With a crisp "bang", a giant with a wingspan of 25 meters fell from the sky. Mo Ming handed over the well-crafted musket decorated with gems, ivory and other accessories to his followers, and then went to check his prey with great enthusiasm.

This is a huge Andean vulture with a wingspan of 25 meters and a foot from the beak to the tail. It usually feeds on the natural dead camels, and sometimes it will eat some cattle and sheep corpses left over from the lions. The one Mo Ming shot was that he and some young officers from the road guard team were on a trip - and by the way, he caught a cow that often attacked residents' cattle and sheep - and he encountered this vulture that was gnawing on the death black cow, and was shot by Mo Ming.

It is worth mentioning that Mo Ming shot this vulture at a long distance not because of his marksmanship or luck, but because he used a rich toy - a well-made rifled rifled gun. Even its special metal bullets were purely hand-polished. The high accuracy fully reflects the superb craftsmen's craftsmen.

This kind of gun has been circulated among the nobles in Europe for more than a hundred years. Louis XIV's father used this rifled gun when he was hunting. The copper bullet was made by craftsmen, and the barrel was also drawn by experienced craftsmen with machines. The cost - mainly the cost of bullets - was extremely high, so it was only popular among the nobles (when hunting, you can show that your marksmanship is "smart").

As for the second-class rifled rifles with low cost of 2f, such as those using Minnie bullets, they are prohibited from popularization due to strong opposition from the army. At present, only more than ten pieces of secretly manufactured by the northern arsenal, plus some ammunition. They are personally escorted to Sakhalin Island by military police officers. They are handed over to the carefully selected "hunters" for secret use to evaluate performance. Each gun and each bullet is numbered. The military police supervises the entire process to strictly prevent any bullet from spreading to the outside world, because once this extremely easy-to-imitation technology is leaked (in fact, Europeans can guess ten as long as they pick up a bullet), it will be a disaster for the East Coast Army, which currently uses artillery as its main combat method.

Because at that time, the accuracy and range of rifles would exceed artillery, and soldiers would no longer have to line up in dense formations to suffer the ravages of artillery, and the tactics underwent revolutionary changes. It was undoubtedly difficult for the East Coast Army, which mainly had a large number of high-precision, high-range and light artillery. Therefore, after three years of dispute with the Institute of Natural Sciences and two military-industrial enterprises, they finally agreed to manufacture some in small batches and sent them to the Far East battlefield to evaluate performance.

"Xiao Xu, I've given you prey, haha." Mo Ming lost interest after just glanced at the vulture, and then said to Xu Xiangdong who was following him.

Xu Xiangdong was wearing a dark blue army uniform, with a saber hanging on his waist and a short-barrel carriage. He heard this and then he thanked him repeatedly, and then happily went to carry his prey. Several soldiers from the road protection team followed behind happily. He was ready to fight. The father of this young man who had just turned 21 years old was Major Xu Yu, one of the founders of the cavalry. He graduated from the cavalry department of Dingyuan Military Academy, had been training militia in Sha Castle for three years. Last month, he was just appointed as a squadron leader of the road protection team of the South Railway Company by Mo Ming. He has a bright future and is a rising star among the second generation.

His old son Xu Yu is also a good dancer. His eldest son Xu Xiangdong was sent to work in a paramilitary organization like the Nantie Company Road Protection Team, and his youngest son was sent to the Corps Fort to study. His two daughters have been engaged to others. One is preparing to marry a young officer he is optimistic about in the cavalry system, and the other is marrying the son of Yulian, the deputy director of the Academic Affairs Office of the Navy School, who was the first to defect to the East Coast people. Not only did he cover the old cavalry system, but he also further extended his connections to the navy.

It is said that everyone has traveled through time for a full 22 years and three months. Most of the children have grown up, so the marriage problems of their children have gradually emerged in front of everyone. In this matter, the actions of the officers of the land and naval systems traveling through time are surprisingly consistent. They have a large number of marriages with talents from this time and space. The sons marry the daughters of old subordinates and the daughters marry newly emerging young officers. It seems to reflect a certain value orientation of their value. Compared with the civil servants traveling through time and space, they have to be much more conservative. They have more intermarried internally. Even some of them marry talents from this time and space, which does not account for the majority, which is in sharp contrast with the military system.

"President, it's getting late. If you don't set out, you won't have time to arrive at the Midway Fort before sunset." Liu Jianguo glanced at Xu Xiangdong enviously, and then said to Mo Ming in an inquiring tone. Liu Jianguo is currently a technician of the Engineering Department of the South Railway Company. As the eldest son of Liu Ang, the captain of the South African Development Team, he had just gotten married a while ago. His wife is the daughter of Leonid, the commander of the South African Cavalry Company - a beauty of Ukrainian descent.

"Then let's go." Mo Ming nodded, then gave a few instructions to the secretary, and then took the lead in taking the horse. There are more than ten kilometers from here to Midway Fort, which can be reached almost before sunset. The Midway Fort mentioned by Liu Jianguo is a settlement that has just been established, with a population of only 700 or 800 people. It developed from a storage place for railway equipment and building materials. It is located near the small village of el zurdo, west of Beavesta in the later generations, just between Sand Castle and Qingniwa Fort, so it is named Midway Fort.

Mo Ming and others arrived here at five or six o'clock in the afternoon. At that time, the workers on the railway construction site outside the city had not yet returned. In the wall made of logs and rammed earth, one or two hundred Qing army prisoners were cooking and cleaning. At this moment, seeing Mo Ming, the president of the Nan Railway Company, and others arrived, a former Qing army leader rolled out of the village gate, and then looked at everyone with a flattering look.

Mo Ming ignored him and said casually after handing the whip to the secretary behind him: "Your Engineering Department is going to hurry up. Now there are more than 100 kilometers of railways between the Fort and Xinbao. It has been unsecured, which has greatly affected the transportation efficiency of the Nanci Railway. It seems that after I go back, I will hold a meeting with relevant people. Last time, Minister Qian from your Engineering Department told me that it will not be completed before the end of this year and will be delayed until next year's first year. Hehe, the Nanci Railway has been built for four years and five months, and it is simply unreasonable to have me wait for more than a year."

Liu Jianguo laughed embarrassedly when he heard this, not knowing what to say. Minister Qian is his immediate boss and he usually takes good care of him. Unexpectedly, the company's president is dissatisfied with him because of the slow road construction process. It seems that if you have the opportunity, you have to have a good chat with the minister and ask him to think of a solution. It is important to connect the entire railway within this year. Otherwise, President Mo will be angry and may be in danger of being insured. Who will he ask for advice?

The Midway Fort is located at the intersection of Xingnan River and its tributaries. It has abundant water and grass and lush trees. It is a rare oasis in the Southern Patagonia region. The South Railway Company set up a settlement here, which is certainly for the purpose of convenient train stops and adding water and coal, and maintenance, but it is not without any desire for the relatively good agricultural conditions here. Therefore, the two factors combined to finally promote the establishment of this settlement.

The railway station outside the city has been built, but the expected railway bridge across the tributary of Xingnan River has just begun, waiting for the engineering team sent by the local Ministry of Transport to assist in the construction - at present, they are the only ones who master the technology of building railway bridges. Next to the railway station is a huge storage area, which stores a large amount of railway tracks, construction materials, coal and other things. To the west of the warehouse, next to the river, there is an artificial reservoir under construction, which is the future source of life and agricultural irrigation water for the settlement. The workers who will build the reservoir are still fighting. It seems that they will not finish their work until dark to come back to have a meal and rest.

There is also a small telegraph mailing room in the railway station. The wired telegraph has been experimenting on the affiliated ground of the Nanchi Railway for a long time. It can be said that it has achieved a successful success. The next step is to officially start commercial operations. According to the staff of the newly established communications department of the Nanchi Railway Company, the installation of wired telegraphs will be completed in the first half of this year (1653). The equipment will be fully in place and commissioned within two months. The training of telegraph personnel is also in full swing. It is expected that by the end of August of the second half of the year, the wired telegraph system along the Nanchi Railway can be officially put into commercial operations. Once the wired telegraph is successfully put into commercial operations in the Nanchi area, the following will be the full operation in the local area, which is extremely critical to improving the communication efficiency across the East Coast, and the social rhythm will be greatly accelerated. Its significance cannot be underestimated.

"Xingnan Highway is open, and the cable telegram is about to be opened. The railway is also a matter of time..." Mo Ming looked at the last sunset on the distant horizon and murmured: "The development of Nan Railway will surely be a thousand miles a day from now on. The two modern wharfs of Xingnan Port and Araucan Port, the second phase of the Beech Fort logging base project, the establishment of the wool textile factory, the establishment of the Shanhoubao seal oil refinery, the establishment of the Pacific shipyard, the expansion of the Montenegro coal mine, the promotion of the fishery breeding plan of the Salmon Islands, the exploration of the Lesco Island coal mine and the establishment of the island ranch

, and Xingnan Port has also planned to build a machine flour mill, and 8 50-horsepower industrial windmills have already placed orders... Hehe, as more and more people are sent to the Pacific route, if I have more and more people, I will be able to recognize the appearance of the Nantie Railway Affiliated Area. With such a large territory, so many population, such large industries, and such rich resources, the foundation of 6-8 counties will be built! Humph, if it were someone else, could he do this to me?" (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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