"To be honest, I love it here, it's like a beautiful Garden of Eden with so many welcoming and beautiful ladies. Oh...... God, this was really unexpected, it was wonderful. ”

It can be seen

Samuel Colt had a very good impression of Sidaowan Village, and his assistant Rodlin also nodded like a chicken pecking rice, looking overjoyed in agreement.

In Richard's opinion

These two are standard engineering men, with rigorous personalities and low interest in life, not the kind of men who talk about women, but it does not prevent them from having a sullen heart.

Falling into the flower-filled Sidaowan Village at once, how can you not be overjoyed?

There is a saying that a mouse falls into a rice bowl, which can very vividly describe the current situation of Samuel Colt and Rodlin.

Here, they can live and develop a carefree life here, have no worries about food and clothing, and even form a happy family, have children, and reproduce.

It's like a mouse falling into a rice bowl, not worrying about food or clothing, the more you eat the less rice in the tank, the deeper it falls......

Evening

William Richardson and his party arrived, and after a pleasant dinner, they sat together, drinking coffee, smoking cigars, and in a relaxed mood to work out the general distribution of the shares of the Celtic Arms Company.

Mr. Samuel-Colt holds a stake in the technology patents and serves as the company's general manager, owning 25% of the Colt Arms Company, where he is responsible for day-to-day operations, weapons production and technical improvement.

Mr. William Richardson invested $22,000 and provided a large amount of supplies, became a director of the company, owned 18% of the Colt Arms Company, and sent a special person to oversee the finances.

Richard invested in the company's capital, equipment, and space in advance, and subsequently invested another $50,000 to invest in the company and served as the chairman, owning 55% of the shares of Colt Arms Company.

The remaining 2% of the shares, which have not yet been distributed, will be used as an effective way to reward weapons designers and senior mechanics in the future, and to lay a healthy institutional foundation for promoting the long-term healthy development of weapons companies.

In terms of equity distribution, both Richard and William Richardson have shown a great attitude, giving Samuel Colt a generous proportion of equity, much more than expected.

meanwhile

The only condition is that Samuel Colt or any other weapon designer will possess weapons inventions and weapons inventions that will be developed in the future will belong to the Colt Arms Company, not personally.

As a concession, the two major shareholders, Richard and William Richardson, promised;

Samuel Colt could repurchase no more than 15 percent of the equity from himself and no more than 6 percent from Mr. William Richardson based on the actual valuation of the company at that time.

If it can be achieved

Then Mr. Samuel Colt will hopefully hold up to 46% of the shares, thus becoming the largest shareholder of the arms company.

Of course, this is only a theoretical possibility.

It was this hope that aroused the enthusiasm of Mr. Samuel Colt and his assistant Rodlin, and the two of them were busy early in the morning of the second day.

Wagon after cart of cargo was unloaded from the port, and dozens of skilled workers accompanied it, and the Colter Arms Company recruited more than 30 young women at the same time.

In just five days, the Colt Weapons Factory on the banks of the Yudai River was put into operation and entered the trial production stage.

as requested;

The current trial production is an improved revolver musket, which is a cavalry revolver rifle customized by Richard to the Colt Arms Company according to the special needs of the cavalry.

This custom-made firearm is similar to the 1847 Colt Walker revolver that appeared in the original history, but with a twist.

The new gun, named the Type 1846 Colt Cavalry Runner Musket, used a 6-round rotor magazine and adopted a larger caliber projectile with a lengthened barrel and strengthened the tightness of the runner structure, which doubled the lethality of the gun and reached an effective killing range of an astonishing 120 meters.

The new Model 1846 Colt Cavalry Revolver Musket weighed 4.75 pounds and was 16.5 inches long, or about 41 centimeters, as a result of the above improvements.

The above figures are a slight increase over the original historical Colt Walker pistol.

This custom-made new revolver is much heavier than a regular revolver and is no longer suitable for western cowboys to wear on a daily basis, as it is too long and heavy.

But this kind of revolver musket is no problem to arm the cavalry, under normal circumstances, this weapon can be carried by horses like the spear, providing fierce instantaneous firepower, which greatly enhances the cavalry's combat effectiveness.

On the basis of the above improvements

Richard further requested that on the Type 1846 Colt cavalry revolver musket, the design could be fitted with an extended butt device.

When using

It can be fired against the shoulder like a rifle, so fighting on a bumpy horse allows well-trained cavalry to hit the enemy more accurately and win the initiative in battle.

With this extended butt device, the original cavalry lance could not be equipped, after all, such a spear could only fire one bullet, and it was cumbersome to reload.

In Richard's vision

Each cavalryman will be equipped with a saber, a Type 1846 Colt cavalry revolver musket with an extended butt, an ordinary revolver musket for self-defense, a water bottle, an iron lunch box, two blankets, a short knife, and basically all that is ready.

Such cavalry equipment, its instantaneous firepower is 6~7 times that of the American cavalry, and there is no doubt that it has an advantage.

When the two sides are fighting, the head and face are first a medium-range firepower output, and at close range, you can also use self-defense revolver muskets and sabers to fight, and the combat effectiveness is more than a step higher.

How else to say that it is a blessing to have your own weapons designer?

The arrival of Samuel Colt can make the weapons and equipment of the Datang Society leap into the world's leading ranks of light weapons, and the great significance contained in it is extraordinary.

The Federation had placed an order for 1,200 cavalry revolvers to the Colt Arms Company for arming the cavalry.

On this basis

Richard put forward higher requirements, hoping that the new revolver musket could be used as soon as possible with copper-shelled bullets.

The fixed-loading copper-shelled bullet is an advanced design of ammunition in today's world, located at the forefront of weapons and equipment, which has appeared, but there is no large-scale equipment for the army.

Nowadays, the army still commonly uses paper shell fixed ammunition, which has the advantages of cheap price and wide range of use.

The disadvantages are poor storage resistance, susceptibility to moisture, unstable performance, and easy to drop the chain during key battles, and there are duds or sick bullets.

The so-called sick bullet is a thin-shelled fixed bullet that is partially damp, and the gunpowder manufacturing process is not up to standard or has been stored for a long time, so it is not a qualified bullet.

When fired, the explosion of black powder burned incompletely, and the bullets shot out were crooked and twisted as if they were sick, and this kind of sick bullet should not be expected to hit the enemy.

6 days later

April 12, 1846

Sidaoling Village

Richard and a group of white engineers from New York stood on a hill and were talking about building a sturdy formal factory for the Colt Arms Company.

Mr. Samuel Colt was originally an outstanding designer, and he designed the iconic mushroom shape for the Colt Arms Company plant, which is a very advanced and brilliant design at the moment, and can be said to be extremely avant-garde.

If completed, this huge factory building will become a well-deserved landmark in the Grape Valley.

The company's two major shareholders invested more than $70,000 in huge funds, which will be used as the upfront capital for the construction of the plant, and the follow-up funds will be paid by the company's profits to complete this grand idea.

At present, the Colt Arms Company is producing in a simple wooden house in Sidaoling Village, and all safety indicators such as fire prevention and explosion are not up to standard, and they are extremely dangerous.

This is because the Colt Arms Company not only produces firearms, but also produces dangerous explosives including mines, black powder, and various fixed ammunition, and has strict requirements for fire and explosion protection in production.

Today's wooden houses can only meet the basic needs of shelter from the wind and rain, but cannot meet the long-term safety production needs.

Richard praised Mr. Samuel Colt for his outstanding design and was willing to see a landmark building rise over the Grape Valley, which would lead to the industrialization of the entire village.

Orders for the production equipment of the cement plant have been issued, and the construction of brick kilns has been put on the agenda, which has laid a solid foundation for the development of the Colt Arms Company.

However, the problem is back to square one.

In San Fernandez, everyone was in a gold rush frenzy, with only one-eighth of the population of the Grape Valley left and almost seventy percent of the population of the new towns pouring into the rivers of the Americas to pan for gold.

Yerba Buena is slightly better, but more than 50 percent of men have joined the gold rush.

In addition to the armed forces at its disposal, the Datang Society had almost no labor force to participate in agricultural production, as well as production labor in the necessary facilities such as brick kilns, water conservancy mills, oil mills, and water conservancy sawmills.

In a word, there is a shortage of people and a serious shortage of people.

Every year after late autumn

Because of the cold and frozen land in the wilderness, combined with the bone-chilling water, panning for gold can become extremely hard work and the harvest is greatly reduced.

In November, the large number of gold prospectors stranded along the rivers of the Americas return in large numbers, and before the heavy snowfall, the prospectors return to warm new towns and Yerba Meadows to survive the cold winter.

Nowadays, to build the plant of the Celtic Arms Company, a large number of laborers are indispensable, so it is impossible to wait until winter, right?

Come to think of it

Richard lifted his face and looked into the depths of the valley, his deep gaze glittering with unknown emotion.

After a long time

He nodded vigorously as if he had made a major decision, and the machinery and equipment ordered from Europe had been shipped to the North American continent, and it would take more than two months to be more than three months at the earliest, and all kinds of machinery and equipment would be in place one after another.

The construction of some basic production facilities cannot be relaxed, and the development of the Grape Valley urgently needs a large number of labor, so it can only be made this way.

The so-called capital is full of blood and tears in every pore in the early stage of development, which is true.

In order for the Chinese not to shed blood and tears, and to rise rapidly as soon as possible in the changing western part of North America, there are only the indigenous Indian tribes in the depths of the valley, who calls you weak?