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

Now we have a much better supply of weapons and ammunition. When farmers are busy with farming, they work in the fields, and when they are not, they conduct military training. It can be said that the whole nation is mobilized to fight against the Japanese.

The situation wasn't so extreme in Kaoshan Village, which was located in the core area of ​​the base. However, it would have been even more extreme in areas where the enemy was confronting each other on the front lines, or even in enemy-occupied territory.

Many villages were built like fortresses. Except for the elderly and children who couldn't carry guns, everyone else had a rifle. Even the houses were built like bunkers. If the enemy dared to enter the village, they would definitely be annihilated.

"It's Captain Yu. You're the one leading the delivery team again. What good stuff did you bring to our oil mill this time?"

"Director Ma, this time, on the orders of Secretary Zhang of the County Party Committee, we have specially delivered fifty tons of soybeans, two tons of wheat flour, five hundred catties of cured meat, and some daily necessities."

"Great, great, now our oil pressing plant can have a big boom again."

"During this period, the comrades in the factory have been working overtime every day, just to press more soybean oil to support the troops. Only when they are well-fed can they have the strength to fight the Japanese."

“Our oil pressing plant used to be able to press about 100 tons a month, but now the efficiency can be increased by 30%. We will have to rely on your transportation team more in the future.”

"By the way, are these soybeans from Eagle Country again?"

"Yes, Director Ma, these soybeans were all shipped from abroad. I heard from others that they were imported from overseas and that the quality is very good. It seems that they were grown with the legendary fertilizer powder. Every single one is plump and there are no insect holes or mold. I really don't know how they did it."

Factory Director Ma was extremely excited as he watched the bags of soybeans being moved into the warehouse; now they would be able to keep busy for a long time.

To be honest, the Chinese people have always lacked high-quality protein. For thousands of years, they have mainly relied on lard. However, raising a pig takes too long and is too expensive.

This has led to a shortage of pork on the market, making prices extremely high, especially for pork fat, which is half the price of regular lean pork.

Ordinary people can only buy half a pound of pork to satisfy their family's cravings during festivals like Chinese New Year. Their daily meals are usually bland and watery.

Long-term malnutrition has led to the general weakness, sallow complexion, and edema among the Chinese people.

Even though we have recently opened a large number of farms in various places, this problem has not been completely solved. This is mainly because China has 400 million people, and the limited meat supply is mainly provided to the military, with very little going to the market.

A large portion of the canned goods imported from abroad are stored as strategic reserves, with only about 30% being released to the market to stabilize prices.

Even if it's pork from the market, on average, a family of six can only get about half a pound of meat per week.

Although this amount is vastly different from the previous situation where one might not even be able to eat meat for a month, it's still far too little for a person to eat only one ounce every seven days, and half of that is lean meat.

It can only be considered as barely solving the problem of existence; it is impossible to make the Chinese people physically strong and everyone as powerful as a dragon.

This situation was only alleviated one day when an enormous amount of soybeans suddenly appeared throughout China.

These soybeans represent profits obtained by Kong Hao's people through the financial markets of various industrialized countries, as well as stock dividends and various patent transfer fees from companies that are currently small but will undoubtedly become behemoths in the future.

These benefits combined are an astronomical figure, and they can be obtained continuously—a privilege granted to Kong Hao through this bug.

It was precisely because of this confidence that he was able to have people buy up large quantities of soybeans, wheat, corn, cotton, sugar cane, beef, pork, lamb, and canned fish throughout the Americas.

There are also strategic materials such as oil, natural rubber, copper ingots, and aluminum ingots.

Oh, and gold and silver are also of paramount importance. After all, these precious metals play an irreplaceable role in the stability of a country's currency and are considered the ballast of the economy.

Currently, the price of gold in the United States is $35.50 per ounce, which is still acceptable.

Kong Hao had people buy gold from the market in the Eagle Country little by little, using the method of ants carrying grains of gold, each time only a few kilograms or a dozen kilograms.

Once a certain amount has been accumulated, it will be transported back to China through special means as a strategic reserve, gradually strengthening the foundation of China.

Even with only ten tons a month, it's still a considerable achievement.

Of course, in addition to buying scattered gold and silver on the market, he would also mine in South America, especially the famous gold mines in later generations. Kong Hao would try to buy the land and slowly mine them.

A massive amount of soybeans were transported back, finally solving the problem of oil supply for the Chinese people.

After all, vegetable oil is still oil. Although people are used to eating lard, stir-frying with soybean oil is also very fragrant, and people are used to it.

As long as you can make your body strong, what you eat is not really important.

Take the Kaoshan Village oil pressing plant as an example. The plant can now consume 130 tons of soybeans per month. Based on a soybean oil yield of 18%, that means it can press 23.4 tons of oil per month, or jin (a unit of weight in China).

This is no small amount; it's enough for the entire county's residents to consume several kilograms of soybean oil each month.

There are many oil pressing plants like this in our base area, and it's not impossible for them to produce hundreds of millions of kilograms of vegetable oil a year.

Actually, 100 million jin of oil seems like a lot, but in reality it's only about 50,000 tons, which is equivalent to 250,000 tons of soybeans.

The cargo ships that Kong Hao used to transport supplies were generally between 5000 and 7000 tons, which is equivalent to the transport capacity of more than fifty cargo ships.

Currently, along the entire coast of China, a large number of small cargo ships are unloading cargo every day, and no one knows exactly how much cargo they are bringing back.

The main problem was the tight schedule and heavy workload, and Kong Hao's order was that as long as the goods were delivered to China, it would be a victory.

Even small fishing boats that could only carry a few tons of supplies joined the ranks of transporting goods, demonstrating the power of numbers in this endeavor.

In many coastal areas, and in those remote and secluded places, our comrades have set up a large number of material storage warehouses to store the materials brought back from abroad.

However, the Japanese were no pushovers either; about 30% of the supplies were intercepted by the enemy during transport, which was unavoidable.

Fortunately, our transport personnel are not to be underestimated; they are equipped with a large number of weapons, and if the operation is exposed, they will fight the enemy to the death.

Even if the transported supplies are seized by the enemy, every ton of supplies will cost the Japanese soldiers several lives.