Recently, many machines had indeed been transferred to the Taihang Mountain Munitions Factory for the purpose of mass-producing the Su family's AK47 assault rifle.
However, these machines were relatively old and there were only a few of them.
However, so many machines were shipped over today, which stunned Su Wen.
The factory manager, Zhao Tianming, was busy receiving this batch of machines.
Su Wen walked over and asked,"Factory Manager Zhao, why did you bring so much equipment this time?" Did the overseas Chinese help?"
"There are quite a number of them, and quite a number of advanced machine tools.”
Ever since the war broke out, the overseas Chinese had been assisting the domestic war.
Many of the war supplies in the country were also aided by the overseas Chinese.
Therefore, when he saw so many brand new machines, Su Wen's first reaction was that they were sponsored by the overseas Chinese.
Zhao Tianming smiled and said,"These machines are not aided by the overseas Chinese, but by the Japanese!"”
The Japanese helped?
"Is this the spoils of war that our Eighth Route Army obtained after winning a great battle? There are a lot of them!"
Because of the lack of supplies, the Eighth Route Army could only snatch supplies from the Japanese.
The Japanese acted as the transport team.
Zhao Tianming: " No, no, no, this is not a trophy. We bought it from the Japanese!”
The 8th Route Army is still doing business with the Japanese?
It would be normal if the Generalissimo's troops were doing business with the Japanese.
I didn't expect the Eighth Route Army to have a deal with the Japanese.
Now that the war had entered a stalemate, the Japanese were beating up the 8th Route Army.
How could they have business dealings?
Moreover, he was selling such a valuable machine to the Eighth Route Army?
Su Wen was stunned.”
"Do you know the Fourth Brigade?" Zhao Tianming smiled. This batch of machines was bought from the Fourth Brigade!”
The Fourth Brigade?
At the mention of this name, Su Wen immediately understood what was going on.
Good heavens, this was a division that dared to buy anything.
"As long as the price is right, even the emperor can be sold." This was the motto of the 4th division.
Because during World War II, the Japanese Fourth Division resold military supplies. The bold ones even dared to resell weapons and equipment. As long as the price was right, these guys might even dare to sell the emperor, but they didn't fight well.
The 4th Division was also the 4th Division. It was officially formed in 1888. It was originally the Japanese army's Osakusa Jintai. It was one of the oldest divisions of the Japanese army. It had participated in the "China-Japan War" and the "Russo-Japanese War", but it was not very good. It basically played the role of "maintaining the security of the occupied areas".
Because of the flourishing business in Osaka, it was known as the " Capital of Commerce " of the Japanese. Therefore, many soldiers and even officers of the 4th Division were merchants or small merchants before enlisting. This was also why the Japanese of the 4th Division were so keen on " doing business."
Letting these merchants and peddlers guard the military supplies was no different from letting Old Cat sleep on salted fish. It would be strange if they didn't resell them!
After the Meiji Restoration, although the Japanese vigorously promoted militarism education, Osaka was a "forbidden area." They never recognized the emperor. In the eyes of the businessmen in Osaka, they were not loyal to the emperor, but "working" for the emperor.
Since it was a " job ", there must be a " reward ". It was not surprising to resell military supplies.
In other words, in the eyes of the soldiers of the 4th division, joining the army was just a job to protect their own men and earn some extra money.
Otherwise, the 4th division wouldn't have run to the American camp the day after they surrendered, setting up stalls neatly to sell war souvenirs…
Thus, the 4th division became a strange existence during the Second World War. They would not fight if they could, and they would slack off if they could.
However, you could say that the 4th division was slacking off, but you couldn't say that they were weak.
The 4th division was very strong and could not be underestimated.
Since these equipment and machines were bought from the 4th division, Su Wen did not find it strange at all.
"So you bought it from the 4th division?" It was not surprising that this division was not weak, but they had no interest in war and only wanted to earn money.”
"It's not strange to buy these machines from them. They don't care who it is.”
Zhao Tianming: " Yeah, but this is good too. We can quickly mass-produce the Soviet-style AK rifle.”
Su Wen looked at these machines, machine tools, equipment, and so on before nodding slightly."With these equipment and machines, I don't think it's a big problem to mass-produce Soviet-style AK rifles.”
No one expected that the number one supplier of the Soviets 'AK rifles was the Fourth Division.
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