Chapter 842 Asking a problem does not mean solving a problem
"Your Majesty, the reason why the rifle cannot extract its shell smoothly does not lie with the rifle! It lies with the brass bullets we use!"
Old Mauser opened his hand to show Jérôme Bonaparte the brass bullet in his hand.
"What could be wrong with the bullets?" Jérôme Bonaparte grabbed two brass bullets and looked at them carefully for a moment, but found nothing wrong with them.
Old Mauser hurriedly explained to Jérôme Bonaparte that the bullets produced by Yuanwen were not up to standard in terms of technology. Metal fixed-loading bullets used copper strips to coil out a shell, and then welded the shell inside.
This cannot completely achieve a tight fit, so some bullets can easily become stuffed in and unable to be pulled out after being fired.
"Then is there any way to solve this problem?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked old Mauser.
"Your Majesty, this may be a bit difficult!" Old Mauser responded to Jérôme Bonaparte, shaking his head.
"Okay then!" Jerome Bonaparte sighed. He knew that Old Mauser and the others did not have much experience in brass bullet technology, so it would be difficult for him to count on them.
"Your Majesty, please rest assured! We will definitely find a way!" Old Mauser hurriedly assured Jérôme Bonaparte.
"Just try your best!" Jérôme Bonaparte said to the old Mauser in a comforting tone, and then praised the Mauser 2.0 rifle: "Even if this rifle has slight flaws, it is already a very good one.
Rifle!
It can definitely be arranged into the army equipment sequence!"
After listening to Jérôme Bonaparte's speech, old Mauser immediately smiled on his face.
"Mr. Mauser, you and everyone in your research group can receive a bonus of 10,000 to 50,000 francs!" Jerome Bonaparte said generously to the old Mauser.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Old Mauser responded excitedly to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"I hope you can continue to work hard to overcome the difficulties!" Jérôme Bonaparte said to old Mauser again.
Subsequently, Jerome Bonaparte assigned a project to the old Mauser, which was to create a portable pistol for France.
"There is no limit to the time I give you this time. As long as you can make a pistol that suits my needs before I die, it will be considered a success!
"Jerome Bonaparte said to old Mauser in a joking tone.
"Understood!" Old Mauser nodded to express his understanding.
Immediately afterwards, Jerome Bonaparte returned to the institute with old Mauser.
Antoine Chacepo appeared in front of Jerome Bonaparte and reported to Jerome Bonaparte the progress of the multi-barreled machine gun.
"Your Majesty, the design of the multi-barreled machine gun has been roughly completed. We only need to wait for the samples to be produced before experiments can be carried out!"
"Very good! Mr. Xia Sebo, I look forward to your work!" Jerome Bonaparte nodded with satisfaction.
If Antoine Chassepo's multi-barreled machine gun can go smoothly, then Jerome Bonaparte will naturally not be stingy with his reward.
Compared with the Gatling machine gun (gun) in history, Anthony Chassepo's multi-barreled machine gun is three years earlier.
At that time, I will be able to use my first-mover advantage to let Dr. Gatlin in the United States know what a patent bully is.
France will also have more time to explore new tactics. The revolution of breech-loading guns and muzzle-loading guns is not only a revolution in weapons, but also a revolution in tactical systems.
In this way, Jerome Bonaparte and Jerome Patterson left together with Old Mauser and others seeing him off.
After returning to the Tuileries Palace, Jérôme Bonaparte began to think about the problem of brass bullets. After thinking for nearly several hours, he decided to find professionals to help him solve the problem.
So Jerome Bonaparte called Basilio.
"Immediately go to Senator Eugène Schneider's residence in Paris to see if he is here! If he is, call him over immediately!" Jerome Bonaparte gave an order to Basilio.
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"Yes! Your Majesty!" Basilio responded quickly to Jerome Bonaparte.
About half an hour later, Senator Eugene Schneider appeared in Jérôme Bonaparte's room.
"Your Majesty!" Eugène Schneider bowed slightly and greeted Jérôme Bonaparte.
"Eugène, come and sit down first! I have some questions to ask you!" Jérôme Bonaparte invited Eugène Schneider to sit on the sofa.
Eugène Schneider followed Jerome Bonaparte's instructions and sat down.
Later, Jérôme Bonaparte asked Eugène Schneider about his business in the small town of Le Creuset and the Lorraine area.
"Thanks to you! The current size of Schneider Company has more than doubled than before!" Eugene Schneider responded to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"That's good!" Jérôme Bonaparte said to Eugene Schneider with a smile, and then he asked Eugene Schneider about stamping and mold issues.
Eugène Schneider answered Jérôme Bonaparte's questions one by one, and Jérôme Bonaparte decided that Eugène Schneider would be a suitable candidate.
"Eugène, I have a technical problem here that I want you to solve! Are you confident in completing it?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked Eugène Schneider.
"Your Majesty, what kind of problem!" Eugene Schneider was stunned for a few seconds, and then asked Jérôme Bonaparte.
The problem of Jerome Bonaparte's brass bullets was brought to Eugene Schneider, and then he put forward some ideas of his own, "I'm thinking if I use a whole copper ingot and use stamping and stretching to
Can we make a brass bullet that doesn’t require welding?”
After thinking for a moment, Eugene Schneider responded to Jérôme Bonaparte, "Your Majesty, in theory it is indeed possible!
However, this requires a lot of experimentation!”
"So, it should be okay if I leave this task to you!" Jérôme Bonaparte looked at Eugene Schneider with a hint of hope.
Eugene Schneider nodded and responded to Jérôme Bonaparte: "Your Majesty, I will overcome this problem in the shortest possible time!"
"Well! I look forward to your performance!" Jérôme Bonaparte said to Eugene Schneider.
Immediately afterwards, Jerome Bonaparte once again asked Eugene Schneider if he was willing to conduct research in the field of artillery.
This time, Eugene Schneider did not refuse Jérôme Bonaparte. He also accepted Jérôme Bonaparte's artillery research task.
Jérôme Bonaparte was a little surprised, and he half-jokingly asked Eugene Schneider why he wanted to study artillery.
Eugene Schneider frankly told Jérôme Bonaparte that the reason why he studied artillery was because his old enemy Krupp had begun research in the field of artillery, so he was willing to enter the field of artillery.
"Okay!" Jérôme Bonaparte shrugged his shoulders and responded to Eugene Schneider.
Although he didn't understand why Eugene Schneider insisted on chasing Krupp (perhaps because the development routes of the two companies were not very different, so they disliked each other), but Eugene Schneider was able to set his sights on the artillery.
The matter of the field still made him very happy.
After Eugène Schneider left, Jérôme Bonaparte ordered Basilio to call the colonial minister, General de Castner, to the study.
After General de Castner arrived, Jerome Bonaparte told de Castner straight to the point that he wanted Jerome Patterson to serve as the governor of Gabon and be responsible for handling everything in Gabon.
thing.
After Minister de Castner heard about Jerome Bonaparte's appointment, he immediately thought of "exile".
After all, Gabon is not French Algiers, and the living environment there is much worse than French Algiers.
Even among those who are exiled, the vast majority will not be exiled to Gabon.
If it weren't for France's extraordinary obsession with land, the Gabon region would have long become an abandoned territory.
[PS: During this period, Senegal and Gabon were basically losing money. Senegal was almost given up because of the continuous payment.
In the end, the idea was abandoned due to the opposition of the military and the government's inability to bear the negative impact of giving up territory.】
By placing Lieutenant Colonel Jérôme Patterson in Gabon, it was hard for De Kastner not to believe that Emperor Jérôme Bonaparte was exiling Jérôme Patterson in disguise.
However, the "infighting" of the Bonaparte family had nothing to do with Kastner. He only needed to listen to the emperor's opinions.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" De Castellane responded to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"By the way, there are more than 5,000 Croatians who will follow Jérôme Patterson to Gabon. Let the people in Gabon prepare in advance!" Jérôme Bonaparte responded to De Castner again.
One sentence.
Now De Castner was even more confused as to what Emperor Jerome Bonaparte wanted to do.
Forget it! Never mind, this is an internal matter of the Bonaparte family anyway and has nothing to do with me!
De Kastner thought to himself, still replying "Understood" on his lips.
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A week later, news spread among the upper classes in Paris: Lieutenant Colonel Jérôme Patterson, the emperor's aide-de-camp, had resigned and was preparing to go to Gabon to serve as governor-general.
As soon as this statement came out, the upper echelons of Paris began to talk a lot, and many people speculated that the reason why Jerome Bonaparte drove Jerome Paterson to Gabon was to eliminate Jerome Paterson's influence.
Prince Montfort, who was the Marshal of the Empire, couldn't sit still after hearing the news. He hurried to Jerome Bonaparte's study and asked Jerome Bonaparte if he wanted to let Jerome
.Patterson went to Gabon to serve as governor.
Jerome Bonaparte nodded, and then explained to Monfort that he asked Jerome Patterson to go to Gabon not to exile him, but to let him use his skills in Gabon so that he could have a reason.
Promote him!
"Really?" Prince Montfort hid his heart suspiciously, Jerome Bonaparte.