Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

The two parties reached an agreement and began to sign a series of complex contracts. Mr. Tang signed the contract and put his red fingerprint on it. Li Jin, the legal person of the factory, also put his fingerprint on the contract and then handed the contract to Li Qinwu.

Li Qinwu looked at the contract and couldn't stop smiling. Mr. Tang was an SS-level talent, and he got it right away! How cool! He carefully put the contract into his briefcase and asked someone to take it to the safe for safekeeping.

When Mr. Tang saw Li Jin handing the contract to Li Qinwu, he thought to himself, Li Qinwu is from the weapons design department and Li Jin is the factory director, so why does it seem like Li Jin is putting Li Qinwu first?

Everything was done. Li Qinwu said to Mr. Tang: "Mr. Tang, I have sent someone to prepare accommodation for you. How about I take you to the factory for a tour? Our factory has approved several major projects!"

Mr. Tang stood up and walked outside with Li Qinwu, chatting as they walked.

Mr. Tang asked: "Mr. Li, I read in the newspaper that Julong Steel Plant can already produce screws and nuts by itself. Is this true?"

Li Qinwu nodded and said, "It's true. Julong Steel has mass-produced various types of screws and nuts, as well as spring rivets. The quality of the springs is slightly worse, but the others are okay. Now the screw and nut market around Chongqing has been occupied by Julong Steel."

Li Qinwu simply took him to the screw and nut workshop and let him see the semi-automatic workshop where hundreds of screws and nuts were produced every minute.

Mr. Tang grabbed a handful of screws and murmured the words "industrial rice, industrial rice" in a trembling voice.

He told Li Qinwu that the factory where he worked had stopped working because Japan had cut off spare parts due to the Sino-Japanese War, and one-third of the machines in the factory had stopped working.

Li Qinwu also sighed in his heart. This is what it feels like to be strangled by others. He doesn't even have the capital to turn against others.

He immediately assigned a task to Li Xin, who was filming Journey to the West on the southeast coast, and asked him to talk to those machinery factories to see if he could sell the spare parts of the Julong Steel Plant. Mr. Tang was truly a talented person. As soon as he arrived, he opened up a way to make money for Li Qinwu.

Next, Li Qinwu took Mr. Tang to see the coking oven and two 10-ton steelmaking furnaces.

"Mr. Tang, please look, these two steelmaking furnaces produce molten steel day and night, producing about 120 tons of steel every day! However, this output is too small and can no longer keep up with the development of Julong Steel Plant. Now we are building a 100-ton steelmaking electric furnace!"

Li Qinwu drove Mr. Tang to a new factory area. Originally there was a large forest here, but now all the trees have been cut down, the ground has been hardened, and two huge facilities have been erected.

Li Qinwu pointed to the two facilities and explained them one by one.

"This is a 100-ton steelmaking furnace plant. Our plant mainly consists of a working area on the first floor and explosion-proof areas on the second and third floors. The explosion-proof areas on the second and third floors are separated by three walls half a meter thick. We hope that they can withstand attacks from Japanese aerial bombs of more than 500kg. We don't know if the Japanese will attack here, so we focus on being prepared.

In addition, the 100-ton steelmaking furnace will use electric furnaces to make steel. Electric furnace steelmaking is more stable than coal-fired steelmaking, and the quality of steel is better, but it consumes a lot of electricity, at least 500 degrees of electricity per ton of steel. For this reason, we have built a new thermal power plant, and the construction site over there is the thermal power plant facility! "

This is the largest project under construction under Li Qinwu, a 100-ton electric furnace and thermal power plant.

The raw materials for steelmaking at the Julong Steel Plant are all high-quality steel grown in the open air on the ground. Using coke to burn molten steel is a bit inefficient. In comparison, it is much faster to use an electric furnace directly.

However, electric furnaces consume a lot of electricity, so we had to build a thermal power plant. Anyway, the equipment of the thermal power plant was borrowed from a French rubber factory, so it came in handy.

After visiting the new factory, Li Qinwu took Mr. Tang to see the bicycle workshop, ceramic steel daily necessities workshop, lathe workshop, engine workshop, water pump workshop, gun scope laboratory, artillery fuze laboratory, bullet workshop, and Spitfire-2 submachine gun assembly workshop.

Mr. Tang was constantly shocked. This factory covered an area of ​​nearly 2000 acres, half the size of the Fengtian Arsenal. It was a huge factory with such strong industrial strength. Mr. Tang had not expected this.

Before coming here, he thought that the Julong Steel Plant was just a small factory with about 10 factory buildings and one or two steel furnaces. He didn't expect that the industry was so rich.

Li Qinwu stuffed a submachine gun into his arms and introduced it, "This is the latest weapon product of Julong Steel Plant, the Flamebreaker-2. The previous Sweeper submachine gun had too many problems, so we had to design a new product and eliminate it.

This Flamethrower-2 is much better than the Sweeper, with a more compact and reliable body, and the price is not much different. It costs about 20 dollars, and we sell it to the public for 25 dollars. The factory is now expanding production, and in the future there will be 7 large factories dedicated to the production of Flamethrower-2, which will become the main weapon sold by Julong Steel Plant to the military. "

Mr. Tang didn't know much about the price of the weapons, and didn't realize what 25 dollars for a submachine gun meant. He just relied on his engineer's intuition to think that the gun was very good. After all, the simpler the mechanical structure, the more reliable it is.

Li Qinwu took a few boxes of bullets and took Mr. Tang to the shooting range for some shooting. When Mr. Tang came out of the shooting range, his face was full of smiles. No man can refuse a gun.

Finally, Li Qinwu took Mr. Tang to a special workshop with guards on duty. As soon as Mr. Tang entered the workshop, his eyes lit up. He pointed at the parts lying on the lathe and shouted, "This is the transmission shaft, shock absorber spring, gearbox, and that big thing can't be a cast iron engine casing! Oh my God, have you started making cars already?!"

Li Qinwu nodded proudly.

“Yes, we are trying to produce car parts, and these are the finished products.

But Mr. Tang, I have to pour a bucket of cold water on you. This thing is made of ordinary steel, and its strength is not very good. When you take it out for testing, I am afraid it will disappoint people. So Mr. Tang, don't have too many illusions. Only down-to-earth can be true. "

Mr. Tang nodded, and said with some relief: "It doesn't matter. The charcoal car has low power, so it can work with parts of lower quality."

"Oh? A charcoal cart. Did I hear a charcoal cart? Was it what I imagined?"

A sudden voice sounded behind the two of them. Li Qinwu and Mr. Tang turned around at the same time and saw Colin standing at the door of the workshop.

Li Qinwu introduced the two men, “Mr. Tang, this is Mr. Colin, an American automotive engineer, whom I hired to do automotive research.

Mr. Colin, this is Mr. Tang, an engineer from Renault Motors, whom I hired to do research on charcoal cars.

"Hello Mr. Colin."

Mr. Tang took a step forward and stretched out his hand to shake the other party's hand, but Mr. Colin just stared at the outstretched hand with a cold look.

The atmosphere was a bit awkward. Colin snorted, stretched out his hand indifferently, and shook hands with Mr. Tang in a very perfunctory manner.

Mr. Tang withdrew his hand, and his gentle expression turned cold. If others didn't give him face, he naturally wouldn't give others face.

When Li Qinwu saw Colin's performance, his face fell. He knew why Colin was so hostile to Mr. Tang. The United States always regarded Mr. Tang as a competitor, commonly known as someone who was stealing someone's job.