"Hello, Director Li!"

"Well hello."

"Has Director Li eaten yet?"

"Yeah, I ate it."

"Director Li is here to inspect our work!"

"I'm not the factory director. I'm the director of the weapons design department."

"Okay, Director Li. No problem, Director Li."

Li Qinwu entered the Julong Steel Plant and greeted the workers coming and going. The number of employees at the Julong Steel Plant has now exceeded a thousand, and the factory wall has been expanded. Dozens of new factory buildings are being built, and many of them are connected by rails. Raw materials and products are transported by non-powered rail cars. The Julong Steel Plant is already one of the largest factories near Chongqing.

Currently, the industries of Julong Steel Plant are very extensive and involve a wide range of areas. In addition to coking, steelmaking, steel rolling, oil refining, etc., the baking workshops for various ceramic steel products account for 60% of the factory's production capacity.

What remains are some experimental factories, such as lathes and drilling machines that are designed and produced independently, as well as motor groups and bearing workshops that are closer to automobiles.

We did make some products recently, high-power water pumps, and sold 20 of them to the Chongqing government. But they only paid half of the money, and the balance has not been paid yet. No one knows if we can get it back. If not, Li Xiao can only bring people to ask for it.

Li Qinwu also built a new electronic laboratory. Currently, only the factory building has been built, and there is no equipment inside. Li Qinwu hopes that the electronic laboratory can make diodes, batteries, telegraphs, radios, speakers, light bulbs and other items. However, this is not possible yet. The only thing to do is to build the laboratory first and verify whether the technology can work in the laboratory. This is also the first step.

Li Qinwu bypassed these workshops and came to a factory building at the very edge of the factory. This factory building was almost completely closed off from the outside world. It was surrounded by sandbags and there were many large water tanks with the word "fire protection" written on them.

There are guards with guns standing guard at the factory gate. They are all Li Qinwu's clones. A factory that is guarded by clones can only mean that it is very important. This factory is the latest bullet production workshop built by the Julong Steel Plant.

The walls of the bullet production workshop are half a meter thick and are made of No. 1 ceramic steel and steel bars to prevent explosions from injuring people.

Li Qinwu nodded to the two guards, who handed him an anti-static suit and let him in. Li Qinwu put on the anti-static suit in the waiting area and then walked into the bullet workshop.

There are hundreds of compartments built with ceramic steel concrete in the bullet workshop. There is only one workbench and one worker in each compartment. If an explosion occurs during the work of the worker, it will only hurt himself and will not hurt the workers next to him.

Li Qinwu stopped behind a worker and observed his work.

This worker, like Li Qinwu, was wearing anti-static clothing, which was intended to prevent explosions caused by static electricity and to prevent workers from stealing bullets.

Under the watchful eyes of Li Qinwu, the worker grabbed a .50ae bullet from the bucket next to him, clamped it on the machine, pulled down a handle next to the machine, and a pliers pressed down to clamp the bullet's warhead. The worker then pushed the handle upward, and the clamp clamped the bullet's warhead and pulled it up, separating the bullet from the cartridge case.

The worker empties the charge from the shell into a wooden bowl on a workbench, and the shell is transferred to the next round of processing.

In the next process, the cartridge case is inserted into the primer removal machine in reverse. The workers also press the handle and the primer is pushed out by the machine. At this point, the bullet, cartridge case, propellant and primer are separated.

After each worker unloads 50 rounds of bullets, he must send the gunpowder to the next link. This is done to reduce the amount of gunpowder accumulated on their hands, so that even if an accidental explosion occurs, the consequences will be reduced.

Li Qinwu happened to see that the worker had finished disassembling fifty bullets. He put a rubber cover on the wooden bowl and placed the bowl in a grid behind him.

After a while, someone came with a wooden cart to collect the bowls. When he saw the wooden bowl in the grid, he took it away, put it on the cart and pushed it to the next stage.

Li Qinwu followed the cart worker to the next workshop. The middle of the workshop was blocked by a one-meter-thick ceramic steel wall. After pushing open the door and going in, there was a bullet production line inside.

The cart worker will pour the propellant into the gunpowder collector, and the production line will automatically assemble new rifle bullets. One by one, the black and gray bullet shells will be pressed with primers, filled with gunpowder, and pressed with bullets. They will flow onto the conveyor belt, wait for manual screening of defective products, package them in paper boxes, and then packaged in standard ceramic steel boxes with 1000 rounds.

There are more than 200 people in the bullet factory now, 9% of whom are engaged in bullet assembly. 5 Mauser rifle bullets are produced every day, and this number is still increasing. The old mechanic is debugging the equipment.

However, Li Qinwu felt that this number was too low. They could not fully consume the ammunition produced by the Desert Eagle. Li Qinwu planned to continue to expand the workers in the bullet factory, recruit more people to assemble the bullets, and then add more production lines.

As for the Mauser rifle bullets produced now, he plans to sell them to see if he can open up the arms market.

The Mauser rifle bullets he produced used ceramic steel shells. This thing was light, and the weight of each bullet was reduced, making it more competitive than similar products.

He planned to open up the Sichuan Army's military procurement market first. The first batch of bullets produced would be 6.8mm Mauser rifle bullets. The Sichuan Army was equipped with a large number of Yuannian rifles, which fired this type of rifle bullet. Li Qinwu felt that selling bullets to them would be a good way to increase revenue.

Li Qinwu walked out of the bullet production workshop with satisfaction. With the Desert Eagle that produced bullets, he could not only produce his own ammunition, but also sell it!

After inspecting the bullet production workshop, Li Qinwu planned to go to the secret shooting range to find Hu Xiaoming.

After all, the intermediate-power rifle bullet he was in charge of researching was a new thing and needed to be kept confidential, so he built a fully enclosed shooting range for Hu Xiaoming so that he could concentrate on testing the trajectory. In order to speed up the progress, he also arranged more than 10 clones for Hu Xiaoming to cooperate with the work.

According to Hu Xiaoming's clone, Hu Xiaoming has fired tens of thousands of bullets for ballistics testing during this period and has studied many calibers of bullets. To be honest, given the cost, no warlord other than Li Qinwu would fund Hu Xiaoming's research on intermediate-power rifle bullets.

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