What was the most important thing in this chaotic world? Naturally, filling his stomach was his top priority.
For the refugees, whether they could eat or not was related to whether they could survive. At this time, let alone the puppet government recruiting, even if the Japanese were recruiting, they would come as long as they could survive, let alone pay them.
Liu Chuan was doing the same thing this time. He did not ask them how much money they would be paid each month. Instead, he told them that as long as they came to work, they would be provided with food and food.
At this time, it was pointless to talk about wages. The refugees wanted to survive, and the surrounding refugees rushed in crazily. To them, there was no such thing as a full meal for the country.
Therefore, the military factories around Xuzhou were officially launched. The refugees came to work, and Liu Chuan gave them tools. They had to repair their own houses. Within three days, they had to build houses that could accommodate people and then put them to work on the construction site.
Three meals a day, sweet potatoes in the morning, cornbread or flatbread in the afternoon, and sweet potatoes in the evening. The dishes were just some wild vegetables, vegetable leaves, pickles, and so on.
Liu Chuan didn't have enough money to buy good things to support them, so he spent all the taxes on industrial machinery. The only thing Liu Chuan could do was to let them eat their fill. They worked eight hours a day, three shifts, and had a day off every ten days.
That was all he could do. Don't fantasize about giving them meat or anything. Maybe sometimes, he could boil a big pot of bone soup for them to nourish their bodies. That was all.
Eating meat was easy in our future. Who said that March didn't know the taste of meat? Liu Chuan wouldn't believe it even if he was beaten to death. That was because there were plenty of resources in the future.
This was an era where resources were scarce. The common people were already satisfied to be able to eat their fill.
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The military factory started working. As time went on, some of the surrounding facilities began to become more and more complete. Compared to the power plant, there was only one set of power generators in the beginning, but there were more and more.
The electricity generated by the power plant supplied the factories, and more and more factories were built. Weapons were also produced. In the beginning, because the captives were not very familiar with the skills, the weapons produced were not very useful, mainly due to the large accuracy error.
However, as they did more and more, they became more and more skilled, and the weapons they produced were no longer a big problem.
Currently, the main weapons produced were the Type 38 rifles. Originally, the Army Department was prepared to let Xuzhou produce the Type 99 rifles.
In many people's minds, the Japanese used Type 38 rifles in the Pacific battlefield. This was wrong.
On the Chinese battlefield, the Type 38 rifle had always been the standard weapon of the Japanese. However, on the Pacific battlefield, the standard rifle of the Japanese was the Type 99 rifle.
The Japanese knew the problem with the Type 38 rifle. It had a long range, high stability, and strong penetration. However, its shortcomings were also obvious. Its penetration was too strong and its lethality was too low.
If the Type 38 rifle hit you, as long as it was not a vital part, it would be a bullet hole. Everyone knew that when a bullet entered a person's body, it would not be a bullet hole as seen from the outside. When the bullet encountered resistance in the human body, it would produce a very large spinning destructive force.
Usually, there was only one hole where the bullet entered, but it would take away a large piece of flesh and blood from the place where it flew out of your body, and it would also cause serious internal damage.
The Type 38 rifle did not have this function. Its penetrating power was too strong, but its lethality was too low. It would not die if it was not a vital part. It was just a bullet hole.
Therefore, under such circumstances, the Type 97 Rifle and the Type 99 Rifle came into being. However, the Type 97 Rifle eventually developed into the Type 97 Sniper Rifle, and the Type 99 became the new standard rifle.
The Japanese Army Department asked Xuzhou to produce the Type 99, but they thought that the Chinese army was currently using the Type 38 rifle. If they were to produce the Type 99 rifle, with the production of the newly established Xuzhou Arsenal, it would be a long time before they could completely replace it. Moreover, the ammunition supply would have to be transported from the mainland.
He might as well produce Type 38 rifles and ammunition first, and then gradually produce Type 99 rifles for the North China and Central China dispatched troops to replace them after the production increased to a certain extent.
In terms of machine guns, the machine guns and bullets produced in Xuzhou were different from those produced by the Japanese.
The machine gun was not an offhand type, but a Type 11 light machine gun. It was a Type 99 light machine gun that the Japanese had used since 1939.
The heavy machine gun was a Type 92 heavy machine gun. It was slightly different from the ones produced by the Japanese. There was a dent in the magazine before the needle. Other weapons such as bayonet, grenades, and grenade launchers were also in production. Mortars had not been produced yet, and the steel quality at the steel factory had not reached the basic requirements.
It was important to talk about the development of the Type 99 light machine gun and its bullets.
The Type 99 light machine gun was an imitation of the Soviet light machine gun that the Japanese had seized in China. This was because the Japanese had many problems with both the Type 11 and Type 97 light machine guns, such as bullet jammed and poor dust-resistance, which caused the weapon's performance to be unstable.
As a result, the Japanese had copied the light machine gun from the Soviet Union and named it the Type 99 light machine gun.
Initially, the Type 99 light machine gun used 7.7mm bullets. The caliber was the same as the Type 92 heavy machine gun, but the bullets were the same in terms of model and data. They used 7.7* 58mm bullets.
It seemed to be universal, but in the early stages, it could not be universal, because the Type 92 heavy machine gun used an additional outer collar at the base of the bullet.
In fact, the bullets of the Type 92 HMG were 7.7* 62mm.
However, the Japanese felt that the logistical pressure was too great, so they upgraded the Type 92 heavy machine gun. They removed the dent in front of the firing pin of the Type 92 heavy machine gun and modified the base of the bullet. The bullets of the Type 92 heavy machine gun and the Type 99 light machine gun were common.
However, Liu Chuan did not expect that the Japanese had already thought of this idea before the war in the Pacific Ocean broke out. The reason why they sent the military expert, Xincheng Yongyi, was to try to produce the modified Type 92 heavy machine gun. They wanted to use both light and heavy machine gun bullets to reduce the burden on logistics.
However, Liu Chuan could not care less. Since the Japanese wanted to do it, he would do it.
The Type 92 HMG and Type 99 LMG bullets that were produced were now common, but the monthly production was not high. For example, the production of Type 38 rifles was only about 3,000 in January, which meant that the daily production was only about 100.
The monthly production of the Type 99 light machine gun was about 200, while the production of the Type 92 heavy machine gun did not exceed 100.
However, the production of grenades, bayonet, and bullets had increased very quickly. Now, the daily production of bullets exceeded 50,000 rounds and grenades exceeded 1,000.
He believed that as time passed, the production proficiency of the captives would increase, and the number of factories would increase. This production would continue to increase. It was obvious that the Japanese wanted to use this method to reduce the military expenditure of the army and build more divisions.
Liu Chuan also made some arrangements. The third step of the plan was about to be implemented.
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