"Knight Saranho, you did a very good job!"

Helena took the lead in affirming Saranho's work achievements. Because of his efforts, Helena finally got a powerful naval gun and a large amount of cement, cement and steel bars that can build a solid fortress.

This reduced the pressure on Venice a lot. Her father Trevis publicly praised Helena for her efforts and efforts, which made her very proud.

The devilish training in Saranho allowed the young army, the Liu family navy, to quickly form a strong combat power. Although the first battle had the advantage of being less and more, it beat Spain, a veteran who had been scattered for a hundred years, to find teeth.

Helena then realized that the entire Naval Military Academy was paved with cement, and she was somewhat moved: "The Ming people were so extravagant that they actually used precious cement to build roads!"

Speaking of this, Saranho's sighed even more: "Your Highness, you don't know. Do you know how many battleships His Excellency the Duke built at one time?"

“How many are there?”

"There are sixteen ships in service now, and sixty-five ships have been in service, of which forty-eight are nominal third-level battleships!"

"Nominally the fourth-level battleship?"

"Yes, it's just nominal. We, Europa, divide battleships into first-level, second-level, third-level and fourth-level according to the number of naval guns. In terms of scale, the battleships of the Liu Family Navy belong to third-level battleships, but in terms of the number of artillery, they are lower than forty-eight naval guns."

Helena was a little puzzled: "I really don't understand him, why did he build so many fourth-level battleships?"

“This is different!”

"no the same?"

"Yes, the battleships of the Liu family army are mainly because their naval guns are too sharp, and the warships are not enough to carry more naval guns. Moreover, their naval guns are not only long-range but also more powerful. The more important is the construction speed. They still have sixteen of them under construction. Now the newly built warships will completely replace the old warships. How great would it be if we, the Venetians, have a powerful fleet!"

What made Saranho even more jealous was the population of the Ming Dynasty.

He was very strict in naval training, had poor physical fitness, or was not quick enough to respond and not learn quickly enough. Such people would be eliminated. His original intention was to delay the development scale of the Liu family naval fleet.

However, the problem is that he eliminated one person, and Liu Mingyu sent ten people and one hundred people for his training.

Helena and Saranho haven't seen each other for more than a year, so naturally there is a lot to say. Saranho's treatment at Liaodong Military Academy is at the level of a professor.

In this era, professors were actually the kind of department chair in later generations. They were both professional titles and positions, and they had independent villas.

There are also four beautiful Silla maids serving the daily life, two chefs, two coachmen, a professional butler, and twelve Liu family soldiers responsible for protecting his safety.

When he arrived at Saranho's villa, Helena was shocked. It was a small castle. Yes, it was also a steel and concrete building. Even the courtyard wall was more than one foot thick. Even if it was a shelling, it could withstand it as long as it was not a large-caliber artillery.

This Chinese-style garden building includes rockery, flowing water, front yard and central hall, which does not cover too much area, and looks about three or four acres of land. In Europe, it can compare some marquis and even dukes' castles.

Helena likes Chinese food very much. Of course, the supplies here are more abundant. Saranho prepared a lot of dishes for Helena to reward His Royal Highness who came from afar.

While tasting the food and drinking a few glasses of wine, Dutland was as if nothing had happened, but Helena couldn't hold on.

Her snow-white cheeks were stained with seductive blush, her nose was covered with sweat, and she felt a little dizzy.

Helena put down her wine glass, shook her head, and made her head clearer: "The Ming Dynasty wine is good, but it's too domineering. Even this kind of wine with a relatively low degree is a bit unbearable. I think barley beer or wine is more suitable for me."

Saranho smiled: "His Highness Helena, you should drink more Ming Dynasty wine to make your alcohol better. The Ming people have a bad habit of being calm at the table. It seems that the more you drink, the deeper your friendship will be. Without a good alcohol tolerance, it will be difficult for you to truly integrate into them."

Thinking of the tragic situation that he had caused a group of heroic sailors to be unconscious and almost vomited his stomach on the boat, he had a cold war with lingering fear.

"It seems that you are doing well in Daming. The more you speak Daming, the more fluent you are speaking."

Helena looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to this place. She lowered her voice and asked: "You have been in the Ming Navy for so long, have you collected the information we urgently need?"

Saranho also lowered his voice: "Of course!"

Speaking of this, he took out a few drawings and handed them to Helena.

This is the drawings and data of the naval gun. Judging from the data, the main guns of the Liu family army's main ships are 130 mm, both of which are twenty-eight times the diameter, with a long range, and all battleships are equipped with rocket launchers.

Saranho sighed: "It is not difficult to see from this that the Ming people's artillery casting technology is indeed very powerful. No country in Europe dares to adopt such a diameter ratio, which is generally twenty-one diameter, and very few can achieve twenty-three times. A longer gun barrel can certainly increase the range and accuracy, but it will also put the gun barrel under stronger pressure. If the metallurgical technology fails to match, it will only explode the chamber."

Helena was very frustrated when she heard this: "I asked the Duke to buy this new type of naval gun, but unfortunately they didn't sell it at all. Do you know the principle of this cannon? Can we imitate it?"

"This kind of artillery is made of water-cooled steel casting. It is casting a gun barrel. The gun is much more reliable and lighter than a bronze gun, and it is cheaper. It is worth imitating. The shells they use are designed with a date core, and use a copper shell shell to plug the warhead and the launching medicine together. When it is launched, it detonates the launching medicine. The warhead flies out at high speed, and then opens the bolt and exits the shell shell, and then reloads the bullet. It is very fast. Therefore, the firepower of one gun pushes seven or eight ordinary bronze guns, which is very powerful."

Saranho said with regret: "It's not that I'm pouring cold water on you. It's basically impossible to imitate the Ming Dynasty's naval gun!"

"Why?"

Helena looked puzzled: "Didn't you have a thorough understanding of the performance and technical details of their naval guns? Even if we cannot imitate a naval gun of 130 mm and 28 caliber, it can lower the standard and reduce the caliber and diameter of the cannon!"

"What we lack in Venice is not just the technology of casting cannons!"

"You can't help but guide yourself?"

"no!"

Saranio said with a dim expression: "Your Highness, you don't know that the Ming people used to cast artillery to prevent ordinary steel, but alloy steel. To be precise, they summarized high-carbon steel, even Damascus steel into a type of alloy steel, which is the steel produced by smelting multiple substances together. This steel is not only strong, but also wear-resistant and high temperature resistant. This is something they strictly keep in mind. People who know in Liaodong can count it with one hand!"

"We can use our more mature bronze casting artillery technology to cast artillery like them..."

"Your Highness, even if we imitate this kind of cannon, we cannot imitate that powerful explosive! Without explosives, the cannons we imitate at a huge cost are just a pile of waste, and maybe it is better than the original bronze cannon!"

Saranho looked desperate: "Your Highness, you also know that the Ming people invented gunpowder. As early as a thousand years ago, when the Greeks were still using Greek fire, they started using gunpowder. Now their gunpowder is no longer the original black gunpowder, but a new type of gunpowder that we have never seen before. This gunpowder is powerful, and there is almost no residue left after the explosion. Therefore, their gunners can bury their heads and fight hard in battle, and there is no need to clean the barrel at all. One cannon can exert the power of seven or eight cannons. We do not have such a launching medicine!"

Helena frowned: "What should I do?"

"We should be glad that we and the Ming people are not enemies!"

Saranho smiled gloatingly and said, "I have seen their third-level battleship guns fired many times. They are called rocket launchers. A rocket can fire up to fifteen rockets at a single volley, which is no less powerful than 32 pounds of shells. Can you imagine it? Fifteen shells only take ten breaths. One cannon is no less than the fire strike density of the Spanish artillery battalion!"

"Can you get access to new gunpowder and rockets?"

"This is their core secret, which is difficult for outsiders to get in touch with... It is said that many factories specialize in making this type of gunpowder for them. As for the process, it is a top secret. Only a few people know that even those who produce this type of gunpowder do not know what the purpose of the things they produce."

Saranho did not lie. Liaodong is an industrial base built by Liu Mingyu. If you want to industrialize, such as unified standards, such as power cord jacks in later generations, any electrical appliance can be plugged into any socket.

The same is true in Liaoning today. Screws have screw specifications, and any parts form a unified standard, including shoes, clothing, and even small cans, all of which are processed through assembly line.

This has simplified the production steps, so that every worker only needs to learn a piece of technology and can be suitable for the job immediately. This is especially true for military supplies. The hardware factory that produces copper shell shells uses a hydraulic stamping machine to complete the shell shell shell shell shell shell shell shell shell shell shell shell shell shell shell shell shell shell shell shell shell shell shell shell shells are used to make the shell shell shell shell shell.

For a long time, these workers did not know that they were making shells, and they thought they were producing copper shells specifically for the nobles!

Of course, the craftsmen who cast artillery only know how to cast gun barrels. They don’t know the alloy combination method of this kind of molten steel, and the workers who know the alloy combination method do not know the purpose of the alloy. They have dozens or hundreds of alloy combination methods in their hands. As for the purpose of the alloy formula, it is not their concern.

They are just exploring, experimenting, and obtaining updated technical achievements, and they can get high rewards. It is not just a great invention that can change their destiny.

Even a small invention, such as an ordinary packaging worker, found that the original packaging production line process was very time-consuming and laborious. After his optimization, the packaging line that originally required four workers to cooperate in the operation only needed one worker.

The worker won the Progressive Invention Award, with a prize of 300 taels of silver. Whether in Liaoning or Central Plains, 300 taels of silver is not a small amount.

Of course, this virtuous cycle allows technology to develop better and faster. The various factory areas of the military factories that produce fire cotton are strictly divided. The workers responsible for cleaning cotton. The degreasing worker may think that this job is to wash and boil cotton.

The workers responsible for soaking cotton with nitric acid also believed that this factory was specially used to destroy cotton. In a word, no one knew what the work they had made was for. They only knew that the management was very strict and the process requirements were extremely high, so they almost didn't do it...

Helena sighed, and her excitement turned into helplessness.
Chapter completed!