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

"As for ordinary people, don't impose any restrictions. As long as they purchase according to normal procedures, all their needs will be met."

In fact, ordinary people do not have much money. Basically, they buy one or two stoves. In addition to using them for themselves, they also want to make a profit from the price difference. This kind of thing is understandable.

Since there are suckers willing to pay a high price to buy it, let the people who have suffered for so many years earn a little more. It can be considered a kind of welfare in the Eighth Route Army base.

When ordinary people can earn money, they can consume other things, and money will circulate in the base area. The economy will naturally get better. This is an eternal truth.

With the promotion of stoves, the situation related to our base area suddenly appeared in the sight of people across the country. Everyone praised it, saying that our troops were not only decisive in fighting the Japanese invaders, but also good at solving people's livelihood problems and were able to invent such a good thing to reduce the burden on the people.

Of course, many people from other places will try every means to imitate the stoves they buy. Although they cannot achieve the same effect as the original ones, they are cheap and can be accepted by some ordinary people.

However, it is a bit difficult to imitate honeycomb coal. First of all, you have to make so many small holes, which makes it difficult for many people who want to imitate it. Moreover, honeycomb coal must be added with many other things to achieve this effect, which cannot be studied clearly in a day or two.

If it were made entirely of coal, not only would there be a lot of smoke, it would also be difficult to shape, and the cost would be much higher than that produced by the Eighth Route Army.

This also gives us a one to two year window of opportunity to expand our base to various locations and gain huge profits.

Things at Huoluozi's side have come to an end, but Kong Hao is receiving a very important guest.

"Captain Kong, congratulations, you finally got what you wanted this time."

"I've also heard about the new Second Regiment. With the two battalions of the Independent Regiment as a foundation, it won't take long for it to develop rapidly."

"Xiao Kong, this is all thanks to Lao Li's generosity, but this favor is too big, and I don't know how I'm going to repay it in the future."

"This time, our New Second Regiment was ordered by our superiors to escort a batch of new supplies to the arsenal, and we came to see you by the way."

Kong Jie was not a good talker, but he was not as shameless as Li Yunlong. The new Second Regiment had just been established and needed all kinds of supplies, especially weapons.

Although Li Yunlong transferred the 3rd and 6th Battalions of the Independent Regiment to form the New 2nd Regiment, Kong Jie was also a man who cared about his reputation and wanted to develop and expand the New 2nd Regiment. He didn't want others to say that his troops relied on Li Yunlong to have their current strength.

However, if you want to develop the strength of the troops, you need a variety of weapons and equipment, guns and ammunition, as well as sufficient logistical support.

Since he has been separated from the independent regiment, he and Li Yunlong will be on the same level in the future. It would be inappropriate to ask the independent regiment for subsidies again. He can't afford to lose face.

When Kong Hao saw Kong Jie's expression, he guessed the purpose of his visit and said with a smile:

"Captain Kong has come a long way to deliver something to us. It's almost noon now, so stay for a meal. I'll take you to the arsenal later."

After hearing this, Kong Jie happily agreed.

The current arsenal is already quite strong, so there are more rules. Generally, convoys transporting supplies can only unload goods at outer warehouses, and then the goods are transported to various factories by personnel inside the arsenal.

Kong Hao is the commander of the New Second Regiment. In addition, he came to find Kong Hao, the chief consultant, so he was able to enter the core area of the arsenal.

Next, the two of them had a simple meal in the arsenal cafeteria, which was just rice with shredded potatoes, but with more lard.

Today was not an overtime day at the arsenal, so there was no legendary dish of fried eggs with peppers. In addition, they were eating in the canteen for the arsenal managers, and the standard itself was a level lower than that of the ordinary workers' canteen.

This was specially formulated by Director Ren and Political Commissar Qin. The food in the arsenal is divided into three levels. The first level is for technicians and engineers. They use their brains and need a lot of nutrition. They can eat meat every three days and eggs every other day.

Ordinary workers are in the second tier. They do manual labor and also need nutritional supplements. They can eat meat once a week and eggs every three days.

All managers eat third-tier food. They can eat meat only once every two weeks, and eggs only once a week.

But even so, the food we eat now is much better than before. At least we can still eat enough, unlike before when we had to eat sweet potatoes three times a day.

Moreover, this situation is only temporary. Once the broiler chickens raised in the arsenal are slaughtered, the meat supply can basically be guaranteed and there will be no need for logistics personnel to transport it in from outside.

At that time, this system of separate meals will be abolished and everyone will eat from one big pot.

Supplies are limited now, and we can only provide the scarcest meat to those who need it most. This is also the only solution we have.

After lunch, Kong Hao took Kong Jie to the bicycle factory, where they were going to test a newly designed bicycle.

He introduced enthusiastically: "Captain Kong, this is a new type of bicycle that our bicycle factory has just developed. It is specially designed for troop transportation."

"We just happened to encounter a test today, let's take a look at it together."

When Kong Jie heard that the arsenal had developed another good thing, he quickly nodded and agreed, and his heart was filled with infinite expectations for this new thing.

To be honest, as the Arsenal grows in size, everyone's expectations of him are also getting higher and higher.

In the past, when arsenals were just small workshops, front-line combat commanders had never even heard of them and never expected to get decent support from them. Basically, they had to rely on their own troops to solve everything.

However, after the bullet production line and rifle production line came into production, many previous concepts were completely overturned.

Especially in recent times, each main regiment has received material supplies from its superiors every month. Although the amount is not particularly large, perhaps a regiment can only get 5,000 rounds of ammunition, more than 20 rifles and five or six Mauser pistols, and about 100 grenades a month, but this is also a remarkable achievement.

With the replenishment of these weapons and ammunition, an infantry regiment can be fully supported in fighting a large-scale battle. Even if the ammunition is consumed, the superiors will replenish it in time so that the troops will not be destroyed after a battle.

Of course, those who can replenish ammunition on a large scale basically belong to the ace troops, such as the organized regiments, Ding Wei’s New 1st Regiment, etc., and now also includes Kong Jie’s New 2nd Regiment.

However, being able to produce weapons and ammunition on their own also means that no matter how great the losses are, they cannot rely on captured weapons to restore their combat effectiveness. This is very important for an army.

Just last month, the independent regiment was also allocated several bicycles and more than ten thermoses, which were delivered together with the supplies. Although the amount is not much, it would cost a lot of money if purchased from outside.

Moreover, you can tell at first glance that the bicycle was hand-made in our own factory. The appearance and workmanship are very consistent with the actual situation of our troops. Every bit of money saved is a bit saved.