Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

After all, there was someone to teach them, and no one was willing to give up such a good learning opportunity. Although there had been literacy training before, it was only basic reading. In the military factory, in order to manufacture weapons and equipment, the accompanying personnel could learn a lot of knowledge beyond reading.

In order to develop the base, Zeng Jiwen asked the political commissars and instructors of each regiment to start literacy campaigns and teach soldiers and villagers how to read as soon as they arrived in Xiyang. He had not paid much attention to this matter before, but after he had some free time last month, he began to pay close attention to this kind of work.

At the same time, in order to rectify the unhealthy trend of the troops who were unwilling to learn, Li Yunlong was specially transferred to the brigade headquarters to make an example of him, and was asked to write a 1,000-word self-criticism before being allowed to leave.

When the other officers saw this, they also stopped and started learning to read with the instructor.

After seeing the development of the military factory, Zeng Jiwen, led by Liu Guifu, came to the office and began to introduce the current situation.

According to Liu Guifu, the equipment transferred to Taiyuan this time basically has production lines for light and heavy machine guns and artillery, but due to limited manpower and materials, only one production line was basically opened.

Only the bullet production lines, about four of which had been modified, were being continuously produced. Zeng Jiwen had previously ordered the troops to stockpile the gunpowder, copper, and other resources needed for bullet production, which should be enough to sustain them for another month or two.

According to Liu Guifu, the current bullet production is about 30,000 rounds per day. This is because there are a large number of skilled workers and materials. It can produce about two million rounds of bullets in more than two months.

The production of rifles is about fifty per day. Due to the limitation of the barrel, it takes about three months to produce about four thousand rifles. The production of light machine guns is five or six, and the production of heavy machine guns is three or four, which takes about more than a month.

There are probably more than a hundred artillery shells produced every day. The artillery production line and submachine gun production line are not in operation yet. There are simply not enough manpower and raw materials to produce artillery and submachine guns.

Zeng Jiwen was surprised after hearing what Liu Guifu said. He thought that the military factory was just starting out and could only supply a small amount. He didn't expect that if there was enough raw materials for bullets and artillery shells, the production could be increased.

He couldn't help but sigh at his good fortune; he had found the right factory manager. As for raw materials, Zeng Jiwen assured Liu Guifu that they would be in sufficient supply after the summer.

It turned out that after Zeng Jiwen intercepted the equipment, he immediately sent a secret message to his family to wake up his subordinates. In the past few years, he had traveled many times to the north and Berlin, and across the country, specifically trying to train a group of talents who could design and manufacture machinery and equipment, and a number of various small and medium-sized industrial equipment, and used the shell companies of the great powers and the Japanese army to transport them to Hebei, Shanghai and other places.

Now, while the Japanese army's inspections are not strict, we can secretly transport these things to the base under the names of these shell companies. Otherwise, it will be difficult to transport these things at a later stage.

At present, these things and talents have begun to arrive one after another. Once they are fully in place, they can be installed to collect and refine raw materials. However, all this will have to wait until summer.

After discussing these, Zeng Jiwen said to Liu Guifu.

"Chief Engineer Liu, besides understanding the production situation of our military factory, I also have something I want to ask you."

Liu Guifu looked puzzled and replied, "Commander Zeng, you are too polite. Just tell me and I will definitely help you solve your doubts."

"Well, I want you to help us make some different weapons. I asked you to see if your factory can currently produce them."

Liu Guifu was surprised to hear this and asked Zeng Jiwen what kind of weapons he needed. Zeng Jiwen then took out two pieces of paper from his pocket with the rough designs of the weapons he needed drawn on them.