Chapter 840: Precision dilemma

"The emperor, Cao Zhengyang has explained everything."
Entering the Imperial Study Room, Li San handed a confession to Xiao Ming.
They have been interrogated for a month since Cao Zhengyang was arrested. At the beginning, Cao Zhengyang's mouth was very hard and he refused to admit that he was deliberately sabotaged by the Cao family. Even though Li San used some criminal laws, Cao Zhengyang still refused to say.
In the end, Li San had to put Cao Zhengyang in the confinement room and woke him up whenever Cao Zhengyang was about to fall asleep. After persisting for three days, Cao Zhengyang, who could not stand the mental torture, finally vomited all of them. .
"Sure enough, it was Cao Kun's order." Xiao Ming glanced at the confession and said, Cao Zhengyang made it clear that it was Cao Kun's message to him.
In addition, Cao Zhengyang also gave some important information about Chu.
"The Merchant Council was established a month ago, and now Cao Kun is the Speaker. Cao Zhengyang’s older brother Cao Zhengtong is the long history of the Wei Dynasty. According to Cao Zhengyang, the Merchant Council is planning to obtain military power. If they succeed, the King of Chu will become Puppet. "These news also shocked Li San. In his opinion, a businessman seeking government affairs has been shocked to the world, and now he is trying to get involved in the army.
Xiao Ming was also a little surprised, "The King of Chu must be crazy. Once he gets the military power, the Cao family has the final say in Chu State."
"Chu knows the West better than we do, and the Cao family has talked to the king of Chu about Western monarchs more than once. Between life and death, he may believe in the Cao family more." Li San said cautiously.
Xiao Ming sighed. Now the problem lies in this place. No matter how he releases his kindness, King Chu has always refused to believe him. He now firmly believes that even if he surrenders to Xiao Ming, he will eventually kill him. It can only be said that Chu is too shrewd. .
He said, "You are right. Now King Chu doesn't believe me anyway, so he will not surrender to me at all."
Li San laughed when he heard the words. He said: "The emperor, this may not be a good thing. We have some scruples about the Chu King. If the Cao family controls the merchant council and gains military power, then the emperor does not have to worry about the Chu King. Or not, we all have good reasons to go south. If the emperor wants to make Chu state a little faster, maybe the emperor can send a secret guard to assassinate the king of Chu."
Xiao Ming also thought of this. Now that Chu Wang's son Li Chuyuan is in Qingzhou, once the Chu King dies, Li Chuyuan must go back to succeed. This is the rule of the Great Yu Kingdom.
King Chu may be willing to share the power with others in order to steal his life, but Li Chuyuan would not agree, after all, he is the next King of Chu.
"That’s what I think. Since King Chu made me unhappy, why did I let King Chu live in peace? As long as King Chu dies, he can let Li Chuyuan go back to fight the Cao family. I can't say that Li Chuyuan will ask me at that time. Send soldiers to save him, what do you think?"
Xiao Ming made up his mind that the so-called soldiers, the country's major events, the place of death and life, the way of survival, must not be ignored, and war cannot be willful at any time. The contemporary United States in the Vietnam War and the failure of North Korea are enough to explain this problem.
Advanced weapons may not necessarily be able to win the war, or even the victory will pay a heavy price.
And this is not what Xiao Ming wants to see, so even if Dayu State is equipped with advanced firearms, he still plans and moves after every war, trying every means to reduce losses, or directly defeating the enemy without fighting.
"The emperor is wise, in this way, it has won time for the deployment of the army, and can reduce casualties, and at the same time is famous for the division." Li San said.
Xiao Ming continued to read the news that Cao Zhengyang confided. In addition to the parliament and the army, the Cao family and France were also hooking up and buying a lot of Western firearms.
At the same time, other businessmen who supported the King of Chu also spared no effort to help the King of Chu, trying to get rid of his rule.
"It seems that I want to have a serious talk with Li Chuyuan, and fan the flames for him by the way." Xiao Ming said with a smile.
After a pause, he said, "Are you confident in assassinating King Chu?"
Li San laughed twice and said: "The emperor, it is said that Song Changping is developing a musket that loads ammunition from the of the gun. This musket can be shot in any posture, and its accuracy and rate of fire are better than those of a conquered musket. It is estimated that the emperor can give a gun like this to the next official, it is not a big problem."
It is not surprising that Li San knew this secret, because Song Changping, Lin Wentao and others were under the surveillance of the secret guard, and it was normal for Li San to get some information.
Even Song Changping had a movement, Li San would know, even before he knew it.
As soon as his words fell, a young came to the door and whispered a few words to Qian Dafu. Qian Dafu smiled and said, "The emperor, this really means Cao Cao, Cao Cao has arrived, and Song Changping is asking for a meeting outside the palace."
Xiao Ming squinted at Li San. He said, "It seems you already know."
Li San smiled and scratched his head.
After waiting for a while, Song Changping went to the door of the Imperial Study Room and saw Song Changping holding a musket in his hand. He was surprised: "Song Changping, isn't this a breech gun, right?"
Song Changping nodded. He said: "Yes, the junior officer has already tested it on the school grounds. This gun can use paper shell bullets to shoot directly, but because of the complexity of the locking structure, it may be difficult to refit the conquered guns in large quantities. There are only sixty-three parts on the locking mechanism, and many parts have different shapes. In order to produce such parts, more precise machine tools are needed."
Xiao Ming understands, Song Changping is not here to invite credit but to complain~EbookFREE.me~ In fact, the locking structure requires high machining accuracy, which can only be achieved by a high-precision lathe. Otherwise, mass production is impossible at all.
It is thought that the difference in the size of the parts cannot be assembled at all.
As if to explain the breech gun in his hand, he said: "This gun was assembled by the officer himself by polishing the parts. It took a month to assemble it. Even so, the combination of some parts is not very suitable, but in general, Barely works."
Xiao Ming took this breech gun. The locking structure of this gun was still provided to Song Changping. Generally speaking, this gun is somewhat similar to the Sharps breech gun. The locking structure also uses a falling locking mechanism, which is thickened. The trigger guard acts as a pull rod to drive a lifting block to move up and down to open and close the barrel.
The most difficult part is one of the hinge structure. There are many parts in this structure, which is also the processing difficulty that Song Changping said.
"Originally, when I was finished with this currency, I wanted to find you." Xiao Ming said, "This gun is only used as a sniper rifle in the army for the time being. Since it is difficult, I will manually manufacture a small amount of equipment. I let Lin Wentao think about this precision. The lathe matter."