"What did you say? Copper Mine?" Zhao Hu and Xu Hongyuan screamed at the same time. No one knows the preciousness of copper mines better than them. These days, Minister Cha almost scraped off the golden body of the Bodhisattva in the temple and smelted copper. It can be seen that the importance of copper in the military sub-district is no lower than guns and cannons at all, and even far more than it is.

Because of its good ductility and not easy to corrode, copper has always been an important strategic material. Now, since the main body of the bullets is mostly made of copper, any copper mine is the goal pursued by the rulers.

Of course, this copper ore is also divided into the depth, size and content of the ore veins. Therefore, in some deep mountains, even if there are some high-quality copper, due to the small mining volume and the deep ore veins, it can only be given up by the discoverer because of the small amount of mining, the ore veins being too deep and inconvenient for transportation.

As for the copper ore in Houshan, which contains only half of the content of ordinary copper ore and contains too many impurities, no one has ever made any money since its discovery.

Of course, this is all for those capitalists. Even if they recruit the most hard-working workers, they have to pay wages, and workers will be injured and punished for their injuries and deaths, so they have eliminated the idea of ​​mining this small copper mine.

But the old sheepskin was different. When he heard that there was a copper mine here, he became unscrupulous and profitable. After several years of hard work, he finally destroyed the two nests of bandits occupying this place, and made the surrendered bandits work as laborers. He tied up many passers-by from all over the place to act as miners, and used manpower to build a copper mine that integrates mining and smelting.

When more than a hundred miners with unclothed clothes and stinking all over their bodies saw the Eighth Route Army coming to rescue them, they all burst into tears. How many years have they been? Finally, I saw someone coming to rescue them. The miners who thought they would die silently like others had a very powerful force in survival. After a half-filled meal, they cleaned up their originally dirty residence in just one and a half days!

Of course, this was just Zhao Hu's first move. In addition to asking the second platoon leader to go back and call Wang to come, he also asked him to report the news here to Minister Cha immediately. After all, the discovery of a copper mine is a great thing for the entire military sub-district, not to mention that there are ready-made smelting furnaces, technical workers, and a complete set of equipment for small-square smelting.

It was better to say that the old sheepskin was ambition or that he was short-sighted. He never expected that when he spent most of his life savings and just built the copper mine to make a fortune, the Japanese came over, which made the copper he had produced disappear from the buyer. No, in fact, there were more buyers, but his way out had been cut off by the Japanese. When a group of Japanese came to explore the mountains, he found that he could not beat others at all, and secondly, he wanted to use the Japanese to destroy the Eighth Route Army's construction center next to the collapse. Then, this barren mountain and wild ridge was his own world. As long as the Japanese were opened up, he could enjoy his wealth and he would never have to worry about the rest of his life.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Hu pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger, and created two pistols out of thin air, and drove his life and dream into the abyss. The small industrial base he worked hard to create was in vain and the military district repair center.

After Zhao Hu discovered the copper mine, he was not in a hurry to find the treasure house of the old sheepskin. Those things were dead objects, and they could not escape in the hall for a while.

What he is concerned about now is the two technical masters who were plundered by the old sheepskin and seven or eight learned bronze smelting talents. Compared with miners who work as hard laborers in mining all day, these people are treated much better than them, but they can only eat and wear warm clothes. If they get sick, they can only be treated by the old doctor in the village and the two medical staff who are plundered from the city.

The technical master He Yaoguang in front of him has had a fever for two or three days. Since the Japanese occupied the surrounding cities, the old doctor Wan Fucheng's herbs have not been effective. Western medicine Zhou Zhimin and his help and lover Xuan Ruxia were helpless.

Zhao Hu secretly took out two extremely precious anti-inflammatory drugs from the warehouse and turned them into water, and poured them on He Dana. He said that he had used his ancestral prescription. Of course, some harmless grass juice was added to it, making it look more like Chinese medicine.

After feeding He Dana, Zhao Hu asked about the three people in front of him. Dr. Wan had been running a pharmacy in the town before. Later, Lao Sheepskin was injured once and was treated by an old Chinese doctor. He found that there was a lack of doctor in the village, so he snatched it with a shop.

Similarly, the second in commander, the spearman who was shot dead by Zhao Hu, was once injured by gunshots. The old Chinese doctor could not treat it. The old sheepskin used the same trick again and went to the city to grab Dr. Zhou's family and the clinic on the mountain.

Lao Sheepsie took good care of the three people. Every time she went out, there were at least two bandits guarding her. However, because they needed to treat their subordinates, they were not too harsh on the three people. So over the years, the couple not only worshipped Lao Wan as their godfather, but also learned a good Chinese medicine technique.

Zhao Hu asked about Dr. Wan’s future plans. The old man has now returned to freedom and just wants to go back to Wutai to see his family and enjoy his old age. He no longer misses the life of the copycat.

So Zhao Hu sent two soldiers to escort Wan Lao to the foot of Mount Wutai, which was also a respect for the elderly. After all, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor with medical ethics was very popular with the people wherever he went.

The city has been occupied by the Japanese, and Dr. Zhou and his wife are foreigners, so they can't go back even if they want to. They had to stay in the machinery repair center for the time being persuaded by Guidance Wang.

In fact, this is what Zhao Hu strongly hopes for. After all, his special forces and engineer companies have never been equipped with qualified medical soldiers. In addition, if there is a field doctor in the special forces, these team members who are more expensive than gold will have a great chance of survival, even if this doctor does not have many special forces skills!

After temporarily arranging all the captured personnel, Zhao Hu asked Wang Da to use his specialties to talk to these bandits one by one, and mobilize people who can join to join the engineering company, provided that these people do not have much blood debt. The distinction is that fighting with the bandits does not count, and those who have not killed anti-Japanese people and the common people are all mobilized targets. Of course, the premise is to look at the character first!

As for the other people, they are just strong and can be used to replace rescued miners. In Zhao Hu's words, this is called labor reform. In the future, all the surrendered Japanese and puppet troops must first become glorious miners in the mine, and then reduce their sentences year by year according to their performance!

What Zhao Hu didn't expect was that among these miners, except for about twenty of them, who were local and needed to go home to see them, all of them were from other places or big cities, and they couldn't go back even if they had homes, so they all had to stay, either as a mine manager or asked to join the army to fight the Japanese, so that the director Wang Da, who was in charge of recruiting people, smiled so hard that he was thin. They all persevered after years of hardship and tenacious struggle. As long as they had enough food, they would be full of energy in less than half a month.

Seeing that the engineer company could finally be fully organized, Zhao Hu happily accompanied Wang Dazhi to the underground warehouse of the hall with Hou San.

It does not have the legendary poisonous gas arrow, nor is it very large. It looks like an ordinary deep cellar. After stepping on the stone stairs to the bottom, Old Hou San's heart fell to the ground. It was so fucking that the three-eyed company commander actually tied a wire grenade to himself. The dark lanterns went down the stairs. If anyone lost his feet, he would not have any corpse.

But at this moment, all the cadres and soldiers were cheering and excited. Under the bright torches, there were jars neatly placed in front of them. The mouth of the jar was not sealed. You could see Yuan Datou, who was still shining with silver light. This is a big ocean!

In addition, there is a safe, a large jar filled with various gem rings, etc.

On the contrary, Zhao Hu never forgot about the gold bars. Thinking that most of what Hou San said were bought with machines, which was a total of 100,000 yuan!
Chapter completed!