Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 42 42 Leverage
He straightened his arms and aimed at the scenery outside the window, feeling more relaxed than ever.Because this is the first time he has created a "modern" weapon in the true sense after coming to this world through time travel.

This is a weapon he is familiar with, a weapon he understands!The previous ones, including his own mass-produced needle guns, were actually just vague memories in his mind and the data retrieved by the system computer.

Only the revolver in front of him is the design he is familiar with, and the way he is familiar with it!
After fiddling with his new secret weapon for a while, Tang Mo began to bow his head at his desk and start drawing new mechanical equipment.

He wants to let the steam engine drive more equipment as soon as possible, and strive to make the entire factory run at night-thus, he also needs a new energy source: "electric energy".

With electric energy, many industrial products can be developed, such as electrolytic aluminum, electroplating technology, even lighting technology, radio technology and so on.

With electricity, Tang Mo can also more conveniently use motors and other equipment to drive machine tools, making machine tool production more convenient.

In short, he wants to get electricity as soon as possible. Electricity represents a brighter and more efficient future for any factory and anyone!
With electricity, Tang Mo can use telegrams to communicate with Beiling in real time, deploying and raising production materials faster... All of this is extremely important to him.

However, motors are not so easy to produce, and a complete set of power generation equipment is also extremely complicated - the more advanced and powerful the modern industrial civilization is, the more supporting production technologies are needed, which seriously restricts Tang Mo's development.

To give the simplest example—Tang Mo wants to use electricity to supplement his lighting system, so he needs things like light bulbs, but light bulbs not only need electricity, but also need the support of supporting factories such as glass factories. You have to build a glass factory yourself.

He can't even sell advanced technology to existing factories, because these technologies are only needed by him.It is impossible for those workshops and factories that survive in this era to pay a large sum of money for unusable technology.

Therefore, Tang Mo could only honestly complete his industrial system bit by bit. This was the main reason why he spent a lot of money but made slow progress.

However, many of the technologies in Tang Mo's hands cannot be completely relied on by himself. He is currently negotiating with a building materials merchant in Bunas, planning to sell the cement technology to the other party, so that the other party can improve their own masonry bonding. agent.

The negotiation was still progressing, and the other party was indeed willing to pay Tang Mo 200 gold coins.However, Tang Mo hoped that the other party would give priority to supplying 200 tons of cement to the Tang Weapons Workshop at a fair price, but the other party was unwilling to nod.

This is also easy to understand. After improving the technology, it is the most convenient choice to recover funds by giving priority to supplying nobles and letting them spend more gold coins to buy new cement.As a result, the negotiations between the two parties reached a deadlock, and Tang Mo still hasn't gotten the 200 gold coins.

Sometimes things are so frustrating, not all developments are flying in the best direction according to the plan.

There was no other way, Tang Mo had no choice but to sell more advanced sea salt drying manufacturing technology to the salt merchants in Bunas, in exchange for a technology transfer fee of 70 gold coins.

Moreover, the other party requested that Tang Mo not be allowed to enter the sea salt manufacturing industry within the next 10 years, and the price was that they would provide Tang Mo with some salt products for free.

Just like that, Tang Mo calculated in his mind how much money he could get, and what to do with the money.It was completely dark when he realized that time was passing.

"Dangdangdang..." Matthews knocked on the door of Tang Mo's laboratory, holding a tray in his hand, which contained today's warm dinner.

"I forgot the time." Tang Mo put down the revolver in his hand with some embarrassment, and said to Matthews.

"Well, anyone who is playing with an epoch-making weapon will forget the time." Matthews smiled and put the food in his hand on Tang Mo's table, looking at the metal bullets scattered on the table, Said to Tang Mo.

"How's it going?" Tang Mo grabbed the spoon, raised his head suddenly, and asked Matthews in a nonchalant manner.

Matthews knew what Tang Mo was asking, and immediately answered, "The production went very smoothly. Tiger will be able to leave tomorrow morning with 60 K1 quick guns."

As he spoke, he pulled a chair over and sat next to Tang Mo: "Tomorrow afternoon, we will almost use up the barrels we saved before and enter the normal production speed."

"What do we use ourselves?" Tang Mo continued to ask while chewing on the not-so-delicious dinner made by Aunt Tracy.

Matthews curled his lips: "Well, by tomorrow afternoon, Bernard and Love's people will be equipped with K1 fast guns. According to your arrangement, after Tiger leaves, each of them will be able to receive K[-] guns." to a revolver."

Although the revolver is not yet mass-produced, it is no longer difficult to manufacture it by hand.

Tang Mo gave Tiger 5 revolvers, and prepared about 300 rounds of ammunition for these pistols.

Although not many, these bullets are enough just to show the earl the weapons that can be fired repeatedly.

So Tang Mo is now full of confidence, waiting for the earl to let Tiger bring back enough supplies and a large order.

"By the way, Weiss is leaving another revolver, and he now has two such pistols." Matthews added.

Tang Mo was still gobbling, and asked vaguely, "Well, how was he teaching physical education at school? Seriously?"

"In addition to going to the new shooting range to practice guns, he spent the rest of the time teaching at the school. Bernard and Love, as well as all the mercenaries you are recruiting, including those children, are working with He learns swordsmanship." Matthews replied: "The results are...very good."

"Excellent value for money." Tang Mo swallowed a mouthful of dinner, and excitedly said to Matthews: "How is the lever rifle research going?"

"I tried to make it, and this thing is simply a work of art. It's really great! It's unbelievable." Matthews mentioned this, and the excitement in his eyes could not be concealed.

It was the first time he had seen such a sophisticated and efficient bomb feeding mechanism. Once this weapon appeared on the battlefield, it would definitely be a nightmare for the opponent.

Tang Mo seemed to be talking about an ordinary thing, and continued to eat while asking, "How is it? Is the lever rifle much better than the needle gun?"

In fact, the weapon in his hand, the lever rifle, is indeed just a common weapon, not even a regular mainstream weapon.

Because after being screened by the big waves on the battlefield, the lever rifle was eliminated by the bolt-action rifle and became a plaything in the field of hunting and collecting.

After all, this weapon has too many flaws, so it is difficult to become a real war darling.But Matthews didn't know this. He still thought that the lever rifle was Tang Mo's next-generation ultimate individual weapon.

Therefore, Matthews replied seriously: "It's not the same at all! If metal bullets become popular, then this weapon can literally subvert warfare!"

In the past two days, Matthews has really been studying the lever rifle. In his perception, this weapon can be described as perfect.

The extremely fast reloading speed and the powerful shooting ability that can almost fire continuously make the advantages of this weapon very obvious.

Matthews became intrigued by this feeding method immediately after trying to make a linkage for a lever rifle.

The more he studied this bomb feeding mechanism, the more he admired Tang Mo's whimsy.For him, the combination of these institutions in front of him is simply a miracle.

He felt that he could choose Tang Mo and accept Tang Mo as his master, which might be the most correct decision he made in his life.

Therefore, he asked Tang Mo some questions he had thought before entering the door: "In fact, metal fixed-load ammunition will also become popular! But now, it seems that this thing is too..."

Tang Mo naturally knew what Matthews was worried about, because he had worried about these things too.So he nodded, and agreed: "It's too advanced, isn't it? So it's only on our drawings, not manufactured by us in large quantities."

At this time, Tang's weapons workshop, which does not have a mine and does not have complete production capacity, obviously cannot compete with the Cyric Consortium in terms of resources.

Because of this, bringing out more advanced weapon designs at this time is just digging a hole for oneself.

Thinking of this, Tang Mo felt a little helpless, but he could only continue to say: "We don't have a lot of metal mineral resources. These things are now in the hands of the nobles of the kingdom and the Cyric consortium. Once the large-scale popularization of metal mineral resources ammunition and new rifles, our weakness becomes even more apparent."

"You're right, master, we should hoard some supplies first to deal with future weapon development..." Matthews suggested.

Tang Mo shook his head: "It's too late, the money we can earn now is still too little, and it's not enough to hoard supplies. All we can do now is to hold on to the earl's big thick legs, and grow ourselves as much as possible .”

"Control our own destiny as soon as possible..." After he finished speaking, he put the spoon back into the empty bowl: "Arm ourselves and prevent us from being eaten by the extreme counterattack that Cyric may choose!"

"It's not easy, relying on the dozen or so mercenaries recruited to fight against the tens of thousands of troops that Cyric might mobilize..." Matthews looked at Tang Mo with some concern, and reminded him.

"There is no other way, we can only take one step at a time like this, because we really don't have any money to invest in armed forces." Tang Mo shrugged helplessly: "Every penny we earn now has to be paid for." Putting it into production as much as possible, we need chemical factories, chemical factories that produce new propellants, building materials production factories, larger metallurgical factories, leather factories, farms... schools, hospitals..."

He sighed and looked out the window: "Too many places need money, and what we lack the most now is money! Gold coins, a lot of gold coins!"

(End of this chapter)