Volume 7 Chapter 22 Arms Sales

The capital in June is already very hot during the day, which is undoubtedly a kind of torture for Zhu Cijiong, who is used to blowing air conditioning, in the past few years he was nervous and in no mood to care about these, now, Daming has gotten rid of the crisis and gradually moved towards prosperity and strength, his mood has also relaxed, as soon as the mood relaxes, he can't bear this damn hot day.

Do you make air conditioners? That's impossible.

Do you want to make a fan? That's pretty simple.

He doesn't have a motor, and he doesn't have a place to connect to electricity, but he has a steam piston, which is sometimes similar to the effect of a motor.

As an emperor, it is still very easy for him to make a thing, directly draw a sketch, call Song Yingxing to explain a little, and the next day, the fan impeller will be made, and then burn a boiler far away, send steam over, directly drive the piston and gear, and the impeller will turn up with a bang.

This fan was built, but it was too noisy and had no cooling function, but this was not a problem for an emperor at all. He directly asked people to set up a big shelf outside the window, and the shelf was full of ice cubes, and the fan blew on the ice cubes, blowing cold air in through the window, and then closed the other doors and windows, and the air-conditioned room was completed.

On this day, he was taking Zheng Chenggong, Qin Mingyue, and Liu Ru to blow the air conditioner in the private study to read, and Cao Huachun suddenly came outside to report: "Your Majesty, General Hou Shilu has a secret letter." ”

"Rubbing", Qin Mingyue and Liu Ru, who were originally sitting on both sides of the big conference table reading a book, stood up like springs, pretended to run behind Zhu Cijiong and Zheng Chenggong with a small incense fan, and gently fanned them up. Zhu Cijiong shook his head and smiled, and then said loudly: "Pass it on." ”

Cao Huachun floated in with a swish, and then quickly turned around and closed the door tightly, and then respectfully walked up to Zhu Cijiong and offered the secret letter with both hands.

This letter was requested by Zhu Cijiong, and Hou Shilu had to report to him in detail every month on the situation in India, of course, he led an army of 50,000 to defend Mysore City, and the main thing to report each time was the movements of Svera and Conde.

Zhu Cijiong checked the seal, then tore open the envelope, took out the letter paper and looked seriously.

He read the letter and muttered in his heart: "Well, these two goods are not bad, they have already laid down two small indigenous kingdoms...... what, they have actually recruited dozens of Portuguese adventure teams to prepare to attack the Kutb Shahi Dynasty!" Business is coming, business is coming! ”

Zhu Cijiong didn't think that they would buy weapons and then attack the Kutb Shahi Dynasty, if they wanted to buy weapons, they wouldn't recruit so many adventurers, what he valued was the arms market after the Kutb Shahi Dynasty.

The performance of the muskets and artillery of the Ming Dynasty is so good, those adventurers will definitely be tempted to buy some, this is not the main thing, you must know that these adventurers are running around the world, they are equivalent to a group of moving live advertisements, it is estimated that it will not be long before the garrisons and adventurers of all the overseas territories of Portugal will know that their ally Ming Empire has excellent muskets and artillery for sale, at that time, business will be booming!

Now Wang Gong's factory is rushing to produce 200,000 revolver semi-automatic rifles and revolvers for the navy, even if it can produce 20,000 guns a month, it will not be able to produce this batch of guns until the beginning of next year, and then there are so many cavalry of the legion to be equipped, it can be said that according to the current output, it will not be able to finish next year's New Year, where is there time to produce guns for export!

If you want to increase production, you have to build new machine tools, but now Wang Gong factory can no longer put new machine tools, is it possible to build a new factory? If you build a new factory, the problem of the site, the problem of personnel recruitment, and the problem of management must be considered, and Zhu Cijiong has taken into account many serious problems: the organization is bloated, the people are overworked, the big pot of rice is eaten, and the efficiency is .......

In the absence of competition, the bigger the factory, the more serious these problems will be, how many enterprises have closed down in the previous life, how many enterprises have been restructured, and there are many more, because of various reasons can not be closed down and cannot be restructured, the final result is not only not to make money, but also to paste countless money into it a year.

In order to avoid this situation, the only way to avoid this situation is to introduce a competition mechanism, competition can be motivated, and competition can be vigorous; in connection with the policy of vigorously developing the private economy that he has recently considered, he came up with an idea, that is, to take out some parts of Wang Gong's factory for outsourcing processing.

There are many levels involved in this outsourcing, first of all, you have to have a local outsourcing, now all the firearms parts of Wang Gong Factory are processed by machine tools, but in addition to Wang Gong Factory now Daming and even the whole world has no steam-powered machine tools, where to process it? Zhu Cijiong is going to select model workers at the Wang Gong Factory, select a few every month, give them loans, equip them with machine tools, and let them build their own small factories to produce gun parts for the Wang Gong Factory, and these parts will be purchased at market prices as long as they are qualified by the Wang Gong Factory. In this way, not only the output of firearms has come up, but the enthusiasm of workers has also been mobilized, who doesn't want to be the boss to make a lot of money, and after becoming a boss, he will definitely work harder to make money, and this alone will significantly improve the efficiency of raw tea.

Then, for the sake of secrecy, the core parts can naturally not be taken out for processing, and only those parts that are more time-consuming and not very core can be taken out for processing, such as the barrel, a barrel, it takes a quarter of an hour to shape the outer wall, a quarter of an hour to drill, and a quarter of an hour to smooth the inner wall, and then it takes almost a quarter of an hour to draw the rifling, that is to say, a manual work for five hours a day without ten barrels. The workload of this barrel processing is almost half of the total workload of the entire firearm, which means that as long as the barrel is taken out for outsourcing, the output of the gun can be doubled immediately. And the barrel is not the core of the flintlock pistol, without the flintlock device, the barrel is just a beautiful iron rod, and there is no need to worry about technical leaks.

Of course, there are many other problems in the outsourcing association, but Zhu Cijiong doesn't have to worry about these anymore, once the worker becomes the boss himself, he will worry more than you!

After careful consideration, Zhu Cijiong immediately issued an order, asking the Ministry of Industry to prepare new machine tools and new boilers, and immediately began to select model workers in Wang Gong's factory.

In addition, you can't just sit and wait for someone to order, like a revolver semi-automatic rifle or revolver must be advertised, these two things will definitely sell for a higher price, but only if people know that you have this thing!

This advertisement is very simple, Zhu Cijiong asked people to directly choose two revolver semi-automatic rifles and two revolvers, inlaid with a gold-threaded dragon scale pattern on the butt, and then equipped each gun with five revolvers, 100 bullets, loaded with a beautiful sandalwood box, and directly sent a hundred brocade guards to India, to send to Schwila and Comde, just say that this is a commemorative edition of the first release of new firearms, only give it away and not sell anything, if you want to buy it, please order, 20021 revolvers, 421 revolvers, one month delivery.

As for these brocade guards, they were actually sent to be spies, and when southern India stabilized, economic colonization would begin, and the first work must be done.

At that time, the speed of shipping in the Ming Dynasty was incomparable with that of modern times, so the hundred brocade guards arrived in India more than a month later, and at this time, Svera and Comdet had already won the Kutb Shahi dynasty and were celebrating wildly with a group of adventurer leaders. Even if Zhu Cijiong didn't send these 100 brocade guards, it was estimated that in a few days, they would find Hou Shilu to order arms.

When a hundred brocade guards appeared in front of Shi Weila, he was so excited that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire actually sent someone to give him gifts, what a great honor this is! When he opened the sandalwood box, all the adventurer leaders were excited, such a delicate firearm, it was really unheard of, unseen!

At the strong request of the leader of a group of adventurers, the leader of the Jinyi Wei Qianhu demonstrated the power of the revolver to them on the spot, he did not use Schwila's, this team of Jinyi Wei due to the special nature of the work, it can be regarded as a shotgun for a gun, each of them is equipped with a revolver.

I saw that this brocade guard Qianhu quickly pulled out the revolver from his waist, and "popped" at a half-human thick column twenty or thirty steps away was six shots, and the sawdust flew on the column immediately, and everyone didn't react, he opened the fastener and took out the runner, pinned it to the waist, and then took out another runner and installed it, and closed the fastener with a click, and "snapped" against another pillar and six shots, less than a minute before and after, a total of twelve shots were fired!

Now these adventurer leaders are almost crazy, such a fast rate of fire, such a convenient operation, buying cakes, this is simply an invincible artifact in melee combat! In the face of natives, unless it is a large-scale battle, they are rarely attacked from a distance, and these adventurers have few opportunities to participate in large-scale battles, so they are simply in love with the revolver at first sight.

After a short silence, all the adventurer leaders present began to frantically order revolvers, at least a hundred, they had just followed Schvera and Comde to build a huge empire, each of them at least divided more than 100,000 taels, two hundred taels and one hand, it was simply too cheap.

There was an adventurer leader with only one hundred and fifty people who directly ordered three hundred, and the leader next to him couldn't help but ask curiously: "Aren't there only more than 100 people under your command, why are you ordering so many pistols?" ”

The leader said disdainfully: "You know a fart, this gun doesn't need to be operated with both hands, hold a handful of Dora Feng in one hand, and don't even think about getting close to a dozen enemies!" ”

As a result, orders for revolvers almost doubled.

Schvera and Comde were not as radical as they were, the revolver was good, but it was not of much use in a large-scale battle, they did not have the talent to order more than a thousand, which were for the protection of artillerymen and officers; They liked the power of the revolver semi-automatic rifle, but their rifles were already fully equipped, so no one only ordered a thousand, which should be used to strengthen the firepower; For a long time, they estimated that they would mainly defend the city, so they also ordered 10,000 grenades and 10,000 mines by themselves; In addition, they used almost the same ammunition, and by the way, they also ordered a batch of ammunition.

After this trip, there were nearly 20,000 revolvers, 1,000 revolver semi-automatic rifles, plus 20,000 people of ammunition, 20,000 grenades, and 20,000 mines, a total of nearly 10 million taels.

Of course, this is just the beginning, and when these adventurers run to the territory of other Portuguese governors, there will be more orders!