After listening to the conversation of the tea guests, Takeda Taro had to admire the government of the Far Eastern Kingdom, such a genius setting can effectively help those who have the courage to fight hard just now but are short of funds.

Spending a small amount of money to do a big thing without taking too much risk is probably a good thing that all businessmen dream of!

But this ghost government is also very annoyed, they are very selfish and xenophobic, and they can only rent shops or warehouses in the customs bonded areas they designate, and they can only buy expensive goods, which have gone through several tricks, which can be traded with first-hand merchants like before.

In addition, since the establishment of the Far Eastern Kingdom, they have never shipped furs and aquatic products to Japan, as if it is not uncommon to do business anymore, so the most annoying, they have the final say on the price, and the merchants have no room for bargaining, you are too active! Door-to-door delivery by yourself, others still don't know how to handle?

However, it has to be said that they are indeed interested, in the past, the raw hides were the majority, not resistant to harvesting, and the whole leather was scrapped after a long time, worthless, so they had to take the initiative to deliver to Japan, and now it is all high-quality fur that has been processed, and it is no problem to collect it for a long time, so they are naturally not in a hurry.

There are also seafood and fish, all of which have been processed in two or three ways, and they are also durable, and it seems that they have premeditated and forced Lao Tzu to contact other Japanese businessmen to boycott together, and do not buy their goods if they do not drop to a satisfactory price.

In fact, Taro Takeda is just thinking about it, businessmen are profit-seeking, how can they have so much courage, and it is impossible to unite, often they promise well, but they secretly buy goods behind their backs, and when others are out of stock, they can monopolize the fur and fish business on Ezo Island.

Only because the government has the power of unified leadership can formulate business rules, and in the contest with businessmen, it is natural that the old man will take advantage.

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At the beginning of June, in a deserted valley in the mountains of central Ezo Island, Yang Wenli and a group of scientific research workers involved in the development of field cannons were testing the newly developed cannon.

All the scientists watched with binoculars from a high point behind, and the security guards in several industrial areas carried the cannons to the appropriate positions to set up shelling positions.

Open the hoe and drive the nail into the ground, open the bolt of the gun, put in a long, yellow cannonball with a tip of about 14 kilograms, close the bolt, have a security guard in charge of aiming, manipulate the high and low machine, the direction machine, frame the target with the gun sight, and then report the completion of the preparation for the strike, and under the loud command of the artillery commander, "Fire!" ”

A ready launcher pulled the cannon rope, only to see the cannon body shake, the muzzle of the cannon came out of the red flame more than a foot long, and then there was a loud earth-shattering sound, the crowd of people observing behind threw the telescope at the target, just a gust of flying rock smoke rose up a foot high, all the targets were blown apart, and the killing range was more than 20 meters, much more than the 60 mortar.

The most rare thing is accuracy, which can be said to refer to where to hit, which is incomparable to the light cannon of the mortar that is a probability shelling, and it is definitely an artifact for attacking the city.

The next few shells hit the target accurately, and everyone applauded happily to celebrate the successful development of the light field cannon.

These security guards are not professional artillerymen, and the reason why the first shelling is so accurate is all due to Yang Wenli's tricks, because the range of the cannon is sufficient, and there is no enemy who poses a threat to the artillery positions of the side, Yang Wenli canceled the extended-range projectile package, and only relies on the projectile itself, which has a unified standard.

When the follow-up development of the gun sight can be targeted, the cross frame on the mirror surface, where it is framed, can accurately hit where, it can be said to be a fool's operation.

In addition, this light field cannon, the reason why it is called a cannon, is because the barrel is particularly long, and coupled with the cheating precision of Yang Wenli and his guards, the precision of this cannon is comparable to the level of cannons in the 21st century, and it is definitely a hundred shots within a few kilometers of the effective firing range.

"Hahahaha! Yes, it will be produced according to the standard of this cannon in the future, and each company of the Black Armor Army is equipped with four cannons, which is a field artillery, and the National Guard Reserve will not be equipped for the time being, well...... The sailors were to focus on the configuration, two for each warship, one on the fore and one on the fore and rear decks, to replace the previous 60 mortars that were too weak. Yang Wenli put down the binoculars and laughed, and immediately made production instructions.

"Your Majesty, what about the mortars of the former troops?" Wang Rucheng did not immediately agree, but asked him.

Yang Wenli waved his hand and said very boldly: "Mortars are delegated below the platoon level, two are configured in one unit, and four are added at the even level, and the company level is not configured as a command organization, but you can apply for the support of higher-level field artillery, and the company level can fight alone in the future, so that the company is thirty, and the configuration needs to be increased." ”

"Yes!" Wang Rucheng, who had received affirmative instructions, stood upright, beat his legs, beat his chest, saluted, and loudly promised.

"Our task is not over, after the cannon is configured, the next step is to develop firearms, there are two, automatic rifles and general-purpose machine guns, both are hard bones, but our time is very urgent, everyone has to work hard!"

"Your Majesty, there is one thing that Weichen has always puzzled, why is the caliber of the barrel you designed so small? It is only 5.8 mm, which is a lot less than the 17 or 8 mm that are generally used in today's muskets. ”

"Hahahaha! Enough! In fact, whether it is a bow and arrow or a rifle, human visual ability can only shoot at a target within 500 meters at most, and the range is far away, it is wasted, and the recoil force is greatly increased, resulting in inaccurate shooting, which is not advisable, and the small caliber is developed by this concept, and it has been widely adopted by all countries around the world in later generations.

As for power, then don't worry about it, let's put it this way! If the enemy wears steel armor that can prevent bullets, it will not be able to penetrate, and the huge impact of the bullet is enough to break or shatter the enemy's bones, and can ignore any protection. ”

"Your Majesty, the automatic rifle and the general-purpose machine gun are the same bullets, and they can fire in bursts, do they coincide?"

"No, because the barrel of the machine gun is longer, the barrel wall is thicker, and the barrel can be quickly changed, so it has a longer range, and it can shoot continuously for a long time.

"Oh! Wechen understood. Wang Rucheng nodded thoughtfully and replied.

In fact, the basic conditions for the development of firearms have long been met, and all the material problems have been solved when developing this field cannon, such as high-quality alloy gun barrel steel, gun barrel chrome plating process, shell copper process, barrel hot extrusion high-speed forging one-time forming process, etc., the only thing left is the design and manufacturing process, these two points are easy to reflex in the hands of Yang Wenli, a senior pseudo-military fan, so Yang Wenli is sure that it will not take a month to develop.

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