Chapter 2092 Businessman and Butcher

Master Dewey was so satisfied with the effect of the murderous Gatling gun that he even considered holding a product demonstration where I would personally operate the Gatling gun to let the audience experience the shock that this product could bring. Effect.

I did not agree with his proposal: "Father, the Gatling gun is the crystallization of ancient civilization. Even if its power is less than one percent of the original, it is still enough to be a great weapon. The situation is tense now. Once it is purchased in large quantities, The Gatling gun is an enemy element, and the consequences will be disastrous."

"You don't have to worry about this," Master Dewey said: "As long as you have His Royal Highness Fred Alexander, you can continue to produce more sophisticated and cutting-edge weapons. Initial products like the Gatling gun will often be Eliminated."

"Having said that, I still don't agree with the sale of high-power weapons. It's too dangerous."

"Child" Master Dewey waved his hand to signal me to calm down: "Do you know what my old profession is?"

"the scientist."

"Yes, scientist," Master Dewey said, "What do scientists do?"

“R&D of new technologies benefits the people and the country.”

"Yes." Master Dewey nodded: "But do you know what scientists need to develop more advanced science and technology?"

"Need. Effort?"

"Well, yes, hard work is a necessary part, but these all belong to the mental and behavioral aspects. If you want to maintain mental and behavioral stability for a long time, you must maintain material conditions. What are material conditions? There are many, materials , place, manpower, and material resources are all material conditions, and when combined together, they can be expressed in one word - money."

"But you are already the richest man in Zefeng Continent"

"The richest man is made by acquisition and accumulation. Without acquisition, there will be no more accumulation, and it will be gone. It is equivalent to sitting on nothing. At the current rate of capital consumption, my assets will not last for twenty years. "

I was surprised: "How come it's only twenty years?"

Master Dewey smiled and shook his head: "My child, you only saw my income, but not my expenditure. The monthly maintenance cost of this testing ground is roughly equivalent to a large guild's monthly maintenance fee." This is just one of my many expenditure items.”

Although Master Dewey did not give examples one by one, I already believed his words. After all, he had no need to deceive me.

Moreover, the Gatling gun is a research product that only belongs to Fort Vicky. Fort Vicky has all the exclusive rights to it. If you want to sell it, you don’t need to tell me, you don’t need to ask for my opinion, and there is no need to ask me. Explain what.

The reason why he confessed to me was just because Master Dewey regarded me as his own son and thought that he needed to consult my opinion on some matters.

Since Master Dewey gave him face like this, I had to continue. After thinking for a moment, I said: "I understand, foster father, I can understand your difficulties and fully agree with the sale of Gatling guns, but as a son, I still have to remind you Please try your best to control sales channels and sales share. Before the next generation of weapons is successfully developed, it is best not to sell in large quantities to avoid falling into passivity."

"Okay, I will definitely pay attention to your advice. Let's talk about this Gatling gun. What do you think it can be bought for?"

This problem stumps me.

Ever since I got the Odachi sword and Xilan's demon sword, apart from maintaining the sword once a month at a fixed time, I haven't had much contact with the weapons dealer.

How can I price a novel gadget like the Gatling Gun when I don't even know the prices in today's weapons market?

I honestly confessed that I had no data reference and no understanding of the market conditions, so I had no way of making a decision.

Master Dewey did not continue to embarrass me. He rolled his eyes and asked again: "Then tell me the advantages of the Gatling Gun."

He thought for a while and added: "What you discovered and what you think are the advantages."

"High firepower, fast rate of fire, long range, and large coverage area"

"Yeah, uh-huh." Master Dewey listened carefully. Seeing that I was silent for a long time, he turned to me and asked, "What else?"

"No." I spread my hands and said, "That's all."

"What about the shortcomings?"

"The accuracy is poor and it is impossible to shoot at a fixed point. The gun body is heavy. Unless it is very powerful, it will be difficult to move once fired. The recoil is large. Without a certain level of power, I am afraid it will not operate well."

"Your feeling is very accurate." Master Dewey said with a smile: "The national power in the technical department also raised almost the same question."

National Strength in the Technology Sector

My eyebrows tremble slightly and the corners of my eyes twitch. I have both strength and skill. I am simply an all-rounder in both civil and military affairs!

I'm so jealous!

"Because of the emergence of these problems, the draft I made is to position the Gatling gun at a high price and limit its sales to adventurers who have a certain level of strength and can at least ensure that they are not affected by recoil."

"What about these bullets?" I bent down, picked up a cartridge case, squeezed it hard, and deflated it. A drop of sweat suddenly flowed from my forehead. Then I pretended to be nonchalant and threw it into the pile of cartridge cases. inside.

"The price of the bullet will be very low, it will only be double the cost."

"How much did it cost?"

"Two copper coins," Master Dewey said.

In Zephyr Continent, copper is the largest and least valuable mineral deposit. It is estimated that one of the two copper coins is the craftsman's money.

I thought about it and asked casually: "How was it made? Handmade? Or?"

"Assembly line" Master Dewey said: "There are special equipment molds that are produced in an assembly line manner."

"With the assembly line, it really saves a lot of manual labor costs."

"That's why its cost is two copper coins," Master Dewey explained: "One and a half copper coins is the production cost, and half a copper coin is the material cost."

“How much can it produce in a day?”

"If we only produce bullet casings, we can produce tens of millions of them a day. The main reason is that filling gunpowder is a waste of time."

"Was the gunpowder filled manually?"

"No," Master Dewey said, "Gunpowder is also filled in a mechanical assembly line, but the machine filling speed is almost the same as the manual filling speed, so only a few hundred thousand finished bullets can be produced in a day."

"Why not fill it manually and mechanically together?" I wondered: "Wouldn't that be faster?"

"Kid, you remember." Master Dewey turned to me and said seriously: "For such dangerous things, if it can be done by machinery, try to do it by machinery. Those who work for us are our people, we Those who are responsible for their lives, rushing to work blindly and despising life are not businessmen but butchers."