Chapter 436: Orr Kingdom: We're not short of money
The Orr kingdom is rich!
How rich?
The Orr Kingdom covers an area of only 300,000 square kilometers and has a population of seven or eight million, but it has the world's largest gold mines, and their annual gold production accounts for more than 40% of the world's gold production!
It's crazy!
And they are sitting on gold mines, and they have always been the objects of aggression that other countries like to invade.
However, the Orr Kingdom is also very tough, with a small territory and a small population, they maintain an army of hundreds of thousands, have a large fleet, and their combat effectiveness is also quite good.
In order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the troops, they have always been very willing to spend money on the purchase of the most advanced weapons and equipment.
The 10,000-ton ironclad ship in the Nanhai Shipyard is nominally the Nanhai State Fleet's own, but in fact it was ordered by the Orr Kingdom, and for this, people threw out millions of Hengyuan.
Lin Ziran was a little moved when he heard the Orr Kingdom, this Orr Kingdom has always been very willing to spend money on military procurement, if he can get a wave from them, it can also alleviate the financial crisis.
And this time, the people of the Orr Kingdom also sent out a signal: We are not short of money, if the negotiation is completed this time, it will be a list of thirty or fifty million!
Thirty or fifty million, Lin Ziran can't sit still!
So he said to Han Haochuan: "Bring them over and find them, and I'll talk to them personally!" ”
This is one of the few super tyrants on the Blue Star who spends money without blinking, and if they don't kill a wave, they can't help but come to the door with all their hard work.
Anyway, the output of the two major arsenals is large enough, and they are in urgent need of money, so it is inevitable to sell ordnance, but who to sell it to has to be carefully considered, at least a few surrounding states don't expect Lin Ziran to sell them rear-loading rifled weapons, these are all enemies.
But in foreign countries, there are not too many of these concerns, and if it is the Orr Kingdom, it is even more fine.
In the past, Nanzhou Bank and the follow-up Shao Bing did not sell weapons to the Orr Kingdom.
Even after Lin Ziran took control of Luohai County, he did not stop the arms trade with the Orr Kingdom, not only the weapons orders that began in the Shao Bing era continued, including the ironclad ship.
When he first moved into Luohai County last year, Lin Ziran also approved an order for the purchase of 100 front-loading rifled guns that had been negotiated with Shao Bing before the Orr Kingdom, but had not yet fully reached an agreement.
The Kingdom of Orr is a very good buyer of weapons!
Not only are they far overseas, they have no direct threat to Nanhai Prefecture, and they have been purchasing weapons on a large scale all year round to equip them with newspapers, and most importantly, they have money, a lot of money!
In fact, since last year, the military representatives sent by the Orr Kingdom to Luohai County have already noticed the large-scale use of breech-loading rifled weapons in the civil war in Nanhai Prefecture.
After Lin Ziran moved into Luohai County, they also came to the door to purchase a batch of Luo'an II breech-loading rifles and steel breech-loading rifled guns, but at that time, the Southern Navy itself was also in urgent need of these new rear-loading rifled weapons, so they didn't accept it and kept dragging it out.
But now, whether it is the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory or the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, they have begun to fully switch production, plus a Luo'an Arsenal, Hetai Arsenal, and Qingshan Machinery Factory, the current production capacity of the arsenal under the control of the Southern Navy is getting bigger and bigger.
At present, the production capacity of the two major rifle production plants, the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory and the Luoan Arsenal, can produce 20,000 Luo'an-3 rifles every month, providing a large number of Luo'an-3 rifles for the Southern Navy
The production and service of a large number of Luo'an III rifles allowed the Southern Navy to continue to eliminate the Fuyuan rifle on a large scale, which was converted from the Fuyuan musket and was converted from an eighteen-millimeter rear-loading rifled rifle, although it could be used, but it still had huge defects.
The South China Navy is preparing to fully replace the 13 mm caliber Luoan III rifle,
If it weren't for the fact that nearly 100,000 new troops had been expanded in the past two months, and these troops still used Fuyuan rifles modified from the original or captured Fuyuan muskets, the South Korean Navy would have been able to complete a comprehensive rearmament.
However, even so, in about three or four months at most, the South China Navy will be able to completely reequip the existing units and further improve the infantry firepower of the existing units.
Not only that, but it is estimated that by that time, the new generation of small-caliber rifles will have almost completed various tests and entered the stage of small-scale production.
When the rear loading rifled rifle was first engaged, the Ordnance Department under Lin Ziran had already started a two-step plan, and at that time, while modifying with Fuyuan muskets, while researching a new 11 mm caliber rifle.
It was only later that after the appearance of the 13-mm caliber South China Sea rifle, to a certain extent, the equipment and research and development plan of the South China Sea Navy was disrupted, because the 11-mm rifle had not yet been successfully researched, so the South China Sea rifle was combined with the South China Sea rifle and some of the 11-mm caliber technology studied by itself to improve the South China Sea rifle.
This is the origin of the Roan III rifle.
However, the research of the 11mm caliber rifle has never stopped, and after Lin Ziran moved to Luohai County, the engineers of the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory took over the research of the plan.
According to the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory's research schedule, it is expected that the preliminary test of the sample gun will be completed next month, that is, in May, and a small batch will be produced in June and sent to the troops for actual combat testing.
After the actual combat test, if all goes well, it is expected that small-scale full-scale production will be able to start in August.
And when the time comes, whether it is the Luo'an III rifle or the new generation of 11 mm caliber rifles, in fact, unless the Southern Navy continues to rout on a large scale of hundreds of thousands of troops, it will not be able to consume the huge production capacity of the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory.
This is true for rifles, and the same is true for artillery, and now the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau and the Luoan Arsenal are able to produce more than 130 75 mm, 100 mm, and 150 mm guns of different calibers every month, and this output continues to rise.
However, the total scale of the South China Navy is only large, a total of more than 250,000 points, although it can continue to digest these artillery production capacity in a short period of time, but in a few months, then the South China Navy does not need to continue to maintain such a large scale of procurement.
According to this situation, the long is half a year, the short is three months, and the arsenals under Lin Ziran's command, especially the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory and the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, have to find orders all over the world for their production capacity, otherwise the factory will be shut down, and tens of thousands of workers will be directly industrialized, which will affect the survival of hundreds of thousands of people in the entire Luohai City.
On the one hand, because of the urgent need for money now, and on the other hand, it is also to solve the problem of orders from the two major arsenals in the future, so Lin Ziran directly met with the representatives of the Orr Kingdom.
I personally discussed the arms trade this time!
But this time the negotiation was not so easy