The first exhibition hall Aslan visited was filled with spears and daggers, which made him look black.
In an exhibition of a group of magicians, weapons and equipment of various melee professions are displayed. Is it funny?
As soon as Aslan entered, two young female magicians immediately ran up to them and introduced Aslan enthusiastically.
It turns out that these weapons and equipment all use new enchanting technology, but in Aslan's eyes, they can only be considered acceptable.
It is also an enchanting technology, but it is much more complicated than the combined enchantment of Merlo City. The requirements for enchanting magicians are too high, and it cannot be mass-produced on a large scale.
"It can't be used for much, it can only be used as a handicraft." Aslan curled his lips and came out of the exhibition hall.
The two female magicians lowered their heads helplessly. It seemed that this time the teacher would lose all his money again.
"Agatha, if we work together, we will definitely be able to sell these enchanted equipment." Another green-haired woman encouraged her partner next to her.
"Miriya, I know, let's work hard together."
"Okay! Come on let's do it together."
Aslan visited a few more exhibition halls. They were all good magic inventions, but most of them were not useful. To put it simply, they were unpopular inventions. Aslan wrote down some of the good technologies and bought a batch of them.
Messy things are thrown into space.
This is Aslan's attitude as a human being. No matter what he does, he cannot do it for nothing. It is immoral to just analyze the materials and technology of something and then leave.
So Aslan would be very polite and buy one or two pieces and take them back, saying he would study them.
After wandering around, Aslan came to the exhibition hall of Maxim Empire.
Maxim Empire has a few things on display this time, but everything is extremely eye-catching.
Like the Merlox Pause, it mainly contains guns and ammunition, but the ones stored there are mainly gun sticks, which are magical artifacts. But here, the items stored are mechanical artifacts, revolvers and revolvers, and of course single-shot ones.
A breech-loading gun is one that fires once, pulls the bolt, loads a round of bullets, and then fires.
It can be regarded as the predecessor of the World War II rifle.
But no matter what, it is considered advanced in this era.
Aslan tested all the guns, and he really liked the single-shot breech-loading rifle. The accuracy was extremely high, not much worse than the G43 gun staff.
The key is the price, it is much cheaper than a gun and a staff, and even cheaper than a knight's armor.
A revolver costs less than three gold coins, and a single-shot breech-loading rifle costs five gold coins. In the eyes of outsiders, this is almost a free gift, but in Aslan's eyes, this is proof of the industrialization of the Maxim Empire.
This kind of rifle seems to have a simple craftsmanship, but the requirements for steel are very high. If it is built by relying on old mainland technology, the price will only be higher, and then there is the rifling.
Rifling, also known as rifle rifling. Because its cross-sectional shape is similar to a windmill, it is also called windmill rifling. Rifling can be said to be the soul of the barrel. The function of rifling is to give the warhead the ability to rotate, so that the warhead can still maintain the established position after exiting the chamber.
direction.
Although there are records of the use of rifling on Earth in the 15th century, due to the difficulty of the manufacturing process, it was not popularized until the 19th century. There was a gap of four hundred years, which shows the difficulty of large-scale mass production of rifling.
The reason why revolvers are so cheap is that the barrel has no rifling.
In the end, Aslan also fully understood the Maxim Empire's plan. They indeed planned to sell the guns and bullets. In Aslan's eyes, the price of the guns was a bit high. If they relied on the industrial strength of Merlo City, the revolver rifle
The price should be controlled at around one gold coin. If a complete production line is available, the cost can be reduced at once.
However, the price of Maxim Empire’s bullets is a bit disgusting.
Rifle bullets cost 4 gold coins for 100 bullets, which is equivalent to 2 silver coins per bullet. Pistol bullets cost 100 gold coins for 1 bullet.
Of course, if you buy it with Mark coins, the price will be half cheaper, that is, you can buy 100 rifle bullets with four Mark coins. This price is so cheap for the nobles that they can be used as toys.
But for a large-scale war, each of the 100,000 revolver riflemen must prepare 50 rounds of ammunition. Not to mention other equipment, the rifles and bullets alone will cost 500,000 gold coins.
This is still considered initial equipment. After a battle, if these fifty rounds are fired, it means that an additional two hundred thousand gold coins will be spent to replenish ammunition.
Selling guns can only be considered a small business, but the real big deal is bullets.
Aslan knew very well that if countries could not crack the formula of smokeless flames, they would be forced to buy bullets from the Maxim Empire. As for whether it would be okay not to buy them, of course it would not be possible.
If the enemy countries are all equipped with rifles, and your own country still relies on human lives, can it defeat the enemy countries equipped with rifles?
This will lead to an infinite loop.
On the one hand, the Maxim Empire conquered cities and territories, and on the other hand, it made huge war profits. Some people may think that what will happen if the Maxim Empire sells its rifles and is beaten back by the enemy in the future?
The Maxim Empire only had to die a few soldiers. For the current continent, the most worthless thing is human life.
The Maxim Empire played this trick very well. On the one hand, the price of the mark is linked to the price of bullets. As the scale of the war expands, the exchange rate of the mark becomes stronger. At the same time, it can unite all countries that may become allies around it.
, virtually expanding the scale of the war alliance.
When Aslan understood all this, he subconsciously rubbed his temples.
The Maxim Empire was too cruel.
It seems simple to break the situation, but it will be extremely dangerous. The Maxim Empire will never allow the emergence of smokeless gunpowder, and they will do their best to attack any force that develops smokeless gunpowder.
Aslan's eyes suddenly lit up, and he thought of a very crazy method. If successful, it would definitely be able to attack the high-end combat power of the Maxim Empire.
Once the plan is successful, it will be completely impossible for the Maxim Empire to carry out the decapitation operation. The most impressive thing about the Maxim Empire has always been its wealth and high-end combat power. It is no exaggeration to say that the only one who can compete with
The force that challenges the Magic City is the Maxim Empire.
There may not be as many great magisters as there are in the Magic City, but combined with the number of great swordsman mentors and great knight mentors, it will definitely overwhelm the Magic City.
"Marquis Aslan, it seems that you are very interested in new weapons like muskets!" Kira appeared beside Aslan at some point and said with a smile.
Aslan asked Nomeli to pack the rifles and bullets he was interested in and paid for them directly with Marks.