However, Wen Zuoxin also knew that the 52-year-old pistol now equipped by the troops was indeed a good pistol, not to mention that it was easy to load, and in the hands of soldiers with good marksmanship, six shots in a row might be able to hit several enemies, and in close combat, it could indeed play a certain role.

But just because of this, if you want to apply for a mass distribution of rifled pistols, don't count on it.

This thing is not cheap, even the price of bulk procurement by the troops requires eighteen Hengyuan each, which is more expensive than the Luoan Type 3 rifle!

And the army is cost-effective, and it is impossible to equip ordinary soldiers with such pistols, which are more expensive than rifles.

After several years of large-scale production, the price of the Luo'an III rifle has been lowered to about 16 Hengyuan, and the military has always been too expensive.

As for the Roan IV rifle, which has not yet been mass-produced and is undergoing final testing work, the initial cost of this new 11-millimeter caliber rifle is a bit higher, and it is expected to reach 25 constant yuan, but the military is looking forward to the price should be reduced after mass production.

It is worth noting that the above prices are all cost prices!

Because all the arsenals that produce ordnance, as well as the upstream machinery, iron and steel, and even procurement enterprises, are all controlled by official capital.

In order to expand the army to sustain the war and reduce costs, the official assets committee has reduced the costs that can be compressed in every link, and adopted a production model similar to that of a planned economy.

After continuing to reduce the cost, the effect is remarkable, and the price of the Luo'an III rifle has been reduced from more than 20 Hengyuan to 14 Hengyuan.

Of course, this is not the price of the Luo'an III rifle sold to the outside world, and in the order signed with the Orr Kingdom in June this year, the price of each Luo'an III rifle reached 36 Hengyuan.

It's basically selling at double the price!

And just like that, the Orr Kingdom is also very happy, because this price is much cheaper than the first order they signed, and at that time, Lin Ziran was even more black-hearted, and he dared to sell the Luo'an Type 3 rifle for sixty-five Hengyuan!

Of course, this is also because the cost of the Luo'an III rifle has not been reduced at that time, and after the reduction, in order to show his sincerity to attract more orders, Lin Zi then continued to negotiate business with the people of the Orr Kingdom, and also gave them a large number of 18mm Fuyuan rifles for free.

But even if it's expensive, they don't actually have a choice in the Orr Kingdom.

At present, they can only purchase advanced breech-loading rifled rifles in large quantities here in the Daheng Empire, as for other big countries, they have just begun to research and produce, and the early production is not enough to meet their own needs, and they will be exported there.

Even if there are some exits, it will not be their turn to be the Orr Kingdom.

Not to mention, many big countries are hostile to the Orr Kingdom, and even if they have rich production capacity, it is impossible to sell them to the Orr Kingdom.

For example, the Orissa Empire, the Krull Kingdom, the Gafia Empire, etc., are all eyeing the Orr Kingdom, thinking of invading the Orr Kingdom to seize the gold mines.

If you want to purchase advanced breech-loading rifled weapons from other powers, I am afraid it will be several years later.

And if there is really a window period of so many years, it is questionable whether the Orr Kingdom will exist at that time, and the Olisa Empire in the north of the people will see that your Orr Kingdom is still using smoothbore guns, maybe they will organize an expeditionary fleet as soon as their brains are hot, and kill them with breech-loading rifles and breech-loading artillery, and then the Orr Kingdom will be finished.

The Orr Kingdom is trying its best to avoid this kind of strategic window period, so it does not hesitate to purchase breeching weapons from Lin Ziran at a high price.

And the supply of weapons and ammunition to the Orr Kingdom is not a big problem for the current Lin Dynasty, because the total production capacity of the major arsenals under the control of the current Lin Dynasty is probably the first in the world!

This is not to say that the defense industry of the Daheng Empire is already the first in the world, there are many countries whose national defense industry strength is stronger than that of Daheng, but others do not fight every day, but it is not that they can play the limit to expand production if they have nothing to do.

This equipment is a continuous behavior, and the annual output of rear-loading rifled rifles is very good, and it is a waste if the output is large.

However, if during the war, those large countries began to explode their production capacity, it is possible to produce hundreds of thousands of breech-loading rifled rifles annually, and it is possible for a few powerful countries to even have a production capacity of more than one million.

And why is the production capacity so high on the Lin Dynasty's side?

On the one hand, the Lin Dynasty was in the period of the Unification War, and all the subordinate arsenals were in full production.

At the same time, in the decades of civil strife in Daheng, the major feudal towns developed industries that were purely the development of the national defense industry, and each major feudal town would have one or two arsenals under its hands, but the scale was only large, whether the technology was advanced or not, and many of them were now under the control of the Lin Dynasty.

Now there are dozens of arsenals under the control of the Lin Dynasty of the Daheng Empire, and there are as many as three or four large-scale production of rifles, and this is not counting the Zisheng Prefecture No. 1 Machinery Bureau and the Dongdingzhou No. 2 Arsenal and Deqing Arsenal that are debugging equipment.

At the same time, the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau will be rebuilt in the future.

Not to mention technology, in terms of scale alone, the scale of the arsenal under the control of the Lin Dynasty is definitely the first in the world, well, of course, it is only limited to the arsenal that produces army weapons and equipment.

At present, only the major arsenals under the control of the Lin Dynasty combined, the production capacity of the Luo'an III rifle has reached about 25,000 per month.

Two months later, the three main arsenals of Zishengzhou No. 1 Machinery Bureau, Dongdingzhou No. 2 Arsenal and Deqing Arsenal will be rebuilt and begin mass production of Luo'an Type 4 rifles.

It is expected that three large arsenals will be formed by then, and two medium-sized arsenals will produce the Roan IV rifle together.

Because the technical difficulty of this rifle is higher, the production capacity will be relatively lower than that of the Luoan III rifle, but at this time next year, if the five arsenals together maintain high-intensity production during the war, I am afraid that they will be able to achieve a monthly output of 40,000 rifles, and the annual output is afraid to be nearly 500,000 rifles.

Of course, if the war of unification is over, the production capacity will definitely be reduced rapidly.

But even in the follow-up peacetime, the production capacity of this arsenal has been actively reduced, but it is estimated that the production capacity will still be a very large number at that time, enough to gradually reequip and even export all front-line troops.

And only the Lin Dynasty, which has such a huge weapon production capacity, can provide a large number of rear-loading rifled weapons to the Orr Kingdom and other small and medium-sized countries that are in urgent need of new rear-loading rifled weapons and equipment in a timely manner.

However, the Lin Dynasty only has an advantage in the production capacity of army equipment, and it is a bit miserable in naval equipment.

The shipyards and naval gun factories under the control of the Lin Dynasty of the Daheng Empire are estimated to be in the top ten in the world, after all, there are only two docks that can produce 10,000-ton ironclad ships in the entire empire now, and the Krull Kingdom is just a 'Kingdom Navy Arsenal', which has 30,000-ton docks, and can start building three 10,000-ton ironclad ships at the same time if necessary.

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