Chapter 244 Rich rewards!
After finishing Mr. Depan, Liang Pengfei began to investigate the construction and production of other factories on Crab King Island. The originally wide and desolate Crab King Island has now become a different look in Liang Pengfei's eyes. The scattered houses in the east and west have disappeared, and replaced by The three-story houses with cement masonry structures are not only strong enough, but also expand the building space vertically after upgrading the building level.
The standardized construction has made Crab King Island, which has a population soar to 20,000, not only not appear crowded, but also show a thriving vitality. The residential area and the factory area are separated.
The factory area is the largest area on Crab King Island. There are glass factories, gun factories, steel smelting factories, bitter acid production plants, as well as newly established thunder mercury and nitrified cotton production plants, as well as various related industrial factories. After the arrival of the steam engine, according to Liang Pengfei's instructions, a factory was also set up in a special area.
These factories alone have invested more than 10,000 people. In addition, there are two colleges on Crab King Island, one is a liberal arts college specializing in Western science, and the other is a professional military academy specializing in Western military and navigation.
Compared with the liberal arts college with less than 700 students at present, the students of the military academy are overstaffed. You know, Liang Pengfei's current military strength is expanding rapidly, and all the elites and middle and lower commanders in the army take turns to enter the college here to study. The students of the military academy are always about 3,000.
Because of the large demand for steel and copper, and the site on Crab King Island is far from enough to build a large steel plant, Liang Pengfei has already placed the copper smelter in the ore origin after discovering a large high-purity copper mine in the central islands of Luzon. The steel production plant was also transferred to the north of Nannan for construction some time ago. The steel smelter here is not large, and it does not take output as the standard. Instead, a large number of smelting experts are gathered here to study how to improve the efficiency and production capacity of smelting, as well as how to carry out industrial production of tungsten, titanium, manganese and other metals required by Liang Pengfei. Now it can only be regarded as The metal smelting laboratory is right.
Although this thing is developing slowly and the investment is not high, Liang Pengfei has mastered so many minerals, and his own family is now not afraid of doing money-burning work, so he does not mind, but is happy to see it. The most important thing is that these smelting experts are all Chinese craftsmen. They can I have learned a lot from it, and I have indirectly cultivated a lot of human resources.
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"This is the gun factory and the largest factory on our Crab King Island. There are 3,000 workers alone." Beside Liang Pengfei, a Liang family sage introduced with a sent face and proudly.
"Now, the firearms we produce here are produced according to the standardization and assembly line operation method you ordered by the young master. The efficiency has indeed increased by more than several times. Now we can make 100 flaircraft guns, five cannons and five conscienceless guns every day. However, because the gunpowder consumption of conscienceless cannons is too large, unless necessary, only 30 guns are produced every month, specializing in the Central Islands of Luzon. In addition, we send 50 guns and 1,000 flair guns to the Central Islands of Luzon every month, and the remaining quantity is sold to Annan and Lanfang Republic according to your requirements.
"In fact, it can also increase the output, but the master said that you just need to ensure the basic output, so we did not continue to increase the output."
"Well, that's what I said. Today's output is not only enough to make up for our consumption, but also for export. Let's do this for the time being." Liang Pengfei saw the stewold's expression and explained with a smile, "Because the flies-haired gun will be eliminated soon, there is no need to expand its production. In the future, they will become our export products."
"Elimination? Young master, you're not kidding, are you? Although the flannel guns produced here are not the best, they are definitely first-class firearms. Even those flannel guns used by the Xiyi National Army are not much better than ours. How can they be eliminated? The scums-in-chief looked unbelievable.
However, when the sage saw the rotary pistol held by Liang Pengfei, his eyes became more greedy than that of Depan. Although he has now become a sage, after all, he has been born and dead in the pirate industry for many years. He saw Liang Pengfei's pistol that can carry six bullets. After that, he seemed quite excited.
Liang Pengfei ignored the bright eyes of the sage and Monk Chen and others, while playing with this revolver and exchanging experience with the British technician.
The revolver invented by Colt is the world's first truly successful and widely used revolver. But before that, someone had begun to develop a revolver, but it was not fully popularized. Liang Pengfei still remembers that when he went to England to work in later generations, he once saw a fire revolver made before 165 in the museum of the British Whitehall Royal Joint Forces, with a caliber of 1. 2.7mm, the barrel and wheel are made of copper.
The one in Liang Pengfei's hand is also made of copper, but it is much more delicate than that one, and because it is the design drawings provided by Liang Pengfei, it is closer to the revolver of later generations.
"As your instructions, your Excellency, we use copper as the shell, thunder mercury as the primer, and nitrified cotton as the propellant. The warhead uses a copper lead core, with an effective range of up to 100 yards, which can cause effective killing within 150 yards. This is definitely a great initiative." The British technician who made the revolver was also quite excited and said to Liang Pengfei.
"It's just too heavy." Liang Pengfei shook his head helplessly. After all, it was made of copper. Moreover, in order to increase the range at that time, Liang Pengfei asked them to use an eight-inch barrel. As a result, although the range of the gun increased, the weight also increased a lot.
However, Liang Pengfei still can't put it down. After all, this thing is already a high-end weapon in this era. He tried six bullets and two dumb shots, but the remaining four shots all hit the target placed 100 meters away.
"Young master, I'm afraid this kind of gun can be used on rainy days, right?" Bai Shusheng's hands were itchy, and he took it and fired a round. After all, this guy was one of the sharpshooters of the old Liang family. Except for the first shot off the target, the remaining four shots hit the target, and there was still one bullet that was dumb. However, Bai Shusheng didn't care too much about this small flaw and asked a question that he was more concerned about.
"Yes, this kind of bullet and gun can be used in bad weather and environment." Liang Pengfei nodded. You know, the climate around Nanyang is too humid, and the bad weather is frequented from time to time. It is not a good thing for Liang Jiajun, who has been equipped with a large number of gunpowder weapons.
If those natives don't have no combat effectiveness and don't understand what military strategy is. They don't know that the rainy season or rainy days are a deadly killer for gunpowder weapons. They will definitely cause a lot of trouble to the Liang family army.
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But now, with a revolver that can be used in a harsh natural environment, that trace of worry is also driven away from Liang Pengfei's heart.
"Tuck, if we have this thing, we will be afraid of a bird in the side of the war. With a knife in one hand and a gun in the other hand, one person can definitely pull over more than a dozen of the other party." Monk Chen expressed his opinion unwillingly.
His opinion made Liang Pengfei wake up. Indeed, in this era, the side battle still accounts for a considerable proportion, especially when the small fleet encounters, the side battle can be said to be the key to victory. In the past, it relied on the number of people and the level of force. If your side had this kind of middle-distance killing and injury surname Wu First kill a few, and then draw a knife to play with your life, which can definitely greatly improve the winning rate.
"First build a production line of at least 30 revolvers, and try to produce a batch, give priority to the combatants of the fleet, no, give priority to the anti-bandit forces in the central islands of Luzon. The input of the bullet production line must be accelerated, at least to ensure that the guns can have sufficient ammunition reserves. In addition, it is better to improve the surname of bullets. There are three dumb fires in the twelve shots. If this is on the battlefield, it is likely that my soldiers will bleed because of this, or even sacrifice their lives. Mr. Fell, I hope you can understand.
"Of course, you're right. There is no doubt that a small mistake will ruin a life. General, don't worry, I will try my best to make such a thing happen again." The British weapons technician Fell nodded hard to show that he understood Liang Pengfei's order.
Seeing Phil's performance, Liang Pengfei smiled a little more. In addition, as a reward, I will pay you 50 pounds of gold as a reward to thank you for your achievements.
"Fifty pounds of gold?! My God, Dear General Liang, you are so generous. May God bless you. I will try my best. A golden light appeared in the eyes of the British mechanic Phil. If Liang Pengfei hadn't stopped him, he might have fallen at Liang Pengfei's feet at this moment and kissed his shoes to show his gratitude.
"It's nothing. You deserve it. In addition, I also have a drawing here, which is a long gun. I hope you can make a sample gun as soon as possible. If you succeed, I will not only pay you another 50 pounds of gold, but also give you a new position, the technical director of the Crab King Island Arsenal. Your monthly salary will be now. Five times as much as it is." Liang Pengfei patted Phil on the shoulder and threw a huge bait.
In addition to the revolver, the research and development of artillery is also in progress. However, compared with the success of the revolver, the research and development of artillery is much slower. However, Liang Pengfei kindly comforted the hard-working technicians. He did not urge and ask them to do it as soon as possible. Finished, just made some suggestions that he knew and asked them to continue the research and development.
Although the progress is slow, the development of the air water pressure re-iner has been successful. This is a very simple re-inlet machine. Historically, it is precisely because the French invented the water-pressure gas-type re-inlet machine that the artillery no longer use the bulky gun frame, and it is more conducive to the firing of artillery. And reduce the displacement of artillery.
After checking everything on the island, Liang Pengfei finally rushed back to Guangzhou to make final preparations for the major events in his life.
(to be continued)