Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

"Impossible!" Krupp shouted excitedly.

"With just you two? With just the Asian's level of technology, he wanted to crack the secret of the Krupp cannon? Are you kidding me! "

"Hahaha …" The people of Asia don't even believe that the earth is round, and even the ruling classes of the Qing Empire don't believe that the earth is round. They don't believe in natural science at all! "

"I was born into the military, so I need to study every war that broke out in the world, including the wars in China. I also need to study!"

"Whether it's the previous war between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom or the recent war in the Far East, including the conflicts between you and the French, I admit that you guys have been improving.

That old Great Qing didn't even have a university, what kind of talent did they think of? Even if you Chinese have a few universities, and have so many talents in such a short period of time, what kind of joke would you joke about breaking the secret of my Krupp cannon in three years?!

You don't even understand how Krupp could have forged a cannon out of steel. Why is France still using bronze?

"A race that even needs to import iron nail s dares to talk to me about cannon production? Funny, it's really funny! "

Krupp had finally spoken his mind! At this moment, the Chinese officers finally understood that this old man looked down on Chinese people from the bottom of her heart!

This time Krupp's ability to receive envoys with high standards was, in fact, nothing more than the following. Firstly, he coveted the money in the hands of the Chinese. He just wanted to make a lot of money by doing business with the Chinese. This was the duty of a merchant.

In addition, the Prussian government executives, especially Prime Minister Iron-Blood Bismark also gave him some pressure, making him not dare to underestimate them.

After all, the Chinese had contributed a lot to the Poo War, so as a Prussian, he should have the basic morals to be polite and welcome these guests from afar.

However, the courtesy and politeness on the surface could not hide the contempt he had for the Asian! This was a high level civilization that looked down on lower level civilizations. In his eyes, Asia was a barbaric and backward country, completely uncivilized!

Krupp and the others could respect a small minority of the Chinese elite, the Chinese, but she absolutely despised the entire Chinese community.

Xiao Letian looked at the surrounding officers who were clenching their fists in anger, he reached out his hand and lightly pushed them down, stopping their anger.

"Mr. Krupp, arrogance has already blinded your eyes, it seems like you are no longer able to analyze the problem rationally. Fine, I will tell you the answer, but later on I will need your apology!"

"This is my third point. Since you started with technology, I will use technology to refute you. Don't think that we Chinese are all idiots. Don't think that we don't understand western natural sciences."

How in the world did your Krupp family start up? As for your steel canning technique, it is actually no different from Ancient China's steel stir-frying technique.

Steel and iron were actually a type of substance. They were both refined from iron ore, but the physical indexes of steel and iron were greatly different.

Paleogene's classification of steel and iron was mainly called pig iron and wrought iron. Pig iron was the product of preliminary smelting, and it contained more impurities. Due to the uneven internal structure, it would cause the living body to be brittle and shatter, with almost no plasticity.

However, wrought iron was basically similar to modern steel. The toughness of wrought iron was much better than pig iron. It was more malleable because it had less impurities. The tools used to make swords and sabers had always been the upper tier of the ancient era of cold weapons.

However, in the modern sense, the classification of steel and iron is not simple. It is distinguished by the amount of carbon in the metal.

Iron, which contains less than 0.2% carbon, is named iron in academia, while wrought iron, which is above this index, is called steel.

Why did the ancient times require thousands of forgings and burns to make excellent weapons? The purpose was to allow more iron to come into contact with the charcoal, allowing the burning carbon to seep into the iron and obtain the steel.

Ancient China's method of stir-frying steel was actually also to uniformly mix the iron shavings and charcoal together. Then, after a fierce fire in the furnace, the carbon element in the charcoal gradually seeped into the iron shavings, finally obtaining high-quality steel.

The starting magical equipment of the Krupp family was called canned steel. As the name implied, it was made from a steel jar, in which pig iron and wrought iron were placed, and various chemical trace elements were added.

The principle behind this was no different from Ancient China's Eroding Steel. It could only be used to open fire and turn it into a furnace for the smoldering samples!

This way, the steel would have stronger toughness and strength. When used to make cannons, it would also be tougher.

As the steelmaking technique was the top secret of the Krupp. That was why the breeches produced by the Krupp were the best in the world, and had completely abandoned the bronze material.

When Krupp heard this, her hands were trembling like a sieve. At that time, he even had the illusion that if he had a gun by his side, he would definitely pull the trigger and kill this man who knew the core secrets of her family.

Although Xiao Letian's words were general, but it was to the point that the secret of ironing steel was revealed! The production principle was pointed out.

"No, no, no …" It's impossible. How do you know about the secret of the steel? This is the highest secret of our family! "

Xiao Letian laughed coldly, "You don't have to worry how I found out. You have your secrets and I have mine as well. It's best if we don't interfere in each other's affairs …"

Let me talk about this next, how did you solve the problem of the leakage of the cannon's tail flame? Although I am currently unable to produce ready-made products, but the way you solve this problem is very clear to me.

You have only added a small part to the cannon's breech. Its name should be 'Breath Suspending Ring'!

The principle was very simple. The moment the explosive shell's tail was ignited, the high-pressure and high-temperature gas would instantly expand and release its power in all directions.

If the cannon didn't have a closed loop, then these high-temperature and high-pressure combustion gases would spray out from the gap in the cannon's tail, directly burning the soldiers who operated the cannon.

At this time, if one could add an elastic substance to the tail of the cannon, when the cannon's high temperature and pressure suddenly transmitted over, this elastic substance could instantly warp and deform, promptly blocking those gaps.

As a result, the burning high-temperature and high-pressure gas couldn't leak out of the tail part, so he could only change his direction and shoot out from the muzzle.

That way the projectile would naturally get more kinetic energy, which was the secret of the new Krupp cannon, wasn't it?

To tell you the truth, there are already people in the research facility of Ryukyu University who have found the correct answer to this difficult problem! Now they were doing experiments in secret!