Chapter 568: Edge of War (IV)

Territory, 꺲Chengyuan.

This large-scale district located on the coastline was formerly the territorial Engineering College. After cultivating many batches of technical personnel who could participate in R\u0026D and production, it was officially transformed into an Engineering College focusing on technology research and development.

In the naming of the system, this college is still the ‘꺲Engineering College’, but its actual purpose has gradually changed from teaching to the research and development of cutting-edge technology, and it also serves as an advanced teaching task.

One college cannot satisfy the teaching needs of 300,000 people. Jilin has built two new high schools in the locations reserved in the urban planning to cultivate specialized technical personnel.

Mo Qi is responsible for technology research and development, and Xu 껚 is responsible for teaching.

Cheng College, which has a permanent population of about 3,000, can be called an 'academy city' in a sense.

"At that time, I really hoped that the higher-ups would send some more." The dean held the file signed with the word "Jilin" in his hand and sighed: "But fortunately, the 058 project has come to an end, ah, there are still new project projects. "

058꺲Cheng, the name of the manned mecha that was improved based on the steam mecha.

In order to standardize the technical projects in the territory, Ji Lin freed the dean of the college from the heavy research and immediately devoted himself to the "technology tree process" of standardizing the projects.

This series of projects covering military, people's livelihood, and industry are all listed as code-named projects.

"058꺲Cheng? Mr. Dean, if you want to name it..." A researcher from the 꺲Cheng Academy flipped through his notebook: "058꺲Cheng, the official name should be the 'Praying Mantis' medium-sized manned machine."

땤The project to improve the steam robot into a manned machine was named 058꺲Cheng. After the substantial improvement, the steam robot is no longer

"It's called Mantis? Haven't we discussed the application of this thing in the civilian field?" The dean of the college smiled: "But the name Mantis is quite fierce."

"Well, our engineering team feels that the new machine looks a lot like a praying mantis. For civilian use, we still need to solve the problems of high cost and wear resistance of some parts... Perhaps it is best to wait for the military department to mass-produce the machine during the civilianization process. We will consider all the problems after installation." The researcher continued to flip through the notes and said, "There is no way. If you don't put it into actual combat, you won't know what problems these big guys have."

The gap between training ground testing and actual combat testing is wider than the gap between wheat and cooked rice.

Some extremely difficult-to-use rifles came from this situation, such as the mysterious multi-turret product of the Soviet T28, the three-car crew problem of the early T34, the abstract thing like the Rat King next door, and the dog-skin plaster. A small weapon designed by the brainstorming team under the banner.

At that time, the appearance of these military weapons would make people wonder whether anyone in the design bureau had ever been on the battlefield.

"That guy Chang Heng won't be too happy to hear you say that. I can tell you that this batch of equipment has been completely inspected..." The principal of the college smacked his mouth and said: "Forget it, we will be tested sooner or later. The test site can only help us solve the problem of one product. Anyway, the military is always the first one to be tested. "

Mantis-type walking mecha (the picture comes from Halo 4, Mantis, just take a look at it... I originally planned to look for pictures in Steel Harvest, but after searching around I couldn't find anything that matched it. Halo is still handsome. UwU)

"Lord Ji, let's count up the relatively backward technical products and submit a copy... It hurts my head... We still need to find some older blueprints." The principal sighed, life is not easy.

We can only use old product blueprints to do trade, but fortunately, productivity has improved now, and the efficiency of equipment in the low-production era has increased exponentially.

In the past, making a gun barrel required slowly forging and pressing, and the rifling was slowly drawn by hand. Nowadays, after the territorial gun barrel is formed in one piece, it can be drawn through a steam cutting machine in a few seconds, which can be pulled out by hand in a few hours before, and the defective rate has been greatly reduced.

This gives them an absolute advantage in dumping... ah no, trade.

Territories that have developed scale advantages after industrialization have far lower costs for producing mechanical components than their counterparts that started production from scratch. They can use their production capacity advantages to overwhelm their targets without even starting a price war.

The only problem is the territory's production line limit. We must choose the leading product with the largest market size, and it is best to be able to use the territory's current production line.

"After all, I still sell guns..." The dean of the college looked at the report given to him by the researcher: "But 껩 is, there is enough market and demand for weapons 꺳놋."

Cannon, 놋risks threatening the territory, cannot be sold.

Rune weapons, the production of rune weapons requires the production capacity of the runesmiths. The territory is not as mechanized but it does not mean that the runesmiths have entered the industrialization stage.

Rune components are still the most basic handicraft model, but the introduction of machinery has slightly increased the carving speed... Ji Lin has not yet found a method that can replace rune craftsmen and directly produce magic components. As far as I know, it is the technology of the Seventh Age.

Energy conversion, wave stabilization, filtering, voltage regulation.

Guns have a large demand and a large market, and they pose little threat to the territory.

The rifle in the Steam and Steel dungeon can be considered a good rifle among current lords, but the use of crystal ore medicine causes serious ablation problems, and the barrel life is far less than that of ordinary rifles.

It doesn't matter. The life of the barrel is short, so just let people replace it more often. The territory can make a fortune in maintenance fees.

It is said to be a good rifle because there are capable people among the lords on the ground, and the lords who really brought knowledge through communication have made a more modern brown bass flintlock rifle.

This is much more useful than the flintlock rifles made by the lords themselves.

The Eastern Alliance is discussing and communicating, and the expansion of technology has quietly appeared in this temporary alliance... This flintlock rifle that spread to various states with the rise of the British Empire is spreading rapidly among the lords on the ground.

If the territory wants to put its own rifle on the market, it must have its own unique advantages in performance.

"Ah... It's so annoying, why are you still talking." The dean sighed.

Modifying firearms is not a troublesome thing.

The barrel of the old rifle can be used as the barrel of the new rifle, just like using good materials for the old rifle... The main reason is that the territory does not want to open an additional production line. Opening an additional production line will waste manpower and production capacity. Now the territory only needs to re-equip the production line with old parts to resume the production of old rifles.

As for parts, you can use the parts of a new rifle...

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