Chapter 780 Inventors and Spies (First update, please subscribe)

Confidentiality must be maintained.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty has always done a good job in corporate confidentiality, thanks to the fact that Emperor Zhu had been in and out of research and development institutions when he was studying for his master's degree. Even if he has not eaten pork, he has seen pigs walk.

As early as when Nanhua was first established, in order to reap huge profits from steel, Emperor Zhu formulated a groundbreaking corporate confidentiality system, and with proper supervision, no corporate secrets have been leaked over the years.

Of course, the most important thing is the confidentiality system.

As usual, when leaving the Nanhua Arsenal laboratory, Liu Qingen first put his bag in the basket and accepted a simple inspection. According to the laboratory's confidentiality system, even a piece of paper could not be taken out of the laboratory. The system is the system.

Although the paper did not come out, on the way home by bicycle, Liu Qingen was still thinking about the problems he had studied in the past few months.

"Recoil. If we use the recoil, can we use the recoil to fire continuously?"

This sudden idea originated from a shooting last year. When he was test-firing a rifle, he did not hold the rifle properly and the butt of the rifle hit his shoulder, leaving a large bruise. He was in pain for two days. Facing the bruise on his shoulder, an idea popped into his mind - use the recoil to automatically load the weapon.

After riding for about 20 minutes, he arrived home and, as usual, he was in the utility room, which was his personal laboratory, staring at the blueprint. In fact, the structure on the blueprint was just a principle sketch.

"The barrel should be floating. In this way, after the bullet is fired, the barrel and the bolt will recoil together..."

Soon, the imaginary structure of the barrel and bolt appeared in his mind. After describing it on the drawing, he frowned and thought about the structure of the machine gun.

This is a weapon that can fire continuously like a Gatling gun. What is the biggest feature of this weapon?

It is not as bulky as the Gatling gun, which requires at least three barrels and a complex firing and feeding mechanism, as well as an electric motor and a battery. It uses the energy of bullet gunpowder gas to truly achieve continuous shooting.

"The biggest problem is how to cycle it. If you want to feed it, you can use the Gatling gun's ammunition belt. Then what?"

While thinking, Liu Qingen was playing with the bullet belt. The gaps between his fingers became the chamber. When he pulled the bullet belt, the bullets were pressed between his fingers by the compression rod.

"This is very simple. All you need to do is add a guiding slope to the bolt to drive the ejector teeth..."

Liu Qingen drew one blueprint after another while demonstrating the structure of each component in his mind.

Of course, in the end he still needs to integrate those parts together, manufacture the parts according to the drawings, and then put them together.

This is a complete process of "creating something out of nothing". From concept to reality, this process is long, but sometimes, it is just a flash of inspiration.

An accidental discovery or an occasional flash of inspiration often leads to unexpected gains.

Although Liu Qingen didn't know whether his idea could become a reality, he has been working hard over the past year.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration!

Liu Qingen himself doesn’t know whether he is a genius or not, but one thing is certain, he works hard enough. In the past year, he would stay in this utility room for five or six hours every day after get off work.

While drawing the blueprints, he used simple machine tools to make parts. In the past year, the storage of unusable parts in this utility room has exceeded one ton. Those parts are now almost all scrap metal. Many of the parts scattered on the tool table are also scrap metal. However, he never gave up.

He did all this in his spare time. Amid the harsh sound of machine tool milling, after a part was formed, without any heat treatment, Liu Qingen combined it with several other parts, and finally, a completely new design of the bolt appeared in front of him.

"Okay, the instantaneous impact force of the barrel recoil after firing pushes the bolt, and the bolt continues to recoil, and then..."

Looking at the gun barrel, bolt and other parts on the table, Liu Qingen tried to use them to simulate the firing and recovery process of the weapon.

"It seems to be the case. It's about time to give it a try!"

…

Three days later, Liu Qingen rode a bicycle with a box and went directly to the suburbs. He did not go to the shooting range of the arsenal. He did not need to make it known to everyone before he succeeded.

After riding south for more than an hour, he arrived at the seaside. The wind was very strong. Standing on the gravel beach, Liu Qingen took a box from the back of the bike. The box contained the sample gun he had just made.

However, it only took him a minute to put the gun on the bipod, then took out a bullet belt, disassembled the receiver, and inserted the bullet belt. Liu Qingen seemed a little excited. He lay down behind the machine gun, looked at the sea, and pulled the bolt hard.

“Crash!”

At the moment of loading the gun, he took a deep breath, then held it, looked through the gap on the sight, aimed at the sea surface, and pulled the trigger.

“Beep…”

The moment the gunshot rang out, Liu Qingen felt the recoil of the gun body. Unlike the direct recoil in the past, he could feel the vibration and inertia of the bolt as it moved in the receiver. That inertia was the movement back and forth driven by the spring.

"Beep, beep, beep..."

Gunshot!

There was a continuous burst of gunfire.

At the moment he released the trigger, Liu Qingen was stunned for a long time. He couldn't believe it was true, but the six Huangliang Meng bullet casings flying beside the gun reminded him that it was true.

"It really, really worked. It worked!"

Shouting excitedly, Liu Qingen pulled the trigger again.

Gunshots rang out again on the beach, even though the gun was vibrating violently and even a little out of control, and the bullets seemed to be a little off-target - the water column on the sea surface was widely scattered. But the constantly ejected shells and gunshots told him a reality - this gun could fire continuously.

The sound of gunfire from the beach traveled far away, all the way to the coastal highway. The gendarmes who were patrolling on the highway were stunned when they heard the gunfire, and then they stopped their horses.

The continuous gunfire sounded very special. Unlike the "buzzing" sound of the Gatling gun, this continuous gunfire sounded like dozens of rifles firing continuously.

"Lee An, listen to the gunshots. Is someone training?"

Sun Tao asked with a frown.

"It's a bit like a volley of bullets, but the shots are very neat. Even the best-trained people can't shoot in such a neat pattern. Just like, just like..."

Before Li An could come up with any words, Sun Tao adjusted his horse and spoke.

"Have you heard that there are troops training here? Let's go and take a look!"

As soon as the two of them rode their horses to the beach, they saw a guy lying on the beach holding a strange-looking object...

"What kind of thing did he use?"

Listening to the continuous gunshots, the two men were dumbfounded.

They were soldiers and had certainly seen Gatling guns, but they had never seen a machine gun like that.

"My goodness, this thing couldn't have been stolen by this guy, right?"

When saying this, the two people looked at each other. This is simply a walking medal of honor!

Why are they so excited?

Because when they were serving in the army, they had never seen such a thing, something so small, but able to fire continuously like a Gatling machine gun.

Even if someone wanted to try it out, they couldn't just stay on the beach and play with it.

Although they were very excited, they still quietly moved over. When they were about to get close to the guy, they pounced at the same time...

(End of this chapter)