All this is thanks to the ambassadors in Western countries for many years, compared to many years ago the Empress Dowager Cixi personally brought back a few theorists and pioneers about electrical physics, over the years have also invited back a lot of practical talents, of course, the UK is here to dig talents is the most important place, the ambassador to the UK has two most important jobs, one is to spend money to make friends with people at all levels in the UK, this is the work on the surface, naturally also responsible for specific foreign affairs, The other is to observe and excavate the best scientists and technicians in Britain, who were already targeted by the Chinese before he first succeeded in developing the world's first automatic rifle in 1883. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

At this time, Makqin was just a frustrated businessman who lived in embarrassment, and had already shown his extraordinary inventive talent in the United States, inventing automatic fire extinguishers, and he met a strong rival Edison in the 1880 municipal lighting bidding in the United States, the stingy and sinister inventor Edison tried every means to squeeze out Makqin, a strong competitor, and forced him to sell the company and leave the United States. In war-torn Europe, Maxim wanted to restart his career. One of his friends said to him: "Throw aside your chemistry and electricity, and if you want to make a fortune, invent a weapon that will make it easier for Europeans to kill each other." This sentence inspired Makqin greatly, and he began to research highly effective weapons of killing.

After the invention of the automatic rifle, the ambassador to Britain quickly visited the house, and he concluded by his own inference that it was a very great invention, and that one of the inventions of the automatic rifle that had attracted the attention of all Europe, that is, he had designed a detachable butt baseplate, in which there was a channel in the butt, and the butt base plate was connected to the trigger retainer lever with a connecting rod and spring through the channel. When firing, the gunpowder gas drives the bolt recoil, compresses the spring between the butt bottom plate and the rifle itself, pushes the connecting rod to act on the trigger retainer lever, so that the bolt is unlocked and drawn, and the compressed spring pushes the bolt to readvance, pushes the next bullet into the chamber and locks the bolt, so that the next bullet can be fired, so that the weapon can achieve fully automatic shooting.

After several exchanges, Makqin declared to the Qing ambassador to Britain that he was working on an automatic machine gun that did not need to be reloaded, and in view of the fact that the automatic rifle invented by Makqin had aroused the attention of the whole Europe, the ambassador to Britain immediately made a decision and told Makqin that "the Chinese royal family is willing to provide Mr. Makqin with free scientific research and invention materials and research laboratories for life, and any invention belongs to Mr. Makqin himself, and the Chinese government only has priority in the production and sale of products." "And also launched the relationship with the United States, first invited the explosives expert Hudson Maxim, who is also Maxim's brother, to come to London and invite Mr. Maxim to China, at this time Maxim's business failed, although there was some money, but if you want to be independent and not with the support of the government to conduct research, this is completely impossible, because it needs to spend a lot of money. Relations between China and the United States are now very harmonious, and the American ambassador has also come to help the Chinese persuade them several times, and these plans have moved Makqin to China, shortly after arriving in London in 1881.

Of course, this kind of behavior of recruiting talents is very unreliable, because since Guo Songtao, the ambassador to the United Kingdom has been equipped with a lot of physical chemistry and other scientific consultants to help review, these seem to be very promising, whether the content of the research is feasible, whether they can be invited to China, even if it is reviewed, there will be some people who want to come to China to fish in troubled waters to China to eat and drink, which is a very normal behavior, but this is also the price to pay.

It was a big adventure to put forward such a big preferential condition for Makqin, even including the expenses of arranging all his family to come to China, and the so-called scientists, who had been several times before, finally found out that they were worthless liars, in order to continue to recruit talents, all did not expel them, but continued to use the senior salary of experts to let them teach some foreign languages in the school, the British ambassador took a great risk, because the Empress Dowager Cixi had stated that she wanted to recruit a few specific scientists, Many of them were sent back to China by choice.

Fortunately, this Makqin is not a liar, the previous rifle invention and innovation is just an insignificant small invention in his life, after arriving in China, first arranged in the Ordnance Research Institute of Tsinghua University Hall for independent research, but in about two years, the Makqin heavy machine gun was a great success, all the inappropriate places in the early stage were modified, and the results were already very perfect. The knuckle mechanism of the Maxim machine gun moves quickly and flexibly like a human elbow joint, and bullets whizz and strafe like a hurricane. Within a minute, all the 200 pigs on the scene were killed, and the bullets continued to strafe tirelessly until the grass was turned into a hornet's nest and all the baffles were shattered.

In the Tsinghua University Hall wine and the military department Shangshu originally still looked indifferent, and later saw Rusi power, can't help but face like earth, for a long time speechless, came back to his senses, immediately blocked the scene, no one was allowed to leak the news, this thing was listed as the top secret, and immediately handed over the sign to tell the Empress Dowager Cixi in the Old Summer Palace, the Empress Dowager Cixi was shocked to hear about this thing, immediately arrived at the scene, and after watching a test firing, immediately told Makqin, praising his invention of the heavy machine gun: "Your creative value, you can change to India!" ”

Immediately ordered Makqin to be the squire of the military department, and concurrently served as the president of the Military Equipment Academy, enjoying the subsidy of Shangshu, and asked him to keep the secret first, and after obtaining the patent, let the Chinese side manufacture it first, for which the Empress Dowager Cixi paid 100,000 silver dollars as a priority period. For the manufacture of this heavy machine gun, Gaoxin dug up several technicians who made guns and brought them back to China half-coaxing and half-deception, which finally made a lot of them, but there has been no chance to come in handy, just sealed in the warehouse for half a year, that is, how critical Zhennanguan was before, and the Empress Dowager Cixi did not take out this thing and use it.

Today's use is really a great show of might, Chu Yunfei explained, Feng Zicai understood, "Such a sharp weapon, fortunately, in our hands, it is as convenient as killing a pig to kill the French." (To be continued.) )