Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 382

[Chapter 382]

“The crusade against Xiliang is much easier, what I’m afraid is that this is just Beidi’s bait.” Zhao Xu frowned.

Although Bei Di is Da Song’s mortal enemy, he has to admit that Bei Di’s operation is very shrewd.

This is simply the same way that the contemporary United States encourages small countries to challenge big countries and fight proxy wars.

Now that Xiliang has successfully angered Da Song, his father and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty unanimously decided to send troops.

Dasong Northwest will undoubtedly become a meat grinder among the three countries.

After all, as long as Dasong starts a war with Xiliang, the Beidi people will definitely end.

“It’s just that the emperor has made up his mind. Even if Beidi participates, this battle may be inevitable.” Chang Wei frowned, and then relaxed, “But fortunately, we don’t need to send troops this time.”

Liu Fu nodded , also secretly happy.

Now he and Chang Wei only want to guard the three-acre land in the four counties.

Don’t care about the others.

Chang Wei continued: “However, Beidi is currently developing firearms. Even so, we have to be careful during the Northern Expedition. The Black Iron King’s Tent has been restless.”

Zhao Xu agreed.

“It seems that they are very confident in their bronze cannon.” Zhao Xu sneered.

Tsui Hark told him about Beidi’s request for bronze wares from Xiliang.

After a little thought, he guessed that Beidi made a bronze cannon.

If the missionary from the country of Ross knew only this kind of artillery, he would feel at ease.

Because compared to iron cannons, bronze cannons are much lower in technical content, relying only on the ductility of the bronze material.

The iron cannon and the steel cannon test the steel smelting ability.

This is the foundation of industry.

At the same time the disadvantages of the bronze cannon are significant.

A very expensive one.

Dasong belongs to a copper-poor country, and copper is rare, which will severely limit the number of artillery made by Beidi.

Secondly, bronze conducts heat quickly and cannot achieve rapid fire like wrought iron cannons.

In this way, they will not be able to take advantage of wars.

It cannot be mass-produced and the rate of fire is slow. These two points are compared with his artillery.

What’s more, his artillery has been cut, and its range has been improved compared to before.

“Hmph, the artillerymen of the royal family’s army will teach them how to behave.” Chang Wei raised his eyebrows.

“In this case, we just follow the emperor’s order and guard our four northern counties,” Zhao Xu said.

Thinking of something, he asked again: “How is the bayonet equipped with the flintlock?”

“Eighty percent of the soldiers are equipped, and there are still 20% left to finish.” Chang Wei was excited when he mentioned this.

In this way, the advantages of the flintlock will be brought into full play in the war.

Zhao Xu showed a satisfied expression.

The bayonet is still very simple to make. After all, with the hydraulic forging hammer, it is very simple to temper the weapon.

Confess to Chang Wei.

Zhao Xu said to Liu Fu again: “The development and construction of Yanzhou cannot be stopped, you have to keep watching.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Liu Fu replied yes.

After ordering the two to go back, Zhao Xu continued to write his own “Navy Training Manual”.

At this time, Wang Ying suddenly rushed in with a frenzy, his face pale.

Feng’er was panting and followed behind Wang Ying, and scolded: “Master Wang, how could you break into the palace privately.” The

servant said that Wang Ying broke in when he arrived at the gate of the palace without waiting for an announcement.

Wang Ying looked like he was about to cry.

He first apologized to Feng’er, and then said: “Your Highness, something happened to Wang Chong.”

“What’s wrong?” Zhao Xu asked, seeing that Wang Ying’s state was not right, his heart sank immediately.

“Wang Chong him, he flew away.” Wang Ying stammered.

Feng’er burst out laughing, “Master Wang, you are just kidding, can Wang Chong still fly?”

Wang Ying pulled Zhao Xu out with a bitter face, “Your Highness, I won’t lie to you, It’s in the sky!”

Zhao Xu was dragged outside by Wang Ying, followed his hand to look up, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

I saw a huge spherical object floating in the sky at this time, which seemed to be burning with flames.

A person can be seen vaguely above.

This thing is nothing but a hot air balloon.

He picked up the binoculars in the study room and looked up, the one standing on it was really Wang Chong.

At this moment, Wang Chong also seemed to be in a panic, shouting something on the hot air balloon.

But because of the distance, they couldn’t hear it at all.

At this moment, the servant of the royal family notified that there were students from the science and technology school, accompanied by guards, seeking to see him.

He immediately let the students in.

“What’s going on!” Zhao Xu got angry at the students for the first time.

The three students all shrugged their heads, and one of them said: “His Royal Highness has paid attention to Qu Sheng and others who are good at chemistry, and neglected us who are good at physics. Wang Chong then asked the three of us to come up with a Great stuff, surprise His Highness.”

The student on the left added, “Your Highness said that the air will rise when heated, which is the principle of a hot air balloon, and he also drew the structure of a hot air balloon in the textbook, so Wang Chong decided to make the hot air balloon The balloon was made.”

“We can’t leave the school without permission, but Wang Chong is an officer of the Military Division and can come in and out freely, so he asked someone outside to sew the balloon balloon. Today was a secret experiment, but the rope If it wasn’t fixed properly, the hot air balloon flew away.” The student on the right shook his head.

“You guys are too courageous.” Zhao Xu pointed at the three students and raised his hand to hit them. The three shrank their heads in fright.

However, he still stopped. He couldn’t stop this kind of desperate technology exploration.

Otherwise, it would be difficult for real talents to emerge in the four northern counties.

It’s just that, whether Wang Chong can still live is really unknown.

“Let’s chase after Wang Chong.” He immediately ordered his horses to prepare and chased after Wang Chong’s hot air balloon.

The earliest record of a hot air balloon in modern times is 1782, that is, in the eighteenth century.

At that time, the hot air balloon was sewn with numb washi paper.

The fuel is straw and wool. When flying, a cage is hung below, and chickens, ducks and sheep are stuffed inside.

The balloon flew to an altitude of 450 meters and remained in the air for eight minutes.

Louis XVI, King of France at the time, visited the show.

According to the students, Wang Chong’s fuel was also straw mixed with lamp oil, so it shouldn’t be able to fly far.

Now I just hope that this hot air balloon can land smoothly.

Otherwise, Wang Chong is really going to ascend to heaven.

(end of this chapter)