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

But now it's completely different; all the soybean meal is used as feed for poultry and livestock.

The main reason is that the local people are so tired of eating tofu that they wouldn't eat bitter soybean meal. They're not crazy.

Now, after several years of development, the situation of not having enough to eat and going hungry in the base area has been greatly alleviated. Most people have changed from having no food at all to being able to eat something good.

Feed mills use soybean meal, corn flour, wheat bran, and rice bran as the main ingredients, adding bone meal, shell powder, and salt. They may also add small amounts of additives and disease-preventing powders to make several kinds of highly effective feeds.

The feed formula came from Shanxi Province and has been verified over a long period of time; its effects are indeed very good.

The additives and powders were also transported from Shanxi Province. The amount of these things needed was very small, and one shipment was enough to last a long time.

After the feed is produced, some of it will be transported to large-scale farms, and some will be sold at a low price to local residents.

After receiving high-quality feed, villagers can raise forty or fifty chickens by simply building a few chicken coops out of bamboo or wood in front of their homes. They can feed the chickens a mixture of feed and feed every day, and the chickens will grow very fast.

Some wealthy families would raise a few pigs or a dozen sheep, which they would then raise with feed and sell to canneries in the county town.

There is a medium-sized canned food processing plant in the county town that can produce five million cans of one-pound food a month. The plant can take as many poultry as the locals raise.

Moreover, they sell feed at low prices and buy various kinds of meat from the animals at high prices. This way, people can make a lot of money.

With spare money, I'll definitely buy some good fabrics and get some new clothes for my family during holidays. I can also replace the sickles, hoes, and shovels in the house with new ones. Life will then have something to look forward to, and things will get better and better.

At the same time, raising more chickens and ducks can also provide a lot of high-quality fertilizer, and the grain yield in the fields will also increase. These are all positive and healthy developments.

Most county towns have a small thermal power plant and various processing plants that can produce a variety of military supplies.

As long as our troops can hold their positions on the outskirts of the base area, the rear can continuously produce a large number of industrial products, and over time, our strength will become stronger and stronger.

The New Fourth Army's base areas are no longer what they used to be. Invaders could easily send a battalion to rampage through the base areas; at least a division would be needed.

However, it is not a simple matter for the enemy to mobilize a division. The preparation alone would take ten to fifteen days, and the allocation of various supplies would also take a long time.

However, battles of this magnitude sometimes occur only once a month, which greatly reduces the damage to the New Fourth Army's base areas.

In fact, the leaders really hoped that the Japanese would attack our base with a division-level force, so that these damned invaders would taste what a Great Wall of Steel and a vast ocean of people are like.

This can be considered a complete industrial chain, and it has been verified in the base area of ​​Shanxi Province, proving to be effective.

The more numerous and longer these industrial chains are, the greater the economic boost to the base area will be.

At the same time, we will further subdivide many industrial chains, so that more ordinary people can participate and gain significant benefits.

Putting aside everything else, just transporting supplies between base areas alone mobilized at least a million people, indirectly enabling five million families to live a life free from worries about food and clothing.

As people earn more money, their spending power will increase, the economy will improve, and our overall strength will grow.

However, these things happen slowly, like a gentle rain nourishing the earth.

When the time truly comes for it to erupt, it will absolutely shock all the enemies.

After a period of forced march, Kong Hao and his men finally returned to the Second Industrial Zone.

Even during his absence, the base has been operating largely according to the previous plan, and there shouldn't be any major problems.

After returning to the base, Kong Hao first asked Political Commissar Song Qingfeng to take the team members to the base for a rest period of time, while he went to the industrial park office to start another busy day of work.

The situation is very complex now. Our troops must seize the time to build up their strength so that they can launch a swift attack and seize the initiative once the turning point arrives. This is an extremely important turning point for the Chinese nation.

"It's Xiao Kong back. You've been gone for so long, why didn't you rest more?"

"Old Ren, time waits for no one. I recently went out for a trip and discovered some interesting things."

"In Shanghai, I have a feeling that the enemy is preparing to take action against the International Settlement. My family has also obtained some top-secret intelligence. The Japanese are going to gamble the fate of the nation again."

Upon hearing this, Director Ren immediately asked curiously, "Xiao Kong, this matter is of utmost importance. Are you confident in your abilities?"

Kong Hao was definitely absolutely certain, but he couldn't say it outright, otherwise it would easily lead people to overthink things.

Therefore, he could only offer some subtle suggestions from the sidelines and make some preparations in various aspects.

"Old Ren, we can't interfere with this kind of thing. We can only be self-aware."

"In fact, the Japanese had already formulated two plans several years ago: one was to move north and the other was to advance south."

"The northward advance plan was utterly defeated by the Soviet Union's armored onslaught and has yet to recover. Currently, in the Northeast, the Japanese Kwantung Army is frantically constructing defensive fortifications to resist the Soviet Union's armored forces' attack."

"On the Chinese side, as our industrial strength grows stronger, the damage we inflict on the enemy also increases, and now we have completely halted the enemy's advance."

"To be honest, given the current situation, even if the Japanese can still seize some resources in China, the gains are not proportional to the losses. They can only get back one yuan at most after investing three yuan. For the shrewd Japanese, this is a losing proposition."

"Now they only have one path in front of them, which is to go to Southeast Asia and seize the territory of the Niu Niu and Lao Ying countries. They have everything there: minerals, oil, natural rubber and other strategic resources, which are things that invaders dream of."