1855 United States Tycoon

Early the next morning, Scrooge brought his family to the McDonald's most important and critical institution in Scrooge's words-the University of Cleveland-Macdonald Laboratory.

"What is the most expensive in the nineteenth century? Talent!" Scrooge said, "Alaska's gold will always be mined one day, but this smart gold mine will never be exhausted as long as it is properly maintained. It can be here. It’s so beautiful to see the entire United States, and even the best scientists in the world, where engineers work for the McDonald family."

"Where is the light you said?" Dorothea said.

"Ah, come with me." Scrooge temporarily acted as a tour guide here. He led Dorothea through aisles, through a small garden, and came to a black wrought iron gate. .

The area inside this gate is the most confidential area in the entire large laboratory. The entire area was surrounded by a three-meter-high, green-painted fence, and along the fence, there were many security guards patrolling.

"This is the Green Zone, the core area of ​​the engineering section of the entire large laboratory. Many of the most important confidential projects are studied here." Scrooge said to Dorothea, while leading her to the door. .

Anyone who enters the Green Zone needs a special pass. There are two special passes, one is a long-term special pass for staff, and the other is a one-time pass for temporary entry. As a participant in many research projects, Scrooge himself has a long-term pass, while Dorothea only has a temporary pass.

The two showed the pass to the security guards and entered the green zone.

The area of ​​the green zone is actually quite large, but the main body is the six-story laboratory building. Take Dorothea into the building, turn directly to the right, cross an aisle, and arrive at the First Electrical Laboratory.

"Mr. MacDonald, hello." A researcher named Helter was about to add a cup of coffee to himself, and when he saw Scrooge coming in, he smiled and greeted him, "This beautiful lady is you Madam?"

Compared with manual workers, Scrooge is more affectionate and easy-going on the surface of those so-called "mental labors." They never put on the boss's airs in front of them, so these people are more casual than Scrooge. Generally speaking, the profession of creative work requires a relatively relaxed environment. Moreover, in a sense, it is easier for big bosses who are not responsible for specific affairs to maintain good relationships with front-line workers. There is an old saying that King Yama is so hard to see a kid. In fact, the reason for this phenomenon is that there are still several managements between King Yama and ordinary ghosts, so he can easily do it. And the complaint belongs to the small official. Moreover, familiarity, in fact, to exploit these mental workers, Scrooge would not keep his hands at all. Most of the computing power of that group is occupied by difficult research questions for a long time. In ordinary life, only about 20% of the computing power is available. In fact, most of the time, as long as they are not involved Professionals, they are more cheating than ordinary people. For example, the meaning of what life is used does not lie in how much they get, but in how many things they create to deceive them, almost a deception. Of course, the kid Edison is an exception. This guy's head has too strong processing power, and there is still a lot of free computing power. Recently, he wants to share his shares again. It's really not worrying.

"Yes, Helter, this is my wife Dorothea." Scrooge said kindly. "Drinking so much coffee early in the morning is bad for your health."

"Ah, boss, it's okay, I'm used to it." Helter said, "Mr. Edison is next door... well, he is not in a good mood today."

At this time, Edison came out of the next room, his face full of frustration.

"Thomas, are you in trouble again?" Scrooge said.

"Oh, boss, you are here. This is the lady?" Edison was more respectful to Scrooge than Heert.

"Well, this is my wife Dorothea." Scrooge introduced Dorothea to Edison, and then introduced Edison to Dorothea. "This is Mr. Edison, the head of the electrical laboratory, the best in United States Scientist."

"Where and where, the best scientist in United States is you, Mr. MacDonald." Edison said, "It's nice to meet you, beautiful lady."

"Thomas, I heard that you are having trouble again? Or is it about the exhaust machine?" Scrooge asked.

"It's still an aspirator, and now I still can't get enough vacuum, resulting in very poor stability of the prototype." Edison shook his head.

"Then take a break," Scrooge said. "By the way, give Dorothea an explanation."

In the afternoon, Scrooge and Dorothea left the large laboratory and rode home in the carriage.

"Scrooge, I understand now, why do you say that the big laboratory is the biggest gold mine. The things inside are really...really dreamlike. Well, are all our research projects here?" Rosia asked.

"Of course not." Scrooge replied, "Some dangerous research projects are not here. For example, some experiments by McDonald's infantry weapons and chemical and pharmaceutical companies are farther away from the crowd and safer. Place."

"Like Alaska?" Dorothea said.

"Haha, Alaska is far enough away from the crowd, but it is too inconvenient. We bought a desert in New Mexico, and some more dangerous experimental projects are being studied there."

"Are there any experimental projects that are really dangerous?"

"Some new medicines, and some new weapons." Scrooge simply said.

In a desert in New Mexico, a series of the latest weapons are being tested.

"Cole! Has the shooting range been arranged?" a man with the appearance of an officer shouted.

"Sir, I haven't sent back a signal yet." Heishui's mercenary Cole replied.

"Damn! These guys are always like this! Tell them to hurry up, and then we can shoot!" the officer said.

"Ah, Chief Max, you can't scare them. They know you dare not." Cole did not immediately ask the correspondent on the high platform to wave a flag, but said to his company commander like this.

"When, I must fire a shot at their foreheads!" Max said.

"Sir, there is a signal from over there, they are ready!" shouted Schneider on the high platform.

"Okay! Get ready, now the experiment begins... Well, Mr. Sisfield, please step back and go to a safe area... Okay, let's start the experiment of high-explosive shells."

A soldier loaded a high-explosive shell into the barrel of a peculiar cannon. This is a 75mm cannon with the most advanced hydraulic hose retreat design, and there is a long retreating plow behind the gun. This makes this kind of artillery when the gun is fired, the whole body of the gun will not retreat sharply, and every time a shot is fired, the cannon needs to be reset. This resulted in a rapid increase in the rate of fire of the artillery. In previous tests, this gun even reached a high rate of fire of nearly 20 rounds per minute, which even exceeded that of most rifles.

Corresponding to the high rate of fire is the range. This type of artillery, which uses a special speed-increasing combustion propellant, can fire a 12-pound projectile 6 miles away when using a 45-degree firing angle. Such strike distance and strike speed far surpassed the current artillery. Even the artillery owned by the Prussians in the just-concluded Prussian-Austrian War was far from this gun in terms of performance. Strictly speaking, there is a gap between them.

With artillery that transcends the era, there must also be cannonballs that transcend the era-high-explosive cannonballs are such a weapon. Previously, the artillery shells used were not completely solid large iron balls (smooth-bore guns) or large-sized bullets (rifled guns). Cannonballs loaded with sand will not explode. It is probably related to this.) It is a tin can (shrapnel) filled with small iron beads by throwing these small iron beads in mid-air to kill and injure living targets. But solid bullets have limited power unless they hit directly, but what about grenade bullets? It's okay to hit exposed targets. Some fortifications with a top cover will have all the power, no more.

High-explosive bombs are completely different. They contain explosives and trigger fuzes. After hitting the target, they will explode. The shock wave of the explosion and the flying shrapnel will cause huge damage to other targets. Even in the 21st century, this shell is still the most common and most versatile shell in the world.

With the sound of a cannon, a shell was fired. Compared with the speed of the shells fired by the Napoleon cannon, the speed of the shells fired by this gun is much faster. The muzzle velocity is as high as 600 meters per second. Therefore, people cannot expect to be able to look at the shooting of the Napoleon cannon. That way, you can still see the shells with your naked eyes. The speed of the cannonball is too fast, and it is beyond the range that human eyes can see.

The target of this shot was not at the maximum range, so a few seconds later, Max observed the fire and smoke after the shell hit the target and exploded. This shell is loaded with picric acid explosive, which will also produce a lot of toxic smoke when it explodes. In a sense, this also strengthens the power of this shell.

"Hit the bullseye area directly, it's a good shot," Max said. At this time, the sound of the explosion came from afar.

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