Richard was a thief, and it was already 1849, and it would have taken two or three years for the Colt Arms Company to develop and mass-produce new artillery, just in time for the Crimean War that broke out in 1853.

When the time comes, you can make a lot of money.

The Crimean War can be said to be a rehearsal of the world war, the battle was unprecedentedly tragic, with Tsarist Russia on one side, Britain, France, the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Ottomans on the other, and the armies of both sides were in the millions.

This war is not about the birds of the Tang Kingdom, but it is a good opportunity to make money, and it is definitely not to be missed.

The artillery design ideas that Richard provided to Count Samuel Colt were only a few years ahead of the world's technological line.

It won't take long

After the outbreak of the Crimean War, Lord Armstrong of Great Britain designed and produced an experimental 3-pounder breech-loading rifled gun during the Crimean War, in 1854.

The design was successful in both range and precision, and was adopted by the British government in 1858 for mass naval and army installations.

The reason why the British government did not immediately introduce this advanced gun was because the 3-pounder breech-loading rifled gun that Armstrong had just developed was only experimental and did not have the capacity for mass production, nor could it be produced with a larger caliber gun.

The smaller the caliber of the gun, the lower the chamber pressure, the less difficult it is to develop and produce, and vice versa.

You're welcome

The production and research and development of large-caliber field guns and naval guns are all based on years, which require strong technical force to tackle key problems, which can be described as an important weapon of the country.

The Armstrong gun was the first rear-loading rifled gun in the world, and it had some advantages that smoothbore and breech guns did not have:

That is, the shells are loaded from the rear and a vertical wedge bolt is used to tighten it with large fastening bolts called "Armstrong screws".

The gun is easier and faster to load, with a spiral rifling engraved on the inner wall of the bore, and a conical shell that rotates at high speed, allowing the gun to be more accurate and have a longer range than a smoothbore gun.

And all that

It was precisely the advanced performance that Richard wanted the Colt gun to have, one step ahead was a victory, and two steps ahead was a nerve.

Adhering to the principle of going other people's way and leaving others with no way out, Richard did not have the slightest psychological burden to wake up the genius weapons designer Samuel Colt,

After all, this is your own business, and you have to take care of it, right?

If history has not changed

Lord Armstrong of the United Kingdom relied on the invention of the 3-pounder breech-loading rifled gun in 1854 to breed and develop the world's top Armstrong company, which is famous for producing advanced guns and has been sold well in the world for more than 100 years.

Now, he can only stand aside.

Richard had already fully planned, and when the rear-loading rifled artillery of the Colt Arms Company was successfully developed, the Tang Kingdom immediately placed a large order and implemented over-procurement.

Whether it was a 6-pounder, a 12-pounder, a 20-pounder, a 30-pounder or a 50-pounder gun, all of them were heavily stockpiled and stored, some of which were equipped with coastal forts, Phoenix forts and Red Rock Valley forts, and some of which were stored in army warehouses.

Wait until the Crimean War starts, hum......

A huge business opportunity came, and Richard could sell this advanced artillery to the Prussians and the French, and he did not believe that the British would not take the bait, not be in a hurry, and not be generous in big purchases......

At that time, the new type of Colt artillery will flood into the market on a large scale, first obtain huge profits at high prices, and then occupy the market at a sharp price reduction, cutting off the delusions of other arms manufacturers to produce imitations.

There's no demand, and you're still imitating a fart?

It's been a bad year, and I can't even eat a piece of shit hot.

These business experiences are not to be said to Count Samuel Colt for the time being, although this goods are just tinkering with scientific and technological inventions.

Many people think that breech guns are a type of artillery that is more advanced than breech guns, but this is actually a misconception.

In the 15th and 16th centuries, almost all European field artillery was breech-loaded, and unlike modern breech-loading guns, breech-loading guns from hundreds of years ago used a wedge gun tail assembly to close the breech, or used submunition cartridges, that is, the Frankie cannon familiar to the Chinese, which was used on a large scale by the Guanning Iron Cavalry of the Ming Dynasty.

However, due to technical reasons, the problem of leakage of gunpowder gas is difficult to solve, resulting in a breech-loading gun with a short firing range and low power.

As a result, European artillery completely closed the tail of the gun, and the whole thing was cast, and the front-loading smoothbore gun became popular, and quickly dominated the Eurasian theater for more than 300 years from the 16th century to the 19th century.

The most obvious difference between breech guns and breech guns is to look at the tail structure.

In order to improve the strength of the barrel, the barrel and tail are provided with several reinforcing hoops, and the tail has a cast tail button or hook and loop for winding ropes.

Therefore, the tail button or hook and loop of the gun tail is the main feature of the breech gun, and the breech gun equipped by the navy also has a large gun mount, which is used for the recoil ~ re-entry after the gun is fired, and the cycle repeats.

Breech guns can also be fired mechanically. In order to improve the efficiency of ignition, but also for the operation of bad weather such as rain and snow, at the end of the 19th century, Britain invented the flintlock firing machine for the firing of breech guns.

The flintlock firing machine belongs to the form of breech gun fire door firing, which can only be used for the upper part of the gun tail, not in the middle of the gun tail, and the principle is the same as that of the flintlock musket, and the propellant is ignited in the form of a flintlock fire using a machine spring.

In this day and age

There are no technical difficulties in the development of a breech-loading rifled gun, which is nothing more than a piece of window paper, which can be broken with a slight stab by hand.

The only revolutionary invention of Sir Armstrong in Britain was the "metal screw bolt", plus the cartridge and rifling, the latter two are not new.

Richard and his entourage stayed at the Colt Arms Company for a short time, and they talked a lot about the design ideas of the breech-loading rifled gun, and almost designed the drawings by hand, which triggered a great inspiration from Count Samuel Colt, and he scratched his ears and cheeks and couldn't sit still.

As soon as the king and his party left, Count Samuel Colt rushed into the laboratory with a dozen engineer assistants and began research and development without sleep or food......

The Colt Arms Company is located in the town of Sidaoling, and continues to go further in, and after passing the town of Wudaoling, the eyes suddenly open up, and the vast valley hinterland is full of farmland, with tall Dutch windmills standing by the river, and irrigation ditches stretching far into the foot of the mountains.

The villages and towns are full of smoke, and it is a scene of prosperous and wealthy villages and towns.

Sunshine City is located in the Sunshine Valley Basin, about 33 kilometers away from Sidaoling Town, which is the fifth industrial town in the Tang Kingdom with a population of more than 100,000, and is famous for its rich iron ore, coal, cement and cotton textile industries.

When the group arrived, they stayed at the royal palace.

Located on a hill surrounded by greenery, the royal palace in Sunshine City is only three acres in size, small but exquisitely designed, and is a typical Jiangnan garden-style building, with winding paths and corridors.

Arriving here, Richard, served by a group of court maids, changed into a full-body uniform, changed into a light robe, and walked into the warm inner room.

The firewood burns in the fireplace, exuding endless warmth.

Richard walked to the sofa by the fireplace and sat down, and three beautiful handmaidens surrounded him with light steps, stretching out their white jade hands to relieve His Majesty's fatigue.

One maid rubbed her shoulders and pinched her neck behind the sofa, while the other two maids knelt on their legs, one on the left and one on the right, knocking on the legs and pinching the feet for His Majesty the King, soothing the fatigue of riding all the way.

In addition, the court maids served coffee, exquisite snacks and newspapers for His Majesty to read and enjoy.

Most of these were American newspapers from a week ago, a few were newspapers issued by the Tang Kingdom, and some were European newspapers from earlier periods.

When he had nothing to do, Richard had to read the newspaper every day, keep abreast of the major events happening in North America and Europe, and watch the ups and downs of the world.

After entering 1849

There is no big news worth noting in North America, and if there is one, Mexico has a new president, the previous president only came to power at the end of last year, and Richard did not even remember the name and changed again.

Speaking of the president, US President Polkford died a great life, and after being shot three times by an assassin, he miraculously recovered after emergency treatment and more than two months in bed.

The only aftermath was that President Polk became lame, a bullet severed his left thigh plexus, and he had to limp with a cane.

It's like the current Polk administration, which lost last year's midterm elections and is now a duck.

There are many high-ranking officers in the General Staff Headquarters of the Tang Kingdom who are full of doubts about the US military, believing that the 20,000 US troops stationed in the Hugo Oasis are smoke bombs, and it is very likely that they will launch a surprise attack on the Tang Kingdom and declare war without declaring war.

Richard knew that this was all unfounded, and his premonition was clear;

The United States is now too busy to take care of itself, and at least for 3~5 years, it will not be able to launch a large-scale war at all.

Recently, relations between the United States and France have been very tense, because the United States has defaulted on its huge debts, failed to pay its war debts and high interest on time, and the French side has seized more than 40 American cargo ships and raised the tax rates on more than 100 products exported to Europe, including textiles, to exert pressure.

During the three years of the war, the U.S. federal government had a backlog of more than $530 million, 46 percent of which belonged to French loan sharks alone.

With so much money, the U.S. federal government can't pay it back in 20 or 30 years.

And now that the Polk administration has lost all its prestige, it is too busy to take care of itself, and it does not occupy a majority in both houses of Congress, so what is it going to do to fight?

After the humiliating suing for peace in the crisis of foreign wars, contradictions within the United States have begun to erupt in general and the southern slave states have complained deeply about the huge war debts, and they cannot even collect normal federal taxes.

This is undoubtedly a kind of resistance, and it is also a strong separatist attitude, which indicates that the contradictions between the north and the south may erupt earlier than the original historical line.

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