Chapter 180 Guns and Machinery
In order to save his life, Nohara, who was almost killed, gave a more reliable guess.

It is very likely that the stone lanterns were used. As for the reason, it is faith, that is, the emergence of the Guandi Temple.

Yan Xu frowned. This answer was outrageous because he had no conflict with Japanese Buddhism. After all, the Guandi Temple was only on the secondary island, and there was no Buddhist temple here at all.

But if you think about the Buddhist way of doing things, the possibility is very high.

The false Buddhism emphasizes that the four elements are empty and that one must save all living beings.

The real Buddhism occupies land to build temples and annex Buddhist fields. It has Buddhas cast in gold and Arhats cast in bronze. It also takes into account functions such as lending and making interest. As for those who owe money and don't pay it back, they really think those monks are vegetarians.

Buddhism in the Central Plains is already in this state, so how can Buddhism in Japan be any better? It will only grow further crooked, so it is very possible to use the stone lantern to solve a future trouble.

Yan Xu did not take this to heart, because when he unified Japan, these monks who drank wine, ate meat, married women and killed people would have their own place to go.

Moreover, long before this, he had asked someone to find a statue in the modern world. When it arrived, the faith of Japan would be rebuilt from scratch.

"My lord, these are the things we found on the stone lantern." Sen Yu brought a tray with four items on it: a Buddhist scripture that had been soaked with blood, a Vajra Pestle, a string of broken prayer beads, and a stone-cutting sword that had turned into sawtooth.

These things were not ordinary objects, but Yan Xu did not intend to use them. He snapped his fingers, and the Seven Evil Ghost Face Armor beside him immediately turned into seven boys with ghost faces and fangs, rushing up and biting them continuously, and swallowed the fragments as nutrients for their own growth.

No matter whether it is the Soul-Catching Fire Cloud Chain or the Seven Evils Ghost Face Armor, they are more like magical weapons. Among them, the Soul-Catching Fire Cloud Chain can catch souls and devour spirits, and can absorb negative energy to grow.

The Seven Evils Ghost Face Armor is not to be outdone. It also has the ability to devour and grow. However, because it uses medium-grade incense, its ability is not as extreme, and its diet is also more extensive. For example, the Soul-Hooking Fire Cloud Chain will not touch these things, but the Ghost Face Boy will accept them all.

After swallowing, the evil spirit on the Seven Evils Ghost Mask Armor dissipated a lot, but the evil spirit was still strong. At the same time, there were some slightly sacred golden lines. In addition, there were two horn-like sharp blades on the armor on the forearm. No one knew what they were used for. After all, it was not convenient to use these two blades by waving the forearm and using elbow strikes.

Yan Xu, who was lucky enough to be able to walk on his own, hid in the world of the late Qing Dynasty to cultivate his character. Because the Xiang ghost seemed to have become wise and showed signs of wanting more, he was scared and left in a hurry, and by the way, he checked whether the purchased machinery had arrived.

Although there are many machines in the wasteland world, these machines that have been abandoned for more than ten years require careful maintenance before they can be used. Moreover, if the supporting facilities cannot keep up, the machines will not be able to play any role. At least when industrial electricity cannot be guaranteed, these machines are just decorations.

Even if the electricity problem is solved, the factory building problem is not easy to solve, because the more sophisticated the machinery, the higher the environmental requirements. Just making the ground flat is not something Yan Xu can solve now. This requirement cannot be met by just paving the ground with cement, and a bad environment will affect the precision of mechanical processing and even cause malfunctions.

Therefore, Yan Xu planned to use the big, black and crude steam machinery first. This thing is sturdy and durable, and easy to operate. It is more suitable for the wasteland world. In this way, even the industrialization problem of the Japanese world will be solved.

The machinery purchased by Yan Xu is divided into two types, one is used to produce guns and the other is used to build ships.

The problem of shipbuilding machinery is not big, and the master can solve it. After all, it is mainly to build steam-sailed ships for the Japanese world, so the difficulty is not high. The machinery for making guns and cannons is more troublesome. Not to mention the price, you can't buy it without connections.

However, this time Yan Xu did not purchase through the Camden family. He was not stupid. If he left everything to the other party, wouldn't he be waiting for the other party to completely control him? Therefore, he purchased the guns, cannons and machinery through Schmidt.

As a gunsmith with a certain reputation, Schmidt is not just a simple craftsman. His family also has considerable connections in Germany, especially in the fields of firearms and machinery manufacturing. Therefore, the machinery that Yan Xu wants to buy is not a big problem for him. There are even stocks here. After all, German guns, artillery and machinery have always been imported by the Qing Dynasty.

The only problem is that these machines are second-hand or even N-hand, which means they are obsolete.

These problems were not serious, because with Yan Xu's speed of development, it was only a matter of time before these machines were eliminated. Moreover, being old also had its advantages. For example, the machine specially used to produce Dresser striker rifles was very good, and he bought two sets at once.

This rifle was an early design, so it uses paper shell bullets instead of metal shells, so it can also be used in the Japanese world without being restricted by ammunition issues.

Bullets may seem simple, but they are not that easy to produce, especially in terms of output. There are actually not many countries that can produce bullets on a large scale.

The only drawback is that the long firing pin needs to pierce the propellant and hit the primer under the cartridge case to complete the firing, so the firing pin is very long, which makes it easy to break when firing. However, this problem can be solved by preparing two spare firing pins.

As for why two were purchased, it was because this rifle was manufactured according to the body shape of Westerners, and the propellant was not fine enough when it was originally designed, resulting in a caliber of an astonishing 15.4 mm.

In the modern world, the famous Barrett sniper rifle has a caliber of only 12.7mm. If this thing is given to the Japanese, wouldn't it fall like dominoes as soon as it is fired? So Yan Xu asked them to modify the mechanism, customize a caliber of 10mm, and shorten the length of the gun body.

Yan Xu planned to take the other unmodified set to the wasteland world and sell it to the natives.

There are not many forces in the wasteland world that can produce bullets, and the output is not high, so they rarely flow out. They are so precious that they can even serve as hard currency.

Nowadays, the mainstream firearms used are reloaded bullets, which are completely handmade. The quality can be imagined, and jamming is a common occurrence. Therefore, the popular firearms in the wasteland world are homemade revolvers and single-handed firearms.

Moreover, not everyone can get reloaded bullets, so this old-fashioned musket will not lack a market, at least not a low-end market.

Unfortunately, the machinery for manufacturing machine guns and artillery was still a bit troublesome, so Yan Xu could only temporarily purchase ten Maxim water-cooled machine guns and four Gruson 57mm rapid-fire mountain cannons as supplements.

The machinery and ammunition purchased by Yan Xu were fixed on flat-bottomed cars connected in series like a train. When the bronze door opened, he immediately threw the thick chain over. The civilian robbers on the other side quickly fixed the chain to a bulldozer, and then used the power of the bulldozer to pull a long line of flat-bottomed cars over, thus solving some of the world's transportation problems.

(End of this chapter)