Blanco returned to St. Vicente with his team regretfully.

However, both sides did not achieve any results. Blanco privately represented himself and the group of native white manors in Brazil behind him, expressing his hope to sell East Coast Company's products in the Sao Paulo area, of course, only ordinary goods and sabers with no export restrictions.

In return, they will provide East Coast companies with agricultural products produced in their estates at preferential prices. In addition, they can also provide East Coast companies with much-needed coal, and even the specific proportion of goods such as coal is negotiated at each transaction. As for where they get coal, whether they are from the Portuguese or from the British, it is unknown.

At the end of June, Captain Kuait, who was late, docked on the dock with three large ships. It was strange that since April, no ship had ever been by port. After analysis by the Executive Committee, it felt that it might be because of the impact of the previous pirate attack. The attack occurred in January, and the impact was only revealed now. In the past three months, various materials could only consume a large amount of inventory.

From this we can also see how fragile the current foundation of the time travelers is. I wanted to sell cannons to Brazilians before. If the Dutch West India Company knew about this kind of thing (almost a certain thing), it would be fine if the Dutch did not respond. If the Dutch felt that such a thing could not be tolerated, they only needed to send a few warships to roam the sea outside the port of Tatan and intercept various ships, then the port of Tatan will fall into a great crisis, and the development speed of the East Coast company's career will be greatly delayed or even stopped.

Captain Kuait's three large ships loaded with 502 European immigrants, more than 100 livestock and more than 250 tons of various materials.

502 immigrants lined up to sanitate and disinfect the simple wooden house next to the dock freight yard. Mo Xiaoxi from the Health Bureau brought a group of sisters to quarantine these European immigrants with the assistance of the police from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In fact, these European immigrants had naturally been eliminated before embarking on the land of Tattan Port. Those who were weak and sick and unable to survive had already been thrown into the sea by the crew. The remaining people looked in good condition, including 265 French Yugnogno Protestants, 129 Dutch people, and 108 English Puritans.

This was the last porcelain transaction between Journey and Captain Kuait. The only 318 sets of porcelain left by Journey were sold for 216,300 Dukat. After deducting immigration fees and goods payments, Journey and Captain Kuait received 203,925 Dukat paid by Journey, which was about 407,850 yuan.

After the transaction was completed, Captain Kuait said that he would continue to cooperate with the Travelers to do business. After all, although there was no crazy porcelain trade, the profits of the remaining commodities were quite generous. Kuait left two people and rented some warehouses on the dock as warehouses, which was ready for long-term development.

After the quarantine of new immigrants, they will be stuffed into inland river wooden boats and transported to the Dingyuan Fort Reclamation Area. The fifth production team of the Development Brigade and the newly built Farming Brigade 6 and the 7th production team are both short of people for farming. These three production teams can accommodate 300 people, and the remaining 202 people will be allocated to Dingyuan Fort. There are two new wheel kilns and one cement kiln. The urban area may be expanded in the future. At present, there is a shortage of manpower. Xiao Bailang has responded to the Executive Committee for a few troubles. Previously, a group of about 200 Czech and Finnish immigrants have already allocated him. This will allocate another 202 people, which can almost satisfy his appetite.

On June 30, the 1st and 5th production teams of the Development Brigade of Dingyuanbao Reclamation Zone and the 6th and 7th production teams of the Fengcheng Brigade, sowed a total of 3,500 acres of potatoes.

In late July, Peng Zhicheng and Ma Vest walked into the arsenal gun manufacturing workshop located on the south bank of the Dayu River.

After replenishing personnel in the firearm manufacturing workshop, there are now more than ten craftsmen and more than 40 apprentices. In addition to some firearm repairs and other tasks, their previous work was to copy several guns purchased by travelers from Europe at the request of the Executive Committee.

These guns come from various countries, basically all clamps, and the structural design is similar. People in the gun workshop use familiar iron to build the barrel, then use hydraulic boring machines to polish it, and other parts have mold processing. As a result, the performance of the replicated gun is similar to that of the original gun, and only some parts use excellent materials, and the life of the gun may be longer. There is little chance of winning when competing with Europeans, and the current demand for guns is not large, so the Executive Committee and the Army are not too concerned about it, but just instructed them to make some muskets regularly and in small batches to maintain technology.

This time, Peng Zhicheng and Ma Qi came together, mainly because they heard that the two flintlock rifles purchased from abroad a while ago have been researched and trial-produced during this period, and they have been mass-produced, so they hurried over to see how the situation is.

At this stage, the main equipment of the Crossing World is the Swedish-style Sur-style Matchrope, which is now considered the top Matchrope. In 1630, King Gustav II of Sweden improved this Matchrope invented by the Germans, which reduced the weight of the gun, increased the firing rate, and greatly improved its performance. As a result, it caused European countries to compete to imitate it.

However, after all, the flint gun is a flint gun. It has a fatal weakness, that is, the flint on the flint clamp will be bounced out after each launch, and the flint rope needs to be reignited, resulting in a slow firing rate. In contrast, the flintlock gun relies on the scorching iron chips splashed from the fire curtain to ignite the gun powder in the medicine pot, thereby igniting the launching medicine in the gun chamber to fire the projectile. From the principle, the superiority of the flintlock gun can be seen.

The early flintlock rifles today are called dog lock muskets, which are named because the firing hammers that lock flints look like dogs. The two models of flintlock rifles that the Travelers already have come from Britain and the other from Ottoman Turkey (there are only a few, and I don’t know who they came from). The principles of the two muskets can be said to be almost the same, but the Turks’ musket manufacturing process and aesthetics are obviously much better than those of the UK, and the exquisiteness of the craftsmanship is also amazing.

Peng Zhicheng tested the two muskets, with the power, range and weight of the gun body. Peng Zhicheng and the vest looked at them again, and still felt that the Turkish muskets were more beautiful and exquisite, and the design was more reasonable, so they decided to set up a small batch to try to produce this musket.

The gun of this musket uses a spring-loaded iron. The barrier is linked to the trigger. When the hammer is pulled up to the brake position, a sound will be made. At this time, the barrier is held to the hammer and is ready to be fired. When the trigger is pulled, the barrier iron linked to the trigger releases the brake to brake the hammer. The hammer releases the potential energy of the spring and hammers downward to produce sparks (actually hot iron filings), causing the black gunpowder in the pot to burn, and at the same time ignites the black gunpowder in the fire-induced hole next to the pot, and is transmitted to the launching medicine in the explosion chamber to detonate the explosion chamber to produce expansion gas and push out the projectile.

This kind of flintlock rifle has been used in various European countries for two hundred years. Later, all types of flintlock rifles were basically improved on this basis. They can be said to be the founder of flintlock rifle. There are not many technical talents in traveling through the crowd, and at present, they can only rely on some knowledge to guide the development of science and technology. The specific work still needs to be completed by craftsmen from various countries collected in this time and space.

For example, the flintlock rifle is very typical. No matter how ignorant the travelers travel, they know that flintlock rifle is much better than the flintlock rifle. However, with a high eye and low skill, they even look at how to make a flintlock rifle, let alone the flintlock rifle.

At the end of 1631, under the guidance of European craftsmen, the Travelling Crossing Trunks truly understood the principle of the clamping rope gun and made the first handmade clamping rope gun. At the end of 1631, the Travelling Crossing Buy purchased 50 dog-locked flintlock guns from the UK. Later, due to war and other factors, it was not until a while ago that he had successfully imitated two flintlock guns.

It is really not that easy to climb the technology tree, especially for laymen to climb the technology tree.

Peng Zhicheng discussed with Ma Vest and first tried to produce 50 pieces of this weapon named 32-Arthur flintlock rifle and handed them to the Army for a period of trial. After the Army was tried, the trial report was submitted, including trial experience, improvement suggestions, etc., so that the gun manufacturing workshop could improve the design.

At present, the conditions for mass production of this musket are already in place. Other parts of the flintlock rifle are easy to make, and ready-made molds are available without time. The most time-consuming thing is actually the barrel, to be precise, the boring of the barrel, but after all this is a cloud of water after the hydraulic machinery is available.

Five hydraulic boring machines are lined up along the river in the workshop. Using high-carbon steel drill bits, one gun barrel can be drilled in a day, and the monthly yield is 150, which is dozens of times more efficient than manual work. The entire workshop adopts assembly line production method, and the craftsmen focus on their own process, and the yield rate is greatly improved. It can be said that there is no problem in producing 150 qualified flintlock guns a month. Moreover, the current personnel in the gun manufacturing workshop are actually over-stitched. If you want to increase the output in the future, you only need to expand the scale of the machine. The personnel are ready-made and very convenient.
Chapter completed!