Zhang Zuolin He must do this, treat the seventy-nine officers who have returned from prison well, he must cherish his feathers, and the land of the northeast is his foundation. Once these seventy-nine officers who have escaped from prison are not properly accommodated, it will chill the lower-ranking officers under them. This is also for all subordinates to see, I, Zhang, will not treat the loyal officers of the Northeast, look at how I treat them well.

Zhang Zuolin, encouraged by a group of literati, especially Wang Yongjiang's suggestion, prepared to implement a new policy in Northeast China, where there are coal and iron mines, and planned to build an industrial cluster with steel and coal as heavy industry bases in Fengtian as the center.

It was not without lessons to be defeated at the hands of the Jiangsu army in North China, this horse bandit deeply understood that heavy industry was the foundation, and how could it be possible to win the Central Plains without aircraft, artillery and chariots.

After the arrangement of the seventy-nine people was discussed, Zhang Zuolin took a sip of the tea bowl, asked people to bring Cuban cigars and gave one to each person, cut off the head with cigar scissors, and drew a match to light it.

"Brothers, this is Liang Qichao's favorite Cuban cigar, we big and rough people also try it, damn it, I always feel that there is no big cigarette pouch."

"Our brothers talk behind closed doors, Jiangsu's development is really powerful, aircraft, artillery, tanks are all produced by themselves, it is said that Shanghai, Nanjing, Xuzhou and other places The momentum of development Orientals can not catch up. We have visited their factory in Xuzhou, so tell you about it. ”

Zhang Zuoxiang said with a look of shame: "I'm ashamed, my brother is really ashamed to have been detained in Xuzhou by Liang Qichao for more than a month. ”

Zhang Zuoxiang knew that it was Hu Wenkai who captured him, but he couldn't save face, so he couldn't say that he was defeated by a young man in his early twenties, and he could also say that he was in the past when it came to Liang Qichao.

"The day before I was finally released, Lu Yongxiang made a special trip to Xuzhou to accompany me on a tour of Xuzhou."

After all, Lu Yongxiang is the veteran of the Beiyang Army of Zhejiang's overseer, and being able to make a special trip to Xuzhou to see him off shows that Jiangsu is very courteous to him.

After Zhang Zuoxiang came back, he closed the door directly to thank the guests, because he was embarrassed to meet people. Today is the first time to attend the meeting, so it is the first time they have heard Zhang Zuoxiang talk about it. Everyone nodded thoughtfully, thinking that in the end, it was the place in the south of the Yangtze River that people knew that Dali would have been on the big blade if it had been changed to the northeast.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I was shocked when I visited Xuzhou to be honest, and it took less than a year for Jiangsu to re-plan and build Xuzhou."

"Listening to Lu Yongxiang's introduction to Xuzhou is planned first and then built, avoiding the old city and directly replanning the heavy industry zone, I will first talk about their steel mill, with an annual output of 1.5 million tons of iron. I was standing far away from the iron-making blast furnace and felt the heat hit me, and the blast furnace was dozens of stories high, and I had to look up to see the top. It feels like an ant in front of it. ”

The chamber fell silent, and then the sound of inhalation was heard, which was too descriptive.

"I'm not exaggerating, I don't think I can describe the shock, you know? How is molten iron transported to a steel mill? ”

"How?"

"Pulled by trains, ladles are pulled by locomotives and transported to the steel mill, and the train can pass through the steel mill workshop."

"Ahh The workshop is so big? ”

Zhang Zuoxiang straightened up and said: "You can believe me when I say this, all of them are people operating machines." The steel products from the rolling mill are directly hoisted onto the train by electric cranes and transported from the factory to the wharf or directly to Nanjing. ”

"I took a closer look, and their factories were all connected by rail, the raw materials were brought in by train, and the finished products were transported by train."

Wang Yongjiang asked in a low voice: "Just the steel mill?" ”

Zhang Zuoxiang glanced at Wang Yongjiang as if he had seen the market, and said: "If there is only one steel mill, I am not worth saying this, this is only one of their dozens of factories, and there is a much larger factory than this, the aircraft factory, that factory is equivalent to our three or four streets." ”

My dear, this is also an exaggeration. This made them dare not think that there could be such a large factory in the world, and in their eyes, the largest factory building was only twenty or thirty meters long and ten meters wide.

"I went to their truck manufacturing plant, hundreds of trucks were parked in the square waiting to be transported, tens of thousands of workers were producing in the factory, and all the parts were produced and transported to the factory for final assembly by dozens of parts factories around the area."

"I asked Lu Yongxiang, can Xuzhou be compared with Osaka in Japan? Do you know how Lu Yongxiang answered? ”

"How did you answer that?"

"Compared to Osaka? General Zhang Zuoxiang, I'll tell you the truth, this Xuzhou has only been built for less than one-third, and in two or three years, Xuzhou will be built, and the whole of Japan alone will not be able to compare. ”

Zhang Jinghui snorted: "This Lu Yongxiang has not learned other skills after defecting to Jiangsu, but his bragging skills are getting better." Japan is an industrial power in the world, and he wants to compare with others with such a little thing? ”

Wang Yongjiang said disdainfully: "Don't think about how strong Japan is, Japan can only rank seven or eight in the world, and the scale of steel mills and aircraft factories and truck factories mentioned by General Zhang Zuoxiang alone cannot be as large as Xuzhou." Didn't you hear Lu Yongxiang say that Xuzhou was only built by less than a third. ”

Zhang Zuolin frowned and raised his hand to stop their quarrel, and the two stopped stupidly.

"You go on."

Zhang Zuoxiang continued: "I can see several of their newspapers in Xuzhou every day, and I will tell you a few things, the first thing is that their Far Eastern University enrolls students in July, and the enrollment scale is thousands of students, and the Fujin Party selects and recruits tens of thousands of local cadres. ”

"The second thing is Anhui, I don't know if you have heard of it, the Fujin Party has killed tens of thousands of local tyrants and inferior gentry and feudal guilds in Anhui, and only allows each household with ten acres of land to be exempted from paying taxes, and the taxes above 50 acres are doubled, and those with 100 acres are charged higher taxes."

"Children of seven or eight years of age, both male and female, must attend school, otherwise the family will be taxed, the school will be exempt from school, and the children who go to school will not be charged any tuition fees and lunch will be served."

"In addition, the three provinces controlled by the Fujin Party began to implement cash-for-work in June, building farmland and water conservancy and rural roads."

Sun Liechen sighed: "Dashuai, the Fujin Party has already gained a firm foothold in Jiangnan, and it wants policies for policies and talent training." But we can't learn from them, we don't have money without them, how much does it cost? ”

Wang Yongjiang bowed his head and was silent, he was thinking that this stroke was too big, and the wish in his heart for many years was actually realized in Jiangnan. The scale of university enrollment is simply against the sky, how to manage more than 6,000 students. As long as there is no change in Anhui's governance in the middle of the way, Anhui will certainly be the foundation of the re-entry party, and no one can shake it.

"Yongjiang*, what do you think about this?" Zhang Zuolin asked.

"Dashuai, the Fujin Party is powerful, the enrollment of Far Eastern University is to absorb talents from all over the country to Jiangsu, more than 6,000 plus the expansion of several other universities This year, the territory controlled by the Fujin Party has absorbed more than 10,000 students from all over the country, plus more than 10,000 cadres they have recruited, I estimate that one-third of the country's talents have flowed to the Fujin Party."

"There are also those ruthless steps in Anhui, killing the local tyrants and inferior gentry and the feudal guild and Taoism are directly destroying the old bureaucratic system in Anhui, the tax exemption of 10 acres of land and the compulsory free schooling of children are to collect the people's hearts, and the work for relief is to stabilize the order of Anhui. These few steps are high, I don't think Liang Qichao can do it. ”

Zhang Zuolin asked: "If it wasn't for what he Liang Qichao did, how could it be?" ”

Wang Yongjiang smiled helplessly and said: "Actually, I can't believe it, but the analysis should be the masterpiece of Hu Wenkai, the actual controller of Liang Qichao's student Fujin Party." ”

At this time, Zhang Zuoxiang couldn't hide it anymore, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "Dashuai, when I was in Xuzhou, I heard them call Hu Wenkai the boss, as long as all the officials open their mouths, they will use what the boss says as their own theory, Lu Yongxiang also called Hu Wenkai the boss, and he was very respectful in his words. ”

Wang Yongjiang said: "That's right, Hu Wenkai lifted Liang Qichao to the front to shelter from the wind and rain, and he commanded behind the stage, they are teachers and students." ”

Zhang Zuolin put the tea bowl in his hand heavily on the coffee table and said: "Don't talk about Jiangsu, we have to plan how to develop the Northeast, and then go on like this." ”

Sun Liechen thought about it and said: "Dashuai, I think Fengtian is very similar to Xuzhou, there are coal and iron mines, and the transportation is also convenient, and the construction of a steel base here is unique. With steel raw materials, it's easy to do below. ”

Yang Yuting agreed: "Yes, the proposal of the great marshal Liechen is good, our conditions are better than Xuzhou, Xuzhou will be built in a few years, and we will also make a five-year plan to build Fengtian into a heavy industry center in the northeast." ”

"Concentrate on building Mukden first, with Mukden as the center and then radiating to the surroundings."

Zhang Zuolin nodded and said, "I know what you say is reasonable, but what about money? We only have a pair of underwear on us now, what to use to build a steel mill? ”

Zhang Zuolin told the truth, in order to fight for control of the government with his direct family, he launched a war of direct service, and borrowed a huge amount of money from Japan for this purpose, and originally wanted to win the battle and transfer the loan to the state in the name of the central government, but he did not expect to return the money after defeat.

Listening to Zhang Zuolin say this, everyone has no choice, they can't build a steel plant with just a mouth, which requires real gold and silver to be smashed to see the effect.

Wang Yongjiang raised his head at this time and said: "Dashuai, if I really build a steelmaking plant, I can squeeze out 5 million yuan from the treasury as start-up capital, and the rest from the provinces." It's not a one-time money to build a factory, didn't Yuting say that it will be divided into five years, and we can take out 10 million a year in the Northeast. ”

"I also have a suggestion, we can first sell our mineral resources and agricultural products in Northeast China to Jiangsu in exchange for construction funds. Don't be afraid that Jiangsu will become bigger, their population and area cannot be compared with us. ”

"It is also a country, the benefits should not be cheaper to others, and Jiangsu will not be able to run when we enter the Central Plains."