Li Rusong knows that his brother-in-law is a person who does big things, he has not been in Laiyuan for so long, and now he must have a lot of things to deal with, which shows that his future brother-in-law is not easy to ignore. In order not to disturb Song Zhewu too much, Li Rusong took the initiative to tell Song Zhewu that he had come to settle the payment for flour and canned goods with the people from the Logistics Department of the General Staff.

Song Zhewu knew that this was something he and Li Rujuan had already decided. Although he is the absolute largest shareholder in the company, and the money he earns as a major shareholder will eventually be used by the Fourth Route Army, since it is a joint-stock system, he must be responsible for other shareholders, otherwise it will not be conducive to him raising private funds in the future. Therefore, now all the items taken by the Fourth Route Army in Xinghua Company have to be paid, and the accounts must be settled regularly. Of course, if the military expenses of the Fourth Route Army are not enough, Song Zhewu will have to pay for it himself, which has a bit of a left-handed and right-handed taste.

Li Rusong saw that Song Zhewu did not mean to let him go immediately, and then reported to Song Zhewu the sales and procurement work he was in charge of.

As soon as Xinghua mentioned the matter of Xinghua Company, Li Rusong was very excited, and now flour and cloth, the two largest products of Xinghua, have not only been sold to most provinces and cities in the country, but also have been marketed to Nanyang; More than a dozen kinds of Chinese patent medicines produced by pharmaceutical factories are in short supply in China, but the output is still very small due to the limitation of raw materials, and other products are also selling very well, and now Xinghua's monthly income is more than 5 million.

"In addition, the equipment needed by several planned factories has begun to be ordered abroad, and some equipment is not available abroad, and we provide our own drawings and hand them over to foreign manufacturers for production. In order to keep it secret, some of the equipment is still produced separately in different factories, and I personally handled it......"

talked with Li Rusong for a while, and told some of the company's marketing precautions before sending Li Rusong away.

Then, Song Zhewu pulled Xiao Guodong, who had been here for a while, into his office, and the two closed the door and talked for more than two hours.

In the Fourth Route Army, Xiao Guodong is not only the earliest founding general of the Fourth Route Army, but also the most trusted person of Song Zhewu, except for Song Zhewu's own secrets, the Fourth Route Army has almost no secrets from Xiao Guodong, because Song Zhewu cannot do everything himself, he needs to have a person he absolutely trusts to help him coordinate the overall situation of the Fourth Route Army.

Therefore, for all kinds of major events in the Fourth Route Army, Song Zhewu had to discuss them with Xiao Guodong first. And this kind of discussion is actually just Song Zhewu putting forward his opinions and goals, Xiao Guodong to help him pick up the gaps, and then solicit the opinions of several generals with a more mature plan, and then announce and implement it.

This time, it was even more necessary to meet with Xiao Guodong, because Song Zhewu had been away from Laiyuan for several months, not only did Song Zhewu have to discuss his new reorganization plan and future work arrangements with Xiao Guodong, but he was also eager to listen to Xiao Guodong report to him about the various situations that had happened in the Fourth Route Army during the time he had left Laiyuan.

After listening to Xiao Guodong's report, Song Zhewu was very satisfied with the various tasks arranged by Xiao Guodong during his absence in Laiyuan, and the training of the troops, the storage of weapons and ammunition, and even the affairs of the local administrative management and research institutes and Xinghua Company were all done in an orderly manner.

In the end, Xiao Guodong excitedly told Song Zhewu that Wang Zhu was here, and he was not alone, and he came with Ba Yuzao, Wang Xiaofeng, Zeng Yijing, Lin Anshun and more than a dozen people who were also in the Mawei Aviation Department in Fujian; Zheng Dazhang, who studied with the Curies in France, also returned to China, and he also brought back many instruments and materials; In addition, Li Minghua, Cui Hao, Guo Wenyuan, Wang Mingyang, and other engineers and doctors recruited friends and found dozens of talents from all walks of life.

The person who knows Song Zhewu and his ideas best in the Fourth Route Army is Xiao Guodong, he knows the status of these talents in Song Zhewu's heart and their value, so now Xiao Guodong is very happy to recruit so many precious talents like Song Zhewu.

These people, except for Zheng Dazhang, are now assigned to various research institutes, and Ba Yuzao, Wang Zhu and others have been picked up by Wu Jin, who has been working with Guo Wenyuan in that small maintenance plant these days, fiddling with the equipment sent by Curtis Company to build an aircraft maintenance plant in accordance with the contract with Song Zhewu.

For the arrival of these talents, Song Zhewu was ecstatic! Science and technology is productivity, and Song Zhewu, a traverser, knows the meaning of this sentence. Without scientific and technological personnel, there will be no advanced science and technology, and there will be no efficient means of production, and of course, there will be no large-scale industrial production. Not only does Song Zhewu's future military industrial system need these talents, but Xinghua also urgently needs a large number of engineers and technicians if it wants to develop greatly.

Among these people who came, especially Ba Yuzao, Wang Zhu, Wang Xiaofeng, Zeng Yijing, Lin Anshun and other aviation talents, Song Zhewu urgently needed, and even Song Zhewu never forgot and wanted to wear them.

Song Zhewu knew that among these people, not only Wang Zhude, known as the founder of Boeing in later generations, but also several other people are also top talents in today's aviation industry, and Ba Yuzao is even more amazing.

Ba Yuzao is Yunhua, born in Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, Mongolian nationality, Inner Mongolia Keshiketeng Banner. In 1905, at the age of 13, he was admitted to the Nanjing Sailor School to study, and with excellent grades, he was promoted from three classes to one class. Because of his excellent character and learning, he was selected to study in the United Kingdom to learn to manufacture ship guns. The following year, he was admitted to Armstrong College in Vikas to study mechanical engineering. Soon after, he joined the Vikas factory for an internship.

Ba Yuzao was very envious of the life of a pilot, and when he had free time, he bought some aviation books and magazines to read, and thus became interested in aviation. In the summer of 1912, he and his friend Wang Zhu pooled two pounds together to fly with the aviator Portale on Wendelmen Lake, not far from the factory. Since then, he has formed an indissoluble bond with aviation.

In 1915, due to the European war, Ba Yuzao, Wang Zhu, Wang Xiaofeng, Zeng Yijing and others transferred from Britain to the United States for further study. In September, Ba Yuzao, Wang Zhu and Wang Xiaofeng were admitted to the second phase of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study and study aircraft manufacturing.

The curriculum of the Aeronautical Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is quite heavy, but Ba Yuzao is smart and eager to learn, especially very serious about internships, from design and manufacturing to fitter and forging technology. He often went to the workshop of the aircraft factory, just to wait for the completion of his studies to return to China and build China's own aircraft factory, in order to understand the design and structure of the aircraft factory, he even drilled through the chimney, making a black gray grease.

Because Ba Yuzao studied hard and pragmatically, and his grades were very outstanding, he completed all the courses ahead of all his students in China and the United States in only 9 months, graduated in June 1916, obtained a master's degree in aeronautical engineering, and was also elected a member of the American Society of Automata. At that time, the people who could become members of the American Society of Automatic Engineering were the most accomplished people in the United States, and even in the world, in this field, which shows that Ba Yuzao's knowledge is extraordinary.

In particular, it is necessary to mention that this year's master's class in aeronautical engineering is the second batch of students recruited by the Department of Aeronautical Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and it is also the second batch of such talents in the United States. At this point, it can even be said that at that time, China and the United States were on the same page in terms of aircraft design talent alone.

Immediately after graduating, he was hired by Curtis Aircraft Company as an aircraft design engineer, and then by the General Aircraft Plant as the plant's first chief engineer. Due to his hard work and practice, he soon gained rich experience in creating an aircraft factory and a mature plan to build a factory.

In the autumn of 1917, Liu Guanxiong, chief of the Beiyang Political Axe Navy, put forward the theory that "airplanes and submarines are the urgent tasks of the day, and non-self-control is not enough to help the military prestige, and non-establishment of special schools is not enough to cultivate talents and achieve results." Ba Yuzao gave up the preferential treatment and favorable conditions of concurrently serving as the chief engineer of two aircraft companies in the United States, as well as his personal career prospects, and resolutely resigned and returned to China with Wang Zhu, Wang Xiaofeng, and Zeng Yijing.

In the winter of 1917, after Ba Yuzao and the other four returned to China, they immediately asked Beiyang Zhengaxe to build a factory to make their own aircraft. After many investigations and studies, it was found that "Fuzhou Mawei" was the widest land, with enough spread and especially sufficient machinery, so they chose to build the factory in the Mawei Shipyard and allocated 50,000 yuan as the start-up fee. In February 1918, the Admiralty appointed Ba Yuzao as director (director), responsible for design, teaching, etc., and Wang Zhu, Wang Xiaofeng, and Zeng Yijing as deputy directors (deputy director). The Naval Aircraft Engineering Office (i.e., the Aircraft Factory) was formally established in Mawei, which was attached to the Fuzhou Shipping Bureau.

After the establishment of the factory, Ba Yuzao and others with their own excellent theory and rich practical experience, began to trial production of aircraft, he conscientiously absorbed the latest scientific achievements of various aviation research institutes in Europe and the United States, boldly carried out technological innovation, overcome various difficulties, and finally on August 15, 1919, made China's earliest "A-type one" double-beam biplane seaplane, it is an aircraft with double-beam as the support body from the water surface taxiing and then lift-off, power of 100 horsepower, load capacity of 1063 kg, maximum speed of 126 kilometers per hour, equipped with a two-seat double-beam longitudinal system, For flight instructors.

In February 1921, the "A-3" double-pole biplane seaplane was made, which was successfully piloted by Chinese aviation Cao Mingzhi and Wu Rukui; Later, the Germans Henker and Bohr were hired to test the flight, and they both thought that the technical indicators of the aircraft were extremely good. In January 1927, the Aircraft Manufacturing Department made the "Jiang Yan" aircraft, in April the "Jiang Lu" aircraft, and in September the "E type" aircraft, and the test flights were very smooth.

In June 1928, the "Seahawk II" aircraft was built. In September, the Naval Aircraft Engineering Office was renamed the Naval Aircraft Manufacturing Division, and the aircraft manufactured made more obvious progress in terms of ability and speed. So far, the Mawei Naval Aircraft Engineering Office, under the auspices of Ba Yuzao and others, has built 12 seaplanes, Ba Yuzao mentioned in his speech to the senior management of the Admiralty: "All parts of our aircraft have undergone many improvements in the past ten years, and we have never refused to let our production lag behind Western production in manufacturing, and I have confidently and reluctantly achieved this layer."

Due to the constraints of funding, equipment, and military procurement, Ba Yuzao, Wang Zhu and others could only manufacture seaplanes for the navy, but their seaplanes were already at the forefront of the world at that time.

Song Zhewu believes that as long as he gives Ba Yuzao and Wang Zhu enough support and creates the necessary conditions for scientific research for them, he will definitely be able to create a miracle in China's aviation history that is completely different from the history of later generations, with the chief engineers of Boeing and General Motors, as well as these aviation talents who are not inferior to those of Europe and the United States.

It's just that Song Zhewu remembers that Ba Yuzao was in his original history, in 1928, Ba Yuzao represented China to Germany to participate in the International Air Exhibition. After the meeting, he went to Belgium, Sweden, France, Britain and other countries to inspect the aviation industry and purchase a number of machinery and equipment. On March 8, 29, Ba Yuzao returned to China by ship from the port of Marseille via Suez, the Middle East, India, and Hong Kong. During his time abroad, he was conspired by others to be poisoned by drugs with a slow surname, and after returning to Shanghai, his face began to swell, and he was diagnosed with brain poisoning and died on June 30. It is suspected that he was poisoned by himself.

What makes Song Zhewu strange is that it is now December 29, and Ba Yuzao not only did not die, but also arrived in Laiyuan! Song Zhewu was skeptical again, could it be because his crossing was now beginning to change the trajectory of history?

Anyway, Song Zhewu couldn't wait to meet Ba Yuzao and those "big names" right away.

Seeing that Song Zhewu was impatient, with a look of being about to meet these people, Xiao Guodong couldn't help but smile and said: "Wen Ge, it's not too late for these people to meet again tomorrow, our top priority is that you should immediately settle the matter of troop reorganization, so that the recruits can be put into training as soon as possible." According to your analysis, the Jiang Yan war is about to break out, and our time is very tight! ”

Song Zhewu thought about it, it was not too late to see those talents tomorrow, and the most anxious thing now was to complete the reorganization of the troops as soon as possible.

After Song Zhewu and Xiao Guodong discussed, they held a high-level military meeting of the Fourth Route Army overnight to arrange all the work of the reorganization.

Xiao Guodong suggested that the troops should not be reorganized in a big way as before, because in order to cope with the upcoming big battle, the main divisions should maintain their combat effectiveness.

However, Song Zhewu did not agree, according to Xiao Guodong's plan to reorganize, although several main divisions can maintain strong combat effectiveness, but the combat effectiveness of the newly established troops will not be able to improve to the level of the existing troops for a long time, which is very unfavorable to the realization of his plan, at that time he needs to have as many troops as possible with combat effectiveness, otherwise it will be difficult to block the siege of the Jin Sui Army and the Northwest Army.

Therefore, the final reorganization plan was: Except for the commanders above the battalion level, all the original units were dispersed and remixed with new recruits, and a new Sixth Division was newly established, and Liang Zhongjia was appointed as the commander of the Sixth Division; The garrison brigade, which was originally a part-time part of Wu Jin, was expanded into a garrison corps, with Li Wentian temporarily serving as deputy chief of staff, and Xu Zheng being transferred to the post of deputy chief of the garrison corps to preside over the regular work. The task of the garrison corps is to be responsible for the garrison and defense of all important sites and facilities in the defense area of the Fourth Route Army, except for the headquarters and the air force.

Li Wentian no longer concurrently served as the head of the teaching team, and Han Guangdi took over as the head of the teaching team; Wang Zhe served as the training director of the Fourth Route Army, and Han Guangdi and Wang Zhe were responsible for recruit training and officer training; Establish a garrison brigade of the Air Force Corps, which is responsible for the security of airports and bases under the Air Force Corps; The Li Jinming Cavalry Division, which was transferred back from Wei Guanghui's original cavalry army, was directly under the headquarters, and the cavalry division, the 1st and 2nd Guard Brigades were all transferred to Xiao Guodong, with Ye Changgui assisting; The Special Brigade and Mountain Brigade are still under the responsibility of Ye Changgui; The tank training brigade, the artillery training brigade, and the engineer training brigade were added to the teaching corps, and the personnel of the tank training brigade were selected from the thousands of student soldiers recruited by instructors sent by Zhang Xueliang. Liang Fang was responsible for selecting outstanding shooters from all units of the Fourth Route Army as instructors of the Artillery Teaching Brigade. The reason why Liang Fang, the former artillery commander, was not recommended by the troops, was that he was afraid that no one would hand over the best shooter.

The reason for the establishment of the engineering corps teaching brigade is that not only Song Zhewu had to carry out large-scale construction after occupying Shanxi, but also to prepare for the War of Resistance Against Japan, which required the construction of a large number of military projects, which could not be built by relying on the people, not to mention that many projects had to be kept secret, and there was also railway construction, and these large projects were not something that these small companies with no strength in China could do. Therefore, Song Zhewu should take precautions and prepare in advance.

The captain of the engineering training brigade is Sun Sicheng, the only person in the Fourth Route Army who has worked as an engineer, and Sun Sirong, a mining engineer, because he has nothing to do now, temporarily comes to play a guest role as an instructor to teach the knowledge of tunnel construction operations, and at the same time to bring out a group of students.

24 of the 26 150mm howitzers captured in Manchuria were handed over to Zhang Yafei's 1st Division, which was expanded to form an artillery brigade on the basis of the original artillery regiment of the 1st Division. In this way, Zhang Yafei's artillery brigade has a regiment with 24 75mm mountain guns and a heavy artillery regiment with 24 150mm howitzers, and the firepower of such an artillery brigade is not inferior to the artillery division that the Central Army is preparing to set up under the advice of German advisers.

24 of the 32 captured 105mm howitzers were handed over to Liang Fang's Fifth Division, which also formed an artillery brigade. The remaining two 150mm howitzers and eight 105mm howitzers were handed over to the artillery training team of the training corps for training and battle damage replenishment.

(To be continued)