Among the arrested members of the Iron Blood Society, two key members were redeemed at a large price, while the others were sent to the army's death row camps due to the recent national recruitment.

In the words of the military officer, this death row camp is really a good place for people to reborn. Criminals who should have been hanged now have the opportunity to serve the country.

Difficult.

Later, rumors on the street said that the great knight was not a member of the Potion Club, but a deacon of the Church of the God of Commerce.

In Xiniu Hezhou, there are only a few major church and state forces that control the power of potions that allow people to advance to the rank of Grand Knight.

People who are not from noble families, unless they become bishops or deacons of major churches, will never have access to advanced potions.

However, clergy of the church can also get married. Of course, these bishops and deacons will leave their seats and the opportunity to take advanced potions to their children.

Therefore, the high-level positions within major churches, like the aristocracy, are completely hereditary systems passed down from father to son.

The only difference is that the position of pope in each major church is selected by the oracle from candidates at the level of archbishop. Because the position of pope always has to do something and represents the face of the church. People who are in the position of vegetarians cannot be allowed.

Stay on top.

After getting this information, Liu Yunyan asked: "If we can train great knights ourselves, can we also establish a sect?"

Zhang Cheng: "It's far from that. As far as I can see, the deacons of the church are all at the level of great knights. But the bishop should correspond to the foundation building period over there. Even if we can refine Jingyuan Dan, there is not that much here.

The flesh and blood of many foundation-building monsters can be used to refine essence-building elixirs. Not to mention, we don’t know how to refine foundation-building elixirs at all, but the elixir recipe is not difficult to obtain. After all, so many sects have been destroyed in history, and the elixir recipe will always be leaked out.

, the sect administrators can’t control it, but we don’t have any magic medicine or elixir in our hands.”

Liu Yunyan wondered: "I don't understand. There should be no golden elixir monks here. There is no elixir fire. How can they refine the foundation-building elixir? Could it be that their gods are here to refine the elixir?"

"Probably not. The gods here will not come to the world easily. According to the records of the monks of the sect, they may use ordinary fire to refine elixirs here."

Liu Yunyan: "Isn't that erysipelas?"

Zhang Cheng: "Yes, erysipelas is a thing that can cause endless harm. Not only will erysipelas accumulate in a monk's body, he will not be able to advance to the golden elixir. Furthermore, it will even suddenly break out in a fierce battle. Even if the erysipelas does not break out in a fierce battle, it will continue for many years.

It damages the monk's body and greatly reduces the monk's lifespan."

Liu Yunyan: "It seems that the high knights and bishops here only live longer than ordinary people. There is a reason for this."

Zhang Cheng: "In our hometown, there is no ordinary fire alchemy within the sect. Many family monks in remote places have no way to use ordinary fire to make alchemy."

Liu Yunyan: "I heard that if you take a pill that improves your cultivation, you will have to stop taking the pill for several years or even decades to avoid the outbreak of erysipelas and direct death. How can we increase the pill?

It’s completely different to eat the elixirs for training as food.”

Zhang Cheng nodded: "Yes."

Our family can achieve this achievement by standing on the shoulders of giants. Without the continuous research of generations of monks, there would be no prosperity in the world of immortality in Central Continent today.

On the other hand, here in Xiniu Hezhou, the great knights are only the nobles of the country and the deacons of the church, which are equivalent to thugs, while the foundation-building monks are all high-level members of the church.

These high-level officials are already very satisfied with their current status and don’t want to change at all. The lower-level people want to change but they don’t have the power. After all, the great knight can equal one to a hundred, and the foundation-building monks plus the church’s sacred weapon, which is the magic weapon here,

It is more powerful. No matter how the lower-level people want to change, it is useless without this power.

From the point of view of erysipelas, Zhang Cheng remembered something. In his hometown on Earth, monks have been refining elixirs since ancient times, and they invented two inventions. One is various hormonal drugs. Monks in the pre-Qin era were already able to use hormonal drugs.

Making transgender intersex people. The second invention is the well-known gunpowder.

Now look, black powder has not been invented here yet, so why not release this? Back then, muskets ended the age of knights. The great knights and foundation-building bishops here are not invulnerable, they are just much more powerful than ordinary people.

However, I have never studied mechanical manufacturing. Although I have fired guns and shot targets, I know nine things about the structure of guns - I know nothing about them.

Fortunately, there is no difficulty in making a front-loading artillery. It is nothing more than casting a thick and long pipe out of bronze and drilling a hole for the ignition point. After such a front-loading artillery is shrunk, it becomes a front-loading rifle.

Now that you have enough gold coins at home, you can make other things without considering using these gold coins to produce gold coins. Then build a copper casting factory first.

Zhang Cheng thought of this: "Let the people below ask if there is any copper foundry that wants to change hands."

When rebuilding, we also need to consider the issue of worker training. It is better to buy a small one first and expand it later. This is easier and faster.

News was quickly reported below that Aisha's father was a foundry worker, both in iron and bronze. Their foundry, together with the boss who did not work and the proprietress who took care of the accounts, only numbered more than 20 people. They said it was a factory.

It's better to say it's a workshop.

Aisha's father inquired and found out that the owner of the foundry could sell the entire foundry for only four thousand gold coins. According to Aisha's father's estimate, the factory's land, buildings and equipment were worth more than two thousand five hundred gold coins.

The price of four thousand gold coins is a slight premium, but the owner's foundry can generate a profit of several hundred gold coins after tax every year, so the premium is reasonable.

And this little money is nothing to Zhang Cheng, who is already extremely wealthy.

After Zhang Cheng brought his lawyer to ask about the price, the boss's quotation was still four thousand gold coins. Zhang Cheng brought the gold coins, and both parties signed the transfer. After that, Zhang Cheng went to the city hall to pay the deed tax, and the factory became Zhang Cheng's.

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The first step in the arms factory is to get it done.

After that, Zhang Cheng carried out reforms here. In the past, the lost wax method was used to cast bronze and ironware. The lost wax method is still used to cast bronzes in the 21st century. However, for casting bronze cannons, the lost wax method is still used to cast bronze cannons.

The wax method is not enough.

When Zhang Cheng was fine, he read an article on a forum. It was at the end of the Qing Dynasty that an official of the Qing Dynasty invented the iron mold casting method. It was an advanced cannon casting method that was decades ahead of the world.

To put it simply, you first cast an iron round rod. When casting a copper cannon, brush the iron rod with fine mud, then place the iron rod in the center of the cannon mold and pour the copper water.

If you can drill a hole in the middle of the iron rod to form a hollow iron rod, and pour water into the center of the iron rod when pouring, this will have a self-tightening effect in the center when pouring the artillery, making the gun body less bubbles and making the artillery more durable.

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After buying the foundry, Zhang Cheng asked the workers inside and cast the iron mold for the cannon and a hollow iron rod first, and then began to buy copper materials to cast the cannon.

The artillery designed by Zhang Cheng is not just as simple as a barrel. The squatting tiger cannon designed by Marshal Qi Jiguang is also very scientific - Zhang Cheng has also seen prototypes in anti-Japanese memorial halls in various places in the southeast.

This Crouching Tiger Cannon can be run by one person and can shoot a distance of 500 meters. It is not that difficult to improve it slightly. Change the two tiger claws on the front of the Crouching Tiger Cannon into holes that can drive nails, so that whether it is

This convenient artillery can be used whether the artillery is fixed on the ground or on a vehicle.

The bronze cannon that was finally successfully trial-produced could fit a six-pound iron ball into its muzzle, which Zhang Cheng called a six-pound cannon. After the first one was successfully trial-produced after seven days of work, Zhang Chenggong ordered the foundry to release production. It has already come in.

More than six thousand kilograms of copper material, based on the current total weight of a six-pound cannon, which is sixty-five kilograms, can be used to cast about one hundred six-pound cannons.

In order to keep the artillery technology secret, Zhang Cheng re-signed formal labor contracts for the workers in the foundry, and their salaries were doubled. Among them, Aisha's father, considered one of his own, became the manager of the new factory. His salary was increased than before.

ten times.

Although there were artillery, there was still no gunpowder. The output of saltpeter here was very low. You could buy some in pharmacies, but it was impossible to buy it in large quantities. Fortunately, Zhang Cheng did not plan to build his own gunpowder factory at the beginning.

Zhang Cheng himself prepared several kilograms of gunpowder in the laboratory and used up the saltpeter he bought, and then stopped being involved in this industry.

The problem now is how to equip the Chicken Country's army with artillery. The King of Chicken Country has no hope. Fortunately, someone at home can contact the Prime Minister of Chicken Country.

Zhang Cheng wrote a sincere letter to Marquis Franco, asking Marquis Franco to take the time to take a look at an epoch-making weapon.

This letter was sent to Marquis Franco's desk through his sister, who was bribed by Manager Huck.

Given the status of Marquis Franco, the letters he received every day were measured by the pound. Ninety-nine percent of them were dealt with by Marquis Franco's housekeepers without ever seeing him in person.

If it were just an exaggeration by a businessman, there would be a high probability of encountering this situation. Therefore, Zhang Cheng had to find a way to let Marquis Franco himself see the letter, and the maid of Marquis Franco's family was the most suitable person.

This works.

Because the letters that Marquis Franco himself read every day had actually been screened three times in the hands of Marquis Franco, and the selected letters were all worth reading, or must-read.

In this way, Marquis Franco saw a certain merchant and factory owner's description of an epoch-making weapon in a letter worth reading. It also included the method of making gunpowder and precautions - for example, what should not be touched during the manufacturing of gunpowder.

Even sparks are not allowed to enter the open flame, so stone slabs and iron shoe nails are not allowed to enter the gunpowder workshop.

In this environment, smoking is even more dangerous.

After reading this letter, Marquis Franco himself did not decide to see the epoch-making weapons. Instead, he asked his valet to buy saltpeter and sulfur. There was plenty of charcoal at home, so just let someone crush some. Then follow 2:

The mixture was mixed with a ratio of 3:15 and ignited. Two hours later, the valet with a dark face came back.

"Why are you doing this? You look like a Negro from South Parkway."

Valet: "Sir, I mixed the materials as you said and lit them with fire. In fact, I was still more than two feet away from the mixture, but it was still like this. The mixture burned too fast.

What happened in an instant, I didn't have time to avoid, so I just closed my eyes based on instinct. That's why I wasn't blind."

Marquis Franco: "Well, fortunately, I didn't do the experiment in a sealed container for the first time. It is said that it can explode. Since this gunpowder is real, it is also necessary to take a look at the artillery that matches it. In this way, you can

The butler will pass on the news. I will go to the workshop in the East District tomorrow to take a look at the epoch-making weapons."

Zhang Cheng received the news from the Prime Minister's Office that day. After breakfast the next day, he took his maid Aisha and took a carriage to the workshop area in the eastern suburbs early in the morning. Today was the day to see the Prime Minister. Zhang Cheng didn't care much.

People were also very concerned about it. Aisha and his father were so excited that they couldn't sleep well all night.

After the Prime Minister's Guards and the Prime Minister's carriage arrived, Zhang Cheng took the group to a wilderness in the eastern suburbs. After Zhang Cheng placed a cannon filled with gunpowder and iron balls and fixed it on the ground, he asked the Prime Minister: "Your Excellency, Prime Minister

, have you seen the three-meter-high stone in the distance, and how far do you think it is from us?"

Prime Minister Marquis Franco: "I personally think it is almost three hundred meters. Someone needs to measure the specific distance."

Zhang Cheng: "This distance must be beyond the distance of a bow and arrow, right?"

Prime Minister Marquis Franco: "Of course, even if the knight can throw it this far with a hard bow, there is no accuracy. This distance is a waste of energy."

Zhang Cheng: "Now, this epoch-making artillery has been aimed at that big rock. Now we have to see its power. Please, Prime Minister, please stay away from the artillery. There is actually no danger, but the sound is still very loud."

.It’s better to plug your ears with cotton.”

The Prime Minister took a few steps back. The valet beside him had already heard the words and tore off his cotton shirt and plugged the ears of the Marquis.

Watching the Prime Minister plug his ears, Zhang Cheng took a torch and lit the gunpowder fuse on the cannon. A second later, there was a loud "bang" sound, and the iron ball hit the direction of the boulder at a speed that was almost invisible to the naked eye. Under the Prime Minister's knight's hand,

With his gaze, he knocked down a fist-sized piece of gravel from the boulder three hundred meters in front of him, and then the iron ball bounced to the ground.

After seeing it, the Prime Minister said: "In other words, this epoch-making weapon, which makes such a loud noise, is actually not very effective in attacking city walls and fortresses."

Zhang Cheng: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister, because of limited capabilities, the artillery I designed is just a field artillery. With this design, there will always be powerful artillery that can capture fortresses and city walls. However, as far as the field artillery in front of us is concerned, no matter what
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