Second Lieutenant Grischenko was summoned to the factory again, and at the same time he also brought the car.
Yang Mingzhi got in the car and immediately asked: "It's almost two hours between your coming and going. How is my wife's condition?"
"She's fine. Maybe she's chatting with Anne now or taking a rest." Grishenko lied deliberately. Thanks to the training he received in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, his eyes didn't waver when he lied.
Lan.
"That's good. Let's go to the next factory. I hope you know the way. If not, I'll find a guide."
"No need." After saying that, the second lieutenant showed the city map he borrowed from the Academy of Sciences.
The car quickly drove away from Factory 830, and its new target was Factory 831, which was Fedorov's rifle factory.
While in the car, Liguschkov couldn't help but start chatting: "General, I tell you the truth, the gift you gave that person was too heavy. And your attitude was too polite."
"Oh? Did I go too far?"
"No, I just think that you are a general and you should always show your majesty!"
Majesty, it is easy to achieve these, but it will also make you feel lonely. Striving for power is a human instinct. When asked about the power he possesses, Yang Mingzhi thinks that his power is already great.
, there is still huge room for development in the future.
"I'd better be more peaceful. That's my true intention. Comrade Liguschkov, don't you think that my respectful attitude today has successfully saved me a lot of trouble?"
"oh?"
"I originally thought that the factory director would stick to his equipment. Maybe it was my sincerity and the cleverness of my new weapon design that successfully impressed him. I originally thought that if he rejected me
, then offer a box of gifts in exchange for his support. I have succeeded. A box of gifts becomes a token of increased friendship. That man has a group of workers who are good at operating stamping lathes. In the future,
,I also need these people as teachers, people to train me.”
Liguschkov shrugged: "You lack such people? My factory has them!"
"But you won't give me a stamping team and a stamping lathe. Stable production of rocket launchers is a must, and I'm not stupid enough to interfere and cause trouble!"
"Haha, I can be sure that even if you don't give me a box of wine directly, you will still invite me to the design bureau and let's drink together."
"Yes, compared to those people, we are still our own people. You have now independently led a factory to produce Feiyu rocket launchers and achieved large-scale mass production as soon as possible. When I complete the design of the assault rifle,
We plan to continue to cooperate in the development of new rocket launchers."
Grishenko understood the map in a short period of time. This also depends on the fact that the city of Novosibirsk in this time and space is not large and the architectural planning is regular.
It took the car fifteen minutes to drive to the entrance of the rifle factory. After announcing his identity to the reception room, the car drove directly in.
Factory director Fedorov had been waiting for a long time. When he saw the general had arrived, he couldn't wait to greet him, just to take the general to quickly enter the work site for a visit.
Compared with the submachine gun factory, the rifle factory is much larger in scale. Just looking at the large wooden factory buildings, you can understand that the number of workers in this factory should exceed one thousand!
This is an era in which there is no intelligent equipment, and production can be assisted at most by electric assembly lines. In a labor-intensive production model, the number of workers directly determines product output.
There are many factories, and the overall appearance is older than the submachine gun factory. There are obviously some masonry buildings in the factory. Judging from the appearance alone, there are really many ideas.
I'm afraid, this factory has existed for a long time?
"General, I have been waiting for you for a long time. Let's leave quickly. Please take a look at our assembly line assembly workshop."
There is actually an assembly line? That is really much more advanced than a submachine gun factory!
Yang Mingzhi didn't rush on his way, hesitating that the sun was about to set on the horizon, and the whole world was already very dark. Standing in the square outside the factory, with the north wind blowing, he felt a sense of historical vicissitudes.
Feeling of mulberry.
What's going on with this feeling?!
"Comrade Fedorov, tell me, does this factory already exist?"
"Of course! It existed during the Tsarist Russia. The factory was built in 1905. It was not so big at the beginning. Later, Soviet Russia was established and we expanded the factory. Now you
What you see is the result of further expansion. The factory has been producing rifles more than 30 years ago. Now, two generations of workers have changed, and the firearms produced are still Mosin Nagants. Ah, this rifle is simple.
It has always been a symbol of Russia."
The symbol of Russia’s weapons? That plane really makes me think of Maozi when I think of Аk47.
At least Yang Mingzhi knew the history of this factory. Since it was created to manufacture Mosin Nagant and Red Russia was established, the Red Army would certainly not be stupid enough to dismantle the factory. Tsarist Russia’s military
The workers suddenly became Soviet Russia, Soviet military workers.
Perhaps, there are still a large group of old men with beards and overalls wearing overalls in the factory, struggling to assemble firearms with their arms covered with white hair?
The winter night in Novosibirsk came early. Yang Mingzhi walked into the first large factory building and saw bright lights inside. The temperature forced every worker to work in only their shirts.
Where are the experienced old people? Ah, they do exist, but there are only a few in number. Women wearing headscarves are still responsible for the main production tasks. Most of them are young, and some
A group of elderly Russian aunts.
There are no fat people here, even the working middle-aged women do not look fat. If you think about their living conditions and their quick hands standing next to the assembly line, you can understand that they maintain their figure.
The reason is that it moves quickly all the time.
It is understandable that women are the main force in production. Yang Mingzhi was wearing glasses today, and he was shocked to see that there was really a group of short workers, working hard as others.
They are not dwarfs, they are children!
Look at the appearance of the children. They are all wearing overalls with overalls that are a few sizes too small, and they are all wearing huge red scarves on their chests.
They should believe that making weapons for the country at war is their duty as Soviet citizens and a great honor.
The factory looks very big from the outside, but Yang Mingzhi doesn't think it is too big from the inside.
"General, what do you think? This is advanced production equipment that our country imported from the United States. There are two production lines in one factory. Our production efficiency has been greatly improved."
Assembly line operation was invented in the United States and was a revolution in mass production brought about by "Fordism". Yang Mingzhi did not need to educate others about its superiority.
It seems that Fedorov is very interested in the United States?
Yang Mingzhi asked: "I saw that you have other factories. Do they also have the same production model?"
"No, we only have two factories and four assembly lines. This is enough. My factory produces a thousand rifles a day, and the final assembly depends entirely on these assembly lines."
One thousand a day, wouldn’t that be 30,000 a month?!
This is only the daily output of one factory. There are also a large number of arsenals throughout the alliance. After relocation, they arrived in the spring of 1942 and began production in the rear.
Compared with the 6 million production of various submachine guns during the war, the Soviet Union produced 14 million Mosin Nagants in the four years of the war. Adding in the original inventory, by the time the war was won,
There are more than 17 million bottles in stock.
After the World War ended, a large amount of equipment for producing Mosin Nagant was sold to other countries, so that the global number of Mosin Nagants once reached a peak of 30 million!
This is all the history of that plane. In the end, the Mosin Nagant, which produced an astonishing amount of money, is still no match for the Аk47 and its various imitation and modified firearms, which have a stock of 100 million.
Now, the time is only mid-September 1942.
The war has been going on for more than a year. The heavy industry of the Soviet Union has suffered heavy losses. The remaining half of the Soviet Union's industrial production is all biased towards the war. It will take time to complete this. The current Soviet military
Industrial production is already considerable, and it still has huge room for development.
A large number of workers, especially female workers, are receiving training in training courses in various places, and a large number of workers on factory construction projects are braving the cold to continue construction.
It is foreseeable that by the spring of 1943, the Soviet Union will use the past winter to add millions of qualified workers, and the Soviet military production capacity may be doubled!
These are all things of the future.
Following the factory director's explanation, Yang Mingzhi walked in front of the assembly line with his hands behind his back.
The workers didn't seem to notice themselves. Only a few glanced curiously, and then their attention was completely focused on the production line.
"Very good, their work has a strong division of labor. The workers' task is to assemble the firearms into a whole. Several workers are only responsible for one process. This assembly model is really advanced." Yang
Mingzhi deliberately praises.
"Haha, so we should vigorously popularize this model, but we can't popularize it instantly." The factory director replied.
"It will happen in the future. You see, when these cute children grow up, most of the factories in the alliance will probably adopt this production model. This model will mean a large number of products.
Product output, in wartime we produce weapons, in peacetime we produce sausages and cans. We produce sausages at the same speed as bullets, and the state-owned stores will be filled with a dazzling array of goods. After winning the war, the United Nations will
The alliance will enter prosperity."
"Ah, it would be wonderful if that was the future."
Fedorov didn't know why the general was talking about this all of a sudden. After all, it was to please people, so he happily agreed.
Yang Mingzhi indeed expressed his emotion casually. However, the Soviet Union just won the war. In the future, stores in big cities such as Moscow and Leningrad will have a large number of goods, while remote areas will have a large number of goods.
For example, in Georgia or the Far East, goods are scarce.
That's why the commander of the Pacific Fleet and a group of senior officers went on a shopping spree in Moscow. As a result, the plane was overweight and crashed.
Looking at the efficient assembly of these workers, it can be seen that their work is actually a basic skill for ordinary soldiers. First, a semi-finished gun with the barrel and butt fixed is placed by professionals.
On the assembly line, some are responsible for loading the bolt, and some are only responsible for the trigger system. At the final stage, a dedicated person collects the firearms and transports them to the inspection workshop.
In addition to the assembly line workshop, this factory also adopts workshop-style operations.
A Mosin-Nagant rifle is composed of five major parts, and the processing of each part has different difficulties. Specifically, the processing of the bolt is more complicated than the barrel.
However, overall, for the Mosin Nagant rifle, its barrel performance determines almost everything.
This factory has an exquisite gun barrel processing workshop, which is what Yang Mingzhi visited next.
After a complex but efficient process, the composite barrel is processed, and the rifling is pulled out by a professional rifling machine, and the core barrel is completed.
Visiting the assembly line workshop is just the factory director himself showing the strength of his factory to the general. The gun barrel manufacturing workshop is the highlight.
Because the factory director Fedorov received the drawings at noon, he had already organized his technical staff to study it when he returned in the afternoon, and now the barrel has begun to be processed.
It was not just the gun barrel that started to be processed. The milling machine also started processing the accessory accessories according to the drawings and techniques provided by Yang Mingzhi.
The barrel and most of the small parts of the assault rifle will be produced in the rifle factory. Only the gas rod, an important part for the firearm to re-exercise, must be manufactured in the DP machine gun factory.
The reason why Mosin Nagant can be mass-produced is precisely because its structure is relatively simple, and the total working hours required in the end are only forty hours. As for the time as shown in statistics, of course
Taking into account all the various operations such as making the butt, milling the bolt, making seamless steel pipes, chrome plating and rifling, the final assembly took the shortest time.
In order to save time as much as possible, various factories follow orders from their superiors and are trying to find ways to reduce working hours.
When Fedorov arrived, he also regarded shortening working hours as an honor.
"General, do you know that my factory has reduced the production time of a gun to thirty-five hours? My machine shop is full of skilled old workers. They are older.
, but they all have more than thirty years of work experience. They also have a group of students. In the future, my factory’s output will become larger and larger. With these excellent workers, I will have the parts you need tomorrow.
I can send it to you."
Yang Mingzhi originally wanted to say something else, but he didn't expect this guy to actually say such great good news.
"Is it enough to work all day and night?"
"Of course, the drawings you gave us are very good. As for the requirements for the gun barrel, we only need to slightly change the existing process to manufacture it. In a few hours, we will start manufacturing the special gun you need.
Tube, if you like, I can prepare a dinner for you, and after the meal you will watch the barrel go through the final steps."
"I appreciate your kindness." Yang Mingzhi shrugged. He thought that it would be better to go back earlier if he was toiling outside all day. No matter how fulfilling a day is, it only has a limited twenty
Four hours!
"Let's just do this. Since you claimed that the processing will be completed by tomorrow during the day, after you complete the manufacturing, you will send all the parts to the 830 factory. They will be responsible for the assembly of the barrel structure."
"Huh? General, maybe our assembly workshop has better conditions, doesn't it?"
"No, it's just a small batch production of ten. The amount of tasks your factory undertakes is staggering. Thirty thousand guns a month are enough to arm three infantry divisions! I have no reason to do so.
The research and development of your own weapons will delay your production. But there is one thing!"
"You tell me."
"As far as I know, your barrel manufacturing workshop is responsible for the supply of barrels to other firearms factories in this city. Once my own factory starts producing firearms, it means that you must increase the supply. I need
I want a guarantee from you, can you do it?"
"Yes! My production line has not yet reached its maximum efficiency!"
"Very good, I feel relieved with your guarantee. Dear comrade, I will never forget your help to me. In the future..."
"Alas! You don't need to say this. I am proud to get the honor. I am working for the country and the people. Young man, if you think I am a good old guy, just give me a bottle of volts.
Come on, I'll be very happy."
"Haha, you want wine? Easy to say, easy to say, I will send someone to deliver it tomorrow. Please also send the parts to the 830 factory on time."