After seeing off Dong Qilong, who was in charge of disaster relief, and two non-commissioned officers who were in good arms, he received a report from the office that Wang Changrong, secretary general of Jiangsu Province, was waiting for him in the conference room.

Wang Changrong sat in the conference room, smoking a cigarette and waiting for Hu Wenkai, he went to Haimen County to preside over the election of the governor of Haimen County, Hu Wenkai was elected by unanimous vote, the former governor Chen Jiaxiang cooperated very well, for the time being, Chen Jiaxiang presided over the overall work, and Hu Wenkai could only officially take office after the provincial government appointment letter came down.

According to Hu Wenkai's opinion in Tianfen, the county council announced for Hu Wenkai that in 1921, all agricultural taxes in Haimen would be paid by Xingye Industry. The parliamentarians had already gone back to spread the good news before the meeting was adjourned.

Wang Changrong came this time to discuss the affairs of Nantong County with Hu Wenkai, and his appointment as governor of Nantong County was only an expedient measure for Hu Wenkai.

Hu Wenkai knew that Wang Changrong was Wang Shan's confidant, and he might become his right-hand man in the future. Very politely entertained Wang Changrong, Wang Changrong's international students had a strong atmosphere and went straight to the point. "The parliamentary election has passed the gubernatorial process, and you can take office when you wait for the provincial government to appoint."

"Thank you, Secretary-General Wang, Secretary-General Wang, for your hard work."

"Wen Kai, the two of us don't talk any more, I will be in charge of Nantong County for you first, you must help me not to let me be driven away there." Wang Changrong opened the skylight and said something bright.

"Secretary-General Wang, can you first talk about how Xingye Industry will develop after it obtains Haimen County."

"Wen Kai, you have the bottom in your heart, and you still come to test me, I'm not kind."

Hu Wenkai said sincerely: "After all, one person's ideas are not comprehensive, and absorbing my brother's ideas can be slowly improved, so I want to listen to my brother's opinion." ”

"My opinion is to focus on the development of Tianfen, which is the most critical step, the second step is to replace the officials of Haimen, install the company's people to fully control Haimen, and the third is to establish local armed forces, and without the backing of the armed forces, the action will be restricted." Wang Changrong said.

Hu Wenkai nodded, this proposal was almost the same as what he thought in his heart, and got up and asked Wang Xihai to send the map. Pointing to the map, he said: "Our company has started to build the railway from Tianfen to Yong'an Town. ”

"The distance to Shanghai is across the Yangtze River, and the railway is well repaired." Wang Changrong praised.

"The first thing you did after taking office was to mobilize the peasants to build the railway from Nantong County to Tianyong Line, and the peasants were paid for by the company for the road repair and two meals. Hainan Railway Company was established with the repaired railway, and one-third of each share income went to the local government. In the second half of next year, the company will select about 20 people to enrich you. Hu Wenkai spoke eloquently.

"The road construction work has been completed, but I am afraid that the disparity between the two counties is too great, and I will not be able to do my work."

"Brother Wang, don't worry, there are more than 10,000 workers needed for all the Tianfen factories to start? The company gives priority to farmers in Nantong County, and the company helps you establish two schools and a vocational worker training school in Nantong. For the time being, the benefit of tax exemption could not be given, and the company's expenses in 1921 were particularly huge and had to be taken step by step. ”

"First of all, we must break through the traffic bottlenecks between the two places and let the goods of the two places circulate as soon as possible, first of all, we must abolish the card tax and double taxation. The government operating funds of Nantong County are provided by the company, and you are 600 yuan a month in addition to the salary given to you by the provincial government. Hu Wenkai already had an idea in his heart to closely integrate Haimen and Nantong.

"I want to know what you think in a few years, after all, I will follow you in the future and have a goal." Wang Changrong raised his body and said.

"What? Follow me? ”

"Governor Wang didn't tell you? I voluntarily resigned as Secretary-General because I wanted to follow you in a career. Do you want me to vote for you? Hu Wenkai: This is a modern society, not a feudal era. Wang Changrong said with a smile.

"You must have a name for it, Brother Wang can't just serve as a secretary general, you have to hang a deputy Dao Yin of Su Changdao," Hu Wenkai said jokingly.

"Wen Kai, you are waking up the person in the dream with a word, and I will immediately find Governor Wang when I go back. But you still talk about your thoughts for the future. ”

"People-oriented, backed by the economy, spread to Huhaidao and Suchangdao within three years, bringing a comfortable life to the people." Hu Wenkai didn't dare to say more, but just said a part, which made Wang Changrong very excited.

"Liberate the shackles that have been put on the people's heads, drive the people in the right direction with interests, and strive to surpass Japan in terms of industrial output in five years."

"Wen Kai is a bit hanging, and this Japanese industry is also at the forefront of the world."

"Don't worry, I'm sure that the Tianfen plant will produce more than 1.5 million tons of steel in three years."

"I'll leave this body board to you, Wen Kai." Wang Changrong said bluntly.

"I'll take it!" The two held hands tightly.

"Brother Evergreen, how did you get here?"

"Your little gunboat sent me here."

"What? Gunship? Hu Wenkai asked.

"The Russian-built coastal gunboat of several hundred tons, Yang Siliang arranged for someone to use it to send me over. Stop at Jiangnan Shipbuilding Pier and wait for you to cut the ribbon at the power plant in a few days. Wang Changrong said. Hu Wenkai understood the by-products brought back from Vladivostok.

Wang Changrong was going back to Nanjing to report that day, and Hu Wenkai did not keep arranging for someone to drive him to the train station.

In the past two days, Hu Wenkai has been manufacturing small diesel tractors with a group of engineers in the Yatian South Road factory, that is, the small walk-behind tractors of later generations, and has experience in the production of large diesel engines, and the small walk-behind tractors have been made in a few days, the cost is very low, the only thing is that the tires are difficult, and there is no one in Shanghai that can supply the front deep grain tires of small walk-behind tractors.

Hu Wenkai drew the shape of the tire and asked the trading company to go global*, and after loading the climbing pears on the ground, it was easy to turn over the open space of the factory. Hu Wenkai convened engineers in the conference room to design a small assembly line to produce walk-behind tractors, and first concentrated on producing 50 sets of production lines in the production process.

The pricing is based on raw materials, workers' wages, water and electricity, equipment depreciation, capital interest and then 15% to get the sales price of 300 yuan, large-scale production can also reduce costs, after the cylinder block is produced in Tianfen, assembled in the Yatian South Road factory, the cylinder block and frame can be produced with Tianfen's low-cost steel. Two tractors will be brought to the Chicago Expo for exhibition and sale.

On Saturday morning, Lao Yi, Chen Yongcheng, Karota, and Li Congshan boarded a small gunboat and went to Tianfen to preside over the groundbreaking ceremony of the power plant and the electrolytic copper plant. The fishermen of Lüsi Fishing Port were sent by Yang Siliang to learn to become sailors on transport ships, and the gunboats were driven by former boatmen of Lüsi Port. The gunboat is very small, and the small shore defense boat is only 500 tons by sight, and it is indeed mighty to sail on the waterway of the Yangtze River.

After arriving at Lusi Port, board the train and drive directly to the power plant, which is noisy with gongs and drums in front of the power plant, gathering people from four towns and eight towns. Yang Siliang and others greeted Hu Wenkai and his party, and the workers sang "The Song of Tianfen Youth" in unison in the open space of the factory, which must have been Yang Siliang's idea.

Hu Wenkai looked around to find Deng Jun, and Wu Hongxia said that Deng Jun was busy on the Tianyong Line Railway, and he couldn't come today. The zodiac hour is 12:05 p.m., the workers are in place, a tribute platform is built in front of the factory, on which the tribute pig's head, rice, fruits, etc. are placed, Hu Wenkai saluted three incense sticks and bowed respectfully, raised scissors and Yang Siliang to cut the red ribbon together, firecrackers rang out, and the train pulled a long whistle.

The power plant is ignited and heated, and soon the steam enters the steam turbine to drive the generator to run, and the crawler tractor keeps shoveling coal onto the conveyor belt. The substation has been connected to the grid for power supply when the phone comes.

Workers in the electrolytic copper plant wear protective clothing and drive a forklift to carefully put the scrap copper into the solution pool and push it onto the electric switch, a worker is watching the liquid temperature in the reaction tank to maintain 65 degrees Celsius, which is the key to the process. Hu Wenkai asked Chen Yongcheng how he contacted Tongling to buy blister copper, and the electrolytic copper plant could not eat enough to rely on scrap copper alone, and the domestic Tongling blister copper production company had signed a purchase agreement.

500 tons of blister copper is the largest supply in Tongling every week, and 3,000 tons have arrived in Hong Kong since they started purchasing more than a month ago. The factory produces 1,000 tons and ships it directly to Japan.

The price of electrolytic copper is more than ten times that of blister copper, and it is often out of stock in the international market. Japanese companies have given the highest prices and can increase as prices fluctuate, but the requirement is a stable supply. Hu Wenkai said that for the time being, it can supply all of it to Japan, but the contract can only be signed for one-third of the output and supply it for a long time.