Thirteen mm caliber?

This is a bit interesting, Lin Ziran naturally knows that the miniaturization of the caliber is the trend, and the reason why he didn't let them directly come up with a small-caliber design plan before.

That's purely because now there is no way to even produce the barrel on its own, so it can only be modified with an eighteen-millimeter Fuyuan musket.

But if a year later, the Aoyama Machinery Factory successfully completed its expansion and was able to manufacture its own barrels, then the rifles produced by itself could not be 18 mm caliber.

The caliber is smaller, thirteen millimeters Lin Ziran feels that it is a little big, it is better to get an eleven millimeter one.

As for how small it is, considering that today's propellant is still black powder, although it can be barely used, it is not very good after all, so let's wait for smokeless gunpowder to come out.

For the people of Tsingshan Machinery Factory to be able to think of a small caliber on their own, Lin Ziran was very pleased, and immediately took the design drawing and looked at it simply, the overall design of the design drawing is not much different from the previous design drawing.

It's just that the caliber is different, everything else is pretty much the same, even the bolt.

This made Lin Ziran a little disappointed.

The eighteen-millimeter version of the bolt retains the structure of the Fuyuan musket to a certain extent, but the tail of the barrel is opened to roll over to be used to load and fire, after all, this is a modified design, to the greatest extent to take into account the difficulty of modification and processing difficulty, at the lowest cost to achieve the rear loading scheme.

But you are planning to make a thirteen mm caliber musket, which means that you need to make a new barrel yourself, in this case, you naturally don't have to think about any Fuyuan musket.

But why do you still retain many of the designs of the Fuyuan musket?

Can't you design a simpler, more reliable bolt?

In this regard, Lin Ziran was a little disappointed.

The ability of these technicians under his hands is still a little worse, and their thinking is too stiff.

In fact, even the eighteen-millimeter version of the bolt design is very unreliable in Lin Ziran's opinion, and a more detailed design must be carried out.

At this time, Lin Ziran just remembered Nangong Hou.

Although that man is a little eccentric, he still has talent, but I don't know how his perpetual motion machine research is.

Putting down the design drawing, Lin Ziran said: "If you want to be miniaturized, then this kind of gun must be produced by us in the future, so the design of the new gun can also be completely designed, and you don't need to think too much about it." ”

"If you have a caliber of thirteen millimeters, it's still a little bigger, let's see if you can get eleven millimeters!"

"And then there's this bolt problem, although it's easy to roll over the bolt, but you can also try to use other bolt solutions, such as rotating and pulling back."

Lin Ziran said, drawing the only bit of the structure of the gun in his mind!

He didn't actually paint the internal structure, just an external structure......

That's it, thanks to the fact that he had watched some war TV movies before, and had seen those soldiers shoot with a spinning and pulling action.

But he can only guess what the internal structure is, and he may not be as accurate as those professional technicians.

So he simply didn't guess!

Give an appearance, and then show Boss Wang the action of loading and firing, well, that's basically it.

As for how to achieve the rotary rear pull bolt scheme he wanted, that was the business of these designers.

These engineers are paid very well, and they are given so much money to let them work.

Boss Wang thought that these two plans would be well received today, but Lin Ziran only gave a medium and bad review! It made him not feel good.

On the way back, Boss Wang muttered: We must let them work overtime, overtime every day!

Not to mention how Boss Wang tossed the technicians under his command after he went back, and said that after Lin Ziran put the rear-loading rifle on the agenda, the sense of crisis in his heart was still very strong.

In particular, the sense of crisis brought to him by Nanzhou Bank is even greater than the sense of crisis brought to him by Feng Haozhong and Jian Minggang.

Because once the Nanzhou Bank does not support or even oppose himself, Lin Ziran will have no way to obtain a large supply of ordnance and ammunition from the outside.

Even if the follow-up Aoyama Machinery Factory achieves the current design goal, it will only be able to produce 10,000 or 20,000 rifles in a year.

It seems like a lot, but this is not to give you more than 10,000 guns at once, but the total production of a year.

Lin Ziran felt that he needed to reserve a batch of guns and ammunition in advance, especially the Fuyuan musket.

The Fuyuan musket is a good thing, you can buy it directly and use it as a smoothbore gun, you can use it as a Mini rifle by pulling a rifling, and when you modify the following bolts, you can turn it into a rear-loading rifle.

It is no wonder that this Fuyuan musket has become the standard weapon of the feudal towns in Nanhai Prefecture and even several surrounding states in the past ten years, regardless of whether it is a regular army, a militia group, or even a bandit, all Fuyuan muskets.

Excellent quality, simple and reliable, with great potential for retrofitting.

It's not an exaggeration to buy tens of thousands of spare guns for such a good gun!

So Lin Ziran found Zhou Li and asked Zhou Li to add an order for 5,000 brand-new Fuyuan muskets to his loan plan with Nanzhou Bank.

If it weren't for the fact that the price of the Fuyuan musket was too high now, Lin Ziran would have planned to get 10,000 first.

It's a pity that the Nanzhou Bank is very black-hearted now, and a brand-new Fuyuan musket with a full set of accessories directly asks for 30 yuan, at most, it is just another batch of ammunition.

Compared with the previous price of less than 20 Hengyuan, it is simply a world of difference.

For this price, although Lin Ziran is dissatisfied, there is no way!

Nowadays, in the entire Luo River Basin, only their merchant ships can transport guns and cannons around, even if there are other ordnance firms, but most of these ordnance firms also have the silver of Nanzhou Bank behind them.

People are now playing at a flat price!

In the entire Luoguang and Guang counties, there are 30 Hengyuan and a musket.

You Lin Ziran bought it at this price, Feng Haozhong and Jian Minggang bought it at this price, and even Guang'an people bought it at this price.

In this regard, it also strengthened Lin Ziran's confidence in preparing to build an arsenal and strive for self-sufficiency in weapons.

Looking at Zhou Li's smiling appearance, Lin Ziran decided that Qingshan Machinery Factory must be brought in, and if one million is not enough, two million!

After he got out of the arsenal and mass-produced rear-loading rifles, he pulled 1.8 million troops to level Luohai County and directly uprooted the entire Nanzhou Bank.

Call you to pit Lao Tzu!

Lin Ziran pondered in his heart how to take revenge on Nanzhou Bank in the future and get the field back.

In the city of Luo'an County, Jian Minggang stood on the head of the city near the river with a gloomy face, and on the wide Luohe River outside the city, a fleet of steamships flying the flag of the Bank of Nanzhou was slowly rising against the current with white smoke.

"These vampires are so deceitful!"

Jian Liangzhi beside him also frowned and said, "Father, really let the fleet of Nanzhou Bank go over?" This is the fleet for Feng Haozhong and them to transport supplies, and the intelligence shows that there are still heavy artillery in it, once Feng Haozhong and them get this batch of heavy artillery, it will cause us a lot of trouble! ”

"Do you want to negotiate with someone from Nanzhou Bank, they are too much to do, and they clearly said that they would support your father!"

Jian Minggang didn't answer, and continued to look at the fleet on the river with a gloomy face!

Half a day later, he withdrew his eyes from the fleet of the Nanzhou Bank and turned his head to look at his eldest son.

I saw him take a deep breath before he spoke: "Our Jian family can't become the second Cheng family!" ”

After Jian Liangzhi heard this, he also fell silent.

How did the Cheng family fall?

Outsiders may say that they were killed by their Jian family, or that the Jian family contacted the other three major feudal towns.

But the truth is far more complicated than it seems!

And a series of complex insiders are inseparable from Nanzhou Bank.

He remembers very well that at the end of last year, someone from the Nanzhou Bank came to his door, and the first thing he said was to ask his father if he wanted to be the county warden of Luo'an County, and if he wanted, they were willing to support them.

At that time, Jian Liangzhi still felt that the people of Nanzhou Bank were extremely arrogant, and how could they say that whoever they supported could take the position of county guard.

But as it turned out later, the folks at the Southern State Bank did it!

They took advantage of the ambitions of the feudal towns, fueled the ambitions of the feudal towns with millions of cash and more weapons and equipment, and finally turned Roan County upside down!

Even Jian Liangzhi himself had to admit that the ambition of his father and son had become a tool for Nanzhou Bank to make profits.

If there was no loan of 5 million Hengyuan from the Nanzhou Bank, and a large number of weapons and ammunition transported by the Nanzhou Bank, how could their Jian family raise troops.

What's more critical is that although the Nanzhou Bank was very happy to give money and equipment in the early stage, as soon as the war started, it turned its face faster than a book, and the prices of guns and ammunition rose sharply, and there were no more interest-free loans.

The civil war in Luan County is not over yet, but the Southern State Bank has already recovered all the upfront costs from their Jane family and made a lot of money!

In order to repay the loan and purchase more ordnance, the Jian family father and son almost turned the entire county town and the surrounding areas under their control upside down, but even so, they could not completely obtain the absolute support of the Nanzhou Bank.

Now the attitude of the people in Nanzhou Bank is very vague, on the one hand, they say that they support the Jian family, provide a loan to Jian Minggang, and sell weapons and ammunition to Jian Minggang.

But on the other hand, they sold weapons and ammunition to Feng Haozhong and Li Dingjun, and even provided loans.

Some time ago, a nobody from Wu Shenxuan was sent over to say that the war had caused too much pain to the people, and he hoped to see the end of the war as soon as possible.

Even Jian Liangzhi suspected that the reason why Li Dingjun and Feng Haozhong were able to unite was because of the role of Nanzhou Bank, otherwise, their Jian family would have broken through each other and killed these two groups.

But now, Feng Haozhong and Li Dingjun echo each other in the south and in the north, even if the strength of the Jian family is stronger than one of them, they still can't get an absolute victory.

Although he didn't want to admit it, Jian Liangzhi knew that there was no hope for their Jian family to completely unify Luo'an County in a short period of time.

Because the Nanzhou Bank does not want to see the Jian family unify Luo'an County!

Since there is no hope of unification, Jian Liangzhi feels that he needs to advise his father to consider some other issues, such as the situation in the future of Luo'an County, even if they can't unify the entire Luo'an County, but their Jian family must also occupy the most and most elite territory in Luo'an County.

At the same time, the Jian family can't fight alone like now.

Feng Haozhong and Li Dingjun have united, and their Jian family also needs to find someone else to share the pressure.

For example, the people of Guang'an, and Lin Ziran, who is entrenched in Lianguan County.

All are great choices!

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