Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry

#160 - Technological breakthroughs

With this agreement, neither side achieved their maximum expectations, but overall, the Suiyuan side benefited more because the mines and processing plants were located on their territory, effectively giving them a preliminary, independent, and self-sufficient military-industrial support system.

Don't underestimate how rudimentary this system is right now. Looking at other local regimes in the country, very few have managed to achieve this step.

After a difficult agreement was reached, Jiang Chongjing stayed behind with several blast furnace and machinery experts from the border region to help Suiyuan begin building infrastructure. Ren Zhong had already arranged for the production of equipment before the delegation set off, and it had already been transported to the border between Wuhai and Yanchi, coinciding with the delivery of the first batch of grain.

Only then did Qilu Ban realize that the border region was sure of their success and had made preparations for the transaction early on.

However, everyone benefited from this deal. The value of a bullet production line was far greater than those several thousand tons of grain for Suiyuan!

After all, grain was a one-time deal, but bullets could be produced continuously.

Definitely not a loss!

With everything settled in Suiyuan, Ren Zhong embarked on his return journey.

However, this time, Ren Zhong left a fixed return location in Hangjin Banner on his way back.

The border region was too far from the Ik Zhao League. When searching for uranium mines next time, Ren Zhong didn't want to chafe his butt again on the long road.

The trans-location option after the new system upgrade, which spans 1,000 kilometers, seems to be useful only here.

However, he was still a little afraid of wandering alone in the Ik Zhao League, such a frontier area. Not to mention the old time and space of the Bright Sword world, even in the main world, there are not many people there. Ren Zhong felt that playing wilderness survival alone seemed too risky, and he didn't have that strong of an ability.

But it was difficult to have the best of both worlds. If he wanted to appear and disappear mysteriously with superpowers, Ren Zhong couldn't bring guards.

And with guards, he could only honestly temper his two legs in this era.

But this matter was not urgent. Even if Professor Wu Jianxiong had arrived at the Dawn Research Institute and started studying the complete set of Fermi theory and the information Ren Zhong had collected, it would still take some time to understand and digest it.

They couldn't even come up with a plan now.

But Ren Zhong wasn't worried. He knew what he was doing. Now that he had gathered the core members of the research team and formed this dream team in the field, Ren Zhong had let them do it, at most providing logistical support, and naturally, it would blossom and bear fruit when the time came.

Of course, the external conditions were not right now. There were still several years before the little devils were driven away.

Although Ren Zhong had brought new hope to the border region and started to make a little change.

But this change did not affect the general trend.

The little devils were still extremely powerful and still a behemoth to the Eighth Route Army.

Therefore, after returning to the Dawn Research Institute, Ren Zhong's most important task was still to constantly encourage the team below to continue recruiting people, and also to recruit students who came to the border region, and constantly expand the team.

After all, no team now doesn't work in a 007 work mode.

The only good thing was that Ren Zhong stipulated that the core backbone should not work more than 12 hours a day, except for a very few experiments that could not be interrupted. This rule was enforced by a supervision team specially established by the Dawn Research Institute.

Unrestrained research into new technologies and new products that were explosive in the 1940s caused Ren Zhong to have to introduce measures to limit everyone's enthusiasm for work, lest they die from overwork!

Ren Zhong is very clear on how to set an example.

Moreover, the promotion standards for the three different categories of personnel are also written on the wall, and everyone can work hard.

Now Ren Zhong doesn't have too many incentive methods, he can only do a good job in ensuring the food for the scientists. As for the family members, except for the family members of the first category personnel who enjoy the second category, the rest are supplied with reference to the third category. Everyone has no opinion on this.

A more special point is that Ren Zhong provides each family with 2 mu of private land for planting and breeding, providing seeds and chicks, piglets, etc. The results are not yet visible, but everyone is very enthusiastic, and also provides a new channel for family members who do not want to work in the affiliated factories of the Dawn Research Institute.

Therefore, almost everyone who enters the Dawn Research Institute is very at ease working on technology here.

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In this atmosphere, by the middle of 1941, technical breakthroughs began to appear one after another.

The first generation of four-power scopes and mortar optical sights in the Optical Center achieved mass production. After being tested by the Security Eighth Regiment, the first batch of 10 four-power scopes and 12 mortar optical sights were no less inferior to the samples provided by Ren Zhong!

The Optical Research Center Affiliated Factory was born from this, and began to produce four-power scopes and mortar optical sights in batches. The Security Eighth Regiment established the first sniper and mortar training center, first selecting seedlings internally to train snipers and gunners. At the same time, various troops in the border region also began to select personnel to concentrate near the Dawn Research Institute to carry out training work.

The Machine Tool Center broke through the first completely independently produced planer and milling machine, imitating the BX2012 gantry planer, which Ren Zhong named Red Star L9000, because the maximum processing length reached 9 meters, and the milling machine was named Red Star X1000, indicating that it was the first generation of milling machine. In this way, the Dawn Machine Tool Factory of the Machine Tool Center completed the production of four important machine tools: lathe, punch press, milling machine, and gantry planer.

Next, the Machine Tool Center will further study forging presses, focusing on solving the research and development of the first generation of roller forging presses, mechanical pressure forging presses, and extrusion forging presses. With the machine tool industry's mother machine equipment, these forging presses are being developed on the basis of the early model process design provided by Ren Zhong, and the progress is also quite fast. This part of the work is now handed over to the second-line personnel of the Research Center to complete.

The main force of the Machine Tool Center and the Chemical Center is jointly researching the first set of thermal cracking units, atmospheric and vacuum distillation units, and high-pressure hydrogenation units. This set of key equipment for the refinery is Ren Zhong's next key device. Whether it is a tank or a fighter plane, it cannot do without fuel. Relying on the original distillation method can only obtain kerosene, which cannot fully meet the needs.

The thermal cracking equipment must be solved in order to build an independent refinery.

Third update!