Chapter 49 Drawings
For the sake of the production line, Qin Tian also asked Bertrand to take a few mercenaries and technicians to a certain country by plane to negotiate.
Originally, something like this should have been done by Qin Tian, because the quantum chip in his head would definitely come in handy at this time.
However, Qin Tian thought about it and felt that it was best not to do it, even if it came in handy, it was just a matter of pushing the price lower, and it was obviously not worth risking money at this stage.
One of the reasons why the negotiations went well was that the lines were really old and unmovable, and in the eyes of the sellers, they were a pile of garbage...... In fact, they are indeed just a pile of garbage, but not for Somalia, let alone Qin Tian.
Even the seller did not believe that Bertrand would be able to start the production lines again after buying it.
So after a few days of bargaining, Bertrand excitedly told Qin Tian on the phone: "They agreed to sell, $120,000!" ”
"All?"
"Yes, all!" Bertrand replied: "It's just that we are responsible for the costs of disassembly, transportation, etc., God...... I'm afraid these costs will cost about $100,000, but hopefully they're worth the price! ”
In other words, it's all about $220,000.
In fact, as long as there is a production line that can be started, it will not be a loss, because in the world, any production line like this costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, not to mention that Qin Tian believes that there is more than one that can be used.
Fortunately, both the place of purchase and Kismayo are seaside cities, so the transportation process is not complicated, dismantling and packing into containers at the place of purchase, transporting them to the seaside and lifting them onto ships, and then transporting them from the sea to the north to the south through the Suez Canal to Kismayo.
Of course, technicians track and record them when disassembling and packing, otherwise they don't know how to put them back on, let alone start them.
On the other hand, it is to arrange a dozen mercenaries on the freighter to avoid being hijacked by pirates...... This is just a piece of cake for the "ghosts".
Bertrand is responsible for this.
Kismayo is preparing for the production line, which is mainly done by Dr. Bliss, because various data such as the size of the production line, the height of the bottom, etc., have been transmitted back to Kismayo from the place of purchase first, and Dr. Bliss has made some reasonable configurations based on these.
The location is at the shooting range and training ground in Altrand...... The water and electricity pipelines were laid first, and then iron pipes were erected around them, and they were welded into the steel frame of the factory building with them as fulcrums, and finally covered with iron sheets.
But that's just the beginning, there's a lot more to prepare.
"The most troublesome thing is that we don't have drawings!" "The seller is reluctant to provide these, which creates a lot of problems for us to repair and replace the parts," Dr. Bliss said. ”
Qin Tian knew what Briss meant.
Sometimes it's not technically difficult to produce a piece of equipment, but it's even more difficult to repair it, because you don't know which part is going wrong, and it's impossible to dismantle it all and check them one by one.
This requires drawings, which engineers can use to analyze possible faults and troubleshoot and repair them according to the working principle of the equipment.
Otherwise, these production lines bought back are really a pile of scrap metal.
"Don't worry, Briss!" Qin Tian said: "The drawings will be there!" ”
"Do you have drawings?" Bliss looked at Qin Tian in shock.
"I don't know if it's the drawing we want!" Qin Tian replied: "I'll try to find it!" ”
Qin Tian had learned to be vague in this regard, and he didn't explain much, because he knew that the more he explained some things, the more doubts he had.
After dealing with Dr. Bliss's words, Qin Tian returned to his residence and searched with the quantum chip.
Then the data quickly flashed in Qin Tian's mind one by one...... THE 1938 12.7MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUN, THE PM37 82MM CALIBER MORTAR, AND THE RPG7 ROCKET LAUNCHER ARE ALL OLD-FASHIONED THINGS, AND THE QUANTUM CHIP CAN EASILY OBTAIN THE DRAWINGS OF THE PRODUCTION LINE AND EVEN THE WEAPON ITSELF.
One of the benefits of the quantum chip is that Qin Tian only needs to tell it what it needs, and then the chip will automatically give the data...... As for where it was obtained, Qin Tian didn't need to know.
After finishing, Qin Tian transferred these drawings to the desktop computer one by one, and then clicked the mouse, and the printer began to work.
What made Qin Tian miserable was that Bertrand's printer was obviously just an ornament, because Qin Tian found that the nozzles of its ink cartridge had been blocked by dry and hard paint because they had been useless for a long time.
This made it take Qin Tian a few minutes for someone to send an ink cartridge up.
What Qin Tian didn't expect was that one ink cartridge was not enough at all, and later there was a serious shortage of paper...... There were so many drawings that needed to be printed that it took a few hours to move a dozen printers, and the drawings were already piled up in the room.
"Look at it, Doctor!" After Qin Tian called Dr. Bliss, he spread his hands around: "I don't know if that's what you need!" ”
Dr. Bliss casually picked up a few of them, looked at them, then took a few more, occasionally compared them with the data he had brought, and after a long time nodded and replied, "Great, Qin!" They do look like drawings of the equipment, but I can't be sure because I haven't compared them to the real thing...... God, there are even blueprints for equipment! ”
"If the drawings are matched with the equipment, there will be no problem, right?"
Qin Tian asked.
"Yes, Qin!" Dr. Bliss replied confidently, "Technically, they are not much more complex than the AK47 production line, and the point is in the drawings...... Now, we even have the ability to produce these parts ourselves! ”
"I'll have people move this to your office!" Qin Tian said: "In addition, there is a computer backup for you to easily retrieve, and you can ask the technician to learn these drawings in advance and make some preparations!" ”
"Of course!" Dr. Bliss replied.
"And this!" Qin Tian handed over a small stack of materials in his hand, this was the point.
"What is this?" Dr. Bliss glanced at the materials in his hand.
"These are improvements to our upcoming equipment!" Qin Tian said: "For example, if the anti-aircraft machine gun has a slippage failure of the crank, we can add a chain plate at the exit of the chain; It can also increase the bottom diameter of the piston rod thread to solve the fracture fault at the thread; Changing the two parts of the hoop to one single part avoids loosening in the two-section assembly......"
Dr. Bliss listened as he flipped through the materials in his hand, and swallowed hard.