Chapter 1134： New Military Industry Planning

  Qu Mao stayed in Xuande to spend the night on Twin Islands midway, obviously not on a whim, nor was it a suggestion simply because of the inconvenience of Xuande’s commute, but more because he wanted to communicate with Xuande about the military factory.

After returning to the small island of Twin Islands in the middle of the road, the construction of the playground of the Firearms University has not yet started, and the sand and stones in the Xuezilin have been handled by 50 freshmen. , complete quickly.

  Afterwards, Kong Ming went back to research and develop improved grenades, and Qu Mao asked Xuande to have dinner together at night.

At dinner, Xuande and Qu Mao had dinner together in a zero-level residence in the Firearms Research Institute. Xuande took the lead in eating up the food quickly, then pushed the plate aside, and said, "My lord, my subordinates always feel that you have something to eat." Find your subordinates.

   Now that the subordinates have finished their meal, you can directly order any tasks you have, and the subordinates will do their best to complete your entrustment. "

  After picking up a few mouthfuls of food, Qu Mao said: "There is no serious task for you to do, but I just want to discuss with you the layout of the new military industry.

  I know that Mengde built an artillery factory and a gun factory on each of the four southern industrial islands a long time ago, but the latest breakthrough in boring machine technology, the only boring machine sample is still in the firearms research institute on the small island of Twin Islands midway.

  So Mengde's new eight factories have not been equipped with boring machines, so the production capacity cannot be utilized, at most it is to train some skilled craftsmen.

   To put it bluntly, the combined production capacity of the eight factories built by Mengde is still not as good as the temporary small-batch production workshop opened by Kojima. "

   Xuande nodded, and said: "My lord, this is indeed the status quo, but my subordinates believe that once the eight factories on the four southern industrial islands are equipped with new equipment such as boring machines, the production capacity will soon catch up."

Qu Mao rolled his eyes and said, "Xuande, I really don't know what you thought at the beginning. The artillery factory and the gun factory belong to the military factory. Why did you ask Meng De to take the lead in doing it instead of your logistics department?" The Ministry took the lead in doing it.

My personal suggestion is: the eight new military factories newly built by Meng De in the four southern industrial islands will all be changed to the parts factories that only produce gun barrels and gun barrels, and your logistics department will rebuild the gun assembly factory in Jidao or Liandao and artillery assembly plants.

   As for the boring machine, once the prototype is finalized and ready for mass production, I will ask Kong Ming and Mengde to go to the Liandao lathe factory - which is the temporary firearms experiment site in the past - to build the Liandao boring machine factory.

  The early production capacity of Liandao Boring Machine Factory can be used to meet the gun assembly plant and artillery assembly plant built by your logistics department, and then meet the eight gun barrel fitting factories of the Ministry of Industry, and then other civilian factories. "

  Xuande immediately took out the paper and pen from his backpack, and while recording in his notebook, he said: "My lord, please speak slowly, let me write it down.

  When Meng De was working on the musket factory and artillery factory on the four southern industrial islands, there were soldiers in the Eastern Continent. His subordinates had been busy urging the military factories to produce consumable strategic materials, and at the same time transporting military rations and consumable strategic materials to the battlefield, so they had no time to take care of them.

  Nowadays, the war on the eastern peninsula in the Gulf of the Eastern Continent is in full swing again. Much of the energy of the subordinates is involved in delivering supplies to the battlefield, and the degree of attention to the new military factory is indeed not enough.

  However, let me bluntly say that the current firearms army does not exceed 4,000 people. Is it worth investing so much energy and investment in the firearms factory? "

   Qu Mao glanced at Xuande, and said: "Short-sighted!

  You need to know that we now have a total of 150 million traditional fighters. In the future, these fighters will be equipped with firearms or some of them will be replaced with firearms. Do you know how much gunpowder weapons are needed for 150 million fighters?

   Just now we were talking about the gun factory and the artillery factory. Don’t you think about the layout and planning in advance for the mine factory, grenade factory, bullet factory, and shell factory?

  Once our enemies are equipped with firearms, we need to urgently equip our traditional fighters. If you temporarily build a new military factory, even if you can build the military factory, can you also pick out the skilled factory workers from the cracks in the stone? "

  Xuande was left speechless by Qu Mao's series of questions, so he had to use a pen to keep recording in the notebook.

Qu Mao continued: "Those mentioned just now are still factories for complete firearms and weapons products. In fact, under this premise, more branch series of military factories can be derived, such as a special factory for the production of shipboard artillery for naval warships. I will The eight new military factories of the Ministry of Industry are defined as parts factories, etc.

  Xuande, if we don’t make arrangements in advance, with the gradual deepening of our firearms research, the production of military factories will not be able to keep up, which means that no matter how advanced our firearms research and development is, it will not work.

  The 150 million traditional troops need to be fully refitted. Our demand for new military factories is huge. Assuming that the output of each new military factory is constant, you have to consider meeting the needs of all soldiers to refit within one year.

  Furthermore, many new military weapons are expendable, such as bullets, shells, grenades, mines, etc. Even for guns, the reusability rate is not too high.

Besides, the production of new firearms and weapons cannot be solved by a single military factory. We also have to consider the upstream and downstream industrial chains, such as the upstream gunpowder factory. Now we only have one gunpowder factory in Liandao, and now among the 150 million old-fashioned troops Soldiers have begun to charge into the battle with explosive packs. Do you think that a gunpowder factory can meet the gunpowder demand of the entire army?

   This does not count the demand for gunpowder for civilian use. For example, Li Xiang's engineering construction team needs gunpowder to blow up mountains and flat seas.

I think the reason for this problem is that we did not plan the production capacity of the gunpowder factory in advance. Now the Liandao Gunpowder Factory and the small-batch gunpowder production workshop of Kong Ming’s Firearms Research Institute on the small island cannot meet the needs of our gunpowder at all. need. "

   Xuande cupped his hands in embarrassment, and said: "Sorry, my lord, this is my subordinate's dereliction of duty. After my subordinate returns, I will immediately re-plan the industrial layout of the new weapon factory, and the upstream and downstream industrial chains will take it into consideration.

   At the end of the six years of Tianxuan, the total size of the Firearms Army is estimated to be no more than 30,000 people, and the subordinates will build a complete set of new military factories before then and put them into production.

  Before October 1st, the subordinates will ensure that the production of gunpowder can meet the needs of the entire army in the Yigong Territory. "

   Qu Mao nodded, and said: "Okay, I will let Kong Ming practice all the new weapons for you tomorrow morning, so that you can have a solid understanding, and then you can think about how to lay out the industrial layout of the military factory."

   "Yes, my lord! Thank you for your reminder and support." Xuande said respectfully.