Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 97: Opening a School, Is It Okay for a Liberal Arts Student to Become the Father of a Military Industry?
Return to Yang Village from Dara Town.

Ren Zhong had a sense of lost time and space. Even with the production capacity of the handicraft workshop arsenal in Dara Town, it was now out of reach for the base.

However, after visiting the town of Dara and seeing the firearms production workshop, Ren Zhong had more practical ideas. For the base, the 6140 machine tools were too high-end. Ren Zhong photographed the crude machinery processed by Dara Town and planned to let the Chengxin Machinery Processing Factory research and develop samples and production processes, and then transfer them to the base.

This kind of small workshop-style manual arsenal is the most suitable development route for the base at present.

He could have the ability to manufacture guns and ammunition in a small base of a few hundred square meters. As long as he combined these machines with the technology of refining sulfuric acid by native methods and smelting iron in native blast furnaces to form a complete system, and then conduct on-site training, the base that was now divided by the Japanese would greatly improve its self-sufficiency.

The earthen blast furnace can not only refine iron ore, but also scrap copper, rotten iron, and railway rails. It is not picky about the incoming materials, allowing the base to develop its own distinctive military industry according to local conditions.

Yangcun's complete military-industrial system is actually the most difficult high-end solution to replicate in other bases. Without Ren Zhong's real-time output of main-plane knowledge support, it simply cannot be maintained.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just take the hydroelectric generator. Although the principle is simple, the enameled wire, silicon steel sheets and rare earth permanent magnets used in it, where do you expect other bases to get the materials from?
Without electricity, machine tools are just scrap metal.

Maybe some people would say that we can go to the Japanese strongholds to steal some diesel or gasoline generators. Let's not talk about how likely it is to get a complete generator. Even if we do get one, where can we get the oil to burn?
The oil consumed by the generators obtained from the headquarters arsenal has always been a concern for Zhang Wanhe.

Now, Zhang Wanhe had only the huge income from opening up the channels for penicillin, so he could barely spend a lot of money to get some oil from the black market in big cities, and then transport it back to the base through extremely difficult channels.

The cost is unimaginable.

Therefore, before breaking the Japanese blockade and gaining a broad depth, there is no future for Ren Zhong to develop this.

Your belongings cannot be too heavy, otherwise they will not be able to be moved during a raid and will simply fall into the hands of the Japanese.

Now this plan is a bit cumbersome. If the machine tool part is to be moved, only the key components on it can be moved, and the base cannot be moved at all.

As for the earthen blast furnace, it will surely be destroyed by a mine.

Thinking of this, Ren Zhong began to re-optimize his plan in his mind.

However, Zhang Wanhe's return disrupted Ren Zhonggou's peaceful life in Yangcun.

"Build a new branch of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University in Yangcun and let me be the director of education of the military special department of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University in the base area?" Ren Zhong was a little stunned by Zhang Wanhe's request.

"Minister Zhang, are you mistaken? How can I be capable of doing such an important thing?"

Ren Zhong’s first reaction was to refuse.

Just kidding, he is really a genuine liberal arts student who writes articles. All the things he has produced now were obtained in the main plane through his money ability, not because of his own ability.

"Boss Ren, don't be in a hurry to refuse. Listen to me." Zhang Wanhe said without any hurry. Old Zhang is only in his forties, but he looks as old as in his 50s. As the butler of the headquarters, he has to take care of everything except fighting. This job is of course very tiring.

"We run the school for no other reason than to summarize the knowledge of Yangcun's current military industry and quickly transfer it to other places in the base area. Everything here was created by you. We don't need any profound theories. We just need to explain these practical things clearly so that the comrades below can learn and create."

Zhang Wanhe didn't say much, but his reason was so strong that Ren Zhong couldn't refute it at all.

"Okay, Minister Zhang, I can do the teaching work, but I think I can forget about being the director of education. I can't bear it." Ren Zhong could only take a step back. He hadn't even joined the Eighth Route Army yet, so how could he be an official within it? Of course, the Independent Regiment didn't count, as he was just a guest staff officer in the Independent Regiment.

Even now, Ren Zhong does not have the right to command a single soldier, and he will not ask for it.

Ren Zhong feels most comfortable with this current cooperation model. Once he joins the base, he will inevitably be subject to some restrictions. For Ren Zhong, who is now shuttling between two worlds, this kind of restriction is like a tight hoop. He has worked in the system for a period of time and can't stand it.

"Boss Ren, besides you, who do you think is qualified to be the director of the Military Special Technical School?" Zhang Wanhe asked back.

Ren Zhong was speechless again.

He knew the importance of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. The Military Industry Special Technology Department was equivalent to the Military Industry Department. As the Dean of Education, he would be the head of the department. After the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University was renamed and upgraded, he would be the president of the Military Industry College. In the future, many bigwigs of the People's Military Industry would be his disciples. If he worked for a long time, Ren Zhong might even be able to get the title of the Father of the People's Military Industry in this world!

This is really too heavy a responsibility. How could he be worthy of such an honor?

But thinking back, in this period, among the bases, even including those in the border areas, who can achieve as much as Ren Zhong?
There is really no one who can fight. It's not that the base is so lacking in talent in this area that they can't even compare with a liberal arts student, but the military and industrial talents in the border areas and bases of this era are simply unable to compete with the massive talent and knowledge of the same main plane.

Even if Ren Zhong only moved a small amount, it would be far beyond the reach of these people.

This is like being forced to do something, it seems like you have to do it even if you don't want to?

Ren Zhong was a little confused. He instinctively wanted to refuse, but Lao Zhang looked so sincere that Ren Zhong really couldn't make an unreasonable and ruthless refusal.

"Okay, but the teaching and staffing of the military special technology department all need my approval. If you can't do it, you should look for someone else." Ren Zhong nodded helplessly and agreed.

There was no way. For Lao Zhang to do this, he must have obtained the approval of the leaders of the headquarters, or even proposed it from them. Ren Zhong believed that such an important thing would not be something that Lao Zhang came up with alone.

"That's great! Boss Ren, now I can call you Professor Ren. After all, I'm a little unfamiliar with the term Boss Ren." Old Zhang grinned and said, "I wonder if your organization can provide more of that big pipe. We really need this thing!"

"We don't want it for nothing. Can we exchange ten of these large pipes for one painting? And for the machine tool, is it okay to exchange one painting for one machine?"

Third update, various requests
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