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After the advanced breech-loading rifles and breech-loading artillery were equipped with ground troops stationed in Burma in large quantities, the Chu army exploded with stronger combat effectiveness in the local area.

This further reduced the casualties of the Chu army's local suppression operations, and also accelerated the progress of the Chu army's armed suppression operations in the local area.

All of these finally came together to form a very good result, that is, the immigration development of the Great Chu Empire in the Burmese region progressed more smoothly.

The large number of new immigrants who went to the local area did not encounter too many threats from the local natives, and they were able to settle in the local area smoothly and safely, and then cultivated the land and exploited various resources.

After the large-scale application of breech-loading rifled weapons in Myanmar and achieved good results, the army in the neighboring Siam region has also begun to equip breech-loaded rifled weapons on a large scale.

In fact, in the Siam area itself, some Chu troops were equipped with rear-loading rifled weapons, such as the Temporary Third Mixed Brigade of the Guards, a mixed battalion of the No.14 Division of the Army, but there were no other troops.

But, there was no large-scale armed resistance in the Siam area, and there was no organized large-scale resistance in the follow-up, so the fighting intensity was very low, and there was basically no need for regular troops to take action.

At the same time, rear-loading rifled weapons are still relatively scarce these days, and the local resistance in the Siam area is not too strong. The army is naturally close to the Myanmar area.

It was not until the main forces in Myanmar were equipped with breech-loading rifled weapons one after another, and after the pressure was not so great, the army began to issue upgrades and equip breech-loading rifled weapons to the armies in Siam, so that the local garrisons could be more powerful. Good execution of follow-up combat missions of suppression and expulsion.

After more breech-loading rifled guns were distributed in the Siam area, the progress of this task of clearing and expelling was also accelerated a lot.

The military optimistically estimates that the task of clearing and expelling Myanmar and Siam, which originally took four to five years to complete, is expected to be completed within two years.

And this is the great power embodied by the rear-loading rifled guns.

After the results of this series were fed back to the local city of Jinling, Luo Zhixue specially held a military meeting in front of the imperial court to hear the actual use of breech-loading rifled weapons by many generals, as well as the subsequent equipment and research and development.

During the meeting, the Army stated that in view of the good performance of rear-loading rifled weapons and new tactics in the Nanyang Peninsula, the Army will take the lead in replacing rear-loading rifled guns in some key areas and key troops.

At the same time, comprehensive rear-loading rifle tactics were launched, especially infantry skirmish tactics and infantry coordination tactics.

Strive to complete the comprehensive refitting of key areas and key troops within three years.

Key areas naturally refer to areas where wars have broken out and encountered certain difficulties, such as Burma and Siam in the Nanyang Peninsula.

The key troops are naturally the first-class divisions.

After these key areas and key troops have completed their transformation, it will be the turn of the second-class standing division, and finally the third-class garrison division.

The Army expects to complete the basic refit within five years and complete the full refit within seven years.

Don’t think seven years is slow, it’s actually quite fast. After all, the army has more than 150 million troops... It’s not just the first-class divisions that are the army... There are a huge number of second-class and third-class divisions Shina is also a regular army...

If there is a full refit, more than 100 million rifles alone will be needed, and then you have to add a certain amount of inventory, training and combat losses, and the actual purchase quantity will exceed the number of active equipment.

Anyway, the Army plans to purchase 25 rifles per year. With so many rifles, the purchase cost alone will cost more than 300 million yuan, and the annual purchase quantity will reach more than 20.

This is just 400 million yuan for the annual purchase of rear-loading rifles and bullets.

Moreover, the army is not only refitting rifles, but also artillery, and artillery is more expensive...

After changing to a new type of gun, tactical training is always needed, let's do some exercises, this is also money...

All these things are finally figured out. The army wants to complete the refit within seven years, and the annual expenditure will be tens of millions. Although part of the funds will be spent even if it is not refitted to install rifled weapons, but apart from these additional expenses, the annual cost The new expenditure will also have to be 500 million or more!
However, the army's money is so tight that it is not enough... The cabinet is unwilling to give additional military expenditures in peacetime. In the end, there is no other way. Apart from adding 300 million yuan to the steadily increasing regular military expenditures, Luo Zhixue can only make the decision himself. In the extra budget every year, 200 million funds are set aside.

In the financial and budget system of the Great Chu Empire, in addition to the regular funds and military expenditures of various departments, an additional budget ranging from a few hundred to tens of millions of Chu Yuan is reserved every year. See Luo Zhixue's arrangement.

However, in previous years, it was basically used for disaster relief, temporary war expenses, army refitting funds, naval shipbuilding funds, and important industrial projects.

Therefore, using the extra budget to give the army money to purchase new equipment is also a common practice. Although the cabinet is very upset, it also recognizes it with a pinch of its nose.

However, they also made a request that the money must be earmarked and used only for the purchase of new equipment this time, and it will only be allocated for seven years, and the project will be stopped after seven years.

Only in this way can the army's annual funding gap of at least 500 million Chu yuan be filled.

The Army is going to replace rear-loading rifled weapons on a large scale, and several other armed forces are no exception.

Needless to say, the Imperial Guards, Chengshun has decided to fully refit rear-loaded rifled weapons in 32 years, and became the first domestic army to fully refit rear-loaded rifled weapons on a large scale. At present, more than half of the troops have completed it. It is estimated that a full facelift will be completed this year.

Of course, the Guards were originally few in number. Except for the wonderful Guards fleet and air force, the traditional ground force was no more than 7 people, and only tens of thousands of guns and a few hundred artillery pieces were needed in total. Not too much... Besides, they are not short of money, and the required funds are directly spent from the royal family funds.

And the royal family's funds have never been missing in the past years!
Not to mention the royal funds allocated by the central government every year, in addition to the huge royal industry, a certain amount of profits will be handed over to the royal funds every year. Under special circumstances, the royal family urgently needs a large amount of funds, and it can also raise a large amount of funds temporarily.

After all, in the Great Chu Empire these days, the most powerful capital group is a series of government-run capitals of the empire.

The second is the royal capital...

As for private capital, it is actually nothing in the contemporary Great Chu Empire... Private capital actually accounts for a small proportion in the industrial and commercial economic system of the empire, not even half of it... and private capital is highly dispersed, after all, private capital There is not one capitalist in China, but countless.

But the government-run capital and the royal capital are highly concentrated capitals, and the bosses are the same person: Luo Zhixue!

So, if you want to say who is the biggest capitalist in the Great Chu Empire, there is no doubt that it is Luo Zhixue, the emperor of the Great Chu Empire. The government-run capital and royal capital directly or indirectly controlled by him alone have reached half of the industrial and commercial economic system. Above volume!

This half of the volume is not talking about influence, or control... but about possession!
The specific meaning can be simply understood as: the total market value of all enterprises in the empire adds up to one hundred Chu yuan, of which Luo Zhixue holds fifty Chu yuan.

You say this is an exaggeration?

In fact, this is all a modest statement. If we really want to say it, the entire empire is actually learned by Luo Zhi, including those so-called capitalists!
You are all me, let alone your money!
It's just that these things don't make much sense...

In short, the guards are not short of money, and the same is true when reinstalling rifled guns. They purchased more than 40 Chuyuan Type [-] rifles before, and now the price of Type [-] rifles has plummeted. He simply purchased all the remaining vacancies in one go, and placed an additional order of [-] pieces.

The [-] additional orders are not for use, but for storage... The Guards have always had a tradition of sealing up new weapons and equipment.

There are currently 15 21/23-style flash cap percussion guns stored in several guards' combat readiness warehouses in Yingtianfu, of which [-] are brand new and unopened.

This is to mobilize and expand the number of guards at any time. According to the plan of the guards, if necessary, the guards can be expanded to more than 20 at any time.

This means that there are only more than 7 guards on the surface, but they actually have active weapons that can equip 20 people!

Now that we have entered the era of breech-loading rifled guns, the guards' arsenal of combat readiness naturally needs to be updated. It cannot be said that when the time comes to urgently expand the troop force, a batch of antique muskets will be taken out of the warehouse for the soldiers to use. .

Therefore, first purchase a batch of equipment for the soldiers, and then continue to purchase year by year, some of which will be replaced in active service, and some will be directly sealed.

Those decommissioned and unsealed front-loading smoothbore weapons don't have to worry about being wasted...then just deal with them and export them to those arms trading companies.

However, the performance of the flash cap percussion gun is too high, and there are hidden dangers in export... On the one hand, the barrel quality of the 23-year-style flash cap percussion gun is relatively good, and it may be converted into a front-loading rifle by those indigenous people. Well, although the modified barrel The lifespan is not good, but it can also be modified.

In addition, if the fire hat is exported in large quantities, it may be cracked or hoarded by the indigenous people, which will lead to threats.

Of course, the most important thing is that the main export of muskets of the Great Chu Empire is matchlock guns. Although flintlock guns are also sold, the overall purchase is not too much... There are still a lot of flintlock guns purchased from Chu. restrictive.

There is no need to sell flash caps to takeaways now... You are selling flash caps to takeaways now, how can you stimulate those indigenous troops to upgrade?
So sell cold weapons first, then sell matchlock guns, and then sell flintlock guns... This is the established strategy of the Great Chu Empire's arms export trade, and a flash cap percussion gun will have to be added later.

As for rifled rifles, whether they were front-loaded or breech-loaded, the Great Chu Empire had no intention of exporting them. Not now, and it is unlikely to be exported for a long time in the future, even decades.

Therefore, a large number of active-duty and in-stock flash cap percussion guns of the Great Chu Empire will be exported after modification, except for a few that will be collected by the people.

And replacing the firing mechanism of the flash cap with a sudden firing mechanism has no technical difficulty, and there is no need for too much modification cost.

After all, the 21-year/23-year-style flash cap percussion gun itself came from the improvement of the firing mechanism from the 13-year-style series of flintlock guns...

It sounds strange to convert advanced weapons into outdated weapons for sale, but it is actually the norm in the international arms trade.

Laomei tried to replace the F16 equipped with the third-generation turbofan engine with the second-generation turbojet engine and sell it to us...

Lao Su exported various weapons and equipment back then, and he especially liked to castrate advanced weapons and equipment and convert them into backward products for export to other countries, such as T72, MiG 29 and so on.

So many things that sound strange are actually not strange, but the norm.

The Guards had to deal with a large number of old cappers, as did the Army and Navy.

Relatively speaking, it is much more convenient for the navy to deal with it. After all, their marine corps is smaller, with only more than 3 people. It is easy and convenient to deal with old weapons.

And the replacement speed will be very fast. After all, they are equipped with the Type [-] rifles of Huguang Weapons Company, and they don't need to compete with the Army and Guards for the production capacity of Type [-] rifles.

The last armed tax police are similar, the total number of armed tax police is tens of thousands, and it is easy to change clothes.

The refitting of the land artillery is also similar, the bulk has to be the army, and the others are only a small part.

However, there is no such thing as a replacement for the navy's breech-loading rifled naval guns. It can only be said that newly-built warships will use breech-loading rifled guns on small and medium-caliber naval guns.

However, the Navy does not plan to reinstall the large number of front-loading rifled guns equipped on existing warships... there is no need for that!
After all, the main task of the current navy is to fight pirates, occasionally to fight small sampan navies of indigenous countries, and to bombard indigenous port cities occasionally!

For these tasks, the Navy stated that in fact, front-loading rifled guns can also fully meet the needs...

Therefore, the navy's current attitude towards breech-loading rifled naval guns is: new ships use new guns, and old ships use old guns. There is no need to waste money to replace the front-loaded rifled guns in old ships with breech-loaded rifled guns!
This is only talking about medium and small caliber breech-loading rifled guns.

As for the large-caliber rear-loading naval guns... Now the Great Chu Empire has not been able to solve the large-caliber naval guns with separate ammunition, and it cannot be equipped even if it wants to.

But in any case, by next year, it is expected that the first cruiser equipped with breech-mounted rifled guns will be built and put into service, and the era of breech-loaded rifled guns will officially start at that time.

It's just meaning... In fact, that's it. After all, if it's used to fight the natives, it won't be much better than the previous warship with front-mounted rifled guns...

No matter which type of these two types of artillery are, they can beat the natives!