Chapter 1463 Two Excited People

This little episode on the Saint Laurent Empire side did not affect the current development of the Great Zhou.

As mentioned before, if all forces in the United Nations do business with them, the only one who will suffer will be the force that rejects them and does not do business with them.

Quietly, autumn goes and winter comes.

The first snow of this winter came exceptionally early. From the northeastern fortress to the grassland area and then to Black Moon City, large tracts of land in the Great Zhou were covered in white silver overnight.

Recently, probably because there was no other weapon available, Peter began to become a little annoying, asking about the progress of the matchlock gun's development every now and then.

Unfortunately, Zhou Xu didn't have any better solution.

After all, in terms of status, they are also technology investors. Since we have agreed to carry out this cooperative project, the other party naturally has the right to know the progress.

Considering the time, Peter has been his scapegoat for so long, it is time for him to produce some tangible results for the other party. Otherwise, it would not be fair to keep him hanging like this.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xu casually threw another greeting letter from Peter aside, wrote a reply letter to Peter, and then directly said to the personal soldier beside him...

"Go to the Firearms Research Department and get an early matchlock sample. Pack it in a good wooden box, seal it, put this letter in it, and send it to the Rakshasa Republicans."

"yes!"

After receiving the instructions, the guards acted quickly.

The wooden box containing the early samples of their matchlocks was soon turned over to the Rakshasa Republicans, who sent it back to the Smith Republic with the greatest possible speed.

Peter was excited when he saw the wooden box in front of him! Although the other party didn't say anything when he handed the wooden box to them, Peter had a guess about what was in the box after thinking about what he had done before and looking at the shape of the box! Out of caution, Peter checked the seal on the wooden box again. After confirming that no one had opened the box before, he felt relieved, tore off the seal and opened it.

When the object in the box came into his sight, even though he had already prepared himself mentally, he still couldn't help but feel ecstatic.

"Hahahaha. I've finally waited for this day!"

Picking up the matchlock in the box, Peter stroked the gun with an intoxicated look on his face.

He was certainly aware that the matchlock was still too primitive compared to the M1891 for which he provided the design drawings.

However, he obviously knew that he could not expect to produce firearms of the M1891 level right after the Great Monday. Under this premise, the matchlock in his hand at this time had epoch-making significance! In fact, if he could arm a troop with matchlocks at this stage, it should be more than enough to fight Fisher's troops, right? This made Peter couldn't help but imagine the scene of himself using the musket troops to shoot the Smith Party troops. His excitement was almost beyond words and he couldn't hide it at all.

Of course, no matter how excited he was, he did not forget that there was a letter written to him by Zhou Xu in the wooden box.

Peter was so fond of this matchlock gun at this time that he didn't want to put it down at all. Later, he simply tucked the gun under his armpit so that he could free his hands to open the letters.

The content of the letter was also very simple. Zhou Xu first made a brief greeting, and then told Peter that this was the first matchlock rifle they had developed that had certain practical performance, but it would probably need some further adjustments and improvements.

After that, he briefly talked about the fact that setting up the assembly line and training the assembly line workers would also take a lot of time. This was like giving Peter a heads-up in advance, meaning that he should not write to him every now and then to urge him.

However, Zhou Xu also knew that it was unrealistic to delay the matter any longer than it had been until now.

Therefore, in the letter, he also gave Peter a rough time.

He said, "Before next summer, we will completely complete the improvement of the matchlock gun, and then start to build an assembly line, and strive to start mass production before winter!"

Simply put, the conservative estimate is to wait another year.

This number is completely within Peter's acceptable range.

The main thing was that what Zhou Xu said in the letter was well-reasoned and he couldn't find any fault with it.

At the same time, at the end of the letter, Peter was appropriately reminded that various production materials should be prepared.

After all, according to the cooperation agreement they had agreed upon, after the production of the guns began, all production materials would be provided by Peter.

At this time, Peter didn't feel any pain at all, and even seemed a little impatient.

By the time Zhou Xu received Peter's reply, it was almost the end of winter.

After reading the reply, Zhou Xu breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he should be able to have some peace and quiet for a while.

Just then, a personal soldier walked in quickly with a report.

"Your Majesty, this is a report from the pioneering fleet."

When Zhou Xu heard the words "pioneering fleet", his eyes suddenly lit up.

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Like before, the pioneering fleet was exploring outside and found nothing. Unless Zhou Xu took the initiative to ask, there would definitely be no report sent to him.

After all, what are you reporting? Don't you know that our Majesty's time is precious? Therefore, in Zhou Xu's place, the pioneering fleet has been silent for a long time.

Now that the report has finally been submitted, he is really looking forward to it.

“Okay, okay!”

When he opened the report and quickly scanned its contents, Zhou Xu couldn't help but cheering. His excitement was no less than that of Peter who saw the matchlock!

He almost started dancing on the spot.

The gains of this pioneering fleet can be said to have completely exceeded his expectations.

There is no need to explain the importance of mithril. He really did not expect that he could find traces of mithril ore so quickly.

Although the exact location of the mithril vein is still uncertain, since the ore has been discovered, the vein is most likely on the island.

Under this premise, a top five-star talent was actually discovered on the island!

Adding these two gains together, Zhou Xu would probably wake up laughing in his dreams tonight! In comparison, in front of this gain, the island has completely become a background board.

During this period, the report also mentioned that they were attacked by a large group of piranhas in the waters near the island, resulting in casualties.

However, before sending out this report, Bai Tu had already used "Beast Soldier Control" to solve the problem of the piranha schools in the sea, so Zhou Xu didn't need to worry about this matter anymore.

However, in future sea voyages, we must pay more attention to issues related to this area.

(End of this chapter)