Song Zhewu then said solemnly: "Regarding the matter of Shanxi, I and several chiefs of staff are planning a battle plan, and you can all think about it when you go back, and anyone who has any good ideas can tell us a few of them." However, there is one thing that everyone should keep in mind that the capture of Shanxi must not be forcefully attacked, but only waiting for the right opportunity, I think that sooner or later Chiang Kai-shek and Yan Xishan will have a battle, and the time should be within a year, and then this will be our opportunity. The purpose of this is to make you all know that you commanders should be prepared and focused on your usual training and preparations, so that once we suddenly start to act, you will not be in a hurry, and you will have to bring the troops to me. ”

Song Zhewu continued solemnly: "All the contents of today's meeting are top secret, and these contents are only known to us, the core people of the Fourth Route Army, and no one is allowed to spread them, not even your family. In the near future, all the work of our Fourth Route Army will revolve around how to seize Shanxi, and the corresponding training plan will be issued later, and all units will seriously train in accordance with the training plan. Chief of Staff Xiao should urge the Quartermaster Department to pay close attention to stockpiling ammunition, weapons and various military supplies; Chief of Staff Tao should supervise and urge the expansion of all units, the reorganization of the army, and the intensification of the training of officers as planned. You have to act boldly in local affairs, and if there are problems, you have to let them go, but you have to remember that now is not about how well you do the affairs of the Taihang Administration, your goal is to train your management team and prepare us to take over Shanxi. ”

After several people received the order, Song Zhewu said to Xiao Guodong in a harmonious voice: "Brother Xiao, explain the company's affairs to Rujuan, and you will have to worry more about the affairs of the research institute!" ”

Xiao Guodong nodded and said, "Wen Ge, you can rest assured." ”

Song Zhewu said to Xiao Guodong and Li Rujuan, and at the same time to everyone: "The five-thousandths of the annual profit of our newly established company must be distributed to everyone, and the rest of the profits will be used in our Fourth Route Army, and I will find a way to solve the insufficient part." As for how to divide the five percent of the shares, I think it will be up to Brother Xiao and Rujuan to get a plan for me after calculating it, but I am against equal distribution. ”

It is said that it is most appropriate for Song Zhewu, a person who has mastered the information of scientific and technological development decades ahead, to serve as the director of the research institute, but Song Zhewu has too many things to concentrate on management. And this research institute is really too important, not only to ensure sufficient scientific research funds, but also to cooperate with the upper and lower levels of the Fourth Route Army for many things, without a person with enough power to take charge of it, it is impossible to do it, and this person must not only be careful, but also have enough patience.

Song Zhewu thought about it, only Xiao Guodong was the most suitable, but Xiao Guodong also had a lot of things, he was now equivalent to the big butler of the Fourth Route Army, almost all the ordinary affairs had to be arranged by him, and it was impossible for him to manage the research institute full-time. Song Zhewu, who had no choice but to set up a comprehensive management office, a security office, and a logistics supply office under the research institute, and then assigned a full-time secretary to Xiao Guodong to assist Xiao Guodong in managing the regular work of the research institute.

Regarding the company's affairs, Song Zhewu really wanted Li Rusong, an expert who is proficient in the operation of the company, to help Li Rujuan for a while, but considering that Li Rujuan is not easy to speak, after all, the two are sisters and brothers, and he is afraid that he will be too careful, Li Rujuan will not take the initiative to ask, so he has to go to Li Rusong with Li Rujuan.

Li Rusong wanted to go back to Shanghai immediately, one was to report his safety to his parents; Another is about the agent Zhenbang Sebu, this agent is definitely a good source of wealth for the Li family. But when Song Zhewu said that he was going to set up a company, hoping that he could help Li Rujuan build the company's management system before leaving, Li Rusong immediately agreed.

Li Rusong has to agree to this matter no matter what, you must know that this is Song Zhewu who handed over the financial power to his sister, which shows that Song Zhewu and Li Rujuan really love each other and absolutely trust her, and he, as a younger brother, must not stand idly by as a younger brother in this matter. So the two and Sun Jiahui immediately got busy and set up various institutions of the group company's headquarters, especially financial institutions. This accounting system was established by Li Rujuan in accordance with international standards, and other specific management, supervision and execution agencies were made by Li Rusong and Sun Jiahui.

In addition, the Fourth Route Army Research Institute was also armed into the company by Song Zhe, which Song Zhewu was selfish, and if this group wants to develop greatly, it will not work without strong scientific research strength. It's just that Song Zhewu is now lacking talents, and due to the military needs of the Fourth Route Army, almost everything in these companies has to serve the military needs for the time being, so Song Zhewu had no choice but to assign the ownership of the research institute to his company first, but the management is still in charge of Xiao Guodong, especially the core parts of the military industry and various research institutes except the Chemical Research Institute, which are absolutely confidential. However, all the research results of those research institutes must be owned by the company, and all the patents of specific researchers will be given a commission according to the profit after the sale of the products produced.

After a few days of intense busyness, the construction of various facilities was rolled out in an all-round and orderly manner, and the people sent out to various universities in China to recruit scientific research personnel were also sent to various places.

But before he could catch his breath, he received a telegram from Yan Xishan. In the telegram, Yan Xishan not only praised Song Zhewu's trip to Hubei for fulfilling his mission and showing the prestige of the Jin Sui Army, but also praised Song Zhewu for attacking and containing the Northwest Army in Henan. Tell Song Zhewu that he will send Zhao Pilian, the former representative of the commander-in-chief of the Third Group Army in Nanjing and the current vice minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Nationalist Axe, to represent him in the labor army. and escorted a batch of weapons, ammunition and other military supplies to Laiyuan. Before he said that he would arrive, he asked Song Zhewu to send troops to pick him up.

Soon, the intelligence from Wang Xu's intelligence station in Taiyuan also arrived, and it was reported that 'Zhao Pilian led a battalion of 120 carts escorted by the Jin Sui army and had set off for Laiyuan'.

Song Zhewu noticed that Yan Xishan said in the telegram that he had "played the prestige of the Jin Sui army". He didn't believe that Yan Xishan really regarded his Fourth Route Army as the real Jin Sui Army, he knew that Yan Xishan was deliberately courting him, just to make Song Zhewu think that he Yan Xishan had regarded Song Zhewu and his Fourth Route Army as the troops of the Jin Sui Army, so as not to let Song Zhewu have thoughts about the Jin Sui Army and his Yan Xishan from the outside.

After discussing with Xiao Guodong, Tao Rong, Wang Xu, and Li Wentian, several people thought that Yan Xishan sent his cronie Zhao Pilian this time, and he must have wanted to further win over Song Zhewu.

In fact, Song Zhewu understood that Yan Xishan sent Zhao Pilian to Laiyuan, not only to further win him over, but also to probe his details, so that Yan Xishan could decide what to do about his actions to overthrow Jiang in the future. If Song Zhewu really opposed Chiang Kai-shek, with the support of the Fourth Route Army, he would have more confidence to argue with Chiang Kai-shek; If it is found that Song Zhewu has a tendency to defect to Chiang, then he must first find a way to solve the Fourth Route Army, otherwise he is afraid that Song Zhewu will stab him in the back.

However, since Song Zhewu already had an idea, he would naturally deal with it easily, and decided that Xiao Guodong would personally lead the troops to meet Zhao Pilian.

Early the next morning, after sending Xiao Guodong away, Song Zhewu, who had long been impatient and hoped to see his precious plane early, immediately rushed to the base of the Air Force Corps with Liang Bi, Ye Qing and a group of guards. Song Zhewu's heart had long been firmly held by the plane he was thinking about, and he had even flown into the blue sky and white clouds......

The base of the Air Force Corps is located near Laiyuan County, because Laiyuan is a basin in the hinterland of the Taihang Mountains, and only the vicinity of the county seat is relatively flat and open. Originally, Song Zhewu wanted to set up the base a little farther away from the county seat, but after the instructors of Curtiss Company who followed Wu Jin back to Laiyuan traveled all over Laiyuan, they finally found that the most suitable place to be an air base was near the county seat.

An airport doesn't just need a wide flat area, it also needs to be as low as possible around it. If there are high peaks near the airport, the difficulty and danger will increase significantly because of the angle of take-off and landing.

The airport should be built on flat land, but there is not much flat land in the mountainous areas, as long as it is flat land, it is all farmland. When the land was expropriated, there was a lot of trouble, the owners of those fields were reluctant to sell their land, and even after the Fourth Route Army raised the price of land to twice the normal land price, there was still a squire who was unwilling to sell the land. In the end, Xiao Guodong found the county magistrate Meng Chu, and Meng Chu personally came forward to talk about it.

Although it could not be compared with the large airports of later generations, the only airfield of this air force corps not only had to accommodate more than 50 planes of the bomber wing, but also the remaining 150 or so planes had to be temporarily stored here. In addition, the Air Force Corps' oil depots, aircraft maintenance plants, and aviation schools, as well as the garrison units, air force corps, and headquarters are to be temporarily located here, so the area occupied is also huge.

The airport is more than 1,000 meters long and 800 meters wide. It is backed by an isolated hill more than 100 meters high to the east and the Juma River to the south, and the runway of the airport runs parallel to the Juma River to the west, and the north and west sides are pulled out of the separation zone by wooden stakes and ropes. Behind the separation zone, set up a sentry post every 30 meters; Posts are set up every 60 metres; A five-meter-high sentry tower was set up every one hundred and twenty meters, on which machine guns were erected; On the eastern side of the hill, a ring fortification has been built on the top of the hill, and a number of Ming castles have been built on all sides. The entire airport is heavily guarded.

More than a dozen huge caves have been dug inside the airfield, and in front of each hole a retaining wall more than two meters high has been piled up with sandbags, and machine guns have been erected on it.

In the open space more than 100 meters in front of the cave, more than a dozen six-meter-high mat sheds and dozens of military tents have been erected along the river, and in front of each mat shed there are soldiers with guns on duty, and these mat sheds should be temporary hangars.

After observing from a distance, Song Zhewu nodded with satisfaction. The reason why he chose Wu Jin as the commander of the Air Force Corps was because Wu Jin was very prudent and thorough. The Air Force is a high-tech service, and pilots' piloting skills cannot be perfected overnight, but requires a constant and slow accumulation of experience, and a gradual change from quantitative to qualitative change. If you are in a hurry, you will inevitably get twice the result with half the effort. Even later, there were more advanced aircraft, but because of the pilots, they could not give full play to the surname of advanced aircraft. This young air force must be down-to-earth and go steadily step by step, and only in this way can it become a long-sky sword that will make Yu Kou fearful in 10 years or so.

The entrance to the airport is in the middle of the north runway, and at the entrance, there is a huge guard tower on each side, and on both sides of the gate is a circular sandbag position around the guard tower, where a platoon of troops is stationed. All persons entering and exiting the airport must have a special pass.

The platoon commander on duty recognized Song Zhewu and was about to let him go, but Song Zhewu insisted on letting the sentry check the pass before following the platoon commander into the airport. Horses are not allowed to be brought into the airport, mainly for fear of frightening the horses when the plane starts and flies, so all horses must be left outside the airport.

Song Zhewu and the others walked along the runway of the airport to the tents on the east side. It is said that it is a runway, in fact, it is to pad a thick layer of loess on the leveled land and then repeatedly tamp it, such a runway is usually okay for planes to take off and land, but what about rain? The runways that Song Zhewu had seen in his previous life were all cement.

Song Zhewu stomped the runway with his foot, feeling that the runway was very strong, and he couldn't even see the stamped marks of his riding boots, but no matter how strong the runway was, could he withstand the huge momentum generated by the plane's landing? Song Zhewu went straight to the shed with a stomach full of questions.

Wu Jin, who got the report, hurriedly ran out of the middle shed to greet Song Zhewu when Song Zhewu was still more than 100 meters away from the shed.

Song Zhewu returned the salute to Wu Jin and asked Wu Jin: "The planes are all in the shed?" ”

Wu Jin replied carefully: "No, there are only sixty planes that need to be assembled and used in the shed, and the rest of the planes that arrive are stored in the cave. According to the commander's order, thirty-six of the fifty-four aircraft equipped with the bomber wing have been installed, and the rest are waiting to be installed, including six for training in aviation schools. ”

Wu Jin pointed to the caves again, smiled wryly and said, "It's okay that the ammunition depot and oil depot are located in the caves. However, now not only the installation of aircraft, but also the training of aviation cadets and the maintenance plant can only be carried out in the shed. Chief of Staff Xiao said, 'When the work of the institute is done, they will build us a teaching and maintenance workshop, and finally build a barracks for us.' ”

Song Zhewu comforted Wu Jin and said: "The matter of the research base is very important, these people are all from the city, it is very rare for them to come to our Fourth Route Army, if we do not provide them with complete scientific research facilities and equipment as soon as possible, including their accommodation, it will make them feel cold." Therefore, the matter of your base will be postponed, this is what I asked Chief of Staff Xiao to arrange in this way, you have to understand. ”

Wu Jin hurriedly smiled and said: "Of course I understand, I'm not scratching my hair, I'm reporting to the commander about the work of the Air Force." ”

Wu Jin didn't scratch at all, Song Zhewu didn't believe it, after all, he also had a senior talent like Guo Wenyuan here. Of course, those foreigners who come to Laiyuan do not have to stay at the airport at night, they will all go back to the city to live. But after all, it is very inconvenient, although Song Zhewu has no time to come here these days, but he knows everything here very well. Since the construction of the airport began, Wu Jin has not returned to the city for a night, and after Guo Wenyuan came, he also rushed to the airport and did not go back, they all lived in tents. He also wanted to build the proper facilities for Wu Jin's air force corps as soon as possible, but because of the materials, it would take a while.

Song Zhewu didn't want to say more on this issue, and asked Wu Jin while walking towards the Xi Peng: "I heard Chief of Staff Xiao say that Guo Wenyuan is a great talent!" ”

At the mention of Guo Wenyuan, Wu came in and said happily: "What the chief of staff said is right, Guo Wenyuan is a very knowledgeable person!" Before he came, our mechanics watched the foreigners install a few planes, but they still didn't know how to do it, and these big noses were also very proud, and after telling our people once, they were impatient to ask again. But as soon as Guo Wenyuan came, after only two days of watching, he said a lot of their bird language to those foreigners, and then those foreigners gave a thumbs up. After Guo Wenyuan followed them to install an airplane, he took our people to install one himself under the guidance of foreigners, and now our people have installed more than 20 planes under the guidance and inspection of foreigners. ”

Song Zhewu knew in Zhengzhou that Guo Wenyuan was not only proficient in mechanical transmission control, but he also had research in electronics, optics and other fields, and was an all-rounder, but he really didn't expect Guo Wenyuan to be so capable, and he could lead his own people to install an aircraft after watching it for a few days!

Song Zhewu said happily: "It seems that Wen Yuan is really a great talent, where is he?" You take me to him. ”

"Guo Wenyuan is now tinkering with Mike on the trainer plane, and I heard Guo Wenyuan say that it has been successful." Wu Jin was afraid that Song Zhewu would not understand what the trainer was for, and explained: "This trainer is ......."

Song Zhewu deliberately teased Wu Jin, and said with a smile: "My Commander Wu, don't think that you know more about airplanes than me after being the commander of the Air Force for a few days, this trainer plane is specially designed to teach our pilots how to fly airplanes, and besides, I'm afraid you don't understand." ”

Wu Jin knew that Song Zhewu was teasing him, and said with a smile: "That is, I haven't been to the sea, Commander, you, a person who has eaten foreign bread, naturally know more than me, a native bun, this time I have an axe." ”

Song Zhewu asked Wu Jin: "What did you just say about Mike?" ”

(To be continued)