Expedition to Europe

"Go home", once this thought arises, it will grow wildly in the heart, until every vine is filled with the desire to "go home", and it will become the driving force for action.

Just three days after Julie told Qin Zhiyuan that she wanted to go home, Qin Zhiyuan and Julie left the UK and returned to Lanfang.

That's right, although the opening ceremony of the Olympics has not yet taken place, Qin Zhiyuan did not want to stay in Europe to continue waiting. When passing Corsica, Qin Zhiyuan did not even go ashore. The fleet crossed the Suez Canal and went directly to Lanfang.

It has been four months since leaving Lanfang in March. This journey is really too long. Both Qin Zhiyuan and Julie are eager to go home.

Well, Europe is really not worth lingering now. It is estimated that Qin Zhiyuan and his party felt eager to go home when they returned to Lanfang. Living in smog all day is really tormenting. Even if it is the center of the world, there is not much joy and excitement.

The journey was smooth and there was no waves. After one and a half months, Qin Zhiyuan and his party returned to Lanfang safely.

A lot of things happened in the one and a half months on the ship. For example, Pierre had gone to Madagascar to take office. In order to ensure that his investment would not go down the drain, old Renault personally led an exploration team to Manantenina. With the escort team led by Huang Li there, I believe that old Renault's safety is not a concern.

Prince Basel's coup is imminent. Chris ordered Gu Xingbang to send about a battalion of troops to the vicinity of Tunis City to prepare to cooperate with Prince Basel's coup.

There was still good news after Harding took office. When rewarding merits, Simon Allen was appointed as Deputy Minister of the Treasury by Harding. The minister was Mellon. Allen was basically just a figurehead and was not responsible for specific affairs.

This is the best situation for Lan Fang. Simon Allen entered the American political arena, which means that Lan Fang has a smooth channel to make his voice heard in the United States from now on. In order to avoid suspicion, Qin Zhiyuan sold all his stocks after the listing of the United Group, and the amount of cash reached as much as 1.2 billion US dollars.

After Qin Zhiyuan sold his shares, the United Group completely became an American company, and nominally had no connection with Qin Zhiyuan.

Of course, this was only on the surface. In fact, nearly 60% of Allen's shares still belonged to Qin Zhiyuan. Everyone knew this, but no one would point it out. The current United Group was no longer a foreign company, but a behemoth controlled by the Mellon Consortium, the Rockefeller Consortium, and the Morgan Consortium. No one dared to underestimate the power of the United Group.

In Qin Zhiyuan's plan, Lan Fang and the United States would have a war sooner or later. If the United Group still had such a strong Lan Fang color at that time, it would definitely be taken as a compulsory target by the US government. Since it might become a handle in the hands of the United States in the future, it would be better to get rid of Qin Zhiyuan now and let the US government have no handle to grab.

On the third day after returning to Lan Fang, Qin Zhiyuan came to Wanghaizhou to inspect the military industrial base in Pontianak.

After the Type 20 light machine gun was equipped to the troops, many problems still occurred during use. These problems were fed back to the 104th Factory in Pontianak, and then improved by the military experts of the 104th Factory. Qin Zhiyuan came here this time to inspect the research progress of the new machine gun.

At the shooting range of the 104th Factory, ten light machine guns were lined up, and fatigue tests were being carried out.

After the battle report of Madagascar was fed back to Lan Fang, the engineers of the 104th Factory began to improve the problems encountered in actual applications. The result of the improvement returned to the route proposed by Qin Zhiyuan, using the belt feeding of the lower-mounted ammunition box. When necessary, the bullets can be directly connected from the ammunition box to the machine gun for use, simplifying the step of pressing the bullets into the drum, and trying to avoid the situation of Manantenina from happening again.

The situation of Manantenina is actually quite extreme, and it is even possible that such a scene will never appear again in the future, but as a military worker, as long as there is a possible situation, you must think of it, and there can be no fluke. A little negligence will lead to unnecessary casualties of frontline soldiers.

On the wall around the shooting range, slogans such as "learn from the pain", "boldly innovate", and "ensure quality" are very conspicuous. This is Qin Zhiyuan's requirement for military enterprises and the voice of all military personnel.

"We are now imitating the battle situation in Manantenina, requiring light machine guns to fire continuously to see what the longest standard can be. In view of the battle report of Manantenina, the standard we require is to be able to fire continuously for four hours. In the last batch of tests, we have reached the level of three hours. Now if we can deal with the high intensity of combat similar to Manantenina, there is no problem." Jeffrey Defoe, chief engineer of Factory 104, was responsible for explaining to Qin Zhiyuan.

"Very good, that's the spirit." Qin Zhiyuan praised verbally and expressed satisfaction with the work of Factory 104.

Factory 104 is now the largest arsenal in Lan Fang. Since its establishment more than two years ago, the scale of Factory 104 has gradually expanded. Now the area of ​​the entire factory is twice that of when the factory was first built, and the number of machines has increased 105 times. The entire factory has 11,000 employees.

These 11,000 people are not all workers. A considerable number of them are workers' family members. These family members are now engaged in logistics or service work. They eat and live in the factory, and even their children go to school in the school affiliated with Factory 104.

This is part of the welfare of Factory 104, which completely solves the worries of workers and allows them to devote all their energy to production and construction.

Of course, in order to avoid the situation of "big pot", there is still competition within Factory 104, such as between workshops, between technical groups, and even between canteens. If a unit ranks last for three consecutive times, then this unit will be laid off and all personnel will be transferred out of Factory 104.

This seemingly cruel regulation has played a very good role. Since its establishment, Factory 104 has seen a steady increase in production and steady improvement in quality, which has played a very critical role in promoting the development of Lan Fang's army.

Not long ago, Factory 104 dismantled a large number of machines in use and shipped them to Germany. This was part of the agreement between Lan Fang and Germany. Factory 104 took this opportunity to upgrade its machines. Now Factory 104's machining level is leading in the world.

This kind of leading feedback to production is excellent product quality. The Lan Fang military has tested that a considerable part of the B-2 rifles produced by Factory 104 can be used directly as sniper rifles. The processing accuracy has reached a very high level, far ahead of all military enterprises in Lan Fang. Therefore, many troops now specifically ask for products produced by Factory 104 when they change their equipment, and would rather wait for a while than make do with it.

There is a pavilion next to the shooting range. On the table in the pavilion, there are various guns, including the most original Lewis machine gun, the Type 20 that has been discontinued, the new machine gun being tested on the test field, and many verification guns that are only produced on a small scale. These are all samples produced for technical reserves.

The new machine gun looks very similar to the minimi produced by the former FN company on the surface. It is short and compact, compact, and full of industrial mechanical beauty.

The original text can be read in Liu # 9 @shu/bar!

Seeing Qin Zhiyuan noticed the new machine gun, Jeffrey Defoe was a little embarrassed: "The design of the new machine gun basically meets the requirements, the firing rate is about ten rounds per second, the initial velocity of the bullet reaches 900 meters per second, the life of the bolt is about 50,000 rounds, and the weight is still different from your Majesty's requirements. Now including a 200-round ammunition box, the weight is about 15 kilograms, which needs further improvement."

Jeffrey Defoe said embarrassed, but the pride on his face was still overflowing.

Jeffrey Defoe's eyes were full of bloodshot, and his expression was both tired and excited. It is conceivable that the engineers headed by Jeffrey Defoe must have worked hard recently. It is because of their efforts that Lan Fang Military Industry will make great progress.

"This is not your fault. Materials engineering is a step-by-step industry. You have to eat one bite at a time." Qin Zhiyuan was not in a hurry. It was very good to have the current performance.

Lan Fang's material research started at a very high level. Because of the relationship between Lan Fang and France, the French did not hide much from Lan Fang. Lan Fang basically started to develop based on the research of French researchers, which made Lan Fang's material research take fewer detours. At least compared with Britain, France, and the United States, Lan Fang is not backward now. Even in some special fields, because of Qin Zhiyuan's unlimited investment, Lan Fang's material research has reached the forefront of the world.

Of course, the material research level of this era cannot be compared with that of half a century later, so the finished light machine gun now is about five kilograms heavier than the minimi in Qin Zhiyuan's memory. This is acceptable. As long as there is progress in material research in the future, the weight will be further reduced. There are no problems to be solved now, and other problems will be solved later.

"In the process of researching new machine guns, we have an idea. If we can have a mature design, we can increase the power of the machine gun by replacing the barrel. At the same time, we can also increase the range and stability by replacing the bipod or tripod. In that case, we only need to produce one machine gun to meet the needs of light and heavy machine guns, and even anti-aircraft machine guns. Of course, this is just an idea now." The idea proposed by Jeffrey Defoe is very exciting.

"It's a wonderful idea. This idea is very interesting. Go back and write a report. How much funds are needed to apply directly. If this idea can be realized, you will get a reward." Qin Zhiyuan was generous.

In Qin Zhiyuan's memory, Jeffrey Defoe proposed this concept of a universal machine gun. If it was just a simple idea, it would not be worth Qin Zhiyuan's promise to provide unlimited research funds, but this was the first time that Factory 104 proposed a new concept without Qin Zhiyuan's suggestion, which is indeed worthy of encouragement.