Chapter 109: This Can Help Too
"You had a nightmare?"
"I just dreamed about ...... Someone is going to kill me. Miss Rabbit said with a heart.
"Who?"
"A guy nicknamed Earth Bear, he's my opponent in the tournament, but I can't do anything about him."
"I thought you had gone to clear up the misunderstanding with His Majesty the Emperor."
"I did confess to him about the dragon slaying, saying that it was everyone's work, and that I was just playing the role of a conductor in it."
"And then?"
Then he seemed to misunderstand me even more, insisting that I was only showing the modesty of a knight, and complimented me again. Oh yes, and he also mentioned the fight I had with Hercules before, saying that the honor of the Empire needs to be defended by me. ”
"I couldn't convince Your Majesty, so I went to see Claudio, the second prince, through Geoff's connection, and wanted to ask him for help.
"As a result, Claudio offered me to kill the Earth Bear at the jousting tournament, because the Earth Bear had killed one of his friends in a duel, and had hung the unlucky man's intestines on a tree and peed on him or something.
"But Claudio's bounty is quite high, and I have to admit it, it seems that it is quite good to be his friend."
"You're meeting Geoff again?" Li Yu was a little surprised, "How much money did you give him before he agreed to take you to see the second prince?" ”
"Well, I didn't spend a single silver coin, but asked him to give me seventy golden lions, because this money was originally paid to him by the second prince, and I also left him thirty golden lions, which is already considered to be benevolent."
A small look of pride appeared on Yin Leiya's face when she said this, but it quickly disappeared, and she said with a sad face.
"But it's useless for me to ask for this money, it's over, I'm sure it's over this time, the martial arts tournament will start tomorrow, and the guy with the golden voice has also made up a poem about my poisonous mist and the things that can control thunder, and it's spread all over the city.
"The rest of the contestants probably know what to do with me by now. I...... I'd better go get the suicide note ready. The girl said as she went looking for a pen and paper.
But then I heard Li Yu say, "There is no need for a suicide note." ”
Miss Rabbit's ears suddenly stood up, and her eyes, which had been dark, brightened again, "Really?!" What else can you do about this? ”
"There's always no harm in making a few more preparations, and I did consider the possibility of you finally participating in the tournament before coming to the royal capital."
"You mean, you also helped me prepare a way to defeat the other contestants?" The girl's heart is pounding, if there is a smart bracelet to help her measure, it is estimated that her heart rate has soared to 190 or more.
And Li Yu's answer was also very crisp, with only one word, "Hmm." ”
"Oh my God!" Happiness came too suddenly, and the female lord jumped up directly from the ground, and her long ears trembled as if they were equipped with a small motor.
What the hell is Saturday?! She had believed in Picia for so many years, Picia ignored her at all, and Saturday and Merlin were even willing to change the rules of the world for her.
Because apart from this possibility, Yin Leiya really couldn't think of how she could defeat that group of strong men.
"Let's go," Li Yu said, "let's go and meet Watt together, he can solve the trouble you are in now." ”
Watt is Ge Lipeng's current religious name, which was set for him by Li Yu after consulting him.
In another cosmic plane, James Watt built the first practical steam engine in 1776, propelling human civilization into the age of steam. In order to commemorate this great inventor, people of later generations also named the unit of power watts.
Ge Lipeng chose this name simply out of respect for his predecessors, not that he also hoped that he could be as famous as Watt and change the course of world history.
But I don't know if there is some kind of providence in the dark, what Ge Lipeng has created now is indeed enough to unveil a new era.
In order for Yin Leiya, who has almost no training and is a woman, to quickly have the strength to defeat other opponents, in addition to the so-called empowerment transmission in martial arts, Li Yu's first thought is of course a gun.
Hot weapons often have an overwhelming advantage over cold weapons.
In 1519, the Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés led an expedition of more than 600 people to land on the east coast of Mexico, and after several twists and turns, finally conquered the Aztec Empire, with a population of more than 5 million.
In 1532, another Spanish explorer, Pizarro, invaded with 168 men and later completed the occupation of the Inca Empire, which had a population of 6 million.
The brave and warlike Indians were also not good at facing the guns of the colonists.
When Li Yu found Ge Lipeng, the latter said that he wanted to make a gun, but the laws and regulations at the time did not allow Ge Lipeng to make such an attempt.
However, when he was reincarnated in Brattis, of course, such a restriction would not exist.
So Ge Lipeng was entrusted by Li Yu to start making guns.
In Ge Lipeng's words, it is not difficult to build a gun.
Of course, in Brattis, which only had a medieval civilization, wanted to create such things as AK, Thompson, Mosin Nagant, ...... There are too many technical problems to be solved by this kind of familiar modern guns.
In addition, the production of metal cartridges is also a problem.
So a more realistic option is a flintlock pistol.
"A gun or a cannon is nothing more than finding a suitable tube, igniting the gunpowder inside, generating kinetic energy, pushing the projectile in front, and shooting the projectile out." Ge Lipeng said.
"It does sound simple." Li Yu said, "A tube plus an ignition device. ”
"That's right, it's a gun."
"According to the different ignition methods, guns can be divided into musket guns, arquebuses, flintlock guns, revolvers and blast guns, and modern guns usually use thunder mercury impact to ignite."
"The advantage is that it's fast?"
"Yes, if you use an arquebus, you have to wait for the arquebus to burn all the way to the bottom of the fire, which usually takes a while, compared to a flintlock pistol, which is much faster, and on the battlefield, time is the difference between life and death."
Speaking of guns, Ge Lipeng seems to have changed as a person, and has become much more talkative.
"The ignition of a flintlock pistol only requires striking a flint into the fire sickle to produce a spark, both of which are easy to obtain, and the barrel is the one that really takes more effort.
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"First of all, the material, a good barrel must be able to withstand the pressure generated by tens of thousands of gunpowder explosions, of course, if you don't plan to use it too many times, you can relax the standard a little, and then there are requirements for hardness, too soft and too hard.
"The barrel forged with the current technology of the Brattis continent will contain a lot of impurities and trachoma, I can find a way to improve the quality of the steel, but there is actually a more convenient way."