After borrowing a company of people from Ding Wei, Zhou Chen brought them back to his arsenal.
Without another word!
He directly assigned them the tasks they needed to do.
He would first assign a platoon of people to build new factories, armory, and other buildings that might be needed.
The remaining two platoons.
Zhou Chen got them to change into casual clothes and prepared to bring them out to look for the ores on the map in the afternoon.
He was changing into casual clothes.
Old Wang from the clothing factory came and asked with a smile,""Minister Zhou, did you manage to borrow someone?"
"Nonsense, we didn't manage to borrow it. Could these be ghosts?”Zhou Chen replied unhappily.
Old Wang quickly waved his hand and said," That's not what I meant. Minister, I just wanted to ask. Since you've borrowed all these people, can the employees of our clothing factory come back to work?”
Upon hearing this.
Zhou Chen immediately pointed at Old Wang and berated,""Don't even think about it. I'm short of people now. Don't cause me trouble inside!”
"We can't, Minister. It's almost winter. The task of giving our factory 2,000 quilts has not been completed yet!”Old Wang said excitedly.
Hearing Old Wang's words.
Zhou Chen seemed to have thought of something and muttered to himself,""That's right, it's almost winter!"
When Old Wang heard this, he thought that Zhou Chen had relented.
"Then, do you think I can bring him…"
Before he could finish his sentence.
Zhou Chen interrupted.
"Go, go back to your factory and get me a hundred quilts and a hundred sets of cotton clothes and trousers. It's getting cold, I can't let the soldiers that Commander Ding lent me freeze.”
"Otherwise, with Old Ding's character, he would definitely come and extort me!”Zhou Chen ordered Old Wang.
Old Wang heard this.
He was dumbfounded.
He didn't bring the people from the clothing factory back to work, and he still had to pay a hundred quilts and a hundred sets of cotton clothes?
"I don't agree, Minister. If you do this, I'll be criticized! Moreover, without the orders of the higher-ups, I can't give you a hundred sets of quilts.”At this moment, Old Wang wanted to be more domineering.
But Zhou Chen ignored him and said,"Do I need your permission?" I'm the head of the logistics department. My words are orders here!”
"You…" Old Wang opened his mouth and looked at Zhou Chen for a long time, but in the end, he did not say anything.
Soon after.
He left helplessly.
Very quickly.
In the afternoon.
Zhou Chen led two platoons of people with pickaxes and headed towards the resource point on the map. The first place was in a ravine near Pingan County.
The second area.
It was in a mountain further away.
Under Zhou Chen's command, the excavation work began at both locations.
On the map.
The ore bodies in these two places could be mined from the shallow underground, which was almost equivalent to the level of outcrop mines. They were the easiest ore sources to mine.
Because it was convenient to mine!
Therefore…
That was why Zhou Chen chose these two ore resources.
That afternoon, regrettably, no ore was excavated at either location. However, on the second day, ore was dug out from the mine in the county town of An County. Moreover, it was a rare copper ore in our country.
Although Brass would have strategic significance in the future, it was more important to use it in the war now!
Zhou Chen immediately ordered the mining.
On the third day.
At another iron mine, they had also excavated ores.
This time.
They could transport ores back from both locations.
What was more awkward was that…
Because of the harsh conditions of our army, we can only transport these ores manually. The better ones were to ask the villagers to borrow a mule or a cow to drag them.
This point!
Zhou Chen had no choice.
After all.
There was no such thing as a large truck in his sign-in reward.
Even if there was.
He couldn't withdraw it either.
With these ores, the next thing to do was to forge iron and refine brass.
As for how to refine it?
This was even simpler.
Blast furnace smelting iron, high temperature smelting copper. Although the methods of smelting iron and copper were different, the method was the same.
One thing had to be said here.
The brass used to make the bullet casing was a copper-copper alloy. The copper mine that Zhou Chen mined in Pingan County happened to be a copper-and-zinc-symbiotic mine. The two were perfectly compatible.
After the iron ores and brass ores were transported back.
Zhou Chen arranged for people to start building a blast furnace in a mountain far away from the Munitions Factory.
Of course.
His blast furnace was not a blast furnace from a certain leap forward period. This was a small blast furnace that he had set up according to the rules. However, smelting iron and copper would release a large amount of toxic gases and scrap iron.
Therefore…
That was why Zhou Chen chose a mountain far away from people.
It was very close to the mining site.
Now that he had iron and brass, he should be able to mass produce bullets. However, the second factory was ready.
Hence, he decided to do it.
Zhou Chen took out the assembly line equipment, machine tools, and polishing equipment for the production of grenades and arranged them one by one.
At this moment.
He began to teach the forty or so employees who had previously produced bullets how to use the machine that produced grenades.
This was because he had the experience of learning the bullet assembly line.
Now, it was much easier for these people to learn how to use the grenade manufacturing machine.
And so!
Half a month passed quickly while he was studying.
Zhou Chen's men finally began to try to make the first grenade.
Zhou Chen chose the grenade model!
It was an American MK11 grenade. Its filling was also a large amount of TNT that Zhou Chen had received as a reward for signing in.
After all.
TNT was a powerful explosive, but it was very safe. Without sudden heating, it would not explode.
Furthermore!
Even without the system reward, Zhou Chen had a way to produce it through a chemical reaction. However, since there was a reward, Zhou Chen was too lazy to make it himself.
Now!
Zhou Chen's main focus was to make the MK11 grenade!
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