Siheyuan: Bringing Warehouses to 1959

The big guys who lead the first department are usually very busy. Today they have a meeting. After the meeting, old man Qiu from the logistics department asked old man Liu from the first machine department to discuss something.

Official business. At that time, the Ministry of First Machine Industry was still in charge of military industry.

Old man Yang, who came to the meeting, had something to ask Old man Qiu. In preparation for the confrontation in the middle of this year, he asked Old man Qiu for some extra boats for training.

So the three old men, who rarely get together, stayed in Old Man Qiu’s office to chat.

At this time, Minister Lin, who had much less experience than the three old men, came over happily.

"Minister..." Minister Lin came into the office, greeted briefly, and said as he took out a blueprint, "Good news, great news, the 208th Institute has reported a success, they have developed an automatic rifle, and the performance of the rifle is much better than the Type 56 we are using now."

Automatic rifle?

The three old men were all stunned.

All three of them came from military backgrounds. Old man Yang was still working in the army. Even the more gentle old man Liu, all three were very familiar with guns.

"Nonsense!" Old man Qiu said after being stunned. "The Type 56 rifle has only been in service for a few years. Why are you making another rifle? Can an automatic rifle be made in a short time? I told you that we need to make a small gun suitable for scouts now."

Apparently, Mr. Qiu misunderstood and thought that Institute 208 had launched a new project and made progress.

Minister Lin touched the blueprint and realized that the leader had misunderstood. He quickly explained: "Minister, please take a look at this. They have already finished it. The blueprints are out. If the department agrees, we can immediately arrange a production sample gun test meeting..."

"Wait a minute, what did you say? Test directly?" A flash of surprise passed through Old Man Qiu's eyes, and he took the drawing and looked at it carefully.

Old Man Yang and Old Man Liu were itching to take a look, so they hurried over to take a look.

Although the three of them were not from scientific research backgrounds, they were very familiar with the structure of guns, so they knew at a glance that the familiar-looking thing on the drawing was a new thing.

"Minister, the report from the 208th Institute shows that this gun is excellent in all aspects." While Old Man Qiu and the other two were looking at the blueprints, Minister Lin was explaining the report below. "Comrades Li Fan and Zhou Yuanbai from the team have verified it and believe that there is no problem with this gun. It is at least one generation more advanced than our Type 56.

"Look at the back. The last page has the data, features, etc. of this gun."

Old Man Qiu slowly flipped through the drawings and came to the last page, where he saw the following words:

"The gun has a low failure rate and can withstand the test of severe cold, scorching heat, wind and sand, immersion, and other tests, and can be used in various environments; the gun has a long service life, there is no failure when firing bullets, and there are a few failures when firing bullets; the gun has high shooting accuracy..."

(The above is from Baidu, and it finally worked!)

These advantages directly struck the hearts of the three old men.

However, Old Man Qiu was surprised and said, "You just said that the gun was developed by the 208th Institute, but it has not been tested yet. So where do these advantages come from? If there is no gun produced, who can guarantee the existence of these advantages?"

"Uh..." Minister Lin was dumbfounded.

What Old Man Qiu asked about was an obvious loophole. This loophole had nothing to do with the design of the gun, but was a very classic and simple truth.

"Comrade, you can't be careless when doing your work, and you can't speak without thinking." Old Man Qiu said earnestly, "You just write something down without verification, and you treat it as a treasure. Who drew this picture?"

"I was so happy that I forgot to ask..."

After glaring at Minister Lin, Old Man Qiu turned to the back of the last page of the drawing and saw a line of beautiful words written on it:

"Teacher, I guarantee with my life that there is no problem with this gun. It is an excellent rifle. All those advantages exist. If possible, please arrange for a production sample gun test... Your student: Zeng Wangcai!"

Seeing this line of words, Old Man Liu and Old Man Yang were both stunned.

Zeng Wangcai?

The person who drew the picture is Zeng Wangcai?

That’s not right. Isn’t that guy feeding the pigs?

Old Man Yang and Old Man Liu looked at each other and saw confusion in each other's eyes.

Old man Liu stepped forward and asked, "You just said that the blueprints were submitted by Institute 208. Is there someone in Institute 208 named Zeng Wangcai?"

The first one of them suspected that the one with the same name, Zeng Wangcai, was not the same Zeng Wangcai.

Both old men knew that Zeng Wangcai's strengths were in getting supplies, hunting, fishing, good luck, and maybe even mysterious.

But it is impossible that firearms were suddenly invented shortly after joining the army. That would be too mysterious.

Institute 208 is so big that it is impossible for Minister Lin to know whether there is someone named Zeng Wangcai in it. He has already realized his mistake in work and was so happy that he forgot to ask for details.

He quickly called to verify.

Five or six minutes later, Minister Lin finished the call with a strange expression and said, "I have asked, there is no Zeng Wangcai in the 208th Institute. This Zeng Wangcai is a student of Comrade Zhou Yuanbai, a high school graduate, and is now serving in the army."

"Join the army?" Old Man Yang and Old Man Liu spoke at the same time.

"What's the matter? Do you two know this Zeng Wangcai?" Old Man Qiu asked curiously.

“If I’m not mistaken, the Zeng Wangcai who drew the picture is the Zeng Wangcai we know.” Old man Yang smiled bitterly, “But… how could that guy come up with this? He’s training every day now. Besides training, he has to open up wasteland, feed pigs, hunt, and fish…”

"Wait a minute, Zeng Wangcai is your soldier?"

"what!"

"What kind of troops?"

"Logistics Department, farming, feeding pigs, and getting supplies!"

"..."

Are you two kidding me?

I thought Zeng Wangcai was some genius, but turns out he’s just a logistician?

It’s not that old man Qiu looked down on logistics, he himself worked in logistics. He just felt that how could a soldier in the logistics department design an automatic rifle that even the 208th Institute could not design.

But Old Man Liu and Old Man Yang had already believed it halfway at this time. They knew that Zeng Wangcai was somewhat mysterious, or it would be more appropriate to say that he was magical. Some unreasonable things could happen to Zeng Wangcai.

Old man Yang asked Minister Lin to go out first, and asked everyone else in the office to go out, leaving only the three old men together.

"Old Qiu, this matter is a bit strange. Let me tell you, you make your own judgment..." When there was no one around, Old Man Liu started talking from when he first met Zeng Wangcai, and told him all he knew about Zeng Wangcai.

"This..." Now it was Old Man Qiu's turn to be confused.

"It's true. I didn't believe it at first." Old Man Yang said with a wry smile, "You know, I asked him to get 10,000 kilograms of supplies a month. In the first month, he brought more than 30 people to build a military camp. In the last few days, there were only 3,000 kilograms of supplies. Guess what happened when we collected the supplies on the last day?"

"So?"

"He used grenades to blow up fish in the lake, blowing up 10,000 kilograms of fish in half a day..."

After Mr. Qiu got to know Zeng Wangcai, he looked at the blueprint again and said, "So, if this blueprint was really drawn by him, then the data behind it might be true?"

"Well, it's almost there!"

"I understand what you said... Hehe, Lao Yang, I will go to the army with you tomorrow..."

How can such a talented person stay in the logistics department of the army? He should come to our logistics department. I will give him a base and let him tinker with it as he pleases...