During this time, Wang Houpu was a little depressed.
As a top student at Yan University and a former senior engineer at a certain arsenal, he could only make some low-tech weapons after arriving in the border area a few months ago.
For example, the border-made grenades look relatively inferior and are unsatisfactory to use.
It's not that their technology isn't up to par, but that the current conditions in the border area are really limited.
Steel is a rare thing. Apart from seizures, there are basically no opportunities for external inflows. The raw materials that can be obtained are low-quality pig iron produced by purchased small iron factories.
In addition, the quality of the homemade gunpowder is not up to standard, and the manufacturing equipment is even more rudimentary, most of which were bought by the previous dynasty.
Being able to produce border-made grenades in batches, and being able to explode and injure enemies, is the result of everyone's hard work optimizing every link.
In order to solve the equipment problem at the factory. Wang Houpu has been contacting old friends and collecting information about the equipment that was lost outside the arsenal.
It's a pity that the arsenal where I used to work is too far from the border area.
Even if he collects some equipment information, he can't transport it all the way to the border area now.
Faced with this situation, Wang Houpu was a little disappointed.
The main reason is that the current work is too far away from the firearms production and research and development work he expected to carry out.
And because he had just arrived, he didn't have much say in the factory, so he didn't have the conditions to implement many of the things he wanted to do.
However, in the spirit of revolutionary optimism, he never said these words to anyone outside, except for his die-hard brother Wu Chao, a lathe from the same place.
Speaking of which, Wu Chao was five or six years younger than him, with very different backgrounds, and their acquaintance was quite dramatic.
When he was working at the original factory, Wang Houpu, as a research and development engineer, made changes to the components of a certain gun. He proposed a processing requirement for a component, but many people were unable to achieve the process accuracy he required.
It wasn't until one day that he met Wu Chao that he got the perfect part in his mind.
From then on, they formed a bond. Once Wang Houpu asked for his own parts, Wu Chao could produce them perfectly.
Therefore, in subsequent projects, the two also cooperated more and more closely, cherished each other, and became more and more satisfied with each other. The two transcended the boundaries of age and background and became hard-core brothers.
After the Japs came over, the arsenal was relocated and most of the equipment was transported to the inland. Wang Houpu and Wu Chao also went to the inland together.
But when they saw the increasingly chaotic management and the bureaucracy they were used to, and the production failed to improve, but the factory was about to close down, they became discouraged and felt that they had no way to serve the country.
In this case, they heard that technical talents like them were urgently needed in the border area, which was the most active place to fight against the Japanese. In order to find opportunities to serve the country, they resigned and came here together.
Anyway, no one in the chaotic factory was really in charge, and no one cared whether they stayed or left, so they resigned and went north alone.
Reality has poured cold water on them. The conditions here are indeed too bad now. Compared with his original arsenal, it is a world of difference.
The dilapidated machine tools played their greatest role in Wu Chao's hands, and they could only manufacture some simple weapons and equipment.
But Wang Houpu's dream of developing new firearms is completely impossible. No matter the equipment, raw materials or supporting workers, they currently do not support the research and development of high-end technologies like his.
He stayed to design and improve low-level weapons such as border-made grenades.
But even so, Wang Houpu insisted on staying and began to go to the original arsenal to inquire about the whereabouts of the equipment that had strayed outside.
Some workers in the arsenal still stayed in the local area, so Wang Houpu could also find some old connections to inquire about. At that time, some equipment that was too late to be moved was left in some local rivers and villages.
It's just that across thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, we can only communicate by letters. Although some people provided the whereabouts of some equipment in the letters, Wang Houpu did not have the ability to move them from thousands of miles away to the border area.
Kong has dragon-slaying skills, but there is no room for him to use them. Wang Houpu usually feels very depressed after get off work, so he often drinks a little wine to relieve his depression.
Wang Houpu also saw Gao Jianwu's advertisement, but based on his understanding, he felt that it was a farce, so he never thought about Dagushan in the past.
After get off work this evening, Wang Houpu returned home, poured another glass of wine as usual, and was drinking it with some peanuts.
Suddenly, a man ran over in a hurry, rushed into the house without knocking on the door, and shouted loudly, "Lao Wang, Lao Wang, your spring is here."
"Wu Chao, what are you talking about? What spring do I have? I'm just a lonely person," Wang Houpu replied angrily.
"Come on, come on, come and have a drink with me. The wine today is not bad. It tastes much more pure than the sweet potato roast we usually drink."
"What are you drinking? Let's go. Let's go quickly. If it's too late, your good deeds will be gone." Wu Chao impatiently took Wang Houpu's hand and rushed out.
"What's going on? You're so anxious, Wu Chao, what are you doing?" Wang Houpu struggled for a while, but he didn't break free. After all, Wu Chao was a lathe worker, and his hands were much stronger than him.
"Stop it, okay, okay, I'll go with you. Tell me what's going on on the way."
Wu Chao briefly told Wang Houpu the whole story on the way.
It turns out that Wu Chao also came to the small theater accidentally to listen to some opera or something to relieve his boredom. However, when he came here tonight, he found that the small theater had changed and someone was now giving a technical lecture.
Originally, Wu Chao had no interest. At that time, Gao Jianwu opened his mouth and realized the principle and design of automatic rifles.
Wu Chao knew something about this from Wang Houpu, so he stayed and listened for a while. Now he discovered a new world. Although he was a lathe, he still had his own technical skills. There were many things. It was not that easy to deceive him. , especially in terms of weapon design, which is what he does in the arsenal. He processes many related parts for rifles and the like.
After listening to Gao Jianwu's lecture, isn't this what Wang Houpu has always dreamed of doing?
So Wu Chao couldn't wait to call Wang Houpu.
He felt that Wang Houpu should be very interested in this and could tell whether Gao Jianwu was right or not.
In this era, people who came to the border area did not have many complex thoughts. Even if Wang Houpu heard that Gao Jianwu was wrong, the two sides would only have friendly exchanges instead of trying to undermine each other.
After listening to Wu Chao's words, Wang Houpu became more interested. After all, he was also engaged in weapon design. Although the automatic principle of rifles was not a particularly advanced technology, Wang Houpu also learned from some materials from abroad, but after all, these materials were only scratches the surface. No one explained it thoroughly.
Wang Houpu hopes to meet a real expert with whom he can communicate today.
But the greater the hope, the more worried Wang Houpu became. He was worried that what Gao Jianwu said when he got there would not be as good as he imagined, and he would be very disappointed in this case.
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