Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

"By then, the Secret Keepers are expected to reappear in the sunlight in the form of alchemists. After all, no one wants to die. The more dangerous the task, the more it needs to be completed through a substitute."

"That's it? Does this thing work now? What secrets can I keep while sleepwalking?"

"It still needs to be improved. Otherwise, Victoria wouldn't wear it and test it in an unfamiliar environment. It seems that there is no problem in testing in situ. It's just that after arriving in an unfamiliar environment, she received too much stimulation, so she lost control. But they can probably adjust to a compromise: resisting the erosion of the alchemists by refreshing their memory every day."

"Ah, it makes sense." Shangluo nodded, "Because the job of keeping secrets will not change, because the mystery is there and will not change. So even if the memory is refreshed every day, there will be no problems. Sure enough, He is also very cruel to himself."

"That's not all. You can't just watch the thief being beaten, but you can't see the thief eating. We borrowed five hundred years from heaven, and we have indeed borrowed it. The predecessors borrowed debts and later generations repaid the debts. There is nothing to say. This matter, Rome Bian doesn’t plan to bother Sinian to clean it up, he will clean it up himself. But as the ultimate secret keeper, this is a surprise. I’m thinking that Victoria will have to bring the guards to you next time she comes.”

As he said that, Phaethon covered his forehead: "I know what she was thinking at the beginning. At first, everyone thought that the Roman king was more like an ancient priest, so some key rituals required you to be the chief surgeon. Then you would have to pay Just a service fee is enough. Unexpectedly, it’s not a sacrifice, but a Witch King. You have genuine divine power and royal power. So even the Senate is anxious."

"Ha, I feel very dangerous myself. Just saying a casual word may destroy the Roman Empire, right? This makes me have an inexplicable desire to chat with others. You arrange a guard to be sent to me. This is a very reasonable reward. , just treat it as confidentiality fees.”

Before he finished speaking, the door rang. Apollonia came back from the door - she didn't look as excited as when she went out. Dejectedly, she walked from the door to the sofa. She bent down and was about to sit down——

"Hey! You can't sit down, it's too heavy!" Shangluo reminded. You really can't sit on this. This sofa is not designed to hold iron bumps.

Apollonia glanced at him, took off the head and placed it on the sofa.

"You keep picking your head off, don't you find it a little scary?"

"Oh, whatever. I will never use this body again."

"Eh? Why?" Shangluo asked, "Aren't you very happy? Could it be that someone offended you?"

"No."

"The store doesn't sell your stuff? No, you can buy it if you have money. What did you buy?"

Apollonia put some papers on the table. They are food-shaped decals, including dumplings, mung bean cakes, apples, etc. A stack of exactly 5 dollars.

“I’m quite happy that I bought this.”

"Then this is you."

Apollonia on the screen turned around and said, "The person who bought decals with me is a little girl who goes to school. Wuwu. She called me uncle. She said, uncle, you also came out to buy decals to play with. I bought them for Your daughter?"

"Ah" Shangluo covered his forehead, "I feel like you were hit hard. This size is really not right. I"

Just as he was about to comfort her, Apollonia suddenly said: "I'm angry! I'm going to start taking action. I want to make my own alchemy body. How can the great Apollonia be restricted by this mere uncle's body?"

"Actually, I think this body is pretty good. It's very powerful and with current technology, it seems there's no way to make it too small. How about you bear with it for now? I'll take care of it when we go out."

"Yes, Romans with little imagination. I have read the Akashic Records - the creator of destiny, the pioneer of the future, the divine machine of light and prophecy, the wisest of all divine machines, the wisest of all. Eternal One! How could I be restricted by my feet? Shangluo, take this metal head to Jinyiwei at noon."

"what are you up to?"

"What you have seen is a little bit shocking to Zhongguo's technology. I want to put wings on this head, four, four-axis. Jiejiejie, I want to play a four-axis drone, can others do it? ?”

Chapter 672 Four-axis UAV

At noon, Lu Huaiyang was waiting directly at the gate of Xiamafang. As he walked, he said: "You want a four-axis drone? It is indeed Zhongguo's technical reserve."

"So there are reserves?"

"We will pick some key points to prepare. For example, the meson circulation generator."

"You seem to have picked something strange."

"Ah, yes." Lu Huaiyang suddenly stopped, "I heard later that this is actually your cartoon, right? Then the four-axis drone can't also be a cartoon, right?"

"This is real."

"That's fine. I thought it was another 'we're all set, you tell me it's a cartoon.'"

"By the way, did you have any technical difficulties during preparation?"

"The difficulty lies in intelligent control. It's so easy to make an airplane fly. Middle school students can make model airplanes that are watered and glued. But this thing has four propellers. I can't even imagine how to use a remote control for this thing. To control.”

For Lu Huaiyang, this part was more bizarre.

"I remember that the planes on the Ninghe were shaking like that. Couldn't the pilot still control it?"

"That's why I said it's a remote control. The Ninghe's joystick is driven by a steel cable. When the pilot holds the joystick, he can know the situation of the aircraft just like diagnosing the pulse with a suspension wire. But those four propellers are really hard to figure out. How to manipulate."

"Um, wait a minute." Shangluo suddenly discovered a question, "How big do you think the four-axis drone must be?"

"Plane? It's not a model aircraft. It must be at least as big as an airplane, right? Huh? The size you are pointing at is..."

Shangluo nodded: "The ones as big as a palm or the size of a brick are the size of a four-axis drone after folding. Of course, there are also larger ones, such as the size of a suitcase."

“So it’s only as big as a model airplane?”

"..." Shangluo replied, "I knew you must have missed something. But the performance you saw is real. The four-axis drone is really useful and can do many things. But it is as big as a model aircraft. I’m afraid the size may disappoint you a little.”

"How is that possible?" Lu Huaiyang shook his head, "This is even more powerful. I think Shangluo you haven't noticed some things on our side until now: We don't think bigger is more powerful, but smaller is more powerful. . A plane as big as the Ninghe, of course, can use various means to assist flight. And you can integrate the flight function into a palm-sized place, this is simply a magic weapon! Zhongguo's technology is really terrifying."

"Ah, yes, there are no large-scale integrated circuits here."

"Then if you are so good at building small planes, you must be able to build a very large quadcopter too!"

"This. This is gone."

"Eh? Why?" Lu Huaiyang asked.

"Because our place is not like here, where as long as it is theoretically possible, you can use magic to push it up. Where we have to step on every step to land, and as a consumer product, we have to consider economic benefits and so on - the four-axis The drone is an industrial product that is a compromise after considering a lot of circumstances. It is not a technological wonder like the Ninghe."

"Hmm," Lu Huaiyang paused, "Well, it seems we are still a long way from Zhongguo's technology. Because the quadcopter drone you saw today is a bit big."

"This is too big!"

At the foot of the mountain not far from the prison, the hangar door slowly opened - what appeared in front of Shangluo was a helicopter four times the size that occupied the entire hangar! Each rotor is as big as a real helicopter. The huge fuselage glows with silver and is so big that even lifting a container is not a problem. However, although there is no cockpit in the front, there is still a hatch in the middle.

Although the entire machine is parked here and has been maintained to a sparkling state, there are no signs of use. There are only two or three guards guarding this place, as if this thing doesn't seem very important.

"This is??"

"Four-axis UAV." Lu Huaiyang replied, "This is what we think of as a 'four-axis UAV'."

"Is this thing a model?"

"No, it's true. But we had mistaken the size before, thinking it was as big as a real airplane. This even affected our idea of ​​building a helicopter, because it once made us think that a helicopter can only fly with four rotors. In the end, we found that two rotors were enough because there was no way to control four rotors."

He pointed to the middle door: "As I said before, the Ninghe is driven by a cable. The pilot can grasp the joystick and know what is going on with the aircraft. But this four-axis drone completely uses the engine. The pilot has no way to control the attitude in real time because there is no feedback at all. The pilot uses a steel cable to connect to the airfoil, and what he finally feels is the wind flowing through the airfoil. This thing is electrically driven. I don’t know what I’m feeling.”

"So you opened a cockpit directly inside?"

"The experimental version of the cockpit is indeed on an airplane. We thought at the time that this thing is called a drone, and something would be wrong if we let people get on it. But it can't fly, so we can't care about whether there are people or not. . In the end, it turns out that the remote control outside is the same as the remote control inside. The electric transmission cannot be solved by the manual operation of the Qi practitioner. But you also saw-"

He shook his head: "This thing can't fly at all. So it's been kept here as a training exercise."

"Um" Shangluo thought for a while, "I think this thing is silver. What kind of paint was used?"

"I haven't had time to apply paint yet. It's the original color of titanium alloy."

"Wait a minute. I don't think I see the rivets or seams?"

"Because it is a complete titanium alloy component. Except for the external parts, the entire aircraft is a whole titanium alloy shell. To say the least, it looks like a crab shell. There is no skeleton such as steel beams to support it. , they are all hollow inside.”

"Can this thing be formed in one piece?"

"Well, although the electric transmission can't be done, if the Qi practitioner slowly forges it with civil and military fire, it's not too difficult to shape it like this. It's just too big, so it takes a little time. But if it doesn't become hollow, , we don’t know how to stuff those devices in.”

"If I want a small one."

"Small? How small do you want it?"

"As big as a brick?"

"Then we can get it right away." Lu Huaiyang replied, "It turns out that we really only need this small one. Are you sure you don't want a bigger one?"

"The size of a brick is enough. Then, wait, I need to find a plotter. Apollonia wants to upload a drawing for printing."

Chapter 673 Production Capacity

"Thank you." Shangluo thanked the printer as usual. After connecting, the printer drew out the drawings provided by Apollonia——

"That's it? Is this enough?" Lu Huaiyang asked, "Can this fly? There is not even a battery inside. The four wings are still hanging there out of thin air. There is only a motor, but there are no wires."

"Apolonia said yes."

"Well," Lu Huaiyang took the drawing and looked at it carefully, "By the way, I heard rumors about military reform? Do you plan to use such drones to replace infantry in large numbers?"

"It is not about replacing infantry. By then, the unit equipment controlled by Lord Tianyi is expected to be similar to the one on the drawing. However, the reform will not only transform the entire system without human beings - if it is just to use machines to replace people, then the tributary country You don’t have as many people as you want, and sometimes you can’t win with more people.”

"Then this is."

"I'm talking about informatization. The so-called informatization means that if you stack people on a unit area, no matter how many you stack, there will be a limit. But if you can transmit the information to the rear as quickly as possible and immediately, then you can By allowing all arms to operate at their fingertips, the firepower from the depth, rear, and even the rear can be stacked in one place - this is information. How to stack the firepower behind depends on what information can be sent from the front. "

"Ah!" Lu Huaiyang understood immediately, "No wonder it is so small. The smaller it is, the more convenient it is. Because it is only used as eyes and ears, not to carry bombs, right? I almost understand."

He looked at Shangluo: "I heard that you plan to hold a confrontation exercise with Rome? Do you plan to practice your skills?"

"Eh~ Yes. I also heard that not everyone in Rome is going to die obediently. We also have to let them know through military exercises who is more suitable to stay in the earthly world now. Those who can't stay there are still It’s better to enter energy-saving mode as soon as possible.”

"Then I think you may be very satisfied with the result. Because the foundation of this dynasty's army has always been artillery. Our tactics starting from the time of Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou have been to find ways to send as big artillery as possible to the front line for bombing . Because even a barbarian who grew up in a wolf den will be frightened when he hears the sound of cannons. If you can exchange steel for human life, why not do it."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. That's really right - what is it like in Rome?"

"We don't know much about Rome. However, judging from historical contacts, the Romans seem to like to play with their military formations. They have three levels of guards, legions and auxiliaries. They will deploy a large number of barbarian auxiliaries. The army will fill the front, and then the legion will make key breakthroughs in certain places. When necessary, the imperial army will be called in. The tactics are like this - "

He thought for a while: "Actually, there is no change in our thinking. We don't want to kill our own people, because dying is troublesome. We also don't want to recruit a bunch of outsiders into the army, because those barbarians can't stand at all during the war. So. Our choice is that the heavenly soldiers and generals should use equipment - or firepower in exchange for the lives of the barbarians. So there are Qi Jiajun's mandarin duck formation chasing the Japanese pirates and Yu Dayou using the chariot camp to chase the Mongolians and bomb them. The chariot camp itself is A typical example, did you know there is a car camp over there in Rome?"

"Ah, is it that kind of four-wheeled vehicle?"

"Ah, yes, yes. If you plan to communicate with the Romans, they will show you - it's not that it can't be used, it's just not good enough. It seems a bit dull to us, but the Romans think It's very suitable. Because they feel that only these rigid training can make the soldiers on the front line stand. This is a matter of opinion, but considering the composition of the soldiers on both sides, they can be considered as adapting to local conditions. "

"After all, they are just barbarians who have been trained for a few months?"

"Yeah, that's right." Lu Huaiyang nodded. "Shangluo, you should go to military school with Wen Yuan. Your military knowledge is very good, it's a pity that you are going to the Imperial College. Their consideration is how to make the barbarians stand firm according to local conditions. Our consideration is how to use work outside the battlefield to solve problems within the battlefield - because the military is a matter of national importance. The true victory or defeat is determined outside the battlefield: production capacity, situation, training, and so on. If you can use artillery shells to crush people, don't use living people. Artillery shells are just a few dollars to us. There is a saying that 'artillery shells are as valuable as mud'. This is a personal experience after being bombed, and it is very accurate."

"If that's the case, the transformation should be very fast by then - how many shells like this can be built?"

"Do you want mass production? That's a question. I said you can do it right away. I'll ask 'professionals' to rub one out for you on site. But for mass production, they may not have the time. How many do you plan to have?" "

"At least one hundred thousand."

"One hundred thousand? Are you borrowing arrows from that straw boat?"

"This thing is almost the 'feather arrow' of the future. Even if it is hand-made, I think the production must be matched."

"Well, is this your final opinion?" Lu Huaiyang asked, "If you think it is necessary, we can study it. Because what you say, Shang Tianjun, is the direction of future development. If you think it is necessary, we are It needs to be studied properly.”

"I think it is necessary." Shangluo replied, "This shell will be used as the carrier of Tianyi Noble in the future. Its configuration is very complicated, and titanium alloy is not that easy to process. So..."

"If you really feel it's necessary, we don't have to use titanium. We use light silver."

"Light silver? Is there so much light silver?"

"Just light silver and alloys will do. In fact, titanium alloys are not that suitable for processing with immortal methods, but adding light silver is different. If you don't spare the cost, it won't be a problem to buy you 100,000 pieces within three days. And this How about it also helps with cultivation? Do you want to try it, Mr. Shang Tianjun? After all, you are in charge of Heavenly Court’s purse and you decide.”

"So it turns out that light silver can still do this?"

"Using spiritual power to forcibly process titanium alloy is basically a training exercise, which is similar to your metalworking internship. Whatever components are really needed, usually some light silver must be added to improve the plasticity. But pure light silver will not be used, because one is very expensive, and the other is Although light silver itself is malleable, its structural strength depends entirely on how much spiritual energy you have. Using light silver to make a sword is similar to a solar flashlight, and is only used by Wudang for Tai Chi swords. But if it is made into an alloy, it can take care of both. And it’s deformable and can be changed in size anywhere.”

"Um, how many can you try first?"

"Then wait a minute." Lu Huaiyang looked at the wall clock, "If you think you can mix some light silver in, it can be done in ten minutes. Give me the drawings and I'll go downstairs. You are here Sit down for a while - I won’t pour you tea, find a cup over there and pour it yourself, it’ll be done in a moment.”

Chapter 674

When Lu Huaiyang went downstairs to do something for him, Shangluo didn't go anywhere else. He just sat next to the printer at the elevator door of Jinshen Palace.

There were many Jin Yiwei around, some were working and some were chatting in twos and threes, but everyone was holding Fetion cards in their hands to swipe...

Suddenly, the elevator door next to it opened, and Wen Yuan walked in holding the Fetion card.

"Yo, you're here too."

"Are you looking for your master? He will be back soon."

"I'm not looking for it, I'm just here to get a signal and I'll send a message." He held up the Fetion sign and searched for it for a few times like a Feng Shui master holding a compass, and stopped next to Shangluo.

"Okay. Distribution is over." He put away the signs. "Please don't tell my master that I've been here for a while. He won't let me brush during working hours. I'm leaving first."

"See you later."