20 kilometers away from Zhaojia Village, where the mountains are continuous, the terrain is steep, the scenery is beautiful, and there are Zhuang, Miao and other ethnic minorities who have lived here for generations. In this continuous mountain www.biquge.info there were also countless people who were engaged in the most promising profession in China at that time - mountain bandits.

Eagle's Beak Rock is named after a steep and unusual mountain that looks like an eagle's beak from a distance. Although there are only more than 300 mountain bandits, but because they all belong to the brave and ruthless generation, under the leader Liu Mazi, and his two sworn brothers, the second scar and the third horse face, plus a dog-headed military division who looks like a thief, under the leadership of Zhao Xiucai, who is known as Sai Zhuge , relying on the dangerous terrain, he has thwarted the encirclement and suppression of officers and soldiers several times, making it the most powerful and well-known bandit in the vicinity.

On this day, just when Liu Mazi was smoking a big cigarette and walking out of the door, the military advisor Zhao Xiucai ran over, and after coughing twice, he said slowly: "Master, it's going to be the New Year, isn't it time to go out and make some floating money?" Two days ago, a brother found a big fat sheep in Zhaojia Village, you see? Isn't it out to buy some New Year's goods for the brothers? ”

"Oh?" Now Mazi is interested: "What kind of goods is it?" Black or red? ”

Zhao Xiucai nodded, hesitated for a moment, and said, "If you go back to the house, it will be a red goods." It is said that Zhaojia Village had a bumper grain harvest at the end of this year, and several Laoshzi factories were built, which were worth tens of thousands of taels of silver. It's just..."

Mazi's face sank: "What do you mean, you are talking in a slurred manner." ”

"Big boss, this Zhaojia Village has just formed a joint defense team, which is a bit tricky." Zhao Xiucai explained

Mazi's gaze froze instantly, and then revealed a strange light, which is often called greed. Sure enough, after a while, Mazi, who had returned to normal, instructed Zhao Xiucai: "Military advisor, you immediately send a few brothers to step on the plate, and let them see me when you come back." ”

"Okay!" Zhao Xiucai couldn't think of anything wrong, so he nodded and agreed.

That night, Xiao Mubai and Zhao Mingchuan were discussing the expansion and construction of the factory. Of course, as a foil, biochemical scientist Qu Junren and engineer Cao Ren are also there. Today, Zhao Mingchuan is Xiao Mubai's daily housekeeper, managing the accounts of all factories, and is becoming more and more inclined to administrative work.

"Then let me first talk about the income and expenditure of each factory this year, and you can have a number in your heart." Zhao Mingchuan was the first to speak: "This year's sales revenue is more than 77,000 taels excluding wages, and the total cost of building school buildings, dormitories, and factory warehouses for two schools is more than 4,000 taels, 30,000 taels for land purchase, and more than 18,000 taels for purchasing food and daily necessities. plus other scattered total expenses totaling more than 60,000 taels. There are still 10,000 taels left. ”

"What do we mainly sell now?"

"Selling soap formulas for 10,000 taels, 11,000 taels is the income of soap essence, and more than 8,000 taels of sales revenue from agricultural machinery, and the rest is some scattered income."

"Are there any infrastructure expenses for next year?"

"Although it costs a lot of money to build factories and schools and purchase land this year, this money will not be so much next year, and the infrastructure construction is basically over, so the cost of this item next year is expected to be less than 10,000 taels."

"The school spends less each month?"

"Excluding the items that have been purchased or need to be purchased, we now need about 30 taels of expenses in school every month, which is only the most basic consumption, such as teachers' salaries, student meals, etc., but textbooks, test materials, etc. are not counted."

"Well, Mingchuan, don't look at the expenses this year are very large, but most of them are one-time payments such as buying land and building factories, and next year, this part of the expenses will be reduced a lot, but next year because there will be more students, the consumable expenses will increase. However, the steel mill has already been put into operation, and the cement plant can be put into operation at the end of the month, and with these two pillar industries, it will greatly increase our income. ”

"Okay, I got it."

"I don't have to worry about the work of the steel mill, but at present, all we can produce is low-hardness, low-cost cheap steel such as cast iron, and we also need to develop and produce high-priced steel such as high hardness. By the way, what is the monthly output of steel mills now? Do you understand? ”

"It's about 10 tons a month."

"10 tons, although it is less, is enough to make some rifles and mortars."

"Mingchuan, how is the situation of the students now?"

"The overall situation is relatively good, and the technical class just said that you can be employed at the end of the first phase. Not counting the agricultural classes recruited later, we have a total of 766 students enrolled this year. Among them, 146 are technicians in cars, pliers, planers, etc., 54 are chemical workers, and 566 are apprentices in steel factories and cement plants. ”

"Well, let's do it, you can help me take care of this group of people a little more, because I need a large number of workers or soldiers with a solid foundation after studying, and when the income and food problems are alleviated in the middle of next year, we will continue to replenish such students, now it is only for children over 14 years old, and in the middle of next year, I also need to start training 12-year-old 5-year basic education students. In the future, the students we begin to train will be younger and younger, and the basic knowledge taught will be more and more, and when the economy allows, we will also build schools in other places, or invest in cooperative schools, only in this way, after ten or twenty years, we will have enough basic talent reserves, in order to train high-level talents to study more high-tech things. ”

"So, it's a little too big, isn't it?" Zhao Mingchuan was obviously stunned by Xiao Mubai's amazing cultivation plan.

"It's not big, it's not too big for us, a country that is already lagging behind a lot, it's too small. If we want the Chinese nation to get rid of slavery and stand tall in this world, we will never be able to catch up with and surpass the great powers without enough technical personnel. Therefore, education should always come first. ”

While the two were talking, outside Zhaojia Village, several figures were sneakily approaching Zhaojia Village, they were none other than the spies sent by Liu Mazi to investigate.

Ma Face is a habitual bandit, he began to come out with his eldest brother Mazi very early, because he and Mazi, Scar is in the same village, so the three of them became brothers. Of course, as a habitual bandit, Ma Mian is very familiar with things on the road, because he heard from the military advisor that there are fat sheep, and Ma Mian, who can't stay idle, took a few brothers to step on the plate.

Looking at the past from afar, Zhaojia Village is not as dark as in the past, because of the electricity, every household is lit up, the factory area next to the village is even brighter, next to the joint defense team station, there are two sentries standing at the gate of the factory area, two high-intensity searchlights sweeping around. Of course, Ma Yan didn't know that it was called a searchlight, and few Chinese in this era knew what electric lights were all about.

After squatting for half a night, blowing the cold wind in the middle of the night, I was a little impatient when I saw that Zhaojia Village had become pitch black and slowly blended into the night. Ma Mian then led a few people towards the gate of the factory area, and made a gesture back, and under the cover of the night, four mountain bandits quietly outflanked from the dark shadows on both sides. However, without waiting to get closer, only two gunshots were heard, and the two mountain bandits fell. It turned out to be a gun fired by a secret sentry lurking in a dark corner not far away, and Xiao Mubai, as a soldier, could not have known the benefits of two sentry posts, one bright and one dark.

The horse's face lying not far away was dumbfounded, obviously about to succeed, how could it be discovered? If you don't understand, you don't want to, and now the key is to run away quickly.

For a while, a terrible whistle sounded in the joint defense team station, and the voices of the people were boiling, and all the room lights were lit.