Chapter 212 The birth of new technology

In the evening, he hurried from the Dongjiao to the Dongzhai Farm in a carriage.

After getting off the car, I saw that this person was Zhang Zhicheng, wearing a dirty work clothes and his face was covered with dirt. He obviously ran out of the factory workshop. However, he looked very excited and could not wait to run to the military compound as soon as he got off the car. The guards did not recognize who the person was, and thought he was a crazy beggar from where he came from, so he quickly went up to stop him.

"Don't stop me, don't stop me. I am the General Office of Guangdong Arsenal and the General Manager of Huangpu Industrial Company. I want to see President Wu for a happy event. Let me in, let me in quickly." Zhang Zhicheng shouted.

The guards recognized the person's appearance and immediately did not dare to disturb him, so they had to let him in.

Zhang Zhicheng ran all the way and shouted: "It's successful, it's successful, I finally succeeded."

Deng Keng ran out of the commander's room and took Zhang Zhicheng down in the yard. He first took Zhang Zhicheng to the small living room to rest, and then specifically ordered someone to make a basin of hot water to wash Zhang Zhicheng's face.

After hearing the notice, Wu Shaoting quickly walked to the small living room. Zhang Zhicheng had washed his face, but the dirty clothes were really exaggerated. He asked with a smile: "What's the matter? I'm so happy that I don't even change my clothes."

Zhang Zhicheng threw away the towel that had turned from white to black in his hand, and then met the door, saying happily: "President Wu, I succeeded. I have successfully made that air-guided bolt. Alas, it took a lot of effort!"

Wu Shaoting was stunned. This was really great news. He was born in a special forces in the 21st century and of course he knew very well about bolts. The structural diagrams could be drawn. However, he was not a graduate of the Department of Mathematics and Physics. The structural diagrams were just a rough idea. The key size and organization had to be slowly pondered by Zhang Zhicheng. The difficulty in developing a gas guide bolt was because the current mechanical level in China was too backward and could not produce such accurate and precise parts, so even if there were drawings, they had to have technology.

"Really? It's so good, it's such a major R&D result. How did you complete it?" Wu Shaoting asked excitedly.

"It's a long story. I dismantled many machines and reassembled one. In addition, I also smuggled one from abroad. But these are not the key points. The key points are that I reproofread the drawings you gave me and modified many errors. At the beginning, I was too confused. I thought your drawings were a complete structural diagram, but later I tried them many times before I figured it out." Zhang Zhicheng said with a smile.

"I have told you all that the drawings I gave you are just rough schematics. How can you test them against my draft drawings?" Wu Shaoting said complaining.

"You gave me the drawings and went to Shaoguan. There has been no news about you for so long. I plan to ask you for a clear question. Alas, forget it, all these are over. Let's go, I'll take you to see the finished product!" Zhang Zhicheng pulled Wu Shaoting and walked out.

Wu Shaoting happily agreed, how could he not witness the 1910 automatic rifle without witnessing the emergence of it?

The group came to the Guangdong Arsenal. On the shooting range in the backyard of the arsenal, Zhang Zhicheng asked the workers to take a rifle he had just assembled this afternoon. The prototype of this rifle is the newer 95 Han-style rifle, but it has been larger in the trigger part and looks a bit bloated. The razor-style rotating bolt has also been changed to a straight pull bolt, which is conducive to the automatic ammunition delivery principle of the automatic rifle.

Wu Shaoting took the rifle and felt that the modified 95 rifle was twice the weight of the original 95 rifle, and the center of gravity was always behind, which also means that the bullets would easily fly upwards when firing. He walked to the target position and picked up the rifle to try to shoot live ammunition. A shuttle of bullets successfully shot out the bullet cabin, which had indeed achieved the effect of automatic advance and retreating bullets.

The military officials who followed Wu Shaoting witnessed this scene and applauded and were amazed.

However, when the target was taken over for inspection, only one bullet hit the edge of the target, and the rest of the bullets flew out of sight.

"How is it, how is it!" Zhang Zhicheng asked enthusiastically.

"Great, you succeeded." Although Wu Shaoting felt that the performance of this automatic rifle was not very good, the air-guided bolt was successfully developed after all. "I believe that as long as it is carefully revised and modified, a suitable automatic rifle will be produced."

Zhang Zhicheng nodded confidently and said, "Don't worry, today the air-guided bolt has been developed, and the rest is much simpler. I will improve this rifle as soon as possible to achieve the best effect."

Wu Shaoting put down his automatic rifle, stepped forward and patted Zhang Zhicheng on the shoulder, and smiled and said, "You really have it."

However, at this time, Zhang Zhicheng sighed and said, "Actually, there is another problem now. Even if the arsenal can improve a fixed automatic rifle in a short time, we currently only have a machine for processing air guide bolts. If mass production is required in the future, it will be difficult."

Wu Shaoting pondered for a moment, and he said, "You can take me to the workshop first."

Zhang Zhicheng took Wu Shaoting to a most internal workshop in the arsenal. Because the development of an air-guided bolt is a top secret operation, they must ensure the independent property rights of the bolt. The workshop is not very large, and there is no need to install many machines anyway. There is a mechanical workbench assembled in the middle. This is a one-line process workbench, which looks quite complicated.

"You bought this machine from a foreign country?" Wu Shaoting asked.

"Only part of it is, this part." Zhang Zhicheng walked to the middle and took a picture in front of a machine similar to a chain saw drill. "The foreigners do not have machines that produce air guide bolts. At present, only our Guangdong Arsenal has this kind of thing." He added proudly.

"and you……"

"I transformed this by myself, I am alone! I spent a lot of time because many of our own machinery and many of our parts are not connected with foreign machinery, and they are almost polished one by one by one by one by one." Zhang Zhicheng was not polite at all, and showed his talents as much as possible.

"It's really hard for you. But don't worry, I believe, absolutely, that your name will leave a lot of marks in the history of Chinese industry. The Chinese's own industrial revolution was initiated by you." Wu Shaoting exclaimed enthusiastically. He knew that Zhang Zhicheng was a person with strong self-esteem and arrogant talent, but he would not be stingy with praise for such technical talents.

When Zhang Zhicheng heard Wu Shaoting's earnest praise, he felt very helpful and continued with a smile: "Actually nothing. I learned this, of course I can do it. When foreigners send their machines to the factory, even if they don't need them to install them themselves, I will do it, just to save time."

This was originally an unintentional word, but Wu Shaoting couldn't help but change his face after hearing it.

"You mean, did the foreigners buy the foreigners personally come to the factory to assemble them?" he asked in a heavy tone.

"That's right. This machine was smuggled from Germany. In order not to let German customs discover it, the foreigners dismantled the machine and then reassembled it after they arrived in Guangzhou." Zhang Zhicheng was a little confused, not knowing why Wu Shaoting suddenly changed his tone.

"Didn't I tell you? During the research and development of air-guided bolts, we must keep it confidential and then keep it confidential. This is a new technology developed by the Chinese. If foreign countries steal the fruits, it will be a huge loss and a great insult to us. The automatic rifles produced by air-guided bolts will definitely innovate the entire arms industry. We China must have absolute advantages in this regard!" Wu Shaoting said anxiously.

Zhang Zhicheng was a little dissatisfied. He said: "It's just that foreigners come to the factory to be responsible for assembly. To be honest, the factory workers do not know how to assemble foreigners. If even assembly is so strict, I may spend more time. Besides, those foreigners left after assembling the machine and never appeared again. How could they know what we are developing? You said that, I think it's a bit of a big deal!"

Wu Shaoting sighed helplessly, patted his thigh hard, and said, "The machine you purchased was originally a property-owned machine that Germany would not sell to China. No matter what method you use to get this machine, the Germans will definitely be interested in your purpose. It is that the assembled workers left after installing it, but they just came to check in and see which unit was using this machine. Then they would spend money to buy our workers and draw out what we were doing layer by layer."

Zhang Zhicheng heard what Wu Shaoting said seriously. Although he knew that there was a possibility, it would be too much to decide one thing based on guessing alone.

"You're just guessing. Besides, even if they know we're studying air guide bolts, the principle of air guide bolt manufacturing is still in our hands. What can they do?" he said in a defensive manner.

Wu Shaoting can now tell thousands of assumptions to show that the Germans have thousands of ways to get air-guided bolts. However, he knew that it was useless to say these nonsense, and Zhang Zhicheng would definitely not believe these guesses out of thin air. Of course, he could not be 100% sure that the Germans discovered this R&D project, but the cunning of foreigners is everywhere, and it is better to believe that they have anything than they don’t.

"Okay, okay, I know you've tried your best. You don't blame you for this." He adjusted his tone and said slowly.

Zhang Zhicheng remained silent, his face was still very serious.

"Forget it, in the future, you will continue to do things according to your plan, and I will provide you with the funds or other things. As for the factory's security measures, I will arrange them separately. In short, you have really made great contributions this time. This is an indisputable fact. You have won a sigh of relief for our whole country!" Wu Shaoting said with a smile.

Zhang Zhicheng also smiled. Anyway, he was just a technical person, so Wu Shaoting would let him go if he had to arrange other things.

When he was about to leave, Zhang Zhicheng suddenly said, "By the way, I'll go to my house for dinner tonight. My sister seems to be in a bad mood these days, and Zhang Shengting doesn't go to the company. No matter how my father and I persuaded me, it's useless. I don't know what happened to this girl. My father also wants to see you. Since Guangzhou has been liberation, you seem to have few contacts with our family."

Wu Shaoting laughed and said, "I didn't mean to not contact you. You also know what the situation is now. A leader like me who leads the uprising will definitely not be idle." He thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid it won't work tonight. It's too hasty. Let's do this. Go back and tell your father that I'll visit tomorrow afternoon."
Chapter completed!