The next day, Zhang Yunfei went to Huanglongxia Industrial Zone.

Taking the only jeep in the regiment headquarters, accompanied by the political commissar Fang Zheng, the jeep raised a piece of dust and drove towards Huanglongxia Industry...

The road leading to Huanglongxia Industry is still the same sandy and gravel road, but the road has been widened. Due to the lack of cement in the base area at present, cement is not used in some unimportant places.

However, with the construction of cement plants in the base area, this situation will gradually be alleviated. There is no shortage of coal in Shanxi, stones are everywhere in the mountains and fields, and there is also a lot of clay. There is no shortage of raw materials needed to make cement, but what is lacking is equipment and technology.

Fortunately, among these Jews, a few of them were technicians from a large cement factory in Germany in the past, and the technical problems were solved.

As for equipment, Zhang Yunfei asked several mechanical engineers and cement factory technicians to carry out research and development together. The arsenal was responsible for manufacturing. The arsenal contained ordinary lathes, drilling machines, milling machines and other general equipment.

The starting scale of cement plants does not require a large number of equipment, and the equipment is only small. In the future, the technology is mature and the industrial foundation is strong, and it is not too late to manufacture medium-sized or large-scale cement equipment.

Zhang Yunfei also has this requirement for other factories preparing for construction, such as machining factories, steel factories, etc., starting from small things first, and then slowly growing and growing.

In less than two hours, the jeep reached the entrance of Huanglongxia Industrial Zone. At present, this entrance has undergone significant changes compared with two months ago. Strong fortifications have been built at the entrance.

Several large bunkers were built on the hillsides on both sides of the entrance, and trenches were dug. In broad daylight, many soldiers were stationed on it, and there was an estimated number of people.

Seeing the industrial zone's strict defense, Zhang Yunfei nodded with satisfaction. In the past two months when he was away, it seemed that the political commissar had spent a lot of effort on the development of the industrial zone.

Through the entrance level, less than a mile from inside, the vision suddenly became clear. A huge valley appeared in front of you. At the foot of the mountain on one side, there were several huge artificial caves, with machines roaring inside, and busy figures everywhere.

On a clearing ground at the foot of the mountain, more than a dozen one-story red brick and tile houses are arranged neatly. Without looking at these red brick and tile houses, Zhang Yunfei knew that this was the living area of ​​the arsenal workers, including dormitories and canteens.

In the Huanglong Canyon, except for the establishment of more than a dozen red brick and tile houses in this small area, most of the places are still desolate and need to be developed. In the future, even if the scale of the arsenal is expanded ten times, the place here will be enough.

It seems that when choosing a location, choosing here was a very wise choice.

On the way, I heard from the political commissar that workers in the arsenal implement a six-day working system. They go to the industrial area on Monday morning and go home after get off work on Saturday afternoon. They must be in the industrial area from Monday to Saturday and cannot go out.

Workers work for 10 hours a day, and each month has two to five yuan of salary depending on the position. It is this job. When I was recruiting workers, many people wanted to come in. In the end, after repeated screening, they only recruited more than a thousand reliable and innocent people.

After listening to the political commissar's introduction, Zhang Yunfei felt full of emotion. It was caused by the damn war. It can be seen how difficult it is for everyone to make a living.

If it were in later generations, such labor intensity would be 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, and fully closed management, it would be strange if so many people could be recruited.

When the car was parked at the gate of the arsenal, Xu Kaixian, the director and chief engineer of the arsenal, had already greeted him at the gate. Xu Kaixian was also very happy to see Zhang Yunfei. Two months ago, Zhang Yunfei had a design drawing of an AK-47, which was deeply impressed by the old military industry.

Without too much greeting, Xu Kaixian led Zhang Yunfei and the others to visit the major workshops of the arsenal. Several workshops lined up at the foot of the mountain, and the entrances of the caves could accommodate a truck in and out.

The large workshop is two or three thousand square meters in size, and is reinforced with thick cement around it, extending into the mountain is hundreds of meters deep, and the small workshop is also several hundred square meters in size.

Such a huge project was the result of more than two months of hard work by thousands of Eighth Route Army soldiers.

When I walked into the workshop, although there was a smell of motor oil inside, the air was not as dirty as Chang Yunfei imagined, and was still within the allowable range.

In the workshop, busy workers are skillfully operating various equipment, and occasionally they can see technicians guiding them. Several college students majoring in Peking University who were rescued by Zhang Yunfei in Xin'an County a few months ago have all undertaken important technical work. For example, Zhang Chu is already the technical supervisor of a workshop.

In addition, Zhang Chu's classmates also came to Huanglongxia Arsenal from all the way, and devoted themselves to military production with enthusiasm.

After a few days, after those Jewish experts and technicians join, the technical level of the entire arsenal will reach a great level.

After watching for two or three hours, Zhang Yunfei carefully looked at each workshop of the arsenal. The entire arsenal gave Zhang Yunfei the impression that it was on the right track and the development situation was gratifying.

Before leaving, Zhang Yunfei introduced the situation of Thomas and other Jews to Xu Kaixian, and asked Xu Kaixian and Thomas to work together to develop small-caliber anti-aircraft guns that the troops urgently needed as soon as possible.

After leaving the Huanglongxia Industrial Zone, there is a newly repaired dirt road to the north, leading to the small iron ore that was just discovered more than a month ago.

Zhang Yunfei, it was still early, so he decided to go there to check it out.

Along the winding dirt road, the small jeep slowly walked, with a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, and drove less than 40 kilometers. Finally, I saw the small iron ore being mined.

The small iron ore is not big, but the ore is of high quality and is not buried deep, so it can be mined open-pit. At present, hundreds of people are mining. The red iron ore looks very pleasant and is almost piled up into a hill.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Yunfei felt that it was necessary to build a steel plant immediately. Among these Jews, a few engineers who used to be steel smelting should be built nearby as soon as possible.

First of all, you can build a small steel plant with an annual output of tens of thousands of tons of steel. The annual steel output of tens of thousands of tons can definitely meet your needs.

In fact, the production of steel is divided into two parts. The first is to smel iron ore into pig iron. This step is not difficult. This technology level was found in ancient China.

The second step is to further smelp pig iron to remove harmful impurities in pig iron and turn pig iron into steel. This step requires professional knowledge and equipment. Currently, there are mainly converter steelmaking and flat furnace steelmaking.

No matter which method is used, Zhang Yunfei is confident that he can quickly build a small steel plant and smelve qualified steel quickly.

Fortunately, Shanxi has abundant coal resources and has discovered such a good iron ore now. This is like giving Zhang Yunfei's industrial dream two wings to take off.

Pulling by the three carriages of coal, steel and technology, the base area will develop rapidly. Zhang Yunfei was full of confidence in this regard.


Chapter completed!