Chapter 1070 Breakthrough and accumulation
Chen Xu got in the car and returned to the prime minister's mansion. He was still guessing that the beggars and suspicious people caught by the Central Guard Imperial Guard last night did not say anything about Chen Yong and others. If there was any, it would be better to find a chance to get it out as soon as possible. However, when he returned to the prime minister's mansion, he found that Chen Yong had already returned in a well-dressed manner.
"Mr. Marquis!" Chen Yong bowed and bowed.
"Follow me to the backyard!" Chen Xu got out of the car and waved his hand, took Chen Yong directly to the study. After more than ten minutes, he looked strange and got in the car again to go out of the city with Chen Yong. Half an hour later, the carriage stopped near a small forest near the Nanshan Villa Manor Manor.
Chen Xu drank away a group of guards and followed Chen Yong into the woods. He saw that there were a lot of other ten teenagers, all of whom were there, and their clothes were neatly worn.
"Greetings to the Marquis!" A group of young men clasped their fists in an orderly manner.
"Where is Zhao Gao's head?" Chen Xu nodded slightly.
"Marty, Zhao Gao's head is here!" A young man pulled out a black package from the grass and opened it. A messy and bloody head was exposed inside. The young man kicked the head in front of Chen Xu. Looking at this dirty face that could hardly be seen in any shape, Chen Xu was so disgusting that he almost vomited out the overnight dinner.
Zhao Gao and Chen Xu were very familiar with him in the past. He was an official in the same dynasty, and Zhao Gao was also a rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the emperor every time he went to court. Therefore, Chen Xu could imagine his appearance with his eyes closed, but Chen Xu could not match the skull in front of him at all. He was almost the same as a broken blood gourd that was smashed and then rubbed on the ground. Finally, he used an axe to split and repeatedly ravaged. It was a broken blood gourd.
Holding the disgust, Chen Xu squatted down and tugged it with a wooden stick and looked around for a few times before asking: "Do you confirm he is Zhao Gao?"
"Marty, I saw this man enter the Zhao Mansion with my own eyes and a young man. This man's appearance is exactly the same as the dress described by the Marquis. He was wearing Miao clothes, wrapped in a headscarf, wearing a mask, and was still a cripple. His appearance was extremely ugly. Martyr, you see one of them was indeed blind. The most important thing is that the tall and thin beggar named Li Gui at that time did call him Zhao Gao, and Zhao Gao also recognized Li Gui, so his subordinates believed that this person must be Zhao Gao!" Chen Yong quickly explained.
"Well, what you said makes sense. Did Zhao Gao know if the news in the palace came out in a few days? A royal doctor disappeared. Anyone would arrange for inquiries in the palace. This head was burned with fire, so don't leave any traces!" Chen Xu threw down the wooden stick and stood up.
"Yes, Marquis!" Chen Yong and a group of young men clasped their fists together.
"Everyone did a good job in this matter. Don't reveal any words after going back. Don't mention this on weekdays. Go to the other hospital manager to receive a reward of 2,000 yuan each. If you want to go back to your hometown to play, I will arrange to go back with the caravan and relax..."
"Thank you, Marquis!" The boys' cheeks flushed in surprise.
"That's it, just handle the aftermath. Don't go to the city in the past few days. It's best to hide in the Nanshan Villa for a while, so as not to be recognized!" Chen Xu came out of the woods after giving some advice.
Since Zhao Gao is dead, it can be said that Chen Xu's mood will be relieved immediately.
Without Zhao Gao, the emperor would not be able to drink the Five Poison Soul Water. I think his health would not have problems so quickly. Without Zhao Gao, Chen Xu would not have to worry all day long that Zhao Gao would cause some tricks to come out to harm him.
As the saying goes, good people will not last long and harm for thousands of years.
Zhao Gao, a bastard, repeated several times, and this time he was finally completely clean.
But what made Chen Xu unbelievable was that Zhao Gao went to the Zhao Mansion with which young master, and dug up something from under the osmanthus tree?
Unfortunately, Chen Yong and others have basically been guarding the Nanshan Villa, and rarely contact the people in the palace, so they did not recognize which young master they were?
However, it is not too difficult to find out about this matter. After all, Qianniuwei, who is responsible for entering and leaving the palace, must know the person in the car. If you ask Zhou Bo another day, you will know.
Although Zhao Gao was killed, the one who made Chen Xu a little tooth pain was that Li Gui, a guy who had disappeared for several years, would appear out of thin air, and intercepted the Hu Hu and killed Zhao Gao halfway. If nothing unexpected happens, the person Lu Xiao caught today was Li Gui.
According to Chen Yong, Li Gui should have recognized Chen Yong and others at that time, otherwise he would not have said that the Marquis would take good care of his parents and family.
It has been more than a day or two for Li Gui to dress up as a beggar and wait for Zhao Gao in the Zhao Mansion. Moreover, he has been so cruel and ruthless. He probably has a deep revenge in the blood sea. Perhaps he was wrong at the beginning. Li Gui did not escape because he helped Zhao Gao steal the potion, but many things that Chen Xu didn't know happened.
It seems that I want to find an opportunity to visit the lieutenant's mansion cell, either kill Li Gui in advance, or get him out and ask the whole story.
As the carriage was shaking, Chen Xu was thinking about the whole story and the aftermath in his mind. Chen Yong and others almost went to make soy sauce, and basically brought back a head without doing anything. If he had known that Li Gui wanted to kill Zhao Gao, he would have no need to do anything.
However, the so-called world is unpredictable, and Chen Xu does not have the ability to prophets without hexagrams.
Fortunately, the grievances and grievances that had been entangled with Zhao Gao from the beginning of time travel have finally come to an end today. Although it is not perfect and has left some flaws and regrets, Zhao Gao and Li Si, two accomplices who finally defeated Daqin, finally died completely.
The wheel of history has already taken the right direction, and the coachman has also replaced it with a brand new navigation. China finally rolls forward along a broad road under the rule of the Qin Dynasty, and will never embark on the historical path known to later generations again.
And the unknown that follows is what Chen Xu is most interested in.
Nanshan Villa has always been a secret arms manufacturing factory of Chen Xu.
The old-fashioned muskets are basically no longer produced. There are almost 2,000 muskets in front and after, and more than 3,000 sets of trigger barrels, etc., and then there are hundreds of hand guns and thousands of grenades. Most of them have been secretly transported back to Chen Hu and Niu Dashi. Because as the young musket team began to be deployed out, some people took Yu Wuya and others to Japan and South Korea to deal with Huang Shigong, and some have followed Chen Xu to Xianyang to be responsible for the safety of the Hou Mansion and Nanshan Villa. In this way, the number of young musket teams in Qinghe Town has been reduced by one-third. Therefore, Chen Xu asked Chen Hu to continue to recruit some teenagers at home to participate in training and keep the team at a stable 500 people.
But since the successful development of the lathe, Chen Xu no longer considers continuing to make this most honest tunnel-style musket.
The cast barrel is not only heavy but unstable, but also very troublesome to load gunpowder, so Chen Xu is preparing to start developing pistols and rifles.
However, Chen Xu obviously overestimated his ability and overestimated the ability of craftsmen. He wanted to make pistols and rifles, and various mechanical devices would require more precision, with almost micron-level errors, which was more than ten times higher than the rough craftsmanship of muskets and pistols. Therefore, Chen Xu had to solve the problem of measuring and supporting grinding tools. He began to promote a complete set of more precise and strict units of measurement in the experimental factory, design more precise lathes, grinders and other machines, design more precise drawing and measurement tools such as vernier calipers and ruler protractor triangles, and implement more stringent drawing methods.
Generally speaking, without any scientific accumulation, there is always a trench between all beautiful imaginations and reality, and every step is difficult to take.
It's like a bicycle. It's been four years since the project was launched, but Chen Xu hasn't even seen the shadow of the bicycle. At first, Chen Xu was very interested in asking, but later he was too lazy to ask. At the beginning, it was just to explain the mechanical transmission methods such as gears and chains. According to the level of Daqin craftsmen in the past few years, it was normal that they could not do it, and it was considered luck to do it. Some craftsmen had given up after studying for a period of time for bonuses. What they were still studying was just to do it in their spare time, and gradually there was no following.
However, with the maturity and development of manufacturing processes in recent years, Chen Xu of bicycles thinks that it is still possible to study them. Except for the manufacturing process, all the structures are very simple...
After patrolling the Nanshan Villa, Chen Xu came out with a depressed expression.
Revolvers are already very mature thermal weapons. The barrel has rifled and they use customized solid bullets with customized gunpowder. It is these two that make the pistol have powerful power and broad application prospects. It also became popular all over the world in the late 19th century and was sought after by almost all gun hobbies and sought after.
In American western films, Chen Xu still remembers the scene of those cowboys taking out their revolvers and shooting at them. Therefore, they are fascinated by the revolvers.
However, before traveling through time, Chen Xu never had the chance to get a satisfying one in his life, but now, especially after having a lathe, Chen Xu has an unreliable dream of revolver.
Therefore, he vowed to get the revolver out and completely abandon the pistol that weighed seven or eight pounds hidden on his body every day.
Since Chen Xu established the project and designed and produced revolvers and rifles, he drew countless drawings one after another and had many explanations and discussions with a group of craftsmen in Nanshan Villa. However, until today, he has only made a few barrels and a simple gun body. The bullet casing wheel and firing device have not been successfully studied. Except for the countless times the precision and complexity, this more complex mechanical linkage coordination device can be said to have made all craftsmen feel stressed. Chen Xu himself did not understand it. He just drew drawings such as the appearance of the gun, the structure of the bullet, and the simple working principle. The rest can only be explored by a group of craftsmen.
According to the current situation, there is still a long way to go to make a qualified revolver, and there is probably no hope within half a year.
As for the rifle, let alone the barrel is not yet successfully manufactured, and the lathe cannot pass through a solid steel rod of one meter long. Therefore, Chen Xu had no choice but to change the method and use the casting and forging process to first create the barrel blank, then use the lathe to clean the barrel, and finally choose the qualified manufacturing rifle. At present, these are still allowing Gongshu to continue to test.
The barrel is still the simplest. It involves the installation of bullets, firing, and retracting shells. It is not only so complicated that Chen Xu and all craftsmen have a headache, but it is also difficult to deal with the materials alone. The materials for the striker and spring need to be redeveloped.
Whether it is a revolver or a rifle, the most core part should be bullets. For Daqin, making bullets is also an extremely complicated process. The shell case is not easy to solve, and the formula for the base fire also needs to be redeveloped.
Although there are many difficulties, Chen Xu did not have the idea of giving up. After all, he is not fighting alone now. Not only does he have wealth that is as rich as a country, but he also supports three important scientific departments such as the Institute of Technology, Academy of Sciences, and Experimental Factory. Thousands of craftsmen and tens of thousands of apprentices help workers serve his scientific and technological development.
Therefore, after inspecting the Nanshan Villa today, Chen Xu once again lowered the requirements for craftsmen and first made a pistol rifle that could only be recharged for verification. I think this task can be seen in at most two or three months.
In Chen Xu's view, the advantage of bullets is incomparable to bulk ammunition. Wind and rainy, even in the water, will not affect the progress of the battle. It is the magic weapon that he relies on to stabilize the Qin Dynasty in the future. Therefore, he can only succeed but not fail. Muskets cannot guarantee sufficient safety in many cases.
Chapter completed!