Chapter 238: Plotting Huaibei
After a while, Sister Cao took Wang Yongan to the sun room, Wang Yongtai asked him to sit beside him, and asked about Nianzhen's condition, Wang Yongan said it truthfully, and as he spoke, he couldn't help but choke with red eyes. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Wang Yongtai sighed and said: "Fourth brother, no matter how many days your brother and sister have, you have to accompany her to the last journey, she gave birth to Xiaotian for our Wang family, and she is the great hero of our Wang family." ”
Wang Yongan couldn't cry and laughed, and nodded yes.
Wang Yongtai immediately said: "Mr. Chen Zhaotang and Mr. Chen are here again, and they are still here to be lobbyists, and I hope the two families will stop." ”
Wang Yongan said: "It's not difficult, let Zhang Xun pay a few million taels of silver, and we will stop." ”
Wang Yongtai shook his head and said: "Zhang Xun really lost this time, but not for the silver, but for his daughter." Chen Zhaotang brought the word over, Zhang Xun is willing to marry his second daughter to the fourth brother, the two families will be repaired, and bad things will become good things. This matchmaker is Zhang Renjun, the governor of Liangjiang, your relative. ”
Wang Yongan was dumbfounded, and he still brought this...... So what is it that I fought with Zhang Xun, and my son-in-law fought with my father-in-law? The more I thought about it, the more ridiculous I felt, and I was about to refuse, but I saw Wang Yongtai shaking his head and saying, "You can't refuse this marriage." ”
"Why?"
"Because it's Zhang Renjun who is the matchmaker." Wang Yongtai said, "If you reject Zhang Xun, you will tell everyone that you Wang Yongan does not know the current affairs and treats others with arrogance." That Zhang Xun, as an elder, is willing to marry his daughter and apologize, but you humiliate him, who will associate with you again in the future. ”
Wang Yongan cried and laughed: "What's the matter, I still have to marry her?" Isn't that? ”
Wang Yongtai laughed and said: "So, this Zhang Xun made an embarrassing decision, if you reject him, it will be difficult for his daughters to marry in the future." Who is embarrassed to marry a woman that your fourth prince doesn't like? The woman who doesn't want it to be sent to the door, in the future, she can only marry a rammer, and that rammer doesn't care about being ridiculed by others. ”
Wang Yongan said: "Second brother, let me think about it." ”
Wang Yongtai sighed: "Not to mention the body of my brother and sister...... Xiaotian can't live without his mother. ”
Wang Yongan said: "Second brother, I know, as for this matter, I will discuss it with Nian Zhen." Everything Wang Yongtai said today actually implied that Wang Yongan was preparing for Nianzhen's aftermath early, but this incident made Wang Yongan feel very uncomfortable. He knew that the second brother was now thinking about himself and for this family, and the two brothers were now more united since the last time they had a disagreement.
However, no matter how you say it, Nianzhen is also his wife, how can Wang Yongan do anything before his wife dies, so he is still a human being?
After dealing with some official documents in the army, Wang Yongan suddenly received a telegram saying that Yue Wenzheng and others were returning from Harbin, but some doctors and nurses needed to go to the capital to receive the imperial court's reward, and the rest could return to Yangzhou under the leadership of Xia Ming. Wang Yongan's mood has improved a little, this time Harbin fought against the plague, sacrificing many doctors and nurses, but the timely control and strangulation of the plague is really a major merit for mankind. However, there is nowhere to say about this credit, I can only praise myself, perhaps in the eyes of later generations, the plague at the end of the Qing Dynasty is nothing, but without the support of this group of doctors and the imperial court, I am afraid that the Black Death in Europe will be repeated in China.
In the case of the Spanish flu during World War I, 40 million people died from the disease worldwide, and the number of deaths in Spain reached 8 million at that time, almost half of the country's deaths, so it was given the name Spanish flu. At that time, China was in the midst of a warlord scuffle, and the Spanish flu virus invaded China, but because no central government and local warlords were willing to prevent it, the result was hundreds of thousands of deaths in China, compared with the 60,000 people of the plague at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the lethality of the Spanish flu was more reflected in the man-made disaster. At that time, one in ten deaths occurred in Wenzhou alone, an average of 100 deaths per day in Harbin and other northeastern cities, and more than 40,000 deaths in Taiwan three times before and after.
"In the final analysis, natural disasters can be resisted together, but man-made disasters are not enough." Wang Yongan said with emotion, and dealt with some other chores, Wang Yongan received an invitation from Han Linchun to go to the Yangzhou Weapons Maintenance Institute to watch the development and test of the grenade, and Wang Yongan happily went. The weapons repair station is on the east side of the canal in Yangzhou, near Jiangdu County. Today, there are only more than 300 workers and more than 50 technicians, and everything is to cross the river by feeling the stones, and it is the result of the efforts of everyone to be able to successfully develop the grenade first.
Wang Yongan was very happy after watching the grenade blasting performance, this grenade is an offensive grenade, the destructive power is enough, but the lethality is insufficient, but it is more than enough for the current war. Wang Yongan asked about the output of grenades, and Han Linchun said that if the raw materials were sufficient, 1,000 could be produced a day, or 30,000 a month. Wang Yongan was overjoyed and praised again and again, saying that you can buy all the materials, and the output of grenades can be kept at 30,000 per month.
Later, Wang Yongan asked about the production of bullets, and Han Linchun said that he had cooperated with the German Mauser company to introduce a bullet production line, but now it needs steam and electricity to improve production efficiency, but there is no coal in Yangzhou, and the water flow is stable, so it is impossible to implement hydroelectric power.
There are two main coal mines in China, one in Jin Province and the other in Shaanxi Province and Chifeng in Inner Mongolia, which account for 70 percent of China's total coal mines, while coal mines in other regions, although abundant, are far inferior to these two. Wang Yongan thought about it carefully, he only remembered that the two ends of Changbai Mountain in Northeast China, Liaoning Province and Heilongjiang Province were rich in coal mines, Henan Province was rich in coal mines in the Ma'anshan area, Sichuan Province was rich in coal mines in the Panzhihua area, Jining in Shandong Province, and Huaibei in Anhui Province - Wang Yongan was stunned suddenly, yes, Huaibei area is rich in coal mines.
Wang Yongan laughed, now Huaibei is his own territory, he can open mines in Huaibei to generate electricity, and even transfer the arsenal to Huaibei. There is no Huaibei City now, and the Huaibei City of later generations is in the current Su County, and the Huaibei mining area includes Su County, Mengcheng County, and Huaiyuan County. The big reason why the Jinpu Railway passes through Anhui Province is because the train can add coal and water on the way through the Huaibei coal mining area. As for the later generations of trains no longer need to use coal mines, but need electricity, Huaibei power generation and for the Beijing-Shanghai railway to provide enough power, it can be said that the Huaibei region supports the transportation of Beijing and Shanghai, China, if the railway is a blood vessel, then Huaibei is the heart that provides blood pressure to the blood in this blood vessel.
"Hahaha......" Wang Yongan suddenly realized, he is sitting on the golden mountain begging for food, although Jiangbei is not as rich in resources as Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, but as a region rich in human resources, it also has rich resource resources, Jiangbei is unique.