Out the back door, near the lake is the shooting range of the military factory. There were dozens of ring targets and scarecrows standing in the lake near the shore, and several technicians mounted machine guns at a firing position surrounded by sand, and Liu Lanji visually measured a distance of about 100 meters.

A technician pulls out the ammunition feeder and begins to reload the ammunition. The feeder is cylindrical and consists of eight slots around the center, each containing 30 rounds. After the feeder is loaded with the machine gun, one of the magazines is exactly aligned with the ammunition supply port, and the bullets fall into the ammunition supply port under the action of gravity, and when the bullets in one magazine are exhausted, the ammunition feeder automatically rotates to the next magazine. "Why not use a hopper feeder? It's like crooked. In Liu Lanji's opinion, the structure of this ammunition feeder is too complicated.

"The Taisho 11-year-old machine guns are a tragedy, it seems that the secondary shooter can be loaded and can shoot continuously, but that only exists in theory, and their biggest feature is that they are easy to jam. Although we also have a problem with this one getting stuck, it's much better than the little devil's thing. ”

As he spoke, several technicians had already completed the preparation for shooting, and one technician stood aside with a camera, ready to film the process of shooting. Yu Yunwu made a "can start" gesture at them, and the technician in charge of shooting half-knelt behind the machine gun, opened the safety and began to shake the crank clockwise.

Very, the barrel directly below spewed flames. As the barrel rotated, the sound of the gun sounded like a popping bean, and Liu Lanji found that there was no expected smoke and dust, so he asked, "Isn't it black powder?" ”

Yu Yunwu nodded, "Although some black powder was seized from the British, we have no production experience ourselves, and the raw materials are not easy to find, so we didn't choose to use black powder." "When the black powder burns, the smoke and dust are so large that there are residues, which really makes the survivors hate, and there is a better choice who will use such backward things.

The shooter increased his speed, and the lead bullets whizzed into a rain of bullets, hitting the target sawdust sideways, although the power was far inferior to that of the Maxim, but it could definitely scare people who didn't see automatic weapons into a daze. "What is the rate of fire?" Liu Lanji asked.

"The rate of fire is completely controlled by the shooter, and theoretically the best to reach one point? Hair. Yu Yunwu has been staring at the machine gun, and today's shooting has not jammed, and the ammunition feeder is working normally, which makes him satisfied. And he is already familiar with the parameters of this machine gun, "But if you maintain this speed, the barrel will be red, which will affect the service life." The most correct thing to do is to keep one point? Hair? The speed of the hair. ”

The soldier is red-eyed on the battlefield, where can he take care of this, if he doesn't stop once, won't this gun explode? Liu Lanji was a little worried that if the goods he sold often broke down, it would affect his goodwill.

"We'll teach them the right way to use it, and we'll send them instructions along with it, so what does it have to do with us if they fail because they're in violation of the rules?" Yu Yunwu said with a relaxed expression, which made Liu Lanji feel that this General Manager Yu was more like a profiteer than himself. Yu Yunwu continued: "In fact, Gatling will be eliminated, and in five or six years at most, we will have the ability to launch the Maxim machine gun to the market. Yu Yunwu said this in fact, he was in an ambush, according to his prediction, if nothing else, this goal could be completed within two years.

"Isn't it too much to launch a new generation of products in five or six years? And the powers, armed with machine guns, are they not a threat to us? In Liu Lanji's plan, this time will take at least ten years to ensure the maximization of benefits.

"According to the original history, we do have more than 20 years to go. But we also have to take into account the impact of the butterfly effect, there are already metal fixed ammunition in this year, but it has not yet been promoted. At that time, Makqin also saw that the British soldier was injured in the shoulder by the recoil of the rifle when shooting, so he thought of using this force to complete the loading of the firearm, so as to achieve the effect of continuous shooting. The process took him only a few years. Now because of our appearance, the British have suffered a big loss in machine guns, and it is difficult to guarantee that the British will not be allowed to invest manpower and material resources in the research and development of machine guns. Although there is no Makqin now, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no Niu Keqin and Yang Keqin, and it is very likely that they will be able to get the machine gun out in five or six years. Only by seizing the market early can we strive for a larger share. ”

Yu Yunwu's words made Liu Lan Ji Mao pause, but he didn't know that the former was thinking about this matter when he was free during this time, and he thought about it very thoroughly inside and out. It's just that they only have the right to make suggestions on this matter, and the final decision depends on the management committee. At this time, the gun had stopped shooting, and the two walked to the shooting position, Liu Lanji reached out and touched the bolt, even if it was more than ten centimeters away, he could feel the heat emitted by the barrel. The technician in charge of shooting gasped lightly, indicating that being a machine gun shooter was also physically active. The distant target was covered with bullet marks, indicating that this weapon had an obvious effect on cluster targets, and the ground was also sprinkled with bullet casings, but as Yu Yunwu said, most of them had been deformed and there was no possibility of reloading. Comrade General Manager had basically approved of the product, and he turned his head and asked, "There is another question, what is the official name of this guy?" You can't call it Gatling, right? ”

"Export model? The domestic sales of the rotary tube machine gun are called Thunderbolts. "Yu Yunwu has already thought of a name, and naming weapons is also the right of the military industry. However, the people in the military industry are not thick-skinned enough to name themselves after them. The name of the exported model is also decent, and Liu Lanji has no other opinions, but the name of this domestic sale makes him inexplicable. It was only when Yu Yunwu wrote on the ground with a small wooden stick that he understood which four words they were. When he first saw the name, the first thing that came to his mind was the downloader, so he asked, "How did you come up with this name?" ”

"Before the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Chinese did not have the habit of naming weapons by personal names, but were accustomed to naming them with shapes, and they also liked to talk about ideas. In the original time and space, this name is called Grimm Cannon, and this name must not be used, so we thought of this new name from the name of Sai Electric Cannon, which is vivid and good-sounding. "Yu Yunwu has done another popularization of weapons history knowledge.

"What is a race cannon?" Liu Lanji didn't know whether to say that people in the military industry lacked imagination, but when he thought about it, for those who still lived in the Middle Ages, this name was more vivid, and a name similar to the Great General Cannon was more understandable to them.

"Of course, it's the Maxim machine gun. This name was chosen by Li Zhongtang, so it would be too wasteful for us not to use it. Yu Yunwu thinks that borrowing the wisdom of the ancients is a matter of course.

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Pashali felt that he was being forgotten. Since reaching an agreement with the Liberation Army to exchange resources for prisoners of war, he has basically had nothing to do. The order given to him by Bao Ling was to stay where he was and be responsible for liaison with the Liberation Army. Of course, this is the reason on the surface, and it is his job to secretly spy on the intelligence of the Guangfu Army. Pa Xiali has been living here for more than a month, except for two times during which he took the boat of the Liberation Army back to Guangzhou to report to work, and the rest of the time is to play tricks with the diplomatic personnel of the Liberation Army.

As the director of the European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lü Buwen's only job now is to accompany the British guests, and the instructions given to him by the management committee are that except for not letting Pashali know that the survivors are from the future, everything else can be seen by him, the purpose is to let the British understand that the Liberation Army is invincible to them, and equal trade is the right way. This is also an application of Sun Tzu's strategic thinking of "surrendering without a fight". As for the issue of leaking technology, which some people feared, most members of the Standing Committee felt that there was no need to care, that even a highly educated survivor could not see the reason in such a careless situation, let alone a 19th-century Englishman who had not even attended secondary school.

So during this time, Lu Buwen took a few British people to visit around, and even let them go up to the deck to take a look at the maritime surveillance ship that was undergoing armed transformation, of course, the cabin would not let them in. But light on the foredeck? Anti-aircraft guns made a deep impression on them, compared to the short and thick image of the artillery of this era, anti-aircraft? The double-diameter barrel is thin and long, and the delicate bolts, high and low machines, sights, and hydraulic stoppers all show the precision of this murderous weapon. Although several diplomats were not military personnel, they could see that the cannon was more advanced than the iron lumps cast by Westerners.

Look at the Chiwan Fort again? After the Divine Cult, Pashali finally understood that in the area of the Pearl River Estuary, no one could defeat the Liberation Army, not even the United Kingdom. After reading his report, Bao Ling and Erjin felt that it was a bit exaggerated, but they also understood that the road to the use of force was not going to work.

In addition to visiting national defense construction, Lü Buwen also invited British diplomats to watch several anti-imperialist films, including "The Opium War."

In an era when photographic technology had not been invented for a long time, movies were undoubtedly a very sci-fi thing. And the artistic expression of reproducing history through movies has amazed several fellow countrymen who are "awkward". The film starts from historical facts, truly reflects the beginning and end of a war between China and Britain a few years ago, and eulogizes the heroic spirit of the Chinese nation that is unyielding to the oppression and courageous struggle of foreign powers. The film is magnificent, and breaks through the weakness of domestic one-sided spectrum, and vividly reproduces historical figures on the screen, leaving a deep impression on the audience. It is not as scandalous as in "Lin Zexu", from the British government to ordinary opium dealers, they are living images, not abstract symbols. When the scene of London and even the interior of the Houses of Parliament appeared in the movie, several Britons were taken by surprise. The scenery on the screen is so real, the River Tyrs, Big Ben, the pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages on the street make them really feel like they are on the streets of London. Pa Xiali finally couldn't suppress his curiosity and asked Lu Buwen, "Mr. Lu, have you been to London?" ”

"I don't know, the film was made by a film studio under the Ministry of Culture, maybe they went to London." Lü Buwen knew that the British would ask this question, and he had already prepared the answer. Ignoring the other party's expression of complete disbelief, he asked rhetorically, "Mr. Pashali, what do you think of this movie?" ”

Although Pashali did not understand why the Chinese were worried about the word to name such moving pictures, he still used the word because he could not immediately think of a suitable name. "This movie is magical, it makes it feel like you're there. But the content is intolerable, which is a serious distortion of the facts! ”

"Really? What facts have been distorted? Lu Buwen asked with a smile, as if he was humbly asking the other party questions. Does it mean that British merchants did not dump opium on China? Or was the war not provoked by the British? ”

The world has entered the nineteenth century, the West has emerged from the obscurantist Middle Ages and entered a civilized society, and the great powers will still have to face even if they are robbers. How could Pashali accept such an accusation, "The fact is that the Chinese government persecuted our businessmen and caused our country's interests to suffer huge losses, and our government was forced to use force to protect its own interests, which is in line with international practice." ”

Reversing black and white, pointing out that a deer is a necessary skill for a diplomat, and Lu Buwen is not as good as a few old fritters in this regard. However, he also has his advantages, after all, he is the winning side, and he can speak a little louder. "According to you, Mr. Pashali, the British government is on the side of justice. Do you not know that your righteousness is to shield the opium dealers? Or do you want to seize the land of another country? You said that if other people watched this movie, would they have the same idea as you? ”

Promoting the Liberation Army through film packaging is precisely the task assigned by the Management Committee to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture. It was through Hollywood blockbusters that the original time and space of Mi Di spread his values to all over the world, and of course the Liberation Army would not let go of this simple and easy method, and today let the British watch "Opium War" just to test the possible reaction of the British? .