Liu Fugui suddenly smiled and said, "Chief, you can't blame me, this gun is still improving, we have to succeed and then give it to the chief." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Jiang Cheng immediately said, "I think since this gun is low cost and easy to produce, let's just get it to the end, John, I think now we are fighting a full-scale war, and the characteristics of your weapon are what we need the most, can you simplify it a little more?" The lower the production cost, the better. ”

John suddenly had a bitter face, and Jiang Cheng hurriedly said seductively, "Don't be nervous, if you can do it, I promise to give you a chance to produce a weapon that you are satisfied with." ”

John rejoiced, "Really? After I saw the SKS, I was very interested in this weapon, and I was also interested in recoilless guns, and I wanted to study it, can I? ”

Jiang Cheng looked at Mr. Zhu, Mr. Zhu smiled and said, "I don't think there is anything that can't be done, we are the Red Party, we are internationalists, Mr. Johann came to China from Germany to help us, we should naturally provide you with the treatment you deserve, so that as long as you can put this... Let's just call it the Stern submachine gun, the cost of this Stern submachine gun has been reduced again..."As he spoke, Mr. Zhu looked at Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng said with a smile: "Reduce by one-third." ”

"Good! Drop by a third! Mr. Zhu said without thinking about it, and after speaking, he felt that something was wrong, looked at Jiang Cheng and asked, "20 Guanghua coupons?" This... Isn't that too much? ”

Jiang Cheng shook his head and said, "I believe that our Mr. John must be able to do it, I can give some advice to Mr. John, don't think about whether it's good or not, what is cheap, what is easy to produce, what is easy to produce, and the magazine should be considered universal, and I suggest that the naming right be handed over to our John to decide." ”

Jiang Cheng doesn't want two Stern submachine guns to appear in the world, after all, the British weapon should also be on the research and development agenda.

John didn't expect to give him back the naming rights, he stroked the gun and said, "Just call it Ada, it's the name of a Chinese girl I met when I was in Germany." ”

Jiang Cheng and Mr. Zhu looked at each other and smiled, and Mr. Zhu clapped and said, "Okay!" Our submachine gun is this Ida submachine gun! ”

After talking about firearms, there was artillery, and the artillery was easily agreed, and mortars continued to use Japanese grenadiers, Type 60 mortars, 2B14 Type 82 mortars for mortar production, and 120-mm 2Б11 mortars for research. The artillery produces 75MM infantry guns and field guns, which are imitations of Krupp's IG42 infantry guns and leFK38 field guns, with a production ratio of three to one, and then small-scale experiments to produce 105 mm howitzers and develop 152 mm howitzers.

In terms of anti-aircraft artillery, it was unanimously agreed to produce 37 anti-aircraft guns, which is really impossible to fault with this time-tested anti-aircraft gun, and of course, the 74-mm anti-aircraft gun is also one of the goals of small-scale production and research and development.

Anti-aircraft guns also unanimously agreed to produce Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns, which were also tested for a long time, and even had the reputation of anti-aircraft guns in later generations.

Finally, the development of armored vehicles, in fact, Yan'an has begun to test the production of mechanical products such as motorcycles, but armored vehicles and aircraft to really achieve self-production, I am afraid it will take a long time, and the current mechanical troops will still be provided by Jiang Cheng is responsible for providing armaments.

After the general direction was set, Jiang Cheng and Mr. Zhu worked with other military experts to prepare to change the military production line to newly produced weapons. Unconsciously, a month passed, and Bao Ruide and the others, who were inspecting the border area, also returned to Yan'an.

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"Honorable sir, I'm afraid no one knows what I've encountered this month, my feelings are extremely complicated, and I am extremely fortunate to introduce you to all this, which happened in the legendary story of the ancient empire of the East.

I got the order through a Chinese merchant from Shanghai, came to Lianyungang, hard to believe, Lianyungang, a very good deep-water port in my eyes, actually in the hands of a group of Chinese Red Party armed forces who could not even distinguish between battleships and cruisers, I went to their barracks, their weapons are extremely simple, they belong to the standard light infantry, there are few heavy artillery, mortars and heavy machine guns are the real support of their firepower, a small number of anti-aircraft guns are their air defense cover, They were not badly dressed compared to the Chongqing army, and they were better fed, and the officers and soldiers were completely identical, and by the unanimity of the officers and soldiers I meant that their marshals, generals and soldiers ate the same, and only the sick and wounded had food that made exceptions, which made them extremely united in their troops, well, there is so much to say, I will put the situation of their army behind, I will continue with my journey first.

After a few days in Lianyungang, I took a plane to Taiyuan, Shanxi, Shanxi is the name of one of their provinces, Taiyuan is the capital of that province, just like the capital of each of our states, please don't wonder why they have planes, you must know that these Red Party forces have recovered more than the size of the whole of Britain, and the area of the base they have established, I mean including the so-called guerrilla zone, is larger than the whole of France, and most of these lands were taken from the Japanese army, and I will talk about these issues later.

Indeed, there is too much to say, I met in Taiyuan the deputy commander of their army and the former chairman of Shanxi Province, the identity of the whole chairman is very special, his name is Yan Xishan, he was the actual person in charge of the army and government in Shanxi, and now, he is working for the anti-Japanese coalition government in Shanxi that he and the Chinese Red Party established together, of course, I can see that his status is still very high, which can be seen from the fact that I saw on the street that Chairman Yan was still written on the newspaper and his position was ranked before the people in Shanxi.

After going to Shanxi, I flew to Yan'an, the heart of the Chinese Red Party, and my colleagues and I met with some of the highest leaders of the Chinese Red Party, Chairman Mao and Zhou Guansheng, whose commanders-in-chief were said to be busy with an extremely important job and therefore did not come, but that did not diminish their enthusiasm for us. After a few days in Yan'an, we parted ways and went to our own places of interest to investigate in depth, so when I wrote this article, I had to mention my friend, Mr. Z, after all, there are many places I didn't visit, and he added.

Okay, now that I've just finished my journey, I'm going to compare the situation of the Red Party of China and the Chongqing government in various aspects, and I hope that these comparisons can give you the best judgment.

Let's talk about the economy first, China is an agricultural country, the industry is extremely backward, if not almost none, and their most important income is customs duties and agricultural taxes and salt taxes. After the outbreak of war between the Chinese government and the Japanese government, almost all the tariffs on the Chongqing side were lost, and after the loss of large areas of land such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Hubei, agriculture was also extremely strained, and their currency almost collapsed for these reasons, and the fiat currency that was still freely convertible in 1937 can now only be used in the area controlled by the Chongqing army, and many government officials and army officers still refuse to accept these currencies, which can be seen from their tax reforms. Their tax revenues have regressed to the stage of collecting physical goods, that is, the Chiang intermediary government in Chongqing has completely lost trust in its currency, but fortunately, they have basically contained the momentum of the Japanese offensive, which has made many people believe that their government can really protect itself, after all, modern money is trust money, and as long as there is trust, there is still a certain value.

I have investigated the market in Chongqing, there are very few materials in their market, this lack does not distinguish between agricultural products or industrial products, but they can buy anything on the black market, and even buy brand new Soviet weapons, according to reason, these weapons should be in the hands of a front-line soldier, why they appear in the black market I will describe the issue of the army, I will not expand first, of course, these industrial products are not necessary for the people, the terrible thing is that the necessary agricultural products are also extremely scarce, The price of grain is rising almost every week, and although there are rumors in the market that the government has enough grain in its hands and may release grain to save the market at any time, it is only a legend at best.

In contrast to the hardships of the common people, the standard of living of the officials in Chongqing was not bad, and I saw here many products that were hard to find in New York, from perfumes to stockings, from pianos to dolls, and they always seemed to have a way to get these European and American products that should have been difficult to come into, and I seriously suspected that it was not only arms and supplies that were transported on that kilometer to the south.

Then I will talk about the Chinese Red Party, I have to mention, when I first came to their border area, it really gave me a great shock, I read in "The Journey to the West", Shaanxi's agriculture is extremely backward, the farmland here is sloping, even in the cracks of the ground ravines, there are few livestock and many wild animals, backward transportation and backward culture, like a corner forgotten by God, and when I arrived at the place controlled by the Red Party's armed forces, I found that it was completely different from what I imagined.

First of all, the countryside, after all, most of China's population is in the countryside, and most of the rural areas controlled by the Red Party have set up cooperatives to produce in concert with each other, and the Chinese Red Party knows very well what class the source of their strength is, and their power is everywhere in the countryside, and there are armed militias organized by them in the countryside, which is to prevent bandits, it is said that there were many bandits here, but unfortunately I have not seen any of them, they were either exterminated or surrendered or fled in the past few years.

In the countryside, I have seen a lot of advanced agricultural production technology, the peasants here are very enthusiastic about the construction of public water conservancy, roads, and public buildings under the local Red Party organization, although the agriculture here is also not good because of the problem of natural disasters, but the local farmers are not worried about this problem at all, they all firmly believe that with the presence of the Red Party, they will be able to tide over this difficulty, I even heard in the countryside that they want to donate food to the front line, and there is a slogan of eating less and relieving the occupied areas, They seem to naturally think that the Chinese people in the areas invaded by the Japanese army are their brothers and sisters and should be helped by them, which makes me feel the strength of this country, and it is difficult for such an awakened nation to be conquered by external forces.

Good organization and advanced tools and production methods have made the local agricultural production into a benign development, and the towns here have also set up a lot of small factories or workshops in the way of fund-raising, 51% of the shares of these factories are the Red Party government, the township government, the local people, the rest is subscribed by the person in charge of the factory, they already have an audit system, as long as the factory makes money, everyone in the local area will benefit, which makes the local people very supportive of these factories, these small factories gather industrial power is not small. But what is even more surprising is that I also see large modern factories here.

It's a miracle, I saw that there were steel mills, machinery factories, chemical factories, they could produce their own modern weapons and other industrial products, their industrial strength was growing, of course, there were a lot of American workers and workers from other countries came here is also one of the main reasons, I specifically asked, most of these workers entered China before the war, the Chinese Red Party at that time used all the precious metals to let a few Chinese businessmen go abroad to help them recruit technicians, at that time they couldn't even eat enough, This is an unimaginable vision, and I find it difficult to understand that Chongqing's industrial level is already lagging behind Yan'an, and Chongqing does not seem to be interested in heavy industry. This makes me think that the Chongqing government does not seem to have the courage and ambition to be a great power government, and of course, this may have something to do with the Soviet government's emphasis on heavy industry.

As proof of their industrial level, they can already produce most of the light weapons on their own, and I have seen rifles, machine guns, mortars, and even war defense guns with the marks of their factories, which also shows why the Japanese army always has not much way to deal with the Red Party forces, they are not isolated armies, but have perfect logistical support.

Finally, in terms of currency, due to the agreement, the Red Party forces did not have their own banks, but the Guanghua stores they opened throughout North China gave them another solution, as if the Guanghua stores that bought everything had a kind of voucher, which was the most useful currency in the Red Party base areas, and was more useful than gold and silver. Like I just said, they don't have any security deposit when they issue this kind of voucher, which is almost unscientific financially, but that's the truth, and the result of our final discussion is that the Chinese Red Party has completely gained the trust of the local people, and this trust is the certificate that they issue currency.