As long as Chongqing investigates thoroughly, all the stubborn troops and landlords who have "cooperated" with the Eighth Route Army will be inseparable from it. Where should they go?

Should I go to Chongqing to apologize or directly turn to the Eighth Route Army? I believe that as long as I am not stupid, I will choose the latter.

As a result, the Eighth Route Army's team will grow stronger and stronger, and its resources and connections will increase, which is also in line with the Eighth Route Army's purpose of "unifying all forces that can be united."

Hardware was stunned for a while before breathing a sigh of relief when he saw the commander's call, "If the commander agrees, of course there is no problem here! 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... do we have the ability to imitate the machines we snatched, such as textile machines, biscuit compressors, etc."

Hardware thought about it and said, "As long as you dismantle a few machines, there is no big problem in imitating it, it is not a complicated thing!"

Wang Xuexin agrees with this. At this time, the machines were still relatively primitive. Unlike modern times, they often had chips and automation. Most of the machines in this era were still in the steam engine stage. There were many coal-burning drives like trains, and those driven by electricity were considered "advanced".

This level of machine naturally has nothing to do with high technology. As long as there are skilled technicians like hardware and a few samples are disassembled and made according to the size of the parts, it is not difficult to imitate them.

Hardware said: "We have also thought about this issue. For example, if some machines are broken or if we want to expand production in the future, we have to know how to build machines, so imitation is the first priority. It's just that the time is tight and I can't take time out for a while. If we follow what the battalion commander said, we just need to ship the cloth to the near blockade line to sell in the future, it would be much simpler..."

Wang Xuexin shook his head and said, "Uncle Wu, I want to imitate the machine, but it's not just about repairing and expanding production!"

"The battalion commander means..." Hardware really doesn't understand what other imitation machines can be used for besides these.

"For sale!" Wang Xuexin said: "After copying, it means selling it to the people, and encourage them to invest in a factory!"

Hardware almost fell off his chin after hearing this. After a while, he came to his senses and said, "Battery Commander, this is not right! These machines are all things that turn into gold for our troops, they are money trees! If we imitate the machines with great difficulty and sell them, wouldn't it be a waste of our job? 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 and make them afford to eat and wear clothes. If we hold these machines in our hands as money trees, sooner or later, the money trees will not shake, and then we will have nothing again."

When the hardware heard this, it made sense.

To make the people rich, wouldn’t we have to share the money tree with the people and shake it?

I am a petty man, and separated the Eighth Route Army from the people... If I put the machine in my hands and just make money from the people, what is the difference between it and the capitalists of the stubborn army?

Thinking of this, Hardware nodded ashamed: "The battalion commander is right. It is time to sell the machine to the people so that they can also gain some benefits!"

Wang Xuexin didn't explain anything else to hardware.

Because Hardware is a technical worker and has no in-depth understanding of economics, he can't understand even if Wang Xuexin says too much.

However, Wang Xuexin soon took to the headquarters for a meeting and talked with the leader for a few hours.

This matter is not as simple as saying "make the people rich".

This is actually an industrialization process, or it can also be said to be a process of Wang Xuexin consciously accelerating the industrialization of the base area.

In fact, from the perspective of human nature, the idea of ​​hardware is correct.

The so-called "humans die for money and birds die for food and death". When a machine is invented or controlled by a certain group or individual, they become a tool for making money, they make every effort to keep secrets to maintain their monopoly position.

But "there is no airtight wall in the world."

Driven by huge interests, one day, this trade secret will spread to other people's hands and become popular among the public.

Only when machines are popular among the public, and when they use them, they find it inconvenient and troublesome, so there will be many innovations that continuously improve the machines to improve their efficiency.

Industrialization is actually constantly repeating this process, monopoly, diffusion, innovation, monopoly, diffusion and innovation...

If technology is always in the hands of a few people, the wisdom of these few people is limited after all, so it is difficult to make great innovations.

But of course, each of these processes is quite long, some even lasting decades.

Wang Xuexin's approach is to actively break the Eighth Route Army's "monopoly" on machines and technology, so that machines and technology can spread to the people in the shortest time, and then fully explore the wisdom of the people and participate in this industrialization process together... This is the real industrialization.

This is what Wang Xuexin said to the leader: "Chief, if the machinery and technology are only in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, although we are currently making money, what will happen over time?"

Then Wang Xuexin further analyzed: "Our factory will be stress-free, and workers will be stress-free, because one meter can make 85 cents by selling one dollar. This is a huge profit, and it can almost be said that we can make money even while lying down. Then why don't we work hard to work overtime?"

Wang Xuexin’s words are not very accurate, because he cannot use some modern state-owned enterprises as an example to make an analogy... Workers are all paid for their own wages, eating big pots of rice, doing more and doing less, what kind of enthusiasm can they have?

If you don’t even have basic pressure and enthusiasm, can you still produce high-quality products?

However, the leader understood it. He nodded and said, "This is 'born from good fortune and suffering and died from happiness'. If no one competes with the three stores, the three stores will eventually become corrupt and decay. Therefore, whether it is from the future of the base, from the people's livelihood, or from the Eighth Route Army itself, we must create some opponents and force ourselves to make continuous progress!"

"Yes, that's what I want to say!" Wang Xuexin felt like a soulmate: "That's why we have to imitate machines and then sell them, even including technology!"
Chapter completed!