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After Scaloy went to Germany and invited Conrad to Greece with a large sum of money, under his guidance and after three months of concerted efforts by the rapid-fire gun development team, in September 1989, the rapid-fire gun development team successfully relied on Conrad's counterattack. The recoil system patent produced a prototype of a 75mm rapid-fire gun.

After hearing the news, out of the need for confidentiality, Constantine only informed the Army Chief of Staff Emmanuel and the owner of the Military Technical Office Zaimis to go to the shooting range on the outskirts of Athens to observe the new rapid-fire artillery for the first time. Test firing.

At the shooting range on the outskirts of Athens, standing behind the breastworks piled with sandbags, Constantine, Zaimis, Skaroy and Conrad hung telescopes on their chests and looked seriously at the people who were busy around the cannon twenty meters away. Artillery team.

After the loader pushed the brass shell into the breech, the artillery squad leader gave an order, and the cannon roared, with orange flames spitting out from the muzzle.

The four people watching the test fire quickly took off the telescopes on their chests and saw the shelling target marked by a white line one kilometer away, with smoke and dust rising into the sky.

The first test launch was successful!

I saw the round barrel of the cannon, first retracted a certain distance due to the back force, and then returned to its position.

The four people who observed this phenomenon nodded to each other. In any case, this reaction force system did work. Without manual intervention, the artillery body automatically returned to its original position, instead of the common situation in various countries now. Like the equipped cannon, the gun crew must manually push the cannon before it can be restored.

This shows that Conrad's patent is indeed beneficial to increasing the rate of fire of artillery.

After the first successful test firing, the artillery roared continuously and fired three shells in quick succession. There was no abnormality in the experimental artillery during this process.

Even Conrad, who had experienced several failed experiments in Germany before and was already frustrated, was feeling uneasy at the moment, praying for success in the next test.

The artillery squad leader trotted to the parapet and reported respectfully: "Sirs, the burst firing, triple firing, and test firing of the artillery all performed normally. Please give me your instructions."

"Mr. Conrad, how are you? Can you continue the test?" Constantine asked.

After receiving a positive answer, Constantine instructed the squad leader in front of him: "We can proceed to the next test, the ultimate rate of fire test."

After receiving feedback, the artillery team responsible for the test first picked up a gun brush and cleaned the gun bore. After all preparations were completed and the inspection was correct, the maximum rate of fire test of this rapid-fire gun began.

Under the operation of the artillery crew, the sound of the artillery continued, and 30 shells were fired continuously. Listening to the deafening sound of the artillery, everyone eagerly raised their wrists and looked at the watches on their wrists. It only took a minute and a half!

Seeing this result, everyone was shocked. This rate of fire is several times that of cannons commonly equipped in various countries today!

After continuing to design several rounds of artillery shells, the artillery suddenly stopped roaring. Conrad's expression changed and he thought to himself: Is this really still the case?

The squad leader of the testing artillery team quickly walked to the bunker where everyone was sitting and said to everyone: "The test artillery is abnormal, the hydraulic device is leaking oil, and the artillery's retraction mechanism has failed. Please stop firing."

Although the test failed, everyone except Conrad was still extremely happy. The rate of fire of this artillery was really too eye-catching.

The catch was that after a brief period of full firepower, the artillery malfunctioned.

After Conrad's reaction force system technology proved its great role in increasing the rate of fire of artillery, although it still had flaws, Constantine and Chamiis still decided to buy this technology for 500,000 drachmas.

After witnessing the jaw-dropping performance of the rapid-fire cannon with full firepower, and with the full support of Constantine, Emmanuel and Chaimiis, the rapid-fire cannon R\u0026D team received unanimous support from the three of them and applied for funding. Green light all the way.

The biggest difficulty faced by the R\u0026D team is that the oil leakage problem of the hydraulic system has not yet been solved. The entire R\u0026D progress is stuck here and cannot go further. It seems impossible to break through Conrad's technical flaws in the short term. .

The development of rapid-fire guns was inevitably slowed down.

Just when Constantine was troubled by the unfavorable progress of research and development, the Tatoy Palace welcomed two eager guests of Constantine - Banning, the governor of the Congo, and Buenos Aires, the current main person in charge of Greece's military forces in the Congo. Root.

In the garden of the Tatoi Palace, Constantine received two of his confidants who were sent to Africa.

Seeing the two people in front of him who had obviously different temperaments and appearances, Constantine said in a sincere tone: "Thank you for your hard work."

To be honest, these two people have contributed most to the country's current situation.

From the beginning of Constantine's planning of the Congo region, Banning has been by his side to give advice. After the Berlin Conference, he went to Africa and worked hard to manage this resource-rich land of hope for Greece.

Under his own orders, Brut also traveled across the ocean to assist Banning in stabilizing the situation in the Congo.

It is precisely because of the efforts of these two people that Congo can become a stable source of raw materials and a market for some commodities for Greece.

"Banning, tell me about the current situation in Congo", Constantine asked impatiently.

Although Banning often reported government affairs to Constantine, the King of Congo, through telegrams, after all, they were just cold texts, and there was no such detailed first-hand information.

"Yes, Your Highness, Congo has now entered a stage of stable development. The annual import and export trade has reached 3,700 million francs. The Congolese regional government has been able to balance its balance of payments," Banning said proudly.

"The main exports are gold, ivory, rubber, copper ore, palm, opium and other department-level commodities. The imported commodities are mainly industrial products from Europe and the United States, such as cloth, ironware, medicines, etc."

Since the news of the gold mines in the Congo region spread, Congo has become a place where gold prospectors from all over the world have poured in. So far, many people from Greece have gone to the Congo colony under the temptation of gold, so that the original historical time and space , the Greeks’ enthusiasm for immigrating to the North American continent was all affected.

Thanks to the efforts of these crazy gold diggers, the total amount of gold exported from the Congo in 1888 reached an astonishing 1,000 kilograms.

Among them, a considerable part of the gold was mined illegally without the consent of the Congolese authorities.

Moreover, this gold export momentum is still increasing rapidly, and Constantine, out of the idea of ​​​​rapidly developing the economy of the Congo region, not only did not curb this serious illegal gold mining behavior, but secretly fueled it.

Because Constantine understood that for Greece at this time, the most important thing was the threat from Europe. As for the problem of disordered mining of precious gold resources in Congo, that was something that needed to be solved in the future.

As long as the gold leaves the Congo, the 10% tax is paid.