Chapter 198 Military Industry Development

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86_86661 Chen Zhong briefed the president of Krupp on the situation of the Nanhai Arsenal in Hainan and talked about the development of Hainan's military industry, and many weapons were borrowed from Germany. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn addition to the German Krupp cannon, the German Model 1888 Mauser pistol is currently being copied.

Dr. Leonardo, an arms expert on King William who visited Hainan with President Krupp, introduced to Chen Zhong the development history of Mauser and the research and development of some new products in recent years.

Dr. Onardo said that Mauser & Co., King Frederick I of Württemberg, Germany, founded a royal arsenal in 1811 in Oberndorf, a small town in the Black Forest, Germany.

The plant began operations the following year, employing 133 workers and specializing in the production of weapons for the Prussian army.

In 1867, the Mauser brothers designed a rear-loading single-shot rifle with a rotary bolt based on the French Chasebo breech-loading gun, which was adopted by the German * team in 1871 and named the Type 71 rifle, which was the first Mauser rifle in history.

After William Mauser's death on January 13, 1882, Paul Mauser continued his research on small arms design.

In order to increase the rate of fire of the Type 71, Paul Mauser added a tubular magazine under the barrel, an improved version of which was later designated the Type 71/84 rifle.

In 1886, France took the lead in adopting the Lebel 1886 rifle with smokeless propellant as propellant, which greatly increased the muzzle velocity and effective range of the rifle bullet, and all countries in the world rushed to smokeless propellant technology.

Germany also needed to replace smokeless propellant rifles as soon as possible, so in 1888 a military commission combined smokeless propellant with the advanced technology of the Manlisa magazine and rifles of other countries, thus giving birth to the well-known "Commission Rifle" of the 1888 type, which fired rifle cartridges named "8x57j".

At that time, the design and production of German rifles were in the hands of Paul Mauser, who was very dissatisfied with the unauthorized design and adoption of the Type 88 rifle by the German * team, and began to work on the improvement of the Mauser rifle, and soon introduced the Mauser 1889 and Mauser 1891.

Later, Paul Mauser designed a shell hook that did not rotate with the bolt to provide ammunition supply reliability, and introduced the Mauser Model 1892 rifle; The Mauser Model 1893 rifle, introduced the following year, changed the single-row magazine to a double-row magazine, reducing the length of the magazine.

With this support, the Mauser soon became popular around the world, prompting Paul Mauser to refine and refine his designs, launching the Model 1894 and then the Model 1895.

Later, Mauser introduced a fully automatic pistol in 1896, which was called "20 shots", "box cannon" or "box gun" in China because its holster was a wooden box, with a caliber of 7.63mm, a weight of 1.25kg, and a muzzle velocity of ----427m/s. The automatic mode ---- the barrel with a short recoil type, and the firing mode is a single shot, with a capacity of 10 rounds.

The Mauser rifles, from Type 92 to Type 95, were sold to countries such as Belgium, Spain, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, the Republic of South Africa, China and Iran.

As the popularity of the Mauser grew, Paul Mauser gradually took full control of the shares in the Royal Arsenal, which was eventually reorganized into the Mauser Arms Manufacturing Company in 1897.

At present, the reason why King William appointed Leonardo to visit Hainan together is that he wants to recommend this C96 pistol to Hainan.

This pistol is very suitable for the use habits of the Chinese, and it is no longer within the scope of the embargo on weapons. Therefore, this time, the Mauser company hopes that Hainan will be interested in this pistol, and believes that it will be widely used in Hainan's army in the future.

Chen said that he was very interested in the product introduced by Dr. Leonardo, and that in the afternoon he would arrange for General Xiao Yang and weapons technical experts to have further negotiations on this product.

When talking about Hainan's future development and strategic direction, Chen Zhong had an in-depth discussion with the German industry delegation.

In addition to the domestic situation, Chen Zhong also talked about our neighbor Japan, and he stressed that our future war will definitely have a long confrontation with Japan.

Chen Zhong said that in the late Edo era of Japan in the mid-19th century, when Perry, the first American to "observe the political problems of Asia and the Pacific as a whole," led a fleet to knock on the border in Yokohama, Japan, like the Chinese Empire, was included in the scope of the Asia-Pacific policy of the Western powers.

With the signing of a series of unequal treaties and the establishment of semi-colonial status, how to avoid the doom of the Chinese Empire and move towards a modern state became a common issue among the thinkers of the end of the Edo period. The "Overseas Flying Theory" produced in the "Shoyi" ideology was a representative proposition of the pioneers of the reform school at the end of the Edo period, and Nobubuchi Sato and Shoin Yoshida were among the representative figures.

Influenced by the Japanese sinology that prevailed at the time, Nobubuchi Sato not only sketched a blueprint for world hegemony with Japan as the center, but also put forward specific policies in his writings. The most representative is his 1823 book "The Secret Strategy of Unai Mixing".

He believed that Japan, as an "imperial state," was "the foundation of all the nations of the world," and that "all the whole world should be its counties and counties, and the monarchs of all nations should be its vassals." Regarding the plan of "mixing with the United States", he proposed to annex China first, "once China has entered the territory, he will gradually admire the power of the Western Regions, the countries of Jiluo, and India, and seek subordination to the Portuguese and the courtiers"; In the book, he described in detail the "strategy of conquering China", proposing to conquer Manchuria first, and then to Korea and China.

It can be seen that this is a "secret strategy" to conquer Manchuria, annex China, and then conquer the world, and establish a world empire centered on Japan.

When Nobubuchi Sato was alive, his ideological influence was not too great. However, after the Meiji Restoration, Saigo Takamori, Okubo Toshitsu and others discovered and paid special attention to the above ideas. This is because Sato Nobubuchi's ideological system "includes various aspects that can be extracted in the course of Taisho, Showa, and modern Japanese history since the Restoration, and his ideas of external expansion and unification of the United States are appreciated as Japan's "forerunner of a highly national defense state system."

After Nobubuchi Sato, Yoshida Shoin influenced the leaders of the Meiji Restoration by word and deed. Yoshida Shoin put forward the policy of "compensating for each other's gains and losses" to protect the country.

He advocated that while Japan made peace with Europe and the United States, it should take from its neighbors those who lost to Europe and the United States: "Korea, Manchuria, and China, which are easy to take, and those who lose to Russia and the United States in trade, should be compensated by Korea and Manchuria with land." In addition, he went one step further in Sato's proposition, advocating that Japan should "take advantage of the gap to take over Manchuria and force Russia, invade Korea and spy on the Qing Kingdom, and take Nanzhou and attack India", so as to realize Toyotomi Hideyoshi's unsuccessful "suji".

Yoshida Shoin promoted his ideas at the same time as he founded the "Matsushita Village Juku" to train disciples. Many important leaders of the Meiji Restoration, such as: Kido Takayo, Ito Hirobumi, Yama Prefecture Aritomo, Inoue Shin and others, are all from Matsushita.

Yoshida Shoin's above-mentioned ideas naturally had a greater impact than Sato Nobubuchi in the early Meiji period.

During the end of the Edo period, the "theory of overseas flights" of thinkers represented by Sato Nobubuchi and Yoshida Shoin, as well as Japan's initial outline of Japan's foreign strategy, became the direct source of modern Japan's Asia-Pacific policy.

On February 8, 1868, after the Meiji Restoration began, Shin handed over Japan's first diplomatic document to the ministers of France, Britain, and the United States, and also issued its first diplomatic proclamation, declaring that it had "categorically agreed to conclude a peace treaty" and at the same time pledged to "vigorously increase its military armament and make the country's prestige glorious to all nations abroad, in order to respond to the gods of our ancestors and emperors."

On March 10, Emperor Meiji issued the "Edict on Foreign Peace" and on the 21st of March, and on the 21st, the "Edict on the Prohibition of Foreign Affairs" also expressed the same meaning. On April 6, Emperor Meiji led the princes to announce the "Five Oaths" to the inside and outside of the country, and at the same time issued the "Chenhan" to the country, which "appeased billions of trillions and proclaimed the prestige of the country", once again declaring that he "wants to inherit the great cause of the ancestors,...... Open up thousands of miles of waves and declare the national prestige in all directions".

At the beginning of the Meiji administration, the foreign policy announced was to "open up the country and make peace with the European and American powers" and expand externally by inheriting the "great cause of the ancestors" in order to "make the holy virtues glorious to all nations and put the world in peace and prosperity."

Under the guidance of this ideology, it is only a matter of time before the Japanese invade China, so actively preparing for war is our strategy that has always remained unchanged in Hainan.

The development of the military industry is the focus of Hainan for a long time in the future.

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