Chapter 126 Return to Rivne
In the Qing Empire at the end of the 19th century, those who could speak foreign languages were scarce talents. There were not many people who could speak Russian in the entire Qing Dynasty.
There were many foreigners who could speak Chinese in the Qing Empire, most of whom were missionaries.
The interpreter who arrived in St. Petersburg with the Chinese workers was called Adelaide. He was a Frenchman. He had been preaching in the Qing Dynasty for 20 years. Although he had not many believers, he learned fluent Chinese. Mikhail opened Adelaide betrayed God by offering a high salary of 100 rubles a month.
The workers only stayed in Oak Park for three days before heading to help at the glass factory under construction.
George went to the Academy of Sciences to inspect the research and development progress of cosmetics and glass production technology.
In 1884, to turn glass into glass bottles, experienced masters were required to do the entire process manually.
George had no old master, so he had no choice but to turn to the Academy of Sciences, hoping that the Academy could help George solve this problem.
As for the production process of glass, George does not need to worry. It is no longer the era when the Venetians monopolized glass technology. In 1851, at the first World Exposition held in London, the British Paxton used glass to As the main material, a beautiful crystal palace was built, and the uses of glass are becoming more and more widespread.
George offered a reward of 5,000 rubles for glass technology. Although this price was not attractive to academicians, it caused several researchers to rush for it.
A researcher named Kanunnikov stood out from the competition. He was a Muscovite and had relatives working in Schwabe's factories.
With the help of relatives, Kanunnikov personally visited the factory in Schwabe. After many improvements, Kanunnikov designed a machine that can produce 200 glass bottles per hour. Semi-automatic machines can be used for large-scale industrial production.
George was very happy. He came here this time to give Kanunikov a bonus.
George also hopes that Kanunnikov can work at the Optical Research Institute established by George, with a salary that is twice as high as Makarova, 200 rubles per month.
Makarova's progress was also very smooth. She crushed the eye shadow material, added alcohol, packed it in a box and compacted it. After the alcohol dried, the eye shadow was completed.
The box was specially customized by George. It uses enamel technology and is beautifully designed. It is easy to carry and can be put into a woman's handbag.
The eyebrow pencil went on equally well.
George requires that all cosmetic raw materials must be safe and harmless and must not harm people's health.
So Makarova abandoned minerals and used beeswax and vegetable dyes. She mixed them with water and stirred them evenly until all the ingredients were mixed together. Then she poured the raw materials into the prepared container for refrigeration and solidification. , and finally finish making the eyebrow pencil just like making a pencil.
Shadelin also had achievements. He used the rose oil that George brought back from Romania as the main raw material to prepare a women's perfume, which was questioned by Makarova and Nina.
From the perspective of Makarova and Nina, the smell of this perfume is not wonderful. In Makarova's words, after adding other raw materials, it destroys the purity of rose oil and makes people have distracting thoughts.
It’s okay to have distracting thoughts in your mind.
Shadelin’s attitude is very firm. Women use perfume to please men, so whether a perfume is excellent or not, women’s opinions are not important.
After evaluation by several academicians, Makarova and Nina had nothing to say and had to admit that Shadelin was right.
There is no doubt that academicians also have this need. Human beings yearn for beautiful things, regardless of high or low.
Nina is working on nail polish with Makarova's assistance.
Nail polish is a joint project between Nina and Makarova. George is only responsible for providing creative ideas and leaving the rest. For every completed study, participants can receive 200 rubles as a reward. Nina stayed up all day and night for 200 rubles and didn't go home for half a month.
“If you don’t go home, your father will take you back.” George threatened Nina.
"I told Dalia, and Dalia agreed." Nina's voice was small, but she was indeed resisting.
George had no obligation to help Yeluoxin discipline the children, so he took the machine invented by Kanunnikov back to Oak Park.
Kanunnikov has agreed to work in George's research institute. His first task is to develop the lenses needed for sunglasses.
The demand for sights from Rubber Group is actually not large, and it cannot afford to support a factory.
The market for sunglasses, or sunglasses, is huge. In order to prevent snow blindness, everyone in Russia has a demand.
There are nearly 100 million people in Russia alone.
Men and women sunbathing on the beaches along the Mediterranean coast also have a need for sunglasses.
This is an extremely huge market.
The most important thing is that George doesn’t even have a competitor.
Not just within Russia.
In the whole world, George has no rivals.
With the joining of Chinese workers, the progress of the glass factory suddenly accelerated. Adelaide did not speak Russian and Julian did not speak French, so they needed a translator to communicate normally.
George did not show any special care for the Chinese workers. After the new bullets are finalized, the machine guns must be adjusted according to the size of the bullets. The Russian military has notified arms companies in various countries that it will invite tenders for heavy machine guns. Gatling and Maxim have already Confirm to participate.
George will definitely participate in 1883. Nicholas came to the rubber group to cheer George up and hope that George can defeat foreign companies.
"If 1883 wins the bid, the military must purchase at least 1,000. If it is a foreign company, the purchase amount will not exceed 100. However, if your heavy machine gun wins the bid, I am afraid you will need to transfer the technology to the military. , the military will pay a technology transfer fee, and pay you a patent fee after each one is produced." Nikola worked hard to fight for George's interests. After the magazine-type rifle was adopted by the Russian military, George. A technology transfer fee has been obtained.
Yasan originally bought George’s sample gun for 10,000 rubles apiece, using Yasan’s personal account, which had nothing to do with the military.
After the magazine-type rifle was adopted by the military, the military paid George a one-time technology transfer fee of 100,000 rubles. In addition, for every magazine-type rifle produced by Russia to equip the army, George also paid You can get 0.5 rubles.
George could get more if Russia made magazine-fed rifles available for export.
The magazine-type rifle designed by George is officially called Yuriev in the Russian military.
That’s okay, the name is similar to Mosin Nagant, there’s nothing surprising about it.
The number of heavy machine gun equipment is definitely not as large as that of Yuriev.
However, the unit price of heavy machine guns is higher, which brings greater benefits to George. George's factory is prepared for the production of heavy machine guns.
It doesn’t matter what we produce. The key is to be able to accumulate a group of skilled workers and an experienced design team through the production of 1883. This is what George values most.
The Obukhov Steel Plant can produce 305mm large-caliber naval guns.
George doesn't have such big ambitions. He can always produce some 80 and 90 mm caliber mortars.
With mortars, you can't live without artillery shells, so the artillery shell factory can also be scheduled.
Both are bombs. Since mortar shells can be produced, grenades can also be produced - Okay, that's all for now. If we start the project later, George is worried that he will be punished by God.
"Don't worry, Gatlin and Maxim will never win, we will definitely win." George was confident.
Just because the bullets used by Gatling and Maxim were black powder bullets, they would not have been able to defeat 1883.
In April, the second batch of Yuriev rifles arrived at the Oak Regiment. This time it was finally not 100, but 200.
It has been four months since Christmas.
For four months, the factory went all out and only produced 200 new rifles.
George didn’t even know what to say.
Yasan did not stand in the way. The Gatchina Palace Guards had not even been equipped with new rifles. All the new rifles were sent to the Oak Regiment. The support George received was enviable.
George did not get carried away. He did spend a lot of time on business during this period, but the work of Oak Group was not affected.
After being equipped with new rifles, the combat effectiveness of the Oak Group has reached a higher level.
Russia can be ridiculously stubborn at times.
The new rifle still stubbornly uses a four-edged spur. The improvement is that the spur can finally be disassembled and reinstalled when needed. The dagger-type spur that George hopes for is still far away.
If you don’t have one, then you don’t have one. At least when lighting a fire in the wild, the four-edged spurs are quite useful, much better than fire sticks.
After the size of the bullet was reduced, the number of bullets carried by the soldiers increased from 50 to 100 rounds. George hoped to get more bullets for training work, and the new bullets arrived at the Rubber Group at the same time as the second batch of new rifles. It’s 20,000 rounds.
A rifle has 100 rounds of ammunition, and there is nothing wrong with it.
But there are no more bullets for training.
The new rifle consumes much more bullets than the Berdan II rifle.
The next step is to equip heavy machine guns with greater bullet consumption, and a new arsenal is imminent.
"Don't worry, George, wait a little longer-" Nicholas comforted George, Rome was not built in a day.
Vasily came to George. He had been thinking about how to dismantle the artillery since the Rovno exercise last year, and now this matter has finally come to light.
"If we can disassemble the artillery into several parts such as the barrel, base, wheel frame, etc., we can tie these parts to the horseback and assemble them after arriving at the destination; also, our artillery does not need to be reassembled at all. These cannons are made of steel, not copper, but they weigh the same as copper cannons. This is unreasonable. The strength of steel is much higher than that of copper cannons, and they can be made lighter. "Vasily is good at thinking, he said. The idea is correct.
Vasily and George made the same mistake, not taking into account the actual situation in Russia.
The artillery of the Oak Regiment is imported from Germany. Will Germany sell its most advanced artillery to Russia?
You know it’s impossible even if you think about it with your heels. Even if Krupp applies new technology to artillery exported to Russia, the fundamental purpose is probably not to improve the combat effectiveness of the Russian army, but to verify the correctness of the technology. Use Russian artillery as guinea pigs.
Both the 9-pounder guns and 4-pounder guns used by the Russian Army need to be imported from Germany.
The fundamental reason why the military department negotiated the acquisition with Obukhov Steel Plant was to change the current predicament.
“A good idea, but it can’t be realized, at least not now.” George invited Vasily to drink and called Demeter to accompany him.
The appetizer is George's favorite fried peanuts. While Demeter was still looking for cutlery, George and Vasily reached out at the same time.
Demeter was shocked, don’t you eat without utensils?
George wants to use it too.
However, a table knife and fork are powerless against fried peanuts. Using a spoon is almost as efficient as grabbing it with your hands, and there is no need to clean the tableware.
As for whether to wash your hands or not.
Let’s talk after eating.
“Why?” Vasily was as simple as George back then.
"Because generals always want to gain the greatest victory at the least cost." George did not simply blame the Tsar, and he really did not blame the Tsar.
If the Tsar was as arbitrary as the legend says, Russia would not have so many difficulties.
"How will we fight in this year's exercise?" Demeter changed the topic. This topic was too heavy and he drank too quickly.
"Since there are no rules, there are no rules. We will do whatever we can to kill all the enemies and we will win." George hoped to give full play to the subjective initiative of the officers and soldiers.
There are still five months until the start of the exercise, and George hopes that within these five months, the combat effectiveness of the Oak Group will reach a higher level.
To this end, George prepared some new subjects for the officers and soldiers of the Oak Regiment.
A week later, the Oak Regiment broke camp and headed to Rivne for long-distance training.
1000 kilometers is suitable for long-distance training. The rubber regiment is very fast and reaches Rivne at an average speed of 100 kilometers per day. Only the artillery is transported by train.
After the troops arrived in Rivne and rested for three days, George went to Witte again and asked for repairs to the Rivne train station.
“It can’t be repaired. Not only can’t it be repaired, we are also preparing to abandon the Rivne train station. Now few people take the train from Rivne.” Witte was deeply resentful. After the Rivne exercise last year, Konoe The army mobilized frantically and relocated all the residents around Rivne. Now the area around Rivne has become a no-man's land.
"That's just right. You evacuate and I'll take over." George didn't mind, no one was better.
It was really not George's intention to blackmail these Russian officials, including some important imperial ministers. In George's view, their abilities were inferior to even the village chiefs in the 21st century.
Just find any township head and he will be the Minister of the Interior in the Russian Empire.
Ignaev was forced to resign because of the Joint Parliament. Before making recommendations, he did too little work, did not fully consider the interests of all parties, and placed his hopes solely on the Tsar.
This violated the taboo of acting without planning, which in the eyes of the Tsar was a sign of lack of ability.
"That won't work. The train station is the property of our company." Witte resolutely defended his employer's interests.
"Didn't you just say you don't want it?" Alfred looked evil, as if he wanted to eat the Overlord's meal.
Before coming to Rivno, George reported to the Tsar in advance that Alfred was the Tsar's supervisor.
Alfred and George are also old friends. Alfred also has a share in the arsenal that George is planning to build.
(End of this chapter)