"..."
Peter got straight to the point as soon as he arrived, throwing out the term "rifle."
As for this matter, Zhou Xu really could not say he had been completely unprepared.
After all, he had a rough idea of Peter's situation. The bargaining chips Peter had on hand were few and far between, and judging by his existing resources, he had been utterly outclassed by Fischer.
Under these circumstances, from a developmental perspective, one of the few things Peter might have to offer was firearms.
And Zhou Xu had to admit, firearms were something he was very interested in at this stage.
From the perspective of military development, as Great Zhou continued to advance, following the line of thought familiar to modern people, the next step would be to enter the age of firearms.
In fact, thanks to the rough blueprints Qin Fen had provided earlier, Great Zhou's Firearm Research and Development Project Team had already been established. It had only a handful of members, with the main idea being to start researching first and figure out the rest later. Qin Fen concurrently served as both the team leader and its consultant.
After all, from the perspective of experience, Qin Fen should have been the only person in Great Zhou at this stage who had truly come into contact with firearms and had even taken guns apart and put them back together.
However, according to Qin Fen himself, he did not actually have much interest in firearms. He had gone to the shooting club purely for the novelty, since firearms were inaccessible domestically.
But after trying them a few times and getting past the novelty, he had basically lost interest. His true love remained the Steam Engine.
So, when it came to firearms, he was no expert or master,