Thinking of this, Kikwete couldn't help but sigh.
"This is unbelievable!"
The bearded man, Bach, thought Kikwete was lamenting about the light machine gun and quickly echoed,
"Yes, I am!"
"Unimaginable."
"This gun was produced by us!"
What Kikwete didn't know was that when Wang Ye wanted to start the gun barrel business, he didn't plan to make do with it.
Most of the structure was copied from Miligan's M249, a general class machine gun!
However, it had been simplified a lot.
It could be called the PDD version!
Moreover, Millikan's M249 squad machine gun project had also gone through many years of design and verification. Many companies competed for it before it was finalized. Only a few thousand were equipped in small batches last year!
To be honest.
Wang Ye really wanted to know.
What would Cai's expression be like when they discovered this machine gun that was the twin of the M249 but was extremely simple and crude?
In the end.
Kikwete said to the bearded Baha,
"Next."
"Continue to produce this light machine gun!"
Hearing Kikwete's order, Bach nodded and said,
"Yes, sir! General!"
He hesitated for a moment before continuing,"
"However…"
"At our current speed,"
"I'm afraid half a month later."
"Our gun barrels will be completely exhausted!”
"General, what do you think?"
Kikwete thought about it for a moment. When he bought the gun barrel from Wang Ye, the first batch was 100,000 dollars. Wang Ye was very generous and even rounded it up.
But in total, they could only produce 1,500 guns.
1,500 guns was a lot, but there were hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the army. Although they did not lack weapons, many of them were very old.
All kinds of problems often occurred, and it was necessary to replace them.
However, the problem was…
They couldn't replace all of them with light machine guns, could they?
However, the blueprints that Wang Ye gave were all blueprints for this type of light machine gun. There were no blueprints for rifles!
Thinking of this…
Kikwete asked Bach,
"Use this batch of barrels."
"Can you produce a rifle?"
Bach gave a very direct answer to Kikwete's question.
"Of course you can."
"I just need to cut off a section of the barrel."
"That's a rifle!"
Kikwete was speechless at Haba's answer, but he couldn't say that there was anything wrong with the plan.
After all, in this country that had no weapons industry at all.
In the past, guns were purchased or seized. It was common for the purchased rifles to be used as submachine guns.
Therefore, it was reasonable for machine guns to be used as rifles.
"That's not what I meant."
"I mean,"
"Can you use this batch of barrels?”
"Make a rifle based on AK-47 or other rifles.”
"Even submachine guns?"
Hearing Kikwete's explanation, Baja suddenly understood. However, he did not know much about production. He quickly pulled a skinny old man from behind and placed him in front of Kikwete.
"Old Howl!"
"Tell the general."
"Can I?"
The skinny old man called Old Howl hurriedly said,"
"It should be possible."
" But we need to do experiments."
"Try everything!"
Hearing Old Howl's words, Kikwete nodded. At the same time, he made up his mind to continue purchasing gun barrels from Wang Ye!
After all, purchasing a gun barrel was only 80 meters long, and the cost of processing it into a light machine gun would not exceed 150 meters. There was still a big difference from the normal price of nearly 200 dollars for a rifle!
Putting this matter aside for the time being, it was indeed as Wang Ye had said. It could gradually promote the development of the domestic weapons industry.
On the other hand.
Selling these guns to the country, as the person in charge, he would also have a lot of profits!
"Alright."
"I know!"
"Continue production at the military factory."
"I will solve the gun barrel problem!”
Finally, Kikwete said this, and the burly Baha hurriedly nodded.
Kikwete then looked at the guards behind him and said,
"In my name."
"Send invitations to our commanders, generals, and other higher-ups.”
"Let's talk about the machine guns that we, Tanzanians, made ourselves.”
"I succeeded today!"
"Invite them over to observe the test!"
The guard also acted as Kikwete's secretary and nodded.
"Yes, sir!"
Kikwete then left the military factory.
He was prepared to use this observation event tomorrow to push forward the process of him taking power!
...
At the same time.
At the Laiyang Steel Plant.
After a few days of production, the factory warehouse had accumulated more than 300 floor-standing electric fans.
These electric fans had basically used up all the materials. The remaining materials could only be produced for one day at most. In other words, the machinery factory could borrow 50,000 yuan from the steel factory and finally turn it into about 400 electric fans.
Other than the money spent on all the equipment purchases.
The cost of each electric fan would not exceed 100 yuan.
The 100 yuan cost included the cost of purchasing and contracting at the steel plant. In other words, the steel plant had already taken some profits, so they had income too!
Compared to other electric fan factories.
This cost could already be said to be very low.
However, compared to the future.
The cost was terrifyingly high, but there was nothing he could do.
After all, a lot of iron was used in the entire electric fan. It weighed at least 30 pounds. It was not comparable to the plastic and light electric fans of the future. Moreover, in this era, using plastic would only be more expensive!
"Good, good, good!"
"Slow down!"
"Don't knock or touch it!"
Under Wang Ye's command, a few young men were installing electric fans on the truck, but there were only a dozen of them.
Because this batch of goods was not for sale, but Wang Ye was going to bring it to the city as a gift!
That's right!
Gifts!
To the higher-ups of the steel plant, Director Li, the director of the industrial bureau, the mayor, the secretary, and other department heads!
However, he did not give the fan directly to an individual. This was a bribe. He could not do such a thing. Therefore, Wang Ye gave it to the office where the leader was sitting!
Of course, giving these gifts was part of building a good relationship.
In addition, Wang Ye had two important goals!
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