Become a feudal king from today

"The civil strife in Dasong must be resolved as soon as possible." The contents of the questionnaire made Zhao Xu suddenly feel a sense of urgency.

Compared with other Western countries, the current industrialization of Yanzhou has just begun.

If you compare the overall strength, Yanzhou is probably not as good as any of the current Western countries.

The only good thing is that he has a local advantage.

Moreover, the swordsmanship was eccentric and military, making the current rifled guns of the royal army at the level of the contemporary 1850s.

Although currently all the countries in the Western Territories are equipped with some rifled guns.

However, they have not yet mastered the secret of the tapered bullet.

This will give him the upper hand for a while.

However, it is obviously unrealistic to rely on only one Yanzhou to fight against the entire industrial country of the Western Territory.

We can still make do with the war at home.

But if you want to fight abroad, it will consume a huge amount of manpower, material resources, and financial resources. At this time, the importance of comprehensive national strength will be reflected.

Therefore, he must unify Dasong, fully implement industrialization, and at the same time actively explore overseas markets to make Dasong rich.

After all, the industrial countries in the Western Territories have already set their sights on the Eastern Territory, the last piece of pure land.

And colonized the equivalent of contemporary Southeast Asia and Central Asia.

Using this as a springboard, they would continue to erode northward.

He would definitely not tolerate this.

Between them, a war is bound to break out.

And the most important point is that there is a huge continent in the distant sea southeast of Dasong.

This continent is Australia.

According to Feiwen, there are currently only more than half a million Britons settled on this continent.

If he doesn't take advantage of this era to capture this big fat piece of meat, how can he be worthy of future generations?

And to take over this continent, it must confront the current superpower in the world, Britain.

According to his memory, during this period, the British Empire ruled an area of ​​33 million square kilometers, and the Queen of England ruled a population of 450 million, including colonies.

Definitely the superpower of the moment.

He must do his best to confront such a group of great powers, led by the superpowers and followed by other Western countries.

Otherwise, his fate will be like Napoleon who was defeated by the anti-French alliance, or even worse.

"Your Highness, what is this?" When Zhao Xu was deep in thought, Zhou Yi looked at the drawing he was drawing.

After being startled for a moment, Zhao Xu came to his senses and then smiled and said, "This thing is called a grenade, and it is prepared for the soldiers of the royal family.

Zhou Yi was a little disappointed. He thought his navy could get some credit.

Zhao Xu noticed Zhou Yi's expression and smiled helplessly.

The navy and the army are like two children raised by oneself, and they will always be sour to each other because you have more and the other has less.

So he said, "You don't have to be envious of this. I have already asked Chen Shou to build steam-powered steamships. These will belong to your navy in the future."

Zhou Yi's expression suddenly changed from unhappy to ecstatic, with a smile on his face, and he said repeatedly: "Thank you, Your Highness."

Zhao Xu was too lazy to pay attention to him. According to him, Fei Wen had already sent people to Yaga City. In this way, the Japanese maritime alliance went bankrupt.

Then, he can focus his energy on the second Lucheng League.

According to the information provided by Xu Hark two days ago, the Beidi envoys and the powerful envoys will arrive in Lucheng in the next two days.

This alliance will decide the next actions of the Yan Alliance.

But he didn't care about it.

Anyway, no matter what the outcome of their deliberations is, when the yellow gunpowder is sufficient, he will let the royal army go south.

At the same time, if Japan takes action at sea, he will ask Zhou Yi to deal with the Japanese navy.

In the direction of Yongrong in Qinzhou, he will also ask Ma Han to launch a war to take back Qinzhou and Yongzhou.

It's easy for Beidi people to come here, but not so easy to go back.

Confirming his opinion, he asked Zhou Yi to go back while he went to the Military Division with the drawings.

His development of grenades was not a whim, but some problems were exposed during street fighting in Pingyuan City.

On the vast battlefield, there is no doubt about the superiority of Wangfu's pro-army guns.

But if entering street fighting, the distance between soldiers shrinks to tens of meters, and there is not much difference between a flintlock gun with a range of only 100 meters and a rifled gun with a range of 300 meters.

The casualties will increase rapidly at this time. In this attack on Pingyuan City, the most casualties will occur during street fighting.

Qi soldiers hiding in various buildings sometimes don't even need flintlock guns. They just need to hold swords and suddenly rush out to kill or injure the palace soldiers.

Therefore, the palace soldiers will face life-threatening danger when they enter the house to search.

Next, facing the war to unify Dasong, such street fighting will only be very frequent.

If this problem cannot be solved, the royal army will suffer heavy casualties.

Therefore, after thinking about it, he felt that among the weapons that could be used to deal with street fighting, the only one that currently had the development conditions was the grenade.

When the time comes, the soldier discovers that there are enemy soldiers in the house, and all he has to do is throw the grenade inside.

When they arrived at the Military Division, Zhao Xu called Wang Ying to study the grenade blueprints with him.

In contemporary history, after the invention of gunpowder, the most primitive grenades first appeared in China.

The hand grenade at that time was called Hongtianlei, which was a spherical ceramic jar with black powder stuffed inside, a powder twister inserted outside, lit and thrown out.

However, the power of this kind of sky-shattering thunder is similar to that of contemporary firecrackers, and it cannot cause much damage to the enemy.

As a result, this thunderous thunder gradually disappeared.

Later, grenades spread to the West, and the grenadiers were born in the 15th and 16th centuries.

In fact, it is equivalent to a soldier throwing explosive bullets forward.

But this kind of grenade was still very primitive. It was not until the birth of yellow gunpowder in the 19th century that real grenades appeared.

After all, with the power of black powder, the grenade body is too small and has no power, but it is too large and very heavy.

Only by increasing the power of gunpowder can this contradictory problem be solved.

This is also the reason why he is only developing grenades now, because the conditions were not met before.

"The main difficulty should be the fire tube." Wang Ying noticed the mark on the small tube on the drawing.

Zhao Xu nodded. What he asked Wang Ying to make was a wooden handle grenade.

This grenade has a simple structure and is relatively easy to manufacture.

The only difficulty is pulling the fire hose.

But now, Yanzhou has the conditions to produce this kind of fire pipe.

The principle of this fire tube is to use a steel pipe filled with glass powder, and roll a copper wire into a ball and place it inside the glass powder.

One end of the copper wire is connected to the match rope, and the other end is connected to gunpowder, twist and sulfur.

The friction between the copper wire and the glass powder will ignite the fuse and sulfur, which will ignite the gunpowder and eventually explode.

Among the raw materials, the most important one is glass powder.

Yanzhou can make glass, so naturally it can make glass powder.