At the suggestion of Song Zhewu, the North Grain Company and the North Weaving and Dyeing Company are updating some of the equipment to ensure that the enterprise can continue to develop after others take over. Now, the new production equipment of these two companies no longer needs to be purchased from abroad, and the North Machinery and Equipment Company can manufacture most of the equipment by itself.

However, there are also some companies in Xinghua that are not doing well, such as the products of the three factories of feed, fertilizer and agricultural film, which are now all supplied to the farms of the Agricultural Committee of the Northern Construction and Development Committee. If these products are to be accepted by farmers, they also need to have surprising results in the yield of agricultural products from demonstration farms.

Among all these exciting achievements, what makes Song Zhewu most pleased is that not only the number of large and small private enterprises opened in the Taiyuan Administration has reached hundreds, but the scientific and technological content of their products is also constantly improving. It has come out of the production of farm tools, simple daily necessities and production equipment, and has begun to gradually produce some small machinery and electrical equipment with scientific and technological content.

This is mainly due to the quarterly new technology auction of Schmidt's new technology development and promotion company, which will provide technical guidance throughout the process after the technology is sold, until these enterprises are proficient in manufacturing technology, and even help them build up certain technical research capabilities, and will not let go after they can gradually achieve self-hematopoiesis.

Among these private enterprises, the best ones are Yongli Alkali Industry and Zhongtian Electric Machinery Factory.

Yongli alkali industry's red triangle brand soda ash, originally sold to Europe and the United States in large quantities, after having the inexhaustible salt resources in Shanxi and the use of new technology provided by Song Zhewu, not only higher purity, greater output, because the by-products were acquired by the North Machinery Equipment Company and Xinghua Chemical, the production cost of soda ash has been greatly reduced, and now the market share of red triangle soda ash and chemical by-products in Europe and the United States has been continuously improved, and the local enterprises in the West have been squeezed on a large scale.

The irresistible Western businessmen are very realistic, since they are not opponents, they can't be enemies, they can only be friends, DuPont and several large chemical companies in Europe have begun to contact Fan Xudong and Li Rujuan to discuss cooperation.

Zhongtian Electric Machinery Factory has developed 500 switches, which are also high-tech in the world, and have completely changed the history of China's inability to produce its own telephone exchanges, and the telephone bureaus in Hankou and Beiping are their products.

There is another thing that cannot be left unmentioned, although the completed part of the Taiku Railway has not yet left Shanxi, and the transportation from Taiyuan to Baotou and Beimeng is very inconvenient, Song Zhewu still instructed Xinghua to build large woolen mills, leather processing factories, and canning factories in each of the two places, and purchase a large number of furs, cattle and mutton from the herdsmen of northern and southern Mongolia.

In the past, due to inconvenient transportation, the local population of these two places, especially in Northern Mongolia, was sparse, and these things in the hands of herders could not really be turned into wealth, even if there were merchants from the mainland to buy, they had to endure the oppression of these merchants. Even the famous Dashengkui firm in the north came to buy it, and the price of a sheepskin could be exchanged for a few packs of cigarettes, and a good cowhide could be exchanged for a bottle of inferior liquor.

But with these factories it was very different, not only did they buy their skins and beef and mutton openly, but the purchase price was also very fair and reasonable, which was much more profitable than selling them to Da Shengkui or individual merchants who came to buy them.

Due to the arrival of hundreds of thousands of horses and officials of the Fourth Route Army, as well as the continuous inflow of immigrants since June this year, the merchants who came with it also brought a large number of various commodities, including daily necessities.

Herders have more money in their hands and their purchasing power has increased dramatically, and this is most evident in northern Mongolia. The new yurts, brightly colored Mongolian robes, and beautiful horse harness make the herdsmen's faces full of bright smiles.

In the previous period of the reign of the princes and nobles, the pastures were owned by the princes, and the herdsmen were not allowed to graze at will. Later, when Choibalshan established the puppet Mongolian state, although the pastures of the princes were confiscated by the public, the property of the herdsmen was also forcibly confiscated and cooperativeized. Not only has their lives not changed much, but they are even a little inadequate.

But now it is different, after the Fourth Route Army recovered Mongolia, not only the princes and nobles were gone, but the autonomous government axe also returned their cattle, sheep and horses, and the pastures became truly public, and the herdsmen could graze freely with little restriction under the guidance of the autonomous government axe animal husbandry department, and the size of the snow-white sheep flock became larger and larger, and their lives were getting better and better.

This also made the Mongolian herdsmen more devoted to the central political axe, more supportive of the autonomous political axe, and full of gratitude to Song Zhewu and his troops. So much so that the puppet Mongolian political axe established by Baiyintu in the territory of the Soviet Union had no market among the herdsmen of Northern Mongolia. Several large-scale infiltration and sabotage activities by the Baiyintu bandits in Northern Mongolia were eliminated by Wei Guanghui with the support of the herdsmen.

In particular, in the past year, although a large number of Han people have gradually entered Northern Mongolia, Song Zhewu has long had a hard surname that the Han population is strictly forbidden to encroach on any pasture, and the Han population should build cities and towns, and reclaim wasteland in the mountainous areas and Gobi deserts as much as possible, and even spend huge sums of money to dig artificial rivers to divert water, rather than occupy the pastures near the river to build towns.

This made the herdsmen full of good feelings for the Han people, not only peaceful, but also very harmonious.

Because most of the rivers and lakes in Northern Mongolia have cultivated land that used to belong to the princes and nobles, and these lands were previously cultivated only by serfs, but now they are all owned by the autonomous government, and the Mongolian people are reluctant to cultivate the land, but prefer to engage in farming. Therefore, near such land, Song Zhewu also agreed to build Han villages and towns.

In view of Song Zhewu's memory, in later generations, due to the excessive felling of trees and grazing in Northern Mongolia, the land water conservation was reduced, the grassland was gradually degraded, and the desert expanded. Therefore, Song Zhewu paid great attention to the protection of grasslands and vegetation.

At this time, the trees and vegetation in the mountainous areas of Beimeng are very lush, in order to prevent the fragile natural ecological environment of Beimeng from being destroyed or less, Song Zhewu specially issued an order, "In the process of reclamation of wasteland and mines, as well as the construction of villages and towns, the damage to the original vegetation should be reduced as much as possible, and the trees that have to be damaged should be planted according to the number."

(To be continued)