Chapter Seventy-Six: Preparations for Returning Home
The final problem with the bazooka is that the armor-piercing effect is unstable. The reason is that the fuse of the explosives in the armor-piercing department is slow, and I also know why some things are popular after the war, that is, there is no electric fuse and it cannot be detonated on time. Since Bazooka was made by the Americans, then the piezoelectric wafer ceramics can now be made by the Americans. Arrange for Lyman Steinbeck to go to various universities in New York to offer prizes for piezoelectric chip technology. Lyman had been busy at the university for a month, and finally someone had someone to take the order. $2,000 for the right to use, $5,000 for the technology. Of course it's a buyout, it's a must; Apply for patents and organize a workshop for specialized production. The fundamental problem was solved, and Lyman's trial production went smoothly and soon approached finalization. The 1.5-inch rocket launcher can penetrate more than 30 mm of steel plate at a 45-degree angle at 300 meters, but the distribution of the impact point is larger, and the best distance for shooting Japanese tank targets is about 200 meters. Then there will be no problem with the study of armor-piercing gun grenades and armor-piercing grenades, right? Arrange for Lyman Steinbeck to study it.
After three months in a hurry, I was going to return to China to prepare. With Aunt Liu's cash flow support, everything seems to be smooth. He sent an eight-character pinyin telegram to the chief of staff, "Expand the army by 2,000, what else to buy." The chief of staff deserves to be the chief of staff, and he directly telegraphed back and said, "You say what you say"!
Isaac Kozak's silver futures have been delivered, rising from $0.6 to $0.8, with a net gain of $1 million, while silver futures in London have been sold, from 18p to 33p, with a tax recovery of £140,000, or more than $1.1 million. It's no longer worth it, Aunt Liu has already provided more than 5 million US dollars, and Woody's gun has made a profit of more than 500,000 yuan.
Arrange for Woody to pay attention to the acquisition of the aircraft engine factory.
James Cartlett's armor-piercing projectiles worked very well, penetrating 15 mm of steel at a 45-degree angle at 900 meters and 20 mm at a 45-degree angle at 150 meters. All kinds of fuze designs and samples have been completed; He was arranged to go to San Francisco to organize the construction and management of the factory, and the New York factory was later handed over to Smith to manage.
Donner Shearer has completed the trial production of the 7.62 bullet series of weapons, which basically meets my imagination and requirements. I have always considered the issue of ammunition specifications, and China's weapons are currently made in all countries, and this problem is almost unsolvable; I have German and Japanese ones in Xi'an, plus the United States, and I have all three of them, and I also want my own intermediate power bullets! Moreover, whether the semi-automatic consumption of bullets is something that China can afford is a question. It is also necessary to think and solve problems according to theories based on reality.
I plan to allocate 2 million US dollars to purchase materials, sit in the study that I haven't come in for a long time, and take me away to see the iron eggs and Dawu that I have come to offer my courtesy, sort out my own thoughts, and need to think carefully about what to buy.
The main task of this return to China was to make a layout before the Anti-Japanese War. I didn't have the money to do it before.
Since the organization arrived in Shaanxi, it has been under siege, including the whole process of the Anti-Japanese War. While it is not yet completely surrounded, we should send some basic equipment into it, such as simple equipment for the preparation of alcohol, morphine and explosives, a simple bullet production line and some small processing equipment, supporting power generation equipment, and so on; The same set is put in Shanxi, such as Huangya Cave? It's almost $100,000. No raw materials for explosives? It's easy to do, buy my fertilizer!
Do you want to buy a set of drilling equipment? Preset in Yanqing? Anyway, it's the cheapest time now! Can't I drill oil wells, can't I drill water wells? It happened that Shaanxi was suffering from a serious water shortage, so he took an American well-drilling team to the site to train Chinese manpower.
A 7.62×64mm and a 7.62×39mm bullet production line costs about $300,000.
It costs $100,000 to equip a medium-sized power plant.
These things can only be done by yourself, otherwise it will have to be Han Ping. While thinking, while recording. It needs to be handed over to Woody for procurement.
The other important thing is the material.
Steel is now averaging less than $200 a ton, 2,000 tons. 400,000.
The copper plate is nearly $1,000 a ton, 200 tons, and 200,000 yuan, don't think it's a lot, that is, it can make 20 million rounds of bullets. Think of World War II, with the cooperation of aircraft and artillery, 2,000 rounds to destroy an enemy, these bullets can fight a medium-sized battle, eliminate 10,000 people in small Japan, it is just a first-class brigade.
Gasoline per year is 100,000 barrels at $200,000.
The purchase of another batch of weapons to strengthen self-defense capability is at least to deter more and more troops in Shaanxi, the Red Army, the Northeast Army, the Northwest Army, the Majia Army, and the Central Army.
100 Browning M2HB 12.7mm large-caliber machine guns, 120,000 US dollars, 500,000 rounds of ammunition cost 100,000 yuan, expensive enough.
Browning M1919A4 7.62 machine guns 200 units $60,000, $40,000 for 2 million rounds of ammunition.
Browning M1910 Automatic Pistol 500 pieces (200 pieces can be installed with a silencer device, no one cares about this in the direct factory in the United States, and 200 of them have been researched and arranged, which is enough.) $4,000 and $501,000 with ammunition.
M1911A1 500 automatic pistols $7,000 11.43×23mm pistol ammunition $500,150,000.
The core components and high-precision components of bazooka launchers and ammunition produced at the San Francisco plant are at least $15 for a set and $300,000 for 20,000 sets.
The San Francisco plant produces an average of about $5 for 1,000 grenades and mine fuses, and $10,000 for 2 million.
The mortar fuses produced at the San Francisco plant cost $0.5 per fuse, and $50,000 for 100,000.
The purchase of 1,000 mortar artillery scopes is another $50,000.
The 12.7mm armor-piercing bullet produced by the San Francisco factory costs $0.5 per round, and the first 20,000 rounds are $10,000.
That's about 1.9 million. Coupled with nearly 20% tariffs and transportation on both sides, it is estimated that it will be close to 2.4 million in Xi'an.
Buy 5 sets of X-ray equipment for the hospital.
Buy 200 trucks, another 200,000. It doesn't matter if there are more, it is also paid and shipped one after another.
A set of radio station equipment. I think I need 100 radios.
See if there is a device for compressing cookies and buy a set.
It is estimated that it will not be expensive to buy a set of rubber tire equipment and a set of equipment for making rubber shoes.
10 small aircraft engines. Recruit an aeronautical engineer and go back and make a few delta-wing planes for the training of the troops.
10 motorcycles, 10 sidecar motorcycles.
Then buy some general machining equipment, turning, milling, boring, grinding, forging and punching are all industrial machine equipment, buy it many times, more expensive, the time is almost 2 years, a bite can not become a fat man, a set of buying. Like Zhang Xueliang's shell production line, it is something that cannot be played with his current capital level. In any case, the industrial machine is still the fundamental equipment, and the production line equipment is too targeted, and of course, the production efficiency is incomparable.
How about buying a set of cigarette equipment? The filter is a good thing! Cigarettes can both increase income and be a military item. Buy! Anyway, the current cigarette equipment is not too high-end. You can also associate the Yunnan warlords and buy tobacco with some copper or something.
Give it to Woody and ask about the price again.
After looking at Donner Shearer's final perfected samples and drawings, that's all it takes. Take a complete set of drawings and 10 sample guns and return them to the estate, and the rest of the drawings and samples are in the custody of Donner Shearer. Anyway, it was him and me who came out of the problem. In mid-May, he had to set off and directly arranged for Donner Shearer to develop a 0.5-inch caliber anti-armor sniper rifle. , tell Donner Shearer what he knows, let him figure it out for himself, discuss it together if he has questions, maybe he will remember something!
Accumulate funds for a period of time, and next time you come to the United States, I won't play this with you, buy an aircraft engine factory to play, I haven't seen a turbofan engine! Dude comes up with a theoretical idea, I don't believe that American engineers and the industrial base can't do it! The current American airliner can't fly 1,000 miles, and it costs $100,000, so how can I buy it?
Woody's inquiry statistics are available, and it takes about 2.3 million to buy them all. Buy! There's still more than a month to go, so buy as much as you want! I rented a freighter in mid-May, sent it directly to Shanghai, and arranged for someone to go to China with me to handle all the trade affairs of transportation to Xi'an.
Aunt Liu is now contributing $1.5 million a month. The factory is purchasing equipment, taking advantage of the fact that the Germans have not yet spoken, to increase production, and now it is to produce gold! Now Isaac looks at the speed of making money, and he is so happy that he doesn't even have the strength to sigh, and he has 2% of the profit according to the agreement.