Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry

Returning to Yang Village from Dala Town, Ren Zhong felt a sense of temporal displacement. Even with the production capacity of Dala Town's handicraft workshops and arsenals, it was still unattainable for the base area at present.

However, after visiting Dala Town and seeing their gun production workshops, Ren Zhong had more practical ideas. For the base area, even the 6140 machine tool was too high-end. Ren Zhong photographed the simple machinery they used in Dala Town and planned to have Honesty Machinery Processing Factory study them to create samples and production processes, which could then be transferred to the base area.

This kind of small workshop-style handicraft arsenal was the most suitable development path for the base area at present.

It could have its own capacity to manufacture guns and ammunition even in a small base area of a few hundred square meters. As long as he could form a complete system of these machines, indigenous sulfuric acid production, and indigenous blast furnace iron smelting techniques, and then provide on-site training, the base areas currently divided by the Japanese devils would greatly improve their self-sufficiency.

Indigenous blast furnaces could not only smelt iron ore, but also scrap copper and iron, and even railway steel rails, without being picky about the raw materials. This would allow the base area to develop its own characteristic military industry based on local conditions.

Yang Village's complete military industrial system, on the other hand, was the most difficult high-end solution for other base areas to replicate. Without Ren Zhong's real-time output of knowledge from the main plane, it simply couldn't be sustained.

Putting aside everything else, even the water turbine generator, although simple in principle, used enameled wire, silicon steel sheets, and rare earth permanent magnets. Where would other base areas get these materials?

Without electricity, the machine tools would be scrap iron.

Perhaps some might say they could raid Japanese strongholds for some diesel or gasoline generators. Putting aside the low probability of obtaining a complete generator, even if they did, where would they get the fuel to burn?

The fuel for the few generators obtained from the headquarters' arsenal had always been a concern for Zhang Wanhe.

Now, only because Zhang Wanhe had a huge income after opening up channels with penicillin could he barely obtain some fuel from the black market in big cities at a high price, and then transport it back to the base area through extremely difficult channels.

The cost was unimaginable.

Therefore, before breaking the Japanese blockade and having a broad strategic depth, Ren Zhong felt that developing this was not promising.

The assets couldn't be too cumbersome, otherwise it would be impossible to move during a mopping-up operation, and it would only benefit the Japanese devils.

Even this plan was already somewhat cumbersome. For the machine tool part, if they were to transfer it, they could only transfer the key components, and the base was out of the question.

As for the indigenous blast furnace, a landmine would definitely be used to destroy it when the time came.

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

However, Zhang Wanhe's reappearance broke Ren Zhong's peaceful life in Yang Village.

"Building a new branch of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University (Kang Da) in Yang Village and making me the education director of the military industry specialty?" Ren Zhong was stunned by Zhang Wanhe's request.

"Minister Zhang, are you mistaken? Where do I have the ability to do such an important thing?"

Ren Zhong's first reaction was to refuse.

He was really a genuine liberal arts student, someone who worked with articles. All the things he had created now were all obtained through money power in the main plane, not because he had the ability himself.

"Boss Ren, don't rush to decline. Listen to me," Zhang Wanhe said calmly.

Old Zhang was only in his forties, but he already looked like he was in his fifties. As the chief steward of the headquarters, Old Zhang had to manage almost everything except fighting, which naturally aged him quickly.

"We are running the school not for anything else, but to summarize the knowledge of Yang Village's current military industry and quickly transmit it to other parts of the base area. Everything here was created by you. We don't need any profound theories, just explain these practical things clearly so that the comrades below can follow and create them."

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

"Okay, Minister Zhang, I can do the teaching work, but I think I should forget about the education director. I can't afford it," Ren Zhong could only take a step back. He hadn't even joined the Eighth Route Army yet, so how could he become an official within the Eighth Route Army? Of course, the Independent Regiment didn't count. In the Independent Regiment, he was only like a visiting staff officer.

Even now, Ren Zhong didn't have the right to command a single soldier, nor would he want it.

Ren Zhong felt that the current cooperation model was the most comfortable. Once he joined the base area, he would inevitably be subject to some restrictions. For Ren Zhong, who shuttled between two worlds, this kind of restriction was like a tight hoop. He had worked in the system for a while and couldn't stand it.

"Boss Ren, besides you, who do you think is qualified to be the education director of the military industry specialty?" Zhang Wanhe asked back.

Ren Zhong was speechless again.

He knew the importance of Kang Da. The military industry specialty was equivalent to the military industry department. If he became the education director, wouldn't he be the department head? In the future, when Kang Da was renamed and upgraded, he would be the dean of the Military Industry Academy. Many big shots in the future People's Military Industry would be from Ren Zhong's school. If he worked for a long time, Ren Zhong might even get the title of Father of People's Military Industry in this world!

This weight was really too heavy. What virtues and abilities did he, Ren Zhong, have to bear such glory?

There really wasn't a single one who could fight. It wasn't that the base area lacked talent in this area to the point that even a liberal arts student was better, but that the border area and military industry talents of this era simply had no way to contend with the massive talents and knowledge of the main plane.

Even if Ren Zhong only moved over a drop in the ocean, it was beyond the reach of these people.

It was like being forced onto the stage. It seemed like he had to go up even if he didn't want to?

Ren Zhong was a little dazed. He instinctively wanted to refuse, but Zhang Wanhe looked sincere, and Ren Zhong really couldn't do an unreasonable and ruthless refusal.

"Okay, but the teaching and staffing of the military industry specialty must be approved by me. If you can't do it, please find someone else," Ren Zhong nodded in agreement helplessly.

There was no way. Zhang Wanhe must have obtained the approval of the leaders of the headquarters long ago, or even they proposed it. Ren Zhong believed that this kind of major matter would never be thought of by Zhang Wanhe alone.

"That's great! Boss Ren, now I can call you Professor Ren. Calling you Boss Ren is a bit unfamiliar," Old Zhang grinned and said, "I wonder if your organization can provide more of those big pipes? We really need this thing too much!"

"We don't want it for free. Can one painting be exchanged for ten big pipes? Also, is there a problem with one painting for one machine tool?"

Third update, asking for everything.