Zhu Yuanzhang in the cellar

Chapter 109: Daming has grenades
On the morning of August 13, Zhu Yunfeng came to the company leisurely.

The company's headquarters is in town.

It’s not a building, but a newly built factory with large gold-plated characters on the outside - Yunfeng Company.

After driving in, there is a large concrete area at the back with more than a dozen trucks parked there, which are used to deliver goods between the town and the mountains.

At this moment in the office, Zhu Yunfeng, Ji He, Zhu Di and Zou Ting were having a meeting.

Zou Ting held up the report and said, "Boss Zhu, you have spread your wings too wide. This month's losses are very serious."

"How much did you lose?"

"More than 60 million."

"It's okay. I'll transfer the money to the company's account."

Zhu Yunfeng took out his bank card, slumped in his chair and said, "Not spending money is a waste of my dad's talent for making money."

His eyes were lifeless and his heart was bleeding.

My money.

That's all my money.

All the money that was taken from Zhu Di was invested in the new project.

Not to mention the 20,000 acres of land rented and the hundreds of tons of supplies purchased, the recently opened breeding farm and metal processing plant alone cost tens of millions.

Although the silver processing factory is still making silver coins and making some profit every month, it is just a drop in the bucket and has been losing money.

no way.

If you want to carry out full industrial construction, you have to spread the plate out a bit.

The food problem has been solved, and the next step is to develop basic industries.

The Ming Dynasty needed industrial capacity, so naturally he had to build factories first before he could smuggle the machines over.

"correct."

Zou Ting said: "There is one more thing to report."

"what's up?"

"I plan to fire three employees. Please approve the notice when the time comes."

"Fire three employees? What did they do?"

Zhu Yunfeng asked lazily.

He just comes to the company every day to sit and listen to Zou Ting's work report, and goes back at noon at the latest.

But this is the first time I've heard of an employee being fired.

Zou Ting frowned and said, "These three are also free. They actually took advantage of the afternoon after get off work to run to the workshop to make dangerous weapons."

"Dangerous weapons? What?"

"A gun."

"gun?"

Zhu Yunfeng almost jumped up from his chair, his eyes widened as he asked, "How did you deal with it?"

"It was discovered halfway through. I wanted to call the police, but one of them was a relative of Ji He's. I couldn't contact you yesterday, so I had to deal with it immediately today."

Zou Ting glanced at Ji He.

Ji He's eyes widened and he said, "It can't be my cousin."

Since they have relatively abundant manganese, iron and coal mines, there was a precision instrument manufacturing plant in the county in the early years.

Ji He's uncle was a pipe fitter in the factory, and his cousin had inherited his uncle's craft. However, the instrument factory went bankrupt in 09, and both father and son lost their jobs.

Originally they made a living by working as motorcycle taxi drivers in the county town. This time Zhu Yunfeng opened a steel processing plant, so Ji He called his cousin over.

I didn't expect that I would get into big trouble just a few days after starting.

"It's him."

"Good guy."

Zhu Yunfeng exclaimed that it was awesome, and then asked, "Where's the stuff?"

"It's in the office. Now it's up to you to decide how to handle it. You can keep it a secret or call the police."

Zou Ting said.

She still understands the ways of the world.

The most important thing is that it was discovered halfway through and no big disaster was caused.

Otherwise, their factories might be the focus of attention.

"Take it and take a look."

"Ah."

Zou Ting went out to get something.

Zhu Yunfeng and Ji He looked at each other. Seeing Zhu Yunfeng's look, Ji He quickly distanced himself from the matter and said, "It's none of my business."

"You don't know your own cousin?"

"I've heard before that he likes to shoot birds, but he only uses an air gun. I never knew he would dare to make one."

"Didn't he call you now that he's in trouble?"

"I just came here from Daming with you this morning. My phone ran out of battery and I haven't turned it on yet."

"Brilliant."

Zhu Yunfeng was speechless.

But it's normal.

Their county is near the Xuefeng Mountains.

There are many deep mountains and old forests, and there are many wild boars, rabbits and pheasants.

In the past, there was lax supervision and many people liked to raise hunting dogs, hide air guns and go hunting in the mountains.

When Zhu Yunfeng was a child, he saw someone at the market in their town carrying a hunting rifle and shooting a wild boar and bringing it to the market to sell.

But that was all back in the 2000s. In recent years, the law has been tightened and all hunting rifles and air rifles must be handed in. Although there is no regulation prohibiting hunting, hunting with guns is strictly prevented.

It was probably because Ji He's cousin came to their Lansha Town, saw the deep mountains and old forests and his old illness relapsed, but he had no guns, so he simply made one himself.

After a while, Zou Ting came over with a long-handled shotgun.

Zhu Yunfeng saw it was a paper shell. He scratched his head and asked, "Why did you bring a paper shell?"

"This is the model they built. They were already welding the steel pipes when they found it."

Zou Ting rolled her eyes at him and said, "Take apart the paper shell and take a look. It has everything you need. Basically, just weld the steel pipes together and put in the parts to make a real gun. It hasn't been officially manufactured yet, otherwise I would have called the police long ago."

"Brilliant."

Zhu Yunfeng opened the paper shell and looked inside, and couldn't help but praise it.

Since he has always been interested in making guns for the Ming Dynasty, he downloaded a lot of gun structure design drawings and gun-making videos from the Internet, and has also done some research on guns.

This paper shell is made very finely. It can be said that as long as the paper is replaced with steel, it will be a real gun, and you can be released from prison at that time.

However, it is still within the scope of paper making and is not considered a real crime.

"You're praising something that's illegal."

Zou Ting rolled her eyes.

"Isn't this still illegal? But he will definitely be fired."

Zhu Yunfeng shook his head and said, "If they dare to make guns today and cannons tomorrow, call them over and I will fire them in person."

"Ah."

Zou Ting nodded: "That's more like it. If a company wants to run well, it can't do anything illegal or criminal. Otherwise, if someone catches it, it will be ruined in an instant."

The meeting was soon over and everything was pretty much discussed. Zou Ting called the three troublemakers and asked them to come over.

Ji Hyuk found a charger in his own general manager's office to charge.

He also has a charger in his car, but he came here in Zhu Yunfeng's car today. Zhu Yunfeng uses a Huawei charger, and his charger is different.

After the battery was recharged, he saw that his WeChat was full of messages from his cousin asking for help.

"Oh, it's really a death wish."

Ji He couldn't help but sigh when he saw this.

Zhu Di saw the people leave, then he asked in surprise: "Is it that serious? Didn't they make the guns? And why don't they help us make the guns?"

Zhu Yunfeng glanced at him and said, "You still don't realize the seriousness of the matter. If they really make the gun, the factory will be investigated thoroughly, and our affairs may also be exposed."

"alright."

"But this thing is pretty good. Do I really want to fire my cousin? Why not let them do it privately?"

Ji Hyuk hesitated.

"Forget it. For safety reasons, we can take this model to Daming and build it ourselves." Zhu Yunfeng waved his hand and said, "You can make your own arrangements when the time comes. Arrange for a job at the cooperative logistics company. Don't come and cheat us."

"Row."

Ji He agreed.

As Yunfeng Company's business becomes bigger and bigger and its contribution to the county's GDP increases, their status in the county is also different from before.

Many companies require them, so it is not difficult to arrange a few people to go there.

After a while the three employees came over.

They were all in their thirties, with their heads hung, standing obediently at the door of the conference room.

Zhu Yunfeng looked at the leader and said, "Ji Ming, you are Ji He's brother. I let you into the company and made you the team leader for Ji He's sake. But you caused such a big incident right after you arrived?"

Ji Ming said with a sad face: "Boss, I will never dare to do it again. I was just bored at the time and wanted to go fishing, but Lao Fan suggested getting a gun for hunting."

Lao Fan said hurriedly: "I just said it casually, but I didn't know that Team Leader Ji would really dare to start working on it, and the blueprint was drawn by Xiao Liu."

Xiao Liu also said aggrievedly: "I just drew a blueprint, and the welding was done by the team leader."

"All right."

Zhu Yunfeng finally figured it out.

Among these three, Lao Fan is the king of ideas, Ji Ming can do turning, milling, clamping and welding, and Xiao Liu can draw blueprints.

It turns out that people can't be too idle.

Since his steel processing plant has not officially started operations yet, he has already purchased a batch of steel and plans to make daily necessities such as pots, pans, and bowls and send them to the Ming Dynasty in a few days.

The workers had just been recruited and were about to start work, but they were able to complete the entire job in just two or three days of free time. It was outrageous.

"You can't stay in the factory anymore. The problem with making guns is too serious. If you hadn't been discovered, you wouldn't be here now. You would have been in jail."

Zhu Yunfeng thought about it, then looked at Xiao Liu and asked, "Besides being able to draw the blueprints for hunting rifles, do you know the blueprints for other guns?"

"Metropolis."

"Where did you learn that?"

"I learned it from my master."

Xiao Liu answered honestly, "He used to work in the security department of a state-owned steel mill. He could do lathes, milling machines, clamps, and welding. Later, the security department banned guns, but he liked them very much, so he secretly made a lot of them himself."

"Is your master so brave? What happened to him later?"

"Caught."

"You are such a talented person! How dare you do this when your master has been arrested?"

Zhu Yunfeng didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

There are already precedents, but they still commit crimes in defiance of the law.

These three are too cruel.

Fortunately, we discovered it early and just made a model without actually starting to work on it.

Otherwise, he should just close this factory.

"Forget it. Just draw all the gun drawings you know and send them to me. I'll give you 1000 yuan for each drawing, and I'll find you a new job. Go work for a county logistics company."

Zhu Yunfeng said, "The salary and benefits will remain the same as now. Don't do anything weird to me anymore. Do you hear me?"

Knowing that they had not lost their jobs and could at least return to the county to work, the three people's emotions were like a roller coaster, and they quickly responded, "I heard it."

"Go."

Zhu Yunfeng waved his hand.

I have to say that the state-owned steel mills in the past really retained a lot of talented people.

In that era, the security department was equipped with real guns and ammunition, not only pistols, but also rifles, submachine guns, and even explosives. It was very hardcore.

Although Zhu Yunfeng also found some gun design drawings and gun-making videos on the Internet, what he found were basically very sophisticated modern gun manufacturing.

The old masters are usually familiar with firearms from the 1970s and 1980s, which have simple structures and great power. Su also has a lot of equipment, such as AK.

Compared with the sophisticated American and European pistols and rifles, the simple and crude Su firearms are more suitable for the current Ming Dynasty.

After all, it is so detailed that even the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty probably cannot understand the drawings.

At noon.

Zhu Yunfeng and his friends went home after get off work.

After lunch, he and Ji He went to the Hongwu Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Di went to the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty.

After coming out of the underground palace, I asked Mao Xiang and found out that Zhu Biao had gone to the imperial farm.

When they arrived at the imperial farm, they saw endless rice fields.

It is the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and the second season of rice has been planted for more than a month, almost two months.

The lush rice seedlings sway in the gentle summer breeze, and a scent that penetrates the heart comes, as if it can cleanse one's soul.

The air was better in ancient times.

Zhu Yunfeng noticed that a number of wooden houses had been built on the west side of the imperial farm, along the Qinhuai River.

When I walked over to take a look, I saw Zhu Biao standing with his hands behind his back, looking at something to the southeast, on a small hill about a hundred meters away from the wooden houses.

"What are you doing?"

Zhu Yunfeng and Ji He walked over.

When Zhu Biao saw them coming, he waved his attendants away and pointed to the distance, saying, "Look over there."

Zhu Yunfeng and Ji He climbed up the hill and looked into the distance.

You can see that this is the training ground behind the wooden houses. A piece of flat land has been dug out, about five or six acres.

There were some scarecrows set up in the middle of the parade ground, and soldiers were carrying out boxes of things, about thirty meters away from the scarecrows.

"Grenade test?"

Zhu Yunfeng scratched his head.

I heard from Zhu Biao yesterday that they had already prepared a lot of black gunpowder with perfect proportions.

The Ming Dynasty had its own matchlock gun, which had been tried and found to be incredibly powerful.

However, the matchlock was an outdated weapon after all, and they intended to make modern thermal weapons in one step, so they did not do much research in this area, but instead made grenades directly.

Hand grenades have been used in my country since the Song Dynasty, but they were not very powerful and were pottery shard grenades, so their lethality was very low.

Although Zhu Yunfeng found some grenade design drawings from modern times, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty could not understand such complicated things, and some of the devices were also impossible to implement.

For example, they cannot produce precision springs.

So the only way is to use the simplest method, which is to light it directly. There is a very long fuse inside the grenade. After pulling it out, use a fire stick to light it and then throw it.

Although it is a bit troublesome, it is the only way to do it at present.

"Ah."

Zhu Biao nodded and said, "This type of grenade is still very primitive. The craftsmen have made hundreds of them. Now let's test their power."

“Did you add magnesium aluminum powder?”

Zhu Yunfeng asked.

Although he did not produce aluminum powder on a large scale, he did make a little bit to test the effect.

"Some have added it and some haven't, so it's easier to compare."

"Then let's wait and see."

The two chatted for a while, and the experiment in the distance finally began.

Following the order from the general on the parade ground, several grenade throwers lit the fuse under the grenade and threw it out at a high speed.

The grenade drew an arc in the air and landed about 30 meters away, and then "bang!"

Several huge explosions were heard, earth and rocks splashed, mud flew everywhere, a cloud of smoke rose from the ground, and the scarecrow on the parade ground was blown into pieces.

"Amazing."

Zhu Biao was surprised and said: "It's more powerful than I imagined."

"so so."

On the contrary, Zhu Yunfeng and Ji He, who had seen the power of modern explosives on the Internet, thought it was just so-so.

"It's not as good as chemical explosives. Anyway, when will we get nitroglycerin?"

"That's too dangerous. Let's get the generator first."

Zhu Yunfeng said: "The generator has arrived and is now in the warehouse. The hydroelectric power station over there has also been repaired and will be loaded soon. We will shoot a video then."

"Ah."

Zhu Biao nodded and said, "Our Ming Dynasty is becoming stronger and stronger. When the grain harvest comes in this autumn, the national treasury will be even more abundant."

(End of this chapter)