The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

The next day, ten o'clock in the morning.

Wang Tiezhu took the main leaders of the factory, Liu Tao and others to the gate in person to wait for the arrival of his superiors and expert team.

The roads inside the factory are cement roads, while the roads outside the factory are dirt roads.

Located inside the mountain, the mountain road has eighteen bends.

Even though Panshan Machinery Factory is only 60 kilometers away from Kunming City, it takes at least two or three hours to drive from Kunming City to Panshan Machinery Factory.

This is third-line construction!

Even if a city like Kunshi falls, the military factories in the mountainous areas can still produce and provide weapons and ammunition for the troops, so that the soldiers can continue to fight.

At the gate of the factory, there is a sign saying ‘Entry is strictly prohibited in this important military area’.

The soldiers standing guard stood upright and were fully armed.

After waiting for a while, he could see dust in the sky ahead. Liu Tao knew that the superior leaders and expert team were coming.

Sure enough, several jeeps arrived at the factory gate.

These jeeps, with their military green color, simple semi-soft top, and rugged jeep shape, are exactly the 212 type jeeps produced by the Beijing Automobile Factory.

If this kind of Jeep is kept 30 years from now, it will definitely be called "industrial garbage" and no one will use it. But in this era, the Type 212 Jeep is the envy of everyone, and it is the standard travel tool for cadres and state-owned factory leaders.

There is only one Type 212 Jeep in the entire Panshan Machinery Factory.

Four jeeps stopped at the gate, and leaders and experts got out of the vehicles one by one.

Liu Tao was secretly surprised that there were seven or eight people crammed into each jeep.

After thirty years, it was seriously overloaded.

"Comrade Wang Baoguo, leaders and experts, welcome to Panshan Machinery Factory." Wang Tiezhu stepped forward and shook hands one by one.

Wang Baoguo introduced both parties one by one.

"Is this young man Comrade Liu Tao?" When Wang Tiezhu introduced the people on this side and introduced Liu Tao, Wang Baoguo looked at Liu Tao carefully.

Too young!

Can such a young guy improve the Type 54 pistol?

Wang Baoguo was even more confused.

"Comrade Wang Baoguo, this is Comrade Liu Tao, a top student from Beijing Institute of Technology. He graduated this year and was transferred to our factory. The improvement of the Type 54 pistol was completed by Comrade Liu Tao alone." Wang Tiezhu said.

After some pleasantries, everyone headed to the office building.

The leaders and experts drove jeeps, and Liu Tao, Liu Shengli and others crowded into the same car as the factory director.

Office building, conference room.

Usually the conference room is relatively spacious, but today with dozens of people sitting there, it seemed crowded.

There are 25 leaders and experts from Kunming City, and 20 leaders from Panshan Machinery Factory, a total of 45 people.

"Comrades, time is precious. We will start the meeting directly. Now I would like to ask Panshan Machinery Factory to introduce the improvement work of Type 54." Wang Baoguo personally presided over the meeting and got straight to the point from the beginning of the meeting.

"Comrade Liu Tao, please introduce your work to the leaders and experts." Wang Tiezhu said to Liu Tao.

Liu Tao stood up and said, "Good morning, leaders and experts. Now, on behalf of our Panshan Machinery Factory, I will report on the improvement of the Type 54 pistol."

"I started thinking about the improvement of the Type 54 pistol when I was in college and consulted a lot of information in the school library." Liu Tao introduced the whole process.

Beijing Institute of Technology is the first university of science and engineering founded by the Party. It was formerly the Academy of Natural Sciences founded in Yan'an in 1940. It was renamed North China University School of Engineering in 1946. It moved to Beijing in 1949 and was officially renamed Beijing Institute of Technology in 1952. .

In the firearms profession, Beijing Institute of Technology is very famous and ranks among the best in the country.

Liu Tao introduced the advantages and disadvantages of the Type 54 pistol, as well as his ideas and methods for improving the pistol.

At the beginning, the experts were full of doubts, but as Liu Tao introduced them, they gradually became serious, listened attentively, and kept writing in their notebooks.

Liu Tao was a little nervous at first, but then he became more and more comfortable.

After reporting for more than half an hour, Liu Tao finally finished his report. His mouth was already dry.

After taking a sip of water, Liu Tao sat down.

"Director Wang, are the drawings ready?" asked the leader of the expert team.

The leader of the expert team is Yang Yong, an expert in the field of firearms in Kunming City. He was originally the technical backbone of the May Day Arsenal and participated in imitating Soviet light machine guns. He is now the chief engineer of the Yun Province National Defense Management Office.

"Time is tight, and only three drawings are prepared." Wang Tiezhu said.

Later, Wang Tiezhu asked Lin Shengli to hand over three drawings to the experts.

As for the original manuscript of Liu Tao's painting, it is in the confidentiality department.

The experts divided into three groups and began to look at the drawings carefully.

Even for lunch, we eat directly in the meeting.

If you feel sleepy, go to the next room and lie down.

In the afternoon, I went to the shooting range to test the gun.

Ten pistols were prepared, and each man could have one or two magazines.

"Old Wang, it's amazing. Your Panshan Machinery Factory released a large satellite this year." Wang Baoguo loaded two magazines and said to Wang Tiezhu with emotion.

Whether a gun is good or not will be known once you try it.

Wang Baoguo is also an old revolutionary. He joined the Red Army in 1930 and later liberated Southwest China and stayed in Kunming. He carries a gun all year round, and from time to time he goes to the shooting range to practice shooting.

Even though he has not been on the battlefield for more than 20 years, Wang Baoguo is still ready to put on his military uniform again and fight on the battlefield at any time.

"Haha, didn't the great man say that this world is the world of young people after all, and what we have to do is to protect them." Wang Tiezhu laughed.

Although the two of them were not in the same division, they were in the same column.

The two are also old friends.

"Old man, Comrade Liu Tao's commendation is indispensable." Wang Tiezhu reminded.

This is also a request for credit for Liu Tao.

This credit is huge, enough to rewrite the history of pistol development in China.

Wang Baoguo nodded and said: "Don't worry, the provincial award will come soon. When I get back, I will immediately report to my superiors and apply for their acceptance. This is not an improved version of the Type 54 pistol, but a brand new pistol!"

"I see, our first self-developed pistol in China should not be the Type 64 pistol, but this pistol. This honor should belong to you Panshan Machinery Factory and our Yun Province!" Wang Baoguo said.

"It would be great if we could get a brand new model!" Wang Tiezhu smiled and his mouth broke.

Wang Baoguo smiled, but there was expectation in his eyes.

Although the Type 64 was designed and finalized in 1964, due to well-known reasons, it has not been produced for a long time.

But now they were trying the gun, and found that the gun Liu Tao had tinkered with was a mature pistol in terms of appearance and performance. There was no hope of getting approval from their superiors to produce it first.

Looking at the experts again, after testing the gun, they were all full of praise. Wang Baoguo knew that the gun was most likely stable.

Even if the superiors fail, at least the province will have no problem. In any case, this is a big surprise.

Wang Baoguo couldn't help but have a smile on his face.