Chapter 552: Trap in transition

Just when Shangwen and Meng Yi were nervously discussing a solution to Qin's economic development. Qin's Marine Corps brought a transitional gun.

This gun is a transitional type trap gun.

Qin's gun shooting competition has made more and more people begin to participate in the research and development of new types of guns. Especially the use of smokeless gunpowder allows people to see the existence of powerful weapons. But in fact, smokeless gunpowder has strict requirements on steel. At present, Qin can only produce such guns in small quantities. These guns can only be provided to some specialized people, such as King Qin and Princess Wenyang, they are all special holders of these guns.

But another situation is that Qin's army is equipped with a large number of front-loaded rifled guns. The Six Nations is equipped with a lot of muskets. Based on various data, Qin currently conservatively estimates that he has more than two million guns. And this number has been increasing crazily by 200,000 a month. This is a considerable expenditure on arms. The munitions factory is busy with this.

However, with the emergence of new technologies, especially the appearance of fixed ammunition, people are more and more satisfied with the front-loaded muskets in their hands. They need a simple musket that can be locked like a rotating back-pull type.

But that kind of musket is very expensive, so a middle-aged watchmaker named Bai Xin proposed his own modification method. Throttle musket.

The trapdoor musket is to modify the original large number of Li-style rifles, and change the front-mounted musket to the rear-mounted musket, in order to solve the current large-scale demand for rear-mounted muskets.

The trapdoor rifle is actually a locking device, it is like a door that can be opened, so this rifle is called a trapdoor rifle. There is a protruding bamboo shoot at the tail of the valve, which is used to jam with the gun body when the valve is closed.

The firing needle of the valve rifle is tilted into the valve. After pulling the trigger, the hammer rotates to strike the needle. Fire the bullet today. Such a modified shooting is very much in line with Qin's current needs. The people of Qin had long been dissatisfied with the front-loaded rifle. They are willing to use lever-type shotguns and are not willing to use front-loading rifles. But now this design completely solves this demand. However, if placed in the long history, the emergence of the trapdoor rifle is only a transitional type of gun. Because this is an emergency method that Qin State Steel has temporarily thought of because it has not yet met the growing demand of Qin State.

Bai Xin's trap rifle was quickly spotted by the Marine Corps. Because the number of Marines is very small. There are only 6,000 people, but they have to send more than 1,000 people to maintain the safety of Qin State in Yan State and the Korean concession. The problem of secondary reloading of bullets has caused a headache for the very few Marines. The new rifle cannot be installed on a large scale. But now with the valve rifle, at least it can respond to an emergency.

So Wang Ben quickly fell in love with this rifle. And refit all the 20,000 rifles that were first reserved. This Baixin is a big order. Just when Bai Xin was excited. A news quickly stunned him. After the Army heard of this rifle, it also requested it to be modified. The total scale of the modified rifle exceeds 650,000. Not only that, the air force's defense forces have also begun to use this rifle as their standard rifle, although the number is only 10,000. But it is also a large enough market. Not only that, after many folks heard of this rifle, they also began to look for him to modify it. Or pay a certain patent fee to modify the valve rifle yourself.

Bai Xin is unimaginable. I accidentally encountered such a large order for a small invention. This made him dare not even think about it. Thus, he founded the Bai's Gun Manufacturing Company in his middle age. From bank loans, set up factories, recruit some workers to transform a large number of military orders.

Not only that, he proactively cooperated with Wenyang Military Factory to give up part of the orders in exchange for the other party's support in funds and technical equipment. For this reason, Wenyang Investment Bank reached a commercial cooperation with Baixin in the form of investing in stocks.

This is a brand-new cooperation model, a healthy model for the healthy development of large enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises. Large enterprises can provide capital and technology advantages and can quickly launch new products on the market in a short period of time. However, small and medium-sized enterprises have flexible technological advantages. They can sell part of the distribution rights or other rights of their products to obtain opportunities for their own development. Such a model provided an innate advantage for Qin's economic development. None of the six countries can learn this advantage.

The significance of the trapdoor rifle is not only here, but its significance is that it will provide a powerful weapon for Qin's subsequent wars. The refitting of the trap rifle proceeded fairly quickly. Wenyang Military Factory began to refit all the weapons they received on a large scale, and the production schedule was filled with working hours. First of all, they need to use the shortest time, about a month to modify the rifle in the hands of the Western Regions. And give them two months of application time. Then came the refitting demand from all over the Qin State.

While refitting, some of Qin's arms experts concentrated on metal research and the development of firearms. They hope to develop new metals and new guns to occupy the market. Especially after the emergence of the valve musket. They noticed the increase in the speed of weapon launching.

The machine gun, a rapid-fire weapon, began to be on their agenda. Watchmakers began to become the main force in gun research. Some watchmakers began to abandon the making of clocks. You know, the watch industry is quite an amazing industry in Qin. They can use clever mechanical principles to record time. Moreover, the demand for this kind of time machine is particularly strong everywhere. Even the Queen of Korea loves it very much. She was the first country to order an hourly system across the country. In this regard, South Korea is ahead of Qin. Qin's current time system is a bit chaotic. Factories, railways, governments, military schools, etc. use the hour system, but some small towns still use the hour system. This is mainly due to the rapid economic development of some localities. The economic development in some places is slow. South Korea can use centralization to achieve this very quickly. The Qin State did not enforce it.

However, the addition of watchmakers began to enter the age of firearms. Especially after the introduction of smokeless gunpowder. This prepares for the next faster machine gun. The premise is that Qin wants to solve their biggest problem, the steel problem. Wait for this problem to be resolved. Qin's weapons will suddenly rise to a new level. The emergence of machine guns will make the cold weapon a thorough summary. The era of hot weapons will begin to divide their historical stage.