Talented people work hard. The Ministry of Industry has prepared to establish several subordinate technical departments to conduct research on related industries. As the deputy industrial affairs committee member and deputy minister of industry, Fang Xiaoyue will take charge of the technical research work of these technical departments.
In other words, he can focus his energy on one aspect, but he can also take time to provide guidance to other technical departments.
As most of the senators in the Senate agreed to upgrade the existing firearms and artillery, Fang Xiaoyue immediately devoted his energy to the improvement and finalization of the Mauser G98.
The reason why the Mauser G98 needs to be improved and finalized is that the previous batch of Mauser G98 produced many problems during the use of the troops. For example, water entered the trigger, and many malfunctions occurred after sand entered the trigger. .
Of course, this problem is difficult to solve now. Unless Fang Xiaoyue takes the time to develop the technology for refining cobalt and the cobalt plating process, otherwise, this problem can only be postponed for now.
But the biggest problem is that the fixed bullets used by Mauser G98 are made of brass.
However, Xinghai Kingdom's existing copper reserves are not enough to support the manufacture of a large number of copper bullets for storage and use.
To put it bluntly, the most critical reason here is that the cost of bullets is too expensive, and Xinghai Kingdom cannot afford it if it equips a large area.
And there are no copper mines in the Xinghai Kingdom’s current control area.
Well, in fact, the entire territory of the Ming Dynasty and even the areas controlled by the Qing army lacked copper mines. This has been true since ancient times.
Therefore, Fang Xiaoyue had to devote his energy to changing the bullets to steel.
Although steel bullets will rust due to moisture and other reasons, making them inconvenient to store, if you use grease for storage, the problem is not too big.
And in the production of bullets in later generations, steel has actually been fully used.
Of course, the anti-corrosion and rust treatment process of later generations of bullets is more advanced, using copper plating process.
Of course, with the current technology of Xinghai Kingdom, it is still unable to achieve the level of copper plating on bullets.
But in any case, steel bullets have reduced the cost of bullets to one-tenth of copper bullets!
This is an extremely terrifying cost reduction.
The key is that Xinghai Kingdom owns a large iron mine and has a series of technical processes from ore mining to smelting and casting, which makes the cost of steel bullets much lower than copper bullets.
After much hesitation, Fang Xiaoyue did not stop the production line of Thunderbolt 1646 and paper bullets and changed it to the production line of Mauser G98 and steel bullets.
First, it is very difficult and time-consuming to transform the process. It is better to just launch a new production line.
The second is to consider that the Thunderbolt 1646 may be used as a long-term export firearm product in the future.
Therefore, after slightly adjusting the production line of the Thunderbolt 1646, making the barrel of the Thunderbolt 1646 20 centimeters shorter than before, Fang Xiaoyue began to produce the production line design drawings of the Mauser G98 and steel bullets.
I have to say that it is good that some equipment can still be used in future generations.
Sitting in front of a laptop, Fang Xiaoyue spent five days to complete the design, then output it as a drawing through a printer and delivered it to production.
After he was done with this, he took out a few books, flipped through them, then got up and went to school.
Now, due to the establishment of the Education Affairs Committee and the Ministry of Education, Xinghai Kingdom's education has entered a stage of standardized development.
The original school has been restructured into the Xinghai Kingdom Normal College and has become the teacher production base of the Xinghai Kingdom.
After that, Xinghai Kingdom built 3 new primary schools, 1 junior high school, and 1 high school (on the drawings, construction has not yet started).
There is also a vocational and technical school and 5 vocational and technical night school learning points under the guidance of this vocational and technical school.
Three primary schools directly cover the existing Lingao, Chengmai and other places in Xinghai Kingdom, and one junior high school is set up in Xinghai City.
Elementary school is actually about studying the curriculum for grades 1-3 in later elementary schools. It mainly involves laying a good foundation in the two main subjects of Chinese and mathematics, and then understanding some common sense about nature, physics, etc.
In junior high school, students study the curriculum of grades 4-6 in later elementary schools.
The high schools that have not yet been built are preparing to learn the courses of junior high schools in later generations.
This is also a helpless thing. If you want to copy the courses of later generations, you will need a large number of regular teachers.
As for those teachers who received two months of temporary training at the Xinghai State Normal College, they had good foundation in their own right. They were the original children and scholars on Nanhai Island.
Of course, these young students and scholars were initially reluctant to surrender to thieves.
In fact, even now, there are still very few scholars who are willing to surrender to thieves.
There were more than thirty children and five scholars who were admitted to the temporary class of the normal college. They all came from poor families and really couldn't afford to eat. They just gritted their teeth and joined the bandits after hearing that the salary here was very good.
No way, until now, those scholars in Nanming still regard the Travelers as thieves.
And these scholars with some foundation were sent out to serve as primary school teachers after a short-term training. At their level, after training, they are still barely qualified to teach Chinese and mathematics for children in the first to third grade of primary schools.
After all, many scholars actually want to study mathematics. After all, on the premise that they cannot pass the exam to be a scholar or a scholar, the ultimate way out for many scholars in the coastal area is to work as an aide or master for officials, or to work as an accountant in a business bank. These professions all require a foundation in mathematics.
Otherwise, let alone the account settlers, those officials only know how to write eight-legged essays and recite poems, and they cannot settle accounts themselves. All matters that need to be settled in official business are left to the staff and masters.
Teachers in junior high schools and normal schools now mainly rely on voluntary work to support themselves. Otherwise, the entire Nanhai Island would not be able to find so many teachers.
Of course, some old shopkeepers of commercial banks can be recruited to serve as teachers, but the problem is that the bosses of the commercial banks are unwilling.
What's more, the junior high schools in Xinghai Kingdom are actually about to formally come into contact with some physics knowledge, which the old shopkeepers really can't teach.
Fang Xiaoyue spends her spare time in teaching.
However, he is different from other time-travelers. Most of the other time-travelers teach indigenous students or teachers in junior high schools or normal schools.
But as a technical master of Xinghai Kingdom, the students he taught were in a special class in the normal school.
This special class is full of underage time travel students!
There are more than thirty underage time-traveling students in total. Some of the students' parents failed to travel with them, some of the students' parents died during the time-traveling, and some of the students' parents followed the time-traveling.
