C3472 Arms quotas for internal sales (1/2)
Xiao Letian's army was going to have to change their equipment again, which was not good news to the Qing Dynasty, but to the people inside Qing Dynasty, it was great news.
After more than two hundred years of subjugation by the Qing Dynasty, the development of natural science in China had been completely cut off. At present, China's backwardness was not as simple as the lack of several new technologies.
The key point was that the entire country did not even have the basic concept of science and technology!
With the simplest of rifles, human weapons had already fully entered the era of the Laiwai Line, which was also the era of Rifling Line. However, the Qing Dynasty was still the most primitive musket.
Because in the entire Qing Dynasty, there was not a single person who knew how to make rifling!
In fact, Xiao Letian didn't understand either. He wasn't even an engineering student, he had only studied some basic principles in his previous life because he liked military history.
Or perhaps, Xiao Letian only knows where the production of a certain technology is, and where we should go to find such technology!
Or it could be said that Xiao Letian understood where the breakthrough point of a technique was.
That was it, Xiao Letian also needed the help of numerous domestic engineers and scientists to complete a series of industrial upgrades.
The production of the gun barrel seemed simple, that was for the people of the 21st century. However, in the middle and late nineteenth century or even at the early 21st century, the production of the gun barrel was only a patent of the western factories.
Even in the West, only a few countries have the most advanced technology, while others are lagging behind.
Why did Xiao Letian stay so long in Europe this time? Military scientific and technological research was also very important!
When they were occupying the France, Xiao Letian led his team of scientists to inspect the weapons factory in France. He was surprised to find out that the French were still using the original technique of single-point crotching.
Only a small number of factories can adopt multi-point pulling and cutting method!
However, these two techniques were developed from the initial stage after the invention of Ripper. One could imagine how inefficient the French military's technology was!
It wasn't really France, as most of the countries in Europe were using this technology at the time!
Including Xiao Letian's Northern Industrial Zones, two sets of single-point cropping boring machines and a multi-point drawing boring machine, they were the most advanced equipment in all of Asia.
It was because of this equipment that Xiao Letian was able to restore the blueprints for Spencer and Remington's rifles. Currently, the annual production capacity of the Northern Industrial Zones had already reached 3000.
Of course, they couldn't compare to the Prussian, but in Asia, it was already extremely efficient.
However, this kind of technology was not enough to make Xiao Letian happy. What he wanted was technology from the United States and Germany!
In this era, Americans had just invented die extrusion method to produce the barrel, and she was even more powerful, she had already started using the advanced hammering method to produce the barrel.
This method was also known as Cold Forging!
The process of unification of Germany had Xiao Letian's power, but all these efforts had been repaid. Bismark and the other German royals had all turned green for the leakage of new technology.
The cold forging gun barrel technology that even the British do not have was already delivered to the Tanggu District. In five months, Xiao Letian's weapon factory would be able to produce a large quantity of Mauser's rifle.
Xiao Letian predicted that Mao Se would become an unchangeable weapon for the Chinese infantry soldiers after 80 years, and the Chinese would enter into a very long period of the Mao Se Spear's era!
Cold forging was an extremely efficient technique. At that time, the production of the weapon factory's Mauser's rifle would definitely exceed ten thousand units a year, but the equipment in the past could not be lost!
The production of three thousand Remington a year would have to be digested!