Rebirth of South America as King

Chapter 378: Smokeless powder

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In essence, the European powers are pursuing interest-based doctrines. In order to open the market for mainland arms trading, Germany actively reduced the warship order price and sold it to Li Hongzhang at the price of 1.42 million silver per warship. However, during the actual construction of the warship, The Voltaire shipyard deliberately concealed the Qing court and repeatedly carried out technically-proven hull reconstruction projects, resulting in a steadily increasing total warship construction cost. The final price of the single ship sold was much higher than 1.42 million silver.

Li Mingyuan considered that the Germans could repeat the tricks and do the same trick on the two battleships ordered locally, so he reminded Chen Sen and others beforehand.

"His Majesty, the U.S. government has allowed domestic and domestic people to violently persecute Chinese people. At present, the wave of Chinese exclusion has spread to Canada and Mexico. The island of Torti, where the Caribbean Fleet is located, has a large number of Chinese from North America arriving daily to seek homeland. Government asylum,

The living environment of the Chinese in North America is getting worse and worse. Chen believes that the local government needs to make countermeasures so that the Chinese in the United States, Canada, and Mexico can see the importance that the local government attaches to them, and expose the Qing government's slander to the local government. "

After making overall arrangements for the construction of the navy's base in the next ten years and the two missions of the military inspection mission to Europe,

Hou Taiyuan waited for the opportunity to report to Li Mingyuan the situation in North America and the Caribbean.

"Let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issue a condemnation statement, and at the same time order the local consulates in the United States to advise the local Chinese to evacuate the United States as soon as possible. Some houses, land and other properties that cannot be taken away can be disposed of as much as possible.

I estimate that the scale of Chinese exclusion in the United States will be even larger next year. For the sake of safety, evacuate the United States as soon as possible and return to the mainland. There is no shortage of land. After they arrive, as long as they work hard and spend two years of inspection, they can be divided Land and living standards will not be worse than staying in the United States. "

"The Chinese in the United States are impressed by Her Majesty Ende, and the crowds rushing to the island of Torti every month are endless, because there are too many Chinese arriving on the island, and his staff bought a Haitian warlord near Torti Road, from him A piece of land has been leased to house some Chinese people. "

"Haiti's location is critical, but it's a pity that it fell into the hands of black people."

Li Mingyuan took a meaningful look at Hou Taiyuan and saw his careful thinking, reminding him that "Haiti is not far from the United States, and too obvious a move could easily cause Americans to interfere, and evacuate Chinese immigrants on the island of Haiti The operation should be more concealed, control the number of Chinese on the island, and do not transport too many Chinese at one time. "

"Have your Majesty remember your orders, in the future, only eight or nine hundred people will be transferred to the island of Haiti each time. The number of people who will be transported to the island within a year will be controlled within the range of four or five thousand.

"After sending Chinese immigrants to the island, follow-up management cannot be relaxed, especially in places close to black neighbourhoods. It is necessary to strictly prevent Chinese and black marriages from happening, whether Chinese men or women, once they find signs of interaction with blacks , Stop it immediately. "

"My subordinate set up a team of inspectors on Haiti Island to oversee such situations, which will not cause the situation that Her Majesty does not want to see."

"Okay, you are solely responsible for the situation in the Caribbean. If you find any abnormal situation in the Caribbean or the United States, you should immediately send the news to your homeland."

"My staff understands that the strength of the Caribbean Fleet is only small. In the event of an accident, the staff fears that they will miss their major event."

"Caribbean waters are just under the eyes of Americans, and sending major warships has not been of much use in the past."

Li Mingyuan thought for a moment, and said, "In October of this year, the Xinjing Shipyard and the Royal Shipyard each completed the construction of a 1350-ton light cruiser. By then, both warships will be allocated to the Caribbean fleet, so you should be satisfied."

"Thank Your Majesty for his grace, and the Minister must guard the island of Torti for His Majesty and live up to His Majesty's expectations."

"Okay, knowing your determination, work in the Caribbean for another year or two. At the latest, in 1883, the navy has a suitable replacement, and will transfer you back to the naval headquarters to seize this two years. The time is good, two years later, I still have the opportunity to use your talents in the naval headquarters. "............

After appeasing a group of senior naval officers, the next day, Li Mingyuan spent a relaxed time with the queen and concubine, and then resumed a busy day of labor.

"Under the hood, explosives with picric acid as the main explosive substance have been tested and verified for one year. Seven technical problems have been solved in succession. It is expected that the final technical route will be determined before December this year. It can be used around February next year. It will be used as a raw material for 105mm artillery shells for trial production operations. "

Zhou Sheng, who had been hereded by the hereditary baron for discovering the production route of picric acid, reported to Li Mingyuan about the research progress on explosives in the palace facing the outside.

"Piric acid is a potent explosive with unstable performance. It is dangerous to make artillery shells. If the trial production is effective early next year, you must assist the artillery force to regulate the rules for the use of such shells and pay attention to the personal safety of officers and men. . "

"We are exploring ways to strengthen the stability of picric acid projectiles. According to the technical research manual issued by His Majesty, considerable progress has been made. In the follow-up, we will formulate the acquired experience into a picric acid projectile manual and distribute it to new types of equipment. Artillery officers and soldiers learn to use. "

Picric acid is the first important progress made by Han in the field of explosives, but for Li Mingyuan, who has been a mercenary and is accustomed to using rifle bullets and artillery shells made by various single-base and double-base gunpowder in later generations, The current progress is far from satisfying him.

Single-base smokeless gunpowder is often used as a rifle propellant. Double-base gunpowder can be used as an artillery shell explosive or cannon-propellant, and picric acid is compared with a variety of single-base and double-base gunpowders found later. Does not have advantages.

According to the current level of technological research and development, the two types of gunpowder that are most promising in China and are also highly anticipated by Li Mingyuan are B-type single-base powder and double-base pyrotechnics.

Medicine ballistite.

Type B single-base gunpowder, in the original history, was made by a French chemist and engineer, Paul Marie Eugen Vielle, in 1884, by mixing a mixture of collodion, alcohol and ether and other stabilizers to form a gel. Substance, the new type of gunpowder produced by tabletting, cutting and drying, is a relatively mature smokeless gun bullet propellant ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ and the double-base smokeless gunpowder ballistite is made by Nobel

Use the same amount of nitroglycerin and collodion, plus 10% camphor as a stabilizer, and then go through some other manufacturing processes to produce a new type of gunpowder with stable performance and great power.

The main production principles and raw material distribution of the two gunpowders have been compiled into a manual by Li Mingyuan and studied by Zhou Sheng, Lin Shenhe, etc., just because of the addition ratio between various major raw materials and the uncertainty of some secondary raw materials As a result, the two research work has been delayed to complete the final progress.

In front of the European powers, the development of two new smokeless powders in advance has great benefits for Han's national defense strategy. Therefore, after listening carefully to Zhou Sheng's report, Li Mingyuan instructed "B-type single-base smokeless powder The research and development speed of the double-base smokeless powder ballistite should be accelerated. The entire research and development progress should be coordinated with the new rifle using smokeless powder. At the latest no later than February 1885, two technical research on smokeless powder and new rifles should be completed. Stereotyped production. "

"After the report, after the steel smelting technology exchange between the Iron and Steel United Group and the German side, the problem of restricting the hardness of the new rifle's body and barrel has been resolved. With the development of rifle smokeless powder, the new rifle can be put into validation production. "

Officials responsible for military production took the initiative to report.

The new rifle is based on the Mossinagan rifle. The difficulty of imitation is relatively low compared to the development of single-base type B smokeless powder. Li Mingyuan nodded, affirming the achievements of the military manufacturing department.

"After the design of the new rifle is completed, we must pay attention to confidentiality, and wait for the development of the new smokeless rifle gunpowder, and then calculate the credit and reward together."

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