"Come, Su Lao, let me introduce you to these two talents who have come back from overseas, one is Professor Mao Yisheng, an expert in civil engineering and architecture, and this is Professor Li Siguang, an expert in geology." After easily capturing Pingluo, seeing the strength of the Ma family's army, Jiang Li was also relieved a lot for the time being. Let Feng Zhanhai temporarily be in charge of the front-line commander-in-chief, how to settle the nearly 300,000 laborers who moved west with him as soon as possible, as well as the Fengtian refugees who accompanied him with almost 80,000 people. The arsenal brings its families together, plus more than 100,000 people from other factories, and as for Northeastern University, it can only be regarded as a fraction. It's much more troublesome than fighting a big battle. Tibetan Shiyi took some people to Lanzhou, compared to Ningxia, Lanzhou has more potential for development, at this time Ningxia can not accommodate so many industrial factories for the time being, after all, the whole Ningxia combined is only more than one million people.

However, Lanzhou can accommodate some industrial factories, but those who work in agriculture can only be resettled in Ningxia for the time being. Build a house, prepare farm tools, buy seeds, and place the fields, so that Huang Xiansheng, Huang Guodong was busy during this time. The battle on the front line was a little stable, and Jiang Li had to spare some time to make arrangements for major political moves in Ningxia.

"The two professors, this is a water conservancy expert in Zhongwei County, although their reputation is not obvious, but in the past few years, the Yellow River has been governed and the Water Conservancy Committee has done a lot of good things for the local people, and they are from Ningxia. We now have a thin foundation and a poor foundation, and we have to work together to build this place, and I believe that in some aspects, there are always some things in common. ”

Jiang Li introduced the two parties to each other.

"It turned out that I was a student who returned from overseas, and I was young and promising, and I was really sorry to come to such a remote place in Ningxia. Don't listen to Commander Jiang, I'm a bad old man, and I know how to do some dirt tricks, I'm afraid that what I can do is limited, and Commander Jiang handed over such a heavy burden of Ningxia Water Conservancy to me, which really makes you breathless. "Su Fang and Mao Yisheng. Li Siguang shook hands and smiled.

"Su Lao is modest, I saw Commander Huang before I came, and I don't know how long I haven't slept well when I see Commander Huang's two dark circles under his eyes. mentioned that Commander Jiang complained in his stomach, but I don't know how Commander Jiang squeezed Su Lao. ”

Mao Yi was promoted to the team earlier, knew Jiang Li earlier, and knew Jiang Li's temperament better, so Jiang Li had no arrogance for these intellectuals. Especially Jiang Li, Huang Xiansheng gritted his teeth and wanted to rebuild Northeastern University in Lanzhou. It has won the favor of the intellectual circles across the country.

As soon as Commander Jiang came, he proposed to repair Ningxia's water conservancy, and proposed to build more than a dozen medium and large canals, such as the Tanjia Canal, the Yunting Canal, the Xinkai Canal, the Tianyou Canal, and the Funong Canal, and the cost of building these channels alone reached more than 2.7 million yuan. It can irrigate more than 2.1 million acres of fields. Although my old bones have to run around, it is not a waste of time to be able to benefit Sangzi. I would like to thank Commander Jiang for giving the old man this opportunity, if Commander Jiang could have come to Ningxia a few years earlier, maybe Ningxia would not be in the same situation as it is now. In the past, the warlords in Ningxia were in turmoil, and there were very few people who could take care of the people's livelihood and suffering, and the Ma family has been in charge of Ningxia for so many years, and the total investment in water conservancy is less than a fraction of that of Commander Jiang. Su Fang said with emotion.

"I can't help it. Hundreds of thousands of laborers must be resettled, and in addition, they must seek some benefits for the people of Ningxia, taking care of both ends. This was the first batch of investment, and the annual investment in water conservancy construction in the future was not less than 1 million, and the Japanese army attacked China. I don't know how many refugees there are every year, but the war will soon spread to North China and East China, so I will make more preparations and take in more refugees when the time comes. Jiang Li sighed helplessly.

Mao Yisheng and Li Siguang gasped, but the first batch of investment was as high as nearly three million, and the annual investment in the future was not less than one million. Ningxia is not a big place, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and it is definitely a large investment to invest such funds in water control.

"If Nanjing had this determination, hundreds of thousands of people would not have died in the floods this year." Li Siguang said with great embarrassment: This year, along the Yangtze River, as many as 5 to 6 million people have been affected by the disaster, and as many as 200,000 have died directly from the floods.

"Not to mention Nanjing, some things always have to be done, and there will always be people to do, we have no ability to change the current bad situation, but we have to work hard for the future to get better, Ningxia, Qinghai. My plan and that of Commander Huang is not only the all-round development of Tuntian, industry, railways, and military industry, but also to lay the most solid foundation for the future War of Resistance Against Japan. There are coal mines in Ningxia, there are still a lot in the area of Helan Mountain, but for a long time they have been controlled by the Ma family, and some people who have been involved in the past, the scale of coal mining is small, and the way is primitive, so that the coal output in Ningxia is very small, and it can not be called industrialization at all, and a large number of coal mining machinery has been moved from Fengtian Province this time. Professor Li, you should first communicate with Su Lao, the landlord, to understand the general situation in this area, and the first priority is to find out the coal resources. Only by finding enough coal can I build thermal power stations of various sizes in Yinchuan and Lanzhou to provide a steady stream of power for the industries in the northwest. In addition, it can also solve the problem of people lighting fires and heating in winter. The main thing at the moment is coal, iron. ”

Jiang Li said, as for oil, Jiang Li probably knows a few places, first solve the needs of the arsenal, and then buy some aviation gasoline from outside for the time being, the demand is not so big.

"How much capacity does the coal mining machinery brought by Commander Jiang have?" Li Siguang asked tentatively.

"Japan is in Fushun, and the Benxi mining area mines more than 10 million tons of coal a year, and I have pulled most of the people and machinery over there, do Professor Li think these machines are enough?" Jiang Li smiled and said, "Even if the Japanese occupy Mukden and want to restore Fushun, the mining of the Benxi mining area will not be a matter of one or two years. ”

"Enough, enough!" Li Siguang took a breath of cold air and said, Li Siguang agreed with Jiang Li's approach from the bottom of his heart.

"The reason why the Yellow River is very harmful is that the damage to the vegetation in the upper reaches is too serious, and all kinds of tributaries and trunk canals are eroded by wind and sand every year, and a large amount of sediment enters the Yellow River with the rainwater, which makes the Yellow River bed rise every year, and the river embankment is in disrepair for a long time. If people can be allowed to use coal for heating, a large number of felled trees can be saved every year, and some can be planted appropriately, and there is no hope for curing the flooding of the Yellow River in the future. Su Fang's eyes lit up, and she quickly thought of the benefits of expanding the use of coal.

There are not only such a few means to control the flooding of the Yellow River, but there are not enough talents at hand at the moment, and they can only turn to foreigners for help, and Jiang Li did not say that he planned to build several hydroelectric power stations on the Yellow River from Lanzhou to Yinchuan, and he had to talk to foreigners about this later. (To be continued......)