research of fully automatic rifles and machine guns, and then it was a lunch. Liu Xian hosted a banquet for all the researchers in the banquet hall of the Academy of Natural Sciences.

In the afternoon, Liu Xian then inspected the progress of the artillery group.

He didn't know exactly when the tube withdrawal cannon appeared, but Xin Qin had started studying the tube withdrawal cannon two years ago. And it's hydraulic. It's not spring-like.

Liu Xian hoped that before the Sino-British war over the interests of the South Seas broke out, his own tube cannon would be invented. Even if it can't be large-caliber at first, this is the most advanced rapid-fire gun.

Just like the Qinnan Shipyard, Mawei Shipyard, and Jiangnan Shipyard, the production of warships has almost come to a standstill, but the designers have never stopped their own pens. Whether it is weapons or warships, after the revitalization of the country, Liu Xian has invested a lot of money in research, development, and practice.

A newly built armored cruiser at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Kaichun this year is also the only warship with a displacement of more than 2,000 metric tons that has been built by the three major shipyards this year, with an estimated tonnage of up to 3,400 tons, a speed of 18 knots, and two domestically produced 260mm 35 times caliber main guns, and the overall performance on paper is not weaker than that of British warships of the same class.

Regardless of the end result, it's a step forward.

And the country has become stronger step by step in this kind of progress. (To be continued......)