Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 79 The Incredible Yang Village

Beneath the plain appearance of the explosives factory lies a monster with a production capacity of over one hundred kilograms of high explosives!

Hearing about this production capacity, Gao Kaiming couldn't help but ask, "Boss Ren, it seems that you don't use cotton to produce nitrocellulose. What do you use instead?"

Gao Kai knew that the base was tightly blocked, and things like steel, grain, cotton, chemicals, medicines, and radio equipment were all blocked. The demand for cotton to produce 100 kilograms a day was huge. A little thought would tell him that it was impossible. Yangcun must have used something else as a substitute.

"We use wood and hay instead of cotton to make cellulose. This can be considered a small patent for our Yangcun explosives production." Ren Zhong smiled slightly. When producing sulfuric acid, Ren Zhong took into account that although cotton is the best raw material for producing nitrocellulose, the base simply cannot get enough cotton. So he deliberately found a production process for producing cellulose from wood and hay instead of cotton. With the help of the chemistry teacher, he also carried out preliminary principle experiments in the courtyard.

Then Ren Zhong brought this method to the world of Bright Sword. Now both technologies are widely used in the base. Not only Yangcun, but also the headquarters arsenal has switched to this new technology.

"How did you deal with sulfuric acid and nitric acid?" Gao Kaiming continued to ask. Acid is needed in both the production of nitrocellulose and cellulose. This thing is a strategic controlled material that is difficult to buy even if you have money in the base.

"We produce it ourselves." Ren Zhong responded with a smile.

Xu Jiucheng's face changed again. Wow, they can produce sulfuric acid and nitric acid by themselves. It seems that the industrial level of Yangcun is far beyond his imagination.

Xu Jiucheng's originally somewhat superior mentality began to gradually change. After all, the real explosives factory in front of him could not deceive anyone. Although Xu Jiucheng did not know much about the preparation of explosives, he had seen high-quality explosives. What he saw now was almost the same as the high-quality explosives he had seen before.

What kind of achievements does Yangcun have that made high-ranking figures in the headquarters like Zhang Wanhe stand on Ren Zhong's side without hesitation and express their unreserved support!
After visiting the explosives factory, Ren Zhong led them to the big cave.

As soon as you enter the cave, the first thing that catches your eye is dozens of neatly arranged manual punching machines, and rows of neatly arranged, shiny copper plates next to each punching machine!
"Hiss, this, this," Gao Kaiming could tell at a glance what was being processed. What he never expected was that there was such a sophisticated manual punching machine here!
Watching the workers skillfully shaking and quickly processing the copper plates into the shape of bullets, Gao Kaiming, who had worked in production at the country's top arsenal, was stunned.

"Boss Ren, are these punching machines fully human-powered? Where did you buy them from?" Gao Kaiming asked rapidly.

"I can answer your first question. Yes, it is fully powered by human power, so we call it a manual punching machine. As for the purchase channel, sorry, it is confidential." Ren Zhong likes to see them look like they have never seen the market before, so that they will not still look like the best in the world when they arrive in Yangcun.

Especially the one headed by Xu Jiucheng.

Although Ren Zhong urgently needs their assistance, he does not want them to be the boss, but to be his own tools!
"Great, you guys are amazing," Gao Kaiming looked at the production workshop in the cave and made up his mind almost instantly, "Boss Ren, is this arsenal still short of people? I want to stay here and work! With a punch press, we can produce more than just bullets!"

"Of course, we welcome everyone who is committed to improving the base's industrial capacity to join us!" Ren Zhong immediately agreed when he saw Gao Kaiming was so determined. "And it won't be long before we can purchase hydroelectric generators and real machine tools! The next step is to manufacture guns!"

Ren Zhong's shocking words stunned Zhang Wanhe who was standing next to him. However, unlike other people at the scene, Zhang Wanhe had no doubts about what Ren Zhong said.

"Boss Ren, how long do you mean by soon?" Zhang Wanhe stared at Ren Zhong with a burning gaze. Although the headquarters arsenal does have machine tools that can manufacture guns, the processing capacity of the several outdated seven or eight machine tools in the headquarters is not worth mentioning.

"When the iron we smelt meets the production requirements of machine tool castings, then we'll have it," Ren Zhong replied.

The first machine tool is of course an electrically driven standard lathe. However, even the miniaturized standard machine tool of the main plane has a starting weight of 2 tons. If it is a complete machine, Ren Zhong will definitely not be able to bring it to the world of Bright Sword.

However, considering that the casting part of the machine tool has a lower technical content and can be completely replicated in the world of Liangjian, Ren Zhong’s approach is to separate the manufacturing of the machine tool. Except for the precision parts and key components such as motors, the remaining castings, which account for the largest weight, are produced in the world of Liangjian.

In this way, Ren Zhong can produce the machine tools in the two worlds separately and then bring them into the world of Liang Jian to complete the assembly.

"Then when can we produce this kind of cast iron?" Zhang Wanhe asked. This machine tool was too critical and he couldn't help but care about it.

"Minister Zhang, we'll talk about this later." Ren Zhong kept it a secret.

Although these people are about to join the base's military-industrial system, the base must have checked it from the source, so there is nothing wrong with visiting the Yangcun arsenal, but the most important thing about confidentiality is the minimum right to know. Many high-end secrets are best known only to those who need to know, so as to reduce the chance of leakage.

Zhang Wanhe understood as soon as he heard it. Although he was itching to do so, he resisted the urge to ask Ren Zhong such questions in public again.

"The sulfuric acid production base is a bit far from the steel production base, so I won't take you to visit the sulfuric acid production base." After taking everyone to look at the big cave, Ren Zhong led everyone to the steel production base of the No. 1 blast furnace and the No. 2 blast furnace.

None of the group was engaged in chemical production, and there was nothing mysterious about the exterior of the cylinder towers on the sulfuric acid production line, so Ren Zhong felt that it was unnecessary.

Xu Jiucheng, who was already shocked by Yang Cun's wealth, suddenly felt anxious when he heard Ren Zhong's words.

He wanted to see a big blast furnace that would surprise him, after all, only with good infrastructure could he put his skills to good use. But he was also afraid that if there really was such a good thing, he would lose a lot of face.

However, the others were different from Xu Jiucheng. They had been completely impressed by Yangcun's industrial base. Although everything else here looked so simple, its production was in no way inferior to that of a regular arsenal workshop.

In Gao Kaiming's opinion, what surprised him most was that the copper materials in Yangcun were not only abundant in quantity but also of very fine workmanship, better than what he had seen in Taiyuan Arsenal!

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