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The Evolution of the Three Kingdoms Volume Chapter 185 The cannon roars!

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    For the area under Li Zhe's rule, the time was ripe for the issuance of currency. The consumption power created by industrial workers in several of its own industrial zones alone exceeded the market size during the heyday of the Han Dynasty.  The points system, military stamps and supply and marketing cooperatives that have been implemented under Li Zhe have cultivated market conditions for the issuance of currency and provided the best social foundation. From military stamps to currency, it is almost the smoothest transition.

    This is also the best weapon to break the curse of commodity economy in small peasant economy and society!

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    Prometheus is great. His greatness lies in sacrificing himself and bringing the fire of civilization to mankind.

    Of course, for the people of the Three Kingdoms time and space, Li Zhe is also great. Li Zhe's greatness lies in the fact that he not only spread the fire of civilization, but also did not use any means to suppress people's glimpse of his greatness!  On the contrary, it is more active in promoting the spread of knowledge and making it more widely used in people's production and life.  This is obviously extremely detrimental to any political regime.

    In fact, people in the Three Kingdoms time and space are always exploring the most mysterious and greatest part of Li Zhe - the explosive weapon that can be compared with the devil.

    Therefore, as soon as black gunpowder was produced, it developed vigorously. Not only Li Zhe's official institutions, the Craftsman Camp and Taixue, were studying it, but private scientists were also constantly experimenting.

    Human nature and the social conditions at this time made it natural for black powder to be the first to achieve its greatest development in the military. Rockets, spray cans and even the most primitive gunpowder gun weapons made of bamboo used gunpowder as the driving force.  One after another.  But what is developing the fastest and is of real decisive significance is the gunpowder weapons research institute set up by Li Zhe in the craftsman camp. What they have been conducting is the research on artillery, the end of the cold weapon era.

    February 2, 202.  Three Kingdoms time and space, Xiangcheng Industrial Zone.

    This is a vast plain, stretching as far as the eye can see, with cultivated farmland everywhere. In the distance of the field of vision, there is an artificial raised hill, with several special locations marked with colorful flags, and what appears to be armor can be vaguely seen.  s things.

    Li Zhe and a group of senior officials.  Jia Xu, Guo Jia, Xu Shu, Liao Hua, etc. from the Privy Council and the Ministry of War, as well as Cao Cao and others, all held telescopes in their hands and looked into the distance.

    Li Zhe made a gesture.  The order was passed on, and a signalman in the distance waved a small flag in his hand.

    "Ready! Release!"

    A few seconds later, there was a boom, and earth-shattering thunder exploded out of thin air, on the artillery position.  Large sheets of white smoke surged up violently, invisible shock waves in the air impacted people's eardrums, and there was even a faint echo from the sky.

    The hill in the distance is at the predetermined target point.  There was a sudden burst of visual chaos, followed by a crash of rocks.  Let's wait until everything calms down.  A big hole has already appeared on the target in the field of vision. The targets placed around it were shattered by the bombardment, scattered in all directions, and became shapeless. The fragments flew dozens of meters away!

    Except for Li Zhe and the craftsman in charge of the experiment, the expressions of everyone present changed dramatically!

    Cannons are shocking to human senses. Not only are they powerful, but they also have a revolutionary improvement in range compared to trebuchets. With the emergence of ballistics, the concept of precision strikes has also evolved.  This can be expected. As for the trebuchet, you really can't think of any other way to fight it except covering the attack.

    Almost immediately, people imagined the effect of this weapon on the battlefield. It would be a complete destruction and a devastating attack!

    The group of people who followed Li Zhe to visit again are all the elites among the elites of this era!  They all realized it quickly!  The emergence of this weapon will be a revolution in military history!

    Immediately afterwards, everyone watched the test firing of several other different artillery pieces, and their minds were constantly forced to change their concepts by the astonishing power of the artillery pieces.

    After the test firing, everyone walked to the artillery position and observed closely one by one the weapons that created such a destructive feeling!

    The cannon barrels stood there one by one, the cold and rigid lines, mighty and cold!

    The manufacturer of the artillery, Jin Xin, who was one of the first batch of master craftsmen in Runan County Artisan Camp, came over and introduced to everyone one by one, including the parabolic calculation he had just mastered during the artillery test firing and the artillery calibration table that was being formed.

    Contrary to what everyone expected, even the most primitive and simple artillery is not that simple. It took the craftsman battalion nearly half a year of research to finally get it right.

    At present, there are mainly two types of mature artillery that the Craftsman Battalion has mastered, bronze artillery and cast iron artillery, both of which are front-loaded smoothbore artillery.It was fired with silk powder bags, and the calibers were three-pound cannon and six-pound cannon, which were the three-pound cannon and six-pound cannon in the European firearms era. Relatively speaking, the three-pound cannon and the six-pound cannon were slightly larger than the pound system.

    Bronze cannons are much more valuable than cast iron. After all, copper is scarcer than iron at this time, and it also serves as currency.  However, copper has high density, good ductility, and strong toughness. In the early days of extremely poor metal smelting technology, the performance of bronze artillery was much more reliable than that of cast iron artillery.  As for the cast iron artillery, even so far, the quality of the barrel is still not up to standard, and the phenomenon of chamber explosion occurs frequently. In comparison, the Craftsman Battalion prefers bronze artillery.  As for the steel artillery, there is still no sign of it yet!  Until now, the industrial technology under Li Zhe's rule does not have the appropriate processing capabilities to make gun barrels.

    In other words, in a short period of time, Li Zhejun¡¯s bronze artillery will be equipped with three-pound cannons and six-pound cannons on a large scale.  Due to its own weight, it can be transported everywhere with a wooden gun mount, which is extremely convenient. Whether it is used for infantry and cavalry support or placed on a ship, it is a light and flexible weapon, enough to bear fire support in the field.

    With the current production capacity of the Craftsman Battalion, it will be able to produce more than two hundred guns a month, enough to equip an army's artillery battalion. Moreover, this output is still growing exponentially. In half a year at most, it will be able to equip it.  The whole army.

    Within a year, with the introduction of larger-aperture siege artillery, Li Zhejun will completely eliminate the counterweight trebuchets and ballistae of the heavy equipment battalion, and jump into the firearms age as a whole!

    Once Li Zhejun enters the age of firearms, the military tactics of the entire era will undergo dramatic changes, and all the old-style armies of the princes will be eliminated.

    Times are progressing and everything will be different!

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    After returning to Xudu, with the shocking thunder and thunder of the artillery, the nobles headed by Cao Cao who finally adhered to the bottom line finally bowed their heads and fully integrated into Li Zhe's system!

    Cao Cao was appointed as the Minister of War and served in the cabinet.

    Xun Yu was appointed as Shangshu of the Ministry of Household Affairs and joined the cabinet.

    Xun You was appointed as a member of the Privy Council and joined the cabinet.

    Liu Ye was appointed as a doctor of the Ministry of Industry and joined the cabinet.

    Cheng Li was appointed as the chief minister of Dali Temple and joined the cabinet.

    Xu You, a man of great favor, was appointed as a doctor in the Ministry of War.

    Dong Zhao Maojie was appointed as the imperial censor.

    Cao Chun and Han Hao were appointed Sima of the Zhennan Military Camp.

    Ren Jun, Zhu Ling and others entered Li Zhe's system one after another.

    In addition to these people, there is also an unexpected gain - Jushou. This guy's fate was changed by Li Zhe. After being captured, he was not hacked to death by Cao Cao for escaping. He has been idle in Xudu, spending all day with another old stubborn Kong Rong.  Even though Li Zhe criticized the current situation, he did not care about himself and allowed him to hang out in Taixue and the Great Library.

    At the same time as the adjustment of the imperial court, the training and re-equipment of the artillery battalion soldiers were carried out. The reinforcement and re-equipment of the Zhennan Army were carried out first, because news came from the Kuai family in Jingzhou that Liu Biao was completely dead!  .  .  )

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