Chapter 102: The Wind Rises
Before you know it, it is March, the river in the northeast has begun to thaw, Zhenhua's fleet has also been pouring into Harbin, all kinds of machinery and equipment have begun to be installed and commissioned, the old factory upgrading is also being carried out in an orderly manner, and new factories are constantly rising from the ground.
Zhenhua can be said to have created a miracle in Harbin, during the half year of the epidemic, aside from the fight against the epidemic, Zhenhua's footsteps in other aspects have not stopped, under the strategy of suppressing and appeasing Harbin, Harbin's serious bandits have been greatly alleviated, and large factories have been continuously established.
The common people have hope for life, except for a very small number of careerists, naturally no one wants to go up the mountain to live a life of life, local businesses have slowly resumed business, the market in Harbin has slowly recovered, and the ** son and the little devil have gradually returned to Harbin City, only I have the Qing Dynasty official mansion, as if this place has been forgotten.
Zhenhua established a huge wholesale market near the Harbin Railway Station, and with the large number of industrial products brought by the fleet, the market gap in Harbin City was greatly enriched, and every day there would be large and small caravans arriving at this place by train to buy goods, and the market order was gradually established.
The prosperity of the market has naturally attracted a large number of people, Chen Xuan's previous concern that the population of Harbin City is too small has also been greatly alleviated, with the alleviation of the epidemic, people do not know where it suddenly appeared, Harbin City is like a huge magnet, constantly attracting all kinds of people to come here.
Zhenhua has now become a beacon in the domestic business community, everyone knows that in recent years, Zhenhua investment projects have not failed, so not only with Zhenhua has a cooperative relationship with the business rushed to Harbin City, in addition to many conservative rich people also came to Harbin City to get a piece of the pie.
Chen Xuan also asked Zhenhua to selectively transfer various industries acquired at a low price to people who came to Harbin to invest, and with the participation of these businesses, the market in Harbin suddenly burst into vigorous vitality, which Chen Xuan did not expect.
In order to activate the market, Cai Yuanpei's governor Yamen originally gave up many taxes created by the Manchu officials before, leaving only the traditional mainstream tax payment scheme.
During this time, Chen Xuan mostly stayed in Feng Ru's aircraft factory, in fact, this factory is not big, and the main work is research and development, because today's aircraft technology is not enough to be applied to practice, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a dangerous big toy that burns money, but Chen Xuan still excludes public opinion and gives priority to meeting the requirements of Hafei (Harbin Aircraft Factory), which also makes Hafei's engineers moved, and they are all working hard to design new models.
After Chen Xuan was here for a long time, he quickly learned a lot of flying knowledge, and he had some advanced concepts in later generations, although he himself could not be completely clear, but it still gave Feng Ru great inspiration, so that the subsequent design of the aircraft flew higher and higher, and the range became longer and farther.
"Found it, instructor, found it, Liu Gong, they found it!"
On this day, Chen Xuan was discussing some issues with Feng Ru about the plane, and Jiang Zhongqi ran in and said loudly.
"What did you find, you kid is so excited, do you have a crush on which girl again?"
Jiang Zhongqi can be said to be a beautiful man in the escort team, with a fair face and clear contours, the key is that the most unreasonable thing is that this kid has an innate chic temperament, sometimes when he participates in the banquet with Chen Xuan, those big girls and little daughters-in-law are all regarded as Chen Xuan's non-existence, which makes Chen Xuan depressed, and he has only been in Harbin for half a month, and he hooked up a lot of female students of Harbin Normal School, so good that he didn't do anything embarrassing, but in this regard, he was also called by the gendarmerie to ask a few times, so Chen Xuan began to make fun of him when he had nothing to do.
"Instructor, I haven't been out for a long time, you can't wronged me, I'm talking about engineer Liu Fangcheng and they found oil in Anda Town, about two hundred kilometers northwest of Harbin City."
"What?"
Chen Xuan and Feng Ru jumped up together, and shouted in unison, now the number of domestic cars is increasing, and airplanes also need fuel, and the oil problem has become a big problem to curb the development of these two industries.
"This is Liu Gong's assistant Zhao Jianxiong, who came back to report."
Jiang Zhongqi pointed to a young man who came in with him and said.
"Chairman, with the cooperation of the escort brothers, our exploration team has traveled hundreds of kilometers around Harbin City in a sled for the past two months, and finally found the oil source near a small town called Anda, Liu Gong They are now measuring, according to Liu Gong's estimates, the reserves are huge!"
"Good! Thank you Brother Zhao, the brothers of the engineering team and the escort team have worked hard and made great contributions to our cause! β
Chen Xuan hurriedly found Cai Yuanpei and others to discuss the development of Anda Oil, Cai Yuanpei and others were also excited to hear the news, and finally decided to implement military management in Anda, and transferred some officers from the first and second divisions of the new army, plus recruited recruits to form a teaching group, which was stationed in Anda Town, led by Li Lizhu, Chen Xuan's former guard captain.
And Lu Zhihua, who was in charge of industry in Hacheng, also organized people to carry the equipment, and Chen Xuan and others also followed the past to see the excitement, in fact, these places are not very beautiful, wild mountains and wild beasts are infested everywhere, and the roads along the way are even more difficult.
So Du Xiao's sapper team was also sent out to blast and open the mountain, and finally everyone arrived at this town of about thousands of people on horseback, and it was not an easy task to transport the subsequent bulky machinery and equipment.
Chen Xuan and Cai Yuanpei made decisions on the spot, set up a road construction project department, asked professional and technical personnel to survey the route and recruit road construction workers, and even stopped some projects that were not so urgently needed and gave priority to opening up the road.
After this period of running-in, the senior management of Fuxing D and Zhenhua can roughly cooperate seamlessly, and with the decision made, various departments began to operate.
Chen Xuan and Cai Yuanpei held a grand celebration banquet for the exploration team, and arranged some follow-up work in Anda Town, and then returned to Harbin City.
Now that many of the work in Harbin City is on the right track, Chen Xuan's role is not so great, and Shanghai has been left behind for too long, and many things are still waiting for Chen Xuan to go back to deal with, so Chen Xuan's return trip is also included in the agenda.
Entering April, the domestic situation is even more turbulent, the Empress Dowager Lafayette, who has controlled the government for decades and wants to go to war with all countries, finally swallowed her last breath, strikes and strikes in various places, demonstrations have become commonplace, armed revolutionary uprisings have come and gone, although the Guangzhou uprising led by the League failed, but it seems to have aroused more armed uprisings, and anyone with a discerning eye knows that the Manchu court has come to an endγγγγγγ
Shanghai Zhenhua headquarters, Chen Xuan has been back for more than a month, the situation in Shanghai has not eased in the slightest, but has intensified, various revolutionary groups are preaching revolution everywhere, class conflicts are becoming more and more irreconcilable, after the revival meeting is over, Chen Xuan left Du Yuesheng behind.
"Ah Sheng, how are we in the New Army now?"
"Since the year before last, you asked me to bring your handwritten letter to the capital to find the eldest brother Qicai (Chen Qicai, Chen Qimei's third brother, who served as the director of the Third Department of the Military Advisory Office), we have successively arranged more than 200 people in the new army across the country, and with the support of our secret financial resources, there are now two people with the highest status who have achieved co-unification, both of whom have returned from abroad, and there are eight people in the standard command, and the most battalion-level officers have more than 100 people, and the others are some who have no real power."
"Ah Sheng, you are still dissatisfied with me for letting you arrange secret agents around Changjing and Zhiheng."
Seeing that Du Yuesheng's face was a little stinky, Chen Xuan opened his mouth and sighed.
"I just don't understand, since you don't trust Changjing and them, why do you want them to go out to lead the troops, and Manniu, he is a brother who grew up with us, I believe whoever says that he will betray me, but when it comes to Manniu, I don't believe it first!"
"Ah Sheng, you are wrong, I don't distrust them, I have no doubt about their loyalty to the cause, but now that we are in a big situation, they have a lot of power in their hands, and there are all kinds of people gathered around them, can you guarantee that they will not make mistakes under the bewitchment of others?"
"I'm not asking you to plant people around them, not to deal with anyone, but to help them when they are about to make a mistake, so that they don't go astray, we don't have many opportunities, and a wrong step can lead to unmanageable consequences, so I have to be careful."
"I will do whatever you ask me to do, but I can't understand and won't understand your behavior of planting people around your own people, and I can't even trust the people around me anymore, I have reservations about this, but I'm the head of the archives of Fuxing D, and I won't postpone what I should do."
After saying that, Du Yuesheng turned around and left, Chen Xuan's heart became more and more stinging, he really had no other thoughts about planting people around Sun Hongye and others, just to do his best to make his group make fewer mistakes and avoid detours, because the national and international situation is like this, Chen Xuan, who knows the direction of history, also knows that he has no time to waste, and others will not give Fuxing D another chance.
But his behavior cannot be understood by his friends and brothers, sometimes, people are really involuntarily, the estrangement between Du Yuesheng and Chen Xuan makes Chen Xuan even more painful, will he really become a loner in the end!