"Impossible!" This is Professor Li Xuebin's first reflection.

Wang Ping did not refute, but replied confidently: "If Professor Li doesn't believe it, I can take you to see something!" ”

The logistics department of the military region has also built a chicken farm now, but because the time is too short, the scale is not large, only five chicken coops and 1,000 chickens, and the size of the chickens is still very small, which does not meet the requirements for laying eggs.

However, it was these 1,000 chickens that still brought Li Xuebin an unprecedented shock.

"How is that possible? This is a chicken farm. However, Director Wang, your Eighth Route Army doesn't even have enough military rations, how can you still have food to raise chickens! ”

Li Xuebin stared at Wang Ping and asked, wanting an explanation.

"Let's go, Professor Li, I'll take you to see another place!" Wang Ping said directly.

Soon, the earthworm pond appeared in front of Professor Li.

Watch a few wounded warriors pull the dense earthworms out of the pool, put them in a basin and chop them, and finally put them in two huge iron pots and boil them in water!

Professor Li Xuebin must be a dense phobia, his scalp was numb, and he asked with a look of incomprehension: "Director Wang, do you raise so many earthworms?" ”

"Feed the chickens! Cooked earthworm meat with vegetable leaves is more nutritious than food, and it only takes three months for chickens to lay eggs! ”

Li Xuebin seemed to hear a big joke, looked unconvinced, and then subconsciously exclaimed: "Impossible, this must not be true!" ”

"They'll go back to feed the chickens in a moment, and you'll know in a moment whether what I just said is true or false!" Wang Ping said confidently.

In less than ten minutes, the cooked earthworms were scooped up by the workers, and then mixed with the vegetable leaves that had been chopped up next to them, and began to stir, with a ratio of about three to seven. After finishing it, the food, which seemed very disgusting to Professor Li, was divided into pots and sent to the chicken coop!

Seeing the picture of one or two hundred chickens competing for these foods as if they were crazy, Professor Li finally believed it.

With his mouth open, he was stunned for a minute before he reacted, and then stared at Wang Ping and asked, "Director Wang, how did you do it, how do you know that earthworms can feed chickens!" ”

"Confidential!" Wang Ping replied very directly.

Then he continued: "In addition to the chicken farm, we now have a pig farm, a sheep farm, and we are also cultivating vegetable fields and wasteland. You must know that rotten leaves that have been treated by earthworm ponds are the best fertilizer, and using it to reweight grain can increase the yield by at least 10%! ”

"In addition, some places in our military region have begun to popularize this kind of chicken-raising technology to the common people in the base areas, so that the common people can become rich with us and reduce the burden of the common people!"

"I believe that under the influence of these policies, our Eighth Route Army will get better and better. Not to mention anything else, it is no problem to ensure that the soldiers are well fed and eat good food. ”

"As long as Professor Li is willing to join the arsenal, he can enjoy the political treatment of the tenth level of technology, that is, the political treatment of the battalion commander in the army, and there will be no problem in supporting his family!"

"Of course, if Professor Li, your family also has culture and technology, you can also join the arsenal or work in the military region!"

After some painful and difficult hesitation, Li Xuebin stared at Wang Ping and asked, "Director Wang, are you sure that what you just said is true, not to coax me!" ”

"I'm sure!" Wang Ping replied with a firm face.

"Professor Li, you can choose to stay here for half a year, and after half a year, if I didn't cook as I just said, you can choose to leave at any time."

"Okay! I'm staying in your Eighth Route Army for the time being! Isn't the arsenal in urgent need of a few sets of the most basic mechanical processing equipment? Tomorrow I will take the students to start doing it, and I hope that Director Wang can provide us with a venue. Also, there must be a lot of parts that we need to build ourselves, so I need ten or at least five skilled blacksmiths! Professor Li did not hesitate and made a decision very quickly.

Wang Ping was overjoyed and replied happily: "Okay, I'll give you whatever you want." If we don't have the Eighth Route Army, I'll snatch it from the devils! As for the craftsmen, I'll report to you tomorrow morning. In addition, I will ask the military region for instructions to temporarily appoint you as the deputy director of the arsenal specializing in the manufacture and maintenance of equipment, and enjoy the political treatment of the main battalion before the level is decided! ”

The confidence on Li Xuebin's face made Wang Ping sure that it would not take too long for some mechanical machines such as stamping machine tools, lathes, drilling machines, and grinding machines to process original parts appear in front of him.

And with these machine machines, it is possible to process various parts by yourself, and then assemble them into new machine tools for the production of weapons and ammunition.

Even if the conditions for the production of new machine tools are not yet available, these industrial machine tools can process and produce weapon parts, plus the barrels of end-of-life weapons, and assemble rifles!

Wang Ping was very relieved to hand over the transformation of the industrial machine to Professor Li, and then began to think about the specific development direction of the arsenal after its official establishment!

It is certainly unrealistic to directly manufacture weapons and ammunition.

Not to mention that now the arsenal does not have a single device that can manufacture weapons. Even if you get it in the end, the raw materials are a big problem.

In particular, if you want to ensure that the barrel and the rifling inside the barrel are durable, you must ensure that the raw material is strong enough. With the current foundation of the Eighth Route Army, it is certainly impossible to make steel specifically for the manufacture of gun barrels.

Of course, in history, the Eighth Route Army finally used a compromise method to make the barrel of a gun out of a solid rail.

It is very feasible, but even if the barrel is made and rifling is depicted...... There are many problems that Arsenal can solve immediately.

The most critical problem was that the arsenal did not have any mechanics and engineers who could make rifles.

Without people, even if there is equipment and raw materials, the rifle cannot be made.

After thinking about it, Wang Ping finally decided to reload the bullets first, make grenades, and repair the damaged weapons and ammunition on the battlefield!

In a word, first accumulate experience and a sufficient number of mechanics through these things, and then step by step go to the production of bullets, the production of artillery shells, the production of rifles, and finally the production of machine guns, heavy machine guns, and even artillery.

Reloading bullets, there were such arsenals and technologies during the Red Army.

It is only necessary to determine the warhead, the primer, and there is no problem at all with reloading the bullet!

Although Li Xuebin is a professor of mechanics, because Wang Ping has everyone in his hands, he can only come over to discuss!

"Director Wang, the production of bullet primer is a chemical problem, I know a person, who is from the same school as me. At that time, we went south together, and finally we were caught by the devils together. I was assigned to the Bald Head Ridge Coal Mine, and he seemed to have been assigned to a copper mine, instructing the devil to smelt copper ore into copper pads. If you can find him, you will definitely be able to solve the problem of bullet primer. ”

"As for the bullet, the material is copper, and the copper is very soft, as long as we make some molds on the stamping machine, we can casually press out tens of thousands of bullets a day!"

"Do you know the exact location of the copper mine!" Wang Ping's eyes lit up, and he chased after Li Xuebin and asked.

"I don't like to follow the exact location, but as far as I know, our generation seems to be a copper mine. If you plan to mass-produce bullets, it's best to control this copper mine! ”

"Yes, how did I forget this, the pain is not iron and coal, it is everywhere! Professor Li, thank you, if you can really rescue Professor Zhou, I will need your help to persuade him to join our arsenal at that time! Wang Ping exclaimed happily, as if he had eaten honey, and his face was as happy as a flower!