Seeing that you have achieved your goal. Lieutenant Colonel Kovalev winked happily and nodded: "There is no problem, secrecy is the first priority." Comrade Yang Zhen, since our cooperation seems to be very pleasant now, I wonder if we should raise a glass to celebrate? ”

Before, in order to find an opportunity to talk to Yang Zhen secretly. At the welcome banquet, like other Russians, Lieutenant Colonel Kovalev, who was very addicted to alcohol but drank only a few sips, saw that the matter had been negotiated. The long-suppressed alcohol addiction came in. Seeing that this guy looked greedy, Yang Zhen understood and asked the little tiger outside the door to get wine and prepare a few snacks.

Seeing the authentic Manchurian sorghum captured in Luobei County brought by Xiaohuzi, smelling the wine, Kovalev couldn't care about being a little rude, so he took it and poured himself a big cup first.

It's just that this Lieutenant Colonel Kovalev is a big drinker, but although the amount of alcohol is not small, it is really not big. Especially if he's a cow. More than a dozen bowls of Manchurian sorghum of more than 50 degrees went down, and this guy soon got drunk and unconscious.

However, before he was completely drunk, he looked at Yang Zhen who was just a shallow taste: "By the way, Comrade Yang Zhen, your central delegation has already set off from Moscow. Their plane arrived in Khabarovsk about three days later. In addition to the officers who studied in the Soviet Union, there was also a female comrade who had rushed back from Yan'an. ”

"According to the report of our comrades from the NKVD, this female comrade was specially transferred back to Yan'an from your 129th Division. According to the analysis, it is likely that she is close to you. Otherwise, the comrades of the CCP would not have specially transferred her back from the front, and the entire delegation had waited for her for a whole month. According to our intelligence officers, she should be your wife or fiancée. ”

After seeing this, Kovalev fell headlong on the table, unconscious. Yang Zhen asked Xiaohuzi to make a bed for him in this room and let him rest well. He himself went outside, and the starlight spread along the side of the mountain, watching the light coming from the equipment that was being installed in the arsenal workshop, and quickly digesting the news he had just received from the conversation with Kovalev in his mind.

As for the intelligence reconnaissance and analysis capabilities of the NKVD, which was later called the world's most efficient and largest Soviet intelligence agency, the predecessor of the KGB, Yang Zhen still agreed. The German raid on the Soviet Union was successful not because it blinded the Soviet intelligence agencies, but because of Stalin's stubbornness and distrust of the intelligence agencies.

"Lesbians? Maybe fiancée? These words kept hovering in Yang Zhen's mind. Does he still have a fiancée in this era? Oh yes. I once heard Xiaohuzi say that when he was working in the 129th Division, he once got along very well with a female college classmate who went to Yan'an with him. Is this what a fiancée is called?

What does the central government mean by sending her to the Northeast at this time, is it simply to reunite him with him, or is it to finally determine whether he will be the same Yang Zhen? According to the CCP's consistent high efficiency and tight organizational structure before the founding of the People's Republic of China. Especially in the most core organization such as the military, it should be easy to find out the details of a person.

After all, the current 18th Group Army is not like a huge army that has grown to more than one million people and has a complex structure a few years later. In particular, he was still the main force in the main force of the 129th Division, rather than working in a local military subdivision. If the central government wants to find out about itself, it only needs a telegram.

Yang Zhen suddenly realized a problem, his previous self was just a scholar, although he had participated in the 129 Movement and his qualifications were old, he had never led troops to fight. Although he cannot be said to be a nerd, there is still a big gap between him and a qualified commander.

After he was captured, he didn't know his life and death for a whole year, but he suddenly rose rapidly in the northeast and fought many big victories, so it was inevitable that the central government would have some suspicions. And Yang Zhen can bet that Ji Qing is very likely, not absolutely in the central government, he has heard and seen himself sold a fine light. No one can hide anything from the leader's penetrating eyes.

A young cadre who was born as a scholar and had only been in the army for only one year suddenly knew how to fight, not to mention, and possessed many skills that they had never seen before, or even heard of. It's hard not to be suspicious. Presumably, this so-called fiancée was transferred by the central government to make a final identification of herself.

Yang Zhen, who had figured it out, didn't care too much about the central government's move. It's just that the biggest problem is what to do with his fiancée. Once I meet her, I am afraid that according to the will of the central government, I will let myself get married soon. But although the two are unmarried couple, it is still the "first time" to meet each other after all.

I don't know anything about my temper and temperament. If you live together, won't you die awkwardly? And that Zhang Ting, what should I do? Although I have been fooling around with her pursuit, I understand that I undoubtedly have a certain affection for her in my heart.

Yang Zhen, who is not good at dealing with emotional problems in later generations, is even more chaotic at this time. Yang Zhen, who thought about it for a long time, didn't figure out what to do with these two women, so he simply didn't think about it. Can a living person suffocate urine? There will still be a road before the car reaches the mountain.

As for the food and other materials that Lieutenant Colonel Kovalev said about the need for the Chinese comrades to exchange some materials such as ore, Yang Zhen didn't care at all. There is no such thing as a free lunch, and this is common everywhere. People's weapons and supplies are not blown by strong winds. It is simply impossible to give it to you for nothing.

As long as you don't allow yourself to buy it with cash, you can exchange it for ore. In addition to the one ton of gold seized at the Jiamusi Puppet Manchurian Bank and exchanged it for equipment, the remaining more than 10,000 taels of gold had to be reserved for the future activities of the troops, and it was impossible to use them at all.

The gold seized in the various gold mines in Luobei and Tangyuan is only sand gold in its natural state. To be truly used, further refinement is needed. Although the gold mining ship was completely seized in the Luobei gold mine, the production of the Luobei gold mine was not affected.

But gold is not a coal mine, and it is normal to produce millions of tons a year. Even the largest gold mine in the entire Xiaoxinganling area, Foshan's Wulaga gold mine has an annual output of only tens of thousands of taels. Although Zisufficiency now controls several large gold mines in Luobei, Foshan, and Tangyuan, the annual output is estimated to reach more than 100,000 taels.

However, the output of these gold is based on the premise that they can firmly control the current territory, and these gold are the capital of the troops' future activities, and they cannot all be exchanged for materials. The most critical point is that he must not leave Jiangbei with the impression that he is rich and can take out a large amount of gold anytime and anywhere.

However, although gold is light and cannot be sold, fortunately, the Xiaoxinganling area is rich in resources. If nothing else, a single standout coal resource is enough to use. It's just that the miners have all been certified as soldiers by themselves, and most of the rest are old and frail for many years, and Heli is now on the front line of his confrontation with the Japanese army, and coal mine production cannot be resumed for the time being.

Yang Zhen had already made up his mind to stabilize the shape of the coal mine and immediately resume production of the coal mine in the Heli area. As for the miners, Yang Zhen has already thought of a new source. The captured Japanese soldiers, the puppet Manchu army who refused to surrender, and the die-hard elements among the puppet Manchu officials at all levels were all an excellent source of miners.

Didn't the little devils treat the captured Chinese workers as special workers, specially engaged in unpaid labor for them? You can copy their methods yourself. It's just that the number of workers can be reached depends on the results of their own battles in the future.

Yang Zhen, who couldn't figure it out and simply didn't think about it, strode into the huge cave that was being used as an arsenal workshop to assemble the production line sent from Jiangbei with the cooperation of several ordnance experts sent by the Far Eastern Military Region of the Soviet Army.

Seeing Yang Zhen walking into the production workshop, the director of the arsenal hurriedly stepped forward to salute and was about to report. It's just that Yang Zhen waved his hand and said, "Don't report it, I'm here to take a look." How's it going, what's the progress? Everyone's body can still support it. ”

Hearing Yang Zhen's question, the factory director hurriedly replied: "Please rest assured, the workers are very enthusiastic about building an arsenal for their troops. Together with the help of Soviet specialists, I estimate that in three more days the equipment will be ready for production. However, in terms of raw materials, especially for making zuò nitric acid, there is still a shortage of raw materials. ”

"According to the resource map you provided, we found pyrite in the Foshan area, which can basically solve the raw material for sulfuric acid production. However, the raw materials for nitric acid production still need to be provided by Jiangbei, and there are nitric acid raw materials in our control area, but according to our current technical level, we are simply unable to exploit them.

"And the easiest to mine is miscanthus mine, which we don't have here. Commander, the small Xing'an Mountains in Foshan and Wuyun are a big treasure trove. Mineral resources are extremely abundant, and if we mine them all, at least we will definitely not worry about military raw materials. But the reality is that apart from gold and coal, we have almost no mining and refining technology. ”

As for the arsenal, when he was in the 11th Army Arsenal before, his body was always weak because of the difficult environment. After being captured, he was used as a coolie for more than half a year, and his body became even weaker. And because he inhaled the Japanese army's poisonous gas before being captured, he injured his lungs without any treatment, and he always coughed up to make people think that he would cough up his lungs at some time, but Yang Zhen shook his head.

After the factory director was rescued from Qunce Mountain, he devoted himself to the work of setting up the arsenal with great enthusiasm. A large amount of military equipment seized in the secret warehouse of the Kwantung Army in Qunce Mountain is far more humble than his arsenal in the 11th Army, most of which are operated by hand, and even the workshop is much better than the arsenal.

The arsenal was able to put into production in such a short period of time, and smoothly produced the weapons and equipment that the troops urgently needed. Of course, there are reasons for the effective organization of the commander-in-chief. But this person who is the factory director, chief designer, and craftsman can be said to be the first hero.

The 11th Army Arsenal, which had experienced a lack of everything, had great hopes for an arsenal that was now fully equipped for production, and now that it had introduced several raw material production lines, and that it lacked almost nothing except for the absence of a steelmaking plant.

Knowing how much the head of the headquarters has paid for these production lines, he has been looking forward to the rapid growth of this arsenal, which was built from his own hands and developed little by little. That's why he hoped that Yang Zhen could find a way to mine all the minerals in the mountainous areas of Xiaoxing'anling. In order to completely solve the problem of military raw materials.

Yang Zhen can understand his thoughts. For his ambitions, Yang Zhen is even clearer. This is exactly what Yang Zhen himself wants. At the moment, it is still early to stabilize the Japanese army, and there is no movement on the Japanese side now, but it does not mean that they have done nothing. Moreover, the manpower, material, and financial resources are still very limited, and the troops' building must be limited.

As for the mining of those minerals, don't even think about the rest except for the much-needed gold. Because the shape shì is not allowed, and the conditions are not allowed. I can't get the financial and material resources to set up the mine at all.

After thinking for a while, Yang Zhen still spoke: "I know and understand your thoughts. But we don't have the conditions to mine those mines right now. All we can do now is take it one step at a time. As for the rest, let's wait for the shape shì to be completely stable. ”

"But it's a good thing to have a dream. As long as there is a dream, there will be motivation. You have to believe in your comrades, as long as we work hard, your ideas will still come true one day. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Zhen said to Zhang Zhenhua, who rushed to hear the news: "Now the work intensity of the workers in the arsenal is very high, and the consumption of the body is also large. You have to think of a way to mobilize a batch of supplies and ensure their nutrition. In particular, the supply of meat and eggs must be guaranteed. If possible, ensure that each worker has one egg a day and one meal of meat. And to raise the standard of supply to their factory directors, according to the treatment of those Soviet specialists. ”

Hearing Yang Zhen's order, Zhang Zhenhua was a little embarrassed: "It's not difficult to raise the supply standard for their factory director. But for so many people, it is difficult to ensure a meal of meat every day, one egg a day per person. According to our current conditions, we can only ensure that the main force eats meat every day. As for the arsenal, there is no guarantee at all. Especially eggs, even one a week can't be guaranteed. ”

Yang Zhen was very dissatisfied with Zhang Zhenhua's reply. Yang Zhen frowned and said, "Brother comrade, think of a way." The solutions are all thought up by people, as long as you are willing to use your brains, even if you can't solve the problem of eating eggs for the time being, there is still a way to eat meat. ”

"You can organize a group of people to go into the mountains to hunt, or you can mobilize the masses to raise more pigs and raise the purchase price. Chickens, in particular, grow fast. It can not only lay eggs, but also provide meat, can it be farmed in large quantities? Is there still an organizer to go down to the river to fish? The fish in Heilongjiang are very famous. ”

"Don't always focus on pigs, when you think of meat, it's pork. Think more about it. There are yellow sheep in this small Xing'an Mountains, and the number of wild boars is also very large. Isn't it all meat? Although the meat of wild animals is not as fragrant as farmed, it can solve our needs at least in a short time. ”