From late at night to early morning, Li Qingen had been drawing blueprints in front of the case. It was not until dawn that he stretched himself, his bloodshot eyes full of longing, staring at the blueprints and talking to himself.
"The good life of the Li family depends on you!"
After saying this, he simply ate some breakfast and hurried to the factory. Along the way, looking at the open space on the roadside, Li Qingen couldn't help but think about it.
"Perhaps when the time comes, I can buy a piece of land here and build three houses. If bricks are not enough, wooden ones will do..."
Have a home of your own!
This is the dream of most people, but it is just a dream now.
But every day, Li Qingen feels that he is getting closer and closer to this dream.
The daughter-in-law who works in a clothing factory can earn six yuan a month. Plus Li Qingen's salary of ten yuan a month, her life is quite comfortable. After all, the three children have lunch in school. The couple, a month
There is almost twelve yuan left.
Now all they can think about is to move out of the dormitory as soon as possible. It is too inconvenient for a family to squeeze into one room. However, they cannot afford to buy a house at the moment. In fact, even if they can afford it, they cannot
It has to be sold - the houses that everyone lives in are all allocated by the company. The workers only live in dormitories. If they are a family, they will take care of each other and live in the same room.
However, if you want to buy a house, you must first raise enough money!
Soon, soon... This invention, yes, it is an invention. If it is adopted by the company, a reward will definitely be given! With the reward, you will definitely be able to afford land and build a house!
When he arrived at the factory, Li Qingen went straight to the red building of the factory, where the foreign engineers in the factory worked, and knocked on the door of Mr. Staum, the factory chief engineer's office.
"Mr. Chief Engineer."
After entering the office, Li Qingen saluted.
"Li, what's the matter?"
Staum had some impressions of this studious Chinese.
"Mr. Chief Engineer, it's like this. I have an idea about improving the rifle. This is the drawing I made. I would like to ask Mr. Chief Engineer for some advice."
Although Li Qingen said it very politely, Staum said impatiently.
"Improved rifle? You..."
Looking at Li Qingen, Staum's tone was full of doubt.
"The rifles we produce are all very good products and do not need improvement at all. Besides, you are just a worker. Designing weapons is an engineer's job. Li, it's work time in fifteen minutes. I hope
You don’t want to waste your working time, do you understand?”
Faced with the chief engineer's rejection, Li Qingen still tried to persuade.
"Mr. Chief Engineer, please take a look. I am talking about the P1853 rifle. It is completely improved..."
Before he could finish speaking, Storm said.
"Li, you Chinese have a saying that you are not doing your job properly, you are just a worker! Do you understand? Okay, you can go out!"
After being blasted out, Li Qingen stood there, unable to recover for a while.
"It's a joke that a guy with pigtails can actually design weapons!"
The chief engineer's shouts were heard in the corridor, which only made his face turn blue and white. He clutched his boxer tightly and murmured.
"How, how could this happen...why, why..."
Although the anger was burning in his heart, Li Qingen still took a few deep breaths and then said to himself.
"Why don't you believe it? Why! Why do you think we can't do it? If you foreigners can do it, why can't we..."
While talking to himself, Li Qingen glanced at the drawings at hand and thought to himself.
"If you don't believe it, I'll go find my employer, yes, I'll find my employer!"
As a worker, it is not difficult to meet his employer. After all, Spencer could carry the rifle he invented into the White House and meet Lincoln. All he had to do was wait in line. Moreover, when he learned that a worker had an invention and dedicated it to the company,
Zhu Xianhai's curiosity was aroused.
A worker's invention!
This is the first time I have heard of it, so of course I want to meet such a person.
"...the 1853-type rifle has a long range and is powerful, but has a slow rate of fire, while the Spencer rifle has a fast rate of fire, but has a short range and low power. Both weapons currently used by the security team have their shortcomings. My
The idea is, if based on the p1853 rifle, metal fixed-loading ammunition is used and converted into a breech-loading gun, wouldn't it be able to overcome its shortcomings?"
While explaining, Li Qingen pointed at the drawings to introduce its concept.
Looking at the drawings drawn by Li Qingen, Zhu Xianhai said.
"Is this your design?"
"Yes, boss, my idea is to remove the original flash cap firing part at the end of the barrel, install this valve receiver, and it becomes a valve rifle. The firing pin is placed obliquely in the valve. After pulling the trigger,
The hammer rotates to strike the firing pin, thereby firing the bullet. Although the valve rifle is a single-shot rifle, it can automatically eject the shell. As long as the valve is opened, the shell will be ejected by the "shell ejector". Its modification cost is very low
, but it can fire metal fixed-loading ammunition, so the rate of fire can be increased a lot, I estimate it can be at least doubled."
Maybe even twice as much!
Zhu Xianhai said to himself in his heart.
Judging from the drawings, Zhu Xianhai can see that his invention is completely different from the Schneider design used by the British to improve the Enfield P1853 rifle in history. In terms of structure, it is a bit like the American trap rifle.
What is the biggest feature of this thing? Of course it saves money. The production of this thing can use a large number of parts of the p1853 muzzleloader, which can save a lot of money. After this modification, the combat rate of fire per minute can be increased to 8-15 rounds per minute.
, the firepower density is more than double that of the previous gun-loading era when four rounds were fired per minute...
Historically, Americans still have records of similar live-door rifles being used in the U.S.-Mexican War. As for similar Schneider rifles, until the Sino-Japanese War of 1884-1898, the Japanese army still had a division using that thing.
Although this thing is only excessive in nature and will definitely be eliminated eventually. But what makes Zhu Xianhai happy is that it was actually designed by a Chinese. Although its structure looks a bit rough and there is room for further improvement, it is a good product after all.
Let’s get started!
Looking at Li Qingen in front of him with a smile on his face, Zhu Xianhai was truly surprised by the wisdom of his compatriots. Similar improvements in European and American countries were made after the Civil War, but the middle-aged man in front of him was several years ahead of them. More importantly, he
He said he had no education in weapons design and even had a limited understanding of basic mechanics.
"very good!"
After thinking about it, Zhu Xianhai said.
"In this way, I am very optimistic about this invention, and it is definitely very promising. Although there is no physical object yet, you should be rewarded just for your idea. What kind of reward do you hope to get?"
This chapter has been completed!