บท 94: Chapter 95: Distributed Pipeline
Browning did not answer at first, but turned around and asked: "Are you really so sure that the United States and Mexico will go to war soon?"
"Of course, as long as the United States completes the annexation of Texas, a war will inevitably break out between the United States and Mexico in half a year at most," Ma Shao said. "In fact, if you just read more newspapers, you can smell the gunpowder in the West."
"I read newspapers too, but I only read about guns and erotic news," Browning said.
Ma Shao: "As a gunsmith, you should at least pay attention to the news of the war."
"What did the newspaper say?"
"It is destiny." Ma Shao's height has stopped growing, but his nervous system is obviously still developing, and his increasingly sharp mind has given him an excellent memory.
In fact, he memorized almost every word of these key news stories: "In August, in the Democratic Review, John O'Sullivan, a New York City reporter, published an article titled "Annexation," in which he said: "It is our manifest destiny to take the continent God has given us to accommodate the free development of the multiplying peoples every year... What a tongue-twisting sentence."
"Then not long ago, on October 13, the Republic of Texas held a referendum and voted overwhelmingly to approve the merger proposed by the United States."
"By the end of this year at the latest, Texas will legally become part of the United States, and then there will be a transfer of power, and then the war will break out."
Browning thought for a moment: "For what reason?"
"Of course it's a territorial dispute," Ma Shao said. "After the United States annexed Texas, it will naturally inherit the territorial dispute between Texas and Mexico.
Browning nodded. "That sounds reasonable. So Sleeping Bear can take this opportunity to make a fortune by selling arms?"
Ma Shao: "That's right, provided that we complete the construction of the 'distributed pipeline'."
Browning laughed, his belly throbbing. "I'm glad you came up with that name. It sounds like something as high-tech as the telegraph."
"..."Ma Shao didn't say anything.
The so-called distributed assembly line is actually a reference to the military product production model of an unnamed East Asian island country in later generations - small workshops are responsible for the production of simple parts and prefabricated parts, and large companies are responsible for assembly.
During World War II, it was precisely because of this unique production model, coupled with the fact that most of Tokyo's buildings were made of wood, that the US Air Force had to change its tactics from precision bombing to large-scale incendiary bomb raids.
Curtis LeMay also became famous overnight and became a world-renowned barbecue master.
Now Ma Shao has decided to refer to this model and design a "distributed assembly line" for Mianxiong City to produce firearms in order to make a fortune from the war next year.
After all, it is impossible for Mianxiong City to build a large-scale military factory in a short period of time. Only this kind of production model of breaking the whole into parts can support the output.
Over the past few months, Ma Shao and Browning have repeatedly studied the structure of the Browning pistol and eventually disassembled it into a series of parts and prefabricated components.
Most of these parts can be made using relatively simple tools after a short training.
The prefabricated parts will be sent to Browning and his apprentices for further processing and assembly to become the final product - the Browning pistol, or more specifically, the Browning 1845.
In addition to the revolver, under the guidance of Ma Shao, Browning also designed a new rifle.
It can be seen as a combination of the Kentucky rifle and the Plains rifle, and it also has some French ancestry. Of course, the French ancestry here certainly does not refer to some special military salute or something like that.
However, the design of this rifle is not perfect yet, mainly because the production process is somewhat complicated, and Ma Shao is convinced that this thing can change the human war mode, so it has not been put into mass production yet. In fact, only a few samples have been produced.
"Open your chest!" Ma Shao shouted.
"I'm coming." An Apache boy with short hair ran over. "Captain, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Zhan Qiang was a gunsmith apprentice with outstanding talent, especially good at rifling. Because he didn't have a name yet, Ma Shao, after learning about his talent, had an idea and directly gave him this name - Expanded Rifling, or Zhan Qiang for short.
It was nothing at first, but ever since he was given this name, the more Ma Shao looked at him, the more he looked like Bai Zhantang from "Wulin Wai Zhuan".
"Have you completed the work I assigned to you before?" Ma Shao asked.
Zhan Xiong: "It's done. We selected a hundred people in the city. They all passed the written test and have some manual experience. We also explained the knowledge of the corresponding parts to them."
Ma Shao nodded: "Give them the tools and materials."
"Understood." Zhan Tang immediately called over a dozen people and distributed the various tools and materials purchased to the selected distributed assembly line workers.
In addition, they also gave the standard structure and size data of various parts to the employees so that they could produce accordingly.
"This is the standard for pre-made barrels..."
"This is the standard for wooden stocks..."
"…This is the size standard for foldable ram rods." Zhan Heng handed a piece of paper with the size standard for ram rods to a bald uncle.
The bald uncle looked at the instructions on the paper and asked, "I just need to make the pressure rod according to this size and sell it to you?"
Zhan Lei nodded: "Yes, but it must meet the standard size. If it fails to pass the inspection, the Apache Arsenal will not pay for it."
The bald uncle asked again: "Do I need to pay for these tools and materials?"
Zhan Xiong: "As long as you can meet the minimum production quota and the tools are not damaged, you don't have to pay."
After a pause, he continued, "The minimum production target is also written here. If you are worried about not being able to complete it, you can give up now. I will hand over the things and production tasks to others."
"No need. Can't I complete this task? Leave it to me, don't worry!" The uncle said with a wave of his hand.
The distributed assembly line started operating quickly, and after a short running-in period, this production model demonstrated considerable production efficiency.
At least in this era, there are probably not many factories that are more efficient.
The Browning 1845 pistol that was produced was naturally first used to equip the army of Sleeping Bear City. Before long, this new pistol was fully popularized among the 300 soldiers, and each person had two.
The old-fashioned revolvers were given to the new recruits - Mianxiong City recruited another hundred new recruits.
Although the number of professional soldiers increased by one hundred, the ratio of military to civilians did not increase much, because in the past few months, several clans had joined Mianxiong City, bringing the population of Mianxiong City to 3,300.
3,300 people, not counting the prisoners who are undergoing labor reform.
What surprised Ma Shao was that among the clans that came to seek refuge in Mianxiong City, there was actually a Bonnie clan.
Mianxiong City: sleeping bear city
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