Li Xuan was in the front, talking with several military bosses as they walked. Although He Haoyuan, who was a few meters behind, could hear their voices, he never had the chance to step forward and interrupt.
In this situation, unless the big bosses in front of him asked him to speak, he would have no chance to speak.
But he was not the only one like him. There were twenty or thirty middle- and high-level generals and civil servants following him.
A group of people rushed into the weapon testing site of the Royal Institute of Technology, and first went to see the fuze samples. At this time, as the project leaders of the new fuze, Bi Zifei and several students from the Royal Institute of Technology were recruited by the Hanlin Academy.
The secretary came forward.
At this time, everyone could clearly feel that Li Xuan's attitude was changing.
Along the way, Li Xuan talked to many people, but most of them looked very calm. And although they talked with each other, they actually asked some questions, and the ministers answered, and then Li Xuan gave some instructions.
The ministers nodded in agreement and said that they would definitely strengthen certain aspects of their work in the future so as not to disappoint His Majesty.
But when talking to Bi Zifei and the others, they could clearly see the smile on Li Xuan's face and his very kind attitude.
Even Bi Zifei said that there are still many difficulties in this fuze project, and it is estimated that the chance of a successful live-fire test is not high.
The Holy Emperor also smiled and said that in scientific research, it doesn't matter if you fail, the important thing is to keep trying and not lose confidence.
People who don't know may also have the idea that the Holy Emperor is extremely angry, but in order to maintain the emperor's demeanor, he said this deliberately.
But as an important minister of the empire, everyone present knew that the Holy Emperor said so, and at the same time he really did it.
Just think about the millions of taels of scientific research funding that the Royal Institute of Technology spends every year, and you will know that Li Xuan is really very tolerant of the scientific researchers there.
Especially the Department of Medicine, the Department of Medicine at the Royal Institute of Technology, has been established a long time ago and has a lot of various research projects. But to be honest, so far, the Department of Medicine at the Royal Institute of Technology has not been too successful.
In the eyes of many people, the Department of Medicine burns at least 100,000 taels of silver every year on this project, and as a result, no research has been done on it.
More importantly, if the students at the Royal Institute of Technology are all monsters or lunatics, then the students in the Department of Medicine are all perverts. They think about disemboweling themselves every day for the sake of research.
Samples, even stealing corpses.
And sometimes they even make themselves look like monsters, and some perverts even directly use themselves for experiments.
If such people were placed in Europe, they would have been burned to death long ago.
But in the Tang Dynasty, they were the most valued talents by the Holy Emperor. Students in the medical department were treated better than students in other departments.
These fully prove that the Holy Emperor attaches great importance to science and technology!
Now, several students from the Royal Institute of Technology, including the Holy Emperor Li Xuan and Bi Zifei, were laughing and chatting happily, as if they came not to watch the test but to chat with them today.
This situation made many people envious when they saw it. Not to mention mid-level civilian officers like He Haoyuan, even military bosses like Lieutenant General Lei Wan were envious when they saw this scene.
It was not that he envied the political treatment and status of these students of the Royal Institute of Technology. As the duty minister of the imperial study room, he could be said to be at the top of the imperial political ecosystem.
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is less than ten thousand and more than ten thousand people!
Based on the current political ecological structure of the Tang Dynasty, the Holy Emperor naturally has the supreme authority. Under the Holy Emperor, there are seven ministers on duty in the Imperial Study Room. These seven ministers on duty in the Imperial Study Room have the same power as the cabinet ministers in the pre-Ming Dynasty.
He is quite worthy of the name.
But even so, he, Lei Wan, could not chat happily with the Holy Emperor!
The relationship between him and the Holy Emperor is very clear, that is, the relationship between monarch and minister.
But these students at the Royal Institute of Technology have a teacher-student relationship with the Holy Emperor.
Because even now, in the seventh year of Xuanping, Li Xuan still acts as a teacher from time to time, teaching a few students at the Royal Institute of Technology. Of course, those who can listen to his personal lectures are basically limited to seniors and some juniors.
students, the number is only forty-five.
Bi Zifei is one of them!
These people are all true disciples of the emperor, and there is a huge difference between them and the scholars and doctors who passed the imperial examination and are also called disciples of the emperor.
The only ones who can compare with them are a few students in the Royal Academy.
But even among the few students in the Royal Academy, it was impossible for them to chat and laugh with Li Xuan.
Others don't understand, but Li Xuan himself knows why he is like this.
Not for anything else, just because we take it seriously!
Li Xuan is not a saint, so it is naturally impossible for him to treat everyone equally. For him, those military and political officials, even if they are the minister on duty in the imperial study room, the minister, or the lieutenant general, to be honest, they are just like that, as long as they are
If he is willing, he can find a bunch of people to replace them at any time.
But the students at the Royal Institute of Technology are different. The students here are all geniuses and cannot be copied in large quantities. Even everyone inside is irreplaceable.
In scientific research, although hardware is very important, people are even more important, because ordinary people can't think of anything even if they think hard, but geniuses have a flash of inspiration and come up with a way.
As the saying goes, people are more irritating than others, and they are the type of people who are irritating.
In addition to this point, there is another very important point, that is, although these students are all of high grade, well paid, and some even have titles, they are still not military and political personnel. They do not have much actual political power.
Li Xuan doesn't have to worry about them forcing the palace or rebelling.
Many reasons allowed Li Xuan to maintain a friendly attitude toward the talents at the Royal Institute of Technology.
And this kind of amiable attitude can hardly be expected from other ordinary courtiers.
Li Xuan, Bi Zifei and the others were laughing and talking. At the same time, Bi Zifei and the others introduced the details of the new grenade fuse to Li Xuan in detail.
Li Xuan had only seen some simple descriptions in reports before, but this was the first time he saw the real thing.
What was now placed in front of Li Xuan were artillery shells and fuses that had been split into several parts.
At this time, Bi Zifei stepped forward and explained: "In recent years, many project teams, including ours, have proposed many new fuze concepts, including collision fuzes, wooden fuzes, and paper fuzes.
More than a dozen plans.
After preliminary testing by our project team, we found that the uniformity of the wooden fuze is too poor to ensure that the artillery shell can explode at the accurate time. The experience of the artillery is very important, but even so, the wooden fuze is inferior to the fire fuze and the paper fuze.
It's better.
The former's successful firing rate is too low to ensure detonation, while the latter, although uniform and easy to use, is prone to moisture and difficult to store for a long time.
Therefore, in the later stage, the main research direction of our project team is wooden time-delay fuses!"
"Our initial idea is to directly install a wooden delay fuse on the artillery shell, and cut the fuse to an appropriate length when firing to control the explosion time, so that when the artillery is fired, the high-temperature gas generated will directly ignite the fuse, but because of the round shape
Cannonballs tend to roll when fired, and are extremely easy to explode inside the cannonball, so we later added a cork base to the cannonball!"
When he said this, Bi Zifei became a little excited: "After adding a cork base to the cannonball, we found that not only can this effectively control the roll of the cannonball, but also keep the direction of the fuze pointed at the gunpowder gas. We also found a
An additional benefit is that because of the cork, the closure between the barrel and the shell is tighter, which can effectively improve accuracy and even range!"
"Later, we conducted many experiments based on this plan. Although there were successes and failures, overall, this is a direction worth continuing to develop!"
As Bi Zifei spoke, he showed Li Xuan a complete cannonball. This cannonball was more accurately said to be a cannonball about to be fired. Well, except that it had no actual charge.
The cannonball is still the original round cannonball, but a cork base is installed. At the same time, the round cannonball body has a wooden fuze tube, which is directly inserted into the projectile body.
This shell looks decent, but I don’t know how it will perform during live ammunition testing.
So soon, Li Xuan led a group of people onto the stand, and then looked at the Guards soldiers below, making preparations under the guidance of several technicians, and then preparing for a live ammunition test.
Not long after, a Colonel of the Guards came over and said that it was ready, and asked His Majesty to order the test.
Li Xuandao: "Now that you are ready, let's start!"
As Li Xuan issued the final order, the three artillery pieces on the field began to be loaded one after another.
After the loading was completed, I saw a major commanding below wave his hand, and the match rope on the first artillery piece was lit one after another. As the match rope of the first artillery piece burned to the end, there was only a bang.
, the artillery shot violently backward.
At the same time, thick white smoke was emitted from the muzzle, but at this time, no one was looking at the artillery itself, but all were staring at the small black dot flying in the sky.
At this moment, many people in the stands shifted their gazes along with the three shells. They were about to see the results of the test firing with their own eyes!