Chapter 7 Walter

The German Walter pistol, anyone who knows a little about firearms will know. The Karl Walter Weapon Factory, like other traditional German weapons factories, originated in Thuringia, Germany, which established the first firearms industry association as early as 1953. As early as the autumn of 1886, Karl Walter created a small workshop that would later become Karl Walter's weapons factory.

　　 At the beginning, the workshop was very simple, with only a foot lathe, a vise and a casting furnace. At the age of 28 that year, he started a gun-making journey with an apprentice. 　　 Carl's greatest interest is the development of automatic pistols, which was an unprecedented new technology at the time. The Walter family has made a great contribution to this field, especially Freitz Walter has shown extraordinary expertise in this technology. In 1908, they produced the first automatic pistol, the 6.35mm Walter M1 pistol, which was carried by almost every German officer in World War I. In the following years, four other automatic pistols similar to the M1 were produced.

　　The World War I played a huge role in promoting the development of the Walter Weapon Factory. At that time, it had more than 500 employees. Karl Walter died in 1915, and several of his sons inherited his career. Now the eldest son is sitting in Yannick's office crying about his company's situation. "I can barely make ends meet. If I can't receive orders, I'm afraid I can only declare bankruptcy." Yannick nodded slowly, motioning for him to fully understand. "I want 12% of your company."

　　 "Puff!" The coffee that Walter had just put in his mouth was sprayed back into the coffee cup. If the person opposite is not the honorable Royal Highness, he might immediately jump up and scold his mother. This is highway robbery. "The price that His Royal Highness wants to buy?" 　　 But Yannick's words almost made Walter vomit blood. "I do not have money."

"...!!!" I said so confidently without money. This is taking advantage of the fire to rob, this is to be robbed clearly, even the royal family must abide by the rules of the game, if such a mess, who would dare to invest and do business in Germany? ? 　　 When Walter was thinking about it, Yannick picked up a few pieces of paper on the table and flicked it. "Here are the three-point drawings, and I promise to sell more than 500,000 weapons from each drawing."

　　 "..." Walter, who was feeling the blood rush, calmed down. "His Royal Highness, can I see the drawings first?"

　　 "No." Yannick shook his head. "You have to make a decision first. Agree or disagree. If you agree, everyone is happy. If you don't agree, you can go out directly. Then I will find another weapon dealer to cooperate."

In some respects, he does not need someone to treat him. All you need to do is complete obedience. He wants these businessmen to understand that as long as they obey themselves, there will be meat and soup. If they want to share the meat, just follow him obediently.

　　 This is simply gambling. Walter was wiping the sweat on his forehead, thinking carefully, if he really left like this, he might be hated by His Royal Highness, and the company would quickly go bankrupt within a few days. Yes, I am about to go bankrupt and I still consider so much dry hair. If I give 12% of the shares to His Royal Highness, then he has to give some orders. If the company has an order, then His Highness will also have a profit. The more orders, the greater the profit for His Highness, and of course he also earns more.

　　 Walter nodded heavily when he thought of this. "His Royal Highness, I agree to exchange 12% of the company's shares for those three drawings."

　　 "I really didn't pick the wrong person." Yannick smiled. "It's fun to deal with smart people, so take it."

　　 Walter took the drawing that Yannick handed over with a bumpy look, but he couldn't move his eyes again with just one glance. "It's beautiful! Your Royal Highness, who designed these?" This is clearly the master's hand. He hadn't heard of such an expert in this industry?

　　 Yannick Touched his nose and "admitted",cheekily. "I designed it myself, how about it?" In fact, I still feel a little sad. These designs are what Walter Company developed a few years later. Is this plagiarism?

　　 But this is one of the benefits of crossing. He gave Walter the design drawings of the G43 semi-automatic rifle, P38 pistol, and PPK pistol. The Kar-98K rifle widely installed by the German army before the outbreak of World War II was considered to meet the demand. Therefore, the development of semi-automatic rifles lags behind the United States and the Soviet Union. Especially between 1941 and 1942, the German army's standard rifle Kar98k was used on the eastern battlefield. In terms of firepower, it cannot compete with Soviet semi-automatic rifles. The MP-40 submachine guns equipped by the Germans often failed to respond effectively due to insufficient range. Therefore, the agenda of equipping the army with a semi-automatic rifle that can effectively compete with the Soviet SVT-40 rifle was immediately brought up. In 1941, the two major German ordnance companies, Mauser and Walter, launched their semi-automatic rifles almost at the same time, but Mauser's products failed in the competition. The German army decided that Walter would design a new semi-automatic rifle to replace the old. The K-98 rifle became the standard equipment of the army, named Gewehr 41 (referred to as G41).

　　 As a result, its accuracy, shooting speed, and operability made the German soldiers on the front line give a very "high" evaluation: Why is the rate of fire of this gun so slow? Why are the gun's bullets so difficult to load, why does this weapon have to shoot twice, this gun is not oiled... 　　 Because of these tides of "acceptance", Mauser 98K, which was originally prepared for further replacement, continues to be produced, and the output and orders have increased. 　　Until the Soviet Union's Tokarev automatic system was discovered by the Germans and successfully improved. G43 was born in this way. It is better to use than Mauser 98K, and it can fire from far away, not worse than Mauser. More importantly, he can put bullets in the magazine more easily, just put the magazine in, and shoot.

　　 Relying on pneumatic mechanical devices, making its rate of fire faster than G41, although this is just the shooter's own feeling. But its weight is twice as light.

　　 Walter's eyes flashed, these pieces of paper are simply treasures! But he also found a strange problem, this PPK, if he didn't understand the error, it should be the abbreviation of "Polizei Pistole Kriminal" criminal police pistol. But what do the numbers in G43 and P38 mean? years? 1843, 1838? 1943, 1938? Immediately, I stopped thinking about this question. Since His Royal Highness has all numbered and numbered, just use it.

　　 "How is it? Is it worth it?" Yannick not showing any nervousness

　　 "It's worth it, it's worth it, it's worth it. Thank you, His Royal Highness. I'll go back and complete the formalities immediately and send it to you."

　　 "That's good." After sending Walter away, he called in Mauser. However, this negotiation did not go smoothly. The Mauser representative looked lacking in interest, which may be due to Yannick's prince status, and did not refuse on the spot, but Yannick clearly saw the disdain in his eyes.