"We must resolve the civil strife in Dasong as soon as possible." The content of the questionnaire made Zhao Xu suddenly feel urgency.

Compared with the Western countries, the industrialization of Yanzhou has just begun.

If you compare your comprehensive strength, Yanzhou is probably not as good as any Western country today.

The only thing that is lucky is that he has a local advantage.

Moreover, the sword is arbitrary and military tricks, so that the rifled rifles of the current royal army are at the level of the 1850s.

Although all the Western and Turkish countries are currently equipped with some rifled guns.

However, they have not yet mastered the mystery of cone bullets.

This will allow him to maintain an advantage for a while.

However, it is obviously unrealistic to rely on only one Yanzhou to fight against the entire industrial country in the Western Land.

Fighting wars at home can still make ends meet.

But if you want to go abroad to fight, the manpower, material resources and financial resources will be huge, which will reflect the importance of comprehensive national strength at this time.

Therefore, he must unify Dasong, fully promote industrialization, and actively explore overseas markets to make Dasong rich.

After all, the industrial countries of the Western Land have now set their sights on the last pure land of the Eastern Land.

And colonized the Southeast Asian region and Central Asia that are equivalent to contemporary times.

Using this as a springboard, they will continue to erode northward.

He certainly could not tolerate this.

There will inevitably be a war between them.

And the most important point is that there is a huge continent in the distant waters southeast of Dasong.

This continent is the Australian continent.

According to Fei Wen, there are only more than 500,000 Britons who have settled in this continent at present.

How can he be worthy of his descendants if he doesn't take this big piece of fat meat while taking advantage of this era?

To take over this continent, it will definitely fight against the current superpower, Britain, in this world.

According to his memory, in this contemporary period, the British ruled 33 million square kilometers, and the British Queen ruled 450 million people, including colonies.

It is definitely the superpower nowadays.

He must do his best to confront such a powerful group led by superpowers and followed by other Western countries.

Otherwise, his fate would be like Napoleon defeated by the anti-French alliance, or even worse.

"Your Highness, what is this?" When Zhao Xu was in deep thought, Zhou Yi looked at the drawing he was drawing.

After being stunned for a moment, Zhao Xu came to his senses and then smiled, "This thing is called a grenade, which is prepared for the soldiers of the royal palace.

Zhou Yi was a little disappointed, and he thought his navy could benefit from it.

Zhao Xu noticed Zhou Yi's expression and smiled helplessly.

The Navy and the Army are like two children they raise, and they always feel sore from each other because they have more and less.

So he said, "You don't need to envy this. I am already asking Chen Shou to build a steamship powered by steam. These will be your navy in the future."

Zhou Yi's expression suddenly changed from unhappy to ecstasy. A pleat appeared on his face and said repeatedly: "Thank you, Your Highness."

Zhao Xu was too lazy to pay attention to him. According to him, Fei Wen had sent people to Jakar City. In this way, the Japanese maritime alliance went bankrupt.

Then, his energy will be concentrated on the second Lucheng League.

According to the news provided by Tsui Hark two days ago, the envoys of the Northern Di and the envoys of the powerful clan will arrive in Lucheng in the next two days.

This alliance will decide to discuss the next actions of Yan Alliance.

But he didn't care about this anymore.

Anyway, no matter what result they discussed, when the yellow gunpowder is sufficient, he will let the royal family go south.

At the same time, if Japan takes action at sea, he will ask Zhou Yi to deal with the Japanese navy.

In the direction of Qinzhou, he would also let Ma Han start a war and take back Qinzhou and Yongzhou.

It is easy for people in Beidi to come, but it is not that easy to go back.

Resolutely speaking, he asked Zhou Yi to go back, and he took the drawings to the Military Affairs Office.

He did not develop grenades on a whim, but exposed some problems during street fighting in Pingyuan City.

On the vast battlefield, the advantages of the royal mansion's pro-army muskets are undoubtedly.

But if you enter street fighting, the distance between soldiers will be reduced to tens of meters, and there is no big difference between a flintlock rifle with a range of only one hundred meters and a rifled rifle with a range of three hundred meters.

At this time, casualties will increase rapidly. When the attack on Pingyuan City is attacked, the most casualties will occur during street fighting.

The soldiers of Qi who were hiding in various buildings sometimes did not even need a flintlock rifle, but simply rushed out with a sword and suddenly killed and injured the soldiers of the royal palace.

Therefore, soldiers of the royal palace will face life danger when they enter the house to search.

Next, facing the war of Unification, such street fighting will only be very frequent.

If this problem cannot be solved, the royal family members will suffer major casualties.

So, after thinking about it, he felt that among the weapons to deal with street combat, the only one that can have the conditions for research and construction is grenades.

At that time, the soldiers find that there are soldiers from enemy countries in the house, so they just need to throw grenades in.

When he arrived at the Military Affairs Office, Zhao Xu called Wang Ying to study the grenade drawings with him.

In contemporary history, after the invention of gunpowder, the most primitive grenades first appeared in China.

The grenade at that time was called Botian Lei, which was a spherical ceramic jar with black gunpowder stuffed inside, and a medicine twist on the outside, ignite it and throw it out.

However, the power of this kind of sky-burning thunder is similar to that of contemporary firecrackers, and it does not cause much damage to the enemy.

As a result, this kind of thunder gradually disappeared.

Later, grenades were transmitted to the West, and the army of grenadiers was born in the 156th century.

In fact, it is equivalent to a soldier throwing it forward with a flowering bullet.

But this kind of grenade is still very primitive. It was not until the 19th century that the real grenade appeared with the birth of yellow gunpowder.

After all, with the power of black gunpowder, the grenade's body is too small, has no power, is too big, and is very bulky.

Only by increasing the power of gunpowder can this contradiction be solved.

This is also the reason why he is only developing grenades now, because the previous conditions are not met.

"The main difficulty should be this fire tube." Wang Ying noticed the labeling of the small tube on the drawing.

Zhao Xu nodded, and what he asked Wang Ying to make was a wooden handle grenade.

This grenade is simple in structure and relatively easy to manufacture.

The only difficulty is the firing tube.

However, at present, Yanzhou has the conditions to produce such fire pipes.

The principle of this kind of fire pipe is to use a steel pipe to contain glass powder, and roll a copper wire into a ball and place it in the glass powder.

At one end of the copper wire, the fuse rope is connected, and the other end is connected with gunpowder twist and sulfur.

The friction between copper wire and glass powder will ignite the fuse and sulfur, then ignite the gunpowder, and eventually explode.

The most important raw material is glass powder.
Chapter completed!