Chapter 276: Abundant Minerals
As early as a few months ago, when Bai Fei came to Hainan, he left the design drawings and prototypes of several weapons exchanged from the system to Mei Yuehai, at that time Mei Yuehai had already "abducted" many young skilled workers and experts in mechanical engineering design and production from the United States and Nanyang, and in accordance with Bai Fei's established strategy, he purchased a large number of advanced machine tools, power generation equipment, precision research equipment, electronic components and many other military industry necessities from Hawker in batches, and then spent huge sums of money to purchase several weapons and ammunition production lines.
Therefore, after getting the design drawings and prototypes, the arsenal that was quickly established began to research and produce the weapons that Bai Fei gave the required production, and rectified the purchased production lines in accordance with the requirements of the weapon production parameters.
After the rectification of the production line, the arsenal began to put into production one after another.
So what are the weapons ready for production?
In fact, it is very simple, in terms of rifles, there are only three rifles, two of which are AK47s that are being installed and used by Bai Fei's subordinates, and SVD sniper rifles for long-range shooting; There is another firearm that Bai Fei has not yet loaded, which is a firearm born out of the production of the M1 Garand rifle. Because the M1 has now been installed in the United States, in order to distinguish them, Bai Fei asked the designer to make a series of appearance improvements, and in order to unify logistics, the walls and calibers of the three firearms are required to be consistent, so that the three firearms can be used with 7.62 mm caliber bullets. Bai Fei directly named this firearm that imitated the M1 Garand "Eight Grains Fast".
Heavy weapons, on the other hand, were produced only 107 rocket launchers and RPG rocket launchers. Even the cannon rack and the barrel of the RPG bazooka, Bai Fei did not let the arsenal produce it.
Someone asked, why Bai Fei did this, or why didn't he just find some advanced weapons to produce, such as air defense weapons, Starlight individual air defense weapons, etc.
The reason is of course very simple---- for the sake of secrecy. After all, in his arsenal, most of the technical production personnel came from abroad, such as the Jew Albert and others. Bai Fei believes in one sentence, if it is not my race, its heart will be different. What's more, what time is it now, sometimes even his own people stab each other, and in this regard, he has to keep a hand and be a little more vigilant.
Another point is that most of the relatively high-end weapons require high-precision design and manufacturing processes, and with the production capacity of the arsenal he is now putting together, they cannot be produced at all.
Bai Fei took Wang Weiguo, Li Shuyang, and Mei Yuehai to take a turn around the various production lines in the arsenal, and then transferred to a test site near the arsenal to test the weapons and ammunition produced.
Since Albert, the chief engineer who was supposed to introduce them, was busy spreading the news to his European compatriots at this time, the arsenal recommended a young designer named Fu Nianzu to guide Bai Fei and others throughout the visit.
Mr. Fu is a Nanyang Chinese who graduated from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom with a master's degree in physics application and shipbuilding. Originally, he had obtained a good job in the UK, and his income was quite expensive, but later the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in China, as a Chinese, Mr. Fu did not forget the national disaster although he was in a privileged position, and later by chance, he met Mei Yuehai, and with his encouragement, quit his job in the UK and came to Hainan to contribute to the Anti-Japanese War.
After learning that Fu Nianzu was still an expert in shipping, Bai Fei paid attention to him, and planned to talk to him alone after he was busy for a while.
Along the way, Fu Nianzu introduced in detail several production lines and weapon production processes in the arsenal, and everyone learned through his introduction that it was no longer a problem for the arsenal to produce the weapons and ammunition that Bai Fei asked to produce. However, the output could not be effectively improved, and it was far from Bai Fei's requirements. The reasons for this are nothing more than two points: First, the supply of raw materials is insufficient, such as steel, copper, etc. Steel is needed to make weapons, and copper is needed to make ammunition; Second, the energy supply is insufficient, such as electricity, oil, etc., without electric drive, the piles of machines in the factory are like goods, and now there is a bottleneck in Haikou's power supply, and the supply of pharmaceutical factories is OK, if it is supplied to the arsenal, it will be stretched.
Bai Fei was also very annoyed when he heard so many difficulties, and he couldn't imagine that it would be so troublesome to do something. He scratched his head with bitterness on his face, and for a moment he was speechless.
But I heard Fu Nianzu say again: "General Bai doesn't have to be so worried, these problems are easy to solve." ”
"Oh?" Bai Fei's spirit was shocked, and he hurriedly asked, "Mr. Fu, say quickly, is there any good way?" ”
Fu Nianzu said: "Let's talk about the power problem first: the existing power generation equipment near Haikou is relatively old, and it only needs to be replaced, new generator sets can be installed, or a new power plant can be relocated." And I heard Mr. Mei say that you have bought some power generation equipment from the United States and other places before, so now you can solve the problem of electricity by using them. ”
Mei Yuehai continued: "The equipment is there, but because the Japanese called, the factory construction plan was postponed. ”
Bai Fei said: "Brother Yuehai, since this is the case, then please immediately find an expert in the field of electricity to investigate and demonstrate, if there is no problem, start construction immediately." ”
"Okay, I'll arrange it as soon as possible."
Mei Yuehai is now not only in charge of the pharmaceutical factory, but the top manager of all the industries related to Bai Fei on Hainan Island, just like the general manager of Ouchi, who worries about everything. But despite the many things, he also enjoyed them.
Bai Fei said to Fu Nianzu: "Mr. Fu, you go on. ”
Fu Nianzu said: "Actually, Hainan Island is really a treasure land. When I first came to Hainan a few months ago, I walked around the island with a few classmates and found that the island is very rich in natural mineral resources, such as copper, iron, coal, oil, etc., which we lack now, all of which can be found on the island. ”
Bai Fei came from later generations, read a lot of history books, and had a better understanding of the war of war, and he also knew that Southeast Asia was rich in minerals, coal, oil, natural gas and various metals, but to be honest, he really didn't have a serious understanding of what was on Hainan Island, and he didn't know about it.
So at this time, when I heard Fu Nianzu say this, I was overjoyed, and I grabbed Fu Nianzu's hand and said: "I can't imagine that Mr. is not only an expert in physics and ships, but also has some research on geological exploration, which is really a rare talent!" Tell me where the minerals are, and we'll organize people to mine them right away! ”
Fu Nianzu smiled and said: "General Bai has won the award, in fact, I only know some skins, and the real experts are them..."
As he spoke, he pointed to two young people around 30 years old not far away, a man and a woman, and introduced: "They are my classmates, British patriotic Chinese, they came to Hainan with me, and found that there are rich mineral deposits on the island, all thanks to them, I just followed them around." ”