Chapter 260: , The Pakistan Fair and Wonder

"A model? What does this mean?" Napoleon asked.
"I saw the report of that cute'lunatic'." Joseph said, "There has been enough information. Well, it floats under the water to a certain depth. Once it is hit, it will explode... Hehe, look. Up to this description, I roughly know what it is. This thing is very simple, except for creativity, there is no other difficulty. And this creativity is directly expressed in appearance. Those who know how to do it, take a look. The shape, you know what it is. Or, do you have a pen and paper here? I can draw one for you now."
Napoleon took out a piece of paper and handed over a charcoal pen for sketching. Joseph took the pen and paper, brushed twice, and drew a sketch.
"The painting is really ugly!" Napoleon frowned, "Lucien is much better than you when it comes to painting. In addition, this thing is ugly enough."
"Napoleon, you see, there is an anchor chain under this thing. If you want to hide it in the water to what depth, you just need to adjust the length of the anchor chain. The sphere itself is a pontoon with explosives inside. These tentacles The same bump is to trigger the fuze. Well, this kind of fuze is also quite simple."
"Quite simple?" Napoleon said, "I remember not long ago that you delayed the development of the trigger fuze indefinitely because of the difficulty in the development of the trigger fuze and its poor reliability. Now you say that the trigger fuze is easy?"
"That’s because what we just postponed was the trigger fuze for the cannonball. Can these two things be the same thing? If this trigger fuze is placed in the cannonball, just the acceleration when it is launched is enough to keep it in the cannon. The inside of the tube exploded. Could this be a thing? Like this low-demand trigger fuze, I can draw one in less than a minute.
Well, you see, this antennae, which is made of lead on the outside, is relatively soft, and will bend and deform when subjected to a violent impact. And inside this antenna is a glass bottle full of sulfuric acid. Below the glass bottle is a battery lacking electrolyte, and its positive and negative poles are connected to a set of electric detonators. As long as the tentacles are hit, the lead casing will bend and deform, the glass bottle inside will be broken, and then the sulfuric acid will flow out, and then the battery will generate current, the current will drive the electric detonator, and then it will cause an explosion. too easy. "
Napoleon was not surprised that Joseph was able to come up with such a solution so quickly that it sounded no problem at all, because he knew that the Institute of the Military-Industrial Complex had previously conducted some feasibility studies on triggering fuzes, although this The feasibility study did not continue, but in the process, a series of problematic design schemes must be shot down. But now, the fuze plan that Joseph drew in two strokes should be a plan that was shot before, and it should be changed a little bit at best.
"Well, you have someone get that model out as soon as possible, and then we think of a way to let the British spy take a look..." Napoleon said.
"Where does it need to be so troublesome?" Joseph said. "Isn't the Ministry of Foreign Trade organizing the first Paris Import and Export Commodities Fair? Just drag it there and display and sell it with other weapons."
"Well, this is a good idea." Napoleon said, "I hope this thing will calm the British a little bit."
"Napoleon." Joseph looked at Napoleon in surprise and said, "I thought you would look forward to a war very much?"
"War is only a means to gain glory, not an end." Napoleon said, "As long as peace can bring us glory, then I don't necessarily like war especially."
Of course, even though Napoleon said so, Joseph knew that Napoleon loves peace so much now because of last year's bumper harvest, Napoleon gained wider support from the farmers. And if peace can continue this year, with the improvement of the water conservancy system, a bumper harvest this year can also be expected.
The bumper harvest allows farmers to live a better life, and also allows workers in the cities to have more and cheaper bread, which will surely increase his approval rating. Now in France, more and more people are chanting long live to him. As long as this trend does not change, how could Napoleon not love peace?
Speaking of the Paris Import and Export Commodities Fair of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, preparations were in progress a few months ago, and the venue was chosen to be outside of Paris in the direction of Versailles. This area was originally the property of the nobles, but was confiscated by the revolutionary government during the revolution.
In the original history, in order to claim the emperor, Napoleon tried to compromise with these old nobles, allowing them to return to the country, and returned part of the property to the old nobles who had returned. But in this time and space, Napoleon’s route does not need to compromise with these people at all, so these lands are still public lands owned by the government.
Napoleon sold the land at low prices to the retired soldiers in order to gain control of the countryside. In this area, more land was left as land for various facilities of the future "Roman Empire". Today, the location of the Paris Import and Export Fair is the location of the Civic Square prepared by Napoleon for the future "Roman Empire".
A few months ago, it was still a wasteland. However, the investment of two new technologies caused the environment here to change rapidly.
The first technology is cement.
Cement technology was not first developed by the French. In 1756, British engineer J. Smeton discovered the hardening characteristics of certain limes in water: to obtain hydraulic lime, limestone containing clay must be used for firing; For masonry mortar used in underwater construction, the most ideal composition is a combination of hydraulic lime and pozzolan.
On this basis, in 1796, the British J. Parker fired the so-called "Roman cement" from marl. But because of the high requirements for marl, it has not been widely used.
It was not until 1824 that the Englishman Joseph Aspuddin used limestone and clay to make the so-called Portland cement (Portland cement), and the cement was widely used.
However, now that there is Joseph, who is determined to make future students hate, cement, which has limited technical content, but has a very wide range of uses, but has a huge effect, of course, it will first appear in France.
And Napoleon also loved cement very much, because this thing can not only be used to build a strong fortress, but also can quickly build wonders at a very low cost.
All the "great rulers" or "famous tyrants" with the aura of the middle two auras, one of them counts as one, they are all wonders. Regardless of race, age, or cultural circle. From Khufu of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon; from Zulong of Da Qin to the prodigal son of Sui Dynasty; from Suryavarman II of Angkor Dynasty to Emperor Shah Jahan of India . All spectacle lovers. Of course, to varying degrees, they have verified a "famous saying" of later generations: Your Majesty, spectacles have misled the country!
Although Napoleon was also very passionate about spectacles, he was familiar with history, and he naturally knew the rule that "spectacles misled the country". Therefore, I have been working hard to restrain the desire of "Let's hammer a spectacle".
In the wars against Britain, Prussia, and Austria, Napoleon captured many cannons. At that time, Napoleon wanted to imitate the Rhode Islanders and use captured enemy weapons to melt and build a wonder. (In the original history, this was Napoleon's Column of Triumph.) However, this idea was ruthlessly destroyed by his elder brother. The captured enemy weapons were indeed melted, but they were all turned into wires or other things.
But the appearance of cement made Napoleon once again see the wonders of construction, and the possibility of constructing wonders at a very cheap price. Think about it, the wonders of ancient Rome are made of huge stones. Each stone has to be excavated, cut, transported, and stacked. I don't know how much manpower and material resources are needed. But if it is replaced with cement, it will be a lot easier.
The second technology is of course steel. With steelmaking, there are steel bars. In addition, with cement, there is reinforced concrete. Because the business of the first steel plant was very good, the second steel plant of Lorraine Iron and Steel Company was soon put into operation~EbookFREE.me~ Then as long as the funds can keep up, there will be a third steelmaking plant. Steel plant, the fourth steel plant.
Since Joseph and Napoleon mentioned the advantages of reinforced concrete construction technology, Napoleon's dream of spectacle that had been temporarily dead in his mind began to "spring breeze blowing again". It's just that Joseph has always emphasized that steel can make money, and it needs to be used where it can make money, so that he temporarily held down the wonder of Napoleon's hammer.
But then the plan of the Paris Import and Export Commodities Fair of the Ministry of Foreign Trade allowed Napoleon to finally find a reasonable and legal opportunity to hammer the spectacle.
Napoleon personally took the lead and brought in a bunch of artists and architects to design a big market full of ancient Roman flavor. If there is no reinforced concrete, this design Napoleon estimated that this project may take decades to complete, but with these things After calculating, if the material supply can keep up, the first phase of the project can be hammered out in a few months. Of course, the more important thing is that Joseph and Lucien agreed to hammer the big market.
Nowadays, the first phase of the big market has basically ended, with only the last decoration left, and the first Paris Import and Export Fair will officially open here in a month.
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