"It's okay, I don't feel sleepy. Just make the arrangements as I said. By the way, let me have breakfast brought up. I still have some things to deal with." Since he doesn't feel sleepy, Alphonse planned to take advantage of this time.

Design the gun carriage you want.

The first thing to consider is the issue of recoil. Designing a brake with anti-recoil cannot get rid of the need for high-quality springs. Based on this alone, Alphonse can only give up.

Looking for the next best thing, he thought of the design that relied on gravity's anti-recoil force that he had seen in the museum: making a tilt-angle base, and then stacking the anti-tilt angle gun mount on it. After the artillery fired, the recoil force caused the gun mount to move upward.

Sliding on the base, part of the recoil force is offset by gravity during the upward and backward process, and when the recoil force is consumed, it will slide back to the origin due to gravity. It can be said to be a simple and practical design.

Moreover, Alphonse changed the pulley and replaced it with two thick slide rails. On the one hand, wear will not affect the bite. On the other hand, it can better fix the upper and lower gun mounts, and also reduces the difficulty of processing.

It can be cast and formed with a mold at one time. Then, Alphonse designed a set of movable pulleys to connect the upper and lower gun mounts. The movable pulleys hang down in the air as a gravity group. When the upper gun mount is retreated by the recoil force, the movable pulleys once again use gravity to weaken it.

The recoil is eliminated, and coupled with its labor-saving effect, the simplest pulley block can be used to offset a considerable part of the recoil.

Now that the recoil part is perfected, Alphonse continues to consider the angle of the gun. Regarding the problem of adjusting the angle, the first thing Alphonse considers is the angle adjuster. This part is installed in the upper gun mount; in order to reduce the recoil of the gun, the angle adjustment

To avoid the impact of the gun, this angle adjuster is not directly installed at the lug bracket of the upper gun mount. Instead, it is installed at the gun base; negative angle adjustment is performed by adjusting the height of the base, and then the three

A 1:6 speed change gear set is connected with a transmission rod, and the adjustment angle can be decomposed into 1/216 parts; according to the wheel rotation set up by Alphonse, it takes three turns before the angle adjuster will adjust five degrees.

, so that the firing angle of the artillery can be adjusted more accurately!

Once the design is out, Alphonse needs to consider the issue of imitation. After all, there is no patent protection now. Obtaining it and then imitating it is the only way for every businessman to make a fortune. Therefore, if you want to maintain this job for a long time, prevent the problem of imitation.

Absolutely unavoidable.

The first is the pulley set. The fixed pulley is eliminated and replaced with a ring. The movable pulley is enlarged into a barbell. The rope is lengthened so that the barbell falls directly to the ground. It gives the impression that it is pressing the connecting rope instead of being a labor-saving pulley set. If it is a replica

, there is a certain possibility that the imitators will omit it without thinking.

Next is the slide rail. Originally, Alphonse just planned to design a simple slide rail to reduce the difficulty of production. Now it is designed into a more complex I-shaped rail, and four are designed at once. First of all, the imitator will definitely damage the mold.

After thinking about it, if you omit the pulley group and find that the recoil force is not reduced so much, you may still think that it is the I-shaped rail and continue to modify it to add the I-shaped rail!

Next is the transmission gear. Alfons decided to use a sand mold to wrap the entire transmission gear and transmission rod group and then cast the gun base in one piece, leaving only the I-rail interface for cleaning out the sand. This is a problem for most imitators.

, dismantling must first destroy the gear set, which greatly increases the difficulty of imitation, and also means that to be successful, at least three or five gun carriages need to be purchased for disassembly, which can screen out a large number of empty ones.

Private masters who are capable but suffer from lack of funds.

Of course, the originally unnecessary troublesome design added a large part of the cost to Alphonse, but in Alphonse's view, the cost is always attached to the customer! A gun carriage like this has a 30-pound gun on each side.

The barbell can reduce a total of 180 pounds of recoil force, and the gun body and gun base can reduce more than 540 pounds of friction caused by gravity. The combined total of the two offsets more than 720 pounds of recoil force, which is only 3,400 pounds for a gun.

As far as artillery is concerned, the recoil force of only 2,700 pounds is smaller than that of a 24-pound short gun! With Brigantine’s deck bearing capacity, its deck can withstand a total recoil force of 15 tons. In other words, with the gun carriage, Alfonso can

Si can set up 12 18-pound guns on one side of Brigantine at a time! Think about it, a 200-ton single-deck armed merchant ship can be equipped with 25 18-pound guns and 6 rapid-fire guns, and one can be equipped with five-level guns.

In a one-on-one battle with frigates, only two of them can besiege the fourth-level frigates. As long as four, even the third-level battleships dare to chase them! It seems that yesterday I swore to An that as long as there are enough, Galen can fight against ten of them.

Ligentin, now he suddenly slaps himself in the face!

But what about a slap in the face? I, Alphonse de Moller, am the great man sent by God to save the Spaniards and the Dutch. I just want to let the armed merchant ships still compete with the British battleships, as long as the British continue to get rich.

If we don’t get up, the Industrial Revolution will not come. Without the Industrial Revolution, our era of big sails will never go out of style! Thinking of this, Alphonse took out another piece of paper, waved his hand, and decided on a name for the General Chamber of Commerce that had been planned for a long time.

:Freemasonry!

After doing all this, Alphonse felt sleepy again. He hurriedly locked his things in the cabinet, then left the study and went back to his room to take a nap. When he woke up again, it was Alfred who reminded him.

It’s time to prepare to go out and visit the Otong family...

"Francis Oton, the contemporary head of the Oton family, is 45 years old and has experience in naval service. He used to be the captain of a large galley in the Toulon military port. During the Mazarin era, the navy was being cut, and he was transferred to another large ship.

He served as adjutant in a galley, so he retired and returned to Calais. It turned out that he also owned two scunas and was running a maritime business. In 1651, the Anglo-Dutch War accidentally damaged one of his ships, and the war caused a depression in business, so he sold them.

He got off the ship and started running the Calais House Hotel. It was completed and opened about seven years ago, just as the economy began to recover, so he opened another hotel in Boulogne two years ago. It is still under construction and may not be completed until next year." Al

Fred gave Alphonse a brief introduction to the situation of the head of the Otong family.

"Why did the local gangsters in Calais go to Boulogne to develop?" Alphonse asked strangely.

"Didn't you realize that before our artillery sold well, the business in Calais was very sluggish?" Alfred said dumbfounded: "Before you came to Calais, the merchant ships that docked in Calais every month were even half of what they are now.

No."

"Then you said that the business of Calais House Hotel is very good?" Alphonse asked.

"Calais House is the largest and most luxurious hotel in Calais, so business is naturally not bad, but the passenger flow in Calais cannot accommodate a second such hotel, so the Oton family opened the new hotel in

Boulogne." Alfred replied.

"But no matter what, the fact that the Oton family did not expand further in Calais must be because there are other local snakes behind it. Is there any relevant information in this regard?" Alphonse asked.

"In this regard, it would be more appropriate for you to consult Mr. Desai." Alfred looked at Alphonse with a knowing look, which made him feel a little unbelievable. It turned out that Dai Dai, who had always seemed like a good man,

Len Desai is actually the biggest local gangster in Calais...

But think about it, Darren Desai's annual income has always been above 2,000 livres, and has been accumulated for decades. In addition, he is from a noble family and has close ties with the Moller family, which is equally powerful. Such an economic volume

For a small place where the average annual per capita income is only 7.80 livres, there is no doubt that it is strong, and its financial resources mean the number of employees. In addition, it also has certain friendships with maritime merchants from various places through the golden anchor workshop.

It is not difficult to deal with some toothless tigers.

After getting on the carriage driven by Alfred himself, Alphonse closed his eyes and thought about his words again. First of all, the other party must know about him, and he also knew that because of his own reasons, Darren Desai had been very aggressive recently.

Of course, this is not a good thing for the Aotong family. After all, if a local snake is stronger, the injured one must be a weaker local snake. Secondly, the other party is not afraid of trouble. After all, he can still win in Calais.

Running the largest hotel in the local area must still rely on someone, so for this kind of local snake who is strong on the outside but weak on the inside, Alphonse believes that it is most important to release goodwill in a measured way. If it is too much, the other party will think that he may have a relationship with Darren Desai.

If something has changed, he might even provoke Darren Desai, causing too much trouble for Alphonse; and if there is insufficient goodwill, it is obvious that the other party will think that he is cooperating with Darren Desai to bully them, so naturally

It will also add a lot of unnecessary trouble.

The Aotong family's house arrived. It is a manor-style small castle residence. It is obviously old, but it does not look decadent. This shows that maybe the Aotong family has never been rich... The family's butler is personally here

Alphonse was greeted at the door, and Francis Otong himself also greeted Alphonse at the castle gate. It can be seen that the other party maintained sincerity regardless of whether he was kind or not, which added a lot of possibilities for what happened next.
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"Are you Mr. Otong? I, Alphonse de Moller, have taken the liberty of visiting me, and I cannot bear to disturb you." Alphonse took a small gift from Alfred and handed it over.

"You are joking, Mr. Moller, we can't even invite such a distinguished guest as you." Francis Oton kept his attitude very low, smiled and welcomed Alfonse into the castle and said: "You see

I look much younger than I imagined."

"There is no way, our elders died early, so we brothers have to take care of the house early." Alphonse smiled slightly and continued: "I have come to Calais for a long time to develop, but I didn't come to visit until today. I'm really sorry."

"You are too polite, please take a seat." Francis Oton welcomed Alphonse into the hall and said with a smile: "What would you like to drink? I have a bottle of champagne from my collection."

"I would like to try it, but I don't know if you want to give it up?" Alphonse smiled.

"Speaking of cutting off love, it is a treasure to me, but maybe it is nothing more than that to you." Francis Otong smiled and made a gesture to the butler and continued: "Mr. Darren Desai and I have also been friends for many years.

, I know you are a very busy person with a career, and I don’t know how I can help you if you come here today?"

"Haha, I knew I couldn't hide it from you." Alphonse smiled slightly and said: "To be arrogant, I have a big plan, a fleet, a chamber of commerce, and a city!"

Francis was stunned for a moment, then narrowed his eyes slightly, and then smiled slightly and said: "Let's talk, just like friends."

"Then I'm not welcome?" Alphonse said with a smile. At the same time, he looked at the champagne brought by the butler, took the glass and continued: "I got an investment from the Louvre. Although the first payment was only 50

Ten thousand livres, but it is enough to complete the affairs of a fleet and a chamber of commerce. I am now preparing for a city. It turns out that my target is Dunkirk, because the entire seaport is only worth 5 million livres.

, I only need to invest 2 million, then I will own half of the city, but think about it, that is too unfulfilling, so Boulogne, Calais, Dunkirk, I want to invest in this entire city

Coastline."

Francis looked at him as if he were a madman, then changed his eyes to one of caring for the mentally retarded. Then he shook the champagne in the glass and chuckled: "That would require too much money."

"Maybe a lot, but not enough. I need to quickly operate 1.8 million livres of assets, an armed fleet and a caravan, and transship goods in five countries within three months, so I need to do it as soon as possible.

Build a home port to accommodate my ship and crew." Alphonse smiled and said: "I heard that the Oton family currently has a hotel and tavern in Calais. This is a sector that I urgently need to invest in, but you are a pioneer after all.

, my staff suggested that I ask you whether there are any larger expansion plans in Calais?"

At this time, Francis was a little hard to answer. He didn't believe the 1.8 million livres mentioned by Alphonse. What if it was true? But you have to believe it. On the one hand, what the other party said was too vague, and on the other hand, it was true.

The funds are too large to be trusted. But the other party currently wants to expand the hotel and tavern business in Calais. Based on some considerations, they friendly consulted on their expansion plans. If they did not plan to expand, then the other party would not be able to expand.

Has it been affected? But what about expansion? Not to mention how much money he can spend, it is difficult to grasp the scale of expansion. What if the 1.8 million Alphonse talks about is not even 180,000? That is just a double increase.

A hotel twice the size of a tavern would probably lose money, but what if Alphonse really had 1.8 million? If it were doubled, most of the profits would be wasted by the other party!
Chapter completed!