It is May 2016 on Earth. It is the first summer, but the day on Cebu Island is really unbearable. It is humid and hot, and mosquitoes are growing everywhere. Even if you are shirtless, there is nowhere to hide. Although there is a gust of sea breeze from time to time, for Zhang Quan, a person born and raised in the mainland, it is okay if the time is short, and the fishy smell of the sea breeze is also a torture.

The legendary authentic seafood was eaten, including lobsters, sea crabs, sea cucumbers, scallops, squids, etc., and they took turns to serve them every day, but they didn't feel any taste. After eating too much, they were all the same. What he cares about every day was to bargain with the people in the gun factory in a hurry:

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Well, the musket we want does not need to be advanced, the structure is simple and durable. What is important is that the size of many components must be slow, such as this buttstock, this trigger, and the overall gun body. I need a larger size and look more powerful.

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Oh, if you can do it, that's good!

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As for the continuous trigger function, I think, if the process can be guaranteed, it can be improved. If it cannot be guaranteed, it doesn’t matter if it is a single shot of the trigger.

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Oh! The mid-fold rifle you mentioned is the same as a hunting rifle, and you don’t need a magazine? Break it open and load it with a bullet? Then shoot it? Oh! I think about it, think about it...

OK! This middle folding style is OK. I think it is OK. The important thing is that the structure is simple and durable. I am not going to cause the government's rebellion. Why do I need advanced weapons? Just this single shot, which makes the power bigger. I think it's good!

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Zhang Quan stayed in a gun factory on Cebu Island, Philippines for two days. During this period, He Jiajin, the owner, accompanied him to travel around and experience the scenery of the tropical islands. But the most important thing for him was to enter the gun factory and explain to the craftsmen their specific requirements for the manufacturing of guns.

For these gunsmiths, Zhang Quan's requirements are really TN alternative. Modern individual weapons are more precise and more compact as they are made. In general, they are moving towards the direction of increasing the density of firepower at one time. However, the new boss from this mainland is just the opposite. The guns he requests not only do not need to be advanced, but are becoming more and more retro.

He discussed with the masters of the gun factory that he finally made. The overall structure of the design was similar to the requirements of the era when the smokeless gun powder of rifled rifled guns had just emerged in the late 19th and early 20th century. The pursuit of gun stability, ultimate range and lethality was almost gone, and the requirement for recoil reduction was almost gone. This was completely different from the development of guns after the rise of firepower density.

The guns of that era were all simple and reliable to use and easy to maintain. The representative guns were Mosinnagan during the Tsarist Russian period. Of course, Mosinnagan's bolt design seemed a bit complicated compared to the contemporary era. In order to eliminate this shortcoming, Zhang Quan actually wanted to use a more retro design. The original design of the mid-fold rifle can now be seen only on civilian **, revolvers and **.

This design has no magazine and is simple to return and exchange bullets, but the overall structural strength is poor, and it is not suitable for bullet types with high initial velocity and high bore pressure. It is relatively necessary to have heavier weight and larger size to ensure structural strength. It cannot be fired continuously, and can only be loaded with bullets once. The advantage is that the structure is simple and it is very easy to manufacture. Even ordinary small workshops can be easily manufactured, which is just suitable for Zhang Quan's current situation.

In short, the rifle required by Zhang Quan is extremely simple in structure, reliable in use, and difficult to process. Especially for the model that is generally larger, the model that expands almost all parts and sizes, the difficulty of manufacturing is even more incomparable. After all, modern hardware, the smaller the metal processing technology, the harder it is, the easier it is to process.

In order to ensure the quality of the firearms, Zhang Quan also used customized imported alloy steel as the basic manufacturing raw material (in fact, it is the special steel produced in small-scale electric furnaces in Zhang Quan's own steel mill, imported to it here). He strictly checked the import of raw materials, and also added a batch of relatively advanced modern machining equipment to the workshop, recruiting more advanced talents to improve the processing quality and expand the scale. In short, this series of investments made He Jiajin, the land king, very happy.

In his opinion, this workshop cannot be moved away, so the more powerful it is, the better it is to make money. Anyway, it is all for him.

But such a large investment is not without a price. Since the raw materials and equipment are guaranteed, the salary and benefits have been greatly improved, and even the processing requirements of the products produced have been reduced, the factory inspection of the workshop must be strictly carried out. At this point, the interests of Zhang Quan and He Jiajin are the same. After all, no one wants to use counterfeit and shoddy products that can be fired at any time.

He Jiajin and the others didn't care before because the conditions were too poor and they couldn't ask for it. But now, all the conditions have been met. If you always don't pay attention to quality in the workshop, it's just not possible. These are things you want to use.

Zhang Quan and the people in the workshop agreed that in the future, those who were in the gun factory would focus on this link in the future. If the products that were not qualified were subject to strict reward and punishment measures.

Finally, after half a month of busy work, Zhang Quan and the master of the workshop (equivalent to the chief design engineer) finally finalized the production plan for the first batch of 10,000 "new" rifles, of which 5,000 were ordinary sizes (suitable for the human body shape of the dog-headed cat, belonging to the normal human version of the earth, 7.62mm caliber, general type), were named base type one rifle, and then increased the size one (Taurus, Bill version, 12.7mm caliber, weighted and lengthened), base type two heavy rifle, base type two heavy rifle, and base type two (Centaur, Sheep-headed man, Leopard version, 12.7mm, ordinary type) three thousand, base type three heavy rifle.

Of course, the last two types of new rifles used in the latter two sizes also have to be re-opened. This work can be done in the workshop itself, but in order to ensure the output, Zhang Quan also set up an additional independent workshop specifically for bullet production. This part of the production is relatively easier to industrialize the assembly line. Zhang Quan spent more money and persuaded the frugal masters to go to the bullet assembly line, purchased a batch of automation equipment, recruited a group of new workers, expanded production, and started to work vigorously.

After a while of work, Zhang Quan was anxious to go back. After having a farewell banquet with his enthusiastic host He Jiajin, he quickly got on the plane and landed in Xiangjiang with smoke all the way, which was considered to be back on his own territory.
Chapter completed!