Of course, Paul Mauser was not the only one who was surprised. Everyone present was amazed that Paul Mauser had received such a generous reward. They were even a little envious that Paul Mauser could be appreciated by Jérôme Bonaparte.
However, what Jerome Bonaparte said next was enough to make everyone present go crazy.
"Furthermore, I can assure you! If one of you develops a weapon that satisfies me, Norinco will personally fund the establishment of your own company for you! You will use your technology to
You have the decision-making power of this company in the form of a shareholding, and Norinco will not point fingers at this company! Unless your company is facing the risk of bankruptcy, the head office will help you tide over the difficulties!" Jérôme.
Bonaparte spoke calmly, as if he were talking about a trivial matter.
In Jérôme Bonaparte's view, people with a certain skill should receive the treatment they deserve, and the best treatment that Norinco can give them is to help them open a company of their own.
company.
The role played by Norinco is that of an angel investor for later generations.
However, what Jérôme Bonaparte thought was a natural means was, to everyone present, a gift from the world.
In the era when barbaric liberal capitalism was in the ascendant, patents and technologies owned by individuals without capital were nothing more than a one-time sale. Capital could not give individuals the opportunity to make long-term profits.
If someone tries to use the patent in their hands to negotiate with the employer, the result will be just a lawsuit to take the employer to court. The employer will hire the most professional team of lawyers to confront you in court, while being unscrupulous on the other.
infringe your patent.
An ordinary person without power cannot compete with the employer at all, and in the end he can only admit defeat and reconcile.
Edison, the future famous "King of Inventions", relied on his own hidden agenda to unscrupulously squeeze his employees and obtain the patents of the scientists in the laboratory with meager wages.
In the end, Edison encountered a ruthless and ruthless Tesla on the issue of DC and AC. The natural result was that Westinghouse Electric defeated General Electric. After that, Mr. Edison also became unwilling to follow Morgan's arrangements.
He was kicked out of the decision-making level of General Electric and has been kicked out of the company ever since.
However, the victorious Tesla did not make a lot of money with this technology. His patent was donated to the entire society for free. To be precise, it was donated to General Electric, which was transforming alternating current.
In this era, if you want to rise as an ordinary person, luck and opportunity are two essential things.
Everyone in the institute is obviously much luckier than most entrepreneurs. Their support is given to Jérôme Bonaparte with a satisfied expression, and they will naturally be able to obtain investment as technology investors.
Therefore, when Jérôme Bonaparte said these words, all the researchers present immediately lost their composure. They could not wait to develop a new rifle, and then use this rifle to obtain investment and move towards the beginning of life.
peak.
"Okay! That's what I want to say! Is there anything else you need to add? Or, if you have other people who have different ideas from Paul Mauser, you can tell me!" Jerome Paul
Nabal handed the draft paper back to Paul Mauser, and then asked.
None of the surrounding researchers spoke. After a while, Alfonso Xacepo silently raised his hand.
"Okay! Mr. Chasepo, what do you have to add?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked Alfonso Chacebo with a smile.
"Your Majesty, I don't think there is any big problem with the Dresser rifle itself! Especially its bolt-action design, this should be the most important thing to retain when we design a new rifle..." Alfonso Chasser
Beaux-Arts explained to Jérôme Bonaparte the advantages of the bolt action of the Dreiser rifle.
Regarding the design of the trigger, Alfonso Xacepo believed that the design of the hammer should be changed to a firing pin, and the primer of the Dreiser bullet should be placed behind the propellant. After the firing pin hits the primer, it ignites the propellant, and then
The propellant burns and the ammunition is ejected. (Paul Mauser also agreed and revised the drawing!)
In order to reduce the air tightness, Alfonso Xaceppo also suggested that while using metal fixed-loading ammunition (this is what he thought he could give it a try after listening to Paul Mauser's idea), try to use rubber rings for sealing.
, this can more effectively solve the problem of air leakage. (This method seemed a bit unnecessary to Jerome Bonaparte, but he did not refute Alfonso Chassepo.)
When Jérôme Bonaparte listened to Alfonso Chasepo's explanation, he nodded with satisfaction. He glanced at Alfonso Chasepo, then at Paul Mauser and said: "Okay.
Great! Mr. Xia Sepo, if you combine your design ideas with Paul Mauser's design ideas, I believe the result will be even better!"
After speaking, Jérôme Bonaparte gave Alfonso Chassepo another five thousand francs on the spot as encouragement.
Alfonso Chassepo immediately expressed his gratitude to Jérôme Bonaparte with a pious heart.
"Is there anyone else?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked the engineers around him again.
"Your Majesty, can I..." Just after Jérôme Bonaparte asked if there was anyone else, William Mauser responded timidly.
After receiving the "teaching" just now, Anderson Mauser no longer chose to stop it.
"Of course!" Jerome Bonaparte immediately replied: "I think age has never been a criterion for measuring a person's ability. There are geniuses in this world! I also believe that genius is among you!"
"Your Majesty, you just talked to my brother about the issue of extracting the shell! I was wondering if you could preset a hook-style thing to lock the bullet after it is pushed in..." William Mauser said his sudden thought to
Listen to Jérôme Bonaparte.
After Jerome Bonaparte thought carefully for a moment, he shrugged his shoulders and said: "If you can make what you said, I will give you a corresponding reward! Unfortunately, you haven't done it yet.
come out!"
"That's it!" William Mauser was a little frustrated. He thought that his idea was not taken seriously by the emperor.
"However, I can advance you 1,000 francs! As long as you can create the organization you mentioned, I will transfer the remaining 4,000 francs to you!" Based on the trust in William Mauser in history, it is also
Based on his keen intuition, Jerome Bonaparte decided to give William Mauser a certain reward in advance!
Sure enough, after Jerome Bonaparte said the reward, Wilhelm Mauser cheered up again and assured Jerome Bonaparte that he would make something that would satisfy Jerome Bonaparte.
Subsequently, each of the encouraged researchers told Jérôme Bonaparte their immature breech-loading gun design ideas.
Jérôme Bonaparte evaluated their design ideas in turn. Of course, there were inevitably some "heretics" who hoped to change their thinking and design a lever (a typical lever rifle is the Hall rifle) rifle.
Regarding this kind of "heresy", Jérôme Bonaparte did not offer any criticism or encouragement. He just responded with a faint "hmm".
Anyone who is a little smarter knows that Jérôme Bonaparte was not interested in lever rifles, so some people gave up on lever rifles.
After most of the researchers reported their ideas to Jérôme Bonaparte, Jérôme Bonaparte once again asked everyone present if they were interested in creating a machine that uses a hand crank to provide power, multiple barrels, and mechanical completion.
A self-loading rapid-fire weapon, preferably one that can fire hundreds of bullets per second.
"Your Majesty, shooting so many bullets in a short period of time can easily cause major logistical problems!" Anderson Mauser, who has historical limitations, warned in a low voice.
"Rather than letting my soldiers fight with their opponents with bayonets, I prefer to eliminate them as quickly as possible!" Jérôme Bonaparte said decisively, and then added: "I hope you are here
When designing the rifle, try to move closer to the direction of the burst!"
Historically, the stupid French army leaders used the same stupid Lebel rifle to cause extremely serious damage to the French army. Jérôme Bonaparte did not want his army to "make the same mistake again."
Although Jerome Bonaparte was not sure whether he could still do that, he had to reverse the French Army's damn heretical ideas.
All fear of the unknown comes from insufficient firepower!
As long as Jerome Bonaparte has enough repeating rifles and Gatling submachine guns in his hands, coupled with steel breech-loading cannons and millions of troops, even if the person sitting in this position is a fool, as long as this
If these idiots don't interfere randomly on the front lines like me, the war can be won.
In the case of a total war, as long as one's own strength does not fall to the bottom like France did in World War II, then France will definitely win.
From this perspective, Jerome Bonaparte is undoubtedly lucky. The French army in this era is still an army that dares to fight and has high fighting spirit.
This fighting spirit makes them despise all opponents and will not surrender to those who are "weaker" than them, even if they are in danger.
Such an army, coupled with powerful weapons, can undoubtedly cause tons of damage to its opponents.
Eventually, Jérôme Bonaparte's task of researching rapid-fire weapons was taken over by Alfonso Chassepo.
