Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 82 New Considerations
As expected, the engineers and workers brought by Zhang Wanhe were all willing to stay after seeing the miraculous facilities one after another.

Here, no matter how simple the equipment is, everyone can see that this is the place where real business is done, and everyone has his or her own place to use his or her talents. Ren Zhong did not even wait for Lao Li to come back to discuss it. After communicating with Kong Jie, he directly appointed Gao Kaiming and Xu Jiucheng as the directors of the machinery processing plant and the steel plant respectively!

The rest are left to them to distribute themselves.

I started to get rid of the daily tedious work. Although it would take some time to continue imparting various knowledge, it was much better than relying entirely on myself to complete the guidance. Most of these people were literate, and even if they were originally workers, most of them were skilled workers.

Not to mention Xu Jiucheng and Gao Kaiming, they are both top students of this era. Xu Jiucheng even went to an island country to study metallurgy, and has a very solid basic knowledge.

So there was no problem at all for Ren Zhong to give him a few books to study on his own.

After visiting the entire industrial infrastructure of Yangcun, Zhang Wanhe did not raise any other requests, except that at least half of the skilled workers and equipment should be allocated to him to be equipped in the headquarters arsenal!
Although this made Kong Jie very uncomfortable, he had no choice but to obey the overall situation.

There was no way. These things in Yangcun had too much of an impact on Zhang Wanhe.

If Kong Jie dares to resist, Lao Zhang will dare to call the general manager over and demand it!

However, Ren Zhong was happy to see it happen. After all, it was difficult to develop these things relying solely on the independent regiment. They had to be promoted throughout the base area to make everyone's life better. Otherwise, the independent regiment would be under tremendous pressure to transport the finished products outward. Now the independent regiment had been targeted by the brigade commander as the production base of the entire brigade. It had to supply at least seven or eight main regiments, as well as many local guerrillas!

Relying on the human and material resources of Yangcun, plus the newly acquired Liujiacun and Lizhuang, the scale of production capacity can no longer be expanded. Even if human resources can be recruited from farther away, the people in this base area definitely cannot afford to feed themselves with food!
The independent regiment was already burdened with more than a hundred horses and more than a hundred cavalry soldiers who were transformed from puppet troops. Now it basically had to rely on the brigade to earn some money to purchase food by selling penicillin provided by Ren Zhong.

But even if we buy food from all the towns and villages within dozens of miles, the extra food will not be enough to feed hundreds more people.

This is one of the reasons why after Ren Zhong opened Blast Furnace No. 3 and Blast Furnace No. 4, he was no longer able to expand new blast furnaces.

A blast furnace produces more than ten tons of iron a day, from ore mining to stone crushing and iron smelting, and requires dozens or even hundreds of people.

Because most of the work is done without mechanical support and almost entirely by hand.

Just for mining and transportation, one person can only work one wheelbarrow a day, carrying three to four hundred kilograms. This alone requires dozens of people to serve.

Zhang Wanhe not only snatched away a group of skilled workers, he also snatched away 10 kilograms of penicillin from Ren Zhong. This big deal meant that Zhang Wanhe had opened up sales channels and started to form a large-scale sales method. This time, Zhang Wanhe agreed to trade all of the money worth oceans in the form of calligraphy and painting!

According to him, at least hundreds of famous calligraphy and paintings will be collected this month! In this regard, the comrades in the enemy-occupied areas have a special group responsible for collecting, not just in one place, but in major cities. After paying off the debt, Zhang Wanhe can still have a surplus, so Lao Zhang ordered ten lathes for Ren Zhong in one go, although this lathe is still in Ren Zhong's mouth, which is even more outrageous than someone's PPT model;
Ren Zhong offered a price of 2000 yuan for each machine tool. This price was much cheaper than the seven or eight machine tools purchased at the base, and the goods were delivered to the vicinity of the base!

For such a great thing, of course Mr. Zhang would be generous.

This is because Ren Zhong took into consideration the possibility of some problems with the power supply at the headquarters arsenal, and the upcoming Japanese raid would make it difficult to move these machine tools, so he put an upper limit on Zhang.

After all, even if the castings are to be produced in the world of Bright Sword, the mold making process is quite complicated. In Yangcun, Ren Zhong can arrange two machines at most. After Li Yunlong and his men have gained a foothold in Heyuan, they can arrange a few more machines in the caves beside the small river in the mountains over there. As long as there is water flow, one hydroelectric generator can drive three or four machine tools without any problem.

The arsenal at the headquarters was not located near the water, so Ren Zhong prepared small wind turbines for them, plus several outdated diesel generators they already had.

Zhang Wanhe thought he had taken advantage of Ren Zhong, and before leaving he said to Ren Zhong a little embarrassedly that when he arrived at the headquarters for guidance in a few days, he would prepare an old hen to welcome him!
Ren Zhong smiled. If he was willing to make this deal, the prices of modern masters' paintings in the main plane would be destroyed by him in a short period of time!
Of course, considering his own interests, Ren Zhong would not do this. After all, according to the prices of the last auction, the normal prices of these masterpieces are over 5 million yuan. If they are sold slowly, the value of these paintings will be as high as billion yuan. In addition, the brigade commander still has dozens of paintings. Ren Zhong will basically have no shortage of funds for at least the next years.

Although we don’t know when the world of Bright Sword will end, but even in the worst case scenario, the Japanese will end in 45 years!

Therefore, in the transaction with Zhang Wanhe, Ren Zhong no longer considered whether the price was reasonable. He just wanted Zhang to know that he couldn't get it for free. For the agreed price, he could also get points for upgrading, but this upgrade was so useless that Ren Zhong often ignored it.

But Ren Zhong still had a thought in his mind. What if one day the system was upgraded to the ultimate form and suddenly new functions appeared, such as the ability to explode planes and tanks? That would be so cool in the world of Bright Sword!

Riding a horse to Japan to admire the cherry blossoms was not once his dream, but if that day really came, no matter how strong or weak he was, he would follow Li Yunlong and go there to see it.

But now, according to the current development trend, he still has to stay in Yangcun. What's more important is that this base can't be maintained for a few more days. Before the Japanese invaders launch a large-scale raid, he must leave here in advance and move to the new base in Heyuan.

After all, it is more remote over there and the enemy is weaker.

If Li Yunlong and Zhang Dabiao develop slowly and stealthily according to their plan, at least when this big sweep comes, they will have a secure outside line!
While Ren Zhong worked day and night on the construction of Yang Village, preparing to produce more ammunition for the base and the independent regiment before the big cleanup came, he also began new planning and considered the construction of a new base.

The third update!

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