Chapter 252 Armament Research and Development
The Rocket Force actually developed slowly based on inspiration from fireworks.

Rockets are actually not a rare product. They have existed as early as the Song Dynasty. Unfortunately, the power of gunpowder was too weak at that time, and they mainly played a certain intimidating role on the enemy cavalry's horses.

If they can fly several miles away and are equipped with high explosives and gasoline warheads, the power will be huge. If thousands of high-explosive bombs and arrows are fired at the same time to attack a densely packed army formation, or thousands of arrows and gasoline bombs are fired at the same time to burn a city, the consequences are simply unimaginable.

So, in fact, there were many ways of fighting wars in the era of hot weapons. It would have been fine in the later period, but in the early period, they couldn’t even win the Opium War. Were all the civil and military officials in the Qing Dynasty stupid, or were they really stupid?
Fobao is the most important weapons manufacturing base, and it has been so since the beginning. After all, although Fobao has inconvenient transportation, it is safe enough.

All the troops that had gone out with the Buddha treasure, including the special company in Yunhua's hands, have been dispatched back to guard the absolute safety of the Buddha treasure. In addition, the Buddha treasure was in a semi-closed state before, and now it is completely closed. Even if the imperial court wants to infiltrate, it will not find a way.

Because outsiders can't get in, people inside can't get out, and they are all acquaintances, a stranger will basically have nowhere to hide.

Wu Hua is the chief designer of weapons, responsible for the research and development and production of all weapons.

Chen Gu inspected the Buddhist treasures to see the manufacturing status of the military equipment.

The firecrackers and fireworks, or to be more precise, fireworks, were one of the achievements that Wu Hua showed to Chen Gu.

Chen Gu rode a horse for a whole day and it was already dark when he arrived at Fobao. After watching a fireworks show, he returned to the small courtyard behind Zhongyi Hall to rest.

Dinner was brought over by the young lady from the Wu family. After more than a year, the originally skinny girl had grown into a chubby girl, and she looked quite similar to the two giant pandas behind her.

"Leader, it's time to eat!" The little girl was a little shy. She glanced at Chen Gui secretly, then quickly lowered her head.

"It's not like we don't know each other. Weren't you quite eloquent in the past?" Chen Gu asked with some amusement, "Why are you shy now?"

The little girl was very brave. Chen Gu still remembered the first time he met her, he gave her a bag of brown sugar and asked her to tame two pandas. But the little girl said that she liked eating brown sugar, and her brothers and sisters also liked eating sugar, so she didn't want to give it to the pandas.

"Dad said we shouldn't be disrespectful in front of the leader!" said the little girl.

"Ha ha!"

“Woof woof~!”

Upon hearing this, Chen Gu couldn't help but reach out and rub the little girl's hair. The two pandas behind her might have thought that Chen Gu was attacking her, and they stood up and shouted at Chen Gu.

"Get out!" Chen Gu stretched out his feet and pushed the two pandas on the belly. The two giant pandas, which were more than one meter tall when standing up and weighed nearly 100 kilograms, immediately fell to the ground and rolled several times in a row.

The little girl was not happy about this. She glared at Chen Kui with bulging eyes and asked, "Why are you bullying them?"

"You can't say it's bullying, right?" Chen Gu raised his eyebrows and continued, "And, if I remember correctly, they seem to be mine. I didn't promise to give them to you at the beginning. I just put them in the village and you raised them. Then I brought the Buddha treasures."

"Uh~!" The little girl couldn't help but be stunned. She frowned and thought about it carefully. It seemed that these two flower bears were indeed Chen Gu's, and he never said who they were given to. In addition, Chen Gu had ordered several times that the flower bears should not be hunted and killed. It can be seen that Chen Gu liked these flower bears.

"Well, even if they are yours, so what? I have raised them for so long, now they are mine, you can't bully them!" the little girl said. "That's a bit far-fetched, but never mind, these two bears are for you, go back, come back tomorrow to clean up the dishes!" Chen Gu sent the little girl away and went to eat.

It doesn’t snow in Chongqing in winter, so there are quite a lot of fresh vegetables.

A dish of braised cabbage in vinegar, a bowl of pork ribs and radish soup, a dish of twice-cooked pork, a bowl of tofu pudding and a dish of dipping sauce, which can be considered four dishes and one soup.

Jiangjin tofu pudding is mainly eaten with dipping sauce. A small dish of dipping sauce contains more than ten kinds of seasonings, including oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, ginger, onion, garlic, chili, Sichuan pepper, coriander, crushed peanuts, sprouts, etc., up to more than thirty kinds, with a very rich and mellow taste.

After all, it was one of Chen Gu's favorite foods. He opened the wine pot next to him and poured himself a cup of fermented glutinous rice wine. After eating and drinking for a while, Chen Gu couldn't help but think of the scene of the three of them eating in this room last year.

"What a pity!" Chen Gu couldn't help but sigh.

the next day.

Chen Gu followed Wu Hua to inspect various military equipment production workshops.

Now, with the original two to three thousand people of Fobao, plus the more than two thousand people later transferred from Jiangjin County, and the craftsmen gathered from all over the place, nearly ten thousand people are basically producing armaments.

As a result, Fobao's tens of thousands of acres of fertile land are in a semi-abandoned state. Only one season of rice is grown in the paddy fields, and only various vegetables are grown in the soil. As for meat, it all has to be transported in from outside, and even most of the grain has to be transported from outside.

Fobao mainly produces several types of military equipment that need to be kept secret, including bulletproof vests, rifle bullets, submachine gun shells, various petroleum derivatives, and the preparation of high explosives.

As for rifles, submachine guns, and various cold weapons such as swords, spears, and halberds, they were all manufactured in Luzhou.

In addition, Fobao is also responsible for the research and development of various new armaments and the upgrading of existing equipment.

After Chen Gu took a quick look at each workshop, he came to the R&D workshop.

Wu Hua picked up a spring sheet and knocked it a few times, then handed it to Chen Gu, and said with a wry smile: "We have already made the spring you want, but whether it is this kind of spring sheet or the spring wound with iron wire, its elasticity cannot be sustained.

We have tried quenching at various temperatures, but it always loses its elasticity after a short time. It can’t even last a hundred times, let alone hundreds or thousands of times.”

Chen Kui bent the spring sheet, frowned and said, "Then it should be a problem of materials. We need to find more people to study it slowly, separate the various materials, and then combine them according to different quantities and formulas and conduct multiple experiments.

Or after finding out the characteristics of each material, it should be easier to combine the experiments. There is only one kind of gold and silver, but there are several kinds of copper, and there should be even more types of iron. Just take your time.

As long as you keep moving forward, it's good. If there are problems, find ways to solve them. Problems are not scary, what is scary is having no direction.

At the same time, don't relax your research and development in other areas. Your idea of ​​fireworks is very good. If one day you can send hundreds of kilograms of things to explode hundreds of miles away, it will be amazing."

(End of this chapter)