On the way from Berlin to Czechoslovakia, it should be called Bohemia and the Moravian Protectorate, several cars were driving quickly, looking out the window at the newly built highway, Jiang Cheng couldn't help but understand why so many people supported Hitler.

"It's not easy, owner, it's finally settled." Chen Nan said with a sigh.

Jiang Cheng nodded, after a difficult negotiation. Jiang Cheng's Skoda Arsenal received two million tons of steel a year, which was already one-third of Japan's annual steel production at this time. At the cost of high iron ore prices and new mining techniques. As soon as he thought of those fights, Jiang Cheng felt sick.

Jiang Cheng expelled the unhappiness from his heart and said, "We just need to hold on for a year, and next year I will find a way to get new sources of iron ore, such as the United States and the Soviet Union." ”

Chen Nan sighed and said, "Look at the countries in Europe, the industry is so powerful, I don't know when our country will catch up." The east, the front is at the border, you see, now there are crowds of revelers everywhere. ”

Jiang Cheng arrived in the Sudetenland, where the Germans were the majority, and they all reveled happily when they learned of the complete destruction of Czechoslovakia, after all, after the First World War, the fanatical nationalism of Czechoslovakia had persecuted them, and now the feng shui took turns, and they finally waited for the day when they raised their eyebrows.

Jiang Cheng looked at it and shook his head, waved his hand, and motioned to move on, while asking, "How is the factory over there?" Is the mood of the workers still stable? ”

Chen Nan said comfortingly, "The owner can rest assured, I have already asked, our factory is very quiet, but there are also some noises, and Alder's opinion is to expel them." ”

Jiang Cheng smiled slightly, he naturally knew what Alder meant, the expulsion was fake, and it was true to send them to the resistance organization.

Jiang Cheng said, "Let's do it." Anyone who openly opposed Germany was thrown out of the factory, well, give him three months' wages as a lump sum, you tell him, I don't want to know where those people end up, but in my factory I don't need a house of gold. ”

Chen Nan said that he understood, and without saying anything all the way, the convoy drove to the gate of the military factory.

Jiang Cheng walked into the factory, and a group of executives had been waiting for a long time.

Jiang Cheng nodded to everyone and said, "Sobotka." ”

Sobotka was the deputy general manager of the Škoda plant, and he quickly stood up and bowed down and asked, "Owner." What do you command? ”

I don't know who taught it, even these white people followed and called Jiang Chengdong's family, and Jiang Cheng did not object to this name with Chinese characteristics.

"Although our workers are generally stable, the replacement of state power will definitely make them wonder, and immediately help me write a letter to all the employees of the factory, the main body of which is that the German government has placed a large order for us, and all the operation of our factory will continue as usual, and the replacement of the state power will not affect the lives of any employees in our factory, if the current regime is not recognized. You can leave on your own, and the factory doesn't want employees to affect their work because of this. The factory will give him three times the previous month's salary as severance pay. So be it. After Jiang Cheng finished speaking, he said to Alder next to him, "Okay, let's go in for a meeting and discuss the production plan behind our factory." ”

The crowd sat still. Jiang Cheng said to Alder: "Let's talk about the products produced in our factory first. ”

Alder nodded, took out a few photos and said, "First of all, small arms, this is our factory Vz.24 rifle and ZH-29 semi-automatic rifle, which are the main rifle products of our factory. Vz.24 rifle except for appearance. It is basically the same as the Mauser 98K, it is the same type of gun as it, and the ZH-29 semi-automatic rifle is already more than ten years old. This has also been exported to your home country, China, but it is not very popular in other countries, so production has recently been discontinued. ”

Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "Our future customers are mainly Germany and Germany's client states or allies, it is expected that in the near future, these troops will need a large number of weapons, and Germany will try to let these troops use the same standard weapons in order to facilitate logistics management and operations. Our Vz.24 rifle production should be expanded, and now the annual output of 70,000 is no longer completely suitable for the situation, I asked for an initial annual output of 200,000 pieces within half a year, and on January 1, 40, I asked the production line to reach an annual output of 300,000 pieces. ”

A group of executives looked at each other in fright, and Alder hurriedly said, "Owner, isn't this too risky, what if the situation is misjudged and we produce so many weapons that we can't sell?" And we can't increase our capacity in one year. ”

Jiang Cheng waved his hand and said, "Don't be afraid, let's not talk about our European needs, even China can eat so many goods, just do it, as long as you persist for a year, it will be the spring of our arms dealers." I know that we are now working 8 hours a day, which is too wasteful of machines, so we have changed them to two shifts, but if we keep producing, the machines can't stand it, so we leave five hours for machine maintenance, and three hours for eating and resting in the middle. The bullet factory is the same, full production, not enough people to recruit, by the way, except for female work will reduce productivity as much as possible to use female workers. ”

"Dictator!!" These three words flashed through the minds of all the executives, is it really okay to be arbitrary?

Jiang Cheng continued, "I think that semi-automatic rifle also has great potential, but since it is not popular, there must be a reason, so let's suspend production first, find out the reason, and improve it." Let's move on, it should be a machine gun in the back, right? ”

Alder nodded and said, "These are our two main machine guns, the light machine gun ZB-26 and the heavy machine gun ZB-37, and the other is the ZB-60 that has not been mass-produced, this gun was originally developed as a machine gun, and finally the caliber became 15MM, so it should still be called a gun." ”

Jiang Cheng looked at the photos of the ZB-60 that he had never seen before, and only saw that this gun was about two meters long, and it seemed that it was more suitable for an anti-aircraft machine gun than a heavy machine gun.

Jiang Cheng thought about Germany's main machine guns MG34 and MG42 and said, "Our ZB26 is the fist product of our factory, to increase production, I see that at the beginning of the 40s, it will reach an annual output of more than 30,000 units, I know that the production cost of this machine gun is lower, and he can complement the existing MG34 in Germany, you should also know that the MG34 has a faster rate of fire and a higher cost." This has led to the fact that the German army cannot be fully reequipped when it is expanding frantically, and our ZB26 has a price advantage, and I think we should be able to position it as the main weapon of the second line of the German group in the future.

As for the ZB-37, his position in the future will be more embarrassing, saying that the rate of fire is fast, you are not as fast as the MG34, saying that the price is low, and it is not so low, the German army will definitely choose the MG series that they trust more, so we must design and produce a new machine gun. To be the same as the ZB-26, it has the characteristics of low price, high shooting accuracy and fast rate of fire, only such a machine gun can compete with the Mauser company, I think so, the production line remains unchanged, and the output is enough to increase the annual output to 5,000 units, and the ZB-60 must also be changed, and his positioning is the anti-aircraft machine gun on our armored products in the future. ”

Such a plan. Alder accepted it, but asked about the improvement of the machine gun, "Do you have any ideas for the improvement of this machine gun?" ”

Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "Are the people from our research department here?" ”

Alder hurriedly pointed to a gray-haired man sitting behind him and said, "Boss, this is the director of our research department." Dr. Hacha. ”

Jiang Cheng hurriedly motioned to him, so that he didn't have to stand up and said, "I'll give you some information later, all of which are some plans for our weapon improvement, you have to lead the research team to understand it as quickly as possible." I'll give you three months, okay? ”

Hacha did not believe that the Chinese would have any new technology, and thought that he got it from Germany. Nodding indifferently, he said, "No problem, my employer, our technology is not very different from that of Germany." ”

Jiang Cheng didn't care, and continued, "Then it's our artillery, I said it directly, Germany has requirements for us, directly docking with Germany's artillery sequence, producing German-style 37 anti-aircraft guns, 32-type mortars, we have to debug the production line within three months, of which our annual output of anti-aircraft guns will reach 1,800 units, and the annual output of 32-type mortars will reach 5,000 units." Is there a problem with this? ”

Alder shook his head and said, "We're already producing these, so just adjust them a little bit, and it's not a big problem." ”

Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "We don't produce infantry guns for the time being, and now the German LG18 infantry guns I think are too low in combat effectiveness." We wanted to redesign a new infantry gun, and my requirements were to have a range of more than 4,500 meters, and at the same time not to weigh more than 600 kilograms, and to be able to fire a variety of shells, and this development plan was placed in second place in artillery development. ”

Hacha nodded, and took notes.

Jiang Cheng continued, "Then there is our howitzer, our Skoda was originally best at heavy artillery, our current 100 mm howitzer and German caliber are not uniform, all stop production, and only produce 75, 105 and 155 howitzers in the future." The main focus was on the production of 155 and 75. The position of 105 was also more embarrassing in the German army, it was not popular, so we did not participate, in terms of production, the annual output of 75 howitzers should be more than 1000 units, the 105 howitzer remained the same, and the 155 howitzer should be more than 600 units. ”

Olde was not surprised by the strengthening of the artillery line, after all, Skoda was famous for its artillery.

"In addition, the Germans demanded that we restore the production capacity of artillery of a larger caliber, what caliber of artillery can be produced with our existing technology?" Jiang Cheng asked Hacha.

Hacha immediately replied, "We can now produce up to 305 mm heavy guns, and this gun was designed during the Austro-Hungarian Empire. ”

Jiang Cheng touched his chin and said, "What is the performance?" ”

Hacha wrenched his fingers and said, "The rate of fire is 10 rounds an hour, the muzzle velocity is 340 meters, the maximum range is 11,300 meters, and the effective range is 9,600 meters." It is possible to penetrate 2 meters of reinforced concrete. This is a 1909 product, so the performance is relatively low. ”

Jiang Cheng shook his head and said, "No, thirty years have passed, we have to upgrade him to a good level, this is the first task of our artillery development department, as far as I know, Rheinmetall's latest 240 mm K3 gun has a range of 37,000 meters, and the muzzle velocity of the muzzle is 970 meters." If we have a larger caliber, we can't at least lose to him in terms of range, I ask for a range of more than 45,000 meters, and I will also provide some materials in this regard. ”

Hacha shrugged and said, "It's all up to you." ”

Jiang Cheng motioned for Alder to continue talking, and Alder hurriedly took out the last two photos and said, "These are our two most important tanks, LT-38 and LT-35, and now we are mainly producing LT-38." ”

Jiang Cheng looked at the photo and smiled, in the east, but there are a lot of this tank is fighting for China, Jiang Cheng clicked on the photo and said, "The performance of our LT-38 is already very good in light tanks, but it needs to be improved, I require his frontal armor to be above 50mm, the gun does not need to move, but the speed cannot be reduced, which requires our tank research and development department to use their brains, I will also provide some materials in this regard, but this is only a light tank, We're going to work on medium tanks and heavy tanks, and in the next three years, our LT-38 will still be useful, but in three years' time I think our tank will take a back seat.

I want to produce 800 LT-38s this year, the time is pressing, and our R&D department is also going to develop a new tank this year, my requirements are that the caliber of the gun should be 75 mm, the same as the German army, the frontal armor should not be less than 80 mm, the use of inclined armor, and the road speed should be more than 200 kilometers, and the most important thing is the price, all our product production costs must continue to be reduced. But this reduction in production costs cannot be at the expense of the treatment of workers and the reduction of the quality of weapons, let's go back and think about it, and we will go here today and dismiss the meeting. Hacha you and so on. ”

Wait for everyone to leave. Hacha came up and asked, "My host, do you need anything?" ”

Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "I will give you a series of materials next, I want you to eat it as quickly as possible, in addition, pay attention to confidentiality, understand?" ”

Hacha hurriedly said, "That's natural, the company's technical secrecy is the most important." ”

After Jiang Cheng asked Hacha to leave, he said to Chen Nan, "I'm going to leave for about half a month, you have to completely control the factory as quickly as possible, and the things we said in the morning must not happen, especially be careful of the resistance organization, we can sell things to them, but we can't let them steal things out." ”

Chen Nan saw Jiang Cheng's advice three times and twice, and also solemnly assured that it would not happen.

Jiang Cheng returned to his residence with peace of mind, and after leaving a note in the room, he traveled back to modern times, this time he had to buy a lot of things to go back. (To be continued.) )