"Big brother, last time Chahar said goodbye, we haven't seen each other for almost two years, are you okay?" At this time, Chief Su was entertaining his sworn eldest brother at home, Zhang Zizhong, a famous anti-Japanese general in later generations.

"Haha, what's wrong with the eldest brother, eat well and sleep well, but Jianming, you are amazing now, you have become a general, it seems that the next time you meet, the eldest brother will give you a salute." Zhang Zizhong is still as hearty as before, and will not change because of the change in his status as a sworn brother.

After the press conference, Su Tong hurriedly invited Zhang Zizhong, who had just arrived, to his home as a guest, and said with a smile that he would invite a few younger siblings to make a few small dishes to entertain the sworn brother.

Su Tong's practice in ancient times had the meaning of being good for the family, that is, it meant that the relationship between the two parties could be passed down from generation to generation. Although it is not so strict in modern times, it is also a meaning to the bigwigs of all parties attending the meeting, this is my big brother, everyone, let's watch it yourself!

No matter what age he is, his status reaches the level of Su Tong, his every move will be studied under a magnifying glass, so Chief Su's actions give everyone a space for reverie.

At the wine table, Su Tong introduced the little nurse, Xia Yuxin and Yuliya to Zhang Zizhong, Zhang Zizhong was amazed and praised: "Several younger brothers and sisters are good girls, Jianming, you have to treat others well." ”

"No problem, the little brother will treat them well." Someone thumped their chest.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Su Tong said to Zhang Zizhong with a big tongue: "Big brother, why don't you go to Siberia with your younger brother to fight Lao Maozi together, what does it mean to always be in China." As long as you nod your head, the little brother will immediately help you change the equipment of your troops again, all of them are world-class equipment, what do you think? ”

Zhang Zizhong was also a little moved when he heard this, but he thought for a while and shook his head and said: "No, Jianming, I am a soldier, and without an order from the Ministry of Military Affairs, I can't leave my post without permission anyway." Besides, if my 38th Division is gone, who will keep the peace of Tianjin's fathers and elders! ”

Su Tong had no choice but to shake his head helplessly and sigh secretly, but this was the Zhang Zizhong he knew, the iron-clad tough guy.

"Okay, I won't force you, but if the eldest brother has any difficulties, you must send a telegram to the younger brother, whether you want materials or troops, as long as the younger brother has it, the younger brother cannot be rejected." Zhang Zizhong knew that it was not easy to make such a promise to himself with Su Tong's identity and status, Zhang Zizhong was very grateful, but he just patted Su Tong's shoulder and smiled and didn't say anything.

On the morning of the next day, Su Tong arranged for the chairman of the committee, the bigwigs and some celebrities to observe the industrial zone in Harr.

When they came to the industrial zone, it was work time, and the chairman and the bigwigs who got off the bus saw a scene that they would never forget, and the wide streets were full of busy people.

Most of them wore uniform factory uniforms, and walked briskly to their respective factories on their feet, along the way there were one or several security guards standing at the entrance of each factory, and the workers were lining up at the city gate to swipe the card at a place called a punch card machine before entering the factory.

"Jianming, where are they at this time?" Zhang Zizhong, who was walking next to Su Tong, asked curiously, among these people who are full of lieutenant generals and generals, the person who only has a gold star on his shoulder has the lowest military rank, but there is no trace of discoloration on his face.

"Hehe, big brother, this is called a card reader. It is a record of the working hours of the workers, and it is also a voucher for the payment of wages by the factory at the beginning of the month. If a worker disagrees with his or her wages, he or she can use this record card to go to the union or ask his boss for an explanation. Su Tong explained with a smile.

"Oh?" Wang Qiang next to him asked curiously: "General Su, how are the wages and benefits of the workers?" ”

"Most of the wages in the factories here have reached 30 to 40 yuan, which is already higher than that of major cities such as Shanghai, Tianjin, and Wuhan."

"Is it serious that they are working overtime?"

"Overtime? Oh, sorry, there's almost no overtime here. Su Tong said.

"How is it possible that these capitalists would be so kind as not to let the workers work overtime?" A young man who looked like a secretary asked in surprise.

Seeing that the people next to him were staring at him fiercely, the young man who realized that he had said the wrong thing quickly retracted his head.

"Actually, there is a reason for this, our workers here all implement a three-shift system, which means that the day is divided into three shifts of eight hours a day, and each post has three workers in turn. If you work here, don't think about working overtime, or the workers who come to work later may beat you up, because you have robbed him of his job. Su Tong glanced at the reckless young man just now.

The reckless young man almost lowered his head into his crotch.

Everyone entered a factory, a garment factory, and most of the workers working here were women. They were all nervously cutting their clothes with sewing machines, but each of them only cut a few fixed pieces of cloth, and after cutting, they put them into a small bucket made of iron sheets and sent them to the people in the back, and the people behind them continued the following process.

"Huh!" At this time, a celebrity in the industry asked curiously: "General Su, please forgive the contemptible and ignorant, why do the female workers here only do one process?" ”

"Oh, it turned out to be Mr. Zhao," Su Tong nodded at this person before saying: "This is assembly line production, the assembly line originated from the Ford Motor Company in the United States in 1913, and his biggest advantage is that he can subdivide each process." For example, a garment generally has more than a dozen or twenty processes, and we can maximize production efficiency by subdividing these processes into each person. For example, there are 20 workers in this group, and if each of them sews a single garment, each person can make up to one garment a day, but if it is subdivided into processes, they can make hundreds, or even thousands of garments a day, and the labor efficiency is greatly improved. ”

"What? So high? "At that time, the assembly line operation was not introduced to China, so everyone was surprised when they heard that there was such a high production efficiency. How efficient is Chahar's factory? It can actually increase the work efficiency of the factory by dozens or hundreds of times, and if this efficiency is promoted on a large scale, how much contribution can it make to China's industry.

The group also visited several factories, such as a canned food processing plant and two steel mills. Half a year ago in Mongolia, the members of the Chahar political axe geological team followed the guidance of their miraculous Mr. Chairman to find a large iron ore mine, which has now entered the stage of full-scale mining, providing a steady stream of iron ore for the Chahar steel mill.

After lunch, everyone came to the military industrial area with great interest, but the inspection and security here are much stricter than those in the morning industrial area. All weapons are to be handed in, and cameras are not allowed to be brought in for safety reasons.

They entered a small arms factory, which was a place dedicated to the production of small arms. I saw that the workers here used all kinds of machinery to process all kinds of parts, and then the personnel behind pushed the parts to the backstage, and the personnel in the background combined them into a rifle or machine gun, and the assembled rifle was sent to the quality inspectors for careful inspection.

Li Zongren walked over and picked up an assembled rifle, and when he pulled the bolt hard, the rifle made a crisp sound of "bang".

"Good gun!" Li Zongren sighed heartily: "Jianming, this is the Garand rifle of your 37th Group Army!" ”

"Yes, Duke De." Su Tong said with a smile: "The advantages of this rifle are high shooting accuracy, fast rate of fire, strong firepower, and reliable surname. ”

Everyone laughed when they heard this.

"However, it also has the disadvantage that it consumes too many bullets, several times more than the Mauser or the Type 38 rifle." Su Tong showed the advantages and disadvantages of the Garand rifle on the side.

"Jianming! What kind of machine gun is this? At this time, Long Yun from Yunnan picked up a machine gun and asked lovingly.

"Oh, Chairman Long likes this gun, it's okay. When you leave, I'll ask someone to bring you a dozen of them. ”

"Oh! That's true! Long Yun asked happily, who is not happy to get more than a dozen machine guns in vain.

Su Tong said with a smile. "Of course it's true, but one thing I want to tell you first, this gun is called the MG34 general-purpose machine gun, and it's very good. It has the heaviest firepower of any machine gun in its class, but it also consumes a lot of ammo, so be prepared. ”

Long Yun was a little unhappy when he heard this, and asked, "Oh, everyone knows that machine guns consume bullets, is this machine gun very special?" ”

"It's very special! Everyone, please come with me. Su Tong took everyone to a shooting range in the back without knowing anything. Su Tong called a tester, picked up a bullet chain and said, "Everyone, look at it, this is a bullet chain with 250 rounds." ”

After speaking, Su Tong handed over the bullet chain to the tester to load the machine gun and asked him to run out of bullets.

The tester loaded the bullet chain into the machine gun, pulled the bolt, and pulled the trigger violently, and a sound like tearing oil cloth came out, and in less than a few tens of seconds, a 250-round bullet chain was gone.

I can see that everyone's mouths can't close, this, this is too fast.

"Jianming! What is the ammunition consumption of this gun per minute? After looking at the firing speed of the machine gun, Long Yun felt that his mouth was a little bitter.

"The theoretical rate of fire of this gun is 800 to 900 rounds per minute, and the actual rate of fire is about 500 rounds. That is, each machine gun can fire 30,000 rounds of machine gun ammunition in an hour. Su Tong explained very calmly.

"30,000 rounds per hour? Still each? The soldiers behind him broke out in a cold sweat when anyone heard this.

"My good man, just now Jianming said that you would send me a dozen machine guns, if this is a battle, in that hour, I will not have hundreds of thousands of bullets!" Long Yun said speechlessly.

Su Tong helplessly spread his hands, "This is the price of pursuing firepower!" ”

"Let's go, don't look at this, it's upset." Long Yun waved his hand angrily, this feeling of being able to afford but not using it was too uncomfortable.

"Hehehehehe" everyone laughed, but no one knows what the big guys think in their hearts.

After a while, everyone came to a large workshop, where people came and went. The first thing that catches people's eyes is the ten-meter-high machine, in which the discus placed underneath the sledgehammer is pressed down like a dough and is squeezed into various shapes.

Seeing that everyone was amazed, Su Tong said: "This is our 5,000-ton free forging hydraulic press, which uses upper and lower forging anvils and simple tools for free forging, mainly used for single pieces and small batch production. It can be forged equivalent to 30~50 kN forging hammer and developed a small fast forging hydraulic press, which can be forged more than 100 times per minute. The free forging hydraulic press generally adopts a vertical upper transmission structure, with 3 working cylinders, and after the input of high-pressure liquid, it can obtain 3 levels of unequal working force. The barrels of our artillery, the shells of shells and other military equipment are processed with him. ”

"Okay, good!" A group of people came to the side of the hydraulic press, looking at this behemoth, and couldn't help but be amazed.

Su Tong smiled when he saw everyone's excited appearance and said, "This is not the biggest, we have bigger ones here!" ”

"What? Is there anything bigger? ”

"My goodness! What's the bigger one?"

"Please come with me." Su Tong took everyone to another workshop.

"Oh! My God. It's spectacular. As soon as he entered the door, Madame Jiang let out an exclamation, and what caught his eyes was a steel giant building that was ten stories high, and he saw that he was constantly moving slowly, squeezing the huge steel ingots into various shapes.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the pride of our Chahar, a 10,000-ton hydraulic press." Su Tong pointed to this steel giant beast and said proudly.

"This hydraulic press is an indispensable piece of equipment for our defense, shipbuilding, and heavy machinery manufacturing. This kind of 10,000-ton hydraulic press is not even owned by many Western countries. When they heard this, everyone's faces showed a look of pride.

"Jianming, what is this hydraulic press forging now?" At this time, Zhang Zizhong asked curiously.

Su Tong smiled: "Now they are casting the turret of the tank. ”

"What? You can already build your own tanks? ”

Su Tong's words set off a monstrous wave in the hearts of everyone, when the central even more than seven or five caliber shells had to be imported, Chahar was actually making tanks by himself, what kind of concept is this. Doesn't this mean that Chahar is more powerful than the central government?

In fact, it is appropriate to throw out part of the strength to deter other forces, which is also a way to dispel some people who have bad intentions towards themselves.

"Alright, let's go over there and have a look."