Faced with the "aura" offensive of the Britannian Empire, the Holy Hillan Empire did not sit idly by.

After learning that the Chubol Fortress was lost and the fortress defenders were all destroyed, the central central of the Holy Hillan Empire was not even shocked and sad about this.

The Central Committee of the Holy Hillan Empire is rushing to summon rescue troops these days to rescue the increasingly decaying southwest battlefield...

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The Holy Xiran Empire, the imperial capital Alianmuya, the suburbs, and the town of Poji.

These days, El has been staying in the town of Poji, located outside the imperial capital Alianmuya.

El has been staying in Poji Town, outside the outskirts of the imperial capital these days, not because Poji Town has any attractions that attract him.

The reason why he stayed in Poji Town these days was to focus on the development of muskets.

In the spring of the 213th year of the Imperial Calendar of the Holy Hillan Empire (291st year of the Imperial Calendar of the Britannia Empire), El, by a very accidental opportunity, bought 100 muskets from the Qing Kingdom, a great merchant from the grassland.

Elle took a fancy to the potential of the musket, so he tried his best to persuade his teacher, Dominic, to buy these 100 muskets.

After buying these 100 muskets, El asked Dominic to help him get a chance to meet with Emperor Vahiri and give him the opportunity to sell these muskets to Emperor Vahiri.

El waited for this opportunity to meet for half a year.

It was not until the winter of the 213th year of the Imperial Calendar of the Holy Hiran Empire (291st year of the Imperial Calendar of the Britannia Empire), and finally the opportunity to meet Emperor Vahiri.

El cherishes this missed and may not have another chance to meet again.

After meeting Emperor Wahiri, El tried his best to persuade Wahiri to allocate funds and set up a special department to develop muskets.

But no matter how El advised him, Vahiri was indifferent to muskets.

Finally, it was for Dominic's sake that Vahiri finally reluctantly agreed to develop the musket.

The reason why Vahiri reluctantly agreed to develop the musket is because the R&D funds he was willing to allocate were too shabby...

A "Murder Department" specializing in the development of muskets was established, and El was appointed as the first minister, with a monthly R&D fund of 100,000 nal.

100,000 nal...

There is really too little money to use to develop high-tech weapons such as muskets.

But El was not qualified to bargain with Vahiri, so he could only accept it with a tough bullet...

Not long after Wahiri agreed to establish a musket department to develop muskets, the "Harm" battle was launched, and El was mobilized to go to the battlefield. The musket research and development was put on hold as soon as it began...

Until now, El finally had the spare time to develop muskets under the title of "Minister of Muskets".

Because the R&D funds are too small, in order to save as much money as possible, El set up the R&D site of the Musket Department in Pochi Town, outside the imperial capital Alianmuya.

Pochi Town is located outside the suburbs of the imperial capital Alianmuya. If you rent a place to develop a musket, the rent will be much cheaper.

After finishing the place, we have to start summoning craftsmen.

El has never known these devices very much. If he wants to develop a musket, he still has to gather a group of skilled and experienced craftsmen to develop them.

Because the R&D funding was so small, Elle summoned only three craftsmen who were very interested in this musket...

I rented a small place and gathered three craftsmen, and spent a lot of money...

One El and three craftsmen, although it was difficult to get started, the musket department can finally start operating now.

The first task El gave these three craftsmen was to study what the principle of this musket was.

If you can't even figure out the principle, don't think about improving it - El still understands this principle.

Half of the 100 muskets were left at their homes in the imperial capital, and the other half was placed in Poqi Town for craftsmen to study.

In order to study this musket, the three craftsmen used the stupidest and easiest method - to dismantle the musket into parts and then study it bit by bit.

This research method consumes a lot of muskets, but in just one month, 12 muskets were completely scrapped.

This scrapping speed made El feel a little distressed.

There are only 100 muskets in his hand, and one less is scrapped. He has no channel to replenish muskets now.

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"Mr. Oleg, haven't you understood the principle of making muskets?"

El looked at the pile of musket parts on the table in front of him with a wry smile.

Oleg is one of the three craftsmen hired by El, and is also the one with the best skill and the most interested in muskets among these three craftsmen.

Because I really felt sorry for these muskets, El couldn't help but complain to Oleg.

In the face of El's complaint, Oleg smiled.

"Mr. Bernard, don't worry."

"Just from these parts, you should also see how sophisticated a musket is."

"It's very difficult to study this precision weapon."

"Don't worry, Mr. Bernard, these broken muskets did not die in vain."

"The research has already progressed a little."

Hearing the word "progress", Elle's eyes lit up.

"What progress? Have you figured out how these projectiles were shot out?"

"Not that fast." Oleg waved his hand, "Although he still didn't understand what to do to get the projectile to shoot out, we have now understood how to make gunpowder."

After saying that, Oleg brought a bowl of black powder.

“These are gunpowder we made yesterday.”

"After experiments, the gunpowder we made is completely available!"

Hearing this, a look of joy appeared on El's face.

"We have mastered the technique of making gunpowder?" El held the bowl of gunpowder with joy.

Although they have not figured out how the projectile was shot out of the barrel, after these days of research, they have figured out that the reason why the pill can be shot out of the barrel has a lot to do with these gunpowder.

Now that I can actually make my own gunpowder, this is undoubtedly a great success!

The development of muskets has taken a big step forward.

"Now that I can make gunpowder, I understand how the projectile was shot out, and it shouldn't be far away." Oleg smiled.

"but--"

At this moment, Oleg changed his mind.

"Mr. Bernard, you have been asking us to improve the muskets. It's time for you to tell us the specific direction of development, right?"

Oleg smiled bitterly.

"If there are no specific research directions, it will be like a headless fly, and the research efficiency will be very low."

As soon as Oleg finished speaking, El immediately smiled:

"Mr. Oleg, don't worry."

“I’ve been thinking about this all the time.”

"There's finally an answer recently."
Chapter completed!