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    Chao Yong didn't go to the military camp for the next few days. Now he is the God of War in Daliang, a myth passed down by word of mouth. He only shows up occasionally to make those who are lucky enough to see him feel lucky and brag about it to others.

    There is no need to make yourself look like street stalls, you can see them at any time.  He only needs to maintain his invincible myth. Under the praise of the veterans, he is the god in the army and the god worshiped by everyone.  Although what the veteran said is not as fancy as the storyteller, it is more truthful and easier for people to believe.

    On this day, when Chao Yong was compiling his Daliang Dictionary, news came from the Craftsmanship Institute that the problem of gunpowder transportation had been solved.

    Chao Yong immediately brought a group of soldiers to the craftsman's courtyard, not to protect them, but to clear the way.

    After Daliang took control of Tokyo, no one dared to run rampant on the streets. Anyone who injured people would be punished in accordance with the law, and anyone who killed someone would be punished with his life.  After a month, the people in the city no longer ran away from the carriages and horses as before. Instead, they went their own way. When the people behind them called out, they slowly gave way.

    If Chao Yong goes on the road alone, even if he rides a horse, he can't go fast and can only lead a group of soldiers.

    Simple people still know where this kind of life comes from, and they will give way when they see people wearing military uniforms.

    There were soldiers to clear the way, and they soon arrived at the Gunpowder Bureau of the Craftsman Academy.

    There was a gunpowder bureau in the Song Dynasty, but the gunpowder in the Song Dynasty was weak and firearms were not widely used, so the status of the gunpowder bureau was not high.  However, the gunpowder bureau in Daliang is the most important department of the craftsmanship institute. Ling Zhen serves as the chief, and his subordinates are all carefully selected and reliable people. Even so, most of them are only doing the work of purifying black gunpowder.  Several people can do it.

    There are soldiers guarding the gunpowder station ten feet away. Without the emperor or prince's token, not even the captain of ten thousand can enter the gunpowder station.

    After Ling Zhen asked someone to send the news, he waited in the courtyard.  Seeing Chao Yong's arrival, he came up to him with a big smile, spread his palms and said: "It's solved."

    Chao Yong saw that what Ling Zhen put on his hand was a grain of black gunpowder, and said happily: "Has it been tested?"

    Ling Zhen nodded and said: "I just tried it outside the city this morning, and the power of the explosion did not decrease at all."

    It turns out that the powdered black fire kiln will delaminate during transportation.  The heavier sulfur will run to the bottom, while the lighter carbon powder will float to the top.  It can only be used after stirring. Once the stirring is uneven, the power will be too much.

    This time Chao Yong discovered this problem when he needed to use black powder on the front line, so he immediately came back and asked Ling Zhen to improve it.

    It¡¯s not that this problem didn¡¯t exist before.  However, the frontline soldiers felt that compared to the power of black powder, this was not a problem at all, and no one reported it to Chao Yong.

    Ling Zhen thought about it for a day but couldn't figure it out. Later, Chao Yong remembered that the gunpowder he had seen was granular, and he immediately figured it out.  After mixing, make it into granules. As long as the granules are not crushed into powder, there will naturally be no stratification.

    Chao Yong told Ling Zhen about this situation.  Ling Zhen began to try to make the gunpowder into granules and wet the black gunpowder with water, but after the gunpowder dried, it would turn into powder again.  So I added adhesives to it, and tried millet porridge, paste, etc.

    Finally, we finally came up with a binder that allowed the black powder to form particles without affecting the power of the black powder.

    Chao Yong picked up a few grains of black powder and squeezed it. It felt very solid and would not turn into powder easily.  He nodded and said: "Okay, everyone who participates will be rewarded with ten coins."

    Ling Zhen is not very sensitive to money, but he can't block his subordinates' financial path. He cupped his hands and said, "Thank you for the reward, Prince Edward."

    Chao Yong smiled and said: "Let's go and take a look at the Gun Bureau."

    The Gun and Artillery Bureau was established by Chao Yong more than ten days ago. The chief is Tang Long, a golden leopard, and some skilled craftsmen were transferred from various institutes.  Develop muskets and artillery.

    The Gun Bureau is right next to the Gunpowder Bureau. Although no results have been published yet, confidentiality measures are also very strict.

    When the two arrived at the gun station, they saw Tang Longzheng and a few people sitting in the yard.  There is a blueprint and many small parts on the stone table.

    Tang Long saw the prince arriving and hurriedly stood up to greet him.

    Several other craftsmen who were good at designing mechanisms heard that he was the prince and hurriedly stood up to pay their respects.

    Chao Yong smiled and said: "No need to be polite, is there any progress?"

    Tang Long smiled and said: "We already have several ideas. After building all the parts in the past few days, we can verify which one is better."

    "So fast?"

    Chao Yong just talked about the shape and general structure of the gun. The structure was like a toy gun that he had dismantled when he was a child. He still couldn¡¯t remember it all, so they needed to perfect it.  Unexpectedly, the Gun Bureau, which was just established after the capture of Tokyo, would have some ideas, some of them.

    Tang Long smiled and said: "Actually, the difficulty of this thing lies in the principle. The prince has told me the principle.We did, and the general appearance was told to us.  I also recruited the most skilled craftsman from the Craftsmanship Institute, and it is indeed not difficult to make this thing.  The mechanism on the God's Arm Bow is much more complicated than this.  In another half month, we will definitely be able to make a musket, but we don't know how powerful it will be.  "

    This statement is entirely a compliment to Chao Yong. In fact, Chao Yong does not know the principles of muskets at all. He only disassembled several toy guns when he was a child and knows the general structure of toy guns.

    Is there a big difference between toy guns and real guns? There is really no such thing. Many toy guns are made to imitate real guns and have basically the same structure.

    After Tang Long and others got the sketch drawn by Chao Yong, after more than ten days of analysis, they figured out the rough function of each component, otherwise they would have made a musket long ago.

    Chao Yong didn¡¯t want to make a musket at the beginning. Firstly, he didn¡¯t understand the principle of the musket at all and thought he couldn¡¯t make it. Secondly, if he only had cold weapons, he would be invincible and it would be difficult for others to plot against him.  And once he has a musket, no matter how fast he reacts, he can't react faster than bullets.

    But after Tokyo was captured, Chao Yong changed his mind.

    Daliang's unification of the world is just around the corner, and the future glory and wealth will be endless.  But there are still many battles to be fought, and as long as they are fought, people will die.  Chao Yong didn't want to receive the battle report, which brother above had died in the battle.  Although it is said that if the earthen pot is not broken outside the well, the general will inevitably die in battle, but Chao Yong still hopes that everyone can share wealth and peace.

    And Chao Yong also has an ambition, which is to build a huge empire and spread the Han people all over the world.  Fire will be introduced to Europe soon, and muskets will inevitably come out.  Rather than doing this, it is better to let the Han people invent and apply it in advance.  In this way, even if we enter the era of hot weapons, the Han people will not fall behind.  Of course, if the Han people were spread all over the world, the fight would probably be between the Han people.

    Chao Yong nodded and said: "As long as it is made, it will definitely be very powerful, but when you test it, you must use those death row prisoners to avoid casualties."

    After the capture of Tokyo, there were originally many people who had committed the most heinous crimes to be executed. However, Chao Gai was worried that executing too many people at one time would endanger the people in the city, so he only publicly executed the Seven Thieves of the Northern Song Dynasty.  Later, Chao Yong set up a gun bureau and asked people to keep the prisoners on death row.  For prisoners on death row, being able to live a few more days is already an extra-algorithmic mercy, and it is not an exaggeration to let them do some experiments.

    Tang Long nodded and said: "We all followed the prince's instructions. A cannon we made a few days ago suddenly exploded. The prisoner who fired the cannon was blown to pieces. It's scary to think about it."

    Several people nearby also looked frightened. It was obvious that the scene of the explosion was terrifying.

    Chao Yong asked curiously: "Do you know the reason?"

    Tang Long said: "It should be because the barrel is not thick enough. Later, when the barrel was thickened, it didn't explode, but the gun became a lot heavier."

    Chao Yong smiled and said: "This is simple, just add two wheels. How far can it shoot?"

    Ling Zhen shook his head and said: "It can shoot more than a mile, but it is not accurate. The route of the cannonball is not as easy to calculate as the trebuchet. Every time the cannonball is fired, it seems that it does not follow a curve."

    "How many days will it take to make an artillery piece?"

    Chao Yong thought that he was about to rush to the northwest battle, and suddenly his heart moved. If there were hundreds of thousands of people on the opposite side, there was no need to be accurate. As long as he hit them, he would be able to hit them.

    Tang Long said: "The cannon used for the test has a temporarily thickened barrel. It is just for testing. I'm afraid it won't be used many times. To make a cannon, you need to make a mold. If you have a mold, it will be easy to cast. But you need to make it.  It will take a while to make the mold, and with the casting of the cannon, the first cannon will take a month."

    Chao Yong shook his head and said: "It seems that it will no longer be used on the Xixia battlefield."

    Ling Zhendao: "It's true that we are stupid. The principle of artillery is similar to that of rockets. After igniting gunpowder, things will be sprayed out. If we had thought of it earlier, artillery should have been invented long ago."

    When Ling Zhen heard Chao Yong talk about artillery that day, he thought it was feasible.  There were many jet firearms in the Northern Song Dynasty, but they were not very practical.  And artillery

    Chao Yong smiled and said: "You should do it slowly, don't rush. As long as there is black powder, I can use other methods to get him into the enemy's position. After you are ready, you need to do more experiments. At least the artillery must be able to fire several times."  A hundred times is enough to qualify.¡±

    Tang Long nodded and said: "Since the prince is not in a hurry to use it, we will do more experiments to find out the various problems of the artillery before casting it."

    "Well, money and manpower can be allocated at will, as I told them."

    Chao Yong nodded to the people behind Tang Luan as an encouragement. Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly remembered a word and turned around and said: "Rifling, adding rifling should be more accurate."

    Tang Longqi asked: "What is rifling?"

    Chao Yong said irresponsibly: "There are some raised lines on the barrel. I can't remember clearly. You should do more experiments and you should know. Of course, it also applies to muskets."

      Tang Long frowned and said: "To make this rifling, the process is complicated again, but it's not impossible to solve. I'll try it later."

    Chao Yong smiled and said: "Try slowly. There are not enough death row inmates in Tokyo. You can transfer death row inmates from other states."
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