industrial lord

Chapter 109
In the afternoon, Richard Nall arranged a shooting demonstration for Frederick on the barracks shooting range.

There was a gunshot, and a row of straw men [-] meters away shook for a while, and white smoke came out at the same time.

Flames quickly burst out of the dry grass, and the target became a huge torch in a short while.

A few blue shadows descended from the sky, and when they landed on the ground, a burst of cold air burst out, freezing all the straw figures burning around them with ice, and the flames disappeared immediately.

Frederick was silent for a long time, and reached out to the shooter beside him for the pea gun officially finalized for the Biography Army.

The biggest difference between the officially finalized pea gun and the preliminary finalized model I saw last time is that the butt has been changed from wood to iron.

A very counter-intuitive thing, wooden stocks are more expensive than metal stocks.

Because the wood of the wooden gun stock is strong and good wood, the cost is not low, and processing it into the shape of the gun stock requires a lot of labor costs.

The metal gun stock is simple. The steel rolling machine rolls out the thin steel plate, stamps it into shape, and then performs blueing treatment. When assembling, use screws and nuts to fix the two parts of the gun stock, and then drip melted glue into the screw hole to prevent water and water. Dust, combined, the cost is cheaper than wood, and the time is shorter.

But this was not what Frederick cared about. After taking the gun, he took off a sleeve from the muzzle and studied it carefully.

The body of the sleeve is palm-length, and it is fixed on the bayonet frame by the frame. After installation, one end of the sleeve is covered with the muzzle, and the bullet passes through the sleeve when shooting.

This is not a muffler, but has other uses.

"How?" Richard Nall said triumphantly, "The bullet enchanter I invented can make the ordinary bullets of the pea gun have a flame effect."

Weapon enchanting has a long history, and magical crossbowmen will enchant arrows to increase speed or lethality.

Enchanting takes time. Rough magic crossbowmen need more than a dozen breaths to attach magic that can ignite firewood to arrows. Excellent magic crossbowmen can do it in the blink of an eye, while more powerful explosion magic requires more time. long time.

The muzzle velocity of the bullet is very high, and there is very little time left for the enchanter. It is not easy to enchant the bullet in such a short time.

Frederick studied the sleeve carefully and found that it was made of multiple layers of metal, with several layers of magic circles inside, and it seemed that miracles were performed by force.

He frowned and asked: "The price is not low, right? Does it consume a lot of magic crystals?"

Richard Nall was immediately discouraged, and said helplessly: "Yes, production and use are not cheap, and they can only be equipped on a small scale."

Frederick nodded and said, "It can only be used by the elite of Heijiabao."

In the case of not being able to equip a large number of enchanting accessories, it is better to use these resources to strengthen the grenade launcher.

As he said that, he took the blue grenade fired just now, which contained a frost magic circle, and the price was low.

Richard Nall introduced: "This kind of warhead can freeze people instantly, without much movement, and it is very effective for quietly solving patrols."

This unit is to operate behind enemy lines, and how to avoid patrols is the key research direction.

However, Frederick felt that there was something wrong with this "quietly".

He suddenly remembered something, and said: "I think it is also good for fire fighting. I will... let someone study it first, and equip it for fire brigades everywhere."

At this time, he discovered a problem. He did not have a secretary, and some tasks such as conveying orders and paperwork were not easy to carry out.

For things like arranging fire grenades this time, it is enough to arrange for the Executive Yuan to take the lead in handling it, but there is no full-time staff around to send orders.

Although he has maids like Tarot by his side, they can still take care of life, and the secretarial work is fine.

Putting aside the matter of the maid, Frederick and Richard Nall continued to watch the training at the side of the shooting range.

Frederick said with some concern: "Master, I'm worried that someone will plot against you."

"As long as you are here, others will not dare to attack me easily, and you must be let go before fighting against me."

Richard Nall nodded and said, "That's true, but what can they do, it's nothing more than assassination and poisoning, and at most a seduction."

"I raised my hand to kill a Dharma God in Constantbul, who can guarantee to kill me now?"

"Poisoning is more troublesome, but there are not many poisons that are effective for people like us, and the effect is limited."

"Seduction, I think the more the better."

Frederick heard the last black thread, and said with some concern: "I am worried about Sister Katie's mother, if someone kidnaps..."

He couldn't go on, and found Richard Nall looking at himself with eyes that looked foolish.

"You don't have to worry about that." Richard Nall shook his head and said, "Only Mafia can kidnap others, no one can kidnap her."

Frederick blinked his eyes, it seemed that his mistress was very powerful.

"Think about yourself." Richard Nall patted his head, "You and I are just the opposite. Seduction is useless to you, but assassination and poisoning are very useful."

Frederick curled his lips. In fact, it's not bad to seduce yourself. You can let the villains think about it.

"I don't care about them." Frederick shook his head. "Is this army ready for use next year? I plan to ask them to help open the city gate when we start our counterattack."

Richard Nall looked at him in surprise, and asked incredulously, "Why, are you going to take all the neighbor's land?"

Frederick said as a matter of course: "That's natural, the Wessen collar is too small, and the Wessen state is enough."

This time it was Richard Nall's turn to get a black line. He shook his head and sighed: "Your ambition is not small, and I have to call you Grand Duke Wesson at that time."

"But how do you plan to expand? You won't be able to fight the Principality of Mainz in the west, and you won't be able to defeat the Principality of Bayne in the south for a while, so you can only fight north."

"The most important thing in the north is the Free City of Nuremberg. It is barely enough to occupy there and the surrounding area, but you are about to meet the Osmarga Empire, and the surrounding area is their sphere of influence."

Frederick replied: "I am not in a hurry to expand. I will first swallow the land of several neighbors around me, and then slowly digest it."

"I still owe the king 5000 florins. There are still four years before the deadline. I want to see if he dares to ask me at that time."

"Why don't you dare." Richard Nall sneered, "When the king finds a royal woman and recognizes his sister as your wife, it's not too much for Big Brother to ask his brother-in-law for some money, right?"

Frederick blinked, jumped up in surprise, and shouted: "Can there be such an operation?!"

Richard Nall said with a smirk: "Why can't you have it? According to your seniority, you should be the king's little brother. Brother, what's wrong with a brother whose parents both died?"

Frederick's eyes widened, and he took a few deep breaths before he said, "You can't be so shameless."

Richard Nall shrugged, and said as a matter of course: "That's the king, as long as there are enough interests, it doesn't matter if you are shameless."

"Besides, you can find a scapegoat for the previous incident, and say that the incident of framing your father was his slander. Now the king has come to his senses, and he and you have abandoned the past, which is a good story."

Several expressions on Frederick's face changed like a lantern. Based on his understanding of those political creatures, this kind of thing is very likely to happen.

"No!" he said, squinting his eyes. "I can't let this happen."

Richard Nall asked him with some expectation: "Then what are you going to do?"

"Hit!" Frederick said murderously, "hit with one punch, and avoid a hundred punches! Hit him hard, hurt him, until he dare not think carefully! I want to expand the army!" !!"

Richard Nall rolled his eyes at him and said helplessly, "Do you have that many people?"

The mobilization rate in agricultural society is not high, and if the standing army exceeds 5%, production will be affected. Wessen collar, which has about 10 people, will have about 4000 soldiers after completing the autumn conscription this year, which is about to affect production.

Frederick said calmly: "What I want to expand is not the standing army, but the militia, the 'one minute man'!"

(End of this chapter)