1840Indian rebirth

Browning did not answer first, but turned around and asked: "Are you really so sure that the United States and Mexico will go to war soon?"

"Of course, as long as the United States completes the annexation of Texas, a war will inevitably break out between the United States and Mexico within half a year at most." Mashao said, "In fact, as long as you read more newspapers, you can smell the smell of gunpowder permeating the West.

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"I also read newspapers, but I only read firearms and pornographic news." Browning said.

Horse Whistle: "As a gunsmith, you should at least pay attention to the news of the war."

"What did the newspapers say?"

"Manifest Destiny." Ma Shao's height has stopped growing, but his nervous system is obviously still developing, and his increasingly sharp mind has given him an excellent memory.

In fact, he remembered almost every word of these key news stories: "In July and August, in the Democratic Review, New York City reporter John O'Sullivan published an article called "Annexation," in which he

Said: We must seize the continent given by God to meet the manifest destiny of the free development of the people who will double every year... It is really a difficult statement."

"Then not long ago, on October 13, the Republic of Texas held a referendum and overwhelmingly approved the annexation proposed by the United States."

"Texas will legally become part of the United States by the end of this year at the latest. Then there will be a transfer of power, and then war will break out."

Browning thought for a while: "For what reason?"

"Of course it's a territorial dispute." Ma Shao said, "If the United States annexes Texas, it will naturally inherit the territorial dispute between Texas and Mexico.

Browning nodded: "Sounds very reasonable, so Sleeping Bear can take advantage of this opportunity to make a lot of money by selling arms?"

Ma Shao: "Yes, the premise is that we complete the construction of the 'distributed assembly line'."

Browning laughed, his belly quivering: "Thank you for coming up with this name. It sounds like a high-tech gadget like a telegraph."

"..." Ma Shao didn't speak.

The so-called distributed assembly line actually refers to the military product production model of an unnamed East Asian island country in later generations - small workshops are responsible for producing simple parts and prefabricated parts, and large companies are responsible for assembly.

During World War II, it was precisely because of this unique production model and the fact that Tokyo's buildings were mostly made of wood that the U.S. Air Force had to change its tactics from precision bombing to large-scale incendiary bombing raids.

Curtis LeMay also became famous in one battle and became a world-famous barbecue master.

Now Mashao decided to refer to this model and design a "distributed assembly line" for Mianxiong City to produce firearms in order to make a war fortune next year.

After all, it is impossible for Mianxiong City to build a large-scale military factory in a short period of time. Only this kind of broken-down production model can support output.

Over the past few months, Ma Shao and Browning repeatedly studied the structure of the Browning pistol, eventually breaking it down into a series of parts and prefabricated parts.

Most of these parts can be made using relatively simple tools after a short period of training.

The prefabricated parts produced will be sent to Browning and the apprentices to complete further processing and assembly to become the final product - Browning 1845.

In addition to the revolver, under the guidance of Ma Shao, Browning also designed a new rifle.

It can be seen as a combination of the Kentucky rifle and the Plains rifle, and also has a part of French origin. Of course, the French origin here certainly does not refer to some special military ceremony or the like.

However, the design of this rifle is not perfect yet, mainly because the production process is a bit complicated, and Mashao is convinced that this thing can change the mode of human warfare, so it has not been put into mass production at present. In fact, only a few samples have been produced in total.

"Show the barrel!" the horse whistle shouted.

"Come on, come on." An Apache boy with short hair ran over, "Great Chief, what do you want from me?"

Zhan Bo was a talented gunsmith apprentice. Since he didn't have a name yet, Ma Shao gave him this name after learning about his talent.

It was nothing at first, but since he was given this name, the more Ma Shao looked at him, the more he felt like Bai Zhantang in Wulin Gaiden.

"Have you completed the work I gave you before?" Ma Shao asked.

Zhan Bo: "It's done. We selected a hundred people in the city. They all passed the writing test and have some manual experience. We also explained to them the knowledge of the corresponding parts."

Ma Shao nodded: "Give the tools and materials to them."

"Understood." Zhanbo immediately called a dozen people to distribute the various tools and materials he bought to the selected distributed assembly line employees.

In addition, they also handed over the standard structure and size data of various parts to their employees so that they can be produced accordingly.

"This is the standard for prefabricated barrels..."

"This is the standard for wooden gun stocks..."

"...This is the standard size of the folding spring lever." Zhan Tong handed the page with the standard size of the spring lever to a bald man.

The bald man looked at the instructions on the paper and asked, "All I need to do is make the depressor rod according to this size and sell it to you?"

Zhanbo nodded: "Yes, but it must comply with the standard size. If it fails the inspection, Apache Arsenal will not pay."

The bald man asked again: "Do I need to pay for these tools and materials?"

Zhanbo: "As long as you can complete the minimum production quota and the tools are not damaged, you don't need to pay."

After a pause, he continued: "The minimum production quota is also written on it. If you are worried about not being able to complete it, you can give up now and I will hand over the things and production tasks to others."

"No, I can't complete this task! Leave it to me, don't worry!" the uncle said with a wave of his hand.

The distributed assembly line quickly started operating. After a short running-in period, this production model showed considerable production efficiency.

At least in this era, there should be few more efficient factories.

The Browning 1845 pistols produced were naturally first used to equip the army in Sleeping Bear City. It didn't take long for the three hundred soldiers to fully popularize this new pistol, and each of them had two.

The old-fashioned revolvers were handed over to new recruits - Sleeping Bear City recruited another hundred new soldiers.

Although the number of professional soldiers has increased by another hundred, the ratio of soldiers to civilians has not increased much, because in the past few months, several more clans have joined Mianxiong City, bringing the population of Mianxiong City to 3,300.

3,300 people, not counting those prisoners who are undergoing labor reform.

What surprised Ma Shao was that among the several clans that came to seek refuge in Sleeping Bear City, there was actually a Poni clan.