On the road from Berlin to Czechoslovakia... no, it should be called the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Several cars were driving fast. Looking at the newly built highway outside the window, Jiang Cheng couldn't help but understand why.
There were so many people supporting Hitler.
"It's not easy, my boss, we finally reached an agreement," Chen Nan said with a sigh.
Jiang Cheng nodded, and after difficult negotiations, Jiang Cheng's Skoda Arsenal received two million tons of steel a year, which was already one-third of Japan's annual steel production at this time. The price was high-priced iron ore.
Shi He's new mining technology. Jiang Cheng felt sick when he recalled those battles.
Jiang Cheng expelled the unhappiness from his heart and said, "We just need to persist for one year. Next year, I will find a way to get new sources of iron ore, such as the United States and the Soviet Union."
Chen Nan sighed and said, "Look at European countries, their industry is so powerful. I don't know when our country will catch up. My boss, we are just at the border. Look, there are carnival crowds everywhere now."
Jiang Cheng arrived in the Sudetenland, where the majority of Germans were originally. When they learned that Czechoslovakia was completely destroyed, they all reveled happily. After all, after World War I, Czechoslovakia's fanatical nationalism made them persecuted.
, now the situation has changed, and they finally waited for the day when they could be proud and proud.
Jiang Cheng looked at it and shook his head, waved his hand, indicating to continue moving forward, and asked, "How is the situation at the factory? Are the workers' emotions still stable?"
Chen Nan said comfortingly, "Don't worry, boss. I've already asked. Our factory is very quiet, but there are some noises. Alder's opinion is to expel them."
Jiang Cheng smiled slightly. He naturally knew what Alder meant. The expulsion was fake, but sending them to the resistance organization was the real thing.
Jiang Cheng said, "Let's do it this way. Anyone who openly opposes Germany will be kicked out of the factory. Well... let's give him three months' salary as compensation at one time. Tell him, I don't want to know where those people went in the end, but
I don't need Ge Mingjia in my factory."
Chen Nan expressed his understanding and was silent all the way. The convoy drove to the gate of the military factory.
When Jiang Cheng walked into the factory, a group of senior executives had been waiting for a long time.
Jiang Cheng nodded to everyone and said, "Sobotka."
Sobotka is the deputy general manager of the Skoda factory. He quickly stood up and bowed and asked, "My boss, what are your orders?"
I don’t know who taught them, but even these white people started calling them Jiang Cheng’s boss. Jiang Cheng didn’t object to this name with Chinese characteristics.
"Although our workers are generally stable, the change of state power will definitely make them confused. Immediately help me write a letter to all employees of the factory. The main subject is that the German government has placed a large order for us, and all operations of our factory will be affected."
As usual, the change of political power will not affect the life of any employee in our factory. If you do not agree with the current political power, you can leave on your own. The factory does not want employees to have their work affected because of this. The factory will give him 30% of last month's salary.
Times as severance pay. That's it." After Jiang Cheng finished speaking, he said to Alder next to him, "Okay, let's go in for a meeting to discuss the production plan behind our factory."
After everyone sat down, Jiang Cheng said to Alder, "Let's first talk about the products produced by our factory."
Alder nodded, took out a few photos and said, "First, light weapons. These are the Vz.24 rifle and ZH-29 semi-automatic rifle in our factory. They are the main rifle products of our factory. In addition to the appearance of the Vz.24 rifle,
It is basically the same as the Mauser 98K. It is the same type of gun. The ZH-29 semi-automatic rifle has been an old product for more than ten years. It has been exported to your country, China, but it is not available in other countries.
It’s so popular that production has recently been stopped.”
Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "Our future customers are mainly Germany and Germany's slave countries or allies. It can be expected that these troops will need a large number of weapons in the near future, and Germany will try its best to make these troops more convenient for logistics management and operations."
All use the same standard weapons. Our Vz.24 rifle needs to expand production. The current annual output of 70,000 rifles is completely inappropriate for the situation. I require an initial annual output of 200,000 rifles within half a year. By January 1, 2040
By that time, I required that the production line could reach an annual output of 300,000 sticks."
A group of senior executives looked at each other in fright. Alder quickly said, "Boss, is this too risky? What if we misjudge the situation and we produce so many weapons that we can't sell them? And we simply can't increase the amount every year."
So much production capacity.”
Jiang Cheng waved his hand and said, "Don't be afraid. Let's not talk about our European needs. Even China can eat so much. Just do it. As long as we persist for one year, it will be the spring of our arms dealers. I know that we are now
The working system is 8 hours a day, which is too wasteful of machines, so we have changed everything to two shifts. However, if we continue to produce, the machines will not be able to bear it, so we leave five hours for machine maintenance, and three hours for meals and rest.
The same is true for the bullet factory. They produce at full capacity and hire if there are not enough people. By the way, except for women's work that will reduce productivity, try to use female workers as much as possible."
"Dictator!!" These three words flashed through the minds of all the executives. Is it really okay to be so arbitrary?
Jiang Cheng continued, "I think the other semi-automatic rifle also has great potential, but since there must be a reason for its unpopularity, let's suspend production first, find out the reason, and improve it. Let's continue the introduction. The machine gun should be next.
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Alder nodded and said, "These are our two main machine guns, the light machine gun ZB-26 and the heavy machine gun ZB-37. The other one is the ZB-60 that has not yet been mass-produced. This gun was originally developed as a machine gun.
Yes, the caliber finally changed to 15MM, so we should still call for a gun."
Jiang Cheng looked at the photo of the ZB-60, which he had never seen before, and saw that the gun was about two meters long. It looked more like an anti-aircraft machine gun than a heavy machine gun.
Jiang Cheng thought about Germany's main machine guns MG34 and MG42 and said, "Our ZB26 is the flagship product of our factory. We need to increase production. I think the annual output will reach more than 30,000 by the beginning of 40. I know the production cost of this machine gun."
Lower, it can complement Germany's existing MG34. You should also know that the MG34 has a faster rate of fire and a higher cost. This has resulted in the German army being unable to fully replace its equipment during its crazy expansion. However, our ZB26 has a price
Advantages, I think we should be able to position him as the main weapon of the second-line force of the German group in the future.
As for the ZB-37, its status will be more embarrassing in the future. It has a fast rate of fire, but it is not as fast as the MG34. It is also low in price. The German army will definitely choose the MG series that they trust more, so we must
Design and produce a new machine gun. Like the ZB-26, it should have the characteristics of low price, high shooting accuracy and fast enough shooting speed. Only such a machine gun can compete with Mauser. I think this is the production line.
It is enough to keep it unchanged and increase the production to 5,000 per year first. We also need to change the ZB-60, which is positioned as an anti-aircraft machine gun for our armored products in the future."
Alder accepted this plan, but he still asked about the improvement of the machine gun, "Does the owner have any ideas about the improvement of this machine gun?"
Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "Are the people from our research department here?"
Alder quickly pointed to a gray-haired man sitting slightly behind and said, "Boss, this is the director of our research department, Dr. Hacha."
Jiang Cheng quickly signaled to him so that he didn't have to stand up and said, "I will give you some information later, which are some plans for improving our weapons. You have to lead the research team to understand it as quickly as possible. I will give you three months."
Time, okay?"
Hacha didn't believe that the Chinese had any new technology. He thought he got it from Germany. He nodded indifferently and said, "No problem, my boss. In fact, the technology between us and Germany is not very different."
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Jiang Cheng didn't care and continued, "Then there is our artillery. In this regard, I directly said that Germany has requirements for us to directly connect with the German artillery sequence and produce German-style 37 combat artillery and Type 32 mortars.
For artillery, we need to debug the production line within three months. Among them, our annual output of combat anti-aircraft artillery will reach 1,800 units, and the annual output of Type 32 mortars will be 5,000 units. Are there any problems in this regard?"
Alder shook his head and said, "We are already producing these. We just need to make a few adjustments. It's not a big problem."
Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "We are not producing infantry cannons for the time being. I think the German LG18 infantry cannon has too low combat effectiveness. We need to redesign a new type of infantry cannon. My requirement is that the range should exceed 4,500 meters and the weight should not be
It weighs more than 600 kilograms and can fire a variety of artillery shells. This development plan is placed second in artillery research and development."
Hacha nodded and recorded it.
Jiang Cheng continued, "Then there are our howitzers. What Skoda is best at is heavy artillery. Our current 100mm howitzers have different calibers from the German ones. Production has been stopped. In the future, we will only produce three types of howitzers: 75, 105 and 155. Mainly
We should focus on the production of 155 and 75. The status of 105 is also relatively embarrassing in the German army. It is not popular, so we will not participate. In terms of production, the annual production of 75 howitzers will exceed 1,000, and the 105 howitzer will remain unchanged.
, there will be more than 600 155 howitzers."
Alder is not surprised by the strengthening of the artillery production line. After all, Skoda is famous for its artillery.
"In addition, the Germans require us to restore larger-caliber artillery production capabilities. What caliber of artillery can we produce with our existing technology?" Jiang Cheng asked Hacha.
Hacha immediately replied, "We can now produce up to 305 mm heavy artillery. This artillery was designed during the Austro-Hungarian Empire."
Jiang Cheng touched his chin and said, "What's the performance like?"
Hacha pointed his fingers and said, "The rate of fire is 10 rounds per hour, the muzzle velocity is 340 meters, the maximum range is 11,300 meters, and the effective range is 9,600 meters. It can penetrate 2 meters of reinforced concrete. This was a product in 1909, so its performance is relatively low."
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Jiang Cheng shook his head and said, "No, thirty years have passed, and we have to upgrade it. This is the first task of our artillery development department. As far as I know, the latest 240mm K3 artillery produced by Rheinmetall has a range of 37,000
meters, the muzzle velocity of the muzzle is 970 meters. If our caliber is larger, at least we cannot lose to him in terms of range. I require the range to exceed 45,000 meters, and I will also provide some materials in this regard."
Hacha shrugged and said, "It's all up to you."
Jiang Cheng signaled Alder to continue talking, and Alder quickly took out the last two photos and said, "These are our two most important tanks, LT-38 and LT-35. Now we are mainly producing LT-38."
Jiang Cheng looked at the photo and smiled. In the east, there are many such tanks fighting for China. Jiang Cheng clicked on the photo and said, "The performance of our LT-38 is already very good among light tanks, but it needs to be
For improvement, I require its frontal armor to be above 50mm. The artillery does not need to be moved, but the speed cannot be reduced. This requires our tank research and development department to use their brains. I will also provide some materials in this regard, but this
It's just a light tank. We will develop medium tanks and heavy tanks next. In the next three years, our LT-38 will still be useful, but after three years, I think our tank will be relegated to the second line.
I want to produce 800 LT-38s this year. The time is tight, and our R&D department also needs to develop a new tank this year. My requirement is that the gun caliber should be 75 mm, consistent with the German army, and the frontal armor must not be less than 80 mm.
mm, sloped armor must be used, and the road speed must be above 200 kilometers. The most important thing is price. The production costs of all our products must continue to decrease. But this reduction in production costs cannot be at the expense of worker treatment and lowering the quality of weapons.
Let’s go back and think about the price. Let’s come here today and let the meeting end. I’ll check with you and wait.”
After everyone left, Hacha came over and asked, "My boss, do you need anything?"
Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "I will give you a series of materials next. I want you to understand them as quickly as possible. In addition, please keep it confidential, understand?"
Hacha quickly said, "That's natural. The company's technical confidentiality is the most important thing."
After Jiang Cheng asked Hacha to leave, he said to Chen Nan, "I'm going to leave for about half a month. You have to take full control of the factory as quickly as possible. What we said in the morning must not happen, especially be careful of the resistance organizations. We can sell things to
them, but they can't be allowed to steal things out."
Chen Nan saw Jiang Cheng's repeated warnings and solemnly promised that it would not happen.
Jiang Cheng returned to his residence with peace of mind. After leaving a note in the room, he traveled back to modern times. This time he had to buy a lot of things.
