Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1072 Cannon
"I'm telling the truth." Zheng Shijie said:

"The Lan Fang Company is very efficient. If we launch payloads in large quantities, our efficiency will not be lower than that of the military aerospace in the region. Considering the advantages of shipping and scale, we may be able to lower the price. Besides, land acquisition anywhere else will not be as cheap as here. If the region wants to achieve a similar effect, I'm afraid the only options are Qiongzhou Island or Dayuan Island. The population there is several million, and they are all Chinese citizens in the region. By then, the resettlement fee alone will be an astronomical figure, and we won't be able to afford it even if we sell Lan Fang."

"You are very thoughtful."

"Otherwise, why would I be the governor-general of Nanyang? There are many princes in the court, either governors-general or noble relatives. For example, there are governors-general in Beiting, Xiyu and the New World, and there are fiefs of noble relatives outside the southwest. But I am the only one in my family who is the governor-general of a large region as a noble relative. I have to do things properly and not cause trouble for the court, otherwise I will be the first one to be reduced when the feudal lords are reduced."

After saying that, he looked at the cannon in the distance and said, "I think I should have been given more territory at that time. The resources I can mobilize in the area under my control are only enough to build this cannon with great fanfare. If I could have been given more authority earlier and the protection level of Borneo could have been removed, I would have been able to carry out large-scale development a long time ago."

"By the way, has it been approved now?"

"Not yet. In fact, I have been saying this, but your senior brother, my 'Brother Huohua' is busy with his own affairs now, and I can't find anyone to apply. Perhaps, I have to make great efforts in this expedition against Xu Fu in order to make the court relent."

After saying that, he looked at Shangluo and said, "Don't worry, I won't make things difficult for you. I know that this matter is not your responsibility in principle. You may sign it if I ask you to, and the court will certainly recognize it, but it will cause trouble, right? So I won't bother you."

[Wow, no wonder the emperor likes to be friends with him. He is really righteous sometimes. I have never seen him ask for anything by using his friend status. He always sends something first, and if you like it, you can make an offer. If you don’t like it, he will just pretend nothing happened.]

"Maybe, this is his 'cultivation'. He doesn't seem to care much about enjoying things - there is nothing in this world that he can't enjoy. Although he doesn't seem to get along well with his father, judging from the public opinion, they both have one thing in common: we both want to leave something on the earth and spare no effort in investing in wonders. Well, this is not a bad thing. It's good to be willing to spend money, which is better than burying money in the ground."

So, you plan to help them?

"I also want to see what Taiyi Jinhua would look like if it were really drawn."

The car spiraled up the mountain road and stopped at the entrance of the "Fenfengpo Research Institute". This is the side of the sacred mountain facing the Fenfeng, and it is also where the cannon barrel is located.

"We're here, right here." Zheng Shijie got out of the car first and stood beside it with his hands on his hips. "If you think about it, I'm pretty impressive to be able to build such a big thing."

Shangluo also got off the car. As expected, as soon as he got off the car, the huge structure occupied the entire field of vision. The gun body started from the foot of the mountain, passed the middle of the mountain, crossed the top of the mountain, and extended to the sky. Just like what he saw at the foot of the mountain, the mysterious patterns covered the entire gun body. The brackets used to support the gun body were also so exquisite that they did not match its huge size.

This does not look like something artificially made, it can only be the result of natural growth. If these structures were built bit by bit by hand, they would not hire a construction team, but a watchmaker. After all, building a temple in a snail shell is the skill of a watchmaker.

"The research institute we are in is where the propulsion phase ends." He pointed downwards, "This gun uses liquid, not solid propellant. The torch is injected five times and detonated five times in succession. Each time, the specific properties of the torch are used to make it reach the performance limit of the 'explosion' reaction itself. The fifth explosion will be led by the research institute in front of you. When the payload arrives here, the institute will inject the last torch into the barrel and then ignite it. After that--"

He looked up at the sky: "After this, it's all up to gravity." "So, what was your problem before?"

"The problem lies in the laws of physics. Explosions are driven by gas expansion. In the environment of Earth, the explosion reaction itself has a speed limit. Although this limit exceeds the second cosmic speed and can be launched to the moon, the energy given to the shell by the explosion will inevitably be consumed by friction during the distance from the shell leaving the barrel to the influence of the atmosphere."

"So the best place to use your cannons is the moon?"

"The moon? My goodness, the moon doesn't need cannons at all." Zheng Shijie replied, "The mass launcher we will prepare for the lunar colonization in the future will not need such a cannon. We can just make a big swing and throw things into orbit - but it can't be done on Earth. Even if we can break through the gravity limit of the earth in the barrel, the dense atmosphere will slow down the speed of the cannonball."

"Can't Ju Su do it?"

Zheng Shijie shook his head and said, "The Torch Element is indeed a spiritual energy fuel, but it can only reach the theoretical limit of its performance and cannot exceed this limit. The reaction process of 'explosion' can only go so far, and it cannot go faster."

"Then the problem you want me to solve is not small! Do you want me to break through the limits of physics?"

"You are the Heavenly Sovereign." Zheng Shijie spread his hands and said, "There is nothing you can't do."

"I want to ask, didn't you do any calculations before building this cannon?"

"Of course it has. But we've been improving the gun. Now it can actually get its payload into space, but we can't get it into orbit once it's in space. Just a little bit, just a little bit."

"Then, have you ever considered launching a fuel rocket to accelerate again at high altitude?"

"No fuel can withstand the overloads of launch without exploding."

"Don't we have absolutely stable torch fuel? As long as it doesn't explode in theory, it definitely won't explode."

"Yes, we do. But Shangluo, you may have forgotten one thing - the Torch Fuel can only be used by Qigong practitioners. So the only way to use this thing at present is to stuff a Qigong practitioner into the shell and launch it at the second cosmic speed. He has to control the Torch Fuel during the overload so that it does not explode, and then manually start the engine in the upper atmosphere, and then manually control the orbit entry. Why is it manual and not automatic? Because there is nothing other than the steel cable that can withstand such an impact. So."

He looked at Shangluo and said, "Please, Lord Shang Tian. Go up and try it. We are waiting for you to debug it."

(End of this chapter)