Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry

The regimental commander, upon hearing it was really Ren Zhong, was quite curious. However, burdened with military affairs, he chatted briefly before hurrying off to report to headquarters again.

After the regimental commander left, Ren Zhong shook his head inwardly. He hadn't expected that even with his tips to Kong Jie, the Independent Regiment would still be so badly beaten by Yamamoto. It seemed Li Yunlong, Yamamoto's destined opponent, still had an unavoidable bloodbath ahead.

It seemed he needed to give Li Yunlong a little extra help; otherwise, Li Yunlong would still suffer a great loss if he encountered Yamamoto in his current state.

When the first batch of concentrated sulfuric acid was produced, Zhu Zhendong and the others who participated in the installation and production shed tears of joy. Although they had previously simulated the entire production process many times through experimental devices, those were, after all, laboratories, vastly different from the actual production environment.

Now, using the production equipment and production line designed by Ren Zhong, they had achieved industrialized mass production. Even if the current output of this set was only over 20 kilograms per day, it was still a real production line!

As the second kiln of the earthen furnace was about to enter the cooling period, they would soon be able to assemble the second production line. Repeating this cycle, the base area would no longer suffer from such a shortage of sulfuric acid.

"Brother Ren, what exactly is the pricing policy for your August 1st Chemical Plant and sulfuric acid? Give your old brother a hint. This is a major matter for our base area." Hearing that the clothing factory had created a sulfuric acid production line, Zhang Wanhe shamelessly ran over to Ren Zhong and started addressing him as 'brother'.

This was the experience Zhang Wanhe had gained from Li Yunlong. He was currently penniless, owing Ren Zhong tens of thousands of silver dollars for penicillin. Saying he would buy it was truly impossible, but getting it for free was even more inappropriate.

"Minister Zhang, here's what I'm thinking. The August 1st Chemical Plant has finally produced something. I don't think it's ideal to give the subsequent development solely to an individual or the base area. Giving it all to an individual is not conducive to the production and allocation of strategic materials, but giving it all to the base area in the future will not attract more people to invest and set up factories in the base area."

"How about this? Let's consider the entire factory a public-private partnership. The base area invests the land and undertakes the collection of raw materials, accounting for 60% of the factory's shares. Then, investors account for 30%, and the factory management and workers account for 10%. After cost accounting of the entire factory's assets, 30% of the annual profit will be distributed according to the shares. As for the sales of products, they are currently directed to supply the base area; we'll talk about new markets in the future."

"The prices of labor, raw materials, and finished products will be negotiated annually according to the actual prices in the base area." Ren Zhong proposed his plan.

It wasn't that he was reluctant to give away the factory, but he felt that if he did so, it would be very detrimental to others investing and setting up factories in the base area in the future. Although the current base area was still very weak, it was basically impossible for foreign merchants to risk their lives to come to the base area.

However, he understood this history. In just a few years, the base area would grow to a point where no one could ignore it and achieve complete victory.

Now that the rules were set, it could rectify the source and clarify the principles. After all, this method was a better choice to mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties.

It was impossible for Ren Zhong to single-handedly prop up the industrialization process of an entire world, but with a good mechanism, he could mobilize thousands upon thousands of smart people to join this construction industry, which would build this world faster.

Zhang Wanhe obviously hadn't expected Ren Zhong to come up with such a complex solution.

Of course, Old Zhang wasn't unable to understand; rather, he understood most of it, but this required higher-level personnel to provide answers. After all, there was no precedent for this. However, from Old Zhang's understanding, he approved of Ren Zhong's plan.

"Brother Ren, I'll take your plan back for the leaders to study. It's not easy to give you a definite answer for the time being, but no matter what, we must first focus on production. The base area is currently in dire need of weapons and ammunition, and your invention will greatly alleviate the shortage of ammunition in the base area and enhance our ability to be self-reliant," Zhang Wanhe replied to Ren Zhong apologetically.

"It doesn't matter. If it's just the August 1st Chemical Plant, it doesn't matter if it's directly handed over to the base area. However, the base area cannot and will not only have me, Ren Zhong, developing industry in the future. Therefore, in terms of the mechanism, Minister Zhang still needs to explain clearly to the commanders that if the base area wants to develop, it must develop the base area's economic construction well while driving away the Japanese devils, so that it can become stronger and stronger." Ren Zhong nodded, very understanding of Zhang Wanhe's inability to make a commitment.

This was not something Zhang Wanhe could decide, and even the commanders here were unlikely to issue such a public policy. Perhaps it could be done individually for the August 1st Chemical Plant created by him, Ren Zhong, but that was not Ren Zhong's original intention. In this Bright Sword world, Ren Zhong had other ways to make money and didn't need to haggle over this aspect.

Zhang Wanhe returned with the sample of concentrated sulfuric acid, fully loaded, and the success of concentrated sulfuric acid made the breakthrough of concentrated nitric acid effortless. Li Yunlong had previously purchased a lot of pyrite, saltpeter, and other mineral resources with Ren Zhong's guidance and financial assistance.

With Ren Zhong's help, Zhu Zhendong and others gradually mastered the production process of sulfuric acid and nitric acid and became skilled tools.

Just when they felt their level had greatly increased and were preparing to make a big splash at the August 1st Chemical Plant, Ren Zhong threw out the process data for producing glycerin by the calcium soap method, producing nitroglycerin by the pot nitration method, and the homemade processes for double-base smokeless gunpowder and nitroglycerin explosives!

This immediately put this group of people back into a state of overwork!

Fortunately, Zhang Wanhe went back and mobilized a workforce of nearly a hundred people. This was him concentrating almost all the human resources that could be mobilized from other industries within the current control range of the headquarters to fully support the production of the August 1st Chemical Plant.

After Zhu Zhendong taught these people how to operate the entire production process, the cylinder tower method sulfuric acid production line continued to increase its production capacity at a rate of one additional set of equipment per week.

And in this process, Zhu Zhendong and the others, holding the mature homemade production technology of double-base smokeless gunpowder and nitroglycerin explosives, had completed the first demonstration production line, realizing simple industrialized production at the level of ten kilograms per day.

As the one who discovered Ren Zhong, this treasure, Li Yunlong took the twenty boxes of Border Region-made ammunition and 200 cotton-padded clothes that he had squeezed out of Zhang Wanhe and set off to take office!

Before leaving, Old Li found Ren Zhong and had a hearty drinking session. Half-drunk and half-awake, Ren Zhong vowed that after completing the complete set of technology for the August 1st Chemical Plant, he would come to Yangcun to help the Independent Regiment build a new bullet processing factory!

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