I want to be emperor

As for the rifled artillery, Luo Zhixue had already been studied by Luo Zhixue, but this thing is more difficult to make than a steam engine!

It's not a matter of design... It's still the same sentence, designing this thing is actually not difficult, especially after Luo Zhixue, later generations of Luo Zhixue have eaten pork even if they haven't seen a pig running, even if they don't know what a pig looks like , but he must know what pork looks like.

He also has a basic understanding of guns. Most of the guns of later generations are rifled. Well, the exception is the advanced third-generation and above tank guns. The mainstream third-generation tanks use smoothbore guns. This is In order to better launch armor-piercing projectiles: tail-stabilized sabot-piercing projectiles.

The exceptions are England and India and a few small countries...they seem to be more traditional than smoothbore!

Except for tank guns, the guns of later generations are almost all rifled guns. Even if Luo Zhixue doesn't know much about this, he also knows that the barrel of rifled guns has spiral rifling inside.

Then, after repeated discussions with a few engineers with big brain holes, basically the rifle design of the rifle gun was established.

But being designed doesn't mean it can be made, and what's made doesn't mean it can be used.

This ghost thing has higher requirements on materials and processing than the early Watt steam engines... To engrave rifling inside the barrel and make the rifling durable, then the material of the barrel should not be too soft. If it is too soft, fire once Then the rifling will be worn away.

Secondly, while you can’t be too soft, you can’t be too hard... Otherwise, with the current sad processing ability of the Great Chu Empire, it can’t be processed... Pig iron is a typical example. The Great Chu Empire has almost no way to process pig iron except for casting. processing.

The carbon content of this thing is too high, the material is too hard and brittle, and the secondary processing after molding is very troublesome.

In addition to the material of the barrel, there are also requirements for the shell itself... If you use rifled shells, then you can't use spherical shells. If you use cylindrical shells, then you need to design the shape of the shells, which also involves air. Dynamics section.

Then it was designed. Your shell must be processed with very high precision, so that the shell can fit the barrel as much as possible, reduce the gap, and let the shell stick to the rifling and rotate out of the bore...

This series of technical difficulties finally lead to a problem: materials!

This is also the most and the biggest problem that the Great Chu Empire has encountered since the development of industry. The problem of materials has plagued the industrial circles of the Great Chu Empire almost all the time. Because the materials cannot meet the requirements, many seemingly bright prospects Neither industrial design can be realized.

The previous steam engine has been in operation for more than ten years, but it has always been stuck by material problems.

The rifled artillery has also been prophesied for several years, but it is also stuck by the material problem.

Finally, the Great Chu Empire has not solved a very important ammunition problem so far, and that is the collision fuze.

So far, the series of howitzers used by the Chu army still use wooden fuzes. This is a timed fuze, and the detonation time depends on the length of the fuze. …

In the past two years, the Ammunition Research Institute under the Ministry of Industry has produced a metal disc fuze, but it is still a timed fuze, but its reliability and accuracy are stronger than wooden fuzes.

The Chu army, especially the navy, has always wanted to come up with a collision fuze so that the shells will explode after hitting the target.

This can not only effectively reduce the dud rate, but also bring a kind of bomb weight to the navy's naval guns that penetrates the armor of the enemy warship and then explodes, that is, the armor-piercing blasting bomb!
It's a pity that this ghost thing is also very troublesome to develop.

Many studies and designs will eventually be delayed or even stranded due to material problems... This is why the Great Chu Empire has continued to invest heavily in these years, and a large number of talents have carried out various basic researches.

Not only the official Royal Institute of Technology, but also major research institutes directly under the Ministry of Industry and other pure theoretical research institutions, major companies have also invested heavily in this area. Hantian Machinery Company is a typical example of them. In order to develop better Machine tools, in order to produce higher-performance machine tool tools, have always invested a lot in the field of materials.

And this kind of big investment has also brought them huge returns!
Hantian Machinery's machine tools, especially those that require cutting tools such as cutting drills, are ahead of other domestic machinery companies by a large margin.

The industrial knives of Hantian Machinery Co., Ltd. are the number one in China, and this has also brought them a huge market.

Not only the market, but also Lilan!
When you have a product that far outperforms your competitors and your customers are desperate for it.Then you can sell it very expensive... well, that is to give more so-called added value...

A state-of-the-art large-scale high-end boring machine that can be used to process large parts such as steam engine cylinders and gun barrels, but with very high precision, they dare to sell it for more than 8 Chu yuan without discount... the price is almost the same as that of a frigate.

What kind of concept is this? It is probably similar to the fact that a machine tool in later generations sells for hundreds of millions!
But his customers, such as Daye Heavy Machinery Company, Zhenjiang Heavy Machinery Company, and major weapon companies, are still queuing up to buy...the orders have been queued for several years.

The most important thing is that Hantian Machinery Company is also playing package sales...

Are you going to buy our high-end machine tools?Yes, although there is no stock in the warehouse now, we will have a machine returned by other customers next month, but this machine is a matching order with other machine tools. If you want it, you can pack it together and take it away.

What, buy it alone?This is a complete set of orders, not just buy!
If you want to buy it separately, you can place a new order, but I want to tell you that our orders have been queued for three years... It is conservatively estimated that your new order will not arrive until three years later.

That's right, Hantian Machinery Co., Ltd. used various names to engage in bundled sales, which left a lot of customers speechless, and even made some of its competitors furious.

The main competitor of Hantian Machinery Company in the field of machine tools, Wuhu Machine Tool Company has complained to the high-level officials of the Ministry of Industry several times, saying that Hantian Machinery Company is too careless. The low-end meat is also served in one pot. …

If this continues, the empire's machine tool R&D and production industry will become the monopoly of Hantian Machinery, and other companies will be completely dead.

In this regard, the senior management of the Ministry of Industry is actually very helpless... Although the Ministry of Industry is directly under the management of Hantian Machinery Company, the Ministry of Industry has always ignored this kind of normal corporate competition.

Hantian Machinery Co., Ltd. has spent so much money in the past so many years. In order to raise funds for research and development, a company engaged in machine tools has suddenly become a cooking utensils and kitchen utensils company that is well-known among the people and even the world...

They paid so well, finally came up with some new materials and new technologies, and then came up with a new generation of high-end machine tools. If the Ministry of Industry does not let them eat meat, the thousands of people in Hantian Machinery will probably go crazy.

In addition, other machine tool companies are indeed not up to the mark... Wuhu Machine Tool Company is also the second largest machine tool company in China, and its establishment is not much later than Hantian Machinery. The early personnel were even transferred from Hantian Machinery Company.

These two are actually a family.

After the separation, the eldest son, Hantian Machinery, worked hard and raised funds for research and development through the development of civilian industries, while Wuhu Machine Tool Company was lying on its laurels. Over the past ten years, Wuhu Machine Tool Company has grown quite large. The benefits are also quite good, but the research and development investment is very limited...

Several general offices have no interest in technology research and development. They only focus on the mature route for sales promotion. They simply expand the production scale, and they are in the same line. One can use the company's money as welfare to win people's hearts...

However, the investment in technology research and development is very limited... No, now he has tasted the bad results, and was put down by the Hantian Machinery Company in one go.

What should I do if the second son is not up to date?
It can still be done like this, cold salad... You said it is the second largest machine tool company in China, and it is related to the people's livelihood... Sorry, the Ministry of Industry still has three sons, four sons, and fifth sons in the machine tool industry... and there are at least ten more Several godsons, some large machinery companies will more or less get involved in the machine tool industry.

Without a second son, the other sons can also take over.

It's not that it won't work without it.

You said that the scale of this enterprise is large, and the impact of closing down is not good... Are you kidding the country? There are too many enterprises under the Ministry of Industry, and most of them are large or even super-large enterprises.

If a mere machine tool company closes down, it will also go bankrupt... Even if it is to avoid negative effects, it can organize other related companies to split and reorganize, and the equipment and technical personnel will not be lost too much.

This attitude of the Ministry of Industry is not aimed specifically at Wuhu Machine Tool Company, but towards most of the companies under its command. Except for a very small number of companies that are really irreplaceable and cannot go bankrupt, most of the subordinate companies are actually can be replaced.

Because the Ministry of Industry never puts all eggs in one basket!

There are five biological sons and a dozen godsons in the machine tool industry... The same is true for other industries. Even in the nascent steam engine industry, the Ministry of Industry has three sons. After seeing the rapid development of the steam engine industry, the Ministry of Industry It is already brewing to further release the patent authorization of steam engines, and then select several powerful enterprises to carry out the production and research and development of steam engines. …

Wuhu Machine Tool Company, which was unwilling to make progress and lacked investment in technology research and development for many years, was put down by Hantian Machinery Company in one go, and its market share shrank sharply.

After struggling for two years, Wuhu Machine Tool Company became more and more difficult to operate, and soon became insolvent.

By August 18, Wuhu Machine Tool Company, which had come to an end, officially declared bankruptcy and reorganization!

By the way, except for the last general office who came here to clean up the mess, more than half of the former general office and co-organizers and other senior executives have been imprisoned... These people have not done anything in the past few years. Less corruption.

The penultimate general office has only been in office for two years, and he has made more than [-] Chu yuan!
This is not more than [-] U.S. dollars from later generations, but more than [-] Chu Yuan in the [-]th century. This money can sell a thousand-ton first-class cruiser!
After he was arrested for being so courageous, Luo Zhixue wrote his own instructions and rewarded him with the emperor's favor of beheading all his families!

Not to mention the unfortunate fate of these corrupt elements, let's say that Wuhu Machine Tool Company, which has fallen into bankruptcy and reorganization, is already insolvent, with backward technology and almost no market competitiveness of its products.

Under such circumstances, the Ministry of Industry didn't even bother to spend money to save it... The same funds would be excellent for the third son Tongzhou Machine Tool Company or the fourth son Liaoyang Machine Tool Company, there is no need to throw it into the muddy quagmire of Wuhu Machine Tool Company up.

Ever since, a strategy was finally decided: dismantling and selling, and the proceeds to fill the debts of the financial bank... Wuhu Machine Tool Company still has a loan of more than 80 Chu Yuan to repay.

Moreover, it is seriously insolvent. According to conventional statistics, the company's assets are not more than 80 Chu Yuan!

The general office of the Anlu Branch of the Financial Bank has already announced that this crappy company should not have issued loans three years ago, but you were the ones who cried and shouted in the past and asked us to lend with various guarantees... Now the company is doomed Well, if the money can't be exchanged, then don't blame us for being rude, and go directly to the various guarantee companies.

The financial bank and the enterprises in your Ministry of Industry are not the same system. The financial bank directly belongs to the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Finance directly manages the bank, while many industrial enterprises belong to the Ministry of Industry.

The two are not in the same system, and most of the time it is the enterprises of the Ministry of Industry who are asking for the Finance Bank, so the Finance Bank does not give face to the people of the Ministry of Industry at all.

If the money is not paid...they will go directly to those companies that provide guarantees, such as the Huainan Mining Company, and don't blame us for poking a big hole when the time comes.

More than 80 Chu yuan, this is not a small amount, even if the boss of the Ministry of Industry says it will not work, the money must be paid back!

Fortunately, Wuhu Machine Tool Co., Ltd. developed early enough and its scale is large enough. Many branch factories are still very valuable, and some patent authorizations obtained in the early stage are also relatively valuable. In addition, some researchers are also valuable.

In order to repay the debt and make up for this big hole, the senior officials of the Ministry of Industry decided to die early after discussion: directly split and sell Wuhu Machinery Company!
And welcome the active participation of people from all walks of life in China!

This news caused many people to make their own calculations. …

There are not only Hantian Machinery Company, an old competitor, but also Tongzhou Machine Tool Company and Liaoyang Machine Tool Company, which are lagging behind in industries.

In addition, there are some cross-industry companies. For example, Huainan Mining Company is very interested in a smelting branch of Wuhu Machine Tool Company.

In addition to the large enterprises and insiders affiliated to the Ministry of Industry, there is also no shortage of private capital.

Although Wuhu Machine Tool Company is insolvent and its technology is backward, it is still a large government-run enterprise with a strong foundation, especially some of its technical talents, which make private enterprises drool.

Foshan Li's Iron and Steel Company is one of them, and they have a big appetite. They want to directly acquire the core assets of Wuhu Machine Tool Company, that is, the industrial machine tool industry in the past, so as to enter the machine tool industry!

The Li family in Foshan, this small family that survived the pre-Ming period and can only be regarded as one of the dozen or so iron-making families in Foshan, has been out of control since entering the era of the Great Chu Empire. .

When the Chu army first captured the Foshan area, in order to maintain the follow-up operations in the Guangdong, Guangxi, and even Yunnan-Guizhou areas, the output of the weapons company under the Ministry of Industry of the Great Chu Empire was also limited, and because the main factories of the Ministry of Industry were concentrated in the Yangtze River Basin .

In order to understand the urgent need, the Ministry of Industry built various types of factories in the Pearl River Delta region, that is, Guangzhou and surrounding areas, and at the same time gathered the iron-making industry in Foshan and placed a large number of arms orders with them.

Mainly all kinds of cold weapons, armor and other orders.

During this process, a large number of local iron-making families were too greedy and lacked respect for the Great Chu Empire.

But the Li family did their duty, or they didn't have the guts to engage in shoddy things, and this also ushered in a large number of weapons orders.

Relying on the military's weapons orders, the Li family ushered in the first wave of development and made a lot of money from the military.

Later, as the factories of the Ministry of Industry in the Guangzhou area were built one after another, and after the order for weapons decreased, Lee's Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. began to take the initiative to transform, or return to its old business: iron products such as cooking utensils and farm tools.

This was another wave of important opportunities that they seized. At that time, the Great Chu Empire was launching an agricultural development plan, and provided relatively large support and subsidies for the iron farm tool industry. Arm trading companies to expand export share.

This gave them a second opportunity for development!

During this process, they completely packaged and transferred the weapons production business to Liangguang Weapons Company, which is also the only comprehensive weapons company in the southern region of the Great Chu Empire.

After the reunification of the Great Chu Empire, many defense factories were integrated and managed, mainly divided by geography and industry, and successively established Hantian Arms Company, Jiangnan Arms Company, Shaanxi-Gansu Arms Company, Hebei Arms Company, Northeast Arms Company, Guangdong-Guangdong Arms Company, and Guangxi Arms Company. There are a total of six large-scale comprehensive weapon companies in the weapon company, in addition to some large-scale enterprises that are used for both military and civilian purposes, such as Songjiang Naval Shipyard, Guangzhou Shipyard, Qingdao Naval Shipyard, Daye Heavy Machinery Company, Zhenjiang Heavy Machinery Company, etc. …

The Liangguang Arms Company has become the largest arms company in the southern region.

Li's Iron & Steel sold their arms business to Liangguang Arms Company, and so... the last private defense enterprise in the Great Chu Empire became history, completely withdrawing from the defense market, and then fully turned to the civilian market.

Taking advantage of its advantages in agricultural tools, cooking utensils and export markets, Lee's Iron Manufacturing Company quickly accumulated a large number of funds and technical personnel, holding a large amount of money, and at the same time set foot in the upstream related industries such as mining and smelting. Seeing the rapid development of ocean trade, the iron company decisively invested heavily in the shipbuilding industry.

After years of development, Li's Shipyard has become the fourth largest shipyard in the Great Chu Empire. It is also one of the few shipyards in China that can produce new ocean-going merchant ships of more than [-] tons. Since it was put into operation, its shipbuilding orders have never been empty. .

During the rapid development, Lee's Shipyard has built dry docks one after another, perfected sailing, logging, wood processing, oil and other related shipbuilding industries, and also acquired three small and medium-sized shipyards in the middle, perfecting the types of shipbuilding. From large-tonnage ocean-going warships, armed merchant ships, to offshore vessels and inland watercraft, Lee's Shipyard can produce them all.

In the last two years, they have also started to get involved in the machine tool manufacturing industry.

Today, in the 18th year of Chengshun, Lee's Iron Manufacturing Company has actually evolved into a behemoth. The industries involved include mining, smelting, machinery, shipbuilding, logging and wood processing, sailing, iron farm tools, cooking utensils, Japanese A comprehensive enterprise in many industries such as hardware.

The total asset size has exceeded 500 million... This is about assets, not market value!
Of course, such a large-scale Li's Iron and Steel Manufacturing is no longer the monopoly of the Li family, but has become a company with relatively scattered shares. Many companies or financial institutions and even official capital are their shareholders.

The second largest shareholder other than the Li family is the Finance Department of the Guangzhou Government, which holds [-]% of the shares.

With such a scale of assets, most of the government-run enterprises of the Ministry of Industry have to bow down. For example, Songjiang Naval Shipyard is stronger than them in the shipbuilding industry. This shipyard is actually larger in scale and better in technology, but because The business is single, so the asset scale of the shipyard is not as good as Lee's Steel.

Lee's Steel Manufacturing, which has developed rapidly, now wants to increase investment in the machinery and equipment industry.

But in the machinery industry, if it’s just ordinary machinery or iron products, then it’s nothing, the threshold is not high, and many private capitals in the country have set foot in it, and then set up a so-called machinery company.

But if you want to enter some high-end machinery industries, such as the machine tool industry, it is not so easy.

The technical threshold of this industry is too high.

Relying on the support of orders from many of its own subsidiaries, Lee's Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. also set up a branch company that develops and manufactures machine tools, but it is very difficult... The difficulty of machine tool research and development is too high. The low-end route is also very difficult to use. It is a lot of trouble to use it for its own subsidiaries, and it is even not cost-effective.

However, the management of Lee's Steel has always been very ambitious, and they have never been satisfied with working in the low-end market, especially in industries with no technical barriers. Large, difficult to pay back, high threshold industry. …

This was the case in the shipbuilding industry back then, and it is the same in the machine tool industry today.

So in the past two years, they have not given up their investment in the field of machine tools, digging people everywhere to form a technical team.

Now that they heard that Wuhu Machine Tool Company, the second largest in the country, was about to go bankrupt and reorganized, and split it up for sale, and even its core business would be sold, the management of Lee's Iron & Steel Company all had their eyes lit up.

Although Wuhu Machine Tool Company was tossed and bankrupted by those corrupt officials, and the lack of investment in technology research and development for many years has also led to backward technology, but no matter what, Wuhu Machine Tool Company was once the second largest machine tool company in China.

The dead camels are bigger than horses. If they can take over their core business, that is, the machine tool business, after some rectification, and then spend money on R&D and production, there is still a great possibility that they will be revived. of.

No matter how bad it is, it will allow Lee's Iron and Steel Company to truly enter the machine tool industry.

As long as Lee's Iron and Steel Company is allowed to enter, it is not wishful thinking to rely on their financial resources and decisive determination to grab a piece of cake in the machine tool industry.

As a result, Lee's Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., the leading private heavy industry in China, formally launched an offer to the committee responsible for the bankruptcy and reorganization of Wuhu Machine Tool Company to acquire the machine tool business of Wuhu Machine Tool Company!
Moreover, the bid was very generous, with a bid of 40 Chu Yuan, to package and acquire the core machine tool business of Wuhu Machine Tool Company, including corresponding patents, R&D teams, production lines and others.

For a while, this acquisition offer worth at least 40 Chu Yuan shocked many people in the industry, even the senior management of the Ministry of Industry was shocked.

After some discussion among the senior officials of the Ministry of Industry, the plan was directly approved for no other reason: the money given by Li's Iron and Steel was too much...

In addition, the Ministry of Industry is also very optimistic about the strength of Li's Steel Manufacturing. This is a rich and well-mannered company with outstanding operating capabilities. The Ministry of Industry also hopes that the core business of Wuhu Machine Tool Company, that is, the machine tool business In order to maintain a benign competitive atmosphere in the domestic machine tool industry.