Zhang Wanhe's office is actually just a mud house next to the No. 3 Factory, with a square table and a few stools. There are piles of documents and information piled in the shell box next to it, as if it had just been moved here and there was no time to sort it out.
Since fires were not allowed near the arsenal, it was a bit cold outside without a kang. The guards added some boiling water to a glass bottle and stuffed it with a wooden stopper to keep Zhang Wanhe warm.
"Here, keep warm!" Zhang Wanhe handed the hot water bottle to Wang Xuexin: "Our arsenal has such conditions, they all think they are extremely rich!"
Seeing that Zhang Wanhe was rubbing his legs from the cold, Wang Xuexin didn't dare to take the hot water bottle, so he rushed to refuse: "Minister, we young people..."
"Hey!" Zhang Wanhe directly stuffed the hot water bottle into Wang Xuexin's arms and joked: "Am I the great benefactor of our arsenal? Then you have treated me badly. The arsenal will spare him!"
As he spoke, he burst into laughter.
In fact, does Zhang Wanhe have other plans in mind?
As for Qiu Zhen, Zhang Wanhe had already taken it lightly when he said that benefactors are not benefactors.
They are not revolutionary soldiers, and they are not responsible for the revolutionary cause. I saved him and he saved me. How can it be considered clear if they all seek repayment?
Could it be that Xiaobei is different? I heard Li Yunlong say that he spent many years in the Japanese arsenal. He has never eaten pork but he has also seen pigs walking!
Coupled with what he said in the previous meeting, Zhang Wanhe, who valued talents the most, knew that this guy had some talent.
At that time, several directors entered the room one after another, and Su Xin was not one of them.
Zhang Wanhe called a few people to go east and introduced to Wang Xuexin:
"Wu Weimin, director of the first branch factory, used to work in Zaihai Hardware Factory, so he got the nickname Hardware."
"Zhang Ruozhong, the director of the second branch factory, used to work in sand casting in the steel plant, but now he has returned to his old job."
"The director of the third factory will not introduce you to our top student."
"That's Wu Yuntao of the Fourth Branch Factory. He used to be a quarry. He specializes in gunpowder and is known as a medicine jar! Is that the medicine for black powder..."
As he said that, he started laughing "hehe" along with everyone else.
While Zhang Wanhe was introducing, the directors came forward one by one to shake hands with Wang Xuexin and say hello.
"Then no one needs to say more!" Zhang Wanhe raised his head towards Wang Xuexin and asked the directors to look helpless: "The stir-fry was moved from our factory to Nalujiagou. We want to carry it all day long."
Xiao Dongbei, Xiao Dongbei, it made his ears almost get calluses when he read it. Oh...he invited the real person to us that time!"
Those words made all the directors laugh awkwardly.
Su Xin looked at the crowd and said, "Please, don't they ask Comrade Wang Xuexin to tell them about the battle?"
"Wrong!" Others also agreed:
"I heard that Comrade Wang Xuexin has only joined the army for more than two months?"
"I heard that Comrade Wang Xuexin got the information from the Japs and captured more than a dozen Japs?"
"How did he hear that there were dozens of them?"
…
So Wang Xuexin understood how the Anti-Japanese War drama came about.
"Hey..." Zhang Wanhe interrupted everyone's discussion. He picked up the boiling water poured by the guard, blew the hot water leisurely, took a sip, and then said: "Comrade Wang Xuexin didn't give it to them when he came.
The person who makes the report has a mission."
Wu Weimin, nicknamed Hardware, became interested as soon as he heard about it: "Mission? What mission? Is there... a spy in the arsenal? Is Comrade Wang Xuexin here to catch the spy?"
"He said that guy of mine!" Zhang Wanhe replied angrily: "What's going on in my head? If I'm just thinking about catching spies, I'm fighting the Japanese on the front line. What's wrong with the arsenal?"
"Minister, that's a shame!" Wu Jin replied with a grimace: "The reason he defected to the Eighth Route Army was to fight the Japanese. Let's see now..."
Later, Wang Xuexin found out that the hardware was originally a technician at a hardware factory in Haihai. Before the fall of Haihai, he risked his life and drove out a car full of mechanical equipment. That batch of machinery became a branch of the factory.
It is the foundation of a machinery manufacturing branch.
"What's wrong now?" Zhang Wanhe threw the dental cup on the table and said angrily:
"He said hardware comrades, aren't they fighting the Japanese?"
"They are just fighting on different battlefields."
"Let me think about it, if they can make more weapons and new equipment, how many comrades can be saved, how many Japanese can be killed, and how many victories can it bring to the army?"
…
There was a lot of buzzing, and it didn’t stop for a long time.
Su Xin reminded with a smile: "Director, if you want to talk about business, if you delay me, the Japanese will beat you less!"
"That's right...it doesn't mean Xiao Su is sensible!" Zhang Wanhe nodded, and then became confused: "What did he just say?"
"Talk about the mission!" Su Xin reminded: "Comrade Wang Xuexin's mission!"
"That's right, the mission!" Zhang Wanhe took another sip of hot water, then held the cup as a thermos to warm his legs, and said, "Don't interrupt, the superiors will assign them a heavy request mission. Will Comrade Wang Xuexin cooperate with them to copy it?"
Grenadier!"
Those words immediately made everyone look at Wang Xuexin in surprise, including Su Xin.
Everyone is thinking, how can it be so easy to imitate a grenade? Could it be that Comrade Wang Xuexin is not only good at fighting, but also good at making equipment?
Zhang Wanhe explained seriously:
"It's not easy for their team!"
"Just like that battle! There were more than 700 people in a Japanese group, and in just 20 minutes of breakout, the New Second Regiment suffered more than 300 casualties."
"Lord, please tell me the reason is that the Japanese grenades are too rampant."
"The commander attaches great importance to this. I beg them to imitate the grenade to destroy the Japanese arrogance and reduce the casualties of the troops."
"This is wrong. Do you have any opinions?"
Several directors were silent, and then they all turned their attention to Su Xin, as if she had the most say.
Su Xin thought for a while and replied:
"Minister, they understand everything you said."
"Can you not say that he is pouring cold water on you? Under their conditions, they want to imitate the Japanese grenade..."
Zhang Wanhe interrupted Su Xin: "Originally he didn't think so, but Comrade Wang Xuexin gave a new idea."
As he spoke, Zhang Wanhe repeated what Wang Xuexin said at the meeting.
Zhang Ruozhong, director of the sand foundry, nodded and said: "That makes sense. If you ask for a small cannon that can shoot 500 meters, it may not be difficult."
Wu Jin shook his head and said awkwardly: "Cannons may be possible, but not cannonballs..."
After saying that, he turned his gaze to Su Xin.
Su Xin was silent for a while, and then said in a familiar voice:
"To produce artillery shells, we first need to cast pig iron into shells, and then use a lathe to turn the mouth, belt and tail of the shell."
"It not only requires smoothness of the car, but also precise dimensions."
"In addition, it is necessary to pick out the threads at the mouth and tail of the bullet in order to install the fuze and tail of the bullet."
"All of these require gray pig iron to achieve."
"And the red pig iron they produce using earthen furnaces has too high a carbon content. He estimated that it is at least 3% to 4%, which makes it hard, brittle and without toughness."
"That kind of iron cannot be turned with a lathe, it will break into pieces as soon as you cut it!"
As she spoke, Su Xin shook her head slightly and came to the conclusion: "Therefore, even if the request is lowered to that level, it is probably unrealistic to produce the request."
Wang Xuexin suddenly realized: No wonder the system is more expensive to imitate artillery shells. It turns out that the difficulty of producing artillery shells is on the same level as that of artillery.
Zhang Wanhe had obviously considered that too. After listening to Su Xin's words, he nodded and said, "It's a serious question, they can consider taking two lines!"
Seeing Wang Xuexin's confused look, Zhang Wanhe explained: "The two lines refer to the railway tracks. Let's secretly pick up the Japanese railway, and then melt the railway tracks to make equipment."