Chapter 236 First Batch of Weapons Procurement I
"Do we need 200,000 rifles? That's too much! Feng Laosi whispered into Gao Hongsheng's ear and asked.
"You don't care, we'll talk about the weapon later." Gao Hongsheng dodged for a moment and replied softly.
"Shopkeeper Gao, are you sure you need 200,000 rifles and 50,000 pistols? Are you sure this is the amount you need? Mauser asked.
Gao Hongsheng nodded and replied disapprehantly: "Hmm! That's all for the first batch, 200,000 rifles, 50,000 pistols. What's the matter? By the way, you convert the price to dollars, I don't understand your exchange rate, convert the price to dollars and give me a quote, thank you. ”
Mauser and they hurriedly began to convert the cost and price, ten minutes later, Mauser took a calculated price list and looked up at Gao Hongsheng with a blank face and said: "Mr. Gao, the price of 200,000 rifles is 25 US dollars each, a total of 5 million US dollars, the price of 50,000 Mauser pistols is 20 US dollars each, a total of 1 million US dollars, and the price of accessories is 3 million US dollars, including three sets of wearing parts including barrels, and the price of ammunition is 20 US dollars per 1,000 rounds, a total of 11 million US dollars. The total of the four items is $20 million, which is our lowest price. ”
Mauser's offer is really not high, it can be said that it is very cheap, but it can't stand the large amount, Gao Hongsheng has already thought that it may cost a lot of money to buy weapons, but he didn't expect that just a pistol and rifle would cost 20 million US dollars, according to the calculation that one pound is equal to five dollars, then it is equal to four million pounds.
Four million pounds is equivalent to all the net profit of the drugs that Gao Hongsheng brought over, that is, throwing away Albert's income and those that were sent out, all the drugs he brought this time can be sold to have an income of four million pounds.
However, 200,000 rifles and 50,000 Mauser pistols could not be produced in a day or two, and according to the data of later generations, it is estimated that it will take at least half a year to produce, so it is not too urgent, and he does not believe that he will not be able to sell all the medicines he brought with him in half a year.
You must know that as far as the current statistics of drug sales are concerned, he has sold more than one-tenth of them, which is less than ten days, and there are many places where he doesn't even know what his drugs are, and there is a lot of potential to be tapped.
As for why he is equipped with so many bullets per rifle, he also has his considerations, from the experience of later generations, the gun is easy to make bullets and difficult to do, so many black plus workshops in later generations to make an AK47 are the same as playing, but the bullets are all purchased by them, is the profit of bullets not high?
No, the profit of bullets is very high, so high that it is basically comparable to drugs, but the process of bullets is not something that can be produced casually, it is far more difficult to produce than AK47, and the investment is much larger.
The production line of bullets is all automated or semi-automatic production, and the complexity of the process is much more difficult than the production of a rifle.
A bullet is mainly composed of four parts: warhead, propellant, cartridge case, and primer, which seems very simple, but it is not so easy to produce, and it requires the division of labor and cooperation between different manufacturers to finally manufacture.
In the end, how a bullet is produced, I won't describe it one by one here, if you describe it in detail, it is estimated that you can't get it without tens of thousands of words, and if you are interested, you will find Du Niang and search it out.
Gao Hongsheng ordered a large number of bullets because the difficulty of manufacturing bullets far exceeded the difficulty of manufacturing guns, and at the same time, the guns at that time were very problematic, a shell gun was only equipped with 500 rounds of ammunition when it was purchased, in Gao Hongsheng's words, 500 rounds of bullets are enough to do a fart, even the training is not enough, good marksmanship is all fed with bullets, aiming at the target every day, and the experience gained from not firing a few shots is more, and the natural experience of fighting is more, and a soldier can not feed it without thousands of bullets.
Next, Gao Hongsheng communicated with Mauser about the delivery date and payment method of 200,000 rifles and 50,000 Mauser pistols, basically the same as Gao Hongsheng's estimate, 200,000 rifles and 50,000 Mauser pistols, Mauser Arsenal will take a year to deliver in five batches, and the payment method is always a deposit of 200,000 pounds, pay the full amount for each pick-up, and settle the final settlement at the end.
However, there is a small problem in this, that is, the twenty-round magazine used in the Mauser pistol, the Mauser Arsenal has not found a better way to produce, mainly because the electric welding technology of this era has not yet been applied in industrial flowers, and the helpless Gao Hongsheng had to provide a later generation of gas welding technology to the Mauser Arsenal.
Of course, Gao Hongsheng will not be kind enough to hand over to Mauser for free, he used this gas welding technology in exchange for the production rights of Mauser rifles and Mauser pistols in China from the Mauser Arsenal, but the patent fee also needs to be paid a little bit, about five percent of the price of the weapon, which is basically equivalent to not receiving the same, compared to the gas welding technology provided by Gao Hongsheng, it can be known from Mauser's smile that he has made a big deal.
Electric welding technology is more convenient and convenient than gas welding technology, but the technology of electric welding machine and welding rod is a systematic project, Gao Hongsheng is not kind enough to provide the most advanced technology to the Mauser Arsenal, a slightly backward oxyacetylene gas welding technology can already ensure the production of their own weapons.
In fact, the most important application direction of oxyacetylene gas welding technology in modern times is not welding but cutting, but welding is not very difficult, the force of a magazine is relatively small, and the welding quality can be guaranteed by directly using copper, which is also the main reason why Gao Hongsheng provides oxyacetylene welding technology.
However, Gao Hongsheng was not stingy enough to hide the oxyacetylene cutting torch, but generously provided all the technologies and the two nozzles of the cutting torch and the welding torch to Mauser, which is also the reason why Mauser hehe.
As for electric welding, he is not so kind, we must not underestimate the electric welding technology, electric welding technology has not been developed at that time, before the application of electric welding technology, the connection between the iron plate and the iron plate is mainly riveted by rivets.
The method of riveting is simply to rely on the technology of drilling holes and rivets to connect two pieces of solid together, and then riveting is like a button used when wearing clothes, buttoning both sides of the clothes together, which is riveting, and welding is to glue two things together with something that has melted, and they are one.
Riveting is much worse than welding, both in terms of firmness and portability of construction, and you can refer to the famous shipwreck Titanic.
The steel plate covered on its hull is riveted with rivets, and the main reason for the shipwreck is that the rivets of the riveted hull steel plate break in the extrusion at low temperatures, resulting in a large area of hull rupture.
"All right, Mr. Mauser. It was just a small business, now we have a big business to discuss, this is our design drawings, I hope your factory can help us produce the finished product, these are two weapons across the ages, I hope you can keep it secret. ”