Datang: My Peerless Talent Has Been Exposed

Regardless of the fact that the main weapon of Datang is still the front-charged paper-shell rifle, but in fact, officers and some elites have begun to distribute and adapt to the revolver.

And when things like revolvers are slowly getting used to by everyone, the new rifles will come out of the research institute, and then some of them will start to be installed.

As for the research institute, semi-automatic rifles and automatic rifles are already being researched.

It's just that there is no need to spend so much manpower and material resources to raise Datang's equipment level so high for the time being.

In addition to the development of these weapons at hand, neither Zhang Nuo nor Li Shimin let go of the artillery that shined during the Battle of Koryo.

Compared with guns, artillery is the current strategic weapon, so there is no need to hide it too much. After all, front-loading guns and rear-loading artillery are not a concept at all, especially with various After the new type of ammunition is matched, it is simply not a concept.

This kind of big killer at the bottom of the box is obviously faster than guns in terms of equipment and research and development. After all, guns cost hundreds of thousands of people to replace, and it also involves a series of problems such as logistics and maintenance.

In terms of artillery, there are only so many of them, and most of them are still on the navy's ships. It just so happens that the navy is also replacing the new generation of steel warships, so the two sides simply changed their equipment at the same time.

Speaking of the navy's new generation of ships, this is simply a gold-swallowing beast. To be honest, even Li Shimin, a war madman, was frowning when he was about to launch this thing. Looking at the bill, he had a headache to death.

Not for anything else, but because the manpower and material resources consumed by this thing are really terrible. Although Datang's steel production is already not the same as before, the more the Datang develops, the more places that need steel , Machinery, railways, merchant ships, bridge building and even buildings, where a lot of steel is not needed.

For a while, Changsun Wuji even asked Li Shimin to resign jokingly, because Changsun’s family started a steel workshop, followed Zhang Nuo to eat meat and drink soup and opened several mines in Korea, and encountered the great development in Datang. Changsun Wuji laughed out loud at the beginning when he earned a wave of money, but later he became terrified.

Without him, it's too profitable. He, the Shangshu Zuopushe, who has a big profit, is really the head of the hundred officials and the uncle of the country. His family has raised prices several times in a row, and the workshop has expanded by more than ten times. , but all output is still the same as before, as much as you can sell.

Flowers are cooking oil over brocade fire, Changsun Wuji is a smart man, he clearly knows that it is no problem to develop the family, and it is no problem to make money from the family property, but he has a prosperous official career on the one hand and a wealth of money on the other, it is a bit too conspicuous up.

That's why he joked that he was going to resign, and said that he wanted to go home and do the steel business, but Li Shimin refused him without hesitation, and even jokingly said that Changsun Wuji had to give his life to him. He works like this.

They are all smart people. Within a few days, several mines and iron and steel workshops of the Changsun family were quietly sold to the royal family. The stewards of the Changsun family and people from the Changsun Queen's Palace came forward, and everything seemed quiet. Yes, but you know everything you should know.

After hearing the news, many people lamented that the eldest grandson's family deserves to be prosperous.

This matter made many families who were waiting to see the jokes of the eldest grandson's family, or waiting to share the cake after the eldest grandson's family fell, secretly sighed. A patriarch who can make money and make money is nothing. Anyone who is not stupid and has some tricks these days They can make money, but those who can calm down in the face of huge profits and cut off their wrists are the real masters, and it is obvious that Changsun Wuji did it.

But looking back, even if the mine of Changsun’s family belongs to the royal family, it still needs to be traded after all, and the production capacity cannot suddenly increase just because it is handed over to the royal family. Therefore, steel is still in short supply. Neither is enough.

Because of this, when Li Shimin saw the new warship construction plan submitted by Zhang Nuo, he was really scratching his head. If he wanted to, he naturally wanted to, just look at the design drawing and the report on future combat capabilities and combat direction. It was enough to make Li Shimin's heart beat.

And he also knows that if he wants to conquer countries thousands of miles away on the map in the future, he must have a powerful fleet.

Undoubtedly, this giant steel ship is the most suitable.

But after drying his saliva and looking at the cost and the clear list of materials on it, Li Shimin suddenly felt that he was very poor.

In the end, Li Shimin agreed to build two ships first to test the waters!

Zhang Nuo didn't have too high aspirations, the first time he built this thing, he went straight to top battleships like Bismarck and Iowa. Those battleships were naturally good. It can be said that in the era of battleships, they were the most top-notch artifacts of war.

But today's Datang has just embarked on the road of steel warships, and if they throw such a task to them all at once, they may not see results for more than ten years.

Therefore, Zhang Nuo thought and thought, and after comprehensively considering the domestic steel production situation and steel quality, Zhang Nuo finally decided to produce battleships of the very famous "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan" levels in the late Qing Dynasty.

In other words, this class should not be called a battleship, but an ironclad ship!

However, this level of ironclad warship alone is equipped with long-barreled heavy artillery, reciprocating steam engines, and some new machinery and telecommunications equipment that have appeared in Datang. any enemy!

At the same time, the construction of this kind of warship is undoubtedly to cultivate the experience of shipbuilders, designers, and the navy. After five or ten years, after the further development of iron and steel metallurgy, artillery, electronics, and machinery, the second generation of steel warships , that is, a real battleship is about to be born.

The construction of the two ironclad ships was not smooth sailing, because they were regarded as special technology verification ships, so whenever the navy's scientific research came up with new ideas, they always wanted to do it here.

Fortunately, Zhang Nuo was there to check everything. Although he didn't know everything, he had been supplementing all kinds of knowledge. There were still some rough judgments. Coupled with his insight, he was enough to distinguish these things.

Chapter 807 The problem of the heir

Datang's national power, military strength, and even its governing ability were developing like a hurricane, but Zhang Nuo fell silent as if he had disappeared.

Some people say that Zhang Nuo is hiding clumsiness, others say that Zhang Nuo is used to idle clouds and wild cranes, and some even secretly say that Zhang Nuo is trying to be Sima Yi's intention to follow suit...

They said everything, and these news more or less reached the ears of Li Shimin and Zhang Nuo, but these two people pretended not to hear it.

Friendship, as long as it is not destroyed, will only become deeper and deeper.

Between Zhang Nuo and Li Shimin, they met in the marketplace. From the very beginning, the two did not take identity too seriously. They talked more like brothers, and it was a kind of knowledge, insight, vision, etc. The combination of aspects has stabilized the friendship between the two.

At the same time, the two of them tacitly continued to maintain this way of communication, regardless of the monarch and his subjects, but only about friendship, so although Li Shimin often couldn't laugh or cry because of Zhang Nuo's lazy temper, he had to sigh in the dead of night, at least he didn't have to be too wary My sworn brother.

What the hell is Zhang Nuo doing?

He is making children!

That's right, it is to make children, because the skills of self-cultivation are getting more and more refined, if you want to give birth to offspring, unless you find a girl of the same level as him, otherwise, even if today's ruby ​​is more expensive than ordinary people Well-maintained and healthy people are not enough, but at the level of life, there is still a difference.

Therefore, if the two of them want to have a child, they can only believe in the primitive theories of "strengthening miracles" and "thousand arrows are bound to hit one shot".

In fact, Zhang Nuo doesn’t know if he will have a child in this life, he doesn’t care much about it, at least at present, he is only [-] years old according to Datang’s calculation, he is still young, and there will be opportunities in the future .

But Hongyu was very anxious in private. Originally, she was the envy of all the women in the honored family. Although she was the side concubine of Prince Qin, she was the head of the entire Prince Qin Palace. There was no concubine above and no other women below. Thousands of pets in one.

But after a long time without the birth of an heir, more and more gossips spread to Hongyu's ears. After all, these days, no matter whether it is a prince, general or a trafficker, he is very concerned about the inheritance of blood and the reproduction of the family. important.

What's more, who is Zhang Nuo? The majestic first prince of the Tang Dynasty, who has such a good relationship with the royal family that he almost wears a pair of pants. His family's property is spread all over the country.

Such a family now only has Zhang Nuo alone, and has no parents, brothers and children. If something happens to Zhang Nuo, it means that Zhang Nuo's family will have no children and grandchildren, and will completely die out.

Under such circumstances, Hongyu became more and more concerned about the already important children. Even, because of Zhang Nuo's importance, it was no longer his family's business. All the families who are close to Zhang Nuo have come to care about him.

Although Zhang Nuo explained to Hongyu many times, but gradually, as time went by, Hongyu couldn't hold on anymore.

Although no matter what age a woman is, she hopes to be alone in the eyes of her husband, but in fact, as the hostess of the Qin Palace, her greatest responsibility is not to manage the Qin Palace or serve Zhang Nuo well, but to serve Zhang Nuo well. The family has been passed down through the generations.