Like other machine factories today, Wang Bin's arsenal also has a large number of foreign staff, and more than many domestic machine manufacturing bureaus, after all, Wang Bin's subordinates do not have so many talents who understand this area, so many technical links are in charge of the technicians provided by the Russians, not only technicians, but also financial management and administrative management Wang Bin also hired a part of the foreigners, including Smith, who was originally in charge of the foreign bank, also put a name in the arsenal.

In the arsenal, the managers and engineers are basically foreigners, and the proportion of Chinese is only about a quarter.

It's not that Wang Bin admires foreign flattery, but there are no suitable people to hold these positions under his own command for a while, and it is unceremonious to say that Wang Bin's subordinates have no talents in this area at all, let alone management.

In the eyes of future generations, this status quo is estimated to have to say something like a nation or a country, but this really has nothing to do with the country and the nation.

Capital knows no borders, and money is even more so, and under the benefit of the Russians provided themselves with these technicians, and the construction of this arsenal was also completed very quickly under the effect of money.

In the arsenal, Lin Hao was looking at the workers who were assembling the machine under the guidance of the technicians of Tsarist Russia, and thought in his heart: This arsenal has finally been built, once the construction starts, there will be no need to worry about firearms, the weapons in the battalion are messy at present, and after this arsenal, the weapons of each battalion can be the same, and there is no need to use different guns at that time.

At the same time as Lin Hao was watching, he happened to see Wang Bin's figure, so he immediately ran towards Wang Bin.

Under the leadership of Lin Hao, Wang Bin also had a general understanding of the current process of the arsenal.

The current chief engineer of the arsenal is called Sergeyevich (later referred to as Sergei), and it is said that he was originally a senior engineer at the famous Izhevsk arsenal. (The manufacturer of the famous Kalashnikov assault rifle AK47 is the Izhevsk Arsenal)

As for why he was exiled to this remote place in the Far East, or whether he was really a senior engineer at the Izhevsk Arsenal, only he knows.

Whether he's true or not, but the most basic technical abilities are still there. Since entering the arsenal, he has come up with a complete set of arsenal plans, and then began to be responsible for the basic machine education of other soldiers, so that a group of soldiers who can barely operate machines have appeared under Wang Bin.

As Lin Hao was talking, a foreigner came in front of him, Wang Bin saw that this foreigner looked the same as Vladimir before, but there was a great difference in body shape and appearance.

Under Lin Hao's introduction, Wang Bin learned that this was Mr. Sergei, the chief engineer of the arsenal.

"Mr. Sergey, it's nice that you're here and helping us."

Wang Bin said in Chinese to Sergei in front of him.

"Oh, dear boss, Sergey expresses his sincere gratitude to you for saving me and my family from this difficult situation."

Sergei returned in rather stiff Chinese.

As for Sergei's ability to use Chinese, Wang Bin is not too strange, after all, this group of technicians is going to take root here, so after a month of life, these technicians are basically able to use Chinese to communicate with others reluctantly.

Regarding Sergei's words, Wang Bin didn't say much, but hoped that Sergei would be able to work well in the future, and not mention the past.

Then Sergey took out a few drawings from the back of the promotion and said to Wang Bin that this was a preliminary plan for the arsenal.

As soon as Wang Bin heard that it was about the planning of the arsenal, he took it over, and at first glance, it was all architectural drawings that he did not move at all, and a large number of parameters, and he saw that his head was big.

So he just glanced at it a few times, and then said a few polite words to Sergei, hoping that Sergei would be able to develop the arsenal better in the future.

"Boss, please rest assured, I will do it well."

Sergei said confidently

"By the way, Mr. Sergey, do you know the weapon of the grenade?"

Wang Bin suddenly asked, because he remembered that the grenade appeared relatively early, but he didn't know what it was called here, and this grenade was also a small bomb that was relatively easy to carry, and it could also play a certain role in strengthening the army's firepower.

After listening to Wang Bin's words, Sergei said that he knew about this weapon, but the grenade weapon began to be treated coldly as early as the 19th century, and he really didn't know that the boss would mention this outdated weapon.

As soon as Wang Bin heard that Sergei knew about this weapon, he asked Sergei to try to make this weapon as much as possible.

And, for the grenades of this era put forward some requirements of their own.

For example, the volume and mass of the grenade are required to be as small as possible, after all, the volume and mass of the grenade directly affect the load of the soldier.

Secondly, the structure should be simple and the cost should be low, because the grenade is to be produced and installed on a large scale, so the amount of equipment and consumption will be very large, so under the premise of ensuring the safety and reliability of use, the cost needs to be low.

Sergei said after listening to Wang Bin's words

"Boss, if that's the case, then you need to use trinitrotoluene (TNT) for internal filling, otherwise the explosion power cannot be guaranteed."

After listening to Sergei's words, Wang Bin was a little embarrassed, he didn't know the manufacturing method of TNT, and it was more expensive to import.

So he immediately said that he could use black powder instead of black powder for the time being.

After solving the problem of grenades, Wang Bin proposed an effective suppression weapon to support and accompany infantry operations, that is, mortars.

Since mortars have not yet appeared in this era, let yourself let it appear in advance.

After listening to Wang Bin's words, Sergei's eyes also lit up, this kind of small artillery, after all, if a small artillery is made by himself, no matter what the prospect of this weapon is, but he will always leave his own mark in the history of weapons, so Sergei is extremely interested in the concept of this small artillery.

Wang Bin saw that Sergei was extremely interested in the concept of mortars, and immediately said some characteristics of mortars.

For example, the angle of fire is large, the trajectory is curved, the muzzle velocity is small, the range is short, the weight is light, the structure is simple, the operation is convenient, and it is suitable for accompanying the infantry to carry out concealed activities.

When the shell is fired, the recoil energy can be absorbed by the ground through the seat plate, and the body tube and seat plate can be broken down during the march to make it easy to carry.

After listening to Wang Bin's suggestion, Sergei said that he would definitely manufacture these two weapons as soon as possible.