Claude did not spend a few more days with his wife and children at home. He invited Mr. Veblen to discuss it for two days. After two days, a workshop called Lanhu Military Manufacturing was established. The main products were grenades and revolvers. . Mr. Veblen was very grateful to Claude for allowing him to invest in this military industry, which meant that his family and the five giants in the war zone were hooked up, and he has since become a member of the upper class and the most influential place in the overseas war zone. family.
Mr. Veblen was originally just an ordinary member of the Mining and Commerce Association and a small mining owner. But after getting to know Claude, especially after he leased his manor to Claude to house his family, he became Claude's friend. Soon he caught Claude's eye, and he cooperated with Claude to establish an iron ore workshop. From mining and smelting iron to making fire engines and steam engines, and producing grenades, his identity and assets increased.
Even in the Mining and Commerce Association, what he said began to carry a lot of weight, because he represented General Claude, one of the five giants in the theater. Now Claude asked him to invest in this new military industry that was about to be established. When he learned that the other four generals in the theater had 10% of the shares, he was so excited that he patted his chest and promised to Everything was done to perfection, which made Claude feel at ease.
After leaving the matter of starting this new military industry to Mr. Veblen and entrusting the replenishment of the Thunder Legion to General Albert, Claude went to the iron ore workshop and began to develop throwers and projectiles. Improve work. This time he planned to make three types of grenades and two types of throwers, one for offense and one for defense.
The three categories of projectiles are light, medium and heavy, numbered A, B and C. The light type is the projectile currently used by the troops in the theater, and the medium type is made by doubling the amount of black powder contained in it and making it larger. The heavy projectile is equivalent to the Iron Pumpkin produced by Hicks Kingdom. It is even heavier and has greater explosive power. These three types of projectiles were quickly finalized and ready for mass production.
The development of the projectile was very fast, and it only took three days to complete. However, the problem was that it was necessary to throw these three types of projectiles and reach the throwing distance required by Claude. The development of this projectile was somewhat difficult. . The defensive slinger can imitate the trebuchet style of Hicks Kingdom. It doesn't matter if it is bulkier. This is an easier solution.
The requirement for a defensive thrower is that the No. A projectile can be thrown at a distance of more than 250 meters, and the No. B projectile can be thrown to a distance of 200 meters. The heaviest No. C grenade can be thrown 150 meters away. It requires as few people as possible, the distance can be adjusted, and the throwing direction can be changed freely.
But the difficulty is the offensive thrower, and Claude's requirements are more demanding. The first is the personnel requirement, which cannot exceed four people at most, with three people being the ideal quota. The second is the throwing distance. The requirement for No. A grenade is two hundred meters, No. B is one hundred and fifty meters, and No. C is one hundred meters. The thrower does not need a fixed style, and a separate style is also acceptable. It can be assembled on site when throwing. This is mainly due to its lightness, flexibility and rapid transfer on the battlefield.
The center of the iron ore workshop managed by Mr. Veblen is now the power plant that produces thermal engines and steam engines. Thanks to the boom in opening workshops in various municipalities, the thermal engines and steam engines produced by the power plant are the largest. The orders for the popular items were all dispatched half a year later. However, overall, the revenue of the Power Plant is still beyond its means. This is mainly because it invested too much research and development funds in the locomotive developed by Master Bird, but it is still a little short of success.
If the locomotive can be successfully developed, the railway company can start planning. But in more than a year, the iron ore mine workshop produced seven locomotives alone. Various problems and malfunctions would occur just after running for a period of time. The longest one lasted only eleven hours. Six locomotives have now been scrapped. The development team headed by Master Bird could only make improvements little by little. He estimated that it would take at least more than a year to actually produce a functioning steam engine locomotive.
After the "Assassination of Gray Tower Mage" occurred in the war zone that year, the war zone conducted an investigation in each of the directly-governed territories and found seventeen wild magicians living in seclusion in each of the direct-governed territories. It's just that the war zone is not as concerned about the control of magicians as the kingdom's mainland. After checking that they did not violate the laws of the war zone, they usually stay safe and have no collusion with the Gray Tower mage, they were registered and released.
The war zone does not regard wild magicians as enemies to guard against, and the reason why these wild magicians are discovered is related to their usual selling of magic items and the use of magic to improve living conditions. Several of the wild magicians were guests of some powerful families in the direct-controlled territories. After the assassination, in order to avoid being implicated, these local families immediately reported to the war zone, and the war zone also conducted investigations on the direct-controlled territories.
But no one knows what to do after the seventeen wild magicians are found. General Bolognik does know some of the inside information. For example, several of the magicians were once registered magicians in the kingdom, because they want to freely study magic. Due to the restrictions of the Kingdom's special department, he went to live in seclusion in the overseas territories directly under the jurisdiction of the government. So after thinking for a long time, General Bolonik ordered to check whether they had any criminal records. If not, he registered and released these wild magicians.
But later, after Claude recovered from his injury, he learned about this, so he obtained the registration list of wild magicians, copied a copy and gave it to his sister Anna. Then sister Anna asked her brother Brovik to conduct an in-depth investigation of the seventeen wild magicians, and then recruited six of them, all rune mages, as assistants in the Blackstone Gun Manufacturing Workshop laboratory. . He signed twenty-year work contracts with them and also controlled their families.
As the father of Lady Sonia, Master Bird knows the inside story of the Blackstone Gun Manufacturing Workshop and also knows the affairs of these wild magicians. He thought this method was good, so he told Mr. Veblen, and Mr. Veblen went to ask Claude for help and obtained the list of the remaining eleven magicians in the wild. After studying the investigation records, he hired three wild magicians with high salaries to serve as Master Bird's assistants and work together to develop a steam engine locomotive.
At this time, Claude was developing this thrower in the iron ore workshop, and naturally got the help of Master Bird and the three magicians. After more than ten days of experiments, he finally decided on two types of throwers: offensive and defensive. After the model was completed, Claude handed these drawings to Mr. Veblen and asked him to arrange production as soon as possible. The most important thing is to produce defensive throwers, which can be immediately deployed on positions in various mountainous areas on the front line.
After two days of rest at home, Claude set out for the Vibato Port Direct Territory to inspect the Blackstone Gun Manufacturing Workshop. Sometimes when I think about Claude, I feel very sad. The grenades can be thrown more than two hundred meters, but the development of the grenades and mortars I want has been delayed. If I had known that I could time travel, I should have paid more attention to military forums in my previous life and learned about the structure of those weapons. I would not have to worry about making these simple weapons in this life.
In fact, Claude's current weapon development is like a blind man feeling an elephant. He only knows the appearance but does not know the inner structure. I am not a military fan, and I am not a science and engineering major. The development of a new rifle is all due to Mrs. Sonia's interest in and research on the mechanical structure of firearms since she was a child. This will turn from firearms to unheard-of light artillery-type weapons such as grenades and mortars. It would be crazy to see results quickly.
As expected, my sister Anna and Lady Sonia had no clue about the development work. Fortunately, Claude already had a new thrower and grenade instead, so he wasn't too anxious. He came here mainly to urge his sister Anna and Mrs. Sonia to speed up the production of two new weapons, sniper rifles and landmines.
Before the war, the war zone placed an order for a thousand sniper rifles to the Blackstone Firearms Manufacturing Workshop, but the sniper rifles could not be mechanized and were manufactured in the alchemical magic talisman array. After her sister Anna made ten sniper rifles with her own hands, she found it tedious and boring, so she postponed it. Claude could only bring ten sniper rifles to the battlefield.
Claude understands the irritating feeling of refining a thousand sniper rifles in the alchemy magic talisman array. No rune mage can endure such boring work. After all, it takes a lot of energy to invest in the alchemy magic talisman array to refine the fine and almost identical qualified accessories. However, current mechanized production is still unable to achieve such production accuracy. The production of new rifles is barely qualified, but there is no way to produce sniper rifles that require higher precision accessories.
Because of the need to maintain confidentiality, sister Anna and Mrs. Sonia did not arrange for the six rune mages who joined the Blackstone Gun Manufacturing Workshop to participate in the refining of the sniper rifle. If the two of them were to refine it in the alchemical magic talisman array, the completion of the production of these one thousand sniper rifles would have to be delayed until the year of the monkey.
Claude had no choice but to tell them that they could give most of the accessories to the six rune mages for refining, and the two of them would only be responsible for the final assembly work. As long as the various accessories are qualified, it can still be kept secret, and even a few more irrelevant accessories can be added to confuse the audience. There is no need for one person to refine a sniper rifle from beginning to end...
Finally, the production arrangements for the sniper rifle were settled. Sometimes Claude didn't understand what his sister Anna and Mrs. Sonia were thinking. The new rifles had been mechanized on a large scale. What could be kept secret about this sniper rifle? They are nothing more than refined from alchemical magic talismans. They are all weapons for killing people. There is really no difference in Claude's eyes.
In addition, Claude also needs Mrs. Sonia to add another bullet production line. The new rifle consumes too many bullets on the battlefield, so this requires Mrs. Sonia to make overall arrangements. The bullets for sniper rifles are also specially made, and a bullet production team needs to be arranged to produce them separately. This is different from new rifles. Sniper shooters need to hit an enemy with every shot, instead of wasting bullets at will like those soldiers equipped with new rifles.
However, when Claude, his sister Anna, and Lady Sonia talked about accelerating and increasing the production of land mines, Lady Sonia looked embarrassed. She told Claude that the Blackstone Gun Manufacturing Workshop really didn't have the energy to produce landmines. The most important thing was that it couldn't spare the manpower. Most of the thousand landmines sent to the front line in the first half of the year were the result of the six newly joined rune mages. The gun manufacturing workshop really can't arrange a mine production line now.
In fact, landmines are very profitable. Now that the war zone has money, they are too lazy to bargain. They have placed an order for 10,000 landmines and are preparing to set up a mine defense line in some landing areas along the coast of the direct-administered territory to reduce the pressure on manpower defense. In total, the production income of these 10,000 landmines can reach 10,000 gold crowns. What Claude reported to the war zone was only two gold crowns per mine, and the cost was actually less than three silver thalers.
Claude thought for a while and asked his guards to send a letter to Mr. Veblen, preparing to transfer the production of landmines to the newly established Lanhu Military Manufacturing in exchange for a production license transfer fee of 10,000 gold crowns and Ten percent of the shares were naturally divided equally between sister Anna and Mrs. Sonny, each with five percent. He wrote a letter asking Mr. Veblen to tell General Bolognik and others and obtain their signatures.
This is business, and public and private matters need to be distinguished. Letting Mr. Veblen tell General Bolognik and others about this is also to allow Mr. Veblen to win the favor of the other four shareholders. After all, this is snatching food from Claude's arms. The Blackstone Gun Manufacturing Workshop belongs to the Field family and can be said to be Claude's private property.
Lanhu military manufacturing belongs to everyone, and everyone has a share in the benefits. Naturally, General Bolognik and the others did not know that the Blackstone Firearms Manufacturing Workshop was unable to arrange a mine production line, and they were all working hard to produce new rifles. So asking Mr. Veblen to tell them that they stole the production of landmines from the Blackstone Gun Manufacturing Workshop will naturally allow him to gain points in front of the other four generals, and will not regard Mr. Veblen as Claude's. Agent...
The development of grenade launchers and mortars has not yet been completed. The production task of sniper rifles has been assigned to the six newly joined rune mages. There is no production task of landmines here. Sister Anna and Lady Sonia temporarily I felt a lot more relaxed. My sister Anna can teach students and so on, so she is not idle at all times. However, Mrs. Sonia had been struggling with Claude for two days. She felt that it was a bit boring to study without new things, so she asked Claude to think of a few new projects.
Claude has new projects, and this time he is going to let Lady Sonia and sister Anna study three new projects, two for military use and one for civilian use. The two types of weapons used by the military are explosive shells and long-barreled rockets. The biggest feeling that Claude had in this war was that light infantry field artillery lost a lot of effect in the face of thrown bombs. In addition to shotguns fired at close range of 100 meters, solid iron pellets with a range of 700 to 800 meters have lost their threat on the battlefield.
General Beachlin mentioned in his post-war summary that light infantry field artillery could have been used to attack the enemy's throwers and personnel, but the Hicks only built a few wooden rafts and placed them in front of the throwers to block them. against light infantry field artillery fire. A solid iron shot as big as a fist can't smash a raft as fast as the enemy can throw a few more rafts in front. In the end, we can only use grenades against grenades, plus new rifles against the personnel operating the grenades. The roll call kill suppressed the momentum of the Hicks throwing iron pumpkins.
The same was true when Claude attacked the Hicks camp on the northern mountainous border. In addition to being tricked by the Hicks at first, Claude later asked the Hicks prisoners to build half-human-high trenches above them. of mud walls. As a result, the light infantry field artillery deployed by the Hicks on the second protective wall lost its effect. It could no longer use solid shells fired by the light infantry field artillery to attack the officers and soldiers of the Thunder Legion. In the end, they were bombed by thrown bombs. It was almost completely destroyed, and the officers and soldiers of the Thunder Legion easily captured the position...
It seems that Claude's invention of throwing bombs has put the development of war in this world on a skewed path. Artillery is not as powerful as throwing bombs. Artillery without explosive shells is indeed not as threatening as grenades on the battlefield. Hundreds of years of war history have taught soldiers in various countries how to deal with artillery, earthen wall sandbags, and wooden platoon shield vehicles. These can withstand medium-sized and Light artillery bombardment. On the contrary, the projectiles that fall from the sky and explode on the ground are more threatening and lethal.
Claude was planning to re-develop explosive bombs. He remembered that there were explosive bombs in his previous life during the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't believe he couldn't develop them. He believed that the difficulty in developing ammunition lay in the composition of the artillery shell. As a poor weapons idiot, he drew a modern artillery shell structure for Mrs. Sonia, with a bullet head and a barrel. The barrel would fall out after firing, and the bullet would fall to the ground or It will explode when it touches the target. As for why it explodes, he has no idea what the structure is inside...
As a result, the more he explained the artillery to Mrs. Sonia, the more confused she became. Because the artillery painted by Claude looked like the modern howitzer and mountain artillery that he had seen in those anti-Japanese dramas in his previous life, which was completely different from the front-loading light infantry field artillery used in the current battlefield equipment. In the end, Mrs. Sonia drove Claude out of the laboratory when she was angry, thinking that he was talking nonsense.
The second military research project is the long-barreled rocket, which Claude recalled describing in detail in an online novel he had read in his previous life. The protagonist travels to the end of the Ming Dynasty. The next step is to show off his grand ambitions. He recruits famous generals and ministers as his subordinates, recruits beautiful women to open up a harem, builds muskets and artillery, and trains phalanxes to kill the Tatars. Finally, a common thief rules the world and sits on the throne to usher in a prosperous era. The plot is so vulgar that Claude even forgot the name of the protagonist.
However, the long-barreled rockets mentioned in the movie are very ingenious. The protagonist initially raised the troops due to lack of funds and equipment, and was unable to withstand the Tatar front. So I built this long-tube rocket, which was to roll up a long iron tube, load it with gunpowder and white phosphorus, add three tail fins to the end of the long tube, put it on a wire frame, and ignite it.
Like two kicks, this iron-clad long-barreled rocket can fly a mile away, plunge into the Tatar military camp and explode, sending white phosphorus flying everywhere and setting fire to it. The protagonist relies on this simple long-barreled rocket to withstand two Tatar attacks, gets promoted and becomes rich, and even wins the favor of a beautiful woman in a brothel. It is said that the only shortcoming of this long-barrel rocket is that it cannot accurately control the shooting target, and sometimes it will undergo Brownian motion, causing life-threatening consequences for the launch personnel...
Mrs. Sonia was very interested in this long-barrel rocket and decided to study this project first. But she didn't want to listen to Claude's detailed explanation, so as not to disturb her thinking.
The last civilian project is very simple, and Claude is going to leave it to his sister Anna to complete. This project was to make cigarettes. Claude rolled a cigarette with thin white paper in front of his sister Anna. Without a filter, he made an ivory cigarette holder instead. Claude needs his sister Anna to develop auxiliary machinery for hand-rolling cigarettes so that large quantities of cigarettes can be produced...
Claude believes that as long as cigarettes are promoted, the Field family will never be short of money again...