"Now back to your question...... Yes, I wasn't ready to go head-to-head with the president of Grumman, my brother. So, I must find a determined, reliable, and capable ally to help me carry out this plan, and that ally is you, the sole heir to the Clumber-Haytham family. I'm going to weaken his prestige and status, and you're going to revive the family business, and this standard sniper rifle bid is a great opportunity to kill two birds with one stone! In this way, as long as the new gun you design meets the requirements of the colonel, I will personally fund 6 million kroner to the Clumber-Haysen family to upgrade the existing factory facilities and production equipment, and the patent for the new gun nominally belongs to the Clumber-Haysen family. ”

On a gravel path in this private estate, the fat vice president hooked Weiss's shoulder and walked and chatted, and his words and deeds showed goodwill.

"If our new gun convinces the colonel, but not the bidding committee, you won't go back on your investment of 6 million crowns, right?" Weiss confirmed.

"Absolutely not!" The fat vice president said categorically, "Even if you regret missing this opportunity, with your ability and my connections, we will fight a turnaround battle sooner or later, so this investment is definitely worth it!" ”

"So, this Iron Alliance is an opportunity I can't afford to miss?"

The fat vice president looked at Weiss with concern: "At my age, my thinking is basically solidified, and my potential has been exhausted, and if I want to break through the constraints and make a difference, I must sincerely cooperate with a treasure with unlimited potential like you." I represent the experience and wealth accumulated in the past, and you represent the hope and opportunities of the present and the future, we can only obtain long-term benefits together by trusting each other and supporting each other! ”

After thinking about it, Weiss felt that the fat vice president's new proposal was indeed feasible. Although the Grumman Group is likely to take some kind of retaliatory measures against the Clumber-Haysen family after losing the bid for the standard sniper rifle, this concern is not enough for him to give up this rare opportunity, not to mention that the statement of the president of the Grumman Group at the luncheon that day does not erase the Grumman Group's various behaviors of suppressing and excluding the Clumber-Haysen family over the years, nor does it mean that the two sides can really live in peace from now on. As the so-called truth is in the hands of the strong, if you want not to be crushed and swallowed up by business competitors, the most effective way is to continue to grow your strength!

Given that the fate of the Clumber-Haysom family was at stake, Weiss had to consult Daddy Cheap before making a final decision. He wrote down the incident into a text message, and asked the fat vice president to send a reliable person to the city of Somsonas in person, and then bring the reply back.

From Aurea to Somsonas City, if it is a train to a horse-drawn carriage, it will take at least three or four days to go back and forth, but fortunately, the fat vice president is quite well-connected, and he got a "special seat" on the military's flying patrol ship, and the cronies he sent only need two days to travel to and from Somsonas City.

While waiting for Daddy's reply, Weiss returned to the military academy, training normally during the day, and fighting at night to draw the design drawings of the new sniper rifle. This seems to be a simple gourd to draw a scoop, but in fact it is not simple at all. Weiss is not a professional firearms designer after all, his former profession and personal interests and hobbies have made him familiar with most of the firearms and weapons stored in the military museum, drawing sketches of parts from memory, and then repeatedly calculating and correcting them to obtain a more accurate technical drawing, and then making parts one by one in a semi-manual and semi-mechanical way, and in the process of assembling and testing, it is necessary to make repeated modifications and adjustments.

After staying up for two nights, Weiss basically completed the overall design of the new gun, and asked the fat vice president to prepare several specific specifications of 9mm caliber barrels and bullets. On the third day, the letter from the wax seal was delivered, and Weiss opened it with apprehension, only to see that the cheap father had written several pages of paper, to the effect that your boy has become an adult, and as the heir of the family, he should take on the responsibility of being at the helm, so it is up to you to decide where to go, and finally, no matter what decision you make, the whole family will support you unconditionally and be your most solid backing.

Weiss read the letter several times to make sure he hadn't missed important words or obscure content, and then, with a full set of technical drawings, followed the fat vice president's man back to the private estate.

After finalizing a few details of the cooperation, Weiss and Vice President Fat formalized the so-called "Iron Alliance", and then he squinted at the Iron Alliance.

The identification system of friend or foe that jumps in front of you, and the corresponding imaginary box is indeed green and correct.

Weiss was relieved to hand over the design drawings.

When he got the design drawings of the new gun, the fat vice president quickly swept them a few times, and couldn't help but be amazed: "The colonel gave us a week, and you only used two days!" I can't think of a better word to compliment you than 'genius'! ”

In order not to let the other party find out his own details, Weiss deliberately said: "This is actually an earlier idea, a lot of technical data has been calculated, but I haven't had time to get a sample gun yet." If you really want to design a rifle from scratch, it's hard to do it in a few months! ”

The fat vice president handed the drawings to his deputy and motioned for him to quickly arrange for the gunsmiths to build guns according to the drawings.

Weiss looked at the time: "I'll go back to the military academy first, wait for the gun to be made, and then I'll come back." ”

"Don't worry, I've already taken a day off for you." The fat vice president said, "If nothing else, after lunch, the sample gun should come out." ”

"So fast?" Weiss was surprised. With the efficiency of the Clumberg-Haysen gun factory, it would take at least two days to turn a drawing into a prototype, even in a hurry!

The fat vice president saw through Weiss's thoughts, and he said a little proudly: "Nephew Long, don't dare to say anything else, I still have a lot of ways to organize production, schedule production capacity, and manage workers." Otherwise, he wouldn't have let me stay in this prominent position for so many years. Again...... The production method of your gun workshop is still in a very primitive stage, and the production efficiency may not even reach a quarter of the Grumman Group's new production line. So, more than half of the 6 million kroner I invested will be used to buy a new production line, so that you can complete the order for standard sniper rifles, even with the existing manpower! ”

According to the agreement, as soon as the new gun passed Colonel Borgweyne's inspection, the first batch of this huge amount of money would be transferred to the account of the Clumber-Haysen family to upgrade the existing production building of the gun factory.

The wait was not long, and the two drank two pots of tea leisurely in the tea room. Compared with the peculiar and exquisite Ancha of the second son, Lu Aoff, the fresh and elegant tea here is obviously more in line with Weiss's taste. During the casual conversation, he did not ask why the fat vice president was so confident in his new gun, but lamented that the previously made Dragon sniper rifle would be hidden for a long time. From the perspective of the modern war history of the earth's civilization, the bolt rifles represented by Mosin-Nagant and Mauser K98 have the advantages of high stability and high accuracy when used as sniper rifles, but the hard flaws in the continuity of firepower have gradually withdrawn from the front line of the army, and they have been replaced by various semi-automatic and automatic sniper rifles. Colonel Borgwig's own experience in warfare and the development of the equipment of potential adversaries put accuracy and range at the top of the new sniper rifle's design performance, which is both reasonable and reasonable, but if Weiss can be given enough time, he can prove to the colonel that in most battlefield conditions, the Dragon sniper rifle with semi-automatic shooting capability has a comprehensive advantage against the bolt sniper rifle with a slightly longer range.

Based on various considerations, Weiss did not insist on recommending the Dragon sniper rifle, and in this regard, he and the fat vice president had a good tacit understanding.

As the fat vice president said, after lunch, the first new sample gun was presented in front of them. Of course, with Weiss's semi-professional design ability, it is almost impossible to put it in place at one time, fortunately, the private estate of the fat vice president has professional gun-making equipment and professional firearms technicians, and the following afternoon, they repeatedly debugged, and the scrapped parts can probably be piled up in a wooden box, based on this, and when night falls, they used the sample gun for the first test firing, the bolt, magazine, trigger, safety and other parts are working well, but the long-distance shooting effect is not ideal.

After dinner, Weiss investigated the possible problems one by one, and after solving two small airtight loopholes, the tester achieved a 2,000-foot shooting at the indoor closed shooting range and seven out of ten shots at the humanoid target, followed by 2,500 feet and 3,000-foot shooting, and the results also reached six out of ten shots and four shots out of ten.

As the saying goes, there is no harm without contrast. The same tester, when shooting under the same conditions, used the Grumman M3.2S sniper rifle in service with the Ulster Free Federal Army to shoot at 2,000 feet and 2,500 feet to shoot at the humanoid target only with five hits out of ten shots and two hits out of ten shots at 3,000 feet, which fully proved the notoriety of "Grumman burning sticks"!