Picking up the shovel that was set aside, Liu Gen scooped up some coal and threw it into the boiler of the steam engine, and soon the fire was blazing.

Liu Gen kept shoveling coal into the boiler, as if he didn't know that he was tired at all, and Foreman Qi and the others looked at all this, and they didn't have any idea of wanting to stop it. Liu Gen is the person who designed the screw forming machine, this kind of thing is naturally for him to do, if it were not for this reason, then I am afraid that the work of shoveling coal into the boiler will be robbed by many people in the lathe department.

The coal in the boiler was constantly burning, and soon the machine was up and running, and the formed steel was put on the machine. It has lived up to everyone's expectations, and under everyone's attention, the rapid forming of mechanical screws is just due to the problem of power, and the speed of mechanical screw forming is not fast! But even so, it is enough to satisfy everyone present, as long as they can produce machine screws, as for speed, there is not much requirement.

There is no requirement, and it is also due to the fact that there is no way, with the conditions of the arsenal, you can only use a steam engine as power, how high do you want to be?

"We succeeded! We did it! Foreman Qi looked at the machine tool that was constantly working and shouted with some excitement.

"It worked! It worked! ”

"We can build machine tools too!"

"In the future, we will no longer be short of machine screws."

“……”

With the opening of Foreman Qi, everyone in the lathe department shouted one after another, everyone knows how hard it is to manufacture this screw forming machine, and now it is successfully manufactured, and there is no problem with the work, how can we not be excited? Soon some excited workers came to Liu Gen's side, they threw Liu Gen up hard, and caught Liu Gen, and so on.

After nearly half an hour of commotion, everyone returned to their respective jobs and devoted themselves to their work.

Liu Gen also took some workers to devote themselves to the manufacture of the bullet reloading machine, and was affected by the successful work of the screw forming machine, and everyone's work enthusiasm was very high. After a whole day, the work of the bullet reloader was pushed forward again, and it was thought that in less than two days, the bullet reloader could be successfully manufactured.

After dinner, Liu Gen inspected the machine tool in the lathe department to avoid problems with the machine tool affecting the work. After there was no shortage of machine screws, all the machine screws that had problems on some machine tools were replaced and replaced with machine screws produced by the lathe department itself.

Liu Gen has also carefully checked the mechanical screws produced by the screw forming machine, and the accuracy is still very good. There is still a lot of room for improvement in machine screws with such precision, but for the arsenal, machine screws with such precision are enough.

However, Liu Gen still has worries in his heart, the steel used to produce machine screws is rail steel, which is not too good steel, and Liu Gen is not sure how long the machine screws produced with this steel can last. If there is a better steel use, then the machine screws produced by the screw forming machine should last long enough.

Coming to the corner of the lathe department, Liu Gen was ready to squint for a while, during this time, in order to manufacture machine tools, he slept late every day and got up very early. Liu Gen's physical fitness is good, but he has always maintained such a living habit, and his sleep is seriously insufficient. It's just that Liu Gen also knows that he can't rest, and he needs to manufacture these two machine tools in the shortest possible time, so that the arsenal can reload more bullets to support the soldiers on the front line.

Whenever Liu Gen was sleepy, he would walk out of the lathe department and wash his face with some ice water, which could make Liu Gen persevere.

Now that the manufacture of the bullet reloading machine has reached a certain stage, the next work will be much simpler, which will make Liu Gen have the idea of resting. It's just that Liu Gen also knows that he can't rest for too long, and after the workers go back to rest, he works for another two hours, and after another three hours, the workers will continue to work, that is, Liu Gen only has three hours of rest at most.

"Huh? Hole worker, why are you here? As soon as he came to the corner, Liu Gen saw Kong Jue.

Kong Jue was lying on the ground, and the charcoal pen in his hand was constantly drawing, as if he was drawing a sketch of something. It seems that because Kong Jue was too engrossed and couldn't notice Liu Gen's arrival, and seeing Kong Jue so focused, Liu Gen simply came to Kong Jue's side, wanting to see what Kong Jue was painting.

Coming to Kong Jue's side, Liu Gen looked carefully, and after checking for a while, a trace of surprise appeared on his face, Kong Jue was actually designing a machine tool? It's just that Liu Gen can see that there are certain mistakes in the drawings drawn by Kong Jue, but Kong Jue's thinking is very positive, and he only needs to correct the existing problems, so this machine tool will not have too many problems. As for the data of the machine tool, it requires a lot of calculations.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? Kong Jue looked at the drawings he had drawn carefully, muttering in a low voice.

Kong Jue knew that there were certain problems with the machine tool he designed, but he could not find the place where there was a problem, and as for using charcoal, it was because he knew that the machine tool he designed still had some problems, and he was reluctant to waste paper and ink easily. As a top student at Yenching University, Kong Jue has a lot of choices, and his family background is also good, so he can choose to go abroad. There is no need to come to the arsenal to suffer.

But Kong Jue gave up the idea of going abroad, gave up the privileged life at home, and chose to join the Eighth Route Army, devoting himself to killing the enemy to serve the country and save the country! Kong Jue also entered the national army before, but there, he couldn't see much hope, retreat, keep retreating, keep retreating, can retreat save the country? Kong Jue didn't want to retreat, he knew that there were many people who didn't want to retreat and joined the army, they were to kill the enemy and kill the devil! And not for the sake of retreat!

After joining the Eighth Route Army, because Kong Jue was a high-achieving student, he was assigned to work in the Arsenal Lathe Department.

At that time, the arsenal had just been established, and Kong Jue was not a student of related majors. At the beginning, Kong Jue was a little reluctant to stay in the arsenal, he wanted to go to the front line and fight the devils. But in the end, the conversation with Director Cheng made Kong Jue give up the idea of going to the front line, and as a top student of Yenching University, he could only play a greater role by staying in the rear.

What's more, Kong Jue has not experienced professional military training, how can he kill devils on the front line? With courage and blood?

In the arsenal, Kong Jue was trained, and he continued to study seriously, and finally became the most skilled group of people in the lathe department. Kong Jue is very familiar with the machine tools of the lathe department, these are like his children, and no abnormality can escape his eyes. After seeing the machine tool designed by Liu Gen, Kong Jue joined the team that made the screw forming machine.

In the manufacture of screw forming machines, everyone has experienced a lot of difficulties, but they have all been overcome one by one. In the manufacturing process, Kong Jue also found a lot of problems, now the lathe department can use manual manufacturing screw forming machine, with this experience, we may also be able to manufacture other machine tools.

But Kong Jue knows that there are many places that can be improved, the meaning of the existence of machine tools is to carry out large-scale production, when the machine tools reach a certain number, the formation of scale effect, then the production efficiency is very high. It's good to make a machine tool with hand-polished parts, but it's also too inefficient, and Kong Jue wants to change that.

In order to solve this problem, Kong Jue thought of designing a machine tool that can produce various components, with the production efficiency of the machine tool, as long as such a machine tool can be manufactured, then the required parts can be produced, and the workers only need to assemble these parts. The simple drawings drawn by Kong Jue on the ground were the product of his time during this time, but after discovering that there was a problem with the drawings he designed, he was trapped here and did not make much progress.

Looking at Kong Jue, who was almost in a state of madness, Liu Gen was a little silent, he didn't know that Kong Jue was designing the machine tool physique during this time, if he knew, he would definitely choose to help Kong Jue. With Liu Gen here, Kong Jue's design of machine tool drawings will definitely be much smoother, but because Liu Gen is too busy every day, he has no energy to pay attention to Kong Jue, so he naturally doesn't know about it.

Liu Gen squatted down, stretched out his fingers, and seriously pointed out the problems on the drawings.

Although Kong Jue's drawings on the ground are very simple and a little blurry, others may not be able to see this drawing, but in the eyes of Liu Gen and others, they can clearly see what the drawings drawn by Kong Jue are.

"Here? Over here? A slight blur appeared in Kong Jue's eyes, and after a while, his eyes became clear, and he understood!

Kong Jue raised his head, saw Liu Gen beside him, and said gratefully: "Captain Liu, thank you, it's not for your guidance, I'm afraid it will take me a while to find the problem." ”

"No thanks, no need to be so polite, just call me roots." Liu Gen said with a smile.

Kong Jue nodded and wanted to get up, but as soon as he moved, he felt that his whole body was numb, and after lying on the ground for so long, how could his body not be numb?

Seeing that Kong Jue was about to fall to the ground, Liu Gen hurriedly reached out and grabbed Kong Jue, and slowly helped Kong Jue up, "Move slowly, just wait for your body to move." ”

It didn't take too long for Kong Jue to recover, and only after he returned to normal did Liu Gen let go of his hand. Kong Jue was a little excited, after getting Liu Gen's guidance, knowing the mistakes on his drawings, he wanted to go back directly to draw all the drawings to avoid any more problems. But now that Liu Gen is still there, no matter how low Kong Jue's EQ is, he knows that he needs to thank Liu Gen well, after all, it is not Liu Gen's guidance, if he wants to understand, it should take some time.

"Neko, thank you." Kong Jue looked at Liu Gen and thanked him seriously.

Liu Gen looked at Kong Jue, who looked a little unnatural, and could understand Kong Jue's state, Kong Jue is also a genius, a genius, there must be certain defects. Noticing the excitement in Kong Jue's eyes, Liu Gen said with a smile: "Don't thank me, if you really want to thank me, then go back and draw the drawings of this machine tool as soon as possible." ”

"Good! I'll go right away! As soon as Liu Gen's words fell, Kong Jue ran away excitedly.

Seeing this, Liu Gen's face was full of smiles.

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