After the snow, the continuous white snow decorates the world world, the branches and jade leaves, the pink jade bricks, the bright color, the students have been standing on the playground for half an hour, watching from a distance like a snowman.

Li Yunzhong nodded with satisfaction, it is rumored that Qi Jiguang's Qi family army can stand in the rain without panic, and now these fifty students have been standing in the heavy snow for an hour, and it is not a good thing to say that it is rumored.

"Students! Today is the opening date of our school, why do we want to build this school? You all know that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, China fell and the Yi people rose! The Manchus enslaved the Han people, named the Manchu and Han families, and they were actually slaves! So people with lofty ideals fought against each other, and although they all failed, their spirit was immortal!

Moreover, at the moment in China, the people are poor and wealthy, and there is generally no way to make a living, and those people are not ambitious, because of the difficulties in their livelihood, and they are burdened by their families, and they all say that they want to come to oppose the Qing Dynasty; Later, when he was a little ambitious, he put aside all the nationalism he obeyed, ignored everything, and turned the Qing to the clear, and the one who ran away!

A lesson from the previous car, a teacher from the future. Today I am here to prophesy: the heavy responsibility of driving out the Tartars and restoring China lies with you! You are the hope of China! ”

"Drive out the Tartars and restore China!"

"Drive out the Tartars and restore China!"

"Drive out the Tartars and restore China!"

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Although there were only more than fifty people, the sound of their shouting resounded in the sky.

Jack led Li Yunzhong and others to visit the military academy, and asked Li Yunzhong to comment on it everywhere he went.

"Your Highness, this is the canteen, I have to say that the facilities and environment of this military school are better than most of the royal military schools in Europe, I really doubt that this is where the king lived!"

Li Yunzhong looked at the scattered dormitories and canteens, nodded and praised: "We must let the students sleep peacefully and have a balanced intake of nutrients, these will be done according to your European standards!" ”

Jack smiled, "As you wish!" ”

Everyone walked to the equipment room, Jack picked up a Mini rifle, and praised: "Your Highness is really powerful, this Mini rifle was a secret weapon of the War Department before I came to the Far East, and it was not equipped in the army on a large scale, and His Highness was able to get it in the Far East, it is incredible!"

In the Napoleonic era, the effective range of the flintlock smoothbore gun was only 100 yards, and the range of grapeshot and shrapnel fired by artillery could exceed it, so that artillery became the dominant weapon at that time. However, the Mini rifle changed the way of warfare, he could shoot at targets up to 500 yards away, various artillery pieces could be placed behind the infantry as a support weapon, and if His Highness could be heavily equipped with a Mini rifle, with a little training he could destroy any enemy in the Far East. ”

Li Yunzhong took this Mini rifle, remembered that the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was defeated by the Manchu cavalry, and asked: "Can this infantry phalanx with Mini rifles defeat the cavalry?" ”

Jack was amazed: "A cavalry attack on the infantry phalanx is tantamount to suicide, because most of the horses and cavalry have already been hit before the cavalry can get close to the infantry!" Unless it's cavalry armed with rifles, it's impossible for a cavalry to defeat an infantry! ”

Carefully observing the structure of the Minnie rifle, Li Yunzhong was pleasantly surprised to find that this gun did not seem to be complicated, and Chinese craftsmen could completely imitate it.

If you want to imitate it, you have to understand it, and Li Yunzhong, who knows nothing about the rifle, decided to understand the various data of the Minny rifle in detail, and then ordered someone to imitate it.

"I've been bragging about you for a long time, what are the merits of this Mini rifle, I mean comparing the Brown Bess rifle with the Krenswick rifle!" Li Yunzhong asked

Jack waited for a long time, and finally had a chance to perform, and said teasingly:

"The reason why it's the best:

First: a high rate of fire, three shots per minute! Plus the first time you don't have to reload, that's four times!

Second: excellent shooting accuracy, due to the spiral rifling design of the Mini rifle, plus the unique shape of the Mini bullet, oh! God, I can't help but marvel at what a great invention it is! It's no longer a dream! I think that the intensive infantry charge will soon be withdrawn from the stage of history!

Thirdly: it is more powerful than previous rifles.

Fourth: I don't say that His Highness can guess it, range! Mini makes a warhead loaded with the same amount of gunpowder fly farther! Can hit enemies at a distance of 500 meters. ”

Li Yunzhong put away the rifle with satisfaction, pretended not to care, and asked, "Can Chinese craftsmen imitate this rifle?" You know, if you succeed in copying, you can save a lot of money! ”

Jack shook his head and said: "This is a delicate job, it is difficult for ordinary craftsmen to imitate, if it is still possible in Europe, because there are many people there who survive by repairing guns, but in China, Your Highness, you understand, except for the official, no one understands this." ”

Li Yunzhong shook his head in disappointment, still unwilling to give up a one-in-a-million chance, "Isn't there a way?" I'd pay whatever it takes, if I can! ”

Seeing that Li Yunzhong was still not giving up, Jack persuaded: "Your Highness, you must know that the development of rifles in Europe in the past few decades has been very fast, basically every few years there are more advanced rifles coming out, from carbines to Brown Bess rifles, Braunschweig rifles, Krenswick rifles, Mini rifles, there are many kinds in between, if Your Highness spends a lot of effort to imitate Mini rifles, and after two or three years, the Mini rifles will fall behind, it will not be in vain!" ”

Li Yunzhong suddenly felt that the rifles used by the European powers in the nineteenth century were updated rapidly, and more advanced rifles would definitely come out in the next few years, and it seemed that a different method would have to be used.

"What do you think I should do? If you don't make these rifles, won't you always be at the mercy of man, Jack! You are serving me now, should you give me a solution? ”

This time Jack didn't intend to refuse, if the Han Kingdom became strong, it would also be good for him, and Jack, who had calmed down, quickly came up with an idea, "Your Highness might as well train skilled workers, who can not only repair broken guns, but also reserve talents, and when better guns appear, they can be imitated at any time, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone?" ”

"Good! It's a good idea! However, the results are too slow, and I don't know how long it will take to build the arsenal! Li Yunzhong knew very well that if the arsenal was not established, sooner or later it would become the plaything of the great powers.

Jack couldn't answer this question either, so he changed the subject very intelligently and said, "Does Your Highness know the development process of the Dao gun?" ”

Li Yunzhong saw that Jack didn't want to say more about the arsenal, and he was not reluctant, so he said very cooperatively: "I only know that the gunpowder was invented in China, and I really don't know the development process of the musket!" ”

Jack quipped: "You use gunpowder to make fireworks, but we use gunpowder to make cannons and rifles, this is the result of the cultural differences between Europe and the Far East, and I will give you an example, and Your Highness will understand:

The development of the arquebus into the flintlock pistol was a technological revolution, but there is no precise account of how the flintlock pistol was born, some believe that it was invented by the German watchmaker Johann Kievs, others believe that it was an inadvertent gadget made by Italian scientists, but the most widely circulated story is another story. ”

Li Yunzhong also wanted to know what kind of story Lu Dao was, which could make China's musket manufacturing process so many years behind Europe, put down the Mini warhead he had just picked up, and said, "What kind of story?" ”

Jack laughed: "It is said that because the light and smell produced by the arquebus when it burns will make the farmers who raise chickens find the thief, which is not conducive to the crime, so a chicken thief in the Netherlands pondered how to steal the chicken without revealing himself, and finally let him design and build a new gun with a flintlock lighter - the flintlock pistol!" ”

Li Yunzhong laughed, and did not understand why a chicken thief had put so much effort into inventing the flintlock pistol just to steal chickens, not a general who summed up and invented it on the battlefield in order to win a battle.

"Listening to what you just said, the craftsmen who repair guns in Europe are not wealthy, and if I hire them to come to Nanjing for guidance at a high price, will they come?"

Jack really wanted to cry without tears, and returned to this topic after a long time, and when he saw that he could not escape, he planned to tell the truth, "There used to be many such craftsmen in Europe, such as a freeman named Mahan, who became famous for improving the flintlock pistol invented by the Dutch thieves, and was hired by King Henry IV as a personal servant.

However, now the guns are becoming more and more sophisticated, ordinary craftsmen have been unable to imitate a complete rifle in a short period of time, only by two or three people to work together to meet the requirements of customers, the profit is not enough to support the family, which makes many craftsmen change careers to make clocks or something, and now His Royal Highness has to recruit a large number of these skilled craftsmen, it is very difficult! ”