After getting this Mr. Depan, Liang Pengfei began to look at the construction and production of other factories on King Crab Island, the original wide and desolate King Crab Island, now in Liang Pengfei's eyes has become a different look, the original scattered houses in the east and west have disappeared, replaced by three-story buildings, the use of cement masonry structure houses are not only strong enough, but also after upgrading the level of the building, so that the building space has been expanded vertically.

The standardized construction has made King Crab Island, whose population has surged to 20,000, not only not crowded, but like a thriving vitality. The residential area is separated from the factory area.

The factory area is the largest area on King Crab Island. There are glass factories, gun factories, steel smelters, picric acid production plants, as well as newly established mines and nitrocellulose production plants, as well as various related industrial factories. After the steam engine arrived, according to Liang Pengfei's instructions, a special area was also set up in a special area.

More than 10,000 people have been invested in these factories alone, and there are two academies on King Crab Island, one is dedicated to Western science, and the other is a professional military academy specializing in Western military and navigation.

Compared with the academy that currently has less than 700 students, the students of the military academy are overcrowded, you know, Liang Pengfei's current military strength is expanding rapidly, and the elites and middle and lower-level commanders in those armies are all taking turns to enter the academy here in batches to study. So that the number of students at the military academy was always kept at about three thousand.

Because of the large demand for steel and copper, and the site on King Crab Island is far from enough to build a large-scale steel plant, Liang Pengfei has already discovered a large high-purity copper mine in the central Luzon Islands, and then placed the copper smelter in the ore production area. The steel production plant was also moved to the northern part of Na An for construction some time ago. The steel smelter here is not large, and it is not based on output, but a large number of smelting experts are gathered here to study, how to improve the efficiency and productivity of smelting, and how to implement industrial production of tungsten, titanium, manganese and other synthetic metals required by Liang Pengfei, which can only be regarded as a metal smelting laboratory.

Although the development of this thing is slow, and the investment is not expensive, but Liang Pengfei has mastered so many mineral deposits, and his net worth is now not afraid of doing money-burning work, so he doesn't mind, but is happy to see it, the most important thing is that around these smelting experts, all are Chinese craftsmen, they can learn a lot of things from it, and it can be regarded as indirectly cultivating a large number of human resources.

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"This is the gun factory, and it is also the largest factory on our King of Crabs Island, and there are 3,000 workers alone." Liang Pengfei's side, a Liang family steward looked attentive and proudly introduced.

"Now, the firearms we produce here are all produced according to the standardized and assembly line operation method instructed by you, young master, and the efficiency has indeed increased several times, and now we can make a hundred flintlock guns, five artillery guns, and five unconscionable cannons every day. However, because the consumption of gunpowder for the unconscionable cannon was so great, only thirty guns were produced each month for the central Luzon islands, unless necessary. In addition, we send 50 artillery pieces and 1,000 flintlock muskets to the central Luzon Islands every month, and the remaining quantities are sold to Annam and the Republic of Lanfang according to your requirements. ”

"In fact, we can increase production, but the master said that the young master can only ask for a basic output, so we didn't continue to increase production."

"Well, that's what I said, today's production is not only enough to make up for our consumption, but also for export, for the time being." Liang Pengfei saw the expression of the steward, smiled and explained: "Because flintlock pistols will soon be eliminated, there is no need to expand their production, and in the future, they will all become our export products." ”

"Knock out? Young master, you're not kidding, are you? Although the flintlock pistols produced here dare not be said to be the best, they are definitely first-class firearms, even the flintlock pistols used by the Xiyi national army are not much stronger than ours, how can they be eliminated? The steward looked incredulous.

However, after the steward saw the revolver held by Liang Pengfei in his hand, his eyes became more greedy than that talented Depan, although he has now become a steward, but after all, he has been born and died in the pirate industry for many years, and after seeing the revolver in Liang Pengfei's hand that can carry six bullets, he was quite excited.

Liang Pengfei ignored the sparkling gaze of the steward and Monk Chen and others, and while playing with the left-handed revolver, he exchanged experiences with the British technician.

Colt's invention of the revolver was the world's first truly successful and widely used revolver. But before that, someone had already begun to develop a revolver, but it was not fully popularized, Liang Pengfei still remembers that when he went to England to do business in later generations, he once saw a lighter revolver made before 1650 in the museum of the Royal Combined Forces in Whitehall, England, with a caliber of 12.7 mm, and the barrel and revolver are made of copper.

And the one in Liang Pengfei's hand is also made of copper, but it is much more delicate than that one, and because it is a design drawing provided by Liang Pengfei, it is closer to the revolver of later generations.

"According to your orders, Your Excellency General, we use copper as the bullet case, thunder mercury as the primer, nitrocellulose as the propellant, and the warhead is made of copper and lead core, and the effective range can be as high as 100 yards, and it can cause effective damage within 150 yards. It's definitely a great initiative. The British mechanic who made this revolver was also quite excited, and said to Liang Pengfei with a gesture.

"It's just too heavy." Liang Pengfei shook his head a little helplessly, after all, it was made of copper, and at that time, in order to increase the range, Liang Pengfei asked them to use an eight-inch barrel, as a result, although the range of this gun increased, the weight also increased a lot.

However, Liang Pengfei still can't put it down, after all, this thing is already a high-end weapon in this era, six bullets were tried, two were dumbfired, but the remaining four shots all hit the target placed at a distance of 100 meters.

"Young master, this kind of gun, I'm afraid it can be used on a rainy day, right?" Bai Shusheng saw that his hands were itchy, and he took it and opened a round, after all, this guy was one of the sharpshooters of the Lao Liang family, except for the first shot that missed the target, the remaining four shots all hit the target, and there was still a bullet that was dumb fire. However, for this small flaw, Bai Shusheng didn't care too much, and asked a question that he was more concerned about.

"That's right, these bullets and firearms are completely capable of being used in bad weather and environments." Liang Pengfei nodded, you know, the climate in the Nanyang area is too humid, and the bad weather is often frequented, which is not a good thing for the Liang family, who has been equipped with a large number of gunpowder weapons.

If it weren't for the fact that those natives didn't have any combat effectiveness, didn't understand what the art of war was, and didn't know that the rainy season or rainy days were a deadly killer for gunpowder weapons, they would definitely cause a lot of trouble to the Liang family's army.

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But now, with a revolver and a firearm that can be used in a harsh natural environment, that trace of worry has also been driven away from Liang Pengfei's heart.

"Tut-tut, if we have this thing, we are still afraid of a bird in the broadside battle, with a knife in one hand and a gun in the other, one person can definitely knock over more than a dozen of the other party." Not to be outdone, Monk Chen expressed his opinion.

His opinion made Liang Pengfei wake up, indeed, in this era, broadside battles still account for a considerable proportion, especially when the small fleet encounters, broadside battles can be said to be the key to victory, in the past, relying on the number of people and the value of force, if their side has this kind of medium-distance lethal weapons, kill a few first, and then draw a knife to play with life, which can definitely greatly improve the winning rate.

"First build a production line with at least 30 revolvers, and try to produce a batch of them, which will be given priority to the fighters of the fleet, and no, to the bandit units in the central Luzon Islands. Investments in the bullet production line must be accelerated, at least to ensure that firearms have sufficient ammunition reserves. In addition, the surname of the bullet can be improved at best, and there were three bullets in the twelve bullets, which is very likely to make my soldiers bleed or even sacrifice their lives because of this. Mr. Fair, I hope you understand. ”

"Of course, you are right, there is no doubt that a small mistake will cost a life, there is no doubt about it, Your Excellency General, I will definitely work hard to prevent such a thing from happening again." The British weapons mechanic Fell nodded vigorously to show his understanding of Liang Pengfei's order.

Seeing Fair's performance, the smile on Liang Pengfei's face was a little more. "Also, as a reward, I will pay you fifty pounds of gold as a reward for the work you have done for me."

"Fifty pounds of gold?! My God, honorable General Liang, you are so generous, may God bless you, I will definitely try. If Liang Pengfei hadn't stopped him, maybe he would have fallen at Liang Pengfei's feet at this moment and kissed his shoes to show his gratitude.

"It's nothing, you deserve it, in addition, I have a drawing here, it's a spear, I hope you can make a sample gun as soon as possible, if you can succeed, I will not only pay you another fifty pounds of gold, but also give you a new position, the technical director of the King of Crabs Island Arsenal, your monthly salary will be five times the current one." Liang Pengfei patted Fair's shoulder and dropped a huge bait.

In addition to the revolver, the research and development of artillery is also underway, but compared to the success of the revolver, the research and development of artillery is much slower, however, Liang Pengfei soothed those hard-working technicians with kind words, he did not urge and ask them to complete it as soon as possible, but just made some suggestions he knew, so that they could continue to develop.

Although the progress is slow, however, the development of the air and water pressure re-entry machine has been successful, this is a very simple principle of the re-entry machine, and it is precisely because of the invention of the French in history that the hydraulic gas type stationary re-entry machine has made the artillery no longer use the bulky gun carriage, and is more conducive to the shooting of the gun and the reduction of the displacement of the artillery.

After inspecting everything on the island, Liang Pengfei, who was full of joy, finally rushed back to Guangzhou to make final preparations for his life events.

(To be continued)