I want to be emperor

Chapter 1110 Arms Export Quotas

After the Chu Empire restricted the export of single-shot rifled rifles, various vassal states quickly came to place orders.

The total number of orders in this early batch alone has reached more than two million, covering second-hand Type 18 rifles, Type 19 rifles and brand new Type 18 rifles and Type 19 rifles!

Countries make purchases based on their own financial resources and urgency, but most of them choose to purchase a batch of second-hand goods and match them with some new rifles... In fact, most of these people still want second-hand goods, after all, they are cheap... Brand new ones Single shot rifles are too expensive.

But there are not so many second-hand rifles... Although the Chu Empire produced a large number of Type 18 and Type 19 rifles, these were also consumables, and the Chu army was fighting overseas almost all the time... …The wear and tear of weapons and equipment is also continuing.

During the two decades of service, due to combat and training, quite a few of these single-shot rifles have actually reached the end of their service life, and many of them have even their rifling polished. Up to now, even the Chu army has used militia troops and Even if we collect all the single-shot rifles in the Foreign Legion, refurbish them and sell them, we won’t be able to get two million of them!

Therefore, except for a few countries such as the Kingdom of Sweden and the Kingdom of Finland, which were able to obtain all relatively cheap second-hand rifles, subsequent purchases by indigenous countries all used second-hand rifles and new guns.

This means that the defense industry of the Dachu Empire has received another batch of new orders for Type 18 or Type 19 rifles...and this first batch alone has at least hundreds of thousands of them, and the price of this order is still high. not cheap.

This was a great stimulus to the empire's defense industry.

As a result, the single-shot rifled rifle production line, which has stopped large-scale mass production for a long time and has only maintained a very small-scale production, will usher in large-scale expansion, and is even expected to exceed the previous annual output of three The peak level of 400,000 pieces... After all, this is responsible for the rifle demand of almost the entire civilized society except the empire.

But the problem is not big... because this thing is not technically difficult for the contemporary defense industry of the Chu Empire.

In addition, the Dachu Empire has not actually stopped the production of Type 18 and Type 19 rifles in recent years...it is just that the output is relatively small. Although the regular army no longer uses single-shot rifles, in fact, single-shot rifles were used before this There are also many users, mainly used to supply Chu vassal states such as the Kingdom of West Africa, the Kingdom of the United States and Song Dynasty, and the Foreign Legion. Although there are not many orders, the production line is still maintained. Although many special mechanical equipment are no longer used, they are still was sealed.

Now we only need to re-open these special equipment, and then add some general equipment to quickly mass-produce.

It’s quite funny to say... The level of firearms in the Dachu Empire has reached the level of small-caliber smokeless repeating rifles... The technical level of the Type 1900 rifle and the Type rifle has already reached It is comparable to the firearms of the powerful countries around in the original time and space.

However, the defense industry of the Dachu Empire is still producing more or less backward Type 25 repeating rifles, Type 18, and Type 19 single-shot rifles with 11mm black powder bullets!

It's not just rifled rifles. In fact, the defense industry of the Great Chu Empire continues to mass-produce flash cap percussion guns and even flintlock muskets.

Why are flintlock muskets still produced? Because when the Chu people were doing business with some primitive tribes in Africa, they bought flintlock guns... And in the 1940s, the Chu people even sold matchlock guns in Africa!

Not only muskets, but also cold weapons such as armor, swords and spears, the defense industry of Chu State is also producing and exporting them. Many people from primitive African tribes like these steel magic weapons from Chu State... For sale It's too expensive.

Before this, flash cap percussion guns were the main export firearms mainly to Europe, West Asia and India... However, the export sales in recent years have not been very good.

The main reason is that the technical threshold of this thing is not high. There are already many indigenous countries that can imitate these flintlock guns... After all, the gun itself does not have much technical difficulty. As long as you can make a flintlock gun, then It also means you can make a flash cap firing gun... There is actually no technical gap between the two.

The difference between the two is the copper flash cap.

But they can import the fire hats from the Chu people, and some indigenous countries have also imitated the fire hats themselves.

These countries often import flash caps while secretly using smuggled imported equipment to produce flash caps on their own, and then mix the two together to avoid the Chu people from causing trouble.

It is precisely because the technical threshold of flash cap percussion guns is too low that it is easy for the indigenous people to imitate them, which has led to a decline in the export volume of percussion cap percussion guns year after year. Therefore, the national defense industry will promote the export of rifled weapons...those aboriginals make a The flash cap percussion gun is not a big problem, but the rifled rifle... Haha, even if they do it openly, as long as the Chu State does not sell the equipment, they will not be able to produce it in twenty or thirty years.

Not to mention other things, the material alone is enough for them to struggle with for decades... and the level of finishing is not easy to deal with. This thing has very strict requirements on tolerances, and this tolerance requirement on the equipment is very high!

These indigenous countries can still rely on skilled craftsmen and a small number of smuggled Chu equipment to produce flash cap percussion guns.

But the rifled rifle... Under the premise that the Chu Empire restricted the export of industrial equipment, if they wanted to create it, they had to first solve a lot of problems such as steel metallurgy, heavy machinery manufacturing, precision equipment manufacturing, chemical industry, etc... In short , they have to establish an entire industrial system first!

In fact, the requirements don't have to be too high. The level at the end of the first industrial revolution is barely there.

But do these indigenous countries have this strength?

No……

Even if the Chu State did not intervene brutally, it would take twenty or thirty years for them to develop on their own.

And Chu State will not interfere?

How is this possible... The Chu people can sell guns and cannons to these indigenous countries, but they will never sell industrial equipment to them, and they are not even allowed to research and produce these industrial equipment on their own!

The Chu people have been in Europe for more than ten years, but so far, no indigenous country has developed a steam engine... Are the people in these indigenous countries too stupid to do it? How is it possible... Even if they don't understand, they can still learn the knowledge of the Chu people, and then produce a small number of simple early steam engines without any problem.

But they still didn't do it...why?

Because the Chu Empire is not allowed!

As long as you dare to build a steam engine manufacturing factory, and the people of Chu know about it, the foreign legions will dare to rush directly into your capital... kill the king, replace the agent... and won't talk to you at all!

One of the tasks of the hundreds of thousands of foreign legions stationed in Europe by the Chu Empire was to guard against and destroy these modern machinery factories built by these indigenous countries.

The people of Chu are more vigilant about this kind of thing than they are about small-scale arsenals and workshops!

Of course, this kind of thing can't be done forever. There will always be changes in the future. When it becomes impossible to do anything, the empire will naturally stop doing this kind of thing.

But now, the attitude of the empire's top officials is that they can do it for as long as they can... At least in the next twenty or thirty years, don't expect the empire to give up its idea and determination to prevent the vassal countries from developing industry.

This world only needs one industrial country, the Chu Empire!

Other indigenous countries only need to be honest and good agricultural countries.

When these countries have no industrial capacity, the empire can sell them whatever industrial products it wants... using as little industrial capacity and resources as possible in exchange for the surplus value of their labor.

This kind of full-scale control is what the empire pursues.

Therefore, the Dachu Empire has various seemingly backward weapon production lines, and a lot of them are exported every year!

Just like now we are preparing to mass-produce brand-new single-shot rifles for export.

Of course, the mass production of new single-shot rifles also takes time. Therefore, the early delivery of single-shot rifles is mainly based on the use of single-shot rifles in stock in the Foreign Legion and militia for simple refurbishment and delivery.

However, the single-shot rifles of the Foreign Legion were sold. At the same time, the previous 11mm caliber Type 25 repeating rifle was used as a transitional rifle. The output was not much at the beginning, only more than 200,000 units. All of them have been handed over. It was given to the Foreign Legion, but it could not satisfy the Foreign Legion's more than one million troops.

If the Type 25 rifle is re-produced, the cost will be relatively high. After calculation, the military felt that it was not cost-effective. At the same time, it carefully studied the risks of equipping the Foreign Legion with the Type 24 rifle!

A group of people in the military believe that the Foreign Legion should simply equip the Foreign Legion with Type 24 rifles that use eight-millimeter black powder bullets, or even go one step further and directly use Type 27 rifles with smokeless powder, and Type 28 rifles... As long as the quantity of heavy weapons such as rifled artillery and machine guns is controlled, as well as the ammunition inventory control, the threats that can be posed are relatively limited.

After all, a rifle is just an individual weapon. Without the cooperation of modern rifled artillery, a simple rifle cannot actually determine the direction of the battlefield.

The number of artillery equipment in the Foreign Legion has never been large, and the ammunition inventory is also strictly controlled. The Foreign Legion's ammunition depot has always been under the supervision of the regular army, rather than letting the Foreign Legion manage it on its own.

After analyzing the risks and costs, the military generals finally decided not to continue ordering the Type 25 rifles, but to directly transfer some of the retired Type 24 rifles from the regular army to the foreign legions for use. Although the Type 24 rifle was only used as a transitional rifle at the beginning, the development of smokeless drugs was so slow that the production of this transitional rifle reached an astonishing more than three million.

So many rifles were gradually retired from the regular army, and they were gradually handed over to the Foreign Legion to display their remaining value.

As for the regular army and even the militia forces, they will be fully replaced with firearms using smokeless bullets in the future to achieve a comprehensive unified supply of ammunition.

It can also be seen from this that the output of the Type 27 rifle and its improved models will be very terrifying in the future... The annual output of 300,000 to 400,000 units will be maintained for a long time. The latest model Equipped to the regular army, while backward models are mothballed or handed over to militia forces.

Based on the performance of this rifle and the development of technology, this series of rifles may be used for decades... until automatic rifles appear in the future!

In the original time and space, the German 98 series rifles and a large number of imitation models from various countries, including the Infield series rifles, were patched together, improved and improved, and were used until World War II... Even after World War II, a large number of countries were using these rifles. An improved model.

And in the Dachu Empire, this situation is very likely to happen!

In this case, the regular army and militia of the Chu Army will use Type 27 rifles or Type 28 rifles for a long time in the future.

As for the equipment ratio between the two, it also depends on the improvement and performance of the two rifles... But there is no essential difference between the two rifles. They are both rifles of the same era and the same technical level.

As for the Foreign Legion, in order to control the cost of equipment and to guard against rebellion, the Foreign Legion has always used old items retired from the regular army.

Now is no exception. They will gradually accept Type 24 rifles and continue to use them with the existing more than 200,000 Type 25 rifles.

This means that the Foreign Legion will also officially enter the era of repeating rifles during this wave.

And when those Type 25 rifles have reached the end of their service life, the Foreign Legion will fully enter the era of eight-millimeter black powder bullets... But it is worth noting that the military has decided that even these Type 24 rifles in stock in the future will Even if there are not enough eight-millimeter black powder bullets, they will not continue to be produced.

After these stocks are used up, the Foreign Legion will be directly allowed to use the early Type 27 rifles retired by the regular army.

And this time is estimated to not be too long, probably ten or fifteen years... After all, these Type 24 rifles in stock are second-hand goods, and many of them have been used for more than ten years.

At the same time, the foreign legion's operations and training are very frequent, and the losses in operations and training are relatively large. It is estimated that these Type 24 rifles will not last more than ten years.

By then, all armies of the Chu Empire, including militiamen and foreign legions, will have unified firearms and bullets for the first time, which will also be of great benefit to reducing costs.

These equipment upgrades and replacements within the Dachu Empire also allowed the foreign legions stationed in Europe to quickly free up a batch of Type 18 rifles.

After these Type 18 rifles are retired from the Foreign Legion, they will be sold to the Dachu Empire Arms Trading Corporation... The arms trading company will directly arrange for factories to process these old rifles in the directly-administered territories in Europe. Simple cosmetic renovation and packaging, and then sold to various indigenous countries...

A government-run machinery factory in Dover, England, received a temporary order to renovate a batch of about 10,000 Type 18 rifles.

Although this machinery factory itself is not involved in the business of these weapons, it is not difficult to simply clean up, renovate the appearance, apply gun oil and package it, and repair some small parts. You can just do it casually.

And while this factory was refurbishing these Type 18 rifles, diplomats from the five British countries were also active... trying to win more shares.

These 10,000 refurbished Type 18 rifles were prepared for the five countries in the British region in the early stage.

The most important thing is that the Chu people have said that the export quota of single-shot rifles that the British region can obtain in the short term is only 10,000 units. The next batch of quotas is expected to go next year!

There are only 10,000 pieces in total, but there are five buyers...the previous orders placed by these five buyers add up to more than 100,000 pieces.

This wolf has more meat but less meat.

All countries want to grab as many orders as possible... Because if you don't take it, others will take it, and you can't guarantee that the other party won't start a war with you after taking it!

Take England and Wales for example. The war between these two kingdoms has only ended a few years ago. Years of war have accumulated a lot of blood feuds, especially the Kingdom of Wales, which suffered losses in the war and was even forced to cede territory to pay compensation. Thinking about revenge!

Setting up the Kingdom of Wales can get more quotas for single-shot rifles, for example, five thousand... The big nobles in London may have to flee to the London Concession as soon as possible!

No one knows you better than your enemies...and no one knows the thoughts of those lunatics in the Kingdom of Wales better than the nobles in London.

If there were 5,000 single-shot rifles in hand, but the Kingdom of England did not have the corresponding single-shot rifles to fight...those in the Kingdom of Wales would dare to launch a war to avenge themselves the next day!

You know, the prince, the former first heir to the King of Wales, died on the battlefield fighting the Kingdom of England... A few years ago, when a cavalry from the Kingdom of England circled back and tried to attack the logistics of the Welsh army, they did not encounter the Welsh. Instead, the logistics force encountered the convoy of the prince, the first heir of the Kingdom of Wales, who was on his way to inspect the front line.

Then, these English cavalry took the heir's head back to London and hung it in the Tower of London for half a month.

Of course, a lot of nobles and even members of the royal family died in the war in England!

The war between the two countries that has lasted for many years has resulted in a lot of deep hatred.

Once there is an opportunity for revenge, neither party will let it go.

Fortunately, the Chu people also saw this tense situation... and were worried that a large-scale war would break out again between the two countries, which would lead to the regional situation getting out of control, affecting normal labor production in the British region, and thus affecting the empire's commercial interests.

Therefore, when it comes to the export quota of single-shot rifles this time, the Chu State is more cautious, and comes with a bowl of water: 10,000 refurbished Type 18 rifles, 2,000 for each family, no one has more, no one has more. Quite a few!

And they are delivered at the same time... just to avoid someone getting it first, training it first, and then taking the lead to start a war.

Even in order to avoid accidents during delivery, such as firearms ordered by some countries being snatched away during transportation, Chu State also provides mandatory door-to-door delivery services...

Of course, the cost of home delivery is not a small amount!

Equal share, uniform delivery time, and door-to-door delivery can avoid the intensification of conflicts among the five British countries, especially the resumption of large-scale war between the Kingdom of Wales and the Kingdom of England.

In the past, the Chu people liked to sit back and watch the natives fight, and they could also sell arms and so on... But later they discovered that when the natives went to war, there were no natives to farm and mine, and even if the natives did not fight, the sales of arms were not low. So I didn't like large-scale wars breaking out among the indigenous people.

Why fight when you have nothing to do... Farming and mining are so great!