The Admiralty was not as wealthy as Li Kongrong, because of the war and the reduced schedules of cruise ships to the Far East, Lin Xianxin did not arrive in Italy until late April, and then arrived in Bern, the capital of Switzerland. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info it's not that he doesn't know that the Admiralty's research institute is near Zurich, he just wants to find out what the origin of this new China Defense Joint Stock Company is.

The Legation in Switzerland is a house purchased in the former Qing Dynasty, small as a shop, and the exterior walls are old and mottled, only the blue sky and white sun flag hanging from the flagpole on the roof indicate that this is the embassy of a country. The car that went to the train station to pick up Lin Xianxi drove into the backyard from the back door of the embassy, and Hu Shize, the minister in Switzerland, had already come to greet him.

"General Lin has worked hard all the way and has not been able to meet him from afar, so I hope you will forgive me." Hu Shize, the minister in Switzerland, said politely that since the navy set up a research institute in Switzerland, his work has been much heavier, but it is all for the purpose of resisting Japan, and he, the minister, has no complaints when he runs around.

"Okay, Minister Hu is polite." Lin Xianxin looked at Hu Shize, about forty years old, with a Zhejiang Huzhou accent, and was a little vigilant at the moment - Ouyang Ge is from the CC department, and Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu from the CC department are from Huzhou.

"Let me introduce you, this is Mr. Zhi Bingyuan, the manager of Xinzhong Defense Company." When someone from the Admiralty came, Hu Shize naturally notified Zhi Bingyuan, who stayed in Switzerland to be in charge of the research institute, but he didn't expect Lin Xianxi to come for a surprise inspection.

"Hello General Lin!" Zhi Bingyuan went up to shake hands with Lin Xianxi, he thought that someone from the Admiralty was from the Admiralty to inspect the work of the research institute.

Mr. Zhi...... Are you from Shanghai? Lin Xianxi was slightly surprised when he heard Hu Shize's introduction, but since he came, he couldn't say anything. He stayed in Jiangsu and Zhejiang for a long time, and felt that Zhi Bingyuan's accent was from Shanghai.

"No, my hometown is from Shengxian County, Zhejiang." Zhi Bingyuan is still smiling, although he has not been in Switzerland for a long time, he has not been able to let go since he got the project plan, which is why he asked to stay in Switzerland.

"Okay." Lin Xianxin couldn't say anything else, and under the politeness of Hu Shize, he walked in with his adjutant.

"The anti-Chinese situation in Switzerland is also more serious, but fortunately, the Navy runs a research institute." In the antique meeting room, Hu Shize, the minister to Switzerland, began to introduce the relevant situation of the institute. "If you set up a factory in the future, it will involve more things, and everything else will be easy to do, I can go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs a few more times, but the trade unions in Switzerland are a very troublesome thing, and they can't do anything about the federal government. Eight-hour workday, insurance money, holidays, etc., the salary here is high......"

Hu Shize didn't know if he said this because he didn't want the navy to trouble him, or if the Swiss investment situation was really poor. Of course, New China Defense is not a purely Chinese-funded company, it is a Sino-British joint venture, and it can already be regarded as a British company in law, and it is precisely because of this that there is a lot less trouble.

"I'm not afraid of trouble." Feeling that he had said too much, Hu Shize said it again. "It's like this all over Europe now, where unions are rampant in factories and it's not easy to do anything. If there is a better place for the Navy, it will be in another place, and if it is not, it will be in Switzerland, which is still safe, and the trade unions are not as arrogant as France and Germany. ”

"Switzerland is still good." When Hu Shize said that Zhi Bingyuan was not easy to interrupt, now the institute employs basically some cleaning women, and most of the others, including cooks, are Chinese, with the most people from Qingtian, Zhejiang. "The machinery industry here is very developed, the chemical industry is also very good, and it is also very close to Germany, France and Austria, so it is very convenient to purchase. What Colonel Li meant was that during the Anti-Japanese War, the speed of research and development was the most critical, and the sooner the research was developed, the sooner the Japanese were ......"

Hu Shize said that Switzerland is not good, and Zhi Bingyuan said that Switzerland is good. Lin Xianxin just listened, but didn't make many comments, in fact, what he wanted to know most clearly was who came up with the funds for this institute, is it really the Kong family? "No matter which country in Europe spends a lot, the research institute ......" Lin Xianxi looked at Hu Shize, then at Zhi Bingyuan, and finally said: "Is the money enough?" ”

"According to the budget, this year is enough." Zhi Bingyuan didn't know that Lin Xianxian was getting to the bottom of it, and he didn't hide it.

"Just enough money." Lin Xianxi wanted to ask again, but when he thought that Sa Zhenbing's nephew Sa Bentie was in the research institute, he endured it again.

After spending the night at Bernier, Lin Xianxin boarded the train to Zurich the next morning, accompanied by Zhi Bingyuan. Although Switzerland is not a big country, its industry is extremely developed, and the northeast of Zurich and Winterthur is a dense area of machinery industry, and the institute is located in Baoma, more than 20 kilometers south of Winterthur. The main reason for choosing this place is that it is located at the foot of Mount Hearnley, the population is small, and it is an ideal place for weapons testing, and another convenience is that there is a bankrupt textile machinery factory here, and the factory does not need to be rebuilt.

From afar, Lin Xianxi saw the blue sky and white sun flag floating in Baoma Town, and it was very kind to see the national flag in this strange place. The car slowly drove into the research institute with white walls and red tiles. Lin Xianxin saw that the gatekeeper was actually a foreigner old man, and he waved his hand stiffly like an Indian Ah San in the Shanghai Concession, signaling the car to enter.

"It's the locals we hired." Zhi Bingyuan said, "Although the people here are not easy to deal with, they are very serious about their work. ”

"I see." Lin Xianxin nodded and smiled, "This is also a country, so there is no trouble for the squire to find you?" ”

"The squire didn't." Zhi Bingyuan shook his head, "It's just that the local priest has come several times, he wants to persuade us to believe in religion, and the other is that we don't want to blaspheme here." ”

"Priest?" Lin Xianxi couldn't imagine what a foreign squire was like, but if the appearance of the priest coincided with the squire, he could feel how domineering the priest was here. "So what do we do?"

"We can't do anything but read the Bible first and then listen to him when we have time." Zhi Bingyuan smiled bitterly and said, "Every week, people in the town will go to church, and we started to go less, but later found out that this is also a place to get to know and interact with the locals, so we go every week." We listened to his sermons, and when he didn't preach, we preached anti-Japanese propaganda to everyone, and gradually the people in the town sympathized with us and liked to deal with us. ”

Zhi Bingyuan introduced the situation of the institute in the town for more than two months, and only felt that even if people have different skin colors and different beliefs, there is still a sense of compassion and justice. Lin Xianxin nodded frequently when he listened, and he suddenly asked, "Mr. Zhi used to be in Shanghai and worked in a foreign bank, right?" ”

"I stayed in a foreign bank, but I didn't do it more than ten years ago, and then I and my classmates started a company......," Zhi Bingyuan said.

"Oh......" Lin Xianxin suddenly remembered last winter's acquisition, "It's Xinzhong Company." ”

"Yes, it's the Xinzhong Project, and now it's called Xinzhong Defense." Zhi Bingyuan pointed to the sign in front of the factory office building.

"Oh. Got it. Lin Xianxin looked at the sign hanging in front of the office building: Switzerland's New China Defense AG. He wanted to ask about the company's background, but he saw a stone tablet standing in front of the building, which read: 'Don't forget Nanjing!' The words were blood-red, scribbled and indignant. He immediately thought in his heart, the Japanese really can't do anything, the Nanjing Massacre is said to have killed nearly 100,000 people, and the 16th and 3rd Divisions, which were the first to enter the city, have already entered the country. The army refused to accept the surrender list.

Lin Xianxi's gaze stayed on the stone plaque, and Zhi Bingyuan sighed, "Don't forget the national shame, don't forget Nanjing." Now everyone is doing research day and night, forgetting to sleep and eating, and just want to make things as soon as possible. ”

"Let's go check it out first." Lin Xianxin suddenly didn't want to enter the office building, he heard the sound of a machine bicycle on the factory side, just like going to have a look.

The original textile machinery factory had several buildings, but none of them were too big, after all, it was a small town and there were not too many workers. Although the building that Lin Xianxi noticed was the largest, it was only more than 1,000 square meters, and it was the former assembly workshop, and now it is the jet engine research laboratory. Tests are being carried out with a valve-type pulse engine, which is a rebuilt engine based on materials and prototypes shipped from Germany. With the characteristics of the pulse engine, it is necessary to have a sufficient flow rate of air to run automatically, and now a large blower is built to blow air at the front of the engine to simulate the situation during flight.

Quietly looked around the engine, because the entire engine was installed in the wind tunnel, Lin Xianxin didn't see anything famous, but there were engines in other parts of the laboratory, and he found that the engine was a long tube like a cigar, with a grid for air intake at one end, and a fire breath at one end without a grid. Once activated, it is the sound of the robot bicycle 'buzzing ......'.

"This is ......" Lin Xianxin really didn't know what this thing was used for.

"It's an engine." Zhi Bingyuan said. In the case that no one has been found for the time being, the people who used to study internal combustion engines in Xinzhong Company are studying engines, because they are just imitations, and they only need manual work, which is not very difficult, and Zhi Bingyuan is the person in charge of the research institute for the time being. "The air enters the combustion chamber from the front, the fuel injection valve sprays out the gasoline, the spark plug ignites, and when burning, the gas closes the valve at the front end, and the gas exhausts from the tail end, and pushes forward through the reaction force......"

The principle of the pulse engine is very simple, Lin Xianxian understood it as soon as he heard it, but he was still puzzled: "Then what should this be placed on?" Airplanes? ”

"This," Zhi Bingyuan thought of the secrecy regulations, and made a big way: "Airplanes, cars, and speedboats can all be installed." The laboratory is now in imitation, and the research and development results can only be taken out for testing. ”

Zhi Bingyuan didn't look at Lin Xianxin when he spoke, and he couldn't say a lot of things because of the secrecy regulations—this pulse engine had been basically studied, and its static thrust could reach 300 kilograms[Note 50], and according to calculations, it could take off with 800 kilograms of bombs. Now the problem is reliability, and then there is no shadow of the navigation device, and there is no real flight test - no one knows whether the missile will fall unbalanced if it does not fly, these three problems are the most difficult.

"Hmm." Lin Xianxi only knew about artillery and torpedoes, and it was obviously impossible for this kind of engine that needed air to be used on torpedoes. Although he had a lot of doubts in his heart, he walked around the research room and looked around, and left without finding anything.

In the past, the Jet Engine Research Laboratory was the next one in the Rocket Research Laboratory, which was also researched by the people of the New and Middle School Engineering earlier. Seeing Lin Xianxin coming, Zhi Bingyuan deliberately asked Zhu Fusi to ask someone to hit Lin Xianxi in front of him. Although the bazooka of later generations was safe, the bazooka that did not complete the research still had to be shot with protective clothing. Lin Xianxin saw from a distance that the person who was wrapped in asbestos cloth picked up a long pole and put it on his shoulder, and after a while, the back of the pole erupted with fire and smoke, and a piece of something flew out from the front end. It probably didn't shoot well, and the thing fell to the ground not long after it was discharged, and it jumped a few times on the ground, and the tongue of fire flew up and down, spraying some fireworks aimlessly, and finally there was no sound anymore.

"Isn't that what it is...... Cupola? Lin Xianxi pointed to that thing and said, he recognized this.

"It's a cupola." Zhi Bingyuan couldn't explain this thing, in fact, this thing was a horizontal-firing cupola at first, and it was a rocket shortly after it was discharged. The current situation is that the rocket medicine and drug shape have not been mastered well, and the rocket will fly randomly when it rushes out of the iron pipe. "If this weapon can be successfully developed, it will be the best against tanks and bunkers compared to a flat-fire artillery shell in one shot." He added.

"It's good, it's just that the range is too short." Lin Xianxin nodded and said the shortcomings of the bazooka, and it could be seen that this was not a naval weapon, but an army weapon.

"Yes." Zhi Bingyuan also nodded, "But what Colonel Li means is that the research and development cost of this weapon is small, and any two people can make it, and it will be an independent project." ”

"He could have thought about it." Lin Xianxin laughed, "Just two people can make it?" ”

"This ......" Zhi Bingyuan can't say anything, now the development of bazoomas is a few ordinary people, who shot just now is the wife of the research institute - everyone doesn't want to study this kind of thing with no technical content, Li Kongrong also said that this project is not in a hurry, even if it is researched, it will not be produced until two years later, so it will be handed over to the family, and everyone will go to see it when they have time.

After the rocket research room is Yan Keats's underwater ultrasonic detector research room, there is a long large pool in the research room, and Yan Keats, who is wearing a white coat, is leading people to do various tests with imitation Langevin transducers. Seeing Lin Xianxin coming, he immediately handed over the matter in his hand to the others.

"Is this sonar?" Lin Xianxin said this word, which was mentioned by Li Kongrong in the report on the purchase of submarines before, so he remembered it.

"Yes, it's sonar." Yan Kates also knows this word, and it is easy to say so. "We are now testing the older generation of sonar, with a detection range of less than a kilometer. Unfortunately, there is no sea or river here, and there is only a lake on the other side of the mountain. (To be continued.) )