On October 22, Xia Ming finally got in touch with the Springfield Arsenal through many connections in the United States to discuss arms cooperation business. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, due to the demand of the U.S. government not to interfere in the civil war in the Americas, the Springfield Arsenal had no choice but to refuse to sell heavy weapons to the armed police force of St. Lucas, and they could only sell M1903 Springfield rifles and ammunition to the extent permitted by law. If San Lucas is willing, Springfield Arsenal is also willing to provide a bullet production line, but the raw materials for the production of bullets must be provided by the US government, thus forming a clamp on San Lucas and indirect interference in Mexico.

In fact, even the sale of the M1903 Springfield rifle to St. Lucas put the Spring Arsenal under a lot of pressure, on the one hand, by the US government, but on the other hand, by the workers. Fifty years ago, the American Civil War led to 750,000 direct deaths and more than 800,000 injuries, and the number of poor casualties cannot be counted. In view of the fact that the Civil War caused so much pain to the United States, the Americans were unwilling to participate in any war and were unwilling to build on the army, which made the state of production of the state-owned arsenal Springfield Arsenal always dissatisfied, and the workers were also semi-unemployed.

On the contrary, private arsenals, which are not controlled by the government, can sell weapons to countries around the world, bypassing legal gaps, thus forming a virtuous circle, and gradually the US private arsenals develop into arms companies, and eventually become arms groups, such as Colt, Thunder, Detroit Arsenal, Boeing, etc. After World War II, the old and bureaucratic Springfield Arsenal eventually closed down for bureaucratic reasons.

Today, while the U.S. government has stipulated that the U.S. government cannot directly intervene in the Mexican Civil War, official arsenals and private arms companies are also prohibited from selling weapons to Mexican warlords. Of course, there are policies and countermeasures, and as a commercial country, the weapons bosses of the United States will not obediently abide by the law. Private arsenals secretly supply weapons to Mexican parties, but the Springfield Arsenal, a state-run arsenal, cannot do so.

Now that Springfield Arsenal has the intention to cooperate, although it is obvious that the Spring Arsenal is very slow to respond compared to private companies, through the Springfield Arsenal, the San Lucaste District can be closely linked with the US government, and once Mexico attacks the San Lucaste District, San Lucas has every excuse to propose protection to the US government and interfere in Mexico.

From this point of view, it is not a small loss to suffer, in the North American continent, you have to give some protection money to the "big brother".

Xia Ming considered that because of the internal instability of the Mexican Federation, it would not send a large force to attack the San Lucaste district in a short period of time, so there was no need to purchase heavy weapons such as artillery and airplanes for the time being, so he proposed to purchase light weapons production equipment and weapons manufacturing raw materials from the Springfield Arsenal.

In the case of the M1903 Springfield-style rifle, the San Lucas Arsenal purchased all the parts from the Springfield Arsenal, shipped them back to the San Lucas Arsenal, assembled them by the San Lucas people, and changed the name. If we cooperate in this way, we can not only circumvent the requirements of the US government, but also ensure that the interests of both sides will not suffer the greatest loss. Although the San Lucas Arsenal became the OEM factory of the Springfield Arsenal, the U.S. government really couldn't control this kind of cooperation, and the Springfield Arsenal only omitted the assembly part, and they sold parts - the U.S. government had not yet introduced a law to prohibit the sale of parts - this was a very genius idea, and the Springfield Arsenal immediately expressed its willingness to accept this partnership. After all, through the assembly of the San Lucas Arsenal, the Springfield Arsenal was immediately at full capacity, which on the one hand increased the income of the US government, and on the other hand, it avoided the unemployment of workers, and allowed the Springfield Arsenal to be in excellent working condition.

However, during the negotiation, Xia Ming received a telegram from Wang Yongan, asking the Springfield Arsenal to provide them with the 7.92 Mauser standard, which means that if the weapon reassembled at the San Lucas Arsenal combines the Springfield rifle with the German Mauser bullet, it becomes a four-like. And if the Springfield rifle had to be redesigned and molded by Mauser standards, it would undoubtedly increase the cost.

The standard rifle used by the Mexican Federation today is the M1895 Steyr Manlicia rifle, which uses an 8 mm rifle cartridge, but can be used with the German 7.92 mm Mauser round, while the Manlicia rifle cartridge cannot be used on a German rifle. From this point of view, the sales of the San Lucas Arsenal are not limited to Mexico, but can even be sold to Asia and Europe, and although the cost has increased, the sales area has also increased a lot.

It's not that the Springfield Arsenal can't be improved, but they are too bureaucratic and think that if the standard is improved, it will lead to an increase in costs, and it needs to be discussed repeatedly.

Wang Yongan then sent a telegram to Xia Ming, asking him to only obtain the authorization letter for the production of the Chuntian rifle, if the Chuntian Arsenal is unwilling to change the rifle caliber standard, we can use their design and re-produce it ourselves, after all, the Chuntian rifle is an improved version of the Mauser K98 rifle and has better design performance than the K98.

In the end, the Americans put forward a new demand, that is, the San Lucas Arsenal must ensure that it purchases at least 100,000 units from the Springfield Arsenal every year, so that the Springfield Arsenal can take the risk of changing the caliber standard, otherwise they would rather not do this business.

Wang Yongan was overjoyed when he learned about it, not to mention 100,000, we can swallow 400,000 sticks, and when the First World War starts, you will beg us......

So it seems that after negotiations, the two sides finally signed a cooperation contract.

In addition to rifle cooperation, Xia Ming also signed a number of project contracts with the Springfield Arsenal such as gas mask cooperation contracts and bullet production line cooperation contracts, and once the San Lucas Arsenal is put into use, it will need at least 10,000 workers, including the families and supporting service personnel of the workers, and this arsenal needs to build a super-large state-owned group with a population of at least 50,000.

Wang Yongan was overjoyed, and immediately called Luo Shitong, general manager of the shipping company of China Shipping Group in China, and asked him to cooperate with Zhang Jian and others to transport the immigrants to St. Lucas.

Not to mention that the people do not want to live in the flames of war, the most bitter and tired people in China have always been the peasants, and many peasants have heard that after they can become workers, they can also bring their families with them, and they have brought their whole families to sign up. Luo Shitong thought it would take a while, but he didn't expect that just after recruiting workers in Shanghi, he filled the first batch of 1,000 workers and 3,000 family members, and began to transport personnel to St. Lucas as soon as possible.

With the capacity of China Shipping Group, they can guarantee to transport 4,000 Chinese to San Lucas every month, adding 48,000 people to San Lucas every year. Wang Yongan was overjoyed and told Luo Shitong that he could buy another shipping ship to be responsible for normal shipping business, and now the two ships are responsible for transporting immigrants to St. Lucas, and the Xuzhou and Yangzhou will stay in St. Lucas to establish the North American branch of China Shipping Group.

Luo Shitong never thought that he could build a North American branch, and he was suddenly beautiful enough, fantasizing that he would become the world's shipping hegemon......

The cooperation between the St. Lucas Arsenal and the Springfield Arsenal made many American private weapons manufacturing companies very envious and jealous, and it was impossible to say that there was no hatred, and someone even sent a letter to Xia Ming, which only contained a bullet. Although Xia Ming was not afraid, Wang Yongan was worried that he would be injured, so he told him to properly negotiate other business with American private arms companies, such as pistol cooperation business, shotgun cooperation business, mortar cooperation business, grenade cooperation business, and so on.

Of course, Wang Yongan was most concerned about the cooperation between heavy machine guns and light machine guns, but Xia Ming sent a depressing telegram to Wang Yongan after inquiring that the United States had not produced any machine guns except for a light machine gun produced by the Colt Company, which was not successful...... In other words, the Americans, who only procured the products of foreign arms groups on machine guns, abandoned this piece of business.

Wang Yongan was taken aback, it is said that during World War I, the British and French forces fought against the German army, and the Americans went to the front line to help, but the British commanded the American troops to dig trenches, carry corpses, and look at prisoners, that is, the Americans were not allowed to fight on the front line, and every time the Americans fought they either helped or added to the chaos, and later the British commander simply let the Americans stay 20 kilometers away from the front line. Now it seems that the Yankees even purchased their own machine guns, and did not pay attention to the development of the army at all.

Today, the U.S. Army has three types of machine guns: the Hatch Chase Machine Rifle, the Maxim Heavy Machine Gun, and the Colt M1895 Light Machine Gun.

Among them, the Colt M1895 light machine gun is produced by the American Colt Arms Manufacturing Company, and the Americans were supposed to protect domestic weapons and purchase a large number of Colt M1895 light machine guns, but this machine gun itself is not angry, because the piston type up and down jitter problem makes it difficult for soldiers to control the direction, and often flies with bullets, resulting in extremely poor continuous shooting performance. American soldiers had to use the Colt M1895 light machine gun as an automatic rifle, so that officers and soldiers complained about it, and finally the U.S. Army decided to seal the Colt M1895 light machine gun or send it to the military academy for training and use by the cadets.

Since then, the U.S. Army's field units have mostly adopted lighter Hatch Chase machine rifles, because the Hatch Chase machine rifle weighs 24 kilograms, so the US military has purchased a large number of Hatch Chase machine rifles. But then the problem arose, the Hatch Chase machine rifle was not as sustainable as the Maxim heavy machine gun, although the Maxim heavy machine gun weighed 48 kilograms, and the Americans had to purchase a large number of Maxim heavy machine guns to supplement their firepower.

Speaking of which, the Maxim heavy machine gun is bullish because all armies in the world have to be equipped with it in the field of heavy machine gun configuration, without exception.