Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 14 14 Money is the Catalyst

After watching Tang Mo's consecutive shooting performances, Matthews' aloof style was gone.

Like a curious baby, he wanted to touch but didn't dare to reach out, he stretched his neck hesitantly, and looked curiously at the revolver in Tang Mo's hand.

While watching, he was still chattering: "It looks like a very complicated rotating structure...you use it to achieve continuous shooting?"

"Yes." Tang Mo fired six shots in a row, and only after the bullets inside were exhausted did he start to clean the barrel of the gun.

This process was actually very annoying, but he had to do it—— Tang Mo felt more and more that it was necessary to develop smokeless gunpowder.

He really misses the feeling of firing continuously, then easily ejecting the magazine, reloading it smartly, and shooting fiercely at the enemy.

At this moment, the old dwarf Matthews, who was standing there trying to look more at the revolver in Tang Mo's hand, was still admiring in a low voice: "What a genius idea! You are simply a genius!"

He seemed to feel that it was difficult to express his admiration for this exquisite design without making a sound, but he was also afraid that the loud noise would disturb Tang Mo and make Tang Mo feel uncomfortable, so he could only murmur in such a low voice.

In the end, he couldn't help it anymore, pointed to the revolver in Tang Mo's hand cautiously, and asked, "Can you tell me what this is?"

"I call it a revolver." Tang Mo picked up the pistol and replied to Matthews.

Matthews is like a kid who sees a favorite toy but has no money to buy it.He just stared at the pistol, and continued to mutter to himself: "My God! It's unbelievable! Gods be... unbelievable."

"See? This thing represents the future!" Tang Mo said to Matthews with a smile.

"You are right, you must win... No, we must win!" Matthews corrected himself subconsciously: "Smart linkage...how did you think of it?"

Tang Mo smiled, very presumptuously.He handed the pistol to Matthews: "Take it and take a closer look."

In fact, as long as you take a look at the structure of this thing and disassemble it, it is almost no difficulty to imitate it.

The only technical difficulty lies in the Thunder Mercury.Without the flash hider, this thing is almost worthless.

But after adding the fire hat, it is the most advanced and undisputed king of melee combat in this era!It's the ranger killer that even Weiss turns pale!
"Stay here and work for me, you will see a different landscape." Tang Mo looked at Matthews who was playing with a pistol, and solicited him.

"I'll make the parts you want right now! I can finish them before dark! As long as you don't drive me away, old man, I'll stay here until I die." Matthews raised his head, and said solemnly to Tang Mo Said.

When he said this, his eyes lit up, full of piety.Tang Mo knew that this old dwarf really regarded this place as the place where he worked all his life.

"There are many things we need to improve, but the first thing to do is to automate production as much as possible!" Tang Mo snapped his fingers and said to Matthews.

"Automation?" Matthews didn't quite understand the meaning of the word.

"It's to let the machine tools move by themselves!" Tang Mo explained.

"Are you the God of Craftsman?" Matthews stopped and looked at Tang Mo in disbelief.

"No, I'm just a businessman..." Tang Mo signaled him to follow his footsteps: "Come on! We still have a lot to do."

The early research and development of bullets was actually very imaginative. In the time and space Tang Mo was familiar with, some people even linked the production of bullets with sausages.

A well-known weapons manufacturer used to stuff gunpowder like sausages into the casings of animals to produce custom ammunition in this way.

Interestingly, the businessman even cleverly thought of applying a kind of glue on the outside of the casing to make the casing thin and fragile.In this way, after firing, the intestines from the animal body will dissipate as the gunpowder burns and explodes.

At this moment, human wisdom really shines brightly—using sausage manufacturing method to manufacture ammunition, and even thought of some problems of ejecting ammunition!
Although later, this kind of cortical bullet was finally completely eliminated with the progress and development of human beings.But the data is not falsified. The cold numbers recorded on paper can prove the popularity of this bullet at that time.

Yes, during the American Civil War, there were orders for more than 6000 million rounds of this cartridge!God knows how many small animals' intestines were destroyed in this war that broke out in the beautiful country. The face of the Humane Society of the United States was really pumped out of shape...

Tang Mo, who was familiar with all this, naturally would not take such a detour, so he chose the most correct path directly during the bullet production process.

But the most correct path is not necessarily the path that can be taken right now.Because there is no smokeless gunpowder, and the existing industrial base does not allow him to directly produce metal fixed ammunition, so everything can only be done honestly according to the existing technical conditions.

He doesn't have a witch who knows magic, and he doesn't have a big tree in his head that can help him with everything, so he can only go down step by step honestly.

Cardboard fixed ammunition is the more realistic type of ammunition he can handle now.And in order to add an insurance for himself, he also dug a big hole for himself.

In fact, with the new invention of the flash cap, the cardboard fixed-load ammunition can still play a lot of tricks.

For example, when choosing the assembly form of the flash cap, Tang Mo has two mature options that can be used - one of which is a long needle gun with a bullet installed in the middle of the upper body, and the other is a It is a short needle hair gun with a bullet with a flash cap installed at the bottom of the body.

Which of the two methods is better has already been answered in history. In fact, in the world Tang Mo is familiar with, the French light weapons at the technological level of this era are the real leaders in the forefront of the world.

At that time, Prussia adopted long-needle guns, and France adopted short-needle guns. Finally, metal fixed-load ammunition was invented. Primer became the most mature, convenient and widely used method for metal fixed-load ammunition. Long-needle guns were thrown into the To the dustbin of history.

Then why did Tang Mo take out the long needle gun?In fact, there are many reasons for this.One is that Tang Mo wants to buy some time for his own development, and the other is that Tang Mo's resources are really limited.

There is no such thing as patent protection in this era, so Tang Mo can only protect his own technology from being stolen by others.

Everyone knows that the Cyric chaebol who penetrated into the Wright Kingdom is a huge super arms dealer.Once they got a sample of Tang Mo's new weapon, it was very easy to imitate it in large quantities.

And Tang Mo used his own weapon to recommend it everywhere before, and no one can guarantee whether the rumor will reach the ears of Cyric and others.

Tang Mo took out the needle gun first, in fact, intentionally or unintentionally, he was digging a hole for Cyric, a potential opponent.Once the opponent enters the big hole of the needle gun, it is tantamount to being led astray, and a lot of resources will naturally be wasted.

When Cyric came back to his senses, Tang Mo had a short respite, and he could deal with it calmly, and took out better weapons to achieve another surpass.

What if Cyric is an upright gentleman and doesn't copy Tang Mo's needle gun?That needle gun is also more advanced than Cyric's flintlock, isn't it?It is clear at a glance which is better, Tang Mo is not at a disadvantage, isn't he?
In addition to this insurance, another reason is actually very straightforward - Tang Mo is just the owner of a handicraft workshop, and he really has no choice but to seriously mass-produce fixed-loaded bombs with bottom caps.

Although this thing is not too precise, it still has higher requirements than the flash cap directly wrapped in the middle of the paper gunpowder, so Tang Mo can't guarantee its quality control.

With the support of Earl Fischero, Tang Mo would expand his production line and recruit more workers. It is estimated that the energy-produced ammunition will be able to produce ammunition with a card case with a flash cap installed at the bottom, but he does not have the strength yet.

Therefore, the ammunition used by the long-needle hair gun, which is simpler and easier to rub out by hand, became Tang Mo's temporary choice.

There was really no way, his small workshop of a hundred people actually had limited productivity and couldn't keep up with Tang Mo's requirements.

Among the hundred or ten people, there are seventeen or eight blacksmiths and smelters in the traditional sense. They operate furnaces and other equipment, process metals, and turn them into usable raw materials.

There are less than 20 people who are parts manufacturing workers. They are craftsmen in the true sense, manipulating simple equipment, almost relying on hand to manufacture some parts, and drilling expensive barrels one by one!
Do you know how many days it takes for a serious worker in this era to drill a qualified gun barrel with a semi-automatic method?It takes about three days!

How many guns can Tang Mo's small workshop produce every day?About a third!He can probably make a rifle in three days, and the weapons of an infantry company are enough for him to work for a year!
Therefore, this time he went to Northridge to meet the Earl, what he actually wanted was not just an order for weapons production, but also the full support of the Earl, and a series of production capacity expansion plans to expand the workshop!

He wants to eat almost all of Northridge's steel production in the future, and then first create two coal-fired steam engines in his workshop.Use these modern machinery to create the perfect barrel.

In short, everything needs time, energy, technology, and talents to build...

And before that, when all of this is gone, Tang Mo needs to prepare another catalyst for these "chemical reactions" - money!

Yes, he needs big, big money!Everything needs money to support, without money everything is just a dream.

Now that he has money, everything can be rolled out — and he did.Today, the parts of the steam engine are still being manufactured, and soon Tang Mo will have two drilling machines that can work day and night!
With this thing, his production speed can be doubled, and the Earl's order is no longer an unattainable goal.

(End of this chapter)