"So what?" Yang Tao was still reluctant, "You talked a lot along the way. In the entire city of Novosibirsk, women are already the main force in material production. My female compatriots are working hard in the factory. I am also a woman. Why should I
Want to take a rest? I want to see their work and see how they make firearms. By the way!"
Yang Tao patted the medal on his chest, "Brother, why did you go to inspect? Just to see how they work? I think I should go, my appearance is a kind of spiritual encouragement. When there is factory 84, there will be factory 85."
After it was completed and put into production, I am afraid that most of the workers are women. When they see the medals I wear, they will be in high spirits and work better. That’s what I think. Next, I should deliberately show my medals."
"You..." Yang Mingzhi thought at first that his wife wanted to be slutty. After thinking about her words carefully, he couldn't help but feel excited.
With a wife like this, what else can a husband ask for? She is truly a virtuous wife.
At this time, Nikolayevsky once again paid attention to the "Gold Star Medal" of Star Tao, and echoed: "Comrade General, she is right. My girls are eager to make meritorious deeds. For the teams that have overfulfilled their tasks,
The factory will be ordered to award all its members with the Second Class Patriotic War Medal. Just this must have mobilized everyone's enthusiasm. If a young girl actually wins the Gold Star Medal, they will be even more excited."
"Okay, okay..." Yang Mingzhi said nothing more.
Accompanied only by Liguschkov, Yang Mingzhi did not feel at all out of place, and even felt a sense of familiarity with the rows of large factory buildings.
Here, Yang Mingzhi found a long-lost sense of intimacy!
Look at the flat concrete floor and the forklifts that shuttle from time to time, loading boxes onto trucks.
The cold wind howled and swept away the ground. It was already evening in Novosibirsk. The temperature, which was already low, was still falling. It was unlikely that the temperature would fall below zero.
"General, do you want to go to our assembly workshop first?" Nikolaevsky asked tentatively.
"Okay! Just go there."
In fact, Yang Mingzhi wanted to go to the parts workshop first. After all, the biggest purpose of this trip was to see the work in the stamping workshop.
Nikolaevsky led the three people into the so-called final assembly workshop. It was a huge building. It looked magnificent from the outside, and its internal structure was even more unique.
It's dusk, all the indoor lights are turned on, and the soft light illuminates the whole world.
The factory building is also heated, and compared to the cold outside, it actually feels a bit unpleasantly hot inside.
"Oh Comrade Factory Director, the temperature here is like spring."
"Of course, we have a constant temperature of 20 degrees for a long time. Even in the coldest month of January, when it is minus 20 degrees outside, it is at least 15 degrees indoors." Nikolaevsky said this with pride.
appearance.
Afraid that the general would be confused, Liguschkov directly compared the arsenal in the swamp: "General, our arsenal in Belarus does not have a central heating system. We all burn coal for heating. Here, my No. 8 factory does the same.
Warm as spring, with this temperature, workers will reach their best mental state. Even..."
"Even what?"
"Let me speak for him!" Nikolayevsky said, "Because the factory building is too warm, many people simply build floors in the corners. Even at night, the factory does not stop production."
Yang Mingzhi is no stranger to workers temporarily staying overnight at their workplace. He has always felt that this is a good sign and reflects the employees' dedication to their jobs.
But the workers here have real needs.
After a while, the deputy director got the phone number from the reception room at the door and quickly met with the director.
Nikolayevsky immediately handed over the stamping parts production drawings he had just obtained, and said: "Semyonov, you quickly organize the technical department to learn these drawings thoroughly, and then organize the best team for me to start.
Imitation.”
"You..." The sudden situation left the deputy director named Semyonov at a loss.
"Go quickly! Don't delay! This is the general's order!"
Semyonov couldn't help but glance at Yang Mingzhi, who was dressed in military uniform, and was immediately frightened by the row of medals on his chest.
"Yes... yes! I'll do it right away."
Nikolaevsky had the arrogance of an old Bolshevik. As the director of a factory, he had to become an authority. He was talented. After the civil war, he was transferred to Irkutsk as a young man.
He studied in a machinery factory and was later transferred to work in Novosibirsk.
The war gave many talented people opportunities. Nikolayevsky's current work has to be biased towards administration and co-ordination of the entire factory. Specific production is left to the deputy director and heads of various departments. But after all, he is a practical person.
Coming from a family background, he has a very clear understanding of the various production processes in his factory.
Now, he acts as a commentator and shows the general around.
The huge room is filled with the smell of engine oil. For many people, smelling it for the first time has a vomiting effect. Only with more exposure can the body develop resistance.
Yang Mingzhi took his wife's delicate and strong wrist and followed closely behind the factory director Nikolaevsky.
The factory director kept explaining in Russian, but Yang Mingzhi kept calm and understood by himself.
What he saw was that in the huge assembly plant, workers still used the traditional "workshop style" production. The so-called "workshop style" means that each worker corresponds to a workbench. A closer look at the work of the workers is to put various
Gun parts are assembled into a whole.
For this kind of large-scale assembly, assembly line production is the most efficient.
Indeed, the American production model represented by Fordism does have strong efficiency, but it is obviously not suitable for the current Soviet Union.
Why? An assembly line itself is high-tech, and the transportation and assembly of equipment takes a lot of time. The worst thing is not that the investment cost is too high, but that the Soviet Union must need technical support from the United States in this area. Obviously, for the large number of military factories built by the Soviet Union,
"Workshop-style" production still has the highest cost performance.
Almost all the workers were young women. What surprised Yang Mingzhi was that they did not have uniform factory uniforms.
Almost all of them wore skirts, and each of them had their long hair tied into a bun on the back of their head, and wore a coarse cloth scarf on their head.
They were all dressed simply, and many of them rolled up their sleeves while working. Yang Mingzhi saw that some of them still had beads of sweat hanging on their temples.
"You see, they work like soldiers, frequently assembling firearms. Doesn't their proficiency surprise you?" Nikolayevsky.
"It really surprised me! It's really amazing."
Unable to help himself, Yang Mingzhi simply asked the female worker in front of him to stand up.
They are all ordinary women who have a natural awe of power, so they all respect their factory directors. But surprisingly, they are not afraid of soldiers. The simplest explanation is that their family members have joined the army.
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This woman called herself Andlovna, and although she was only nineteen years old, she claimed to be married.
The law of the Soviet Union stipulates that female citizens can get married at the age of 18. According to the custom left over from the Tsarist Russia, the age for women to get married is actually earlier. However, the geographical environment of the Soviet Union is too cold, and marriage has long been a compromise with nature. The survival of the country’s newborns
The rate also needs to be further improved.
To be honest, Yang Mingzhi has an interest in this woman that stems from male instinct. I have to say that this woman, who is almost the same age as his wife, is indeed very beautiful with her blond hair, blue eyes and high nose. Judging from her figure, she is not
Not being a mother.
A soldier with medals was in a large factory, and the soldier named a worker to talk to. This scene instantly attracted the attention of many workers. They quietly slowed down their work, or glanced a few times, or pricked their ears.
Listen.
They soon noticed that there was a young woman standing next to the soldier. She was a common indigenous girl in Novosibirsk. She had an Asian face. What was shocking was that this small woman actually had a gold star.
medal.
Gradually, the people who were looking at her no longer cared about what the tall and handsome soldier and the young Andlovna said. The whole factory suddenly became noisy, and everyone was whispering about who the little girl next to the soldier was.
Now, regardless of whether his wife is dissatisfied or not, Yang Mingzhi still wants to ask this female worker.
"Dear Comrade Andlovna, can you tell me about your family situation? Your husband..."
"He joined the army." The woman's answer was very decisive and even more proud.
"Ah, he is already a glorious Red Army soldier?"
"Yes! Sir, you... are you her superior? Did you bring his situation to me today?" Suddenly, the woman's expression changed a lot, and she became very nervous.
It's eager.
Yang Mingzhi shook his head: "No, dear lesbian, I don't know you at all. Didn't you receive a letter from your husband? Even if we are at war, the military's postal roads are open."
"Yes, I received a letter from him. It was in August. He claimed that his unit was transferred to the direction of the Volga River. Maybe I will hear from him in a few days."
Don River? Transferred to Don River in August?
Under such circumstances, Yang Mingzhi could not help but continue to ask: "Comrade, tell me, on what day did your husband specifically claim to have been transferred to the Don River?"
Women are sensitive. When the soldier in front of her suddenly became nervous, something she never wanted to face might...have already happened.
The tragedy of this war is unimaginable. Maybe the husband has died? No! No! That man must be lucky.
"It was August 14th. His unit was the Glorious Guards Division. He told me in the letter that the Red Army would treat the enemy outside Stalingrad."
This woman's husband went to fight in the Battle of Stalingrad? This battle is still at its most intense, but her husband is a member of the Guards Division! Troops with the title of Guards have reason to work harder than ordinary troops!
In a few words, the woman clearly said that her husband's army directly defended the city itself.
What else could he say to this?
Yang Mingzhi felt that he would make mistakes if he spoke too much, and saying some unpleasant words would make this woman collapse. Besides, what kind of bloody battle was Stalingrad? She, a woman thousands of kilometers away, could really only read through "Pravda"
Newspapers such as "Red Star" and "Red Star" learned about it. As for how true the reports in the newspapers are, it is difficult to say clearly. The Soviet authorities would not be stupid enough to report the most real human tragedy and make readers across the country shudder.
"I believe your husband will make the invaders realize who is the hero." He quickly changed the subject and mentioned the most critical question: "Comrade, tell me, how long does it take you to assemble a gun?"
Obviously after hearing those warm winter blessings, the woman felt much better. She proudly stated: "It only takes eight minutes, and I'm not the fastest. My squad leader can assemble a submachine gun in five minutes at the fastest."
"
"Wow! What an amazing speed."
The Bobosha submachine gun has 87 parts, which is the statistics after including the bullet parts. The overall structure of the firearm in this time and space is a bit complicated, and it is not modular in design like the firearms in later generations.
Workers assemble the stamping parts, welding parts, casting parts, and the important wooden gun stock into a whole, and finally use an electric riveting machine to rivet the key parts, and you are basically done.
Yang Mingzhi asked again: "You are already very fast, so how many guns can you assemble in a day?"
"About sixty. If there are more than this number, my energy will not be able to sustain it."
This is actually a gratifying number. If one worker is like this, one hundred people would not be six thousand? Of course, that is impossible.
It is still impossible for the Soviet Union to produce 6,000 Bobosas in one factory a day. In fact, the production of submachine guns in various large and small related factories in the Soviet-controlled areas is reaching its peak, and the daily output limit is as high as 3,000.
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The woman made a bit of a good-natured boast. She said that it takes eight minutes to assemble one, which is probably the fastest speed. Look at her hands. She is quite beautiful, but they are covered with calluses and grease at a young age. Yang Mingzhi based his own experience on
I estimate that assembling fifty pieces a day is her limit.
Yang Mingzhi immediately asked the factory director next to him: "Are all your factories full of such doers? Tell me, how many submachine guns do you have every day?"
"Well, about three hundred."
"Huh? That's not right! This comrade assembles at least thirty tubes a day, right?! I saw that there are at least fifty people in your assembly workshop. Isn't it appropriate to have fifteen hundred tubes a day?"
"Don't listen to her nonsense." Nikolayevsky did not blame his subordinates. He shook his head helplessly: "Why don't I want to increase production, but what we produce is weapons after all. Every firearm needs to be tested before it goes out.
It must be tested at the internal shooting range to ensure that it is fully qualified. This will consume some time but is not a major problem. Let me tell you, Andlovna's team has the largest shipment volume, however...
"
"Okay, I basically understand." Yang Mingzhi shrugged, "It may be due to lack of skill, or the parts production volume is not up to standard."
"Ah! You see the problem so thoroughly!" Nikolayevsky patted his thigh and said with praise: "Many parts of the submachine gun need to be stamped, but the number of stamping lathes is limited. The output of the parts cannot be reached, and the final product quantity is not
ideal."
Hearing this, Yang Mingzhi was not sure what to say for a moment. He felt that Nikolaevsky said this deliberately just to express his position: Factory 80 did not have any spare stamping machines.
Maybe it was a casual remark, maybe it was a protest.
Yang Mingzhi couldn't control that much. He cursed in his heart: "Anyway, you promised at the meeting, and there are official meeting minutes. If you break your promise, I will put pressure on the superiors."
Having nothing more to say to the female worker, Yang Mingzhi continued his visit and inspection.
Not to mention, compared to others, Andlovna, who is only nineteen years old, is indeed a hero among women. Look at the other workers, although they are all women, the efficiency of assembling a submachine gun is really slow.
It may be that their skills need to be improved, it may be that the production of all qualified parts is limited, or it may be that the final assembly of the submachine gun itself is cumbersome. (To be continued)