Genshin Impact: A Red Teyvat Life Starting from Zero

During his visit to the military industrial institute, he saw bolt-action rifles, semi-automatic rifles, and the RPK-Maxim rifle, which uses a gas-operated automatic mechanism but has an added water-cooled sleeve.

Also, this semi-automatic looks kind of familiar.

Jiang Ming picked up the semi-automatic rifle, raised it, and fired.

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang ding-"

After all eight bullets were fired, the clip was ejected with a crisp "ding."

"Comfortable."

Not only did it "ding," Jiang Ming could clearly feel that the weapon's recoil was much higher than before.

This suggests that the new propellant has likely entered the practical application stage.

How did you come up with the idea to design this weapon?

"This? Because the existing materials cannot meet the requirements for continuous firing under the new propellant, unless the entire gun body is incorporating crystal blocks. Therefore, while completing the fully automatic design, we lowered the design specifications and developed two alternative solutions: bolt-action and semi-automatic."

"Ultimately, it's still a materials issue. Have you considered developing new steelmaking technologies, or making high-carbon steel or something like that?"

"You should ask the people at the Order of the Order. We're not familiar with materials either."

The head of the Fontaine Academy group turned around and pointed in the direction of the scholars from the Academy.

Turning around, he discovered that Jiang Ming was putting a new leak clip into the gun, which startled the person in charge.

"Be careful..."

"Ouch! It bit my hand!"

Chapter 22 Boiling Water

I talked to the head of the military research institute, and the biggest problem is still materials.

Ordinary black and white iron can no longer meet the needs of automatic weapons with new propellants.

The military industry offered two solutions: one was to replace all of them with crystal steel containing crystal blocks.

After testing, the automatic rifle made of [crystal steel] has achieved more than 800 consecutive shots without failure after using the new lubricant developed by the scholars of the Order Institute.

This number surprised Jiang Ming.

The review videos he had seen before, featuring Kalashnikov's original AK-47 or North Lolita's original Type 56 assault rifle, showed a maximum of five or six hundred rounds of continuous, fault-free firing.

After that, various malfunctions will occur due to overheating.

Such materials are the result of thousands of years of history on Earth, or at least hundreds of years since the Industrial Revolution.

In the magical Teyvat, hand-forged white iron plus a little crystal solves the problem?

"Crystal blocks are a very important forging mineral. Metals with crystal blocks added become excellent in many ways, especially becoming indestructible."

It is indeed outstanding.

In Teyvat's traditional weaponry, those that can be forged using crystal blocks are mostly heirloom-level weapons.

In the game's ranking system, that would be a four-star weapon.

The only problem is that crystal blocks are a rare resource and are destined not to be used on a large scale as a basic material.

Therefore, the military research institute proposed a second solution: reduce the design specifications.

By changing the fully automatic to semi-automatic or bolt-action and reducing the rate of fire, a large portion of the design requirements can be reduced.

The requirements for semi-automatic are lower than those for fully automatic, and the requirements for bolt-action are lower than those for semi-automatic.

Except for a very few parts, they can be made from common materials.

Jiang Ming and Xin Hai discussed it on the spot and felt that the former could be deployed to a small number of elite troops, while the latter was more suitable for large-scale deployment in the Haizhi Army.

The organization of armies that use firearms should also be different.

Jiang Ming suggested that a squad should consist of 10-12 soldiers, with one support soldier carrying a semi-automatic weapon and the rest carrying bolt-action weapons. In addition, a separate machine gun should be assigned to a higher-level organization.

Yes, it's that Frankenstein's monster of RPK and Maxim.

The suggestion was adopted by Xin Hai.

Considering the enormous change from cold weapons to firearms, she decided to expand the existing army into a new type that would use firearms entirely, while maintaining relative independence from the army that still used cold weapons.

Upon hearing this arrangement, Jiang Ming had originally planned to directly add positions such as political commissar and build the unit according to the standards of a modern army.

After all, it's always easier to make a good plan when you're starting out and it's still a blank slate than to make major changes later.

However, he doesn't have any real power base on Haiji Island. He's in charge of scientific research and development, while the military aspect is still Shinkai and Goro's job, so he can't get involved for the time being.

Moreover, the core ideology of the current Umijima army is still simply to resist the oppression of the shogunate, and there is no need for further guiding ideology at the moment.

This matter is still somewhat inappropriate at present.

He could only suggest to Xin Hai that the position of ideological propaganda staff be added and that they be given certain authority.

The reason is that the destructive power of a military armed with firearms is enormous, and the consequences would be unimaginable if it fell into the hands of radicals who have an extreme belief in snake gods.

The unspoken reason is that he has a certain degree of influence in this matter.

After all, he also holds the position of head of the propaganda and education department.

Xin Hai said he would seriously consider the issue.

Aside from the issues with weapons, there were also production problems.

If we want to deploy it on a large scale, we can't rely on just a few holders of the Eye of God to produce it.

With just a few people, even if they worked themselves to death, they couldn't produce enough equipment to equip an army.

Firearms, being complex equipment, are also difficult to produce efficiently using traditional craftsmen.

Machine production is essential.

The good news is that Fontainebleau already has the concept of machine tools.

For hundreds of years, in order to further increase the production efficiency of clockwork mechanisms, the people of Fontainebleau created machine tools very early on.

The advent of machine tools has greatly reduced the difficulty of machining precision parts, making it possible for ordinary people to produce the precision parts required for clockwork mechanisms with a little training.

Taking this opportunity, Jiang Minglai inquired about the composition of the clockwork mechanism.

The earliest spring-loaded mechanisms used a spring to provide power, and a sophisticated mechanical structure was used to transmit the power provided by the spring to the required parts.

This sounds like something straight out of a cyberpunk movie.

Later, the people of Fontaine mastered the use of Primordial Force, which is the energy of the wilderness.

The mechanism was changed from being manually wound to using primordial energy to provide power, thus enabling the mechanism to operate continuously.

Apart from the addition of long-range offensive weapons that can use desolate energy, the other mechanical structures have remained unchanged for nearly a century.

The machine tools in Fontaine are based on the same technology as the clockwork mechanism, except that they are powered by a distributed clockwork mechanism, which reduces the transmission steps and thus reduces errors.

Engineers at the Fontainebleau Academy of Sciences stated that machine tools are one of their essential courses, and they are very familiar with them.

They can create usable machine tools, and with the help of the Eye of God, they can take the precision to the next level.

The bad news is that the machine tools in Fontaine are powered by Wildfire Energy and can only be used in Fontaine.

If the Wild Energy cannot be used, then the only option is to manually wind it up, which is very inefficient and outdated.

Two hours on the job, five minutes on the job.

Therefore, it is essential to find a driving force that can replace the desolate energy.

Jiang Ming's first thought was electricity.

Moreover, this is Inazuma, the land of lightning, so the use of electricity here fits the background perfectly.

Isn't this a coincidence?

The people at the Fontaine Academy were puzzled, while the people at the Order of the Church thought of electric lights.

Within the Order of the Fathers, the advent of electric lights once sparked a heated discussion, with many believing that the application prospects of electricity were very broad and worth developing vigorously.

However, generally speaking, the Teyvats' understanding of electricity was limited to the element of lightning.

What electrical energy is used for, and how to obtain electricity besides lightning elemental power, are all unknown.

Coincidentally not.

The relationship between magnetism and electricity, and between electricity and magnetism, should be familiar to anyone who has completed nine years of compulsory education.

Although Jiang Ming couldn't remember the specifics, he still understood the basic concept that cutting magnetic field lines could generate electricity, and that passing electricity through them could create an electromagnetic field to make an electric motor.

Jiang Ming shared this information with the researchers present and assigned them the next research topics.

Generators and electric motors.

He will call in some owners of the Thunder God's Eye to help.

For the scholars of the Order of the Church.

The good news is that there is new knowledge to learn and new content to study.

The bad news is that they can't leave again.

However, my old idea remains the same: let's thoroughly research this project first.

It shouldn't be too long, right?

Besides, how to drive the generator remains a problem.

As the saying goes, the essence of human technology is boiling water and throwing stones.

Engineers at the Fontainebleau Academy of Sciences have an additional task:

We need to find a way to develop a steam turbine.