The breeze blows, and the water of the West Lake suddenly ripples slightly, blowing on people, with a trace of gentle warmth, spring has arrived.

After a winter, everything began to recover.

All parts of China have once again started a boom in large-scale construction, due to sufficient funds, low raw materials, advanced construction equipment, the cost of projects in various places is not high.

At this time, the central region had formed a transportation system centered on Wuhan, and it spread to the surrounding areas.

The Hanchuan Railway had already been opened to traffic, and the Sichuan region had begun to build a railway network, and the railway was being built in Tibet, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi and other places.

In provinces with main railway lines, branch railway lines are built, and if there are no main railway lines, the main railway lines are built first, and then the railway network of the entire province is built.

In addition to the provinces under the control of the East China United Autonomous Axe, railway networks have also been built, and railways in other provinces are also being built.

The railway is planned by the Ministry of Railways of East China, and the construction funds are raised by banks, bonds, etc., and after completion, the railway company will operate it, all of which are private, and the funds do not need to be taken out by the government.

Some railways, which may have a low return on investment, were built at the expense of the government, such as the one to Tibet, which is so large that few investors are willing to throw money into it.

In other railways, investor enthusiasm is higher.

At this time, the price of railway bonds was not high, mainly because of the current industrial boom, and people did not need to rely on investing in railways to make a profit.

Moreover, the income that can be generated by the railway is often not as good as that of investing in projects such as factories, so the current railway investment has not been overheated, and the overall development is very stable and healthy.

The same is true in the stock market, due to the policies in place, the stock market is mostly based on medium and long-term investment, and there are not too many short-term buying and selling, and the stock market has not been overheated.

However, because the railway is led by the political axe, it has a wide range of bond issuance channels, and it is still easy to raise funds, and because the stock price is not high, there is no danger of collapse.

At this time, in addition to overhauling railways, China was also building roads on a large scale.

At this time, the highway is still mainly cement road, because the asphalt of paving requires a certain technology to manufacture, if the quality is not good, it is better to repair cement.

In later generations of China, how many asphalt roads were repaired and changed to cement roads, mostly because the quality of asphalt was not up to standard.

Improving transportation is an important link at present, and basic industry is also a boom in construction.

In terms of metallurgy, Xia Jun's plan this year is to increase steel output to 15 million tons, and at this time, China's steel output has exceeded 10 million tons, an increase of 50% is the general task indicator of the metallurgical industry this year.

In terms of coal mining, this year's task is 50 million tons, of which 30 million tons are concentrated overseas and the other 20 million tons are domestic.

At this time, China's coal production was far inferior to that of the United States, which produced more than 100 million tons of coal in 1913, but this was mainly because the United States had already completed the first industrial revolution.

China has not completed the first industrial revolution before, and jumped directly into the second industrial revolution, so the energy use is different from the United States, most factories in the United States use coal, while China is hydropower, thermal power, oil, natural gas, biogas five energy sources, so the demand for more coal is not as strong as the United States.

Hydropower stations in southwest China are also being built in an effort to build hydropower plants in southwest China, where hydropower resources are far from being comparable to those in eastern China.

The task of oil extraction has grown the fastest this year, first of all, oil extraction can be described as the easiest thing at present, to drill wells in the Middle East, lay oil pipelines, and then send oil tankers to transport oil back, the cost is very low.

Oil can not only fully solve the problem of energy shortage, but also an important component of energy reserves, so this year's oil exploitation task is to increase by 100% to the extent of 60 million tons.

The daily consumption of oil in later generations is more than 70 million barrels, and the weight of a barrel is between 120~145 kilograms, at this time, the amount of exploitation is naturally small compared with later generations, but it is the consumption of more than ten days in later generations, but the use of oil in this era is not large, so the extraction of 60 million tons is expected to store 20 million tons of oil.

This year, the East China Group will build three oil pipelines along the coast to the inland provinces, and the oil will be stored in the inland provinces, so safe.

In terms of machinery manufacturing, this year is still an important project that requires Xia Jun to invest in points, and machinery manufacturing is still China's weakness at this time.

However, in the case of Xia Jun's continuous smashing of points before, he has taken the lead in some areas, but the development is relatively biased.

The chemical industry, which has achieved very high results in the past few days, especially with regard to munitions, is already able to cope with the world war at this time.

In terms of chemical synthetic materials, the output of plastics was one million tons last year, and it has become the world's largest plastic producer.

Plastic manufacturing is a promising industry, and the shrinkage of later generations is the sum of cement and wood, at this time all kinds of plastics have not yet been invented, and they all need to be purchased from exchange platforms.

Xia Jun has a lot to consider, so it feels like the points are not enough every month.

At this time, China has entered a state of rapid industrial development, and whether the basic industry can keep up is the key, so Xia Jun's use of points began to tilt towards the basic industry again.

If the level of science and technology in basic industries increases, then the cost will also go down.

The advantage of cost reduction is that it can make more engineering plans feasible, just like building a railway to Tibetan Province, if the technology is high enough to reduce the cost, then the rate of return will be pulled up, and naturally there is no need to pay for construction construction.

This is also Xia Jun's main point spending item for a period of time in the future, upgrading the basic industry, and the national strength of the whole country will also be improved.

Xia Jun has nothing to do recently, because he has Li Shijing, a powerful internal helper, and Li Shijing can already help him handle most of the government affairs at this time.

Therefore, Xia Jun has been inspecting everywhere recently, and the most important of them is naturally military inspections.

At this time, the seven major military regions have already begun to build infrastructure, and they plan to expand their military capacity to 1.5 million this year, so the military expenditure is relatively large.

Although at this time China has little chance of encountering war, but the construction of the reserve can not be relaxed, at this time China's population, as long as the reserve of the reserve is completed, the war can pull up many large armies, although the future is to take the line of elite troops, but the huge force is also one of the hole cards.

I learned from the recruitment department that the recruitment of soldiers this year is still very optimistic, and most of the young people are willing to join the army, not only because they are well treated in the army, but also because the army is regarded by many young people as a place to realize their self-worth.

At present, the ethnic unity of all provinces and regions in China is unprecedented, and with the victory of the war, the national and national consciousness has rapidly awakened, and there are many young people who want to join the army.

At this time, it was impossible for China to encounter a full-scale war in the near future, at most it was only a local war, so the army did not have high cultural requirements, and according to Xia Jun's instructions, it preferred to recruit illiterates.

Because in the future, the army will also become an educational institution.

Illiteracy doesn't matter, when the East China Army was first established, there were also a large number of illiterates, but now those illiterate have become intellectuals, and they can read and write newspapers.

The educational efficiency of the army is far higher than that of night schools and Chengren schools, because this is a militarized management institution, so that soldiers learn culture with a mandatory surname, and at the same time, those soldiers who are not educated will also have a strong desire to learn culture after comparison, which will affect other soldiers, and finally form a strong learning atmosphere.

At this time, there were a large number of uneducated young people in China, and how to eradicate the illiteracy of these young people was a major problem, and it was obviously a good choice to recruit them into the army for education.

Due to the large number of young people who are recruited, the recruitment offices in various places are somewhat selective, but the culture is not among them, but mainly focuses on physical fitness.

At this rate, it would only take three months to complete the recruitment quota and bring the total number of troops to 1.5 million, which was nothing to the Entente and the Central Powers, and they had millions of troops on both sides of the front line, and this was still a partial campaign. For example, in the ongoing Battle of Verdun, Germany invested millions of troops, but Germany did not defeat the French army in the first day's attack, so it lost the opportunity to fight.

Xia Jun came to inspect the Northeast Military Region, where the snow had melted, the barracks of the Military Region had not yet been completely repaired, and the engineering team was building a military airfield.

The 300,000 troops of the military region have already reached 200,000, and the rest still have to wait for the transfer of the Hangzhou Military Region; at present, nearly a quarter of the East China Army has been concentrated in the northeast, and those who have just been recruited are not counted.

Xia Jun walked in the barracks and looked at the construction scene in full swing, and asked Lin Chenggui beside him: "How long will it take to repair the infrastructure of the military region?" ”

"At least half a year!" Lin Chenggui pondered for a moment and replied, "If you slow down, seven or eight months is possible." ”

Xia Jun smiled and said: "It's not in a hurry, it's okay for a year, the important thing is that the quality must be passed." ”

"Hmmm! In the next few years, as long as we don't take the initiative, there will basically be no war. Lin Chenggui nodded, Xia Jun nodded, and continued to inspect the military region.

According to the original history, Germany would have sent Lenin back to Russia from the border this year, and the February Revolution would take place in Russia in February next year.

The February Revolution brought Nicholas II out of power and at the same time produced two axes, one capitalist and the other [***].

This situation continued into October, when the October Revolution broke out and the Soviet Union was born.

The war between the Soviet Union and Belarus will continue until after 1920, and the time is not very tight for Xia Jun to use the knife against Tsarist Russia anyway.

Xia Jun could choose either the February Revolution, the October Revolution, or even the imminent defeat of White Russia, anyway, from 1917 to 1920.

Therefore, the infrastructure construction of the Northeast Military Region is not so urgent, but Xia Jun is more concerned about military training.

During the inspection, Xia Jun saw that the officers and men of the Northeast Military Region were undergoing intense training, but at this time, the cold winter had passed, so there was no way to adapt to the severe cold, and this had to be carried out at the end of the year.

Generally speaking, the most important thing for this year's training task is that the three military regions in the north will conduct training to adapt to the severe cold at the end of the year, and this will have a bearing on the success or failure of future wars.

In the event of a war with the Soviet Union in the future, the biggest enemy would be the bitter cold, and the Soviet Union itself was nothing to fear.

Xia Jun explained to Lin Chenggui some questions that needed ideas, and then flew to the Southwest Military Region to inspect.

As soon as he arrived at the Southwest Military Region, Cai Ye was already at the airport to greet him.

Then Xia Jun focused on inspecting the training situation of the Southwest Military Region, and Cai Yi reported to Xia Jun: "Our Southwest Military Region has already launched targeted training for jungle warfare, and the officers and soldiers below have almost mastered the use of jungle combat weapons. ”

"That's good, Brother Songpa, you have to pay more attention!" Xia Jun nodded and said to Cai Yi, who smiled and said: "The chairman of the committee has entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, how dare his subordinates slack off." ”

Jungle warfare is also relatively unfamiliar to Cai, but after a few months of specialized study, he has also gained a great understanding of the characteristics of jungle warfare.

The soldiers of the Southwest Military Region are equipped with submachine guns and light machine guns, and when they encounter them in jungle combat, they are mostly tens of meters or even more than ten meters away.

Just like the Type 09 rifle used by the East China Army, if you encounter a group of enemies using pull-bolt rifles, one squad meets another, the enemy can only shoot eleven or twelve bullets at most in the first time, while the East China Army can pour out dozens of bullets, and two soldiers can take turns shooting to suppress the enemy.

If a large number of submachine guns are equipped, once encountered in the jungle, they can form a powerful fire suppression on the enemy, and the enemy army will not be able to raise its head.

Naturally, bullets are fought a lot, and there is no battle without bullets, and the rule of the East China Army is that bullets are open to soldiers to fight, not to be saved.

Xia Jun inspected several military regions in a row, but did not find any major problems, and then returned to Hangzhou.

The Hangzhou Military Region is under the management of Xia Jun, and except for a few elite infantry divisions, the rest of the military region are newly formed divisions, and the Hangzhou Military Region is the main training ground for recruits, and the recruits will receive training in the Hangzhou Military Region for half a year.

During this half a year, he mainly trained the queue and carried out ideological education, and at the same time, he was also cultivating loyalty to Xia Jun, and after half a year, he was transferred to serve in other military regions.

At this time, Xia Jun has already made the internal operation as airtight as an iron barrel, there are basically no hidden dangers inside, and his position is solid, and no one can shake it.

At this time, not only the people supported Xia Jun, but the soldiers also supported Xia Jun, and the soldiers were of course thoughtful, in such an environment, even if the Hangzhou Military Region was not established, Xia Jun could also sit firmly in the central government. However, the establishment of the Hangzhou Military Region is a solid insurance.

In addition to strengthening the control of the army again during this time, Xia Jun began to strengthen the management of the East China Group, Xia Jun was really not available before, because there were a large number of systems in East China that had not been perfected, and even if they were perfect, they would still be implemented, which also required him to keep an eye on them.

At this time, the system of the political axe in East China has been basically perfected, and it is no longer an imperfect political axe, and various policies have also been implemented, and now the media is his eyes, and the quality of the people is not high at this time, so the supervision of these is particularly important. Xia Jun basically doesn't have to stare everywhere, the media can help him keep an eye on it, and Li Shijing can help take care of it in government affairs, so he will naturally have much more leisure.

East China Group has grown into a giant, involving a wide range of fields, from small beverage and catering, to large machinery manufacturing.

How to better manage this group is a relatively complex issue.

At present, East China Group adopts the reading power accounting system, and the so-called reading power accounting is that the various companies under the group are not related to the financial calculation.

For example, if the company wants to sell products to another company, and both companies are from the East China Group, then the company that buys the product may also have to demand price and quality, while the seller cannot give the other party a discount because it is the same group.

Each company's finances are irrelevant and it is self-responsible, and other companies will not help the company because they are the same group.

Each company under the group has its own management team, so the whole group is flexible in its way of doing business, in addition to the concept that has been formulated.

If the management team manages the company well, then there are dividends.

At this time, East China Group is no longer the empty shell of no one back then, and East China University has cultivated a lot of management talents in the past few years.

However, in general, the current development of education in China is still at a relatively low level, so there is still a shortage of talents.

The group does not completely rely on the supply of talents cultivated by East China University and some other universities, and the group will also train and further study some outstanding employees.

Those employees who are promoted and cultivated from the bottom have a high loyalty surname.

For example, an ordinary worker is sent to training because of his good work attitude, and after the training, his position is higher and his income is higher.

The management of the entire company is not too old like the political axe executives, and they are all intended to reuse capable young people.

Young people are better able to keep up with the times, and they are the ones who create the new era.

Xia Jun made some changes to the asset management of Huadong Group, first of all, he sold shares in some areas that Huadong Group would not be involved in.

Like those businessmen who want to get equipment from Xia Jun, many of them are empty-handed white wolves, and the equipment exchanged for shares, they set up wolves, and Xia Jun raised fish.

Now that the fish have been raised, they can naturally be sold.

After these shares are sold, a lot of money can be recouped and invested in the main areas involved.

This kind of fish farming is also going on, and many businessmen are still accustomed to co-operating with East China Group to set up industries when buying equipment.

Xia Jun buys some much-needed equipment from the exchange platform every month, and Huadong Group owns shares in many enterprises.

Most of these companies are profitable, and there are not too many that have gone bankrupt, but even if they go bankrupt, those equipment are still there.

As soon as the fish are raised, the East China Group will start selling shares.

At present, East China Group is mainly involved in the field of basic industry, as well as the field of manufacturing, the basic industry is also power, mining, petroleum, chemical, fertilizer industry, the manufacturing industry is shipbuilding, aircraft, automobiles, engineering vehicles, agricultural machinery, machinery manufacturing, luxury goods manufacturing.

These projects have many branches, which are also currently involved in East China Group.

(To be continued)