Zhu Jie said in a deep voice: "Accelerate, accelerate, our engineering technology must be accelerated!" And it's getting popular! I can still come up with more advanced weapon designs, but the engineering technology of the Ming Dynasty can't keep up, and even if I take it out, I can't make it, so we must accelerate the development of technology! ”

Mao Yuanyi nodded, and set his eyes on another drawing, this drawing is a very exquisite gun, Mao Yuanyi can see that this is a musket, but the size is too small, it should not exceed one foot, that is, seven or eight inches, short and concise.

"Your Majesty, this is ......"

Zhu Jie said in a deep voice: "This firearm, I named him a revolver, a musket that can be operated with one hand, this revolver has six bullet slots, used to load bullets, once it is filled with bullets, it can be fired in bursts of six bullets, the speed is extremely fast, think about it, within half a minute, you can complete the shooting of six bullets, plus the time to change bullets, you can shoot twelve rounds in one and a half minutes......"

Belch......

A few people were stunned, and in a minute and a half, they could complete the shooting of twelve bullets! Everyone here has a Western pocket watch, which Zhu Jie specially purchased from the West, and it has almost become the standard for officials above the fourth grade in the imperial court! Even if it is very accurate, they are very clear about the concept of a minute and a half minutes, the original flintlock musket, two minutes, the fastest rate of fire, that is, to complete six shots, this kind of pistol, can complete twelve shots in one and a half minutes, which is nearly three times that of the flintlock musket, which will have an overwhelming advantage on the battlefield!

"Emperor, Emperor, you said that in a minute and a half, complete twelve shots! Isn't this too fast? ”

Xu Yifan stammered.

Zhu Jie glanced at Xu Yifan and said angrily: "What's the surprise?" It's not like you've never seen my assault rifle, that rifle, as long as there are enough bullets, the fastest rate of fire can reach six or seven hundred shots per minute, where is this? If you can't make that kind of rifle now, it doesn't mean that you can't make it in the future, at most two hundred years, there will definitely be that kind of assault rifle! ”

Of course, Xu Yifan has seen it, but what shocked Xu Yifan the most was the shooting accuracy of the assault rifle, within six or seven hundred steps, almost 100 shots, too powerful, the current flintlock musket 100 steps away, the shooting accuracy began to be greatly reduced, and the emperor's assault rifle could not be compared at all, but, because of the limited bullets, when Zhu Jie used it, it was almost always pointed, and rarely used bursts, which was the most insensitive.

"Your Majesty! The bullets on your three guns are very similar to those of your assault rifle......"

Suddenly, Li Yan asked.

Zhu Jie smiled and replied: "Li Yan, you are still meticulous, yes, very close, but we don't have such an advanced production process now, we can't produce such a good bullet, and even if we can produce it, we don't have so much brass that can be used for mass production, you imagine that a copper coin of brass can make almost two or three bullets, millions of bullets, how much brass will consume us?" What about tens of millions of bullets? What about tens of thousands of bullets? In a large-scale war, more than 10 million bullets are consumed, or even more, this is burning silver......"

The corners of Li Yan's mouth twitched fiercely, and Yuan Jixian, who was also on the side, was also scared enough, a war, brass alone will cost hundreds of thousands of catties, and the consumption of usual training, how much brass does this have to consume? Daming's current copper output is only hundreds of thousands of catties a year, and all of them may not be enough!

"As you all know, the production of copper in the Ming Dynasty is too low, and this copper is not enough at all, and the process may not be able to achieve it, so I am now saving the use of brass through currency reform, and once we can make metal bullets in the future, we can support it for a while because of the brass reserves......"

Zhu Jie sighed: "This is also the reason why I want to launch a foreign war, we don't have copper, and there will be a lot of strategic things lacking in the future, but Daming doesn't, there are other places, I absolutely can't tolerate others grabbing these territories, and then use them to threaten the safety of our Daming!" In the future, Nanyang must be our Ming, and the silver and copper of Nanyang are also Ming's! ”

Everyone smiled bitterly, this emperor, what do you say about him? Justice? Greedy?

"Your Majesty, do you still have that kind of bullet? If you can give a bullet to the minister, in the future, maybe we can develop and produce the paper bullet or metal bullet you said, and we can save a lot of twists and turns......"

Mao Yuanyi asked.

Zhu Jie showed a toothache expression, bullet? Yes, but now even if it's me, there are only five live ammunition left, and I'm about to use it up, and once it's used up, I'm afraid that I will never see it again in my lifetime......

"Okay, Mao Gong, in order to support you, I specially gave you two bullets, along with that assault rifle, I gave them to you, but not to you, but to the future Military Engineering Academy! The future goal of the Military Engineering Academy is to one day be able to make weapons like assault rifles, and this is the goal I have set for the Royal Military Academy! ”

Burst......

Mao Yuanyi squirted out a mouthful of tea and made an artifact? Your Majesty, you're not kidding, are you? I'm afraid that I won't be able to see that moment when my grandson dies......

"The emperor forgives the sin, and the minister has lost his honor......"

Mao Yuanyi hurriedly knelt down.

"Get up, what a big thing!"

Zhu Jie waved his hand, and then said: "Mao Gong, you should also see that there are two key points in these drawings I gave you, no, it should be three key places - one is the training process of steel; One is the manufacture of fire caps; The other is the gunpowder process, which is the three foundations that the military industry cannot bypass. ”

Mao Yuanyi smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, how difficult is it to improve the process?" Where is it possible to do it overnight? If you want to realize all these drawings, I'm afraid it's not a simple thing, and I don't have three or five years, I'm afraid it's difficult to see the actual results, and it's really too difficult to realize this thing just with the scholars and students of Yingtian Academy and the newly established Suncheon Academy, and our strength is seriously insufficient......"

"It's not that hard......"

Li Yan on the side said in a deep voice: "Mao Gong, since there is a shortage of talents, let's cultivate talents and prepare for a few more such schools......

(End of chapter)