The sun never sets in America

Chapter 154 Entertainment and Military Industry

Thor Military Industrial Group Headquarters... A large Mjolnir icon is painted on the wall of this five-story square building.

It looks like a random graffiti caricature, but this is indeed the iconic picture of the headquarters of the largest and only military-industrial complex in Han Dynasty.

At first, this painting was just a few random strokes by internal personnel of the Raytheon Group. Until Liu Peng accidentally saw it during his inspection, he suddenly felt a sense of traveling through time and space. This painting, which looked like a cartoon, was painted so grandly on the on the wall.

This hammer logo also appears on many products of the Raytheon Group, such as the latest batch of lightning rifles. In addition to the yellow lightning logo on the butt, there is also a black hammer below the lightning.

Just like the thunder and lightning released by the real Mjolnir.

Even in the latest issue of the promotional comics owned by the Thor Group, this hammer also appeared in the hands of the Han army.

On the cover of the comic, there is an image of a Han soldier wearing a flying saucer helmet with a lightning logo, wearing a gray military uniform, short leather boots, holding a lightning rifle, and carrying a hammer.

Behind the soldiers were intensive artillery fire from the Han Army and a steady stream of reinforcements.

这本编号1844年2月15日的雷神铁血漫画，在21世纪被抄到了50万华元每本的高价。（当然，前提是保存完好）

Speaking of Thor Group's Iron Blood Comics, we have to mention the comic industry that is now in full swing in Han Dynasty.

In today's Han entertainment market, the most obvious symbol is the rise of comics.

This can be seen from the dozens of comic companies that have emerged in Han Dynasty in just a few years.

Among them, the Caribbean Fleet and Ocean 360 Five Days launched by Shark Comics have become the pioneers of Chinese naval comics.

The army's bloody battle at Savage Mountain, Blitz 1850 and other fictional comics are also deeply loved by teenagers, especially the wild imagination of future wars, which injects a sense of traveling through time and space into this era.

In addition to these military-related comics, there are also some folk comics with different styles, including adventure-type Inca treasures, supernatural-type American weird archives, and mythical heaven-type.

In addition to the above, the fastest growing category is romance comics, as if anything related to love has been sold since ancient times.

The new "A Chinese Ghost Story", the prince and the princess, which you will know what is going on as soon as you hear it, has sprung up in the entertainment market of Han Dynasty like mushrooms after a rain.

Compared with the current popular story-telling novels around the world, dramas, operas, and comics have one thing in common that none of them have in common, and that is their imagination and resonance with readers...

After all, when you read a novel, no matter how fantastic the author writes, you can't really feel what's happening in it.

But comics are different. This thing combines the illustrations and text of the original story novel.

It allows readers to feel the shock brought by the text while also feeling the impact brought by the picture. It can be said that from the moment comics were born, they have a commonality that all pop culture has in common, and that is universality! !

This is very important. If only a few people can appreciate a cultural work, then this so-called cultural work is no different from waste paper.

Works that belong to the public are still good works. Those things that some literati admire themselves are actually ugly. Only he and people who like him can appreciate these things.

And those people can appreciate it not because the work is good enough, but because the work hits their so-called cool point. As for whether this cool point is bright or dark, they don't care. They just need to stand at the pinnacle of culture in their imagination. Just point fingers at the public.

As for culture, that is something only they understand. What do the public know? !

However, Liu Peng believed from the beginning that culture must be for the masses and must be for the masses. Therefore, under his hint, the Ministry of Culture conducted research on novels, dramas, operas, operas, music, comics and other cultural fields within the Han Dynasty. support, and reform.

Among them, the most reformed are old industries such as drama and opera.

Liu Peng once said to the Minister of Culture: "Our Han culture must be progressive and inspiring. Those dramas and operas are still arranged with stories from hundreds of thousands of years ago. This No, this is very bad. If we continue like this, our descendants will only know about our predecessors, but not about today's people... Your Ministry of Culture should promote the contemporary history of our Han country more, so that generations of Han people will understand that they are today How difficult life is, and how many heroes have paid for it with their blood..."

Liu Peng had a purpose for saying this, and his main purpose was cultural promotion, especially the promotion of Han's local culture.

In other words, Liu Peng planned to rebuild the cultural system of Han Dynasty.

Liu Peng said this at the court meeting earlier this year: "All of us Han people must understand who we are. In today's Han country, some people say they are Chinese, some say they are Chinese, some say they are Lingnan, Huguang People from Jiangnan, even Mexicans and Spaniards, but when faced with such a problem, no one would say, "I am a Han." In the eyes of the lonely king, this is very dangerous. If this continues, we Han people will Does the country still have a so-called nation, and does it have a so-called big man??"

What Liu Peng said was very serious, and even in the eyes of some people, it was a bit excessive, but in Liu Peng's own opinion, he made it clear.

“All the ministers and ministers present must understand that immigration is not about bringing people over, giving them a little education, and making them literate, but it is about letting them know who they are and which country they want to serve... Let them know, They are one of us!!”

"When every immigrant who comes to Han will say, I am Han, long live Han, then our Han will really have a foundation for eternity, instead of becoming a beautiful beach fortress, Feng Yi It will fall down if you blow it!!”

This was Liu Peng's last words of the day, and it was also the beginning of Han Dynasty's cultural reform.

Liu Peng understands very well what a country of immigrants like Han lacks most, and that is cohesion.

Although the Han Dynasty created the so-called Chinese and honorary Chinese, in fact, this group of Chinese was not stable internally and was divided into multiple factions. The two biggest happy ones were the local faction and the immigrant faction.

It's easy to say that the local faction is better. After all, it has been ten years since the Liujiabao period. If there are any factions, they have all been integrated.

But the biggest trouble is the new immigrants. Within the Chinese community alone, these new immigrants are divided into factions such as Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Anhui. Many of these are southerners. As for why there are no northerners, the most important thing is The reason is that it is more difficult to immigrate to the north than to the south.

The largest northern immigrant in Han Dynasty is Shandong in China. Because this area is close to the sea and connected to North Korea, immigration is relatively simple, but even so it is not as simple as the south where foreign trade is developed.

After all, the north is the core area of ​​the Qing court's serious rule. Even if the Qing court does not know about the large-scale immigration in this area, it still knows that the officials of the Qing court will take the money of the Han Dynasty and turn a blind eye. I can’t hold it in my eyes anymore...

Therefore, the Han Dynasty was very cautious about immigrating to the north. In addition to the lack of access to the sea in the north, the Han Dynasty did not want to overly stimulate the Qing court.

After all, the Han people came here to immigrate, not to fight in the Far East.

It is better to immigrate under safe conditions than to immigrate at a higher cost after falling out with Qing Ting.

Liu Peng's current immigration policy for Han is to immigrate first and then integrate.

And how to integrate it is a big deal.

The rise of the entertainment industry represented by comics gave Liu Peng an opportunity to integrate immigrants through culture and policies.

Under Liu Peng's instruction, the cultural and entertainment circles of the Han Dynasty launched a variety of new dramas, operas, and storytelling. Compared with comics, these entertainment activities are old, but the old has old benefits, especially for the new immigrants. He said that they may not necessarily understand what comics are, but they must know what opera is and what storytelling is.

Soon, a large number of operas and storytelling reflecting the beautiful life of the Han Dynasty and the history of the founding of the Han Dynasty appeared in the entertainment market of the Han Dynasty.

Among them are military-themed operas and storytelling that describe the strength of the Han Dynasty and the hard-won life of the Han Dynasty, such as the defense of Xijing City (refer to the Second Battle of Los Angeles), the invasion of Mexico, etc.

There are also life-style dramas and storytelling that look very rustic but are actually very effective, such as "The Fortune of the Han Dynasty by Cantonese Businessmen" and "Zhang Datou, a Farmer in Guangling".

These have brought great repercussions among the new immigrant groups from Han.

Especially on the immigration ship, many immigrants came to Han by listening to these beautiful Han stories, and all of them were full of heavenly expectations for Han.

After these people came to Han, they worked, farmed, married and had children. Naturally, they became the biggest supporters of Han.Liu Peng privately called this situation the Han Dream! !

The Han Dream represents the beautiful expectations of generations of Han people for the future of Han, and they have worked hard for it, even their own lives.

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In a military base in Mobei, a military revolution is unfolding.

In Han State, there are four major military bases. The first one is located on the outskirts of Beimen City in Hanzhou Province, the second is in the hilly area of ​​Nanmen City in Xihai Province of Han State, and the third one is in Guangling Province near Mexico. local, mainly engaged in deterrence against the Republic of Mexico.

The fourth and last one is the Changping Military Base, fifty kilometers away from Changping City.

This military base is different from several other military bases. Due to the geographical isolation and harshness, it is mainly used as an experimental ground for the Han army to study new tactics and new weapons.

The vast Mobei wasteland gave Han military personnel the opportunity to display their talents.

It turns out that the experimental base for Han weapons was in the shooting range of the Xijing Arsenal in Niuling District.

It was okay at first, but as the number of Han troops increased and the area where they were stationed increased, it would be difficult for a weapon to gain a foothold in the Han army if it could not adapt to the Han weather from the tropics to the desert.

The earliest batch of lightning rifles in Han Dynasty have been mothballed and retired, followed by the new lightning rifles designed by Xijing Arsenal according to the climate characteristics of Han Dynasty. The guns are equipped with holsters and the gun body is reinforced. These are all for the purpose of It was designed to fight in the changeable climate environment of Han Dynasty.

Among them, the holster is prepared for the desert Mobei Province. Of course, the holster also has another function, to prevent rain, and this is prepared for the southern region.

The Han Kingdom currently has more than [-] lightning rifles prepared by the entire army, and its inventory exceeds [-].

If coupled with the unique military service system of the Han State, that is to say, once a war breaks out, the Han State can easily mobilize more than [-] troops armed with lightning rifles in less than a week.

This is rare even in Europe. The Americans on the opposite side only have a few troops equipped with muskets similar to lightning rifles. (The Americans have not paid the patent fees, which makes the Xijing Arsenal very angry. They have taken the United States to European courts many times because of this matter. However, the United States still goes its own way. Even the boss of an American arms company bluntly said that there is no so-called patent for weapons. Then he turned to the British to authorize naval guns and paid the patent fee)
In the words of Luo Ming, chairman of Raytheon Group: "Until we hurt the Americans, we will not get any of our money back!!"

Although it sounds hard to say, this is how the international community is, accepting the soft and fearing the tough! !
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"One round reload..."

shuh...

In an instant, a cone-shaped projectile that looked like a lightning rifle bullet was stuffed into the cannon.

boom……

On the barren mountain in the distance, a cloud of dust and smoke exploded, and the dust quickly disappeared under a strong wind.

"Calculate the distance..." Instructor Lei, who was in charge of the test, looked at the position that had just been shelled in the telescope and immediately gave the order.

Soon, a surveying soldier from the opposite side ran over with a measuring instrument.

"Report, the range is 50 meters and the target was not hit."

The soldier responsible for the calculation looked at the ranging data in his hand and reported back to Instructor Lei.

"How much? Say it again??" Instructor Lei didn't care whether he hit the target or not. In his opinion, it didn't matter. What was important was the distance, three thousand and fifty meters. What is this concept? This is the original artillery more than twice.

"Reporting to Instructor Lei, the actual measurement was 50 meters, and the target was not hit!!" the ranging soldier replied loudly.

"My darling, there are so many." Instructor Lei's face showed surprise that he had never seen before. As a weapons experiment instructor with an artillery background, he understood very well that the power contained in it was difficult to match. the power of.

The artillery of this period was actually a front-loading smoothbore cannon, and the smoothbore cannon's range was about 400 meters at most. The real effective range was almost always within 1000 meters...

The range of the artillery fire just now exceeded 3000 meters. What is the concept? This means that even if it is halved, based on the real effective range on the battlefield, it is still more than 500 meters.

For artillery that is still at 1000 meters or even a few hundred meters, this is completely a dimensionality reduction strike. It is like the difference between a lightning rifle and a flintlock gun. It is completely different.

The duel between lightning rifles and flintlocks, as can be seen from the Mexican War a few years ago, was a complete one-sided massacre.

That's why Instructor Lei was so surprised when he heard the number three thousand and fifty.

"Continue the experiment..." Taking a deep breath, Instructor Lei suppressed the shock in his heart and continued to issue instructions for the experiment.

"One round reload..."

"emission……"

boom……

Following an order, another conical cannonball, which was completely different from the original round cannonball, was fired.

Finally, the data stabilized at a distance of 3000 meters.

In subsequent rounds of experiments, it was found that when the elevation angle was about [-] degrees, the range would generally hover around the distance of [-].

When the maximum elevation angle is raised to 25 degrees, the maximum distance exceeds 5000 meters.

Although this distance is basically useless in real war, because with the current war model, the enemy is almost always within 3000 meters, or even within 1000 meters, or 5000 meters. It does not matter whether you can hit the enemy or whether you can shoot accurately. is a huge problem.

In the end, this front-loading rifled gun that surpassed the times for more than ten years was born on this blue planet and is about to write its legend.

In the subsequent many experimental improvements, this artillery was named Storm, which means that it is as fast and violent as a storm, sweeping away all enemies in sight.

The name Baofeng actually pays homage to the rifled rifle currently in service in Han Dynasty.

When Li Zhaowu, the Minister of Army of the Han Dynasty, learned that the Baofeng front-loading rifled gun had been finalized and was ready for small-scale mass production, he said:

"The era of rifled rifles is coming. Lightning rifles and storm artillery are another military revolution after the Napoleonic military revolution. It represents that the level of Han's weapons and equipment, especially the level of army weapons, is at the forefront of the world... …Today, we can proudly say that Han’s weapons will soon lead the world!!”

In April of the fourth year of Longwu, two months after the artillery experiment, the first Baofeng Longwu four-year rifled gun numbered 182 rolled off the assembly line at the Jinshan Artillery Factory.

The main reason why the number is 182 is that the predecessor of this artillery has undergone up to [-] improvements. From the second year of Longwu to the present, in two full years, this artillery has experienced countless improvements. Several revisions on the drawings, improvement experiments in reality, and countless wranglings.

This artillery, which symbolized the military future of the Han Dynasty, was born after countless temperings.

With the successful mass production of the first Storm Artillery, it also revealed the arrival of the era of artillery replacement for the Han Army.

Nearly a thousand smoothbore artillery pieces of various types will be eliminated in the future, but this will all take time. After all, the production capacity of the Storm Artillery cannot be increased so fast, especially in peacetime, small-scale mass production and small steps will lead to greater success. It is in line with the military logic and military expenditure of Han Dynasty.

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