After Lin Ziran saw this report, he did not decide immediately, but summoned the relevant officials of the Ordnance Department and carefully inquired about the cost of pure metal bullets after reducing the cost.

In addition, officials such as the Finance Department of the Department of Industry and Commerce were inquired about, mainly about the financial situation and the copper reserves.

Officials from the finance department told Lin Ziran with certainty that after confiscating Luohai Bank and a large number of official assets, their financial situation has improved greatly.

At the same time, after taking control of Luohai County, the fiscal revenue will increase significantly.

The people from the industrial and commercial department also said that their copper reserves are still relatively good, and the pure metal bullets are only made of brass, and they also put forward a proposal to recycle brass shells.

If the cartridge casings can be recovered in a timely manner, then the overall cost is within an acceptable range.

After receiving an affirmative answer, in order to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, Lin Ziran officially ordered that the bullet production line of Fuyuan Factory fully produce all-metal bullets, specializing in the supply of 13 mm caliber Luo'an III rifles.

After the order was issued, the bullet factory of Fuyuan Factory directly carried out equipment transformation and prepared for the full production of all-metal bullets.

Anyway, the previous design work had already been completed, and when Lin Ziran and them were engaged in the improved version of the South China Sea rifle and the Luoan III rifle, they were developed together with all-metal bullets.

Although it is said that semi-metal bullets are used now, in fact, all-metal bullets are the standard bullets of the Roan III rifle.

Therefore, there is no need to make any design improvements in the follow-up, at most, it is to make small modifications to the many captured South China Sea rifles and convert them into Luo'an III rifles, the whole workload is very small, and it is much simpler than converting the Fuyuan smoothbore musket into a rear-loading rifled gun.

With the huge production capacity of the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory, it was easy to convert these South China Sea rifles into Luo'an III rifles, and it didn't even take long.

Considering the captured Nanhai rifles, once the modification is completed, tens of thousands of more Luo'an III rifles will be able to be produced, and at the same time, the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory has been controlled.

On the third day, Lin Ziran also officially issued an order to the whole army to change their outfits.

All units were to be re-equipped with 13 mm Roan III rifles.

The main factor that made Lin Ziran make this decision was not that there were tens of thousands of South China Sea rifles seized, but that the output of the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory was too terrifying!

Lin Ziran briefly looked at the production capacity records of the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory in recent months.

In June, they produced 13,000 South China Sea rifles and modified 25,000 Fuyuan rifles.

In July, the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory produced 12,000 Nanhai rifles and modified 28,000 Fuyuan rifles.

In August, Fuyuan Ordnance produced 15,000 South China Sea rifles and modified 5,000 Fuyuan rifles.

In September, it was actually produced for about 20 days, and in the following days it was semi-suspended due to the turmoil, but a total of 10,000 South Sea rifles were produced.

According to the management of the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory, the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory was able to produce about 15,000 breech-loading rifled rifles every month by working overtime.

If the situation is urgent, the output can be further increased to about 18,000 pieces by using multi-shift rotation production.

Even for the sake of conservatism, the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory is able to produce 200,000 Roan Type 3 rifles a year!

When he heard this number, Lin Ziran was speechless.

Because he found that his troops were simply not able to consume such a huge amount of production.

200,000 guns a year.

However, the troops under his command are now only 1120,000, even if the army is expanded by tens of thousands in the future, but it will survive about 150,000, and it will be difficult for the financial support to support any more, and it will also seriously affect the production order of agriculture, industry and commerce in the Liangluo region.

150,000 troops, even if they have a rear-loading rifle, will die 150,000, even if they add combat losses and reserves, they will support 200,000.

And these 200,000 pieces, the output of the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory in one year can be done.

And then here comes the problem!

What about the ordnance produced by the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory in the second year?

Just throw it at the warehouse, it's definitely not going to work.

It's even worse to stop production.

At most, it will reduce production, but it should not be reduced too much.

Because in this way, what should be done with so many workers and their families in the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory, as well as a large number of suppliers behind them? Behind this is the livelihood of tens of thousands of people.

Moreover, in these years, the ordnance business is a very profitable business, and these two factories will pay a large amount of profits and taxes every year.

The same is true of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, a huge professional artillery factory that once supplied a quarter of the artillery of the entire Daheng Army during the Heng Olympic War, with product lines ranging from light small guns to ship-based large-caliber cannons to super-large siege artillery.

The plant's technology in the field of smoothbore guns has almost reached the pinnacle of this era, and its new 120-mm bronze smoothbore gun, launched a few years ago, can fire grenades with an effective range of 1,200 meters, and the effective range of solid shells can reach 1,500 meters.

And in actual combat, there was even a record of an artillery distance of 1,900 meters.

Beginning this year, the plant began to produce front-loading rifled guns, of which the performance of the 100-mm front-loading rifled guns was actually quite good, but it was limited to front-loading and was relatively poor in terms of effective range and power.

The Ordnance Department reported that if there were enough orders, the Southern State Machine Bureau could produce several hundred artillery pieces a month.

If it is to produce the 75-mm rear-loading field guns in service with the Luo'an Army, they can produce at least 100 of them every month, and even so, they still have surplus capacity for the production of other caliber types of artillery.

In other words, people not only produce army artillery, but also naval artillery, and the output of naval artillery is not low.

However, although the output of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau is high, the sales channels are wider, and many small and medium-sized countries will come to purchase.

How to say it, it is also a century-old factory, the brand reputation is there, and the artillery produced is indeed of excellent quality.

In the last two years, they have sold more than 2,000 new 120mm bronze smoothbore guns, most of which were sold to other countries or foreign feudal towns.

Thousands of other types of artillery were sold.

After seeing the sales record of more than 3,000 guns, Lin Ziran silently counted the number of artillery pieces he was equipped with.

And then found out that their army could not afford to raise this artillery plant either.

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