537 Chapter 537: Bullet Currency
When Aslan visited the first exhibition hall, there were long spears and daggers, and he had black lines all over his head.
In the exhibition of a group of magicians, weapons and equipment of various melee professions are displayed, how amusing?
As soon as Aslan entered, two young female magicians ran up and enthusiastically introduced Aslan.
It turns out that these weapons and equipment all use the new enchanting technology, but in Aslan's eyes, they can only be regarded as okay.
It is also an enchanting technique, but it is much more complicated than Merlot combined enchanting, and the requirements for enchanting magicians are too high to be mass-produced.
"It's unusable, it can only be used as a handicraft." Aslan curled his lips and came out of the exhibition hall.
The two female magicians lowered their heads helplessly. It seems that this time the teacher will lose everything again.
"Let's work together, Agatha, and we will definitely be able to sell these enchanted equipment." Another green-haired woman cheered to her partner next to her.
"Milliaria, I know, let's do our best together."
"Okay! Come on together."
Aslan visited a few more exhibition halls. They were all good magical inventions, but most of them were useless. Simply put, they were unpopular inventions. Some of the good technologies were noted down by Aslan, and he bought a batch by the way. Mess thrown into space.
This is Aslan's attitude in life. No matter what you do, you can't go whoring for nothing. It is immoral to pat your ass and leave after analyzing the materials and technology of something.
So Aslan would be very polite and bought one or two of them back, so as to study them.
After strolling around Aslan, he came to the exhibition hall of Maxim Empire.
The Maxim Empire displayed a few things this time, but everything was extremely attractive to others.
Just like Melox's suspension, there are mainly guns and ammunition in it, but the main thing there is gun sticks, which belong to magical creations. But here, they are mechanical creations, revolvers and revolver rifles, and of course there are single-shot breech-loading guns, the kind that fire once and pull the bolt, load a bullet and fire again.
It is the predecessor of the World War II rifle.
But in any case, it is advanced in this era.
Aslan experimented with all the guns, and he really likes the single-shot breech-loading rifle. The accuracy is extremely high, not much worse than the G43 gun stick.
The key is the price, which is much cheaper than a spear stick, even cheaper than a knight's armor.
A revolver is less than three gold coins, and a single-shot breech-loading rifle is five gold coins. In the eyes of outsiders, this is almost a free gift, but in the eyes of Aslan, this is the proof of the industrialization of the Maxim Empire.
This kind of rifle seems to be simple in craftsmanship, but it has very high requirements for steel. If it is built with old continental technology, the price will not be low, and then it will be rifling.
Rifling, also known as rifling. Because its cross-sectional shape resembles a windmill, it is also called a windmill line. The rifling can be said to be the soul of the barrel. The function of the rifling is to give the bullet the ability to rotate, so that the bullet can still maintain the predetermined direction after it comes out of the chamber.
Although there was a record of using rifling in the 15th century on the earth, due to the difficulty of the manufacturing process, it was not popularized until the 19th century, with an interval of four hundred years, which shows the difficulty of mass production of the rifling process.
The reason why revolvers are cheap is that the barrels are not rifled.
In the end, Aslan also fully understood the plan of the Maxim Empire. They did plan to sell both guns and bullets. In Aslan's eyes, the price of guns was a bit high. If relying on the industrial strength of Merlot City, revolver rifles The price should be controlled at about one gold coin. If there is a complete production line, the cost can be reduced again.
However, the price of bullets in the Maxim Empire is a bit disgusting.
Rifle bullets are uniformly 100 and 4 gold coins, which is equivalent to 2 silver coins per bullet, and pistol bullets are 100 gold coins per bullet.
Of course, if you buy it with marks, the price will be half cheaper, that is, you can buy 100 rifle bullets for four marks. This price is so cheap that it can be used as a toy for nobles.
But for a large-scale war, 100,000 revolver riflemen, each with 50 rounds of ammunition, let alone other equipment on their bodies, the rifles and bullets alone will cost 500,000 gold coins.
This is still the initial equipment. After a battle, if these fifty rounds are finished, it means that there will be an additional expenditure of 200,000 gold coins to supplement the ammunition.
Selling guns can only be regarded as a small business, and the real big part is bullets.
Aslan knew very well that when countries were unable to crack the formula for smokeless flames, they could only be forced to buy bullets from the Maxim Empire.
If the enemy country is equipped with rifles, and your own country still relies on human lives to pile up, can it beat the enemy country equipped with rifles?
This will lead to an endless loop.
On the one hand, the Maxim Empire conquered cities and lands, and on the other hand, it made a fortune in war. Some people may think that if the Maxim Empire sells rifles, what will happen if they are beaten back by the enemy in the future?
The Maxim Empire is just about to lose some soldiers. For the current mainland, the most worthless thing is human life.
The Maxim Empire played very beautifully. On the one hand, the price of Mark coins is linked to the price of bullets. As the scale of the war expands, the exchange rate of Mark coins will become stronger. At the same time, it can unite all countries that may become allies by their side. , virtually expanding the scale of the war alliance.
When Aslan understood all this, he subconsciously rubbed his temples.
The Maxim Empire played too poisonously.
It seems simple to break the situation, but it will be extremely dangerous. The Maxim Empire will never allow the appearance of smokeless gunpowder, and they will definitely do their best to fight against any forces that develop smokeless gunpowder.
Aslan's eyes suddenly lit up, and he thought of a very crazy method. If successful, it would definitely hit the high-end combat power of the Maxim Empire.
Once the plan is successful, it will be completely impossible for the Maxim Empire to execute the beheading operation. The most impressive thing about the Maxim Empire has always been its wealth and high-end combat power. It is no exaggeration to say that the only one who can compete with The frontal force in the capital of magic is the Maxim Empire.
There may not be as many great magisters in the capital of magic, but with the number of great swordsman mentors and great knight mentors, the magic capital is absolutely overwhelmed.
"Marquis Aslan, it seems that you are very interested in the musket, a new type of weapon!" Kira said with a smile when he appeared beside Aslan at some point.
Aslan asked Nuo Mili to pack the rifle and bullets he wanted, and paid for them directly in marks.
I don’t know how many readers are still studying. Here, Lao Gu advises everyone to study hard and try to get into a good university.
Reading may seem useless now, but when you step into the adult world in the future, it may become the greatest confidence to refuse introversion and exploitation by bosses.
Lao Gu is in his thirties this year, his career is in a mess, and he has completely lost his room for promotion. He wants to change careers but can’t. Many things in the book are written by Lao Gu with his own failed career perception, and he is often criticized.
I ask everyone to work harder when they are young, even if they don’t want to be involved, they must continue to improve their own strengths, at least in the future when encountering the same problems as Lao Gu, they can have the confidence to jump out and say no.