Unlike the previous times, just after ten o'clock in the evening, Zhu Daolin returned to the factory with an umbrella, said "send it away" and sat down, put on the induction cooker hot pot and continued to drink.

NO MATTER WHAT THE PUZZLED DUAN DEMING ASKED, ZHU DAOLIN DID NOT SAY HOW TO SEND THEM AWAY, BUT ASKED DUAN DEMING TO INCREASE THE PRODUCTION OF FLINTLOCK PISTOLS, PREFERABLY 15,000 PER MONTH, AND STOP MANUFACTURING FLINTLOCK PISTOLS AFTER THREE MONTHS, AND SWITCH TO THE MANUFACTURE OF 11MM CALIBER SINGLE-SHOT RIFLE BARRELS, BOLTS AND ACCESSORIES.

Duan Deming was quite surprised: "You can make a flintlock pistol over there?" ”

ZHU DAOLIN NODDED: "IT CAN BASICALLY BE IMITATED, BUT IT CAN'T BE MASS-PRODUCED, THE QUALITY OF THE MAIN SPRING OF THE BOLT AND THE MAIN REED OF THE FIRING MECHANISM IS NOT GOOD, I STILL HAVE TO BUY A SPRING STEEL BELT AND SEND IT TO THEM FOR PROCESSING, IT IS ESTIMATED THAT IT WILL TAKE HALF A YEAR TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM, BUT THE 11MM CALIBER BARREL CAN'T BE MADE FOR ANOTHER YEAR TO GIVE THEM, SO THEY NEED TO BUY THE BARREL AND BOLT OF THE SINGLE-SHOT RIFLE AND SEND IT OVER FOR THEM TO PRODUCE THE BUTT AND ASSEMBLE IT." ”

Duan Deming expressed his understanding: "How much is the barrel bolt of a single-shot rifle going to be? ”

"50,000 sets, okay?" Zhu Daolin asked carefully.

Duan Deming smiled: "This is about the same, 50,000 sets can be completed in three months, but you have to pick up the goods in time, this thing is too sensitive and can't be stored for too long." ”

Zhu Daolin secretly put his mind at ease: "Don't worry, I will pick up the goods in time!" Something asks you, can you make a normal machine tool? ”

"What? You want to take care of me, right? ”

Duan Deming was happy, lifted the wine bottle and poured it for Zhu Daolin, raised his glass and touched it, and drank it all: "For most of the year, we have processed spare parts for several major manufacturers in this province and neighboring provinces, regardless of processing accuracy or technical requirements. are much higher than the production of ordinary machine tools......"

"It's just that today's competition is too fierce, and the profits are getting thinner and thinner, if you can manufacture lathes, milling machines, boring machines, punches and other processing equipment for you for a long time, it is definitely a great love for me!"

"As long as we survive next year, those small and medium-sized processing enterprises that are difficult to hold on to will go bankrupt. Our days will be much better. ”

Duan Deming's words confirmed Zhu Daolin's speculation, knowing that Duan Deming's factory still started too late, and there was no advantage in the fierce industry competition.

So Zhu Daolin took the opportunity to put forward a win-win proposal: "If you want, use the current steam engines manufactured for me as the power standard, and manufacture various processing machine tools that are matched with them!" ”

"Too much too far I dare not say, next year you can let go of the dry, after the Spring Festival, I will give you a few mechanical processing plants, standard parts factories and hardware processing factory construction plans, each factory investment is more than 10 million. You can design, manufacture, or buy a complete set of processing equipment for me, depending on the program, but it must be powered by a steam engine. ”

"Within five years, there will be no conditions to build a power plant there, and there will be no talent for this area, and all the processing equipment will have to be driven by steam engines."

Duan Deming solemnly agreed: "Thank you!" I'm going to do a great job! ”

Zhu Daolin raised his wine glass and touched three glasses with the grateful Duan Deming three times in a row, confirming this important event for both parties.

Both of them drank high that night. The next day, after breakfast, Duan Deming's parents and brother and sister-in-law sent five cartons of bacon, sausages, hare, chili sauce and other local specialties to the big jeep. Seeing Duan Deming and Zhu Daolin drive away before returning home.

Duan Deming and Zhu Daolin talked all the way, and soon came to the rented warehouse in the western suburbs of the provincial capital, Zhu Daolin took down the gifts on the car, and told Duan Deming that he had something to do later, and he would stay here tonight and wait for Brother Peng to come back, and let Duan Deming send him to the train station to go back.

Duan Deming didn't twist either. Take Zhu Daolindong to the train station, tell a few words and drive back.

Zhu Daolin immediately went to the steel market, found the owner of the steel sales company he had dealt with last time, and after some bargaining, bought 1,000 tons of 12-20 rebar and 3,000 tons of 6.5 wire rod. After paying for the goods, 50% more freight will be paid, and the other party will be required to transport the steel to the western suburbs warehouse as soon as possible.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, a tattered crane and eight flatbed trucks with a load of 70 tons brought in steel one after another, in order to save time, Zhu Daolin asked the driver to unload all the rebar on the open space outside the warehouse, and unload all the bundles of wire rod into the yard.

At dusk, Brother Peng came back with the farm truck transporting 5 tons of potatoes and sweet potatoes, and was very surprised to see the steel piled up inside and out, Zhu Daolin didn't have time to explain to him, and asked him to find a few stevedores at the door of the granary, unload the 5 tons of potatoes and sweet potatoes in the sacks, take the balance of 2,000 yuan returned by Brother Peng, smiled and stuffed it into his hand again, and told him that this was a bonus, and the grain and seeds in the warehouse would be shipped away tomorrow, and nothing would be in the warehouse within half a month, so he gave him half a month off.

Brother Peng accepted the money with a smile and asked Zhu Daolin if he wanted him to stay and help? Zhu Daolin politely declined his kindness and suggested that he go back with the farm car in his hometown, and Brother Peng immediately agreed to come down, take the child, get into the front of the car and return to his hometown.

At ten o'clock in the evening, all the steel arrived, and it rained cold rain in the sky again.

Zhu Daolin put all the grain and seeds into the golden steel ring, held the umbrella and came to the courtyard gate, collected all the wet and piled up steel on the side of the road, closed the courtyard door and locked the big lock, inserted the iron bolt from the small door on the side, returned to the eaves on the inside, looked around at the steel piled up in the yard and quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

If it weren't for the rain, he wouldn't have bought so much steel, at least 2,000 tons of cement to meet the construction needs of Ziyang Medical College.

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Just after midnight, Zhu Daolin returned to the Bingzi warehouse in the depths of Shangyuan Wharf at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and most of the weapons and military uniforms and other materials in the warehouse had been equipped with the Longtan Army, which was the first to go north, so the entire warehouse became empty again.

Zhu Daolin easily took turns to transfer out the four containers full of weapons and equipment and all the grain seeds, carefully stacked them next to the row of containers inside, walked out of the warehouse after checking them, and closed the heavy door.

Zhu Daolin thought about it for a moment and felt that Ziyang Medical College would not need 4,000 tons of steel, and he would definitely like it if he gave it to Ziyang Guan, but it would form unnecessary waste, so Zhu Daolin stacked 500 tons of rebar and 1,500 tons of 6.5 wire rod on the open space under the courtyard wall, opened the courtyard gate, and entered Shangyuan Port, where the north wind was howling and there were no people.

The ships of Shangyuan Qianhu had not yet returned from carrying 3,500 recruits to Baoshan Harbor, and most of the officers and soldiers left behind were probably asleep at this time, with only two old rowing boats roaming leisurely along the edge of the wharf, and the wide camp to the north was pitch black, except for the lights on the sentry posts on the forts.

Zhu Daolin transferred the last 2,000 tons of steel out of the gold steel ring, divided them into three parts according to the specifications, and placed them on the edge of the wharf, silently turned around and walked through the bleak wharf, thinking about the equipment and movement of the 5,600 new officers and soldiers as he walked.

It was only after walking to the gate of his compound that Zhu Daolin made up his mind that tomorrow he would transfer the well-equipped and well-trained 5,600 new officers and soldiers from the Nanda Battalion to the Shangyuan Wharf Barracks, and then transfer all the remaining third batch of 7,000 recruits from the Nanda Battalion to Baoshan Port.

After replenishing the necessary equipment, the new army will go to Qingdao by sea and go all out to build camps and material transit bases, only in this way can it effectively secure its own logistics supply lines and buy time to stock up on sufficient supplies to deal with the coming brutal war. (To be continued.) )