After the successful production of the first steam engine, Chen Qi's work was much easier. The production process of the steam engine was open and transparent. Each team only needed to build specific parts and then the technical staff of the assembly team would assemble them.
In other words, even without Chen Qi, the Phoenix Mountain Munitions Factory could still manufacture steam engines on its own.
Of course, Chen Qi was the one who led the production team the first time, and everyone made their own work later on. Chen Qi no longer interfered. Only when the technical staff encountered difficulties that they could not solve would he show up to guide them.
Chen Qi, who had taken a break from steam engine manufacturing, did not idle around either. He brought people to the Yanchang coal mine, the Yanchang oil refinery, and the Wanhuashan iron mine in Yanzhou. He made certain improvements to the existing mining technology and greatly increased the original mining efficiency.
Especially the Yanchang Oil Production Plant. Chen Qi explained the water injection method to the technical staff of the oil production plant and asked the Munitions Factory to transport a completed steam engine over to carry out secondary mining of the Yanchang oil mine.
There were many ways to extract oil. The most commonly used method in the future was to extract oil by injecting water.
In this era, the oil water injection method had already been used abroad. After all, the efficiency of oil extraction by natural blowouts was too low. It could only extract about 5% of the total amount.
Oil extraction without water injection was called primary extraction.
After the first extraction, water injection and secondary extraction could increase the oil production to 30% or even 40%. This figure would not exceed 50%.
After the second water injection mining, the chemical raw materials were used for the third mining. This was to ensure the maximum exploitation of the oil mine.
In this era, there was no systematic oil extraction technology in the country. There were even very few oil mines mined. The oil extraction method used relied on the natural pressure of the oil well to form a blow-out, which was also the natural oil extraction method.
This method had a huge drawback. In the early stages, a large amount of oil could be obtained. However, when the pressure in the oil well weakened, the rate of oil production would be greatly reduced, or even no more oil would be produced.
The Yanchang Oil Mine was not a large oil mine. After ten to twenty years of mining, the rate of oil production had naturally become very low. Otherwise, the National Government would not have given up so easily.
After Chen Qi saw this situation, he sorted out the secondary water injection oil recovery method and handed it to the person in charge of the oil plant. He also shipped a steam engine from the arsenal to teach the comrades in the oil plant how to carry out secondary extraction.
The water injection oil recovery method, as its name suggested, relied on external forces to inject water into the underground oil layer, increasing the pressure of the stone oil layer and causing the oil well to spray oil again.
Although the method was simple, most of the oil mines in the future used this method to recover oil.
On this day, when Chen Qi was discussing the location of the second water injection well with his comrades in the oil plant, suddenly, the messenger Xiao Yang ran in and panted anxiously,"Director Chen, the chief is looking for you urgently. He wants you to return to the Munitions Factory as soon as possible!”
Chen Qi was surprised when he heard that. As he walked, he asked Xiao Yang,"Did anything happen, Chief?”
Xiao Yang shook his head and thought for a moment before saying,"It should have something to do with the experts from the Su country. I heard from the police that the expert team from the Su country arrived in Yanzhou last night. I think the chief wants you to learn from the experts from the Su country!”
Chen Qi pursed his lips when he heard that. He was extremely speechless!
Learn from the experts of the Su Country?
What kind of joke was this? The person who could teach him, Chen Fan, was probably not even born yet.
Although Chen Qi felt disdain in his heart, he did not refute because he knew very well that in this era, the status of the big brother of the Su Country in the hearts of the leaders and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army was definitely high.
Big brother, big brother, this wasn't called for nothing.
When Chen Qi and Xiao Yang rode back to the arsenal, the Bureau Chief and the experts from the Su Country had already arrived. They were touring the ammunition production line.
Production line!
This was also an important improvement that Chen Qi had made to the arsenal. With the steam engine as the driving force, it could drive four production lines. One was to produce rifles, one was to produce reloaded bullets, one was to produce grenades, and one was to produce mines.
The appearance of the production line had greatly increased the military output of the Phoenix Mountain Munitions Factory. Originally, the factory could only produce 100 rifles a month. Later, after the transfer of important technical workers, the number dropped to 30. Now, with the steam engine and the production line, even without the old technical workers, the factory could produce more than 300 rifles a month. The output was almost comparable to the Huangya Cave Munitions Factory.
If they could manufacture a few more steam engines and add a few more production lines in the future, the production would probably be several times higher.
After all, the firearms manufacturing team had only one production line, and all the parts were squeezed together. The efficiency was not high at all.
The experts in the Su Nation's expert team were full of disdain for the Phoenix Mountain Munitions Factory. There was basically nothing in the entire Munitions Factory that could make their eyes light up.
Poor and backward!
This was their only impression of Yanzhou and the Dragon Kingdom!
The leading expert from the Soviet Union was in a daze. A girl dressed as a helper beside him translated,"Professor Rio said that it's not that he doesn't want to help you design weapons, but that your machinery and equipment can't even meet the minimum standards for weapon production. You can't even make the most basic explosives.”
The Bureau Chief smiled and said,""There are still difficulties, but please do not doubt our determination to fight.”
"In addition, we are currently actively looking for solutions to the difficulties. For example, the steam engine in front of us is produced by us. In the future, we will also manufacture engines and expand the production line. One day, we will reach the standard of producing mortars.”
After the Bureau Chief finished speaking, the translator beside him immediately translated the original words and explained to the experts from the Su Country.
Professor Rio spread out his hands and said a bunch of words. His assistant translated,"Professor Rio said that he doesn't doubt China's determination to fight the war. Your country's soldiers are very good, but your country really doesn't have the conditions to produce mortars.”
"Of course, Professor Rio didn't mean to make things difficult for you. He said that as long as you can make high explosives, he will help you make mortars. This is a test, and I hope you can pass!”
The Bureau Chief pondered for a moment before saying,"Sure, but our Munitions Factory's chief expert hasn't returned yet. When he comes back, Professor Rio can have a good discussion with him!”
When Professor Rio heard the interpreter's words, he pursed his lips and shrugged.
Professor Rio agreed!"
The assistant from the group of experts from the Su Nation maintained his polite smile and conveyed Professor Rio's message to the people from Yanzhou.
When the Bureau Chief and the others heard this, they could not help but heave a sigh of relief. They could only pin their hopes on Chen Qi, hoping that he had the method to make high explosives.
Of course, Chen Qi did not know about the Phoenix Mountain Munitions Factory. He had just returned and had yet to enter the Munitions Factory when he was stopped by Tang Xiaoyou.
After Chen Qi heard the whole story from Tang Xiaoyou, he curled his lips in disdain and said indifferently,""A bunch of frogs at the bottom of a well. You don't need to find someone else for mortars. Just look for me. Let alone mortars, I can even make mountain cannons and field artillery for you.”
"Isn't it just high explosives? Give me a moment, I'll go get a sack for you!”
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