"Master, please give me three ounces of corn porridge, two grain steamed buns, and a small portion of pickles."

Standing outside the window of the cafeteria, Qian Youzhi handed a stainless steel dinner plate in his hand and shouted at an aunt inside who didn't have a very round figure.

The aunt wearing a snow-white apron and white sleeves heard this.

Immediately, he waved the big spoon in his hand and put the above food on the plate with quick movements.

But after completing these things easily, his mouth squirmed silently for a while, and after a while, he said:

"These things cost a total of half a catty of food stamps, plus ten cents."

"Okay, please wait a moment." After hearing this, Qian Youzhi first took out a folded red cloth from his trouser pocket.

After opening the red cloth layer by layer, you can see that there is a stack of small plastic rectangular cards inside.

After Qian Youzhi painstakingly sorted through them, he found one red and one green, which represented five taels of food stamps and one dime respectively.

Then, these two small plastic cards were delivered.

After the aunt inside took the small plastic card, she looked at it carefully for a few times. After confirming that the amount on it was correct, she handed out the dinner plate filled with food.

So what! It’s no wonder that the actions between the two of them seem a bit jerky now.

The main reason is that the food stamps and money mentioned above are some brand-new and fresh gadgets that were re-launched three days ago after Hu Biao, the leader who disappeared for half a year, reappeared.

When these seemingly inconspicuous little plastic cards appeared, they changed the lives of the indigenous people dramatically.

Anyway, for Qian Youzhi, a member of the bronze status level, from now on, the factory will no longer distribute various daily necessities regularly every month, and even the canteen will not provide them for free.

Instead, various bills are issued regularly every month, including food stamps, cloth stamps, meat stamps, industrial stamps, and various small plastic cards of money.

At the same time, seemingly overnight, there were more places called "convenience supermarkets" in the tribe.

This kind of supermarket has disappeared for decades and only existed before the legendary destruction. It is said that there will be at least one in every tribal settlement.

Things to eat, wear, use, and play.

In supermarkets, there is almost everything that rich and ambitious natives want, provided they can pay enough for these small plastic cards.

Specifically, when you want to buy canned goods, ham sausages, and dried fish, you need meat stamps and money; when you want to buy textiles such as clothes and towels, you need to pay cloth stamps and money.

When you want to buy bicycles, sewing machines, electric fans, radios, etc., you need industrial tickets and money.

Even to eat in the canteen, you now need to give food stamps and money. If you want to eat some meaty dishes, you have to give a certain amount of meat stamps.

However, compared to the way of life that suddenly became complicated after the appearance of these food stamps and various coupons, the members of the entire Central Continent tribe showed an extremely welcoming and supportive attitude.

Because of the huge personal prestige of Hu Biao and other leaders, this is a small reason why they always give them unconditional support.

The bigger reason is that Qian Youzhi feels that such a life is freer; at least he can choose when to be frugal and when to have a luxurious meal of meat.

Or go to those supermarkets that have everything and buy what you want.

For example, Qian Youzhi’s biggest dream at the moment is to buy a bicycle of his own.

Although to achieve such a goal, he would have to save two years just on industrial tickets, but there is still hope, isn't it...

After finishing breakfast, Qian Youzhi started the last step before going to work.

In the changing room of the factory, I took off my most decent clothes, which were the second-hand school uniforms of a fat senior student in an elementary school in the modern dimension, and put on the thick canvas work clothes issued by the factory.

There's no way! Since the tribe's distribution method was reformed a few days ago.

There is one set for spring, summer and winter each year. Daily clothes will no longer be distributed. If they are, only some work clothes will be distributed.

For other daily clothes, you can only buy them in the clothing section of the supermarket, or you can get some fabric and make them yourself.

Qian Youzhi had already thought about it, and he wanted to buy a "Mao suit" made of woolen material and with four pockets to wear.

It can be regarded as a small goal in the interim period before completing the long-term goal of buying a bicycle.

By the way! Inside the Chinese tunic suit, you will also need to wear a white shirt collar and sleeves, and a pair of sandals on your feet.

Because this kind of dress is currently the most dignified dress of the Zhongzhou tribe. Basically, except for the leaders such as Hu Biao, which male high-ranking person does not dress like this?

It can be said that if you wear an outfit like this, it will make others look at it a few times.

The only problem is that if you want to get such an outfit, with Qian Youzhi's current bronze status salary, you still need to save up for the first half of the year.

"Come on, work hard, and strive to become a workshop director as soon as possible. Then the salary will be much higher. As long as you become a silver-level person, it is said that you can buy an outfit in two months and a bicycle in half a year."

After replacing the work clothes that were originally made of canvas, and then added an ugly patch on key locations such as the elbows, so it looked a bit ugly.

Qian Youzhi faced the changing room where he got it from the ruins. Now he could only look at half of himself in the mirror, and began to cheer silently...

He used careful movements with his hands, not even daring to breathe even slightly through his nose.

Qian Youzhi carefully poured some yellow liquid from a small tong pot in his hand into an oval metal shell in front of him.

Although in the words of the factory technician and in the video broadcast on TV.

This material called TNT is actually very safe. Even if it is burned in a fire, there will be no danger in the process.

But when I thought about what I was doing right now, I was processing shells that could kill people.

Qian Youzhi didn't dare to be careless in his actions, for fear that if something unexpected happened, his good life would be ruined.

That's right! Once upon a time, the repair shop could only repair and piece together some light firearms. Since it was renamed the First Arsenal of Central Continent, it can currently only produce some simple firearms.

Such as unrifled shotguns, imitation water pipe guns, and other simple firearms such as Sten submachine guns.

In this unusually shabby-looking arsenal, in addition to reloading bullets of various calibers, it can also make some small-caliber artillery shells.

Although they are just some mortar shells, these are not serious shells.

By the way! Today's No. 1 Military Factory can also produce some iron-cased anti-infantry mines and grenades.

To put it bluntly, mortar shells, landmines, and grenades really don’t have much technical content. The shells are cast using the casting technology of steel plants, so there is no pressure at all.

That is to say, the production of TNT and fuzes involves the cooperation of a series of chemical industries.

It is far more difficult than imagined to rely on the power of the Central Continent tribe to produce something from scratch.

However, in the short term, they also have temporary solutions.

It is completely possible to buy in large quantities at Shanying's house through Baixiang's channel; the magical thing is that as long as you have enough American knives in your hand, you can actually buy almost everything you want.

No! Among the materials obtained by White Elephant this time, there were 20 tons of TNT.

In addition, there are a large number of fuses.

With such a quantity, I don’t know how many mortar shells and mines can be produced with up to several kilograms of TNT stuffed into each one.

At the same time, it is based on the idea that no matter what, we must have weapons manufacturing and establishment.

For this first arsenal, Team Zhongzhou has actually put a lot of effort into it.

First of all, the current white elephant is at Shanying's house, looking for people to build relationships, giving gifts, and smashing out a lot of beautiful knives.

The only purpose is to get an abandoned production line of Shanying's "July 10 semi-automatic rifle".

Maybe many people are a little unfamiliar with this kind of semi-automatic rifle with a total quantity of only 18,000 produced, and have never heard of it at all.

But in fact, this is just a weapon produced by the Shanying family based on the technology of the Rabbit 56 semi-automatic rifle and its assisted production line.

It just seemed a little strange that they had changed the name.

Secondly, before Original Sin came over, even with the strengthening of the primary bloodline, he almost suffered from stomach bleeding at the wine table.

The reason is very simple. Under the assignment of the team, this guy is in the process of purchasing an N-hand thousand-ton hydraulic press.

In the current tight economic situation, in order to make the price cheaper, the team now chooses to sacrifice the stomach of original sin.

The plan to buy such a thousand-ton hydraulic press in every possible way is also because the military factory has an idea to start manufacturing barrel artillery by itself in the future.

You know! A thousand-ton hydraulic press can produce 155 mm caliber army artillery.

Therefore, even if you buy some hydraulic presses with hundreds of tons, the current military factory is enough for use; but if you get it right in one step, won't you avoid trouble...

I worked until 7:30 in the evening. After working all day, Qian Youzhi finally got off work.

You know, in today's Zhongzhou tribe, there is no such thing as eight hours, nor is there any three-shift work system.

This is because the current tribal manpower is very limited, and the maximum effort can only squeeze out a few thousand industrial workers.

Therefore, in terms of industrial production, the Zhongzhou tribe now implements a two-shift working system of 12 hours per shift.

In these 12 hours of working time, there can be one hour for lunch and break, and 50 minutes for dinner and break.

All in all, I have to work at least 10 hours a day.

But even so, when I hurriedly put on my precious "Majiatun Central Primary School" uniform again.

Because I had been working hard all day with high concentration, Qian Youzhi was actually quite exhausted now, but I couldn't go back early to wash up and rest.

Just kidding! It was still early before he could go to bed.

As leader Hu Biao once said in a speech on the radio:

Today's Zhongzhou tribe is in a period of rapid development and growth, and there will be huge changes every day.

In such a critical period, you can only catch up with the development of the tribe, and the tribe cannot stop and wait for you alone.

As long as you can work hard to improve yourself and keep up with the development of the tribe, then congratulations to you, your future prospects are limitless; otherwise, if you can't keep up, you can only become an ordinary member.
To be continued...