When the bowls and chopsticks came up, Wang Yan could only stay with him for the last seat.

Li Yunlong said: "Brig Commander, we have seized a lot of Fenjiu this time when we attacked Heyuan County. They are all good wines that have been aged for ten years. Why don't you also have a sip?"

"Forget the wine." said the brigade commander, "So, so do you. Try to drink as little as possible in the future."

"After all the time, are there few examples of drinking and misleading things? Our Eighth Route Army also has such examples."

Zhao Gang hurriedly said, "But brigade commander, don't worry, I will take care of Lao Li. Today, I won a battle, so I broke the example."

"Yes, I will definitely drink less in the future." Li Yunlong responded repeatedly, but he didn't take it seriously. Wine is a good thing, and it would be useless to not drink it?

The brigade commander picked up chopsticks and vermicelli into his bowl, and asked while eating, "How much production does your Zhaojiayu cigarette factory have every month and how much profit does it have?"

Zhao Gang said: "The output is about 5,000 pieces per month."

"There are 50 top-quality Chinese and 500 top-quality Chinese and the rest are all simple Chinese."

The brigade commander began to think in his mind: the best China sold 100 yuan per ocean, the high-quality China sold 10 yuan per ocean, and the simple decoration China sold 1 yuan per ocean, which totaled 15,000 yuan per ocean.

More than 15,000 yuan a month, half of it is 7,500 yuan, which doesn’t seem to be a lot?

The brigade commander frowned and said, "I smoked the Huaxia brand cigarettes produced by your Zhaojiayu Cigarette Factory, too. The taste is really good. I saw a lot of people smoking them on the way to northwest Shanxi. This shows that Huaxia cigarettes are still very popular. Since they are so popular among the people of Shanxi, why don't you expand production?"

"Of course we want to expand production." Li Yunlong said helplessly, "But the problem is that it cannot be done."

"What's the reason?" the brigade commander frowned, "There are not enough machines? There are not enough technical workers, or is it another reason?"

Wang Yan waved his hand and said, "The machinery and equipment are all made by themselves, there is no problem, and there is no gap between technical workers. Even if there is a gap, it can be trained quickly. After all, it is not difficult."

"The biggest difficulty is the raw materials, the lack of tobacco leaves in northwest Shanxi."

"We have purchased all the tobacco leaves around us. The remaining tobacco leaves in the Japanese-occupied area are difficult to transport in due to the Japanese blockade, so the production capacity of Zhaojiayu Cigarette Factory has never been increased."

"The current output may not last long."

"Because the tobacco leaves we had previously stocked were almost consumed."

"Leave the tobacco leaves to me." The brigade commander waved his hand and said, "It is a delusion for the Japanese to block our northwest base in Shanxi. I will find a way to get you the tobacco leaves from Suiyuan."

"If it's still not enough, even the tobacco leaves from Shaanxi will be transported here."

"Anyway, you only need to consider one thing and expand production!"

"Oh, by the way, there is one more thing, don't forget to pay half of the profit."

"But brigade commander, don't forget it." Li Yunlong said, "But then, this matter is not easy to deal with."

"Not easy to deal with?" The brigade commander stuck out his chopsticks and asked, "Why is it difficult to deal with?"

Wang Yan explained: "Brig Commander, this is the case. The Kuomintang's fiat currency is depreciating too quickly. The pseudo-government's lackey tickets are not assured. The number of oceans is too small."

"Please vote in the border area, but the people in northwest Shanxi don't recognize it."

"So the transactions between us and tobacco dealers are all barter."

"The tobacco dealer transports corn, sorghum, sweet potato, millet and other grains to our base, and then converts them into money based on the market price, and then exchanges them for the corresponding Huaxia brand cigarettes."

"So what we receive is not money, but supplies."

"So that's the case." said the brigade commander, "That's okay. After the headquarters gets the money, it is used to buy food, cloth and other materials. You have to hand over the materials directly, which will save trouble."

Wang Yan continued: "Brig Commander, if this is the case, I still have an idea."

"Oh? You, Wang Yan, have never been aimless. I guess this idea is amazing." The brigade commander said with some expectations, "Tell me quickly, what's your idea?"

Wang Yan continued: "The materials transported by tobacco merchants from all directions to our base are not only of various types, but also dispersed, storing, sorting, packaging and transportation are all consuming a lot of manpower."

"So I think, why not just set up a processing factory in our base area?"

“It’s much easier to process all the grain into mature food.”

"We can even process the grain into various biscuits so that we can eat it immediately after it is delivered to the army, and the army's logistics support capabilities can be greatly improved."

"You know, brigade commander, logistics support ability is combat effectiveness!"

"If there is enough food, you can even make wine and extract high-purity medical alcohol."

"In this way, the troops' battlefield rescue capabilities can be greatly improved, and casualties will be greatly reduced."

Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and even the brigade commander could hear his eyes glow because Wang Yan outlined a vision of a base that only appeared in dreams for them.

Li Yunlong said: "Old Wang, can this work?"

"Of course it can work." Wang Yan said affirmatively, "We have technology, manpower, and raw materials. The most important thing is that we don't have to worry about the sales of our products at all. Why not? It's accurate!"

To put it bluntly, this is actually light industry, and the difficulty is not very high.

The difficulty of heavy industry is really high, and it is completely impossible at this stage.

Li Yunlong said again: "But Lao Wang, have you considered a problem?"

"Captain, are you worried about safety?" Wang Yan smiled and said, "Actually, don't worry. You can see from this battle of Heyuan that the Japanese's combat effectiveness has declined severely."

"How fierce were the Japanese devils three or five years ago? What are the Japanese devils now?"

"This is just the quality of the Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese's ability to replenish materials has declined even more seriously."

"When we swept our Taiyue base before, this point was already revealed, and the encirclement and suppression of the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army was even more obvious."

"Now, it will take several months to encircle and suppress a regiment of the Jinsui Army."

"So, I can assert that it is difficult for the Japanese army in Shanxi to organize large-scale offensive operations."

"What's more, even if the Japanese really organize a large-scale offensive, it's a big deal to whether they have the ability to enter our base. If they take another 10,000 steps, even if the Japanese really enter our base, it's no big deal, because our machinery and equipment and personnel can be transferred at any time."

In the end, the brigade commander decided.
Chapter completed!