"When you go back to Your Highness, during the period when Your Highness went to Goryeo, I ordered the craftsmen to polish a broach that specializes in cutting the rifle of the artillery. Ten days ago, the military artillery began to be improved." Wang Ying signaled Zhao Xu to go to the artillery workshop and introduced, "Thirty-six artillery have been improved for His Highness to inspect."

Zhao Xu nodded, the rifled gun is an enlarged version of the rifled gun.

In this era, guns and cannons are inseparable.

The Military Affairs Office can rifle the rifled rifle. If the technology is slightly improved, it can naturally rifle the rifled rifle.

Therefore, Wang Ying successfully transformed the smoothbore gun into a rifled gun, which is a matter of course and is not worthy of surprise.

The two of them said, and went to the warehouse of the artillery workshop.

Here, thirty-six field artillery are arranged in sequence.

Zhao Xu walked over and stared at the cannon chamber to inspect.

The inside is etched with regular rifles.

Satisfied with this, Zhao Xu looked at Wang Ying and asked: "This rifled gun is fine. However, if this rifled gun is powerful on the battlefield, one thing needs to be solved. Do you know?"

He did not explain directly, but asked Wang Ying.

This is not to show off oneself.

Instead, it is to test whether Wang Ying has his own independent thinking on firearms.

When he came back from Goryeo this time, he believed that it was necessary to build a firearms research and development institute in the Military Affairs Office just like building a research and development institute.

Then he took some students from the Science and Technology Academy to hand them over to Wang Ying, and asked him to independently develop firearms according to the tasks he gave him.

After all, the structure of firearms will only become more and more complex in the future, and it will not be possible to rely solely on Wang Ying alone.

Otherwise, this will drag down the speed of Dasong weapon renewal.

"Your Highness, this is not a problem for me." Wang Ying smiled softly when he heard this.

Carrying the box to the left of the field cannon, he took out a conical shell from it.

When he came to Zhao Xu, Wang Ying said: "Like a rifled rifle, a round bullet is not convenient to fill. Inspired by the rifle, I also improved the shells, so this cone shell was created."

Zhao Xu showed a satisfied look and asked again, "But the round shells can roll on the ground and bounce to kill the enemy, but the conical shells cannot seem to be like this?"

"Hehe..." Wang Ying smiled proudly, knowing that King Yan was testing him.

So he said, "So, this cone shell is a flowering shell that can be exploded. Please see, Your Highness."

While talking, Wang Ying twisted the structure of the front section of the shell like a bottle cap, and soon twisted a long screw off.

Wang Ying showed Zhao Xu the screws and the upper end of the shells.

"I replaced the round flowering bullet with a bolt. There is a small hole in the middle of the bolt that can be inserted into the wire. The shell opening is a thread. The time when the shell explodes can be controlled by rotating the screw." Wang Ying explained.

"Well, it's very good. You've touched the development route of the rifled cannon right." Zhao Xu patted Wang Ying's shoulder.

In fact, Wang Ying created this cone shell, which actually changed the previous round flowering shell into a shape, turning the plug into a metal bolt to ensure that the yellow gunpowder exploded the bullet, rather than spraying it out of the top of the shell like a firework and turning it into a dud bullet.

But this improvement is very remarkable, just like the change in the shape of a rifled gun bullet, which is enough to cause a military change.

Just like the current Western land, they have the ability to make rifled guns, but the habits over the past few hundred years have made them unable to imagine that the bullets can still be cone-shaped.

But once they understand, they will apply it quickly.

In contemporary times, the changes in rifled gun bullets have also gone through this process.

One side first used a rifled rifle of a cone-shaped bullet on the battlefield, and then the other side immediately followed up.

Therefore, Zhao Xu has always been worried that the two wars between Going South and Goryeo were afraid that the secret of the cone bullet would be exposed.

The other party will definitely study the secret of the Yanzhou rifled rifle.

But he was not worried about this.

From research to comprehensive follow-up, it will take at least two or three years for the other party to go through.

This period of time is enough for the royal family's personal army to equip the next generation of rifled rifles.

It was precisely this consideration that made him decide to reorganize the Military Affairs Office, make it regular, and build a modern military research and development system.

"Your Highness is a rude, it's just inspired by a cone bullet." Wang Ying politely said.

Zhao Xu took the conical shell and looked at him again, becoming more and more satisfied.

With conical shells, rifled field guns will have the same accuracy as rifled guns. They will hit wherever they point, and will exert terrible power on the battlefield.

Not only can you kill the enemy through straight line collisions, but you can also kill the enemy through explosions.

But the biggest change between rifled guns and conical shells is not the army, but the navy.

First of all, the navy launches a rifled gun, and the range and accuracy of the naval gun will be greatly improved again.

Secondly, conical shells are easier to pierce the hull than circular shells.

Just imagine how a terrible scene would it be to explode a cone shell inside a wooden warship.

In modern history, it was precisely because of the emergence of conical flowering bullets that wooden sail warships quickly declined, and iron armored ships covered with thick iron armor appeared.

At the same time, there are no longer so many artillery positions on the warships.

Because just a few shells are hit, the opponent will be basically finished.

Thinking of this, he said to Wang Ying: "You send a team of people to Jinghai County, transport both the steam engine and the artillery broach, improve the naval naval guns, and then create a batch of conical shells needed for naval guns."

"Yes, Your Highness." Wang Ying replied very simply.

Then, Zhao Xu talked to Wang Ying about the Firearms Research and Development Institute.

Wang Ying was naturally extremely happy about this.

His son is in charge of a research and development institute, but he is not as good as his son.

Now that he is eating at home, he has no confidence to teach Wang Chong a lesson.

After receiving this important task, he suddenly felt straightened.

After staying in the military command for a while, Zhao Xu returned to the royal palace.

All the arrangements should be made in the past few days.

Next, he just needs to wait for the ripe melon to fall.

In addition to these, Chen Shou promised him that the steamboat was launched in November.

It is already mid-September now, and in just over a month, good news should come.

Thinking of the Shipbuilding Department, Zhao Xu believed that a batch of shipbuilding workshops should be continued to be built and dumplings should be prepared.

After all, in the future, the British fleet in the East will be the tip of the iceberg of the British fleet.

There are more than 500 warships in Britain now spread all over the world.

This does not include warships from other Western countries.

Moreover, today, Western countries have the ability to build steamships.

It cannot be reflected in peacetime. Once a large war breaks out, they will explode their production capacity.

More steamships will be put into service by then.

Therefore, the shipbuilding ability must not be behind.

Of course, there is another point.

Steamboats can be used not only for military purposes, but also for civilian purposes.

He hopes that some steamships will participate in water transportation.

In this way, with the developed water network of Dasong, the coal of Jinzhou, the soda ash of Yuzhou, the graphite of Qizhou, and the iron ore of Yanzhou can be transferred in Jiangbei to promote the development of industry.

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At the same time, Lincheng.

A steamboat slowly docked at the dock.
Chapter completed!