readx;?“ No, no," the carbine refused him without even thinking about it, "All of our bullets have a fixed amount, even if the bullet casings are not recovered, they must be written and checked, five thousand words, five thousand words!" Do you know how many words are in 5,000 words? There's also a fine of one dollar. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info.vd."

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Miro didn't let go of the boat gang, looking at Tang Xunliang and Xiao Lihua with blank eyes, looking at the pitiful appearance of a child in the old time and space picking up the counter to find his parents to buy toys, and this look stunned the two of them embarrassed to refuse.

"If you don't give a dollar, we'll give you a bullet shell......" Tang Xunliang couldn't help but stutter a little, but finally said, "Xiao Lihua, your team members go and apply for it, and you can report it to the veterans, anyway, there are still ammunition in your Glock." ”

Reluctantly, Xiao Lihua withdrew a live round from Glockley and handed it to the carbine, who handed the pistol case to Milo, which still had a little residual warmth. Afraid that they would regret it, Myro quickly took out a Maidnor silver dollar from his pocket, which was actually slightly larger than the Senate silver coin. Xiao Lihua thought it was very interesting, and hurriedly stuffed the silver coin into his pocket, and suddenly he asked again, "Mr. Miro, do you have any other coins?" ”

In order to prevent the excessive outflow of silver, the Senate used paper money to settle the import of materials as much as possible, that is to say, all merchants who exported materials could only open an account in Gaode Bank at the time of settlement, and the Ministry of Commerce and Trade would transfer these funds to the account. Merchants can use the funds in their heads to buy goods exported by the Ministry of Commerce and Trade or exchange them for paper money to take out of the port of Vostok. This regulation forced these foreign merchants to enter the Oriental Port with silver, and then exchange the silver for the materials and commodities traded, and the money taken away could only be exchanged for paper money to take away, so as to ensure the silver reserves of the Oriental Port.

But the merchants who took away the banknotes were not worried too much, although at the beginning some merchants also exchanged the banknotes at the price of ten yuan banknotes for nine taels of silver, but then they knew that they were at a loss, and the purchasing power of these banknotes was the same as silver coins wherever they were in the Oriental Port, but the exchange was definitely not silver coins, but the silver brought by other merchants, these silvers were uneven, and when exchanging the currency of the Oriental Port of the City, they had to collect a fire consumption according to the fineness, and they would suffer two losses for no reason. If the silver is deposited in the Gaode Bank, it can still have interest. After doing this twice, the silver merchants who had tasted the sweetness could not find merchants willing to exchange paper money.

The result was that for the first time, silver stocks in the Financial Commission's statements last month had increased, and at the same time it had stimulated a willingness to invest more money in purchases, with the Ministry of Commerce and Trade exports increasing by a tenth. The outflow of silver has been blocked in this way, but the name of China's silver black hole is not for nothing. After about half a year of circulation, the amount of high-quality silver coins issued before was recovered through the transactions of Gaode Bank and the Ministry of Commerce and Trade was less than 6% of the issuance, and it is conceivable that the place where the more than 100,000 taels of silver is now located has basically been hidden in their own silver cellars by those large households, and the low-quality silver they stored before was thrown out for circulation, which directly led to the mint always being producing at full capacity, but the number of high-quality silver coins on the market is getting smaller and smaller.

Most of the visitors from the old time and space have some collecting habits, Xiao Lihua's hobby is to collect coins, he was stunned for a moment when he saw the silver coin just now, because usually he receives a salary or something basically directly in the Gaode Bank to get the Senate banknotes or directly in the industry under the jurisdiction of the Senate, he can be regarded as a rich man, in fact, he has never seen a few currencies in this time and space. But the workmanship of this Mederor silver coin was crude, but it was a genuine "foreign currency", which immediately aroused his collecting addiction.

Mi Luo suddenly showed a knowing smile, "I have a lot of different coins on my ship, if you like it, I will sail to your Oriental Port another day, and we can communicate?" ”

"Yes, yes!" Xiao Lihua nodded busily, "You go to the Port Authority and ask the clerk to find me directly, I'm Xiao Lihua, the special investigation team." ”

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"You bought such a thing with a silver coin worth a tael?" Several naval officers had a nine-millimeter Parabem shell casing in their hands, and someone laughed disdainfully, "This thing is just made of brass, and it weighs less than a copper plate." Last time you exchanged a gold coin for a Chinese silver coin, this time you exchanged a silver coin for such a strange thing that is not worth copper. ”

"Hahahaha, Miro, why do you specialize in such a loss-making business?" Others laughed at him on the sidelines.

"I have more copper things like this on the ship, all of them are spittoons, much more than this, if you are willing to ask for it, I promise to give you a conscience price, one silver coin, all sold to you!"

Suddenly there was a burst of laughter from the deck, and almost everyone present was laughing at Miro's inconspicuous little loss-making business. But not all of them, the commander of the fleet and several staff officers did not speak on the side.

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Now all the officers and fleet members are on the flagship "Sea Power", meeting to discuss countermeasures for the Chinese iron clipper that suddenly appeared but set off waves and left quickly. Because there were so many captains and officers in this fleet, there was no room for so many people in the conference room, so the meeting room had to be moved to the deck, and now the vast majority of people did not have stools to sit on, or sat on the deck, or sat on the bulwark, and some pushed a few cannons over, and rode on the guns. Numerous officers formed a large circle on the deck.

"You can only see what is on the surface," Miro said loudly, not caring about the ridicule of the other officers, "this copper shell can almost be said to be priceless to us, let alone a silver coin, even if it is ten silver coins or even ten gold coins, I will do it." His voice was so loud that it even drowned out the voices that mocked him.

Fleet Commander Barb Kirkman was sitting behind the conference table at this time, when suddenly he stood up, stretched out his hand to Miro, and said, "Staff Miro, I want to see that bullet casing. ”

Miro nodded, snatched the shell from the group of officers who were still giggling and joking about him, and stepped forward to hand it to Kirkman, "Look at it. ”

"This is indeed interesting," Kirkman looked at it carefully, though he was a little presbyopia, "this shell is indeed extraordinary, Amu, you bring a musket." ”

The staff officer, known as Amu, stood up, drew a musket from his waist and handed it to Kirkman.

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Kirkman turned the musket around, pointed to a slit in the bottom of the barrel of the musket and said, "Our tubes all have joints, don't believe you look at your guns." ”

Most of the officers were stunned by this sentence, and they all took out their muskets and looked them up and down, and sure enough, no matter whose musket it was, there was a slit in the barrel.

"Your guns are all made by Yaning's gunsmiths, and you've never paid such attention to the weapons in your hands, right?" Kirkman smiled and handed the musket back to Amu on the side. "The way we built the barrel was to first prepare a round iron rod, then beat it around the iron rod with a red-hot iron plate until the inner ring of the barrel was formed, and then put an iron plate on the outside that was also red-hot, and then create the middle ring of the barrel. Finally, put a still red-hot iron plate on the outside, and then hit it to create the outer barrel of the barrel. This operation is very cumbersome, and the craftsmanship of the gunsmith is very demanding, a skilled Yaning gunsmith can make one and a half to two barrels a day at most, not only the production efficiency is low, but also the price of the musket has risen, and most importantly, there is one point. The resulting barrel is not very reliable, and it is not uncommon for the barrel to burst or crack when fired. ”

The officers below stopped laughing, they were indeed suffering from all kinds of bombings, especially a few one-eyed dragons wearing blindfolds who placed their muskets on the table in hatred. The unreliability of muskets has always plagued the Medeno, and the explosion and the leakage of the propellant often cause various maiming losses to the Medeno people who use muskets, so much so that most soldiers would rather use cold weapons such as spears and broadswords in battle, even daggers, rather than muskets, although the range and power of their muskets have always been the strongest in the world before the Chinese shoot today.

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"You can only see things on the surface," Miro didn't care about the ridicule of the other officers, but said loudly, "This copper shell can almost be said to be priceless to us, let alone a silver coin for exchange, even if it is ten silver coins or even ten gold coins, I will not be wrong." His voice was so loud that it even drowned out the voices that mocked him.

"But look at this shell," Kirkman gently placed on the table, "and there is not a single slit in it!" It is impossible to tell with the eye whether the shell has a bending deviation or not. ”

Saying that, Kirkman walked to the table and asked Miro, "Staff Miro, you are very close to them today, and their muskets seem to be held by you for a while, is there a gap in the barrel of their guns?" ”

"Absolutely not!" "I don't know how they make the barrels, but there's really not a single crack in the barrel." The workmanship of the gun is very delicate, and it should not be particularly complicated to use, the gun is polished very brightly on the palm, and the same is true on the butt, which shows that their weapons are very reliable, enough for their soldiers to believe that the weapon in their hand can be used regularly. ”

"Hmm!" Kirkman nodded, "I also saw their shooting on the ship, a paper bird, under the sea breeze should fly at a speed of about two knots, and it is not big, that soldier can fire two shots in a row to hit the paper bird in just a few seconds." Then it shows two problems, the first is that the accuracy of this gun is very high, and the second is that this gun can be fired continuously. ”

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"Yes," Miro was excited, finally no longer thinking about these things alone, "we must also pay attention to one more thing, the Chinese senator told me that he is a special reconnaissance team, I don't know what the special investigation team is, but I can hear that it must be the elite soldiers of the Senate, even higher than our Marine dragoons." The soldier who fired the shot was also from the Special Reconnaissance team, and they had the same badge on their right arm, and the other people had different badges. You must know that tens of thousands of barbarian troops have not even seen the appearance of the enemy in their combat effectiveness for more than ten days, and it is impossible for Annan to have such elite soldiers, and the Nanban has also mentioned many times that the kind of death finger spell that when there is a noise in the distance, the officers on their side will die, I think this is this group of senate special reconnaissance teams are shooting at the barbarians with their rifles. ”

Most of the officers attending the meeting gasped, many of them had also read the battle report, and they all scoffed at this kind of weapon that shot six or seven hundred steps away, but they had seen it with their own eyes today, and they couldn't help but not believe it. "I think there's worse news." Miro shrugged his shoulders and continued, "I looked at their little speedboat as it approached, and they had several kinds of muskets, one was shorter, the one I got my hands on, and there was a small cylinder in the belly of the musket, and there were six small holes in it, just enough to put these bullets in it, and just press a small thing to withdraw six bullets or empty cartridge shells at the same time, and they could reload a bullet for a maximum of fifteen seconds, and they could fire six shots in a row. Another kind of long musket, it looks like it should be a single-shot rifle, I didn't see them fired, but looking at the barrel so long, it should be used to shoot distant targets, but at the same time there is another rifle that looks very similar to this rifle, but the barrel is a third shorter, and it is estimated that it should be a weapon used on the ship. Then there were two kinds of pistols, one was held by the soldier in the dinghy, which looked like the one I had taken had a wheel, and it was probably similar to the one I had used, and the other was a pistol like the curved ruler of the Yaning craftsman, with an earthy yellow body, I don't know how this pistol was fired, and the reloading was carried out from under the grip. Then came the most terrifying thing, the bullets unloaded from the khaki pistol could be loaded directly into the half-length revolver without any modifications, which meant that all of their ammunition could be used. ”

Most of the officers attending the meeting gasped, many of them had also read the battle report, and they all scoffed at this kind of weapon that was shot six or seven hundred steps away, but they had seen it with their own eyes today, and they couldn't help but not believe it. "I think there's worse news." Miro shrugged his shoulders and continued, "I looked at their little speedboat as it approached, and they had several kinds of muskets, one was shorter, the one I got my hands on, and there was a small cylinder in the belly of the musket, and there were six small holes in it, just enough to put these bullets in it, and just press a small thing to withdraw six bullets or empty cartridge shells at the same time, and they could reload a bullet for a maximum of fifteen seconds, and they could fire six shots in a row. Another kind of long musket, it looks like it should be a single-shot rifle, I didn't see them fired, but looking at the barrel so long, it should be used to shoot distant targets, but at the same time there is another rifle that looks very similar to this rifle, but the barrel is a third shorter, and it is estimated that it should be a weapon used on the ship. Then there were two kinds of pistols, one was held by the soldier in the dinghy, which looked like the one I had taken had a wheel, and it was probably similar to the one I had used, and the other was a pistol like the curved ruler of the Yaning craftsman, with an earthy yellow body, I don't know how this pistol was fired, and the reloading was carried out from under the grip. Then came the most terrifying thing, the bullets unloaded from the khaki pistol could be loaded directly into the half-length revolver without any modifications, which meant that all of their ammunition could be used. ”

"Isn't it? All generic? Kirkman was the first to cry out, "Doesn't their barrels have to be exactly the same size?" How can this be done? ”

"I don't know how they did it, but apparently they did, the bullets are unified, and I think you should be able to think of how much less trouble you can have in terms of logistics?" Miro said as he picked up the shell again. "From such a small cartridge case, they not only solved the caliber of the bullet, but also tightened the barrel and increased the firing speed, how valuable do you think this cartridge case is?"