Recently, the development of the Stone Statue Island is getting better and better, and before you know it, there are ten companies on the Stone Statue Island, and the research and development team related to the military has also reached ten.

Among the ten enterprises, five are private. The largest occupancy is fishing, followed by the fish compressed biscuit factory. Then there was the bullet factory and the soap factory, and a construction company.

Of the five enterprises directly under the Maritime Resistance Army, the largest number of people is the submarine dock, followed by the power plant. And the torpedo plant and the artillery factory, as well as the artillery plant and the propellant plant that has just begun construction.

The construction of this propellant plant has just begun, and among the crowd recruited by Professor Yuan Ye, there are really many talents. Li Guang only thought of using the big fat fish to make soap, while Xue Baoyin, an engineer specializing in chemical engineering, proposed that nitroglycerin could be made from the fat of the big fat fish, and then smoke gunpowder.

In World War II, the propellant of both bullets and artillery shells was basically this smokeless powder. Li Guang actually knew very little about the war machine in the 21st century, and Xue Baoyin pointed out that a considerable part of the propellant manufactured in Germany was actually made from whale oil, and the fat of this big fat fish was similar to whale oil.

To this end, Li Guang has allocated 200,000 US dollars and has begun to purchase equipment and build factories, preparing to make full use of the resources of this big fat fish. There are thousands of tons of big fat fish every month, and it is simply not enough to make sulfur soap.

Of all the enterprises, the best development is not the submarine dock, after all, only one dock has been built, it has not yet started production, and it is still in the preparatory stage.

The most developed enterprise at the moment is the torpedo factory. Li Guang has always lacked management and technical personnel, and now there are two suitable supervisors for torpedo production. Yu Qingzhong, director of the production management plant, and Lei Chenggong, chief engineer. The combined surnames of the two happen to be torpedoes, and these two people are the most suitable for the current naval resistance force to manage this small but extremely important unit. In China, Yu Qingzhong once opened a watch factory in Shanghai, and he has a very good set of management for the precision industry. And Yu Qingzhong himself has some kinship with Su Maode. Chief engineer Lei Chenggong studied in the United Kingdom, and after returning to China, he worked in the domestic naval construction office as a mine research and development worker, which is considered an expert.

The addition of these two people immediately put the management of the torpedo factory on the right track, improving the quality of torpedoes and reducing costs. This point is really important, don't look at a factory that only produces twenty or thirty torpedoes a month, but because of the materials used, the parts are all the most advanced, and the output value is very amazing. Perfect management will undoubtedly greatly reduce costs, and once scientific research can enter the good surname cycle, then the quality of torpedoes will be improved.

For the Naval Resistance Forces, the production of torpedoes was crucial. Without torpedoes, the Pixiu submarine went to sea without weapons. Improving the surname of the torpedo is an extremely complex matter, and all aspects of R&D and manufacturing must be perfect. According to Li Guang's plan for the next expansion of the army, the production of torpedoes must be increased. And another product in the torpedo family - the thermodynamic torpedo - had to improve the surname energy. After determining the leaders of the two torpedo factories, Li Guang finally felt a lot easier, and Zhuge Liang sighed a lot less.

The artillery plant has recently made a breakthrough and has begun to manufacture grenades, which may not be of very good quality, but they are already ready for use.

With this as a standard, the artillery plant is on the right track. Although it is still in the trial production stage, if by the end of the year, it is believed that it will not be difficult to produce 100 tons of artillery shells per month. At the current market capitalization, that's $200,000. In Li Guang's plan, in the future, the production of grenades will be allocated to the private sector, and the artillery shell factory of the Maritime Resistance Army will target high-end products such as antiaircraft shells and armor-piercing shells. However, we have only just taken the first step, and there is still a long way to go.

Recently, Li Guang has been dividing the industry one by one to find out competent managers. If there is really no suitable research project, it may not be very reasonable to appoint one temporarily, but it has reduced Li Guang's own pressure.

As far as Li Guang himself is concerned, he is really unwilling to involve too many industrial projects and too many scientific research projects. But the problem is that what he does is fight wars, and he fights for his life. And Li Guang knew that the Navy's anti-Japanese army was lacking, and he knew some of it, so he asked him not to develop and waste the lives of his soldiers, and he had a bad conscience.

Li Guang is not short of money now, but it is difficult to buy suitable weapons, especially artillery. Island defence is not something that can be achieved with light weapons alone.

Don't think about large-caliber cannons at all, even large-caliber howitzers are difficult to buy. The Americans sell rifles, and the bullets are very active, but large-caliber artillery is not sold at all, and in fact, the Americans are now very unprepared for war, and there are not many heavy artillery at all. And Li Guang did not have any more intelligence to sell to the Soviet Union, nor could he get heavy artillery.

Under this pressure, Li Guang could only hope for his own artillery production line. There are not many problems with copying German infantry guns, and it just so happens that the Soviets supplied cannon steel billets capable of making barrels twenty-four times the diameter.

But the problem is that the quality of the barrel is not up to par so far. This is really unhurried, as long as the machining process is strictly controlled, the quality can be guaranteed. However, heat treatment technology requires experience. Now a cadre of technicians is working hard to tackle key problems.

The production of artillery, all the parts are now solved, and it is not a problem either to buy or to make oneself. Now it's the barrel that pinchs Li Guang's throat.

If the difficulty of producing the barrel can be solved, then the three 76.2 mm guns can be successfully put into production.

If the process of the barrel cannot be broken through, not only infantry artillery, but also field artillery cannot be produced. Moreover, the lack of anti-aircraft artillery directly affected the air defense capabilities of several warships. Tanks can also only be used as bulldozers.

Faced with such a thorny problem, Li Guang originally planned to go to the United States and poach people at any cost. At this time, the magical Professor Yuan Ye struck again.

Twelve P40 fighters on the American side are about to be delivered. Now due to the outbreak of the European war, there may be changes. The Americans wanted to supply the French with weapons first, and Li Guang's order was ready to retreat.

Professor Yuan Ye needed to go to the United States to deal with this problem, and by the way, he volunteered to recruit people.

Li Guang knew that he only had the advantage of knowing history, but when it was his turn to deal with problems, he couldn't catch up with Professor Yuan. In this case, those who can work harder, Li Guang arranged a few small things for Professor Yuan.

To put it bluntly, Li Guang was a little wary of Yuan Ye's family, this family was really powerful, and it was beyond the norm. Whether in the twenty-first century or in this era, Li Guang has never seen so many talents appear in his family. Moreover, the important surname of the Yuan family in the Naval Resistance Army is getting higher and higher, not to mention that Yuan Ran manages this mess of Uruguay, Professor Yuan and his students not only manage the civil affairs, but also are ubiquitous in five factories and ten scientific research groups. In fact, there are several projects on the Uruguayan side that have played important roles.

But Li Guang really couldn't see what Professor Yuan thought, as if he really didn't have any selfish intentions. If you are selfish, you are also looking for a wishful husband for your daughter.

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