The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 23: Hearing is false, seeing is believing
120 bullets were randomly selected for testing.

Da da da!
The factory guards were holding Type 78 automatic rifles and shooting at targets.

Magazine after magazine.

Wang Tiezhu and others, after seeing this, understood that these bullets were all qualified.

Producing 100 bullets is easy, not difficult at all, and any decent workshop can do it. But producing 100 million bullets, qualified, stable, and uniform bullets is really difficult.

After the test, Wang Tiezhu immediately arranged to send the bullet production materials to the production workshop and assigned several workers to let Liu Tao be temporarily responsible for the bullet production in this production workshop.

After returning to the office, Wang Tiezhu immediately called his superior to report the situation.

"Old Wang, what nonsense are you talking about in broad daylight!" At the Provincial Defense Management Office, Wang Baoguo rolled his eyes, wondering if this old friend was under too much pressure and went back to the factory to drink.

Wang Tiezhu said: "Comrade Wang Baoguo, I guarantee with my party spirit that this is absolutely true. I ask my superiors to allocate enough materials to my Panshan Machinery Factory."

At this time, Wang Tiezhu was full of confidence. He had seen it with his own eyes and had gone through tests, and he knew that he could stand up straight.

"If you don't believe it, Comrade Wang Baoguo, I suggest you come to our Panshan Machinery Factory now!" Wang Tiezhu said confidently.

"Okay, I'll go to your Panshan Machinery Factory right now!" said Wang Baoguo.

In fact, he was also very busy at this time.

As the orders came down from above, all the factories had to get into action. As the person in charge of all the military industrial systems in Yunnan Province, Wang Baoguo was under a lot of pressure as there were many departments that needed to be coordinated.

As the front line, the amount of supplies that need to be prepared is simply enormous.

But the matter of Panshan Machinery Factory is worth Wang Baoguo's personal trip.

Panshan Machinery Factory has developed the '78-type' pistol and the '78-type' automatic rifle. The '78-type' pistol has officially passed the national acceptance three days ago and is officially named the '78-type'. The '78-type' automatic rifle is also very popular among the officers and soldiers of the army. If nothing unexpected happens, it will also pass the national acceptance.

This is the greatest and most dazzling achievement of the entire Yunnan Province military industry system, and it is also the most dazzling star in the country in the field of firearms!

If it were in the past, if Wang Tiezhu called him and told him that he had built a bullet production line that could produce 14 bullets a day, Wang Baoguo would definitely have cursed at him and spit in his face.

Now, Wang Baoguo would rather believe it exists than not believe it exists.

It's incredible, but what if it's true?

Liu Tao!

This name has been deeply engraved in Wang Baoguo's heart.

This is a young man who is good at creating miracles, and a firearms genius who dares to turn the impossible into possible!

Who could have imagined that a freshly graduated college student would dare to develop a pistol with advanced performance? Or a firearm with performance far superior to the Type 63 automatic rifle?
Wang Baoguo didn't believe that Liu Tao learned it in college. Look at the whole country now, which university has a decent firearms design major? ?
Wang Baoguo pulled out a drawer and took out two certificates of commendation.

These are all Liu Tao's, one is for 'Advanced Cadre Who Learns from Lei Feng', and the other is for 'Model Advanced Scientific and Technological Worker of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense'!
They had only arrived a few days ago, and Wang Baoguo had not had time to give it to Liu Tao, so he happened to bring it along this time.

After more than two hours, the jeep finally arrived at Panshan Machinery Factory.

The jeep stopped at the office building. When Wang Baoguo saw Wang Tiezhu, he said, "Old Wang, I came to see you in person this time. If you lie to me, I will be rude to you!"

Wang Tiezhu laughed: "Comrade Baoguo, this trip will definitely be worthwhile for you. Do you want to have a cup of tea first, or go to the production workshop first?"

"What tea do you want to drink? Go to the production workshop!" said Wang Baoguo.

Wang Tiezhu took Wang Baoguo directly to the production workshop. Liu Tao was stunned, then hurried over: "Director Wang, why are you here!?"

This guy is the top leader of the entire Yunnan Province’s military industry system.

Wang Baoguo has the highest rank in the entire provincial military industry system.

"Comrade Liu Tao, Director Wang called me and told me that you launched another big satellite this time, so I came here specially to take a look." Wang Baoguo said with a smile.

Liu Tao didn't expect that Wang Baoguo was so efficient and had already arrived at noon.

"Director Wang, this is the bullet production line. It uses automated production and only requires a small number of people!" Liu Tao introduced.

At this time, Wang Baoguo looked at the bullet production line and saw bullets being produced one by one.

When Wang Baoguo saw the bullet production process, he was shocked. The bullets were produced too fast!
Bullets fell into the box one by one.

All the workers have to do is load the bullets into the bullet box and put them aside.

Wang Baoguo knew that wooden box could hold 900 bullets!
The bullets in such a bullet box weigh 14.76kg and can be easily moved by one person.

"In the past two hours, we have produced a total of 1.25 rounds of ammunition!" Wang Tiezhu said proudly, "If the machine keeps producing all day, it can produce 15 rounds of ammunition, and the specifications of each bullet are the same!"

"Incredible, too incredible!" Wang Baoguo asked quickly: "Are all the bullets qualified? Have they been tested?"

Liu Tao said: "Director Liu, we initially produced 6100 bullets and randomly selected 120 bullets for testing. All of them passed. We then randomly selected 30 bullets every hour for testing, and no abnormalities have been found so far."

"I don't think we need to worry about the bullet qualification rate. What we should worry about is that our Panshan Machinery Factory's bullet production materials can only be produced for two or three days at most, and then we will have to suspend production due to lack of materials!" Liu Tao was a little helpless.

Everything had to go according to plan. It was impossible to have too much material in the warehouse.

Even if we go to other factories to buy materials, there is no way.

"I'll take care of the materials!" Wang Baoguo said, patting his chest.

What is lacking now is the ability to produce guns and bullets, not materials.

He can coordinate and allocate more materials to Panshan Machinery Factory. If there is not enough in Yunnan Province, then he can allocate them from Sichuan Province and other places.

As the orders from above are issued, everything will focus on the front line.

Before the troops are dispatched, the food and fodder must be sent first!
The importance of logistics is beyond doubt.

Military uniforms, blankets, bullets, artillery shells, etc. are being transported to Yunnan and Guangxi provinces in an endless stream via rail and road.

Originally, the ammunition reserves in the various ammunition depots in Yun Province were sufficient. However, the disappointing thing was that when they conducted a survey, many guns and ammunition were found to be substandard.

Coupled with the troops conducting live-fire training, the consumption of bullets and artillery shells naturally rose sharply.

Up to now, throughout Yunnan Province, the Type 63 automatic rifles that were originally to be equipped by the troops have been handed over to the militia, and the troops are equipped with Type 78 automatic rifles.

For this reason, the task given to Panshan Machinery Factory was to produce at least 78 Type automatic rifles per month.

Other military factories in Yunnan Province failed to produce up to standard Type 63 automatic rifles, let alone Type 78 automatic rifles.

The military specifically requested that it be produced by Panshan Machinery Factory.

(End of this chapter)