For Chinese, the Spring Festival is often the biggest festival, and people who have been busy for a year are busier than usual preparing for the New Year. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Although there are not many New Year's goods that can be purchased, it is also a rare joy for poor people to be able to eat such two more bites of food during the New Year.

Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye, and it is the end of 1906.

No matter what big things happened outside, for Xiao Mubai, the past half a year has been spent smoothly. Although there were also small stories such as mountain bandit attacks during this period, this was only a small wave and a small wave in his busy and busy life. In half a year, the products of the steel plant have been upgraded, the army has also been formed, the cultivation of grain, and the expansion of trainees have consumed a lot of Xiao Mubai's time and energy.

However, there will be rewards for paying, and after more than half a year of hard work, every career Xiao Mubai has embarked on has also achieved fruitful results. After exchanging a few super-tech key equipment from the synthesizer, the steel mill was able to start producing high-quality steel, and although the output is still small, it has made a qualitative leap. With good hens, good eggs will be laid, and a virtuous cycle will be established, and the yield will gradually increase.

On the machinery factory, Xiao Mubai also began to enter a virtuous cycle of production after synthesizing two high-precision machine tools. It is precisely because of the mother of these machine tools that Xiao Mubai has been looking forward to the long-awaited parts of semi-automatic rifles, submachine guns and other parts in the later 56 gun family, as well as the most difficult barrels, can now be produced and processed on a small scale. I believe that it will not be long before this semi-automatic rifle and submachine gun, which he directly named Type 08, can be produced in small batches.

There are good things and there are bad ones, although the production of steel and cement has received good income economically, but the expansion of the school and the construction of unplanned factories have also sucked up most of the profits. In addition, the expansion and training of the armed forces have made the finances that have not yet had time to cover up the heat about to dry up.

Although it is much easier to recruit trainees in various factories than in other programs, it is the most difficult task in these fields to prepare for the training of these 98% illiterate young people into talents with a certain degree of cultural knowledge within two or three years. Fortunately, today's children, especially those who come to school voluntarily and voluntarily, are full of desire to read, and the simplest explanation is that hobby creates genius.

After more than half a year of study, many outstanding students have emerged among the students in the second, third and even fourth and fifth phases, and their basic knowledge is richer and more solid than that of the previous students, and the brainwashing education of Xiao Mubai is also more active the longer it lasts. Now the majors offered by the two schools have added agriculture, commerce, mining, physics and other majors, and even more systematic and advanced mechanical and chemical advanced classes.

In addition, Xiao Mubai also set aside a week to hold a congress of villagers in each village. With this year's harvest to do the confidence, Xiao Mubai has quite enough seeds to do experimental farming for everyone, after signing the supply and marketing contract with the representatives of the villages, everyone will get some benefits sooner or later, although each village can only get less than one acre of seeds now, but next year can plant two seasons, basically the second season can allow each village to share such a half acre of seeds.

The Spring Festival is here in a blink of an eye. Xiao Mubai's Chinese New Year's Eve was spent in the barracks, and compared to his home in this era, staying in the barracks was obviously much more lively. Originally, Zhao Mingchuan saw that his relatives were not around, and as a friend, he wanted to accompany him to keep vigil, but this was directly rejected by Xiao Mubai on the grounds of the Spring Festival reunion. Although it has only been half a year since he came to this time and space, Xiao Mubai has gradually become familiar with everything here. Only when he thinks of his parents and sister Muyun in another time and space, will he have a sense of loneliness from his heart. Fortunately, Xiao Mubai is not a particularly sad person, and quickly adjusted his emotions.

The next day, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Xiao Mubai got up early in the morning, and after freshening up, he went to pay New Year's greetings to the old village chief Zhao Maocai. After saying some thoughtful words with the old village chief, regardless of the old village chief's retention, he came to Zhao Mingchuan's house again, and sat down with Zhao Mingchuan after the New Year with Zhao Mingchuan's father Zhao Liangtang and mother Huang.

"Mingchuan, I have an idea, you can help me refer to it." Xiao Mubai didn't say anything to Zhao Mingchuan, and directly expressed his intentions: "Select the 100 best students from this batch of students, mainly learn English in the next year, and send them to the United States and other Western countries to study and study in universities in the coming year, what do you think?" Of course, we are responsible for the tuition fees. ”

Zhao Mingchuan frowned, thought for a while, and then said: "It's good, but Mu Bai, isn't there too many people, and the cost is too big, this is a lot of money?"

Xiao Mubai shook his head after hearing this and said: "Not much, as for the reason, I won't repeat it, I have said it before, everyone understands the truth." But I still want you to remember that education always comes first to us, no matter what time it is. ”

After hearing this, Zhao Mingchuan nodded, but he still had a sad face, after all, a hundred international students is a lot of money.

"By the way, Mingchuan, I'm going to go to Kunming with Wen Xu in a few days, do you have anything to explain?"

"To Kunming? Why? Zhao Mingchuan asked with a confused expression.

"Anyway, I also came back from abroad, a graduate of the Berlin Military Academy, I heard that Yunnan is now training a new army, and there is an urgent need for officers in this area, I want to go to the Governor's Mansion to get an errand, now in this world, I have an official body, and it is more convenient to do things." Xiao Mubai said with a grin. To pull the pole to rebel, of course, you have to have your own team, and of course you have to penetrate into the enemy first. It's just that he can only think about this in his heart at present, and he can't say it to Zhao Mingchuan.

"It's okay this way, with an official body, there is a layer of talisman. Then I won't go with you, after the factory starts, I have to keep an eye on it, so that my heart is more steady. Zhao Mingchuan nodded in understanding.

"It's okay, then you can keep an eye on the joint defense team and the factory." Xiao Mubai also nodded.

After finishing the business, the two of them talked and laughed, and after Zhao Mingchuan took out his old wine, he began to drink it cup by cup, until both of them were full of nonsense, and finally they both lay on the table, snoring like thunder.

When Xiao Mubai, who had a headache, returned to the joint defense team, it was already two days later, and the drunken headache even made Xiao Mubai secretly swear that he would never drink so indiscriminately in the future.

After applying a hot towel to his forehead, and after the swelling pain disappeared a little, Xiao Mubai picked up the documents that he had been waiting to sign for the past few days.

"The year 1907 is coming soon, and it's time to go to the United States and Europe to set up the chess pieces, and now we have to get supplies back from there as soon as possible, and the lack of technical personnel to supplement this place." Xiao Mubai threw down a stack of documents and rubbed his temples.

A knock on the door interrupted Xiao Mubai's musings.

"Sir, what do you command?" Knocking on the door was the cyborg Guo Jin.

"That's right, I have something to explain to you. Guo Jin, in a few days, you bring 10,000 taels of silver and the means of production of sulfonamides, and then get up and go to the United States, and after registering the patent, no matter what means you use, you must get a factory that produces medicines, and then set up a pharmaceutical company, and after it gradually grows, it will continue to develop into steel, ships, etc., so that it will become a large group company, and its name will be Huamei. Then we will produce all kinds of equipment, lay a sales network, and provide funds for the development of the domestic side, and at the same time, recruit all kinds of Chinese technical talents in the United States and return to China to work for us. ”

"Yes, sir!" The cyborg replied coldly.

After Xiao Mubai nodded, the cyborg walked out.