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Chapter 473 Chapter 472, this output... is so high!
The chief of staff, who had stayed in the arsenal for a full half month, was about to leave. Li Yuexuan did not continue to stay in the arsenal, but followed the chief of staff's team all the way to Matan where the headquarters was located.

Li Yuexuan went to Matan not to attend a meeting at the headquarters, but to check the production situation here! That's right, Matan has already produced some products, and Li Yuexuan must go over to take a look.

After this period of construction, a dam has been built on the Qingzhang River to the southwest of Matan Town, extending northward, adding a flat surface to the riverside. In the river water on the west side of the dam, a series of large and small water wheels are constantly rotating, bringing the river water from low places to high places, and then flowing into the ditch and transporting it to nearby farmland.

The Qingzhang River is in the Matan area, and the valley spans more than a thousand meters. There are fertile farmlands by the river, and the canals are just right for irrigating the farmlands. As we all know, many comrades here, whether at the headquarters or the division headquarters, came from the Dabie Mountains, and there are also many southerners.

So after the headquarters and division were stationed on the banks of the Qingzhang River, they adjusted the industry here and made it a good place for rice production. And right next to the waterwheel, in some houses hidden by the river willows and the fragrance of rice flowers, there were many workers busy at work.

The rotation of the waterwheel not only creates water flow, but also drives the transmission shaft and various wheels, allowing the equipment in the house to be powered by the river water.

In the five northernmost workshops, a small waterwheel rotates outside, providing power to the wheel inside, which keeps the main shaft of the wooden rifling cutter rotating. As it rotates, the knife holder with the broach follows, pulling the fine steel wire out from the inner wall of the barrel little by little, leaving the rotating rifling on the barrel.

Before water power was invented, such machines were driven by steam. Now that steam engines are no longer needed, water wheels can do the work of steam engines! Of course, the production efficiency is much lower.

The weather in September is not so hot anymore, and there is a river breeze blowing from the north. It is a good time to work! Moreover, the workers only need to control the feeding amount of the machine and other conditions, and basically just wait for the finished product. The physical exertion is much less. In comparison, this job is very easy.

"Director, there are 12 rifling cutting machines installed here, all of which are new! In production, each machine can produce 10 qualified gun barrels a day! In just one day, we can produce 120 qualified gun barrels! Although the efficiency of a single machine is not as good as a steam engine, when 12 machines are running together, they are not much worse than the machines in the factory!"

"This output is only the output during the day. Because the headquarters is here, it is difficult to start work at night, so the output is limited a lot! If we can work in shifts at night, we can produce at least 200 gun barrels a day!" Outside the factory, Xin Aiguo, who is in charge of the production of gun barrels here, introduced to Li Yuexuan in an excited voice.

"Good, very good! As of now, 120 gun barrels a day are enough to meet the needs of our first-line and second-line arsenals! Just from your side, more than 3000 gun barrels a month. We don't have such a large production capacity at present, and we can't use them up at all!" Li Yuexuan had already learned about it from the information reported, but after taking a look at it on the spot, he was still very satisfied with the current efficiency.

Now they are still producing a large number of Type 81 rifles. These barrels are just for the production of bolt-action rifles, and can even radiate to places like Naogou Arsenal. Liangjia Village? What we make ourselves is enough.

"There are some bad things about it. The river will freeze in the winter and we won't be able to work!" Xin Aiguo whispered on the side.

"Haha, can you change the weather? Keep producing. We don't need so many gun barrels right now. The extra products are just for winter!" Li Yuexuan said, and then he walked south to see the production of shells. Compared with a small waterwheel driving a machine, the waterwheel on the shell production side is several times larger, and the water-lifting function is also here.

The water wheel was big enough, so the power was strong enough when it turned. It didn't matter if it was slow, and the frequency of hitting the shells didn't need to be too fast. So, when Li Yuexuan walked into the workshop, he saw the hammer driven by a wooden main shaft hitting up and down, beating the copper plates into the required shape.

The production of cartridge cases here uses the second solution proposed by Li Yuexuan. One machine can beat 10 copper plates into cartridge cases at a time. Of course, this requires repeated replacement of the machine to finally form the cartridge cases. After the cartridge cases pass the last process, they will be sent for drilling to complete the final production.

"Director, after many failures and trials, we got this batch of machines! We can process 10 copper plates at a time, change the mold 7 times, and finally do the drilling process. Because the hammering force is consistent and the mold design is perfect, we can now hammer out 1500 qualified shells a day! If you want to increase it, you can only copy a new set of machines according to the current appearance!"

The technicians who attended the meeting looked at Li Yuexuan expectantly, waiting for his comments.

"I've been here several times before and have given you a lot of suggestions for revisions!" Li Yuexuan said, then paused and continued, "This time, I have no objection, because this machine is the best result we can achieve at our current level!"

"Comrades, what you have to do now is to sort out all the production data so that we can make these equipment in other places even if we leave here!" After Li Yuexuan finished speaking, he was the first to applaud, and everyone followed suit to applaud and cheer to celebrate the achievements at this moment.

Don't underestimate these waterwheels, equipment, and molds. If they can be gradually replicated, the entire Qingzhang River can become a production site for bullet shells. With qualified bullet shells, comrades who reload bullets will have a steady supply of new shells to install into bullets, rather than removing old shells and reinstalling them. In short, reloading bullets can remove the word "re-install" and become loading bullets.

During a trip to the river, Li Yuexuan got a satisfactory result and immediately returned to the arsenal. With a stable production of bullet shells, there will be a stable production of bullets. Even if there are only 1500 bullets a day, there will be 45000 bullets a month. If these bullets are distributed to a regiment, the regiment commander will wake up laughing in his dreams.

Therefore, Li Yuexuan can just sit back and relax and there is no need to worry about expanding production capacity, because Minister Zhang or the Chief of Staff will never sit idly by.

Therefore, Li Yuexuan had time to modify the sniper rifle and the precision marksman rifle himself! That's right, along with a large amount of equipment and machines arriving in northern Shaanxi, a batch of sniper scopes that the comrades specially used sulfa and sweet potato to get were also transported to the headquarters arsenal.

Comrades spent a lot of money on this batch of sniper scopes, and got as many as 500 of them! This is because they acted early. If it were now, it would probably be much cheaper, but the quantity would not be so large!

(End of this chapter)