Just when Shang Wen and Meng Yi were nervously discussing the solution to the economic development of the Qin State. The Marines of the Qin State brought with them a transitional firearm.

This firearm is a transitional model of a trap gun.

The gun shooting competition in the Qin State led more and more people to participate in the development of new types of firearms. In particular, the use of smokeless gunpowder has shown the existence of powerful weapons. But in fact, smokeless gunpowder has strict requirements for steel. At present, the state of Qin can only produce such guns in small quantities. These guns can only be used by some specialized people, such as King Qin and Princess Wenyang, who are special owners of these guns.

But another situation is that the Qin army was armed with a large number of front-loading rifled guns. The Six Nations were equipped with quite a few smoothbore guns. Judging from the comprehensive data of various kinds, it is currently conservatively estimated that the Qin State has more than two million guns. And this number has been increasing wildly at the figure of 200,000 per month. This is a significant amount of arms expenditure. The munitions factories are busy with this.

However, with the advent of new technologies, especially fixed ammunition, people are more and more satisfied with the front-loading musket in their hands. They needed a simple musket that could be locked like a rotary pull-back.

But the musket was very expensive, so a middle-aged watchmaker named Baixin came up with his own method of modification. Trap muskets.

The trap musket is to modify the original large number of Lee-style rifles, so that the front-loading musket is changed to the rear-loading musket, so as to solve the current large-scale demand for rear-loading rifles.

The trap musket is actually a locking device, it is like a door that can be opened, so this rifle is called a trap rifle. The tail of the flap has a stub that is used to get stuck with the gun when closing the flap.

The firing pin of a trap rifle is placed at an angle in the trap. After pulling the trigger, the hammer rotates to strike the firing pin. Shoot the bullet today. Such a modified shot is very much in line with the current needs of the Qin State. The Qin people have long been dissatisfied with front-loading rifles. They are willing to use lever-mounted shotguns rather than front-loading rifles. But now this design completely solves this need. However, if you put it in the long history, the emergence of the trap rifle is only a transitional model of firearm. Because this is an emergency method that Qin Iron and Steel has not yet met the increasingly huge needs of Qin State.

Hakushin's trap rifle was quickly picked up by the Marines. Because the number of marines is small. There were only 6,000 people, but they had to send more than 1,000 people to maintain the security of Qin in Yan and the Korean concession, and the problem of reloading bullets gave the small number of marines a headache. However, the new rifles could not be installed on a large scale. But now with a trap rifle, at least it can respond to emergencies.

So Wang Ben quickly fell in love with this rifle. And all the 20,000 rifles in the first reserve were refitted. This white letter is a big order. Just when Bai Xin was excited. One piece of news quickly stunned him. After hearing about this rifle, the army also asked for its modification, and the total number of modified rifles exceeded 650,000. Not only that, but the Air Force's defense forces have also begun to adopt this rifle as their own standard rifle, although the number is only 10,000. But it's also a big enough market. Not only that, but many people in the private sector also began to ask him for modification after hearing about this rifle. Or pay a certain patent fee to modify the trap rifle yourself.

Shirashin is unimaginable. A small invention by accident unexpectedly encountered such a large order. It made him dare not even think about it. So, in middle age, he founded the Bai Gun Factory. Loans from banks, setting up factories, recruiting some workers to transform a large number of military orders.

Not only that, he took the initiative to cooperate with the Wenyang Military Factory and gave away part of the order in exchange for the support of the other party in terms of capital and technical equipment. To this end, Wenyang Investment Bank reached a business cooperation with Baixin in the form of investing in stocks.

This is a new cooperation model, a healthy model for the benign development of large enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises, large enterprises can provide financial and technical advantages, and can quickly launch new products in a short period of time. Small and medium-sized enterprises, on the other hand, have the advantage of flexible technology, and they can sell part of the distribution rights or other rights of their products to obtain their own development opportunities. Such a model provided an innate advantage for Qin's economic development. This is an advantage that none of the six countries can learn.

The significance of the trap rifle is not only here, but also that it will provide a weapon with a great advantage for the next war of the Qin State. The work on the conversion of the rifle was carried out quite quickly. The Wenyang Military Factory began a large-scale rehab of all the weapons they received, and the production schedule was filled with working hours. First of all, they had to use the shortest time, about a month, to modify the rifles in the hands of the Western Regions. And give them two months to apply. Then there was the demand for modifications from all over the Qin State.

At the same time as the modification, some of Qin's munitions experts concentrated their energies on the research of metals and the research and development of firearms. They wanted to develop new metals and new guns to capture the market. Especially after the appearance of the trap musket. They noticed an increase in the speed at which weapons were fired.

Machine guns, rapid-fire weapons, began to be on their agenda. Watchmakers began to become the main force in the study of firearms. Some watchmakers began to abandon the making of clocks. You must know that the watch industry is quite a remarkable industry in Qin. They can use ingenious mechanics to keep track of time. Moreover, the demand for this kind of time machine is particularly strong everywhere. Even the queen of Korea is very fond of it. She was the first country to order the introduction of an hourly system throughout the country. In this regard, Korea is ahead of the Qin state. The current time system of the Qin State is somewhat chaotic. Factories, railways, governments, military schools, etc., use the hour system, but some small towns still use the hour system. This is mainly due to the rapid economic development of some places. This is due to the slow economic development in some places. South Korea, on the other hand, can use centralized power to achieve this very quickly. The Qin State, on the other hand, pushed the boat along the river and did not enforce it.

However, the addition of watchmakers began to bring muskets into the age of firearms. Especially after the introduction of smokeless gunpowder. This paved the way for the faster machine guns to follow. The premise is that the Qin State will solve their biggest problem, the steel problem. Wait until this issue is resolved. Qin's weapons will rise to a new level. The advent of machine guns will make cold weapons completely summed up. And the era of hot weapons will begin to divide their historical stage.