Chapter 88 The Moon of Yesteryear
On this day, Xie Ning gained a deeper understanding of the rudimentary nature of Hongjun's weapons and the scarcity of raw materials. Pig iron is a major raw material needed to manufacture landmines, grenades, shells, and machinery. Copper is the main raw material for manufacturing bullets and detonators. There are also materials such as saltpeter and petroleum, but none of them exist!
What does it mean to be a skilled cook without rice? This is it!
Not to mention Xie Ning doesn't even have a stove, let alone any specialized machine tools, lathes, planers, drilling machines, milling machines, or any other equipment. The existing equipment is so rudimentary that she can't even bear to look at it. Luckily, she painstakingly worked on some precision tools beforehand, otherwise she wouldn't even be able to repair guns now.
Well, Xie Ning gritted her teeth and wrote the plan. They were poor, too poor. She had ways to buy it, but they didn't have the money. And the checkpoints were strict. These devices weren't something that could be bought just one or two times.
Then she decided to try making it herself. She had secretly drawn up the design drawings of the machine tools used in previous production. With the existing materials and processes, she might not be able to make it of such high quality, but it could be used as a temporary measure. She would make a more detailed plan when she had more money.
Of course, you can't make machine tools without raw materials...
Xie Ning scratched her head, resignedly closed the plan, and then opened the book on iron smelting and oil extraction that Zhang Congzhi had sent her before. She had originally planned to use it if she accidentally traveled to an ancient world in the future. She never expected to use it here. She really didn't expect it. She didn't know how to do it, but she had to learn it. Otherwise, if she wanted to purchase these materials, she wouldn't even be able to transport them in, let alone have the funds.
The Jiangka defense line was very tightly secured, and they were arresting Labour Party members everywhere.
Now she can only learn and teach on the spot, hoping to train more people so that her workload will be reduced.
Sometimes she really felt that the future was bleak, and the wind and snow outside were not as cold as her heart. The scarcity of resources here was beyond her comprehension.
What does it mean to start from scratch?
Three days later, Xie Ning submitted a report to her superiors, requesting that people be sent in different directions to search for iron ore, coal ore, copper ore, oil, etc. She also led a team to search for them herself.
The higher-ups read Xie Ning's report very carefully—a full 50,000 words of plans. It would be a lie to say they weren't moved; more than that, they felt a surge of pride. They didn't dare to dream so big; they just hoped that Xie Ning could teach a few more people how to repair guns. If each division could be equipped with a team of mechanics who could repair firearms, they would think that would be wonderful. At most, they imagined that Xie Ning could open a general arsenal to repair all kinds of weapons that were wearing out in the army and manufacture some simple weapons and ammunition.
But what Xie Ning was thinking about was building smelting plants, machinery factories, bullet factories, shell factories, gun factories... And Xie Ning not only dared to think about it, she also dared to plan it and was prepared to do it!
"What should we do? Xie the technician's plan..." He was practically drooling as he read it. Could they really pull it off?
"Deploy teams, according to the plan, select people from each base to form classes for training, and then teach them layer by layer, assigning mineral exploration tasks... The technicians have already done this much, no matter how hard or tiring it is, we have to do it! If we succeed..."
And it turned out great! Need I say more? It took off immediately!
As he rubbed the last sentence of Xie Ning's plan, "The road ahead is long and arduous," the man in the dark blue twill picked up his pen and wrote another sentence: "I will search high and low for the truth."
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