An engineer from the Gangnam Manufacturing Bureau clapped his hands, and the men stopped talking and turned their attention to him.

As soon as he beckoned, several sturdy men walked up. Each of them had a musket in his hand, the first person was holding a handcuff, the dark red wooden body, with shiny steel accessories, slender guns, and streamlined shape, making this 540 mm handcuff with a caliber of 14.5 mm very beautiful.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flintlock handcuff, which uses breech loading, which greatly reduces the gap between the bullet and the barrel, effectively prevents the leakage of gunpowder gas, and can maintain a stable flight trajectory of the bullet." The engineer proudly introduced in Mandarin.

Merchants from Spain, Portugal, Ottomans, Persia, England, Sweden, the Netherlands, France and other countries watched the handcuff carefully.

On the surface, there doesn't seem to be anything too special.

"Ladies and gentlemen, when the gun body is unlocked, the front of the gun body is folded down, and the chamber is opened, which is the pouting handle design we use. The hammer is on the rear body of the gun, and the cartridge can be mounted by removing the chamber. Such a breech reload can be faster and faster. ”

The engineer took the gun, unlocked the lock, and folded the front of the gun downward, so that the rear end of the chamber could clearly be seen with an anvil and spring. Shooters can easily mount ammunition because the chamber is very short, and the installation accuracy of front-loading ammunition will be much higher than that of ordinary guns.

In addition, this gun also has rifling, the chamber has eight rotating rifling, the appearance of the tail is thicker, in the shape of a round table, in line with the principle of chamber pressure change, but also convenient for the chamber to take and place.

The breech-loading rifled flintlock pistol, a small handcuff, has a lot of musket technology far beyond that of Europe.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this Tiger Handcuff, when used skillfully, can shoot as fast as eight bullets a minute."

An exclamation rang out.

Eight rounds a minute, that's quite remarkable, and an ordinary musket, two rounds a minute is not bad.

Europe has basically entered the era of flintlock pistols, but arquebuses are still in large numbers. In general, flintlock pistols are the trend of the times, but their flintlock pistol skills are too far behind those of the big Hans.

Now Dahan has launched such a pistol, not only a flintlock pistol, but also a rifled gun, not only a flintlock rifled, but also a flintlock rifled pistol.

However, Dahan took out this gun at this time, and he was not afraid that they would imitate it. Firearms are developing rapidly, and as long as someone is equipped, they can't hide it for long. But Dahan has more mature technology, as well as complete manufacturing technology, industrial chain, and huge production capacity.

In other words, Dahan manufacturing is cheaper, faster, and more productive.

This flintlock rear-loading rifled pistol is very good-looking, but it is not cheap, even if the Europeans can imitate it, but the cost and production capacity problems will greatly limit the use of their manufacturing. Now that flintlock pistol technology has matured, why are there still so many arquebuses in use? Because of the cost.

"Look at it, gentlemen." The engineer said to the European businessmen who were seriously looking at this handcuff, "What an advanced handgun, using many advanced technologies, to obtain a faster reloading and firing speed, a longer range, more accurate accuracy, such a wonderful handcuff, shipped to Europe, will definitely become a sought-after item for everyone to buy, whether it is at home or travel, a must-have good gun." ”

The Europeans agreed with that, and they could see that the gun was performing well.

But the rhetoric is unfounded, and then it's time for the presentation.

After a live-fire demonstration, the rate of fire, the range and the accuracy were really good.

"Gentlemen, such an excellent handcuff costs only twenty silver dollars each, which is very good and cheap."

Wumart everyone does agree, but it is by no means cheap.

Twenty silver dollars, converted into pounds, that's more than six pounds. Especially this is a handcuff, even if there are many advanced points, but the handcuff is a handcuff, which cannot be compared with a rifle. This kind of handcuff can be equipped by officers in the army, but it is also suitable for nobles or merchants to buy. It is easy to carry, and the power is not small.

The key point is that there is no one in Europe that can produce this kind of gun now.

After a moment of hesitation, people began to place orders.

Some businessmen ordered three or five hundred, but there were also some very strong companies that ordered a lot as soon as they opened their mouths. A Portuguese procured a thousand in one go. And one Spaniard directly doubled and purchased two thousand, and several Dutch, British, and Ottomans were not to be outdone, and placed orders for three thousand.

"Those damn Dutchmen actually bought three thousand in one go." An English merchant snorted coldly at an English companion.

"Damn Dutchman's money."

The Netherlands and England were both emerging maritime powers after Portugal and Spain began to weaken, and they were no more focused on maritime development than France, Ottomans, Persian Safi, Sweden, and Poland.

The two families are almost identical in the development of maritime trade, and at the same time they are competing for the lucrative industry of the slave trade, but the two are still neighbors across the strait.

The same interests and needs naturally lead to contradictions.

If it weren't for the civil war that broke out in England now, perhaps England and the Dutch would have already started fighting.

Overseas, the competition between the English merchant ships and the Dutch merchant ships was fierce, and the relationship between the shipowners was also strained.

"Three thousand handcuffs are nothing at all, even if such a good pistol is expensive, it will be deeply loved by those nobles, officers and merchants, as long as it is shipped back, it will be able to make a lot of money immediately."

"Shall we buy more, then?"

"Don't worry, this is the first gun, and there must be better guns to follow." The red-nosed English merchant came from the British East India Company, and he came to Dahan to purchase all kinds of ordnance, from warships and artillery to rifles and bayonets, and they were all ready to buy them in large quantities.

The war in Europe is still raging, France, Spain, Sweden, the Habsburg Empire are still fighting, and the English Civil War is still fought. However, for the British East India Company, this was a great time to make money.

When there is a war, the sale of arms is naturally the most profitable.

The armaments of the Han Dynasty are famous in the Western world, and they all know that the armaments of the Han Empire are excellent, especially their production capacity. No matter how much is needed, they can deliver quickly, the delivery is on time, and the goods are fine.

A new type of pistol was successfully sold for more than 50,000 pieces.

More than 50,000 pistols, perhaps handed over to any European country, would be enough for them to work for a year, but actually longer. But for the military industry of the Han Empire, this is just a big order.

There is already a lot of stock in the warehouse, and the rest can be delivered immediately.

In this era, only Dahan has a truly standardized military production capacity.

The muskets used in warfare by Europeans, whether Spain or England, have not yet reached the standard armament, let alone standardized production.

At present, the equipment of the armies of European countries is not uniformly provided by the state, or even by the armed forces. In the vast majority of countries, they are procured independently by the regiments and battalions that receive funding under the establishment. Although the army usually specifies the type, quantity, specification, and sometimes even the merchant, the result of this extensive procurement system is that the first regiment on the battlefield is equipped with Wang Mazi brand muskets, while the second regiment is equipped with Zhang Sanpai muskets, and the third regiment is equipped with Li Si brand muskets.

Without a unified system, there is no unified quality standard, without a unified quality standard, there is no centralized production, and without centralized production, it is difficult to better monitor in place.

As a result, when the army fights, it is equipped with a variety of muskets, the caliber is difficult to unify, and the guns and ammunition cannot be universal. There are even many defective products, just like the firearms of the Ming Dynasty, when fighting, often after pulling the board gun, bang, instead of killing and maiming the enemy, but blinding their eyes and blowing up their fingers.

Dahan has already implemented standardized production, unified procurement, and standard installation.

In fact, the standardization of Dahan is only guaranteed in terms of caliber and quality, and it is still difficult to achieve the complete interchangeability of parts and the precision machining of doctors' molds. But even so, Dahan's standardized production has also thrown the manufacturing of European countries by 108,000 miles.

At least Dahan's lead bullet can be universal, without the need for each soldier to bring a lead bar, and then bring a simple mold, and every time he is free, he has to melt the lead bar and process the lead bullet that matches the caliber of his rifle. Otherwise, lead bullet and rifle will always be mismatched.

Dahan's military industry has been able to implement the standardization of primary assembly lines, and the parts and components can also achieve a minimum standardization. This has greatly increased Dahan's production capacity.

The increase in production capacity is accompanied by a reduction in costs.

The pistol just now is just an appetizing dessert, although it uses a lot of advanced technology, but after all, it is not cost-effective, and it is difficult to equip the army on a large scale.

It's like medieval plate armor, gorgeous and dazzling, and the defense performance is really good, but even knights can't get a set of them, let alone ordinary soldiers.

This pistol launched by Dahan is destined to be used by nobles, officers, and wealthy businessmen.

If you want to make money and make a lot of money, the key is to have a large amount.

Dahan is very happy to see the melee in Europe, it is too far away, and Dahan can't intervene and doesn't want to intervene, but Dahan can still help them with some weapons to cheer.

In order to make the chaotic wars in European countries more chaotic, the imperial court has developed a rifle with very low cost and high cost performance, which is ready to be exported as a foreign trade weapon in large quantities.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please look at our latest excellent rifle, the Blue Dragon Flint Rifle."

Engineering picked up a spear and smiled to the group of European fat pigs full of anticipation. In the eyes of the engineers, these European businessmen are some big fat pigs, and the ordnance that the imperial court took out for export is not the most advanced and sophisticated, and it can only be said that the performance may be more cost-effective than that produced in Europe, but it is definitely far inferior to the Han's own equipment, but the price is definitely not cheap.

The rifle he was holding in his hand now was one meter six in length, one meter two in length in barrel, and weighed more than six pounds and less than seven pounds, or about nine pounds.

This gun is not rear-loaded, nor rifled, it is just a flintlock breech rifle, ordinary and ordinary, with a bayonet.

The handguard copper cap is made of copper, and the whole strip is made of steel.

Externally, this rifle is very simple and atmospheric, with a very long barrel.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this rifle is a land rifle, and each one is forty silver dollars, which is equivalent to more than six pounds, which is a very good deal."

As usual, it was a live-fire demonstration, and this musket did not have so many advanced technologies, but the live-fire effect was good, the rate of fire was fast, and the range and accuracy were slightly stronger than the flintlock rifles that the Europeans themselves used today.

Under the current infantry tactics of queuing up to shoot, the improvement of the rate of fire, range, and accuracy is undoubtedly very important.

Of course, it was the price that appealed to European businessmen.

Less than seven pounds a handful, no matter how you look at it, it's a great deal. In particular, they also saw that this gun still has a standardized guarantee, and the standardized production of rifles is very tempting for large-scale procurement of equipment for use.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have a total of four styles of the Qinglong type, this is a marine rifle, and there are also three styles of the short model, namely the Qinglong II cavalry gun, the Qinglong III marine rifle, and the Qinglong IV naval sailor rifle. We have specially developed and researched these four rifles for different arms and different combat environment needs. ”

Forty pieces a piece, a bayonet is delivered, and a customized paper bullet can be provided for sale.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now we have 200,000 in stock, and we are in the gun store, so we must hurry up if we need them. First come, first served, last start, can only wait for the factory to produce. ”

The English East India Company was immediately the first to place an order.

"Twenty-five thousand!"

"Well, this gentleman from England has taken the first place, twenty-five thousand Blue Dragon rifles. As soon as it is a big order of one million, it is heroic and refreshing! ”

"I want 10,000!" Businessmen from Portugal also immediately intervened.

"Okay, it's 10,000 again, everyone, the two orders are already 35,000, and there are still 165,000 left, everyone hurry up. Hands are fast, hands are slow! ”

Several managers of the Nanyang Company and the Jiangnan Manufacturing Company accompanied several officials from the imperial court to the side, all looking at the lively rush scene with a smile on their faces.

"It's really arrogant that these guys don't even pay back the price."

"When you bring these people together, don't you just let them fight? But your price is really ruthless, it's actually forty yuan a piece. A seven-rank official said with a smile.

A standard Qinglong type land combat rifle, produced on a standardized assembly line, the total cost is actually only fifteen silver dollars, which is equivalent to only 2.5 pounds, and this cost still includes taxes.

Now they are forty dollars as soon as they sell, which is not FOB, and it does not include transportation. The European buyers had to ship it back themselves, and in addition to the forty dollars, they had to pay a tax of up to twenty-five percent, which was another ten silver dollars.

The manager of Jiangnan Manufacturing Company said with a smile, "We are only responsible for production, and the goods are exported to Nanyang Company, and they take the goods from us, but they are not as expensive as forty." ”

The manager of Nanyang Company pouted, "It's not forty, it's only thirty." Good guys, your cost is only fifteen, or after tax, and as a result, it has doubled from us, and it has doubled the profit. ”

"We are also very hard, okay, your Nanyang company is making an easy profit, but it is a little bit of a handover, in the name of export, but you are just taking the lead in the middle, and the goods are just from our warehouse into your warehouse, and then handed over to Xiyi, you can make ten yuan from a handful, you are a real profit."

The manager of Nanyang Company smiled, "I think the imperial court is the most profitable, you make guns, they collect taxes, we sell, they also collect taxes, and when people buy them back, they have to pay another tax before leaving the country." Especially the last tax, 25 percent, oh my God, it's like robbing money. ”

"The court doesn't make money, who makes money, not to mention that it's the money of the ghosts."

"If we sell so many arms, it won't cause us any trouble, right?"

"What can be the consequences, these ordnance sold are all export models, large road goods, very low-end. Second, we can make three more guns for the money we make from selling him a gun. These ghosts have all obtained so many weapons, and the dog's brains that have already been beaten have come out, and now they have to beat all the brains, with our arms supply, it is estimated that they will only fight even more. ”

The official still had something to say, and when the arms export reached a certain scale, the imperial court would even be able to influence the situation in European countries through the arms export. For example, in this civil war between the king of England and the parliament, if the king can't fight by then, the court will sell them more weapons, and if the parliament can't win, it will sell more arms to the parliament.

Selling arms is also promising.

You can earn so much with one gun, and this is not even the beginning of selling artillery and warships. In addition, they bought guns and cannons, and they also had to buy gunpowder shells.

That's a bigger thing than guns.

It is said that the British came up with any way to find nitrate. The nitrate workers even went to the church, saying that English women would urinate on church chairs, and urine could be used to extract nitrate.

"Our big man's guns and ships, I guess these ghosts want to buy them back. I'm just worried, do they have so much money to pay? ”

The foreign trade between the Han Dynasty and other countries has always been smooth.

Now they are going to buy so many arms again, do they have enough money to pay the bill?

"You don't have to worry about this, they don't have colonies, even if there is not enough gold and silver, there are still a lot of raw materials, no matter what the raw materials are, we will collect them. Besides, none of these ghosts trade slaves, and they can also use slaves at a discount. It's really not good, they all have many overseas colonies and strongholds, why don't they just use these colonies to pay at a discount? ”

The Han Dynasty never had to worry that these European merchants could not afford to pay, these merchants said to be merchants, but in fact, many of them had national backgrounds, such as the Dutch East India Company, the British East India Company, etc. They had no money, no raw materials, no slaves, no overseas colonies, and no trading posts along the coast of the eastern and western oceans.

Dahan is very welcome to use these to pay for the price. (To be continued.) )