All the people have started their work, Fang Xiaoyu will not be idle, what he has to do now is to make the best weapons for this new army. These slaves were not well trained and time was pressing, so Fang Xiaoyu had no choice but to try to erase these disadvantages from weapons.

Fang Xiaoyu's weapon designed for the new army is the Winchester M1873 lever rifle, this rifle has a caliber of 11 mm, uses a tubular bomb bay design and a lever bolt, the reason why Fang Xiaoyu uses this ancient model instead of the newer model is because the old firearms have low processing requirements, and in this time when black powder is still used and the thrust of the propellant is insufficient, large-caliber rifles are more conducive to increasing power. There are five models of this gun, Fang Xiaoyu uses a sports type with a 61 cm (24 inches) long barrel, its effective range is 300 meters, the magazine bay can be loaded with thirteen rounds, and the more unique thing is that this gun has a bolt side loading port, so the loading is fast, and in the hands of a skilled shooter, the firing rate can reach 30 rounds per minute.

Fang Xiaoyu plans to apply for a patent for this gun later, and he is not afraid of being imitated. Because the structure of the lever-type bolt is complex, the cost is high, and the locking is not reliable, it is not suitable for firing high-power bullets, not to mention that such a device is still a new thing in this world, which requires designers to change their thinking, and no one can build it only by relying on a simple introduction of applying for a patent.

The length of the tubular chamber is limited (it is impossible to be longer than the barrel, so the number of bullets loaded is very limited and difficult to increase. The center of gravity of the gun is shifted forward, so that the shooter will easily get tired when the gun is raised for a long time. Moreover, the lever-type rifle with a tubular magazine cannot use a pointed bullet, so that under the same power, the ammunition caliber cannot be reduced, and the high-speed low-resistance warhead cannot be used, which seriously restricts the external ballistic performance, shooting accuracy and effective range improvement of the lever-type rifle.

Moreover, this gun uses metal fixed bottom rim firing bullets, lead bullets. Such bullets are difficult to manufacture without proper machinery. Even Fang Xiaoyu also planned to give Xiaofeng a set of machine tools for the Xia family after they were in place, and let it make a set of thousand-ton hydraulic stamping machines, and use the hydraulic power of Wei Shuihe to make bullets.

This spear made for the new army was named the Lanting 1 rifle by Fang Xiaoyu to commemorate its origin, Lanting Villa. When making this rifle, Fang Xiaoyu went against the traditional concept and did not equip it with a bayonet. In addition to the high rate of fire of this gun, there is another reason, Fang Xiaoyu plans to equip everyone with another pistol.

This gun Fang Xiaoyu chose Tiffany? Magnum revolver, this pistol has a barrel length of 15 centimeters, an effective range of 50 meters, a six-round nest of ammunition, a double-action bolt machine, and more importantly, this pistol and a rifle use the same kind of bullet, this gun was named a Browning pistol by Fang Xiaoyu, which made the Browning hammer responsible for military production happy for several days.

In addition to the absence of artillery, the combat effectiveness of such equipment is enough to be as good as ten. As for artillery, it's not that Fang Xiaoyu doesn't want to equip it, but the empire has strict rules that only regular armies can equip artillery, which is also to prevent rebellion. If you want to equip artillery in the private army, unless you are a lord, of course, Fang Xiaoyu's unfamiliarity with artillery is also a reason why he does not equip it.

In this era, without artillery, there would be no long-range firepower and mass destruction. Long-range firepower doesn't need to be considered for the time being, but Fang Xiaoyu still has some ideas in terms of mass destruction. In order to strengthen the firepower, Fang Xiaoyu personally drew drawings and asked the dwarves to set up a workshop to make grenades.

The manufacture of thunder mercury is still relatively simple, even if it is a handicraft workshop, it is fully competent, not to mention that the empire has ready-made processes. With thundermercury, there is a bullet primer, and there is a fire detonator, although now it can only be filled with black powder, resulting in a grenade that is not very powerful, but Fang Xiaoyu fills the scrap iron left over from the gun, so that the grenade does not rely on the power of the explosion, but relies on the kinetic energy of the flying iron piece to hurt people, which increases its lethality a lot.

With so much new equipment, the armament of the individual soldiers of the new army became one Lanting Type 1 lever rifle, one Browning Type 1 revolver, and four hand grenades per person.

Such a suit costs 500 yuan not counting bullets and military uniforms, that is, Fang Xiaoyu, a nouveau riche, spent so much money on such luxurious individual equipment, and other people's private soldiers really can't afford to equip them. Of course, the fixed ammunition still lacks some equipment, and these equipment have been ordered by Fang Xiaoyu in the form of loose pieces to Zhang Peiyun, and they have not yet arrived. This did not affect the speed of the troops' rearmament, Fang Xiaoyu instructed the Browning Hammer to make guns first, and then start making bullets when the equipment of the Xia family came.

With the new gun, Fang Xiaoyu will also feel at ease, as long as the new army trains for three months, and then equips himself with a new gun, he can sit back and relax. Coming out of the workshop, Fang Xiaoyu hummed a little song all the way to the place where the perfume was being trial-made.

After a while, Fang Xiaoyu suddenly found that Sun Huaizong was coming from a distance with a bitter face. Fang Xiaoyu greeted and said, "Manager Sun, what's so unhappy." Sun Huaizong said: "Young master, I have found you, something is wrong." "What's the matter? Did the Cheng family make a move on us? Fang Xiaoyu was afraid to hear the news now. Sun Huaizong shook his head: "No, it's our spinach, hundreds of thousands of kilograms have not been sold, and if it goes on like this, it will be all rotten." ”

Fang Xiaoyu was taken aback when he heard this, originally he thought that this batch of spinach would be able to sell well just in time for the scarcity of vegetables in spring. As a result, he underestimated people's stubbornness, and no one dared to try. It was also Fang Xiaoyu who had been too smooth recently and ignored this aspect.

In the past, things were relatively easy to accept, but Lan Fang Sugar and Thyme Wine can only be regarded as an improvement on the original products, and people are naturally easy to accept. The benefits of glass and soap can be felt. Vegetables are different, after all, people are definitely more cautious about what they eat, and spinach doesn't have much of a surprise in terms of appearance.

Fang Xiaoyu thought for a long time with a calm face and said: "Let people pull all the vegetables back, and tell the villagers who grow vegetables that I have bought all these vegetables." Sun Huaizong hurriedly said: "Young master, these dishes also cost a lot of money, and we can't eat them ourselves, what if they are all rotten?" Fang Xiaoyu said: "Don't worry, when did you see me let the money go down the drain." When the vegetables are brought back, you organize people to dry the vegetables, store them, pay attention to moisture, and I will be useful. ”

Sun Huaizong was puzzled: "What's the use of drying? Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "The dried vegetables will not rot, and when you eat them, you will soak them in water and eat them, and the taste will not be too bad." ”

Sun Huaizong's eyes lit up, this was a good way to store it for a long time, and he immediately went to arrange it. Looking at Sun Huaizong's distant back, Fang Xiaoyu said to himself: "It seems that I need to open a restaurant by myself, otherwise not only will the new vegetables not be promoted, but even the new seasonings such as soy sauce and vinegar that can already be made will not be sold." ”

Fang Xiaoyu was very busy in the next month, he asked his uncle to help find a restaurant he wanted to sell, and he also bought the entire Luoyun Mountain at a low price from the second grandfather. With the site of Luoyun Mountain, there is the possibility of building a cement plant or even a steel plant.

Fang Xiaoyu is ready to continue to buy a group of slaves through the Xia family's slave workshop, as long as he has a little training, he can become a very good worker, in addition, Xiaofeng's research direction is also inclined to the direction of cement manufacturing and steelmaking, and strive to develop enough good skills as soon as possible, especially the steel smelting technology, which is the most urgently needed.

Now Fang Xiaoyu's weapon workshop uses steel purchased from the Xia family, which is made by the Xia family using the traditional steel filling method of the Lanfang Empire, which not only has poor hardness and toughness, but also has a low output, which is also an aspect that causes the high cost of weapons in the Lanfang Empire. The cost is still a trivial matter, mainly due to the lack of strength of the steel to cause the firearm is not durable, the Lanting 1 rifle only shoots a thousand rounds, the rifling will be seriously worn out, unusable, this has a considerable impact on the unit's sustained combat capability.

Fang Xiaoyu planned to let Xiao Feng bias alloy steel in his future research, so that he could use the manganese iron ore in Luoyun Mountain to refine manganese steel with higher strength. In addition to manganese steel, Fang Xiaoyu is also very concerned about other steels, tungsten steel, nickel steel, titanium steel and other special steels Fang Xiaoyu wants to try to refine, these materials are very important for the upcoming industrial era.

With the arrival of various manual machine tools produced by the Xia family, the efficiency of the workshop has improved a lot. Fang Xiaoyu secretly kept a set of machine tools to enrich Xiaofeng's heavy industry equipment library. Using this set of equipment, Fang Xiaoyu built three sets of 1,000-ton hydraulic presses driven by water wheels in one go, which were used to make metal shells for fixed bullets.