In a courtyard made up of cave dwellings, all kinds of textiles provided as East African aid were sorted and stored away. The courtyard housed a garment factory built by the local government, and the factory was bustling with activity.
The garment factory was no small operation, with more than four hundred workers alone.
Yet its equipment was severely lacking and crude. It relied mainly on treadle sewing machines and extensive hand sewing. Many of the sewing machines had been bought through clandestine channels from Nationalist-controlled territory or seized as spoils.
Most of the production space consisted of borrowed or converted cave dwellings, private homes, and simple sheds.
Of course, a garment factory with just over four hundred people was plainly far from enough for the Northwest Armed Forces.
Besides the central garment factory, the central base area had widely adopted a model of "dispersed production, centralized management."
The garment factory would cut the cloth pieces uniformly, then distribute them to military units, government offices, schools, and even women's groups from rural women's relief associations for sewing, before collecting them for inspection.
This had effectively formed a vast "production network," enormously expanding the actual scale of output.
At that moment, Director Liu, the person in charge of the garment factory, was receiving this newly delivered batch of clothing.
"Comrade Liu, we've come to add to your workload again. Sorry to trouble you!" a soldier escorting the cotton-padded clothes said jokingly.
Director Liu gazed delightedly at the newly delivered cotton-padded clothes. "If I could have this kind of trouble every day, I'd gladly take it. For a place like ours, these cotton-padded clothes are rare materials indeed."
The soldier said, "As long as you aren't afraid of hardship or exhaustion."
Director Liu replied, "Compared with the soldiers at the front, we're