The Tang people's fanfare in Ou recruited troops to build an army, which naturally made the shogunate more vigilant and fearful, and also made the shogun Tokugawa Isaharu completely lose the mind to confront the Tang people, and only hoped that the two could be safe. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The shogunate agreed to sign the Los Angeles Agreement with the Tang Dynasty, in large part because Tokugawa Ieji also wanted to work hard to change the situation in Japan facing the weakness of the Tang Dynasty. I hope to learn from the advanced points of Datang and strengthen myself. This idea is good, and it is also one of the national characteristics of the Japanese, choose the strong, and learn from the strong.

On the other side, it was the Americans who knocked on Japan's door, and the Americans were not very enthusiastic about acquiring colonies, but more interested in trade. Later, Britain and other European powers also came to Japan, but due to Japan's poverty and lack of products, coupled with the courage of the Japanese, the great powers were not interested in increasing their actions in Japan, and although Japan was in crisis, there was no risk of national destruction. The advantage of the ship being small and good to turn around, coupled with the characteristics of the autonomy of the powerful feudal clans, made them quickly move towards the Boshin War, and finally the Meiji Restoration began.

But in this plane, Datang directly knocked down the Japanese with one punch, and poached Okuyu on them alive, the British and Americans lack interest in Japan, but the Tang people are full of joy in life just by molesting the Japanese. Tokugawa Isaharu was not aware of this, and still wanted to survive in the cracks.

After Tanuma Yoshiji signed the contract on behalf of the Japanese shogunate, he immediately made some new requests.

The Japanese shogunate wanted to send students to Datang to learn about the advanced culture of Datang, and this was agreed. However, modeled after the treatment of those Chinese students studying in Japan in the early 20th century, Datang will brainwash them first. They are also assigned to separate classes. The content of the lectures will also be completely different from Datang's own students. The Okuyu Overseas Consulate also plans to open a school. International students in Japan can study nearby. Of course, whether to stay in Ou or go back to Japan is another matter.

Then there is the desire for industrialization. Since the shogunate at this time was not the Meiji government, which had achieved complete unification in another country, it was unable to break down the barriers, cultivate a unified national market, and achieve comprehensive unification of transportation and communications. Therefore, the efforts of the shogunate were mainly focused on iron making, industrial and mining, and civilian products. In this regard, Datang's local industry also has a strong desire to export, but it obeys the country's strategic needs. There were restrictions on the export of machinery and equipment from the shogunate. However, it turned out that this restriction was actually unnecessary, because the shogunate's finances were very limited, and it was impossible to purchase a large number of machines from the Tang people. On the contrary, some of Japan's powerful feudal clans have made purchases in this regard. Datang's main exports to Japan are steam-powered mining equipment and a variety of new tools. Spinning machines, machine tools and other machines are exported in relatively limited quantities.

This level is not comparable to the scale of the Meiji Restoration, and the Tang Dynasty is not worried about Japan's development at all, because it can easily destroy Japan's modernization efforts by taking action on its own or provoking the struggle between the powerful feudal domains and the shogunate.

In addition to studying abroad and industry. The shogunate's main concern was actually the military. The Tang warships bombarded Edo, resulting in the destruction of a third of the city. 100,000 people killed; The Tang army crisscrossed the northeast, and the army of the daimyo had no power to resist at all, and could only be defeated in the face of powerful firepower. This made the shogunate see that a new type of army must be built to adapt to the situation of the war. However, the shogunate did not recognize the need for reform of the military system, and was more concerned with military equipment. This also shows that the shogunate is outdated and outdated in terms of ideology. Tanuma Yiji took out a long list, hoping to purchase advanced armaments from Datang. The first batch of orders included the shogunate's request for 10,000 Tang-made muskets, 10 coastal defense heavy guns, 40 field guns, and related ammunition. In addition, the shogunate also wanted to buy steam warships built by the Datang.

In 1780, the Tang Army officially began to replace itself with new standard rifles, and the S1 rifle slowly began to be phased out of the Tang Army, and was only used to equip the Wuwei Army, the Wuyi Army, and the Foreign Legion. The Datang military-industrial giant NORINCO also encountered its own mortal enemy, the Southern Industries Group, a new arsenal founded in 1778. After the establishment of Southern Industry, it set up a lot of weapons. After the tender for the final assembly of the Ministry of National Defense, Southern Industries launched the S9 semi-automatic rifle of the World War II chowder type. NORINCO launched the S10, which imitates the five-and-a-half-half-power medium-power carbine semi-automatic rifle, and even the S11 assault rifle, which is almost a replica of Kalashnikov.

When choosing, the Ministry of Defense first ruled out the S11, which was equipped with assault rifles, which was to make trouble for themselves, and most of the enemies of the Don Army even used flintlock pistols and broadsword spears, and it was not advisable to use assault rifles in terms of cost and logistics. However, due to the realization of the S11 gun family, on the basis of the original assault rifle, the squad machine gun and short assault rifle have been developed, and the Ministry of Defense plans to replace some of the S6, S8 and other automatic weapons with the S11. The sky is also a class equipped with two.

In the semi-automatic competition, Southern Industries actually copied the M1 Garand, SVT-40 and G43 from World War II, but these guns have their own advantages and disadvantages. In the end, Southern Industry decided to develop a new semi-automatic rifle on the basis of these three rifles, which is now the S9.

The S9 semi-automatic rifle is still used with the 7. The 62x61 mm bullet is an inheritance of the S1 bolt-action rifle. It adopts a long-stroke air conduction and offset locking structure, and because it is a replay of the existing design, it can be said to be a replay of the existing design. This gun is lighter than the M1, has fewer parts than the G43, is shorter than the SVT-40, and has better serviceability. It is fed with a 10-round magazine, which is more convenient than the M1 in terms of reload and rate of fire. Its only problem, due to the use of offset locking, for materials and processing requirements are relatively high, but Datang's military factory is not those military factories that did not have the concept of tolerance and management level during World War II, after all, the modern public still brought a lot of ideas for later generations, the cost of materials is actually not a problem, no more than a few cents, and once mass production, dilution can be ignored.

Of course, this gun cannot reach the level of completely crushing the M1 Garand in terms of accuracy, range and power, but for the Tang Army, it is completely sufficient, and it must not be called inferior.

However, the S9's opponent is a medium-power rifle that can carry a larger number of S10 semi-automatic rifles, which are lighter and simpler. The accuracy is not bad, and the recoil is much less than that of the S9. Derived from the design of the Soviet SKS, plus the same change to magazine feed, the S10 is also a very good rifle. However, after considering the actual situation, the military believes that the power and range of the S10 are more suitable for the battlefield in the current environment, and the main purpose of the Tang Army's operation is to cause casualties to the enemy at a longer distance, rather than continuous combat. In addition, the bullets of the S9 are common to the S1, which is also a convenient condition. Of course, the s9 is the 7 used. A 62x39mm medium-power rifle cartridge that is also a cartridge for the S11 assault rifle. If an infantry squad is generally equipped with S10 and S11 assault rifles and squad machine guns, the bullets are completely uniform. However, the military is still concerned about the reduction in range, and still uses the S9 as a new generation of standard weapons. Southern Industries defeated Northern Industries to receive orders for more than 30,000 S9 semi-automatic rifles, while Northern Industries received orders for 10,000 S10 semi-automatic rifles and 5,000 S11 assault rifles and 1,000 S11C squad machine guns to replace the S2 carbine.

S9 is on top, S1 is Xian, and this does not seem to have much impact on the Japanese shogunate's military procurement. But in fact, due to the change of clothing of the Tang Army, and the European powers have launched their own imitation or self-made paper shell bullet rifles, so in order to compete, the price of the SC-2 has also been adjusted to 65 Tang Yuan. The average price of the paper shell rifled guns peddled by Europeans is now about 70 yuan, and the cost is relatively high due to process problems. The SC-2 is still cheaper than the European rifle after the price adjustment, and it is still much higher than its own cost price.

Southern Industry is also optimistic about the export market for foreign trade weapons, the SC-2 weapon, the number of exports of North Industry in recent years is extremely amazing, plus the sales of ammunition and related accessories, directly exceeded 10 million Tang Yuan. Therefore, Nanfang Industry continued to set up (mountain) plan (village) to produce a rifle for foreign trade, the prototype of which was the classic rifle Sharps SC-3 in the second half of the nineteenth century. This rifle has begun to use metal fixed cartridges, which have a relatively large caliber of 12. 7 mm, but the actual kinetic energy is not large compared to the active weapons of the Tang Army, the muzzle velocity is only about 360 meters per second, and the effective firing range is 500 yards.

Obviously, this SC-3 rifle is a step further than the SC-2, and there is a certain increase in range and power, and the shooter does not need to clean the burning barrel of the paper shell bullet, but because the bullet is still black powder, there will still be residues, and it needs to be cleaned regularly, but it is longer than the SC-2.

It's just that after this gun came out, it was banned from being sold by the state, at least for a few years, Southern Industries will not see it sold to the outside world, but the SC-3 and some shotguns are allowed to be sold in the colonies, such as the residents of Borneo, who need these things for self-defense.

As for the field guns purchased by the Japanese shogunate, there were SC1776 70-mm field guns, and the order for shore defense guns was given to the Second Electromechanical Company. The No. 2 Machinery Factory accepted the naval gun business from the former NORINCO to the navy, and also developed the SC1779 130mm gun, which can be used as shore defense guns and naval guns.

The price of warships was naturally not comparable to ordinary guns, and Japan could not afford to buy three or four thousand tons of cruisers bought by the French and Spaniards, or even small protective cruisers of more than 1,000 tons ordered by the Qing naval divisions, and finally the Japanese bought four 600-ton gunboats with 10 long-barreled 76-mm guns. These gunboats were named Kankan Maru, Xianlin Maru, Huitian Maru, and Panryu Maru. Originally, it was a sailing ship of about 1,000 materials in Zheng He's fleet, which was equipped with steam power, armor and armament. The asking price is also quite dark, 150,000 Tang yuan, and four ships are 600,000.

You have to buy it if it's expensive. (To be continued.) )