Chapter Seventy-Three: Unfolding One Another
Looking at the gift firearms, both men were amazed at how well they were made and cleverly designed. Signed a strict confidentiality agreement and patent attribution agreement with two engineers. Arrange for James Catlett to study the shortening of the 0.30 rifle cartridge, test 2 specifications, change the 2.5-inch to 2-inch and 1.5-inch, and find out the appropriate weight of the warhead size. The direction given to him is that the caliber remains the same, and for the time being the reduction of the diameter of the shell is not considered, only the shortening is considered.
Arranged for Donner Shearer to study a new semi-automatic rifle with 0.30 rifle cartridges, and gave him the direction of putting aside the idea of the current Garand rifle in the United States, placing the air guide pipe on the top and short-stroke piston, modifying the structure of the sniper rifle, and negotiating and solving other problems together. German drawings were given to Donner Shearer.
The full-power bullet can only be semi-automatic, and the fully automatic burst is a machine gun, and it is not possible to make an assault rifle, so it can only wait for the success of James Catlett's intermediate power ammunition. The whole process of World War II proved that infantry shooting basically did not exceed 300 meters, and it was meaningless to exceed the ability of most soldiers if it was too far, not to mention that there were a large number of long-range rifles and machine guns to cooperate. It also proves that the grenadiers developed by the Japanese are suitable for 300 to 500 meters of strike weapons on the Chinese battlefield, and the role that firearms can play at this distance is limited.
These are the products of fortune prepared for the war, which were improved and perfected in the Chinese War of Resistance and may become the main weapons of World War II, after all, they represent the direction of the development of firearms. There is also an excuse to use them to build factories in China to support the domestic war of resistance, and once the war of resistance breaks out, the US Neutrality Council will kill people.
Against Japan's miniature and light tanks, individual soldiers mainly used grenades and gasoline bottles during the Anti-Japanese War in the previous life! Napalm can be engaged! Anti-tank grenades? The most economical should be the infantry anti-tank gun, and there was not a single anti-tank gun that was recognized throughout World War II. The strong recoil alone made the infantry lose the ability to fight continuously, and it was not until the large-caliber sniper rifles developed by the Americans in the 80s that the problem was basically solved. And the bullet he finally chose to use was the Browning M1921 large-caliber heavy machine gun 12.7*99mm ammunition, which the Americans are very familiar with, even if they can't make an ultra-long-range sniper rifle in the end, there is absolutely no problem with anti-Japanese tanks at 300 meters.
Of course, individual anti-tank is still the most effective bazooka, the cost problem is still a big problem, even 40 bazooka is not something that the Chinese army can afford and accept now. Development is a must, to deal with the current Japanese tank, 40 rocket launchers are too wasteful, and some design concepts are also backward, it can be done at a lower cost and with better performance. If you need to hire another engineer and can go to China to work, let him go back to China before the outbreak of World War II. Successfully developed in the United States, direct procurement of precision, special materials and other parts, made in China simple and assembled. Against the specifications of German tanks, I am afraid that it makes no sense for the United States not to participate in the war, and it does not make much sense to produce them in Britain and the USSR.
Woody has built a team of 10 people to buy a store in New York's top wealthy neighborhood and has already received nearly 100 pre-orders. It's just that the United States is more interested in semi-automatic, and on the contrary, does not care about sniper rifles. In times of economic crisis, the 'first gun for boys' doesn't make sense, it's a market formed by wealthy Americans. Now more than one-third of families are worried about solving the problem of food and clothing, and the adult's guns have been sold, so do the children still buy them guns?
Time slipped through the rush, and on June 19, when the President signed it into law, the Silver Purchase Act came into effect, which required the United States to purchase or until silver accounted for a quarter of the national currency reserves, or until the market price of silver reached $1.29 per ounce. As soon as the bill was introduced, the price of silver was immediately pushed to nearly $0.7 per ounce by the capital, compared to around $0.45 per ounce in the New York market before the bill was introduced. The shrewd Isaac sold the option directly at $0.65 per ounce, and it has to be said that Isaac was a financial player, and after that, it stabilized at about $0.60 per ounce for a month, which lasted for a long time, and it took a year to rise to about 80 cents.
It is said that the first bite of fat is the most beautiful, and sure enough, the profit is so great that it makes my heart beat. Isaac began to buy 10 million ounces of silver, with a space of 38 cents per ounce; He took out an 80 percent loan from the bank and bought 12 million ounces with a five-fold allocation, with a space of 25 cents per ounce; Gross profit amounted to more than $6.6 million. After deducting interest and the 50 percent silver income tax set by the U.S. government, Isaac made a profit of more than $3 million, and Isaac made a profit of nearly $150,000, which was already twice what he had earned in Switzerland.
With a capital of $580,000 and British silver futures worth $1.5 million, there is no problem with your assets exceeding $5 million. In the United States, I dare to say that I am a rich man, and now American families can not contribute more than two-thirds of the $50. Profitable? Looking at who you compare with, compared with the silver group, it is almost like you suddenly have 20 US dollars, and others suddenly have 1 million US dollars. No wonder the small landlords in China only dare to shout to the poor peasants, and they dare to shout a few times with those big conglomerates in the United States, and it is estimated that they will be wiped out in an instant! Either way! You must know that the Silver Group and Morgan and Rockefeller have not reached the same level at all.
Got rich? Don't worry, be stable in advance!
Isaac, who has money, is full of energy, and he thinks he can lead the storm with every move. Isaac's investment advice is to continue to speculate on silver with British silver futures when the price of silver has fallen a little, until the expiration of British silver futures. $3.8 million in cash, $2 million in stocks for long-term investment, the current stock market basically has no way to make short-term investment; With 900,000 investment banks, 900,000 to their own allocation.
I was happy for a long time, and I felt that money was still tight! For the names of a bunch of corporate stocks that Isaac took out, I asked for my opinion, and thought about it, in addition to the few famous companies I knew in my previous life, I couldn't figure out anything else, how many should I count. Boeing, Springfield (Springfield) Arsenal, Colt Arsenal, Douglas, North American Airlines, Ford Motor, Pratt Whitney, Willis Motor Company, and many more. Now you can invest much more in the long term! Petroleum, Iron & Steel, Shipbuilding...... Let Isaac himself see that it's done.
Woody acquired a medium-sized fertilizer plant and a large cement plant in San Francisco. The equipment of the fertilizer plant was dismantled and transported back, and the original site was planned to be used as a firearms and ammunition arsenal; The cement plant is an industrial asset of the United States and is ready to cope with large-scale infrastructure construction in the United States.
I bought three small machine factories in Brooklyn, New York, that were close to each other, and the original equipment was dismantled and packed. Using the in-situ factory, Quanmei Hui Chinese Medicine Company and American Sports Equipment Company were established. Arrange for the security company to be entrusted with the security tasks of the four companies. The manager of the security company hired Smith, Woody was the manager of the American Sports Equipment Company, and Aunt Liu was the manager of the All-American Hui Chinese Medicine Company.
Just waiting to buy new pharmaceutical equipment for production. Although Aunt Liu's synthesis research has not made a breakthrough, she has figured out the molecular formula of sulfonamides. negotiated with Aunt Liu to buy a batch of dyes from Germany for production; Arrange for Smith to accompany Aunt Liu to apply for invention patents, and keep the refining process and raw materials confidential. Woody's firearms have been ordered for nearly 500 pieces, and it is just arranged to import another 20,000 US dollars of Bailang and 10,000 pounds, which can refine about 4,000 pounds of sulfonamides, which can be exchanged for 2 million US dollars; Arrange for Woody to go to Germany to get the relevant patent authorization for firearms, and in the United States, it is better to use 0.30 rifle cartridges according to the caliber of American firearms, otherwise the ammunition problem will limit the firearms market.
The factory began to prepare the refining equipment according to the list given by Aunt Liu. The equipment for the production of firearms and ammunition is miniaturized, two sets are bought, one set is used, and one set is sent back to China. It's the end of July, the factory is basically installed, and the trial production of firearms and ammunition can begin.