On November 2, 1933, there were still six days before Hitler's military parade. Wang Jiuling went to Mauser Company to visit the arsenal there. Previously, Wang Jiuling took one day to see the BMW and Siemens factories. It was not that Wang Jiuling did not want to study it, but that
The Germans also took him to have a look. They didn't mean to let him study and visit. Maybe they just wanted Wang Jiuling to know the industrial level of Germany!
Wang Jiuling really knew nothing about cars and electronics, so even staying there for two days was not interesting. Therefore, Wang Jiuling proposed that he want to visit Mauser Company. The German side quickly agreed, because Wang Jiuling was very interested in the scenery of Munich.
There is really no interest, and the military parade is still 6 days away
Mauser Company was a royal arsenal established by King Frederick I of Württemberg in Oberndorf, a small town in the Black Forest of Germany. The history of Mauser Company can be traced back to July 31, 1811, when Württemberg
King Frederick I of Fort established a royal arsenal in Oberndorf, a small town in the Black Forest of Germany. The factory began operation the next year, employing 133 workers and specializing in the production of weapons for the Prussian army. The two Mauser brothers
——William and Paul have been apprentices with their father in this arsenal since they were young. It was also in this factory that they began to try to design guns. In 1867, the two Mauser brothers designed a gun based on the French Chasebo breech-loading gun.
A rear-mounted single-shot gun with a rotating locking bolt. This rifle was adopted by the German army in 1871 and named the Type 71 rifle. This was the first Mauser rifle in history. William; Mauser was launched on January 13, 1882.
After his death, Paul Mauser continued to conduct research on the design of small arms. In order to increase the rate of fire of the Type 71 rifle, Paul Mauser added a tubular magazine under the barrel. This improved version was later named the Type 7184 rifle.
In 1886, France took the lead in adopting the Lebel 1886 rifle with smokeless propellant as the propellant. The smokeless propellant greatly improved the muzzle velocity and effective range of the rifle warhead. Countries around the world are flocking to smokeless propellant technology. Germany
It was also necessary to replace the smokeless propellant rifle as soon as possible, so in 1888, through a military committee, the smokeless propellant and Mannlicher magazine were combined with the advanced technologies of rifles from other countries, and thus the invention was born
The well-known Type 1888 "Committee Rifle", the rifle cartridge fired by this rifle is named "8×57j"
At that time, the design and production of German rifles were in the hands of Paul Mauser. He was very dissatisfied with the German army's unauthorized design and adoption of the Type 88 rifle, and began to improve the Mauser rifle, and soon launched the Mauser Type 1889
and Mauser Type 1891; later, Paul Mauser designed a puller hook that did not rotate with the bolt, which provided reliability of ammunition supply, and launched the Mauser Type 1892 rifle; in the following year, the Mauser
The 1893-type rifle changed the single-row magazine to a double-row magazine, shortening the magazine length. With the support of the government, the Mauser rifle quickly became popular around the world, which also prompted Paul Mauser to continue to improve and improve.
His design has successively launched the Type 1894 and Type 1895 rifles from Type 92 to Type 95. This series of Mauser rifles were sold to Belgium, Spain, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, the Republic of South Africa (Boer Transvaal and Austria).
(London Free State), China, Iran and other countries. As the reputation of Mauser rifles continued to rise, Paul Mauser also gradually took full control of the shares of the Royal Arsenal, and finally reorganized the Royal Arsenal into Mauser Arms Manufacturing in 1897.
joint stock company
In 1898, the 7.92mm caliber 1898-style Mauser rifle became the standard rifle of the German Army. The German Army named it gewehr98, which is what China calls the Mauser 98 rifle. Later, it also evolved into Mauser 98a, Mauser 98b and other gun types.
, and the Mauser 98k was improved from the Mauser 98b. It was originally supposed to wait until 1935 for finalized production and equipment for the troops.
Originally, their gun had been in the process of research and development because they encountered many problems, but the success of this short-barreled rifle in China stimulated Mauser Company, because this gun combines almost the strengths of Mauser, Springfield and other rifles.
It can be said to be a genius design. Mauser has found answers to many questions in this gun.
Although it seems that Mauser Company is about to find answers to many questions, it is still a step forward. It is okay not to be convinced. According to the investigation of Mauser people, this rifle is not considered in China. Although it is not officially installed in the army of that country abroad,
The army, but at least there are nearly 200,000 medium and formal rifles outside China, but most of them are purchased by military enthusiasts and people who like hunting. There are also some enthusiasts who like to collect firearms, but Mauser has not yet
I know that in addition to China, there is also a country that is about to install it, and there will be 100,000 of them all at once.
The official rifles in China have squeezed out all rifles including Mauser from the Chinese market. This makes the Mauser company, which makes money from Mauser rifles, fuming. Fortunately, this rifle was not designed by them, otherwise it would be
His products are being squeezed out of China, and his furry boss is probably going to hang himself.
When Mauser's people officially succeeded in researching the rifle, they were also analyzing why this gun was successful. At the same time, they also contacted German ordnance experts in Xikang
Soon these military shoe experts reported the situation of the Xikang rifle production line to Mauser. Mauser was shocked by the analysis.
It turns out that the success of this gun is not only that the gun itself is good enough and not inferior to other rifles, but also that their price is cheap enough, and the price is almost half that of Mauser. Even if the warlords in China like Mauser
Mauser, when faced with a gun that is not inferior to Mauser in all aspects of performance, but the money you spend on a Mauser rifle can almost buy two mid-level rifles, and fools will choose mid-level rifles.
And Mauser analyzed why the Chinese official can be sold so cheaply: first, it requires freight to ship German Mauser to China, second, China's labor force is low, and third, the warlord controls all the resources in his own hands, and
Mauser needs to order steel, fuel, water and electricity from other factories, and the fourth is their standardized assembly line operation
The sales of Zhongyuan are so popular in China. Firstly, China's Xikang has a large output. Secondly, in addition to Xikang's production, Zhongyuan also has production counties in surrounding warlords. In addition, China's central government is also producing. It is said that all
The drawings were provided by the warlord in Xikang, and he sent people to help build the rifle production lines of those around him. The people at Mauser Company didn’t understand why the warlord wanted so many
However, after learning that the warlord had come to Germany and was coming to visit the Mauser Arsenal, the people from Mauser were overjoyed. It could just answer their questions, although they did not have a good impression of the person who stole their business.
On November 2, the plane took off early in the morning and soon arrived at the small town of Oberndorf, the headquarters of Mauser Company. The air around this town was not bad, but Mauser's arsenal was no longer in the town, but in the town.
The center is still some distance away
Mauser sent several people to greet Wang Jiuling, but foreigners don't have as many etiquette as China. At least the Germans now are very straightforward, and I don't know about future generations.
After an introduction through a translator, I learned that the leader was called Julian Mauser, a member of the Mauser family. Wang Jiuling shook hands with him and exchanged a few words. This Julian Mauser seemed very talkative.
Julian Mauser asked Wang Jiuling if he wanted to take a rest. Wang Jiuling politely said no. The German guy really took it seriously and really did not arrange for Wang Jiuling and others to rest. Fortunately, Wang Jiuling was not tired, otherwise he would not have bothered to visit.
, it seems that you really can't be polite when dealing with these European guys, especially when it comes to interests. If you are polite, he will take it seriously.
The Mauser factory doesn't look big from the outside, but it feels very big when you get inside, and their factory buildings are all multi-story buildings. Julian Mauser introduced that he should now visit the production line of Mauser rifles.