After visiting the Han Tianfu Daye Industrial Base, Luo Zhixue's royal train traveled all the way eastward, passed and inspected Jiujiang and Nanchang, and then went straight to Yingtianfu and returned to Jinling City.
This ended the northern tour that lasted for several months.
This northern tour allowed Luo Zhixue to have a more comprehensive understanding of the economic development of the northern provinces. At the same time, he also inspected the technical level of many defense industries in the north as well as the training and combat levels of the garrison in the northern region.
We also saw a series of breech-loading rifled weapons that were considered epoch-making in terms of performance.
Including the Type 18 rifles that have been finalized and planned for small-scale equipment, and there are also Hantian rifles that have not yet been finalized and are still under development, but the prospects are very good and the technical characteristics are quite excellent. They only need to solve the problem of subsequent full-metal bullets before they can be put into service. A new generation of breech-loading rifled rifle: Type 19 rifle.
Before leaving Hantian Arsenal, Luo Zhixue personally set an official number for Hantian Arsenal's new generation of breech-loading rifles, continuing the series of sixteen, seventeen, eighteen and other series of rifled rifles, and awarded the type nineteen. Rifle serial number.
Looking at this number, we can tell that the Da Chu Empire Army has still not decided to purchase this new weapon on a large scale. It is only purchasing experimental equipment on a small scale, and it will have to wait until they solve the bullet problem before purchasing.
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This means that in the next few years, the Dachu Empire's military will simultaneously equip two breech-loading rifles on a small scale.
The Type 18 rifle and the Type 19 rifle appear to be breech-loading rifled rifles with a caliber of 11 mm, but their technical characteristics are very different.
The Type 18 rifle uses a rotating bolt action. The bolt action is stable and simple in structure. At the same time, there is great potential for subsequent improvement and development. Luo Zhixue knew that bolt-action rifles in the original time and space basically had a rotating bolt action structure.
The Type 19 rifle uses a bolt action. Although this type of bolt has little potential for subsequent development, that is in the future. But for now, this type of bolt also has its unique advantages. Not to mention other things. Just a faster rate of fire is enough to make people tempted.
At the same time, there are also differences in the barrel rifling design. Relatively speaking, the barrel design of the Type 19 rifle is better, and from the beginning, the barrel of this rifle was designed to fire all-metal bullets, while the Type 18 rifle The rifle was originally designed to fire paper-cased bullets.
In addition to other aspects of the design, the shooting accuracy of the Type 19 rifle is higher and even more powerful. The Army is very satisfied with the rifle's excellent rate of fire, accuracy and power, even compared to the Type 19 rifle. I'm even more satisfied with the Type 8 rifle.
In addition, the bullet designs of the two rifles are actually different. Although the calibers are both 11 mm, the internal detailed designs are different.
However, taking into account subsequent logistical unification and versatility issues, the Army Ordnance Department has reviewed two bullets of the same caliber to determine which bullet will ultimately be selected as the standard all-metal bullet.
The Army has never considered equipping two bullets of the same caliber that are incompatible with each other. This would be a disaster for logistics.
According to the current technical progress, Tianjin Firearms Factory's all-metal bullets are likely to be rejected due to lagging behind in research and development and insufficient technical features. The all-metal bullet design from Hantian Arsenal will eventually be adopted.
Once the design of standard all-metal bullets is finalized, all subsequent rifles of the same caliber must be designed according to the corresponding bullets.
Of course, it is impossible for Hantian Arsenal to retain its own technical patents on bullets. Instead, the patents will be purchased by the military and then uniformly authorized to all domestic ammunition factories, so that all ammunition factories can produce standard bullets.
In fact, it is not just about bullets. Once it is decided to equip a certain rifle on a large scale as the next generation standard rifle.
Considering the production capacity and the survival issues of other arsenals, the military will also purchase the patents and then license them to other arsenals for joint production.
In this process, R&D manufacturers will not suffer losses, because they will continue to receive patent fees. If other manufacturers produce a rifle using the patent, they will be able to obtain a patent fee. Although the single amount is not much, it is If the quantity is large, the total patent licensing fee will also be very considerable.
This kind of patent income is a considerable amount in total, and can bring huge income to companies that develop new weapons. This is also one of the driving forces for companies to actively develop new technologies and new weapons.
Not to mention that even if the patent is licensed, the military will still order large quantities of weapons from the original manufacturer.
The military procurement of the Dachu Empire, especially the procurement of standardized weapons for large-scale equipment, has always been this operating mode.
It can not only meet the military's huge demand for weapons, reduce procurement costs, obtain more stable weapons supply channels, and ensure competition among multiple domestic arsenals.
The winner in the competition eats meat, but the losing manufacturer will not starve to death. If he is willing, he can also engage in OEM and earn some processing fees.
During this northern tour, I not only saw two breech-loading rifled rifles, but also a revolver rifled pistol that fires paper-cased bullets. Its size and power are well controlled, and it is very suitable for officers, artillery and other technical arms. , used as a self-defense pistol.
In the future, it can even be assigned to the patrol force as a law enforcement weapon.
Nowadays, in addition to sabers, some of the law enforcement weapons assigned to domestic patrol police are also equipped with some early smoothbore pistols, even revolvers, and some long-barreled smoothbore rifles.
Of course, their police smoothbore rifles have shorter barrels for easier portability.
Generally speaking, the weapons and equipment of the domestic patrol police in the Dachu Empire are not unified. Each provincial patrol police department has independent equipment procurement rights, but they only need to obtain approval from the patrol police department.
Therefore, domestic patrol police equipment is also diverse, with all kinds of messy equipment. There are at least a dozen types of police muskets, from old flintlock guns to flash cap percussion guns. There are even places for them. The armed patrols are equipped with several types of front-loading rifles as long-range support firepower to kill criminals from a distance.
Among them, the armed patrols under the Yingtianfu Patrol Department are equipped with more than a dozen high-precision front-loading rifles specially built for them by the Dangtu Arsenal. The shooting accuracy is very high. Of course, the price is also extremely expensive, reaching hundreds. Yuan Zhihuang.
Regarding the chaotic equipment of patrol units, the empire's superiors basically turned a blind eye to this. After all, they are just law enforcement units, and there is no need to consider the issue of unified logistics supply. The grassroots patrol police can use whatever they like. .
Besides, this also involves the issue of competition among domestic defense companies.
The weapons and equipment of domestic patrol police are also an important target of competition for the five major domestic weapons companies. Although they are only small weapons, the overall purchase quantity is also very large.
Moreover, the procurement of patrol police equipment comes from local procurement. In order to maintain public security and demonstrate the strength of local security forces, some wealthy local governments are still willing to purchase equipment for patrol police. Such orders are often expensive. high profit.
Therefore, the five major weapons companies in the Dachu Empire, in addition to the three military armies of the Army, Navy and Guards, their main customers are actually the domestic patrol police and tax police, two law enforcement units.
Moreover, the tax patrol's equipment purchase scale is not small, and they are more willing to spend money than the military.
After all, people are collecting money and have money in their pockets, and the armed tax police in the tax police system are paramilitary units equipped with heavy weapons.
Domestic patrol police are not equipped with artillery, but the tax police do have artillery... But they are small artillery, but they are generally good things. Even the front-loading rifled field guns that the Army is reluctant to use, they have purchased several. Ten doors are used.
In addition, the armed tax police are also equipped with a large number of armed patrol boats. What are they used for? Mainly used for checking smuggling.
Well, the customs department in the Da Chu Empire is still directly under the jurisdiction of the Department of Taxation. The inspection of smuggling is also a major task of the tax police, so they are equipped with a lot of patrol boats used to inspect smuggling. These patrol boats are all equipped with regular equipment. Erbajing's naval gun.
This is still talking about domestic tax police.
Not to mention the tax police in overseas territories... In India, the patrol policemen of the tax department often undertake military tasks...
Sometimes the army needs local armed tax police to assist in defense due to insufficient troops.
The Great Chu Empire in India had two armed tax police brigades, each with a size of more than a thousand people. They were stationed in Bombay and Gohe respectively. They were all composed of retired army soldiers and were assigned to the 23-year-old gunmen in active service in the army. Cap firing guns, as well as a variety of artillery in active service in the army, as well as cavalry and baggage auxiliary troops.
This thing is actually an army-standard mixed battalion!
Otherwise, how do you think the tax agency of the Chu Empire collected taxes in India, especially from the local indigenous people?
If you don't pull out the artillery and put the muzzle of the gun to their heads, do you think they will pay the taxes obediently?
There is no deterrent effect, and the indigenous people are not stupid, they are also capable of tax evasion and smuggling.
When the Great Chu Empire first took control of Bombay, many indigenous people from India came over to do business. In this process, many indigenous people secretly bypassed the taxation agencies of the Great Chu Empire and wanted to engage in smuggling. There are also some unscrupulous businessmen in the country who want money rather than their lives.
In the face of money, they have forgotten all countries and nations, and the smuggling problem is extremely serious.
Later, the Indian Taxation Department became ruthless and reported directly to the country. Then the domestic taxation department took a look and found that there were still people who dared to evade taxes so blatantly. This was not bad. The great reputation that the tax agency had established over the past twenty years should be destroyed. Corrupted by a group of natives and unscrupulous traders?
After some urgent discussions, the Department of Taxation sent two heavily armed armed patrol brigades to India, totaling more than 2,000 people.
Immediately afterwards, the crackdown on those smugglers was carried out. Among them, the armed patrol brigade stationed in Mumbai even crossed the Bombay territory directly controlled by the Chu Empire and went deep into the areas controlled by the indigenous Indians to crack down on local smugglers.
Faced with the Chu Empire's behavior of directly killing the tax police troops at their doorsteps and using guns to their heads to forcefully collect taxes, the local indigenous princes were frightened... They thought the Chu army was coming to occupy their territory. land.
As a result, when I asked, I realized that it was originally intended to crack down on smugglers and collect taxes that were evaded.
After the Mughal Empire learned of this action, they protested. Many people in their country were even ashamed of it, thinking that the Chu Empire had invaded them, and called this action It's a tax war.
The conscience of heaven and earth... At that time, the commander of the Indian garrison of the Great Chu Empire, the commander of the 24th Army and other top army and navy officials did not know the news, so there was no need to talk about war!
The tax agency sends armed tax police out to collect taxes. This is just an ordinary tax law enforcement operation. There is no need to inform the military of the information, let alone the military's approval.
As for whether there is law enforcement power in indigenous territories, there is no need to worry about this. The Dachu Empire has always practiced extra-legal governance. Even in indigenous territories, it only recognizes its own laws and does not recognize any laws of any nature. Aboriginal law.
If the natives are in their own territory, it doesn't matter if they kill a Chu people or something. Over the years, many people in the Chu Empire overseas have died violently, and countless people have been killed privately by the natives. As long as they don't cause anything too bad In fact, the imperial officials don't care about the impact, and they can't control it.
However, if you, a native, do business with our Dachu people, and then dare to evade taxes, even if you hide in your own territory, the armed tax police of the Dachu Empire will have to catch you, and then forcibly collect taxes and fine you.
The Da Chu Empire has always been very serious about collecting taxes.
In later generations, the American tax bureau was jokingly said to have an army, but the tax department in the Chu Empire really had an army!
As for such a tax agency, its subordinate ordinary tax policemen and armed tax policemen naturally have a large demand for weapons, and they have always been important customers of the five major weapons companies.
Hebei Arms Company's Tianwu-type revolver rifled pistol was originally ordered by the tax police.
This thing is of medium size, and although it is not very powerful, it can be used for self-defense or against some common criminals. Therefore, the domestic patrol agencies and tax authorities are very interested in this thing.
The Jiangnan Patrol Department, which is not short of money, is already negotiating with the Hebei Arms Company to purchase a batch of Tianwu-type revolver rifles for distribution to the patrol officers.
Patrol police from other provinces have also noticed this excellent weapon and are thinking about purchasing some...
At the same time, Hebei Arms Company is continuing to upgrade this pistol so that it can fire all-metal bullets. Once it is successfully finalized, I am afraid that the production and sales will be very large.
After all, the performance of this thing is good, the structure is simple, the price of mass production is not expensive, the size is just right, although the power is not great, it is sufficient, and the power is not great and the recoil is small, it is easier to aim when shooting, and the accuracy is high in short distances.
Moreover, the characteristics of the revolver allow it to have continuous firepower of six bullets, which is very important for armed patrol officers or armed tax police who need to face gangsters.
Although the Tianwu-type rifled revolver is just a decoration for the regular army, when it is really used, it is basically used to commit suicide.
But for patrol officers, this kind of thing can be used as the main weapon and is very practical.
Two rifled rifles and one revolver rifled pistol are the main achievements of the Chu Empire in breech-loading rifled firearms in recent years.
As for the artillery, it is relatively mediocre. Although there are various test samples, the performance is not very good. If the military wants to equip breech-loading rifled artillery, it needs to continue to conduct in-depth research, especially to solve the problem of steel cannon. Tube and rifling process issues.
Even if these problems are solved, it is estimated that only small and medium-caliber breech-loading rifled guns can be used in the short term, because the metal fixed shells that can be used for breech-loading rifled guns of this caliber can better solve the problem of air leakage.
As for the large-caliber breech-loading rifled cannon...this thing can't use all-metal custom shells, so the air leakage problem may not be solved for a while.
However, even if it is a small and medium-caliber breech-loaded rifled gun, if it can be produced, it will be a huge leap, but it can greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of the Chu Empire's army and navy.
Luo Zhixue is looking forward to this!
