There are generally two ways to maintain the credibility of a currency and defeat counterfeit money. The first way is to improve the technical content of banknotes and use various high and new technologies to manufacture banknotes. For example, later Western countries often use plastic banknotes to make ordinary banknotes
Counterfeiters are unable to start, and ultimately the purpose of anti-counterfeiting is achieved.
But there is another way, which is to severely punish the counterfeiters. This is the method used in later generations of RMB. The technical difficulty of forging RMB is not particularly high, and even some peasant women can forge large quantities after purchasing machines. However, government authorities
The penalties for counterfeiting RMB are very severe, and those who forge more than 10 million yuan can be sentenced to death.
This method can avoid various disadvantages caused by risking the adoption of new technologies. For example, plastic coins have the disadvantage of insufficient friction. The coins often cannot be separated when counting, and it is easy to stick two coins together and spend them as one. Adopt
Mature old technologies will not have the various risks brought by new technologies.
For the current Li Zhi, the more feasible approach is the latter.
At present, Li Zhi has not pushed the technological frontier of Fanjiazhuang into the printing industry, and has not invented banknotes that are far ahead of this era. It can be said that these banknotes circulating in Li Zhi's territory can be counterfeited with an investment of tens of thousands of taels of silver. However,
Li Zhi is not too worried about the problem of counterfeit banknotes, because Li Zhi has a killing ability that is far beyond this era. He can kill the counterfeiters and make those who are interested in counterfeiting fearful.
Moreover, Li Zhi is constantly improving his killing methods and improving the efficiency of killing.
Li Zhi took his improved rocket, or rocket launcher, from a craftsman and looked at his men.
Everyone was very curious about the rocket launcher held by Li Zhi. They all stopped talking and stared at the rocket launcher carefully.
What Li Zhi "invented" this time was an improved version of the Congreve rocket, a nineteenth-century rocket.
In later history, the British who built the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets discovered rockets, a weapon of war, when they invaded India, and quickly learned and modified them. Obviously, compared to heavy artillery, rockets have a faster rate of fire and a longer range.
Advantages such as mobility and flexibility.
Artillery Colonel Congreve, who worked at the Royal Laboratory at Wulwich Arsenal in England, used a new type of gunpowder to create a practical rocket in 1805. It weighed 14.5 kilograms, had an arrow length of 1.06 meters, a diameter of 0.1 meters, and a range of up to 1800 meters.
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Congreve rockets were widely used in the Napoleonic Wars as soon as they were equipped. First, they attacked the French fleet at Boulogne, with good results. Afterwards, under the personal command of Congreve, the British Royal Navy launched about 25,000 rockets towards Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark.
, almost razing the city to the ground.
During the Battle of Leipzig in 1812, the British rocket launcher unit in the Swedish army scattered a group of French troops "like an ant pile" with a single fierce shot. Congreve rockets were also used in the American-British war. In 1814
, the British army used rockets to attack Fort McHenry near Baltimore.
During the Opium War, the British army used rockets to capture Shajiao and Dajiao Forts in Guangzhou, and also blew up Zhenjiang, Ningbo, and Yuyao into raging fires. The "Jingkou Yucheng Records" recorded by the Qing Dynasty described: "The rockets are like flying stars, or
It made a "flower explosion" when it landed on the ground.
Obviously, this weapon is a powerful tool for attacking difficult situations.
However, the Congreve rocket had the disadvantage of unstable flight trajectory and was unable to perform high-precision shooting. In response to this shortcoming, British inventor William Hale made important improvements in 1844. Hale installed a rocket on the tail of the rocket.
Three inclined stable spiral plates. When the rocket is launched, the rocket itself rotates due to aerodynamic force, thus achieving stability.
The principle is the same as that of the mini rifle's rotating bullet that can advance stably in the air.
There are some tricks to manufacturing this kind of tail. Li Zhi's rocket craftsmen tried hundreds of times according to Li Zhi's drawings before making a qualified rocket.
With this tail fin, the rotating rocket can move straight forward in the air and shoot out a straight line with a small curvature. Of course, an absolute straight line is impossible. The rocket will inevitably fly downward due to the effect of gravity during flight, and finally
The path of travel must be a parabola. But at a distance of several hundred meters, the downward deviation is very small.
The improved rocket is actually an oval straight tube, which looks very similar to the rockets of later generations, but has a sharp corner at the top. Li Zhi installed this rocket in a round iron tube, and installed an aiming device on the round iron tube.
The mirror is used to facilitate aiming, making the entire rocket device look very much like a later-generation shoulder-fired anti-tank missile.
When the generals under Li Zhi saw that Li Zhi had brought out such a strange thing, they were a little puzzled. They looked at each other for a while, but no one understood how this weapon could defeat the enemy.
Li Zhi carried the rocket launcher on his shoulders. The rocket weighing 16 kilograms and the launch tube weighing 7 kilograms made Li Zhi feel a little strenuous. Fortunately, this kind of use was not a long-term operation. Li Zhi looked at it in the scope.
He aimed at a hillock 300 meters away. A one-meter-wide target area had been painted on the hillock, which was Li Zhi's target.
Li Zhi aimed at the target and shouted: "Fire!"
A rocket craftsman lit the fuse behind the rocket launcher. With a burning sound, the fuse quickly ignited the propulsion part of the rocket. Only a huge flame came out from the tail of the rocket. With a bang, the rocket seemed to fly off the string.
The arrow was shot out, heading straight for the target three hundred meters away.
The rocket steadily hit the target three hundred meters away. The tip of the front end of the rocket penetrated into the soil, fixing the rocket on the ground.
Everyone saw clearly the performance of this kind of rocket, and they were very surprised by the rocket moving straight forward, and they let out a cry of exclamation.
However, before everyone's exclamations could reach the ground, the rocket in the target area exploded.
The 11 kilograms of nitrocellulose in the rocket operations department were originally restrained in the steel shell. At this time, they suddenly exploded and swept across the area. The shock wave from the explosion swept across the surrounding area more than ten meters, sending out a powerful force that could not be seen directly.
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The weight of the rocket combat unit is heavier than that of an 18-pound cannon, and its power is far greater than that of an 18-pound explosive shell. After the rocket bomb exploded, there was no trace of the rocket bomb on the hill in the distance, leaving only one on the ground.
A pothole half a meter deep.
Seeing the power of the rocket, the onlookers all turned pale.
This thing is easy to carry and transport. The rocket can be launched when carried on the shoulder. It does not require the cooperation of a heavy cannon and can accurately blast enemies inside the bunker from a distance of 300 meters.
This is really a weapon for murder and arson.
Li Zhi put down the rocket launcher and looked at the surprised generals under his command.
"I see that the person printing counterfeit money is very impatient. He doesn't seem to be too afraid that we know who he is, nor is he too afraid that we know where they are printing money." Li Zhi patted the rocket launcher and said, "Next, let's
Just wait for this counterfeit banknote factory to surface and give them a taste of rocket launchers."
