There was constant sound of work in the heavy gun factory at night.
You can still hear the progress of the production in the dormitory.
Fall asleep to the roar of machines and the sound of manual beating.
We woke up early the next morning and gathered in Zhu Yue's room. Everyone had a good rest. Although it was a bit noisy, drinking wine also helped them fall asleep.
Seeing the two people approaching, Zhu Yue said directly: "It is inconvenient for us to go to the cafeteria to eat, as Zhu Yingyi will easily find us. I will go directly to Zhu Yingyi first and ask to see the factory accounts. You two will go your own way."
"Understood, team leader."
Zhu Yue was responsible for pestering Zhu Yingyi.
Song Shutang and Long Hao began to visit separately.
There is a factory building not far from the rest dormitory, and a new factory building is also being built near the mountain. It was built to prevent enemy air attacks.
Digging caves and moving equipment into them can serve as air-raid shelters while producing. However, currently there are not many such caves dug by the 21st Arsenal, and the heavy gun factory has just started.
Therefore, only construction workers and no equipment or workers have entered the cave to carry out work.
Song Shutang took one look and walked towards the cave being dug.
If you enter the factory to ask questions, you will be afraid of being overcrowded, and the workers may not tell you the truth. The people responsible for digging the cave may have more loose management, and it may be slower to receive news from the Ordnance Industry Department.
Walk towards the cave in the distance.
Gradually, I saw many workers doing construction, excavating the mountain and transporting the stones. Everyone was busy.
When entering the cave, you need to wear a safety helmet to prevent falling gravel.
A worker pushed the gravel towards a pit not far away, and then took a break smoking a homemade cigarette by the pit. Song Shutang slowly walked forward.
"Brother." Song Shutang greeted with a smile on his face.
"Is something wrong?"
"causal talk."
"Not necessarily."
"What do you think, brother?"
"I see that you are not from the factory, but you can enter the factory and you are well dressed. You must have a purpose in coming to the factory, right?"
"Brother, you are really discerning." Song Shutang was not surprised that someone noticed the clues. After all, in a place like the arsenal, no strangers would come in.
But listening to what my brother said, I can confirm that he has not received any news from the Ordnance Industry Administration.
It can be seen that the information from the Ordnance Industry Administration is sent to the managers of each arsenal, and then they pass it on to the employees below. This man's digging of stone caves is out of the scope of the arsenal's daily work, so no one came to inform him.
"It's useless to compliment me. I'm just a hard worker. Only when the factory hires workers to dig production holes can I come in. I can't enter the workshop at all."
"There are specialties in the art industry. Nowadays, there are a lot of caves that need to be dug in the mountain city. After I finish the work here, there are other places to wait, which is no worse than in the workshop."
"What exactly do you want to find out?"
"How long have you been working in the factory, brother?"
"More than a year."
"Only responsible for digging production holes?"
"Earlier, I was in charge of building air-raid shelters for personnel, and the production tunnels just started working not long ago."
"I think the scale is quite large."
"It is initially expected to build more than a dozen production holes, some of which are independent holes and some are connected through branch holes."
"big project."
"The entrance of the production tunnel is 4 to 9 meters high, 30 to 40 meters deep, and 4 to 8 meters wide. Isn't it a big project?" The old man sounded a little proud. These were all made by them.
Song Shutang sighed with a look on his face and then said: "Then this production cave is so huge and it has not been officially put into use yet. If someone is secretly doing production inside, no one will know, right?"
After hearing what he said, the old man said: "There are a few small production holes that have initially completed their operations, but you said it is not convenient to do production inside. First of all, there is no power. It would be more wasteful to use a generator. Why do you do it secretly?"
Production."
"In such a big place, there is no secret production?" Song Shutang expressed disbelief.
The old man threw away the cigarette butt and said: "What the hell, we all live and work here, and nothing can escape everyone's eyes. The production cave can be hidden from people's eyes and ears, but we people are still working here."
You can find out through the conversation with my brother.
He didn't think anyone in the factory was doing these things privately.
But this does not mean that the factory is innocent. It may be that the person behind the scenes did a good job of hiding the truth from others. After all, what they did was a head-turning matter. How dare they let others know easily.
Song Shutang said that he wanted to visit the production cave.
It's just a stone cave. There's nothing in it, so I won't stop it.
I just told him that these were still being excavated and asked him to go take a look inside the several small production holes that had already been excavated. Don’t go too deep as it was too dark inside and there were no electric lights.
The one Song Shutang was going to was also dug out, and he wanted to check if there were any clues.
He had originally planned to investigate the production cave and prepared a flashlight in advance. Now he walked into it with it and began to observe.
Each hole was carefully explored.
No signs of any production work were found inside.
Even the traces on the ground were carefully identified, and there was nothing abnormal.
Then he left the production cave and returned to the factory. He found a worker with a machine gun in his hand, stopped him and said, "Is this a Czech light machine gun?"
"yes."
"Why is something different?"
"This is an imitation of the Czech light machine gun, but it has been improved." The worker looked very proud when he talked about the improvements.
Song Shutang was very interested and stretched out his hand to take it and have a look.
Anyway, the person who can appear in the factory must have a good identity, and there are no bullets in the gun, so I simply handed it to Song Shutang for appreciation.
Holding it in his hand and looking through it, Song Shutang said, "But the gun case is different?"
"You quite understand." The worker didn't expect Song Shutang to see it.
"Guessing."
"The gun box of our Czech-style light machine gun is not milled from a whole piece of steel like other factories, but is made by forging, which not only saves steel material, but also has more stable performance."
"What a gun." Song Shutang also praised sincerely.
If it can be put into large-scale production, it will be of great help to the frontline battle.
It allows soldiers to make up for some gaps in weapons and equipment.
After Song Shutang got closer, he also started to make insinuations.
But this person was completely different from the old brother just now. After hearing Song Shutang's words, he immediately became vigilant and left with his gun in hand.
No matter what Song Shutang said, he never stopped.
It can be seen that he heard the wind.
Song Shutang later found several more people, and their situations were roughly the same.
After a busy morning, I met Long Hao and Zhu Yue in the cafeteria at noon.
The three of them were sitting in the corner. Zhu Yue said: "Zhu Yingyi also planned to accompany him, but he asked me to find an excuse to refuse."
Needing some space to talk, it is naturally inconvenient for Zhu Yingyi to be here.
Zhu Yue asked: "Have you two made any progress in your investigation?"
Long Hao was the first to shake his head and said: "I have inquired about canteens, shops, bathhouses, libraries and other places, but I have not been able to find any useful clues, and many people have avoided me. This shows that the attitude of the Ordnance Industry Administration has an impact on our investigation.
Very big.”
After speaking, the two looked at Song Shutang, and he said: "My situation is similar. There are no valuable clues. However, after asking the worker responsible for digging the production holes, he said that there was no secret production. At the same time, those production holes
I also went in to investigate, and there are indeed no traces of production."
"There is nothing wrong with the accounts." Although Zhu Yue knew that it was difficult to find anything in the accounts, he spent the entire morning checking them very carefully.
"At present, it seems that the possibility of a heavy gun factory is unlikely." Zhu Yue concluded.
After all, there are so many arsenals.
There are many branch factories, and it is impossible for the three of them to choose the place the first time.
But judging from what they encountered in the heavy gun factory, other members may be the same, and it will be equally difficult to investigate the clues.
As for what you said, check them one by one.
Not realistic.
There are too many arsenals and more workers.
And it is impossible for your investigation to affect the work progress of the arsenal.
The war on the front line is tense. If you affect the production and distribution of weapons and equipment, you cannot bear this responsibility.
Therefore, none of the three of them had much appetite during the meal.
Zhu Yue decided to say: "In this case, don't waste time here anymore. In the afternoon, we will go back to the Intelligence Department to see how everyone's investigations go. If there are no clues, we will find another way."
That can only be the case.
Song Shutang and Long Hao had no objection.
After dinner, I went to say goodbye to Zhu Yingyi.
He was happy to see the three of them leaving, but he still tried to persuade them to stay. After some false talk, Long Hao drove the three of them away.
Thanks to Grandpa Jiujiu and the boss who will never forget his kindness and support.
