Wild North America 1846

"To be honest, I like it here very much. It's like a beautiful Garden of Eden, with so many passionate and beautiful ladies. Oh... God, this is really beyond my expectation. It's so wonderful."

It can be seen

Samuel Colt had a very good impression of Sidaowan Village, and his assistant Rodlin nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, expressing his approval with joy.

In Richard's view

These two men are standard engineering men, with strict personalities and low interest in life. They are not the kind of men who are flirtatious with women, but they do not prevent them from having a sultry heart.

How could we not be overjoyed when we suddenly fell into the flower-filled Sidaowan Village?

There is a saying that the mouse fell into the rice vat, which can very vividly describe the current situation of Samuel Colt and Rodlin.

Here, they can live and develop a carefree life, have no worries about food and clothing, and even build a happy family, have children, and reproduce.

Just like a mouse falling into a rice vat, it has no worries about food and clothing. The more rice in the vat it eats, the less it eats, and the deeper it sinks...

evening

William Richardson and his party arrived here, and after spending a pleasant dinner, everyone sat together, drank coffee, smoked cigars, and worked out the general equity distribution of Celtic Arms Company in a relaxed mood.

Mr. Samuel Colt invested in technology patents and served as the general manager of the company. He holds 25% of the equity of Colt Arms Company and is responsible for daily operations, weapons production and technological improvement.

Mr. William Richardson invested US$22,000 and provided a large amount of supplies, became a director of the company, held 18% of the equity of Colt Arms Company, and sent a dedicated person to oversee the finances.

With the initial investment of capital, equipment, and space, and a subsequent investment of US$50,000, Richard became a shareholder of the company and served as chairman, occupying 55% of the equity of Colt Arms Company.

The remaining 2% of the equity has not yet been distributed, and will be used as an effective method to reward weapons designers and senior technicians in the future, laying a healthy institutional foundation for promoting the long-term healthy development of weapons companies.

In terms of equity distribution, both Richard and William Richardson showed a very generous attitude, giving Samuel Colt a generous equity ratio, much more than expected.

at the same time

Regardless of whether Samuel Colt or other weapons designers, the invention patents for the weapons they hold and the weapons they develop in the future will belong to Colt Arms Company, not to individuals. This is the only condition.

As a concession, the two major shareholders Richard and William Richardson promised;

After the development of the weapons company gets on track in the future, Samuel Colt can repurchase no more than 15% of the equity from himself and no more than 6% from Mr. William Richardson based on the actual valuation of the company at that time.

of equity.

If it can be realized

Then Mr. Samuel Colt will hope to hold up to 46% of the shares, thus becoming the largest shareholder of the weapons company.

Of course, this is only a theoretical possibility.

It was this hope that inspired Mr. Samuel Colter and his assistant Rodlin to have high entrepreneurial enthusiasm. Early the next morning, the two started working non-stop.

Carriage after carriage of goods were unloaded from the port, accompanied by dozens of skilled workers. Colter Arms Company recruited more than 30 young women at the same time, and started working in full swing.

In just five days, the Colter Arms Factory located by the Yudai River was started and entered the trial production stage.

as requested;

The current trial production is an improved revolver, a cavalry revolver customized by Richard from Colt Arms Company according to the special needs of the cavalry.

This customized firearm is similar to the 1847 Colt Walker revolver that originally appeared in history, but it is different.

The new gun is named the 1846 Colt Cavalry Revolver. It uses a 6-round revolving magazine and uses larger caliber projectiles. The barrel is lengthened and the sealing of the revolving wheel structure is strengthened, which makes the gun more lethal.

With doubled growth, the effective killing range reaches an astonishing 120 meters.

Due to the above-mentioned improvements, this new model 1846 Colt Cavalry Revolver has a weight of 4.75 pounds and a length of 16.5 inches, about 41 centimeters.

The above data are slightly higher than the original historical Colt-Walker pistols.

This new customized revolver is much heavier than ordinary revolvers and is no longer suitable for daily wear by western cowboys because it is too long and heavy.

But there is no problem with arming cavalry with this revolver musket. Under normal circumstances, this weapon can be carried by horses like a spear, providing fierce instantaneous firepower and greatly enhancing the combat effectiveness of the cavalry.

Based on the above improvements

Richard further requested that the 1846-type Colt cavalry revolver be designed to be equipped with an extended stock device.

when using

It can be fired from the shoulder like a rifle, so that when fighting on a bumpy horse, the well-trained cavalry can attack the enemy more accurately and win the battle initiative.

With this extended butt device, the original cavalry lance does not need to be equipped. After all, such a lance can only fire one bullet, and reloading is also very cumbersome.

In Richard's imagination

Each cavalryman will be equipped with a saber, a 1846 Colt cavalry revolver with an extended stock, a regular revolver for self-defense, a kettle, an iron lunch box, and two blankets

, a short knife, basically everything is ready.

The instantaneous firepower of such cavalry equipment is 6 to 7 times that of the American cavalry, so it undoubtedly has an advantage.

When the two sides fight, they first use a burst of medium-range firepower to attack, and they can also use self-defense revolvers and sabers at close range. The combat effectiveness is much higher.

Otherwise, having your own weapon designer is a blessing?

The arrival of Samuel Colt can catapult Datanghui's weapons and equipment into the world's leading ranks of small arms, which is of extraordinary significance.

The Federation placed an order in advance for 1,200 cavalry revolvers from the Colt Arms Company to arm the cavalry.

on the basis of

Richard put forward higher requirements, hoping that the new revolver could use custom copper-cased bullets as soon as possible.

Customized copper-cased bullets are an advanced ammunition design in today's world. They are at the forefront of weapons and equipment. They have already appeared, but they have not been equipped with large-scale armies.

Today, the army still generally uses paper-cased fixed bullets, which have the advantages of being cheap and widely used.

The disadvantages are poor storage resistance, easy to get damp, unstable performance, easy to lose the chain during critical battles, and produce dumb or defective bombs.

The so-called diseased bullets are thin-cased fixed-loading bullets that are partially dampened, have poor gunpowder manufacturing processes, or have been stored for a long time, so they are not qualified bullets.

When fired, the black powder explodes and burns incompletely, and the bullets fired are crooked as if they were sick. Don't expect to hit the enemy with such sick bullets.

6 days later

April 12, 1846

Sidaoling Village

Richard and several white engineering designers from New York stood on a hill and pointed and drew. They were discussing building a strong formal factory building for Colt Arms Company.

Mr. Samuel Colt was originally an outstanding designer. He designed the iconic mushroom shape for the Colt Arms Company factory. This is a very advanced and outstanding design at the moment, and can be said to be extremely avant-garde.

If this huge factory is built, it will become a well-deserved landmark building in Grape Valley.

The huge investment of more than US$70,000 from the company's two major shareholders will be used as upfront funds for factory construction, and subsequent funds will be paid from the company's profits to complete this grand idea.

The current Colt Arms Company is producing in a simple wooden house in Sidaoling Village. All safety indicators related to fire protection, explosion and so on are unqualified and extremely dangerous.

This is because Colter Arms Company not only produces firearms, but also produces dangerous explosives including mines, black powder, and various fixed ammunition. It has strict fire and explosion protection requirements during production.

Today's wooden houses can only meet the basic needs for shelter from wind and rain, but they cannot meet the needs of long-term safe production.

Richard expressed his appreciation for Mr. Samuel Colt's outstanding design and was willing to see a landmark building erected in Grape Valley, thereby promoting the industrial development of the entire village and town.

Relevant cement plant production equipment orders have been issued, and the construction of brick kilns has also been put on the agenda, which has laid a solid foundation for Colt Arms Company's ambitions.

However, the problem is back to its original point.

In San Fernandez, everyone was caught up in the frenzy of the gold rush. Only one-eighth of the population of Grape Valley was left, and almost more than 70% of the population of the new town flocked to the American River to pan for gold.

Fangcaodi is slightly better, but more than 50% of men have joined the gold rush.

In addition to the armed forces at its disposal, the Tang Association has almost no labor force that can participate in agricultural production, as well as the production of necessary facilities such as brick kilns, water conservancy mills, oil mills, and water conservancy sawmills.

In a word, there is a shortage of people and a serious shortage.

Every year after late autumn

Because of the severe cold and frozen land in the wild, as well as the bone-clear river water, gold panning will become an extremely difficult job, and the harvest will be greatly reduced.

After entering November, a large number of gold prospectors stranded on the American rivers will return in large numbers. Before the heavy snowfall, the gold prospectors return to the warm new towns and grassland to spend the cold winter.

Nowadays, to build the Celtic Arms Company factory building, a large amount of labor is indispensable. It is impossible to wait until winter, right?

Think of this

Richard raised his face and looked deep into the valley, his deep eyes flashing with unknown emotions.

after a long time

He nodded vigorously as if he had made a major decision. The machinery and equipment ordered from Europe have been shipped to the North American continent. It will take more than two months at the earliest and more than three months at the earliest. All kinds of machinery and equipment will be in place one after another.

And the construction of some basic production facilities cannot be relaxed. There will never be a wait. The development of Grape Valley urgently needs a large number of laborers, so this is the only solution.

It is said that every pore of capital is filled with blood and tears in the early stages of its development. This is rightly true.

In order for the Chinese to rise rapidly in this ever-changing western North America without shedding blood and tears, the only choice is to aggrieve the indigenous Indian tribes deep in the valley. Who calls you weak?