Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

(In the previous chapter, I saw that many people mistook the bicycle made by the protagonist for a tricycle. Here I put a picture in the paragraph review. It is this kind of bicycle.)

Li Qinwu spent a lot of time marking various data. The parts that can be produced with ceramic steel have been completed. The next part is the parts that cannot be produced with ceramic steel, such as wheels, axles, chains, brake cables, rubber tires, etc.

These metal parts are not difficult to produce. The equipment Li Qinwu got from the Fengtian Arsenal can process them. As for the raw materials, railway rails can be burned into molten steel, and then pressed into discus using a stamping machine.

It's just that rubber is a little difficult to obtain. Li Qinwu wanted to make rubber-soled boots a long time ago. This kind of boots is more comfortable and wear-resistant than straw sandals, and has good plasticity. It is easy to make the high-soled military boots of later generations. Soldiers look very handsome in them, but due to the lack of rubber, the disciplinary army is still wearing cloth boots and leather boots.

Li Qinwu suddenly thought of someone, Li Jun.

Li Jun is now a popular figure around Long Yun. Long Yun asked him to serve in the General Staff Corps directly after graduation. He has been promoted to the rank of major before graduation, so it is certain that he can become a regiment commander right after graduating from the military academy.

The reason why Li Jun was mentioned is because in his previous life, Li Qinwu saw large tracts of rubber forests while traveling in Yunnan. The amount of this economic crop in Yunnan is almost as large as that of tea, but the planting location is further south, in Xishuangbanna.

Li Qinwu planned to contact Li Jun later and ask him to find a way to open up a channel to obtain rubber.

In this way, the design of the bicycle was completed and it could be produced after various raw materials arrived at the factory. However, his pen did not stop and he changed the drawing and continued drawing.

The next thing he was going to draw was a tricycle. The cargo-carrying capacity of a two-wheeled bicycle was limited, and no matter how much it was improved, it would not be much stronger. The main function of a bicycle was to improve people's travel efficiency, and a tricycle was the real vehicle for hauling cargo.

Taking into account the inconvenient transportation at that time and the difficult roads to travel, tricycles still had certain requirements for road conditions, so he designed two tricycles.

One type has a larger compartment that can be used in and around the city and can carry more cargo each time.

One type has a smaller carriage that can be used on some mountain roads and paths. The weight of the carriage is also relatively small, so it can be pushed out even if it gets stuck in the mud.

There is nothing special about the tricycle's design, except that the tires, axles and gears are compatible with those of a bicycle, which makes it easier for future production and for consumers to replace parts.

By the time Li Qinwu had finished marking all the data, it was already dark. He just lay down on the floor and took a nap. After getting up, he ate something and continued drawing.

He has been staying in his room these days and drawing non-stop. He has drawn rickshaws, two-wheeled cargo trailers pulled by manpower, wheelbarrows, and large trailers with shock-absorbing systems for horse-drawn carriages. He hopes to directly occupy the rickshaw market after starting production.

While he was drawing, Li Jin had already gone to the power plant to pay the bill. The factory was now powered on and had been completely cleaned by his clones. All the machines had been disassembled and maintained and were ready for use.

Li Qinwu took out various machines seized from the Fengtian Arsenal and asked his clones to assemble and design a production line to prepare for processing bicycle parts.

During this period, Li Qinwu opened a portal when he was not drawing, took out hundreds of tons of steel rails stored in the island space and piled them in the factory. He also opened the door to the area controlled by Li Changyin many times, found a high-quality coal mine, and transported hundreds of tons of coal back.

The first machine to be started in the steel plant is the coke oven. The coal is screened, crushed, compacted into coal cakes, put into the coke oven, and heated to 1000 degrees in a closed environment.

Then many chemical products can be produced, such as gasoline, diesel, methane, sulfuric acid, phenol, asphalt, mechanical lubricants, coal gas, paraffin, etc. Of course, these are not the most important. The most important product of this process is coke.

Coke is an important fuel and reducing agent for iron and steel making. With these fuels, the clones can return the rails to the furnace and burn them into molten steel. The molten steel is put into the mold, and the mold will vibrate to make the molten steel compact. After natural heat dissipation, it becomes steel bars, and finally it is pressed into the appropriate size by the rolling mill to produce bicycle parts. (Pure nonsense, the plot requires)

The first batch of qualified workpieces came off the production line eight days later. During the time he lived there, Li Qinwu opened the portal to the north every day to transport rails and coal. The rubber and steelmaking machines could not be stopped at will. If they were stopped, the machines would cause unnecessary wear and tear, and reheating the blast furnace would require a lot of resources.

For this purpose, Li Qinwu traveled between the two places and stored a large amount of coal and steel rails in the factory. At this time, a huge hill of coal had been piled up in a corner of the factory, and the two warehouses were also filled with steel rails. These things were enough to keep the steel plant running at full power for more than two months.

In addition, he also got a large amount of No. 2 ceramic steel powder from Hutou Mountain. These ceramic steel powders only need to be mixed with a certain proportion of water, put into a mold, and then pushed into the furnace to bake for an hour. When taken out, they become hard ceramic steel products.

The first batch of ceramic steel bicycle frames had been taken out of the oven by the clones and placed on the ground to dry naturally to obtain gray-black bicycle shells.

The clones then used the workpieces manufactured in other workshops to assemble them, and soon a bicycle without rubber tires was completed.

An avatar turns the gears and brakes of the bicycle. After the test, the bicycle labeled 000001 is placed on the rack. It will not be sold but will become a collection. Perhaps in the near future they will set up a museum, and this bicycle will have a different meaning.

Then came the second, third, and fourth cars, all waiting for the rubber tires to be in place, and then the first product of Julong Company could be on the market!

It’s a pity that Li Qinwu didn’t get to see the first bicycle roll off the production line because Lao Huotou and the workers arrived in Chongqing.

Li Qinwu has been busy running around these days and has to show up at Lao Huotou's place from time to time. Fortunately, there is no direct railway from Henan to Chongqing, so the second half of the journey of thousands of kilometers has to be traveled by truck. Li Qinwu has four trucks and he and Lao Huotou sit separately, so they have time to open the portal and do other things.

The four trucks stopped in the suburbs of Chongqing and met Li Jin who was pretending to greet them. Li Jin was wearing a neat suit and sitting in a black sedan, looking quite stylish.

Li Jin did not let everyone get off the car. He greeted everyone outside the car, assured them that they would be treated well when they came to the factory, and then he would take them to visit the factory to satisfy their curiosity, and then go to their residence to rest.

On the truck, the old fireman asked Li Qinwu: "Young man, is the guy named Li Jin the boss? Is he one of your relatives? Hey, he drives a car, so impressive!"

Li Qinwu smiled and nodded.

"Yes, he is my cousin. Our factory is called Julong Steel, a subsidiary of Julong Company. The boss of Julong Company is Li Xin, who is also my family member. He studied in the United States before and returned to China to invest after becoming rich. All the people in the company are from top to bottom. Master, if you like sedans, I will talk to my cousin and ask him to come over and provide you with a car."

The old fireman waved his hands quickly.

"That won't work. Don't ask for Boss Jin's car. You might offend him."

"Master, you are being polite. It's just a car. Julong Company can afford it. Besides, you are going to be the factory director. What's wrong with a factory director driving a car?"

As he spoke, Li Qinwu was still wondering, from which Japanese soldier did Li Jin steal the car? He remembered that there seemed to be another one, which he cleaned and gave to Lao Huotou to drive.

When Lao Huotou heard that he was going to be the factory director, he suddenly became anxious.

"I want to be the factory manager? No way! I don't have the ability to do that. No way!"

Li Qinwu was about to persuade him when the truck suddenly stopped and Li Qinwu rushed forward due to inertia.

He wondered if they had arrived, so he jumped off the truck to check. The next moment he saw that the factory gate was blocked by a group of farmers.