The rise of the prince

Chapter 545 Development of the Palace
Some marine mammals in the dolphin family are highly intelligent.

The leader of the dolphin family, dominating all oceans of the world, from giant whales, to great white sharks, to small fish and shrimps are all killer whales on the plate. The brain capacity is four times that of human beings, and the IQ is equivalent to human beings from seven to 15 years old In between, they will cooperate with fishermen to hunt, will be depressed and voluntarily stranded to commit suicide, and will try to imitate human language to communicate with humans just like humans try to communicate with them.

When they try to communicate with humans, they imitate the sound of a boat's motor, because they mistake it for human language.

But such creatures still cannot evolve a high degree of civilization like human beings. There may be various reasons, but one of them is certain. They do not have human-like dexterous hands that can be used to make tools.

Their survival and killing can only rely on their own physical fitness, so the killing technology of killer whales has been developing and changing, and they are making progress in learning and changing with each passing day, allowing them to easily reach the top of the food chain and walk sideways in the oceans, but after that they cannot go any further. .

But people can, relying on dexterous hands, relying on creating tools.

Just like drawing rifling by hand, it is very difficult to polish the boring tool by means, but as long as the craftsmen make up their minds, or induce them with huge benefits, there is nothing impossible.

By mid-May, Qiu'er happily told him that the first steam engine had been assembled. Of course, the problem of service life was still unresolved.

This is expected, the boring tool is made to solve the problem of steam engine life.

He also talked with Qiuer Bingzhuye for several nights, about the next generation of steam engines, the cylinder will be rounded to eliminate stress at the four corners, and the internal bore of the cylinder will be bored out by the boring machine driven by the first generation steam engine, so that Can solve the service life problem.

Of course, these are all based on the grinding of the boring tool.

On the other side, Zhao Si brought Tieniu, Guan Zhong and others, but the research on the new shells has reached a bottleneck. The reason is very simple. The conical warhead cannot control the flight posture of the shells, which will cause the shells to deviate from the intended target far away. I can't make it right.

For the past few days, Zhao Si lived in the backyard every day. He didn't go home for almost a month, and he lost a lot of weight.

Li Xingzhou went to see it several times, and told him not to put too much pressure on it and take his time, but Zhao Si was actually very serious about being serious with him, and he just stuck there and refused to leave, even he couldn't convince him.

On the side of the new army, with the help of Wei Yubai, the training of the cavalry was finally on the right track. Wei Yubai was also taken aback by the full-body plate armor of the palace at first. After all, the armor made of tool steel level steel is not a joke. If it is 50 meters In addition, even Wangfu's sudden-fire guns could not guarantee penetration, let alone bows and crossbows.

Li Xingzhou also specially asked the craftsmen of the palace to make a unique set of plate armor for Wei Yubai according to Wei Yubai's size.

Three thousand cavalry is not a small number for Jing Guo, and this time leaving the new army to guard the capital also gave Wei Yubai more time to train the cavalry.

The cavalry of the palace are all trained as light cavalry. The so-called weight of cavalry is not distinguished by the weight of equipment, but by its function in combat.

The light cavalry is responsible for raiding and outflanking.The heavy cavalry needs to break up the enemy's formation head-on.

The cavalry of the new army does not need to attack the frontal battlefield. If they attack frontally, it will hinder the shooting of firearms.

Therefore, although the cavalry of the new army were equipped with good defensive capabilities, they were trained as light cavalry. He also explained this clearly to Wei Yubai.

The final end of the Mongolian iron cavalry was a disastrous defeat in the approaching shooting of France.

Musketeers and artillery can completely take over the frontal battlefield. Now Li Xingzhou fully believes that no army in the world dares to face the new army with hard steel.

What the new army is afraid of is that the opponent will run away if they can't fight, and it will be difficult to expand the results of the battle, and this is the meaning of the existence of the three thousand cavalry of the new army.It is also the reason why so many breastplate cavalry were active on the firearms battlefield in the eighteenth century.

Di Zhi also saw it very clearly. He once suggested to him not to keep [-] full-plate cavalry, but to change all of them into half-heavy breastplate cavalry.

Li Xingzhou was very relieved when he heard this. Obviously, Di Zhi had gradually understood the new army's combat philosophy, but he still refused. The [-] full-body plate cavalry is the last insurance.

Everything in the palace was business as usual. When Li Xingzhou was about to go to Kangwang's mansion for an appointment, another major event happened in the palace. Chen Yu, a scholar of the Hanlin University, argued with the emperor again in the imperial study, and the reason was still a commonplace topic.

Opposed to Meng Zhiye, Cheng Jin and others being ordered to write a book, the emperor was really angry this time, and in a rage he demoted Chen Yu to a commoner and removed him from the position of Hanlin University scholar.

This time the turmoil was not as big as Zhong Daoyu's, and because many people had been mentally prepared, Chen Yu contradicted the emperor not once or twice.

Li Xingzhou sighed in his heart when he heard this, the old man was serious and never let go.
Obviously at such an old age, he is about to start and end well, but he is not hesitating about his life. Even if he sacrifices his fame and fortune, he must stick to his truth.

The Chen Mansion is next door, not as taboo as the General's Mansion, so Li Xingzhou went to see him that night.

Chen Yu's face was normal, and he said something that he had expected to be like this.

Li Xingzhou said with a smile: "If there were too many predictions, Mr. Chen should get away."

"I can't get away, I can't get away." He shook his head: "The old man only recognizes reason, and the prince only recognizes things. Therefore, if there are people who do things, there must be people who are reasonable. Fame and fortune are just passing by."

Li Xingzhou didn't say much, talked for a while, then put down the gift and left.

When he came to the door, it was Chen Yu's eldest son Chen Wenxi who saw him off. He looked hesitant, as if asking for something, Li Xingzhou said: "If Uncle Chen has something to do, you might as well just tell him."

After Chen Wenxi hesitated again and again, he was embarrassed to tell the truth, because his father was dismissed from office, he lost his salary, and because he contradicted the emperor, many relatives, friends, and colleagues in the officialdom dared not associate with them. Now the Chen family is gradually unable to make ends meet.

In addition, Yongyue Pavilion, which still has a cold business, is even more unsustainable. He wants to resell Yongyue Pavilion, and wants to ask the palace to buy it.

It was difficult for Li Xingzhou to make a decision right away, because if he wanted to buy Yongyue Pavilion, it would be at least tens of thousands of taels of business, and there was also the question of whether he could make money in the future.

So after evading it, I went back to find Shiyu to discuss.

Early the next morning, the day agreed with Prince Kang arrived, and Li Xingzhou couldn't wait.

In the early morning, I washed and dressed under the service of Gillian, had breakfast, and then went to the stables of the palace to feed Meixue, and Zhao Si's business of shooting cannons came from the back mountain one after another.

Afterwards, he sent someone to the new army camp outside the city to call Di Zhi back.

Di Zhi rode a fast horse to see him at the palace, and when he heard that he was going to Kangwang's palace, he also looked confused.

"It's not unusual for a prince to go to the palace, but what does this have to do with his subordinates?" Di Zhi asked.

"It's a big deal, you come with me." Li Xingzhou said to the bewildered Di Zhi, and then hung some prepared gifts on his saddle: "When we arrive at King Kang's Mansion, I will say that these are from you." .”

"Huh?" Di Zhi looked confused, but still nodded, although he didn't know why.

(End of this chapter)