Xiao Letian's army is about to change its uniforms again. This is really not good news for the Qing Dynasty, but it is great news for some people within the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
The enslavement rule of the Manchus for more than two hundred years completely cut off the development of natural science in China. At present, China's backwardness is not just as simple as the lack of a few new technologies.
The key is that the entire country does not even have the basic concepts of science and technology!
Taking the simplest rifle manufacturing, human weapons have fully entered the rifle era, that is, the rifling era, but the Qing Dynasty still used the most primitive smoothbore rifle.
Because no one in the entire Qing Dynasty knew how to make rifling!
In fact, Xiao Letian didn't understand either. He was not an engineering student. He just dabbled in some basic principles in his previous life because he was interested in military history.
In other words, Xiao Letian just knows where a technology is produced, and where should we go to find such technology!
In other words, Xiao Letian knows where the breakthrough point of a technology is and where he will spend money!
That's all, Xiao Letian also needs countless foreign and domestic engineers and scientists to assist him in completing a series of industrial upgrades.
The manufacture of gun barrels seems simple to people in the 21st century, but in the mid-to-late 19th century or even the beginning of the 21st century, the manufacture of gun barrels was only a patent for Western factories.
Even Western factories only have the most advanced technology in a few countries, and other countries are also very backward.
Why did Xiao Letian stay so long when he went to Europe this time? The inspection of military technology is also very important!
When occupying France, Xiao Letian led his team of scientists to inspect the French arsenal. He was surprised to find that the French still use the primitive rifling technology of the single-point hook-cutting method.
Only a few factories can use multi-point broaching!
However, these two technologies are in the early stage after the invention of rifling. One can imagine how inefficient the French military industry is!
In fact, it was not France. At that time, most countries in Europe adopted such technology!
Including Xiao Letian's Northern Industrial Zone, two sets of single-point hook-cutting boring machines and a set of multi-point broaching boring machines in the arsenal are already the most advanced equipment in Asia.
It is precisely with such equipment that Xiao Letian can restore the drawings of Spencer and Remington rifles. At present, the annual production number of rifles in the Northern Industrial Zone has reached 3,000.
Of course it can't be compared with the Prussians, but in Asia this is already incredibly efficient.
But this kind of technology is not enough and cannot make Xiao Letian happy at all. What he wants is technology from the United States and Germany!
At this time, Americans had just invented the die extrusion method to produce gun barrels, while Prussia and Germany had already begun to use advanced hammer forging methods to produce gun barrels.
This method also has a very famous name, which is called cold forging!
The Chinese have shed their blood in Europe. The process of German reunification was due to Xiao Letian's power, and all these efforts paid off. Bismarck and the German royal family all gave the green light to the outflow of new technologies.
The cold-forged gun barrel technology, which is not available in the British, has been shipped to the Tanggu Special Administrative Region. In five months, Xiao Letian's arsenal will be able to mass-produce Mauser rifles!
Xiao Letian predicts that the Mauser will become a custom-made weapon for the Chinese infantry that will not change for 80 years, and the Chinese will enter a very long era of Mauser guns!
Cold forging is a very efficient technology. By then, the output of Mauser rifles in the arsenal will definitely exceed 10,000 a year, but the past equipment cannot be thrown away!
The output of three thousand Remingtons a year has to be digested!
In the Qing Dynasty, only the real core of power knew the news. Xiao Letian was going to gradually liberalize the arms trade in the special zone. It was said that more than 3,000 cheap and high-quality rifles flowed into the market a year.
This is a big business that was unimaginable before, and the huge profits are unimaginable!
From ancient times to the present, technological blockade has been a hotbed of huge profits, because no one in the Qing Dynasty can make such a good barrel. Even if you can independently produce all other parts of the rifle, you just can't make this barrel.
Because of monopoly, huge profits!
The ancients also understood this truth!
The news spread from Fuqing that the industrial zone was going out. This was a domestically made weapon. The quality was no worse than that of Europe, and the price was much lower... At least the transportation cost was left.
However, the retail price is not much lower than that of European products, and the profit is even higher!
Most of the sales in Tanggu Industrial Zone adopt a distribution system. Fuqing is the highest-level first-level dealer in the Qing Dynasty, and Yikuang and Yiwei are one level lower.
Yikuang has already made a fortune just by getting the secondary distribution rights for industrial products in the northwest region. What if he adds some arms business to this?
I don’t dare to think about it. I really don’t dare to think about it. Yikuang’s eyes are blue!
The price of a Remington in the northwest region is as high as 200 taels of silver, but if you buy it from the industrial zone, it can only cost 200 to 30 taels of silver... A hundred times profit return is enough to drive everyone in the world crazy!
Listening to the fifth master Yi Pei's decryption, Yi Kuang's greedy little flames completely exploded. He had already left the matter of wanting an official in the Ministry of Revenue to the Kingdom of Java.
"Fifth brother! Are you telling the truth? The quota of three thousand rifles a year? Too few, too few..."
"This is only a plate of more than 300,000 taels, which is not enough!"
"You are stupid! You don't know that our special zone needs to be expanded! In five months, the Prussian equipment will arrive, and the output will continue to increase!"
"It's possible to have 30,000 units by then! What you want to grab now is the distribution rights. You have to get the distribution rights first!"
"You idiot!"
"Yes, yes...brother is so right, grab the distribution rights first, and then make money...but...but that boy Fuqing won't give me face!"
Upon hearing this, the fifth master Yi Pei became angry, "You are so short-sighted. Didn't you just kill the road by yourself?"
"The year before last, Fuqing was raising funds and said that he wanted to expand the telegraph network... How much did you pay for it? How embarrassing. You are also Prince Qing after all, so you have the nerve to pay thirty thousand taels?"
"It's not like Fuqing won't pay interest, and it's not like I want your money for nothing. How dare you just give me 30,000?"
"This is to build the telegraph network for the Qing Dynasty and to benefit our court. You don't have any intention at all? You have to do it even if you are given free money!"
Yikuang blushed, "Oh...brother, why did you bring this up? Wasn't it that I couldn't transfer the purchase funds at that time?"
"Shit! You bought an entire theater troupe and spent more than 30,000 silver. Will you have no money?"
"You are so short-sighted! Don't even think about it. Even if you spend money to bring Fu Qing closer, it is still worth it! Are you dumbfounded now?"
"To paraphrase Ryukyu's famous saying, you are just a fool!"
