Chapter 244: A generous reward!

After dealing with Mr. De Pan, Liang Pengfei began to investigate the construction and production of other factories on King Crab Island. The originally wide and desolate King Crab Island has now become a different look in Liang Pengfei's eyes. The scattered houses in the east and west have disappeared, replaced by three-story buildings. The cement brick and stone structure houses are not only solid enough, but also after upgrading the building level, the building space has been expanded vertically.

Standardized construction has caused the population to surge to 20,000, and not only does it not seem crowded, but it has shown a thriving vitality. The residential area and the factory area are divided.

The factory area is the largest area on King Crab Island. There are glass factories, gun factories, steel smelting plants, picric acid production plants, and newly established mercury, nitrosol production plants, as well as various related industrial factories. After the steam engine arrived, according to Liang Pengfei's instructions, a special area was set up to set up a factory.

These factories alone have invested more than 10,000 people. In addition, there are two academies on King Crab Island, one is a liberal arts college that specializes in studying Western science, and the other is a professional military college that specializes in studying Western military and navigation.

Compared with the Literature Academy, which currently has less than 700 students, the students in the Military Academy are extremely overcrowded. You should know that Liang Pengfei's military strength is now expanding rapidly, and all the elites and middle and lower commanders in the army have taken turns to enter the academy here to study in batches. The students in the Military Academy are always kept at around 3,000.

Because of the large demand for steel and copper, and the territory on King Crab Island is far from enough to build large steel plants, Liang Pengfei had already discovered a large high-purity copper mine in the central Luzon archipelago, and placed the copper smelter to the ore production site. The steel production plant also moved to the north of Naan for construction some time ago. The steel smelter here is not large, and it is not based on 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, titanium, manganese and other metals required by Liang Pengfei are testing how to implement industrial production of tungsten, titanium, manganese and other metals. Now it can only be regarded as a metal smelting laboratory.

Although this thing is developing slowly and investing heavily, Liang Pengfei has mastered so many minerals, and his wealth is no longer afraid of doing money-burning work, so he doesn't mind, but is happy to see it happening. The most important thing is that among these smelting experts, all Chinese craftsmen are learning a lot from it, which can be regarded as indirectly cultivating a large number of human resources.

"This is the gun factory, and it is also the largest factory on our King of Crab Island. There are 3,000 workers alone." A Liang family manager next to Liang Pengfei introduced with a diligent and proud look on his face.

"Now, the firearms we produce here are produced according to the standardized and assembly line operation methods you ordered by the young master. The efficiency has indeed increased by several times. Now we can make 100 flintlock guns, 5 artillery guns, and 5 conscience guns every day. However, because the gunpowder consumption of the conscience guns is too great, so unless it is necessary, only 30 will be produced each month, specifically for supplying the central Luzon Islands. In addition, we send 50 artillery guns and 1,000 flintlock guns to the central Luzon Islands every month. The remaining quantity will be sold to the Annan and Lanfang Republics 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, I said that the current production is not only enough to make up for our consumption, but also to export. This is the case for the time being." Liang Pengfei saw the expression of the manager and explained with a smile: "Because the flintlock will be eliminated soon, there is no need to expand its production. In the future, they will all become our export products."

"Eliminate. You are not kidding. Although the flintlock rifle we produce here is not the best, it is definitely a first-class firearm. Even the flintlock rifle used by the troops of Western countries is not much better than ours. How could it be eliminated?" The manager looked incredible.

However, when the manager saw the revolver that was held in Liang Pengfei's hand, his eyes became even more greedy than De Pan. Although he has become the manager, he has been in the pirate industry for many years. After all, he has been in the pirate industry for many years. After seeing the revolver that can carry six rounds of bullets in Liang Pengfei's hand, he seemed quite excited.

Liang Pengfei ignored the bright eyes of the manager, Monk Chen and others, and while playing with the left-hand rotary pistol, he exchanged experience with the British technician.

The revolver invented by Colt is the first revolver in the world that was truly successful and widely used. However, before that, someone had already begun to develop revolver, but it was not fully promoted. Liang Pengfei still remembers that when he went to the UK to do business in later generations, he once saw a ignition revolver made before 1650 in the museum of the Royal Joint Forces in Whitehall. Its caliber is 12.7 mm, and its barrel and rotor are made of copper.

The one in Liang Pengfei's hand is also made of copper, but it looks much more delicate than the one. Moreover, because it is a design drawing provided by Liang Pengfei, it is closer to the revolver in later generations.

"According to your instructions, we use copper as the shell, mercury as the base fire, and nitrifying cotton as the launching medicine. The bullet uses copper-lead lead core, and the effective range can be as high as 100 yards and can cause effective damage within 150 yards. This is definitely a great innovation." The British technician who made this revolver was also quite excited and said to Liang Pengfei in a row.

"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, 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 couldn't put it down. After all, this thing was already a high-end weapon in this era. He tried six bullets and two were silent, but the remaining four shots hit the targets placed a hundred meters away.

"Young master, this kind of gun can be used even on rainy days." Bai Shusheng was itchy when he saw it, and he took it and started a round. After all, this guy was one of the sharpshooters of the old Liang family. Except for the first shot, the remaining four guns hit the target, and one bullet still fell silent. However, Bai Shusheng didn't care too much about this small flaw, but asked a question he was more concerned about.

"That's right, these bullets and guns can be used in harsh weather and environments." Liang Pengfei nodded. You should know that the climate in the Southeast Asian region is too humid, and the harsh weather is often visited. It is not a good thing for the Liang family army, who has already been equipped with a large number of gunpowder weapons.

If those natives had not had any combat power, did not understand what military strategies were, and did not know that rainy seasons or rainy days were a fatal killer for gunpowder weapons, they would definitely cause considerable trouble to the Liang family army.

But now, with the revolver, the firearms that can be used in harsh natural environments, the slightest worry is driven away from Liang Pengfei's heart.

"Tsk tsk tsk tsk, if we have this thing, we are afraid of a bird when we fight. With one hand, a knife and the other hand, one person can definitely beat the other party by about ten." Monk Chen expressed his opinion without being outdone.

His opinion made Liang Pengfei wake up. Indeed, in this era, the battle between the platoon still accounts for a considerable proportion, especially when a small fleet encounters a battle, the battle between the platoon can be said to be the key to victory. In the past, it was relied on the number of people and the level of force. If one side had such medium-distance destructive weapons, killing a few first and then drawing a knife to fight to the death, it would definitely greatly improve the winning rate.

"First build a production line with a minimum of 30 revolvers a day, and try to produce a batch of equipment to be given priority to combatants in the fleet. No, give priority to the bandit suppression troops in the central Luzon archipelago. The investment in the bullet production line must be accelerated, and at least it must be able to ensure that the guns have sufficient ammunition reserves. In addition, the performance of the bullets is better to improve, and three bullets have occurred in the twelve guns. If it is on the battlefield, it is very likely that my soldiers will bleed and even sacrifice their lives. Mr. Fair, I hope you can understand."

"Of course, you are right. A small mistake will ruin a life. There is no doubt about this. General, don't worry, I will work hard to make such a thing happen again." The British weapon technician Fair nodded vigorously to express his understanding of Liang Pengfei's order.

Seeing Fair's performance, Liang Pengfei's smile on his face became a little more. "In addition, as a reward, I will pay you fifty pounds of gold as a reward to thank you for your achievements."

"Fifty pounds of gold! My God, respected General Liang, you are so generous. May God bless you and I will definitely work hard." British technician Fair's eyes appeared in his eyes. 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.

"This is nothing, it's what you deserve. In addition, I have a drawing here, which is a spear. I hope you can make a sample gun as soon as possible. If it succeeds, I will not only pay you another fifty pounds of gold, but also give you a new position. Technical director of King Crab Island Arsenal, your monthly salary will be five times that of now." Liang Pengfei patted Fel's shoulder and threw down a huge bait.

In addition to revolvers, the development of artillery is also in progress. However, compared with the success of the revolver, the development of artillery is much slower. However, Liang Pengfei comforted the hard-working technicians with kind words. He did not urge or ask them to complete it as soon as possible, but made some suggestions that he knew to let them continue to develop.

Although the progress is slow, the development of the air hydraulic re-entry machine has been successful. This is a very simple principle. In history, it was precisely because the French invented the water pressure gas-type stationary and retreat re-entry machine that the artillery no longer uses bulky rigid gun mounts, and it is more conducive to the firing of the artillery and reduce the displacement of the artillery.

After checking everything on the island, Liang Pengfei, who was full of joy, finally rushed back to Guangzhou to make final preparations for his major life events.
Chapter completed!