Chapter 52: West Hill Construction

Congratulations on the more than 10,000 clicks last week, Wu Mu Soul fulfilled his promise and added a change in the evening!

After the national representative meeting of the Xishan Self-help Association, the local people were enthusiastic. Everyone has seen the hope of a good life!

On Tuesday the dog was lying in the hospital, the gunshot wound to his right chest was not light or serious, the bullet passed through the chest, and no surgery was required, but the lobe and wound of the lung were infected.

Wang Yu is pregnant again, so she can only come to take care of her during the day, and at night, Wang Ziwei, the director of the hospital and Wang Yu's godsister, will do it for her. Every night, Tuesday Dog looked at Wang Ziwei's spicy gaze in pain: he also liked this beautiful female military doctor, but his tutor told him from a young age that this was not okay----

Then, another half-painful and half-happy thing happened. Zhao Dahu and Xiang Qingyun reported: They negotiated a deal with Gu Zhutong, commander of the Third Theater of Operations---- exchanged the reserve of 22 German-made 82mm mortars and 4 German-made 83mm mortars for German-made 20-round barge guns, each gun for 10 20-round barge guns with 10 magazines, and each shell for 5 20-round barge gun magazines; In total, 260 shell guns were exchanged for 4660 magazines. On Tuesday, the dog lamented that the brothers had exchanged their lives and blood for equipment for others, and was happy to open up a channel for exchanging supplies with the top brass of the Third War Zone.

Then, a piece of utter good news made Tuesday dog energetic---- Zheng Qiguang, the ghost who played with firearms to come up with a sharp weapon. Zheng Qiguang was the deputy director of the Repair Institute, and he helped Wu Zhengtang first classify all the seized damaged equipment and parts by weapon type: pistols (southern type, barge guns, other pistols), rifles (Zhongcheng, 38 type, sniper rifles, Hanyang-made, old sleeves, other rifles), submachine guns, grenadiers, light machine guns (Czech, crooked, 96, others), heavy machine guns (Makqin, 92, others), mortars, infantry guns, mountain artillery, field artillery, ......; Then a large number of turners and fitters were borrowed from Shujintang, and a batch of weapons and equipment were assembled by demolishing the east wall and repairing the west wall, especially repairing 5 mountain guns and 3 field guns. The most powerful thing is that he imitated a batch of mechanical parts according to the mechanism of the submachine gun, assembled them on the barrel of the scrapped Type 38 rifle, and created 100 new submachine guns with long range and great power, and they can produce 15 to 20 units per day!

After the dog was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday, he immediately ordered: Zheng Qiguang made a great meritorious service once, and other personnel made a small meritorious service once, and the submachine gun was named "Qiguang submachine gun". The Qiguang submachine gun combines the automatic mode of the submachine gun and the 6.5mm small-caliber ammunition of the 38-type rifle, which improves the range of the submachine gun, solves the problem of insufficient supply of German-made ammunition, and greatly reduces the recoil of the submachine gun compared with the 7.92mm ammunition used by the German, becoming the prototype of the later assault rifle.

Qiguang submachine gun: the gun is automatic gas conduction type, locking mode is bolt rotation type, can implement single, burst shooting, fixed butt full gun length 1,280mm, full gun weight 4.7kg, magazine capacity 30 rounds, muzzle velocity 765 m / s, theoretical rate of fire 750 rounds / min, effective range of 380 meters. However, because the manufacturing process cannot keep up, the failure rate is high and the service life is short. Even so, the front-line officers and soldiers are still very welcome, because it is lighter than the Czech light machine gun, in addition to having a shorter firing range, light weight, high rate of fire, and easy to master, especially with the 38 type 6.5mm bullet, and the ammunition supply is easy.

On Tuesday, the dog first inquired about the construction and production of the factory.

Cigarette factories, livestock farms, food factories, and pharmaceutical factories are in normal production, and under the guidance of Shu Jintang's engineers, the production efficiency has been greatly improved.

Reorganization of the repair factory: Zheng Qiguang set up a gun workshop to accelerate the production of Qiguang submachine guns; Set up a repair workshop, accept the scrapped parts sent by the repair machinery, sort out and classify, repair heavy machine guns, mortars, infantry guns, mountain artillery, and field artillery; The equipment workshop is responsible for the production of grenadiers, sapper shovels, pickaxes, daggers, sabers, steel helmets, blaster jackets, anti-tank mines and auxiliary equipment, vices (special for destroying barbed wire), hand tools and other metal equipment; Heavy vehicle workshop, repair of trucks, armored vehicles, tanks, 1 armored car, 4 tanks have been repaired; Light vehicle workshop, repair bicycles, carts, carts, rickshaws; The installation and maintenance workshop is responsible for the installation, commissioning and maintenance tasks of other factory construction; Integrated workshop, which accepts other repair work.

The rope factory has been put into operation, which can not only meet the supply of troops, but also can be exported.

The garment factory has produced a large number of military uniforms, and the production of military shoes and raincoats has also been assigned to the garment factory. However, now the production of raw materials mainly relies on the previous reserves, and the problem of raw materials is worrying.

At present, the equipment factory is mainly responsible for the production of leather and canvas products: armed belts and individual backpacks. However, the supply of raw materials such as cowhide and canvas is insufficient. It also produces rattan armor, masks, and wooden guns for troop training and stabbing exercises, and the hard crossbow workshop is also assigned to the equipment factory.

The soap factory was put into operation, but the quality of the production was not satisfactory and, most importantly, the glycerin for the production of explosives could not be refined because there was no caustic soda (i.e. sodium hydroxide).

The weaving mill has already been completed, but because the cotton has not yet reached the harvest season, the reserve of raw materials can only maintain a small amount of canvas production, Mao Ziqing recommended a few textile engineers to do nothing, the spinning workshop and the silk reeling workshop combined, to create a strong yarn blended with silk and cotton, and make a fishing net to save raw materials, and rope nets for military training, and the sales of fishing nets are booming.

Explosives factories, bullet factories, raw material factories, match factories because of lack of power, steel, copper, lead, caustic soda, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, glycerin, sulfur, ...... The dynamite factory could only produce a small amount of black powder; Bullet factories can only reload bullets with extremely low efficiency; The match factory simply couldn't work; Only the raw material mill produces some pig iron.

The foundry was OK, a batch of grenades, mine shells were cast from pig iron from the raw material plant; A small electric furnace was used to make old steel, and a batch of steel cylinders for grenadiers was cast; A batch of copper parts was cast with copper furnace copper casting; But the raw materials are also precarious.

Several important projects were not satisfactory. Alas, our industrial base in China is too poor! However, no matter how difficult it is, Wu Mujun must start his own military factory! Tuesday Dogs can be stirred up at every critical moment. He believed the words of General Jiang Baili of the state capital: the Chinese have a way!

On Tuesday, Dog and others synthesized the intelligence of various strategic materials: lack of coal? Iron deficiency? Lack of copper? Lack of sulphur, phosphorus? There are small coal mines in Guangde and Baohua Mountain! Guangde, Danyang, and Jurong all have iron ore! There are copper mines in Jurong and Lishui! Jurong produces phosphorus and sulfur! Low yields? Just make a few more holes, find more, and open more, anyway, now the Wu Mu army has enough explosives and manpower!

After the dog sent people to visit around on Tuesday, without the need for geological experts to explore, many mineral resources that have been exploited and utilized by the locals for a long time have been investigated. Including Zhao Dahu and Shi Jilun, many leaders blushed, and everyone complained about the lack of this and that, but no one seriously tried to solve the problem!

Although some problems have been solved, there are still many difficulties: saltpeter is still difficult to find, the commissioning of many equipment needs to be solved by experts, and the transportation of materials is ......

Shi Jilun did not wait for Tuesday to speak this time, and recalled Zhou Dagou and Mao Ziqing, who were based in Shanghai. Both of these men are now remarkable figures in Shanghai:

Mao Ziqing had close contacts with the Japanese military, specialty, business, and politics with the Japanese military, specialty, business, and politics, and controlled many businesses that only the Japanese could do. For this reason, Shi Jilun also specially assigned him a "secretary and steward" to serve Mao Ziqing closely. This guy is Wang Laodun's subordinate, who is responsible for making fake documents, as long as he takes a look at the documents and documents, he can make a copy of the nine images, let him touch it again, he can make a replica that is enough to mess with the truth, he will make the model or even the real product to Zhou Dagou, Zhou Dagou also has a group of second-hand copy experts, a large number of imitations, sold to the military commander, the Central Union, the New Fourth Army, loyalty and righteousness, smugglers, foreigners, Wu Mu military documents are of good quality and free of charge; Mao Ziqing also "transferred" various medicines, chemical reagents, optical glass, precision tools and other materials to Zhou Dagou through various channels; take advantage of various opportunities to install their own people in the institutions of devils and traitors; All this does not affect Mao Ziqing's status as a "white road" tycoon

Zhou Dagou opened a small restaurant in the public concession, the taste of the food was extremely poor, and the 5 runners were all dead, but the price was dead, but there was still business. Zhou Dagou was stained with the light of the Tuesday dog, and he was too famous in Shanghai to stand in front of the Japanese, so he opened a small restaurant. In order not to provoke idle people, the chef arranged two killers who couldn't stir-fry, and the people who ran the hall were all masters from all walks of life. Zhou Dagou is usually not in the store, but in a private house behind the store, and sees a white towel coming out of the back window of the hotel, indicating that someone only came to the store to "work" when someone asked to see him.

He is the chief scoop of more than a dozen gangs in Shanghai, handling, transportation, teahouses, restaurants, bathhouses, theaters, smoke houses, brothels, casinos, and dance halls. The gangsters on the street and Bao inquired about not knowing Zhou Dagou, but it is impossible for those well-informed Shanghai bigwigs not to know, and they are inextricably linked: military command, central unification, loyalty and righteousness, the New Fourth Army, smugglers, foreigners (intelligence officers), Du Yuesheng's old department, ** various offices, Yu Qiaqing, Huang Jinrong, Zhang Xiaolin, Mei Lanfang, Japanese secret services......

Before returning to Shanghai, Zhou Yuzi married a daughter-in-law to Zhou Dagou, who was the sister of a gang of Wu Mu's gang, and came to Shanghai together after marriage. Zhou Dagou's next door lives Gui Sibao, this kid didn't do anything to the general manager of a transportation company, so he took his daughter-in-law to run errands with Zhou Dagou. There is a secret door between the two houses, which is convenient for mutual contact.

The bigwigs from all walks of life want to see Zhou Dagou, I'm sorry, I'll arrange a meeting after eating first, but it's hard for the bigwigs from all walks of life. Only Mr. Mei Lanfang is an exception, he can go directly to Zhou Dagou's house for dinner and tea!

Zhou Dagou's semi-public activities in Shanghai are not to be held in Shanghai. He has an artillery corps in Shanghai, 10 82mm Japanese-made mortars, which are mounted on two trucks, two cars, and six rickshaws, which can attack any organization in Shanghai at any time, especially the various secret service agencies, headquarters, officers' kindergartens, hospitals, consulates, and high-end hotels of the devils......

Zhou Dagou is only responsible for collecting intelligence and procuring materials, not responsible for assassination, sabotage and other actions, so the Japanese will turn a blind eye and tolerate Zhou Dagou, if it were not for Tuesday Gou's consideration of avoiding the suspicion of collaborating with the enemy, Zhou Dagou and the Japanese asked for a semi-official position, and the Japanese would not dare not give it.

Shi Jilun recalled Mao and Erren and asked them to solve two problems: one is to solve the problem of purchasing and transporting saltpeter, and the other is to find equipment, experts, and manufacturers in the chemical, machinery, manufacturing, and military industries. The two took the order and left.

When Zhou Dagou returned to Shanghai, he immediately contacted the foreign banks. Zhou Dagou is now a big celebrity among the foreigners in the concession, because he has a large number of peanuts, tea, sugar, cocoa beans, chocolate, coffee, condensed milk, milk powder, and wine. After the outbreak of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War on August 13, there was also a shortage of materials in the concession, there was a shortage of everything, and there was nowhere to buy money! However, where there was a war, there were also many business opportunities, and many Western merchants came to Shanghai to speculate, earning a lot of money but starving. And Zhou Dagou always has an inexhaustible supply of chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, sheep, beef, sugar, and occasionally cocoa beans, chocolate, coffee, condensed milk, milk powder, wine, etc., so no one in the concession does not know Zhou Dagou, and does not ask for Zhou Dagou.

Soon, 2 foreign mechanical engineers, 5 chemical engineers, 1 military expert, and 5 military technicians came to report to Zhou Dagou. Several foreign firms in Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France also issued invitation letters to invite Zhou Dagou to visit and investigate.

The Japanese also got the news and prepared to organize these foreigners to the Wumu army. Mao Ziqing and Zhou Dagou have all gotten the trends of Japan, and they all have eyeliner in Japanese institutions, some are clerks, some are translators, some are handymen, some are drivers, some are florists, patrols, policemen, runaways, tea doctors, rickshaw drivers, old mothers, old bustards, big teapots, kiln sisters......

The two decided that it was best not to intervene in a direct confrontation, and that Shi Jilun would send someone to do it.

The 13 foreigners smuggled across the Suzhou Creek in four groups, and as soon as they entered the Japanese-occupied area, they were captured by "Japanese soldiers" and quickly loaded into a car and left. The Japanese spy in charge of keeping an eye on the Japanese did not know why, and watched the Japanese soldiers take people away.

These "Japanese soldiers" were a small detachment led by Wan Zixiong, who had made meritorious contributions to the crime, and they took the devil's certificate all the way back to Xishan.

When these foreigners arrived in Xishan, they went to heaven, eating chicken, duck and fish every day, drinking coffee and wine, and visiting the kiln every once in a while.

The peace and abundant material conditions in Xishan have made many people rush to it, and it is not much more prosperous than before the Anti-Japanese War, and all kinds of businesses are booming! Money Houses, Winery, Tea House, Silk House, Grocery Store, Blacksmith Shop, Tailor Shop, Hospital, Pharmacy, Oil Mill, Restaurant, Restaurant, Tea House, Theater Garden, Bathhouse, Brothel, Flower House, Casino...... In addition to smoke houses, there is everything on Xishan Street. Of course, Wu Mujun also made a fortune from it: in addition to normal taxes, Wang Laodun handed over the engineering brigade to Zhu Dun, director of the construction department, and opened a real estate company wholeheartedly, developing a large number of real estate in Xishan, Yixing, Liyang, and Jintan, making money faster than Liu Maoer and their robbery, and Wang Laodun could not throw away many tasks---- mainly counterfeiting documents and maps, all of which were profiteering industries that made a lot of money.

A few foreign hairs do not only care about eating, drinking and having fun, but are very dedicated to their work: many equipment has been debugged by them, and the operation efficiency has been greatly improved; The production process is organized by their advanced concepts; The most important thing is that foreign experts actually said that there is no need to purchase a large amount of saltpeter, as long as nitric acid is made, everything will be solved. However, foreigners also raised many problems, mainly equipment problems, especially power problems. Yes, it's hard for a good woman to cook without rice!

On Tuesday, the dog decided to go abroad in person, exchange a lot of gold for something useful, and open his eyes by the way to see what good things and good tricks there are in the hair!

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