Hua Houwei got out of the car and took the emergency report at a glance. "Call Wang Zhi here!"

Wang Zhi walked over: "Master, is there something?" ”

"I can't accompany the queen mother and Taikang! You're here to see the urgency. Hua Houwei handed the urgent report to Wang Zhi.

Wang came over directly to take a look, looked up and asked suspiciously: "Master, as for the trivial matters in Guangdong, you are making a big move?" ”

Hua Houwei shook his head with a solemn expression: "No! You think it's a small thing, but it seems to me a big thing! Lao Wang, I always say that the Europa people are coming, but you always don't believe it. Now here they are! Look, a battle has been fought, and we have suffered heavy losses! ”

"Franc Robot is known to be powerful, so it's nothing, right? A small defeat is at most a problem of moss, master, I really don't see anything in the old slave. ”

"Alas! Let me ask you, are our guns powerful? Is it fast or not? ”

"Quick!"

"Yes, that's because I'm here. But there are three or four people who are a little weaker than me, how fast is the speed of development? Once it has developed to a certain point, is it still useful to have more people? ”

"Master, the Franc machine is thousands of miles away from my Daming, I'm afraid it won't be so easy to defeat my Daming."

"Yes, that's why we still have time. But if you still put your time and energy on internal friction, people will develop, hehe, tens of thousands of miles? Wang Zhi, let me tell you, within three years I will build an ironclad ship, and it will be two or three months to go to the Franco. If I can do it, others can't? The Europa people represented by the Francophone are the great enemies of my Ming Dynasty! ”

"Ironclad ships? How can it be? Wang Zhi really couldn't figure out how the ironclad boat could float on the water.

Hua Houwei shook his head: "Shanqing, go, get a piece of gold leaf!" ”

Hua Houwei took the gold leaf brought back by Zhu Shanqing, folded it a few times, and a small boat was ready. He looked at Wang Zhi and asked, "Can this float on the water?" ”

Wang Zhi said hesitantly: "Probably not, right?" The gold is so heavy. ”

"Alas! Come! There were a lot of puddles on the side of the canal, so Hua Houwei picked up a puddle at random and put the golden boat down. The boat shook twice, but it still floated steadily.

Wang Zhi picked up the boat, put it in his hand and turned it around, and nodded: "The ironclad ship is really feasible!" ”

"yes, what am I trying so hard for? It's not that you should be vigilant from the bottom of your heart! Wang Zhi, I can not be the emperor, but I must not let the Europa people enslave us Han people! Hua Houwei shook his head and looked at the sky in the distance. He originally thought that the contact with the Europeans was after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, but who knew that it was still in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and the Europeans had already been killed.

In fact, this can't be blamed for Hua Houwei's ignorance, he didn't learn history well, and he didn't talk about it in detail in history textbooks. The occurrence of the Battle of Tuen Mun is not even a wave in Chinese history, at most it is a small drop of water, which may not be understood by many professionals who graduated from the Department of History, how can they expect a high school student who has not even been admitted to university to understand?

Wang Zhi nodded heavily: "Master, I understand." This Franc machine man must not be underestimated! In this way, my master and I hurried overnight, and Shan Qing stayed behind to accompany the Queen Mother and the princess. ”

Hua Houwei nodded: "Okay!" Shanqing, I'll leave it to you here. I told the queen mother, let's leave right away! ”

After bidding farewell to Empress Zhang and Taikang, Hua Houwei and Wang Zhi took the guards day and night. Finally, two days later, I arrived in Yingtian!

Coming to the metallurgical workshop of the machinery factory, Hua Houwei looked at the seamless steel pipes that had just been cast, and said to Wang Yangming: "Senior brother, where is the chief engineer here?" ”

"Lord, lord, I'm here!" A figure shouted from far and near.

Hua Houwei took a look, oh, Zhao Shizhen! This is the nephew of Zhao Jin, a student of Wang Yangming, who is a native of Yuyao, Zhejiang, and is very obsessed with firearms. Several mechanical books left by Hua Houwei were turned over by him, and they were left in the palace in vain. Hua Houwei has seen him a few times, and he has a very good impression of him, so he simply put it in the palace, who knew that Wang Yangming actually made him the chief engineer of the machinery factory.

"Lord Wang, what are you making?"

Hua Houwei smiled, this product is only eighteen or nineteen, pretending to be old-fashioned, isn't this fake sophistication? "Zhao Shizhen, the master wants to build a naval cannon, what do you suggest?"

Zhao Shizhen shook his head and smiled: "Lord Wang, the sample cannon of the mountain cannon has been made, is it a naval cannon if it is changed and installed on the ship?" ”

Hua Houwei shook his head: "It's too late." The rifling is too troublesome, and the brake has to use a hydraulic cylinder, so it is too late to catch up. Zhao Shizhen, give full play to your smart brain, and come up with a way to come up with a little bit, and the master will really accept you as a great disciple! ”

"Really?" Zhao Shizhen jumped high, he had long pestered Hua Houwei to worship the master, but Hua Houwei had too many things to take care of him, so he has been delayed until now.

"Nonsense! Can the prince lie to you? "Wang Yangming is his elder, oh, the elders, he treats him the same as his own son.

Zhao Shizhen immediately squatted on the ground, picked up a piece of wire, and scribbled back and forth on the ground.

Hua Houwei smiled and ignored him. Turned to Wang Yangming and said, "Immediately find a few workshops to order a large amount of wax paper, I will be of great use." In addition, how much propellant is produced? ”

"Senior brother, the propellant is already tens of thousands of catties, but the production of bullet casings is too laborious, and there are only 100,000 rounds. This thing is too expensive, that is, you don't feel distressed, it's brass! ”

Hua Hou Wei grinned, not distressed? Not distressed is fake! No way, how can you make copper clad laminate now? Even the brass bullet casing is also cast and reprocessed, and the stamping is not even considered!

"Haha! Lord, I have made up my mind for you, Master! Zhao Shizhen threw the wire and shouted loudly, his face full of joy.

Oh? So fast? Isn't this a fool? Hua Houwei looked at Zhao Shizhen with a smile: "Zhao Shizhen, tell me, I don't think it's reliable!" ”

"Absolutely reliable!" Zhao Shizhen replied triumphantly, and then said a little embarrassedly: "Actually, it was the prince who reminded me, maybe I thought it all out." ”

Hey? Lao Tzu reminded you? How did Lao Tzu not know? Hua Houwei asked curiously, "What words?" ”

"Stencil! Lord Wang, if you want to shorten the construction period and simplify the process, the only way is to have a smoothbore gun. But the smoothbore gun is not accurate, only the principle of imitating the mortar is imitated, and the direction is stabilized with the tail. The mortar is not airtight and cannot hit far, so it is fired in a curved manner. The naval cannon can't be fired in a curved way, so the tail can only be automatically ejected after launch! So I guess the prince wants to use a spring to support the tail, wrap the bullet body with wax paper before launch, and burn the wax paper with a flame after launch, and the tail will automatically pop out, so you can hit accurately! ”