Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

After hearing this, Political Commissar Su asked curiously:

"How come there is a kettle? This kind of thing can be bought on the market. Although it is a little expensive, it is better than having it shipped all the way to us from the logistics department."

"Commander, this is the latest product from the Arsenal Glass Factory. We shipped it here, which can save a lot of money."

"Also, this is a top-secret document that Minister Zhang specifically asked me to bring to you. Please sign for it, both leaders."

After he finished speaking, he took out a document bag from a briefcase. It had a special fire seal on it and the word "Top Secret" was written on a piece of seal.

Political Commissar Su hurried forward and carefully checked the various marks on the document. After confirming that there was no problem, he nodded to Brigade Commander Wang and asked the brigade security officer to put the document away.

The Eighth Route Army had already established a system for transferring confidential documents, so there would be no problem at all.

Finally, Section Chief Sun also said: "My two leaders, according to Minister Zhang's instructions, these materials will be delivered every month, and our transport team will also transport the materials collected by the troops back."

After the handover of supplies was completed, Brigade Commander Wang and Political Commissar Su returned to the office and ordered someone to bring the confidential documents. The two wanted to see what it was that deserved such attention from the head of the headquarters.

"Old Wang, let's see what kind of surprise the brigade has brought us this time?"

After he finished speaking, he opened the file, revealing a printed booklet with about forty pages and even a few photos.

Of course, these photos were taken specially by Kong Hao, using the same Leica camera he used before, just to let others clearly understand what he wanted to express through the photos.

A small photo studio has been set up in the current arsenal. There are three cameras specially used for taking various photos, especially the process pictures of many equipments, which are needed for summarizing and improving afterwards.

Political Commissar Su took a closer look and couldn't help but admire it:

"This is unimaginable. There is actually such a way to turn decay into something magical. I have lived for so long, but today is really an eye-opener for me."

Upon seeing this, Brigade Commander Wang also asked curiously:

"Political Commissar, what new thing did you encounter that surprised you so much? This is not like you normally."

"Commander, you should take a look too. This is truly a technology that breaks everyone's cognition."

After saying this, he handed the booklet to the brigade commander and picked up the photos beside him to admire them.

After a while, when both of them were satisfied with what they saw, they started discussing:

"Political Commissar, what the manual says is that if we mix five bags of cement with a certain amount of sand and build twenty-four pools of about one square meter, we can provide high-protein food for five hundred chickens every day. Is this reliable?"

"Brigade Commander, to be honest, this is the first time I've seen this happen, and I don't know the specific effects."

"But according to the headquarters' consistent practice, documents like this must have been verified to be effective. We don't need to doubt this."

"Besides, we only need to invest a little in materials and manpower costs. As described in the book, we can continuously increase our profits later."

"It just so happens that we have obtained ten tons of cement this time. We can find a hidden place in the nearby mountains to build a large breeding base."

"The book says that as long as the chicken coop is built according to the standard and the chickens are fed according to the standard, it only takes two months to raise a chick to about four pounds, and laying hens basically lay one egg a day."

"If our brigade can raise 10,000 broiler chickens and kill 1,000 of them every month, that would be about 4,000 kilograms of chicken, which is about the same as 30 big fat pigs, which is enough for the soldiers to have meat every other day."

"And it's even more profitable to raise hens that lay eggs. As long as you raise 3,000 hens, they'll lay 3,000 eggs a day, which means 90,000 eggs a month. That's a lot of money."

After hearing this, Brigade Commander Wang nodded repeatedly and added:

"I think this book, "Technical Guide for Farming in Base Areas," is very good. It lists many methods. In addition to this large-scale farming base built with cement, it even considerately summarizes the use of water tanks commonly used by ordinary people for recirculating farming."

"This is very suitable for our troops and even ordinary people's homes. The most important thing is that this method only consumes a small amount of bran and rice bran, and can produce a large amount of chicken. This is a good technology that can make a lot of money."

"We will have someone copy down the contents of this guide later and promote some methods that are suitable for local areas."

"Even if a regiment can only raise a thousand broiler chickens, it is very important for the logistics supply of our troops."

After the two men finished discussing, they quickly sent someone down to conduct the experiment. This kind of good thing must be done as soon as possible.

In the following period of time, a craze for raising chickens and pigs swept across all the major bases of the Eighth Route Army, and even spread to many ordinary people's homes.

This also allows ordinary people to occasionally see meat on their dinner tables, instead of having to boil cabbage in salt water every day like before.

After Kong Hao finished his work on the chicken farm, he started a new project. He has been very busy recently and didn't even have time to visit the special forces.

Since the hydrochloric acid, sodium hydroxide and sodium carbonate equipment arrived, they have been put into production smoothly under the guidance of Kong Hao. However, the demand from the arsenal is not great at present, so only some test samples can be produced first.

Fortunately, the headquarters sent over a chemical expert who was very famous in the country. He led all the experiments and production in the chemical plant, which made Kong Hao's work a lot easier.

In fact, as long as the arsenal can mass-produce three acids and two bases, many things will be easy to handle. Many things can be synthesized in the laboratory, and mass production can be carried out once the corresponding equipment is in place.

For example, ammonia is a good thing that can be used to make explosives as well as fertilizer.

In fact, the Eighth Route Army also knew that the scientific name of the Japanese fertilizer powder was ammonium nitrate, which could greatly help increase grain production.

Our troops did not have the conditions to synthesize ammonia before, and could only buy fertilizer powder from the Japanese to produce explosives.

However, this situation is very unstable. Once discovered by the Japanese, they will definitely directly control the output of fertilizer powder. Then our explosives production capacity will be greatly affected. The arsenal is absolutely unacceptable to this feeling of being strangled.

Therefore, Kong Hao’s current focus is to find a way to develop a set of equipment for synthesizing ammonia, which can not only be used to produce various explosives, but if the output is sufficient, it can also produce our own fertilizers.

Even though Shanxi often fought against the Japanese, if chemical fertilizers were used on farmland, the grain would easily be snatched away by the Japanese after the increase in grain production, which would be extremely unprofitable.

However, in the rear areas, such as the other side of the Yellow River that had never been harassed by the Japanese, it was entirely possible to use chemical fertilizers on a large scale to increase grain production.

Food is now a strategic material and is particularly important to the Eighth Route Army. Moreover, if the output of farmland is high, the burden on the Chinese people will be greatly reduced.