Chapter 602 Arms Export
There are three large shipyards of similar scale to the Kingdom Navy Arsenal, and if necessary, the funds are sufficient, and the raw materials are sufficient, there is no problem at all for them to start construction of ten eight 10,000-ton ironclad ships at the same time.
The production capacity of the naval equipment of the Lin Dynasty of the Daheng Empire is not good, but the scale of the army's weapons and equipment production is extremely large, otherwise it would not have begun to export the Luo'an III rifle and even rear-loading artillery on a large scale when the unification war was still going on, which is to dispose of the inventory in advance.
Especially in recent months, at the suggestion of Lin Ziran, it has signed arms and equipment export agreements with the Orr Kingdom and many other small and medium-sized countries.
In addition to the large orders of the Orr Kingdom, it has signed orders with other countries for more than 200,000 Roan III rifles, more than 500 breech-loading rifled guns, and by the way, it has also signed agreements for two thousand-ton steel-hulled unprotected cruisers.
In addition, more than 100,000 rifles modified with 18mm smoothbore guns were half sold and half sent, and they were sold in the name of Fuyuan rifles.
Anyway, the front-line troops of this are no longer equipped, and the Lin Dynasty's own weapon production is too large, so there is no need to keep these for later use.
Not to mention that these modified Fuyuan rifles have begun to be cleared, and even the Luo'an III rifles have begun to seek more foreign trade orders.
Because at most two months later, that is, in October this year, the new design, using 11 mm caliber all-metal bullets, and with an innovative design of the tube magazine, Lin Ziran has always required the new rifle to have a magazine to achieve a higher rate of fire, the previous design tried to use the magazine magazine, but it was not successful, because the bullet body is relatively large, the amount of ammunition is small, and the final choice is to use the tube magazine.
This thing can be loaded with eight rounds at a time, and if you add one round in the chamber, it is actually nine rounds, which can be fired in rapid succession.
During the live-fire test, the firepower was fierce!
This is also why the price of the new rifle has reached a high price of 25 Hengyuan, and the army still decided to fully reequip, in addition to hoping that after mass production, the cost can be further reduced, just like the original Luoan III rifle from more than 20 Hengyuan to more than 10 Hengyuan.
The main reason is that the firepower of this gun is too fierce, even if it is expensive, the army intends to grit its teeth and forcibly popularize the equipment on a large scale.
In this case, the army is planning to reduce other non-essential expenses, such as pistols, and the military will reduce it very much.
In addition to reducing expenses, the army also hopes to ease the financial pressure through the arms trade in order to complete the refitting of its own Roan IV rifles.
A large number of cheap sales of modified Fuyuan rifles, and at the same time began to sell the Roan III rifle on a large scale became the army's choice.
In contrast to these, the army also hopes to sell more breech-loading rifled guns.
This artillery is the thing that makes a lot of money!
A 75-mm field gun of 20 times the caliber has an export price of 8,500 Heng Yuan!
A 150 mm rear-loading naval gun system is directly priced at 140,000 Hengyuan!
Daheng people who want to make money have even taken out the 200-millimeter naval guns in active service and sold them, and the full set of systems is 250,000 Hengyuan a piece, and there is no bargaining!
Even the 250-millimeter naval guns and 300-millimeter naval guns that were still under development and had not yet been successfully developed were marketed to the Orrs, trying to get the Orrs to pay for the reservation in advance to share the research and development expenses.
But the people of the Orr Kingdom were really willing to be the wrongdoers, and paid for the booking of a batch of 250 mm and 300 mm naval guns, and ordered two new large-tonnage warships.
The Orr Kingdom seems to be sending money to the Lin Dynasty, but this kind of thing is actually a wish to fight and a wish!
Although the Orr people also knew that the ships built by the Lin Dynasty were not good, the 10,000-ton ironclad ship Orr Kingdom built for them before seemed to have a tonnage of 10,000 tons, but the armor and power were not good, and the dignified 10,000-ton battleship had a maximum speed of only thirteen knots, and the armor was weak.
Moreover, it is also a shipside column gun layout, using a front-loading rifled gun.
It was only at the final stage that the fire was upgraded, with the installation of four 200-mm breech-loading rifled guns and more than a dozen 150-mm breech-loading rifled guns.
However, on the whole, the combat effectiveness is still not good, and if it really fights, it is estimated that even the Pingbo armored ship can't beat it!
They knew that, but they still chose to buy.
Because they know very well that except for the Great Heng Empire, no other country will sell them 10,000 tons of ironclad ships!
Either they are unwilling to sell, or they are threatened by other big powers and dare not buy!
Only Daheng people dare to sell!
Now they know better that now and even in the next few years, except for the Lin Dynasty, they basically don't expect to be able to import advanced naval equipment and army equipment from other countries around the world.
Although it is said that there is a high probability that they will be able to buy advanced rear-loading guns and weapons in a few years, they dare not wait!
As a result, the Lin dynasty became the most important and even the only reliable supplier of advanced weapons in the Orr Kingdom in the following years.
The continuous signing of arms orders with small and medium-sized countries such as the Orr Kingdom has made weapons the second largest export material of Daheng.
As for the first major export material, it is, of course, grain!
The Great Heng Empire has always been the world's largest grain exporter, both before and now.
As for other export materials, they can basically be ignored!
As for civilian industrial products, people in Daheng themselves do not dislike their own civilian industrial products garbage, if it were not for trade protection, prohibiting the industrial products of other countries from entering the Daheng market, the civil industry within Daheng would have been finished.
However, this situation is not normal in Lin Ziran's opinion, as a big country, the leading boss in the central continent is the leading boss, and the ruthless role of suppressing the countries of the southern continent, how can it be outside the world trade system?
If it is only for grain exports, the added value is too low, and Lin Ziran is very unhappy with this.
So recently, he instructed several subordinate grain companies not to be stupid enough to export grain directly, but to process it for a while and then export it, such as making wine and then exporting it, making it into canned food for export, or processing it into other things, so that the added value is high!
On the one hand, Lin Ziran is also counting on the domestic industry to continue to improve technology and raise the competitiveness of civilian industrial commodities, so that he can seize foreign markets in the future!
Although Daheng has fertile land and abundant resources, it cannot support a country's hegemony by relying only on agriculture and mining, and it has to rely on industry.