Chen Hao wasn't sure if Huo Qubing thought of going to the people around Xu Jianyin to find out the news, and his daily visit to Xu Jianyin could at least play a certain misleading role. If he hadn't done this every day, he wouldn't have felt at ease, and he might have lost patience and used violence to solve the problem.

Chen Hao's individual attributes are very strong, and Huo Qubing uses violence He also has a way to lurk, and then secretly command Lin Heier and Cuiyun Niang to find out the news. It's just that he is not willing to tear his face with Huo Quzhi, a local snake, and it is obviously better to swagger around Hanyang City every day than to be a mouse.

Chen Hao visited Xu Jianyin again, and he still talked about guns, and most of the time he was under Xu Jianyin's guidance. He visited Xu Jianyin just to mislead Huo Quai, but after receiving Xu Jianyin's guidance for two hours, he unexpectedly received a system prompt:

"Player Chen Baxian, under the guidance of ordnance expert Xu Jianyin, your life skill 'Gun Manufacturing' has been upgraded to intermediate, and you can try to draw firearm drawings independently."

Chen Hao didn't expect that there would be such benefits, and the life skills of "gun manufacturing" include drawing drawing, gun maintenance, parts grinding, etc. At the beginning of the game, he could only make simple gun repairs, and after his life skills were upgraded to the intermediate level, he could draw drawings according to his imagination and make modifications to the drawings of firearms that had already taken shape.

The intermediate "Gun Manufacturing" skill can only be modified at most by changing the front gun to the rear gun loading, and if you change the system according to the realistic gun drawings, it will also be judged to be unqualified. In order to truly design the most advanced guns of the era, players must upgrade their "gunsmithing" skills to the Grandmaster level.

If Chen Hao's current "firearms-making" stunt is upgraded to the grandmaster level, he may be able to design firearms such as the Garand rifle and the AK47 automatic rifle, but this situation will definitely not occur. The knowledge that players learn in the game comes from NPCs, and the guns that cannot be designed by NPCs of today's top gunsmith manufacturing NPCs are certainly not designed by players.

Despite this, it is still important to improve the skill of gun design, although it is not possible to design an automatic rifle ahead of its time, and upgrading the "gun manufacturing" life skill to an advanced level can improve the mainstream rifle. If a player follows their imagination and draws a drawing that has never appeared before and is approved by the system, then this drawing is the original blueprint of the gun.

Each original drawing can train twenty military engineers who can draw drawings, and players can draw one original drawing every month. Life skills can be practiced to such an extent that they can steadily train people who can draw drawings and then produce a steady stream of standard rifles.

Life skills are more difficult to improve than combat skills, and Chen Hao's ability to advance to the intermediate level this time is a matter of accumulation. Usually, he insists on finding some scrap guns to repair every day, practicing the life skill of "gun manufacturing", and there is no opportunity to upgrade when the skill points reach the full value, and Xu Jianyin's guidance just opened the door for him.

Xu Jianyin also noticed Chen Hao's progress, and he said with relief: "Zihao, you are quite talented in scientific research and have a solid cultural foundation, why don't I contact the Martial Arts Academy and let you follow me!" ”

Xu Jianyin won the trust of Zhang Zhidong, and he hung the title of Zhengsanpin, and it was very promising to follow him. If Chen Hao was just an ordinary student, he would not let go of this rare opportunity, but he was already a fourth-grade official of the imperial court, and he also had a real position as a fifth-grade official, so it was actually not much benefit to be by Xu Jianyin's side.

Xu Jianyin is an expert in shipbuilding and ordnance, and he will definitely improve by leaps and bounds in learning life skills from him, and maybe even learn to design warships. It's just that Chen Hao chose to be a prince, the most important thing for him is to improve his political and military attributes, and practicing life skills is just incidental, and it is impossible for him to specialize in scientific research.

Chen Hao declined politely: "Thank you Lord Xu for your kindness, now that the powers are looking around, I have decided to devote myself to the military to serve the country, and I have no intention of calming down to engage in scientific research. ”

Chen Hao was not angry when he rejected Xu Jianyin, he sighed and said: "Now that the national crisis is at hand, there will be no stable environment to conduct scientific research without a strong army, and you and Duyun's choice is not wrong." ”

Chen Hao breathed a sigh of relief, and he said with a smile: "I have countless heroes in the land of China, and there are countless people who want to learn from Lord Xu. I have a friend who is very interested in shipbuilding, and he has always admired adults very much, so I had the opportunity to introduce him to adults, hoping that they would cultivate him. ”

Xu Jianyin twisted his beard and said: "This is a trivial matter, if he does have this talent, why not let me guide him?" Zihao, I won't talk to you before today's test is completed, and you can come and discuss firearms with me at any time at your leisure. ”

Chen Hao said goodbye and left the Hanyang Steel Pharmaceutical Factory, and he made up his mind to let Lin Heier and Cuiyunniang hurry up and find clues to prevent Xu Jianyin from doing gunpowder tests. Although the task is generally not canceled after the system is released, every time he hears that Xu Jianyin is going to do a gunpowder test, he is terrified, for fear of losing the opportunity to win over this expert.

Chen Hao was ready to hire Xu Jianyin at all costs, and in the future, let Xu Jianyin serve as the director of the shipyard in the base area, and at the same time serve as the head of the arsenal. Xu Jianyin has rich experience in shipbuilding, and he has an eyebrow to command the shipyard, and he may not be able to make large ships, but at least it can help him produce mosquito ships stably.

"Brother Zihao, you come to persuade Master Xu every day, has he changed his mind?"

As soon as Chen Hao walked out of the steel pharmaceutical factory, he met Huo Quzhi, and when he heard Huo Quzhi ask, he replied with a depressed face: "Lord Xu seems to be determined to develop smokeless gunpowder, no matter how he persuades him, he doesn't listen, and he is very unhappy after persuading too much, and the bullshit task released by the system is really disgusting." ”

Huo Quzhi said with a smile: "I came to visit Lord Xu yesterday, and he was also very unhappy after a few words of persuasion, could the clue of this task not be Lord Xu, but the people around him?" ”

Chen Hao couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, what does Huo Quzhi mean? He thought that the task clue might be related to the people around Xu Jianyin, why was he kind enough to tell himself? No matter what Huo Quzhi meant, he must not let him know that he has been investigating a long time ago, thinking of this, Chen Hao said excitedly: "That's right! I didn't expect that Xu Jianyin had run there many times without clues, and he could only make up his mind with the people around him. ”

Of course, Huo Quzhi would not be so kind, and he only thought that it would not be long before he had arranged for someone to contact the people around Xu Jianyin. The reason why he told Chen Hao his thoughts was because he felt that he was the head snake of Hanyang, and Chen Hao couldn't compete with him even if he knew that he would go to the people around Xu Jianyin.

Huo Quzhi felt that his idea was very likely to be correct, if Chen Hao went to find someone Xu Jianyin was familiar with, he would immediately do something to Chen Hao. He said this idea for another purpose, that is, to test Chen Hao's reaction, because he was worried that Chen Hao was pretending to be looking for Xu Jianyin in the past few days, but in fact, he had privately arranged for people to contact the people around Xu Jianyin.

Chen Hao's expression was in place, and his appearance as if he was suddenly open made Huo Quzhi dispel his doubts, and he said with a smile: "I have already arranged for someone to investigate, and I will inform Brother Chen as soon as there is news, the players in Hanyang City have not been very peaceful recently, if it's okay, Brother Chen had better not move around, otherwise it will be a big loss if he is killed by some players who like to mess around." ”

Huo Quzhi is a blatant threat, what he means is that Chen Hao will be a killer if he dares to investigate, and Chen Hao can only endure being threatened on other people's territory. He said with a depressed face: "Then I'll go back to the inn first, Brother Huo will notify me when I have news, maybe I can also do a little bit when I act, and Brother Huo will give me a little reward according to my performance." ”

Huo Quzhi felt that Chen Hao's suggestion was feasible, there were posts on the forum about the dispute between "Cheng Zihao" and Eagle Feather, and Cheng Zihao's individual soldier attribute was definitely the top standard. The formula of smokeless gunpowder is very important, and it is not a bad thing to have a master like Cheng Zihao participate in the task.

Chen Hao also has his own abacus, he said this so that Huo Qubing would no longer be suspicious of him, if Cuiyun Niang and the two did not find out the news, Huo Qubing found out, and he still had some hope of participating in the mission. After the two of them made a fuss, Huo Quzhi swore that he would notify him immediately if there was news, and Chen Hao also said that he would try his best to assist Huo Quzhi to complete the task.

After Chen Hao returned to the inn two days ago, Cuiyunniang and Lin Hei'er didn't come back, but today they came back ahead of schedule and entered the house where Chen Hao lived. Pushing them away, seeing the two of them sitting in the room, Chen Hao couldn't help but be happy, and said with a smile: "Have you found out the news?" ”

Cui Yunniang nodded and said: "I found an apprentice with a lot of words in the Hanyang Steel Pharmaceutical Factory, and when I talked about Lord Xu Jianyin, he said that Lord Xu should have produced smokeless gunpowder a long time ago, but after the war began last year, his important assistant was placed under house arrest by the British Consulate, and Lord Xu lacked a very important part of the test data of smokeless gunpowder to be unable to succeed." ”

Chen Hao finally knew the key to this task, Xu Jianyin was developing smokeless gunpowder with the help of a foreign technician, this technician named James was British. James had worked in a gunpowder factory before, and was fairly familiar with smokeless gunpowder, but he didn't know the formula.

When Xu Jianyin was developing smokeless gunpowder, the experiments were all done by James, but the British put James under house arrest at the critical moment of success. The British had always known that James had assisted Xu Jianyin in the development of smokeless gunpowder, and they did not care when the Qing Dynasty did not go to war with the allied forces, and after the war imposed an arms embargo, of course they did not want the Qing Dynasty to master the formula of smokeless gunpowder.

According to the apprentice, James was now locked up in the British consulate in the concession, and Xu Jianyin could immediately develop a formula for smokeless gunpowder if he was asked to obtain the test data.

(To be continued)