The Nagant brothers quickly solved the rifle trouble for LeHaydon, using a modified design they had given the Russians and a simple and practical manufacturing process, while the ammunition feeder used a new double-row, single-feed magazine design that could be loaded with ten rounds at a time. The rifle was re-registered as the Israya Type 18.91 rifle and patented.

Just after the New Year of 18.91, Helton asked the company's technicians to select a few well-made sample guns and put them in his bag, and he made a personal trip to Vienna and delivered them to his cousin, Crown Prince Ferdinand, who was in charge of the army.

Emperor Franz is old, and the main affairs of the empire are now basically handled by Ferdinand in his place, and this guy is still in charge of the War Department. At this time, Austria-Hungary did not have an Admiralty, and the Imperial Navy Command was only a department under the War Department, which was naturally under his jurisdiction.

Lehedon was convinced that his product was better than his contemporaries, and certainly better than Steyr. The Manlisha 18.90 rifle is better. Ferdinand was not a layman, on the contrary, he was quite sensitive to military equipment technology, and the result of Heldon's doing this was to confuse the Steyr company executives - the War Office was out of order after announcing the winning bid and placing the first order for 50,000 rifles with Steyr, and it seemed that the Imperial Army was not ready to update their existing rifles for the first time.

Soon the exact news came out that the War Department believed that Steyr. The performance of Manlixia's products was not very satisfactory, and it was announced that the standard rifle would be re-tendered and tested by July.

Now Heldon has finally received a new investment, and the company has added three new shareholders: Gayle, Schroeder and Muir, who together own 35 percent of the shares, plus 1.5 million crowns of capital. ISLAIA Maschinenbau underwent a major renovation, purchasing about 120 new units of equipment and expanding three new buildings.

The first order for the factory came from Bulgaria, and although the nominal suzerainty of Bulgaria was the Ottoman Empire, the Bolgar army was in the hands of the Russians, and now the Russian tsar was unable to provide them with enough new rifles. The Russians' large army is also currently being replaced with new Mosin. The Nagant rifle, the rifle produced by the tsar's arsenal, is now not satisfied even by themselves.

In another time and place, the Bulgarians used the Mauser rifle, but now it is different, the Isleya rifle seems to be better than the German product, and Paul. Mr. Mauser's new rifle has not yet been manufactured. Bulgarian Defense Minister Mutkurov ordered an order for 30,000 new rifles from Isleya Machine-Building Company, an order of more than 6 million crowns for Lehedon.

With this, the company succeeded in selling another 30,000 rifles to the Argentine, which led to a period of rapid expansion. Now it even surpasses the famous Steyr in sales. Manlisya and, of course, three times the size of Islaia, now employs more than 6,000 people.

In May, Schröder, who was in charge of Oriental and Asian affairs, handed over a telegram from Helton to Bao Ji & Co. in Guangzhou, and the German company had received an order for 20,000 rifles in Guangzhou, under the name of Manlia rifles.

This brought Helton's memory back to that "homeland".

"Haydn, there is nothing wrong with this telegram saying that the decision was made by the magistrate named 'Governor of Canton' and not by the other party's Ministry of Defense, and that it also uses the name of the Manlixia rifle?" Schroeder asked.

"It's the 'Governor of Liangguang.'" Li Haidon corrected: "There is no problem with this, the Chinese simply cannot tell the difference between the Manlisa and the Isleya rifle, anyway, as long as this rifle comes from Austria-Hungary, it is enough." In China, these magistrates have much more power than the Ministry of National Defense, and if the order is signed by the other side's Ministry of Defense officials, that is a real problem. He said with a smile that no one has more authority than him when it comes to understanding China.

"Oh my God, it's incredible that the magistrate actually made a decision for the Ministry of Defense." Schroeder looked surprised.

"That's a huge market, bigger than all of Europe combined." Lechelton pondered, his voice slowing, "Maybe we're going to set up an office there, so in the next few years, the country may need hundreds of thousands of rifles, and thousands of cannons." ”

"Hundreds of thousands? Oh my God, several times more than the entire Imperial Army combined. Schroeder's body shook and looked a little excited, and Helton's words clearly stimulated him. Think about it, hundreds of thousands of rifles, that's a profit of at least tens of millions of crowns, and it's definitely eye-catching.

"Well, I felt the need to make a personal trip to the Far East to market our products and set up new organizations." Lechelton said that he seemed to miss the land so much now that he was even a little impatient.

It's not that simple, a royal family's trip to the Far East is not just a matter of booking a few tickets.

Emperor Franz the Elder wanted to turn Helden's purely commercial trip into a diplomatic parade to increase the Empire's influence in the Far East, and His Royal Highness Crown Prince Ferdinand ordered a warship to accompany him to show off his strength. As a traditional European power, Austria-Hungary's influence abroad was not at all comparable to that of Britain and France, the two old maritime empires, and even far less than that of the emerging Second German Reich. The Austrians remembered the days of the Holy Roman Empire when they were leaders of Greater Germany, and in the eyes of the Habsburgs, it was the rich country landowners from Prussia, led by the Hohenzollerns, who had robbed them of their glory.

At the Imperial Navy base in Trieste, more than a dozen ships of various sizes are stationed in the military port, and on one side of the dock, the newly commissioned protective cruiser "Apar" of the Imperial Navy is docked, and sailors are busy loading various supplies on the ship. This is a true portrayal of the strength of the Imperial Navy, which can be described as weak among the great powers, and even the newest "Apar" protective cruiser has a displacement of less than 2,600 tons.

Colonel Kondra went to the dock as the Crown Prince's representative to see off Lehedon, and the commander of the naval base, Colonel Rhodes, was also on the side, and several people stood on the dock and chatted for a while. Soon three whistles sounded from the warship, and the sailors pulled the bridge for the cargo from the dock. The goods were loaded, and the military band played "God Bless My Emperor Franz" below. Heldon said goodbye to his men one by one, and the captain, Lieutenant Commander Hansel, stood at the gangway to greet him aboard.

"Mr. Captain, Envoy of the Imperial Far East, Lieutenant Commander Haydn. Frederick. Victor asked to board the ship. He stood at the mouth of the gangway and gave the captain a military salute.

"Permission to board the ship, Your Excellency!" Lieutenant Colonel Hansel replied with a military salute, and a smile appeared on his face.

Lehedon and his entourage boarded the warship, and Hansel introduced him to the senior officers on board the ship, and his leather shoes stepped on the oak deck, making a clucking sound, and Lehedon was very interested in visiting the warship accompanied by Hansel. Dragged by two tugboats, the "Apar" slowly left the dock and headed for the fairway.

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