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

Even though the gunshots and explosions in the concession lasted for half the night, only the people around knew about it. People in other parts of Shanghai still got up early every morning as usual to find a way to make money to support their families.

Su Erge is a coolie at the dock. He prepares to go to the dock early in the morning to find work. There is no other way, the family of four depends on him to work hard to survive.

He had a son and a daughter, one was ten years old and the other was eight years old, just the age when they ate a lot but could not help at all.

Fortunately, there is a small school where they live that can help nearby residents take care of their children and teach them some elementary school knowledge, such as literacy, simple arithmetic, etc.

Many of the gentlemen here were high school students, college students or old professors in Shanghai. For various reasons, they did not go to the rear. Our intelligence personnel tried to protect these senior intellectuals who were concerned about the safety of this country from harm by the invaders.

In the future, if possible, we will try every possible means to send these senior talents to the base. This is what our arsenal needs most.

After all, in today's China, anyone who graduates from elementary school can be considered an educated person. The number of high school students in the country is less than one million, so they are definitely one in a thousand.

However, there are too few job opportunities available in Shanghai for these people. It is impossible to let these talents work in factories or carry sacks at docks. This is a complete waste of talent.

At the same time, most of the factories in Shanghai were run by the Japanese or traitors, and most people with blood in their veins would not bother to work for them.

But then again, no matter how educated one is, one still needs to eat and wear clothes every day. Without a steady stream of income, it is impossible to survive in Shanghai.

Finally, our comrades came up with a good idea, which was to disperse these talents into various alleys and secretly open some primary schools. The number of students did not need to be too large, about 180 in each school.

The main reason is that children are the future of our country and nation, and passing on knowledge and culture is an extremely important thing.

The compensation we gave these people was basically some daily necessities, such as food, oil, salt, canned food and cloth, which were hard currencies in wartime.

After all, prices nowadays change three times a day. The price of something you buy in the morning may not be the same in the evening. It is difficult for teachers to follow the market. It is better to send things directly, which saves time and effort.

This is also thanks to Kong Hao's side who brought back a large amount of supplies from abroad. Although Shanghai was occupied by the enemy, because what we brought back were some daily necessities, and we were doing it in the name of the Niu Niu Country, the Japanese basically didn't care, nor did they dare to interfere.

Our comrades in Shanghai who are in charge of supplies can take the delivery notes and take the items out of the warehouse and distribute them to various supply storage points in the city.

In fact, many shops in the city related to daily necessities were opened by the enemy, including various trading companies and trading companies, which controlled most of the daily necessities in the city and often raised prices at will, making the people in the city miserable.

The little money that ordinary people earned with great difficulty could only be exchanged for a small amount of food for the whole family to barely survive by eating thin porridge. It was even more difficult for families with many children, and people even starved to death.

Especially in winter, ordinary people had no cotton clothes to wear and no enough food to maintain their physical strength. In addition, they were exploited by traitors and Japanese businessmen. At this time, ordinary people were suffering.

In response to this situation, our people came up with many solutions and finally formed a mature process for material distribution.

After all, the enemy has a huge influence in the city. If we confront them head-on, we will definitely suffer a great loss, especially since the Japanese merchants have no martial ethics. If they cannot compete, they will definitely use underhanded tactics and let the spies arrest our patriotic merchants and put them in jail.

Generally, after we transport the supplies to the turnover station, we will classify and pack them according to the number of people in a family. They include grain, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, chili peppers, canned food, etc.

There are two types, one for a family of four and the other for a family of eight. If you buy a pack like this every week, the whole family can live a good life. As for the price, because it is purchased in bulk, it is about half of the market price.

And most importantly, the price of this kind of material usually changes once a month and does not follow the market price.

The main reason is that most of these materials were shipped back from abroad. Kong Hao has already paid for them abroad, and they were obtained with the money earned from the financial stock market and technological patents.

Of course, there is also the money earned from purchasing industrial products and medical supplies, which is extremely cost-effective to use to buy food and cloth.

In particular, there is a large amount of wool in Kangaroo Country. Kong Hao signed a long-term supply contract with the farmers there and bought a large amount of wool at a price far below the market price.

Moreover, the wool there is fine and uniform, strong and elastic, and is most suitable for making various woolen fabrics.

Kong Hao took advantage of the convenient conditions in Kangaroo Country to produce a large number of wool sweaters suitable for keeping the Chinese people warm, and then transported them back to various parts of China in large quantities by cargo ships.

A wool sweater with excellent thermal insulation effect weighs about two kilograms. One ton of materials can produce one thousand pieces, and one thousand tons can produce one million pieces. A 7,000-ton transport ship can bring back seven million pieces at a time, which is enough for many ordinary people to wear warm wool sweaters.

In China at that time, ordinary people were extremely short of warm clothing, and warm clothes made of wool were a good choice.

Kong Hao also asked the textile factory to divide wool sweaters into two grades. The ordinary ones are mainly for keeping warm, are relatively bulky, and look bloated overall, but are cheap, even cheaper than cotton coats.

High-end wool sweaters are refined through many processes. They are extremely light, have good warmth retention, and most importantly, are beautiful and elegant. Their prices are 3 to 5 times that of ordinary sweaters, and they are deeply favored by wealthy young men and women.

A large number of woolen sweaters with excellent thermal insulation effects were shipped back, which also reduced the cost of living for the Chinese people and allowed everyone to survive well in this troubled world.

Of course, the supplies we provide are not provided randomly. Currently, they are only being promoted on a small scale in secret, and basically carried out secretly in alleys.

They also specifically required that all those who purchased cheap supplies must keep it strictly confidential and not let the Japanese or traitors know. If anyone told the truth, they would be blacklisted and it would be impossible to buy cheap supplies in the future.