Section 37 Getting on the right track
When four weeks later Rachel. By the time McBride and Duncan returned to San Diego from Phoenix, Qin Lang had already done two things. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ ο½ο½ο½ο½
First, he discovered Yi Shui's talent for shooting - with just a thousand rounds fired from that rifle sample with a severely flawed shooting accuracy, Yi Shui could already use a Remington M700 to hit a glass bottle four hundred meters away. Although there was a scope to help, this result still surprised Qin Lang and O'Connor.
Qin Lang still remembered that he had reached the same level after firing three thousand .22 caliber bullets at the shooting range, and as for O'Connor, although he consumed much less bullets than Qin Lang, he also used more than a thousand more bullets than Yi Shui.
And before practicing with rifles, they all had the experience of shooting with pistols for a long time, but Yi Shui did not have them at all.
His talent is truly outstanding.
So Qin Lang really wanted him to give up the idea of learning to command ships. If he has been trained for a long time and carefully, he is completely sure that he will train Yi Shui to become a world-class sniper. However, Qin Lang also knew very well that his thoughts could only be ideas, and with Yi Shui's stubbornness, it was at least a thousand times more difficult to persuade him to give up his ideas than to let him cut his braids.
At least cutting braids can also be done by coercion......
"I hate stubborn guys, especially stupid and stubborn ones like Yi Shui." That's what he did to Rachel. McBride and Duncan said.
And the second thing he did while they were away was to put the imitation "Anaconda" pistol into production. In San Diego and other cities in California, there is no suitable steel for rifles, but high-quality steel for pistols is widely available. Tests of the sample showed that it can fire about three thousand rounds of bullets in a row, although it is not as good as the results of the M1911, but the .357 Magnum caliber pistol itself is not suitable as a military pistol, and without such a customer as the US Army, naturally no one cares how many rounds the "Anaconda" can shoot in a row.
After all, who would take a pistol and shoot 3,000 rounds in a row?
So Qin Lang put the "python" into production - but he didn't send the product to the market for sale. The company did not have enough workers, so the production of pistols was low, and he planned to produce a batch of stocks before introducing the new pistol to the market.
And his plans to sell new guns also need to get Rachel. McBride cooperates.
"Sales can only begin when you come back, Rachel."
"What the hell are you thinking, Qin?" She looked unhappy, but it wasn't because of Qin Lang's planβeven though she knew it wasn't a good plan. "Also, how many pistols have we produced so far?"
"Four hundred pistols, nineteen thousand rounds of .357 caliber pistol bullets and eight thousand rounds of .308 caliber rifle rounds." Of course, rifle bullets have already been used by Yi Shui for a thousand rounds, and pistol bullets have been used up for three thousand.
"So little? Qin, what the hell are you and Sean doing! Now, her grievances are directed at him. It took four weeks to produce such a small number of guns and ammunition, and at this rate, the company would go bankrupt in a few months.
Even though he was the boss of the company, Qin Lang also had to explain. "Rachel, you should know that we only have twenty skilled workers, and only a hundred novices, and the assembly line is completely unbuilt."
He'd already explained to Rachel what an assembly line is. And she was interested in this that should have belonged to Henry. Ford's extraordinary appreciation for the creative invention of the manufacturing process was a brilliant idea for the exploitation of workers. Yuri. Ollov heard the sound of the bullet casing popping out when the "Kalashnikov" fired and thought of the "ding-dong" sound of the cash register. McBride only imagined the operation of an assembly line and saw the dollars flowing from the money printing machine.
This is obviously a higher realm.
It's just that since only Qin Lang himself understands what an assembly line is, they can't set it up in a short period of time. During this time, the only way to increase the production of guns and ammunition was to increase the number of workers.
"But in San Diego, we couldn't find more workers, especially skilled workers."
"You don't have to worry about the workers, Qin." She sighed, "We brought back more than three thousand people from Arizona. β
"What!" Qin Lang was frightened, "What did you do in Arizona?" "Didn't she and Duncan go to Phoenix to exchange Mexican pesos, how could they bring back more than 3,000 people?
"It's not that I did anything," she was visibly furious at the mention of the more than 3,000 people she had brought back, "it's all a good thing that Duncan's idiot did!" β
Her trip to Phoenix was terrible. Due to the constant depreciation of the Mexican peso, the 14 certificates of deposit had not yet matured, she was neither the holder of the certificates of deposit nor the holder's proof of authorization, and the amount of exchange was too large...... And for other reasons, the bastards at Bank of Wales and Fargo[Note] insist that they can only be exchanged at a one-to-one ratio, and that they also charge high fees.
In the face of the banks' demands, protests and negotiations have been of little avail. People are usually very principled when it comes to money, even if Rachel is a big sticker. McBride is a young and beautiful young lady and can't help her much to save the day.
"So, we only exchanged 187,000 dollars for our pesos, and the bank charged us a 5 percent fee." She told Qin Lang that the expression on her face was as if someone had pulled out one of her teeth. Actually, the exchange rate doesn't matter, but the five percent handling fee, or $9,350, is too much.
"It's just blackmail." Qin Lang gritted his teeth and said. Bank of Wales-Fargo, well, he still has two hundred pounds of zha medicine...... Well, let's put this kind of thing aside for the time being. "What does this have to do with Duncan and those three thousand people, Rachel?"
"I'm not done yet." She glared at him.
Greedy banking is certainly just one of the problems she encountered during her terrible trip to Phoenix, and Duncan is another problem for her. First of all, he didn't play any role, whether it was to protect her or negotiate with the bank, he couldn't do anything. So, after exchanging all the pesos, she had to hire another group of unemployed cowboys as bodyguards - but it was at this time that Duncan caused her huge trouble.
There are many copper mines in the Arizona area[note 2], and of course there are many miners and unemployed miners. Some of the working miners felt that they could not stand the harsh working conditions, heavy labor and low wages and wanted to change jobs, while the unemployed miners needed to find a new job, and then Duncan came down to them like an angel.
He promised the miners that the Viper Weapons Company would give them a comfortable working environment, easy labor and good wages, as well as good welfare benefits, and would organize a gunsmiths' association, which would ...... In short, he promised them many things, and he also agreed that they would go to San Diego with their wives and children.
"So he recruited more than 3,000 miners?" Qin Lang began to have a headache. Duncan is half Robert. Owen's disciples, he knew, but had no idea that he would be so crazy.
More than 3,000 miners, if you add their wives and children......
"Not more than three thousand miners." Rachel. "Thirteen hundred miners, and their wives and children, add up to more than three thousand," McBride corrected...... Hell, I just told that Duncan to hire some unemployed cowboys! "She's angry, really angry." What's even more hateful is that he actually paid a week's salary to those miners first! β
"Well, where is Duncan?" Qin Lang was really angry, he received his salary before he started working, and he didn't open a welfare home, "I want to talk to him seriously." β
"No, I've talked to him very seriously, in God's name." Of course, in God's name - she slapped a Bible directly in Duncan's face.
"Really?" Looking at her expression, Qin Lang was a little worried, hoping that she hadn't done anything terrible. However, the trouble Duncan created must also be resolved, and that week's salary cannot be counted as such. "Now that they've been recruited, let them get to work right away."
"Of course." Rachel. McBride nodded, "And I've thought about it, since those miners have brought all their families with them, let's let them work in the factory as well." β
"Hmm." Qin Lang agreed, "Men are responsible for processing parts, and women are responsible for assembling. β
"I think the same as you, Qin."
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Note: Wales-Fargo, Wells-Fargo, Wells Fargo
Note 2: Arizona did not officially become the 48th state of the United States until 1912