Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Sometimes, life is like being strong. Since you can't resist, you can only choose to lie down.

For example, now, Lin Yi has guessed that the assistant is deliberately cheating him of his money, but he really can't resist.

Unless he is really willing to spend 20 years building the Yamato and Enterprise.

After being cheated out of another 600 million imperial silver dollars by the assistant, the assistant also took out the bonus card.

"The bonus card can be the country where the host is located, and the technology research and development speed is increased by 10%. The effect can be superimposed. It can be superimposed by up to 200%."

Again, the little assistant is in trouble, it’s just the assistant’s character problem, but there’s nothing wrong with the thing.

Let’s just say that this bonus card increases the value by 10%. Ten pictures is a 100% improvement.

In this way, the construction time that originally took 20 years was directly increased to only 10 years.

And a 200% bonus only takes 5 years.

As we all know, building a battleship is not just a subject. It is a collection of multiple disciplines.

For example, materials science, aerodynamics, ballistics, etc.

The abnormal thing about the "bonus card" is that it is not aimed at a certain discipline or engineering, but at the bonus to the scientific and technological research and development level of the entire Daxia Empire.

To put it simply, a bonus card can increase the scientific research speed of the entire Daxia Empire by 10%.

The price is only 200 million imperial silver dollars.

It can be said to be very worthwhile. Even if this bonus is increased to 200% of the full value, it will only require 4000 million imperial silver dollars.

It can be said that he has made a lot of money.

But the problem is that Lin Yi paid for this money himself, which is a bit of a trap.

He suddenly felt that his already difficult family situation was getting worse.

In the end, Lin Yi could only bite the bullet and spend six million imperial silver dollars to first increase Daxia's technological research and development efficiency by 30%.

The only thing left is to slowly raise money.

After Lin Yi finished handling the research and development matters, he lay on his desk and began to perfect his army plan.

In the following months, the Daxia Empire underwent some new changes.

Some relatively simple research and development results suddenly appeared like mushrooms after a rain.

Most of these achievements are concentrated in light industry or light weapons.

For example, engineers who research firearms began to think after seeing light machine guns. Since light machine guns can automatically retreat, can rifles also do the same?

Therefore, as this theory was put forward, engineers who studied small arms focused on it.

After three months of research, a young engineer named Ma Ji built an air-operated semi-automatic rifle.

Although this gun may jam due to various reasons, gunpowder residue may remain in the chamber after the bullet is fired, causing the bolt to fail to return to the correct position, resulting in dumb rounds.

It also requires frequent maintenance, which is costly and cumbersome.

However, no matter how you put it, this gun is the first semi-automatic rifle in the history of Daxia.

Under ideal conditions, the magazine of this gun can hold 10 bullets, has an effective range of 400 meters, and can empty all bullets within ten seconds.

It can be said that it is definitely a weapon that transcends the times.

After Lin Yi heard this, he sighed that the assistant's bonus card was really powerful, and at the same time personally presented the award to Ma Ji.

In recognition of his research and development, Lin Yi directly rewarded him with five hundred imperial silver dollars.

Encouraged, Ma Ji immediately stated that he would continue his efforts and strive to develop a semi-automatic rifle that could be used in actual combat as soon as possible.

Lin Yi firmly believed in this.

Engineers throughout the Ordnance Research Institute were encouraged to see Lin Yi paying so much attention to it.

Each and every one of these people is like a chicken blood, hoping that the next person who can research something new is themselves.

As a result, another month later, people from the Ordnance Research Institute approached Lin Yi again and said they wanted to show Lin Yi something new.

Lin Yi was also curious about what good things the other party could come up with, so he followed him.

When Lin Yi arrived at the weapons research institute's shooting range, he saw three things covered by canvas placed in the middle of the shooting range.

Two of them looked like boxes.

"What is this?" Lin Yi asked curiously.

"Back to your lord, these are the latest weapons manufactured by our weapons research institute." Yang Bing, the deacon of the weapons research institute, said with a smile.

"Oh? New weapons? I like it. Come on, show it off." Lin Yi said with a smile.

"Yes!" Yang Bing responded with a smile, and then asked someone to lift the canvas.

The moment the canvas was lifted, Lin Yi's eyes widened.

Although Lin Yi didn't know what the two items inside the box were, he knew the one placed outside.

A small-caliber mortar?

"Your Majesty, this is a mortar developed by our weapons research institute based on Jiu Ming's Tiger Cannon."

"This kind of cannon may be small, but it can fire shells at a large elevation angle."

"Because the artillery shells are launched at a large angle, it is easier to hit the target behind the bunker." Yang Bing introduced the mortar to Lin Yi.

Lin Yi nodded secretly.

In fact, Lin Yi had thought of mortars a long time ago, but he never had time to implement them.

You can buy this kind of mortar in the system. The price is high and the price-performance ratio is low, and the Schneider gun can also shoot at elevation angles to a certain extent.

Therefore, Lin Yi never purchased from the system. Instead, he thought about having the empire's engineers try to make a batch when he was free.

But in the end, he was busy and forgot about it for a while, but the engineers of the empire actually developed it based on the Tiger Bottle Cannon.

Lin Yi had to sigh, the empire indeed had some foundations, and its talent was still good.

"Quick, Deacon Yang, fire off two cannons to show me!" Lin Yi looked at Yang Bing and said.

"Yes!" Yang Bing responded. Since he asked Lin Yi to come over, he naturally prepared everything.

After hearing Yang Bing's words, two people came over immediately carrying a box.

The two of them fiddled with the mortar for a while before taking out a shell that was only the size of an adult's hand from the box.

One of them pulled out the safety on the head of the cannonball, placed the cannonball at the muzzle, and then released his hands.

The cannonball slid into the muzzle due to the acceleration of free fall, and then made a crisp "bang" sound.

A puff of green smoke came out of the muzzle, and the shell that had just fallen in was violently pushed out due to the force of the explosion of the propellant pack.

The cannonball was pushed into the air, making a whistling sound.

Then it fell one kilometer away.

"Boom!" There was a loud noise, and the soil immediately splashed on the land marked as a target.

Lin Yi looked at the power of the explosion and nodded with satisfaction.

Although it is not as powerful as the mortars of later generations, considering the current situation in various countries, this power is enough.