"I heard that you can now produce hundreds of official rifles per day?" Lin Xiao is most concerned about this.

"Pretty much...... Just a few days just reached this capacity, let me tell you, these workers are amazing, not only can endure hardships, but also very smart, at the beginning of all to teach by hand, they learn while doing, a few days will be very skilled, the pass rate of this parts, day by day straight up. Cao Jiawen said happily.

"Actually, this is not Cao Gong in place, decomposing such a complex production process into a simple process that workers can understand, and rushing to night school every night to explain, otherwise how can the progress be so fast."

Hou Wen, an intern standing behind him, couldn't help but interject.

"Yes, Cao Gong is really hard, but you have to pay attention to your body." Lin Xiao said with concern.

"It's nothing, don't worry, I'm fine,"

Cao Jiawen smiled faintly and said, "There is only this stupid way at the moment, after all, their cultural foundation is too thin, and there is still a long way to go to train a few skilled workers who are familiar with the entire process...... I calculated that at this rate, I could only produce rifles equipped with one regiment per month, and I would have to do it faster...... Aren't those independent battalions of yours screaming and waiting for the rice to come out of the pot, if I don't fight hard, the soldiers will have to fight the Qing army with big swords and spears on the battlefield. ”

"That being said, in short, you have to pay attention to rest, the matter of front-line equipment, don't rush in a day or two, your health is not a trivial matter,"

Lin Xiao said and turned his head to Lu Haisheng and the others, "A few of you, you must be brave to shoulder the heavy burden, be diligent, and share a little more for Cao Gong and them." ”

"They are diligent, if it weren't for them, how could I operate such a complex machine tool alone? I didn't do it alone. ”

Cao Jiawen said with a smile, he is very satisfied with these young people, although they are not mechanical majors, but the three of them are willing to endure hardships, often ponder, and will soon be able to operate CNC machine tools proficiently.

"That's good, do it well, when you're done with this, I'll talk to Lao Chen, let you go to the fleet to do it, and the mission of conquering the four oceans in the future will depend on you."

"Understand, commander-in-chief, rest assured, we must make a screw, where we need to screw it."

Before Lu Haisheng and Ma Xiaoyang could answer, Hou Wen, who had sharp teeth and sharp mouths, straightened his chest and rushed to answer, which immediately attracted the laughter of the other two.

"Eh, Team Lin, I don't agree with this,"

Cao Jiawen heard Lin Xiao say this, frowned and complained, "It's not that I want to delay their future, I can't do without them here right now, let them go, I can't turn around here." ”

"Uh...... Okay, then let's discuss this matter when Lao Chen comes back. ”

Lin Xiao smiled embarrassedly, what Cao Gong said was also the truth, there were only a few young people who had mastered modern knowledge, and they all poached them, and there was only one commander left here, and he really couldn't do it.

"Anyway, I'll tell you, don't be arbitrary, it's important to fight, and my industrial base here is not important? If you don't give me people, don't blame me for not being able to make this and that. ”

Cao Jiawen pursed his lips and said angrily, what is the most important thing in the seventeenth century? Knowledge-based talents!

"Okay, it's up to you, people will definitely leave it for you,"

Lin Xiao smiled and diverted the topic, "By the way, has the problem of reloading bullets been solved?" ”

With the increase in personnel and guns, the consumption of bullets is increasing.

"Come with me and see for yourself."

Cao Jiawen said and took Lin Xiao and his party to another workshop.

It is a slightly smaller workshop, with a door at the front and back, and more than 30 workers are sitting in front of their respective operating stations at the entrance.

The first thing I saw was a dozen or so workers sitting around a long desk, and when they saw Lin Xiao and them coming in, they just raised their heads and smiled, and their hands were still busy without stopping.

Lin Xiao took a closer look and found that they were carefully coating the paste-like thundermercury into small copper caps, pressing it with a thin copper sheet in the shape of three claws, and finally coating it with a thin layer of shellac.

At the second desk, more than a dozen workers are picking up a pile of recovered bullet casings, picking out the shells that are no longer suitable for reloading one by one, and throwing them into a collection box; In front of the third desk, more than a dozen people are skillfully pressing fire caps into the tails of qualified bullet casings, and then applying sealant.

"Is this all handmade?" Lin Xiao said in surprise.

"Yes, this is no way, because it is simple, but these processes have little impact on the ballistic accuracy of the bullet, and there is nothing to be done by hand...... Machines are required for other processes. ”

From time to time, workers came here to load the shells with the caps into a square box, and then moved them to the next to several machines inside, which were to fill the shells with the weighed gunpowder and paint the inner surface of the shells, waiting for the final process of installing the warheads.

"What about the warheads? Is it brass buckshot? Production is going well, right? Lin Xiao knows very well that the most important thing for reloading bullets is the production of warheads.

Cao Jiawen pointed to the front, led them to turn these cases, and came to a small punch, in the rhythmic sound of the machine, one by one three-clawed fire platform was stamped, and the other punch was producing copper caps.

Bypassing these two punches, you will come to the depths of the workshop, where there are several steaming machines side by side, and more than a dozen workers are nervously operating in front of the machines, and there are several small pools next to the workbenches.

Lin Xiao didn't understand the specific process, so after picking up a bullet and observing it carefully, he turned around and asked:

"Is this just pouring molten liquid lead into the warhead casing? The warhead casing is copper, right? How is it produced? ”

"Yes, what you see now is the second half of the process, that is, simple lead melting, cooling, grinding, in fact, the production process of copper warhead shells is more complicated, it needs to go through several processes such as blanking punching, appearance picking, annealing, pickling, punching, flaring, etc., the extension processing of copper strip is the most difficult to master, and the machine must be used to ensure the pass rate of the finished product."

Cao Jiawen pointed to several other machines in the corner, where another group of workers was busy in the form of an assembly line.

"So a small bullet has such a complicated process?" Lin Xiao sighed, if there was no black technology, this fixed-loading bomb would not be able to be made at all.

"That's not it, it's not quite simple, the shells are ready-made, otherwise, the production of shells is more complicated, with the current industrial level, even if it is barely made, the pass rate of the finished product is terrible...... Don't go over there, do you? That's the final step - the assembly and tightening of the warhead and shells. ”

Cao Jiawen pointed to a hand-cranked assembly machine in another corner of the workshop and said.

"Just that machine? Hand crank? ”

"Yes, this is a manual press machine, the structure is very simple and ingenious, and it is all up to it to ensure the quality of assembly."

"This workshop is all the processes of reloading, right? What is the approximate daily output? ”

Finally walking to the other door opposite the workshop, Lin Xiao exhaled softly and asked.

"Yes, after the screening pass, there is a process of final packing, the crate has already been ordered, the production task of the woodworking factory is also very heavy, the workers are producing the butt first, and there is no time to deliver it, according to the current scale, it can be reloaded with 8,000 to 10,000 rounds per day...... The main reason is that the pass rate of finished products is not very stable. ”

"Really, so much?" Lin Xiao's eyes lit up, and he said happily, 10,000 rounds a day, about 3 million rounds can be reloaded that year, which is enough for the time being.

(End of chapter)