(This chapter is an over-the-top chapter, mostly some geographical knowledge and knowledge of guns and ammunition.) It's a foreshadowing for some of the following chapters, so you can skip it. But don't forget to bookmark! Vote! ）

Bertrand Berman, 45, was born in 1870 into a working-class family. His father was a good steam turbine mechanic, and his mother was a textile worker.

Bertrand Bellman developed a keen interest in mechanics from an early age due to environmental influences. Therefore, all the mechanical equipment in his hands will be disassembled, studied clearly, and then assembled back. And he will continue to improve the design of his predecessors.

So over time, he became a "secondary inventor" who disappeared from the public eye.

He is one of the talents that our second master focuses on recruiting this time. Because Bertrand Bellman at this time was only a withdrawn eccentric who liked to tinker with machinery and equipment, and he was not famous.

So there is no political obstacle to recruiting him. Besides, what the second master needs now is to be an excellent engineer, not an inventor.

(In his mind, there are blueprints for the design of excellent weapons in his previous life.) What more inventors do you need? As long as a good mechanical engineer and a good metal materials experimenter "appear" the design drawings in his mind. ）

Bertrand Bellman, who is not only familiar with firearms, but also understands the process recipes of the metals used to make firearms.

So he is now the second master, the most cost-effective recruit.

So that morning, with our second grandfather opening the way all the way to the dollar, Bertrand Bellman finally signed an employment agreement to go to China to serve Mr. Zhang Pengxiang for 10 years with a settling-in fee of $5,000 and a salary of $600 per month.

When the second master saw Bertrand Bellman, the last letter of the signature and drawing was put into writing, he was completely relieved.

Hand! ~~~ He finally became, the boss of this excellent engineer who was very famous in later reports!

After Bertrand Bellman signed another harsh confidentiality agreement, the second master mysteriously handed him a design drawing for the machine gun.

"A machine gun without a water-cooled jacket?"

The second master thought to himself~~~ In the end, he is a master of technology, and he knows what it is when he looks at the drawings.

Bellman was immediately caught by the new and forward-thinking design. excitedly looked at the design drawings of the "Hitler chainsaw" and the technical parameters of each accessory that the second master gave him.

"Can this machine gun be produced with the current metal materials and processing technology?"

The second master is very worried that the metal materials of this era are not up to standard. Asked Bellman worriedly.

"No problem at all! Mr. Eric! These stamped parts can be machined at the Colt plant. As for the steel for the barrel, then there is even more to worry about! Our rifle barrel steel is fully capable of doing the job, and some of the technical parameters are even much stronger. ”

Nonsense! The M1 rifle was produced using a metal process that was more than twenty years later.

Bellman had completely entered a state of "obsession", and his head was full of the feasibility of this new machine gun production process.

"Then if you are allowed to process and produce it alone, can you make it?"

The second master was also very excited at this time, if he could process hundreds of them before returning to China, no! As long as he can get 50 back, there will be no obstacle for the second master to enter Xinjiang.

"Sir, I can't do it alone, I need my co-workers to help me with some parts."

Bellman told the truth.

As soon as the second master heard it, he knew that like the factories in later generations, they used their spare time to do private work with the equipment of the factory.

"Alright! But keep it a secret! ”

"Don't worry about this! Mr! I only give them drawings of the parts to be machined. They won't know what the parts are. But ~~~"

Bellman paused, then added:

"There's a problem! Mr! Are you sure to use a 7.92 mm caliber barrel? I see that the bullet production line you purchased is all for 7.62mm caliber bullets. You know, this can put a lot of pressure on your logistics later! ”

The second master admired it in his heart, and he deserved to be a master of technology, and he saw the problem at a glance.

"Mr. Bellman! Just use a 7.92 mm barrel! In addition, I would like to ask you one thing, you have to transform the rifle production line and bullet production line I purchased into a 7.92mm production line within half a year. ”

The second master also had his own considerations, and he learned from the information of later generations that the 7.62mm bullet was completely designed according to the physique of the Caucasian race in Europe.

It has a lot of recoil and is not suitable for Asian physique. On the contrary, the 7.92mm bullet designed by the Germans is more suitable for Asians, because its recoil is much smaller than that of the 7.62mm bullet.

Then why didn't our second master just change the caliber of the machine gun, wouldn't it be more troublesome?

Because the second master knew that the Americans of later generations did this. And it ended in complete failure. Because the MG42 machine gun of the Germans was designed exclusively with 7.92 mm cartridges.

At that time, when the Americans changed it to fire a 7.62 mm caliber bullet, the strong and continuous recoil of the 7.62 mm bullet made no American GI able to shoot the modified machine gun stably.

That's the transformation of a country's military-industrial forces!

So the second master didn't have the idea of modifying the MG42 machine gun at all, as long as it was imitated as it was, it would be Amitabha!

(When the Germans designed the MG42, they combined a light machine gun with the convenience of a light machine gun.)

Under the body of the MG42, a tripod can still be mounted, and after being fixed with a tripod, it is a heavy machine gun with a range of 1000 meters. When using a bipod with a gun, it can be used as a light machine gun, with a range of about 800 meters.

The MG42 uses the Mauser Type 98 7.92mm bullet, and its rate of fire is very high, it can fire 1200 rounds in one minute, and the firepower is very fierce. Because the rate of fire is so fast that you can't hear the sound of a single bullet at all, and you hear the sound like a continuous chainsaw, so it was called "Hitler's chainsaw" during World War II. ）

The second master and Bellman worked together in a temporarily leased warehouse for three days, and finally explained the details of the transformation to this technical master. Then Bellman was left with the money for the purchase of materials for the production of machine guns, and it was completely left alone.

The second master is ready to start the robbery operation that he has been brewing for a long time! ~~~

The first thing to be robbed was grain, meat and cotton, followed by gold and silver (because the second master was going to set up his own mint. The experience of later generations told the second master that his financial system must not be in the hands of others. ）

Why is there no industrial equipment? Do you think the second master doesn't want to? But it's useless to think about it, because there are no ready-made industrial equipment, and they all have to be made by order, so they are not in the second master's robbery list.

The second master has already handed over the equipment purchase list to Diego Pitt, and it is much more convenient for Pete, the local snake, to come forward than the second master! The second master only needs to receive the goods after half a year.

But among these supplies, the focus is on grain and cotton. Needless to say, the importance of grain is that cotton is an essential material for keeping warm supplies in the north, and more importantly, cotton is the basic ingredient for the manufacture of bullet propellants, and it is an indispensable and important material for the production of ammunition.

Although cotton can be grown in Xinjiang, it will take several years to form a certain scale of planting. And cotton is an indispensable material in the war, and in the war, cotton is prohibited from being exported by various countries. So the second master plans to reserve more now.

Second Master Zhang stayed in Hartford for a week, and after arranging everything, he set off alone again.

There are five main areas of agricultural cultivation in the United States: (1) pasture and dairy belts in the northeast; (2) The north-central corn belt. (3) Great Plains Wheat Belt. (4) the southern cotton belt; (5) Pacific Coast Integrated Agricultural Zone.

After the second master sorted out the information of the later generations from his brain memory, he formulated the order of the robbery route.