"What I just said was not a dream!" Li Hao replied with certainty.
Following the change of subject, he added: "However, if we want to ensure these incomes, we must have a strong combat force to protect them, and we cannot let them be taken away by the little devils. We are working on this!"
"When the independent battalion completes its training, it will definitely be able to do this!"
"One more thing, we still need to continue to expand sales."
"There are tens of thousands of people in Lingqiu. A thousand pigs a year and 1,500 eggs a day may be sold, but 20,000 kilograms of vermicelli every day will definitely not be sold. They must be sold to several surrounding counties!"
"If pigs and eggs can also be sold to several surrounding counties, then our pig farms and chicken farms can continue to expand in scale!"
The excitement on Wang Hong's face disappeared, and he frowned and replied: "This is a big problem!"
"Our base is in Lingqiu, and the surrounding counties are either bases for neighboring troops, or areas occupied by Japs, or even areas occupied by the Jinsui Army. It's difficult to get our hands through!"
"Sweet potato flour is a strange thing, and it is difficult for ordinary people to accept it, let alone sell it!"
"There is a way!" Li Hao replied affirmatively.
"Let's talk about the area occupied by the Japs first. We can't reach it with our hands, but the merchants' hands can definitely reach it!"
"Instructor, aren't there businessmen from the county who came to us asking for sweet potato flour? In addition to what I just agreed to, you can add another request. If the sweet potato flour they buy is going to be sold to other counties controlled by the little devils, they will buy one thousand kilograms at a time.
We will give you 100 jins as a gift, which will make 50 jins more profit than selling sweet potato flour in Lingqiu!"
"Businessmen are looking for profits and have a wide range of connections. They must have a way to promote sweet potato noodles!"
"As for the friendly neighboring troops base area, there is someone who can help us!"
"Who?" Wang Hong asked subconsciously.
A hint of mystery quickly flashed across the corner of Li Hao's mouth: "Commander!"
Then he made a decision: "It just so happens that the Japanese have not moved during this period, and the troop training is on track. I plan to go to the military division to report on the specific situation after the expansion of the independent battalion, and by the way, let the commander give us sweet potato noodles.
A salesman for once!”
"Instructor, ask Huang Shuyun to prepare two thousand kilograms of sweet potato flour for me, and send out a row of thirty mules and horses to transport the baggage. Ten mules and horses will transport the sweet potato flour, and the remaining twenty mules and horses will transport ammunition!"
"Although the military division won the battle more than a month ago and seized a large amount of weapons and ammunition. But they have many troops, and if they are divided, there will be very few left. We are different. Although we have no weapons, we have plenty of ammunition. Instructor, prepare the bullets.
Bring some mortar shells, mountain artillery shells, and half of the infantry artillery shells captured in Dongtian Village. We don’t have infantry artillery now, so we keep half of them just in case, and send the rest to the military division!”
The commander of the military division headquarters is in a very good mood during this time.
The counter-encirclement and suppression campaign was won, and the troops took advantage of the victory to pursue the victory and not only recaptured a large number of base areas occupied by the Japanese, but also captured a large number of areas occupied by the Japanese.
The larger the base area, the more troops need to be defended.
Using the equipment captured in the ambush battle, each brigade was expanded to at least one battalion. Together with the county brigade and the district squad, the total strength of the first division has reached an astonishing 8,000 people, almost reaching the division before the division.
"Commander, judging from the time, Comrade Li Hao of the Independent Battalion should be arriving soon!" the chief of staff came over and reminded.
"Order the security company to keep an eye on Comrade Li Hao. As soon as Comrade Li Hao arrives near the station, report immediately. I will go to greet him personally!" the commander decided.
The chief of staff smiled and said: "I'll go too... We were able to win this counter-encirclement and suppression campaign, and we eliminated so many little devils. The independent battalion must have contributed a lot!"
"Without their desperate efforts to hold off the Watanabe Brigade, we would never have been able to win so easily, and the casualties in the division would have greatly increased!"
"Report to Commander..."
Before the chief of staff finished speaking, the guard company commander rushed in with excitement on his face!
"Captain Li of the Independent Battalion has arrived. He is still at most one kilometer away from the village entrance! And he has brought dozens of mules and horses with him, which are full of things!"
The smile on the commander's face grew wider: "I knew Comrade Li Hao would not come empty-handed!"
"Every time I come to the military subdivision, I will definitely give something to the military subdivision. Unlike other people, I can't wait to empty out the military subdivision once I come here!"
"Come on, Chief of Staff, let's go together to meet the heroes of this anti-mopping up campaign!"
As soon as we reached the entrance of the village, Li Hao, who was leading the way, also came over.
Li Hao didn't expect that the commander and chief of staff would come together to greet him, and he was stunned for a moment before he realized what was happening.
"Report to the commander, chief of staff, and independent battalion commander Li Hao are ordered to report!"
"Just in time!" the commander replied with a smile.
"The Independent Battalion has contributed a lot to this counter-mopping operation. Although there are battle reports that describe all the battles of the Independent Battalion, you, the person involved, still do not explain the details in person. This time when you come to the headquarters, you must follow up on how many battles the Independent Battalion fought.
Let’s say it again!”
Li Hao immediately replied: "Commander, please rest assured, I will tell you everything!"
Then he pointed to the mules and horses behind him and introduced: "These are some ammunition I sent to the military division!"
"The military division has a big business and must need these things!"
"In addition, I also brought two thousand kilograms of sweet potato flour and asked the commander to help us sell it to our independent battalion!"
The independent battalion had delivered weapons and ammunition to the military division more than once, and with the advance report from the guard company commander, the commander was not too surprised.
However, after hearing about sweet potato powder, the commander was obviously stunned for a moment, and then asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"Two thousand kilograms of sweet potato flour, and you want me, the commander, to help you sell it? Li Hao, what the hell are you doing? If you don't train and fight well, how can you sell sweet potato flour?"
The chief of staff hesitated and asked: "Is it the sweet potato noodles we ate when we passed through Guizhou and Sichuan?"
"Where did you get a full two thousand kilograms? We are in Shanxi, and there seems to be no sweet potato flour?"
Li Hao quickly reported: "Commander, can we go to the headquarters and say that there are too many people here!"
In the conference room of the military division headquarters, Li Hao had just made a few reports when the commander stood up from his chair with his big eyes widened.
"Wait a minute, tell me what you just said again... Are all those sweet potato flours produced by you in your own factory?"
Li Hao answered with certainty: "Yes, Commander, the daily output of the sweet potato flour factory has now reached 1,500 kilograms, and the scale is still expanding!"
"Lingqiu is so big, consuming two thousand kilograms of sweet potato flour every day is already the limit!"
"In the future, we will produce more and more sweet potato flour, so we can only focus on military subdivisions and areas occupied by the Japs!"
"I have thought of a way to let a group of businessmen open up channels in the areas occupied by the Japanese. They have a wide range of connections. As long as there is profit, they will definitely be able to sell. Here in the military division, I first thought of you, the commander. Instead of letting businessmen intervene,
If you want to make a lot of profits, why not leave these profits to us, the Eighth Route Army, so that the wealth does not flow to outsiders?"
"Wait a minute, let me clear my mind!" The commander stopped Li Hao from continuing!
After thinking for a while, he replied: "You mean you have independently run a sweet potato flour factory with a very large output. One Lingqiu cannot eat that much sweet potato flour. You plan to ask me to help you sell the sweet potato flour in the military division!"
"If I remember correctly, you just said that Lingqiu can consume two thousand kilograms of sweet potato flour a day. Is this figure an exaggeration?"
"I remember when I was traveling to Guizhou and Sichuan, the sweet potato noodles we saw were just a snack! The people in the base area don't even have enough to eat now, so how can they have spare money to buy snacks!"
"Besides, Lingqiu is so big and sweet potato flour cannot be eaten as food. How can it consume two thousand kilograms a day?"
Li Hao quickly explained: "Commander, what you hear is false and what you see is belief. I brought a full two thousand kilograms here. Let's have a meal at noon today! After eating, you will know why sweet potato powder is so popular in Lingqiu.
Big sales!”
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