Black Corporation: Joseon - Chapter 733
Episode 733: Beast (3)
About half a year has already passed since we lived in Shinji.
The area around Shinji Temporary Palace was already filled with the feeling of autumn.
Under the clear, clear autumn sky, Shinji Temporary Palace was filled with the sounds of hammering, sawing, and people shouting from all directions.
This was because the reconstruction of the temporary palace was in full swing.
What is interesting is that as many machines were mobilized as people were mobilized for construction. Tow trucks were moving everywhere, pulling wooden beams and beams, and potter’s wheels, cranes, and forklifts were raising and lowering rafters and putting on roofs.
And on one side, craftsmen were wrestling with glass to be used for windows and doors.
If Yeongseon was completed properly, Shinji’s temporary palace would become the largest palace not only in the empire and Ming Dynasty but also in neighboring countries.
No, it became the largest and most spacious palace in the world.
***
As an aside, when Louis
However, as soon as the plan came out, it faced strong opposition not only from the ministers but also from the people.
“On what budget!”
“I’m still dying from taxes!”
“The king is out of his mind! Get back!”
Louis XIV, who received not only strong opposition but also threats of forced abdication, had to abandon his original plan.
As a result of this incident, Louis
And the revolutionary will of the French people began to sprout faster than expected.
***
Although construction was going on noisily outside, the residence where Hyang and Hyang’s benefactors stayed was quiet.
Because the distance was so far away.
“Ah, the weather is nice for once.”
Hang’s face was filled with gloom as he cursed while looking out the window at the clear autumn sky.
“Ha~.”
Hyang, who let out a long sigh, looked at the mountain of documents and muttered,
“I want to do good work…” Hyang
was free to say what he wanted to say, thanks to the ban on the presence of the governor and the official in his private office.
***
Shinji Haenggung Palace After arriving, Hyang couldn’t go more than five times to Area 52.
When he was in Seoul, despite being the emperor, he made various excuses to go in and out of Area 51.
But in Shinji, that was most impossible.
The biggest reason was that Temporary Palace and Shinji were too far away.
Starting from Shinji Temporary Palace, you had to ride non-stop on horseback for a week, then take a boat for three days to reach Area 52.
“This was clearly planned by Taesangwang .
It’s a god conspiracy!”
Hyang was convinced that this was King Sejong’s plot.
In the end, Hyang gave orders to Jinpyeong.
“Leave everything else aside and immediately lay down the rail between Shinji Temporary Palace and Area 52!”
“Yes?”
“It’s an order!”
“Yes!”
Jinpyeong, who had been unable to move from Hyang since he was young, immediately went to Shinji Temporary Palace at Hyang’s command. They began
laying the railroad connecting Area 52.
However, there was a lot of time left before the railroad was completed, and Hyang was suffering from withdrawal symptoms.
“I have to write something… What would be good?
” Hyang, who was suffering from ‘symptoms’, began to think of a way to solve the problem.
“Should we build a villa in Area 52? That’s okay… or should we build a branch office for Area 51 here? Hmm…that might be better. Because what remains is land. And building a branch office here will make less sense than building a detached palace in Area 52.”
Having made a decision, Hyang grinned and looked up at the sky.
“There’s a famous line, right? ‘We will find the answer. As always.’”
Having made up his mind, Hyang took out a blank piece of paper and started writing down the order.
***
As Hyang was trying every possible way to escape from the ‘virtuous withdrawal symptoms,’ Wan’s official document arrived from Seoul. .
“‘Request for Support’? What support? Do you still need time to extract something from Shinji?” The older
brother, who was tilting his head as he looked at the title, unsealed it and looked at the contents. Hyang frowned as he examined the contents.
“This is a lack of creativity!”
To summarize the contents of the document sent by Wan, it was ‘Please support the development of new freight cars.’
The parallel boxcar developed by Hyang resembled the Maxim machine gun.
The side-by-side boxcar, which employed a water-cooled cooling system and a bullet feed system, had firepower that overwhelms the meal box even though it was much smaller than the food car.
Therefore, the military actively welcomed the adoption and introduction of fire trucks.
Thanks to its small size, it could be mounted in greater numbers on the front lines of forts and defensive positions, and it was easy to operate thanks to the ammunition supply.
However, through the last war, the military felt the need for new weapons.
-Weapons are needed to cover the landed soldiers.
– Throwing bombs and lightning bolts are useful, but they have many limitations.
– A weapon that will constantly fire bullets at the enemies and keep their movements in check is optimal.
-There are wagons for this purpose, but even the smallest military wagons are too slow to move with moving soldiers.
– Especially for classes that value mobility, such as the cavalry, it is cowardly to operate a freight car.
– Therefore, a new freight car is needed that can move with the charging infantry or cavalry and provide support.
The military, which came to this conclusion, even set the necessary conditions.
-It can be operated by 2 soldiers or, in the worst case, 1 person.
-Size and weight enough for one soldier to carry and run.
Having set these conditions, the military submitted a report to Wan. Regarding this, Wan and the ministers
concluded that the military’s request was reasonable and issued an order to Area 51.
And Area 51 put out a prototype, but this was the problem.
Hyang sighed after seeing the picture of the prototype enclosed in the report.
“Is it MG08/15?…”
The prototype made by Area 51 was a boxcar with a stock and trigger attached.
Of course, in order to reduce the weight, the size of the coolant tank was reduced, and extra space in the body was cut out to reduce the size.
Naturally, the response from the military was very poor.
“Is this something you made to use?”
“Are we going to elect Gapsa (甲士) again now?”
“It would be better to just carry a boxcar!”
In fact, the military even began experimenting with ways to separate the body and gun bag of the boxcar and allow soldiers to carry it on their backs.
Wan was also dissatisfied.
“I think there must be an answer, but it’s probably not the right answer…”
Wan mobilized craftsmen to find his own answer.
The first thing he did was to change the material or reduce the thickness of the parts that make up the freight car.
As a result , Durability had disappeared.
Wan continued to look for new materials and experimented with making parts with various thicknesses, but there were a series of false sales.
In the end, Wan sent an SOS to Hyang.
***
Hyang, who figured out the situation through the report, I sighed.
“Whew~. Should we say that it is a lack of creativity or that we are too tied to the existing things? Tsk….”
It was a scent that I couldn’t taste again out of regret, but it was a scent that I could understand the position of the artisans of Area 51 and Wan. If
you think about it, it was still the 15th century.
In the history before the intervention of incense, the wick was still lit. It was a time when point-fire matchlock cannons and hand cannons were the latest weapons. Items such as muskets were just existing as sketches on the desks of inventors and craftsmen.
However, with the intervention of incense, they were taken several steps forward.
Detonators and The Gatling rifle, a breech-loading rifle using cartridge-
type bullets, was a revolutionary weapon. And, as a further development, the continuous-fire firearm using bullet feed and recoil was a transcendental weapon.
That is why, even after hearing the military’s proposal, craftsmen did not produce such items. I couldn’t help but think.
-A bullet belt is absolutely necessary for continuous firing.
-If the gun barrel overheats, a problem arises, so the gun barrel needs to be cooled. For that, a water tank is essential.
-The bullet used now is the optimal result.
– In order to feed a bullet with a protruding rim of the bottom plate, a complex process is required, such as pulling the bullet back from the bullet belt and pushing it back in. Therefore, the size of the feeding part cannot be reduced.
-Cannons are also cooled with water when heated. Overheating In order to cool down a gun barrel, you have to either leave it alone or cool it with water.
This limitation of perception or lack of concept is what created such a monster.
“Whew~”
Hyang sighed lightly after understanding the situation, and relaxed his body lightly. stood up.
Hyang’s face was so bright as he stood up.
“As expected, Wan is a dutiful son. ruler! “Then shall we go take a quick peek?”
* * *
Fifteen days later, Hyang visited Area 52 and explained the situation to Jang On.
“… So they say they need a new freight car. Are you confident?”
At Hyang’s question, Jang On hesitated for a moment and then opened his mouth.
“Your Majesty, I would like to inform you that there is something that the former director told me to keep secret until the right time comes.”
“No way….”
Jang On’s answer made him unconscious. After muttering, Hyang immediately raised his voice and said,
“Bring it right away! Right Now! Bring everything you have! Be prepared if you come out after searching!”
“Yes, yep!”
“No! Guide me right away!”
“Your Majesty! “Your Majesty!”
Jang On, who was distraught at the sight of Hyang going out with a shout, hurriedly followed him.
Arriving in front of the tightly sealed door of Jang Yeong-sil’s laboratory, Hyang ordered Jang On
. “Open it.”
“Yes.”
He entered the laboratory. Hyang looked back at Jang-on.
“Bring it.”
“Yes.”
Jang-on opened the drawer of the large dresser on one side of the lab and took out a long wooden box and brought it in.
Click.
Jang-on unlocked the box and opened the lid. I showed the contents to Lee Hyang.
Seeing the firearm in the box, Hyang smiled in emptiness.
“This guy really has no morals. He has all the fun by himself…”
Inside the box is similar to the Soviet Union’s DP-28. There was a visible gun in it.
Hyang, who was looking at the gun in question with a helpless expression, glared at Jang On.
“I clearly told you to take it all out.”
“This is it.”
“It’s not that I don’t know Jang Yeong-sil, so what kind of nonsense is this?”
“….”
Seeing Jang On’s mouth shut with a solemn look on his face, Hyang offered a compromise.
“Good. “You don’t need everything, just bring what is related to this matter.”
“Your Majesty…”
“If you make a mistake, I can find everything.”
“Phew~”
At Hyang’s threat, Jang On let out a long sigh and took out several boxes and brought them in. When
Hyang saw the contents of the boxes, he muttered to himself,
“Is this guy really dead? Didn’t he run away on a UFO?’