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

When talking about scientific breeding, Director Ren and Political Commissar Qin smiled with satisfaction. This kind of thing can be regarded as solving a big logistical problem for the troops.

Not only did the arsenal benefit greatly, but even the heads of the headquarters and the commanders and political commissars of the major bases were extremely satisfied.

In the past, wanting to improve the soldiers’ food would make every instructor, political instructor and political commissar worried, very worried.

Buying pork is too expensive. Only during the New Year or other festivals, or after a great victory in a battle, would one be able to get a pig to reward everyone.

If we buy chickens and ducks, the small quantity is not enough to fill our stomachs, and it is also very expensive and unaffordable.

Eggs are inexpensive and very nutritious, but they are so rare that they are difficult to collect on a large scale.

This situation did not change until Kong Hao invented the ecological recycling farming technology.

Now this advanced breeding technology has spread to many places in the base area, and the effect is good in a short period of time.

A general infantry regiment would send a logistics personnel of about 20 people to a remote and uninhabited place, such as a cave or deep in the woods, to open up a special area for breeding.

The scale of this type of farm is generally not large, raising 500 laying hens and more than 2,000 broiler chickens. Supplies are usually delivered from outside once every three days, and the stored eggs are also transported back to the troops to provide nutrition for the soldiers.

In the future, when broiler chickens grow up, they can be slaughtered at the breeding base and the inedible internal organs can be reused to cultivate fruit fly larvae. The rest of the meat, including the internal organs, can be sent to the troops.

The people on this line add up to almost a company, but the results achieved are very significant, and they can be handed over to the veterans who were injured on the battlefield and can no longer participate in fierce battles, so that they can survive well in this chaotic world.

As for the military district, the scale of that farm is enormous, but due to the limitation of the hatching speed of the chicks, the number of chickens is only increasing slowly. However, there is no problem at all for the soldiers to eat delicious scrambled eggs every now and then.

In addition, after a large number of broiler chickens are marketed, we can slaughter some of them according to the plan, and then add some chicks. As long as the arrangement is reasonable, a large amount of meat can be harvested every week to provide to the troops.

Of course, you can’t eat it all at once. You can make it into easy-to-preserve cured chicken as a strategic reserve and use it when needed in the future.

There are also a large number of pigs that are raised on a large scale using this method, but this will take a longer time to verify, and for now they are still just piglets.

The only thing we can get now is a large number of eggs every day. The soldiers can get high-quality protein regularly, and their bodies will gradually become stronger.

Kong Hao also finished a bowl of noodles in no time. After asking the secretary beside him to take the bowl away, he said with a smile:

"For chicken houses, we need to pay attention to ventilation and diseases of laying hens and broilers. Although confinement can reduce the amount of exercise of chickens and improve feed utilization, they are also very susceptible to disease."

"These are all things that require constant observation and summarizing relevant experience."

The secretary at the side quickly took out a notebook and wrote down all these words. These were very valuable experiences.

Next, Director Ren and Political Commissar Qin briefly talked about what had happened in the arsenal recently, especially that the steel plant had been put into operation and was now able to produce qualified steel samples. After a period of time, it would be able to achieve mass production. Their arsenal would no longer be restricted by the limitations of raw materials and would be able to mass-produce advanced weapons and equipment.

Kong Hao wants to visit various factories in the afternoon to get a detailed understanding of the situation before expressing his own opinions.

Factory Director Ren and Political Commissar Qin also stood up to say goodbye. They both had a lot of things to do, especially since there were two more production lines and a lot of equipment to be shipped over. Site selection and machine installation would take a lot of time. In addition, they had to follow up on daily production tasks, which basically meant they had no time to spare.

In the afternoon, Kong Hao had rested enough, so he went to various factories to learn about the situation. The first stop was the newly built steel plant.

Steel is the most basic material for the production of all weapons. If there were no steel mills, relying solely on large troops to tear up the Japanese railway tracks would not last long. Moreover, the quality of the rail steel was very poor and could not be used to produce precision gun barrels at all.

The steel used for all the gun barrels in the arsenal now is the special alloy steel that Kong Hao bought some time ago. The other iron parts are basically made of ironware collected from various places, most of which are track steel obtained from the railway.

However, the steel purchased has basically been consumed, and now we can only rely on our own arsenal to produce high-quality alloy steel for the production of rifle and pistol barrels, as well as the subsequent grenade launcher and mortar barrels.

Fortunately, the steel production line equipment that Kong Hao exchanged is the most advanced. At the same time, after systematic optimization, the performance parameters of all equipment are the best. It’s just that the arsenal does not have a second set of equipment and there is no relevant comparative data.

The managers of the steel plant also believed that this was normal. After all, they were smelting special high-quality carbon structural steel, not the high-manganese steel commonly used in rails.

At the same time, when exchanging for the steel production line, the system also gave away various steel smelting methods. Kong Hao only picked two that are more commonly used internationally. More technologies are best left to the steel plant's technical staff to continuously summarize during the production process.

There is an extreme shortage of talent engaged in steel smelting in China today. We must learn to use this small steel plant to train a large number of professionals and summarize various smelting technologies. Only by accumulating strength can we take over when Kong Hao comes up with more advanced technology in the future.

Without sufficient talent reserves, everything is like a mirage, and the castle on the beach will fall down with a single push.

In order to prevent the Japanese reconnaissance planes from accidentally breaking into the area and discovering the location of the steel plant, Kong Hao deliberately chose an address in a forest, some distance away from the arsenal.

Although this brings great inconvenience to the transportation of materials and finished steel products to the steel mills, safety is now the top priority, and everything else is nothing more than spending more manpower and material resources.

In the arsenal, the most convenient means of transportation is the 28-inch bicycle. Currently, there are nearly 300 bicycles available for everyone to use in the entire arsenal.

Sometimes the distance between two factories is not far, and in order to save time, people usually choose to ride bicycles.

By the way, the arsenal has already extracted a lot of qualified rubber from a large amount of rubber grass. The technology does not meet the requirements for producing car tires, but it is completely fine for producing bicycle tires.

As for other parts of the bicycle, with the current machining capabilities of the arsenal, there will be no problem in producing them.

Moreover, there are many unnecessary things that can be completely discarded. For example, the bell is actually a burden. When you encounter someone blocking your way, you can just howl at it, which saves a lot of trouble.

A braking system is not needed either. The best braking device is the rider's feet. If the slope is really steep, you can just get off the bike and push it over.