I want to be emperor

Chapter 775 The Taxation Department of the Great Chu Empire Really Has an Army
After visiting the Daye Industrial Base in Hantianfu, Luo Zhixue's imperial special train traveled eastward, passed through and inspected Jiujiang and Nanchang, and then went straight to Yingtianfu and returned to Jinling City.

And thus ended the northern tour that lasted for several months.

This time the northern tour allowed Luo Zhixue to have a more comprehensive understanding of the economic development of the northern provinces. At the same time, he also inspected the technical level of many defense industries in the north, as well as the training and combat levels of the garrison in the north.

I also saw a series of breech-loading rifled weapons that were considered epoch-making in terms of performance.

Including the [-]-type rifle that has been finalized and planned for small-scale equipment. At the same time, it has not yet been finalized and is still in continuous research and development, but the prospect is very good, the technical characteristics are quite excellent, and it can be used only after solving the follow-up all-metal bullet problem. A new generation of breech-loading rifles: Type XIX.

Before leaving Hantian Armory, Luo Zhixue personally opened the mouth to set the official number for the new generation of breech-loading rifles of Hantian Armory. Continuing the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth series of series of rifled rifles, he awarded the nineteenth type The serial number of the rifle.

Looking at the number, one can tell that the Great Chu Empire Army still has not decided to purchase this new type of weapon on a large scale. It is only a small-scale purchase of experimental equipment, and they still have to wait until they solve the problem of bullets before purchasing.

This means that in the next few years, the military of the Great Chu Empire will be equipped with two kinds of rear-loading rifles on a small scale at the same time.

The Type [-] rifle and the Type [-] rifle seemed to be both breech-loading rifles with a caliber of [-] mm, but their technical characteristics were very different.

The Type [-] rifle uses a rotating rear-action bolt, which has stable performance and a simple structure. At the same time, there is great potential for subsequent improvement and development. Luo Zhixue knows that the bolt-action rifles in the original space-time basically have a rotating and rear-action mechanism.

The Type [-] rifle uses a trigger action. Although this type of action has little potential for subsequent development, it is also in the future. But for now, this type of action also has its unique advantages. Not to mention, Just a faster rate of fire is enough to make people tempted.

At the same time, there are also differences in the design of the barrel rifling. Relatively speaking, the barrel design of the Type [-] rifle is even better, and from the beginning, the design of the barrel of this rifle is for firing all-metal bullets, while the Type [-] The design goal of the rifle was originally to fire paper shell bullets.

In addition to other aspects of the design, it has also led to higher shooting accuracy and even greater power of the Type [-] rifle. The Army is very satisfied with the rifle's excellent rate of fire, accuracy, and power. The eight-type rifle is also satisfactory.

In addition, the design of the bullets of the two rifles is actually different. Although the caliber is [-] mm, the internal detailed design is different.

However, considering the follow-up logistics unification and commonality issues, the Army Ordnance Department has reviewed two bullets of the same caliber to determine which bullet is finally selected as the standard all-metal bullet.

The Army has never considered equipping two bullets of the same caliber but incompatible with each other, which would be a disaster for logistics.

According to the current technical progress, the all-metal bullets of Tianjin Firearms Factory are very likely to be rejected due to the backward development progress and insufficient technical features, and the all-metal bullet design of Hantian Arsenal will eventually be adopted.

Once the design of the standard all-metal bullet is finalized, all follow-up rifles of the same caliber must be subsequently designed according to the corresponding bullet.

Of course, it is impossible for Hantian Armory to retain its own technical patents for bullets. Instead, the patents will be purchased by the military, and then uniformly authorized to all domestic ammunition factories, so that all ammunition factories can produce standard bullets.

In fact, it's not just bullets. Once it is determined that a certain type of rifle will be equipped on a large scale in the future, it will be the standard rifle of the next generation.

Considering the production capacity and the survival of other arsenals, the military will also purchase patents and then authorize other arsenals to produce them together.

In this process, R & D manufacturers will not suffer, because they will continue to obtain patent fees. If other manufacturers produce a rifle using this patent, they will be able to obtain a patent fee. If the quantity is large, the total amount of patent licensing fee is also very considerable.

This kind of patent income is also a considerable sum, which can bring rich income to enterprises that develop new weapons. This is also one of the driving forces for enterprises to actively develop new technologies and new weapons.

Not to mention that even if the patent is authorized, the military will still order large quantities of weapons from the original manufacturer.

The military procurement of the Great Chu Empire, especially the procurement of standardized weapons for large-scale equipment, has always been this mode of operation.

It can not only meet the military's huge demand for weapons, reduce procurement costs, obtain more stable weapons supply channels, and ensure that there are multiple domestic arsenals to compete.

The winners in the competition will eat meat, but the losers will not be starved to death. If they want, they can also engage in OEM and earn a little processing fee.

During this northern tour, not only did we see two types of breech-loading rifles, but we also saw a revolver pistol that fired paper shell bullets. Its size and power were well controlled, and it was very suitable for officers, artillery and other technical arms. , used as a self-defense pistol.

In the future, it can even be assigned to the patrol force as a law enforcement weapon.

Nowadays, in addition to sabers, the law enforcement weapons attached to domestic patrol police are also equipped with some early smoothbore pistols, even revolver smoothbore guns, and some long-barreled smoothbore rifles.

Of course, their police smoothbore rifles had shorter barrels for portability.

On the whole, the weapons and equipment of the domestic patrol police in the Great Chu Empire are not uniform, and the patrol departments of each province have independent equipment procurement rights, but they need to obtain the approval of the patrol department.

Therefore, the equipment of the domestic patrol police is also varied, and there are all kinds of messy equipment. There are at least a dozen types of police muskets, ranging from old flintlock guns to flash cap percussion guns. The armed patrols in China are equipped with several types of front-loading rifles as long-range support firepower to kill criminals at a long distance.

Among them, the armed patrols under the Yingtianfu Police Department are equipped with more than a dozen high-precision front-loading rifles specially made for them by the Dangtu Arsenal. The shooting accuracy is very high. Of course, the price is extremely expensive. Yuan Zhiju.

As for the chaotic equipment of the patrol units, the upper echelon of the empire basically turned a blind eye to it. After all, it is only a law enforcement unit, and there is no need to consider the issue of unified logistics supply. The grassroots patrols can use whatever they like. .

Besides, this also involves the competition among domestic defense enterprises.

The weapons and equipment of the domestic patrol police are also an important target for the five major domestic weapon companies. Although they are all light weapons, the overall purchase quantity is also very large.

Moreover, the procurement of equipment for the patrol police comes from local procurement. In order to maintain law and order, and also to demonstrate the power of local law and order, the government in some wealthy places is still willing to purchase equipment for the patrol police. Such orders are often expensive. high profit.

Therefore, the five major arms companies in the Great Chu Empire, in addition to the three military forces of the Army, Navy, and Guards, their main customers actually include the domestic patrol police and tax police, two law enforcement units.

Moreover, the equipment procurement scale of the tax patrol police is not small, and they are more willing to spend money than the military.

After all, people are collecting money, they have money in their pockets, and the armed tax police in the tax police system are paramilitary units equipped with heavy weapons.

The domestic patrol police are not equipped with artillery, but the tax police have artillery... But they are all small artillery, but they are generally good things. Even the front-loading rifled field guns that the army is reluctant to use, they have purchased a few Ten doors are used.

In addition, the armed tax police are also equipped with a large number of armed patrol boats, what are they for?It is mainly used to check smuggling.

Well, the customs department in the Great Chu Empire is still under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Taxation, and the inspection of smuggling is also a major task of the tax police, so they are equipped with many patrol boats for inspection of smuggling. Eight classic naval guns.

This is still the local tax police.

If it is the tax police of overseas territories, let alone... In the Indian region, the patrols of the tax department often undertake military missions...

Sometimes the army needs local armed tax police to help defend because of insufficient troops.

The Great Chu Empire is in India, but it has two armed tax police brigades, each with a scale of more than 1000 people. They are stationed in Mumbai and Gehe respectively. They are all composed of retired soldiers from the army. , as well as a variety of army active artillery, as well as cavalry and auxiliary troops.

This thing is actually an army standard mixed battalion!
Otherwise, how do you think the tax agency of the Great Chu Empire collected taxes in India, especially for the local indigenous people?

If you don't pull the cannon out and put the muzzle against their heads, do you think they will pay taxes obediently?
There is no deterrence, and the natives are not stupid, and they will also evade taxes and smuggle.

When the Great Chu Empire first took control of Mumbai, many aboriginals from the Indian region came to do business. In this process, many aboriginals sneaked around the tax agencies of the Great Chu Empire in order to engage in smuggling and the like. There are also some unscrupulous businessmen in China who want money but not life.

In the face of money, no country or nation is left behind by them, and the problem of smuggling is extremely serious.

Later, the Indian Taxation Office became ruthless and directly reported to the country. Then the domestic taxation department saw that there were still such blatant tax evasions. Corrupted by a group of natives and those unscrupulous businessmen?
After some urgent discussions, the Ministry of Taxation sent two fully armed armed patrol brigades to India, with a total of more than 2000 people.

Immediately after that, the smugglers were attacked. Among them, the armed patrol brigade stationed in Mumbai even crossed the Mumbai territory directly controlled by the Great Chu Empire, and went deep into the Indian indigenous control area to attack local smugglers.

Facing the behavior of the Great Chu Empire, which directly killed the tax police army to their doorsteps, and forced tax collection with guns on their heads, the local aboriginal princes were frightened into stupidity... thinking that the Chu army would kill them to occupy them. land up.

As a result, when I asked, Nima, I realized that it turned out that it was to crack down on smuggling businessmen and collect taxes from tax evasion.

This action was protested by the Mughal Empire after learning about it, and even many people in their country felt ashamed, thinking that the Great Chu Empire had invaded them, and called this action the Call it a tax war.

The conscience of heaven and earth... At that time, the Indian garrison commander of the Great Chu Empire, the commander of the No. 20th Fourth Army, and other high-level army and navy officials did not know this news. What about war!
The tax agency sent armed tax police to collect taxes. This is just an ordinary tax law enforcement operation, and there is no need to notify the military, let alone the military's approval.

As for whether there is law enforcement power in the aboriginal territory, don’t worry about it. The Great Chu Empire has always practiced extrajudicial power. Even in the aboriginal territory, it only recognizes its own laws and does not recognize any nature. Aboriginal law.

If the aborigines are in their own territory, it is actually nothing to kill a Dachu person or something. Over the years, the Dachu Empire overseas has died a lot, and countless people have been killed by the aborigines in private. As long as it doesn’t cause anything too bad In fact, the imperial officials don't care about the influence of the government, and they can't control it.

However, you natives do business with our Dachu people, and then dare to evade taxes. Even if you hide in your own territory, the armed tax police of the Dachu Empire will have to catch you, and then forcibly collect taxes and fine you.

The Great Chu Empire has always been very serious about collecting taxes.

The tax bureau of Americans in later generations was jokingly called having an army, but the tax department in the Great Chu Empire really had an army!

And such a tax agency, its ordinary tax policemen and armed tax policemen, naturally have a lot of demand for weapons, and they have always been important customers of the five major weapon companies.

For the Tian-[-] type revolver from Hebei Arms Company, the starting customer is the order of the tax police.

The size of this thing is moderate, and although its power is not great, it is no problem to use it for self-defense or to fight some common criminals. Therefore, domestic patrol agencies and taxation agencies are very interested in this thing.

The Jiangnan Patrol Office, which is not short of money, is already negotiating with the Hebei Arms Company to purchase a batch of Tian-[-] revolver pistols for the patrol officers.

Patrol police from other provinces have also noticed this excellent weapon and thought about purchasing some...

At the same time, Hebei Arms Company is still continuously upgrading this pistol so that it can fire all-metal bullets. Once it is successfully finalized, the production and sales volume will be very large.

After all, this gadget has good performance, simple structure, inexpensive mass-produced price, just right size, and enough power even though it’s not too powerful, and it’s not too powerful but also has low recoil, making it easier to aim when fighting, and has high accuracy in short distances.

And the characteristics of the revolver allow it to have a sustained firepower of six bullets, which is very important for armed patrolmen or armed tax police who need to face bandits.

Although the Tianwu-style revolver is just an ornament for the regular army, it is basically used for suicide when it is really used.

But for patrolmen, this kind of thing can be used as the main weapon, which is very practical.

Two types of rifled rifles and one type of revolver pistol are the main achievements of the Great Chu Empire in recent years in breech-loading rifled firearms.

As for the artillery, it is relatively dull. Although there are many kinds of test samples, the performance is not good. If the military wants to equip the rear-loading rifled artillery, it needs to continue in-depth research, especially to solve the problem of steel barrels. and rifling issues.

Even if these problems are solved, it is estimated that only small and medium-caliber breech-loading rifles can be used in a short time, because the metal fixed shells that can be used in this caliber breech-loading rifle can better solve the problem of air leakage.

As for the large-caliber rear-loading rifled gun... this thing can't use all-metal fixed shells, so the air leakage problem may not be solved for a while.

However, even if it is a small and medium-caliber breech-loading rifle gun, if it can be produced, it will be a huge leap, but it can greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of the army and navy of the Great Chu Empire.

Luo Zhixue is looking forward to this!
(End of this chapter)