The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 778 Laboratory Results

More than twenty people followed Aaron into the Los Angeles mansion... This is the power center of Los Angeles and even California, which makes these people secretly excited.

The group found everything new and exciting.

Afterwards, they were taken to the living room of the mansion, and Aaron said to the others, "You guys wait here first, I'll go see what Brother Wei is doing!"

Then he went to the backyard, where Chen Zhengwei was most likely.

When I went to the backyard, I saw Chen Zhengwei there playing with firecrackers with walnuts.

Many people in Los Angeles know that Chen Zhengwei has two beautiful big parrots that often fly outside his mansion.

Sometimes the fireworks would stand on the street lamps and ask passers-by: "Can you talk?"

Some pedestrians were walking on the street, and suddenly heard a question above their heads: "Can you speak?"

And the questions were asked alternately in English and Cantonese.

Then I looked up and saw no one.

This is almost becoming an urban legend in Los Angeles.

"Fireworks, can you talk?" Aaron teased it when he saw the firework.

Hua Pao cursed: "Pu Street Boy!"

Aaron sat down on a chair not far from Chen Zhengwei, laughing. His sitting posture was exactly the same as the one Chen Zhengwei usually sat on.

"Brother Wei, when I came here just now, I saw several white cars on the street! Luckily, mine is a convertible, otherwise I would have smashed their cars! What kind of class is that? They drive the same car as me? And it's white. From a distance, I thought it was my car."

Chen Zhengwei seldom drives out, and only goes out for a ride once or twice a week.

Aaron drives his white convertible around the city every day.

Chen Zhengwei glanced at him and said, "Send the car over tomorrow. What grade is it? Is your car the same as mine?"

"I can see at a glance that my car and yours, Brother Wei, are not of the same grade. The paint is different. Moreover, there is a pure gold tiger head on the front of Brother Wei's car, while mine only has a logo. If Brother Wei doesn't mind, I'll have someone deliver it to you in the evening!" A'long said immediately with a chuckle.

Anyway, he's going to New York soon and won't be back for at least a year, so just send it to him.

Thousands of vehicles have been delivered so far, some of which were purchased by Chinese businessmen in Los Angeles.

After the hot sales in the first month, the subsequent orders decreased a lot. There were 1300 orders in the first month, but only more than 500 in the second month, and more than half of them came from Washington.

It will take some time for the market to digest this, and gasoline is only sold in chemical stores in big cities. This thing is now a toy for the rich, so Chen Zhengwei is not in a hurry.

Even the President of the United States was advertising for him. James Garfield would drive to the suburbs for a ride when the weather was good.

The two chatted outside for more than half an hour, and the people in the living room just sat there quietly, not daring to move around.

Yuan Shikai stared at a painting on the wall, which seemed out of place with the decoration in the room.

"The boss stole that painting from the Imperial Palace in Tokyo!" said a man from a security company, poking Yuan Shikai with his elbow.

"I don't understand it...but the boss likes it very much."

"It is said that the boss only remembered and went back to take the painting away after he had left the house. The Japanese emperor and his ministers watched helplessly and did not dare to stop him."

The people around him were talking with great excitement, and Yuan Shikai was also fascinated by what he heard.

This is what a real man should be like.

Turning your attention to other places, there are some gold ornaments in the cabinet, all of which are things from the palaces of Hawaii and Malay Sultanates. In addition, the most eye-catching thing is a bear head hanging on the wall.

"The boss likes bears very much. I heard that there is a bear head in the office in San Francisco!" Yuan Shikai whispered to the people around him.

"The one in San Francisco was shot to death by the boss in a duel. This one was beaten to death by the boss in the manor with his bare hands, and then chased after him and beat him to death..."

"If you see it in the wild, you will know that when it stands up, it is as tall as two men... It is so powerful!"

"It's only the boss. If it were anyone else, even with a gun, they would tremble when facing a bear!"

While a group of people were whispering, Chen Zhengwei and A Long finally walked in.

"boss!"

"Weige!"

The group quickly stood up.

"Everyone, please sit down! I asked you to come here just to recognize your faces!"

"I know some of you. You followed me from San Francisco. I've seen some of you before, but I'm not familiar with you... But you are all talents of the company. You have outstanding performance among the people in the company, so you were selected to go to the military academy." Chen Zhengwei raised his hand and motioned for everyone to sit down.

Chen Zhengwei sat down as he spoke, glanced at everyone's faces, and said with a smile, "Don't be too reserved."

"You are all quite old, and you still need to stay in military school for a few years. However, going to military school means that you have outstanding abilities, and it also means that you will grow faster than others in the future."

"You should be looking forward to your future, and I am looking forward to you too."

"I have everything I need now, except for someone who can stand on his own feet!"

"I hope you can all stand on your own in the future!"

Chen Zhengwei's few words made these people's blood boil and they became excited.

“I will never let my boss (Brother Wei) down!”

Chen Zhengwei encouraged everyone and invited them to stay for dinner. Even Lin Changning came out.

"Are you optimistic about them?" Lin Changning asked in the evening. It was rare to see Chen Zhengwei being so high-profile.

"Maybe some talented people will emerge! Didn't I have a special meal with those university students?" Chen Zhengwei smiled.

"The world is so big. For example, Panama, Cuba, Ryukyu Islands, Southeast Asia... Everywhere needs talents who can stand on their own! We will need even more in the future. Only when they work hard can I have some free time."

"You can't be idle! Even if your hands are idle, your brain can't be idle either!" Lin Changning said it all.

Chen Zhengwei's mind is full of calculations.

In fact, with Chen Zhengwei's current influence and status, he doesn't need to do anything. He just needs to control the situation in the United States and develop step by step.

But now that the United States has stabilized, he has been looking outward, and is unwilling to really take some time off.

She felt that Chen Zhengwei was born to love chaos and was keen on stirring up all kinds of trouble.

He is not the kind of person who has a long-term vision and plans for the future.

Although there are factors like this, it is more about simply liking to stir up trouble and using power to control the life and death of others.

The next day, Aaron took his people to the east to go to school.

Chen Zhengwei accompanied Cicely to see her estate in Beverly Hills, which covered an area of more than ten acres. It had been renovated and even the furniture had been installed.

The yard is filled with lawns, pale purple and white pansies, and weeping cherries.

This is what Cicely wrote in the book: Wilmington's spring and summer are covered with violets all over the mountains, and her childhood game was picking cherries.

Then the person in charge of the estate specifically went to look for Australian violets and weeping cherries, which are suitable for the climate of Los Angeles.

As for Chen Zhengwei... he was simply a hands-off boss who never took care of anything. All he wanted was to know the result.

Xiseli was very surprised by these, and asked Chen Zhengwei to put on the bear head again that night. Chen Zhengwei got up from the bed the next day, holding his waist, and then took a bottle cap of Liuwei Dihuang Pills, and he felt much better.

Sitting on the sofa, Chen Zhengwei opened the system panel with a cigar in his mouth. He looked at the room technique for a moment and invested three ordinary skill points and one fine skill point on it.

He wanted to see what derivative skills this thing would have after it was upgraded to LV4.

……

In July, the laboratory finally produced results.

The first is optical ranging. According to the drawings and materials, the laboratory made two types of optical rangefinders, and produced a small-scale batch of each.

At the entrance of Cicely's manor, several laboratory workers installed a shelf, and then installed a nearly three-meter-long... monocular telescope on it, with a sliding rod and a mechanical dial next to it.

"It's so big, are you going to see the moon?" Chen Zhengwei complained when he saw those laboratory people installing the optical tester. This thing looked similar to an astronomical telescope, only bigger.

"Boss, if you want to look at the moon, you have to use a stereoscopic optical tester. This mainly calculates the distance through the overlapping parts of the lenses..." the person in the laboratory explained seriously.

"Damn it, you have no sense of humor at all. How did you become the head of the laboratory department?" Chen Zhengwei slapped him on the back of the head, then looked inside through the lens at one end, and saw that the buildings in Los Angeles below the mountain were directly pulled apart on both sides... The images seen through the two lenses inside were completely misplaced.

"Boss, we need to adjust this slider to align the images..."

According to the explanation of the laboratory staff, Chen Zhengwei kept adjusting the sliding bar next to him to align the two images in the rangefinder.

"What is the distance?"

"4355 meters..." said the laboratory staff, looking at the dial next to him.

"What about the height?"

"Boss, there is only horizontal distance... This stereoscopic optical rangefinder is used on ships, and both sides will be on the same level..." the head of the laboratory said immediately.

"What if we are facing a cannon?" Chen Zhengwei asked back.

"Um... that requires some other methods to help calculate the opponent's approximate height..." the head of the laboratory immediately said with a grunt.

"How far is it?"

"3000 to 12000 meters is the best observation distance!"

Chen Zhengwei nodded after observing for a moment. This optical rangefinder is only suitable for observing stationary or slow-moving targets.

For example, ships.

In addition to its size of nearly three meters, it can only be installed on artillery positions and warships.

"What about the error? What are the results of the fleet test?" Chen Zhengwei asked Situ Ye beside him.

Before being sent to him, this optical rangefinder had been sent to the warship for testing.

Situ Ye said with a smile on his face: "Boss, the error of this thing is about 1%!"

"At a distance of 3000 meters, the artillery hit rate is between 3% and 4% with the naked eye. With the use of an optical rangefinder, the hit rate can reach 15% to 18%."

"At a distance of 5000 meters, the former is less than 1%. Using an optical rangefinder, the hit rate can reach about 8%."

"At a distance of 8000 meters, the hit rate of the former is less than 0.5%, and even 200 shots may not hit the target. Using an optical rangefinder, the hit rate is about 4% to 4.5%."

"This new equipment is a huge improvement for the fleet, especially when the distance is widened. The longer the distance, the greater the gap."

Although the hit rate of using an optical rangefinder is very low when the distance is increased, the opponent's hit rate is even lower, and the difference in hit rates between the two sides can reach more than 8 times.

As long as there is enough ammunition on the ship, they can just keep a distance and shoot from above.

And their ships are much faster than those of other countries.

"The data sounds good!" Chen Zhengwei nodded.

As a result, there is a new tactic in the future, which is to use large-caliber main guns on cruisers to maintain the flexibility and speed of the ship, and to attack from a distance.

Even battleships cannot withstand large-caliber main guns.

When the distance is shortened, torpedoes will be the main attack.

What's more, there is another type of optical rangefinder, the stereoscopic optical rangefinder, which is about 1 meter long, equivalent to an extended telescope.

Supported by a tripod, the observation distance is between 500 and 3000 meters, suitable for ship-borne secondary guns, torpedoes, and shore artillery units, such as mortars.

Chen Zhengwei felt much more comfortable watching this kind of thing, as there were scales on the lens, and he could tell the distance of the other party with the naked eye.

Even for objects moving at high speeds, the distance can be measured quickly.

The former is only suitable for shore artillery and ship-borne main guns, while the use of this optical rangefinder is more diverse.

"How difficult is production?" Chen Zhengwei asked.

"The cost is relatively high, and it takes a lot of time to debug, but the demand for this kind of optical rangefinder is not huge! Boss, we should add some staff to our department! Otherwise, the debugging work will never be finished!" The head of the laboratory introduced confidently.

He was quite proud of himself this time, as their optical ranging department had finally produced some research results.

Although the drawings were also given to them by Chen Zhengwei.

But at least people won’t accuse me of just eating and doing nothing.

"Sure! Give everyone three months' salary as a bonus!" Chen Zhengwei nodded. He has never been stingy with money as long as the product is done.

In addition to optical ranging, some results have also been achieved in batteries and steel alloys.

The battery laboratory optimized the electrolyte, increasing the energy rate by another 10%, and the charging and discharging efficiency by 20%. The battery life increased threefold, from 100 charging cycles to 300 charging cycles.

Steel alloys have also developed new formula nickel steel, whose yield strength and tensile strength are 30%-50% higher than ordinary carbon steel.

It can already withstand the high pressure strength and corrosion resistance of synthetic ammonia, but the difficulties of synthetic ammonia industrial equipment, high pressure sealing and how to separate nitrogen from the air need to be overcome.

However, this new nickel steel can be used in guns and artillery.

Originally, the main guns of the San Francisco and Los Angeles were 203mm caliber guns with a range of no more than 7000 meters, mainly because the steel was not strong enough to withstand the chamber pressure.

The use of nickel steel to manufacture artillery can withstand stronger chamber pressure, and the artillery range can reach between 10000 meters and 12000 meters.

With the presence of an optical rangefinder, Chen Zhengwei's ship is already capable of ultra-long-range firing between 8000 and 12000 meters. Although the hit rate is not high, it is also a tactical choice.

Later, Chen Zhengwei and Andrew Carnegie jointly invested in the establishment of a United Steel Company of America, and the technology and patents of nickel steel were mastered by this steel company.

……

Chen Zhengwei passed by Jindan’s game room on the second floor and saw Jindan playing with a paper airplane inside... Chen Zhengwei walked over, picked up Jindan’s paper airplane, and threw it out of the window.

When Jindan saw the paper airplane he had folded flying away, he burst into tears.

"Why are you crying? Your plane is going to find its own life!" Chen Zhengwei comforted Jindan and at the same time felt that he had the potential to be a philosopher.

Then, looking at the paper airplane flying into the yard, I wondered whether I could try to develop an airplane.
After all... the internal combustion engine already exists, and the rest is just propellers and wood, right? As for whether it works, let people study it and see.

　Although it was updated a little late, it's finally updated and the word count has been made up.

　　But this hell's schedule... I guess I'll have to adjust my schedule again.

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