Born In England

third day.

Li Lin saw Prince Alexander again.

However, the old Shah did not show up today. Apart from the prince, he was accompanied by several ministers from the procurement department.

Li Lin, after negotiation, we have decided to purchase a batch of your M2 heavy machine guns. What is the price of one of your machine guns? Prince Alexander asked.

He and these ministers will be responsible for the procurement this time!

Li Lin was overjoyed when he heard the other party's words.

I believe you and all the ministers have seen the performance of our M2 heavy machine gun. We have invested a lot of research and development funds in this weapon, and it is definitely one of the most advanced weapons at present, so our unit price is 1,000 pounds! For ammunition, a thousand rounds of bullets cost 150 pounds! Li Lin said.

This price was decided by him beforehand.

The price of a mark secret heavy machine gun is about 1200 silver dollars (between 1911 and 1937).

You must know that there are already many machine guns that are more advanced than the Mark Bi heavy machine gun during this period of time. The price of the Mark Bi heavy machine gun can be sold at such a high price during this period of time, and the price of other machine guns will only be more expensive.

Not to mention that it is now 1892, and the development of machine guns is definitely at the first generation stage. Rare things are more expensive, and the price must be more expensive.

Because in the future, with the improvement of the industrial level, the output will increase, and with the continuous innovation of firearms, there will be more and more new weapons, which will impact the price and status of the old generation of machine guns.

In the previous life, Goose Country saw that the equipment of Maxim machine guns was expanding day by day, and Goose Country was eager to realize localized production in order to reduce procurement costs. In 1901, it was the manager of Vickers who started negotiations with Goose Country. He set out the terms of cooperation - Goose Country must pay Vickers a patent fee of 80 pounds for every machine gun produced within 10 years.

That is to say, seven or eight years later, even if you spend a lot of money to purchase a Maxim machine gun production line and take it home for production, you will have to pay 80 pounds of patent fees to other companies for every machine gun you produce!

It can be seen from this that the machine guns of this era are not generally expensive!

What? One thousand pounds each? That's too expensive! Prince Alexandre and several ministers all made voices of astonishment.

The price is indeed a bit expensive, but it's worth the money, isn't it? Li Lin smiled.

A thousand pounds is still too expensive, how about 500 pounds? A minister named Yakov said in a deep voice.

Five hundred? No, no, five hundred is too cheap. We are going to lose money. Li Lin shook his head immediately.

The two sides soon started wrangling over the price!

It's been half a day.

Both sides are arguing dry mouthed.

In this way, we will give you a price of 900 pounds a piece, but you need to purchase 10,000 pieces! How about it? Li Lin finally made a little concession.

Prince Alexander and several ministers looked at it, and then said: Let's discuss it privately, just wait a moment!

good.

Ten minutes later.

Okay, then £900 each! Prince Alexander finally agreed to the price.

10,000 sticks, 900 pounds per stick, that's 9 million pounds!

How many bullets do you plan to purchase? Li Lin asked again.

Bullets, we plan to purchase 30 million rounds of bullets first! Prince Alexander thought for a while and said, this machine shoots out five or six hundred bullets a minute, and the bullets must be enough.

Thirty million rounds of ammunition sounds like a lot, but when divided, a machine gun is only 3,000 rounds of ammunition.

Prince Alexander intends to purchase bullets later when he needs them again.

There is no war at present, and there is no need for so many bullets in it.

Okay! Let's sign the contract then.

Li Lin said in a good mood.

Thirty million rounds of ammunition, that is an order of 4.5 million pounds!

It can be said that the bullet orders are worth half of the machine gun orders.

In fact, the weapon is like this!

It's like buying an engine and sending a car in later generations.

Now buy bullets and get a machine gun!

If it is a time of war, how many bullets are consumed a day for a few days?

Three thousand rounds of ammunition are not enough for him to shoot in a few minutes!

So, now that Li Lin sells the machine gun to the other party, the machine gun does not make much money, and if he wants to earn the other party's money in the future, it will be bullet money!

After half an hour.

This total order of 13.5 million pounds has arrived!

Next, his arms company will start production with full firepower.

Then you have to pay half of the deposit, and when all the weapons are given to you, how about paying the balance to us? Li Lin said.

good.

With the money, Li Lin plans to start producing bullets at full capacity from this year and keep the rest in stock.

When there is a war, you can offer it at any time!

Otherwise, the production line with a monthly output of 1 million rounds will really not be able to supply it.

How long will it take for you to deliver all of them? Prince Alexander asked.

For machine guns, we can produce them for you in two months. For bullets, it may take two years! But we will increase the production of bullets in the future, and strive to deliver them to you sooner. Li Lin said.

That's good.

By the way, my dear Prince Alexander, the machine gun is powerful, but its biggest threat is the artillery. Once the position of the machine gun is exposed, it will be named and blasted by the artillery. So the artillery is absolutely the most important thing on the battlefield. Important role. Our company also produces a batch of new types of artillery, I wonder if you are interested? Li Lin intends to take this opportunity to sell his mortars!

That's right, it is to promote the M2-60mm mortar!

Artillery? No, no, no, we don't need artillery for the time being, and our own artillery is also very good. Minister Yakov immediately waved his hand, buying more than a thousand pounds of weapons at once is almost enough!

Besides, their own artillery is not bad!

If they hadn't seen a brand new machine gun this time, they wouldn't have had the idea of ​​purchasing it.

Minister Yakov, don't rush to refuse, how about listening to my introduction? Li Lin smiled.

Well, tell me. Prince Alexander said.

He would like to see if the opponent's artillery can surprise him this time.

My artillery is called the M2-60mm mortar! It is a brand new artillery. Its advantages are similar to those of a machine gun. It can be operated by two people, and it can be carried by two people. It is powerful! It has The trajectory is curved, the shooting dead angle is small, the speed is fast, the volume is small, the weight is light, the power is high, the structure is simple, easy to operate, and easy to maneuver... Li Lin began to introduce with his fingers.

Especially against machine guns, it is absolutely accurate! It is definitely a machine gun killer. If your enemy's machine gun position in the future, after having it, it will definitely be the enemy's nightmare! Li Lin said with a smile.