Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 427 Loan

The Gunsmithing Workshop is located in the southeastern part of the port of Vibator, close to the defensive front set up by the Hicks Kingdom’s Volunteer Light Horse Corps on the border. This is a low hilly area, and the highest hill does not exceed the height of 200 meters above sea level. However, this area, known as the Blackrock Hills, is the birthplace of the famous Black Flint that is directly under the jurisdiction of the port of Vibator.

However, no one here has the interest of mining black flint for fuel, because there are many bushes and weeds in the territory of the territory, and there is no shortage of firewood. As long as the town is turned around, a large bundle of dry branches can be used. Therefore, black flint that burns with black smoke and smells bad is a useless thing. Claude remembers that in a mineral illustration that the mining and business associations have seen, the black flint is classified as a fourth type of mineral resource with a very low mining value.

Master Bird built the firearms manufacturing workshop here, which valued the burning value of the black flint. He believed that with the development of the fire machine and the steam engine he made, the value of the black flint would be higher and higher. Because the black flint is processed by him, it can burn for a longer time, providing more heat. In addition, using black flint as fuel can increase the temperature of the refining furnace, better blending various metals, and refining it to what he needs. Special steel.

General Bologna and General Scrim, General Beechklin arrived in the Blackrock Hills in late September, and after receiving the letter from Claude's eagle, they were riding a light cruise ship from General Beechklin from the offshore Arrived at the port of Vibator and then from the port of Vibator to the Blackrock Hills. They did not expect that Claude quietly opened a military industry under the direct jurisdiction and created a new type of rifle.

General Claude and General Albert arrived to greet the three generals and first visited the entire firearms manufacturing workshop. General Bolognik and General Scree looked at the huge steam engine, smoky, sprayed with white gas, and made a huge noise to push the piston rod up and down, driving a series of mechanical manufacturing equipment to crush various ores and refining. Qualified steel, very emotional when performing various mechanical processing, I am very excited.

General Scrim said that he had visited several large military industries in the kingdom, but he did not expect that the theater directly under the jurisdiction also had a firearms manufacturing workshop, which meant that the theater was freed from the kingdom’s own control over its weapons and equipment. I begged the kingdom to provide weapons and equipment to overseas governors.

General Bologna lamented the wonders of the steam engine and the thermal machine. He said that all the military industrial firearms manufacturing workshops in the countries of the Syrian continent need to find places with abundant water resources to start. Unexpectedly, Claude was able to take a new road and use firepower and steam as a driving force to set up a military industry. Obviously, the fire machine and steam engine will become the first choice for all mechanical workshops.

At this time, General Bologna, General Scurry and General Beechklin had no idea of ​​what Claude called the new rifle. They thought that the new rifle that Claude said was also a rifle. So after visiting the ore crushing field and the refining site, I was invited by Claude to have lunch. In the past few days, General Albert has played a lot of fun with guns in the firearms manufacturing workshop. He smiled and did not disclose any information. He waited to see the shocked expression of the three when he saw the new rifle.

The three generals who had used lunch and took a nap for two hours were finally taken to the test shooting range by Claude, where a row of long tables was placed with more than ten Sonya 519s that had just been produced during this time. New rifle. Because of the mechanical production, the new rifles are not as exquisite as the five new rifles of the sister Anna Ranch, and there are some burrs on the corners of the accessories on the gun body...

But the more than a dozen new rifles have given the three generals who saw it for the first time. A big surprise, General Beechklin’s eye, seeing the copper shell bullets placed next to the new rifle, his eyes brightened: "This Also like a revolver, bullets in bullet shells?"

Seeing Claude nod, General Beechklin grabbed a new rifle with one hand and grabbed a few bullets next to him: "Come tell me how to shoot this application?"

General Eblon took the lead and picked up another new rifle: "Look at me."

He skillfully demonstrated how to put the bullet into the magazine, then stuffed the clip into the gun body below, pulled the bolt again, put a bullet into the opening above the gun body, and then aimed aiming. Although shooting once needs to pull a bolt to make the bullet shell jump out, but six consecutive shots have made the three generals very shocked, and the eyeballs are about to pop up.

Then General Bologna and General Beechklin fired more than 50 shots with new rifles in one go, and General Scree stopped shooting only after ten shots, screaming at his shoulders: "The rear shock of this gun is more violent than the arquebus..."

"The weight of the gun body is also heavier than the arquebus." General Bologna smashed the new rifle in his hand: "But compared to the convenience of loading it and the speed of shooting, I personally think that these two shortcomings are completely negligible. ”

Crowder immediately reported the performance of the new rifle. General Beechklin was overjoyed. He looked at General Bologna and said: "General, this is the weapon we need most. If equipped with this new rifle, I can use it. A battalion can resist the enemy's offensive and even defeat it. If there is a strong defensive position to rely on, I still have a lot of confidence that the enemy can not make a legion..."

General Bologna ignored him, but he couldn’t help but look at the new rifle in his hand. He knew that the new rifle that Claude had taken this time had completely surpassed the arquebus equipped by the countries of the Faurea. This is not the lead. The problem of many years, but beyond the entire era, as the first time he saw the resurgence of the revolver, he only hoped that the price of this new rifle should not be like a revolver.

General Scrim did not have the generals of General Bologna and General Beechling in terms of weapons, but as a soldier he understood the great role that this new rifle could play on the battlefield. As the logistics chief of the entire theater, he is most concerned about the price: "What is the price of this new type of rifle if it is a large-scale equipment?"

Claude is still considering how much the price should be reported, and General Albert, who is around him, has extended a palm and opened five fingers.

"Five gold krona?" General Bologna was very surprised. I didn't expect the price of this new rifle to be very high. Maybe all the troops under the jurisdiction of the theater could be upgraded. The local garrison was also two. The veteran of the Legion is born...

"You want to be beautiful..." General Eblon turned the palm of his hand. Everyone knows what he means. The price of a new rifle requires ten gold krona. For some reason, General Bologna, General Beechklin, in his heart, thought that this price was very cost-effective, and only General Scree felt that he should bargain.

Claude waved his hand and stopped General Scree’s request to reduce the price of equipment. He smiled and said to the generals present: "In fact, you have made the wrong direction. The problem with this new type of rifle is not in the gun itself, but in On the bullet."

He picked up a rifle bullet: "What you don't know is that the cost of producing this rifle bullet is three Sunar. If you produce more than 10 million, you can drop it to two Sunar. But I can't come down anymore."

General Bologna, General Beechling and General Abrant did not care about the price of bullets. General Beechklin also said: "A bullet is only two Sunar, it is very cheap."

Claude smiled and shook his head helplessly.

But the number-sensitive General Scrian’s face was suddenly pale: “We can’t afford this new rifle. You don’t know, the gunpowder and the gun used in the shooting of the Obash III arquebus are only worth the price. Four black iron pennies. That is to say, the price of a rifle fired 50 times is only worth a shot of a copper shell rifle bullet..."

"If you follow the training outline of the Royal Army Department, the recruits need to perform 1,000 live-fire shooting training, which is equivalent to the cost of shooting five gold krona for each of them. The second live-fire shooting exercise, the annual shooting training cost requires six gold krona, we have a legion of 65,000 people, plus the actual exercise, the cost of photon bombs needs 400,000 gold krona per year... Claude added.

General Bologna wiped his sweat on his forehead: "We really can't afford this new rifle..."

General Beechklin is somewhat reluctant: "General, this new type of rifle can allow us to increase the strength of the troops with an enemy. If both of our corps are equipped with this new rifle, I can guarantee No enemy will be our opponent."

"Perhaps we can halve the cost of training," General Eblon thought and said: "The Royal Army Department has mandated that the recruits perform a thousand live-fire shooting training because the rifle gun charges are more cumbersome and must be recruited. We are familiar with each step and develop habits so that we will not panic on the battlefield, and we will ensure the correctness and safety of each shot and shot.

If we use a new type of rifle, then we don't have to do a thousand live ammunition training in accordance with the training program of the arquebus. This new type of rifle is quick and easy to load, and it is easy for soldiers to master their shooting skills, so I don't think it is necessary for the soldiers to consume so many bullets. The recruits carry out ten live-fire shots a month, fifty bullets per shot, which can reduce the cost of bullets consumed by live ammunition.

In addition, we can reduce the training of live-fire shooting every month. We will conduct a live-fire training in three months. Each soldier will have one bullet per shot, so that they can review the essentials of the shooting. After all, the new rifle is different from the arquebus. The arque gun needs to strengthen the memory and habits of the soldiers loading the gun. The new rifle does not need to be so troublesome. It only needs the soldiers to have a good bullet to know how to make a precise aiming shot..... .

In this way, the training cost of a legion that we consume on the bullets is about 150,000 kronor per year. Although this is a huge sum, the upgrade of the new rifle is incalculable, just like As Bick said, one of our regiments can be an enemy. I think this expense is very cost-effective and necessary compared to the cost of our defeat and the lives of the soldiers. ”

"You made a lot of sense, but Allen, our theater is now a waste of new, more than two million immigrants from the kingdom have just settled in the two direct jurisdictions of Cromwell and Beringer, and then we In addition, the three direct jurisdictions of Tilsim, Mormali and Atulas were under the jurisdiction of the theater. Although they searched for the wealth of more than 1.4 million kronor from the three direct jurisdictions, they also The Kamchat countries earned two million kronor by migrating and selling arms.

But the rebellion and the migration of the Nikancha people, the recruitment of new recruits and the integration of local garrison armed forces, as well as the expansion of Lanhu Town and the opening of overseas Minsheng Bank, as well as the establishment of offshore cruise fleet and investment in Cromwell, Beringer Ghana The funds of the public infrastructure have already brought the financial expenditures of our theater to the limit.

To be honest, the battlefield now has a deficit of nearly one million gold krona last year, which is all accountable. Now we can only hope that the banknotes issued by overseas Minsheng Bank will be accepted. It is hoped that the residents of the Kingdom under the direct jurisdiction will be willing to accept the paper money instead of resisting the use of it, otherwise our theater finances will probably go bankrupt.

The current situation in our theater is very difficult, and the theater has done its utmost to ensure the supply of military supplies from the two legions and 18 local garrisons. After all, we are still facing the threat of the Hicks Kingdom attack, and at the same time, we have lost contact with the kingdom and cannot get support from the kingdom. Now we can only rely on ourselves to work hard to overcome this difficulty. ”

General Bologna sighed deeply and could see that his pressure on this day was very large, his wrinkles were deep, and his hair was whiter. As the chief commander of the theater, he has to be responsible for all the military, political, and livelihood affairs of the eight overseas direct jurisdictions under the entire theater. The higher the position, the greater the responsibility and the heavier burden.

"Claude, your new rifle is very good, surpassing all the arquebuses of this era." General Bologna said to Claude: "The war zone is really no way to let the troops equip this new rifle, at least In the short term, you can't afford the equipment price of this new rifle and the training cost of bullets. Do you have any opinions and requirements, can you talk to us?"

Claude’s smile is even more bitter. He knows that General Bologna is all about the real situation in the theater, but he instructed Mrs. Sonia to make this new rifle. If the theater does not make large-scale purchases, then he started. This firearms manufacturing workshop is useless, and it is impossible to close the door.

"I hope that the theater can guarantee me. I will borrow one million gold krona from overseas Minsheng Bank to maintain the daily operation of this firearms manufacturing workshop." Claude said: "I invested 200,000 gold krona to try this new rifle. It took several years and countless failures, and finally created this new type of rifle with the help of Mrs. Sonya. Then I used all the family funds to raise these mechanical equipment to start the firearms manufacturing workshop, ready Used to make this new type of rifle.

Now the firearms manufacturing workshop has just started to operate and has not reached full production. In the current state of production, only 3,000 new rifles and four million copper shell rifle bullets can be produced per year. If I can, I want to use the loan to make this gunsmithing workshop reach the scale of 10,000 new rifles and 10 million copper shell rifle bullets per year. Then use these new rifles and bullets to pay off the loan, and slowly replace the equipment of each of the Thunder Corps' combat units, so that there is no burden on the finance of the theater, and it can gradually improve the combat effectiveness of our army... ..."

General Bologna pondered for a while: "Do you have confidence in the banknotes issued by the overseas Minsheng Bank? If the banknotes are not circulated in the direct jurisdiction, then we will have a lot of trouble..."

The regulations for overseas Minsheng Bank loans are half gold and silver coins, and half are banknotes.

General Bologna’s fears are not unreasonable. People in this world have used gold, silver and copper coins for nearly a thousand years. Now they have to change the silver and copper coins below Yintale into light-weight banknotes. Many people have no confidence. In the event of a large-scale boycott, the theater may continue to do so, and the fire-fighting workshop of Claude, which is paid with banknotes, is likely to close down immediately.

"General, I have no choice now," Crowder said.