"What's the matter?" The mayor looked at the other person and asked impatiently. He hated others interrupting his thoughts, especially when he was thinking about how to be greedy for money.
"An officer wishes to see you..." The waiter knew his master's habits and immediately explained.
"Officer?" The mayor and the sheriff were both surprised.
"Last time, the one who came with Tang Mo last time, the officer from Beiling..." The waiter quickly added and explained.
"Oh...invite him in!" The mayor suddenly realized and immediately ordered. He looked at the Sheriff and the Tax Collector, and the meaning in his eyes couldn't be more obvious - it seems that the other party is a good person.
Soon, his speculation was confirmed. Tiger was indeed here to bring them benefits. Tang Mo kept his promise and really delivered them the follow-up benefits he promised them.
Tiger arrogantly handed over the bribes to the three main officials in the town. This attitude also made the mayor, the sheriff, and the tax collector more convinced of their judgment-Tang Mo was probably Count Fishereau's.
A person, and an important confidant.
Therefore, after the mayor and the others received the second bribe from Tiger, the school affairs were shelved by the three of them.
Anyway, this kind of thing is not investigated by the people, and no one comes to report it, so they will naturally not mind their own business - even if someone comes to report it, they will help Tang for the sake of gold coins.
Mo got rid of the idiot who reported him...
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In the workshop, Tang Mo was assembling the first batch of K1 fast guns with Matthews and others. Now, this weapon is still the flagship product of Tang Mo's weapons workshop and is the source of the entire workshop's income.
After seven or eight days of rest, the metal-smelting furnace finally began to emit black smoke again. The raw materials transported from Beiling made the entire workshop glow with vitality.
In fact, Tang Mo did not deceive Tiger. He really planned to produce a batch of arms and send them to the Earl.
He is an arms dealer, and his ultimate goal is to provide enough weapons to the Earl, and to make a name for himself in future wars.
If the Earl is not provided with weapons and a lot of training time is set aside, the effectiveness of these weapons on the battlefield will be reduced, and Tang Mo's losses will be huge.
Therefore, this time, Tang Mo planned to provide as many K1 guns as possible and transport these weapons to Beiling.
Tiger, who returned with this batch of weapons, will personally bring Tang Mo's needs. As long as the earl is willing to continue to provide support, Beiling will continue to receive more arms.
Tang Mo was full of confidence in the Earl's subsequent support, because he knew very well that as long as Tiger brought the revolver back to Beiling, the Earl would definitely see its great significance.
This is no joke. If he is really ambitious, with Tang Mo's weapons, he can even fight his way out of Beiling, aspire to the kingdom, and sit under the king's butt!
In fact, Tang Mo's plan was probably like this - he would provide the earl with enough arms and weapons, and the earl would seek a higher political status.
Then he, Tang Mo, will be able to get his share of benefits - become the new earl, control a large area of land, and become the "Cyric" of the Wright Kingdom! Everyone gets what they need, helps each other, and grows together...
Doesn't it sound very tempting?
As for whether Earl Fischerot would kill the donkey, Tang Mo was actually prepared. Before the Earl could really aspire for that position, he would form his own army and equip it with more powerful weapons.
So ready for battle!
If Fischerot was a good king, Tang Mo wouldn't mind following Cyric's path, willing to stay behind the scenes and become a new arms consortium, controlling the order of the world as a shadow.
If Fischereau was a greedy bastard, then Tang Mo wouldn't mind using his spear and cannon to teach him a lesson, letting him know that times have changed.
However, all these ideas are still at the stage of imagination... What Tang Mo has to do now is to control the quality and complete the current production.
So, at this moment, he was lying in front of an assembly table, watching a worker nervously putting the parts together one by one.
He carefully reminded the worker in as gentle a voice as possible: "Okay, follow the requirements of the production process! Hang this part in the corresponding position! Pay attention to their positional relationship!"
The worker was also a little nervous, because this was his first time assembling such a weapon - he was more familiar with the structure of a flintlock musket, but the parts in front of him had nothing to do with a flintlock musket.
This thing has a relatively complicated bolt mechanism. In order to be able to pierce the primer in the paper-cased fixed ammunition, a long firing pin is protruded from the front end of the bolt.
To be honest, this is actually a technical compromise design. Because there is no real rim bullet, we can only create such a long firing pin. And this long firing pin is actually very useful in complex battlefield environments.
Easily damaged.
Soldiers also have to be careful when loading paper-cased fixed-load ammunition, so the rate of fire does not increase significantly.
However, for the flintlock gun, it is already the prototype of the modern rifle - this kind of progress is epoch-making, and it is an advancement that the flintlock gun cannot catch up with.
In fact, when the firearm is disassembled, the internal structure is not too complicated. The needle gun Tang Mo took out is not much more difficult to manufacture than the flintlock gun. As long as the craftsman can produce the flintlock gun,
It can be easily copied.
As long as the spring and a few parts with specific structures are assembled into a bolt-driven bolt, the rest of the structure is actually very simple.
Therefore, under Tang Mo's guidance, the worker quickly assembled the parts and completed a gun.
According to Tang Mo's instructions, the worker did not proceed with the next step of installation, but handed the gun he had made to another worker next to him.
This is an assembly line production method. Each worker is only responsible for one step in gun production. There are actually many benefits to this arrangement, and it is also a unique technological innovation of Tang Mo.
Under such technical arrangements, each worker will specialize in one production step, making it less prone to errors and better improving production efficiency.
Another reason why Tang Mo is optimistic about this production method is the confidentiality system-each worker can only know one part of the production of new guns. These workers go out alone and actually don't know much about the complete process of the entire rifle.
Although it cannot be completely kept secret, it can effectively delay the opponent's time and gain a buffer opportunity for Tang Mo himself.
"Very good! Next, tighten the screws and fix them... In this way, the internal structure of the K1 gun is completed! It's very simple, right?" Finally, after a long wait, under Tang Mo's gaze,
, this worker completed the entire process.
A complete bolt action is manufactured and then sent to the next worker, who will be responsible for installing the bolt action and assembling the entire second half of the rifle.
With the addition of the first half of the barrel, the entire rifle is assembled and becomes a true K1 fast rifle.
"Yes, I think these workers should have mastered it." Parker nodded and assured Tang Mo: "You can leave the rest to me. I will watch them and make them familiar with the whole process.
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"Very good! Let's get started!" Tang Mo nodded, then stood aside and watched the workers install the polished parts together one by one according to the steps prescribed by him.
This is the first time that his weapons workshop has produced K1 fast guns on such a large scale. The previous samples were actually completely hand-made, and the production cycle was so long that it made people want to cry.
It's different now, because while these workers are assembling the parts in front of them, in another workshop, two steam engines are still working continuously.
More than thirty apprentices are operating the machinery and drilling out gun barrels one by one - by tonight, the entire workshop will be able to produce at least 50 high-quality, almost identical gun barrels!
The quality of these barrels is uniform, which is much more reliable than barrels drilled by workers using water-powered windmills or purely by hand.
"Click!" Tang Mo pulled the bolt of a K1 fast rifle that had been manufactured, exposing the smooth barrel of the rifle, and nodded with satisfaction.
Although it was far inferior to the advanced weapons Tang Mo sold before he traveled through time, the weapon in front of him was already quite advanced for this era.
"It's really beautiful!" Tang Mo looked at the weapon in his hand and said with a smile to Parker and Matthews beside him.
"Indeed, after mechanical processing, this thing is more like a work of art than Cyric's flintlock gun." Matthews agreed.
Later, he continued to lament all this: "Compared to such results, it should be said that the whole process is greater."
As he said that, he, Parker, and Tang Mo all looked to the other side, where the finished K1 guns were packed into wooden packaging boxes one by one. Except for the production number, they were almost identical.
"I'm back! Everything is done. They won't cause you any more trouble, and they are willing to sell you some more land... In addition..." Tiger walked into the factory while rambling, and when he saw those
After neatly stacking the K1 guns in the wooden box, the mouth is not easy to use.
He swallowed and watched intently as the workers put away the newly produced guns one by one, which had been rubbed with anti-rust oil.
Then, he looked at several large boxes that had been sealed not far away, and said nothing for a long time.
"Yes, you are absolutely right. Inside those boxes are the K1 guns you want to take away." Tang Mo nodded.
Immediately afterwards, everyone couldn't help laughing.
