Early the next morning, a captain named Heinrich came to the hotel where Scrooge was staying to arrange matters related to the artillery tests. This Captain Heinrich was also an acquaintance of Scrooge, he was the crown prince, that is, the poor "Emperor of the Hundred Days" Frederick III who died of throat cancer after only 99 days as emperor.

When Heinrich arrived at the hotel, Scrooge had just had breakfast.

"The crown prince has arrived." Scrooge asked.

"The crown prince knows you're here with some new toys, so you've been on the road all night last night and have already returned." Heinrich replied, "In addition, the Dauphin is very interested in the radio system and would like to talk to you about it in detail." ”

"Ah, so doesn't the crown prince need to take a break now? Traveling overnight and then not resting is not good for your health. ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince slept in the car," said Heinrich, "and the Crown Prince went directly to the test site and rested there." And we're going to have to walk a long way to get there, and when we get there, it's time for lunch, and then it's already afternoon. Heinrich explained.

"So, let's go." Scrooge said.

Scrooge took Chen Guang and Pluto with him, and got into the carriage prepared for them by the crown prince. Chen Guang was the last to get on the carriage, and when he boarded the pedal of the carriage, although there were already three people sitting in the carriage, the carriage still tilted significantly. Heinrich glanced at Chen Guang in surprise, and secretly estimated the weight of this big man in his heart.

"Look at this posture, I'm afraid it's comparable to the black bear in the Berlin Zoo." Heinrich thought so.

The carriage left the hotel and headed for the railway station, then changed trains again, ran for more than an hour, stopped at a small station, changed into a carriage again, and walked for another hour to a certain weapons test site of the Prussian Army.

……

Scrooge brought two cannons, one was a copycat of Miss Snyder 75 from France during World War I, and it was quite comic to think that soon the Prussians would use this rapid-fire cannon originally from France to beat France all over the head. The other cannon was the 70mm infantry gun that made the Spaniards suffer so much in Cuba. The two guns were delivered here yesterday after they were unloaded from the ship. However, the Prussians did not get any chance to get close to the artillery, and several Blackwater mercenaries and technicians kept guarding the cannon to prevent the Prussians from approaching. So until Scrooge arrived, the Prussians could only look at this cannon. Until Scrooge arrived, even the crown prince could not lean in to take a closer look.

However, the crown prince was not in a hurry, he first invited Scrooge to have lunch with him, and then went to see the two precious cannons after lunch.

Dauphin Frederick was a rather frugal man, as can be seen in his lunch. His Highness the Crown Prince's lunch was no different from that of an ordinary junior officer. That's a few slices of bread, a glass of milk, some cheese, well, and a piece of "spam" luncheon meat.

Scrooge is picky about eating, but it's not that he can't eat plainly. But when a lunch like the crown prince was placed in front of him, he hesitated. Originally, Scrooge felt that although the food in this era was quite unreliable, the food eaten by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should be relatively safe. But when he saw Spam on a plate, he knew how unreliable the conjecture was.

Since a bargain like Spam was on this plate, there was no need to think about what that piece of cheese was all about. In addition, this bread is so white, and the white can be compared with the white paint that paints the wall, and if there is no bleach or something, Scrooge will not believe it. Scrooge knew what was in his spam, well, did he see the alluring pink hue? It was Sudan dye, and there was ......, but Scrooge also knew that when he was making these foods, he was quite disciplined, and he could easily eat dead people's things directly, but he didn't dare to put much in the spam. However, for other food merchants, it's really hard to say. For example, it is almost common practice to add some mercury-containing compounds to cheese bars to keep them fresh...... So Scrooge immediately felt that he had no appetite at all.

"What's wrong, isn't the food to your liking?" The crown prince asked.

"Ah, no, you know, I'm not very picky." "It's just that I ate something on the train and I'm not hungry at all." ”

"Ah, that's right." The crown prince said, "If you don't eat at a fixed time, it's not good for your health." Of course, I know that many scientists have a bad habit of eating when they are hungry. It seems that Mr. MacDonald, you are similar to them. Well, eat a little bit, my doctor told me that this is good for your health. ”

"Ah, thank you." Scrooge glanced at the plate in front of him again, he didn't eat at all, he was too bad to give the crown prince face, what should he eat?

"Your sister's eating a little is good for health, eating this is definitely destroying your health, okay! These damn black-hearted food mongers! Scrooge cursed the black-hearted food sellers in his heart, and then finally made up his mind to choose what was probably the safest food - Spam luncheon meat. Although there are a lot of very bad things in this thing, there are some magical things, and Scrooge himself knows it. He can also guarantee that after eating only one meal of this thing, the possibility of poisoning and death is not existing. Even if it is cancerous, the chance of it becoming cancerous or something should be very small.

So Scrooge picked up his knife, cut Spam in two, forked a small piece and ate it. As for other foods, it's not impossible. Scrooge glanced at Chen Guang, who was sitting next to him and was eating vigorously, and said, "Eight feet, I'm very full, why don't I give you these things to eat." ”

"Ah, thank you, boss." Chen Guang thanked him and took Scrooge's plate. Well, Chen Guang thinks that Scrooge is really a good boss.

After eating, the hungry Scrooge pretended to be very full and accompanied the crown prince to see the cannons. In this process, Scrooge's stomach gurgled many times, but fortunately, the artillery of Blackwater was firing, and the roaring cannon completely suppressed the rumbling of Scrooge's stomach, so that no one else found out.

However, even if there was no cannon sound, the crown prince would not have heard it, because since the soldiers of Blackwater removed the canvas covering the "75 miss", the crown prince was immediately fascinated by this "young lady". Compared to the previous guns, the barrel of this cannon is longer, and there is a strange shape of the cannon with a long barrel in the lower part of the barrel, which has a peculiar beauty.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." A Blackwater mercenary saluted like the Crown Prince and began to introduce him to the cannonballs used in this cannon, "What we are about to fire is a white phosphorus incendiary bomb that is specifically designed to set fires, or create smoke screens. ”

"The kind of weapon that the Spaniards encountered in Cuba?" The crown prince asked. The crown prince was well aware of the losses suffered by the Spaniards in Cuba. He consulted some chemists about the reason why such incendiary bombs could not be extinguished with water, and even if they were submerged in water, they would start burning again as soon as they left the water. Many chemists have come up with the idea that it is mostly white phosphorus. The crown prince was curious about this weapon.

The white phosphorus incendiary bomb lightly set fire to a pile of wood six kilometers away. The efficiency of arson made the crown prince very satisfied. Next came the highlight, the high-explosive artillery performance. Blackwater's mercenaries used high-explosive shells to fire rapidly at a simulated field fortification target eight thousand meters away for twenty seconds, and in just twenty seconds, the cannon fired eleven high-explosive shells at the target.

The crown prince stood in front of a telescope used by the Crown Prince to observe the target, carefully observing the target area. He saw that many of the field fortifications in the target area had been destroyed by Yan zhòng. Some pillboxes, observation posts, after being hit by shells, were almost blown off most of their sides.

"This is really an epoch-making weapon, such a cannon, such a cannonball, it can really be called the god of war!" The crown prince did it for a long time before he said such a sentence.

……

After seeing the effects of this epoch-making cannon first-hand, the Prussian government's enthusiasm for a purchase agreement increased significantly. Although the price of this artillery was extremely high, and Scrooge gritted his teeth and refused to reduce the price, the Prussian government made the decision to purchase the first fifty guns in cash. At the same time, the Prussians were also strongly demanding the purchase of the relevant technology and production licenses.

For this request, Scrooge's offer is even higher. However, Scrooge agreed to give the Prussians a loan for the purchase of these things as collateral for the future reparations after the defeat of France. So in the end, the two sides reached a win-win agreement:

The Kingdom of Prussia purchased the technology from the MacDonald Infantry Arms Company on the condition that Scrooge provided them with loans and allowed and helped Scrooge to recruit chemists in Prussia, as well as patents.

As for what Scrooge wanted so many chemists for, Scrooge did not hide it from the Prussians.

"Mainly do two things related to agriculture. One is to research and ammonia, and the other is to develop an insecticide that can be widely used. ”