It was not until more than a year later that this famous daughter received the first batch of Ottoman Türkiye's orders, but it was only 1,000. It was three years later in 1899 that she, who became an older young woman, received her first big order, supplying 5,000 pieces of Italian Navy , which is the smooth-looking "corner waste" version of the large mirror box . But to put it bluntly, this sales volume is not enough to even exchange her, a famous daughter, for some makeup. The Mauser pistol at that time was a perfect loss for older women.
1. The first one to open Russian market
This daughter of the Mauser family really opened the market, and that was in Russia ten years later. The Russian government at that time was very corrupt, and the weapons of soldiers could not be updated for a long time. In the early 20th century when all countries had automatic pistols were replaced, Russian officers were still using 7-round Nagan revolvers, and the price was as high as 30 rubles per.
You should know that it was a gold standard at that time. Each gold ruble contained 0.774234 grams of gold, and 30 gold ruble was equivalent to 15.5 US dollars. It was more than twice as expensive as other revolver , which only sold for seven or eight US dollars.
This only provides equipment with low quality and high price. If you are reluctant to spend money to replace it with new weapons, you will naturally suffer losses on the battlefield. During the Russo-Japanese War , Russian officers were very dissatisfied with the ammunition capacity and slow loading of the revolver , and after the war they began to ask for a new guy. Although the Russian military is also very interested in new weapons, it has just suffered a crushing defeat and needs to rebuild the army. There are more places to spend money and there is no funds to purchase pistols for the time being.
So the Russians' slutty operation came. They thought that the wool was from the sheep, so that soldiers could pay for their own money to sell weapons. The Russian government issued a decree in 1907, allowing officers to purchase their own personal pistols and issued a list of recommended pistols. And on this list, the first one is the thug gun that looks extremely powerful and has a capacity of 10 rounds. So after 11 years of staying in the boudoir, the old girl from the Mauser family who was unable to become the imperial concubine finally began to put down her figure and marry her private partner.
Because it is an old girl who has not been married for more than ten years, the dowry will naturally be cheaper. At that time, the price of the thug gun was not expensive in Russia. The ordinary version of the 140 barrel and 10 round casing was 40 rubles per unit, which was about 20.6 US dollars, which was one-fifth cheaper than the retail price in the United States later, and only 10 rubles more expensive than the pit cart Nagan wheel.
And this daughter of the Mauser family is much better than the old-fashioned Nagan Runner, both in terms of appearance, figure and ability. With a new love, I will naturally lose my old love. At that time, Russian officers were all nobles. Who is the romantic young man who has the 10 rubles missing?
So Russian noble officers generously donated money and began to buy large quantities of crooked shell guns as personal self-defense weapons - Of course, this was not the best buy, and the Germans sold pistols cheaply, but the bullets were expensive. At that time, the Germans sold 1,000 bullets and sold 100 rubles, which was equivalent to 51.5 US dollars, which was twice as expensive as the retail price of the United States!
After six or seven years of procurement, by the time World War I began, a large part of the officers of Tsarist Russian were no longer equipped with revolvers, but with mullet guns, and the wealthy Tsarist Russian pilots had completed all the dressing. In addition, if the soldiers seized the German big red nine-molded shell gun during the battle, they would also be handed over to the officers for use, so the amount of equipment of the Belarusian army is very large.
and October Revolution with a cannon, and the shell gun also became the standard equipment for the commanders of the Soviet Red Army. In the subsequent Soviet-Russian civil war , both sides of the war Red Army and White Army were also equipped with a large number of wrench guns.
2. The shell gun entered China with Belarus
The shell gun entered China was actually also passed by the Russians. There is a very strange phenomenon in modern history, that is, Russia has always acted as our guide and thunderbolt.Many times, these Russians are our free teachers. They will teach us the well-used and appropriate advanced experience. They will also walk ahead and step on pitfalls, telling us how tragic the thunder will be - this situation is like this in system, technology, and weapons. The large-scale promotion of this wrench gun in China was also introduced by the Russians.
At that time, with the 1911 Revolution , China also introduced some foreign weapons, including a small number of wrench guns. But this thing is big and heavy, and the broom handle really does not match the Chinese hand shape (in fact, it does not match the hand shape of any ethnic group), and it is very expensive, so the sales volume has always been very small.
After the outbreak of the Russian Civil War in 1917, a group of retreating Belarusian officers came to our country with wreck guns. It is said that one of them was 5 Petersburg , who had no livelihood after he was trapped in Harbin. Through a tavern owner, he recommended the shell gun he carried with him to Zhang Zuolin, the Northeast King of . After the test shot, Zhang Dashuai was very satisfied. He not only received a large number of barge guns from the Czech Legion of Belarus, but also ordered large quantities from Germany. The Fengtian tribe at that time and the strange "cannons are blowing his mother" stationed in Shandong, Zhang Zongchang , had a Belarusian armed force of more than 17,000 people in his hand. These officers of the Belarusian army had a Mauser pistol on their waists. These white-haired men who wield the shell gun and the Chasic saber were very brave, leaving a very deep impression on the warlords in the mainland.
Of course, in addition to the Northeast official, many Belarus had also been traversed throughout China. these people have a lot of Mauser pistols in their hands. Most of them have no skills and just rely on being bodyguards for wealthy business landlords. These wealthy businessmen and landlords and old money naturally felt very safe when they saw these big and thick Russians and black and long box cannons. So they saw that the hunting was happy and bought a lot of them for self-defense and guarding the house, especially using this box cannon to scare the poor stick, which is a very useful . This is actually not very strange. In fact, the bigger the pistol, the stronger the deterrent effect. Many policemen had a lot of opinions when they changed from 54 to 64, and even gave 64 a nickname of "small cannon smashing".
So after the Russian Civil War, not only did the Chinese warlords start to buy large quantities of crooked shell guns, but even local security militias and local landlords, old wealthy, local tyrants and evil gentry were all big customers. These local tyrants came to buy a group purchase without any trouble, and the entire dozens of crooked shell guns were not a problem.
3. The black-hearted second-trafficking dealer
After the Russians spared no effort to promote and endorse, the shell gun was quickly accepted by the Chinese after 1917. Not long after that, the end of in 1918, , which became the golden age of weapon sales. At this time, all the European powers were defeated by the weak, and they were all so poor that they were so poor that they had a lot of weapons that were useless in peacetime, and their pockets were cleaner than their faces. So they became crazy and began to sell weapons in a large number of cheap prices in the world under the name of "the remaining materials in the first battle".
If you want to say the worst thing here is Germany, which is the defeated country. They were put on their necks by Versailles and about noose, and they could not produce heavy weapon at all. And it’s not a big deal to always sell the remaining weapons, but there will always be a day when they are sold out. So the Germans were targeting the loopholes in the treaty - this treaty restricted this and that, but did not limit pistols with barrel length below 100 mm! So the German Mauser took a ruthless move on his children, castrating the 140 mm into 99 mm, and creating the "Mauser police-type" for sale. Therefore, although this so-called arms embargo on China does not have a penny relationship in the sales of crooked shell guns, it still has a penny relationship.
So after the end of World War I, this newly-built and stocked muffle gun poured into China like a tide.In order to make more meals, based on the principle that fly legs are meat and small profits but quick turnover, the Germans at that time set the price of the shell gun very low. According to the contract of the Beiyang Army Department, a shelf gun cost only about 36-40 yuan at that time. At that time, all the warlord soldiers were arrested. The effective range of the bolt-action rifle of five or six hundred meters was not available at all. Instead, the box cannon with a continuous firing of about 10 meters was high in fire, and it quickly became the king in melee battle.
However, there is a demand, and there is a bottleneck in the supply problem. You should know that not everyone is the Beiyang Army Department, with money and a port, so you can order it directly from Mauser, Germany. If you want to buy this mainland landlord Laocai, you need a large number of middlemen. There are many forces in various hills in this old China. It is not easy to transport arms from the port to the mainland - especially the transport of a bunch of the most popular shell guns. It is like walking around the bandit's nest with dozens or hundreds of young and beautiful girls. What are you waiting for if you don't steal yours?
So after all, the price difference between wholesale and retail is getting bigger. Those second-hand dealers who sold shell guns, such as Japanese arms dealers who were agents, really made a lot of money. According to the metered price of for each shell gun, , and the retail price of 100-120 yuan, the profit of of this gun is 60-80 yuan!
Moreover, these profiteers sold bullets more expensive. The wholesale 1,000 units were only 50-60 yuan, and the average price was only 50-60 yuan for things worth five or six cents. The retail price of things can be sold for 80 yuan for every 200 units, which is equivalent to 40 cents per unit, which is directly eight times higher. And if you only buy ten or eight out of ten, then you will be even more willing to buy two out of one piece of money without bargaining! By this calculation, a shell gun with 200 rounds can be sold for 200 oceans, and the cost is only 50 yuan. If you sell one, you can earn 150 yuan . The price is !
So, this does not allow middlemen to make a difference, but it is actually a consensus among manufacturers and consumers in various countries. For example, the famous Spanish Winsetta company could not stand the exploitation of Japanese middlemen and directly established its own Shanghai branch to sell. If a time traveler wants to make money, the second-hand resale of this crooked shell gun must be held in his hands, and the Japanese, such as the black-hearted turtle-slave intermediaries, cannot make the difference.
4. The shell gun was used on a large scale in Red Russia
. On the Russian side, since the October Revolution, Belarus has fallen and Red Russia has taken control of the regime. Although these Red Russians have different beliefs, they all have the same aesthetics as Slavic nationality. They still like the daughter of the German Mauser family who is strong and plump in their bust. So, like the Belarusian army back then, the Soviet Red Army also purchased and equipped a large number of crested shell guns.
The Soviet soldiers at that time were deeply obsessed with the rebuttal shell guns, and everyone was proud of having one. So on April 8, 1920, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee established a new military award - " Red Flag Medal Honorary Revolutionary Weapon", using a shell gun with a special emblem as a reward to commend commanders who performed well. , so this mullet gun crosses the field of certificate of honor from the weapon level. At that time, you were able to own a "Red Flag Medal Medal Boxer" and it was like marrying a rich and rich beauty who won the national scholarship . It was a great thing that was both inner and face.
In addition, the Soviet government also ordered more than 30,000 short-barrel police barge guns from the Mauser Arsenal to equip the internal affairs forces, border police and Red Army commanders. This short-barrel shell gun is easy to carry and powerful in fire, so it is very popular among the Bolsheviks.They kindly called this 99mm short-barrel small crooked shell gun "BOLO", and because the grip was also reduced accordingly, the gun got the "little pineapple" (not the P90), and became the one that crooked gun collectors most keen on - saying that, it is said that the American M249 light machine gun, also known as "big pineapple", how did this name come from? Could it be that the bullet box looks like a pineapple?
is OK, let's get back to the point. Although the Russians later changed their generation and created the TT33 pistol , , just like the older generation of generals in our country's deep feelings for the thug shell gun, senior Soviet officers also had a special liking for the thug shell gun. For example, the later Soviet supreme leader Brezhnev , Soviet Marshal Konev, Armored Tank Soldier Marshal Katukov and others, they still had various thug shell guns.
so from a historical perspective, this muffle shell gun is not only a weapon that has influenced China for nearly a hundred years, but also has run through the entire modern history of Russia. Especially in the domestic revolutionary war between China and Russia and the anti-aggression Patriotic War, the shell guns are both iconic weapons. This so-called shell gun complex is interconnected in both China and Russia.
