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The threat had its effect, but the treaty remained inconclusive. Li Hongzhang had a perfect enough reason to confront Ito: he was injured and needed some rest to be unable to attend the negotiations. This reason was so reasonable that Japan's two plenipotentiary ministers, somewhat annoyed, agreed to put the negotiations on hold for the time being.

However, after fully seeing the madmanic spirit of the Japanese people and being threatened, Li Hongzhang, who was seriously frightened, agreed to send the Japanese side's terms of peace to Beijing for discussion. It will be a long, wordy, and unexpected process, with countless heated quarrels and changes such as the addition of Li Jingfang as Minister Plenipotentiary, but it is also a necessary process.

The two plenipotentiaries had neither the courage nor the authority to sign the treaty until they received clear instructions from the Emperor and, more importantly, the Queen Mother.

It is foreseeable that the signing of the treaty will continue to drag on until April.

Everything is still developing as Qin Lang understands.

So he remained indifferent to the situation in the Far East, and even the news of Li Hongzhang's assassination did not attract much attention to him, and in the whole incident, only East•Hartman's positive actions wasted Qin Lang's time - he suddenly realized that it was necessary to conduct some training of the elite of the guards and mercenaries of the secret service.

Since Umbrella is a "security service company", it is only natural that providing security services to important bigwigs should also be the company's business.

Qin Lang felt that this was a very good idea.

But now, he had to put the idea on hold. The company's mercenaries had not yet completed their physical training, and it was too early to train them to be VIP guards, and Qin Lang didn't know much about VIP guard tasks. Finally, there is more important work waiting for him in his field of expertise.

Qin Lang had to continue to improve the mortar, to choose a new type of small-caliber ammunition for the small-caliber carbine that Browning was about to start designing, and even had to assist Browning in designing the carbine, and finally, he had a new problem.

Qin Lang raised his head and looked at Otto•Novotny sitting in front of him. "Mr. Novotny, what are you looking for me? Have you finished designing? ”

"Nope." The German replied, "Actually, I came to you because I had a request, sir." ”

"What requirements?"

"I wish I could choose a pistol cartridge again, sir." "According to my calculations, it would never have been possible to reduce the empty weight of the new automatic weapon I designed to 4.5 kilograms if I had used the pistol cartridges produced by the company," Novotny explained...... Under ten pounds. So, I asked to re-choose a smaller caliber. ”

"Oh?" Qin Lang raised his eyebrows. "That is, if I meet your requirements and choose a small-caliber pistol cartridge, you can reduce the mass of the empty gun to less than ten pounds? Mr. Novotny, do you think so? ”

If this is the case with Novotny, then he is clearly overly optimistic. The Finns' Sumi submachine gun used a nine-millimeter Balabellum pistol cartridge, but its empty gun mass was not much different from that of the Thomson submachine gun with .45ACP pistol cartridges, both around ten pounds - so it was clear that if the production process and material technology did not advance, reducing the caliber would not effectively reduce the empty mass of the firearm.

But Novotny was not Qin Lang, and he hadn't heard of any kind of firearm that could be used as a reference, so he was quite optimistic and confident. "Of course, sir, as long as the caliber of the new gun is reduced to nine millimeters, I can control the quality of empty guns to less than ten pounds."

"You promise?"

"I promise."

"Okay then," Qin Lang nodded. Why should Mr. Novotny stop him, when he intends to make his situation worse - and the assurances he has just given have removed the only excuse available to him after his defeat? "You can develop a new bullet." He announced.

But this was not what the Germans hoped for. "I'm sorry, sir," Novotny said awkwardly, spreading his hands apologetically, "I don't have the ability to develop ammunition. ”

"You've surprised me, Mr. Novotny." In fact, there is nothing surprising in this, although the famous gunsmiths of this era have developed at least one famous gun cartridge, but after all, Mr. Novotny is only an unknown little person in history, and he cannot develop ammunition...... Although it wasn't what Qin Lang wanted to see, he also admitted that it was indeed reasonable.

But Qin Lang still felt that his original decision was a mistake. "You've surprised me, Mr. Novotny." He repeated it once.

"I told you, I'm sorry, sir." Novotny said apologetically.

"You don't look like the Germans I know at all," Qin Lang said in a tone that wasn't just sarcastic, "So, since you don't have the ability to develop new ammunition, how are you going to get the nine-millimeter pistol cartridges you need?" ”

"Germans are not always rigorous and rigid, sir." Novotny shrugged, "As for ammunition, it's more convenient to choose an off-the-shelf product that is already on the market, but I'd prefer that the company can develop a new nine-millimeter pistol cartridge." I must say that the company produces too few varieties of ammunition. ”

Of course, both he and Qin Lang knew that "too little" was just a rough, discounted description. The Great Viper Arms Company currently produces not too few varieties of ammunition, but very few - only four.

Taking into account the future development of the company, it is absolutely necessary to develop a new pistol cartridge as soon as possible.

But Qin Lang didn't like to do it at all.

The reason is simple: he can only do it himself. There were only two people in the entire arms company who were capable of developing high-performance ammunition: him and Browning, but now Browning did not have the time and energy to do this. There was already a lot of work that he was tasked with, and if he was given new tasks, the gunsmith would be very unhappy.

And now, Qin Lang couldn't afford Browning's anger.

But...... Qin Lang thought about it again, even if Browning had the time and energy, he couldn't give him the task...... And it can't be handed over to anyone else. If you look at the problem from the perspective of the future development of the company, and not simply for the sake of tossing Otto•Novotny, the work of developing new ammunition can only be done by him himself.

Only he himself knows which nine-millimeter pistol cartridge will meet the requirements. There is only one nine-millimeter pistol cartridge in the world that can occupy the market for a long time and is suitable for automatic weapons, and that is the nine-millimeter Balabellum pistol cartridge.

This pistol cartridge, which was born in 1902, was still in mass production until the beginning of the twenty-first century and was widely used in all kinds of pistols and submachine guns - although most of them were improved models, it is also an irrefutable fact that its vitality is extremely tenacious.

The nine-millimeter Balabellum pistol cartridge has a high commercial value, so if you want to develop a nine-millimeter ammunition, it is the only suitable option.

And this work obviously cannot be left to Browning. The gunsmith knew nothing about this type of ammunition, and he didn't like it when someone dictated his work, and to make matters worse, all of the bullets he had developed throughout history were low-powered ammunition for self-defense, with the exception of .45ACP. If Browning had been in charge of developing the nine-millimeter Balabrum, perhaps he would have developed a 9×19-millimeter .38ACP......

However, it was not easy for Qin Lang to complete the development of the nine-millimeter barabylum by himself. Firstly, he did not have the time and energy to do so, and secondly, unlike the four previous types of cartridges and the small-caliber rifle cartridges he was working on, he could not find any valuable references, either physical objects or memories, related to this pistol cartridge.

In fact, although a bit ridiculous but unquestionable, Qin Lang lacked knowledge of all nine-millimeter pistol bullets except for .357 Magnum.

From the time he became a lover of firearms, until now he had only preferred large-caliber or high-powered pistols, and all pistols of calibre below ten millimeters could not arouse his interest, and naturally he knew very little about the ammunition used in these pistols - even the nine-millimeter Balabrum pistol cartridge.

Even he is trying to avoid using it. Even if he went to the store to pick up a Glock pistol, Qin Lang would choose a Type 21 or 22 instead of the standard Model 17 [Note 2].

Therefore, in his college days, Qin Lang had never been exposed to this extremely widely used bullet, and his understanding of it was only limited to the caliber of the bullet, the length of the cartridge case, and the shape. This bit of common-sense knowledge has no value at all for the work to be done.

"This is really bad," Qin Lang felt very depressed about his past mistakes, "If I had known that I would encounter the current situation, I should have spent more time getting familiar with this bullet." ”

"What do you say, sir?" He spoke Chinese, so Novotny didn't know what he said.

"Nothing, Mr. Novotny." Qin Lang said he didn't want the Germans to know about his troubles. "Now you can leave, the problem of novice pistol bullets, I will solve it for you."

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Note: Several pistol cartridges developed by Browning, except for .45ACP, the rest of the more famous ones, such as .25ACP, .32ACP and .38ACP, are relatively less powerful self-defense pistol ammunition.

Note 2: In the Glock pistol, the Model 21 uses .45ACP pistol cartridges, the Model 22 uses .40S&W pistol cartridges, and the Model 17 uses 9mm pistol cartridges

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