Later, the navy of Guangdong and Guangxi was easily wiped out, and the disaster of the squid driving straight into the Jinmen of Koulue will happen again!"

"Hmph, alarmist!"

The Supreme Emperor was not unfamiliar with this statement, so he immediately retorted: "How did you know that Daxia would just stand still? As long as the imperial court specially allocates funds to order the Ministry of Industry to develop stronger warships..."

“So how much money should be appropriated?”

Jiao Shun bravely interrupted the Emperor's words and asked: "I just said that Westerners' industry is developing towards complexity and sophistication. That is to say, the more new technologies, processes and materials are involved in the future, the more new technologies, processes and materials will be involved. If

If there is less funding, it will not help the problem, and there will not be so many talents who specialize in this field."

"If more funds are allocated to train talents who specialize in this field... wouldn't that be the New Deal advocated by His Majesty?!"

The Supreme Emperor was obviously hesitant after hearing this.

In fact, he wanted to say that if the emperor wants to implement the New Deal, it is okay, but there is no need to raise the craftsmen too high. If they are asked to be eight or nine-grade minor officials according to the old system, shouldn't they be able to develop new technologies?

But the Supreme Emperor didn't want to say such 'soft words' in front of mere ministers.

So after hesitating for a moment, he still snorted coldly: "What a clever word! In the past thousands of years, our empire has never respected craftsmen so much, but isn't it enough to convince all the nations of the world to come to the court?"

In fact, Jiao Shun may not really want to raise the workers too high, but now the workers group has become his base, and he usually regards himself as a worker representative. Even if he doesn't think so in his heart, he must say so in his mouth.

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Therefore, even though he heard the hidden meaning in the words of the Supreme Emperor, he could only pretend not to understand, bowing and saying: "Your Majesty, how can there be a barbarian country in thousands of years that can overwhelm our heavenly kingdom with its well-equipped equipment?

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In fact, there is, but the Supreme Emperor will definitely not admit it.

After a pause, Jiao Shun continued: "In the past thousands of years, have we ever seen a giant ship made of steel, running rampant on the sea? Let's not ignore the Western barbarians, but I will use the newly built continuous muskets once they are put into the army.

I'm afraid that the battle formation method that has been used for thousands of years will change from now on."

After all, Daxia was founded on firearms. As for the magazine musket, a powerful weapon of the country, the Supreme Emperor took the time to understand it, so he agreed with Jiao Shun's words - now that a musket that can shoot continuously and rapidly has been created, what was the three-stage shooting in the past?

Such a Phalanx is naturally unsustainable.

"And this is just the beginning. Now the Ministry of Industry is trying to continue to improve. If some difficulties can be overcome, it may be possible to increase the rate of fire ten times, or even a hundred times..."

"ha!"

The Supreme Emperor finally caught Jiao Shun's sick leg this time, and sneered: "Do you think I know nothing about this? Let me ask you, even if such a musket is made, where should the bullets be placed? Is there really such a gun?

I'm afraid it won't be enough to load dozens or even hundreds of rounds of ammunition!"

"Then thousands, tens of thousands!"

Jiao Shun said with enthusiasm: "I have seriously imagined that once the problems of airtightness and automatic ejection of bullet casings are solved, thousands of bullets can be strung together to make a bullet belt, which can be placed separately at ordinary times.

When used, they can be strung together to fire hundreds or thousands of bullets instantly."

"Furthermore, if the power of the steam engine continues to increase and the size continues to shrink, we can build an ironclad ship that can walk on land - it doesn't need to be that big, it just needs to be able to withstand attacks from ordinary weapons."

"At that time, as long as a small number of such giant beasts lead the charge, no matter how many people are on the opposite side, how can they withstand it without the equipment and weapons to compete with them?!"
Chapter completed!