Imperial capital.
Military Equipment Supervisor.
"Your Majesty, Mr. He, General Hou, the heart is the machine tool we made. With this machine tool, we can produce flintlock rifles."
In a huge cement factory, a mechanical expert pointed to a newly assembled machine tool and introduced it to a group of leaders who came to inspect.
"Is there only one machine? Isn't it too few?" He Li asked the mechanical expert.
"We almost made this machine tool by hand. Now that we have it, we can use machines to produce machines. It won't be long before I have enough machines..."
"Very good, keep it up!"
Half an hour later.
The group of people came to a nearby chemical plant.
This chemical plant was established by a group of chemical academicians.
The chemical factory not only produces three acids and two alkalis, but also develops various military chemicals.
"Your Majesty, Mr. He, General Hou, this is the smokeless gunpowder we made from nitric acid and sulfuric acid solution and cotton products. We are also trying to find a way to mass-produce it. As long as we can mass-produce it, it will probably be able to meet the demand for firearm propellants."
"In addition, we are also making fulminate of mercury. As long as we can make fulminate of mercury, we can produce full-shell bullets..."
…
After inspecting the chemical plant, the group went to the brewery.
"Your Majesty... This is the disinfectant alcohol we purified and prepared. With disinfectant alcohol, casualties on the battlefield will be greatly reduced in the future..."
"very good!"
After inspecting several factories, the group returned to the palace.
At this time in the imperial palace, the Royal Guard had been completely controlled by General Hou, and all the eunuchs and palace maids in the emperor's palace had become his own people.
"I think it's time to train a new army. What do you think?" He Li asked everyone.
"I think it's okay too. The glass products have brought us a lot of money, which is enough to support the future military training." General Hou nodded.
"Dong Mu Yuncang, what do you think?" He Li looked at the emperor.
"I think so."
"Okay, then let's start training the new army. This matter shouldn't be publicized, so I think we can just use the name of expanding the Imperial Guards. We will train 50,000 men in the first batch, and tell the public that we will train 20,000 men."
"The Imperial Guard is the emperor's private army, and the military expenses are paid from the inner treasury, so no one else can criticize it."
"Okay, then we should expand the Royal Guards. I suggest that if we recruit soldiers for the Royal Guards, we should recruit them from the families of poor people..."
"I agree with this. Children from poor families are easy for us to indoctrinate and are not likely to betray us."
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A few days later, the emperor ordered the expansion of the Imperial Guard by 20,000 men, with General Hou taking full charge.
Many people were talking about the emperor's order, however, the Imperial Guard was the emperor's private army, and the military expenses were paid from the inner treasury, so the court ministers had no way to object.
You are against the emperor strengthening his private army? What are you going to do? Rebellion?
Therefore, even though some people were wary of the emperor strengthening his private army, there was nothing they could do about it.
Just when General Hou began to recruit soldiers and train new troops.
The emperor's Green Guards also began a major purge.
A man named He Li joined the Qingyi Guard a year ago and made significant contributions in a short period of time.
So after the commander of the Green Guard died of illness, the emperor appointed him as the commander of the Green Guard.
After He Li took over as the commander of the Qingyi Guard, he immediately began to purge and train the Qingyi Guard.
At the same time, some eunuchs and palace maids in the palace were also purged.
On this day, Emperor Dong Mu Yuncang was assassinated by a eunuch.
Then the emperor was furious and ordered the eunuchs and maids in the palace to be interrogated, in order to find the murderer behind the scenes.
In this way, hundreds of eunuchs were executed and thousands of palace maids were sent out of the palace.
After that, all the guarding forces of the palace were taken over by the Imperial Guard.
On this day, something big happened in Kyoto.
A building called the Academy of Natural Sciences appeared in the suburbs of the imperial capital.
This Academy of Natural Sciences is large in area, but very low-key.
From that day on, the Qingyi Guards collected countless orphans from all over the country and sent them to this Academy of Natural Science.
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Time flies and three years have passed.
One hundred kilometers away from the imperial capital.
In a military camp in the mountains.
Bang bang bang bang bang!
Countless and dense gunshots echoed in the mountains.
There are probably more than 5,000 soldiers in this military camp.
Each of these soldiers was equipped with a semi-automatic rifle, a pistol, a dagger, two grenades, etc.
These weapons were all developed and produced by the Royal Armament Inspectorate.
At the beginning, everyone thought it would be good enough for this new army to be equipped with flintlock rifles and Minié bullets.
However, the materials academician of the smelter has developed many advanced metal materials.
Then, the mechanical experts in the machine factory relied on the advanced materials from the smelter to produce very advanced machine tools with a technological level comparable to that of the World War II in the history of the earth.
With advanced machine tools and advanced materials, the bolt-action rifle was naturally produced.
If it weren't for the fact that bullets are too complicated to make and there are not enough qualified workers, resulting in low bullet production, the Ordnance Inspectorate is actually capable of producing automatic rifles like the AK47.
However, the bolt-action rifle is more than enough to face the indigenous army of this world.
During these three years, the total number of guards trained by General Hou reached 80,000.
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