There is no choice, there is no choice, nominally the production organizer of the factory, if not the "executive president", but he can be regarded as the "production director", but even the most basic personal freedom is restricted - there are Norman soldiers everywhere he goes, and without the order of the military governor of Lorraine, he does not want to go out of the factory......

Thus began the return to life at the Clumberg-Haisen plant.

The factory adopts a three-shift system, from morning to night, the machine is non-stop, the production is endless, and it is very busy. Weiss soon discovered that the Normans were not only using the production facilities to make the two parts used to improve the performance of the equipment in service, but were also secretly organizing the production of 1.4PIR bolt-action rifles. Ze's answer to his question was very frank - these firearms were supplied to the security forces and police departments in various parts of Lorraine, and none of them would fall into the hands of Norman soldiers, and it was impossible for the local security forces and police personnel in Lorraine to be sent to the front line to fight the federal army. Therefore, what he said at the beginning was not to deceive Weiss, and it is true that the current Klumber-Heisen factory did not provide the Norman army with weapons and ammunition for direct use in battle.

Weiss didn't buy Ze's explanation, but he had no choice but to accept the reality, after all, the civilians who had followed the resistance had been escorted back to Somsonas, and whether they could get enough supplies and medical care was directly linked to the production results of the Klumber-Heisen factory. In other words, if the factory was shut down or the equipment was destroyed, and the output did not meet the Normans' demands, the more than 2,000 tired and stranded "non-combat prisoners" would bear the brunt, and the factory workers would also suffer, which would only lead to a vicious circle of no end in the current situation.

Weiss's forbearance does not mean that he is helpless. In the name of organizing production, he had to go to all corners of the factory every day, imprinting in his mind the allocation of equipment and personnel - counting the more than 2,000 people who returned to the factory as servants, there are now more than 4,000 workers here, and the ratio of men to women is close to one to one, but most of the men are the old and young, and there are very few young and middle-aged people, while the women are mainly young and middle-aged, plus a small number of girls who are close to adulthood, and there are almost no older people. In terms of proficiency in operating machinery and equipment, the overall level of male and female workers is relatively similar, and the efficiency is about 40-50% of that of qualified skilled workers before the war.

As far as the efficiency and quality of labour were concerned, it was more than enough to accomplish the assigned tasks of the Normans even before the entry of the servants, and it was clear that the constraints on production were not people, but machinery and equipment and raw materials. Weiss carefully examined and pondered repeatedly, and had a quantitative grasp of the problem: the Clumber-Heisen factory had purchased modern casting, stamping, boring, and welding equipment in order to manufacture new firearms and small-caliber machine guns in large quantities, and formed a number of streamlined production lines. Due to the limited conditions for dismantling and transportation, and the fact that the resisters consciously destroyed some important equipment that was too late to take away when attacked by the Norman army, the production line of the Clumberg-Heisen plant was now incomplete, and some processing links had to be operated manually, which affected efficiency and quality.

In terms of materials, although the Normans tried their best to ensure them, there were various "congenital deficiencies" in wartime supply, especially the serious shortage of copper parts and rubber tires, which became the biggest shortcoming restricting production. According to what Weiss learned from the workers, the Normans would send a flying transport ship every week to bring in the weapons to be refitted, to transport the modified equipment, and to bring in various materials that Lorraine could not support itself. When they were lucky, they would bring in refined copper ingots and tires of specified specifications, but most of the time, they would bring in piles of "broken copper". In this case, the workers had to act as garbage sorters, throwing copper products into furnaces to melt and cast them into the parts they needed, and as for tires, the Normans also knew that the scrap could not be used, so they asked the factories to find alternatives. As a result, workers sometimes need to spend a lot of extra time preparing raw materials, resulting in a very unstable weekly output in the factory. In view of this, many workers even suggested that they simply go back to their old ways, produce guns of Norman army specifications in exchange for a stable supply of food, and then find a way to do something to the weapons produced by the factory, which is equivalent to indirectly supporting the federal army in combat, killing two birds with one stone.

The workers' proposal, of course, had merit, but after much deliberation and weighing, Weiss decided to maintain the current direction of production, mainly auxiliary equipment, and to produce a small number of old rifles for Lorraine security and police personnel. In doing so, the risk of the factory being forcibly taken over by the Normans was avoided, and the contribution of the factory to the enemy war machine was minimized. In order to stabilize the output and keep everyone from going hungry, Weiss still thought of some practical methods, the first is the scientific overall production, such as sending the young and strong labor force to the casting production workshop, so that the casting production can be kept running at full capacity within a few days, and the batch of copper parts that are enough for two or three weeks will be manufactured in a concentrated manner, and after the raw materials are used up, these young and strong labor will be dispatched to the stamping and welding production line in time, and the second is to reasonably allocate the shift, and arrange the weaker older and younger to the night shift. And correspondingly reduce the intensity of nighttime production, without reducing the overall efficiency, through the relative concentration of daytime production, improve the quality of production.

In addition to these internal adjustments, Weiss also tried to solve the problem with the help of "external forces"—at his urging, Ze agreed to carry out operations under his jurisdiction, with the vigilantes and police collecting all kinds of usable copper products and working rubber tires and sending them to the factory. Although these actions did not come into play until the second week, with Weiss's flexible scheduling, the Clumber-Heisen plant was able to achieve production tasks for three weeks in a row, allowing the villagers who did not hesitate to follow the resistance to survive the initial difficulties...... Although the Clumber-Heisen factory was under the control of the Norman army, Weiss's actions earned him the approval of most of the factory workers and his former followers.

As time went on, the Norman guards at the factory, seeing that Weiss was single-mindedly organizing production and doing his work well, and that they were complimented by their superiors, relaxed their grip on him a little—at least not as they had been at first. When Weiss was inspecting the machines in the workshop, the Norman soldiers in charge of keeping an eye were just standing at the door of the workshop, and the workers were talking to them, as long as the time was not long, the demeanor and expression were not unusual, and the Normans no longer stepped forward to interfere frequently.

As an important initiator of the Lorraine Resistance, Weiss could use his popularity to organize a secret resistance movement among the workers, but he had just experienced the defeat of armed resistance and reached the lowest point in his life.

In the dead of night, Weiss pulled the crumpled note from the compartment of his sleeve and read the text on it by the light of a flashlight: "Lorraine is immortal, and the battle is endless." The hero returns, and Nirvana is reborn. Loyalty can be learned, and time is running out. - Workers' Resistance League. ”

That night, although Weiss had a lot of dreams, he slept more easily than ever. The next day, where he had received the note the day before, he shoved a note under the machine under the cover of tying his shoelaces, and nodded to the older workers who were staring at him not far away.

The note read: To the Workers' Resistance League: Thank you for your encouragement, the enemy is still strong and we must wait for our chance. - Lorraine guerrilla fighters.

Since then, Weiss has been in daily contact with this secret resistance group through small notes, and the workers in the Clumberg-Haysen factory, which is under the direct control of the Norman army, can be roughly divided into two categories, one is the prisoners and laborers who have lost their freedom, and the other is the citizens who have been conscripted from the local area, the former is closely guarded, and the food and lodging are in the factory, and there is no additional pay, while the latter cannot leave Somsonas without permission, but within the limits of the Normans, they are not restrained, and the income from their work can be used to support their families. Because of this characteristic, the factory is not completely isolated from the outside world, and even those workers who have lost their freedom have the opportunity to obtain some information from the outside from other workers. It was through the Workers' Resistance that Weiss learned that in the month since he was a prisoner, the Norman and Union armies had been fighting inextricably on the frontal battlefield, and it was heartening that the Union counterattack continued, and its front continued to move westward, gradually approaching Lorraine. If this trend continues, Lorraine's recovery is just around the corner.

Having experienced the cruelty and hardships of war, Weiss was not as optimistic as the common people, especially when he heard Prince Ballas and Admiral Sedlinz say on the Norman battleship that day, the Norman army seemed to have a plan to turn around, and this duel had a lot to do with Lorraine. Thinking of this, Weiss couldn't help but regret a little, if he had put his role low enough before, instead of exposing the strength of the "Lorraine guerrilla fighters" too early, because of the sharp edge and incurring the attack of the Norman army, this time could play the role of intelligence reconnaissance of the resistance organization. The only thing to be thankful for is that the "Lorraine guerrilla fighters" were not completely wiped out in the final camp battle, and more than a hundred fighters were scattered and evacuated, and even if they suffered losses on the way back, there was still a fire to survive. In addition, intelligence officer Brooks and the resistance intelligence officers he had cultivated did not take part in that battle, and should have been able to evade the Norman army if they were careful enough. These two forces, along with the other resistance groups in Lorraine, still have a chance to detect the enemy and pass on important information to the federal forces so that they can prepare for the response early.