In the church of Nan Huairen, Nan Huairen and Lilius were talking with Yakovlevich from Russia. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"It's horrible! The pseudo-Ming Dynasty created all kinds of advanced firearms, and also built self-propelled dragon boats that could walk on rivers without sails, and fire dragon cars on land were all thanks to something called a steam engine! The wisdom of the Orientals is really terrible! Yakovlevich said with a sigh of relief.

Nan Huairen nodded solemnly: "For more than two thousand years, the Orientals have been ahead of the world, and the Mongolian iron cavalry of Dayuan even went to our Europe. By the Yongle period of the Ming Empire, the Oriental Armada not only conquered the entire South Sea, but also crossed the Indian Ocean to Africa. Fortunately, after the Tumubao Incident, the civilian-bureaucratic clique with its pedantic Eastern Confucian ideas seized the opportunity to seize military power, and the East began to lag behind us from then on. More than a hundred years ago, when our warships arrived in the East, the Easterners fought to catch up. Fortunately, the Tatars defeated the Orientals, which made them lose their chance to overtake us! But now, the Southern Ming is rising again, and once the Tatars are defeated, the Orientals will be ahead of the world again! ”

Nan Huairen has been in the East for many years, and he still knows the history of the East very well, since the Tumubao Change, the seizure of power by the civilian clique, and the decline of the influence of the emperor and the Xungui clique, the East has begun to lag behind the West.

Although the Ming Dynasty fought to catch up in the late Ming Dynasty, the entry of the Qing army once again interrupted the pace of the Easterners catching up with the West.

Now that Nanming is rising, there will be another tragic collision between Eastern and Western civilizations! Today's world is no longer the world of more than a thousand years ago, the emergence of the Age of Discovery, from one side of the earth to the other side has become very easy, once the Ming Dynasty solved the Manchu Qing Dynasty, began to embark on the journey of immigration, the population of the dominant Orientals, must suppress Western civilization, limit the territory of Westerners.

"Yellow Peril! We can't let the Yellow Peril happen again! Yakovlevich slammed the table.

Nan Huairen said: "These things must be known to Europe as soon as possible!" If we can't keep up technologically, the Yellow Peril will happen in Europe sooner or later! The steam engine is the key! I had already built a steam cart and proved that it was possible to move a car without human or animal power, and this invention was about to be sent back to Europe, but a series of things happened in the East! ”

Originally, Nan Huairen sent back to Europe the principle that steam could provide power, and about ten years later, the West built the world's first steam engine, but it could not be put into practical use. It was only in the eighteenth century that the steam engine began to really take off in the West. In the beginning, the steam engine was only used to pump water, but after solving the problem of the connecting rod crankshaft and the linkage, the steam engine was able to move in a circle. With the development of the airtightness and materials industry, the steam engine is getting bigger and bigger.

While he was talking, a Russian craftsman who had come with the mission walked in and reported: "Father, sir, the barrel of the gun has been built!" The machine has also been installed, can I operate the machine? ”

"Let's go, let's take a look outside!" Nan Huairen stood up.

Nan Huairen, Lis, and Yakovlevich walked outside to a recently newly built processing workshop. The workshop was built in less than a month, and on one wall of the workshop was a multi-purpose fireplace, in which iron blocks and half-formed barrels were heated. In the middle of the workshop, there is a hand-cranked lathe.

Russian craftsmen with several Qing craftsmen are holding a freshly made barrel.

"This is a barrel made by imitating the barrel of the Ming Guo rifle, as long as the barrel is put into the furnace and heated again, it can be pulled out of the double line." said the Russian craftsman.

Nan Huairen nodded: "Let's do it!" ”

The Russian craftsman asked the Qing craftsman to clamp the barrel of the gun with pliers and throw it into the furnace to heat it, while another Qing craftsman pulled the bellows to supply air to the stove. Soon after, the barrel turned red with heat. Then Qing craftsmen clamped the barrel with pliers and placed it on a hand-cranked lathe, and the Russian craftsman shook the handle and pulled rifling inside the barrel while the barrel was not completely cooled. Wait until the barrel has cooled, pull it again to secure the rifling.

The machined barrel was assembled, and soon a brand new imitation rifled gun was made.

"Bang" Yakovlevich picked up the rifled gun that imitated the Ming army, pulled the trigger, and the bullet accurately hit a target a hundred paces away on the opposite side.

"Let's try it out with a Danish rifle!" Yakovlevich said.

A Russian soldier handed over a Danish rifle, and Yakovlevich picked up the gun and pulled the trigger.

After comparison, Yakovlevich sighed and said: "This Ming rifle is much lighter, but the range and accuracy are no worse than the Danish rifle!" We can go to the palace to report and ask Qing Guo to allocate more money to us. ”

"I'll call Fan Yuxin over and ask him to take us into the palace." Nan Huairen said.

It didn't take long for Fan Yuxin to come to Nan Huairen's church. Subsequently, Nan Huairen, Fan Yuxin and Yakovlevich entered the Forbidden City with imitation rifled guns.

"This is the False Ming Long-Range Firearm that you successfully copied?" Kangxi picked up the rifled gun that the Russians imitated and flipped it a few times. It is obvious that the Russian imitation rifled guns are much rougher in some details, such as the unpolished bolt, the hammer, the buttstock and the cartridge box are obviously crudely made.

Nan Huairen could see that Kangxi felt rough workmanship for the musket imitated by the Russians, so he saluted and said, "Honorable Emperor, Your Majesty!" The Rakshasa imitation of the pseudo-Ming long-range self-generated fire gun, although the workmanship is a little rougher, but the power and accuracy will not be bad! The workmanship is rough, the manufacturing speed is also fast, and we don't need to waste time on some details! The most important role of a weapon is to be powerful, not to look good. ”

"Let's go, Nan Aiqing, and the Rakshasa messenger, I'll take you to try the gun!" Kangxi stood up.

Naturally, the test gun could not be tested in the Forbidden City, and the emperor could not test the gun in Nan Huairen's humble shooting range, so it would be more grand to travel anyway. So Kangxi ordered a large number of palace guards wearing yellow jackets, as well as Eight Banner soldiers wearing colorful cotton armor, ready to go hunting in the western suburbs.

Just when Kangxi was about to set off, someone suddenly hurriedly reported: "Master! Master! Master Fan has something important to report! ”

"What's the panic? Which surname is Fan? Kangxi's good mood was stirred up, and he was obviously angry.

The eunuch who came knelt on the ground and kowtowed his head to report: "Master, Master Fan of the household department has something important to report!" It's about the Daqing Bank. ”

"What's the matter, I'll talk about it when I'm done trying the firecracker!" Kangxi snorted.