Blanco returned to San Vicente with his team regrettably.

However, it is not that the two sides have not achieved any results. Privately, Blanco represented himself and a group of white Brazilian plantation owners behind him, expressing his desire to sell the products of the East Coast Company in the São Paulo area, of course, limited to ordinary goods and sabers with no export restrictions.

In return, they will offer the produce of their estates to the East Coast Company at a discounted price. In addition, they can provide the East Coast companies with much-needed coal, and even negotiate a specific percentage of the coal for each transaction. As for where they got the coal, whether it was from the Portuguese or the British, it is unknown.

End of June. Captain Kuat, who was belated, docked at the dock with three large ships. Strange to say, since April, there has not been a single ship calling at the port. After analysis, the Executive Committee felt that it may be due to the impact of the previous pirate attack. The attack took place in January, and the effects are only now being felt. During these three months, all kinds of materials can only consume a large amount of inventory.

It can also be seen from this that the foundation of the current crossing crowd is very fragile. In case the Dutch felt that this kind of thing could not be tolerated, they only needed to send a few warships to go around the waters off the port of Tatantan to intercept all kinds of ships, then the port of Tatartan would fall into a great crisis, and the development of the East Coast Company would be greatly delayed or even stopped.

Captain Couayt's three large ships were loaded with 502 European immigrants, more than 100 head of livestock and more than 250 tons of supplies.

Mo Xiaoxi and a group of sisters from the Health Bureau quarantined the 502 migrants in a simple wooden hut next to the wharf yard to carry out sanitation and disinfection work, with the assistance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs police.

In fact, these European immigrants had already been eliminated by nature before they set foot on the land of Tatartan Port, and those who were too weak and sick to survive had already been thrown into the sea by the crew. The rest of the men all looked good, with 502 including 265 French Huguenot Protestants, 129 Dutch and 108 English Puritans.

This was the last porcelain transaction of Captain Crossing and Captain Kouyette, and the only remaining 318 sets of porcelain were sold for 216,300 ducats. After deducting the immigration fees and the payment for the goods, the crossing received 203,925 ducats paid by Captain Kuait, or about 407,850 yuan.

After the transaction is completed, Captain Kuaite said that he will continue to cooperate with the Crossing Crowd to do business. After all, although there is no crazy porcelain trade, the rest of the goods are quite profitable. Kuaite left two people behind and rented some warehouses on the dock as warehouses, which were ready for long-term development.

After the quarantine of the new immigrants is completed, they will be stuffed into inland wooden boats and transported to the Dingyuanbao Reclamation Area, and the 5th Production Team of the Development Brigade and the 6th and 7th Production Teams of the newly built Harvest Brigade are all short of people to farm. These three production teams can accommodate 300 people, and the remaining 202 people will be assigned to Dingyuan Fort. Two new wheel kilns and a cement kiln have been built there, and the urban area may be expanded in the future. A previous batch of about 200 Czech and Finnish immigrants had already been transferred to him, and this will allocate another 202 people, which will almost satisfy his appetite a little.

On June 30, the 1st and 5th production teams of the Dingyuanbao Reclamation Area Development Brigade and the 6th and 7th production teams of the Harvest Brigade sowed a total of 3,500 acres of potatoes.

Late July. Peng Zhicheng and Ma Jia walked into the arsenal gunsmithing workshop on the south bank of the Dayu River.

The firearms manufacturing workshop has been successively supplemented with personnel, and now it has more than 10 craftsmen and more than 40 apprentices. In addition to some work such as repairing firearms, their previous work was to copy several guns purchased from Europe at the request of the Executive Committee.

These guns come from various countries, and they are basically arquebuses, and the structural design is similar. The guns shop uses wrought iron to make the barrel, which is then polished with a hydraulic boring machine, and other parts are also molded. As a result, the performance of the copied gun is similar to that of the original gun, and the life of the gun may be longer because some parts are made of the best materials. The odds of winning the competition with the Europeans were not great, and the current demand for guns was not large, so the Executive Committee and the army did not pay much attention to this, but only instructed them to make some muskets in small batches on a regular basis to maintain their skills.

This time, Peng Zhicheng and the vest came together, mainly because they heard that the two flintlock pistols purchased from abroad a while ago were ready for mass production after this period of research and trial production, so they hurried over to see how the situation was.

At this stage, the main equipment of the crossing is the Swedish style Sul arquebus, which is considered to be the top arquebus in this era. In 1630, King Gustav II of Sweden improved the arquebus invented by the Germans, reducing the weight of the gun, increasing the firing rate, and greatly improving the performance, which caused European countries to imitate it.

But arquebuses are arquebuses after all, and they have an Achilles' heel, that is, the arquebuses on the arquebus clips will be bounced out of the arquebus after each fire, and the arquebuses need to be re-lit, resulting in a slower firing rate. In contrast, a flintlock gun ignites the gunpowder in the cauldron by striking the flint against the hot iron filings splashed by the fire curtain, which ignites the propellant in the chamber and fires the projectile. The superiority of the flintlock pistol can be seen from the principle.

Today's early flintlock muskets are known as dog-lock muskets, so named because the hammer that locks the flint resembles a dog. There were two flintlock muskets on hand, one from England and one from Ottoman Turkey (there were only a few, and I don't know who they came from). The principle of the two muskets can be said to be almost identical, but the craftsmanship and aesthetics of the Turks are significantly stronger than those of the British, and the craftsmanship is also impressive.

Peng Zhicheng test-fired two muskets, and their power, range and weight were about the same. Peng Zhicheng and the vest looked at it again, and still felt that the Turkish musket was more beautiful and exquisite, and the design was more reasonable, so they decided to finalize the trial production of this musket in small batches.

The bolt of this musket used a spring-loaded stopper. The blocking iron is linked with the trigger, and when the hammer is pulled up to the braking position, it will make a sound, and the blocking iron holds the hammer into a state ready for launch. When the trigger is pulled, the stopper linked to the trigger releases the brake on the hammer. The hammer releases the potential energy of the spring to hammer the fire curtain to produce sparks (actually hot iron filings), which causes the black powder in the cauldron to burn, and at the same time ignites the black powder in the ignition hole next to the cauldron, and conducts it to the chamber of the gun to detonate the propellant in the explosion chamber to produce an expanding gas to push the projectile.

This kind of flintlock pistol has been used in European countries for two hundred years, and the subsequent types of flintlock pistols are basically improved on this basis, which can be said to be the originator of flintlock pistols. There are not many talents in the art of traversing the crowd, and at present, they can only rely on some knowledge to guide the development of science and technology, and the specific work still needs to be completed by the craftsmen from various countries collected in this time and space.

For example, the flintlock pistol is very typical, and no matter how ignorant the people are, they know that the flintlock pistol is much superior to the arquebus. But they don't even know how to make an arquebus, let alone a flintlock pistol.

At the end of 1631, under the guidance of European craftsmen, the first handmade arquebus was made. Also at the end of 31 years, the traversal purchased 50 dog-lock flintlock flintlock pistols from the British, and later delayed due to war and other factors, so it was not until a while ago that two flintlock muskets were really successfully imitated.

Climbing the tech tree is really not that easy, especially for the layman.

Peng Zhicheng discussed with Ma Jia, and the weapon named 32-A flintlock pistol was first trial-produced and handed over to the army for trial for a period of time. After the trial, the army will submit a trial report, including trial feelings, improvement suggestions, etc., so that the firearms manufacturing workshop can improve the design.

The conditions for mass production of this musket are already in place. Other parts of the flintlock pistol are very easy to make, ready-made molds are available, and it does not take time. The most time-consuming thing is actually the barrel, to be precise, the boring of the barrel, but all this is a floating cloud after the hydraulic machinery.

Five hydraulic boring machines are lined up along the river in the workshop, using high-carbon steel drill bits, one barrel can be drilled in a day, and the monthly output is 150 guns, which is dozens of times more efficient than manual work. The whole workshop adopts the assembly line production method, the craftsmen focus on their own process, and the yield rate is also greatly improved, so it can be said that there is no problem at all in producing 150 qualified flintlock pistols a month. Moreover, the current personnel of the gunsmithing workshop are actually overstaffed, and if you want to increase production in the future, then you only need to expand the scale of the machine, and the personnel are ready-made, which is very convenient.

On August 5, 1631, the first batch of 50 flintlock muskets was sent to the first battalion of the new army in Dingyuan Fort for trial.