Chapter Ninety-Five: The Northeast Plague Incident

Jiang Fangzhen took out a pen and paper to write and draw, and after a while, he designed several applications of aircraft on the battlefield, and others also expressed their opinions and planned countless possibilities.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the aircraft is still in our imagination, and it is imperative to discuss how to respond to Dingsan's request and consider our aircraft construction plan."

Chen Xuan waited for the discussion to calm down, and then asked.

"What else is there to talk about, of course, let Feng Dingsan return to China as soon as possible, make our own Chinese planes, and Gu Shaochuan, who has now obtained a doctorate in law, what are you doing in the United States, now the teachers of Far Eastern University are still weak, and the discussion of the provisional constitution has not been completed for more than a year, so naturally he will follow him back to China."

"Brother Huang Kan, things are not so simple, we have to build our own aircraft, but the manufacturing plant in San Francisco can't just be lost, the industrial base of the Americans is much stronger than ours, so the factory in San Francisco stays, one is to use the industrial base of the United States to design more advanced aircraft, the other is to absorb and integrate the design technology of European and American countries, although the aircraft of the top three is advanced, but the aircraft technology of Europe and the United States is not without merit, our country has been closed to the country for hundreds of years, We can't afford to make the mistake of calling ourselves big brother behind closed doors, what is that? ”

Jiang Fangzhen opened his mouth and said.

"Then what do you say, it can't be that we have our own technology and are still serving the Yankees, right?"

Huang Kan blew his beard and said with a glare.

"Everyone, don't be in a hurry, Brother Fang Zhen is reasonable, the factory in San Francisco really can't be withdrawn, my opinion is to let Dingsan and Shaochuan purchase two sets of the most advanced production equipment in Europe and the United States, and then bring it back to China with all the previous R&D and design drawings, as for aircraft manufacturing, I am ready to build the factory in Nanyang, in that case, one is conducive to secrecy, and the other is to avoid unnecessary trouble, the imperial court will not watch us fully control aircraft manufacturing, and in Shanghai, we set up an aircraft research institute, Presided over by Dingsan, a more advanced aircraft was developed. ”

"Good! Although this suggestion is conservative, it is not unsound, but is there no problem in terms of safety with such an important production base in Nanyang? ”

Cai Yuanpei nodded in agreement, but still expressed his concerns.

"Senior brother, you should really go to Nanyang to take a look, now we are in Nanyang's territory, the newspaper reports are not exaggerated, but completely underestimate our strength in Nanyang, where we have our own administrative department, our own industrial base, arsenal and armed forces, according to Tan Kah Kee, a large number of Chinese have poured into Nanyang, and we have more than one million Chinese in Java alone!"

"Is it really as good as you say? How long has it been? Looks like I'm going to have to take some time to go to Nanyang. ”

"Senior brother's suggestion is good, isn't Nanyang very stressed now, our students from Far Eastern University have also been enrolled for more than a year, didn't the ancestors say 'it's better to read ten thousand books than to travel thousands of miles', I think Far Eastern University can take turns to send students to Nanyang, not only can they learn a lot of practical knowledge, but also can give Nanyang a lot of help and reduce the pressure on Nanyang."

"Okay, I'll organize the Academic Affairs Office to make a feasible plan tomorrow, and report it to the Party Committee for approval when the time comes!"

"Then I have to lead the team in the first batch, I want to see what the paradise described by Brother Bo Xun (Yu Youren) is like, there is such a good development in just over a year, I absolutely don't believe it!"

Huang Kan jumped up and said in a huff, and everyone laughed together.

November came unconsciously, Zhenhua in 2010 also made great progress, and our calamitous country in the natural and man-made disasters survived a year, Zhenhua has done its best to transport food and materials from Nanyang, but it is still a drop in the bucket, in addition to Zhenhua to earn a good reputation, the country is really not much.

At this time, the plague was introduced into Harbin from the Middle Eastern Railway through Manchuria, and soon endangered the whole of Northeast China, and the sudden epidemic swept Harbin, according to the final statistics, the average number of people dying from the epidemic in Harbin City was more than 50 people a day, and it is impossible to estimate what happened in the countryside.

Zhenhua Group responded immediately, donated disaster relief materials, and sent its own medical team to Harbin to participate in epidemic prevention and rescue work, so it also got acquainted with Wu Liande, a medical doctor from Cambridge University in Penang (a state in Malaysia).

Wu Liande was the chief medical officer of the epidemic prevention work in the three eastern provinces of the Manchu and Qing dynasties, but due to the inefficiency and ignorance of the government, which greatly affected the control of the epidemic, Chen Xuan broke through layers of obstacles, did his best to support Wu Liande's work, called on the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce to donate money and materials, stopped the production of the factory, and transformed a production line that could produce medical masks and disinfectants provided by Wu Liande, which were transported to the victims in Northeast China by sea as soon as possible.

even dispatched a merchant group escort far away in the Northeast, so the members of the escort team wearing protective clothing and masks have become a scene in the Northeast, Sun Hongye personally led the team and went deep into the disaster area to participate in the disaster relief work, for this, Zhenhua also paid a heavy price, 135 people died of the virus in the disaster relief process, Sun Hongye was also infected, thanks to his strong anti-epidemic ability, which was rescued by Wu Liande.

Chen Xuan also wrote out some of the regulations on the prevention of infectious diseases that he learned in later generations overnight, and went straight to the Northeast despite the dissuasion of everyone to devote himself to the fight against the epidemic and disaster relief.

The officials of the imperial court and the Soviet Union and Japanese merchants had already fled Harbin, leaving Wu Liande's medical team, and a truckload of stinking corpses were transported out of the city under the guidance of the escort team like splitting wood and burned and buried, Harbin became a dead city, and the people in the city were like walking corpses who had lost their souls.

Chen Xuan couldn't stand it anymore, one after another telegrams were sent to Shanghai and Nanyang to ask for help, all the powerful people at home and abroad that Chen Xuan knew received Chen Xuan's telegrams, Zhang Jian scolded Chen Xuan for his reckless behavior in the Northeast, but he still made a positive response to the request of this prospective son-in-law, and he took out hundreds of thousands of oceans to donate to disaster relief, and also held a series of press conferences to call on the public to contribute money and efforts to help the Northeast fight the epidemic and disaster relief.

In addition to the collective silence of the imperial court, all levels of the country have united unprecedentedly, and the scene of disaster relief has shocked the country and abroad for the first time, and Chen Xuan, chairman of Zhenhua Group, and Fuxing D have also appeared in the public's field of vision for the first time.

Due to the flight of the court officials, Chen Xuan had to organize the gentry in the city, and with the help of Fuxing D, temporarily organized the management organization, counted the scarce materials and solved various problems in Harbin.

In the report of his temporary officials, Chen Xuan knew that the imminent problem in Harbin was not only the problem of the epidemic, but also the food problem, and that the hungry people who starved to death every day were no less than those infected with the virus, and the land in the northeast was concentrated in the hands of a large number of Manchu generals, and they would not release the grain, so Chen Xuan had to pay a high price to buy food in the hands of these adults' housekeepers, and at the same time asked Shanghai and Nanyang to allocate food reinforcements as soon as possible.

Various other social problems emerge one after another, and this is not something that Chen Xuan, the temporary manager without any official recognition, can solve many things, in fact, Chen Xuan seems to be very simple to solve, but due to the lack of official recognition and the obstruction of local real power people, Chen Xuan can only watch the poor people be displaced and die, Chen Xuan cried again.

With the assistance and leadership of the Fuxing DD staff, the organizational structure of Harbin was quickly established, and the food that came with Chen Xuan's ship was also distributed in large quantities after leaving the necessary reserves, doing their best to save the lives of their compatriots.

Under the auspices of Chen Xuan, Harbin gradually restored order in a blind panic, epidemic prevention and relief for the victims were also carried out in an orderly manner, Wu Liande's research finally came to fruition, and the epidemic was slowly controlled, Chen Xuan began to organize urban and rural mining workers and mobilize factories in the city to start work, so as to restore economic order.

What made Chen Xuan speechless was that many Manchurian chaebols and local businessmen had already run away in order to avoid the epidemic, and the epidemic also frightened them, so they refused to start work, Chen Xuan had no choice but to invest in the merger of several factories and minerals, what he didn't expect was that these people would rather throw out the industry in their hands as long as the price was very low, and clearly told Chen Xuan that you want to start work, the mines and factories have been sold to you, you make your own decisions, and you will never come again.

As a result, a large number of businessmen and gentry sold all their properties at a low price, and the price was unimaginably low, and even the big businessmen in Japan and the Soviet Union were selling their properties quickly.

As the epidemic was gradually controlled, Chen Xuan found that he had a lot of mineral factories in his hands, and they all started at very low prices, which was equivalent to picking up for nothing, and the housekeepers of Yu Qiaqing and Zhang Jian and others who came with him also bought a lot of industries in Harbin.