If he remembered correctly, that location was Michelle Ye's office!

After scanning his surroundings, Luo Ji directly focused on Zhao Lei, the disgraced deputy director.

At the same time, Zhao Lei obviously saw Luo Ji, and hurried forward to salute...

"My humble minister Zhao Lei, see Your Majesty!"

Luo Ji, who was in a rather anxious mood at this time, obviously had no time to linger, so he just asked directly...

"Where's your minister?"

"Minister, isn't the minister here..."

Hearing this, Zhao Lei turned his head subconsciously, but was instantly dumbfounded.

Depend on!What about such a big living person?He was clearly here just now!

"This this……"

Zhao Lei was so startled that he even stuttered.

In the end, Wang Kai stood aside and suddenly pointed in one direction.

"Your Majesty, do you think that is Minister Ye?"

Hearing this, Luo Ji quickly looked in that direction.

At this moment, Michelle Ye was lying on a fairly clean wall, holding a piece of charcoal that she did not know where to pick up, using the charcoal as a pen, and using the wall as paper, she was frantically writing on it.

While writing, there are still words in my mouth.

For some reason, the members of the Ordnance Research Department standing around were a little afraid to get close to the mad scientist-like aura.

Regarding this, after Luo Ji sighed heavily, he directed a guard beside him without looking back...

"Go and call the doctor, and ask someone to copy all the content on this wall."

As long as people are still alive, then everything is fine.

And judging by Michelle Ye's posture, she didn't seem to be seriously injured.

The heart hanging in Luo Ji's throat was finally put back in his stomach at this moment.

There is no doubt that what Michelle Ye is researching is gunpowder.

During the winter, Luo Ji had just collected all the materials for making gunpowder.

However, it is obviously impossible to find out the specific formula for something as dangerous as gunpowder.

Therefore, Luo Ji could only gather the necessary materials together, and then gave them to Xuan Ye to study slowly.

Although before that, he had already told him to study carefully.

But the explosion still frightened him a lot.

But fortunately, Michelle Ye is quite clever. During the ignition experiment, she avoided it first, otherwise, judging by the power of the explosion, she might have been fatal.

Such a dangerous experiment should have been done in an open experimental field outside.

But it was raining heavily today, and Michelle Ye had adjusted the recipe, so she didn't listen to anyone's advice and wanted to try it out quickly.

Afterwards, according to the examination results of the doctors, Michelle Ye's injury was not serious, it was basically just a little flesh wound.

This can be clearly seen from the fact that after the big bang, she still had the strength to run to the wall next to her and write down the experimental formula ratio of gunpowder.

On the contrary, it was the heavy rain that made her catch a bad cold...

The incident this time can be said to be quite dangerous, and if you are not careful, you may have to kill someone.

Luo Ji felt that he had to give Michelle Ye a little memory.

So, he was very enlightened and gave her a one-month long vacation amidst Xuan Ye's wailing.

At the same time, two guards, a man and a woman, were specially sent to follow her 24 hours a day.

And during this one-month long vacation, she is not allowed to touch anything related to ordnance!

Obviously, Luo Ji knew how to punish her too well.

For Michelle Ye, who is obsessed with the research of ordnance and weapons all day long, is there anything more painful than this?

Chapter 9 and Six, Gunpowder Research and Development

After Michelle Ye was given a one-month long vacation, the follow-up research on gunpowder certainly couldn't stop there.

Luo Ji handed the formula copied from the wall to Zhao Lei.

With the minister so out of tune, Zhao Lei has been the deputy minister for so many years, and he is obviously very stable in doing things.

It is obviously impossible to put this gunpowder formula into production immediately.

Although the power of that explosion has been seen once.

But if you want to deploy in large quantities, you need more detailed data and a stable success rate.

It is appropriate to leave this kind of thing to Zhao Lei to do unexpectedly.

Of course, in order to avoid disturbing the people caused by the occasional explosions, Luo Ji temporarily moved the test site of the Ordnance Research Department outside the city.

Then time flew by, and a month later, Michelle Ye, who was 'released after serving her sentence', resolutely approached Luo Ji full of resentment.

"Your Majesty, where is my reward?"

Luo Ji decisively rolled his eyes at this.

"The office building of the Ordnance Research Department was blown up by you, and it is still being rebuilt. How dare you come to ask me for a reward?"

When Michelle Ye heard this, a trace of guilt flashed across her face.

Then he quickly shook his head vigorously, playing tricks.

"I don't care! Your Majesty, you said that as long as I research the formula of gunpowder, you will give me a new weapon design! I have researched it now, give it to me, give it to me..."

Looking at Michelle Ye who was standing below, who was almost rolling all over the floor, Luo Ji suddenly felt his head hurt a little.

At the same time, during the one-month long vacation for Michelle Ye, under the supervision of Zhao Lei, the stable formula of gunpowder has indeed been worked out.

In the current situation, the research on weapons and equipment should catch up quickly.

Thinking of this, Luo Ji sighed heavily.

Then he took out a thick stack of design drawings that had been prepared earlier.

This stack of design drawings is exactly the design drawing of the gold-level stone-shooting cannon that he opened from the golden treasure chest before.

Seeing the blueprints, Michelle Ye was like a cat smelling fish, both eyes were shining, and she rushed forward to take the blueprints away.

Thanks to Luo Ji's sharp eyes and quick hands, he quickly lifted the design drawing in his hand above his head, while avoiding Xuan Ye's grab, he said with a smile on his face...

"Let's agree first. If you make any trouble this time, I will give you a three-month long vacation. Do you understand?"

Listening to Luo Ji's three-month 'long vacation', Michelle Ye's small face turned pale decisively.

"Your Majesty, are you a devil?"

"Did you hear that?"

"Well, I hear you."

"take it."

While speaking, Luo Ji handed over the stack of blueprints he held in his hand to Xuan Ye.

Michelle Ye who took the blueprints, naturally flipped through them on the spot.

On the design drawing, the shape of the stone-shooting cannon is undoubtedly novel to her.

After flipping through two pages, Michelle Ye couldn't help asking...

"Your Majesty, is this an upgraded version of the bed crossbow?"

Hearing this, Luo Ji raised his brows slightly, it's really fortunate that Ye Xuan could see the shadow of the bed crossbow from the stone shooting cannon.

However, this statement is not entirely correct.

"If you insist, it should be a weapon that combines the characteristics of the bed crossbow and the catapult."

The positioning of the bed crossbow and the catapult itself is equivalent to the ancient siege cannon.

The characteristic of the bed crossbow is penetration.

Catapults are characterized by bludgeoning destructive power.

But the cannon combines these two characteristics at the same time.

However, Luo Ji didn't have high expectations for the stone-shooting cannon at all.

At best, this is the key to let his civilization of myriad worlds step into the threshold of 'firearms'.

It has been said before that the range of the stone-shooting cannon is not as good as the three-bow bed crossbow and the return cannon.

At the same time, the accuracy is quite poor.

Instead of making a large number of stone-shooting cannons, he might as well continue to use three-bow bed crossbows and return cannons for better results.

But after that, Luo Ji quickly figured out one thing.

What he drew out was indeed the design drawing of the stone shooting cannon.

But there is no rule that he can only make stone cannons!

He is a modern person, why can't he improve on this basis?

Early cannons were collectively referred to as smoothbore guns.

The name comes from the fact that the inside of the barrel is smooth.

Stone shot guns, obviously also scored in the category of smoothbore guns.

The common problem with smoothbore guns is that they have a short range and poor accuracy.

But Luo Ji can improve on this point.

Based on the design drawing of the stone-shooting cannon, wouldn't it be enough to directly improve it into a rifled cannon?

The biggest feature of the rifled gun is the rifling engraved on the inside of the barrel.

Therefore, when the cannon is fired, the flying shells will rotate along the trajectory of the inner rifling.

In this way, the unstable shell can achieve the effect of stable flight.

At the same time, the range and accuracy of the cannon have been significantly improved!

Of course, if you want to manufacture the barrel of a rifled gun, there are quite high requirements on the manufacturing process and technical force.

There is also the structure of the entire gun body. Due to changes in the way the gun is fired, the entire structure has to be changed.

But Luo Ji was fearless, he possessed both human and goblin technology and technological power, as well as Ye Xuan, a top-level ordnance master.

Can this matter still trouble him?

While thinking about it, Luo Ji directly referred to the design drawings and gave a simple explanation to Xuan Ye.

"This part is called the barrel, this is the shell, and the part inside is used to fill the gunpowder."

"However, on this design drawing, I missed one point before. The internal design of this gun barrel will cause the accuracy and range of the shell to become too poor, so..."

While speaking, Luo Ji quickly took out a blueprint from his desk.

The blueprint was obviously drawn by Luo Ji himself, and the main content was the internal structure of the rifled gun, as well as some of his ideas for the modification of the overall structure.

However, the structural design diagram of the cannon is sensitive information after all, and there is really not much information that can be found. To this point, he obviously tried his best. Can he make the rifled cannon based on the limited information and ideas he provided? It all depends on Michelle Ye's ability as a master of ordnance.

Michelle Ye who took the blueprint quickly flipped through it.

"It turns out that if such trajectories are made on the inside of the barrel in advance, the shells will naturally rotate along these trajectories when flying out, and the high-speed rotating shells will become more stable."

While talking, Michelle Ye who looked excited couldn't help stretching out her hand to make a gesture.

"This looks like a very simple design, but it can effectively increase the range and accuracy of the shells. Your Majesty, you are really amazing, you can come up with such a design!"

"..."

"However, I think that if we want to do this, the shape of the cannonball should be changed a little bit. It's better to have the corresponding trajectory on the surface, so that the effect can be better. How about the tapered one?"

"..."

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