Chapter 383

Not long after the end of the war, the gunfire in France, which is located in the center of the European continent, shocked the whole world again. On July 14, 1789, the burning Bastille awakened all French nobles including the owners of Versailles and the whole Europe!

During the French Revolution, people all over the world knew another model of brown Beth, the Indian Brown Beth.

Unlike French rifles, which are constantly improved to make rifles more exquisite, British Brown Beth is constantly improving not to make guns more exquisite, but to make the cost of guns lower.

So, as early as the middle of the 18th century, the cheaper Indian Brown Beth rifle appeared in the East India colonial company. It was only until the Napoleonic War that the Indian Brown Beth came to the world stage - because this rifle was powerful and cheaper.

Around 1790, with the Napoleonic War going on, the British ordnance Bureau found out in despair that the French on the other side had mobilized nearly a million high morale revolutionary troops, but their ammunition stock was very small

Therefore, while stepping up the reorganization of the troops, the British authorities noticed that the economic Brown Beth, which was already used by the colonial army of East India Company, was shorter and cheaper than that of the British Army today.

Time is running out. Both the king's soldiers and the Empire's allies are in urgent need of weapons! Although the ordnance bureau is not very optimistic about this model, beggars can't be choosy. On the one hand, the authorities convinced the East India Company to contribute the remaining inventory, on the other hand, they formally approved the project to put this cheap musket into production in 1795, which is the origin of the Indian Brown Beth.

By 1797, British military muskets almost gave way to Indian Brown bass. There is also a saying that this type of musket was contracted and produced by the East India Company at that time. In fact, most of the existing Indian Brown bass are still made by the local Arsenal directly under the tower of London, not the East India Company

But in any case, the Indian Brown Beth so dignified to the world stage.

Stone bear has learned that the cost of Indian Brown Beth is really cheaper. Just like now, in 1766, the cost of a short Indian Brown Beth is only two pounds and four shillings, and the purchase price is not much higher than the cost. Meanwhile, the cost of the p1756 long musket made in the UK at the same time is as high as three pounds and two shillings. As for the purchase price of the ordnance Bureau, it is as high as six pounds and five shillings!

In other words, the price of a p1756 long musket purchased by the British ordnance bureau is enough to buy three Indian Brown Bess

Doesn't the British ordnance bureau know? They'll be damned if they don't know.

But why don't they buy Indian Brown Bess? It's very simple. The interests involved are too big to be controlled by the ordnance Bureau.

You should know that the purchase price of Indian Brown Beth during the Napoleonic War was not lower than that before the independent war, but increased a lot - during the Napoleonic War, the average purchase price of a handful of Indian Brown Beth was as high as two pounds and six shillings

Why is that? It's very simple. In the 11 years from 1804 to 1815 alone, India's Brown Beth produced 1.6 million pieces! From 1722 to 1854, the brown Beth family, including the early firing models, produced a total of 7.8 million pieces, of which the Indian model produced about 2.8 million pieces!

What are the benefits? I'm afraid even the king of England at that time did not dare to count

This is also the fundamental reason why in the original historical time and space, Ferguson's rifle name was excellent, but only a thousand were produced in the end.

How can those vested interests who are used to sucking blood on brown Beth allow a new rifle to break their interests?

Therefore, the original history of time and space in the second lieutenant Ferguson clearly invented the world's art