It is always said that the devil, when he lures man to his depravity, always creates all kinds of unimaginable luxuries.
But this statement is actually wrong. The devil can do it, but it also depends on whether he is willing to do it. Obviously, he is very happy to create a luxurious to romantic scene for Mr. King. On that day, after the wind song stopped, the awakened vampire servants filed in in court costumes. They wore pure white gloves and held silver plates, which contained gifts from the castle to the king.
Jewelry, diamonds, gold cups, swords... Hell is a thousand miles away from the flattering nobles in this matter of pleasing the king.
The lifeless castle was given a new look after that day.
"I always feel like you've worked so hard to keep me here forever. Is that so? Mr. Devil."
The king walked unhurriedly along the slightly quiet promenade. The aesthetics of the vampires can be summed up in two words "luxury", and the clothes they prepared for the king also reflected this.
"Is it inappropriate for your faithful servants to offer you their loyalty and respect? Your Majesty."
The devil slyly avoided the crux of the king's question.
"How many will they come?"
The king wears long black boots, and the rose gold decorative chain on the boots will ring crisply when walking, and the brilliant candlelight will fall on it, flickering with the gems.
The chaotic hell actually has its own rules. The rule here is "authority," and lords fight each other for authority over a wider area. The powers that corresponded to the original sin of the Holy Book were the most powerful, which made the king feel that hell was actually a reflection of the so-called "kingdom of the gods."
The powers now in the hands of the king include "greed and ill-gotten gains" and "pride and judgment unknown."
How the former came, the king knows. But when the latter was obtained by the devil, the devil did not say, and the king did not ask.
"Two-thirds, there are always some stubborn guys."
The devil knew something, and his smile contained a hint of coldness.
"But it's okay, Your Majesty. They pay the price for their arrogance."
"Who is the toughest?"
"The guy who masters the rage." The devil replied, and when he mentioned the lord, a haze flashed across his eyebrows, "Of course, it will definitely not come to this banquet."
The king and the devil walked side by side through this rose garden of the castle in their conversation.
An undead lady who was in charge of building branches in the Rose Garden, she inadvertently caught a glimpse of their figures, but felt that there was a strange tacit understanding when the two walked together. A very strange thing, the proud monarch and the notorious devil get along with each other a lot, but they are as comfortable as old friends when they try each other out.
The devil suddenly looked back at Madam Undead.
Of course there is an unparalleled tacit understanding between him and the king, and that tacit understanding comes from their oath.
The oath was made long, long ago, and when both sides were ambitious, the world was fighting like a pack of wolves. The monarch said, I give you the authority, we will destroy the world now. Then he put his hand on the shoulder of the lonely devil, and released the brutality that wanted to destroy everything hidden in his heart. So, the devil pulled out his imprisoned knife and went to kill from the sky to the ground for the promise. The monarch stood behind him and watched the corpse mountain and the sea of blood slowly flow past with him.
"His Majesty."
The devil called out to the king.
The king responded.
"We'll have a good show, I promise."
The devil said with a smile, and he naturally opened the black umbrella for the king.
The king glanced at him. "Better so."
They walked down the winding keel steps side by side, at the end of the nightmare carriage steps.
Now that he has come to hell, the king intends to take this opportunity to personally inspect the first military heavy industry department of Legrand.
During this period of time, the king has received a lot from Legrand's first military heavy industry department, the most from the two brothers chemists and the minister of military design.
The relationship between the Military Design Department and the Gunpowder Research Institute did not know when a beam was formed. After the Minister of Design, Mr. Raul, asked him to declare that the guillotine was superior to the stake, and he was rejected. After a few days, he came up with a new idea. He actually joined the Rogers brothers to ask the king to approve a "super-fire military cannon" experimental plan. At this stage, both sides reported to the king that their progress was gratifying and the results were remarkable.
There seems to be no problem on the surface, but a group of neurotics say to you:
Your Majesty, our plan is going extremely well, we can complete all our trials within xx days, please rest assured!
Is this really reassuring
Neuropathy plan who knows what plan
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In the wilderness in front of Qianrenzhifeng, there are many blast furnaces, ash and smoke, the sound of tinkling iron and the rumbling sound of explosions are mixed together, which is especially industrial.
When the king arrived, the army of skeletons who were working all over the mountains and fields stopped their movements and took off their heads happily, just like the noble ladies waving handkerchiefs, they paid tribute to the king by waving their skulls in their hands. This is the highest etiquette among skeletons, but... The workers who also witnessed this scene couldn't help rolling their eyes.
The Skull Brothers really don't have a correct understanding of how horrifying their acts of kindness are.
The king waved at the skeletons without changing his face, accepting this respect and greeting.
The skeletons who got the king's response were happier, they just thought that their king was the most amiable human being in the world!
"Stupid..."
The devil looked at this scene and felt ashamed - these skeletons simply lowered the average IQ level of the whole hell.
However, the king was a little delighted, because he got an excellent answer-Legrand's first military heavy industry department performed much better than he imagined.
With the support of a steady stream of raw materials, the gunpowder research department has determined the current best military gunpowder ratio, and workers are already conducting large-scale production experiments.
However, one ironic thing is that the successful mass production experiment of gunpowder is inseparable from the military design department...
After being ridiculed by the Rogers brothers, Mr. Raul of the Military Design Department led the same angry department researchers as himself to study how to make the gun chamber withstand more gunpowder. This group of people frantically did all kinds of experiments - if it wasn't for a bit of sanity, they almost took the gold to cast cannons to test its durability.
In the end, they locked the bronze [1] and adopted the method of integral forging to solve the problem that the wrought iron gun and the iron bar were welded with too much gunpowder, and the gunpowder strength was too high and it was easy to explode the chamber.
It is not that no one has considered forging cannons out of bronze before. But in the ground kingdom, the price of bronze forged iron cannons is too high, and no royal family can afford a firepower army using bronze forged cannons. But right now, the designers of Legrand's first military-industrial division have a condition that all designers would envy—they can use a variety of materials to forge weapons.
When he saw the list of materials consumed by the military research department during this period of research, the king deeply realized one thing: to support an army with advanced weapons is directly equivalent to burning money.
During this period alone, the materials used by military designers for their experiments were almost equivalent to the annual income of the traditional royal family under the restrictions of the feudal knighthood.
No wonder the initial development of gunpowder was so slow.
After solving the problem of the bearing capacity of the gun, Mr. Lauer began to increase the amount of gunpowder in the shell without blinking an eye. The amount of gunpowder loaded in shells of this period was rarely low [2]. Step by step, they increased the gunpowder charge from 15 percent, and eventually even increased to 100 percent of the cartridge case weight.
Once, when the Rogers brothers were experimenting with a new ratio, Mr. Lauer came to the door with a polite face and told him with a bright smile: "We have solved the problem of the bearing capacity of the barrel, but now the gunpowder you produce It's not enough for us to load the shells. We solved the design of the gun chamber, but unfortunately you can't provide the amount of gunpowder we need."
Mr. Lauer's right-hand man unceremoniously sent back Mr. Miley's original words:
"It turns out that your ability is to produce some powerful gunpowder that cannot be mass-produced."
"It's good to set off fireworks, but the military industry needs mass production!"
Mr. Raul, who had won a round, walked away, and the Rogers brothers were so angry that they temporarily stopped the experiment of new gunpowder, and turned to think about how to solve the problem of the complicated production process of gunpowder.
"So... this is the solution?"
The king stood in the gunpowder production factory with a complicated expression, looking at the translucent floating in front of him.
"The undead have excellent cooling properties." Bran said, standing in front of the king with a beaming expression, "The condensation effect of the undead in different ages is different. The older the undead, the stronger the condensation effect..."
The Rogers brothers couldn't think of a way to make too much change in the gunpowder manufacturing machinery for a while, and they were laughed at by military designers every day, and their hair was about to fall out of worry. Finally, when they saw that the skeleton lizard and the blacksmith cooperated with amazing efficiency, they turned their attention to the idle undead in the river of the undead.
The technology used in today's sulphur refining plants is generally to heat the sulphur first and then wait for it to solidify before removing impurities. Then, the sulfur that has been removed from impurities is heated to form sulfur vapor, which is cooled and solidified to obtain the raw material of gunpowder.
In the whole process, it takes a long time to wait for the sulfur to solidify.
The Rogers brothers approached the undead courteously, expressing a desire for their help—the raven Munra hovered over their heads when they asked. The undead were silent for a moment, looked at the skeletons, and finally climbed up from the river of undead in resignation.
The devil looked at a lady of the undead who was wearing a palace attire, holding her head raised from the sulfur vat, and sighed weakly again.
"In order not to cool down too much and let the sulphur freeze directly into powder, we specially investigated the year they were born..."
Bran chattered.
The king listened, and suddenly felt that the next "super-fire military cannon" might not be taking an ordinary path.
The author has something to say: [1] Historically, iron smelting and copper casting techniques have been used in the manufacture of gunpowder weapons in the 14th century.
[2] In the early 15th century, gunpowder loaded in shells rarely exceeded 15% of the shell's weight.