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Zhu Jie is already excited, everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

Zhu Jie has been committed to the development and production of new explosives for more than ten years, but if you want to develop and produce the latest type of explosives, whether it is nitrocellulose, nitroglycerin or diatomaceous earth explosives, you need the development of the chemical industry, especially the extraction and preparation of nitric acid, the original Ming Empire was very weak in this aspect, but now it is different, more than ten years, the Ming industry is booming, and it is not difficult to produce nitric acid, whether it is nitrocellulose or nitroglycerin has been successfully developed. Even picric acid has been successfully developed and began mass production, but it has not yet been used to equip weapons, if these new explosives are equipped with military weapons, then the combat power of the Ming Empire will undergo a huge qualitative change, and the current five-nation alliance is not worth mentioning, but, time is pressing, if you want to update all weapons, it will take a considerable amount of time, and it will not take three years, and it will be difficult to popularize it in the army.

However, it is somewhat difficult to apply all the applications and weapons, but there is still no big problem in applying these new explosives to grenades or mines, especially now that the situation is serious, and you can only try to take risks. As long as powerful mines are produced and thousands are deployed on strategic points in the South Seas, there will be a huge threat to the Western coalition forces!

The military conference was held for a whole day, and all the three major fleets were transferred to the South Seas to prepare for the war, and now the main warships of the three fleets have also reached about 200, and the auxiliary warships are about 200, just because of the late start, the main warships of the three fleets, only the size of the Tian-class battleships is comparable to the size of the main battleships of the West, as for the ground-class warships, they are still smaller, whether they can be the opponents of the main warships of the West, even Zhu Jie is not too sure in his heart, there is no doubt that the three fleets are facing the five-nation alliance, It is at a significant disadvantage.

As for the army, all the three towns of the Tianxiong Army were pulled to Nanyang in one go, in the face of 70,000 Western Army, this force is definitely enough to deal with, Zhu Jie absolutely does not believe that under the same strength, the Western Army can defeat the Tianxiong Army, which has been through a hundred battles, just to be on the safe side, the two towns of Tianwei Army were transferred to the south, just in case, as for the capital, only one town of the Beijing camp was left, and the rest of the troops were also deployed to the vicinity of Tianjin Wei, Yantai Wei and even Songjiang Mansion, to resist the enemy, anyway, it is not a big mistake to be careful, This is related to the fate of the Ming Empire, and it is necessary to be cautious.

After some deployment, almost all the elite soldiers and strong generals of the Ming Empire were withdrawn.

The next day, Zhu Jie took the military illustration and the sketch he made, accompanied by Bi Maokang, Bi Dengfu and others, to the Military Engineering College.

Today's military industry academy has begun to take shape, their task is not to train generals, but to develop and produce military weapons, military science and technology, Song Yingxing is still exerting his residual heat, over seventy years old, still in charge of the military industry college.

"Chang Gung Gong, how about it, Military Engineering College, can you produce mines in the shortest possible time?"

Zhu Jie put his drawings and the mine drawings in the armory diagram in front of Song Yingxing, and Song Yingxing twisted his few white beards and pondered carefully.

After a long time, Song Yingxing said: "Emperor Qi, the ministers have heard of the mines in this weapon diagram, and they have even seen the real thing, if you want to mass produce, you only need to gather craftsmen in the arsenal and organize production, there is no difficulty, however, the power of these floating mines is too small, not to mention the giant ships of 3,000 materials, even if they are 1,000 materials of warships, it is difficult to cause a deadly threat, and if you want to deal with Western warships, I am afraid that you are unable to do it; Your drawings, the minister has carefully pondered, using the latest explosives and detonators of the Military Industry Academy, it is feasible and powerful, but this new type of weapon needs to be tested and finalized, and it is difficult for the minister to give you an answer for a while......"

Zhu Jie frowned and asked, "Chang Genggong, is there anything embarrassing?" ”

Song Yingxing smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, your mine design is peculiar, the idea is exquisite, too exquisite, there is no problem in principle, but such a delicate product is no longer something that ordinary craftsmen can complete, even if we have developed a mechanical machine tool now, and there is no problem with it, but large-scale production is too difficult, where to find so many excellent craftsmen?" ”

Zhu Jie suddenly realized, this is the gap, although he knows a lot, but for practical application and quantitative production, he is far inferior to Song Yingxing and Bi Dengfu, he can only be said to be a craftsman who paints, but he still needs a bricklayer master to build a house......

"It's okay, Chang Gung Gong, you are an expert, the doorway of this, you are far better than me, I only need to ensure that the explosive power of the mine, and the trigger mechanism is normal, the rest, whatever you change, everything is to facilitate the production of the craftsmen below, the Western five-nation alliance is about to come to the city, the enemy is strong and I am weak, I urgently need to deploy these mines to Nanyang, in case the Western alliance threatens the hinterland of my Ming Empire, so no matter how much it costs, this mine must be made!"

Song Yingxing breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, if it is just to increase the power and improve the triggering mechanism, this is not difficult for the ministers, and it will be handed over to the ministers and Brother Bi, and the two of us can complete the modification of this mine, and in five days, the ministers will definitely improve it successfully, and then hand it over to the Military Industry Institute for trial production, and after ten days, it will be handed over to the arsenal for production, and it will take two months to make 3,000 to 5,000 mines, which is still very possible." ”

"Haha,"

Zhu Jie laughed and said: "Since this is the case, then I can rest assured, three thousand mines are enough to block a large area of the sea, Chang Gungong, the mines will be handed over to you." ”

With Song Yingxing's packing ticket, Zhu Jie finally put his mind at ease, he and Bi Maokang are both pragmatic geniuses, as long as they promise to make it, there will be absolutely no problem.

"Brother Bi, our two brothers are people who have passed the age of antiquity, and it is a blessing to be born in a prosperous age, and now Daming is facing this difficulty, that is, he is desperate, and the two of us have to drive out, I don't worry about others, it is the two of us, you have to stay in the Military Engineering Academy to help me these two days......"

Sending Zhu Jie away, Song Yingxing directly retained Bi Maokang, it's not that there are no talents in the Military Engineering Academy, but most of these talents have their own research fields, many of them are studying mechanical principles, when it comes to practical operation, it has to be said that Bi Maokang and Song Yingxing are among the best.

Bi Maokang smiled and said proudly: "Okay, this is also the last treasure we left for Daming, haha, after this hurdle, our brothers will join hands to return to Linquan, and the rest of the matter should be handed over to the young man......"