It seems that Colonel Chatham is indeed a good friend, and he has nothing to hide from Fang Lang, and even revealed the news that a convoy is coming over today to Fang Lang.

"Mr. Colonel, I wonder if there is any room in the middle?"

Fang Lang's answer was obviously a confirmation of Colonel Chatham's question.

After thinking about it, Colonel Chatham asked:

"What do you mean?"

"I'm developing industry in Brazil, of course, there is a great shortage of machine tools, and if I can find some high-quality and low-cost machine tools from here, it will definitely be great!"

"However, these machines are already registered, and there is a special fleet to transport them back to France, which is not very easy to operate."

Fang Lang didn't want to force it, if there was any irreplaceable equipment, Fang Lang would definitely try his best to transport them back, but now he didn't know what equipment was there, so he didn't want to say much.

After thinking about it, he said:

"Mr. Colonel, I wonder if I can go inside these factories and see what kind of equipment they have."

Such a trifle is a matter of little more than a word to Colonel Chatham.

"Of course, no problem, do you need me to accompany you on a trip myself?"

"Mr. Colonel is busy with official business, so I don't dare to trouble you to make a trip, you can just arrange for someone to take us for a visit."

Fang Lang mainly didn't want to go out with this guy, if he was attacked, he wouldn't be angry.

"Alright then!"

After speaking, he said to his adjutant:

"Adjutant, you take Colonel Fang to the machine tool factory in Stuttgart today, and you must meet all the needs of Colonel Fang and make sure that Colonel Fang is satisfied, understand?"

"Yes, sir."

The adjutant stood up and saluted very simply, and motioned for Fang Lang to go with him.

Fang Lang was not polite, and did not stay in Colonel Chatham's office for long, so he directly thanked him and followed the adjutant out of Colonel Chatham's office.

As soon as I walked to the parking lot outside the headquarters, I noticed that a very handsome young captain was sitting in a Willis jeep, parked downstairs at the headquarters.

After seeing the adjutant, the other party took the initiative to greet the adjutant, because the two of them were communicating in French, so Fang Lang knew that the other party was a captain of the transportation company named Gerald.

Although Fang Lang himself is also a young man, he is also a little curious about having such a young captain and company commander in the French team.

On the way to the machine tool factory, I didn't forget to sigh:

"The officer just now is really young!"

After hearing Fang Lang's emotion, the adjutant glanced at Fang Lang, and said as if you didn't look at how old you are:

"Yes! Capable young men are promoted very quickly in wartime."

This made Fang Lang gossip a little:

"Oh! Is this Gerard Company Commander very powerful?"

After hearing this, the adjutant proudly introduced.

"Yes, don't look at Captain Gerald's youth, he's a veteran.

He joined the partisans at the age of sixteen. During the war, they were often surrounded by the Germans behind enemy lines.

Slowly, his comrades-in-arms around him fell, and at a young age, he finally carried the banner of the guerrillas.

However, he was the leader of the partisans for only two months before France was liberated.

He also joined the army and was supposed to hold the position of company commander in a combat unit.

Two months ago, he voluntarily applied to be transferred to the transport company to serve as the commander of the transport company.

Now we are mainly responsible for transporting the machinery and equipment dismantled from Germany to the designated factory in France according to the government's plan."

Hearing the adjutant's introduction, Fang Lang didn't think much about it, after all, no matter what country he was in, there would be such characters emerging in the face of aggression, and there was still a youth league in his hometown!

"That's really amazing, and if you have a chance to introduce me to such a Ying in the future

Male figures."

When the adjutant heard Fang Lang praise his comrades-in-arms as heroes, he also felt honored in his heart, and said with a smile:

"No problem, they'll rest in Stuttgart for a few days, and I'll introduce you to you the next time we meet."

Fang Lang also expressed his gratitude after hearing this.

Talking and laughing all the way to a machine tool factory of a large scale, Fang Lang found that there were French soldiers standing guard at the door, no wonder Mayor Jonas asked him to go to the headquarters of the occupation army.

The convoy stopped at the gate of the factory, and after a brief communication with the adjutant, the convoy was successfully released.

Soon the convoy stopped at the door of a huge production workshop, and Fang Lang, accompanied by the adjutant, entered the long-awaited German machine tool manufacturer.

At first glance, this is a factory building with a height of more than 10 meters, the width of the plant has reached more than 40 or 50 meters, and the depth is nearly 100 meters.

It's a pity that the situation inside is far from what Fang Lang expected, most of the places in the huge production workshop are empty, and Fang Lang can judge from the traces left on the ground that many places were originally fixed machine tool locations.

It's just that now only a few screws leaking out of the ground to fix the machine tools are left in these places, and the number of machine tools left in the entire workshop should be less than one-fifth of the original.

This disappointed Fang Lang. However, there are still more than 20 machine tools left in the work, Fang Lang is not actually born in engineering, and he does not know much about machine tools.

However, the good thing in TV and movies has seen some machine tools, and these machine tools in front of them are very similar to the domestic machine tools in the eighties.

For machine tools, Fang Lang's impression is also stuck in what turning, cutting, planing, milling, grinding, boring, etc., and he is not particularly clear about how to operate.

I thought that as a machine tool manufacturer, I could give Fang Lang the opportunity to see what the legendary industrial hen was like, but the situation I see now seems to be not much different from the machining workshop in the eighties in my hometown.

While walking around the waves, when I walked to the end of the workshop, I saw several masters measuring the processed workpieces with tools, and curiously leaned over to take a look.

When the workers saw an outsider coming, they hurriedly got up, Fang Lang smiled politely and asked:

"Master, how much accuracy can you achieve?"

The translator next to him translated Fang Lang's question, and the master smiled shyly:

"0.01 mm."

This is really shocking Fang Lang, can such accuracy be achieved during World War II?

That's not right! Fang Lang remembered where he had heard that the 88 mm anti-aircraft guns produced by the Germans during World War II had a machining accuracy of 0.1 mm! How can the machining accuracy here reach 0.01 mm!

If you don't understand, of course, you have to ask, Fang Lang directly said the question in his heart:

"Master, I've heard that the machining accuracy of the 88 mm gun produced by Krupp is only up to 0.1 mm?"

Soon the master smiled and said:

"That's the machining accuracy of the drilling machine, and the machining accuracy of 0.1 mm can be achieved by drilling into such a long artillery barrel, which is very remarkable.

But we are a machine tool processing factory, and the precision requirements must be higher in order to be able to produce other machine tools with higher precision."

At this moment, Fang Lang's heart was really envious! I can't imagine that the Germans have reached such a terrifying level of machine tool machining accuracy so early.

Involuntarily, he gave a thumbs up to the master.

Out of this workshop, Fang Lang came to an assembly workshop and saw that the workers had assembled various parts together and made some basic machine tools.

Fang Lang understands that it should be the machine tool that Germany can still produce now, and the more advanced machine tool should be restricted from production.

It is estimated that there is nothing to be seen in these factories, which makes Fang Lang feel a little discouraged.

Looking at the empty workshop in the huge factory area, Fang Lang sighed secretly, it was too late, and all the good things had been pulled away by the occupying army.

I just don't know if I can recruit some advanced ones this time

The designers of the machine tools, after arriving in Brazil, produced the same machine tools as they do in Germany.

After turning around, I went to the warehouse again, and saw a lot of very tight machine tools wrapped in wooden crates, which were obviously ready to be transported away.

Through the packaging Fang Lang can also see that this is the factory recently produced, not particularly advanced machine tools, for this situation Fang Lang can only shake his head helplessly, a disappointed face left the machine tool factory.

Not even interested in visiting the next factory.

Because, Fang Lang knew in his heart that the French should not leave anything for the Germans.

The machine tools left here are not even as advanced as the ones that Fang Lang shipped back from the Japanese artillery factory.

At least, in that batch of machines there were several large machines of German production for the processing of cannon barrels, which are no longer available at this plant.

Thinking that the German machine tool could rise rapidly from this situation, I unconsciously admired it.

From this point of view, it is the talent that ultimately drives the development of technology! It should be right to recruit excellent machine tool designers and skilled workers by themselves, and I believe that after having excellent talents, we will be able to produce excellent machine tools.

After all, talent is the most valuable asset! In terms of processing technology, Fang Lang has heard of the same machine tool, processing a screw rod for a lathe, the master can easily process it, but some masters, on the same machine tool, scrap a hundred materials and none of them succeeded.

The accuracy of processing is even more different, so Fang Lang feels more and more that as long as he has excellent talents, his technical level will be able to reach excellent standards.

As for the machine tools needed by the factory in the early stage, it seems that they can only be purchased from Switzerland, Italy and the United States.

After leaving the factory, Fang Lang went straight back to the hotel, no longer hoping to get high-quality and low-cost ready-made machine tools from Germany.

After all, now I am about to build an automobile industry system in Brazil, which also requires a large number of machine tools.

Purchasing from abroad is a large expense, if you can directly use this opportunity to promote the localization of the machine tool industry, it would be great.

I can't help but regret a little, I didn't think that I should first get a machine tool production plant, and then introduce an automobile factory?

Thinking of this, Fang Lang didn't hesitate, and drove directly to the city government to meet Mayor Jonas.

"What? Do you mean that you, at RWTH Aachen University, established a laboratory for machine tools as early as 1907?"

When Fang Lang arrived at the city hall, Mayor Jonas was meeting with several excellent mechanical engineers for the recruitment plan for the machine tool industry technical personnel that Fang Lang needed.

Two of the intellectuals, who looked to be almost fifty years old, stood out because they seemed to be surrounded by the two people.

Seeing Fang Lang coming, Jonas naturally took the initiative to introduce several people to each other.

Through the introduction of Fang Lang, I learned that several machine tool designers here actually graduated from the same university, and the two old gentlemen are excellent talents from the machine tool experimental laboratory of Aachen University.