novelAbuy #109 - 56 and a half appeared!
#109 - 56 and a half appeared!
Main Plane.
Early in the morning, Ren Zhong was awakened by Zhao Lidong's phone call.
"What? Can't find suitable senior technicians in Hong Kong? No amount of money will do? Without senior technicians to guide them, the newly recruited workers don't know what to do?" Ren Zhong sat up in bed at once.
"Alright, let me think. Your factory buildings and related machine tool equipment are all set up, right? The power supply isn't a problem, is it? Good. I'll think of a way to handle the senior technician issue."
Because Yangcun's machine tool had only just finished the first unit, the core components for the second and third units were brought over, but Gao Kaiming and Xu Jiucheng still had to produce the casting molds for the castings based on the process drawings left by Ren Zhong and the first practical experience.
Casting molds couldn't be manufactured in a day or two. In terms of processing capacity, Yangcun's machine tool was already running at full capacity, having to produce mortars and some non-core parts for the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle. They simply couldn't handle it all.
So Ren Zhong simply planned to open a machine processing factory in Hong Kong to complete most of the parts for the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle. Except for the wooden parts like the gunstock, which would be made in Yangcun, the Hong Kong machine processing factory would take care of the rest. They would also be responsible for processing the seamless steel pipes and bringing them to the Bright Sword world, ready for use.
In effect, this place would be an upstream component supplier for Yangcun's finished products.
Of course, Ren Zhong had Zhao Lidong set up several separate factories to do these things. Each factory would generally only make one or two parts. This way, no one in Hong Kong could find fault with it.
Moreover, Ren Zhong didn't plan to let these things leak out. For the workers, he would just tell them that they were export products.
He didn't expect that senior technicians would be so difficult to find in Hong Kong. Ren Zhong immediately thought of his two senior brothers, Li Shaoxin and Wu Jiancheng.
Hong Kong.
Yunfei Machine Processing Factory.
"Junior Brother Ren, this thing of yours doesn't look like an honest product," Li Shaoxin said, shaking his head after seeing the things Ren Zhong had brought for processing.
He was too familiar with this stuff. Rifling inside a pipe? Was this a civilian product? That's a load of bull.
"Senior Brother Li, export products, purely for export. The economy is bad these days, and it's hard to do business with honest products. This is what those turbaned merchants overseas are asking for. We don't sell finished products, we just sell them as steel pipes. Please put in the extra effort and teach these workers in Hong Kong. If I had any other way, I wouldn't be doing this kind of business," Ren Zhong said with a smile.
"Don't tell Master about this either. After all, he's old and can't stand this kind of trade."
"You, you, you," Li Shaoxin said helplessly, shaking his head, but he didn't refuse.
Just as Ren Zhong said, if this thing couldn't enter the mainland, then it wouldn't have any impact.
There were many poor wretches wearing turbans over there, but there were also quite a few rich people. They were constantly making noise day and night. Although the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle was a common item, it was simple and cheap. Compared to the AK, each had its own merits, and the demand was always there.
Ren Zhong didn't know how he managed to get on this path and get involved in this business, but it didn't matter. Earning money from foreigners didn't violate the master's teachings and wasn't against the law.
Li Shaoxin took it in stride, so when Ren Zhong brought out 82mm and 60mm seamless steel pipes and asked for them to be processed into tubes, Li Shaoxin didn't have much to say.
He spent his days leading the workers in several factories, pointing out the processing. He was a top-notch mechanical processing technician from the mainland, and this kind of thing was child's play to him. Zhao Lidong had bought relatively advanced CNC machine tools, so if these workers were still too stupid to learn after a month or so of guidance, they could only be fired and new ones recruited.
So, Ren Zhong quickly didn't have to worry about these things. Instead, he needed to come every few days, stay for a few days, and bring some of the finished products back to Nangou Village in the Bright Sword world.
During the day, Ren Zhong was busy directing the construction of the earthen blast furnace. In the evening, he had to accompany the carpenter he found in Nangou Village to start producing gunstocks. The wood didn't need to be too fancy. Ren Zhong adhered to the principle of using whatever was available. He and an old carpenter spent a few days making a set of samples and then assembling the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle.
"Dabiao, what do you think of this gun?" Ren Zhong asked Zhang Dabiao, who was standing beside him, with a smile, holding up the first Type 56 semi-automatic rifle in this plane.
"Boss Ren, do you want the truth?" Zhang Dabiao looked at the messy wood grain of the gunstock in Ren Zhong's hand, which wasn't even painted, and his face couldn't help but twitch. It was truly as ugly as it could be. In terms of appearance, it was even worse than the old-fashioned rifle.
"Tell the truth!" Ren Zhong hadn't noticed Zhang Dabiao's abnormality and was immersed in his excitement.
"It's too ugly!" Zhang Dabiao blurted out.
"Huh?" Ren Zhong was stunned. He didn't expect that Zhang Dabiao's focus was not on the same wavelength as his at all.
"Let's go, Huzi, we'll try it out and see if it's ugly!" Without explaining, Ren Zhong had Huzi fetch 30 rounds of 7.62mm bullets produced in Yangcun. Currently, Nangou had not yet established a bullet production line, and explosives and bullets were transported from Yangcun.
Normally, they would be inserted into the soil, and if they were hit, they would definitely fall down, so it was very intuitive to see if they had been hit, which was most convenient for training recruits.
After they were knocked down, they would simply be set up again.
Ren Zhong took the bullets from Huzi's hand and loaded them one by one into the custom 30-round magazine. Although the original Type 56 semi-automatic rifle had a 10-round magazine, Ren Zhong considered that this gun would be responsible for some machine gun fire support tasks, and fewer bullets would definitely not work. Referring to the specially customized 30-round and 40-round magazines from the main world, he chose the 30-round magazine as the standard magazine for the Type 56.
This loading capacity was the same as the Type 11 light machine gun magazine. Although the rate of fire was not as good as the Type 11, the aiming accuracy of the Type 56 was not comparable to the Type 11 light machine gun. In the hands of a sharpshooter, a 30-round Type 56 semi-automatic rifle was definitely more lethal than the Type 11!
Zhang Dabiao was originally somewhat unimpressed, but when he saw Ren Zhong loading 30 bullets at once, he was immediately a little awe-stricken.
Big is beautiful, firepower is king. This was the simple battlefield truth in the Bright Sword world. Zhang Dabiao immediately became interested and no longer looked down on this new gun he had never seen before because of its ugly gunstock.
Ren Zhong tried aiming, and the three-point alignment was visibly quite standard. After all, it had been tested by pulling the line straight.
Ren Zhong no longer hesitated, raised the gun, pressed it against his shoulder, aimed at the first target, and pulled the trigger!
Bang!
The gun fired and the target fell!
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