On July 19, the sixth year of Tianxuan, Qu Mao woke up very early on the small island of Midway Twin Islands. Instead of looking for Kong Ming, Qu Mao walked out of the zero-level residential house by himself.

Kong Ming didn't sleep at all the night before. He and Qu Mao stayed up late to exchange firearms technology. After Qu Mao went to bed, Kong Ming was still holding a few sketches that Qu Mao had drawn all night long, thinking about and even testing grenade improvements and landmines.

Made things.

After walking out of the zero-level residence, Qu Mao found a soldier from the Musketeers to lead him to wash up and have breakfast. Then Qu Mao began to wander around the small Midway Twin Islands.

Since there were only 50 students in the first class of the Firearms University, and the early infrastructure was built using 20 school construction drawings, Qu Mao quickly found a firearms that had both personnel on duty and people actually building it.

University construction site.

Stopping a young man who was carrying some wood on his shoulders, Qu Mao asked: "Young man, where did you come from to help build the firearms university?"

The young man gently leaned the wood he was carrying on his shoulders to the side, bowed his hands and said in salute: "Sir, the student is the first batch of students at the Firearms University, majoring in gunpowder technology, and his name is Lu Zaixing.

Now the school is under construction, and most of the professors are studying new firearms technology around Lord Kong Ming, so I am both a student and a school construction worker."

Qu Mao nodded, patted the young man on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Lv Zaixing, that's right. How old are you this year?"

Lu Zaixing said: "Sir, the student is 16 years old this year. After studying at Firearms University for 4 years, he will be 20 years old. At that time, my subordinates can officially serve the territory."

Qu Mao nodded, looked at the wood that Lu Zaixing put aside, and asked: "What are you doing? Which part of the school construction is it?"

Lu Zaixing said: "Sir, students are responsible for assisting the soldiers in actual construction and jointly building the school's library. These brand-new wood must be sent up and delivered to the hands of the soldiers responsible for building the library.

Of course, students will also collect some replaced waste wood, because the waste wood can be used as fire starting materials after being collected.

After burning the fire, there will be vegetation ash left, which can be used to plant trees or fill up the experimental site of the Firearms Research Institute or the playground of the Firearms University. Of course, some students will also take back some incompletely burned wood and use it to prepare gunpowder in the future. Students' majors

It’s gunpowder technology.”

Qu Mao was stunned for a moment and said: "I didn't expect you to be so frugal at such a young age.

What majors does Firearms University offer now?"

Lu Zaixing said: "Sir, the Firearms University is newly built. There are only 50 students in the first class. Now there are only five majors, Gunpowder Technology, Gun Manufacturing, Artillery Manufacturing, Gun Principle Research, Gun Design, among which Gun Principle Research

There are only 5 students in the major and 20 students in the firearms design major.

The student’s professional gunpowder technology is neither a popular major nor an unpopular major.”

Qu Mao nodded thoughtfully and said, "No matter what major, students need to study hard."

Lu Zaixing said with a smile: "Your Excellency, Master Kong Ming and the professors have emphasized again and again: At present, our Yigong territory is constantly engaged in foreign wars and lacks materials. We can squeeze out so many resources to build a firearms university. This is already a consideration.

The importance of Firearms University to Yi Gong’s territory has been revealed.

Therefore, whether we are professors or students, we all need to practice strict economy.

The students themselves try to save some charcoal for making gunpowder in order to save some funds for the Firearms University. It is difficult for the Firearms University to last only with your subsidies. As the first students, we must have this awareness."

Qu Mao gave a thumbs up and said to Lu Zaixing: "Lu Zaixing, go ahead and do your work. I'll take a look again at will."

Lu Zaixing saluted Qu Mao, picked up the wood he had put aside, and turned around as he walked and said, "Sir, since you are here to visit the Firearms University under construction, the student Lin in front of you has to look at it. Those are our first classmates.

A tree planted by one’s own hands, planted by one’s own hands, and taken care of by one’s own hands.”

Qu Mao nodded, and after walking less than 200 meters, he saw the student forest mentioned by Lu Zaixing. In fact, it was inappropriate to call it a forest. In an area of ​​about 10,000 square meters, there were only a total of more than 50 trees planted, which were less than one foot tall.

Just a small sapling.

However, after getting closer, Qu Mao saw obvious water stains on the gravel at the base of the saplings, indicating that the first batch of students still took good care of the saplings they had planted.

Qu Mao even saw plant ash mixed in the gravel at the roots of a few saplings, indicating that the students were really caring for these newly planted saplings.

After leaving the construction site of the Firearms University, on the long and winding way back, I finally discovered that the level 0 residential house I lived in was not the already built Firearms Research Institute, but could only be regarded as a temporary work shed at best.

The Firearms Research Institute is currently under construction. There are construction sites everywhere on the construction site. Smoke and dust are everywhere. A large number of Firearms Army soldiers are walking back and forth, usually building buildings with different functions in reality.

Qu Mao went to the place where the grenades were tested last night, stretched out his feet and rubbed the ground twice. He found that the place where the grenades were tested had been carefully paved with gravel by soldiers and researchers, and there were also gravels on the gravel.

Covered with a layer of sand.

Rubbing it with his feet again, Qu Mao found that the combined thickness of sand and gravel was only four to five centimeters. The gravel might have been obtained through quarrying and crushing on the Twin Islands in the middle, but the sand must have come from other islands in the Holy Land.

Shipped here.

It seems that Kong Ming really paid attention to the construction of the Midway Twin Islands. The Midway Twin Islands are isolated in the center of the ocean, with no shelter around them. They are similar in nature to the Lian Island and the Sky Island. They are simply bare stone mountains without any sand and

The gravel will be blown to the sea by the strong sea wind.

The entire test site is only about 200 meters by 200 meters. Kong Ming has already ordered the soldiers to drill down to a depth of about 20 centimeters. However, if the sand continues like this, it may not be retained for many days and will soon be blown away by the sea breeze.

Kong Ming spent a lot of effort to transport it to the Twin Islands on the way and test the firearms. The venue must be made of sand. If it is a hard stone ground, bullets, shells or fragments will fly around, which may cause experiments

Unnecessary harm to personnel.

Thinking of this, Qu Mao felt that it was necessary to help Kong Ming solve this problem, and when it came to solving the problem of sand fixation, Yigong Territory was very experienced.
Chapter completed!