86_86695 Wang Shuhui grew up in the old industrial base in Northeast China. Next to his house is a state-owned arsenal.

For him, when it comes to industry, his first reaction is actually an arsenal. When it comes to the arsenal, his first reaction is artillery. When it comes to artillery, his first reaction is cannonballs. Because this arsenal next to his house is specialized in the production of artillery shells.

As a quasi-orphan, Wang Shuhui grew up eating government relief. However, in his house, this government relief is actually referring to the relief of the state-run arsenal. His father, who abandoned him, and his mother, who died young, were workers in this arsenal. He's actually a kid of the Arsenal.

Of course, fortunately, before the complete collapse of state-owned enterprises, before the enterprise-run social model was completely banned by the state, starting from kindergarten, relying on the identity of the children of employees of state-owned enterprises and the relief of the arsenal, he completed elementary school, junior high school, and high school all the way for free, and finally was admitted to university and completed a master's degree. Moreover, the student loan for his college education was also obtained by virtue of a poverty certificate issued by the arsenal. When he was admitted to graduate school, he didn't spend much money because it was publicly-funded.

As a child of the state-owned arsenal, as a young man who grew up drinking the milk of the state-owned arsenal, Wang Shuhui has a special understanding of the arsenal, especially the production of artillery shells. What is called TNTI, what is called Hesokin, these words, he learned at a very young age, from the ammunition boxes that can be found everywhere in the family quarters.

Let's just say that he has been in primary school to middle school for more than ten years, and he has visited the factory no less than five times as a student. Which is called 152 bullets and what is 155 bullets; What does a belt presser do; What is a projectile body and which is a warhead; What does ballistics mean; He knows all the relevant knowledge of what the hydraulic press is used for, either according to the introduction of the old workers, or through guò to consult the information.

As a young boy, it is completely unrealistic for you to make him not interested in these military knowledge, and not to look for magazines such as "Ordnance Science and Technology" in the arsenal library every day. Because his upbringing was accompanied by the whistling and exploding sounds of shells at the arsenal range.

Although it is not as good as those wall-climbing parties who have money and leisure, Wang Shuhui has his own pride. Although they are backward land weapons, have those wall-climbing parties ever seen real cannonball shooting? Have you ever seen a self-propelled gun firing continuously? Have you ever sat in a tank that rumbled down the streets? There was a mistake in operation, the explosives exploded, and thousands of people died. Hehe, of course, the last Wang Shuhui has never actually seen it. (Really?) ）

Although these are very backward, although they are not fashionable at all in the Internet age, Wang Shuhui has seen them all and experienced them all. Therefore, although Wang Shuhui is a university teacher engaged in social sciences, he is an industrialist with water. However, he, an industrialist with moisture, has a foundation in the munitions industry.

It is precisely because of this foundation that he has a comprehensive understanding of the ordnance industry in terms of practice and theory, and Wang Shuhui basically has no strict obstacles when he communicates with experts in professional ordnance industry. It is completely handy to learn the technique of using modern machinery to make the Chasebo rifle. More importantly, on the issue of the weapons and equipment of the Renaissance Army, Wang Shuhui has a knowledge that surpasses historical experience.

He was not an ignorant Frenchman in the Franco-Prussian War, and his passion for artillery was much warmer than for rifles.

The reason why the Renaissance Army has not yet installed cannons is because Wang Shuhui has not yet selected an artillery that he is satisfied with for production. The problem he encountered in the production of artillery was that the artillery he looked at could not be produced by the Arsenal of the Renaissance Society. The Renaissance Arsenal has been fully able to produce Napoleon-style front-loading rifled steel cannons, and Wang Shuhui does not look down on them at all.

In Wang Shuhui's opinion, the front-loaded cannon, that thing is also worthy of being called a cannon? !

Ideally, Wang Shuhui hopes to be able to directly produce modern artillery. It doesn't have to be too advanced, just produce the Type 60 122mm cannon, which is already a backward thing in his eyes.

To be honest, Wang Shuhui even looked down on the 122 cannon. In his family's arsenal, the production lines for this old model of artillery shells were in a semi-mothballed state. Who still uses her now? All of them are processed with CNC lathes to produce 155. Now even artillery shells are the era of guidance. For example, those old models of shells, the factory took out those shells that were too much in stock, carved and engraved on them, and sold them as handicrafts.

However, although in Wang Shuhui's view, the 122 cannon is a kind of World War II level and a backward thing. However, whether it is the production of 122 cannons, or the production of 122 cannon shells, the current Reconstruction Society's arsenal cannot undertake such a task. Just a question of artillery steel, plus a question of artillery steel. The Revival will not solve it all.

Let's just talk about the issue of steel used for shells. As a copper-poor country, our country has been producing steel for a long time. After the special steel mill pulled the steel billets specially used for the production of artillery shells to the arsenal, the ordnance workers directly used various machinery and equipment to process these steels. After a number of processes, the steel is turned into a projectile body. Then pull to the harmful workshop, start charging, and finally, in the final assembly workshop, the projectile body, warhead, guidance unit and other shell parts are loaded into shells. (It is inconvenient to go into detail about military secrets)

We do not talk about those processes that must use large-scale stamping equipment, special CNC equipment, robotic arms and other high-tech processing machinery, that is, the simplest basic processes such as turning, punching, boring, pliers, etc. Modern workers who have not been apprentices for a few years and have really learned from the master for a period of time may not be able to do these jobs well.

Why is it that the eighth-level worker in a state-owned enterprise has a retirement salary of six or seven thousand yuan. This is not without reason.

Not to mention the requirements for workers' technology and equipment, let's just talk about the problem of special steel for shells. The shells are made of alloy steel, and because the shells are purely consumables, they are not very expensive in the modern market. But the question is, does the small steel plant at the level of Hanyang Iron Works established by Wang Shuhui have the ability to process and manufacture alloy structural steel? !

Not to mention this kind of special steel with very professional technical requirements. After more than a year of running-in, after Wang Shuhui and the Working Committee of the Fuxing Association worked hard to educate and train the workers, the current yield of the steel plant has just exceeded 50 percent, reaching 54 percent. In other words, only one of the two furnaces of molten steel produced by the Fuxing Iron and Steel Plant can be turned into steel.

This is also because the scrap steel can also be used as a material for later steelmaking. Otherwise, Wang Shuhui would probably be shot.

There is also a fundamental problem that even if the steel mill is able to make cannon steel and shell steel, the charge is a big problem. During World War II, TNT and Hesorkin explosives had been popularized in various industrial countries for a long time. No matter what kind of shell it is, the charge used, these are mainly these two.

At present, the gunpowder factory of the Fuxing Society is the unit with the most mature technology, the highest production efficiency and the highest yield rate. Many of the women who had just been recruited by the Revival Society to solve the marital problems of the employees of the Renaissance Society's subordinate units worked in gunpowder factories after simple training. Because women's hearts are more delicate, they are more careful when they work. In the case that the production process is subdivided, the work of only one process is repeatedly operated, and these female workers are very handy.

But the problem is that even Wang Shuhui concentrated the people who had the best test scores and the highest level of learning about mathematics and chemistry (that is, at the junior high school level) among the entire Fuxing Society, in the Bureau of Technology Research, which specialized in learning and researching knowledge in steel, chemical industry, and machinery. However, at present, the highest achievement of the Bureau of Technological Research is only the trial production of nitric acid (preparation for nitroglycerin) based on the knowledge of books.

The Fuxing Society was now able to mechanize (manual machinery), mass-produced, and industrially produce gunpowder products, which were still granular gunpowder. Although the production efficiency of gunpowder is relatively high, because the efficiency of the bullet factory in producing paper-shelled ammunition has not improved fast enough, it is still relatively reluctant to supply the live-fire training that the Renaissance Army has to carry out every day.

Therefore, according to the current level of chemical industry of the Renaissance Society, it is to produce advanced artillery and artillery shells, and there is no explosives for filling shells. Because of this reason, Wang Shuhui had to take away many of his choices that were too lofty for this era.

In the end, due to various reasons, the current Revival Society could not even equip the 75mm mountain gun, which was the most popular in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China (after all, it was the main battle weapon of the First World War). In the end, Wang Shuhui could only follow the principle of being as advanced as possible. It was decided to produce the kind of backyard flowering cannon that Zuo Zongtang most admired in the late Qing Dynasty, that is, the Krupp six-pounder gun (I can't find specific information, but I think it is very similar to the 56mm Krupp gun used in Prussia in the Franco-Prussian War).

Steel barrel, cast iron shells. Since in 1905, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau was able to produce Krupp 75-mm rear-loading retractable mountain guns and shells. There is no reason why the Fuxing Society, which was more advanced than the industrial level at the end of the Qing Dynasty, could not build a Krupp 56-mm field gun during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870.

Wang Shuhui's efficiency is still very high, and he quickly searched for information through the time and space gate and consulted experts. After obtaining all the drawings and related numbers, he placed orders for some of the more special small processing factories (hehe) in modern society, built five Krupp 56mm field guns, and pulled them to the Revival Society through the Guò Time and Space Gate.

All the technicians and skilled workers of the arsenal immediately gathered around the five sample guns and began to study them according to the drawings and numbers.

According to Wang Shuhui's experience, it took the Working Committee half a year to imitate the Shasebo rifle when there were several jù, drawings, and samples. In the same case, there are numbers, drawings, and samples, because a special research institute has been set up, the Process Research Bureau, and the relevant technicians have been studying and practicing for more than a year, this time the time to imitate the artillery may be shorter.

Wang Shuhui believes that the level of technical requirements in the era of the first industrial revolution is not very high. The pre-steam engine era can basically be seen as a purely craftsman era. It was after the first industrial revolution was fully rolled out, before they could start using steam engines to make steam engines, that artisans were able to build steam engines with their own craftsmanship. As far as Wang Shuhui knows, during the founding of the People's Republic of China, many factories generally lacked processing machinery, and many technological procedures still relied on pure handwork.

At least Wang Shuhui knew that in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the shipyards in Harbin relied entirely on hand-made methods to manufacture paddle steamers, that is, marine steam engines used by small steamers.

Wang Shuhui's confidence in Chinese craftsmen comes from the legends told to him by his old worker neighbors about China's industrialization and entrepreneurship in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

For example, hand-made car bodies; For example, hand-machined aircraft fuselages; For example, a hand-made steam engine; For example, hand-ground shell bodies. For example, the stories of a certain eighth-level worker who can report the accuracy of millimeters when he looks at the workpiece with his eyes, and those stories of a certain ninth-level worker who bet with everyone to make ten workpieces in a row, and each workpiece is completely identical after measurement, Wang Shuhui is all familiar with them.

Although for him, when he listened to these legendary stories of them, most of the time he was more sad than proud. However, it is also from these stories that he has built a firm confidence in the industrial qualities of the Chinese.

Take Wang Shuhui's arsenal as an example. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were more than 30,000 workers in the audience, and less than 100 people could read and write, and many of them could only write a few dozen words. If you can have a person with a high school education, in the factory at that time, you will belong to a cultural person. At that time, the first thing to do after the establishment of the arsenal was to establish evening schools and various literacy classes.

When the big brother of the Soviet Union arrived in 1953, he was surprised to find that the vast majority of factory workers could understand the drawings. And by that time, the factory had already trained hundreds of draftsmen on its own.

From 1950 to 1953, in just three years, a factory with a total number of more than 30,000 people relied on less than 100 "literate people" to achieve the basic literacy of half of its workers. It doesn't look like the real thing. But it's a real thing.

It is precisely because of this kind of experience that Wang Shuhui has great confidence in industrialization in ancient times. He believes that he is also able to replicate such legends on a small scale and at a low level.

However, he also knew that if he wanted to accelerate industrialization, education had to keep up. Moreover, the education he engaged in must also be in the form of combining vocational education with professional education, and combining full-time education with on-the-job education.

When Wang Shuhui was in college, one of his hometown elders, a professor who taught at his university, told him about his experience of volunteering to give lectures to night schools in factories in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

He said that he was not a university teacher at the time, but still a secondary school teacher. His experience is that it is still difficult to achieve literacy before pinyin is popularized. No matter how hard the workers tried, they still had great difficulty in literacy. It was not until 1958 that Hanyu Pinyin was officially popularized, and the speed of literacy education was suddenly raised. Chinese characters that used to take a year to master can be mastered in half a year after having Hanyu Pinyin.

Wang Shuhui established a system of combining ideological and political education, military training, cultural education, and professional training at the Fuxing Association very early on. He strictly stipulated that both members of the Revival Society and those who were hired, recruited, and accepted by the Revival Society must receive these four basic educations.

In terms of in-service education, the Revival Association is still relatively well in place at present. However, the formal education system of the Revival Society has not yet been formally established.

Establishing a comprehensive and perfect formal education system is the focus of Wang Shuhui's work in the next stage