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

With the addition of a large number of the most advanced industrial mother machines, the machinery and equipment we develop are among the most advanced in the world, and even Eagle Country or Sandezi cannot catch up.

It's just that in this kind of situation, not only do the foreigners not know the inside story, even we ourselves have only found that the equipment we produce is very easy to use, and the production efficiency is several times higher than that of the equipment we bought from other places before.

In addition to high production efficiency and good product quality, the machines we produce also have safety performance that is several levels higher than those of the old equipment.

In this era, the concept of safe production has not yet been fully formed, especially in a country like China that does not even have a complete industrial system.

However, with large equipment like punching machines, if you are not careful, it is easy to have your fingers washed off, causing serious work-related accidents.

However, with current medical conditions, it is extremely difficult to reattach a severed finger.

Therefore, when Kong Hao established the industrial zone, he paid close attention to production safety and formulated safety operating specifications for various machines and equipment. No matter whether it is a novice or an old master, they must be familiar with all operating steps before using the machine. Anything that may affect their own safety must not be done. In addition, a large number of safety accidents caused by improper operation were specially collected from various factories.

Before each machine is launched, a meeting is held to emphasize safety issues and remind everyone to be vigilant.

At first, many people did not understand and thought that doing so would only waste time, especially those skilled workers who came from other factories in the Kuomintang-controlled areas. After all, their previous factories were not so troublesome, and when processing products, many of them followed their own habits. Even if something went wrong, they could only blame themselves for their bad luck.

It's nothing like here, where you have to memorize those difficult-to-understand operating steps every day and follow the operating specifications when doing things. At the same time, the factory has inspectors who will shut down the machine immediately if they find a problem, and call the employee who made the mistake and the corresponding team leader for review.

This is something Kong Hao is trying hard to promote. Even if some workers or even managers cannot understand it, it must be carried out unconditionally.

Our arsenal and industrial zone have grown to their current size thanks to the contribution of our chief consultant, Kong Hao, and he never misses the mark.

After a long period of verification, everyone gradually discovered that by processing and producing according to the operating specifications, not only did the number of work-related injuries decrease significantly, but even production efficiency was improved. In the future, they will gradually and consciously implement it.

This model has been proven by decades of large-scale industrial production in China, and is decades ahead of other industrial nations. This is our advantage and foundation.

Of course, the main reason why it is so troublesome is that we currently have too few industrial workers. Even if we are opening a large number of literacy classes, training classes and workers' night schools all the time, the qualified workers we train still cannot keep up with the pace of industrial expansion.

For example, we have now recovered more than half of the territory of Shanxi Province. Every place needs to develop various industries to enhance the strength of the base and improve the living conditions of the people.

Take a small county town for example. Once we recapture it, there must be a small thermal power plant to provide electricity for industry or residents.

Three to five small machinery processing plants or foundries will also be opened to produce various daily necessities, such as hoes, shovels, pickaxes, rakes, etc. These things basically do not have much technical content and can be produced in various places.

We also need to open one or two textile mills, flour mills, garment factories, and even some leather factories, etc.

If the surrounding conditions permit, you can also open a printing and dyeing factory, cement factory, glass factory or even a small steel factory, which are heavy industrial factories. This needs to be planned according to the surrounding resource conditions.

Although this increases the difficulty of defending our base, it also reduces the risk of exposing the arsenal and industrial area.

The scale of these two most important industrial areas has reached its maximum. If they are expanded further, the difficulty of hiding will increase exponentially, which is not cost-effective.

The current industrial zones are building underground bunkers as much as possible and moving some important departments underground, so that even if they are exposed in the future, the losses can be effectively reduced.

Currently, the positioning of these two major industrial zones is to research and develop and produce various machinery and equipment. As for the factories that produce goods, they have all been dispersed.

On the one hand, it can effectively reduce risks, and on the other hand, it can provide a large number of jobs to the local area and enhance the local industrial strength and economic vitality.

This massive plan has been implemented for a long time, and the results are very significant, especially in those cities that we have just recaptured. It is the first time for many people to see electricity, which is something that only exists in legends.

Although Shanxi Province has a relatively developed economy, only the big cities have built corresponding thermal power plants. As for those remote small counties, they simply do not have the ability or financial resources to build them.

After all, all the equipment for building a thermal power plant has to be imported from abroad. Industrially developed countries generally have strict control over this kind of equipment that can improve industry. Even if they can sell it to us, they are basically outdated machines with high energy consumption, low power generation, and the equipment is often easily damaged.

Even so, we treat these devices as treasures and protect them as if they were our own eyes. After all, they are the spark of China's industry. Without power plants, all modern factories are castles in the air.

Now we can produce various power generation equipment ourselves. The cost is actually not high. We use the most advanced technology and the power generation is relatively stable.

The most important thing is that all of this is controllable. As long as there is a need, we can produce as much as we want. Shanxi Province is rich in coal and has a natural advantage in thermal power generation. We can use local materials to build a large number of thermal power stations to support the industrial development of the base.

In addition to the equipment for thermal power plants, we can produce them completely independently. We can also provide as much electrical wires as needed. We no longer need to send people to cut the enemy's electrical wires to build our power transmission network.

In fact, the reason why thermal power plants could not be built in the past was that, in addition to the corresponding power generation equipment, electrical wires were also relatively difficult to obtain.

In order to transmit the generated electricity from thermal power plants to factories or people's homes, a large number of wires are needed, and this is what we have always lacked.

The conductor material used to produce wires is pure copper, and the outer insulating material is generally natural rubber. We were in urgent need of these two materials before. They were not even enough to make bullet shells. Who would use them to produce wires, which cannot directly kill the enemy?

The wires we got back from the enemy are just a drop in the bucket for our needs. After all, the Japanese are very stingy and they don't have much of this kind of stuff.

It was not until Kong Hao brought back a large amount of smelted copper ingots and millions of tons of high-quality copper ore from the Kangaroo Country that we solved the problem of raw materials.

By conversion, one ton of copper can produce about 100 kilometers of electric wire. A county town generally needs 20 tons of copper. This consumption is nothing compared to the pure copper output of our industrial zone.

According to top-secret intelligence from our base, the current output of all copper ingots in our industrial zone is almost 60,000 tons. With the development of new mining equipment, the efficiency of collecting copper ore has also greatly increased. Faced with this situation, we are preparing to build two new smelting and processing plants in the mining area. It won't be long before we can increase the output to 80,000 tons.

Copper is a metal material with a wide range of applications. It was in short supply before, but now it can be used freely.

By the way, our steel production has exceeded two million tons per year, not including those small-scale civilian smelters. If they use the top-quality iron ore provided by our base, they can also smelt good steel, which is another 500,000 tons of output.

It is precisely because of the support of these resources that we can formulate such a large-scale combat plan later. After the enemy's main force is dragged to Southeast Asia, it will be a good opportunity for us to regain lost territory on a large scale.

As for natural rubber, it is also imported in large quantities from abroad, which is sufficient for the time being.

By the way, I would like to mention here that our base has currently used coal-to-oil refining technology to extract about 500,000 tons of various oils, and has also produced a large number of by-products.

Our technicians have synthesized polyvinyl chloride from these by-products based on existing technology. This is an excellent material with extremely good thermoplasticity. After adding the corresponding stabilizer, it has properties such as wear resistance and moisture resistance. It can even maintain excellent performance at temperatures exceeding 100 degrees Celsius, making it the best alternative material for wire insulation.

Moreover, this thing has a wide range of uses and can replace many metal products, such as packaging bags, plastic bottles, plastic lunch boxes, shells of many modern home appliances, water pipes, sewer pipes, etc.

At present, breakthroughs have been made in key technologies. Although the monthly output is only 5,000 tons, the corresponding bottleneck no longer exists. As long as resources are invested in building corresponding production lines, there will be no problem even if the annual output reaches one million tons.

Although Europe and the United States can also extract polyvinyl chloride, the corresponding technology is at least 20 years behind ours. There is no way, it's because Kong Hao's system is too amazing.

At the same time, technology like this is not valuable at all in the system, and can be exchanged for just a few merit points.

If Kong Hao hadn't wanted to force things, we could have achieved leapfrog development and researched weapons and equipment decades in the future.

There are many such examples in our base. In short, our industrial R&D capabilities are seriously underestimated. I guess no one has noticed it except Kong Hao himself.

This is also the reason why he dares to sell the pistol so cheaply. Due to the advantages of scale, the cost of all links in the production of a pistol can be reduced to eight dollars, and the transportation cost is basically negligible. If the bullets are included, it will be at most ten dollars, and it is not a loss if it is sold for twenty dollars.

The most important thing now is to push a large number of cheap guns and ammunition into the market. Kong Hao doesn't care at all, let alone making a profit, even if there is a small loss.

If a pistol is converted into pounds, it is only about two pounds. He can easily spend one million pounds to buy 500,000 pistols.

If the Chinese people suddenly had an extra 500,000 pistols and tens of millions of bullets, the Japanese would have a lot of fun. Even if it took five pistols to kill one Japanese soldier, the enemy would have to sacrifice 100,000 lives, which would be a great victory.