At six o'clock in the morning, Hu Wenkai, Carrotta, Dai Jitao, and Wang Xihai accompanied Wang Shan and his party to board the No. 01 passenger ship of Xingye Industry, and Wang Shan kept nodding and praising him. Wang Changrong pulled Hu Wenkai to discuss the idea of rejuvenating the country through industry, and Wang Shan listened on the side.

Hu Wenkai said that a country must establish its own heavy industry base, because all industrial raw materials need to start with steel and electricity, and after having steel, all kinds of light industrial factories can be built dependent on steel plants.

The surrounding farmers can obtain a stable source of livelihood because of factory work, and gradually leave the land, then the new city will be born, the birth of the city will stimulate the development of commerce, education, and then promote the development of industry again, for a long time, this area will produce an industrial cluster, and the accessories of industrial products will be easily found in this area, so as to reduce the cost of the product and increase the competitiveness of the product.

Wang Shan suddenly opened her eyes and said, "How long does this process take?" ”

"It's decades in the UK, it's more than ten years in the United States, and I speculate that Tianfen will take about five years." Hu Wenkai replied.

"Of course, this kind of development needs to be in a relatively stable political environment and requires the cooperation of local government policies. Now is China's best development opportunity in decades, several major Western powers have not yet taken a breather from World War I, China in the Far East is not in the middle of the world, the world economy is in the recovery stage, as long as China maintains political stability and regains its position as a world power. Hu Wenkai continued.

Hu Wenkai said that everyone's heart disease has gone up, and no one knows about the stability of the political situation, and Sun Dacang took office as generalissimo in the south and openly opposed the northern government, and the situation is actually very tense. Wang Changrong sighed and said, "Time doesn't wait for me."

Walked up to Speaker Liu and handed over the cigar, and the two stood at the railing of the passenger ship and chatted. Speaker Liu returned to the room last night, opened the envelope, and saw the check for 5,000 yuan, and was ecstatic.

Hu Wenkai focused on talking with Speaker Liu about the importance of the Yangtze River waterway to Xingye Company, the company's products are high-end, the value of the Yangtze River and coastal navigation is high, if you encounter pirates, the loss will be great, Speaker Liu felt that this is a problem, and took the initiative to ask Hu Wenkai what he needed to help.

Hu Wenkai said that it would be best if the province could give a quota for the Haiphong militia group, and that the cost of establishing the coastal defense militia should be paid by Xingye Industrial to ensure the safety of the water on the one side. Speaker Liu relaxed, this matter is simple, not just a quota for the coastal defense militia, but he did not give an affirmative reply, just nodded and said that he understood.

When the passenger ship arrived at Lusi Wharf four hours later, Wang Shan and his entourage were shocked when they took the train to inspect the factory, and rows of improvised warehouses stood at the wharf. Cranes are constantly lifting goods from the warehouse to the trucks, and countless workers are buried in their work.

The train slowly moved into the power plant, which had been installed to the end of the towering chimneys, huge condensing towers, and several stories of generator sets and steam turbines in the workshop.

After visiting the factories one by one, Wang Shan said that you are like Grandma Liu who has entered the Grand View Garden, and a group of us have been painting the ground as a prison to sit in the sky, and now we know how different it is from the developed countries in the world. Wen Kai: Thank you for investing in Haimen.

At noon, listening to Yang Siliang's report at the headquarters and eating a simple meal with the workers, Wang Shan looked at the meat and two vegetarian dishes in front of him and sighed, saying that Xingye Industry did not treat local farmers badly. Carrotta got off the boat and couldn't wait to go to school to see the two children.

After lunch, Wang Shan and his entourage took two trucks to the school and the township government without a break, and Jiang Qiuming and Wu Hongxia explained this journey.

saw Carrotta playing with two children at school, Hu Taojiang saw Hu Wenkai coming over, and the two brothers and sisters stood up and called their father hello in an orderly manner, Wang Shan and they wondered how old Hu Wenkai was and how old he was a teenager.

Wu Hongxia told Hu Wenkai and Carrotta about the cause and effect of adopting two children, and Speaker Liu sighed and said that there are many rich people, but there are almost no people like Hu Wenkai.

Wu Hongxia led the delegation to visit each classroom, saying that because children can go to school, the family can be exempted from paying taxes, so school-age children in Tianfen Township are already 100% enrolled. Wang Changrong and a few people entered the classroom and asked a few children at random, and the answers they got were the same as Wu Hongxia's.

Wang Shan walked around the playground and the teacher's office alone to find Speaker Liu to discuss the inclusion of the school in the provincial government public school series, and the two of them planned to tell Hu Wenkai, who of course agreed and asked Wang Shan to nominate the school. This is how Tianfen National School was established.

Jiang Qiuming stopped a few times on the way to the township government, and took Wang Shan and his party to inspect the difficult households in Tianfen Township, the renovated lime water brushed earthen wall thatched houses, the family's rich labor force went to the construction site to work, and the family's food and clothing were solved. The road leads to each natural village, and each natural village is elected by the villagers' committee, and all affairs are announced on the wall at the entrance of the village.

Jiang Qiuming, the township government near Zhang's hometown, reported on the organizational construction of various villages in Tianfen and the effectiveness of the militia in maintaining social order, and Wang Changrong flipped through the villagers' registration information in the filing cabinet.

Wang Shan and Speaker Liu formally talked to Hu Wenkai in a small room of the township government, and Wang Shan was very satisfied with the development of Tianfen, and the provincial government decided to nominate Hu Wenkai to run for the election of governor of Haimen County.

I wonder how the election is not carried out by the direct appointment of the provincial government. Seeing the confused look on Hu Wenkai's face, Speaker Liu explained with a smile that according to the "Jiangsu Provisional Local System" formulated by the Jiangsu Provincial Provisional Assembly in 1912, the counties that had already established parliaments adopted the electoral system and democratically elected governors. The district elects three candidates, and the provincial government selects two candidates to participate in the election.

Speaker Liu continued to say that you will run for governor of Haimen County with the current county governor Chen Jiaxiang, but you can rest assured that the Haimen County Council has jointly written to the provincial government some time ago to request that it be included in the management of your company, and the current governor Chen Jiaxiang also means this in his heart, and it is estimated that it will just go through the motions.

After explaining this matter, Wang Shan suddenly became angry with Hu Wenkai and accused Hu Wenkai of being incompetent. Such a large factory actually relies on dozens of militia groups to be responsible for security, you must know that Huai'an has been plagued by bandits, if the factory is targeted by bandits, it will be destroyed, and the people of Tianfen Township will be wiped out.

Pointing at Hu Wenkai's nose and scolding Hu Wenkai for giving the militia an indicator, why didn't he arm the militia. Hu Wenkai broke out in a cold sweat, if Wang Shan wasn't so angry, he really shouldn't be the same thing.

Hu Wenkai called Jiang Qiuming loudly to ask how many people were equipped with guns, and he received a reply that more than 20 people were pistols. Hu Wenkai asked him to issue long guns to the members of the militia today, set up machine guns at the port, set up machine guns at the locomotive, and issue long guns to the members of the village committees, striving to expand the number of militia members to 100 within a month, and organize training for gun-carrying personnel tomorrow.

Wang Shan saw that Hu Wenkai remedied the loopholes so quickly, so he did not continue to investigate, and then said that the province was ready to grant Haimen County a quota for the coastal defense militia and a large number of police places, and hoped that Hu Wenkai would not do this again. Loudly saying that the armed forces are the foundation of the rulers, and you don't even attach importance to the foundation, how can you be a good governor.

As soon as he transferred Hu Wenkai's support to ten pistols, he said that he didn't need to put it in his hands anyway, and the old Qing official began to ask for bribes. He went to the dock warehouse to get ten pistols and ten long guns, and gave the pistols to Wang Shan and the long guns to the police chief.

The chief of the police department will also make a decision on the spot, and when he returns, he will transport 300 sets of police uniforms and police equipment to Tianfen. Wang Changrong went directly to Haimen County to implement the decision of the provincial government and the provincial council, and boarded a passenger ship to return to Shanghai at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

On the way back, Speaker Liu found Hu Wenkai and had a long talk, saying that it is beneficial to be elected as governor, and even if the provincial government changes people in the future, it will not be easy to replace Hu Wenkai, because after all, he can exempt Haimen County from taxation, and the Haimen Council cannot pass his recall.

It was revealed that several powerful factions in the province decided that if Haimen County developed by leaps and bounds within a year, they were ready to try to hand over Nantong County and Shanghai County to Hu Wenkai or adopt the method of parliamentary elections. This time the province was particularly satisfied with the previous imagination, and suggested that Hu Wenkai set up a banquet to entertain Wang Shan in the evening, and it was estimated that Wang Shan would drink freely.

Hu Wenkai asked the director of the police department how many people can be in the militia group, and the director of the police department said that the militia group is supported by the local government, so there is no limit to the number of people, but it is generally about 500 people for large groups and about 100 people for small ones. A police brigade has a limited number of 300 people.

The police chief jokingly said that Hu Wenkai now has three militia groups and a police brigade in his hands, and if they are all full, he can eat up a county's finances just by eating.

handed over a cigar and helped the director light it and said: The burden of the hall master to help the little brother is too heavy, what can I do to support the little brother, the little brother will be grateful. Hu Wenkai knew that the materials above should not be in vain, and he also gave a gift of 500 yuan last night.

The chief of the police department thought for a while and said: In this way, I will intercept the 20 horses and harness allocated to the Xuzhou Police Station and distribute them to you, which is the Beijing government, and there are only 100 good Mongolian horses. Hu Wenkai expressed his gratitude for inviting the director of the department to bring his wife and children to Shanghai as a guest in his spare time.

Dai Jitao said that he came to help Hu Wenkai fight for interests, and when he arrived in Tianfen, he only looked at the factory and discussed the organizational form of the countryside with Jiang Qiuming, and when he got on the boat and returned, he learned that Hu Wenkai had done everything and felt embarrassed, and sincerely asked Hu Wenkai to go to work in Tianfen.

Hu Wenkai suggested not to rush to make a decision, let Dai Jitao think about it for two days, if he decides, he will go directly to the company to work in Tianfen after two days.

In the evening, the Dachang Hotel on North Sichuan Road entertained the Nanjing party, and it was really as Speaker Liu said that Wang Shan was very interested in the evening, and let go of drinking after praising Xingye Industry, Hu Wenkai, Carrotta, Wang Xihai, Li Congshan, Sun Daming, etc. kept toasting, and several directors also let go of their bodies and toasted each other.

On the way back to the hotel, Wang Shan said that Wang Changrong would be appointed governor of Nantong County after the Chinese New Year, and that this position was to take office for Hu Wenkai, and that Wang Changrong and Hu Wenkai would negotiate and coordinate, and that Wang Changrong, the county governor's main function was to serve Xingye Industrial and that Hu Wenkai should take good care of Wang Changrong.

Wang Shan bluntly said that the central government in Beijing was not satisfied with him, and it was estimated that he would be transferred to him in a year or two, so Hu Wenkai needed to seize the time to implement his ideals. There is no need to pay 500,000 yuan, as long as Haimen can be developed, it will be a contribution to Jiangsu and China.

In conclusion, Wang Shan said that at the end of the year, the last meeting of the parliament this year will pass a resolution to open Haimen as a commercial port and open up foreign trade on its own. Hu Wenkai has never been as grateful as he is now, and he said to Wang Shan: Governor Wenkai is not very good at using words to be grateful, but in his life, he will repay Governor Wang's kindness with actions. Wang Shan waved his hand to stop him from continuing.

Early the next morning, Hu Wenkai took Carrotta to the Dadong Hotel to pick up Wang Shan and his party to the train station, and a truck loaded with several boxes of factory products had already stopped on the platform of the railway station.

After sending off the delegation and returning to the company, they received good news that Lao Yi and Chen Yongcheng had arrived at Lusi Port with the ship, and the last batch of Vladivostok materials this year also arrived in Lusi. Let the passenger ship immediately set sail to pick up Lao Yi and Chen Yongcheng, and arrange for two Russian non-commissioned officers and students to go to Tianfen with the ship to train the militia.

The rice and boats were ready to set sail for Sichuan the day after tomorrow, and Carrotta and Hu Wenkai bought a bunch of food and clothes to bring to the old crooks, fearing that their old couple would starve in Sichuan. There are too many things he has experienced in the past few days, and his head is a little messy, so let Liu's mother prepare more food at noon, and Lao Yi will definitely come over to eat in the evening.