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At noon, after lunch, it was customary for the women to go upstairs to rest, while the men went downstairs to smoke a cigarette and talk about current affairs. Lilith followed her mother up the stairs to the upper floor, only to hear the sound of an argument coming from below.

"You're saying we can't beat the Northerners?" A high-pitched and excited voice came.

"Who is this?" Lilith thought, "It's funny how someone would dare to say something like that here." She slowed slightly.

"I don't mean to offend, but sir, I would like to know how many times have you been to the North? How much do you know about them? As far as I know, you graduated from West Point, so you must know that Clausewitz mentioned in his "On War" that 'intelligence is all that we know about the enemy and the enemy country, and is the basis of our ideas and actions,' and I don't know on what basis you conclude that the North is vulnerable. A voice came.

"I know that the North is superior to us in material strength, but, just as you quote the Treatise on War, I will also quote the ideas in the Treatise on War, you are not unaware of Clausewitz's discussion of martial virtue and spiritual power, right? It is true that our south does not have an advantage in numbers and material strength, but it is also spiritual strength that plays a decisive role on the battlefield! And you coward who only sees material power can't see this! ”

"It's getting more and more interesting, maybe someone will throw the glove in the face of another person next, right?" Lilith stopped unconsciously.

"Lilith, keep up." There was a bit of reproach in the mother's eyes, as if to say, "This is not something that a young lady should care about." ”

"Hmm." Lilith hastened to follow.

……

The dispute below did almost lead to a duel. However, the intervention of the master prevented the situation from deteriorating. George stopped between the two: "Enough! Coaster, I'm sure Joyce isn't the coward you think. We're all old neighbors, and you won't know what kind of person Joyce is. Joyce just wants to say that war is not as simple as you think. I think the same way, even Mexicans are not as vulnerable as you might think. You don't think the North is even worse than the Mexicans, do you? ”

Joyce was a young man, and it was nothing to question him. But George was different, although he was also their junior, he was much older than them, and he had been a model for young people in this area before, so when he stood up, the young man named Coster also quieted down.

Joyce, who had a bit of a conversation with the young people who were always in the South, also stood up to apologize to George, saying that he needed to go out and walk around. Then he left the living room. Alone in the hallway.

After a while, George also walked out.

"Joyce, I'm sorry that these lads are too impulsive and don't really think about it right now." George walked up to Joyce, put his hands on the railing of the hallway, and looked up at the hilltop in the distance, where a flock of egrets was fluttering.

"George, you don't have to say anything to me for them, and in fact, I'm not mad at them. It's true. Joyce looked at George, "I can understand them, I was no different from them a few years ago, at least until I went out in Europe. It's just that I've been out there for a few years and have a little more knowledge...... Well, how do you feel about that gun I gave you? ”

"It's good, and it's bad." George replied.

"How?" Joyce asked.

"The guns are good, but the place where the guns are produced is bad." George's answer was remarkably simple.

"Are we in such a bad relationship with the North now?" Joyce took a pack of cigarettes out of his pocket, handed one to George, then took one himself, then took a pack of matches from his waistcoat pocket, and wiped it on the matchbox coated with red phosphorus, and a small flame came out. Joyce lit George a cigarette first, then lit it for herself, then waved her hand and shook out the fire.

George took a deep breath, then spat out a few smoke rings: "Anyway, it's worse than before." Now in the House of Representatives, there are more and more Whig guys. These guys, all day long, are either clamoring for tariff increases, or they are there shouting for the abolition of slavery. In fact, who are they to accuse us of slavery, and the situation of the workers in their factories is not necessarily comparable to that of our slaves. ”

"Now, the Yankees are actually very similar to the British." "They want to make a high-sounding excuse for everything, but in the end, it's just about the money." You know, the Indians rebelled, and the British were busy suppressing them. The North guys actually want to turn us into their India. If they can raise the tariffs, then the most retaliatory thing will be, and the European countries will also close the door to our cotton, and then we will have to sell our cotton to them at a very low price, according to the wishes of the North Yankees, and we can only buy from them at a high price what is much worse and more expensive than what is in Europe. In this way, it won't be long before the wealth we have accumulated over generations will flow into the pockets of those greedy Northerners. Just like in India, those Indian princes defeated the wealth accumulated over thousands of years, and from the occupation of the whole territory of India in 49 to the present, India has reached the point where it has to rebel in just a few years. Those greedy northerners can do anything for money. ”

"We are not India." "They want to turn us into India, beware of knocking out their big teeth," George said. And the current president is still a Democrat. ”

"The demographic disparity between the North and the South is growing, and one day the parliament and the president will fall into the hands of the North, and perhaps in four years' time, the Whig guys will be in control of both the legislative and executive branches." "We have to be prepared and prepared," Joyce said. ”

"Not bad. If this day is inevitable, we must prepare first. We don't have a lot of people, so we have to be well prepared, the kind of gun you brought back is good, and we'd better buy more of this gun in the future. In any case, we can't let the weapons of the North Yankees be better than ours. ”

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While Joyce was discussing the McDonald 1857 rifle at the ball, Scrooge was doing something to die in his secret room. This secret room is set up on an old boat on Lake Erie. This chamber was mainly used to test some dangerous goods, such as the powder that had been mixed into Struo's bullets - trinitrotoluene - which was made here by means of the guò real yàn room.

The process of producing trinitrotoluene in the real yàn room is complicated, and toxic substances will be produced in the middle, which is very dangerous. Fortunately, this real Yàn Shi Gaozhi did it in his previous life, so he still did it without any danger. Although the purity is not too good, the effect seems to be quite good. Now Scrooge is carefully crafting another thing on the ship—nitrocellulose.

Compared with TnT, nitrocellulose is much safer and relatively simple to prepare, but it is not easy to make it that can be used as an ejaculate. Because nitrocellulose is not stable, it may decompose and spontaneously combust at a temperature of 4o degrees, and it is easy to decompose by itself after drying and long-term storage. Therefore, it is also necessary to add a stabilizing agent, such as dissolving it in ether and ethanol, and then adding petroleum jelly as a stabilizing agent, and then pressing tablets, cutting strips, and drying, so that it can be used as a projectile for gun bullets.

The most suitable rifle propellant in Scrooge's mind was technically more difficult. The general ejection is reduced combustion, that is, it burns fast at the beginning and produces more gas, while the later combustion slows down and produces very little gunpowder gas. The power of a rifle is greater than that of a pistol, which means that it uses more propellant, and its barrel is relatively long, and the gunpowder gas acts in the barrel for a longer time, which causes the problem that when the bullet is fired, the chamber pressure is too high at first, and the bullet has not yet been discharged, and the chamber pressure becomes too low.

To solve this problem, it is necessary to use a specially shaped shot. The degree of combustion of gunpowder depends on its burning area, and the shape of the hollow pipe was adopted in later generations to ensure that the burning area of the projectile is always the same when burning. The uniform chamber pressure in the chamber is ensured. However, in Scrooge's time, it seemed difficult to make such a complex configuration of ejaculation. As a result, Scrooge had to settle for the next best thing, experimenting with a mix of fast-burning and slow-burning injections.

The rifle of this era was still very immature in Scrooge's opinion, even the MacDonald 1857 produced in his own factory, although it was an advanced rifle compared to this era, it was still far from ideal. Not to mention anything else, because of the use of black powder as a propellant, and black powder will have a large amount of residue after burning, which makes this gun often need to clean the chamber and barrel, and because the black powder energy is limited, the degree of combustion is also limited, which makes it difficult to improve the beginning of the bullet fired by this gun, although the muzzle of MacDonald 1857 more than 400 meters per second was already second to none at that time, but compared with the beginning of the rear rifle often more than 700 meters to more than 900 meters per second, it is a big difference.

The first problem with the initial low is that in order to ensure power, the bullet must be heavy enough. This means that the caliber of the rifle must be large enough. For example, the MacDonald 1857 rifle, with a caliber of up to 11 mm, is almost the caliber of anti-materiel rifles of later generations. This caliber was almost the smallest among rifles at the time, and some other rifles were even more astonishing, some of which were as high as 16 mm. And such a large bullet will inevitably lead to a very low number of bullets carried by soldiers, and the ability to continue fighting is insufficient.

The second problem with low chute is accuracy, which brings a more curved trajectory, which makes the rifle's accuracy very problematic when attacking long-range targets. For example, when striking a target at a distance of 5oo meters, the low initial bullet fired by black powder will fly for more than two seconds to hit the target, and such a long time, even if the person moves with a walk, it is enough to move to a meter away.

Of course, Scrooge did not immediately intend to replace the MacDonald 1857 with a rifle of a smaller caliber with smokeless gunpowder, and it was a good state to be one step ahead of the times, but two steps ahead was not necessarily enough. Even, even if it is one step ahead, others may not be able to accept it. A few days ago, the MacDonald Infantry Weapons Company tried to recommend its own MacDonald 1857 rifle to the Federal 6th Army, but the result was a feather, although the MacDonald 1857 was superior to the competitor Springfield 1856 in the test of any project, but the 6th Army insisted that they would not accept any rifle that cost more than $25, no matter how good its performance was!

"Maybe we should find a way to buy more MacDonald 1857 rifles for the Southerners, so that when the war starts, they will become the best salesmen for Macdonald's Company." Scrooge thought, "It's just that how to deal with the aftermath is a problem, and when the time comes, someone will definitely accuse me of being 'unpatriotic.'" Perhaps, I could organize a security company that now provides security services to immigrants to the West, and when the war starts, I will integrate them into a volunteer army, and then go to the battlefield with a newer generation of weapons, such as rifles with smokeless bullets or something, to make a big advertisement. ”