"What is this?" Picking up the drawings, Qi Zu returned to the state of the mechanical madman he used to be, comparing them one by one, and asking if he didn't understand.

"This is the debombing hook, when the barrel is broken, the bolt part will move with it, and then the cartridge case will be hooked out a little to facilitate loading." Hong Tao is not familiar with artillery, but he has hunted in Canada and Africa in his previous life, and has played with a lot of shotguns and rifles. Many guns have to be disassembled regularly for maintenance, and the general structure inside is relatively clear.

"Where's this?" Qi Zu asked again, pointing to a small part behind the barrel.

"This is used to ignite gunpowder, didn't I use a copper shell instead of a paper shell to load the bomb, and I would definitely not be able to use gunpowder and sparks to ignite it. I think that if you change the medicinal properties of the match, put it behind the copper shell, and then drill a small hole in the copper shell, and hit it with this steel tip, as long as the spring force is enough, it will be fired. Hong Tao didn't tell the truth, he didn't plan to use a match as a primer at all, that thing needed too much impact force, and the small firing pin was probably enough to choke. He still plans to go to Sun City to find Bush, get the primer out together, and then hunt for himself.

"Oh, if you had given me the drawings of this gun earlier, we would have gotten some kind of front-loading gun, and it would be over if you just got this one. I can't guarantee how far it will be able to hit, anyway, it won't be much worse than the current gun. But it's much easier to reload, it's still a double-barrel, and if hundreds of people hold it, and pull the trigger, it's not like a storm, and mosquitoes can't fly! Qi Zu probably figured out what this gun designed by Hong Tao was, and then began to sigh again.

Although this gun has not yet been made, he has already imagined the power. The copper case contained eight small lead balls, which if they collapsed, they would be one piece at a time, and enough to choke on one of them, which was a miniature version of the deck gun. The main thing is that this copper-cased bullet is extremely fast to load, and when the barrel is broken, it can almost be withdrawn, and then two new shells can be loaded into it, and it only takes a few seconds before and after. Even if it doesn't hit far, it is more lethal than a bow and arrow, and the more people on the opposite side, the more unlucky it is.

"You think too optimistic, don't say anything else, let's just talk about this copper shell, do you think that just by simple mold manual manufacturing, a worker can make a few a day? Although it can be used many times, but when it comes to a real war, who cares about putting away the shells? It's piping hot when you take it out. The consumption of copper alone can drag down the empire, not to mention the cost of guns, all of which must be made of steel, especially the springs. Hong Tao shook his head, people who are engaged in technology are not good at this, they only consider technical issues, and they are either too lazy to think about other aspects, or they don't want to think about it at all.

"The manufacturing cost is not low! Just by polishing the bore of these two tubes and welding them together, you can drill out three good barrels, which are a bit larger. And these small parts are all steel, and they all have to be filed out by hand little by little. But it's a really good gun, I'm going to find someone for you, let's try one first, so that we can use it and then modify it. "There are only things to do, and there must be things that can make him feel that he is not wasting his talents, so Qi Zu swept away the decadence just now, and he was about to start work immediately.

"Oops...... Uncle Qi, don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry about hunting, do you think we should go and see Xiao Qi? You can't get mixed up here, and I don't think he's much better. He is a problem with you, he has a good face, and he is embarrassed to trouble me if he has difficulties, and he knows that it is useless to look for me. Hong Tao grabbed Qi Zu's arm and didn't let him go. Qi Zu's crying just now made him worry about Wen Xiaoqi again.

"That's right! I haven't seen him since the day after I drank at your place, and I don't know where this kid has gone, where are we going to find him? "Qi Zu is not as clever as Hong Tao in terms of human feelings, after listening to Hong Tao's words, he slapped his thigh, and it was cost-effective to think of Wen Xiaoqi.

"Where else can I go, shipyard! Wash your face, I'll go find two horses, and we'll go." Hong Tao made Qi Zu roll his eyes when he asked, where else did Wen Xiaoqi know besides the shipyard.

But this time Hong Tao was really wrong, when he and Qi Zu rode to the shipyard, from the factory director to the technician on the slipway, no one knew where Wen Xiaoqi had gone. He must have come, and he had a fight with the factory director, and then he couldn't find anyone.

"Your Majesty, you also know that it's not that I don't want him to engage in new technologies, it's that there are really no conditions here. And these R&D work should be done in the main factory in accordance with the confidentiality regulations, even if there is equipment here, I don't dare to let him ......" Why did Wen Xiaoqi quarrel with the factory director, the reason is the same as Qi Zu, he didn't give what he wanted, and he was anxious. Of course, the director of the factory knew Hong Tao, and the emperor who abdicated did not dare to slack off, and said good things vigorously, with an extremely sincere attitude.

"You did the right thing, and you will continue to do it in the future, and I don't blame you for this. But you should also protect Vice Minister Wen, after all, he is a hero of the empire, and he can't live without seeing people die without seeing corpses! "What else can Hong Tao say, people have moved out all the confidentiality regulations, and this thing is his own opinion. The only way to put pressure on the factory director is to put pressure on the factory director somewhere else, and let him find a way to find people first.

"Yes, yes, Your Majesty's criticism is right, I will mobilize the whole factory to find it, immediately!" The factory director was convinced, and they all said that Emperor Hong was not aggressive, and he was really eye-opening. If you talk to him about the law, he will talk to you about human feelings, and if you talk to him about human feelings, he will talk to you about morality, and anyway, he will turn around and make mistakes.

"Uncle Qi, what am I talking about, this kid is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Let's go, go to Medini first, and let him send someone to help find it, I'm afraid he won't be able to think about it and feed the sharks again! At most, Hong Tao used his remaining prestige to suppress people, and the rest of the things had to be left to fate, and this sense of powerlessness made him very uncomfortable.

"Won't you...... Don't scare me......" Qi Zu asked Hong Tao to say this, which was also a little vague. Although he and Wen Xiaoqi always fight, he never hurt his feelings. It was a contest between masters, and it would be more appropriate to describe it as sympathy.

"It's hard to say, this kid is more screwed than you!" Hong Tao also beat the drum in his heart, Wen Xiaoqi and Qi Zu are not the same, he has been studying shipbuilding since he was a teenager, and he has never been despised by Wen Lao Er and Wen Da. This is a great shame for people like them who rely on their crafts to eat, others don't look down on their craft, which means that they are a waste, and they don't know anything but their craft.

"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty...... Come...... Come here...... "I had just left the slipway, and before I left the factory, a soft cry suddenly came from a pile of wood next to me, and it was a flood of waves.

"Who are you? Call me? Hong Tao handed the reins to Qi Zu, reached for the pistol at his waist with his right hand, and slowly approached the pile of wood. There was a man in the gap between the timber piles, not too old and not too young, in his twenties and less than thirty, and his accent sounded like a Han Chinese.

"My name is Wen Xiaoshun, and I am the nephew of the seventh uncle, are you looking for my seventh uncle?" When this person saw Hong Tao approaching, he got half of his body out of the pile of wood, looked left and right to see if anyone else was paying attention, and then asked Hong Tao in a low voice.

"Wen Xiaoqi is your uncle?" Seventh uncle, Hong Tao felt that he was talking about Wen Xiaoqi, the Tan family was the same as the Weng family, there were many relatives, and they all had the same surname.

"Cousin, I learned all my crafts from my cousin, and the seventh uncle didn't dare to come out, so I asked him to send him food and steal materials. I know that the seventh uncle listens to Your Majesty the most, you go and persuade him, don't hide, that place is not safe. Wen Xiaoshun said that it was really Wen Xiaoqi, and he heard that he wanted Hong Tao to follow him to find Wen Xiaoqi.

"Where is your uncle hiding? Why hide it? Hong Tao is not very worried about this person, he can't say that he knows Wen Xiaoqi and he will go with him.

"I can't say where I'm hiding, my uncle won't let me say. He brought in several large boxes, all of which were made of copper, and said that he was going to make a big machine. My uncle quarreled with the factory director about this matter, and almost made a move, but later let us persuade him to leave. Then he asked us to steal materials from the factory for him, including oil, coal and gum, saying that he wanted to make the machine good and show it to the factory director, but he would not let him use it, and he would be angry. The person named Wen Xiaoshun even made a gesture and told him what he knew.

"Okay, lead the way......" Hong Tao felt that the content of Wen Xiaoshun's words was quite comprehensive, and the credibility was relatively high, few people knew what Wen Xiaoqi was messing with, he must have seen it.

Where is Wen Xiaoqi hiding, so that so many people can't find him? The place was stunning, as far as he could imagine, a stranded cargo ship, on a reef east of the shipyard. The ship, the first salmon-class sample at the Cape Town shipyard, was pushed aground on a reef by waves after a hurricane caught up with a hurricane and was not in a hurry. The boat could not be pulled at all, so some parts on it could only be dismantled and discarded.

There are also many children of the Wen family in the Cape Town shipyard, and Wen Si also came to guide him for half a year when he first helped build here. Therefore, Wen Xiaoqi will not call the earth and the earth like Qi Zu, relying on his status in the family, as long as it is the Wen family, he will help him, provided that the dangerous gender is too great.

Hiding a person is not a problem in a huge shipyard, but Wen Xiaoqi is not satisfied, he wants to find a laboratory, a place that cannot be known to outsiders. This made it difficult for the Wen family in the shipyard, and finally someone remembered the scrap ship. It's about a nautical mile away from the shipyard, surrounded by reefs, and no one usually comes, let alone a ship, and the only ones frequented are a few of the boys in the shipyard. They used the abandoned ship as a base, found the right black girl, and came here for a tryst.

(To be continued.) )