The fourth monthly pass plus a little later, if not, make up for it tomorrow morning, it took too much time to check the information today.

In 1884, French chemist Paul Marie Eugène Vielie invented the world's first smokeless gunpowder. And with this gunpowder received a prize of fifty thousand francs for the Lecomte Prize. The reason why it was called Type B gunpowder was that it was named after General Brown, then Minister of War of France, and it was also fortunate that the existence of General Brown made the Lebel 1886 rifle quickly put into production and became the standard rifle that affected the entire First World War.

As a right-wing madman who also tried to control France by dictatorial means, his fate was even worse than that of Napoleon, and during his tenure as Minister of War, he constantly encouraged France to take revenge for the humiliation of the Franco-Prussian War, incited France to Blanche, and finally was dismissed from office in 1887 for trying to provoke the crisis of the Second Franco-German War.

Fortunately, Napoleon was resurrected seventeen years earlier, otherwise his fate would probably end up being the same as that of Brown, and it was only a question of where to commit suicide by drinking bullets.

At this time, the fate of smokeless gunpowder was not linked to Brown, but was firmly grasped by Napoleon. As long as France takes the lead in developing smokeless gunpowder than other countries, France will enter the era of military weapons modernization earlier than other countries.

A series of new killing weapons, such as the Makqin heavy machine gun, will also be interviewed one after another under his instructions.

Fortunately, France in the current timeline is the Third Reich with a high degree of administrative efficiency, not the heinous Third Republic, throughout the First World War, France had countless pioneering weapons development, including Renault, smokeless gunpowder, etc., but it has been crushed by Germany, which is the outrageous inefficiency of the Third Reich.

Foch at the time had commented on the weapons of the French army.

"It's not the military who decide on armaments, it's the executive – more specifically, the Ministry of Defense. And most of these administrative staff are civilians. They care far more about the cost and shape of their weapons than they do on the battlefield. It is precisely for this reason that our equipment is more influenced by the art world and public opinion, and although weapon designers have flashes of inspiration from time to time, the military, in order to curry favor with the government, usually only cares about how much the new weapon will cost. ”

This is why the outdated design of the Lebell 1886 style has been in service with the French army for nearly three decades.

Napoleon walked into Viely's room, the table was filled with bottles and cans of chemical agents, Viely moved the things on the couch and made way for Napoleon to sit down.

Gambida stood next to Napoleon, curiously surveying everything around him.

Napoleon looked at the various reagents on the table and said to the people behind him, "I heard that His Excellency Viely is improving the nitrocellulose developed by Schönbay and stabilizing it?" ”

Viely was stunned for a moment, not knowing why the other party was interested in his research, and then nodded and said, "Yes, may I ask His Excellency the President......"

Napoleon interrupted the other with a wave of his hand, asking, "Have you ever thought of adding ether and alcohol as stabilizers to nitrocellulose?" ”

Vielie, who was still busy with his hand, paused, and he turned his head to look at Napoleon. And the other party just reciprocated with a bland smile.

Viely could only honestly shake his head and reply, "No, it's the first time I've heard of it." ”

"Maybe you can give it a try. Now the French government is very concerned about your research and is willing to contribute 50,000 francs to support your research. ”

"Really?"

Vielie's eyes lit up, he never imagined that his research would be of interest to the French government, and that 50,000 francs was a lot of money for Viely.

"Of course it's true, but the French government has one condition. That is, when smokeless gunpowder is developed, it will be taken over by the French government and will exist as a top state secret. As the inventor, you are not allowed to publish any papers on the subject, nor are you allowed to mention the existence of this gunpowder on any occasion. The French government will compensate you for your invention to your satisfaction, and you will not be able to publish your paper in the academy until the ban on smokeless powder is lifted. ”

Napoleon's coaxing attitude frightened Viely, he had no idea that the French president would pay so much attention to his invention, and even made a special agreement with a chemist for three chapters.

"Okay, I promise Your Excellency the President not to divulge any data on this experiment. So...... My job ......"

Napoleon said impatiently, "As I said, everything you have is secretly financed by the government, so you don't have to worry about financial and material problems." ”

Unbeknownst to Viely, this invention of his own had already changed the development of weapons throughout Europe, and a new breakthrough in qualitative change had been achieved directly from the accumulation of quantitative technology. And the weapons of the French army are no longer the burning sticks that are ridiculed, and as for the design of Lebel, which is backward in the times, it should not be in service with the French army at all.

And he also wants to reverse the view that continuous shooting is just a waste of ammunition in the top echelons of the French army, and actively promote the development of semi-automatic weapons, you must know that the French army in 1878 combined the tubular magazine with the Grasse rifle to design the first repeating rifle in French history, the 1878 Crochabak rifle! However, because smokeless gunpowder had not yet appeared at this time, his bad reputation led to his rapid replacement by later standard weapons.

It's all the fault of those idiots in Congress!

Sure enough, the French Third Republic in history, like the United States, had one enemy on Capitol Hill and the other at the Palais Bourbon.

Napoleon deliberately told him, "Someone will come and talk to you about it another day, and provide you with whatever you need for your experiment, and you will pretend that today's events did not happen, and that no French president will be present in your room." ”

Vierimune nodded, and he asked softly, "Your Excellency, is this invention important to France?" ”

Napoleon nodded calmly and asked him, "Have you ever heard of the steam engine?" ”

"Of course, it's the greatest invention of nearly a hundred years."

At this time, the internal combustion engine had just appeared, and it had not yet reached the level of popularization.

"The advent of the steam engine ushered us into the industrial age, and your invention will lead the army to say goodbye to the era of gun platoons, and wars will begin in a new way."

With that, Napoleon picked up his hat and put it back on.

He walked to the entrance and turned around to remind Viely behind him.

"Also, it didn't happen to you, I didn't come."

"The great changes in history are always decided on an inadvertent day."