As mentioned above, Bai Fei established an arsenal to produce weapons and prepare to expand the army, but due to a shortage of materials and energy, the output was low. However, despite this, after more than half a year of research and improvement of the production line by many experts, the weapons produced today are not as good as the originals, and although the quality is not as good as the original, the gap between the two is very small.

For example, in terms of rifles, because Bai Fei requires that whether it is AK47, or eight fast and SVD sniper rifles, a 7.62mm caliber bullet must be used, so the designer redesigned it according to Bai Fei's requirements, using AK47 bullets as the standard, and the other two guns moved closer to it, which led to the sacrifice of part of the performance of SVD and eight fast respectively. The SVD sniper rifle produced today is slightly inferior to the original in terms of shooting accuracy, and the effective range is slightly less than 100 meters compared with the original; The effective range of the original M1 Garand rifle can reach about 730 meters, but the imitation of the eight fast is only about 600 meters.

However, these sacrifices and errors are within the acceptable standard. Moreover, during the later testing of RPG rockets and 107 rockets, these imitation ammunition were almost the same as the original in terms of range, accuracy and explosive power.

It was a bonus.

Bai Fei and others have expressed that they are very satisfied with these imitation weapons, in addition to continuing to work hard in terms of output and supporting materials. However, this problem cannot be solved immediately, and it will take a process. Therefore, Bai Fei immediately decided to give the arsenal a collective reward of 10,000 US dollars, and Mei Yuehai rewarded those who have made outstanding contributions in the arsenal.

After the weapons test, it was almost time for lunch, so everyone had a light meal in the arsenal.

After eating, Bai Fei found a quiet room and asked Fu Nianzu to be invited.

After taking his seat, Bai Fei said: "I heard that Mr. Fu's major involves shipbuilding, so I specially invited Mr. Fu to come here to ask questions about ships..."

Fu Nianzu said: "I don't know what questions the general wants to ask." ”

Bai Fei groaned and said his thoughts.

It turned out that Bai Fei had encountered the Japanese Navy at sea a few days ago, and after experiencing a thrilling life-and-death escape, he had secretly decided to establish an armed force at sea. However, to establish a navy, of course, there must be ships first, and he originally planned to exchange them directly with the system, but when he checked in the system, he found that the cost of exchanging a ship was too big, so big that he couldn't afford it at all.

In desperation, Bai Fei had no choice but to extinguish the idea of exchanging with the system, but the idea of establishing a navy did not stop there, not to mention that Hainan is surrounded by the sea, if there is no navy, it will always be passive defense, and then he wants to gallop to the South Seas in the future, if there is no navy, how can he fight against small Japan?

Therefore, Bai Fei thought, since he can't redeem it and can't buy it, can he make it himself? Therefore, as soon as I heard that Fu Nianzu was still an expert in ships today, I moved my mind and planned to have a good chat with him to see if I could build a shipyard on Hainan Island for the production of warships.

After listening to Bai Fei's narration, Fu Nianzu nodded and said, "General Bai is worried about the country and the people, which is really admirable. However, with all due respect, if the general only wants to build a small merchant ship or civilian ship of 100 tons, spend some money to buy shipbuilding equipment abroad, build a dock and put it into production, he can achieve the goal within a year and a half, but if he wants to build a large warship, it is impossible at all. ”

When Bai Fei heard this, even though he had been prepared, his heart was still half cold.

Fu Nianzu continued: "General Bai may not understand that the shipbuilding industry now contains many disciplines and technologies, and to build large ships, it is more necessary to have experts in all aspects, such as talents in design, mechanics, materials science, structure, marine water research, etc., in addition, smelting, forging, cutting, welding, all require very high requirements. I'll give you an example, if you want to build a big ship, ordinary steel can't be used at all, so you need special steel, otherwise a wave at sea will hit you, and the ship may break due to the strength of the steel material and other parameters that are not up to standard. ”

He paused and said: "What I said above is only the basic thing that a ship needs, and the core is the ship engine, which cannot be produced at all with the current industrial base of China." ”

Bai Fei knew that everything he said was true, but he was still extremely disappointed in his heart, and couldn't help asking: "Engines and other things that we can't produce, we can buy them from abroad, what do you think?" ”

Fu Nianzu thought for a while and said, "In this case, the cost of a ship will be very high!" And even so, judging from our current situation, it will take five to ten years to build a dockyard to integrate resources from all sides and produce such a ship."

After Bai Fei listened, he was silent by default.

Decade? The daylilies are cold.

Fu Nianzu sighed: "This is also something that can't be helped, the foundation of China's industry is too thin." ”

Seeing that Bai Fei looked a little lonely, he suggested again: "Actually, if the general wants to build a navy, there is another way..."

Bai Fei was stunned for a moment and asked, "What's the way?" ”

Fu Nianzu said: "Buy!" ”

Bai Feixin said that you are not talking nonsense, I would have bought it if I could have bought it. Although he was not happy in his heart, he still explained the situation again.

Fu Nianzu said: "I know this, what I want to say is that since we can't buy warships, let's buy large merchant ships." When it comes back, we can modify it and add weapons to it, and it can also be turned into a military ship. It's just that in this way, there will definitely be a gap with regular warships in terms of performance..."

After he said this, Bai Fei's eyes suddenly lit up, and his heart said that this method is good, why didn't I think of it?

Bai Fei was ecstatic, he stood up and shook Fu Nianzu's hand vigorously and said, "Mr. Fu, thank you so much, your idea is very useful to me, it's really a word to wake up a dreamer!" ”

Fu Nianzu smiled and said, "General Bai doesn't have to be polite, this is nothing. Besides, to be able to contribute to the war of resistance is not exactly what we want. ”

Bai Fei said a few more polite words to him, and then said: "Since this is the case, then the matter of changing merchant ships into warships has been decided in this way." Later, I will ask people to find the boat, and when the ship is found, let's get a few to try first, and then Mr. Lao will guide you. ”

Fu Nianzu said: "No problem, just leave the modification to me." ”