What made Meng Xiang feel strange was that throughout the early morning, the devils in Jinan City did not move much, and their main energy was spent on building defensive fortifications at the railway station and the north gate.

"Don't they know that the soldiers are fast and take the opportunity to occupy Jinan?" Meng Xiang asked Fan Chongdao.

"The 10th Division is under-strengthened! Waiting for reinforcements! Fan Chong said with a smile, after continuous battles, most of the 10th Division was disabled, which was also a glory for the vanguard army.

"They should be able to make up two wings, right?" Meng Xiang remembered clearly in his heart that these data had already excited him once.

"A brigade of the army has gone south yesterday! In order to grab the credit, Ryosuke Isoya sent another brigade in the middle of the night! Fan Chong lightly patted a large pile of battle reports on the table and said, "Everyone adds up, he has a half-wing team at most, and he dares to attack?" ”

Meng Xiang smiled, stretched and said, "If there is anything, just call me!" With that, he entered his own lounge not far away, which was the command center of the camouflaged sub-base. For the convenience of command, the new command was located next to the center of the base. The surrounding guards were all clones, and there were only two or three people in and out of the headquarters, Fan Chong and Tang Yaoshi. The command center was already fenced off with walls and fortresses, and only one door was reserved to lead to the headquarters, in the rest room dedicated to Meng Xiang.

"24 hours have passed, I am finally a third-level commander, look at what good things are in the base after the ban is lifted?" Meng Xiang insisted on watching the live battle of the armored regiment before he began to deal with the intelligent brain that had just been adjusted and upgraded. After gaining more authority, the Level 3 Commander can break through the first stage barrier of the Level 2 base and reach the Level 2 Intermediate Rank. Then it will be possible to produce all kinds of weapons and equipment produced after the formation of the three-country axis between Germany and Italy in September 1937 and before the attack on Pearl Harbor. At the same time, weapons and equipment produced before the formation of the Three Kingdoms Axis can once again enjoy a half-price discount.

Seeing that Suomi was only half of the previous price, Meng Xiang was full of emotion, in this way, Suomi can really be popularized in large quantities. With the increase in the commander's authority, the speed of production has also increased, and when it was first promoted to the second-level base, it used to take half an hour for one Sumi, and the six weapons production lines of the logistics equipment center were producing less than 300 weapons a day at full capacity. After becoming a third-level commander, the production speed of a Suomi was increased to 20 minutes.

"When you are a fourth-level commander, is it increased to 10 minutes? Upgrade to a level 3 base for 5 minutes? Meng Xiang guessed that without upgrading, Xiaohua would not tell him this, but he could explore the rules by himself.

"So, the T-34 tank can also be produced?" Meng Xiang, who was fascinated by the construction of armored forces, couldn't help but be overjoyed. Recently, the income of several mining plants has been good, with an average of more than 100,000 yuan per day, and more than 4 million yuan in a month. The balance in his base account has increased a lot, although he spends more, and the income from mining cannot meet the consumption of weapons, but the amount of money that Meng Xiang puts into the base has greatly decreased.

This also made Meng Xiang breathe a sigh of relief, in the war season, gold and silver are all sought-after goods, and the spot is almost hard to find. Other resources of the same value are relatively large in size, not as convenient as gold and silver. Moreover, Meng Xiang has long discovered that the price displayed by mineral resources such as iron, aluminum, and coal in the base is far less than the price in reality. In this regard, Xiaohua's explanation is that there are many mineral stars in the base alliance in the future space-time, so the price of this kind of mineral recovery is not high, while the price of heavy metals such as gold and silver is relatively stable.

Therefore, Meng Xiang also lost the idea of buying items from reality and putting them into the base, and it was better to use gold and silver directly. Just like coal, high-quality good coal is sent to the base, but it is only a dozen yuan a ton, but in the outside market, it has reached dozens of yuan, or even hundreds. If it weren't for the fact that the power plant needed too much coal and there was no market for the time being, Meng Xiang would have thought about becoming a coal boss. The coal bosses of later generations are all very rich, and when Meng Xiang hated the exploitation of capital, he was not envious.

If it weren't for the constantly beating numbers on the base account, Meng Xiang would never put all kinds of mined minerals into the base, which would be too much of a loss, but with only gold and silver, there are not so many resources on the earth, and the global proven reserves of gold will only be 50,000 or 60,000 tons in the future generations. Although the price of mineral resources is low, the quantitative advantage is more than enough to offset this gap. The most important thing is that these minerals mined by Meng Xiang do not cost money, and they will continue to come in.

"In the future, we must go abroad to mine!" Meng Xiang, who knew that his motherland was not a vast land in later generations, every time he saw the mining truck busy, he always said like this.

As for the lack of resources in other countries in the future, Meng Xiang ignored it. Dead friends do not die poor. As long as there is no shortage of resources in their homeland, who will always carry forward the spirit of internationalism? In later generations, I saw a lot of international resource predators taking advantage of the fire to rob the Chinese collective, but there were not many who gave charcoal in the snow.

"Is this a restriction again?" When Meng Xiang saw the high cost of the T-34A and B models, Meng Xiang couldn't help but ask again.

"Because this type of product does not appear in reality, half of the cost discount is canceled!" Xiaohua explained.

"In other words, it's only half of that average cost price, and it's no longer a quarter of the discount?" Meng Xiang asked.

"Yes!" Xiaohua explained very dryly. Just returned to the main base to upgrade and adjust, Xiaohua's appearance made Meng Xiang feel a little different. But the cold tone made Meng Xiang suspect that something was wrong with his eyes.

Meng Xiang didn't care about it at this time, looking at the T-34, which only had a half-price discount, and the T-26S, which had a discount of one-eighth of the original average cost of the product, Meng Xiang couldn't help but lean towards the original old tank. Although the surname can be a little worse, it is no problem to deal with the little devil, and the most important thing is that it is cheap. There is another half of the price concession, which is equivalent to the same money to build twice as many tanks, create a sea of tanks, and crush the little devils with steel piles. What's more, judging from the materials collected by Rat Er recently, all countries still have a lot of good weapons, but they don't know about it.

"Weapons research institute, it must be established in advance!" Meng Xiang didn't hesitate to think about it, and directly called Rat Er to give an order, which was presided over by Gong San and Zhu San, and first sorted out the details and data of the various weapons that could be produced, so as to make a comparison.

"Where is it built?" Rat Two asked. This kind of weapons research institute needs to be concealed, but also need to be spacious, all kinds of terrain are complete, and the ambient temperature must be considered.

"First set up a temporary research institute in the mountains near Boshan, there is a railway to connect there, and the transportation is more convenient!" The railroad built by the Germans made it very convenient to get from the main base to Boshan, surrounded by mountains, Boshan was a prosperous county seat, and there was also an arsenal there in later generations, with the help of rich coal resources, the main base directly built a power station there.

"First divided into several groups, one group counts firearms and ammunition and other data, two groups counts artillery data, three groups counts aircraft data, four groups count tank data, and five groups temporarily study the advantages and disadvantages of various types of individual equipment! Let's arrange it for now! Meng Xiang roughly divided what he knew into a simple category. There isn't much talent right now, and there can only be a framework for that.

"It doesn't matter if the price is high, I can take it out for research!" Meng Xiang secretly said proudly, "It's a big deal, these leading advanced weapons can be bought for patent fees or something!" Germans and Americans are rich lords! ”

After knowing the various restrictions of the base, Meng Xiang already knew that if Huaxia wanted to rise, it could not rely on the base alone. People must first save themselves before they can forge ahead. If China only relies on foreign ready-made goods, it is afraid that it will greatly stifle the innovation ability of the Chinese nation, which is undoubtedly a kind of sadness.

What civilization is most afraid of is the invasion of foreign civilizations to replace the original chain, resulting in the loss of its own characteristics. Assimilation and direct appropriation are two different things.

Moreover, the base is only a military base, and there is no technology for people's livelihood. If a country only relies on military technology support and ignores people's livelihood, it is only a deformed development. The fall of the Polar Red Bear in later generations is a clear example.

After several battles, Meng Xiang was more confident in defending the main base, and even Jinan City. After having their own new territory, the issue of people's livelihood must be considered first. The existence of the base undoubtedly saves a large amount of military expenditure, which can be used for the construction of people's livelihood. This is a huge advantage for other forces that have to spend most of their finances in times of war, and even have debts.

The construction of people's livelihood needs to have a systematic foundation, and in the next blockade of the devil, there is no own people's livelihood production system, but I am afraid that the people on the territory will also scold their mothers first.

"Build more factories!" This is Meng Xiang's first reaction after Zhou Bai explained the inadequacy of the people's livelihood production system.

"How can you build a factory without machines, without capital, without skilled workers?" Zhou Bai is also a little puzzled by this young general who sometimes speaks thought-provokingly, and sometimes his words are naïve and ridiculous.

"No machine, buy! Buy from the Germans and Americans! "In Meng Xiang's impression, German and American goods are of guaranteed quality, and they are also advanced goods.

"Where's the money?" The prices of the large list thrown out by Zhou Bai directly made Meng Xiang speechless at that time.

"It should be good to sell weapons, sell patents, and use them to exchange technology or machines!" Meng Xiang thought that the base could only become a stepping stone to quickly complete the primitive accumulation, but it could not become the cornerstone of the rise of China.

"The devil has attacked!" Rat Er's reminder interrupted Meng Xiang's contemplation.