"Toot ......"

Almost every day, with the whistle of a steamship entering the port, tens of thousands of immigrants from Kannai enter the Northeast through Dalian, Yingkou and other ports, and then take a train to the settlements scattered along the railway, and one settlement after another has sprung up in the Northeast. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

With the extension of the railway to Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces, the settlements also extended to the two provinces, and the towns along the line also quickly prospered.

In fact, it is not only the settlements established on these wastelands that have changed, but also the cities that have changed more rapidly, while many towns along the line have prospered because of the railways and immigrants, with the whistle of the whistle, cities that have never existed before have also sprung up on this land, Binjiang City, located on the banks of the Songhua River, is a city raised by the railway.

With the construction of the railway, because it is located at the intersection of the Manzhouli-Suifenhe railway and the railway to Dalian, the industry, commerce and population began to gather in the area of Binjiang City, making it quickly become a city.

Originally, "Binjiang City" was not called "Binjiang City", but Harbin, because it is said that when setting up the City Construction Bureau, the officials used to spend a lot of brains on the setting of place names, inspected some small villages along the Songhua River, and asked the locals about the place name, the local people called this place "Ha Oubin", and this is also the translation of the Jurchen word "Alejin". At the same time, the Street Construction Bureau also conceived many names, but none of them were adopted, and finally the name was Harubin, and the name "Harubin Street" appeared on the original map. "Harubin" is the Manchu word for "fishing net". It is said that long ago this area was a large fishing area for the Manchu people, and the Han people called it a net drying ground. After reporting to the Governor's Palace, it was renamed "Harbin" by the Governor.

It is said that this has the name of the governor. There should be no problem! But the key is that its place name is translated from Jurchen, if Harbin is just an ordinary small city, I am afraid it will not attract the attention of the outside world, but in the planning of the Governor's Palace, it is one of the four major cities, first the "Yellow Soul Society" and then the East Asian Tongwen Society has raised objections. Later, it even went to the newspapers, and eventually, after some controversy, "Harbin" became "Binjiang", which was just a matter of meaning.

Although Binjiang is only a city that thrives on roads, unlike most cities that thrive on roads, it gives a different meaning to the Binjiang Governor's Palace, which will be the core of the northern urban circle of the three eastern provinces.

In addition to transportation considerations, the reason why Binjiang was chosen as the urban core of the northern region is probably that it is a completely rebuilt new city. In fact, among the "four major cities" planned in Northeast China, in addition to Shenyang, such as Dalian, Changchun and Binjiang are all newly built cities on wasteland, and even Shenyang is focused on the new area on the east side of the railway, but the old city on the west side.

Even as the "city" in the planning of the Governor's Palace, it is natural to exclude the scientific and reasonable urban planning scheme. Perhaps more important is the construction of industry, and only the proper concentration of industry can promote the development of cities. This is especially true for new cities, although the construction of the riverside should be planned in three years, but in fact, even in the "14th Plan", the construction of dozens of factories of different sizes has begun to be built, in addition to a set of scientific and reasonable urban planning.

A brick and wood factory on the grassland. It is the factory building of the Binjiang Arsenal, the scale of this arsenal is not large, in fact, it is better to call it an arsenal than an arsenal. After all, more than half of the troops of the Northeast Army are stationed in Heilongjiang and northern Jilin, and the maintenance of weapons by tens of thousands of troops is completely dependent on this repair factory under the banner of the arsenal.

Although it is only under the banner of the repair factory, and the plant is extremely simple, but its equipment is quite advanced, not only the latest machine tools imported from Germany, and even the latest machine tools produced by machine tool companies with their own motors, and even in addition, there is a full-time training of workers on the side of the factory technical school, thousands of apprentices under the age of seventeen or eighteen, in the school while learning culture, while learning machine tool operation, and this is precisely for the future expansion of the factory to accumulate talents.

However, the future development can not change the current simplicity, just those simple brick and wood structure of the factory, although it has just arrived in late autumn, but the weather has been cold, into the night of the autumn wind along the doors and windows and the upper part of the wooden wall of the plant, into the factory, only to make the temperature in the plant much lower.

At night, the factory looks a little deserted, but in this deserted factory, the lights are on, and a German conversation is heard from time to time.

"Oh, it's so cold......"

Fidel, dressed in a velvet suit, gripped the cold brass calipers as he inspected the fixtures, and couldn't help but complain. His whining echoed immediately.

"No, I heard, winter here is like Russia!"

Just mention the Russian winter and Friedrich can imagine how cold the winter will be here. Although the winters in Württemberg were not warm and actually much colder than they are now, in October in Württemberg, people can even swim in the river, but here they have already begun to put on winter clothes.

"How's it going, regret it?"

Joseph couldn't help but laugh as he watched his two older brothers complain about the weather.

"Regrets?"

Fidel was stunned for a moment, then quickly shook his head.

"Of course, I won't regret it, if the three of us were still in Germany, it would probably take at least five years to become the supervisors of several workshops, and ...... here"

Looking at the somewhat humble factory in front of him, Fidel's eyes were full of pride.

"We've already achieved what we're five years from now."

"But after all, this is a repair shop, not a real arsenal, if it is ...... in Shenyang"

Friedrich did not show any signs of pride in the joy of his eldest brother, but complained about the size of the factory.

"Trust me, Friedrich. In the future, the scale of this factory will definitely not be smaller than that of the Shenyang Arsenal, and it will ......"

Joseph's words paused for a moment, and he pointed to the just-finished fixtures and drawings on the table and said to the second brother.

"If our pistol is successful, we will definitely win the order from the Military Command, and when the time comes, even if it can't be like Germany. We set up our own factory, and we can't get a lot of royalties, but a big bonus is inevitable. ”

Although the Fidel brothers themselves were production supervisors at the Binjiang Arsenal, most of the work they did to design the weapons was done in their own time, so they received 150 yuan a week from the factory in the name of improving the "Bochart C93 pistol", and they also used the factory's equipment and materials for research, which is why they could not obtain the full patent rights. Still, compared to Germany, they can still receive compensation and bonuses. In Germany, on the other hand, individuals cannot apply for patents, and their development can only be applied in the name of the company, which means that they can never get a return.

"You're so confident that the military will definitely adopt it when the time comes?"

Although the same participated in the development of this pistol, and even on the ship that came to China. The research plant was not stopped, but Friedrich had doubts about the future of semi-automatic pistols. This suspicion is based on the fact that the Bochart C93 pistol has not yet received a large order.

"Don't forget Bochart's pistols, so far, the largest order is an order for 600 in the Northeast!"

This is the kind of order that has been touted as a "genius design feature" for the Bochart pistol, and as for the other sporadic orders, none of them have ever exceeded double digits, in this case. No wonder Friedrich was skeptical.

"But, Friedrich, don't forget, the Northeast Army bought 2,600 at once, if I'm not mistaken. From infantry to cavalry, they are equipped to try this weapon, and more than any other country, our Marshal is more willing to keep his army strong by purchasing new weapons, just like the machine guns and mortars we have come into contact with, all of which have genius design characteristics......"

As the youngest of the three brothers, Joseph described the difference in the Northeast in a tone full of longing, and he said the truth, although there was no large-scale purchase of Bochart pistols in the world, but the Tohoku had ordered 2,600 Bochat pistols at a time at the beginning of the year, and even last week, they had seen an entire cavalry company armed with Bochat pistols.

It was even this order that led them to the Northeast, and when the Bochart pistol caused a sensation in Europe last year, the Fidel brothers, who worked at the Mauser Arsenal, quietly began to develop a firing automatic pistol without the Mauser brothers. The Mauser brothers did not support their development, and when the three brothers were privately developing automatic pistols, Bochat, who had always been a blockbuster, sold 2,600 at a time, causing a sensation throughout Europe. Of course, it also caught the attention of the three Fidel brothers, who noticed the purchase of weapons from the Northern Trading Company, and also noticed that the Northern Trading Company had been recruiting mechanics in Europe, and immediately realized that this was an opportunity. So the three brothers applied for a job at a trading company, and as they expected, not only could they get a better salary here, but they also received support for their development. Of course, out of caution and for other reasons, they proposed to develop automatic pistols after arriving at the factory in the northeast, and if they had been before, perhaps they would have been in Shenyang now, and not in Binjiang, where they were engaged in the repair of firearms in this nominal arsenal.

However, in the arsenal at Binjiang, they had access to many weapons that had been kept secret because of the maintenance, and it also made Joseph realize that the Northeast was more willing to adopt new weapons than any other country, including new automatic pistols.

"I hope so!"

Shrugging his shoulders helplessly, Friedrich once again checked whether the clamps on the machine were installed correctly in order to prototype the pistol.

Without the support of the factory, the trial production work might have been delayed for a few more months, after all, they had already completed most of the design when they came to China, and now. With the support of the factory, everything went much smoother, at least there was no need for the three brothers to privately "borrow" factory equipment to produce weapons; As for now, it is only necessary to turn the pistol on the drawing into a real thing, and then conduct experiments.

In the factory building late at night, the machine tool roared. Because the machine tools in this workshop are all equipped with their own motors, so that there is no complex transmission shaft and transmission belt composed of messy transmission system, at this time, the three Fidel brothers were busy in front of the three machine tools, in order to process the parts of this pistol, and the most complex parts are the upper receiver, that is because the barrel and the receiver are one, in the barrel, when drilling, there is a slight deviation. It may lead to the loss of all previous efforts, so the technical level of workers is quite demanding.

However, for Fidel, who has been working at the Mauser factory since the age of 13, this complex machining was not a problem, after all, he was an excellent skilled technician himself, and he was even a teacher at the affiliated engineering school, which was responsible for teaching the students about machining. And as the designer of the weapon, although this is creating a completely new weapon, almost every step is etched into the minds of the three brothers. After all, in their minds, they may not know how many times they have demonstrated this moment. The natural manufacturing is also familiar and handy.

In fact, this is not the first production, as early as three months ago, they had already come up with a prototype gun, even with the one made of mild steel. Only the prototype gun that could show the principle but could not be fired was approved by the factory for their research and received a development fund of 150 yuan per week, which was not the most important thing. What's more, their mobile phone was given priority, and if the test was successful, the factory would recommend the pistol in the name of the Arsenal to the Ordnance Industry Agency. Today's trial production is a sample gun in the real sense, a sample gun that can be fired, and once successful, this gun is very likely to become the standard equipment of the Northeast Army.

With the roar of the machine tool, when the next wire or ribbon wire is cut on the metal raw material under the action of the cutting tool, the parts with a metallic luster are produced, and in the early hours of the morning, more than 110 parts of the whole gun are completely produced.

When the sun rose over the distant horizon, more than 110 hardened parts were spread out on a white canvas, and after the thin layer of oil had been wiped off, the three brothers looked a little excited in the face of these parts and the blue body of the gun, and the three of them looked at each other, whether it was Friedrich or Joseph, and they all looked at their eldest brother Fidel.

The gaze of his brothers made Fidel take a deep breath, he took a deep breath, and then he picked up the parts of the gun, assembled the bolt, and with his movements, the small parts were assembled one by one, and after a few minutes, the once small more than 110 parts became five parts of different sizes, and after less than a few tens of seconds, Fidel had an extra pistol in his hand, a new pistol that was completely different from any kind of traditional pistol.

The body of the pistol is blue and has a faint luster, and the heavy pistol in his hand is full of texture, and when he holds it, Fidel looks a little excited, and Friedrich and Joseph look at the gun in his hand with excitement.

"Whoa!"

When the bolt was pulled, with a light crisp sound, the hearts of the three brothers beat with it, no need to ask, the three brothers all read each other's thoughts, go and try! Go get a few shots!

Without any hesitation, not even words, the three brothers arrived at the open-air shooting range, and although the weather was cold in the late autumn morning, the three of them were in the open-air shooting range, to be precise, this shooting range was just a protective wall built with sandbags under the wall.

"Click......"

With the help of a bochaert bullet in the bridge clip, it was stuffed into the magazine like a rifle bullet, and at the same time that the tenth round entered the magazine and the bridge clamp was withdrawn, the empty compartment hang-up was released.

Just as Friedrich proposed to fix the pistol with a gun mount and then try firing it, Joseph snatched the pistol from Fidel's pistol.

"Friedrich, there is no such thing as a must, I believe it!"

The sound fell and the gun rang out, and in the early morning sun, the crisp and rapid sound of gunfire echoed across the shooting range, which was steady at first, and then very rapid, and seemed to be very different from a normal revolver.

After the gunfire fell, the three brothers were all stunned, its shooting was smoother than they imagined, and the operation was more convenient, completely beyond their imagination.

Looking at the pistol in his hand, Joseph's face suddenly showed a look of joy, and he said to Fidel.

"Fidel, I don't think there's any music in the world that can compare to the sound of its guns!"

"That's right......"

Taking the pistol from Joseph's hand, Fidel said in an equally excited voice.

"I think, now, there is only one question left, that is, how to better show it to the army!"

Now that the weapon has been manufactured, all that remains is how to better display it to the army and get it to be procured, not as a novelty like the Bochart pistol. As Fidel's words fell, Friedrich whispered to the side.

"I have an idea!" (To be continued.) )