In the morning of Ma'anshan near the river, azure and golden yellow are intertwined, the scenery by the river is beautiful, but in Ma'anshan, there is no unique beauty of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, there is still a busy construction site, a towering iron-making furnace is nearing completion, that is the No. 1 blast furnace of Ma'anshan of Jianghuai Road Mining Company.

The No. 1 blast furnace with an annual output of 100,000 tons of pig iron is the largest blast furnace in Asia, and it can be counted even in the world.

Attention and praise at home and abroad, "not one official government and one silver, but to build some other male factories, it is really rare in the world!" The court's commendation, the envy of colleagues, so that Liu Kunyi, who is the governor of Liangjiang, is extraordinary, from the No. 1 blast furnace to build the foundation, four times a year to check the progress of the project, twice by boat on the Yangtze River to view the "first male factory in the United States", for this iron plant attention, Liu Kunyi is just like Zhang Zhidong in the year, but compared with Zhang Zhidong exhausted Huguang's financial resources, he is most proud of the factory is afraid that the factory did not cost the government a penny.

"The people reap their benefits, and the officials reap their merits!"

Liu Kunyi, who was in a good mood, even went to Ma'anshan for the second time half a year ago, and deliberately seemed to be building a "road and mining world", enjoying all the privileges like that Han Yeping. Smoke is already billowing from the chimney of a large factory not far from the No. 1 blast furnace, where the 100-ton steelmaking open-hearth workshop of the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant has been put into operation, but the pig iron used is the pig iron of the Hanyang Iron Works.

The steelmaking open-hearth furnace is running, and the flame of more than three meters high in the workshop bursts out of the converter mouth that is being added, and the heat in the workshop is pressing, and the high temperature is unbearable. For the steelworkers who are fighting in front of the furnace, the high temperature has become a severe test. Workers work in front of nearly 2,000 degrees of molten steel every day, and the temperature in the workshop is as high as dozens of degrees, working in such an environment for 12 hours a day, taking turns to work day and night. Half the time is spent in front of a hot furnace.

The fire under the boiler is dazzling, and the hot molten steel in the boiler is tumbling and jumping, glowing with a scorching light; The molten steel is poured out, and the chips are flying everywhere. The boiling boiler is like a "mountain of flames", spitting hot flames, and the molten steel in the furnace is like tumbling magma, and from time to time there are steel flowers splashing around.

For safety, workers in the steelmaking workshop wear dark goggles, rattan helmets, asbestos gloves, thick stockings and other protective tools. You must also wear thick canvas long-sleeved protective clothing, each of which is a few pieces thick as ordinary summer clothing, Chen Moran, who was only wearing a single shirt, only stayed for a few minutes, sweating all over his body, looking at the appearance of being blackened with smoke and the thick canvas on his body soaked with sweat.

The previous scene made Chen Moran can't help but feel that he is the "evil capitalist", working in such a workshop for twelve hours in a row, not to mention that a small worker only takes 6 yuan a month, even if he gives 60 yuan, he does not necessarily lose money, and he keeps giving away to those workers when he walks in the workshop.

"Hard, hard!"

Although his hands are arched and his mouth is hard, he has no intention of increasing their wages in his heart, and he has no intention of increasing their wages! No kidding.

Walking in front of the open-hearth, watching the workers in the production workshop constantly stirring the red hot iron, the soaked clothes clinging to their backs. Standing in front of the steel-making furnace, the huge mouth of red flames 5 meters away constantly pressed the heat waves, accompanied by the steel flowers sprayed from time to time, and the surrounding air was also distorted. The outline of the boiler had long been swallowed up by the red flames, and even the steelmakers who were up and down next to them, waving the stirring rods, seemed to be swept into that big mouth at any moment.

The smiling Chen Moran approached a worker with a kind face.

"Little brother, how's it going!"

The furnace worker in front of the furnace wore a mask and a hard hat, wore black overalls, wiped the ashes and sweat on his face with his black hands, and the sweat beads on his neck continued to drip on his dark chest.

"Is it hot?"

The furnace worker nodded with an "um". Steelmaking is one of the most dangerous of all kinds of work, and a spark may come out in a flash, and a piece of red iron will collapse like a bullet, which may be maiming or even fatal. But they had no other choice.

"Hard! Laborious! ”

Same words, same smiles.

Now Chen Moran will never deny that any primitive accumulation is evil, just like he is now, primitive accumulation has always been evil, and it is no exception here, and even the silver dollars issued by the workers here are industrial silver dollar coupons, but they are used the same, and they don't want to go to the bank at any time to exchange for 88 color "Industrial Eagle Ocean".

At this moment, the electric bell in the steel mill rang, 100 tons of open-hearth furnace just smelted a furnace of steel, open the furnace door, from the open-hearth flowed out of the silver-white steel melt, for a time the fire was soaring, 100 tons of fiery red molten iron poured into the mold, the red square billet along the steel slideway towards the far-track steel workshop, where the steel ingots will be rolled into construction steel, H-shaped steel, wire rod, those steel first-line processing, and will be hoisted onto the train, transported to the wharf for loading, directly sent to Pudong, now Ma'anshan production of steel, However, it can only meet the needs of Pudong.

After a furnace of steel came out, Chen Moran saw the smiles on the faces of the workers who endured the heat and smoke, and when the molten iron was made into steel, they would inevitably feel happy when they saw the fruits of their labor, even though the exploitation of the factory made them work in this hellish environment for twelve hours and only received a pitiful wage, but they could still laugh.

Seeing the smiles on the faces of the workers working in this pungent smell workshop, watching the beads of sweat flowing out from under their helmets, in such a harsh environment, they can still be calm, go all out to ensure the normal production of the factory, and even be able to show smiling faces, such workers.

Thinking of their pitiful wages, Chen Moran's mood inevitably became heavy, and at this time, the sky crane once again mixed molten iron into the steelmaking hearth, and these workers hardly had any time to rest, just like robots into this harsh and poorly paid work.

When he turned to leave, beside the door of the workshop, looking at the workers who were drinking water by the water tank next to the door, those workers who seemed to have climbed from hell, the heartfelt smile on their faces when drinking the cold water stained with oil stains, only made Chen Moran feel guilty.

Out of the workshop, listening to the roar in the rolling workshop, Chen Moran, who was originally full of interest, was not in the mood to watch anymore, even the evil capitalists have some conscience.

"Add one piece of ...... to each of the workers in a workshop like this"

When the words came to his mouth, Chen Moran still changed his words.

"Five-cent workshop allowance!"

Primitive accumulation is evil, and it can only be so for the development of the factory!

Hu Nianzu just replied lightly and didn't say anything, he was already used to this kind of scene, and even in those steel mills with backward equipment, the environment would only get worse.

"In addition, the factory built a boiler room, on the one hand, to provide those workers with boiling water, and on the other hand, to build a large bathhouse, to ensure that they can go to the bathhouse after work, so as to relieve their fatigue!"

After saying this, Chen Moran raised his head and saw a large white smoke coming out of the coking plant in the distance, which was a large amount of steam generated by the hot coke when it met water during the coke quenching process.

"Alas......"

After a long sigh, Chen Moran sat on the "Pegasus" car parked outside the workshop, Pegasus cars have been mass-produced, the first batch of 300 cars, in addition to dozens of cars bought by the middle and senior managers of industrial companies, dozens of cars were given to officials, in Shanghai and Jiangning, which can not be said to be rudimentary cars, dozens of them were sold, and there are still 40 in the company's warehouse, which are used for testing and training the fleet.

"Young master, go there again!"

Ma Xiaoliu, who was driving the car, turned his head and asked, the young master who didn't seem to be in a good mood.

"Let's go to the machine shop!"

Chen Moran, who was in a somewhat complicated mood, commanded, looking at the factory and thinking about those workers, but there was not much joy in his heart, the car was walking, looking at the ant-like workers, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"There is sin in every pore!"

Vice! Just sin!

Every day, even if he is busy, he will always take a few hours to stay in this studio integrated with his bedroom and office to perfect his personal design.

Twelve years ago, the most fundamental reason for studying machinery and gun manufacturing in Germany was a hobby, but now in this place called the machine factory, which is actually an arsenal, it has been fully utilized, and the designers of the machine factory are not many, except for six technicians hired from the United States and Germany, perhaps Shi Si is the only weapon designer in this factory, and he is happy to use his spare time to design weapons in addition to management, and there are enough resources here to turn his ideas into reality.

On a steel workbench in the design room, with an unloaded rifle leaning on the table, and some small parts scattered on the table, Shi Si, as the manager of the company, was bent down and sat in front of the workbench busily.

The workbench was littered with rifle bolts and other parts, the lubricating oil that had been applied to the parts had dried and glistened in the light of the daylight.

After completing the assembly of the bolt, Chen Moran first installed the trigger assembly into the receiver, and then stuffed the bolt into the receiver, the action was not flustered, and he seemed very skilled.

To a certain extent, Shi Si likes this kind of solitary work very much, and even he doesn't know why he is becoming more and more obsessed with this kind of work now, and even sometimes obsessed with it, and his love of playing with guns is perhaps the most important reason.

"Wow!"

After finally assembling the receiver, Shi Si took the gun and tried it, and the operation was smoother than he expected.

"You should go to the shooting range and try two shots!"

Pulling the bolt of the gun, feeling the smoothness of the process, Shi Si whispered to himself.

As the manager of the company, Shi Si has been "fake public and private" in the name of research, through various channels to get all kinds of weapons, Mauser, Manliman, Lee Enfield rifle, Maxim, Haqi Kais, Colt machine gun, etc., half a year ago, when ten Manliman M95 rifles in front of him, Shi Si, who was studying Hagg Kais, suddenly became obsessed with M95 straight pull rotary bolt machine, after all, most of the past he came into contact with rotary bolt rifle.

That is, from that day on, he began to study the M95's rotary bolt, and figured out that it relied on the inner side of the bolt to guide the nose to rotate through the curve groove on the nose to achieve the purpose of opening and closing the rifle, so as to achieve a faster rate of fire straight pull bolt. Although the direct-acting bolt was smooth in motion, he always felt a little jerky, and the line of the Halgkais's air-conductive automatic mode and the M95's straight-pull rotary bolt formed a line in his mind.

Perhaps because of his keen eye for weapons, he found out what he seemed to see, a completely new infantry weapon. Inspired by this hair, Shi Si began to work on the transformation of Manlixia 1895, following its design of straight-pull bolt, double-nose bolt and bolt frame, referring to the gas conduction of the Haqikis machine gun, adding an air guide tube and re-entry spring under the barrel to simulate the reciprocating push and pull action of the arm, the simple transformation was successful, and the former manual rifle became a semi-automatic rifle, but it also exposed some problems.

The success of the experiment allowed Shi Si to devote more energy to the design of this "cross-era" weapon, in order to accommodate the extra air duct and re-entry spring, he redesigned a steel outer receiver, and at the same time changed the lower magazine to the upper magazine to feed ammunition, so as to solve the problems exposed by the prototype, and now the rifle in his hand is the No. 43 test gun after half a year of improvement.

Holding the rifle in your hand and leaning on the butt, it is indeed a little inconvenient to aim from the left side, which may be the disadvantage of the upper feed.

"Go with the flow!"

As soon as he entered the door with his front foot, Chen Moran saw Shi Si sitting on the chair holding a strange-looking weapon at him, and hurriedly dodged for a while.

Shi Si, who was holding a gun, saw that it was his boss who entered the door, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly put the gun away.

"Yes! What are you doing here? ”

Chen Moran, who was scared and sweating, almost wanted to give him a shot when he saw that Shi Si, but being so frightened by him, Xianben's mood in the iron factory also improved.

"I remember that the factory rules said that you are not allowed to shoot indoors, you have to ......"

Chen Moran, who was a little annoyed, only said half of what he said, but he was attracted by the weapon in Shi Si's hand, and the appearance of this weapon was too strange.

"What kind of gun is this!"

Grabbing his gun from Shi Si's hand, Chen Moran asked as he looked at it. Looking at the strange appearance in his hand, Chen Moran had seen a lot of weapons, but he had never seen this kind of gun. The appearance of the rifle, at least the front half of the barrel and the back butt look like a rifle, but there is an extra steel receiver, and there is a short magazine inserted above the receiver.

Well! This is a bit close to the Czech style in the movie.

"Well, this one!"

Shi Si began to show off, and seeing that Chen Moran was all attracted by this gun, he was proud and a little helpless.

"This is an automatic rifle designed by a contemptible design!"

"Automatic rifles!"

His words only made Chen Moran's eyes light up, and with a gun in one hand, he walked outside with his feet.

"Let's go to the shooting range!"

When pressing the ten magazines, Chen Moran couldn't help but look at the bullets in his hand a few more times, this 7.62*57 mm bullet "Chinese bullet" is actually a compromise, from the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau warehouse to get 63 machines for the production of small-caliber Mauser bullets, working 8 hours a day can produce 30,000 Mauser bullets, that is the only equipment the company has to manufacture bullets.

The equipment produces Mauser edgeless bullets, while the rifles used by the army are Russian-style 7.62 bottom-edged bullets, compared with the transformation of bullet production equipment, it is simpler to adjust the rifle chamber and bolt head, and finally Chen Moran provided the M1908 7.62 mm warhead basically, the Mauser edgeless bullet case was used instead, and the cost of replacing the punch mold was the lowest.

It is this kind of "accumulation" that spells out an epoch-making "sharp bullet", the new pointed bullet is 270 meters higher than the muzzle velocity of the Mosin round bullet and the Mauser round bullet, and the 80 cm barrel of the Mosin rifle is fired, the muzzle velocity reaches an astonishing 885 meters, the trajectory is lower and the range is longer.

The excellent ballistics of the 7.62*57 mm bullet can lead the world for at least a few years, and this epoch-making "pointed bullet" is not an epoch-making weapon, the rifle is still a new type of butt Mosin Nagant, the butt is close to the Mauser 93 butt gun, and at the same time, the Russian-style bayonet is replaced by a single-edged bayonet made on the basis of German Siemens products, every time he sees the bayonet, Chen Moran can't help but think of the bayonet, the appearance of the two is very similar, but the "industrial" bayonet is longer, Industrial manufacturing is just his own statement, there has never been "none" industrial manufacturing, only the "MJ1902" produced in America, which is to conceal the source of weapons.

Patchwork and stacking may be one of the characteristics of all weapons produced by industrial companies, but perhaps only this strange-looking rifle in front of you can be regarded as truly original!

"Click!"

He inserted the 10-round magazine into the top of the receiver, pulled the bolt with his right hand, and aimed at the target dozens of meters away by his shoulder.

When aiming with this rifle, the left offset sight always made Chen Moran feel a little strange, the index finger that pulled the trigger opened the safety on the receiver, and the index finger re-pulled the trigger.

This insurance may be Shi Si's proud work, referring to the safety of the factory 75 pistol, seeing that Chen Moran was about to shoot when he opened the safety when he was standing there holding a rifle, he hurriedly shouted.

"Little ......"

Before the words were finished, Chen Moran had already pulled the trigger.

(To be continued)