Although this steel wheel spring is cheaper than the local ones, it is easy to use. However, it is also for each of them above 10 gold coins. If you pay attention to moisture protection and apply more oil, it can still be stored for a long time.

But the problem is that in this era, there is no awareness of weapon maintenance. Everyone doesn’t pay attention to “maintenance” themselves. They are all dirty, so how can they care about weapons?

Of course, traditional aristocrats will still pay attention to it. For example, many people's plate armor is a family heirloom. As for babies, they are naturally often oiled and waxing for maintenance. However, the two maintenance methods are more accustomed to waxing. Why? Oiling is easy to be rancid, and it is more likely to corrode the metal after rancidity. When waxing, it can be maintained for a long time.

If it is broken, it will be broken here. If it is swords and armor, it is impossible to wax it. However, steel wheels and clockwork are curled in multiple layers. Whether it is oiling or waxing, it is inconvenient.

In addition, after oiling or waxing, it will affect the friction and is too silky and not good, making it easy to get out of fire. Therefore, if you wax the steel wheel clockwork, it is best to bake it with fire before use to remove the wax coating. However, the battlefield situation changes rapidly, will you give time to roast the fire and remove the wax?

So, this is very crappy. If you want to wax it, it is inconvenient to use it and it is easy to prevent the fire from catching it. However, oiling is even more crappy!

Because in this era, there was no mineral oil that was not perishable in Europe, and only olive oil or butter were used to maintain weapons. However, these two oils were eaten by humans. People could eat them, and bacteria could eat them, which was very prone to rot...

Only tung oil produced in China is toxic and drying oil that drys quickly, so it is more suitable for maintenance oil. After all, bacteria are also afraid of the toxicity of tung oil. However, there is no tung oil in Europe...

Therefore, the thing about clockwork is really a pitfall. It is not good to apply oil and it is not convenient to waxing. The only way is to try to wrap the clockwork with cloth or leather as much as possible. The prepared steel wheels are all tightly tied in your pocket.

But this is not safe, because the cloth cannot block the infiltration of moisture. As long as the weather is wet, the spring will be corroded through the cloth. And the leather cannot be protected without blind spots, and there will be water vapor infiltration. Even in the tight pocket, the spring will be rusted, but it is just a little slower than the outside.

Only the steel wheel springs of Beihaiguo are not afraid of moisture and can be used because they are chromium-nickel alloys. Although the steel wheel springs sent to various stores in France are ordinary springs that do not contain chromium-nickel components. However, when they are sent, they are wrapped in sealed oil paper bags that are heated at high temperatures from the air. As long as the sealed paper bag is not torn open, they can be stored for a long time.

Of course, when the store sells it to users, it is always opened with paper bags, which will not be cheaper for French people. Moreover, it will be placed in a carved wooden box in a very stylish way, which looks well preserved.

But the wooden box has gaps and is not moisture-proof. It is only better than being exposed to the air, and it still cannot stop consumption. Moreover, even if the secret of packaging of oil paper bags is discovered, you are not afraid. I don’t know how to isolate the air with high temperature heating and sterilization and moisture removal, and it is useless to paste it with oil paper bags. Because there is moisture in the bag, and it is not negotiated to corrode the steel wheel winding.

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Therefore, many European monarchs and princes love and hate clockwork. What they love is that clockwork is easy to carry, and when using it, you don’t need to carry a bundle of fuses, just like a refugee escaping. Moreover, you don’t worry about the fuse being extinguished by raindrops or strong winds. It’s simple to hate - it’s too much to consume and can’t afford to play!

An ordinary mesh gun is only about 15 shillings, which is 3 gold coins. For a clockwork fire, a clockwork costs more than 10 gold coins. Moreover, as long as it is unpacked and used, it will basically be replaced once a month. In a year, 12 clockworks will be consumed, which means more than 120 gold coins... For this money, you can buy a good war horse or a whole set of good plate armor!

If you are a noble child, you can still support this. After all, your family is big and your business can be supported. But for ordinary soldiers, you will definitely not be able to support it...

Moreover, most soldiers of this era were mercenaries, and their weapons were often brought by themselves. Only musketeers from Beihai Kingdom would release weapons. Will ordinary poor mercenaries be willing to buy clockwork that cost more than 100 gold coins a year to fire muskets? Obviously, they can't afford to buy or play...

An ordinary mesh gun is only 15 shillings (3 gold coins). Although the workmanship is rough, it is better because it is low in cost and can be used for a long time. Even if it is broken, buy another new one... Therefore, the cost can sometimes become an important reason for whether to be equipped.

Also, personal habits and concepts, as well as interests, will also become important factors. For example, the flintlock was invented as early as the late 16th century, and even the inventor Mahan was supported by King Henry IV of France in 1598 and planned to promote it.

But the French military leaders disagreed and boycotted. After Henry IV was assassinated, the flintlock rifle was directly abandoned by the French army...

It was not until the Swedish Gustav II equipped the military with many flintlock rifles during the Thirty Years' War that the flintlock rifles became famous and gradually accepted. At this time, the flintlock rifles had been invented for decades...

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Therefore, Marin was not worried that the French would develop low-cost flintlock rifles because they were inspired by clockwork firers. Instead, it is certain that even if a certain craftsman invented the flintlock rifle, it would not be promoted at once and was widely accepted by the world.

In addition to supplying profits and suppressing French peers, the clockwork shops opened by Marin also monitor the French market and checking whether there are any plans for craftsmen to develop new weapons. Once discovered, the intelligence organization will report to Marin. At that time, it will be too late to poach people with high salaries or kill those who refuse to leave.

In addition, Marin would also secretly help the workshops that built the mesh rope guns, brib the French powerful nobles, and hinder the French from promoting new weapons.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Although the French cannot finally stop using the new musket, it is enough to delay the French for decades. By the time the French fully reacted, Marin had controlled half of Germany, plus England, and completed the siege and suppression of France. At that time, it would be hard to say whoever crushed him.

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The Italian craftsmen arranged by Kohler arrived in France one after another and opened shops. It should be pointed out that these craftsmen did not mainly sell clockwork and muskets, but mainly built clocks and ordinary mesh ropes. Until there were competitors to build clockwork and muskets in the local area, they would import steel wheel clockwork and whole guns from the local area for dumping and suppressing. If it did not appear, everyone should happily use the mesh ropes.

Of course, because the French royal family has withdrawn from the business of clockwork and fire guns, the shops in Paris also have to compete. Moreover, the shops in Paris are mainly based on the watch business, slowly developing the business of steel wheel winding to avoid stimulating the royal workshop. The task is not to compete with the royal workshop, but to suppress private craftsmen to get involved in this area.

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Just as these shops were opening one after another, news came from Austria that Glinsky had completed the artillery transaction and returned to the Grand Principal of Moscow with 150 small copper cannons.

Probably to avoid the Lithuanians and Poles, Glinsky and his party walked over the Alps and then took the sea route to the Black Sea coast.

Even the carrier Marin found out that it was a Venetian businessman...

At present, the Venetians and Ottoman Türkiye have not yet turned against each other, and Venetian merchant ships can still freely enter and exit the Dardanelles and enter the Black Sea area.

As for how to transport it to the territory of the Grand Duchy of Moscow through the Crimean Khanate controlled area? Haha, Marin had no doubt about the ability of the Moscow people. It was not that they were too capable, but that the Crimean Khanate was too greedy for money and would definitely let it go if it was given some money.

Moreover, Glinsky bought small cannons and there was no gun mount. Even the small cannon barrel was hidden in the car, and he couldn't tell what it was. As long as the bribe was in place, the Crimeans would naturally let it go. Moreover, the Crimeans had no knowledge, and even if they saw it was a cannon, they would not feel that there was too much threat. As long as they gave enough money, they would be relieved even if they knew it.

This is also an important reason why Malin is not very at ease with the Crimean Khanate. In fact, they betray as long as they give money, without principles. Such a country can be used, but they must not trust it.

After learning that the Moscow people took the southern route and avoided the Beihaiguo route, Marin breathed a sigh of relief...

Why? The Polish king and Grand Duke of Lithuania, Zigmont I, was his brother-in-law. If he saw 150 artillery passing through the border and not intercepting it, Marin would not be able to say it.

Unlike ordinary weapon armor, artillery is bulky and huge, much larger than ordinary weapon armor targets, let alone 150 cannons. If the officials along the way cannot find it, it is obviously a lie. Unless the officers and soldiers along the way are bribed, they will not be able to find it.

But this is not very realistic in Beihai, because after Malin's cleaning, the corrupt old aristocratic class has lost its power. The new aristocratic class, because Malin is still in his prime and has not dared to embark on the road of corruption. Moreover, the outside world knows that Malin has very strict control and blockade on the country. It is difficult for people from other countries to enter Beihai (in fact, it is for the purpose of keeping fertilizers and other technologies), let alone transporting 150 artillery pieces to pass through?

In fact, Greensky knew this and knew that Marin and Zigmont I were in-laws, so he did not dare to take the route to the north, but instead took the route to the sea in the south. Because the Venetians and Crimeans were both jealous of money...

As for the weapons and armor purchased by the Grand Principal of Moscow before? That Marin could be completely shirkable. Why? Because it was the Teutonic Kingdom helped to purchase on behalf of others. Teutonic Kingdom is also an ally of Marin, and Marin's uncle Yule was also a senior leader of the Teutonic Kingdom. Therefore, it is completely reasonable for Marin to not stop him.

But this time, Glinsky, an important official of the Grand Principal of Moscow, took action. If Marin pretended not to know, anyone with a discerning eye could see that he had a bad heart and even cheated his in-laws... Who would dare to marry Beihaiguo in the future?

In order to maintain his reputation, Marin thought about it. Anyway, Greensky left with the cannons, and he was on the southern route, so he could send some news. So he wrote to his brother-in-law Zigmont I and said:
Chapter completed!