Not far from his elder brother's residence, Fang Xiaoyu saw a young man walking around the corner. It was his second brother Fang Dingbang, who was the leader of the army. Fang Xiaoyu greeted him with a smile and said, "Second brother, are you going home for the New Year?" He saw the person coming.
It's Fang Xiaoyu. Fang Dingguo replied with a smile: "Yes, I came back just after the army went on vacation. By the way, Uncle Qi is also back and seems to be looking for you." Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "I'll go right away." Fang Dingguo said.
: "Go quickly, Uncle Qi is in his study."
When he came to the outside of his father's study, standing opposite was his father's personal guard Li Biao. When he saw Fang Xiaoyu coming, he smiled and waved his hand and said: "Master, you are here, the military commander is waiting for you inside." Fang Xiaoyu hit him.
After saying hello, he walked into the study.
Fang Weihong was standing at the table looking at the military map on the wall. When he heard footsteps, he asked: "Yu'er, are you here?" Fang Xiaoyu immediately agreed: "It's me, father." Fang Weihong turned around.
He looked at Fang Xiaoyu with approval and said, "I heard that Marshal Xia decided to recruit you to join the army?" Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "Yes, father."
Fang Weihong smiled and said: "Yes, you are really my good son, but you can't be complacent. Marshal Xia is very strict with people. If you don't do well, he will kick you out of the army mercilessly." Fang Xiaoyu nodded.
: "I will work hard and never embarrass the Fang family."
After listening to his words, Fang Weihong was relieved. "I heard that Marshal Xia is going to take you to his weapons workshop?" Fang Weihong asked again. "Yes, Marshal Xia and I told him that I have some suggestions for improving firearms, so
Marshal Xia decided to take me there." Fang Xiaoyu replied.
Fang Weihong nodded and said: "It's good to go and have a look. The Xia family has the most powerful handmade manufacturing industry in the entire Lanfang Empire." Fang Weihong didn't think Fang Xiaoyu could give any good advice on firearms. He just thought Fang Xiaoyu could.
Go and have a long experience.
Fang Xiaoyu said in surprise: "Really? The Xia family has the strongest handicraft industry in the entire empire?" Fang Weihong nodded and said: "Each of the four major families in the empire has its own advantages. As the largest family, the Xiahou family of the royal family is the strongest.
mainly in the transportation industry, but they account for a large proportion of shipbuilding, handicrafts and agriculture. The Xia family, the second largest family, relies on handicraft manufacturing, which accounts for 80% of the empire. The Cheng family, the third largest family, owns nearly 40% of the empire.
The cultivated land is unparalleled in agriculture, and our Fang family relies on the business network throughout the Eastern Continent."
Fang Xiaoyu said: "Business should be the most profitable? Why is our Fang family at the bottom of the four major families?" Fang Weihong said with a smile: "Business is indeed the most profitable, otherwise the other three major families would have been there since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
As a big family, we just started our fortune from your great-grandfather. How can we become one of the four major families after decades of development?"
Fang Weihong paused and then said: "Besides, although business can make money quickly, it is a pity that if there is any trouble, the losses will be huge, and it is easy to be controlled by the government. This is why the royal family allows our family to rise. Of course, its main purpose is to contain the other two big families.
Family." Fang Xiaoyu nodded, but he didn't expect that the upper echelons of the Lanfang Empire were not simple, and he would have to be careful when entering this circle in the future.
After saying this, Fang Weihong stopped talking about official matters. The father and son had a lot to say after not coming back for two years. The father and son talked in the study for a whole day. Fang Weihong was extremely surprised and very surprised at the growth of his son in the past two years.
Fortunately, Fang Weihong didn't let Fang Xiaoyu go back until dinner time.
At night, Fang Xiaoyu called Xiaofeng again: "Xiaofeng, are you there?" Fang Xiaoyu would say such nonsense every time he contacted Xiaofeng, and Xiaofeng replied as always: "Yes, master."
"The development of the Western Continent is extremely rapid, which makes me very worried." Fang Xiaoyu only dared to discuss these matters with Xiaofeng. "Master, I am about to report a new situation to you. After upgrading, my detection system discovered
I scanned all the books in the royal library. I found something very interesting in their history books."
"Oh? What is it?" Fang Xiaoyu asked. Xiaofeng replied: "I found out from the history books that the recorded history of this planet is only 2,500 years." In the past, the Fengyun-1 chip scanned only nearby family books.
, the history written in these books only covers the more than three hundred years since the founding of the Lanfang Empire, and the complete history can only be recorded in the royal library, so Xiaofeng was not aware of this situation before.
Fang Xiaoyu was a little confused after hearing Xiaofeng's introduction. He asked: "So what does this mean?" Xiaofeng explained to him: "It took nearly a long time for civilization on the earth to develop from recorded to the current level.
Six thousand years, that is to say, the civilization development rate of this planet is three times that of the earth."
After listening to Xiaofeng's explanation, Fang Xiaoyu took a breath of cold air. Ship-waist gun rooms appeared in the Western Continent thirty years after the invention of the steam engine. Ironclad ships were also so fast. On Earth, the Watt steam engine was invented in 1776, and the first
The Glorious steam battleship was only built by the French in 1859. There was a gap of eighty-three years. The Glorious was still a wooden hull and side-gun warship, which was more powerful than the armor-covered waist.
The performance of gunhouse ironclads varies greatly.
Fang Xiaoyu asked again: "If I promote you to Level 2, how long will it take you to invent the Watt steam engine?" Xiaofeng said: "The Watt steam engine is a relatively elementary power system. If there are sufficient conditions,
I think it will only take a few months." Fang Xiaoyu nodded, he must make money as soon as possible.
Fang Xiaoyu slept peacefully all night. When he woke up in the morning, he felt a little worried again. Yesterday, he made an appointment with Marshal Xia Jun to see the military workshop, but they did not make an appointment at the time and place. When Fang Xiaoyu secretly scolded himself for being careless, the maid
Come and tell him that an officer is waiting for him in the drawing room.
Entering the living room, Fang Xiaoyu immediately found a lieutenant colonel officer in the living room. When he saw Fang Xiaoyu, he immediately stood up and said: "Hello, Mr. Fang Xiaoyu, I am Lieutenant Colonel Xia Ziqing, Marshal Xia's adjutant. I was ordered to bring you a new
He will wear the military uniform and be responsible for taking you to see the marshal." Fang Xiaoyu nodded and took the military uniform handed over by Xia Ziqing.
After putting on his military uniform, Fang Xiaoyu had transformed into a young second lieutenant officer. He immediately stepped forward to salute Xia Ziqing and said, "Report to the lieutenant colonel that second lieutenant Fang Xiaoyu is ready and ready to go." Originally, Xia Ziqing just thought this was the Fang family.
A dandy kid who was stuffed into the army to gain military merit. Unexpectedly, this kid actually understood the rules of the army so well. As long as he put on the military uniform, he would follow the soldier's discipline. This made Xia Ziqing's impression of him much better.
Xia Ziqing nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, he is indeed the son of Commander Fang. Let's set off." Fang Xiaoyu followed Xia Ziqing into a four-wheeled carriage with two horses and a shaft. There was no shock absorption along the way.
The hard seat made Fang Xiaoyu's legs numb due to the bumps, but when he saw Xia Ziqing sitting upright next to him, he didn't dare to rub it. He cursed in his heart that in this backward era, it didn't matter if there were no cars, and even the horse-drawn carriages didn't have shock absorbers.
The carriage finally arrived, and Fang Xiaoyu limped out of the car behind Xia Ziqing. Fortunately, Fang Xiaoyu had been transformed by bioelectricity and was in good physical condition. He only bounced a few times and recovered. Walking into the factory, Marshal Xia
While talking to a few engineers, Marshal Xia greeted Fang Xiaoyu loudly when he saw Fang Xiaoyu coming in, "Xiaoyu is here, come here quickly."
Fang Xiaoyu quickly stepped forward and saluted: "Second Lieutenant Fang Xiaoyu reports to the marshal." Xia Ziqing also saluted Marshal Xia Jun and stepped aside. Marshal Xia Jun looked at Fang Xiaoyu, who was only 1.4 meters tall, and smiled:
"It's not bad. He looks like a soldier when he wears a military uniform." After that, he pointed to a man in his fifties next to him and said, "This is Zhang Peiyun, the chief engineer of our Xia family arsenal. Do you have any ideas on firearms?"
Talk to him."
"Oh? Really? Then I have to take a look." Zhang Peiyun looked at Fang Xiaoyu with some contempt. He was dismissive of this child. Zhang Peiyun has been working here for forty years since he was an apprentice.
Being immersed in the military industry made him very clear that any good weapon can only be finalized after long-term research and improvement. It is impossible to perfect a weapon by relying on personal inspiration, so he didn't care about this little guy. Fang Xiaoyu saw it
Zhang Peiyun was dismissive, but he ignored it. He knew that this was human nature. Anyone who had worked in a certain industry for a lifetime would be disdainful if a young man suddenly came to tell him what to do.
Respect must be earned by strength. Fang Xiaoyu did not answer Zhang Peiyun's words. He just smiled and opened the painting that Xia Tingwei gave him and held it in front of them and said, "What do you think of this painting?" Zhang Peiyun took a look and said, "We
It's a gun workshop, and it doesn't have any research on warships." Marshal Xia Jun also said doubtfully: "Indeed, this is a gun workshop, and when it comes to building warships, the royal family is the best."
Fang Xiaoyu realized that they had misunderstood and said with a smile: "I'm not asking you to look at the warship, but at the gun carried by the soldier in the lower right corner." Only then did Zhang Peiyun and Xia Jun realize that they were looking at the wrong place, but Zhang Peiyun only looked at it.
He glanced at it and said: "I already know this. It is a Kelder rifle produced by the Yaman Empire. The gun is 1.32 meters long, weighs 4.5 kilograms, has a caliber of 13.6 millimeters, and an effective range of 400 meters. After adoption,
To load ammunition in the chamber, use linen or paper fixed ammunition.”
Fang Xiaoyu nodded. He also admired Zhang Peiyun's professional knowledge. He could tell the main performance indicators of the firearm in detail just by looking at it. This also made Fang Xiaoyu confirm the model of this rifle, which is very close to the one on the earth.
Dresser striker gun. Fang Xiaoyu added with a smile: "Another point is that this rifle is four to five times faster than our existing muzzleloader guns." Zhang Peiyun nodded and said: "Yes, but this rifle's
The range is not much farther than our muzzleloader guns, and the gun barrel has to be cleaned of linen or paper scraps after each shot, and the cost is too high."