The reason is that Yingjiang wants to bring Doolittle back to China as soon as possible... For them, the sooner they return, the safer they are. If they stay at the Eighth Route Army base, they might be captured by the Japanese. They can't even wait for the other pilots to arrive, and
A special plane was directly arranged to fly to Xi'an to pick up Doolittle.
Wang Xuexin can understand this approach.
At this time, Doolittle had become a hero to Hawthorne because he led the pilots to successfully attack Tokyo. At the same time, Hawthorne also urgently needed to establish a hero as a role model for the military and civilians to boost morale, so Doolittle could not let anything happen.
This is one of the reasons why Wang Xuexin put so much effort into persuading Doolittle... Even though Doolittle is just a lieutenant colonel at this time, he will be promoted to brigadier general immediately after returning to China, and then he will become the commander of the aviation force.
As long as he is interested in reinforcing Chinese fighter jets, it can almost be said that he has convinced the Yingjiang government.
Before leaving, Doolittle shook hands with Wang Xuexin again and said: "Thank you again for your help. I will seriously consider your suggestions. Thank you!"
After saying that, he patted Wang Xuexin's arm and got on the bus to Xi'an with several other pilots.
Li Yunlong looked at the cars that were gradually disappearing in the darkness, and said angrily: "Xiao Dongbei, there is no one left. If they don't send us a few planes, will this business suffer a loss?"
"Let it go, leader!" Wang Xuexin replied confidently: "You can't lose it!"
The reason why Wang Xuexin was so confident was because he knew that Doolittle would definitely investigate whether the situation of the recalcitrant army was really "preserving strength" as Wang Xuexin said after returning to China, and this sign was already very evident in the recalcitrant army.
Obviously, if nothing else, he could even go directly to investigate the "Flying Tigers".
Then Doolittle will discover that although the conditions of the stubborn army are better than those of the Eighth Route Army, and can even be said to be much better, the stubborn army has a situation of "taking equipment but not fighting"... If the stubborn army only takes equipment but does not fight, what will happen to the stubborn army?
As far as Yingjiang is concerned, the equipment is given but it doesn't work, so what's the point?
After knowing this, as long as Doolittle was not stupid, he would choose to build an aviation force in the Eighth Route Army.
Wang Xuexin and Li Yunlong were chatting and walking. When they reached the door of the office, Li Yunlong looked around, then lowered his voice and said mysteriously to Zhao Gang: "Old Zhao, show the good things to Xiao Dongbei!"
Zhao Gang was a little dissatisfied with Li Yunlong's behavior and blamed him: "Oh, let me tell you, we sit upright and walk upright, but we are still sneaking around like thieves..."
"You don't understand!" Li Yunlong waved his hand and said, "In short, you are right to listen to me on this matter!"
Wang Xuexin somewhat guessed what good thing Li Yunlong was talking about. It should be about the Xiaobeiling Weaving Factory.
Sure enough, then Zhao Gang took out a roll of cloth from the drawer and put it on the desk, then unfolded it and said to Wang Xuexin: "Comrade Wang Xuexin, this is the cloth woven by our loom. Considering that you may not have time to go,
Xiao Beiling, I brought some here for you to see!"
Li Yunlong couldn't wait to hold the oil lamp in front of the fabric. He stroked it gently with his hands while illuminating it, and said cheerfully: "Look at the quality, look at the texture. There's nothing to say! Now we are really like him."
My mother got rich!"
Then he glared at Zhao Gang and said, "I'm telling you, Lao Li, if we don't report this matter, we won't report it, especially the brigade commander, do you understand?"
As soon as Zhao Gang heard this, he understood that the person Li Yunlong was hiding was none other than the brigade commander.
But it's right to think about it. Once the Independent Regiment captures something, the brigade commander will inevitably come to take some advantage. There are only ten looms, which are the lifeblood of the Independent Regiment.
Wang Xuexin didn't feel much when he looked at this cloth, because he had seen many such cloths in modern times.
But he knew that this was different in the eyes of Li Yunlong and others: hand-woven and machine-woven were two different things.
Wang Xuexin looked at it and asked the question he was most concerned about: "Political Commissar, how is the output?"
Zhao Gang casually took a document and handed it over.
Wang Xuexin took it and took a look. Everything above was clearly recorded, including materials, cloth width, labor, gasoline... The looms used electricity. The Eighth Route Army did not have a power station and could only use gasoline to generate electricity.
Li Yunlong laughed beside him and said: "It's useless to look at these. There are a lot of numbers in the sevens, sevens, eights and eights. In the end, it's not just adding, adding, subtracting or subtracting? Let's just count the big numbers first!"
As he spoke, Li Yunlong pointed to a few numbers on the document and said: "Each machine weaves 40 meters a day, ten machines are 400 meters, and one pound of cotton can weave 1.5 meters of cloth. The cost is only 13 cents, and it changes hands for 10 cents."
I made more than 60 cents from selling it, which means I can earn more than 200 yuan a day!"
When he said more than two hundred, he clapped his hands with the back of his hand, as if it was a big deal.
Wang Xuexin was a little disappointed when he heard this figure. He only made more than two hundred dollars a day?
These are ten machines!
But when I thought about it, I discovered a problem. You can't use modern RMB to think of more than two hundred yuan. This is the Eighth Route Army base area. At this time, the base area has fully used the border area currency. In addition, the Eighth Route Army is engaged in large-scale production and is cultivating grain everywhere.
, the price of grain has stabilized at seven cents per kilogram of border currency.
A pound of grain costs seven cents. How much grain can we buy with more than two hundred yuan?
Wang Xuexin did some calculations, then his eyes widened, and he asked in disbelief: "Captain, you mean...the money you earn this day can buy more than three thousand kilograms of grain?"
Li Yunlong laughed "hehe": "Isn't that right?"
Then Li Yunlong continued his calculation: "Based on five or two meters per person per day, this can feed 6,000 people! How many people do we have in our army? We must expand the army, and we will definitely be able to build a team by then!"
This is what is said.
In fact, five or two meters per person per day was not only enough for the Eighth Route Army, but also a surplus. They ate sweet potato porridge every day, and three or two meters was enough.
In addition, if the army can cultivate some wasteland by itself, wouldn't it be possible to recruit an army of tens of thousands of people?
Wang Xuexin was also happy when he heard this. This was a good thing: there were people in Yuncheng, and the independent regiment often seized equipment. Li Yunlong always secretly left a batch when he handed it over, so there was no shortage of these. What was missing was the bite to eat.
food.
Now that we have looms, the food problem has been solved, and military expansion is no longer a big problem.
At this time, Li Yunlong looked at the quality of the cloth and said: "Actually, I think this cloth earns more than 50 cents. Can our cloth compare with that hand-woven coarse cloth? There are people who want it even if it sells for 70 or 80 cents!"
"Old Li!" Zhao Gang slapped the table and cursed: "What are you doing? You really think our troops are landlords and rich people doing business. If you sell like this, what will the common people who want to buy cloth do?"