Chapter 1071 Only academic masters can attract academic masters!
In early July, under the secret cover of the 80th Group Army, the four men from Tang Dao spent nearly five days successfully arriving at a famous coal mine in the north.
It is located at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, an important area at the junction of the three provinces of Shanxi, Hebei, and Henan. However, this large coal mine, which will be called Fengfeng Coal Mine in the future, is famous not because of its geographical location, but because of its rich raw coal.
Reserves, up to billions of tons of reserves, and its coal seams are shallowly buried and of high quality. Even in China in the future, it will be a famous large enterprise on the list.
It's just that during this period, its production rights belonged to the Germans. Even the Japanese, who had occupied most of North China, could only drool and watch helplessly as the Germans used special trains to transport these 'black gold' to the port.
Ship it and ship it thousands of miles away.
Tang Dao also met here a certain great doctor who had received a telegram from the general manager of his Far East branch and was waiting for him in advance.
Wearing a one-piece engineer suit and glasses, Dr. Grunov, who was not as strong as an ordinary German but looked a bit frail, stared at the Tang Dao for a long time, but could not find any memory related to the Tang Dao.
Anger flashed in the gray boy's heart.
"Have we met?"
"Honestly, no, but I have been famous for Dr. Grunov for a long time!" Tang Dao was very honest this time, and did not use any lies like memory breakpoints.
What the Germans dislike most is to be deceived. Whether Rostav deceived him or Tang Dao deceived Rostav, for this doctor, it was obviously a violation of the precious character of honesty.
Grunov frowned fiercely and snorted coldly. Feeling deceived, Grunov didn't even use the hypocritical politeness of the person Rostav had deliberately told him to pay attention to, and turned around and left.
"Doctor, I can invest in the design and manufacture of the metal stamping process machine gun you proposed!" Tang Dao, who was standing on the spot, was not embarrassed at all, and directly threw out the biggest temptation for straight men in science and engineering.
"You? How much money can a Chinese whose country is caught in the war have? Do you know how much a stamping machine tool costs?" Grunov stopped and turned his head, his eyes full of contempt.
This is already the greatest restraint of the engineer. Otherwise, his original words should be, you Chinese are all losers, so why do you have the right to invest so much money without shame?
"I will invest 8 million U.S. dollars in capital to build a steel plant with an annual output of one million tons of steel here. This is an agreement that I and Mr. Rostav, the general manager of your company's Far East Branch, have already drafted. If you
If you don't believe me, you can call Mr. Rostav at any time." Tang Dao's face was calm and calm.
"In addition, I will add another 5 million US dollars to fund the construction of your laboratory as a doctor. All equipment and raw materials you need to purchase, including the recruitment of various personnel, are all decided by you. If the funds are not enough, I can continue
In addition, all designed products will be signed by you as the first author."
Grunov's slightly gray eyes shrank sharply, and he stayed where he was and stared at the young Chinese man he met for the first time.
It is not that Grunov has never seen money. The weapons and equipment designed by his design department have sold hundreds of millions of dollars, but that was the sales of a large arms manufacturing company with tens of thousands of employees.
But a young man like Tang Dao, who came from a war-torn country, said that he would invest 8 million US dollars to build a factory and 5 million US dollars to build a laboratory for him, and that he would have full control, which still shocked him.
Living.
"Your salary is tentatively set at 5,000 US dollars per month. If you design a finished product that can be mass-produced, the bonus will be one year's salary, and the patent royalties will be calculated separately. What do you think?" Tang Dao continued to increase the amount. "Also, please
Don't question my ability to pay. I will start the first batch of capital injection after you agree. I believe you know Mr. Rostav of your company very well."
Are you moral? If it were Rostav here, he would blurt it out like this.
You know, as a dignified general manager of the Far East Branch of Krupp Company, his salary at this time was only US$1,500 a month, which was already 20 times that of an ordinary German employee.
As a result, Tang Dao was lucky. When he opened his mouth, he turned out to be three and a half general managers of Far East Company, and the bonuses were based on 12 months' monthly salary.
If I had known this, I would have cooperated with you like a chicken, and I would have come to work for you.
If the Tang Dao that Rostav met half a month ago was filled with the rotten smell of money, then now with Gong Shaoxun's Tang Dao backed by 800,000 taels of gold, it is almost from the top of the head to the soles of the feet.
I wish I could be labeled as a wealthy person, just like the future coal boss of Shanxi Province, who buys houses by building without being picky.
"No, you know what I want to design? My concept is actually not accepted by most people, otherwise I wouldn't be sent to the damn East. No, don't get me wrong, I mean...
..." Dr. Grunov was obviously shocked by the money-spending temperament of a certain Chinese tycoon, and even subconsciously became more cautious when speaking.
This is the magic power of money, which prevails at all times and in all countries.
Especially when there are so many that people can only look up to them, just like how many people will call a certain Baba’s boss ‘Daddy Ma’ in the future.
"Haha, Dr. Grunov, I remember your country's philosopher Schopenhauer once said: Genius is always lonely. If your metal stamping process production design is taken out, it will be criticized by those who claim to be experts.
If mediocre people accept it, it means that your ideas are just in line with the aesthetics and needs of mediocre people. So why should I hire you with a monthly salary of 5,000 US dollars? US$200 may be more in line with your PhD status. After all, you
You’ve read so many more books, haven’t you?” Tang Dao replied with a smile.
"If you are a liar, you must be the most talented liar in the world. Even our country's philosophers know this. I feel that I am almost convinced by you." Grunov was stunned for a while, then shook his head.
The head sighed.
"Haha! I can also promise you that I will never use the weapons you design against your motherland. In fact, if you can't build me a 10,000-ton giant ship, I can't let you
My soldiers swam across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans." Tang Dao laughed and continued to make assurances.
"I know why Mr. Rostav cooperated with you. You really understand people's hearts, and you actually know what I am worried about." Grunov's eyes flashed with surprise, and he answered bluntly.
Although Grunov is an engineer who is not very good at communicating with people, his ability to become a top talent in a certain industry means his IQ is definitely higher than most people, or much higher.
When Tang Dao said that he would cooperate with Krupp Company to build a steel plant and invest heavily in building a laboratory for him, Grunov understood that the laboratory was just a rhetoric. In fact, Tang Dao wanted to use the resources of Krupp Company's steel plant.
Cover the construction of a military factory.
Yes, although Tang Dao was wearing regular clothes, full of nouveau riche aura, and spoke with a sense of humor, Grunov's sixth sense told him that Tang Dao was a soldier, a Chinese soldier who had experienced battlefields.
Because, in Tang Dao's eyes, there is a kind of temperament that only people like Grunov possess - arrogance.
Grunov's arrogance comes from his scientific research talent in his own field. He is already the top talent in Germany in metal stamping technology. This is why he cross-domain to improve the MG34 machine gun. Although he is disliked by the senior management, he still has no chance to defeat him.
The reason for kicking it away.
Tang Dao's arrogance does not come from money, but from the battlefield. He must have killed many of his enemies!
Tang Dao had always behaved very gently, but Grunov still sensed the disregard for life and death in Tang Dao's eyes through his own keen intuition. If he became his enemy, he would definitely have nightmares.
The purpose of such a terrifying soldier investing huge sums of money to build a weapons laboratory is obvious. A military factory hidden under the control of the German Arms Company can continuously deliver weapons to the Chinese army entrenched in the Taihang Mountains.
, I believe no Chinese can resist this temptation.
It's just that for people like Grunov, it doesn't matter if he helps the Chinese, but he is still very clear about the performance of the machine gun he wants to design. If one day the Chinese point that machine gun at the empire, how many Germans will
Falling under a hail of flying bullets? This is the scene Grunov did not expect to see.
But Tang Dao completely dispelled Grunov's concerns with a very humorous remark. That's right! The Chinese don't even have warships, so how can they cross the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean by swimming?
"But, I am now an employee of Krupp." Grunov still wanted to make a final struggle.
After all, no matter how high the temptation of power and salary, for a patriotic scientific researcher, serving his motherland is not as important.
"I promised to invest in the construction of a steel plant and only own 40% of the shares. One of the most important conditions is that Dr. Grunov will become the master of Laboratory No. 1, and your personnel relations will no longer be under the Kremlin's control.
The Lupp Far East Branch belongs to this joint venture steel plant. Without my permission, even Mr. Rostav cannot give you instructions."
"But except for a machine gun design whose design concept is not mature enough, I have nothing else to offer. If you ask me to take on this, I'm afraid..." Grunov was already moved.
"Your immature design, in my opinion, is a genius-level invention. I believe that when this machine gun comes out, the Japanese will tremble in front of it." Tang Dao said seriously. "And, you
Not only do we need to continue to improve and hurry up to come up with prototype guns, I also have several gun designs that I need you to realize."
"Are you also proficient in firearms design?" Grunov's eyes flashed with surprise, more of which was disbelief.
No matter whether the Tang Dao has a nouveau riche appearance on the outside or a military temperament on the inside, it seems that it has nothing to do with the firearm design.
"This is the design of a weapons expert under my command. Dr. Grunov can take a look at it first and make some comments." Tang Dao took out several design drawings from his bag.
This is Tang Dao's last trump card specially prepared to fool this firearms design genius. When money and power cannot fool him, he can only use academic masters against academic masters. People of the same kind always have the same topics.
"Is this an anti-tank gun?" Grunov recognized the firearm with a long enough barrel on the first piece of paper at a glance.
Wherever there is a spear, there is a shield. This has been an ever-lasting principle since mankind began to have wars. From ancient times to the present, every new type of weapon that appears has its own specific cracking technique.
When steel behemoths like tanks appeared on the battlefield, the Germans were frightened by the steel behemoths at first and could only watch the tanks rampage on the battlefield. But in the following days, professional "anti-tank" weapons appeared, changing the situation.
The fact that tanks dominate the battlefield, anti-tank rifles are one of them.
For example, Finland's L39 Lahti anti-tank rifle can kill an elephant with one shot, and is also called the elephant gun. The gun is 224cm in size and weighs 49.5kg. It can penetrate 12mm steel plates from 1000 meters away.
The T26 tank used to deal with the fighting nations of neighboring countries.
Another example is the German Empire's 20mm caliber S-18 series anti-tank guns, which can penetrate 30mm armor at a distance of 500 meters. They can be called anti-tank guns.
However, while these relatively famous anti-tank guns have considerable power, they all have a huge flaw - they are too heavy.
The S-18 anti-tank gun that Grunov is familiar with weighs 53 kilograms. Without a combat team, who can carry this heavy firearm around the battlefield? To put it bluntly, this thing is the same as a heavy machine gun, with too much mobile firepower.
Weak, it is easily captured by enemy mortars and tank guns, and its battlefield survivability is very poor.
But as Grunov carefully read the drawings and various parameter designs, his eyes were full of horror. If this anti-tank rifle still on the drawings could be realized, it would definitely be an epoch-making masterpiece of anti-tank guns.
Because the total weight of this anti-tank rifle with a barrel length of 1.277 meters and a total length of 2 meters is only 17.3 kilograms. Only a stronger soldier can easily carry this gun and transfer it.
The terrible thing is that the gun has become lighter, but its power is not weak at all. The muzzle velocity of the anti-tank gun using steel-core bullets can reach 1020 meters per second, and it can penetrate 20 mm armor with an inclination of 60 degrees at a distance of 500 meters.
Or a vertical 30mm steel plate. If a special armor-piercing bullet is used, it can even penetrate a 40mm steel plate at a distance of 300 meters.
"This gun can be designed, but can it really be made?" Grunov asked in disbelief.
"Of course it can. In fact, we have already produced a prototype gun. Although the power is not as great as in theory due to material and machining problems, it can still reach more than 70%." Tang Dao nodded firmly.
Although this is completely bragging, this design drawing was produced by him during the week in Linfen, but it is completely copied from the PTRD-41 anti-tank gun developed by the fighting nation a few years later, which has been proven in the war.
Own.
In the early days of the war, the frontal armor of the Panzer III tank, the main force of the German Empire Army that invaded the fighting nation, had a thickness of 37 mm, but it was still penetrated by the PTRD-41 anti-tank equipped by the fighting nation at a distance of 200 meters. The rest of the half-tracks
Lightly armored targets such as armored vehicles and armored reconnaissance vehicles are as fragile as white paper to 14.5 mm caliber bullets.
The frontal armor of the Japanese Type 89 main battle tank on the Sino-Japanese battlefield is even less than 30 mm. If the Fourth Army had this kind of anti-tank rifle, the Japanese would really be beaten to tears.
The 37mm combat anti-tank gun weighs more than 200 kilograms, and its target is large. Once it is targeted by an infantry gun or grenade, the probability of casualties is high, but this kind of anti-tank gun team that only requires two people can easily cover a foxhole.
If you can carry out a sneak attack on a tank hundreds of meters away, it's no wonder the Japanese don't cry.
Even if it's not an armored target, it's a fortification made of bricks and logs. If you take this kind of gun, can't you shoot a hole in it?
With a weight of 17.3 kilograms, it can even support long-distance marches and properly travel as a machine gun.
Moreover, for a sniper like Tang Dao, he knows better that this so-called anti-tank rifle is actually the originator of the future anti-material sniper rifle. With the addition of a scope, it becomes a super sniper rifle.
From now on, it is no longer a dream to kill the Japanese from 1,000 meters away! Moreover, it can kill two Japanese with one shot.
"Genius, whoever designed this kind of weapon is really a genius." Grunov was almost fascinated by the design of the anti-tank rifle on the drawing.
The German Empire's military is not unaware that its existing anti-tank rifles are too heavy, and has already put forward suggestions for improvement. At present, the more radical opinions have completely gained the upper hand, but the anti-tank rifle that directly reduces the caliber to 7.92 mm
The tank rifle was actually too light, but its armor-piercing ability was extremely weakened. Grunov thought that this was simply putting the cart before the horse and being stupid.
An anti-tank gun, no matter how lightweight it is, can only penetrate 20 mm armor at a distance of 300 meters. So what's the use of it?
An anti-tank rifle that maintains such a balance between its armor-piercing capability and its own weight like the one shown in the drawing is a truly genius design.
"Hey, that designer is my famous genius in China. When you become the head of the laboratory, PhD, I will introduce you to him." Tang Dao continued to fool around with a smile.
"Okay! I will study seriously from this talented firearms designer." Grunov nodded extremely seriously.
At this moment, the German genius designer even began to be grateful to the weak-minded bricklayers in the country. If they were not blind, how could he have the opportunity to come to the East, which is considered an industrial desert, and how could he have the opportunity to make friends.
Such a talented designer?
But if he knew that these drawings were concocted by the smiling man in front of him, maybe...
Anyway, Tang Dao Juebi will not admit that he copied the fighting nation. Those big guys with hairy chests are still drawing on the drawings right now! If they haven’t taken out the AK47 design drawings now, it’s already very worthy of them.
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"This heavy machine gun is quite big." Grunov then turned over the next drawing and commented while looking at the relatively familiar firearm.
To be honest, in this era, the heavy machine guns designed by various countries are all very similar, and they all focus on the rate of fire and power.
However, for Grunov, who has made up his mind to develop a new generation of metal stamping process design, this traditional design is just rubbish.
But soon, his eyes solidified.
The gun on the drawing seemed different from what he imagined, taking a different approach.
