As long as Chongqing conducts a thorough investigation, those stubborn soldiers and landlords who once "cooperated" with the Eighth Route Army will be inseparable. Where will they go?
Should he go to Chongqing to plead guilty or directly switch to the Eighth Route Army? I believe anyone who is not stupid will choose the latter.
As a result, the Eighth Route Army's ranks will become stronger and stronger, and its resources and connections will increase. This is also in line with the Eighth Route Army's purpose of "uniting all forces that can be united."
When Wu Jin saw the call from the chief, he was stunned for a while before he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "If the chief agrees, of course there will be no problem with me! I will do whatever the battalion commander says!"
"Uncle Wu!" Wang Xuexin asked: "You have worked in a Shanghai hardware factory and are familiar with machines. Look... those machines we snatched, such as textile machines, biscuit compressors, etc., do we have the ability to imitate them?
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Hardware thought for a while and said: "As long as you dismantle a few machines, there will be no big problem in imitating them. It's not a complicated thing!"
Wang Xuexin agrees with this. The machines at this time were still relatively primitive. Unlike modern times where there are chips and automation at every turn, most of the machines in this era are still in the stage of steam engines, and many of them are driven by coal like trains.
Those driven by electricity are considered "advanced".
Naturally, machines of this level have nothing to do with high technology. As long as you have skilled craftsmen like Hardware and dismantle a few samples to make parts according to the size of the parts, it is not difficult to imitate them.
Hardware said: "We have also thought about this problem. For example, some machines are broken, or if we want to expand production in the future, we will have to make machines ourselves, so imitation is the first priority. It's just that we are short of time at the moment.
I can’t spare the time. If we follow what the battalion commander said, we just need to transport the cloth to sell near the blockade, it would be much easier..."
Wang Xuexin shook his head and said: "Uncle Wu, I want to imitate the machine, it is not just as simple as repairing and expanding production!"
"Then what the battalion commander means..." Hardware really doesn't understand what else the imitation machine can be used for.
"Sell!" Wang Xuexin said: "Sell it after copying it, that is, sell it to the people to encourage them to invest in setting up factories!"
Wu Jin's jaw nearly dropped when he heard this. It took him a while to come back to his senses and said: "Batalion Commander, isn't this right? These machines are all tools that turn stone into gold for our troops.
, it’s a cash cow! If we go through all the trouble to copy the machines and sell them, wouldn’t that mean we’re ruining our own jobs? Battalion Commander, we can’t do this!”
Wang Xuexin said: "Uncle Wu, our vision cannot be so short-sighted. Our ultimate goal is to make the people rich so that they can afford food and clothing. If we can hold these machines in our hands as much as possible,
Sooner or later, this money tree will fail to shake, and then we will have nothing."
When I heard the hardware, this made sense.
If you want to make the people rich, don't you have to give the money tree to the people and shake it?
I am being petty and separated the Eighth Route Army from the people... If I put the machine in my hand and hide it and only make money from the people, what is the difference between me and the stubborn capitalists?
Thinking of this, Hardware nodded in shame: "The battalion commander is right, we should sell the machine to the people so that they can get some benefits!"
Wang Xuexin did not go into detail about other things with Hardware.
Because Hardware is a skilled worker and does not have an in-depth understanding of economics, Wang Xuexin could not understand even if he talked too much.
However, regarding this matter, Wang Xuexin went to the headquarters for a meeting and discussed it in detail for several hours.
To put it into context, this matter is not as simple as "making people rich".
This is actually a process of industrialization, or it can be said that Wang Xuexin consciously accelerated the industrialization of the base area.
In fact, from a human perspective, the idea of hardware is correct.
As the saying goes, "People die for wealth, birds die for food." When a machine is invented or is taken into the hands of a certain group or individual and becomes a tool for making money, they will make every effort to keep it secret in order to maintain their monopoly position.
But "there is no airtight wall in the world."
Driven by huge profits, one day, this trade secret will spread to other people and become popular among the public.
Only when machines are popularized among the public, and the public finds them inconvenient and troublesome, will there be a lot of innovation and continuous improvement of machines to increase efficiency.
Industrialization is actually a process that is constantly repeated, monopoly, diffusion, innovation, monopoly, diffusion and innovation again...
If technology is always in the hands of a few people, the wisdom of these few people is limited after all, so it will be difficult to achieve great innovation.
But of course, each of these processes is quite long, and some even last for decades.
Wang Xuexin's approach was to proactively break the Eighth Route Army's "monopoly" on machines and technology, allowing machines and technology to spread to the people in the shortest possible time, and then fully tap the wisdom of the people to participate in this industrialization process... Only then
It is true industrialization.
Wang Xuexin said to the chief: "Chief, if the machines and technology are only in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, although we are making money comfortably now, what will happen over time?"
Then Wang Xuexin further analyzed: "Our factory will have no pressure, and the workers will also have no pressure, because one meter of cloth can only be sold for one yuan, and you can earn 85 cents. This is a huge profit, and you can almost say that you can just lie down."
We can make money. Then why don’t we just lie down and work overtime?”
What Wang Xuexin said was not quite right, because he could not use some modern state-owned enterprises as an example to make an analogy... Every worker is paid dead wages, eats from a big pot, and does more and less in the same job. How can this motivate them?
If you don't even have basic pressure and enthusiasm, can you still produce high-quality products?
But the chief understood it. He nodded and said: "This is 'born with good fortune and dies with ease'. If no one else competes with the three stores, the three stores will eventually become corrupted and decline. So, no matter what
Whether we are considering the future of the base area, the people's livelihood, or the Eighth Route Army itself, we have to create some opponents and then force ourselves to make continuous progress!"
"Yes, that's what I want to say!" Wang Xuexin felt like he had a close friend: "That's why we copy the machines and then sell them, including the technology!"
The chief thought carefully for a while and then agreed: "Very good, let's do it like this!"