As soon as the agricultural busyness in March ended, the news of recruiting workers for the West Sichuan Iron and Steel Plant was fully spread to the entire western Sichuan region, and the nearby Wenchuan County, Lifan County, and Mao County were the focus of publicity, mainly recruiting some young and strong, educated, and preferably workers with certain steelmaking experience.

Many people are shaking their heads, for this kind of recruitment conditions, they have never heard of, fortunately, the treatment is really good, once officially admitted, will be issued a settling-in allowance of 100 oceans, once the training is posted, there are five oceans per month, and the pay for becoming a skilled worker is higher.

In the 30s, in all parts of western Sichuan, the price of goods was cheap of the first grade, an acre of good paddy fields was only about 20 silver dollars, an acre of good dry land, but only about a dozen silver dollars, if it was a barren mountainous land, it was much cheaper, and you could earn 60 silver dollars a year, but a big windfall.

Chinese people have never lacked creativity, as long as there is a demand for interests, it is a spring of thought, the boss who once opened a small iron kiln has been sent out, all invited to be a gentleman, to a large group of young people, teach how to make iron mining, people who have been to the real steel factory are even more hot.

It's a pity that most of the people who went to recruit workers in various places were technicians from the arsenal, and they were clear about these little tricks, and finally reluctantly recruited more than 100 workers, and even one-third of the expected ones were not reached.

It turned out that Liu Xiang and Li Jiayu were more optimistic about Chongqing, believing that manpower and resources were in short supply, and the steel mill and arsenal should be placed there, and Chongqing was the throat of Sichuan's exchanges with other provinces.

Liu Yun had no choice but to smile bitterly, not that Liu Xiang and Li Jiayu were wrong, nor did they talk about the layout of the Anti-Japanese War, what really hurts is that there are not many iron ore resources near Chongqing, the only few mines, but unfortunately the grade is not high, if it is transported from other places, it is good to say when the scale is not large, once the annual output of tens of thousands of tons of steel, the amount of ore transported is simply an astronomical amount.

Therefore, the fate of Chongqing Iron and Steel Plant was doomed from the beginning, either the scale has been below 20,000 or 30,000 tons, or it has become a supporting industry of Chongqing Arsenal.

Because Liu Xiang and other generals of the Sichuan Army were not optimistic about the Fucheng Iron and Steel Plant, they naturally had no interest in Ordnance Technology experts such as Dai Leite, resulting in Zhang Sili and Li Hansi, dozens of people, doing a good job of exploration and site selection in Fucheng, but no one paid attention to them for a long time.

A group of experts who stayed in Anchang Town, in a situation of boredom, contacted the Hanyang Arsenal, and Major General Qin Guodong was also very depressed, but he received information that the situation had been opened in Western Sichuan County, and even the German general took the initiative to find it, so he ordered them to defect to Liu Yun.

This group of experts is not a fuel-efficient lamp, under the banner of Liu Yun, they continued to hire the Tongda Land Transportation Company in Anchang Town, focusing on transporting some of the remaining alloys, about 100 tons, and the rest had to continue to be placed in the steelmaking equipment warehouse, handed over to the Fucheng Garrison to continue to guard.

What this group of bear children lacked even more morality was that in the name of preparing for the steel plant, they dug out the industrial talents near Fucheng, and then brought them to the town of Sichuan West in the name of communicating with the Sichuan West County Iron and Steel Plant, and all kinds of industrial technical experts immediately swelled to two or three hundred.

However, for Liu Yun, it was really a timely rain, which solved his urgent need, coupled with the manpower recruited in the surrounding areas, as well as some local farmers, overnight, there were seven or eight hundred industrial workers, fortunately, the mining area has the most manpower, and there is no need for technology.

Liu Yun faced the biggest challenge, or how to arrange the workers' accommodation, had no choice but to ask Ma Xingchi for help, temporarily changed the Tongda Land Transportation Company, changed to the West Sichuan County Grain Transportation Brigade, went to Fucheng and the vicinity of the city capital, which was rich in products, to buy more grain and transport it back.

In addition, from the hands of the county government, 20 townhouses were allocated as collective dormitories for the workers, of course, experts like Hans Li had to set aside single rooms one by one to show respect, but when the new villa complex was completed, they would be allocated villas as soon as possible.

The second phase of the villa complex has been designed, or a unified three-storey, each townhouse will accommodate four households, each with a construction area of 220 square meters, and a land area of 75 square meters per household, a total of 300 townhouses, which can accommodate 1,200 households, about 4,000 people.

Fortunately, after the completion of the first batch of villas, Liu Yun immediately ordered people to close the land of the second phase, prohibiting anyone from entering, and if anyone entered, they would be driven away by the garrison.

It's just that Liu Yun doesn't want to invest in the distribution state too early, and it is easy to attract the attention of outsiders, after all, there are more and more foreign populations in western Sichuan County, and the secrecy is getting worse and worse, so it is really difficult to deceive Falkenhausen, Li Hans and Delet, etc., today's social elites.

The second is the problem of market saturation, the current utilization rate of the first batch of villas, some too low, many people's views on villas, still stay in the stage of pigsty and sheepfold, which is why the initial 300 square meters per household, adjusted to the current 220 square meters.

And the new industrial workers, in fact, for the West Sichuan County is not deep feelings, at the beginning of the conditions are a little harder, but also to screen out some people who are not strong-willed, as the conditions are getting better and better in the future, will slowly and imperceptibly, and gradually enhance the sense of belonging to the town.

Seven or eight hundred workers have gone through a week of pre-job training and have basically mastered some of the key to work, in fact, they are divided into three types of work, one is a senior technician who operates power stations and electric converters, followed by drivers who drive various types of vehicles, and finally the popular miners.

Of course, in addition to the three types of work, in fact, there is another choice, that is, to be a soldier, because of the guard stationed in Anchang Town, also returned to West Sichuan County, after mixing with the county garrison, it has been close to 300 people, if you can recruit some more people, it just reorganized into a garrison battalion, Jia Lian served as the battalion commander, and the platoon commanders who used to come to West Sichuan Town with Liu Yun were all promoted to the chief and deputy company commanders.

Among the first two types of work, Delett is in charge of the power station and has more than 50 employees, Zhang Sili is in charge of the transport fleet, drivers and mechanics, about 70 or 80 people, and the Sichuan County Iron and Steel Plant, which is supervised by the German expert Li Hans, has a total of eight one-ton electric converters and nearly 200 employees, which can theoretically produce 80-100 tons of special steel per day.

The third type of work, although it is the lowest technical content, but still needs a certain amount of technology and managers, so Pang Xuezhong is in charge, with more than 500 employees, and then from the squad leader of the garrison, more than a dozen squad leaders are selected to carry out semi-military management of the miners.

In addition, Liu Yun himself is in charge of the machinery processing plant, located near the airport in the town, has produced the United States ten-wheeled trucks, with a load capacity of 3.5 tons, and there are currently more than a dozen, just enough to meet the needs, in addition to transporting ore, can also transport miners to and from work.

There is no doubt that this is another masterpiece of the ant robot, copying is its basic work, and the engine and other key parts have been fine-tuned, and the performance is slightly beyond the original, and the rubber used to produce tires is extracted from oil, fortunately, the scale is not large, and it is barely enough.

On April 1, 1935, Liu Yun and officials of western Sichuan County personally cut the ribbon for the hydropower station, steel plant and machinery factory, and officially announced the establishment of the miners' brigade and the transportation brigade.

After the one-week trial operation, all the three types of employees basically mastered their own work and began to enter the fast lane, which can dig more than 300 tons of iron ore and produce more than 100 tons of steel every day, but the electricity cost is less than a fraction of a unit.

At this time, in the surrounding areas of western Sichuan County, the news of the Red Army came one after another, and the more it spread, the more terrifying, once came the news of the loss of Mao County, Liu Yun began to face the first choice in his life, whether to continue to develop industry, or to go to northern Shaanxi with the Red Army to make a revolution.

This guy is also wishful thinking, and even whether the Red Army wants him or not is still a question, and he is a representative figure of a combination of big rich people, small landlords, local bureaucrats, and reactionary officers, and if he is caught by the Red Fourth Front Army, he will most likely inevitably be shot after a public trial.

With the arrival of April, the displaced people from the surrounding districts and counties gradually concentrated in the town of western Sichuan, and many of these fugitives were small landlords, small rich people, of course, there were also some local policemen, and petty military officers, but the vast majority were ordinary people.

Seeing the ordinary people who crying for their fathers and mothers, dragging their children and daughters, Liu Yun also sighed greatly, these ordinary people have no permanent property and no money, why should they be afraid of the Red Army, when the Red Army comes, they will more or less share some land and floating wealth, so they are scurrying around in the open air, what do they want.

At the same time, Liu Yun's heart is also a dignified, with the increase of the foreign population, the chaos in the town of western Sichuan has been born, I am afraid that it will be eventful in the future, for the sake of everyone's worth and life, immediately convened the dignitaries in the town, and held a meeting in the county government on the resettlement of the displaced people.

However, at the beginning of the meeting, Liu Yun knew that even if he was not in a hurry, other old celebrities would take the initiative to ask him to discuss, these old people were old and fine, after the chaos in the world in the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the chaos in the early days of the Republic of China, and then the melee of various warlords in the past ten years.

Therefore, for the coming chaos, the old people have long been apprehensive, some people think that if they don't do anything, they will simply drive these unemployed and helpless homeless people out of the town of western Sichuan, and some people who are familiar with history immediately spoke out against it, asking if everyone remembers Li Teh and Wuhu Chaohua.

Li Teh is a celebrity in Sichuan, one of the five Hu who caused trouble in China, and was the leader of the Di nationality at that time, the world was in turmoil at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, and the displaced people at the junction of Sichuan and Shaanxi migrated to Sichuan to avoid disaster and eat, and formed a continuous camp of displaced people in the Mianzhu area, which greatly frightened the Shu government and ordered the displaced people to return to their hometowns within a time limit, resulting in Li Te's father and son taking the displaced people to make a rebellion, and after capturing the city capital, they regarded themselves as the descendants of Liu Chan and established the famous Cheng Han regime.

Originally, Li Te's father and son established Cheng Han, it was nothing, but the worst thing is that Li Te's father and son fought with Shu officers and soldiers all the year round at the beginning of the establishment of Cheng Han, and after the establishment, they were brutal and unkind, coupled with the ferocity of the displaced people, as well as the characteristics of blind movement, so that Shu was ten rooms and nine empty, so it was included in the five hu.