In Trojan County, everything is going on in an orderly manner.

In the shortest possible time, the copper mine and phosphate fertilizer plant have begun to be put into operation, and the hydropower station, although the progress of the project is not too fast because there is no large machinery, the Eighth Road and Trojan Horse County have invested enough manpower, and the first phase of construction has been completed when the first thunder sounds, but the production and power generation have been completed, and the rest of the work will be completed in the construction while storing water.

The early harvest was not very good, because the war destroyed a lot of crops in the previous year, and even though chemical fertilizers were used to increase production, the yield was still reduced too much.

However, this time, even if the grain production is reduced, there will not be a large-scale famine in Trojan County and the surrounding areas.

The waterway has been opened, and a large number of ships come and go every day, transporting bags of fertilizer, cement, steel, and even imitation guns and grenades from Trojan County, as well as a large amount of grain, various raw materials, and so on.

Although these grains cannot satisfy all the people in the surrounding areas, they will not be the same as last year, when they all rely on eating bran and swallow vegetables, and everyone eats noodles and vegetables that are swollen all over the body.

Moreover, because a large amount of phosphate fertilizer, ammonia fertilizer and other chemical fertilizers are produced, not only in Muma County, but also in the vicinity of the Niushou Mountains and the Eighth Route Military Defense Area, and even in Chongqing and other large rear areas in Sichuan, the grain output during the autumn harvest will definitely increase greatly, so the famine should only be temporary.

Even, Lu Yuan also heard that Yan'an has the experience of phosphate fertilizer factories in Guo Zhenyu's defense area, and now in the Eighth Road and the New Fourth Army and other defense areas, they are prospecting everywhere and want to build factories.

As long as these factories are built and a large amount of chemical fertilizer is invested to increase grain production, it may be possible to solve the problem of food shortage at the root.

Even the ****** of 1942, which Lu Yuan had feared, would starve millions to death, may not happen again.

Of course, there are good and bad things in this situation, for example, if these increased grain production fall into the hands of the Japanese army, it may become an opportunity for the Japanese army to grow its strength again.

For this possibility, Lu Yuan specially sent a report to Yan'an, as well as Sun Liang, Chen Liang, Kong Lingjie and other dealers in Chongqing, that is, these fertilizers should be sold to the rear areas as much as possible, and not to fall in the Japanese-occupied areas or surrounding areas.

Because in that case, even if the grain production increases, the common people will still not be able to eat enough, and they will only be cheaper.

Yan'an agreed to Lu Yuan's decision at the first time, but Yan'an obviously thought more about it than Lu Yuan.

Not only did they not allow a single piece of chemical fertilizer to enter the Japanese-occupied areas or areas that were easily swept by the Japanese army, but they also carried out propaganda in those areas, using chemical fertilizers to increase production for propaganda, and encouraging the common people to flee the Japanese-occupied areas.

As a result, for most of the year, it was common to see the common people dragging their children and daughters out day and night in the Japanese-occupied areas, secretly migrating to the Eighth Route Army defense area or the rear area, and although the Japanese army took strict precautions, it was still unable to prevent the people from fleeing, which greatly frustrated the Japanese army's already insufficient strategic materials and wanted to wipe them out by fighting to feed the war, and made the situation worse.

In addition to these, after the expansion of production in the arsenal, due to the addition of a large number of new machinery purchased by Luo Qinghu in Hong Kong, the current production capacity of the arsenal has also been greatly increased.

In the past, the personnel of the arsenal worked hard to produce 15 or 6 Guoxiong rifles a day, but now they can produce 40 rifles a day, more than double.

A large number of Guoxiong rifles are equipped with troops, bringing a great consumption of ammunition, fortunately, the copper mine is now put into production, so that the shortage of ammunition has been greatly supplemented, and because the Guoxiong rifle uses the same caliber as the 38 rifle, it can be universal, and the capture of the battlefield can also make up for a part, but it did not cause much trouble.

The imitation skills of all kinds of artillery fire are also becoming more and more proficient, but they are also mostly light artillery fire, and heavy artillery will generally not be produced unless there are requirements from the Eighth Road or Chongqing.

Now, Lu Yuan is like an arms dealer who makes war money, mainly to the Eighth Road, to Chongqing to provide arms, of course, no matter who wants arms, you have to pay Lu Yuan, but the price is much cheaper than the previous situation in the world that could not be purchased by waving banknotes.

However, even if it is to sell arms to Chongqing and Yan'an, Lu Yuan has a choice.

Guoxiong rifles, except for a part of their own use and inventory, 80 percent are equipped with the Eighth Route team, as long as the arsenal produces it, the Eighth Route is almost ready to respond.

In Chongqing, Luyuan will carry out selective sales.

To Xue Yue, Song Qing, and those troops in memory who dared to fight to the death with the Japanese army, such as Fang Xianjue, Yu Chengwan and others, and the three chapters of the Covenant Law, people are in the gun, people are killed and the gun is destroyed, and a large number of this new weapon must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the Japanese army.

Except for these people, even if the rest of the troops pay several times the high price, he will not sell them a single gun!

With the virtue of most of the Chongqing troops, who were defeated in the first battle, if you buy such a good gun for them, I am afraid that they will all fall into the hands of devils as soon as you turn around.

He didn't want the new rifle that the brothers in the arsenal had worked so hard to build would become a sharp weapon for the Japanese army to kill his countrymen.

It is imitation artillery fire, grenades, mines, machine guns, etc., Lu Yuan chooses a bowl of water, as long as it is Sun Liang's next list, he can give everything.

In the stalemate between the Chinese battlefield and the Japanese army for most of the 40 years, the strength of both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was steadily increasing because of the existence of Trojan County.

In addition to the cultivation and recuperation in Trojan County, Lu Yuan's more energy is focused on Hong Kong.

In mid-May, under the dispatch of Lu Yuan, Xu Yun's reinforced battalion left Muma County in a fleet and went to Hong Kong, where it was stationed on Lantau Island to recruit troops.

At the same time, after a series of tussles with Churchill Roosevelt in Britain and the United States, the first batch of 10 small submarines arrived on Lantau Island, and the training of the submarine navy was put on the agenda for the first time.

In July, under the order of Hideki Tojo, the Japanese army sent troops to India, Burma, the Philippines and other places, and several countries collapsed without a fight, becoming the backyard of the Japanese Empire.

In August, a baby's cry sounded in Trojan County, firecrackers rang out in Trojan County, and Lu Yuan welcomed his first child.

(End of chapter)