Out of the cage

Xin Chou timeline (plot point No. 3344), the causal "login point" upstream of the corpse tide plane, the time point of Ming Dynasty.

On Lie Island in Penghu, in the waves, rows of lines with paddles hanging like a circle of thin lines are arranged around the island chain. This tidal power station provides energy for the island and maintains the island, including the gate of time and space. A lot of equipment.

The people who come to the Kentuo Club today have completed the "viral transformation" on the plane of aura, that is, first use the "Kangyanghuo" potion (biochemical virus) to stimulate the potential of their bodies, and then stimulate the true energy in the body (protein magnetization) to complete The foundation of martial arts.

On the plot line of spiritual energy recovery, when the stellar energy condenses, bullets are hard to kill.

Of course, on the "planet of different arts" in Da Ming, true energy is not so corrupted that it can directly deflect bullets, and personal bravery is still unable to withstand a matchlock blow!

Wei Keng in Jilonggang Iron and Steel Plant: But forged steel armor can hold lead bullets.

At this time, in the school grounds on Dayuan Island, a group of soldiers were practicing stabbing and parrying with "heh", "ha" and "drink". And fire while crawling.

The sixteenth century was an era of large-scale progress in plate armor technology.

In the current Ming Dynasty, if they can get enough meat, eggs and milk for soldiers to train their muscles and nourish their souls, they can also make iron armor privately. Well, that is to have the capital of Chengzu back then, which is dancing on the red line of the Ming Dynasty.

Wei Keng: But as a time traveler, what is the "red line" of forces on your timeline?

At present, in the sixteenth century, under the development of geometry and physiology, armor is making rapid progress.

In the 21st century, the West always says that the scientific development in the East is slow, but in fact the source is the loss of classics after the Qing Dynasty.

During the Gengzi national disaster period alone, the first step in Japan was to win the storage warehouse of important historical materials and classics.

After a series of power collisions in these classics at the end of the 21st century, the descendants of the East took back the documents looted by the colonists. This part of historical data was rediscovered. Only then did the Chinese know the true development of science and technology in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Right now, the space-time development group is buying a large number of books and classics in the Jiangnan area, including various scientific and technological materials that are extremely advanced at this time.

These inscriptions include experience in casting big bells and adding metal supports to large arch bridge stones.

Wei Keng: It's just that Confucianism's "Gangchang" restricts social classes too much, just like financial lawyers in North America squeezed the economic and social status of engineers in the 21st century.

At present, after the joint shells of western plate armor are forged, they can be tightly butt-jointed with screws, and then, like the crayfish armor, the armor at the elbow position can overlap and shrink like playing cards, forming a complete coverage without dead ends.

At present, Daming is still using mountain pattern armor, bright light armor, or light cotton armor. In the East, all generals will give priority to equipment if they have better plate armor.

In terms of the technical element of the armor specially designed for nobles, Europe has thrown off Ming Dynasty.

But the backwardness in this respect can be quickly caught up at this time. The core reason for the backwardness is "the low status of craftsmen, and there is no inheritance of capital accumulation."

Pragmatic scholars transformed Confucianism into Confucianism, which seriously suppressed the innovation enthusiasm of craftsmen and other front-line personnel.

Even Confucian factions such as Xu Guangqi, who are more willing to open their eyes to the world than the Qing conservatives, will not help.

Similarly, the chip crisis in ancient times also proved that "technical problems" cannot be solved by opening your upper-level vision, but whether the power system transfers the right to speak to "this field."

Openness is just a widening of the eyes, unwillingness to take off the noble robes, opening of the eyes and unwillingness to move the hands. Spiritual Brahmins are good at dialogue with the world, but they are also unable to develop advanced technology.

The entire Plate Armor Technology implemented two policies after the Reclamation Association made up its mind.

1: The overall treatment of craftsmen has been improved, and the food canteen is comparable to the food standard in the army.

2: The resource allocation of the workshop has a high degree of independence and is not subject to the control of the local civil affairs officials, that is, the administrative level of the relevant departments of "work" is equal to that of the local "yamen".

The artisans of these coops and ports felt the importance, and they caught up with the world's advanced level of armor in almost a year.

This kind of catching up is not part of future technology, but the armor design completed by Ming craftsmen under the new organization.

Subjective initiative, sometimes like magic, can turn a team from decay into magic.

The group of carpenters and blacksmiths recruited by the industrial department of the Reclamation Association made great contributions.

When the time travelers recruited them, they only conducted a public review and assessment of their ink painting skills, and then taught them standard techniques such as geometry.

After the Reclamation Association was reorganized, the "Master" was brought into the top positions of the high-level meetings, and every meeting was asked to give opinions, and clerks were sent to record items one by one, and then after the meeting, after the administration, find them (meetings) Craftsman) review.

These master craftsmen and their apprentices feel that they are valued more than ever before, especially the meals and salaries are guaranteed by certain rules and regulations after the "professional title" evaluation. These are valued because of their craftsmanship, and they are determined to use the craftsman's mind and skills to serve them. .

No, the "armor project" was decided, and the craftsmen began to discuss how to industrialize each part of the armor.

In Jilonggang, the heavy steam hammer hits the red-hot armor again and again. The old craftsman wears a glass sunglasses mask to operate, and this mask also allows the novice blacksmith to closely observe the process and know-how of forging iron blocks. Ordinary employees recruited on the assembly line then assembled and sewed the nails together.

In the Kaituohui, due to the large-scale use of machinery, and the secondary low-tech assembly work was handed over to the assembly line.

Carpenters and blacksmiths were liberated from tedious manual labor and manual labor. This is the first generation of engineers.

Since forging armor privately is a matter of rebellion, it may still bring psychological discomfort to the craftsmen in the Reclamation Association.

Therefore Kentuo will name its engineering project, Daming No. 195 Project. (Master Wei: I remember that the research and development of tanks in ancient times was also the project)

The final armor produced by the project team is completely different from Western plate armor.

Compared with the curved design of Western armor, which is often in line with the comfortable wearing of nobles, many of the No. 195 Project adopts blunt edge design, which looks like a "tortoiseshell" (sea turtle) in the ocean.

The chest is obtuse, and the helmet is also obtuse. For good forging, the vambraces are also boxy.

The new students of the Reclamation Association and Mohism Group, after testing, found that no matter what the material is, even if it is a piece of paper neatly folded with edges, it can resist attacks better than a flat surface. So they attach great importance to facets in design.

Therefore, the front breastplate, which is vulnerable to spear piercing, is designed with an obtuse slope to make the enemy's attack slippery, but on the arms and other places that are easy to be hacked by knives, it is replaced by "folded thin metal armor".

Wei Keng: "During the First World War, the German aluminum alloy fighter wings at the end of the period also used this kind of folded edge to increase the strength of the wing surface."

As for the free movement of the most critical "joint" parts, the nesting of the western lobster shell is not adopted.

Wei Keng: That is a purely aristocratic way of playing, and the parts of a set of armor are exclusive.

The craftsmen refer to the "spring ring toy" (a common rainbow ring in modern times) and directly use this ring to ensure the free movement of the joints. The outside is sewn with linen and iron sheets. Great cost savings.

According to statistics, the probability of fatal piercing injury on the shoulder is less than that of slashing.

The recruited martial artists also concluded in the battle on the battlefield that if they can stab the side, they will not stab the shoulder but the waist.

It can be said that the biggest advantage of the No. 195 design lies in this. This spring coil can be "universal equipment", and it only takes ten minutes to bind the spring to the docking port of the arm armor and breastplate.

Relatively speaking, in the process of customizing western aristocratic armor, the spring coils of each set of armor are flexible and adjustable when the joint armor is just accurate. The outer layer is mixed with wire and linen, which is very breathable

And in the fragile eye socket, in order to prevent the flow of arrows, the glass block is installed without hesitation. Of course, the glass block can be disassembled like glasses.

A more detailed design is to open a small hole on the helmet facing the ground, which is for ventilation and to prevent water vapor from accumulating on the eye sockets. It is not ruled out that this set of armor will be used in northern operations.

It is worth mentioning that before the forged steel barrel came out, the chamber pressure of the wrought iron gun was insufficient, and the steel armor had the upper hand. …

The current Kentuohui has bottom blowing steelmaking technology, and the steel that can be produced is used in the manufacture of armor.

The main reason is that “drilling” of gun barrels is much more difficult than “forging” at the moment. It must be known that Tsarist Russia was seriously short of rifles in the European War in the early 20th century. .

In the process of drilling a gun barrel, how to control the temperature of the drill bit and how to standardize the processing steps, these problems cannot be solved without an engineering team with more than 100,000 tons of steel production experience in ten years.

When the first batch of armor was forged, the time and space personnel of Kentuo team commented on it: "It looks like a tin trash can". The words of the traversers are full of modern people's jokes about this "non-artistic" structure .

This is because the armor has no curvature and is all forged from geometric angles. It is full of cheapness, and it looks like miscellaneous equipment in the game. According to the current aesthetics of the Western Renaissance, your armor is curved and even has muscle lines, this is the beauty!

Pragmatic Wei Keng: The processing steps of flat forging are simple and the output is very large!

Direct assembly line mechanical forging is much simpler than bending arcs, so the output is large.

Jicage No. 023 Assembly Factory could produce more than 200 armors in the first week just by trial production.

And these armors are divided into navy version and army version. The army version is made of pure steel, which is slightly close-fitting. The navy version is generally one size larger because it has to be pasted with a layer of "balsa wood". This tree species is native to South America and the West Indies, but now time travelers plant it directly here.

This thing also grows fast (one year fast), and soon cut out wooden blocks and pasted them inside the navy version of the armor. Make sure that the navy version of the iron armor is not sinkable when immersed in water, similar to the one with plastic foam attached to the iron sheet.

…Whether a set of weapons is useful or not depends on how it is used in actual combat. …

In the 43rd year of Jiajing, the No. 4 settlement on Dayuan Island reported that it was invaded by natives again, and the affairs officer reported that zombies appeared among the natives.

Residents of the local settlement found that these zombies sucked blood and were invulnerable. Only kerosene rockets can burn.

Xiao Dashan, a member of the local security team, was quite brave and cut off one of the zombie's arms. The arm was then sealed in a glass box by military personnel wearing white coats and masks, and it was immediately transferred to the Mohist Research Institute.

The young students of the "Plague Prevention Group" underwent microscope observation and various petri dish experiments. Definitely a slime mold substance. The Encyclopedia of Biology brought by the Kentuo team is the bible for those young disciples in the Kentuo team who just know how to read and claim to have inherited the Mohism. ——These seventeen or eighteen-year-old boys are in the second year of middle school. They all study these biological knowledge with the attitude of "comprehension" and "fighting skills". Right, on the other side of the earth, Newton also began to study theology in his later years.

In particular, Wang Shan, a captive who converted to authenticity on Dayuan Island, saw this object and claimed that it was an introduction to "refining a golden armored soldier", so the group of middle school youths in the "Plague Prevention Group" called "I The trend of "the next generation wants to punish evil spirits" has become more and more popular.

...In the Age of Discovery, whose family expanded its borders outside the country without any religious fanaticism...

After determining the nature of this zombie, in the armor forging laboratory.

On the time traveler's side, Li Changkang, who was in charge of the military, was wearing a chemical protective suit to see that Wei Keng was conducting experiments.

Wei Keng carefully attached a layer of linen to the outer layer of the armor he was wearing, and then embedded silver (green dragon) and zinc blocks (white tiger) according to the left blue dragon and right white tiger, and then took out the electrolyte solution in the small glass bottle and poured it go up

Li Changkang couldn't help but asked: "Is this thing okay?" - Based on his knowledge, Wei Keng built a "primary battery" on the armor, and the silver and zinc blocks would form an electrical circuit on the linen armor soaked in electrolyte.

Wei Keng: "According to the current understanding of the "biological quantum field interference theory", as long as the protein activity of the bacteria is electrochemically interfered, it can cause damage to the associated main bacteria."

Li Changkang curled his lips: You are selling enchanted holy water!

But then Li Changkang saw Wei Keng touching the slime mold on the petri dish, and the slime mold quickly avoided it as if a centipede saw the light. Li Changkang's brows stretched, it really has value.

Apparently heavy metal electrolytes make these "biochemical slime molds" feel uncomfortable.

Li Changkang looked at the rows of "exorcism talisman water", signed and recognized this batch of military purchase bills.

And Wei Keng thoughtfully concluded: "This phenomenon of (microbial) life that is both prosperous and all damaged is really interesting."

In the biochemical plot, when the parent body of a large biochemical creature is "severely injured" and "nearly dying", a mysterious interspace linkage phenomenon will occur on the infected offspring...

Three days later, the armor inlaid with silver and zinc pieces, as well as bottles of talisman water, were transported to the front line.

On Dayuan Island, the security team of more than a thousand people gathered together began to gather. All of them put on their armors, carried bayonets and bullets and faced the bandits on the mountain. Yellow dogs lead the way in the ravine.

If there were no dogs in Soushan, any special forces would be greatly reduced.

In most of the Hollywood blockbusters in modern times, the main character haunts the jungle.

However, when searching for desperadoes who fled to the mountains in China, in the TV series, the soldiers who searched the mountains led all the "wolf green" military dogs into the mountains to search in patches.

As they went deep into the mountains, they sprayed all the "mandrills" created by those big mountain students until they were burned.

At this time, Wei Keng has also completed his "identity" that he should reveal when he prepares to contact Daming in this wave of time and space.

That night, while cooking, Wei Keng confided "inadvertently" to the doorman dressed in Jinyiwei beside him: We are from "Danzhou"...

...

In the hottest summer in the 43rd year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, the search team on Dayuan Island was full of voices. The monkeys and wild wolves on the mountain run like stray dogs in the face of iron-skinned and armed humans.

Li Changkang began to bring the militiamen to the mountain valley, and blocked the mountain ghosts hiding in the cave on the top of the mountain. These mutants with weird hair looked at the humans down the mountain, their pupils were full of bloodlust and panic.

As the fire oil sprayed up, the mountain ghost burned and emitted black smoke, and rushed directly towards the crowd. After being beaten by guns for a few rounds, he entered the bayonet line again and attacked several people.

Such a weird scene, if the soldiers hadn't firmly believed that their team was established by the "Xianjia", their morale would have collapsed long ago.

Sure enough, when the soldiers blocked the first round of impact, Su Qianheng, who was the "immortal leader" at the front, threw out a golden marble.

When the bullet touches the black smoke, it explodes in the air and flashes a dazzling light (the magnesium bar burns directly). In the electric light summoned by the void, the mandrill is frightened away by the dazzling light, and then its breath is sealed by the phosgene compound, and then it spits white. Foam dies.

The soldiers of the entire reclamation team burst into cheers.

"Fuck these demons to death"

"Evil never prevails"

"There are always people who better than you"

"kill"

...

All kinds of cheering words were shouted, and the fanatical soldiers began to frantically search for other evil spirits from the forest with bayonets in their hands. When the fear was suppressed and they got a chance to rebound, they were extremely pious.

Afterwards, the body of the mountain ghost was dissected, and it was determined that it was a mutated gibbon. In the muscle tissue of the gibbon, a kind of active bacterial flesh was found.

How did this gibbon mutate? The investigation team, escorted by a group of soldiers, continued to go deep into the jungle. Ten hours later on a cliff, a red fruit tree was found.

After Wei Keng saw this thing, he suddenly felt that the downstream cause and effect had been fixed again. Wei Keng: Is this "Zhu Guo"?

It is recorded in ancient books: a kind of strange fruit, some people may explode if they eat it, and some people may increase their skill greatly after eating it.

Wei Keng couldn't help but associate it with the "Sun Stairway" flowers in Africa in this world.

Hundreds of years later, all the mysterious viruses in the biochemical plane came from primitive Africa, but looking back hundreds of years ago, did there not be such things on other continents in the world?

On the cliff, when the soldiers carefully climbed up to pick the fruit, they encountered a red cockscomb snake blocking them on the way.

Of course, Su Qianheng led people to spray fireworks to scare away the big snake, and fled the long insect to the bottom of the cliff to set up a trap. Afterwards, Wei Keng and a large number of chemical-resistant soldiers wearing armor and binoculars with glass mirrors directly used lasso The cockscomb snake was caught with a big net.

Narrator: This cockscomb snake is more than 130 years old. Wei Keng found the cause and effect of the "disaster of the python" on this snake in the system of the heavens. That is to say, in the future plot, it is related to the elements of the biological company's research on longevity technology.

At present, the soldiers are fascinated by the "Yunshuo Shenlei" of the Danzhou cyclists of the Reclamation Association.

When the enlightenment of the sage was being carried out, the son was silent and confused. However, there are many "sexual sacrifices" along the coast of Fujian. It's not just that there are many earth temples, even if a fox dies on the roadside, someone will build a temple to pray for not getting lost. This kind of attitude of good ghosts and gods is similar to that of Dongying.

So at the moment, in the development of senior members of Kentuo Association, the science popularization work cannot keep up with the expansion steps, and superstition quickly fills up this part of the space.

The so-called obscenity means "sacrificing to gods who are not officially recognized".

That's right, if you want to become a regular, you have to be canonized by the "Human Emperor"!

...five months later...

In Jilonggang, Baishuilou, a place where idlers gather, a storyteller is telling the latest "Nanyang Demon Chronicles", with unlimited refills of tea and two dishes of melon seeds for a penny.

The storyteller raised his fan and said, "I saw the evil spirits meet our army, they burned without realizing it, and turned into black gas, wanting to escape, but my military master, let us give a loud shout, be bold and evil, and stop fleeing!" With a snap, "Please listen Break it down next time."

Master Wei Keng outside the storytelling attic heard the "next time decomposition", took a deep breath: "It's good to be broken." After finishing speaking, he raised his hand and threw a piece of silver, smashing it on the storyteller's forehead .

The storyteller, whoops, his forehead swelled up. He lowered his head to the silver coins dripping on the table, put away the folding fan and cupped his hands, "Thank you for your reward, sir."