It's May 2016 on Earth, and it's summer for the first time, but this day on Cebu Island is really unbearable, humid and hot, and mosquitoes are breeding everywhere, even if you are bare-chested, there is nowhere to hide. Although it is cool brought by a gust of sea breeze from time to time, for Zhang Quan, who was born and raised in the mainland, it is okay for a short time, but after a long time, the fishy smell of the sea breeze is also a kind of torture.

The legendary genuine seafood is eaten, lobster, sea crab, sea cucumber, scallops, squid or something, and it is served in turns every day, but I don't feel any taste, I eat too much, and I have the same taste, and he is most concerned about bargaining with the people in the gun factory every day:

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Well, the musket we want doesn't need to be advanced, the structure is simple and durable, the important thing is that the size of many parts should be slow, such as this butt, and this trigger, the overall gun body, I need a larger size, it looks more powerful.

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Oh, and if you can do it, that's good!

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As for the burst function, I think that if the process can be guaranteed, it can be on it, and if it can't be guaranteed, it doesn't matter if it is the trigger of a gun.

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Oh! The mid-folding rifle you are talking about is the same kind as a shotgun, which does not require a magazine? Shoot a shot and open a bullet? One more shot? Oh! I think about it, think about it......

Okay! It's okay to fold this in the middle, I think it's okay, the important thing is that the structure is simple, durable, and I don't want to rebel against the government, why do I need advanced weapons, just this single shot, make the power bigger, I think it's good!

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Zhang Quan stayed in the gun factory on the island of Cebu in the Philippines for two days, during which he was accompanied by He Jiajin, the owner, to play around and feel the scenery of the tropical island, but the most important thing for him was to enter the gun factory and explain to the craftsmen his specific requirements for the manufacture of firearms.

For these gunsmiths, Zhang Quan's requirements are really very TN alternative, modern individual weapons, is more and more precise, more and more miniaturized, in general, is to go in the direction of a one-time delivery of higher and higher fire density, but the new boss from this continent, on the contrary, the guns he requires, not only do not need to be advanced, but are more and more towards the direction of retro.

He discussed with the masters of the gun factory that the gun was finally made, and the overall structure of its design was similar to the requirements of the era when the smokeless gunpowder of rifled guns in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries had just emerged, and the pursuit of the stability of the firearm, the ultimate range and lethality, and the requirement for the reduction of recoil was almost none, which was completely different from the development of firearms after the rise of the era of firepower density.

The firearms of that era, all of them are simple and reliable, easy to maintain, one of the representative guns is the Mosin Nagant during the Tsarist period, of course, the Mosin Nagant bolt design is a little more complex than the contemporaries, Zhang Quan in order to get rid of this shortcoming, he actually wants to use a more retro design, the original design of the folded rifle, is now only visible on civilian **, revolver and **.

This design, without a magazine, is simple to return and replace bullets, but the overall structural strength is poor, and it is not suitable for bullet types with high muzzle velocity and high chamber pressure, so relatively speaking, heavier weight and larger size are required to ensure structural strength. It can't be fired in bursts, and can only be loaded once with one shot. The advantage is that the structure is simple, and the manufacturing is very easy, even the general small workshop can be easily manufactured, which is just suitable for the current situation of Zhang Quan.

In short, Zhang Quan's requirements for the rifle, the structure is extremely simple, the use is reliable, the processing difficulty is small, especially the overall increase of the kind of model, almost all the parts are expanded to make the style, then the manufacturing difficulty is even more incomparable, after all, modern hardware, the metal processing technology is always the smaller the more difficult to make, the more stupid and stupid things are easier to process.

In order to ensure the quality of firearms, Zhang Quan also uses customized imported alloy steel as the basic manufacturing raw materials (in fact, it is the special steel produced on a small scale by the electric furnace in Zhang Quan's own steel mill, imported here for use), strictly controls the import of raw materials, and also adds a number of relatively advanced modern machining equipment to the workshop, and recruits more advanced talents to improve the processing quality and expand the scale in the workshop.

In his opinion, it is impossible for this workshop to move away, and the more powerful it is, the more profitable it is, and it is all for his own personal service anyway.

But the investment is so large, it is not without a price, since the raw materials are guaranteed, the equipment is guaranteed, the wages and treatment have been increased a lot, and even the processing requirements of the products have been reduced, the factory inspection of the products of the workshop is also to be done strictly, at this point, Zhang Quan and He Jiajin The interests of the two people are the same, after all, no one wants to use fake and shoddy products that will go off at any time.

Before, He Jiajin didn't care about it, because the conditions were too poor to ask for this, but now, all the conditions have been met, and the people in the workshop don't always pay attention to the quality of things, then it's not good, these are all things you want to use.

Zhang Quan and the people in the workshop agreed that the people in the gun factory in the future will focus on this link in the future, and the substandard products will be subject to strict reward and punishment measures.

In the end, after a busy half a month, Zhang Quan and the master of the workshop (equivalent to the chief design engineer) finally finalized the production plan of the first batch of 10,000 "new" rifles, of which 5,000 are of ordinary size (suitable for the body shape of kobolds and cats, belonging to the normal version of the earth, 7.62mm caliber, general-purpose type), which are named the base type 1 rifles, and then the number 1 size (minotaur and bill version, 12.7mm caliber, weighted and lengthened) 2,000, the base type 2 heavy rifle, and the size of the second size (centaur, Sheep's head, leopard version, 12.7mm, regular type) 3,000 pieces, base type 3 heavy rifle.

Of course, the latter two sizes of new rifles, the use of several commonly used bullets must also be additional re-mold, this work, the workshop itself can be done, but in order to ensure the output, Zhang Quan also let the workshop set up an additional independent workshop dedicated to the production of bullets, this part of the production is relatively easier to industrialize the assembly line, Zhang Quan used more money, so to say, only to persuade the thrifty masters to go on the bullet assembly line, and purchased a batch of automation equipment, recruited a group of new workers, and expanded production, Vigorously engaged in it.

After being busy for a while, Zhang Quan was anxious to go back, and after having a farewell banquet with his enthusiastic host He Jiajin, he hurriedly got on the plane, and landed in Xiangjiang with smoke all the way, which was regarded as returning to his own home's territory.

At this time, the Gaia Group's investment in the steel plant in the northern part of Annam, and the negotiations with the local government have been successfully completed, which is a relatively rare investment in heavy industry infrastructure in Annam, and has received wide attention from local and foreign economic media. Affected by the frequent changes in the Annan government's investment policy in this regard, foreign capital has always been cautious about this strategic direction of investment. Although the scale of Gaia Group's investment is not large, to a certain extent, it has also become a test of foreign capital, testing the implementation of Annan's reform, reform, opening up and opening up policy, and attracting attention from all parties, which is also inevitable.