Inspection of the Munitions Factory!
The principal wanted the Northeast to change its flag and remove the five-colored flag of the Beiyang government, and replace it with the flag of the Jinling City National Government!
Change sides?
It was impossible!
It was impossible for him to change his allegiance in this lifetime!
Zhang Xuemin lay on his bed and muttered to himself that he had never gone to the Fengtian Munitions Factory to take a look after killing Yang Yuting. Weapons and equipment were the most important things in a war. The army had already appointed Guo Songlin, Jiang Dengxuan, and a group of officers and generals who had stayed overseas. Naturally, they had to keep up with the equipment!
"Xishun, let's go. Take me to Fengtian Munitions Factory to take a look!”
The adjutant, Zhao Xishun, walked in from outside. His face was filled with surprise as he asked in confusion,"Commander-in-chief, didn't you say that you would meet the representative sent by the principal of Jin Ling City?”
"I just asked him to wait first. When do you want to see him? Cut the crap and prepare the car!”
"Yes, sir!"
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The Fengtian Munitions Factory, also known as the Fengtian Armament Factory and the Three Eastern Provinces Munitions Factory, was founded by Zhang Zuolin in 1921. It was currently the largest arsenal in the country. It had a steel mill, a machine factory, a boiler room, a water tower, steam equipment, and water channels. It also had many production lines for rifles, light machine guns, mortars, and so on!
According to the current machine production line, they could produce more than 100 Liao-13 rifles every day. The annual production of light machine guns and heavy machine guns was about 300 and 50 respectively. In addition, they could produce about 400,000 rounds of ammunition every year!
The supervisor of the Munitions Factory was originally Yang Yuting, but after he was killed, Wang Shuhan temporarily took over the position. The general manager of the factory, who was also the second-in-command, was called Zang Shiyi. When he heard that Zhang Xuemin was coming, he was so scared that he immediately rushed to the door to welcome him!
"How many workers are there in the arsenal?”
After following Zang Shiyi into the Munitions Factory, Zhang Xuemin looked around and asked casually. The entire Munitions Factory was quite large, and there was even a train track that could be directly driven in!
Zang Shiyi immediately replied carefully,"There are currently more than 17000 workers!”
"What about the production line? What kind of guns can you make?"
"Mainly producing Liao-13 rifles, as well as a small number of imitation ZB light machine guns, imitation Japanese heavy machine guns, mountain cannons, etc. However, most of these are due to old production lines and other reasons, so the production capacity is insufficient!”
Zhang Xuemin frowned. He had seen the Liao Type 13 Rifle before, and it wasn't anything good. It had a short range and low power. It could only be on par with the Hanyang rifle, and it couldn't even compare to the Zhongzheng rifle. It seemed like he had to reform the rifles that the Feng army was equipped with, and increase the production of light and heavy machine guns and mountain cannons!
"Xishun, go get my briefcase from the car!”
"Yes, sir!"
The reason why he needed the briefcase was because he wanted to exchange some gun blueprints from the system store. He couldn't just take them out of thin air, so he had to use the briefcase as a cover!
Ever since the tax reduction decree was issued, the Rehe market had been stabilized, and the government had decided to invest in steel, textile, and other factories. All kinds of small workshops had sprung up in the northeast, and the large factories had also expanded their scale. Although production capacity could still increase, as long as they started construction and purchased raw materials, they could increase the gross domestic product. Therefore, the reputation points in the system interface had increased by more than 100,000 points, and they could be exchanged for some basic blueprints!
After getting the briefcase, Zhang Xuemin used the excuse of going to the toilet to think about what gun blueprint he should exchange for!
Rifles, submachine guns, light and heavy machine guns. Based on the current scale of the Fengtian Munitions Factory, they could only mass produce standard semi-automatic rifles. Zhang Xuemin also wanted to equip every soldier with machine guns and submachine guns, but that was not realistic!
The production line of light and heavy machine guns was very complicated, and the core technology was controlled by countries like Germany and America. Even if they wanted to purchase it, they might not have it!
The cheapest item in the system store was the blueprint. If one wanted to exchange for a single production line, it would require more than 100,000 Reputation Points. If one wanted to exchange for a complete production line, from steel smelting, copper smelting, gunpowder equipment, cooling, lathes, and so on, it would require millions of Reputation Points. The best was naturally a fully automated production base, which would require hundreds of millions of Reputation Points!
He could only wait for two years until the northeast's light and heavy industries and economy developed!
Therefore, the most important thing now was to upgrade the standard weapon in the hands of the Feng army, which was the Liao 13 rifle. Coincidentally, the arsenal had complete machinery and production lines. As long as there were blueprints, they could immediately mass produce it!
However, blueprints weren't worth much anyway. They could be exchanged for anything from a few thousand to tens of thousands. Zhang Xuemin was prepared to pick out a few more gun blueprints, including light and heavy machine guns. He could buy more production lines, so he could make as many as he could!
The most widely used rifles in World War II were the M1 Garand made in America, the Mauser 98 made in Germany, and the Hanyang rifle!
The reason why Hanyang was so widely used was because they had been fighting for too long during the War of Resistance against Japan. There were many people who used them, and in terms of power, range, and accuracy, they were not as good as the two above!
The advantage of the Mauser rifle was its high reliability. However, it was a purely manual recoil mechanism, so the loading speed was slow. Zhang Xuemin didn't want the soldiers to have to use their hands to load the bullets one by one during a battle, so he chose the M1 Garand rifle. After all, it was a semi-automatic weapon!
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