Seeing that Ye Chunqiu seemed to be angry, Tang Bohu didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore. He quickly cheered up and said seriously: "Talk about serious business, Mr. Duke, just now, the research institute of the Zhenguo Mansion of the Capital sent someone to invite Mr. Duke."

Research Institute? There must be something important, otherwise I wouldn’t have found the Ye Mansion.

Ye Chunqiu hurriedly said, "What, what's wrong?"

Tang Bohu said: "It is said that it is a new firearm that the prince has arranged."

When Ye Chunqiu heard the new firearm, his eyes widened, and he couldn't help but feel shocked, and even a little joy appeared in his heart.

Speaking of the research institute, the development of rifles and artillery has actually laid a solid foundation, the structure of the rifle and the principle of gunpowder. These technologies are already familiar with again and again through repeated research.

Coupled with the emergence of civilian cavalry and the procurement of the new Japanese army, the arms transactions also made a lot of profit.

Because of this, the research on firearms within Zhenguo Mansion has been paid more and more attention to this, which not only concerns the new army, but also the future of Zhenguo Mansion.

Thinking back to the beginning, when major shareholders heard that they had to spend a large amount of money on the institute every year, they always felt wailing. In their opinion, the millions of silver funds given to the institute were simply a waste. After all, the institute did not produce any direct output.

But gradually, everyone also figured out the way and knew that the project that really made money was not in the workshop, but in the research institute. Once the research institute came up with a new thing, it could open up a new market. This is the fundamental interest of Zhenguo Mansion.

It is obviously not in line with everyone's long-term interests to rely on the loss of money. To put it bluntly, these shareholders are all big-name people, so they really care about earning money in front of them. On the contrary, they value prospects more.

After several lessons, the Zhenguo Mansion Research Institute has sufficient funds. Now the institute has established 36 departments of agriculture, forestry and engineering, and everything from metallurgy to seed research is available. There are thousands of researchers recruited. In this way, the staff of each department is still insufficient. These researchers receive generous salaries. Although they don’t seem to be doing anything to produce, once a research breakthrough is made, it may bring huge rewards.

And this is not the most important thing. The institute has now established a graphic museum. This graphic museum records almost countless experimental data and materials, as well as a lot of research experience, as well as the research on the latest technicians.

Take textile as an example. The current loom has undergone countless improvements. Each improvement greatly increases the production of weaving. It is precisely because of this that the cloth shops in Zhenguo Mansion, relying on this large-scale production and the increase in production, directly suppress the price of cloth by half. In this way, the cloths in Songjiang and Hangzhou, or the silk brocade in Shu, are certainly impeccable in terms of technology, but the workshops like small workshops cannot compete with the cloths in Zhenguo Mansion. People spend five taels of silver per piece, while the Zhenguo Mansion ships two taels of silver, so they need to be as much as possible. This also makes the original small workshop owners truly see the strength of the large workshop and have to purchase large quantities of looms in Zhenguo Mansion, otherwise they will not be able to compete and will be crushed directly.

The Military Weapon Bureau is the department with the most researchers in the research institute. There are as many as 300 people. They have special research on everything involved in military applications, from gunpowder to gun barrels to machinery. Many times, the so-called research is not so much a flash of inspiration, but rather what most people can do is basic research, which is actually just trial and error.

In fact, Ye Chunqiu has less and less guidance to them. What Ye Chunqiu can do is to provide one direction so that all colleagues in the institute can work hard in this direction and avoid detours.

After all, Ye Chunqiu's original intention of establishing the research institute was not to recruit a group of people to start, but to establish a mechanism to allow them to slowly climb this scientific and technological tree and to boost their growth. Instead, the entire research institute will eventually become Ye Chunqiu's vassal. As a result, Ye Chunqiu is fine, but if he is not here, the institution will disappear.

Because of this, Ye Chunqiu thought hard and made many reward measures, and also carried out some reforms to the institutions within the institute, which simply allowed them to be obsessed with their own fields.

Since the Military Weapons Bureau dares to say that new firearms have made new achievements, it is definitely not an ordinary small fight.

I remembered that I was scolded by Qiqige for no reason, which made Ye Chunqiu very embarrassed. Now it was just right, so I quickly diverted my attention.

Ye Chunqiu said to Tang Bohu: "Go and go and have a look."

While talking, he asked someone to prepare a carriage. When he was sitting in the car, Ye Chunqiu was bored and couldn't help asking himself, could he be a hypocrite?

Why……

Ye Chunqiu couldn't help but sigh silently. The influence of people and society is mutual. When Ye Chunqiu, a later generation, came to this and influenced this world, then this world did not have subtle influence on Ye Chunqiu?

Is this right or wrong? It seems that everyone has a standard for judgment.

However, what Ye Chunqiu was a little unpredictable was that Qiqige was interested in him. He thought she had always disdained him. The point was that she was her brother-killing enemy and was his father Khan's biggest enemy. Perhaps... she had a reason, no one could interfere with the other person's thoughts, right?

Thinking of this, Ye Chunqiu couldn't help but smile bitterly. Many times, he actually envied Zhu Houzhao for being so careless, but many times, he understood so well that he was not Zhu Houzhao.

He left these thoughts behind his mind. Sometimes even he couldn't understand why he became like this today, being serious, becoming more and more taciturn, and becoming more and more scheming.

But when he arrived at the research institute, Ye Chunqiu finally felt happy and there was a smile on his lips.

Because what the Military Weapons Bureau showed him was actually a machine gun.
Chapter completed!