Utopia

"Instead of developing a light machine gun that fires 8×53mm rifle bullets, I think it would be better to directly replace it with a beam launcher."

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Three months later, Sogen, who had finished his daytime statistics work, chatted with Lehman using the communication pendant. After all, when he got off work during the day, Lehman's husband, Ness, handed him a letter with a summary of Crystal Dynamics' research results.

So he listened to Lehman's words and continued to draw on his desk.

"The question is, will this weight be as difficult for our shooters to accept as the Hengchun heavy machine gun?"

"The entire weapon system has been using 5 kilograms at least recently."

"Lyman, have you ever made a beam machine gun here?"

"No. But we have tried to scale down the beam machine gun in equal proportions, and the final result is like this."

"Hmm..."

"If it really doesn't work, don't we still have that trick? The barrel and the bolt, as well as the power system are separated. The entire weapon system is divided into three parts, and three soldiers can carry it, right?"

"Okay."

"And I dare to say that in the future, the Negan Kingdom should be equipped with beam weapons for the entire army. Ordinary gunpowder weapons still have too many limitations."

"The problem is that we have to take it step by step, right? If you want to learn to run, how can you learn to walk?"

As Sogen himself said, concepts cannot be changed quickly overnight, and there must be a long and gradual process.

It's just that the Negan Kingdom has good basic conditions. When the country was founded, most people were illiterate. As long as the education issues are handled well, many things can actually be solved easily.

Moreover, the current Negan Kingdom is a modern country where everyone is literate, knows how to write some articles, and understands various basic knowledge concepts.

The only thing is that the number of citizens is limited, so they can't do many things in a big way.

"So, the rifles used by our soldiers are still driven by gunpowder. It's not for anything else, but cost and training issues. Okay, I'm going to contact the children. If you have time, please take a look at your children."

Listening to Lehman's words, Sogen naturally shook his head repeatedly. Because his three sons are now "protected" and are educated independently by the high priest of the Black Dragon Temple. He, as a father, has to make an appointment to see them.

In addition, Leia has given birth to another daughter, and her physical condition is relatively weak, so he and other members of the family need to take care of her together.

As for Beth, who is ready to enter the delivery room for the second time, she is sitting beside him in a white maternity dress, looking at the design drawings on her desk and feeling funny.

"Did you hear what Lehman said? You have to see the children when you have time, and..."

"I know. How are you now, Beth?"

"Congratulations, another son. I can get the bonus."

In view of the fact that the problem of more boys than girls in the Kingdom of Negan has not been solved, mothers like Beth, who gave birth to two sons in a row and now has another son in her bulging belly, not only have special bonus incentives, but also have the right to attend the Congress to listen to politics (just to listen to politics, without the right to propose or write a petition).

Therefore, Sogen felt very happy when he looked at Beth, who was completely plump in front of him.

But he had to face a troublesome thing in the future. Wouldn't it mean that he would have more daughters-in-law if he had more sons?

You know, his sons are all born with magical powers like him. In addition, things are rare and valuable, so his sons will definitely become "prey" in the future.

"Bonus... You don't know how many colleagues in the Council Hall envy you."

"That's none of my business. So, you continue to design beam weapons?"

"Yeah. But after designing this, I may have to interrupt my design work for a while. Ruyi Town sent some vendors over, hoping that our Ma Le City can provide some assistance."

After completing the design drawing that had been modified twice, Sogen asked Beth to send it to Leman by telegraph, while taking out the map of Ruyi Town for analysis.

Although he is not a military official, but just a civilian official in charge of statistics. But this does not mean that he will not care about things outside, especially the copper smelting plant that Ruyi Town has now established.

As soon as this plant was established, the mayor of Minnie gave a death order that Ma Le City could not let Ruyi Town go casually.

The reason is that the northern bank of the White Silver River has no shortage of iron, crystal, coal, natural gas, wood, and wild grass resources, but it is relatively short of non-ferrous metals; the southern bank is the opposite, with all kinds of gems and non-ferrous metals. Therefore, a copper smelting plant in Ruyi Town is a great temptation for Marle City. In addition, copper itself is a strategic metal material for industrial use in the Kingdom of Nigan. Sogen has to understand the situation.

However, the problem also comes. Since the southern bank of the White Silver River is a disaster area where the natives appear, Ruyi Town, even though it is geographically remote and located on an alluvial plain protruding to the northeast, has a terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, which temporarily guarantees its own safety.

But no one can guarantee what will happen next, let alone whether the natives will discover this place and start a large-scale attack.

In this regard, he heard that the mayor of Ruyi Town had contact with naval officials. However, due to the lack of troops and limited number of ships on the navy side, the navy is also very entangled.

However, Sogen can't let it go, not only for copper ingots, but also for the safety of the southern part of Marle City.

The south of Marle City is the estuary of a river, and the enemy can completely launch an attack from the sea. For this reason, a suitable surveillance point or outpost is very necessary.

Moreover, the purpose of the Negan Kingdom to colonize the New World is to leave the Old World and completely cut off all ties with the Old World. Therefore, it is certain that the first batch of towns will be built on both sides of the White Milky Way, but the unexpected natives disrupted the original plan of the Negan Kingdom, causing the Negan Kingdom to give priority to the development of the jungle area on the north bank of the White Milky Way.

In fact, Sogen himself and Nice investigated the intelligence about the natives, but the natives had no captives and no translators. To this day, the two of them and all the people of the Negan Kingdom in the New World do not know the number of natives, or even the scope of the native kingdom's rule.

The only thing they know is that they are still fighting with cold weapons made of bronze and wrought iron, and that some members can cast spells.

To be honest, Sogen himself suddenly felt that it would be good for himself and even the Negan Kingdom if the opponent kept doing this. After all, compared to a strong opponent, a weakling who can be killed at any time is the best training opponent.

It is very useful for maintaining the combat effectiveness of the army and training new soldiers.