1890 King of Southeast Asia

"The Japanese still use the old single-shot rifle?" Liu Rong maintained his scholarly demeanor and great generosity, and picked up the Murata 18th-year rifle.

"There are also repeating rifles that use small-caliber bullets, the Murata 30th-year rifle." Luo Yu from the Logistics Equipment Department picked up a 30th-year rifle.

"This rifle has an 8mm caliber, and its performance is barely suitable. The most important thing is that it is a rifle from the smokeless powder era, and it is cheap." Luo Yu promoted it wholeheartedly.

Nanhua now has enough bullet calibers, 1143mm Maxim, 68mm smokeless powder rifle, 11-caliber Martini, 65mm Beaumont 1887/1888 rifle.

"How cheap is it?" Liu Rong took the 30th-year rifle and pretended to aim at it.

"This is the safety, you can try the gun." Luo Yu really didn't want this batch of things to take up space in the warehouse, and Nanhua's warehouse was very precious.

"No, how cheap is it?" Do you want me to tell you that I can't shoot?

"On the market, one is 38 yuan. Look at this thing. It is well maintained. Moreover, the current international situation is unstable. Arms..." Luo Yu used the ability he learned after entering the logistics equipment department - sales.

The logistics equipment department is divided into three parts: logistics, equipment, and rear warehouse.

The rear warehouse is responsible for handling the spoils of war. Luo Yu was injured on the front line and was caught when he returned to Sishui for treatment, and then stayed. Because he has a talent for sales.

"The market is tight now, but who told you to go through Governor Liu and follow the path of our Prime Minister? I will give you a sincere price, 35!" Luo Yu made a big concession.

"What is the price when converted into silver? Brother Luo, you can't cheat me." Liu Rong nodded in agreement, and then handed over a jade card.

"This is the best Lantian jade, it's on the contract..." Liu Rong said softly when he saw that there was no one around.

"Eh? Oh! I see, I see. What do you think the price is? However, this price, converted into the current silver price, is about 32 taels," Luo Yu was stunned for a moment.

"So expensive? This is just second-hand goods. It's not easy to deliver at such a high price!" Liu Rong almost jumped up when he heard the price.

"How much does Brother Liu want?" Luo Yu stuffed the jade card into his pocket and asked.

"How many do you have?" Before coming, Liu Kunyi's requirements were ten battalions, excluding the artillery battalion, the cavalry, and the infantry battalion, six, and 10,000 guns.

"There are more than 5,000 of these 30-year-old rifles at present. If you want more, you have to wait. Wait for another month, and some should be delivered." Luo Yu knew that this was not a bluff, and it was a big customer.

The battle was not fierce, the Japanese bombardment was rare, and many died of disease, and the weapons were well preserved.

It's just that I don't know how much money I can make in the final stage.

"28 taels, I want 10,000, and they have to be refurbished for me!" Liu Rong struggled for a long time and quoted a price that he thought was very low.

"Okay! Who makes us hit it off right away? Come on, Brother Liu, I'll treat you to a meal at Sishui Grand Hotel. Let's get drunk today." Luo Yu enthusiastically pulled Liu Rong.

"Please be patient, please be patient~ Brother Luo, your offer..." Liu Rong felt very happy, and the bargaining was successful.

"Don't worry, Brother Liu, just write as much as you want. Come on, let's go drink and let you taste Sishui's wine..." Luo Yu didn't even think about it.

He originally planned to buy 14-15 taels, or a lower one. After all, the price of a new gun is expensive. It was shipped from Europe. Not only is the quantity not much, but the production is also complicated, and the performance is worth the price.

But this is a Japanese-made rifle, or it was captured. It takes up space and can't be sent to the Construction Corps. Add another production line? The factory can beat Luo Yu to death.

This wave of blood made three times the profit. (It's not too much to make half the profit from the arms business, right?)

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While discussing the arms business of recycling waste, Liu Yiming was participating in the latest 152mm barrel recoil test.

"This is the artillery we imitated from the British. The principle is clear. Except for the weight, the basic parameters are the same. If there is time, this idea is still very inspiring for us. The design work of the new artillery has begun." Qian Jin introduced on the side.

Since Lin Pingzhi took the wife's route to bring his brother-in-law, hundreds of technicians and skilled workers were tempted by high salaries and came to Nanhua, which greatly alleviated the problem of Nanhua's insufficient manufacturing capacity.

People like Qian Jin, Yang Mian, Liu Yong, etc. finally no longer have to operate machine tools all day long, but can instead conduct theoretical research and factory management.

The artillery is placed on the open ground and uses electric shock. Compared with the larger barrel, this one is much more beautiful.

"The gun barrel is thinner and lighter. Engineer Yang is researching a new 152mm shell. I heard it has greater power and stronger armor penetration."

"Can it be mass-produced? What is the domestic production rate? Key components?" Liu Yiming is more concerned about the probability of self-sufficiency in case the whole world is hostile.

"The naval type can be domestically produced, especially the gun barrel is much better than the British. The gun carriage is used. The improved design has been drawn and technical verification is being carried out."

"The army type is not good enough. No matter how it is improved, it is still too heavy, including the recoil mechanism, which is close to three tons." Qian Jin didn't even think about it, and he remembered all of this.

"The army doesn't need to panic. There is no demand for the time being." Liu Yiming thought for a while. Three tons, three tractors, a gun regiment with 24 guns, plus the transportation of shells, tools and fuel, 150 units are needed for normal use, and logistics must be guaranteed in wartime. An artillery regiment consumes more than two infantry brigades.

"It's almost ready!" At this time, Liu Yiming looked through the Yonggu observation fortifications and saw that the people next to the artillery had left.

This also means that the test has entered the final stage. This time it is a reliability test, and the firing parameters are tested by the way.

Boom!

There is no problem with the test. Of course, the test is not to fire live ammunition, but training ammunition with basically the same parameters. The cost is only 1/3 of the live ammunition. It just won't explode.

After firing 20 rounds in a row, the technician checked that it was correct and started the rapid-fire experiment, which was also the purpose of Liu Yiming's visit, to consider the issue of domestic production of naval guns.

There is no way. The rapid-fire gun has a too fast firing rate. The barrel life is only 300 rounds. After two battles, the barrel must be replaced.

Boom! Boom...

First three rounds per minute, then six rounds, and finally eight rounds of testing. There is no obvious problem with the barrel.

"It's OK. If the life is suitable, then produce it! Produce more. The Jiaolong class needs it, and the Changluo class also needs to replace the secondary gun." Liu Yiming was very satisfied. Without an automatic turret, this firing rate is almost the limit of human power.

"Prime Minister, productivity is insufficient." Qian Jin said in embarrassment.

"We were busy with the long-barreled rapid-fire guns of the destroyers before. The old guns of the army have retired, and we are rushing to produce the 91-type rapid-fire guns. We don't have enough people to start the 152 guns. Do you think we can transfer another batch of people?" Speaking of this, Qian Jin didn't even notice the term "Changluo Class".

"Go to the Immigration Bureau and find Lin Pingzhi..." Liu Yiming's voice was gradually fading away. Liu Yiming had a headache when he heard that he was asking for people.

"Alas~ Secretary, prepare a car for me to go to the Immigration Bureau. If I can't get the people from the second factory back today, I won't come back!" Qian Jin sighed.

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After coming out of the arsenal, Liu Yiming wandered in the industrial zone.

The roads in the industrial zone have been hardened, and there are even railways connecting the factories, such as the steel plant to the gun factory, and there is also a railway from the steel plant to the shipyard. Thanks to the indigenous people for their contribution to the construction of Nanhua.

Rumble~

A huge noise came into Liu Yiming's ears. He opened the window and came to the engine manufacturing plant.

"Stop! I'll go down and take a look." Liu Yiming shouted to the driver.

Walking into the tractor factory, a smoking steel monster was seen from a distance, moving slowly forward.

"What are you doing?" Liu Yiming grabbed a young man.

"General? General... Prime Minister? Prime Minister!" The young man was so excited that he couldn't speak. He looked excited.

"Ahem!" Seeing his fans for the first time, Liu Yiming couldn't help but straighten his clothes and reveal his working face.

"Don't be excited, let me see how you are doing?" Liu Yiming said amiably.

"Oh! We are testing the car, but the effect..." The young man looked at the black smoke and the huge noise, and the vibration amplitude could be seen from a distance.

"Prime Minister... You are here, I am doing experiments with my students." Li Minbo hurried over.

"Is this an experimental model? Is there a new model of engine?" Liu Yiming was surprised at Li Minbo's research and development speed.

After all, we need to continuously optimize single-cylinder diesel engines and marine diesel engines. Now, with Li Minbo taking the lead, there are only six or seven available research talents and dozens of apprentice technicians.

Most of them are from the United States, not international students, but immigrants. Especially after the outbreak of war between South China and Japan, the number of immigrants increased greatly.

From this, it is also derived that Spain prohibits Chinese from leaving the colony. The navy has already gone on a tour. If it were not for the fact that the war at this time was too stimulating to Britain, Liu Yiming would have already taken action. He did not know what to lift.

Just like this, Liu Yiming has also established a line with the United States and became a telegraph pen pal with Theodore who is still in the Public Service Bureau.

"Well! The students who came back these days are all good, with strong hands-on skills, and new results have been produced." Li Minbo also wanted to win greater support and led Liu Yiming into the warehouse.

"This is the latest gasoline engine that has been adjusted. With the chassis drawings found in the database, the parts have arrived and are being assembled."

"This four-cylinder gasoline engine has 32 horsepower. If there is no problem with the chassis, we can produce trucks, but the load capacity is only slightly better than that of diesel engines." Li Minbo hesitated.

"Prime Minister, I suggest that we should shift more energy to diesel engines. Gasoline engines have fast speeds, but in terms of load capacity, they are completely inferior to diesel engines."

Then Li Minbo's students pulled out a new tractor at the right time.

This is a large tractor with the engine still in the front, which is very similar to the tractors of the 1950s and 1960s.

"This is the model we just completed the experiment. It is a four-cylinder water-cooled diesel engine with 54 horsepower. It is used for plowing and hauling goods, but the fuel consumption ratio is not as good as that of trucks. We are considering using this to produce trucks."

"In the experiment, a large tractor can plow six hectares of land a day. It is used as a truck engine. It has high horsepower and can pull more, which is much better than gasoline engines." Li Minbo promoted his diesel engine.

"Has the truck been built?" Liu Yiming was already numb. Are these people too strong?

"Uh... that's what we were experimenting with just now." Li Minbo suddenly felt a little regretful.

"But what I saw was a steam engine?" Liu Yiming didn't know how he stuffed the diesel engine into the steam engine, but it was definitely a steam engine.

"The chassis is not assembled yet, so we can only use a tractor to pull a cargo box instead." Li Minbo said with a red face.

In fact, it has been assembled twice. The transmission shaft processing is not up to standard, the vibration is too large, and the vibration of the diesel engine itself makes me feel that my internal organs are beating when I sit in the car.

And the high-frequency vibration makes the failure rate high, and the noise makes it difficult to use.

"Anything else?" Liu Yiming didn't intend to dwell on this matter.

"We made a crawler tractor, but the travel mechanism is complicated, the failure rate is high, the crawler life is short, the speed is slow, and it is..." Li Minbo thought about it, and the remaining seven or eight projects were not mature, so he said the most mature one.

"You... have made it?" Liu Yiming was numb again. I haven't been here for only one year, no, I haven't been here for eight months, no, except for single-cylinder diesel engines and marine diesel engines, Liu Yiming didn't care about anything else.

And with better materials, mature and comprehensive information, higher cutting technology, high-level talents, plus the large number of engines sold by the engine factory, making a lot of money, it seems that it is not impossible?

"The steel torrent, crossing the Urals, hits the English Channel!" Liu Yiming has already begun to imagine that the steel monsters painted green, yellow, and gray, roaring across the Ural Mountains, Paris welcomes its new owner, sitting in the Palace of Versailles, and crowning the emperor... No, this is about the next book.

"Prime Minister?" Li Minbo looked at the dazed Prime Minister and called carefully.

"Oh! Very good, you, don't worry about the others, first make the crawler tractor, the requirement is stability, first make a mature system, and then send it to the desert, plains, ice fields, various terrain tests..." Liu Yiming said more and more.

Until seeing Li Minbo's strange eyes, he came back to his senses.

"Just like this first, crawler tractors, slowly make it, don't rush, but always be in the front, apply for it if you need money." Liu Yiming wiped his saliva and hurriedly left the engine factory.

"Teacher, has the Prime Minister always been like this?" Several young men in their twenties widened their eyes and looked at the teacher who was not much older than themselves.

"What are you talking about? It shouldn't be! Nothing to do? If nothing to do, go assemble the chassis!" Li Minbo's eyes widened.

Back to the streets of Sishui, watching the people coming and going, Liu Yiming was thinking about the navy.

Given Nanhua's geographical location, it seems obvious that it is a continental army or a large navy, but should it go ashore? Not to the north, but to the west. Now Britain doesn't pay much attention to that desert. It can be snatched in a war and used as an excuse to attack Turkey.

There are still 18 or 19 years, and technology can be broken through anyway. Just walk on two feet, okay?

Medium-caliber artillery has been put into production, and even 120 has begun to equip destroyers, and the development of new artillery has also begun long ago.

Britain transferred the technology and equipment for torpedo production, but Nanhua has no relevant researchers, and it is impossible to recruit them, so the improvement of adding gyroscopes is still in the experiment, not to mention thermal power.

"Driver, go to Charles' villa!" Liu Yiming wants to talk to Charles to see if he can recruit a group of down-and-out researchers.

At the same time, the increasingly close Sino-Japanese war also made Liu Yiming set his sights on the remaining Beiyang troops. If nothing unexpected happened, many of these navy troops left...

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