Jin Taiying sat on a chair made of wooden pier and basked happily in the sun. In early autumn, the West Lake Fort area was suitable for the climate, and the new wood processing plant facing the Little West River (South San Lorenzo River) was shining brightly. Flashes of warm wind blew from the shimmering river surface, bringing a wet air mixed with the smell of water, which made Jin Taiying feel even more comfortable.

His Italian apprentice Zenoni respectfully brought him a glass of beer and placed on the table next to him. Beer is not rare in the East Coast Republic, but it is by no means a mass consumer product. Among the key national backbone enterprises such as the First Machinery Factory, only craftsmen above level three can enjoy a free cup after lunch every day, and Jin Taiying is such an intermediate skilled craftsman.

It has been five or six years since he came to the East Coast. Faced with this primary industrialized country that is changing rapidly, Jin Taiying's inner feelings are complicated. On the one hand, he is extremely grateful to the new country for giving him an unimaginable material life foundation from the beginning, and at the same time he also gave him the opportunity to learn new technologies he had never been exposed to before, and then he has a good life now. But on the other hand, he also resented that the people of the East Coast forced him to a new continent that was tens of thousands of miles away from his hometown for no reason, so that they had cut off contact with the mountains and rivers of his hometown, relatives, and so on. Maybe he would never have the chance to return to his hometown on the banks of the Luodong River in this life.

However, Kim Tae-young is a pragmatic person. Since it is no longer possible to return to his hometown, he should bury his homesickness in his heart. After all, he still has his own life on the east coast. Although his German wife is ugly and stupid to him, she has spent several years together and gave birth to three lovely children. It would be false to say that she has no feelings for them. In addition, his younger brother Kim Tae-koon also serves as a non-commissioned officer in the Second Navy Fleet. If they are implicated because of their homesickness and resentment towards the government, it would be too unworthy.

The construction of West Lake Fort has been built for less than half a year, and even the city wall has not been completed, let alone the various construction facilities. It is said that because the five major construction bureaus of the Ministry of Transport are all under heavy responsibilities, the construction tasks are heavy, and the construction materials are in short supply, the construction progress here seems a bit slow. However, the timber processing factory that has recently moved from Henan Township is a national key enterprise to ensure construction, so the factory building is preferred over the urban construction and was completely completed at the beginning of last month. Not only that, even the First Machinery Factory transported six new steam woodworking lathes for installation and commissioning in the middle of last month.

The new steam woodworking lathe is much more advanced than the traditional hydraulic lathes, and its efficiency is greatly improved. However, the general principle does not have much innovation, so Jin Taiying quickly became familiar with this new machine. Unfortunately, the quality of various steam power products produced by the one machine factory is still as bad as ever. After only more than a month of use of six steam car beds, one of them had a mechanical failure and one steam engine also had a failure, making only four of them currently available, which makes people laugh and cry.

The river was sparkling, and from time to time, a small steamer with black smoke was docked at the small dock built by the wood processing factory. Then, the South African workers squatting on the river bank rushed up at the urging of the supervisor and began to unload the goods shipped on the ship with the cooperation of a steam crane. The goods were wood transported from the capital Henan Township. The original local wood processing factory did not move to the West Lake Fort as a whole, but only moved the military production part over. As for the production of furniture, carriages, musical instruments, and even daily necessities such as bowls and chopsticks, they were still there.

These are logs harvested from the New China Colony. Before loading the ship, they were initially anti-corrosion and insect-proof treatment in the New China area, but they can be seen that they were not done well. If the wood was not of good quality, the degree of rotten and insect-eatening of these wood would probably be more serious. This made Kim Tae-young, a senior carpenter who has been dealing with wood since the Korean era, feel a little distressed. What a good wood, it is rare in North Korea that the wood is so dense, so delicate, and so large. These are all old trees that have grown for hundreds of years. These guys who have been killed by thousands of knives are so casually processed and shipped back.

The transported wood will be sent to the drying workshop for smoke and drying before use. As for the dried wood, it will be stacked in a specially designed storage room for use.

Just as Kim Tae-ying was imagining, a loud voice suddenly yelled at the door of the workshop not far away: "Don't be lazy! The processing task came from the top, a thousand three-meter hardwood spear poles, with a standard diameter. This is to be sent to the South African war preparation material warehouse, so it cannot be delayed! Come back and start work!"

Kim Tae-eye sighed. This was the voice of the workshop director. It seemed that the above was a combat readiness production task. I heard that the Executive Committee had passed the resolution to increase troops to South Africa a while ago. Because the blacks there were not peaceful, they actually wanted to provoke the interests of the glorious and powerful East Coast Republic of China, so they needed to punish these thugs who provoked the civilized world. This was also the incident and argument that the propaganda team had begun to promote on a large scale throughout the country over the past few days.

In order to meet the massive material demand generated by large-scale military use on the front line, the state also specially established a planned production management committee. This committee is a wartime organization, with the Chairman of the Executive Committee personally serving as the chairman, the Premier of the State Council and the Chief of Staff of the Military Department, to coordinate the production activities of domestic military, enterprises, mining bureaus, farms and other institutions, in order to maximize domestic resources, leverage production potential, and provide a solid material foundation for the country to win the war.

After stuffing his beer glass to his apprentice Zenoni, Jin Taiying walked towards the workshop without looking back. Currently, there are only four steam woodworking lathes in the workshop. A skilled operator like Jin Taiying can process 4-5 spears per hour. Even if the four are put together and work in three shifts, the maintenance machine and the time for eating is removed, it is estimated that 300 spears can only be processed every day. I don’t know how long the task of a thousand spears is completed. If it really doesn’t work, it will only allow those hydraulic and pedal lathes that are about to be eliminated to come out again to exert their spare heat. However, that is the matter that the workshop director is worried about and has nothing to do with him. What he has to consider is how to produce qualified products with quality and quantity.

Just when the machines roared in the wood processing plant on the Xiaoxi River in West Lake Fort and began to process the spear poles, tense combat preparations were also underway in the northern arsenal on the Yazi River (i.e., Yakui River), more than 200 kilometers away. After the propaganda team continuously promoted the outrageous atrocities of the black people in South Africa, such as robbing the cattle and sheep of immigrants on the east coast, killing the indigenous tribes protected by the east coast, and looking forward to the civilized world, the workers in the northern arsenal were a little angry.

The propaganda team is right! The East Coast Republic of China is the leading power in the New World, and is far ahead of the feudal countries and indigenous tribes of the Old World in many aspects. It has the highest living standards and the highest literacy rate; her culture is the best culture, and her system is the most advanced system, and she provides opportunities for everyone who is capable instead of first looking at their bloodline; her soldiers have the strongest sense of honor and patriotism, and they are not just fighting for money; this country is the great cause of all of us, and any thug who tries to tarnish the glory of the East Coast Republic must be judged by justice!

After the public opinion and propaganda offensive of the propaganda team, the workshop director announced the generous combat readiness and overtime production allowance at the right time, which made the workers cheer. Soon, everyone was full of energy to enter production. In order to enable the soldiers on the front line to have qualified and sufficient weapons to use, everyone must work hard to ensure quality and quantity production!

In the cold weapons workshop of the Northern Arsenal, the production team leader of the spear spearhead directed the workers to pour the molten iron in the crucible into rows of molds. These molds are specially made, with a total of 200 reusable steel molds, all of which are made standardized spearhead molds according to the size of three-meter spear. After the molten iron condenses in the mold, the workers take out the molded spearheads and take them to the machining workshop to hand them over to the machine tool operators to use the machine tool to polish and finish them in order to make the

Its dimensional accuracy meets the requirements of use. Some people once suggested that a spearhead can be directly turned into a machining workshop, but considering that both scrap iron and scrap heads (there are no high-hard alloy heads so far), it was quickly rejected. The spearheads refined by the machining workshop were soon loaded and sent to the heat treatment workshop by the animal track trailer passing through the factory area, where workers will carburize the surface to make these spearheads harder and wear-resistant.

The 1,200 spear heads (20% spare parts) and the fixed bolts that came out in the last process were carefully placed in boxes made of Parana pine wood and marked, and then towed to the dock by animal track trailers. At this moment, a small steamer from an inland transport company had been waiting for a long time. The dock workers easily loaded the cargo into the cabin with the assistance of the steam tower crane. In the cabin, the fruits and beef transported from the Jushu Township Canned Food Factory; the hemostatic bandages transported from the Ping'an Weaving Factory; the honeycomb coal and iron stoves transported from the Meihe Township; and a small amount of locally produced rice and flour had already filled the cabin with most of them.

Early in the morning of April 4, this inland steam steamer numbered "Ping An Yun 003" was docked at the timber processing plant dock on the banks of the Xiaoxi River. While intensively adding coal and water, the slave workers at the dock had time to load a thousand hardwood spear poles onto the ship.

After the matter was completed, the small steamer returned to the Zhenhaigang military wharf in just one day. At this time, the dock was already full of combat preparation supplies transported from all over the country. The large sailing transport ships of the South China Sea Transportation Company were docking here for intense loading, and next to these cargo ships, the naval warships escorted were already ready.
Chapter completed!