There is no choice, no choice. In name, he is the production organizer of the factory. Even if he is not the "executive president", he can be regarded as the "production director". However, even the most basic personal freedom is restricted - there are Norman soldiers staring at him wherever he goes, and without the orders of the military governor of Lorraine, he will never take a step out of the factory...

Returning to life at the Klumber-Hisen factory began like this.

The factory adopted a three-shift system, from morning to night, the machines were constantly stopped and production was very busy. Weiss soon discovered that the Normans not only used the production facilities here to create two parts for improving the performance of active equipment, but also secretly organized the production of 1.4 PIR-caliber bolt-action rifles. For his question, Ze's answer was very calm - these guns were provided to the security forces and police departments in various parts of Lorraine, and no even one of them would fall into the hands of Norman soldiers. Moreover, Lorraine's local security forces and police personnel could not be sent to the front line to fight the federal army. Therefore, what he said at the beginning was not to deceive Weiss. The current Klumber-Hisen factory did not provide the Norman army with weapons and ammunition directly used for combat.

Weiss did not buy Ze's explanation, but could only accept the reality helplessly. After all, the civilians who followed the rebels and migrated have been escorted back to Somsonas. Whether they can obtain sufficient living supplies and medical insurance is directly linked to the production results of the Klumber-Hisen factory. In other words, if the factory is shut down or the equipment is damaged and the output does not meet the Norman requirements, the more than 2,000 tired and difficult "non-combat prisoners" will be the first to be affected, and even the factory workers will suffer. As for the current situation, this will only cause the matter to fall into a vicious cycle and fall to an inability to end.

Weiss swallowed his anger, which was not the same as helplessness. In the name of organizing production, he had to travel around every corner of the factory every day, imprinting the configuration of equipment and personnel in his mind - including the more than 2,000 people who returned to the factory as a labor force, there are now more than 4,000 workers here, with the ratio of men and women close to one to one, but most of them are older and younger, while women are mainly middle-aged and young, and with a small number of girls close to adulthood, there are almost no older people. Judging from the proficiency of operating machinery and equipment, the overall level of men and women is relatively close to that of women, and the efficiency is about 40-50% of those qualified and skilled workers before the war.

In terms of the efficiency and quality of labor, even before the laborers joined, it was more than enough to complete the Normans' designated tasks. Obviously, the factor restricting output is not people, but machinery and equipment and raw materials. Weiss carefully checked and pondered repeatedly, and had a quantitative grasp of the problem: In order to manufacture new firearms and small-caliber machine guns in large quantities, the Klumber-Hisen factory purchased modern casting, stamping, boring, and welding equipment, forming multiple flow-through production lines. If these equipment were intact, whether it was used to produce bolt-action rifles or small-caliber machine guns.

The hydraulic buffer of the artillery and the four-wheel gun mount of large and medium-sized artillery were all able to cope with it. However, before the Norman army occupied Somsonas, Weiss organized the reserve force and factory personnel to split and transfer the factory equipment. During the resistance movement, it moved many times. Due to the limited dismantling and transportation conditions and the attack by the Norman army, the resisters consciously destroyed some important equipment that they had no time to take away. For many reasons, the production line of the Klumber-Hesen factory is now incomplete, and some processing links have to be operated manually, which affects efficiency and quality.

In terms of materials, although the Normans tried their best to provide guarantees, there were various "innate shortcomings" in the supply during wartime, especially the serious shortage of copper components and rubber tires, which became the biggest shortcoming of output. According to what Weiss learned from the workers, the Normans would send a flying transport ship every week to transport weapons to be modified, equipment that was modified, and various materials that cannot be self-sufficient in Lorraine. When they are lucky, they would transport refined copper ingots and tires of specified specifications, but in most cases, they would transport piles of "crashed copper and iron". In this case, the workers would

We had to act as garbage sorters, throw copper products into the furnace and melt them, and then cast them into the parts they needed. As for the tires, the Normans also knew that the waste products could not be used, so they asked the factory to find ways to find alternatives. In this way, workers sometimes need to spend a lot of extra time preparing raw materials, resulting in very unstable weekly output of the factory. In view of this, many workers even proposed to simply return to their old business and produce Norman army-standard guns in exchange for stable food supplies, and then find ways to deal with the weapons produced by the factory, which is equivalent to indirectly supporting the federal army's operations, killing two birds with one stone.

The workers' proposals are certainly desirable, but after thinking and weighing, Weiss decided to maintain the current production direction - mainly auxiliary equipment, and to manufacture a small number of old-fashioned rifles for Lorraine security and police personnel. This can avoid the risk of the factory being forcibly taken over by the Normans, and can reduce the factory's contribution to the enemy's war machines as much as possible. In order to stabilize production and prevent everyone from hungry, Weiss still thought of some practical solutions. The first is to coordinate production scientifically, such as

The young and strong labor force was added to the casting production workshop so that the casting production was kept running at full capacity within a few days, and a batch of copper parts that were sufficient for two or three weeks were concentrated. After the raw materials were used up, these young and strong labor force were dispatched to the stamping and welding production lines in time. The second item was to reasonably allocate shifts, arrange the elderly and young people with weak bodies to night shifts, and reduce the intensity of night production accordingly. Without reducing the overall efficiency, the production quality was improved through the relative concentration of day production.

In addition to these internal adjustments and adjustment methods, Weiss also tried every means to solve the problem with the help of "external forces". At his request, Ze agreed to carry out operations within his jurisdiction, and the security team and police collected various available copper products and useful rubber tires to send them to the factory. Although these actions only began to work in the second week, under Weiss' flexible dispatch, the Klumber-Hisson factory had achieved production tasks for three consecutive weeks, allowing those villagers who followed the resistance armed forces to overcome the initial difficulties... Although the Klumber-Hisson factory was operated under the control of the Norman army, Weiss' actions still won him the recognition of most factory workers and his former followers.

As time went by, the Norman Guards of the factory saw that Weis was dedicated to organizing production and their work was effective. They also received praise from their superiors, so they relaxed their supervision slightly - at least not as they did in a "person-to-person" manner as they did at the beginning. When Weiss was inspecting the machines in the workshop, the Norman soldiers in charge of stalking were just standing at the door of the workshop, and the workers talked to him. As long as the time was not long and their behavior was not unusual, the Normans no longer frequently stepped forward to interfere.

As an important initiator of the Lorraine Resistance Movement, Weisda could use his reputation to organize a secret resistance among workers. However, after just experiencing the failure of armed resistance and reaching the lowest point of his life, he did not rush to act. Instead, he kept reflecting on the reasons for the failure after work every day, and calmly and cautiously thinking about his future prospects. Until one day, an older worker stuffed him a note, like a stone thrown into the water, rippling around the calm water surface.

In the late night, Weiss pulled out the wrinkled note from the mezzanine of his sleeve and read the words on the note through the light of the flashlight: "Lorraine is immortal, fighting endlessly. The hero returns, Nirvana is reborn. Loyalty is a witness, time is no longer waiting. - Workers' Resistance Alliance."

Although Weiss had many dreams that night, he slept like never before. The next day, at the place where he received the note the day before yesterday, he stuffed a note under the machine with his shoelaces as a cover, and nodded to the elderly worker staring at him not far away.

The note reads: To the Workers' Resistance Alliance: Thank you for your encouragement. Now the enemy is still strong, we must wait for the opportunity. - Lorraine guerrilla warriors.

Since then, Weiss contacted this secret resistance organization through small notes every day. The workers in the Klumber-Hesen factory, which was directly controlled by the Norman army, can be roughly divided into two categories: one is the prisoners who have lost their freedom and laborers, and the other is the citizens recruited from the local area. The former is under strict supervision, and food and accommodation are in the factory, without additional salary. Although the latter cannot leave Somsonas without authorization, they are not restricted within the scope limited by the Normans, and their work income can be used to support their families.

This characteristic is not completely isolated from the outside world. Even the workers who have lost their freedom have the opportunity to obtain some information from the outside from other workers. It was through the Workers' Resistance Alliance that Weiss learned that in the past month when he became a prisoner, the Norman army and the Federal army had been fighting in a difficult position on the front battlefield. What is exciting is that the counterattack momentum of the Federal army is still continuing, and its front line continues to move westward and gradually approaching Lorraine. Following this trend, Lorraine's liberation is just around the corner.

Having experienced the cruelty and difficulties of the war, Weiss was not as optimistic as the civilians. Especially when he heard Prince Balas and General Sederlinz on the Norman warship that day, the Norman army seemed to have a plan to reverse, and this duel had a great relationship with Lorraine. Thinking of these, Weiss couldn't help but feel a little regretful. If he had placed his role low enough before, instead of exposing the strength of the "Lorraine guerrilla warriors" too early, he would have attracted a strong attack from the Norman army because of his sharpness. At this time, he could play the role of intelligence reconnaissance of the resistance organization.
Chapter completed!