"Eighty kilometers an hour, this is to catch up with the steam locomotive, which is really remarkable."

Qian Dafu said with a smile just now.

Xiao Ming's mood was depressed for a while during the civil strife in the empire, but now he has gradually recovered, which makes him feel relieved.

Xiao Ming patted the black metal body of the car heavily, raised his hand and looked at the watch on his wrist, after the pocket watch, this kind of more suitable clock for wearing quickly became popular in the empire.

Quite a few people of status are proud to carry a watch.

"It's past ten o'clock, didn't Song Changping say that he was going to give me the revolver?" Glancing at the time, Xiao Ming asked.

After the execution of the remnants of the merchant council and the rebellion of Ge Yiren, the empire was deterred by this, and the empire became more peaceful than ever.

Whether it was the old Chang'an official or the new official, they were much more honest.

Because they saw the emperor who could use his iron and blood at any moment, no one could be sure whether the next bullet would come in the back of their heads.

The newspapers' criticism for more than half a year also reduced the tolerance of rebellion within the empire to zero, and at the same time, under the bright eyes of the people, it was difficult for those with malicious intentions to escape justice.

"Song Changping has always been punctual, not on time, but the old slave has something to tell the emperor, just now the old slave received a telegram in the side hall, the mission from Europe has arrived in Guangzhou, it is estimated that it will only take three days to arrive in Qingzhou."

"Oh? Here it comes? Xiao Ming showed a smile, it has been a year since the battle in India.

The speed of Europe was so slow that he was a little tired of waiting, and now this group of European envoys finally arrived slowly.

"In that case, you should now go and inform the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to prepare for the reception, I am afraid that there will be a lot of things to talk about this time." Xiao Ming said.

Qian Dafu responded that after occupying LinkedIn's colony in India, the empire's military operations stopped.

After all, the territory occupied by the empire is too large now, which takes time to digest, and at the same time, the soldiers have been fighting for years and years in the army, and it is necessary to suspend military operations in order to make the army relaxed.

The most important thing is that the major military regions are changing their equipment and doing adaptive training.

In the past, only some soldiers were equipped with Han-style rifles, and most of them still carried Eagle rifles, and machine guns and mortars were not properly equipped.

In order to enhance the overall combat effectiveness of the empire as a whole, it is also necessary to use this time to replace equipment.

However, the army rested, but the navy was not idle, and now the navy of the empire had controlled the route between the South Seas and the Cape of Good Hope.

Any warship that intrudes into this route without permission will be driven away or even sunk, and maritime supremacy is gradually shifting to the East.

Qian Dafu turned around and just left, and Song Changping arrived on time.

Xiao Ming said that he was very helpless, for Song Changping and others, time is very important, and they don't want to waste even a second.

"Your Majesty, this is a revolver." Song Changping held a silver revolver in his hand.

This is a melee firearm that was developed according to the plan after the development of metal bullets, which will allow soldiers and officers to have effective lethality at short distances.

Picking up the revolver, Xiao Ming looked at it, and there was a drum-type magazine on this revolver, and there were six bullet nests on the magazine.

"Your Majesty, this is a bullet." Song Changping sent the bullet at the right time.

After the appearance of metal bullets, Xiao Ming has been longing for a self-defense revolver, after all, the previous short-barreled musket was really a bit unsightly.

With this revolver, if he faces the assassins, he will have the power to protect himself, the only regret is that the current industrial level of the empire can only make revolvers.

However, revolvers have been used since the 19th century until World War II, and even in contemporary times.

Because the revolver has an advantage in the handling of blind fire bullets.

Loading the bullet in the bullet nest, Xiao Ming turned the wheel, and the bullet was aimed at the barrel.

Raising the revolver, Xiao Ming ordered the guards to move a wooden plank twenty meters away, and then pulled the trigger.

With the sound of a gunshot, an extra bullet hole appeared in the wooden board, and Xiao Ming immediately dialed the hammer back, and at this time, another bullet nest was aimed at the chamber of the gun.

Pull the trigger, and there is another bullet hole in the board.

Song Changping said: "If you can skillfully dial back the hammer, this revolver can almost achieve the same effect as continuous shooting." “

Xiao Ming nodded slightly, the effect of this revolver made him very satisfied.

He said to Song Changping: "Yes, but the research and development of automatic weapons should also be as soon as possible, and this battle in India is enough to see the advantages of advanced weapons from the effect of the war." “

"Yes, Your Majesty." At the mention of automatic weapons, Song Changping was suddenly a little excited, and his expression was a little rich.

Let Song Changping go back, Xiao Ming took the revolver and went back to the imperial study alone.

He then moved his chair to the world map, where he sat and stared at the map of the Empire.

Three months ago, he received news that Zhu Sansi had established himself in Alaska, and the Syracuse City he named had been built under the soldiers' slaves.

This is equivalent to the empire having its own stronghold in Alaska, and the next step is that Zhu Sansi will expand to North America with Syracuse as the center and occupy land except for the thirteen states in North America.

In Siberia, after Luo Xin and Ye Qingyun were exchanged, they were also actively preparing to seize the area east of the Ural Mountains.

As for Ye Qingyun, after taking office in the Southwest Military Region, he took over Luo Xin's former mission, preparing to go south to seize East Indochina in France after the equipment was renovated.

His gaze swept over the marked positions one by one, and Xiao Ming felt a burst of relief, although this was another time and space, but under his rule, his empire had achieved something that no one had achieved before.

Today, the territory of the empire stretches from the far north to the far south, which is not insignificant.

It was only while he was excited that he also felt a pang of apprehension because all the great empires in the history of mankind had collapsed in the long course of history.

From ancient Rome to the ever-growing United Kingdom, from the vast Han Dynasty to the Soviet Union across Asia, the former power has finally disappeared invisibly, leaving only mottled fragments.

How long will he be able to hold on to the vast territory he has now built after he is gone?

Thinking of this, Xiao Ming's mind became chaotic, he didn't want everything he had fought hard to end up making a wedding dress for others.

It was also with this hidden concern that he asked Huang Tingzhi to secretly set up a mysterious laboratory and invest a lot of money in genetic technology, hoping to break through the cell repair and regeneration technology in the scientific spar in his lifetime, so that he could continue his life.

Sometimes he will laugh at himself for having this kind of extravagance like the emperors who have sought immortality in the past, but when he thinks about it, he is also a human being, and he also has his own desires, so why bother.

What's more, he is reluctant to hand over the technology hedron to others, because once these technologies fall into the hands of people with bad intentions, the power is no less than a global nuclear explosion, and it is more appropriate for him to control it himself.