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

When the two men walked into the workshop, they found that many workers were doing manual work.

"Xiao Kong, are you making mooncakes?"

"Minister Kong, you have a good eye. This is the second generation of military dry food developed by our arsenal. It is based on the mooncake recipe commonly used by the people, and is improved by combining the formula of foreign compressed biscuits."

"Making compressed biscuits abroad requires special equipment, which our arsenal does not have for the time being, but we also have some good things left by our ancestors."

"Add some salt, peanut oil or soybean oil, egg powder, some dried fruits and some air-dried bacon to this military ration and mix them all together."

"Oh, right. There have been special studies abroad that show that the human body needs to be supplemented with vitamins regularly to reduce the risk of illness. I also had people dry and grind some edible wild vegetables, carrots, and various vegetables and add them to the military rations to provide the soldiers with balanced nutrition."

"It tastes good, but it's a little hard. You have to chew it slowly, otherwise it's easy to hurt your teeth."

After saying that, he took out a piece of dry food from the finished products on the side, broke it into two halves with great effort, handed one half to Minister Zhang, and then taught the leader how to eat this kind of dry food.

After Minister Zhang took it, he carefully bit off a piece with his teeth and tasted it carefully in his mouth. He had to say that it tasted quite good. He actually tasted a very small piece of meat, which should be bacon. Although it was only the size of a grain of rice, the taste was very unique.

This delicious food satisfied his taste buds greatly. Minister Zhang couldn't help but eat two more bites. However, he didn't plan to eat the rest. Instead, he put it in his pocket. It was such a waste to eat such a good thing like that. He would take it out and eat it with the guards when he was hungry on the way back.

This kind of military dry food is basically produced as a strategic reserve. It cannot be used in normal times and can only be taken out and given to soldiers on the front line during battle.

Only when the soldiers have full stomachs can they have more strength to fight, win more battles, and seize more military supplies to enhance the strength of the troops.

"Commander, if conditions permit, you can boil a pot of water, add some rice or millet, and a few pieces of dry food, and you can cook a pot of fragrant porridge with all kinds of nutrients."

"By the way, this kind of dry food production factory will be relocated in a while, and the logistics department will take over."

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away and make sure everything is done properly."

Minister Zhang was extremely satisfied with Kong Hao's arrangement. This new generation of military dry rations was much better than the previous fried noodles. It could be preserved longer and had a more balanced nutrition.

Our troops seized a large amount of food at the Japanese railway station and You County, at least 7,000 to 8,000 tons in total, which can be used to make a large amount of military dry food and store it for emergency use.

At the same time, broiler chickens and fat pigs from the farms in each base will continue to be slaughtered. Some of them will be provided to the troops and soldiers to provide nutrition, and some will be put on the market to stabilize prices so that the people in the base can occasionally eat meat. Some of the meat can also be added to the military rations.

In addition, stoves and honeycomb coal can also provide the base with various benefits continuously, so the logistics department has the confidence to establish various material reserve systems.

Just like ammunition reserves, food reserves are also essential for a troop, and this new type of military dry food is the top priority. The reason is simple: convenience.

Next, Kong Hao took the leader to visit other production lines in the arsenal, and then Minister Zhang returned to the Logistics Department to arrange the relocation of the production line.

This is also a big thing. It requires selecting sites in each base according to the actual situation, and trying to build several industrial bases like arsenals, even if they are smaller in scale.

After receiving Minister Zhang, Kong Hao plunged into his intensive work again. He wanted to seize every opportunity to develop more equipment that would be useful to the troops.

Towards the evening, he came to the grenade launcher production workshop and met with the technicians there to discuss some problems encountered recently.

This meeting was chaired by Political Commissar Qin, and Kong Hao was just there as an observer. He basically didn't have to worry about such trivial matters.

As soon as the meeting started, Zhou, who was in charge of the production of grenade launchers, started complaining directly:

"Political Commissar, Chief Advisor, has our grenade launcher production line been left alone? Why can other units be allocated so many sophisticated measuring instruments, while we only have a few broken calipers?"

"Every time I want to use a precision micrometer, I have to borrow it from others, which is very troublesome. Sometimes the other party is busy and I can't borrow it at all."

Faced with this problem, Kong Hao really didn't pay too much attention to it, mainly because the factory director and the political commissar didn't want him to know about this kind of thing.

But now that we've come to this point, he smiled bitterly and said, "Xiao Kong, you did bring back a lot of measuring instruments before, but many production lines need them, especially the rifle and Mauser pistol production lines, as well as the bullet production lines. Now we've added the production of helmets and bicycle parts, which also require precise measurements."

"Also, it's not just our arsenal. Some workshops in other bases also need to allocate a batch to them, which has caused a shortage of equipment."

"When there is no other way, we can only find a way to share and wait until we have more money in the future."

Faced with this situation, Kong Hao had no good solution and could only promise to find a way to get more measuring instruments in the future.

After the meeting, Political Commissar Qin kept Kong Hao and asked with concern:

"Xiao Kong, are you going on a long journey again?"

"Political Commissar, the arsenal has now reached a certain size, and everyone is doing their job. It is now on the right track."

"The special training of the special operations team has also ended. All qualified special operations team members have returned to their bases. It's time to take the Xingtian Special Operations Team out to find something to do."

"Recently, a batch of goods was shipped to the port in Tianjin. They were brought back from abroad. They were all various advanced machines and equipment, such as punching machines, lathes, milling machines, drilling machines, grinders and boring machines, etc. They can just supplement our arsenal and improve our mechanical processing capabilities."

In fact, the reason why Kong Hao went to Tianjin was to establish a material transportation line for our troops, and to transport the various equipment he exchanged from the system back to the arsenal more reasonably.

The current industrial base of the Eighth Route Army is still too weak, and the limited industry is concentrated here in the arsenal, which is very unreasonable.

Although the heads of the headquarters were very satisfied with the achievement, Kong Hao was not satisfied. This was just the beginning. To be honest, what they had now was not even as good as the industrial capacity of a county in the future.