After returning to Sanssouci Palace, William only took a few days to accompany Du Li and the three daughters to have a good time, and then started his busy life again.
With Wilhelm's support, the production capacity of Frederick's 1790 rifle was greatly increased, but even then it was clearly unrealistic to complete the refitting of all Prussian regular troops within this year.
In addition, due to secrecy reasons, the rifle has not yet officially entered the troops, and is currently only equipped with a few regiments of the Prussian Royal Guard for continued observation.
Not only on rifles, Prussia made progress, but also in artillery, with a breakthrough in the research department of the Brandenburg Military Academy.
From the advent of artillery to the present, cannons are generally smoothbore front-loading guns, firing solid ball shells, and some guns fire spherical explosive shells, shotguns, and slipped shotguns.
And initially, rifled guns were rifled, and the main purpose of this was to facilitate the frontloading of the projectile.
However, this artillery has a fatal disadvantage, that is, slow firing speed, low shooting accuracy, and short range.
In this regard, when the Research Department of the Brandenburg Military Academy presented Frederick's Model 1970, Wilhelm suggested to the people in the Research Department whether it was possible to apply the maturing rifling technology of rifling to artillery.
In fact, rifles and artillery have many of the same characteristics, first of all, both use gunpowder to shoot out ammunition, and artillery can also be seen as a large rifle.
In recent history, in 846, Major G.
Cavalli of Italy made a spiral rifled gun, which fired a cone-headed column long explosive projectile.
The spiral rifling rotates the projectile and stabilizes the flight, which improves the power and accuracy of the gun, and increases the range of the gun.
Now, the technology of spiral rifling is close to maturity.
In this case, the conditions for the creation of high-performance guns were already in place, and Earlwilliam had been reported that at the Brandenburg Military Research and Development Department, where researchers had succeeded in building several guns with spiral-rifling.
Now it's just a matter of waiting for testing.
This is good news for William, with the development of the times, the influence of weapons and equipment in the war is increasing, like in later generations, the number of troops is not a problem at all, the biggest factor that determines the victory of the war is whether the armed equipment can suppress the other side.
And now.
Although weapons have not yet developed to the point of being close to perversion in later generations, because of the frequent wars, all kinds of weapons are constantly emerging, and the superior performance of these weapons is naturally looked at differently by the monarchs of various countries.
War has always been a breeding ground for weapons development, although gunpowder was invented by the Han Chinese and first used in warfare, and during the Ming Dynasty.
The various gunpowder weapons of the Ming Dynasty did not lag behind the mainstream of the world, and even in some fields they were still far ahead.
However, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchurian Tatars came to dominate the Central Plains, and these Manchurians believed that the development of firearms and gunpowder would affect their dominance, so in the following hundred years, the Manchurians have always adopted a policy of banning gunpowder.
And at the same time in Europe, because of the large-scale wars that often occur between European countries.
As a result, all countries from the king to the people are very keen on the development of new weapons, under this dissipation, only a hundred years, the last years of the Qing Dynasty, European weapons and equipment have been the former Celestial Empire dozens of streets.
From the time when the Hohenzollern family was still the Elector of Brandenburg, the Brandenburgers, as the most awkward geographical position in the whole of Europe, regarded weapons and equipment as an indispensable part, and it was with the strong support of the ruling class that Prussia's army equipment never lagged behind the times, and even ahead of its time.
Thinking of this, Wilhelm suddenly felt the need to separate the R&D department from the Brandenburg Military Academy.
The reason why this R&D department was placed under the management of the Brandenburg Military Academy at the beginning was that most of the current weapons manufacturing still relies on traditional manual labor, while the Brandenburg Military Academy concentrates the vast majority of Prussian talents, and the R&D department can completely rely on the advantage of being close to the water, and the first month to discover a group of talents to make greater contributions to the Prussian weapons cause.
But now, with Frederick's 1790 model put into production.
And the R&D department has made progress in artillery, at this time Wilhelm is more concerned about the security and confidentiality of the R&D department, although the Brandenburg Military Academy is definitely the highest level of security in Prussia, but the students in it are not only Prussians after all.
When he founded the Brandenburg Military Academy, Wilhelm had already thought that this military academy was open to the whole world, and it was inevitable that other forces would send people to infiltrate.
At the beginning, Marshal Saito also consulted William on this issue, and William's approval was treated equally!
The purpose of the Brandenburg Military Academy was not only to train high-quality and highly skilled military personnel for Prussia, but also to be a research temple on war-related industries.
As for what church apprentices starve their masters to, William is actually not worried, after all, only an open but inclusive academy can truly cultivate the elites of the times.
However, having said all this, there are indeed problems with the secrecy of the military academy, so William decided to separate the R&D department from the military academy to set up a separate unit, and Wilhelm decided to upgrade the R&D department to the Prussian Royal Arms Research Institute, and at the same time the institute merged with the Prussian Arms Development Association, which had already been established in Prussia.
Wilhelm envisaged that by 1791, Prussia would have 230,000 regular troops deployed in Prussia proper, excluding the strength of the North American army, and that Prussia would be able to mobilize 500,000 troops in six months once the whole country was mobilized.
After the annexation of Saxony, Bohemia, Denmark and Prussian Poland, the mobilization power in Prussia is naturally unquestionable, but it also requires that Prussia's weapons can be fully deployed in the case of mobilizing so many troops, which will undoubtedly become the focus of Prussia's development in the next stage. ...................................................
The defensive positions on the periphery of Moscow have been broken by Blankov's rebels, but Rumyantsev did not feel too disappointed in this, on the contrary, in the offensive and defensive battles on the periphery of Moscow, Rumyantsev has achieved the strategic goal in his mind, although the defenders of Moscow have suffered great losses, but at the same time, the perimeter offensive and defensive battles have also caused Blankov's rebels to suffer heavy losses, according to Rumyantsev's observation, Blankov's rebels have lost at least more than 40,000 people, which has reached Rumyantsev's expectations.
The time has been smoothly dragged by Rumyantsev until the end of April, and the reinforcements promised by Paul are not far away.
As mentioned earlier, in Petrozavodsk, the Romanov royal family has always hidden one of its own forces, that is, nearly 20,000 horses hidden by Tsar Mikhail and Peter the Great.
Earlier, when Rumyantsev was sent to take charge of the defense of Moscow, Paul I had already signed a conscription order and handed it over to his henchmen to Petrozavodsk.
Immediately after arriving in Petrozavodsk, Paul I's cronies met with the governor of Petrozavodsk, whose face changed dramatically after the presentation of Paul I's edict.
You must know that since the establishment of the Romanov dynasty by Tsar Mikhail, the governor of the Petrozavodsk region has always been inherited from generation to generation by the cronies of Tsar Mikhail, in this case, the seventy-three-year-old governor of Minkorant is naturally clear about the particularity of the region and his responsibilities, but he did not expect that when he thought that he would never receive this special edict in his life, this edict really came to his hands.
Without even waiting for the tsar's envoy to say more, Minkrant hurriedly sent people to Petrozavodsk to gather the clan chiefs from all over the country, although after a hundred years of inheritance, these clans did not know why their ancestors would leave the bustling metropolis willingly to come to this remote place, and some even had complaints.
But these leaders are clear about the responsibilities they carry.
Don't look at these chiefs usually like small landowners in the countryside, but loyalty to the royal family has long been deeply engraved in their blood.
After receiving the order of Minkorant, the clan chiefs from all over the country immediately rushed to the capital of Petrozavodsk, and in just two days, the descendants of the former officers of the royal guard gathered in the mansion of Minkorant.
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There, the spokesmen of hundreds of clans, in the presence of Minkrant, repeated the oath that their ancestors had made to the Romanov dynasty.
Among these people were old people and teenagers, but in the process of taking the oath, these people, regardless of their age, showed a trace of fanaticism on their faces.
You must know that in Petrozavodsk, each of the heirs of their family swore allegiance to the Romanov dynasty on their behalf by the elders of the family at birth, and in the subsequent upbringing, to put it bluntly, these children were strictly raised according to the strict training of an officer of the Russian Empire.
After taking the oath, these people began to report the number of troops that each family could dispatch under the auspices of Minkrant, and as the times changed, the old guards of those years had died, and their obligations were passed on to future generations through blood.
Soon, an army of more than 20,000 people was raised in the mansion of Minkrant, and this army could be prepared in a week at the earliest, not forgetting the existence of a large gun factory in Petrozavodsk, which can also be seen as Peter the Great's precautionary plan for future generations.