1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 346 Sacramento Arsenal
"The guns produced by the Sacramento Armory are mostly 6-pound, 8-pound, 10-pound, and 12-pound rifled guns.

The price of a 6-pound rifled gun is around $700, and the price of a 12-pound rifled gun is around $1500. This is just an approximate price, and the specific price depends on different guns. "

After finishing speaking, Liang Yao stubbed out the cigarette that was about to be finished in the ashtray, and added.

"This is the price of the cannon body. If you want to add a cannon carriage, the price will be calculated separately."

The Sacramento Arsenal was basically built by digging out the team from the Springfield Arsenal and buying the production line from the Springfield Arsenal.

What the Springfield Armory can make, the Sacramento Armory can make.

Previously, the artillery produced by the Springfield Armory was mainly the Field 6-pounder smoothbore gun and the 12-pounder smoothbore gun, as well as the old-fashioned M1841 6-pounder gun, also known as the Little Napoleon gun.

As for why Springfield Arsenal insisted on producing smoothbore guns knowing that smoothbore guns were outdated, the reason is also very simple.

That is, smoothbore guns are much cheaper than rifled guns. Springfield Armory knows that the American army wants cheaper artillery rather than more advanced artillery.

This is why, among the arsenals in the United States, Springfield Arsenal is able to thrive. It is not only the largest supplier of standard light weapons to the American Army, but also one of the largest artillery suppliers to the American Army Artillery.

Springfield Armory not only knows how to make weapons, but also understands the minds of the gentlemen of Congress.

Today, smoothbore guns are still the mainstream artillery of the American army. Not to mention now, until the outbreak of the Civil War, the artillery of the North and the South was mainly equipped with smoothbore guns, mainly Napoleon guns, and the proportion of rifled guns was pitiful.

And these few poor rifled guns are still Napoleon guns with rifling directly on the barrel of the smoothbore gun.

But now that Liang Yao got the blueprint of the Armstrong cannon and four experimental cannons.

These obsolete guns will gradually be phased out by the Sacramento Arsenal.

The next focus of the Sacramento Armory's cannon production department is to imitate the Armstrong gun, an epoch-making artillery, rather than continue to manufacture these obsolete weapons.

The Sacramento Arsenal is located in a valley on the northern outskirts of Sacramento, about 5 kilometers away from downtown Sacramento.

Fortunately, the Sacramento Armory has been connected to the train for a long time, so going to the Sacramento Armory is just a matter of taking the train for a few minutes, and there is no need to change to other means of transportation.

A few minutes later, the train arrived in Sacramento and slowly entered the station.

After getting off the train, Hong Mingxiang looked back at the black-smoky train behind him, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "This railway and train are really convenient. They can carry freight and passengers on weekdays, and they can also transport troops to transport food, grass and luggage during wartime. This thing is better than others." It has passed tens of thousands of people, and it is really a [military] [country] artifact."

After coming to California, Hong Mingxiang saw the outside world like a frog at the bottom of a well, which made him feel a lot.

At the same time, Hong Mingxiang also became more and more aware that the reason why they lost to the English was not just that their guns were inferior to others.

The United States, whose national strength is far inferior to that of England, still has so many novelties and can produce such advanced guns, let alone England, the most powerful country in the West?

"Railways do have great military value." Liang Yao made a gesture of invitation, "Hongjunmen, please come inside."

Liang Yao brought Hong Mingxiang into the Sacramento Armory, and the accompanying soldiers and the gun engineer that the Rothschild family dug from France this time were not idle.

They unloaded the four experimental guns produced by Armstrong from Liang Yaola from the train and dragged them to the Sacramento Armory for testing.

The director of the Sacramento Arsenal is Sutter, but Sutter is also the mayor of Sacramento.Although Sutter is nominally the director of the Sacramento Arsenal, Sutter is not responsible for the specific production and operation of the Arsenal.

The person responsible for the specific production of the Sacramento Arsenal is the deputy director, Owen Brooks.

Before coming to the Sacramento Armory, Brooks worked at the Springfield Armory as one of the chief gunnery engineers at the Springfield Armory.

"Brooks, don't you often complain that the arsenal has no orders? Now a big customer has come to visit our arsenal. This customer has ordered 5000 Walter M1851E rifles from us and is also very interested in the cannons produced by our Sacramento arsenal. Take this customer to visit the production line of our Sacramento Arsenal." Liang Yao said to Brooks.

"Please, Your Excellency." Brooks was overjoyed upon hearing this, and hurriedly invited Hong Mingxiang and others into the workshop for a visit.

The machine tool industry was originally one of the few advantageous industries in the United States. In the middle of the 19th century, American machine tools were comparable to British machine tools. Even in later generations, American high-end CNC machine tools are still the benchmark in the industry.

In 1851, Liang Yao purchased a large number of processing machine tools, milling machines, drilling machines, rifling machines and profiling engraving machines from the eastern region, and recruited a large number of talents to California.

California's machine tool industry is not only in the United States, but even if you look at the world, it is at the first echelon level.

All kinds of machine tools at the Sacramento Armory have now been replaced with machine tools produced in California.

These machine tools mainly come from General Machinery Company, a subsidiary of the American Group, and Pratt & Whitney, which was established by Pratt and Whitney.

These two companies are one of the few machinery companies in the world that can produce machine tools with a machining accuracy error of less than 2 mm, and they are the benchmarks of California's machinery industry.

Brooks first took Hong Mingxiang to visit the production line of the Walter M1851 rifle.

The automation of the rifle production line is very high. The rifling of the barrel is directly drawn by the rifling machine, the mechanical parts of the gun are processed by the processing machine tool, and the butt is directly carved by the profiling engraving machine.

The only link that requires a lot of labor is the final assembly of firearms. This link cannot be automated at present and can only be done manually.

The firearms production workshop of the Sacramento Armory made Hong Mingxiang and others amazed. Compared with the Sacramento Armory, the small workshops that produced matchlock guns in the Qing Dynasty were really nothing to see.

Even the French gunnery engineers who had just arrived at the Sacramento Armory were shocked.

They reluctantly come to California for high wages.

As citizens of one of the most powerful countries on the European continent, these gun engineers from France somewhat looked down on the United States and were prejudiced against the United States.

After all, without the assistance of France, it is still unknown whether the United States can become a country.

Their impression of the United States is still at the beginning of the founding of the United States.

After seeing the firearms production workshop of the Sacramento Armory with their own eyes, these French gun engineers had a subversive understanding of America and California.

The Sacramento arsenal is more advanced than any arsenal they have worked in France. Working as a gun engineer in this arsenal can not only get a high salary, but also design and manufacture world-leading guns and artillery.

Thinking of this, these French gun engineers couldn't help feeling overwhelmed.

To their surprise, apart from them, there are many workers and engineers from France in this arsenal, and it is not difficult for them to integrate here.

More importantly, it is full of vitality. This is the deepest impression they have on California after they came to California. Practitioners from all walks of life are full of vitality.

Even the prostitutes of San Francisco are more passionate and hardworking than the prostitutes of Paris.

(End of this chapter)