Steel, Guns, and the Industrial Party that Traveled to Another World

"Dear Lord Paul Graman, we are extremely sorry for your father's death. We had no choice but to fight at that time..."

"Fulan Port will still exist as your territory, but if you can give it to us as a place to live, we are willing to offer our loyalty to you..."

"We will give you half of the money collected every quarter. We guarantee that the money you receive will be much more than the taxes you received before..."

This is a letter sent by the Shark Gang entrenched in Fulan Port. Paul asked someone to read it to everyone at the meeting.

After the letter was read, everyone in the hall was amused. These pirates were really delusional. They even dreamed of splitting the land, especially when the Alda army had an absolute advantage.

Paul took the letter and tore it to pieces, "It's just a joke."

Not to mention that the pirates who were defeated were not qualified to challenge him at all. Just based on the revenge for killing his father, Paul would never let them go. Otherwise, how could he survive after the news got out.

"Sir, the two fully equipped infantry battalions have been trained. Please order the troops to recapture Fulan Port and completely wipe out these pirates." Bryce expressed the wishes of most officers.

The Earl did not agree: "No hurry, they are already locusts after autumn, and they will not be able to jump for a few days. Let us test the newly developed firearms first. If they are useful, our army will be more powerful. It is just right to test the sword on these blind pirates."

Everyone was very curious after hearing this. The muskets and grenades were already eye-opening. I wonder what new things this little earl has come up with.

At this time, the Earl was in high spirits. After working day and night to build a papermaking workshop near the lord's castle, the paper produced was finally usable, and a set of feasible process flows was summarized. Butler Ford took the first batch of manufactured paper and promoted it all over the world in the Northwest Bay area, finally opening up some sales channels.

The nobles and merchants found that this new type of paper was indeed good quality and cheap. They could buy a large stack of it for just a few dollars. They didn't feel bad about using it for writing, drawing, correspondence and accounting. It was much more useful than those extremely expensive parchments.

Another major buyer of paper was the monasteries in various places. Monasteries in this era also had some educational functions, so the demand for paper was naturally very large.

The paper produced now was still relatively rough and fragile. Paul ordered the craftsmen in the workshop to continue to improve the papermaking process and customize different prices according to the quality of the product to meet the needs of customers from different classes.

After the sales channel was opened, the money came. Although it was only sold in the northwest bay area at the current stage, the profit was still very small, but the prospects were bright.

Of course, just like what happened on Earth, papermaking will eventually pry open the monopoly of the nobles and the church on cultural knowledge and benefit the people at the bottom. "I can be regarded as pushing the wheel of history a little bit." He was a little proud in his heart.

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In the forest camp used to train new recruits, the temporary tents and low fences have disappeared, replaced by brick and stone houses and brick walls more than one person high. This place has been transformed into a "military base" in the earl's words.

The internal security forces of Lake Heart Town have also been expanded. Now the internal security forces have filled a squadron, and two platoons of internal security soldiers are stationed here. Outside the wall, soldiers with wolfhounds patrol the surroundings day and night.

In an open area near the base, Marlowe, Herman, Kelly and others who are responsible for weapons research and development are fiddling with something, and there are soldiers on strict alert all around.

If there are earthlings nearby, they can recognize that what they are fiddling with is a front-loading bronze cannon in the style of the early 19th century.

The overall structure of the cannon was simplified by Paul with reference to the "time-travel artifact" on the Internet in his previous life - the Napoleon cannon. The gun carriage structure that carries the cannon is very simple, consisting of four parts: wheels, main shaft, breech bracket and elevation device. The elevation device consists of a screw connected to the breech and an adjustment handle. Just turn the handle to raise or lower the muzzle.

The voice of the earl and a group of officers came from afar: "I plan to name this place "Area 51". Don't ask me what Area 51 means. Anyway, it's called Area 51..."

After hearing the voice, Marlowe and others hurried over to greet him: "My lord, you are finally here. I am ready here."

The young earl ran to the bronze cannon and "stroked" the cannon body affectionately from head to tail.

Everyone: "..."

Paul cleared his throat and said, "Uh-huh! I've brought everyone here, it's up to you now."

Marlowe patted his chest and confidently replied, "Yes, sir."

Thanking the pirate captives for their "contribution" in the previous experiment, he was very confident about this public demonstration.

A double-layer brick wall was built 100 meters in front of the cannon, which was the target of this test firing. Marlowe ordered the gun crew to take their positions, and everyone hid behind a low wall behind the cannon to watch the firing.

The 7-member gun crew came to the cannon with a bucket of water and operated the cannon according to the established steps for each of them.

First, use a long-handled gun brush with wool wrapped on the top, dip it in water and put it into the muzzle to clean the sparks left after the last firing. It was not necessary for the first firing, but in order to prevent the artillery from forgetting this step in the subsequent firing and causing an accident, this step was strictly required to be performed in every firing.

Then use a brush to reach into the barrel to wipe off the moisture left in the previous steps, then stuff the flannel-wrapped propellant bag and a solid iron bullet into the barrel one after another, and then use the loading rod to compact the ammunition, so that the loading is complete.

Entering the ignition stage, first use a thin iron cone to probe into the ignition hole at the end of the gun and pierce the propellant bag to facilitate ignition.

There are two ways to ignite. One is to insert a cotton fuse and then ignite the fuse. It takes a while for the fuse to burn. The advantage of this method is that it is safer.

The other method is to fill the ignition hole with gunpowder, use an ignition rod, and use the fuse wrapped on it to ignite the gunpowder in the ignition hole. The advantage of this method is that it can be fired quickly.

This demonstration used the fuze firing method. After igniting the fuze, the gun crew members quickly covered their ears.

As the burning fuze quickly shortened, the gunpowder was finally ignited.

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"Boom!!!"

The four-pound bronze cannon let out a deafening roar, and the powerful recoil caused the cannon to retreat a long way. Everyone standing behind the low wall was shocked, and the ground under their feet seemed to tremble slightly at that moment.

"Ah~~" The Earl looked intoxicated.

When the smoke from the firing dissipated, everyone saw the scene in front of them clearly. A terrifying big hole was opened in the thick brick wall.

Everyone took a breath of cold air. With this power, if a cannon was fired at the crowd...

Most of them immediately ran over to observe the cannon carefully, while several people, including Schroeder, surrounded Marlowe and asked questions.

"After many tests, this thing can hit more than a thousand meters."

"Fire bigger shells? Hit farther? Of course, but the premise is to allocate more experimental funds to us."

"If you are skilled, you can fire 2 to 3 shots a minute, but frequent shooting will cause the barrel to overheat."

Marlowe raised his mouth, suppressed his inner excitement, and responded to the officers' questions. This kind of weapon was actually made by my hands. The original choice was indeed right.

"Military weapon! Military weapon!" Old Knight Schroeder exclaimed.

"Big is beautiful~~Big is beautiful~~" Captain Holman muttered to himself while touching the gun body, as if opening the door to a new world.

"Marlowe, try firing a shotgun to open their eyes again."

"Okay, Lord Earl!"