Chapter 190 The Border Gate Falls

"Huh..." By the sea, Zhang Hao looked at the vast ocean alone, and heaved a long sigh of relief.

This period of time has not relaxed, and even the mood of practice is not high. And all of this is because Zhang Hao is conceiving the 'Dayang Group'.

Now, with the help of many parties, especially the critical moment of the Qixia Kingdom's political changes, the expected goal has finally been achieved. However, now is still not the time to relax, because there are still greater challenges ahead, and there are many.

Merging the entire Zhang family into the Dayang Group is a very risky move; in the short term, this is beneficial, because the Zhang family can greatly use the power of the Dayang Group to rise and influence the whole country through the Dayang Group, but From a long-term perspective, it will make the Zhang family fall into a certain passiveness.

Therefore, in the next period of time, Zhang Hao still needs to be cautious and steer the big ship "Ocean Group" carefully.

In addition, the stock market is officially launched, and stock trading will inevitably appear in the future, so the bank also needs to be built; however, there are many problems to be solved in how to do a bank in this world. The first is currency.

In another world, what banks need is not currency, but credit—and money is the carrier of credit. Gold, oil, etc. are all guarantees of credit.

In ancient times, currency was the embodiment of productivity; but currency in the financial age is the embodiment of national strength and national credit.

Therefore, it is difficult to support real banks without issuing credit currencies similar to banknotes. But issuing banknotes... Zhang Hao expressed doubts. With the ability of a cultivator, tons of banknotes can be copied in minutes.

"Could it be that only gold and silver can be used as currency?" What Zhang Hao said was fine gold and mithril, and the value of fine gold and mithril is used to make currency. It has credit attributes, and it seems to be a good currency choice for the time being.

But there are too few fine gold and mithril!

Moreover, once fine gold and mithril are circulated, most of them will be made into magic weapons or collected by practitioners; they will inevitably lose the circulation property of currency. This is intolerable.

"Headache..." Zhang Hao held his head and was a little tangled for a while.

Seeing that Hou Shangzhuo and others completed the inspection of the ironclad ship model, Zhang Hao also returned to the research base.

In addition to currency, there are also a large number of semi-finished steel weapons and armor provided to the city lord. These should also be paid attention to, and with the death of the emperor, the situation in Qixia Kingdom is becoming more and more critical, and the construction of the Iron Legion must be accelerated.

Apart from the Iron Legion, what Zhang Hao cares more about is artillery. Huang Mingshan and others worked tirelessly to overcome technical difficulties one after another.

Arriving at the research base of Huang Mingshan and others, Zhang Hao saw Huang Mingshan and others working on a cannon. The cannon has a caliber of about 10 centimeters, an outer diameter of about 16 centimeters, and a barrel length of about 1.8 meters. The gun mount is four-wheeled, can be pulled by a horse, and is controlled by a screw.

The overall design is rather bulky.

However, thanks to Zhang Hao's guidance, coupled with the relatively solid foundation of Huang Mingshan and others, coupled with the assistance of cultivation ability, the first artillery design was a breech-loading gun with three rifling lines.

The barrel is cast from steel with a certain toughness and bored later. The processing process is more complicated.

The cannonball is directly a structure with a shell case. The firing primer uses ordinary gunpowder, and the propellant is mainly ordinary gunpowder, mixed with a little high-grade gunpowder. Under the premise of ensuring sufficient power, the safety of the gun chamber is guaranteed.

Among them, Huang Mingshan and others are carefully and rigorously adjusting and testing the ratio.

Ordinary gunpowder is sensitive but not powerful enough; high-grade gunpowder is powerful enough but not sensitive enough. For the time being, Huang Mingshan and others have solved related problems by collaborating with each other.

The shell is designed with a high-explosive shell, filled with high-grade explosives inside; the shell is made of high-temperature quenched steel; this kind of steel is hard enough and brittle enough, like glass, to be shattered, and the shrapnel is very lethal.

But up to now, Huang Mingshan and others are only conducting small-scale test explosions in the research base under the protection of the barrier, and have kept it secret from the outside world.

Zhang Hao looked around the cannon. Thanks to the increasingly mature thread technology, the breech of the cannon was threaded, which solved the sealing problem while ensuring safety and reliability.

But for safety, a latch structure is added.

As for the striker, the crossbow style is adopted—the spring technology still needs to be improved, and for the time being, the principle of the bow and crossbow can only be used to design the striker system.

As for the fuze of the shell, it adopts the percussion type. The front end of the fuze is a firing pin, and the rear part is a heavy hammer; when firing, the heavy hammer is attached to the rear end of the fuze; once the shell encounters an obstacle, the rear heavy hammer will move forward under inertia and hit the firing pin, detonating ordinary gunpowder , and detonate high-grade gunpowder.

In order to study artillery and shells, there are new machine tools that are being researched and debugged.

Zhang Hao looked at it for a while, and was very satisfied with the progress of Huang Mingshan and others. It should be said that the progress of Huang Mingshan and others is beyond imagination.

In the end, Zhang Hao patted Huang Mingshan on the shoulder, and said with emotion: "Keep working harder, after finishing the artillery, you can probably rest and relax, and make up for it.

In order to make up for your lack of foundation, I have already purchased a third-rank foundation building pill from Xinglintang.

You, everyone! "

Huang Mingshan and the others' eyes brightened instantly. This world is, after all, a world of practice!

Then Zhang Hao, Huang Mingshan and others discussed related issues together. On specific technical issues, Zhang Hao has already struggled; but on the direction of technological development, Zhang Hao can still give some pointers.

In the middle of the discussion, Zhang Shengye ran over in a panic: "Little mouse, something is wrong, the border has been lost, and the Kingdom of Jinyang is driving straight in.

The easternmost 'Jianwu County' bordering the Kingdom of Jinyang has already fallen to more than half.

And Xingchang County, which also borders the Kingdom of Jinyang, where Xinglintang is located, is also a little dangerous. With the power of Xingchang County and Xinglintang, it is impossible to stop hundreds of thousands of legions. "

Zhang Hao was stunned suddenly, "It fell so quickly!"

Zhang Shengye nodded, and spoke solemnly: "The crown prince has just ascended the throne, so I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to take on the heavy responsibility. The current Qixia Kingdom...is in danger!"

Zhang Hao breathed slowly to calm himself down, and finally thought slowly: "I'm going to the City Lord's Mansion. The current Ninghe County...maybe need to make some important decisions."

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In the east of the Kingdom of Jinyang, on the border with the Kingdom of Canglan, two figures in distress emerged quietly.

"The Valley of Burial Souls is in front of you. After crossing the Valley of Burial Souls, you will enter the Land of Canglan!" Wang Ruiyang whispered, his face pale.

And Guan Zhengqing looked at the experts from the Kingdom of Jinyang who were patrolling all around, and whispered, "It doesn't seem easy!"