Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry

The dynamite factory, beneath its simple and unadorned exterior, is a monster with a production capacity exceeding one hundred kilograms of high explosives!

Hearing such a production capacity, Gao Kaiming couldn't help but ask, "Boss Ren, it seems you're not using cotton to produce nitrocellulose. What exactly are you using as a substitute?"

Gao Kaiming knew that the base area was under strict blockade. Items like steel, grain, cotton, chemical products, medicines, and radio equipment were all blockaded. A daily output of one hundred kilograms would require a massive amount of cotton. With a little thought, he knew it was impossible. Yang Village must be using something else as a substitute.

"We use wood and hay to replace cotton in making cellulose. This can be considered a small patent of our Yang Village's dynamite production," Ren Zhong said with a slight smile. Back when producing sulfuric acid, Ren Zhong had considered that although cotton was the best raw material for producing nitrocellulose, the base area couldn't obtain enough cotton. Therefore, he deliberately found alternative production techniques for producing cellulose from wood and hay. With the help of a chemistry tutor, he even carried out preliminary principle experiments in the small courtyard.

Then, Ren Zhong brought this method to the Bright Sword world. Now, both processes are being applied on a large scale in the base area. Not only Yang Village, but the headquarters arsenal has also switched to this new process.

"Then how did you solve the problem of sulfuric acid and nitric acid?" Gao Kaiming continued to ask. Whether producing nitrocellulose or cellulose, acid is needed. This material is also a strategically controlled item that the base area can't easily buy even with money.

"We produce it ourselves," Ren Zhong replied with a smile.

Xu Jiucheng's expression changed again. Good heavens, they can even produce sulfuric acid and nitric acid themselves. It seems the industrial level of Yang Village far exceeds his imagination.

In Xu Jiucheng's heart, the somewhat superior attitude he originally held began to gradually change. After all, the dynamite factory in front of him was undeniable. Although Xu Jiucheng didn't know much about dynamite formulation, he had seen high-quality dynamite before, and what he was seeing now was almost indistinguishable from the high-quality dynamite he had seen before.

"Hiss, this, this," Gao Kaiming recognized what was being processed at a glance. What he never expected was that there were such ingenious manual punch presses here!

Watching the workers skillfully operate the machines, quickly processing the copper plates into the shape of bullets, even Gao Kaiming, who had worked in the top domestic arsenals, was stunned.

"Boss Ren, are these punch presses entirely human-powered? Where did you buy them from?" Gao Kaiming asked a series of questions in rapid succession.

"I can answer your first question, yes, they are entirely human-powered, so we call them manual punch presses. As for the purchase channel, I'm sorry, that's classified," Ren Zhong enjoyed seeing them look like they had never seen the world, so they wouldn't act like they were the best in the world when they arrived in Yang Village.

Especially Xu Jiucheng and his group.

Although Ren Zhong urgently needed them to assist, he wasn't bringing them here to be treated like lords, but to be good tools!

"Amazing, you're amazing," Gao Kaiming looked at the production workshop in the cave and made up his mind almost instantly, "Boss Ren, does this arsenal still need people? I want to stay here and work! With punch presses, we can produce more than just bullets!"

"Of course, we welcome every capable person who is committed to improving the industrial capabilities of the base area to join us!" Ren Zhong immediately agreed when he saw Gao Kaiming was so cooperative, "And before long, we will purchase hydroelectric generators and real machine tools! Next, we will manufacture guns!"

Ren Zhong's words were astonishing, even Zhang Wanhe next to him was stunned. Unlike the others present, Zhang Wanhe had no doubts about Ren Zhong's words.

"Boss Ren, how long is 'before long'?" Zhang Wanhe stared at Ren Zhong with burning eyes.

Machine tools that can manufacture guns! Although the headquarters arsenal had some, the processing capabilities of those old, outdated, seventh- or eighth-hand machine tools at headquarters were better left unsaid.

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

The first machine tool is of course an electrically driven standard lathe, but even the miniaturized standard machine tools in the main plane weigh at least 2 tons. If it were a complete machine, Ren Zhong would definitely not be able to bring it to the Bright Sword world.

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

In this way, Ren Zhong can separately produce the machine tool in two worlds and then bring it to the Bright Sword world to complete the assembly.

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

"Minister Zhang, we'll talk about this later," Ren Zhong said mysteriously.

Although these people are about to join the base area's military industry system, the base area must have vetted them from the source. So, there's nothing wrong with visiting the Yang Village arsenal, but the most important thing about secrecy is the minimum need-to-know principle. Many high-end secrets are best known only to those who need to know them, so as to reduce the chance of leakage.

Zhang Wanhe understood as soon as he heard it. Although he was itching to know, he restrained himself from asking Ren Zhong about such things in public.

"The sulfuric acid production base is a bit far from the steel production base, so I won't take everyone to visit the sulfuric acid production base," After showing everyone around the large karst cave, Ren Zhong led the group towards the steel production base of Blast Furnace No. 1 and Blast Furnace No. 2.

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There was no one in this group who was engaged in chemical production, and the outside of the sulfuric acid production line's several tank towers didn't reveal any mysteries, so Ren Zhong felt it was unnecessary.

Xu Jiucheng, who was already shocked by Yang Village's foundation, suddenly felt a sense of gain and loss when he heard Ren Zhong's words.

He both wanted to see a blast furnace that would surprise him, because good infrastructure would allow him to be useful, but he was also afraid that there was really something so good, and he would lose face more than a little.

However, the others were different from Xu Jiucheng. They had been completely convinced by Yang Village's industrial base. Although everything else here looked so simple, it was not inferior to a regular arsenal workshop in terms of production.

In Gao Kaiming's view, what surprised him the most was that the copper materials here in Yang Village were not only numerous but also of excellent quality, better than what he had seen in the Taiyuan Arsenal!

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