"》     Chapter 427 Military Workers

(...There are wars in front and the rear are hungry. I went to the arsenal to visit the arsenal to find out how the people in the rear struggled on the survival line during the war; because all food must be given priority to the supply of the army, and there were very few food rations in the rear, including productive workers. I think there were very few people who could have enough food every day in that era... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

Although production in the Arsenal continues, light control is implemented, and only those workshops that do not transmit light to the outside will be brightly lit.

"Our arsenal resumed production on March 1 this year. It now mainly produces Type 24 heavy machine guns, Czech light machine guns, rifles and 82mm mortars... Our current annual production of mortar shells is only 140,000, which is far from being consumed on the front line. We are trying to expand our scale. It is rare for General Cao to pay so much attention to the construction of the arsenal. It is a blessing for the country..." While introducing the situation of the arsenal, Major General Li Chenggan, the director of the arsenal, communicated with Cao Xiaomin the ideal layout of the arsenal production. It can be seen that his people are very weak. Although there are many praises to Cao Xiaomin, they also took it lightly and did not deliberately please Cao Xiaomin.

"The arsenal is an important institution, but we have to use a person we are not completely at ease to manage! Li Chenggan, the Central Party Committee has repeatedly asked him to join the Kuomintang, but he actually refused and threatened to resign. What did you say? I have met several parties?

All actions did not follow the legacy of the founding father

Violating the Three Principles of the People. Although I am not the Party

But dare to swear to do whatever you want

So far, the arsenal has not violated the teachings and the Three Principles of the People.’ The result is good, and the arsenal has to change the 'technicians need to join the Kuomintang' to 'technicians should firmly believe in the Three Principles of the People.

There is no need to join the party anymore…” On the way to the arsenal, He Yingqin had introduced some of Li Chenggan’s situation to Cao Xiaomin. The reason why Li Chenggan is so stubborn but is still entrusted with important tasks is that he not only has a set of management arsenal but also a technical backbone of the arsenal. Currently, the best domestic weapon 24 heavy machine gun and 82mm mortar, which are the best in China-** machinery, were developed by him.

Cao Xiaomin thought it was easy to understand such a technician. He had a special arrogance of a technician in another time and space. He had great confidence in his skills and was arrogant. So when he walked with Li Chenggan, he put his own low, and when he got off the car, he took off his general's uniform and left it in the car, appearing only in the white shirt and casual clothes, so that even the busy workers did not recognize him. He Yingqin, who was traveling with him, was also in casual clothes, so they did not disturb the workers at all.

Most of the workers in the arsenal came from Nanjing, and there were only a small number of locals. These workers were not allowed to relocate until mid-November after the Battle of Songhu, and went through hardships all the way to Chongqing. I heard that when the workers were carrying equipment while walking on the waterway, they personally acted as boaters! Because the relatives of the workers moved west separately from the workers, they were all hit by refugee waves and bombarded by the Japanese army along the way. Some workers have not been able to reunite with their families, but everyone has been working day and night every day.

"Now the monthly salary of employees is 6 yuan. It is a duty for workers' children to go to the factory to help, and it is not counted as wages. The prices have risen sharply, so we can only make everyone full by cooking big pots. There will be some meat on the first and fifteenth day of the day every month, and at other times they eat vegetables and bamboo shoots. The taste of Nanjing is different from that of Chongqing. It is difficult for everyone to accept the spicy food here. Many workers are not suitable for the local conditions. Many people insisted on illness in the first two months of the start of work. Now they are slowly adapting to it..." Under the introduction of Li Chenggan, Cao Xiaomin discovered that there are so many teenage children among the workers - those children of the workers. Their tender bodies are as heavy as their parents, but they are not counted as wages!

The children who work in the workshop with thin bodies, wearing adult gowns, rolled up their trousers and sleeves, can see that they are very tired. They have to study at the factory school every day, and have to work in the factory for more than six hours in their spare time! There are many square benches on almost every production line, which are for footsteps for these children who are not tall enough. They are already engaged in dangerous loading and other work at this young age.

Some children passing by Cao Xiaomin could see that they looked pale and their hair looked dry and yellow, which was a long-term state of overdrawing and malnutrition.

In the War of Resistance, how many Chinese people are silently dedicating and fighting silently for the War of Resistance! Cao Xiaomin told Li Chenggan: "Recruit more workers, shorten the working hours of the children, so that they can study and rest better. They are the future of China... Give some small food to the children, and guarantee a meal of meat every week, I will pay for the money..."

The arsenal is so difficult! Cao Xiaomin only learned after visiting: because of the limited funding, they could not recruit more workers, and in order to complete the production task, they could only work hard and use all the employees' children as volunteers. However, they only received a subsidy of 60 kilograms of pork on the peak of the Mid-Autumn Festival, a recent reunion festival. In addition to the employees' families, each person only received about two cents of meat supply!

Before visiting from behind, Cao Xiaomin really didn't know how strongly the country had persisted to this battle of national survival! Even the arsenal was like this, what about those other production plants? How many Chinese people saved the consumption of this war by struggling on the survival line!?

Cao Xiaomin thought of the feast on the eve of Mid-Autumn Festival. He was on the Yangtze River. Those who paid the most for the War of Resistance Against Japan hadn't even smelled the fish several times in the past year! He was secretly ashamed in his heart. He began to feel that the medals hanging on his general's uniform were even heavier. Every bit of brilliant above was more concentrated than the blood of soldiers?

Li Chenggan readily took over the preparation of the military layout plan. In fact, these things that He Yingqin thought were almost ready for Li Chenggan; they had already written such a plan according to their dreams, but this has always been a distant dream for Li Chenggan; now, there is a chance to realize his dream...

After walking around the arsenal, it was already five o'clock in the morning. Cao Xiaomin and He Yingqin, who had not slept all night, were also preparing to take a break. At this time, the short one-hour shift period was about to be closed, and the mechanics began to seize the time to maintain the stopped equipment, while the workers who had left their posts began to walk to a large mattress shed by the river where breakfast was served.

Breakfast is a porridge that can be seen. There are only a few rice inside, but what you can see is a few cooked pickles. Workers and family members are preparing to go back to rest, and the workers are preparing to go to work in front. Everyone is very disciplined. When they smell the fragrance of porridge, it is obvious that everyone is much better.

"Originally, there were only one meal a day, but later I found that if breakfast was not arranged, the workers would really not be able to bear it. At the beginning, people fainted every day, and workers were exhausted, so breakfast supply was added..." Li Chenggan had already come with his "dreams" he had already prepared. He saw Cao Xiaomin and He Yingqin watching the staff line up for dinner, so he came over to invite the two generals to taste the workers' food.

"Try it." Cao Xiaomin smiled at He Yingqin, and then followed Li Chenggan to the next to the porridge pot. Because they were not wearing general uniforms, it was dark, and there was only a few firelights under the stove next to the porridge pot, and no one recognized them, and the order of the team was still in order.

"Wow! The third son is lucky!" Suddenly, there was a noise in the crowd: a piece of pickled vegetables that was not cut or boiled, about the size of a little finger was put into a pottery bowl, which actually caused envy!

So sour! Cao Xiaomin's heart was so sour that he was tortured by this scene. Seeing the worker named "Three Sons" smiled and took the pottery bowl and kept thanking the chef, he could hardly help but shed tears!

"I was so hungry at around three o'clock and I've been waiting for this moment. Hehe, I'm so lucky today!" "Three sons" walked to the side with the bowl in everyone's envious eyes and squatted and drank the porridge because the porridge was so thin that I couldn't use chopsticks at all. The last bite of porridge was to use his fingers to push the pickles at the bottom of the bowl and the porridge residue into his mouth...

With just a little bit of food, parents have to save some so that their children can eat more. Cao Xiaomin saw that many employees laid off with their children actually poured the porridge in the bowl into the children's bowl, and watched the children drink with happiness... Some children were reluctant to eat more food saved by their parents, so father and son were pushing and giving in... In the war years, such difficulties, but the kindness and glory of human nature were even more prominent; Cao Xiaomin choked his throat, and he really regretted that he wanted a bowl of porridge, which should have been given to others.

People who have eaten the porridge have not yet dispersed, because in the end there will always be some left. The remaining porridge will only be added to the children, but parents will accompany them. They will smile brightly when they see their children get half a bowl of porridge.

"Can you allocate more food to the arsenal?" Cao Xiaomin really couldn't stand it. He really didn't expect that the people in the War of Resistance behind were so straits.

"I'll try to think of a solution..." He Yingqin couldn't refute Cao Xiaomin's face, and Li Chenggan was on the side. After thinking for a while, he finally nodded: "I'll go back and say hello to the military department, and ask them to give the arsenal one more bag of rice (two hundred kilograms) every month, and add another 60 yuan in food subsidy, so you can add some pickles and the like..."

Eight years! How many people saved bullets from malnutrition, which finally made this nation reborn in the war! After Cao Xiaomin took over the materials given to him by Li Chenggan, he was already sleepless. What he saw tonight made him unable to control himself...

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