Tang Jian frowned, thought for a while, and suddenly asked:

"How is our technology compared to Yan Xishan's arsenal back then?"

When it comes to mechanical things, this is Xu Hui's specialty, and he immediately laughed:

"That's definitely much stronger, Yan Laoxi is famous for picking the door, if you can buy old goods, you will never use new ones, the machine qì tolerance is so big that it is deadly, I remember that many jokes circulated in our mechanical mouth are based on the Shanxi Ordnance Bureau back then."

"It's okay to have that level, I remember that during the Anti-Japanese War, the Jin-made big eye box was also a fine product in the shell gun."

Therefore, in the end, Tang Jian made a final decision and asked the industrial team to put the imitation Mauser military pistol into the production list of standard equipment. In addition to the imitation May Fourth that has been produced in small batches and used exclusively for self-defense by commanders and non-combatants, the category of "fully automatic pistol" or "shell gun" has also been officially added to the melee weapon system of the Qiong Navy.

In fact, regarding automatic weapons, the industrial group originally had a plan this time -- at the end of the briefing, Feng Yufei played a video recording on the big screen. At the beginning, there was an audio-visual entertainment room on the Qionghai, which had a set of DVD player projection equipment. However, there are not many video materials attached to the ship, and everyone is tired of watching them when they are trapped in the warehouse compound of Lingao County - at that time, they had nothing to do at night except to play cards and watch videos. Later, even the "rural breeding technology", "children's psychological education" and other science, education, culture, and health propaganda films were watched several times, so that all of them could be called generalists in this regard.

However, this time, Feng Yufei did not play a finished film brought from later generations, but a clip shot by himself with a mobile phone - in the picture, a group of young men with a mechanical mouth are giggling, carrying a machine covered with a tarpaulin and placed on the real platform. When they lifted off the tarpaulin, a big black and stout iron guy appeared in front of them with a familiar steel shield and a water-cooled sleeve.

"Hah, sure enough, it's it!"

In fact, when they saw the appearance just now, most of the people in the venue recognized it -- the Maxim heavy machine gun. The first truly automatic firearm in human history, and although it was born in the 19th century - invented in 1883, it was not only used in both world wars but also in the Korean War.

Based on previous experience, Feng Yufei originally thought that the military would put forward a number of amendments. At the most extreme of extremes, she thought that the military might not even need this heavy machine gun anymore - after having the same five-six-stroke and barge gun with burst function, Makqin might seem too bulky?

However, the military does not seem to think so, and they are happy to add a heavy machine gun to the equipment sequence, but only make some small local requirements, such as in addition to the traditional water-cooled sleeve version. An air-cooled version with a heat sink was also requested - however, the water-cooled version was not abandoned, and some people felt that the traditional water-cooled method was the most reliable for heavy machine guns, and although the air-cooled version performed well on paper, it was easy to fail due to overheating of the barrel in practice. Therefore, in the end, it is required to make one for each air-cooled and water-cooled version, and then decide which type to equip after actual testing.

Other than that, there were no major changes, and the military basically accepted the design of the industrial group - which was what the original Maxim heavy machine gun looked like in history. It was just that there was a little bit of a dispute over the caliber of ammunition, and some people advocated that the caliber of 7.62 mm should still be used, and strive to be common with rifle bullets, so that the logistics could be simplified a lot. But there are also those who argue that heavy machine guns have completely different requirements in terms of lethality and range than rifles. Forcing ammunition to be universal will only severely affect the effectiveness of weapons. More importantly, they will definitely fight against a large number of cavalry in the future, and in the face of oncoming high-headed horses, it is more reassuring to have thicker barrels and bullets.

So in a call for "the coarser the better" and "caliber is justice". The Industrial Group decided to add a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun bullet to the two types of bullets, both 7.62 mm long and short, as rifle and pistol rounds, respectively. The reason why this large-caliber heavy ammunition was directly used, instead of the original 11.43 mm specification of Makqin, was to copy other famous heavy firearms in the future. There is no need to modify the caliber separately.

If you don't take into account the five or six halves with cheating nature, Makqin and seven or five cannons, this is the true embodiment of the current industrial strength of the Qiong Navy. The original plan of the industrial group was to replace the bronze cannon with the seven-five cannon. Replacing the paper-shelled gun with five and a half halves, plus a fully automatic Maxim heavy machine gun, in their opinion, this is already a completely improved improvement. Relying on these three weapons alone, as long as they do not take the initiative to spread their technology, I believe that at least in the next few decades, they should be able to ensure their absolute superiority in weapons and equipment.

However, as with all technical exchange activities, no matter how well thought out by the designer, the user will always be able to make new requirements. Feng Yufei originally thought that the military team would happily accept the technical upgrade services provided by the industrial group, but he didn't expect that people would directly put forward more requirements unceremoniously.

Of course, this is not a bad thing, after all, the military group is the end user, and the requirements they put forward are more practical than those of the industrial group itself -- for example, for a long time when the army began to be fully reequipped, the army was in no hurry to equip the 75 guns at all, except for a small amount for training, all the newly produced 75 guns were given to the navy. The officers and men of the army only wanted 70 cannons -- that is, Ma Qianshan's 92 small cannons. Because for the Qiong Navy, which has neither counter-battery pressure nor suppression of the enemy's demand for firepower, the 75 Artillery can basically do all the work that the 70 Artillery can do. However, the 70 Cannon weighs just over 200 kilograms, and in addition, it can be dismantled and dispersed for transportation, and the huge mobility advantage brought by this in terms of the ability of the army is by no means beyond the reach of the 75 Gun, which weighs 1.2 to 1.5 tons.

The same is true for firearms, and soldiers will certainly not have any opinions on the excellent performance of five or six semi-automatic, but the lightweight and bursting nature of the shell gun makes its use far more than within the army. Like the 75th Artillery, the Army was not equipped with shell guns for a long time. However, this time it was not that the army did not want it, but it was not ranked at all - the spy and urban management departments in charge of Zhao Lide and Ao Sayan had almost exclusively owned all the newly produced shell guns, and then finally when the production capacity was more sufficient, Julie's commercial department stepped in again.

- That's right, the business department! In the past, the Qionghai Trading Company only honestly hid within the protection of the Qionghai Navy to conduct trade. Outside of the territory directly controlled by their own family, it is basically sold by the locals, so although it is safe, the loss of interests is also relatively large.

With the expansion of the industrial scale of the Qiong Navy, the demand for materials for this collective is increasing. However, the Commission was more strict in its control over the use of military force, so the trading companies had to gradually break away from the protection of the army and go to the places where the Qiong navy had not yet reached to do business themselves. In this process, of course, all kinds of dangers are inevitable, and it is only natural that the comrades at the trade port demand sufficient weapons and equipment. Even the military did not dare to compete with them -- the large quantities of materials and raw materials needed for the army's comprehensive rearmament were still counting on the trading companies to get them.

Later, the armed task force directly under the control of the trading company and generally equipped with shell guns was even generally regarded by the outside world as the vanguard of the Qiong navy, wielding a large amount of silver dollars in one hand and holding a shell gun in the other hand, but became the vanguard of the external expansion of the Qiong navy. Where the task force could not handle it, it was the turn of the regular army, so much so that for a long time the military mocked themselves as mercenaries for trading companies.

-- Of course, that's all for later.

In January 1633, the Joan Navy completed this far-reaching conference on weapons upgrades. In the next year or two, they began to phase out the old weapons that were originally only transitory, and instead fully equipped the new guys who were absolutely black technology in this world.

Out of respect and nostalgia for the great army of later generations, the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle and the Type 56 submachine gun still maintained their original names, although many people later confused the code name "Type 56", but the shorthairs insisted on calling it so, and outsiders could not care, including the May Fourth military pistol.

The official name of the "Miss 75" is the "1633 Type 75 mm Field Artillery", the 92 Gun is the "1633 Type 70 mm Infantry Gun", and in the army it is referred to simply as the 75 Gun and the 70 Gun.

The official name of the barge gun is the "three-three type automatic military pistol", but like later generations, this thing soon has many nicknames among the people, and the "barge gun" that has been circulated from within the Qiong Navy is the most widely used, followed by the "twenty rings" and "pot-bellied box" -- I have to say that "there is only the wrong name, not the wrong nickname" This sentence is really reasonable, even if it is several hundred years in advance, the masses of the people still grasp the most important characteristics of this weapon at once.

The name of the Makqin heavy machine gun has not changed, so much so that for a period of time the Ming court has been secretly searching for a person named "Makqin" - the officials of the Ming Dynasty have carefully investigated: there is no such name among the 139 "true shorthairs" of the Qiong Navy. And since this militaristic weapon came out several years after Qiongzhen was based in the Ming Dynasty, and it can be named after this person's name, it must be this person who played an important role in it.

Look for! Be sure to find out this skilled craftsman! Later, even the Later Jin regime joined in this war for talent, and they all got what they wanted—over the years, there were hundreds of craftsmen calling themselves "Makqin" who sprung up one after another, if not hundreds.

Of course, there wasn't a single one who really knew how to make that terrible reliever. (To be continued......)