Double-Cut During the War of Resistance: My Wife Came from 1937

Ma Hongwei replied, "I'm from Lincheng. The rice doesn't need to be too good; it can be rice that's less than a year old!"

He felt that there was no need to buy the best rice; rice less than a year old would be fine.

Because many school cafeterias buy rice that is less than two years old.

As for rice that is more than two years old, although it will be cheaper, it will have lost much of its rice aroma, so there is no need to buy it.

Anyway, he's not particularly short of money right now, so he can save a little.

But there's no need to buy particularly bad rice just to save money.

The rice mill replied: "In that case, I'll charge you 4100 yuan per ton for rice that's less than a year old. I'll also cover all the loading, unloading, packaging, and transportation costs."

A ton of late-season rice costs 4100 yuan within a year, and a pound only costs 2.05 yuan.

102 tons of rice, total price 418200 yuan.

"good!"

Ma Hongwei nodded and said, "Give me 102 tons first. Can you deliver it and unload it by tomorrow afternoon?"

"OK!"

The rice mill said, "As long as you pay the deposit, we'll load the truck and ship the goods immediately!"

"Okay, I'll transfer the money to you right away!"

Ma Hongwei said, "Let's add each other on WeChat later, and I'll send you the delivery address."

After paying the deposit and sending the address, Ma Hongwei said to Xia Weiwei, "The 102 tons of rice should be delivered around tomorrow."

Xia Weiwei asked curiously, "How much did it cost in total for 102 tons of rice?"

"Not many!"

Ma Hongwei said, "It's only 418200 yuan, less than 42 yuan."

"What? It's so cheap?"

Xia Weiwei was stunned.

You should know that those special Yuan Shikai silver dollars can sell for hundreds of thousands of yuan each.

In other words, one Soviet-era Yuan Shikai silver dollar could buy more rice than that amount.

"After buying the rice, let's also buy some canned luncheon meat and canned braised pork!"

Ma Hongwei said, "Each of these two types of canned goods requires 15 cubic meters of space."

He went straight for Merlin, a big brand; if you're going to buy something, you have to stick to a big brand.

Both Merlin luncheon meat and braised pork come in 340g cans.

One cubic meter of space can theoretically hold 780 kg of canned food, which is 0.78 tons.

However, after adding packaging and gaps, the actual utilization rate is only 80%.

A 15-cubic-meter container can hold 9.36 tons of luncheon meat cans or braised pork cans.

That is, 27529 cans of food each.

Wholesale canned food nearing its expiration date, only 2 yuan per can, even big brands like Merlin.

Canned luncheon meat is similar.

All these canned goods combined only amount to about 11.

It must be said that this kind of proper food is much cheaper than compressed biscuits and chocolate.

After buying the near-expiry Merlin canned goods, Ma Hongwei said to Xia Weiwei, "This time we have braised pork canned goods and luncheon meat canned goods, so I didn't buy chocolate."

"If you didn't buy it, you didn't buy it!"

Xia Weiwei said, "I think the soldiers would definitely prefer meat to chocolate!"

"really!"

Ma Hongwei nodded and said, "I think so too."

He remembers that when he was a child, he preferred to eat meat.

Although I also like to eat sweets, it can't compare to eating meat.

As for chocolate with a strong bitter taste, Ma Hongwei doesn't like to eat it.

And during the War of Resistance against Japan, when resources were scarce, it goes without saying.

Ma Hongwei was scrolling through Douyin (TikTok) when he suddenly came across a video of Huangyadong.

So Ma Hongwei said to Xia Weiwei, "Weiwei, I remember you said before that the Red Army had small arsenals in the Soviet areas, didn't you?"

He showed the video to Xia Weiwei and said, "Look here, the Eighth Route Army produced 9758 rifles, 2500 50mm grenade launchers, and 24 shells of various types right here. At its peak, the production capacity was more than 430 rifles and more than 2000 shells per month."

"In addition, more than 10000 rifles and 1000 other types of artillery were repaired."

"You should know that the Huangyadong Arsenal was historically made from Japanese railway tracks and scrap steel."

"If they could build and repair so many even with such a severe shortage of resources, with the industrial support of the future world, they will definitely be able to manufacture and repair even more!"

The moment Ma Hongwei saw this video, the famous Laiyang steel pipe brand immediately came to mind.

He could directly instruct the steel mill in this timeline to produce steel pipes of the appropriate size and purchase them in large quantities.

As for an excuse, just say you're buying water pipes or something.

After all, no one would believe that he bought these steel pipes to make firearms.

Anyway, these steel pipes will appear directly in another dimension, so even if others suspect something, they have no evidence.

"That's right!"

Upon hearing Ma Hongwei's words, Xia Weiwei also showed surprise and delight, saying, "Even under such harsh historical conditions, the Huangyadong Arsenal was able to produce nearly ten thousand rifles. With our assistance, they can indeed produce even more!"

In the future, although gun control is strict, various steel, wood, and tools can be purchased freely.

As long as there are enough materials, there's no need to worry about not being able to produce it.

Ma Hongwei said, "We can directly purchase seamless steel pipes of suitable diameter, as well as industrial machine tools."

"Private individuals can buy low-end ordinary machine tools and mid-range two-axis/three-axis CNC machine tools. In Peshawar, AK barrels are manufactured using ordinary machine tool tailstocks, with auxiliary tools such as helical rifling cutters and twist rate gear sets."

"Gun manufacturing requires rifling, but mortars do not. They are almost all smoothbore, and all that is needed is to transport suitable seamless steel pipes."

"In other words, it's simpler to manufacture a mortar than a rifle."

"However, the real difficulty with mortars lies in the shells. They are not easy to manufacture. If they are made using rudimentary methods, they are very likely to explode and injure people."

He paused for a moment, then continued, "Most importantly, the design drawings and structural diagrams of those weapons and equipment from the past can be found online, and we can print them out directly."

"With these blueprints and structural diagrams, manufacturing firearms will be much simpler."

Xia Weiwei's eyes lit up: "Weapon and equipment design blueprints and structural diagrams can be found so easily?"

"That's nothing!"

Ma Hongwei made a startling statement: "I can get the complete structural description and cross-sectional diagram of the atomic bomb."

"What? You can even get your hands on the structural diagrams of an atomic bomb?"

Xia Weiwei was shocked.

If they could build an atomic bomb, wouldn't they be able to win the war directly?

"The difficulty with the atomic bomb wasn't in the structural diagrams; it was in requiring a complete industrial system!"

Ma Hongwei slowly said, "To make an atomic bomb, you need uranium enriched to more than 90%."

"In natural uranium ore, U-235 accounts for only 0.71%, while U-238 accounts for 99.27%. Only U-235 can be used to make nuclear bombs. These two have completely identical chemical properties and can only be separated using centrifuges. Centrifuges are not only control machines but also extremely power-consuming!"

「产出1公斤的武器级浓缩铀，就需要300万-400万度电，15公斤需要4500万度-6000万度电，根本不是37年能够製造出来的。」

"You should know that by 64, the annual power generation of New China was 560 billion kilowatt-hours. The power consumption of the core workshop of Factory 504 alone accounted for 2.5% of the country's total power generation."