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

For example, we have a base where we have set up a small industrial zone. There is a small hydroelectric power station for power, and a small steel plant that can produce 600 to 700 tons of ordinary steel every month. The industrial zone has more than 70 machines and equipment that can produce various basic industrial products.

For example, there is an iron nail production line there that can produce four tons, about 8,000 kilograms of iron nails a day. Except for half of them used by the base itself, the rest will be transported to various parts of the country through secret channels and sold at low prices in exchange for development funds.

After all, the iron nails in many places in China are imported from abroad, called "foreign nails", and they are sold at a minimum of more than ten yuan per catty, which is simply a robbery. The ones produced in our base will be priced according to the distance. However, even in a place like Quangang, which is very far away from the production base, it only costs five yuan, and the quality is far superior to those foreign products.

This is completely in the category of high quality and low price. At present, we have completely squeezed those foreign nails out of the Chinese market. There is no need to let foreigners make some money, and the funds we obtain can be used to expand production and improve industrialization strength.

This is a great victory. Although the demand for things like iron nails is not high, it also represents the rise of China's industry.

There are also foreign matches, which are the matches we commonly use. This kind of thing has lower technical content. Our industrial areas can already synthesize various chemical raw materials in large quantities, and match factories, which are daily necessities, are everywhere.

Currently, more than half of the matches on the market are produced in our base, and the proportion will gradually increase, which is also a reflection of our industrial strength.

For example, the shovels and pickaxes used by the people to plow the soil, and the sewing machines used to make clothes, can all be produced in large quantities in our base, and sold to the people at low prices, so that everyone can enjoy the benefits of large-scale industrial production.

With more industrial products on the market, prices will naturally fall. This is determined by market laws.

At this moment, the shopkeeper suddenly thought of something, took out a pair of pliers from the side, and then took out an iron nail from the container. Then he used all his strength with both hands, almost biting his teeth off, and finally used the pliers to cut off the iron nail.

Then he boasted proudly, "Look, the nails I sell are of excellent quality. The ones I used to sell would break when I cut them, but these are the best on the market."

This kind of testing method was the first time that Director Xu and Section Chief Tang had seen it. They immediately felt it was extremely novel and also gained an intuitive understanding of the quality of these nails.

Section Chief Tang then continued, "Boss, can I try it?"

As a subordinate, he must be at the forefront. In this situation, it is a bit unreasonable to let his superiors take action.

"That's fine. Feel free to try. The nails here are all produced in the same factory, so the quality is similar. If there are any defective products, I'll compensate you tenfold."

Tang Yichen first took the vise from the shopkeeper's hand, then took out three nails from different places under the container where the nails were placed, and cut them one by one with the vise.

After doing all this, he nodded to Director Xu, indicating that the quality of these nails was about the same.

Director Xu saw this and also agreed with the quality of these nails. Then he said with a smile:

"Shopkeeper, I'm here on business from out of town. I want to buy a large quantity of nails. Do you have any in stock?"

"We do have some in stock, but how much would you like?"

"About a thousand pounds, and I need that much every month."

"That's no problem. Just give us a week and we can get the goods here. And since it's such a large quantity, I can give you a 10% discount."

"Thank you very much. By the way, we also need all the hardware accessories in your store, as well as basic tools like vises and screwdrivers. The prices are negotiable."

After half an hour of confirmation, Director Xu finally bought two thousand screwdrivers, one thousand vises, eight hundred wrenches, and a bunch of miscellaneous items at the grocery store. Both parties agreed to deliver the goods in a week.

After leaving the shop, he specifically said, "Old Tang, this Quangang really opened my eyes. The merchants here are incredibly powerful. They can easily mobilize several tons of goods, and they are all steel products."

"We'll need to send different people here to buy things in the future, and we'll need to buy in small batches. Take these vises, for example. They're in huge demand in our rear areas. Even if we could ship back 10,000 of them from Shancheng alone, we probably wouldn't even make a ripple. The prices are also very affordable. As long as we can get them back, the profits will be enormous."

"In Yunnan Province, Sichuan Province, and other places, even our army needs a large amount of this kind of steel industrial products."

"If it were a small business, the journey would be long, and the supplies transported were small, the risk would be very high. But we are different. We can organize large-scale caravans for transportation. It just takes a little longer."

"You know, transporting back 100 tons of these industrial products will earn you much more credit than transporting back 100 tons of grain. We need to work harder in the future."

However, Section Chief Tang asked curiously, "It's impossible for a small shop like this to have the resources to acquire so many high-quality industrial parts. Should we send someone to investigate this shop?"

"Please don't, Old Tang. Why are you acting like that again? You're so suspicious all day long. I'm really impressed by you."

"We are now responsible for the economic aspects. As long as the quality of the goods provided meets our requirements, we don't care about anything else. It's not our turn to be involved."

"Now that we are in a national crisis, any supplies are extremely valuable to our country, especially in the rear areas. We need to ship back all kinds of supplies to stabilize prices. This is our most important task right now. Everything else can be ignored."

"And this grocery store definitely doesn't belong to the Japanese. They're not that stupid. They'd sell us supplies at a low price, then improve our military strength and use the weapons and equipment produced in the arsenal to fight the Japanese. It would take a lot of cunning to do such a stupid thing."

"Okay, let's go look at something else. You'll be staying in Quangang for a long time, so you need to understand the situation here in detail."

In fact, Director Xu had already guessed the power behind this grocery store. Only they had the ability to obtain so many industrial products. However, as long as everyone knew about this kind of thing, there was no need to delve into it. It would do no good at all.

At this time, it is best to keep a low profile. Everyone should focus on business and the most important thing is to concentrate all efforts to fight against the Japanese invaders.

I have to say that the prices here are indeed much cheaper than other places, especially basic supplies such as food. It should be the large quantities of supplies shipped back from overseas that have impacted the local market prices. Those unscrupulous grain merchants who like to hoard goods are not stupid either. It is easy for them to lose all their capital that way.