Because of the pressure from Zhao Gang, Li Yunlong and Wang Xuexin negotiated and set the price of cloth at 1.8 cents per meter.
This was done step by step, and every step required a lot of discussion.
Wang Xuexin understood what Zhao Gang was worried about. He was worried that the high price of the cloth would cause a chain reaction, causing the price of coarse cloth to also rise.
Winter is coming soon, and it’s the time for people to prepare winter clothes. If people don’t have money to buy cloth, what can they do?
Even though Zhao Gang is a graduate of Yenching University, he knows nothing about the market. He only thinks about the price being as low as possible so that the people can get benefits. Little does he know that the market has its own laws. If
Violating this rule will not only fail to benefit the people but will also harm them. Simply put, it means doing bad things with good intentions.
Although Wang Xuexin is not sure about the price in this era, he still feels that the price of 80 cents is still too low, and the problems mentioned before still exist.
However, because Zhao Gang insisted that it could only be set at 8 cents and no more, otherwise he would have to report to the headquarters, so Wang Xuexin and Li Yunlong had no choice but to give up.
Li Yunlong also complained in a low voice: "I'm just saying that sour scholars are useless, right? They don't eat the meat that reaches their mouths. Is there anyone doing business like this? According to me, when we do business, we have to act like a businessman.
, don’t keep thinking that you are still in the Eighth Route Army!”
Wang Xuexin still agrees with Li Yunlong's view in this regard.
The reason is that doing business is actually very cruel. Some people say that shopping malls are like battlefields. This is true at all. This is true at all times.
If you don't treat yourself as a businessman when doing business, it's no different than going to the battlefield with your hands tied.
At this time, the Eighth Route Army was forced by the environment to find various ways to make money to survive. If it could not gain a foothold in the business world and even suffered losses...then how meaningful would the "self-reliance" called by its superiors be?
However, Wang Xuexin believes that this matter is not urgent, and Zhao Gang will eventually raise the price.
Sure enough, on this day when Wang Xuexin was giving a lecture to the occupation tactics class... the so-called tactics class was where divisions and regiments were sent to Wang Xuexin to learn how to command tank operations.
Because these commanders and fighters came to learn command, they were organized into a separate class.
This class put Wang Xuexin to shame. The highest-ranking deputy commander was Tan Zhiming. He was thirty-seven years old and a veteran of the Red Army who had been a soldier for seven years. His face had a maturity and aura that was different from the others.
There are also five battalion commanders and two deputy battalion commanders. The lowest position in the class of fifteen is a deputy company commander, but none of them seem to be "easy to mess with"... I can't tell what is different about these people.
But when you stand together, you can tell at a glance that he is different from other people. Whether it is from his eyes or his stance, he can faintly see some murderous intent.
And Wang Xuexin, the battalion commander, is actually the teacher giving lectures on the stage, which is not an ordinary pressure.
What made Wang Xuexin even more embarrassed was that everyone, including Tan Zhiming, the deputy leader, took notebooks to listen carefully during class and took notes while listening.
When he first arrived in Yuncheng, Tan Zhiming even said to Wang Xuexin: "Comrade Wang Xuexin, after I enter this class, I will be your student. Unless I graduate, we will not have a battalion commander or deputy commander. The titles are comrade and classmate."
, you are the teacher!”
However, Wang Xuexin is still confident in giving them lessons. After all, he is a modern man and has modern tactics that have been proven to be correct. However, in this era, many tactics, especially tank tactics, are not yet mature.
Wang Xuexin asked them a question on the first day of class: "Comrades, I want to ask you, if you had a tank company or a tank battalion, how would you direct them to attack the enemy's defense line!"
The commanders and soldiers discussed for a while, and then Tan Zhiming stood up and spoke: "I will first look for weaknesses in the enemy's defense line, find terrain suitable for tank operations to determine the breakthrough point, and then concentrate the tanks to break through from this point, and then go deep into the enemy's hinterland to expand the results!"
Tan Zhiming's words attracted applause from others, and most people agreed with Tan Zhiming's battle plan.
This is not surprising. As the saying goes, "I have never eaten pork and I have seen pigs walking." This is how the enemy used tanks. If there is any difference, it is that the enemy often disdains to concentrate the tanks... The reason is that the Chinese army
The anti-tank capability is too weak, they will break through from several positions at the same time.
Wang Xuexin just nodded slightly, then picked up the chalk and drew on the blackboard and said: "If this is the enemy's defense line, if our tank battalion concentrates its forces to break through from this point... But if the enemy launches artillery fire at this point,
What about reinforcements? Or what about calling in planes for bombing? Even if no planes are called in for bombing, the Japanese can still use reconnaissance planes to track them and send out artillery and tanks to encircle and suppress them. How should our army respond?"
The commanders and soldiers couldn't help but be stunned. What Wang Xuexin said was indeed something that was very likely to happen on the battlefield. Even if the Eighth Route Army chose to attack at night and did not have to worry about enemy aircraft, the enemy's heavy artillery could not be avoided.
Wang Xuexin just wanted to tell them that tactics cannot be simply copied, because each army's equipment, training level, and even the battlefield environment are different, which determines that the tactics that the enemy can use may not be used by our army.
The tactics that our army can use may not be able to be used by the enemy, just like the anti-slope tactics mentioned by Wang Xuexin before.
Then Tan Zhiming asked: "Comrade Wang Xuexin, then...how should we attack?"
Wang Xuexin replied: "War, especially frontal war, is about systematic confrontation. It requires the coordination of artillery, tanks, air and other arms. In this regard, we cannot compare with the Japanese at all, even if we have T34 tanks that are more advanced than the Japanese."
The same is true. Therefore, don't use tanks to attack the defense lines prepared by the Japanese, that is, you will die!"
A battalion commander was unconvinced and stood up and asked: "Comrade Wang Xuexin, I don't agree with your point of view. As you said, the Japanese have always been systematic, but you can still use the tank troops in your hands to win several great victories."
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"Battle Commander Chen!" Wang Xuexin said: "The reason why I was able to win the battle was because the Japanese were not prepared. They did not know that our army was equipped with tanks at the beginning, so they did not use a complete combat system to fight our army. As for the third
The second recapture of Yuncheng... was a sneak attack, a dangerous move of troops, and the use of some external conditions to prevent the Japanese system from functioning!"
Tan Zhiming nodded as he listened and said: "Therefore, there are also difficulties in being well-equipped. Because of the tanks, in order to make guns and bombs for the minerals in Yuncheng, our army had to go out of the mountains to confront the Japanese. So,
It has transformed from guerrilla warfare to systematic warfare, which our army is not good at!"