Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 122: Counterattack

When the Military Industry Special Technical Department was established, there was no sound of reading aloud in the classroom. On the first day, they were pulled to the scene to start the process of learning by working.

In this era, there is no such thing as following a routine. After each person is given an instruction manual, everything starts with learning on the spot.

Ren Zhong took his chemical engineering classmates back to Heyuan.

All of them had fought in the base area. What surprised Ren Zhong was that most of them were intellectuals from the First Death Column. They had at least graduated from junior high school, and some had even completed high school courses.

It is considered rare in this era.

The students of the Chemical Engineering class were not afraid of having to cross several Japanese blockade lines to reach Heyuan. Ren Zhong asked the Independent Regiment for a newly completed Type 29 semi-automatic rifle, 56 Hanyang rifles and a grenade launcher for these 28 students. Their combat effectiveness was not much different from that of a platoon of the main force.

In addition, Ren Zhong was not the kind of person who would stir up trouble, so he avoided the Japanese strongholds and returned to Heyuan safely.

Along the way, Ren Zhong provided them with a complete set of information on sulfuric acid manufacturing, propellant manufacturing, and explosives manufacturing, and answered their questions as they walked. Three days later, when they arrived in Heyuan, those who were more comprehensible had basically gotten started. If given the opportunity, they could all imitate Ren Zhong's method of re-creating the cylinder-tower method sulfuric acid production line.

As a result, Ren Zhong had a group of new tools around him. It was a rare opportunity to get a group of intellectuals who had no problem with literacy. Ren Zhong did not limit this chemical engineering class to the field of chemical engineering, but divided them into three groups, preparing to let them take turns to learn about chemical engineering, metallurgy and mechanical processing.

Now there is no hard-working person like Li Yunlong on site in Heyuan to supervise the work day and night, and the progress of the project is somewhat unsatisfactory to Ren Zhong, who is used to a fast pace.

Zhang Dabiao now has to integrate forces to form and build the combat power of the guerrilla brigade, as well as to open up wasteland and grow crops. Ren Zhong cannot be distracted, and Ren Zhong is in charge of the project. Of course, Ren Zhong does not have one person on site day and night, but found two rural scholars who are slightly literate in Heyuan as assistants. The two take turns to supervise the construction according to Ren Zhong's booklet.

It’s just that they are not familiar with these things of Ren Zhong, and after many tasks are completed, Ren Zhong needs to confirm whether the goals have been achieved.

Although the project did not stop during the days when Ren Zhong was away, the progress was even more unsatisfactory than when Ren Zhong was there.

Ren Zhong did not say anything. After bringing in the new tools, he quickly confirmed each person's division of labor and asked them to be responsible for a specific construction project one by one. These students had received Ren Zhong's preliminary guidance and had a more thorough understanding of the booklet than the two scholars. So their progress began to advance by leaps and bounds.

Two earthen blast furnaces, a open-hearth furnace and a reverberatory furnace are all being completed at a pace visible to the naked eye.

The two earthen kilns were completed first, and the refractory bricks and crucibles needed for steelmaking were fired. After a large number of steel components were used this time, the shape and size of the crucibles had changed greatly. Hu Rentao followed the new requirements and conditions proposed by Ren Zhong. The earthen blast furnace was supported by a steel frame, and the capacity of the furnace was increased by about one-fold. Theoretically, the daily output will increase by nearly 80% compared to the No. 1 and No. 2 blast furnaces.

On the other side, the mining team has found coal mines, iron mines and copper mines according to Ren Zhong's instructions, and also found a small lime mine.

Basically, the upstream supporting facilities for smelting have been completed in Heyuan. However, Ren Zhong is preparing for long-term development this time. In the development of these mines, Ren Zhong adopts a distributed approach, separating the miners from the transporters. Ore dumping and rough processing workshops are set up 2 miles away from the mines. The miners are all core activists who have developed from the fortress village.

However, the rough processing factory employs all ordinary local people, and pays them one to two kilograms of grain as wages according to the results of their daily work. Although this wage is relatively low in the outside county town, it is already an attractive job in the mountain village.

So although Ren Zhong has many construction sites, he can also mobilize a lot of manpower, but it's a bit expensive. The price of local grain in Heyuan is relatively stable this year, and is lower than that at the headquarters of the base. One dollar can buy 20 kilograms. Ren Zhong has hired thousands of workers, and he has to pay them more than one hundred dollars a day.

If Ren Zhong had not sold another ten kilograms of penicillin to Zhang Wanhe and received a large sum of money - Zhang Wanhe knew that Ren Zhong wanted to build the Heyuan base, he would have been embarrassed to use all his calligraphy and paintings to pay off his debts.

Penicillin has now formed a channel for thousands of miles in the north, and most of it is sold to wealthy people in the capital. The financial resources of the base have been greatly improved. In addition, the military supplies that originally required high-priced bulk purchases are now basically self-produced and self-sold. Zhang Wanhe's purchasing targets have shifted to people's livelihood products, such as food and cotton. After several months of turnover, the base has accumulated deposits of more than 100,000 oceans, reaching a historical high!
Zhang Wanhe even had enough spare capacity to send 5 kilograms of penicillin to the border areas as support. Originally, he could make more than 2 times the profit by paying in US dollars. Now that payment has been changed to mainly in the form of calligraphy and paintings, Zhang Wanhe's profit has at least increased by 5 times!
After Ren Zhong achieved financial freedom in the main world, he didn't care about this messy account at all. He had received more than 200 works of art, old or new, by masters of this era, but he had no need to sell them for the time being.

However, Ms. Ma Shuya had already tasted the sweetness from the last transaction, making tens of millions of dollars in profit. She had called Ren Zhong several times to ask if he had any new paintings to sell.

She seemed to be certain that Ren Zhong had found a channel to obtain famous paintings, and she kept an eye on Ren Zhong's movements, hoping to get the first-hand source of goods.

After all, there are more people who are interested in art now, and even more people want to use art to achieve certain specific goals. What they like most are products that have never appeared in the auction market. In this way, they will have fewer obstacles in accepting the monetization process.

Ma Shuya should have such a channel in his hands. There is a great demand for high-end artworks from famous artists, especially those from the top ten artists.

Ren Zhong was not aware of these situations. He was too lazy to care about them just because he was not short of money recently. At the same time, he worked too hard in the world of Bright Sword. After returning to the main world, Ren Zhong focused on recuperation. He was too lazy to visit the companies developed by his brothers. He just asked them to send the things to the designated warehouse, and Ren Zhong would take the things away on time.

Ren Zhong has now opened up several bases in the main world. In Chengdu, there are lead-acid batteries, machine tools for machining and key parts of generators, traditional vacuum tube radio clones, and a simulation 56 semi-automatic and MG3 model processing factory set up in Hong Kong Island.

In addition, the seamless steel pipe procurement and copper plate procurement and transfer warehouse.

Ren Zhong has already had more than three burrows.

But these are not enough. After Ren Zhong personally experienced the Dabeigou tragedy in the world of Bright Sword, the importance of RPG increased again. He began to plan to purchase more RPGs for the base more quickly. Some new components involved in RPG cannot be obtained in the world of Bright Sword in the short term, and cannot be obtained in the mainland either. Ren Zhong decided to buy, buy, and buy!
These things are common goods in Dara Town. As long as the price is right, you can buy them. So Ren Zhong quickly flew to Pakistan alone and found Sayyid again. This time he bought 200 sets of RPG parts that could not be copied at a price of US$100, without pipes or shells. This deal stunned Sayyid because these things cost less. He once again praised his approach of playing the long game and provided Ren Zhong with a batch of original parts purchased from the bearded man next door.

As these things were not heavy, Ren Zhong packed them up and took them back to Yangcun in one night. He stayed in a small hotel in Dara Town for a day and then left quietly. Now it takes less than 5 hours to fly from Jincheng to Islamabad. If you rent a car from Islamabad to Peshawar, the entire journey is on the highway, less than 200 kilometers, and a 2-hour journey. If you are more compact, Ren Zhong can make a round trip in three days!
In this way, when the counterattack begins at the end of August, the main force will have an additional more flexible siege weapon. Combined with the cheap flying thunder cannon, more Japanese strongholds will surely suffer a devastating disaster.

Only in this way can Ren Zhong's feeling of resentment be slightly alleviated!
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