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Volume 1: The Arms Dealer¡¯s Feast Chapter 235: Wang Caidong

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    Wang Guangtian knew that the oil press he bought was actually different from the human-electric hybrid oil press he inquired about last year.  His oil press is ineffective even if it is powered on - a purely human-powered household oil press without motor equipment.  Otherwise, you wouldn¡¯t be able to buy it for just over a hundred yuan.  Of course, the second dealer in the county town also told Wang Guangtian about this when he went to the county town to buy it.

    Jin Batian¡¯s Limin Shipbreaking Factory first produced electric oil presses. In the impression of Jin Batian, who lives in an electric society, how can he press oil without electricity?  There must be electricity.

    Later, when the sales of electric oil presses were saturated, Jinba Genius discovered his blind spot in thinking. It turns out that oil extraction does not necessarily require electricity. Just like the sewing machine at home when he was a child, clothes can be made without electricity.  As a result, Limin Shipbreaking Plant withdrew from the electric-human hybrid oil press the next year.

    After all, the power company at this time is as unreliable as the power company in the county where Dongfang Sheng lives. There is no telling when the power will be cut off for you.  At this time, if you use pedals, you can barely give birth and exercise.  If Jin Batian can live to the time of Dongfang Sheng, he will definitely give him a computer that generates electricity through pedals.  In this way, even if the power is out, you can continue to code.  (However, Dongfang Sheng said that he had never received such a pedal-powered computer, so Jin Batian must have passed away before 2013)

    Later, many customers suggested canceling the motor equipment in the hybrid oil press, so as to save money on buying the machine.  You must know that except for important cities, even provincial capital cities may not have power companies in the past thirty years.

    The customer is God, so the good-hearted Jin Batian divided the oil press into two, and then divided it into a small inventory of electric oil presses and a large number of human-operated pedal oil presses sold in rural areas.  Although everyone knows that the electric oil press that sells for 500 yuan is ten times more efficient than the manual oil press that costs more than 100 yuan, but you should have bought it a long time ago.  What limits the development of electric oil presses is not the market, but the power grid.

    As for Wang Guangtian, it doesn¡¯t matter. There is no electricity in the county anyway, so how can we expect electricity in the village? It was precisely because he heard about the big price reduction of oil presses that Wang Guangtian was able to scrape up the money to buy a manual oil press.  The closest places with electricity supply here are Peking, Tianjin, and Baoding, which are small cities.  Wang Guangtian has also heard that as long as there is electricity, an electric oil press can be ten or even ten times more efficient than a manual oil press as soon as it is turned on.  But the problem is that there is no power.

    ¡°Besides, if there is electricity, is it free?  At this time, the cost of electricity is still quite high.  The electric power company is not a charity, people also have to make money, and this cost is not necessarily lower than the labor cost. Except for factories in big cities, the homeowners in the city who can afford electricity can only burn one light bulb per house.

    As for the landlords and wealthy people in the countryside, dear, please light the oil lamps.  In the past few decades, the sales of foreign oil lamps on the market have been good.

    This time he bought peanut kernels again, and Wang Guangtian reviewed some mistakes.  My family didn¡¯t dare to buy an oil lamp because I was afraid of spending money. The time spent pressing oil every day was just one of the reasons.  Wang Guangtian's family still lives in the traditional way of working at sunrise and resting at dawn. You must know that when he bought the machine, the second-hand dealer swore that this manual oil press could squeeze out up to 220 kilograms of peanut oil in a day.

    Of course, this is the result of 24 hours of continuous oil extraction.  But if you squeeze half of the time every day, it should be more than 100 kilograms. This can only be said that children and women cannot exert the maximum efficiency of the human oil press.  Of course Wang Guangtian had no problem pedaling, but how could a child or a woman have the same strength as a strong man?  Even when I first started pedaling, it was difficult because there was no inertia. Women and children couldn¡¯t even take the first kick. At this time, Wang Guangtian had to help.

    But no matter how strong Wang Guangtian is, he can't even pedal for half a day.  For those of us in our thirties, we need to take a break after pedaling for two or three hours.  All in all, only half of the day was spent by the man of the house.  Fetching water at home, cooking, washing, boiling, sweeping, feeding the chickens, and taking care of the vegetable patch in the backyard are all the wife's business. With three and a half-year-old children, she can still do it, but as the main force, her body is still a little thin, and it will take a few years.

    Wang Guangtian knew very well that Zhou Caidong's oil mill could produce hundreds of kilograms of oil a day. Except for a few days off during the New Year, they pressed oil almost all year round. Zhou Caidong said here that he had hired someone to fish for three days.  I'm going to lose money after posting on the Internet for two days.

    Before going to bed at night, Wang Guangtian told his wife what he thought - hiring people is a bigger deal than buying machines.  Wang Guangtian's wife said: "How about we hire a few relatives to help, and it won't matter if we spend some food. There is no work in the fields now."

    There is no money in the village but food, which is one of the characteristics of economic underdevelopment.  Just like the border residents in the southwest still don¡¯t know the use of the Great Ocean, there are not many Yuan Shikai or Sun Yat-sen who have discovered the seal in the Great Ocean.You know it, but you can get a piggy back with a few kilograms of salt or a few kilograms of iron nails.  Of course, not everyone can do this. It would be a tragedy to go to the Liangshan Mountains and be captured by the Yi chieftain as a slave without a language barrier.

    Wang Guangtian thought more: "It's okay to hire relatives, but not too close."

    Wang Guangtian himself has brothers in his village who have been separated for many years. Some of his sisters are married to neighboring villages or married to other places. His wife is from a neighboring village and most of his brothers live in neighboring villages.  But there is a disadvantage of hiring relatives to do things. If the relationship is too close, the whole family will scold them and refuse to say goodbye. Wang Guangtian means that it is okay to hire relatives, but not too close.  Judging from the genealogy, except for a few families in the village who moved from other places, they are all distant relatives.  Some have already been released on the fifth server, and some are still from a grandpa or a grandpa's family.

    That night and the next morning, the couple pondered the list of people for a long time and finally selected two people.  One is Wang Guangtian's nephew from the fifth server. He is two or three years younger than Wang Guangtian. His family situation is similar to or even worse than Wang Guangtian's previous family. There are probably more children and less land. Even though the government exempted land tax, he still doesn't have enough to eat.  Belly, in such a family situation, there is also a mother who is lying in bed and is sick.

    The other is a distant cousin of Wang Guangtian¡¯s wife in this village. Shan and Wang Guangtian were in the same family a hundred years ago. This owner is one of the few tenants in the village - he rents land from the family of the rich man Wang in the village.  This village is quite strange. Although most of the people are quite poor, most of them are homesteaders and rich peasants and small landowners, and the smallest number are pure tenant households.  Many tenant farmers had a few acres of land but could not produce enough food for their family, so they rented a few acres or more than ten acres of land from their landlords.

    The reason may be that it is not easy for people who are pure tenants to find a wife. Those who are more courageous go out to find a living when they are young - either as soldiers, bandits, workers or apprentices. That is, only those who have a family and business or who are too courageous can stay.  Deal with these lands in the village.

    "If the general situation is better, the government, which has been tossing and tossing by the little devils and old men in recent years, has been expanding its troops and preparing for war. Even in May and September, the number of day laborers has been reduced a lot.  As a result, the labor force in the village is somewhat tight.  Families of small landowners and rich peasants have to go to the fields as a whole during the busy farming season and are not completely separated from production.

    These two families have a little difficulty in life, and some of them do part-time jobs for Caitong¡¯s family on weekdays.  Wang Guangtian visited two families one after another and agreed to hire two people to work for ten kilograms of cornmeal a day. They would take care of two meals a day and collect food once a day.

    The price was still very tempting, and the two of them quickly agreed. Ten kilograms of cornmeal plus the same weight of vegetables were made into vegetable steamed buns, which was enough for the whole family to snack on for two days, not to mention a big-bellied man like himself.  You can also go to the host¡¯s house to eat and save a portion for your family.

    Just for this reason, Wang Guangtian had to buy some cornmeal.  Now there are only more than 200 kilograms of white flour, more than 100 kilograms of corn flour, and dozens of kilograms of corn grits left at home. The rest Wang Guangtian sold to the grain store in order to buy machinery.  It was the desperate move at that time that started Wang Caidong's legendary career.

    Wang Guangtian didn¡¯t know that there was another benefit to opening this family oil pressing plant at home, that is, he didn¡¯t have to pay taxes.  Merchants in counties and towns are required to pay commercial tax, and this unified tax is also one of the regular taxes.  Although there are no tax collectors now, merchants in the county and towns will have to pay their commercial taxes to the county when the time comes. The government only exempts land taxes, but does not exempt unified taxes. This is not the case when others come to collect them.  .

    There is only one accountant and one cashier left in the county responsible for taxation, and they can no longer collect taxes as far away as the countryside.  Besides, no one thinks that this kind of small family-style workshop has much profit. For example, there are people in the village who grind tofu and sell tofu in the village. You can just exchange beans or grain for tofu. The profit is not big. How much tax can you charge?  If we want to tax everyone in the county who grinds and sells tofu, the end result will definitely be that no one in the county can eat tofu.  Not to mention, during the years when the Beiyang warlords ruled, it was known as China's Ten Thousand Taxes, and more than ten thousand taxes and miscellaneous taxes were collected under various clever names. There were indeed days when everyone did not eat tofu.

    After hiring two cheap and strong laborers, Wang Guangtian¡¯s home oil press doubled the efficiency. This was also the result of Wang Guangtian lighting an oil lamp and working for a few hours every night after the two got off work.

    Last time, it took fifteen days to turn two thousand kilograms of peanut kernels into peanut kernels. This time, it only took eight days to turn two thousand kilograms of peanut kernels into seven hundred kilograms of peanut oil and sell it in the market.  This time Wang Guangtian bought another two thousand kilograms of peanut kernels and several hundred kilograms of cornmeal - the two strong laborers he hired, together with what he ate at home, consumed about 23 kilograms of cornmeal a day.

    In order to take care of their emotions - to avoid being regarded as a nouveau riche, Wang Guangtian's family also eats corn flour steamed buns and shredded pickles these days, just because their family is better off. You can see oily flowers in the cold pickled shredded steamed buns.  There are few insideThere is an extra big red date in the dish.

    Now every night after selling goods, Wang Guangtian and his wife get up secretly in the middle of the night and count the money under the oil lamp.  Including the cost of hiring people and buying peanut kernels, Wang Guangtian can now earn about 30 yuan every eight days, not counting the thousands of kilograms of peanut cakes produced by oil extraction that are accumulating in the yard.

    Wang Guangtian has already inquired about it. In this peanut cake market, one penny can buy two kilograms.  Selling them is not so profitable, even the three grain and oil shops in the town rarely sell them for takeout. Take Zhou Caidong as an example, these peanut cakes are used to fertilize the fields and feed pigs, unless they have a good relationship with Zhou Caidong.  Zhou Caidong couldn't save face, otherwise he really wouldn't be able to buy such a large amount of peanut cakes.

    Wang Guangtian owns land at home and a pigsty that has been idle for many years in his yard. He is also preparing to raise pigs next spring, so he naturally does not plan to sell these two kilograms of peanut cakes that cost one cent.  It's easy to sell, but it's difficult to buy it back.

    Every time after counting the money, they carefully hide the money so that the couple is willing to sleep.  In the dream, the two of them were thinking about how they would live next year. They would definitely buy a few piglets.  Wang Guangtian also wanted to buy a rubber cart and a mule so that he would not have to hire a cart from someone in the village who had carts and mules every time he went to the market to sell goods.  There are still many places.

    The adobe house hasn¡¯t been renovated for more than ten years. The last time it was renovated was the year I got married. It¡¯s time for a new one after the New Year.  As for the land, you should also buy some. Don't worry about the second child being a daughter who will get married sooner or later. The first and third children will eventually separate when they grow up. You can't let one child leave the house. Then whose daughter is willing to do so?  Marrying him means that the family is not without money now and will be able to earn more money in the near future.

    The Japanese-Russian coalition forces on the Jehol front suffered heavy losses in the artillery battle and the human sea charge. While the two sides were blaming each other, I don¡¯t know who thought of something: "Use airplanes. Our coalition's airplanes have an advantage."

    Facts have proved that dozens of kilograms of aerial bombs have limited effect on such underground machine gun fortresses - unless you have ground-penetrating missiles, they can at least blow up the heavy artillery positions of the Central Army. Even if there are artillery fortresses, such things cannot be hidden too deep.  of.

    The Japanese officer thought about it, and it made sense. Now that the country has introduced advanced technology and production lines, it can already produce monoplane fighters that represent the world's advanced level in the 1930s.  Mitsubishi has been working overtime and working two shifts for the past six months to produce more than 800 aircraft. With the addition of high-priced aircraft and accessories, there are now less than a thousand aircraft.

    It¡¯s just that these more than 900 aircraft must be divided equally with the Navy first - there is no way, the Navy and Army will never allow the other side to have one more aircraft than ours.  The Japanese island also needs some aircraft to protect it, leaving the Kwantung Army with only more than 300 P26 monoplanes.  This time the Tsarist Russians also sent more than 100 monoplanes to join. In total, the Kwantung Army could directly and indirectly command more than 400 monoplanes.

    As for the remaining hundreds of biplanes, the little devils would never dare to fly to Rehe. The results of the air combat in the past two years have shown that biplanes are a dead end no matter how they play in front of monoplanes.  These remaining biplanes can only be used to train new pilots.

    If the Japanese Air Force doesn¡¯t train new pilots, it really can¡¯t stand it.  Nowadays, Japanese pilots often only survive for six months after graduation. In order to send a large number of pilots into the air to fight, the Japanese have to send a large number of rookie pilots with dozens of hours of flying time to the battlefield.  The result was that more Japanese planes were shot down by Central Military aircraft.

    In the past, the Little Devils suffered repeated defeats in air combat. The Little Devils believed that this was due to the large gap in aircraft performance. And for some reason, as long as they penetrated the Central Army's territory a little deeper, at least twice as many aircraft would fly in to sneak attack and siege their excellent aircraft.  pilot.

    The little devil initially thought there was a spy, but Tesco conducted dozens of inspections inside and outside major airports, but could not find the so-called spy or the radio station - without a radio station, it would be impossible to send out the message.  If you say it's a coincidence, it's okay once or twice, but how could it be such a coincidence every time?

    Regarding this issue, not to mention little devils and even old Maozi don¡¯t know what radar is. In the eyes of old Maozi, stupid, big, thick, black artillery is enough for war. If there are planes, the more the better. If there are no planes, there will be more.  Enough anti-aircraft guns are also good.

    Now, apart from the Nanjing government, only Germany and Britain have mastered radar technology, but all countries protect this technology as top secret.

    The little devil finally chose not to believe in evil and sent a formation of 500 aircraft in his hand to find the Central Army's heavy artillery positions in Rehe.

    The slogan of the Peiping Air Force is: We still have to leave it to the Air Force.  (In fact, this is also the case. When the aircraft is not diving, the role of the anti-aircraft guns can only be to drive away the aircraft. Once it is known that there are a large number of anti-aircraft gun positions below, the Japanese aircraftThey are unwilling to swoop and straf)

    It's just that this time after a large number of Little Japanese aircraft took off, the Peiping Air Force did not have more than a thousand aircraft to fight the enemy. The pilots and aircraft under Peiping were seconded to part of the Shaanxi Third Theater at the earliest. Fortunately, the shortage of aircraft will always be a problem.  A problem for the Peiping Air Force.

    Six hundred and fifty fighter jets from Rehe Chahar and Peking Airports took off to meet the enemy. What reassured Minister Song was that most of the fighters that took off this time were Min-24 fighter jets and even dozens of Min-25 fighter jets. In terms of firepower,  It is already far higher than the copycat version of Little Devil.

    Even if the number cannot be 2 vs 1, one vs one will not suffer in terms of firepower, speed and mobility.

    Wang Guangtian, who was in the countryside of Zhili, learned that this major air battle, in which both sides sent more than a thousand aircraft, happened dozens of days after the air battle. He occasionally heard from a book writer at the market that by this time, the Gregorian year of 1936 had passed -  - People in the village don¡¯t look at the lunar calendar, also called the almanac, but this Foreign Devil¡¯s Day.

    In this set of words, the storyteller has deified the aircraft of the Central Army: "What is an aircraft? You have never seen it. But, Buddha has seen it. This aircraft, no matter how far it is, is called the Golden Winged Aircraft."  Peng bird, it is said that this Buddha was swallowed by the golden-winged roc, and then he was spit out and survived, and he became Buddha.

    ????????????????????????????????????????Think about it, if this golden-winged roc is really a big bird, how can it still survive after swallowing people)?  So, this golden-winged roc is an ancient airplane.  Speaking of which, everything was done in ancient times, not to mention wooden horses and cows. Now cars can do it.  Lu Ban used to make wooden kites that could fly for three days and three nights. You said this is a kite. Which kite maker can do it now?

    "Why are they all gone now? It's a literary prison in the Qing Dynasty.  Such a good book as Tiangong Kaiwu has taught people so many things, but they were all retrieved from the East and the West.  "

    Sure enough, in the end, all the responsibilities were put on the Manqing. Who made him the loser?  Losers will have the consciousness of being hacked.  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to become a registered member of Piaotian Literature to recommend this work. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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