novelraw Chapter 300
Chapter 300
300~ The World's First Rifle and the New Class~
It felt like the little cabbage she'd finally managed to raise with great difficulty had been rooted up by a pig before she even had time to eat it herself. She had a nameless fury in her heart, yet didn't know where to vent it.
Damn it! She wanted to beat up the Empress!
If not for knowing she couldn't win, she'd probably really have already gone and beaten up the Empress right about now.
"Princess?"
"Mm mm? What is it?"
"The cream fell out......"
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On the Empress's side, after three days of research, she'd finally made progress. What she held in her hand was the first thing made according to the Little Princess's blueprints!
She could already hardly wait to call the Little Princess over to look.
She also didn't know if it was because after being intimate with her little Imperial Consort last night, her understanding of magic seemed to suddenly jump up?
Although she knew this was just her personal illusion, she still wanted to believe this was inspiration the Little Princess brought her.
The world's first rifle was complete!
Looking at the introduction on the blueprints, this was a weapon many times stronger than flintlock muskets. Whether power or rate of fire, both were far stronger than flintlock muskets. It felt like they fundamentally weren't things on the same level!
A rifle, as long as there were sufficient bullets, could fire in rapid succession at extremely fast speed. That speed was roughly equivalent to a dozen flintlock muskets firing simultaneously. In just ten short seconds, it could fire dozens of bullets!
However, the bullet manufacturing was the most difficult part. Whether from the craftsmanship or production rate perspective, both were extremely low. Mass production would absolutely lose money.
However, she wanted to first try making some to test this so-called rifle.
Quickly mixing several materials, after a series of processes, she created gunpowder. Then she used brass to create the casing and bullet head. Finally, assembling the gunpowder, bullet head, and casing together, a simple bullet was complete. Except it seemed she'd failed.
After measuring a few times, she discovered the dimensions were indeed slightly small. So this bullet couldn't be used.
According to the blueprints, if the bullet dimensions weren't right, there'd also be a risk of exploding in the chamber. That is, the bullet exploding inside the gun barrel. In serious cases, it could directly blast the user to death.
Although she wasn't afraid of this, the rifle she'd worked so hard to create still hadn't been shown to the Little Princess yet. It couldn't break.
After failing who knows how many more times, she finally made over a dozen usable magazines. She then rapidly pressed them into the magazine, then loaded the magazine onto the gun and chambered it.
Done!
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"Mo?"
"Wha...... Pfft?!"
The Little Princess who was drinking black tea nearly choked to death on the tea water.
She'd actually seen the Empress come over carrying a rifle?!
"Mo, look at this. What does Mo think?"
Tremblingly taking the rifle the Empress handed over, the Little Princess was already numb.
Who would have thought the Empress would actually create one to show her?
Carved and processed through magic, a rifle emerged. Moreover, the material used was even an upgraded version of Black Gold, durable and not easily broken.
Black Gold's greatest characteristic was being durable, high-temperature resistant, and able to resist certain magical attacks. A rifle made from Black Gold, without needing to think, you knew its durability was definitely incomparable to modern firearms.
"Try it?"
"Go ahead."
The Empress seemed to have complete confidence in what she'd created, casually letting the Little Princess test it.
"Uh......"
Thinking it over, she still handed the rifle to the Maid Xiao Xi to try.
After all, just thinking about holding this gun was already very strenuous for her. The recoil this gun produced didn't need further mention. Not knocking out her front teeth would already count as good!
Better hand such a dangerous thing to the Maid Xiao Xi to try.
"Xiao Xi, just pull the trigger directly. It's that thing beside the grip at the back!"
"Okay."
Xiao Xi followed the Little Princess's instructions, gripping the trigger on the gun. Following continuous "bang bang" sounds, all the bullets in the magazine hit the wall.
This actually really worked!!!
The only fly in the ointment was that because it was processed by the Empress, the accuracy wasn't very high.
But this kind of gun originally also wasn't meant for long-distance shooting. Rather, it was meant for medium-to-close-range firepower suppression.
This rifle's design originally was born for close-range firepower suppression. Fast rate of fire, great power. Correspondingly, this gun's recoil was also very large.
If it weren't for the Maid Xiao Xi, it would fundamentally be impossible to achieve what just happened, continuously firing over a dozen bullets while keeping the hand steady at one level.
"How is it?"
"Barely passing, I guess!"
The corner of the Little Princess's mouth twitched.
She really never thought the Empress could actually make this thing. Allowing the Empress to freely browse the blueprints was precisely going for this point. Except now, not only had she created it, the very first one created could be used normally!
"Princess?"
"What is it?"
"I think perhaps we could try adding something for aiming."
The Maid Xiao Xi suggested.
"Mm, I know about this."
As the designer of this weapon, how would she not know?
This weapon was actually a modified version of a certain rifle from her previous life. That is, she herself had privately conducted a certain degree of improvement on it.
While lowering manufacturing difficulty, it also made the gun itself's performance decline somewhat. Moreover, the front-to-back weight distribution was also off, top-heavy.
"Then what does Mo think needs to happen to mass-produce this kind of weapon?"
"No way. With current productive forces, there's fundamentally no way to mass-produce it. Moreover, this gun, whether cost or manufacturing difficulty, is very high. Producing it would only lose money."
The Little Princess answered very seriously.
At the same time, she herself also didn't hope this kind of weapon could appear on the battlefield so quickly. At least wait until the flintlock musket's advantages became negligible before discussing it. Otherwise, once such a powerful weapon circulated throughout the entire continent, it would inevitably cause extremely serious chaos.
She still remembered Cecilia had warned her not to attempt to try changing this world, and not to try advancing this world's civilization.
"Is that so?"
"Mm. With so much money and resources, better to directly send Archmages onto the battlefield."
Even the Empress, this kind of Great Archmage, had to create for so long to create one. Archmages would be even more so.
After all, how could a Great Archmage's precision in Magic Power control possibly be worse than an Archmage's?
"Then I'll do as Mo says."
Since at the current stage there was no way to mass-produce it.
However, she did remember the Little Princess had previously provided her with future development trends. That was to give birth to a new class to replace the noble class, which was the capitalist class.
This new class could to a certain degree promote the development of productive forces, even promote the entire Scarlet Phoenix Nation's technological upgrading!