Bright Sword: Starting from the Improved Grenade

After discussing the factory construction with the village chief, Zhao Tianyang returned to Huangyadong and came to the blast furnace area.

"Deputy Director Li, let me tell you, our arsenal..."

"Director Chang, listen to me. Our radio factory..."

As soon as Zhao Tianyang arrived, he saw Shen Hong and Cheng Mingsheng, one holding Li Tie and the other holding Chang San, talking to something.

"What are you doing, what are you doing!"

Zhao Tianyang walked over with his hands behind his back and said seriously, "You are the factory director now, but you don't train the new workers properly and come here to disturb Master Li and Master Chang's work. How can you be so rude!"

"Chief, you're here!"

The four people who had just looked sad immediately looked at Zhao Tianyang with light in their eyes.

"Section Chief, please judge for me. Our arsenal needs to use the casting process to produce grenades. We have to cast iron immediately after the iron is smelted."

"So I thought about opening a grenade workshop here with Director Li, but he wouldn't let me, saying the area was too small."

Shen Hong spread his hands and emphasized, "The rifles, grenade launchers, and mortars that we will start manufacturing soon will all require casting technology. I think our arsenal must have its own blast furnace."

"Chief, I don't have high requirements. I just want to open a parts workshop here. You know that the nickel-chromium wire used in radios cannot be separated from the heating blast furnace."

As soon as Shen Hong finished speaking, Cheng Mingsheng immediately took over.

"Section Chief, you have to be reasonable. You know we call it an ironworks, but we only have five blast furnaces, which can only produce 500 to 600 kilograms of steel at a time."

"If we give them one or two blast furnaces, the steel we produce won't be enough to supply the arsenal!"

Chang San cried.

"Cough cough..."

Zhao Tianyang coughed awkwardly: "What you said makes sense, but if the arsenal wants to develop, there must be one or two factories to act as supporting factors."

At this point, Zhao Tianyang patted Chang San on the shoulder and said, "Look, the steel you made was originally meant for them. Now give them two blast furnaces and let them do it themselves. You don't have to worry too much!"

"We need some iron workers. We don't know how to make iron!"

Shen Hong reminded from the side.

"Chief, look at him!"

Chang San was furious: "Is there any justice in the world? It's not enough to have a furnace, but I also need people. I can't open my ironworks anymore!"

“It’s really not fair!”

Zhao Tianyang glared at Shen Hong and consoled him, "How about this, no matter how many iron smelting workers you give them, they will give you double the number of workers?"

"This is good!"

Chang San immediately laughed: "One for two, now I can continue to build the blast furnace!"

"Now that we have agreed, it is decided."

Zhao Tianyang waved his hand and said.

"alright."

Shen Hong and Cheng Mingsheng thought about it and nodded in agreement. After all, a blast furnace only needed four or five people to operate, and they could only give it ten workers at most, which was not a loss.

Just when both parties were happy and achieved their goals, Zhao Tianyang suddenly spoke.

"By the way, Master Chang, you have to allocate a blast furnace. I decided to build an engine factory here to specialize in the production of boilers and engines!"

"what!"

Chang San was dumbfounded: "What about this worker?"

"What workers?"

Zhao Tianyang pretended to be stupid and said, "Aren't all your workers recruited by me?"

"Ok."

Under the pressure of Zhao Tianyang, Chang San nodded helplessly.

"Don't be so depressed. Look, there's still a lot of space in this small basin. Just build the blast furnace!"

Zhao Tianyang patted Chang San on the shoulder and encouraged him: "I believe in you!"

"understood!"

Chang San nodded dejectedly.

After discussing with Chang San about dividing up the blast furnaces, Zhao Tianyang left.

Shen Hong and Cheng Mingsheng returned to the factory to recruit people and prepared to build two wooden houses in the blast furnace area to store their materials.

"How is it? How long will it take to complete the engine repair work?"

Zhao Tianyang walked into a tent that was used as a studio and asked.

"It's the Section Chief!"

Yu Xiaping looked up and replied, "It will probably take another two days, and the repair work will be almost complete!"

"What's up Chief?"

Tian Jinchen on the side asked.

Ever since Cheng Mingsheng was transferred to be the director of the radio station factory, the engine repair work was taken over by Yu Xiaping, Tian Jinchen and Wu Shimeng.

Liu Fugui and Wu Yunduo were helping Liu Ding to complete the semi-automatic bullet production line.

"Well, I plan to build an engine factory in the blast furnace area to produce boilers and engines."

"Comrade Yu Xiaping has been dealing with engines these days. I want to ask him if he wants to be the director of this engine factory!"

Zhao Tianyang explained patiently.

"Can I really?"

Yu Xiaping said in surprise.

"Of course, I've seen your hard work these days, and you are the right person to be the engine factory manager."

Zhao Tianyang affirmed.

"Congratulations!" x2

Tian Jinchen and Wu Shimeng said this with envy in their voices.

"Haha, I will definitely work hard to be a good factory director and not let you down!"

Yu Xiaping assured with a silly smile.

"It's not about disappointing me, it's about not disappointing the Party!"

Zhao Tianyang emphasized, "I won't let you worry about the establishment of the engine factory. After the engine is repaired, I will give you a task, which is to use the experience of repairing this engine to invent a single-cylinder engine. Do you have the confidence?"

"Ah this..."

Yu Xiaping hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "I promise to complete the task."

"very good."

Zhao Tianyang nodded in satisfaction and looked at Tian Jinchen and Wu Shimeng standing beside him: "You two must assist Comrade Yu Xiaping and complete the mission!"

"Don't worry, Director. We have learned a lot about engines by ourselves in the past few days!"

Tian Jinchen said proudly.

"Okay, then you guys get busy first!"

After leaving Yu Xiaping, Zhao Tianyang first found Li Yuncai and handed over the task of building the engine factory to him.

Then he went back to his tent without stopping, went to the desk, took out two pieces of white paper, and started drawing.

He planned to design two means of transportation, a tractor powered by a pot-camel to transport goods to the arsenal.

A single-cylinder engine-powered gyroglider used for communication with arsenals in various locations.

Soon, time passed by bit by bit in the busyness.

A week later, Zhao Tianyang looked at the tractor drawing on the table and stretched.

"I've finally finished the painting. I'll finish the gyroglider in a few days!"

After saying that, he stood up and prepared to go out and move around. He had been staying in the tent drawing for the past few days and felt stiff.