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Chapter 378 Arms Trading

After signing the Ming Dynasty's Japanese financial treaty, Zhao Peng ordered the Jinyiwei to carry a box from outside.

"Open the box and let General Tokugawa and others see our new weapons." Zhao Peng ordered Chen Xinyuan.

Chen Xinyuan and a Jinyiwei opened the box, Zhao Peng took out a musket from the box and handed it over: "This is our latest fist gun. There is a rotating bullet cabin with six guns inside. Only those who use paper shells to load bullets can fire six consecutive rounds."

The box was filled with revolvers. These revolvers were the same as those used by Zhao Peng and others. They were indeed the latest weapons of the Ming army and the standard equipment of the Ming army's light cavalry.

"Go and go to the shooting range outside." Zhao Peng said. After that, he picked up his two guns and walked out the door.

Tokugawa Izunobu, Tokugawa Mitsuto and Tokugawa Chiyohime followed Zhao Peng and walked onto the shooting range.

Zhao Peng stood forty steps away from the target, aimed at the target in front, held a gun in both hands, and fired his bow left and right.

"Bang bang bang" The revolver spewed out flames, and small holes appeared on the target forty steps away. Zhao Peng finished shooting twelve bullets in the two guns in one breath, and then a black mother-clothed crowd rushed towards the target and reported the number of rings: "Twelve rounds are 99 rings, including three ten rings, three nine rings, two eight rings, two seven rings, and two six rings."

"Wow, it's so awesome!" Chiyohime Tokugawa, who was standing beside Zhao Peng, smiled and clapped her hands excitedly.

"So amazing!" Tokugawa Mitsuto let out a "tsk tsk tsk" praise.

Zhao Peng introduced the method of using this gun to Tokugawa Mitsuoto, Tokugawa Ietsuto and Tokugawa Chiyohime again: "You can load six rounds at a time. Have you seen the hole in the front of the magazine? The bullet is loaded inside. After the shooting, use a piece of gunpowder residue and residual shredded paper in the magazine, and then take out the paper shell bullet and stuff it into the hole in the front of the magazine. Because one of them is blocked by the barrel, it is filled with five rounds. Turn the magazine with your hand and then load one round in, a total of six rounds."

Then, Zhao Peng started to demonstrate loading bullets for Tokugawa and others. He first pulled the hammer backward: "You all think about it. This is a hammer. If the hammer is turned backward, it will close the safety. When the trigger is pulled, the bullet will not be fired."

After saying that, he cleaned the bullet bay first and loaded six bullets in one by one. After loading the bullets, Zhao Peng handed the revolver to Tokugawa Yasuzuna: "Come on, try the fist gun. Before firing, put the hammer on and turn on the security."

Tokugawa Izunobu put the hammer on as Zhao Peng said, and then held the gun with one hand. But he was young after all, and felt that it was very heavy to hold the gun with one hand, so he held the handle of the gun with his right hand and placed his left hand on the barrel, and prepared to shoot.

"Slow down!" Zhao Peng stopped getting the family guide, "Your left hand cannot be placed in this position. You may leak when the fist gun is fired. Put your fingers here. Once the air leaks, you may cut off your fingers. You should hold your right hand with your left hand. Yes, that's it, so you can fire."

Tokugawa Ietsugu held the gun in both hands, aimed it at the target, and pulled the trigger repeatedly. Although he was very inaccurate, he only shot five rings in the first shot, the second shot off the target, the third shot off the second, the fourth shot off the target, the fifth and sixth shots shot three rings, but he was very satisfied with the high firing rate of the fist gun.

Tokugawa Mitsuto and Tokugawa Chiyohime also tested the gun according to the Zhao Peng sect, and soon they learned how to use this gun. Tokugawa Mitsuto is very skilled in martial arts and is originally very accurate in archery. He was the first time he used to shooting with a revolver. Although he was not very used to it, he still scored the 87th ring.

"It's so magical. The accuracy and range of the short gun can be like an iron cannon (the name of Japan for a coercion gun). It's so magical!" Tokugawa Mitsuto sighed.

Zhao Peng smiled and said, "Look, the uneven inside the gun barrel is the rifle. Because there is rifle, the bullet rotates when it is fired, which increases the stability of the bullet, so the range and accuracy are high. Such a short gun barrel is equivalent to a long-barrel musket, and it can be fired continuously and reloaded much easier."

"How to sell this kind of fist gun?" Tokugawa Mitsuto asked impatiently.

Zhao Peng smiled and said, "One hundred yuan per piece."

One hundred yuan is one hundred taels of silver. When I heard the offer of one hundred yuan, Tokugawa Mitsuto was a little disappointed: "Is it too expensive? A national collapse cannon, and we only cost two hundred silver."

Zhao Peng smiled on his face: "Although the fist gun is small, the structure is very sophisticated and complex. Do you know whether Western pocket watches are? How much silver does a pair of pocket watches cost? It costs hundreds of silver! The structure of this fist gun is not simpler than a pocket watch. We only sold you one hundred yuan for tomorrow's friendly face. This is our latest national weapon."

The reason why they are willing to sell these new weapons to Japan is that the Ming Academy of Sciences is currently developing metal shell bullets. Once the metal shell bullets are released, these paper shell revolvers will become outdated, so Zhao Peng is willing to sell the "new weapons" that will be eliminated soon to the Japanese.

As for the weapons provided to the Qing Dynasty light cavalry, they were a group of self-generated tiger-winged short guns that were eliminated before. Those self-generated tiger-winged short guns have lengthened the barrel and become a weapon suitable for cavalry use.

The cost of revolver is actually not very high, because the barrel is short, and the most expensive part of the gun is the barrel. If the barrel is short, the price of the gun will be cheaper. Just like during World War II in time and space, the price of the submachine guns that were fired continuously were cheaper than bolt-action rifles. This is the principle. The barrel of a revolver is shorter and the cost is lower.

However, once the revolver that could fire bullets continuously was taken out, it shocked the Japanese. So when Zhao Peng opened his mouth, it was a high price of 100 yuan per piece. In fact, the cost of this revolver is only ten yuan silver dollars.

Zhao Peng, a profit of ten times the profit at one's own operation, so the arms business is easy to make. Selling arms is like starting a printing machine, and money comes in a steady stream.

"Although the price of boxing guns is expensive, each of our Black Mother Clothes has a boxing gun, so the opponent will definitely not be able to beat us." Tokugawa Ietsunobu said.

But Tokugawa Mitsutoto still saw the name: "This thing is only suitable for cavalry. The war horses of our Japanese cavalry are too short to form a powerful cavalry at all."

The black mother-clothed crowds of the Tokugawa family rode on horses, which gave Zhao Peng the feeling that they were as funny as monkeys riding a donkey. The real dwarfs rode pony.

Then, Zhao Peng promoted another new weapon to the Japanese: He asked someone to open the box and take out a musket from it. The musket was a musket. Zhao Peng said: "This is a lightning gun, a combination of the Franchise and the Lumi gun, but we also carved the rifle line in the gun barrel to improve the range and accuracy."

The electric gun originally invented by Zhao Shizhen was not far away because of the serious air leakage. Although it has the barrel length of the Lumi gun, its accuracy is not as accurate as that of the bird gun. However, after Zhao Peng improved it, the air leakage problem was reduced and the rifle was increased, which greatly improved the range and accuracy of the electric gun.
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