In the shooting range of the palace, Luo Ji was playing with the rifle in his hand. He seemed to be in a pretty good mood that day.

The trigger was pulled, followed by a gunshot, and the bullet that escaped from the gun accurately hit the gun target located one hundred meters away.

Afterwards, Luo Ji skillfully removed the cartridge case, loaded the bullet, and continued shooting.

Obviously, he has become very good at playing with this rifle, and the one in his hand at this time is the latest research result of the Ordnance Research Department.

Of course, it is said to be the latest research result, but in fact the range, power and accuracy are basically the same as before, because the biggest difference is not in performance at all, but in cost!

If the manufacturing cost of the original rifle was defined as the number five, then the manufacturing cost of the rifle in Luo Ji's hands now was the number three.

For the original cost of one rifle, he could now make two.

The reason why this low cost can be achieved is naturally due to the racial talents of the goblins.

As we all know, goblins are very good at reducing costs. They can even cut the manufacturing cost of an instrument in half, and then create an instrument that is basically as powerful and performant as the original. It is a complete black technology talent.

But the only flaw is that the low-cost equipment produced occasionally has glitches and comes with its own faulty DeBuff...

But this still cannot deny the power of this talent.

This is a talent, and not everyone can do it.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if Luo Ji left this matter to Xuan Ye, Xuan Ye would not be able to say that she could create a rifle whose performance was not inferior to the original version while cutting half the materials.

The rifle in Luo Ji's hands at this time was undoubtedly a typical low-cost rifle, but it was different from the original low-cost equipment of the goblin civilization.

Just like all equipment usually has design drawings, the low-cost equipment developed by the goblins naturally also has design drawings.

Let's still take the low-cost rifle in Luo Ji's hand as an example. If you want to build it, you can only follow the design drawing. Otherwise, the effect will not be triggered. Either the performance will be greatly reduced, or the manufacturing will simply fail and turn into a pile.

tattered.

And under this premise, here comes the awesome part.

Luo Ji first asked Jiang Zhan (Goblin), the deputy director of the Ordnance Research Department, to take the original design and study a low-cost design.

After confirming that a low-cost rifle could be successfully manufactured according to the low-cost design drawing, Luo Ji then instructed Jiang Zhan to hand over the low-cost design drawing and the finished product to Ye Xuan, the top human arms master.

, to improve this low-cost rifle, while controlling costs, improve the stability of the low-cost rifle and reduce the probability of failure.

After such a trip back and forth, a brand new design improved by two masters of arms from the goblins and humans appeared.

The cost of the latest rifle has increased slightly. The original cost of 2.5 has increased to 3. However, the performance and power are not inferior to the original version. The most important thing is that Ye Xuan's successful improvement has made the original unique to goblins

The equipment malfunctions and the DeBuff is gone.

When Luo Ji received the design drawing, he almost laughed like crazy, it was so awesome!

As a civilization, what is the biggest problem that limits the number of your army? To put it simply, there are two problems...

The first problem is the population problem. If you do not take this into consideration and blindly recruit soldiers like a fool, it is likely to lead to the collapse of civilization development. Therefore, how to balance the number of soldiers in the army and the population of the civilization is very important.

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The second question is an economic issue. To put it bluntly, it is money. How can we raise troops without money?

As for the second question, if you break it down, the money needed to raise soldiers can be roughly divided into three small parts.

They are the soldiers' wages, daily food consumption and weapons and equipment expenses respectively.

Not to mention the first two items, as for the final cost of weapons and equipment, Luo can save a lot of money as long as new weapons of this type start to be produced.

At the same time, this method can also be used on various other equipment, such as steam trains, steam excavators, steam mining machines, etc...

As long as these design drawings are produced, the financial pressure of other civilizations in all worlds can be alleviated!

In this way, Luo Ji, who was in a very happy mood, naturally praised Jiang Zhan and Ye Xuan. At the same time, he gave them generous rewards and asked them to keep up their efforts and quickly use all the weapons of the civilization of all worlds.

Do it all.

As for equipment such as steam engines, they are naturally left to the academicians of the Academy of Science and Technology.

At the same time, outside the western border of Wanjie Civilization, the infantry unit led by Guo Zhen maintained a mobile and shooting posture and pressed forward.

Facing the hail of bullets, even a jackal with agility and thick skin cannot escape the fate of taking a few more bullets.

On this tropical savannah on the western border, a large number of scattered orc groups have basically never had peace. This has also caused the garrison troops in the western border to be much busier than those on other borders.

However, as the guard of the Western Region, Guo Zhen felt that this was a good thing.

These groups of orcs are often not large in number, ranging from a dozen to dozens to hundreds, so the threat is very limited, which allows his soldiers to accumulate practical experience, especially later.

The new batch of recruits that have been replenished have not seen any blood. What use will they be used to when it comes to going to the battlefield?

Just as Guo Zhen was thinking this, among the pile of corpses in the distance, a jackal covered in blood suddenly burst out and pounced on the soldier closest to him with his teeth and claws bared.

The physique of the orcs is far superior to that of humans, and their vitality is also extremely tenacious. Unless the bullet directly hits the vital point, otherwise, even if they are shot five or six times, they may not die.

That soldier was obviously a newly recruited recruit. This sudden situation frightened him so much that he stopped moving for a moment.

At this critical moment, Guo Zhen, who was standing dozens of meters away, directly picked up the rifle in his hand, and then there was a "bang" gunshot, and the bullet that escaped from the gun went directly into the head of the jackal.

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When the body fell to the ground, the frightened recruit breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on the ground with a 'pop'.

"What are you doing?"

The recruit who heard this voice subconsciously raised his head, and Guo Zhen's frosty face suddenly came into view. The huge sense of oppression turned his brain into a ball of mush.

"General, general I..."

"You are still on the battlefield, who allowed you to relax? Who allowed you to sit down?!"

As he spoke, Guo Zhen's eyes glanced at the rifle that fell aside.

The recruit's heart twitched, he quickly grabbed the rifle in his hand, and then struggled to stand up from the ground.

"After returning to the city, run thirty laps around the training ground and conduct twenty rounds of gun training. If you can't finish it, you don't need to eat."

As he spoke, Guo Zhen glanced at the other recruits around him, and then shouted sternly...

"You all listen to me, we are on the battlefield now! If you are relaxed and careless, it will be your life! I don't care if the corpse on the ground is dead or not, I will give it a touch up. Do you understand?

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Chapter completed!