In the office of the Manchester City War Department, the navy boss Wang Tiehammer and several army bigwigs were circulating back and forth with a document in their hands.

After reading the document, it was passed back to Liu Yun, who was sitting at the end.

This document is precisely a proposal for the export of reloaded guns and artillery on active duty, and Liu Yun needs to get accurate answers from several military bigwigs when he comes here today.

Although the Military Research Institute has already made breech guns, the guns currently equipped by Australia's three major arms, including the navy, are still Type 1640 breech rifles, and the troops that are really equipped with the new breech flintlock guns are only one squad.

At this time, Liu Yun came up with such a controversial plan in the military, and I have to say that it does not make people wonder whether he has any ulterior dealings with the British in private.

"Liu Yun, your report is good, if the obsolete weapons that have been replaced can be exported, it can indeed save some military spending, but according to what we know so far, no one in European countries at the same time has a firing distance as far as ours."

As a military figure, Chen Wenqing naturally hopes that the weapons used by all countries except the Australian army will have a certain generation difference with himself, as a person who has traveled through the country, he knows the importance of new weapons to a country in later generations.

So from the point of view of the military figures, almost all of them are the same, they actually know that the export of old weapons is a good thing, it can add an additional military spending to the military, and it can even save some military funding for the executive committee.

However, this does not mean that they agree to do so, and once other countries have mastered this weapon that is more advanced than their own, it is worth thinking about whether they will soon imitate it and develop new weapons based on it.

However, in terms of Liu Yun's thinking, as an agent and a factor of supremacy over Australian power, he hopes that through arms exports, he can disrupt the internal affairs of some European countries, so as not to gain more time for Australia's development, and completely pull the technological generation gap between him and Western countries in this time and space to two or three generations, which can be said to be a long-term plan for him.

This plan is what he discussed with Zhao Shijie at the beginning of the plan to call the European-stirring stick, from the perspective of the existing Australian power, it seems that it is impossible for Australia to rely on the power of its lone hero to expose the European countries, and the only thing that can be done is to make the contradictions between European countries continue to increase, and the future of the maritime hegemon Britain has been in civil strife.

Of course, in this regard, Australia can learn from the practice of the United States in later generations, resell arms on both sides, and finally when the two sides fight and have no money to buy, they will come out in a warship to mediate, not only can they get benefits, but also earn money, and more importantly, the two sides are evenly matched, and if they want to continue the war, they have to rely on Australia.

Zhao Shijie and Liu Yun's plan is good, but it will be difficult to implement it, and in the long run, this plan is absolutely not harmful to Australia, but with the implementation of this plan, Australia must properly sprinkle some bait.

In fact, in the final analysis, Australia's weapons are not much ahead of European weapons, but some improvements have been made in materials and designs, so they will be much more accurate than the guns of European countries.

It is precisely when he sees this that Liu Yun will vigorously promote the arms trade between Australia and the British, according to the words of Yang Guoping of the Military Research Institute, it is almost impossible to rely on these weapons to really create a generation gap with European countries, because as long as these small improvements are studied and explored, European craftsmen should be able to make improved rifles with the same structure.

What really makes the generation difference between Australia and Europe is the Australian steel smelting technology and the unique precision of machine tool manufacturing components. These are currently not possessed in Europe, in the words of Yang Guoping, if Europeans want to copycat, they can only copycat 65%, even if the same model and design, it will still be pure in a little gap.

"Xiao Chen's words are good, at least for now, our weapons are still advanced, once exported, our technology will also be exported at the same time, how can you ensure that the technology will not be plagiarized after the export of military products is eliminated." Wang Tiezhu did not directly call Chen Wenqing's military rank, but called Chen Wenqing in the tone of his old superiors, obviously although the two no longer belong to the same system, the relationship is still extremely good.

Knowing for a long time that the military would definitely put forward opinions on this issue, Liu Yun explained with a smile: "It's better for our professionals to answer this question, Director Yang, you can tell you the specific situation." ”

"Okay," Yang Guoping glanced at Liu Yun and replied: "Major General Wang's worries do exist, and I also admit that European craftsmen can imitate our same weapons, but there is still a certain gap with us in terms of shooting accuracy and distance, this gap will not be too big, when it is impossible to widen the distance between us by relying on this small technical generational difference, according to Minister Liu's intelligence, Dutch craftsmen have been transforming the guns, if we don't export, For European countries, the same guns will still come out. ”

"Even if there is this generation gap, Europe will always need a certain amount of time to ponder, and during this time we have already made the third and fourth generation rifles, and it will not be too late to export." Chen Wenqing retorted.

"Theoretically, it is possible, but it is also possible to develop in another direction, which may stimulate European craftsmen to develop in a different way technologically, and this kind of example will exist in later generations, and if what is exported now is equivalent to the development of European technology towards our preconceived system, it is very important for us to create a technological generation gap between us and Europe in the future."

After listening to Yang Guoping's explanation, several military bigwigs didn't speak, but fell into thinking, and finally Liu Dongshui glanced at several other military figures sitting and said to Liu Yun: "We have to discuss this matter, and we will give you an answer tomorrow, what do you think." ”

"Of course there is no problem, then you discuss, Lao Yang and I will leave first." Liu Yun smiled at Yang Guoping knowingly, then got up and walked out of the room.