I want to be emperor

Chapter 961 Mark Qin Machine Gun

Chen Youzhong came from a serious academic background and knew nothing about technology in his early years. However, he was assigned to work in the Ministry of Industry very early. During his long years of work in the Ministry of Industry, he was repeatedly assigned to subordinate enterprises to engage in administrative work. , In this way, I am slowly getting in touch with and learning, and I know some technical things.

If you ask him to engage in technology, it will definitely be unreliable, but if you ask him to promote technological development and recognize the value of technology, he is still very good at it.

Although he is not a chef, he is an experienced eater and has his own appreciation of food.

This is also related to the particularity of the Ministry of Industry. Even if you work in the Ministry of Industry, you will be exposed to technical things even if you are doing administrative work.

The main responsibility of the Ministry of Industry in the Da Chu Empire is not to manage official assets and maintain and increase their value, but to make investment arrangements in defense industries, important people's livelihood industries, basic industries, and leading industries according to the strategic needs of the empire, and carry out Manage operations.

Its leading industries are quite special. Leading industries can also be called new technology industries, but not all new technology industries. Some new technology industries do not need to be developed by the Ministry of Industry, and private capital has rushed in.

However, after some new technologies come out, private capital will wait and see or not get involved due to strength issues. Then the Ministry of Industry will make early investments to set an example for private capital to attract a large inflow of private capital, and then follow up. It depends on the situation to withdraw from the industry.

The early textile industry is a very typical example. At the beginning, official capital entered on a large scale to create models. After private capital also poured in, official capital gradually withdrew from the textile industry. So far, large-scale enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry have There is only one textile company, Hantian Textile Company, and the others have been sold off one after another.

The reason why Hantian Textile Company is still retained and has not been sold is that it has long been transformed into a special textile products company, mainly producing various types of military textile products or special textile products.

The main products include military uniforms, military blankets, military rubber raincoats, military rubber water shoes, military tents and various waterproof textiles and special types of textile products.

Hantian Textile Company has developed to this day and has actually become a special type of textile enterprise with special textile products and military textiles as its core business. Its civilian textile business has long been sold and transferred.

However, the Ministry of Industry is currently not engaged in many leading industries.

The main investment and operation areas of the Ministry of Industry are still concentrated in national defense and basic people's livelihood industries.

For example, the two major industries of mining and metallurgy have always been important tasks of the Ministry of Industry. Exploring and mining various minerals and then smelting them into steel or various alloy materials, mining coal, mining gold, silver, copper and other precious metals are all investments. It is a very large-scale capital-intensive industry with a relatively long return cycle, so private capital still faces relatively high pressure and even risks when entering it.

Therefore, the mining and metallurgical industries in the Dachu Empire so far are still dominated by official capital and supplemented by private capital.

There are also some basic livelihood industries, such as shipping, long-distance road transportation, urban public transportation, urban water supply, coal supply, gas supply (gas), and large construction companies in the construction industry.

Among the above-mentioned various enterprises, there are not only enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry, but also government-owned enterprises invested and constructed by local finance at the provincial and government levels. As for the lower levels of county and town finance, they have not invested in the establishment of government-owned enterprises. Enterprise permissions.Although the ownership of government-run enterprises at the provincial and government levels belongs to the local finance, if the local finance at the provincial and government levels wants to invest in government-run enterprises, they need to obtain review and approval from the Ministry of Industry.

At the same time, the Ministry of Industry has supervisory authority over provincial government-run enterprises, and large-scale investments, corporate reorganizations and mergers require approval from the Ministry of Industry.

Although the Da Chu Empire allowed the provincial and government levels to set up government-run enterprises with self-raised funds, it also had relatively large restrictions. It didn't mean that local officials could just slap their heads and start an enterprise if they wanted to finance it.

The reason for this is that the senior leaders of the Dachu Empire want to rely on the Ministry of Industry to control the development and layout of the entire industrial system and promote the continuous improvement of productivity... But using official capital to make money for the treasury is definitely not the purpose of the Ministry of Industry , even a direction that the empire's top officials are on strict guard against.

Why are local governments strictly prohibited from making profits?
In an official-based empire, the government directly engages in business, and it is a business for the purpose of profit, so private capital does not have to live... Why did the civilian textile business of Hantian Textile Company gradually decline?It’s not that they themselves are incompetent, but that for the sake of the healthy and positive development of the entire textile industry, the authorities took the initiative to suppress Hantian Textile Company and carried out business transformation.

Do not suppress?
In the early years, Hantian Textile Company relied on its status as official capital to unblock all markets. It even used administrative means to attack competitors such as Su Qin Textile Company, engaged in various monopolies, and used abnormal means to compete against its opponents. This once caused problems for the development of the entire textile industry. a huge obstacle.

How important is the textile industry? It is the leading engine in modern industry, but it has been suppressed by such a monster-like super-large government-run textile company!
Later, the top officials of the empire decisively took action and turned Hantian Textile Company around dozens of times with a slap. Then they gradually gave up the civilian textile business and switched to special textiles. Finally, they simply turned the civilian textile business into Completely sold.

After that, no official capital enterprise was involved in the civilian textile market of the Great Chu Empire.

This has ushered in a major deregulation of the entire textile industry, with the emergence of a large number of private medium and large-scale textile enterprises. The rapid development of these textile enterprises has also driven the development of upstream and downstream industries, especially machinery, steel, coal, transportation and other industries. .

The textile industry has truly played its huge role as the engine of modern industrial development.

The current textile industry has accounted for more than 30.00% of the economy in the entire industrial system of the Chu Empire for a long time.

Not to mention the contribution of the textile industry to taxation and employment, but more importantly, the demand for various machinery, transportation, materials, coal, etc. brought by the huge textile industry will greatly stimulate various upstream industries, eventually leading to The continued development of the entire industrial system.

This is a very typical situation where demand creates a market and the market drives technological development.

The huge clothing needs of the Da Chu Empire's own population of hundreds of millions and the hundreds of millions of people overseas gave rise to the empire's huge textile industry, which in turn gave rise to huge demands for machinery and equipment, coal, transportation and so on.

The early industrialization of the Chu Empire was actually based on the textile industry.

Later, infrastructure investment, travel, and the food industry gradually took over the driving force of industrial development and jointly promoted the development and growth of the entire industrial system.

This is the basic necessities of life!
Food, although this thing is extremely necessary, it is difficult to industrialize food because it does not require too complicated processing. A lot of food can be eaten after it is grown. At most, it is just peeling or grinding... put it in industry In this era, at most we could build a flour mill or a rice mill, which would not have much significance in stimulating industry.

Housing, which is reflected in the construction of building facilities, is also a big demand, but it is a relatively late demand. After all, when people have no money, they can live in mud houses or even shacks or even sleep on the streets...

Traveling, like housing, is a late-stage need... Whether traveling by train or ship, or traveling by carriage or even driving, these are late-stage needs, not rigid needs... After all, people have legs and can walk. .

The above three so-called super rigid needs of people actually did not have the characteristics of industrial development in the agricultural era, except for clothes.

First of all, clothes are a very necessary thing. No matter whether you have money or not, you have to wear clothes;
Secondly, this thing is a product that requires multiple processes to produce. It naturally has the characteristics of industrial products... and the threshold is not high.

Therefore, the initial stage of industry in almost all modern countries started with the textile industry...

For the overall development of industry, the Dachu Empire not only relaxed restrictions on the textile industry, but also relaxed restrictions on the entire light industry and even some heavy industries.

The Ministry of Industry is basically not involved in the light industry at present, and mainly engages in heavy industry in the industrial classification.

Among them, the defense industry is one of the most important businesses in the Ministry of Industry.

The five major arms companies are all enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry. However, although they are all enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry, the competition among the five major arms companies is very fierce.

After all, the five major weapons companies also have their own internal demands. Officials in charge want to be promoted, middle- and low-level employees want more salary and benefits, etc.

However, the weapons market is limited. How big the market can be and how much money they can make depends on the five major weapons companies themselves.The Shaanxi-Gansu Arms Company is not doing well in this long competition. Its core subsidiary, the firearms business of Chang'an Arsenal, has only the Shaanxi-[-] cavalry pistol, and the Shaanxi-[-] cavalry pistol is about to be It was completely chopped off by the military.

As the supervisor, Chen Youzhong saw it and was anxious in his heart.

So when he saw the machine gun design submitted by Ma Keqin, a young engineer in the factory, he immediately became very interested.

Although he doesn't understand technology and can't do research and development himself, he still has no problem understanding the design plan, and he can also understand what some design index data in the design plan represents.

The caliber is [-]mm, using standard [-]mm bullets, but the design plan clearly states that if necessary, the caliber can be reduced to [-]mm at any time to adapt to the small-caliber firearms plan currently being promoted by the military.

In the 28mm caliber design model, the two most conspicuous and critical data are: the gun body weighs only 65 kilograms, and with a triangular gun frame, it only weighs [-] kilograms!
This weight is far lower than the previous design requirements proposed by the Army: the total weight is less than one hundred kilograms!
In terms of rate of fire, the theoretical rate of fire can reach [-] rounds per minute, or even higher... However, because of the Army's requirements, the rate of fire cannot be too fast, nor can it shoot out all the bullets in one go, otherwise the Army will not be able to sustain it. Starting... So Ma Keqin also specially built a buffer to use single shot, three-shot burst fire and ten-shot long burst fire, which limits the rate of fire to a certain extent. Theoretically, the maximum combat rate of fire is about [-] rounds.

In order to solve the problem of ammunition supply, its design designer, a young engineer, Ma Keqin, proposed to imitate the magazine in a repeating rifle. It could be a soft type, equipped with a magazine that can hold a hundred rounds or even more bullets.

As for the problem of barrel heating caused by continuous shooting, Ma Keqin simply and crudely used water cooling... He directly got a water sleeve on the barrel. As long as the cooling water is enough and can be added at any time, in theory, the barrel of this thing will not There is an overheating problem.

The core design of the entire machine gun is its very unique bolt mechanism... This thing is different from the previous hand-cranked machine guns. It does not require external force to provide power for the entire set of actions of firing, ejecting the shell, and then loading the gun.

Instead, it directly uses the recoil kinetic energy generated when the bullet is fired to directly push the tail of the barrel to retreat briefly, thereby completing a series of actions such as ejection, loading, and firing.

In other words, compared with a hand-cranked machine gun, which requires the shooter to shake the machine gun at a steady and even speed while shooting, this kind of machine gun only needs to directly pull the trigger, and then the machine gun will start shooting automatically. If a buffer is not used to block the bullet, the heat dissipation system can also If there is no malfunction and there are enough bullets, this bolt mechanism can theoretically allow the machine gun to keep firing...

Chen Youzhong actually doesn't care much about many technical details. He only cares about three data, the weight of the gun body, the total weight, and the combat rate of fire.

Especially the weight of the gun!

The weight of the gun body is only 28 kilograms. After Chen Youzhong saw this data, he seemed to see the official hat of the third rank waving to him...

As the largest comprehensive arsenal for the production of ammunition and firearms in the northwest region, the Chang'an Arsenal has a fourth-grade standard under its supervision.

If Chen Youzhong can make achievements in office, the next step would be to join the third rank. In the system of the Ministry of Industry, from the third rank, he can serve as a co-organizer of very large enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry, or as a supervisor of large enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry, or as a supervisor. He was transferred back to the Ministry of Industry to serve as deputy director of each department.

The future is bright and promising!

So after seeing this design plan, Chen Youzhong immediately summoned the engineers in the factory and the designer of this machine gun, Ma Keqin.

Learned in detail about the feasibility of this machine gun.

After learning about it, he also discovered that the core structure of this machine gun, including the barrel water-cooling sleeve and the bolt structure, has been patented... When Mark Qin was studying in school, he came up with this new bolt on a whim. structure and applied for a personal patent, and then applied for a patent for the water sleeve.

In other words, although the overall design of this machine gun was developed by Maqin after he joined the Chang'an Arsenal and is a service invention, the patent rights for the two core structures belong to Maqin personally.

He first communicated with Mark Qin about this... If the patent issue is not resolved, their Chang'an Arsenal will not be able to carry out subsequent production.

The patent system of the Da Chu Empire is very strict. Even important government-run enterprises like Chang'an Arsenal cannot infringe patents... Otherwise, Chang'an Arsenal would have already produced improved Type 25 rifles, Tianwu type revolvers, etc. The popular products are sold to the military, so they will not be OEMed by Hebei Arms Company.

Fortunately, although Ma Keqin attaches great importance to his patent rights, the reason why he finally came up with the design of this machine gun and submitted the plan was because he had the intention of licensing the patent...

In terms of patent authorization, Chen Youzhong did not treat Mark Qin badly and directly spent 5.00 Chu Yuan and a [-]% share of the sales price of the first [-] machine guns subsequently produced and sold to obtain these two core patents.

The minimum price of this price is [-] Chu Yuan, and the highest price may reach more than [-] Chu Yuan. It depends on how much can be sold and the price...

However, this thing is definitely not cheap, because the structure of this thing is still relatively complex, and the requirements for materials and production processes are relatively high. According to the engineers' estimates, if you want to produce this thing, there are manufacturing costs and patent costs as well as its own Adding up the research and development costs, the price of the previous batch of machine guns would have to be at least [-] yuan to break even... If you want to make money, you have to add more money.

And Mark Qin, a young engineer who just graduated, earned 10,000 yuan overnight, and may receive another [-]+ patent shares in the future.

His face was crooked with a smile... He never thought that after a sudden idea when he was in school, and then registering a patent, he would suddenly make a fortune a year later.

The only pity is that although this heavy machine gun is the main design he has completed, except for the bolt structure and water-cooling structure, some other structures are the result of work research after joining the company, and are service invention patents. The patent right is Directly belongs to the arsenal itself.

For example, the cartridges used to supply ammunition, some detailed structures in the bolt mechanism, etc.

In fact, after he joined the Chang'an Arsenal, he used the equipment in the factory and the assistance of his colleagues to finally complete the design of the entire machine gun. This led to the fact that the patent for the entire machine gun belonged to two parts, one part belonged to himself. Part of it belongs to the factory.

This is also the reason why he agreed to transfer the patent so readily. In addition to being satisfied with the price, it was also because in addition to his own two core patents, this heavy machine gun required more than ten other patents to be produced. , only when these patents are put together will they have greater value.

And he himself signed the patent licensing contract, and after getting the money, he resigned and left...with a huge sum of [-] yuan in hand, and he still worked at a crappy job!

As a technician with a college background, his salary was relatively high when he first joined the job, but because he has only been working for a few months, his current salary is only more than 20 yuan a month, which is only more than 300 yuan a year.

He would have to work hard for decades to earn [-] Chu Yuan.

Not to mention that after the machine gun is later sold to the military, he will continue to receive a continuous share of the share, which may reach a maximum of 10,000+Chu Yuan.

This money is enough for him to sleep peacefully...

Of course, he doesn't want to lie down, but wants to go back to his hometown and start a small machinery factory or something. He still has a lot of new ideas in his mind, and he wants to make some inventions and creations...

And after seeing how valuable patents are, he is unwilling to work in a factory with a meager salary, and the research results he produces are all job patents and have nothing to do with him personally... He worked on the previous machine gun The design will suffer a big loss, otherwise the patent licensing fee can be obtained more.

Ma Qin took the money, patted his butt and returned to his hometown to enjoy the blessings, while thinking about starting a business and making inventions. Chen Youzhong took the patent authorization and directed a group of engineers to work overtime day and night, striving to produce a prototype gun as soon as possible.

Because they worked overtime every day and exerted constant pressure, the engineers were very resentful. However, these engineers did not have tens of thousands of dollars in cash in their pockets, so they could not give up such a stable and high-paying job and just resign!
I could only honestly work overtime to conduct various studies. In the end, I spent a month perfecting various details and formulating detailed process standards. Finally, I produced several prototype guns and prepared them for test firing!
(End of this chapter)