MTL - Black Iron’s Glory-Chapter 439 Doing business before the war

The forty-third chapter of the chapter before the war to do business

Crowder strode into the frontline command, took off his military cap, and handed the whip in his hand to his adjutant, Lieutenant Colonel Anders, and asked the welcoming generals of General Albert. What happened to the three standing Legion of the Hicks in the colony of Rodex Bay in the past two months?"

Some time ago, the Blackstone Gunsmithing Workshop had something to do and needed Claude to go to the main board. In addition, the grenade developed by the sisters Anna and Mrs. Sonia has made great progress, and Claude has to rush to pick up the vacancies, so Claude left the front line headquarters for nearly half a month in the gunsmithing workshop. I came back today.

General Eblon was on duty at the front line during this time to deal with the emergency. He shook his head: "There is no big move, as it was before, most of the officers and men of the three standings of the Hicks are conducting daily practical drills and pre-war training in the colony of the Rocks Bay. Forces were also sent to set up a very rudimentary defensive front on the northern and eastern mountainous borders, each of which sent a regiment to guard.

In addition, the eagle sent by the secret agents said that their ale business is very good and very popular with these Hicks veterans. The second batch of 50,000 barrels of ale has already been drunk, and they have given the Hicks 100,000 barrels of ale in the name of the Bison business in the next six months, or the kind of barrels. The amount is more than 40,000 gold krona. We can earn 10,000 gold krona from the Hicks in our theater business. ”

Ale is a low-alcoholic wine, a bit like Claude's past beer. In the pub of the theater directly under the jurisdiction, a cup of ale is about a pound, and it sells five cups of Finney. The small barrel of ale is fifty pounds, and the large barrel is one hundred kilograms. The market price of a large barrel of ale is five rias, that is, half a silver tael.

However, the price of the ale sold by the Buffalo merchants to the Hicks is doubled in the market price. A large barrel sells two silver taels, that is, the twenty rias, plus the freight, or the 100,000-barrel single-story theater can It’s a tribute to the income of 10,000 gold krona. It’s no wonder that General Eblon is screaming for the Hicks’ generosity and wealth...

A more than one hundred-scale ale brewing workshop can produce two or three thousand pounds of ale per day as long as the raw materials are connected. One hundred thousand barrels of ale can find several brewing workshops and can complete the order within three months. The two direct jurisdictions, Cromwell and Beringer Ghana, have become the two major food producing provinces under the jurisdiction of the theater. In the past two years, the two hundred thousand dynasties of the immigrants’ immigrants’ wasteland have been working hard to obtain a bumper harvest. The harvested food is so frustrating.

I didn’t expect the Hicks’ ale order to find a new way out for the extra food. The first three standing corps can consume so much ale. I can imagine that the next seven After the standing army has come, the order for this ale will continue to increase. If you sell food to the enemy, no one in the theater will agree, but if you sell the ale to the enemy at a high price, then there is no scruples. It’s always strange to just earn the enemy’s money.

Claude was dumbfounded, and it was really ridiculous to make a little money from the enemy before he started playing. After receiving a stack of eagle letters handed over by General Albert, Crowder looked closely. The first is the intelligence sent by the agents from the colony of Rhodes Bay. In fact, they registered the daily routines of the three standing army of the Hicks. Indeed, as General Albert said, the enemy’s performance was quite satisfactory. There is nothing unusual happening.

This was followed by a report sent back by General Beechklin, who was responsible for surveying the terrain in the eastern and northern mountainous regions of the Nikkancha State and overseeing the decision of the Nekancan settlement to carry out the consolidation. He said in the letter of the eagle that the eastern mountainous area has been surveyed and is currently building a defensive front. And one of the main field divisions of the Meteorite Corps he took was also carrying out the training of the Nikancha people and supervising the task of the Nikkan people to build defensive positions.

Then there was a letter from the co-founder of Colonel Berklin and Colonel Murray. The two of them each brought the strength of the two regiments of the Thunder Army. Under the support of the Nikkan people and the logistics support, The inland colony of the Hicks Kingdom was swept by the strong sweep of autumn leaves. The progress is going well, the casualties are extremely slight, and the seizures are very rich. It’s just that this inland colony of the Hicks Kingdom is too big, and it’s mostly mountainous. They have only captured half of their area until now, and it’s likely that it will take another two months to complete the mission.... .

In the end, it was the routine briefing sent by General Bologna and General Scrim. General Bologna mainly asked Claude whether the theater should form a reserve army to prevent the front line from fighting the Hicks because the casualties were too large. The occurrence of the loss... It seems that the pressure of the Hicks to General Bologna is still somewhat large. After all, this time, there are ten standing army groups and more than 600,000 troops.

The eagle’s letter from General Scree was to inform the preparations for various logistics supplies and the ongoing arms deals with the Nikkan. This time, the Nikkan people also spent a lot of money on big bleeding. They were almost packaged in the battlefield warehouses and seized in the first three colonial wars. All the Hicks muskets and artillery pieces were wiped out. Then he made a request and hoped that the theater could sell the Obas three-type arquebus to them.

At present, the Thunder Legion and the Rock Corps, as well as the 18 local garrisons composed of veterans of the two military service in the late period, are equipped with the Obas three-type arquebus. If Claude did not instruct the invention of the Sony 599 new rifle, then the Obas three-type arquebus can be regarded as one of the most advanced arquebuses in the world of Faslan, or ranked first At least the top three.

The biggest feature of the Obash three-type arquebus is that the range of precise aiming can reach about 100 meters, which is mainly due to the special customization and processing of its barrel material. After the projectile is launched from the barrel, it can keep the ballistic stability within a straight distance of 100 meters, which is the most powerful guarantee for precise aiming shooting within 100 meters.

In the countries of the Farrea continent, no matter how to imitate the Obas three-type arquebus, their precision aiming shooting distance is within seventy to eighty meters. The arquebus equipped with the standing army of the Hicks Kingdom, the precise aiming distance is seventy meters. This means that the difference between the two is 30 meters. When the soldiers in the Hicks Kingdom can accurately aim at the troops in the territory of the territory, they need to endure the exact aim of the soldiers of the Kingdom of Ovilas and shoot nearly 30 meters. The distance can be countered by the enemy...

Before the colonial war broke out, the Kingdom of Ovilas did not pay much attention to the state of armaments of the seven overseas direct-administered armed forces. Because the Obassh type 1 and type 2 arquebuses equipped by the local garrison are enough to suppress the riots of the Nikkan people and to collect taxes from the Nikkan people. Until the Rangers group came to the mainland of Nubbia in response to the invasion of the Hicks Kingdom against overseas direct jurisdiction.

The Ranger's regiment is full of 32,000 people. All of them are equipped with the Obas three-type arquebus, and there are spare 3,000 muskets. Later, the Rangers Division was expanded into a legion, and two overseas field corps were reorganized as the younger generation. The kingdom also transported 100,000 Obash three-type arquebuses. In order to make up for the loss and destruction of the firearms on the battlefield, a musket repair workshop and ammunition production workshop were built in the territory directly under the jurisdiction.

Waiting for the victory of the second colonial war, Marshal Michelle was ordered to return to the kingdom. In order to appease him, he also expressed his support for the strategic concept proposed by Marshal Michelle in response to this colonial war. The kingdom once again transported 100,000 Obash three-type arquebuses to form five enhanced second-line divisions and strengthen the fighting power of the local garrison.

The third colonial war under the leadership of Claude annihilated the three main legions of the Hicks Kingdom, but the war was fierce and cruel, with nearly 20,000 casualties and thousands of damaged muskets. However, General Algers led the Guards Division to fight for merits. Although the assassination occurred, the colonial county of Vibato Port was occupied by General Bologna and became the eighth overseas direct jurisdiction of the theater.

When the Guards Division, which was successful, returned to the Kingdom, they left their spare guns and ammunition and other military materials to the theater. They brought rich spoils and local specialties from overseas jurisdictions. According to the statistics of General Scree, the territory directly under the jurisdiction has a total of about 240,000 firearms of the Obas three-type system. This was attributed to the fact that when the Rangers returned to the Kingdom, the command of Marshal Michelle was to leave all the weapons and equipment, empty-handed, so the territory of the territory can only have one more weapons and equipment...

The Thunder Legion and the Stone Corps have 130,000 horses, plus 18 local garrisons, with a total of 220,000 troops. Therefore, there are still about 20,000 spare Aubash three-type arquebuses in the reserve of the theater logistics department. Of course, half of them are second-hand muskets that have been repaired by firearms repair workshops. These second-hand muskets that General Scree wanted to sell to the Nikkan people.

If there is no Claude's Sony 599 new rifle, the theater will not play the idea of ​​the Obas three-type arquebus anyway. But now with the new rifle for comparison, General Bologna and General Scree have not seen this seemingly backward and primitive rifle. General Scree meant to sell the Obas three-type arquebus at a high price to subsidize the high cost of the new rifle in the theater.

The captured guns of the Hicks Kingdom were sold to the hardware krona by the war zone, and the light-weight field artillery produced by the Hicks Kingdom was sold to the Nikkan people at a high price of 150 krona. The theater also needs to provide the Instructor Church to those who are firing the artillery. Only now, the Nikkan people have taken a fancy to the Obash three-type arquebus equipped with the troops of the theater, saying that General Claude agreed to sell them. General Scrim was ready to sell the repaired used guns to them and reported a price of twenty gold krona.

Claude felt that he was a little dizzy and had to slow down first. It’s not that the war is coming, how are you busy doing business? The secret agents sent out were busy doing business with the Hicks, and even General Scree only looked at the Zani Kamcha. Fortunately, there is now a firearms manufacturing workshop in the theater, which can create a new type of rifle to replace the Obas three-type arquebus. Otherwise, after a big battle, there will be no spare firearms in the warehouse, then it will be finished...

Therefore, Claude was also unambiguous. He directly wrote the approval of the consent, and the aide of Anders sent a letter to General Scriley. The only emphasis was on the price of twenty gold krona, and the Nikkan people were not allowed to bargain. The new rifle is only 10 gold krona. It is a good business to sell two new rifles to the Nekkasian three-type arquebus.

As for another eagle sent by General Bologna to Claude, Claude snorted and prepared to ignore it. The letter said that General Bologna was preparing to order 10,000 revolvers from Claude in the name of the theater, send them to all officers of the army, and set up several commando equipped with revolvers to strengthen the night attack. ability.

This idea is good, Claude has such a plan, but the price offered by General Bologna is a little bit sloppy. He is only willing to pay the price of a metal krona revolver, and hopes that Claude can understand the financial constraints of the theater. Difficulties... Claude said that I understand you who cares about me. The last time I ordered a thousand revolvers in the war zone, the market price is twelve gold krona. I have already given you a discount of ten gold. Krone, also spared you thirty bullets.

Because there are too few, there is no need to build any production lines. My sisters Anna and Mrs. Sonia spent seven or eight days, and they made all the spare parts directly in the alchemy magical array. They completed the order and earned two or three thousand gold krona.

Now the theater has to order 10,000 revolvers, only the price of the hardware krona, but also Claude understand the financial tension of the theater. This is a joke, and the 50,000 gold krona may not be enough for the mechanized production line for assembling revolvers. Needless to say, the wealth that was squeezed out of the Nikkan people in the war zone was as high as two hundred thousand gold and silver ingots, and the Thunder Army helped the Nikkan people to capture the inland colonies of the Hicks Kingdom. The property seized is estimated to have millions of gold krona...

Not to mention the cost of replacing the new rifle plus training for the troops belonging to the theater, that is, the rewards and pensions after the war, and the cost of recruiting 100,000 new recruits to form two reserve corps are more than enough. It can be said that after two months, Berklin and Murray Ed came back with the seizure, and the theater was rich and oily...

A revolver only bid for the hardware krona, and Claude decided to ignore the fact that he did not see General Bologna, the eagle. Besides, the Blackstone Gunsmithing Workshop has just reached the standard of full-load production. (This is what I have dealt with this time.) All the energy is invested in the production of new rifles. Where can I assemble a production revolver? The mechanized production line does not even have time to train skilled workers.

In addition, Claude's definition of a revolver is a self-defense and guard-type self-defense weapon. It is its biggest shortcoming that the short-range range has no lethality. With the new rifle, the revolver can play a very limited role on the battlefield.

Besides, when Mrs. Anna and Mrs. Sonia have time, they are still busy developing the ideas and concepts of several new weapons provided by Claude. If they are successful, they will be much more powerful on the battlefield than revolvers. So there is no need to discuss the issue of producing revolvers at this emergency. Claude has never liked bargaining...

After reading these eagle letters, Claude said to General Albert, "It seems that the arrangement of our time ago did not make the Hicks nervous. I don’t know if they are absolutely confident or they have issued a death order. They are allowed to act rashly. It seems that only two or three months later, after the follow-up of two standing regiments, Hicks will attack the Nikkan people...."

In fact, Claude did not have the idea of ​​the three Hicks standing army that had just arrived in the colony of Rhodes Bay, but the Thunder Corps had just replaced the veterans and took the new recruits to complete this one with an enemy and three weak. With a strong attack, Claude is not sure.

Therefore, he instructed the newspapers under the jurisdiction of the theater to vigorously declare military assistance to the Nikkan people in the war zone, including the sale of the captured gunfire from the Hicks Kingdom to the Nikkan people, and the instructors to guide the Nikkan people. Training and conducting operations.

The only thing that is not mentioned is that the troops in the theater have entered the northern and eastern mountainous areas of the Nikkan State, but that the theater has been deployed under the border with the Nikkan people and has the confidence to defend the kingdom of overseas jurisdiction. Immigrants continue to live a stable and happy life.

Claude believes that the secret agents of the Hicks Kingdom will pass the newspapers and news of the overseas direct administration to the commanders of the three standing legions. If anyone can't stand the temptation, they want to be armed with the Kamisans. In the case of a raid on the Nikkan people, then Claude can be happy to catch the net fishing.

He even planned to encircle the enemy to help the three Hicks standing army in the mountains. I wanted to see the expression of the Hicks at that time. After the follow-up of the two regiments, they found themselves alone. They could only build their own homes in the colony of the Rhodes Bay, which would make the Hicks Kingdom A big joke in all countries of the Faurea continent.

It is a pity that the three Hicks standing army regiments were not fooled, and even the dispatched team scouts entered the border mountains to carry out reconnaissance operations. The military camp in the colony of Rodex Bay was also placed in a tight position, which made it impossible for people to find a chance, which made Claude very disappointed...