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7/6/2025, 9:11:00 AM
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Intredasting, the Chinese of course did not even have workshop sized thread cutters, so they were pretty far from being able to manufacture flintlocks themselves.
However Russia made rapid progress east before the flintlock, reaching Manchuria by the 1650s, so the flintlock saga does not actually answer OP's question. China was however slow to adopt the matchlock, even by 1840 only a handful of soldiers were using them. They could manufacture matchlocks but perhaps lacked the technology to manufacture matchlocks reliable enough efficiently enough for widespread use.
Intredasting, the Chinese of course did not even have workshop sized thread cutters, so they were pretty far from being able to manufacture flintlocks themselves.
However Russia made rapid progress east before the flintlock, reaching Manchuria by the 1650s, so the flintlock saga does not actually answer OP's question. China was however slow to adopt the matchlock, even by 1840 only a handful of soldiers were using them. They could manufacture matchlocks but perhaps lacked the technology to manufacture matchlocks reliable enough efficiently enough for widespread use.
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