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"Deputy commander, I already asked Lao Wu and the rest of Wujia Village yesterday! From the mountains, about five kilometers west of here, there are iron mines! With enough manpower, we can mine these iron ores! The small blast furnace and smelting equipment we brought with us was enough to build a small steel plant! Logistics officer Zhao Yi said.

Long Yufei nodded, those equipment were all purchased through Antonio. What was originally a small steel mill in Manila turned out to be poorly run and faced closure. When Antonio returned to Manila, he bought the equipment. These include a small steel smelting plant and a non-ferrous metal smelting plant. In addition, there are some machine tools and the like, which are indispensable equipment in the early stage of industrial development!

To make guns, steel is needed, and it is indispensable to support Long Yufei's plan and develop the smelting of steel and other non-ferrous metals! Long Yufei's specialty is machinery and metallurgy, and these two aspects happen to be his specialty! But even then, there needs to be enough material. Without enough materials, no matter how strong Long Yufei is, it is impossible to conjure those things out of thin air!

"Uncle Zhao, the matter of the steel plant should be launched as soon as possible, we will face a lot of pressure in the future, and the demand for weapons will be great, and if we have our own steel plant, the pressure on weapons will be much less!" Long Yufei said.

After listening to the conversation between Long Yufei and Zhao Yi, Wu Yongxing was even more shocked! He was even more curious about the Flying Fish Company. These people were able to build their own steel mills and produce weapons, which is too good! This also made him feel how wise the choice was to decide to merge Wujiacun into Flying Fish. The villagers of Wujia Village now have a big backer, and their lives should be much better in the future!

The meeting was quickly over, and the entire seaside became a huge construction site. Originally, the pirates of Flying Fish Island and the villagers of Wujia Village, regardless of men, women and children, joined in the work. Among the working people, the most striking are the black natives. The more than 500 natives captured on the battlefield are now all used as slaves! Ropes were tied to their feet, allowing the natives to move in small steps, and then perform heavy labor under the watchful eye of the Flying Fish Army.

At the foot of a hill not far from Wujia Village, a brick factory was built and began to survive the bricks needed to build the city. In addition, after Long Yufei came up with the formula of cement, the cement plant was also put on the agenda. In addition, the most important steel mills are located on the edge of Wujia Village. At the same time, Zhao Yi and his son, under the leadership of the people of Wujia Village, began to look for iron ore in the mountains in the west.

The largest indigenous tribe in this vicinity is the Buena tribe. In the previous battle, the main force of the Buena tribe had been wiped out, which won Long Yufei and them a period of time to develop!

After half a month, the small steel plant has been preliminarily built. Small blast furnaces are already standing on the banks of the Agusan River, not far from the beach. When the molten iron from the first furnace flowed out, Long Yufei was very excited. The mine in the western part of Wujiacun is a rich ore, and the ore grade is high, and the mining is relatively convenient. Of the more than 500 indigenous slaves, almost half were sent to the mines. The mined ore is then transported back by livestock or manpower. However, due to the limitation of labor, the scale of the steel plant is not large. Only a few dozen tons of pig iron can be produced every month. This pig iron is then smelted into mature iron or steel!

"Command, at the current scale, we can smelt fifty tons of steel and wrought iron every month! Now we can make our own muskets! Logistics officer Zhao Yi said excitedly. Although the current steel production is still very small, it is also a breakthrough of zero! And as more and more slaves are caught in the future, the output of the steel mill will gradually increase. Although it is incomparable with the Western powers, it is the first in the entire Nanyang region! Zhao Yi has lived for half his life, and it is the first time that he is so confident in the future.

Long Yufei nodded, looking at the red molten iron flowing, his heart was very excited. This is the beautiful scenery that can only be found in industrialization! However, the production of steel is only the first step. It also needs to be processed by subsequent equipment to make the required objects. Like the barrel and so on.

Originally, the firearms workshop on Flying Fish Island has expanded a lot, and now there are hundreds of people here. However, it is generally older people. The young people have joined the army of the Flying Fish!

"Uncle Zhao, when will the new rifle be produced?" Long Yufei asked. The rate of fire of the breech-loading gun of the Burka type is too low, and the power is too small, and Long Yufei is completely unsightly. Now due to the small population, the expansion of the military size of the Flying Fish Company has been greatly affected. In order to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, we can only find ways from the aspect of weapons! Replacing the breech gun with a new breech gun is undoubtedly the best way! By simplifying the reloading steps, it was possible to increase the rate of fire of the rifle by at least five times! Of course, Long Yufei could have come up with more advanced rifle designs, such as increasing the magazine and so on. But in the end, he rejected this idea. Now the strength of the Flying Fish Company is still too weak, if these advanced weapons are obtained by the Western powers, with their advanced industrial strength, it is enough to destroy the Flying Fish Company of Long Yufei and others. Therefore, he can only gradually come up with advanced weapons. Wait until the Flying Fish Company has the strength to protect itself, and produce more advanced weapons!

"Production has begun! Before our own steel was smelted, the barrels were already being produced from the steel purchased through Antonio! In addition, we also made a firing bolt, and the effect is not bad! Now the main problem is the production of bullets, one is that there is too little copper, the bullet case and the armor of the bullet need to be used, and the copper we currently use is purchased through Antonio. In addition, our people are not skilled in operating those machines, and the production efficiency has been greatly affected! Now it's just enough to produce two rifles a day! Zhao Yi said.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, and Long Yufei has long known this. Still, producing two rifles a day still hurts him a lot.

"Uncle Zhao, increase the yield as much as possible! We're going to have to fight again soon. When the time comes, the demand for weapons will be high! In terms of materials and equipment, I will buy again through Antonio! Long Yufei said.

"It's good, it's in control. How many new rifles have already been produced, do you want to check them out? Zhao Yi said.

"Okay!" Long Yufei's interest was aroused at once. This is an epoch-making breech gun! It was made according to his design. Even though it was just the design of the Mauser 71 rifle that he had plagiarized, it made him very excited!

Long Yufei and Zhao Yi came to the firearms workshop, and before they entered it, they heard the rumbling roar of the machine outside.

"Uncle Zhao, Brother Niu, the firearms workshop is the most important place for us, and the defense here must be arranged! Miscellaneous people are not allowed to enter it! The weapons produced inside must not be able to fall out! Long Yufei said.

"It's good, deputy commander!" Logistics officer Zhao Yi hurriedly said.

"Don't worry, I will send a platoon of troops to the fire protection workshop, and I will ensure that not a single fly can fly in!" The military officer, Niu Bang, patted his chest and promised!

In the firearms workshop, production is in full swing at the moment. Some people are using machine tools to process steel pipes and ripen them. Others are making other parts of the rifle. On the other side, it's making bullets. Brass shells, inside which are filled with gunpowder, are installed at the bottom with a primer made of copper bowls and mercury thunderate as the main materials, and then a pointed warhead is installed. A bullet was made. However, due to the skill and skill of the workers, the speed is now very slow, and it can only produce 100 rounds of ammunition per day. This speed is also very low! Long Yufei hopes that after a while, this speed will only increase by more than fifty times!

Zhao Yi's eldest son, Zhao Xingkai, is now in charge of the firearms workshop, and his youngest son, Zhao Xingchuan, is in charge of the steel mill and the non-ferrous metal smelter that is in preparation. After all, the long-term purchase of copper from outside the company, Feiyu's financial resources are somewhat unsupportable. In addition, the current barrel is directly processed with a steel pipe, and the hardness does not meet Long Yufei's requirements. Long Yufei knew that the barrels of later generations were generally made of steel and chromium alloys. Such a barrel is barely up to the mark. Of course, as for the cannon steel used to make cannons, it is the direction that needs to be overcome in the next step!

In the warehouse of the firearms workshop, Long Yufei saw only six rifles on the shelves.

"Command, the new rifle is 1344 mm long, the barrel is 852 mm long, weighs ten pounds, and adopts the way you proposed to fire the bolt and feed the breech. The caliber is 7.6 mm, and after testing, the maximum firing range is 600 meters, and the effective range is about two hundred meters! A skilled soldier capable of firing at least ten rounds per minute! Zhao Xingkai introduced Long Yufei!

Long Yufei nodded, the rifle in front of him was exactly the same as the Mauser Type 71 rifle in his memory. It's just that the reason why the bullet is filled with black powder is that the maximum range and effective range are not high!

Long Yufei and the others all picked up their rifles and looked at them carefully. Especially Niu Meng, he can't put it down.

"Commander, this rifle doesn't have a name yet. This is the rifle you designed, and it should be named by you! Zhao Yi said.

"Name? Let's call it the 'Exocet' rifle! Long Yufei said directly!