With the spin-off of the Huaxi Group Company, the transfer of Xiao Yimin's shares, and the reorganization of the company, the tycoons in Sichuan's industrial and commercial circles couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and they admired and feared Xiao Yimin.

Admiration is because the far-sighted Xiao Yimin used his strong influence to explain to everyone what the overall market is and why it is necessary to adhere to the principle of fairness and justice and equal interests, which opened everyone's eyes and had to reflect on their previous mistakes.

What makes everyone awe-inspiring is that Xiao Yimin will not only speak, but also do, he took the initiative to withdraw from many production fields such as military uniforms, shoes and hats, military grain and oil, hardware accessories, etc., generously cede most of the market and interests, and through detailed statistics, the price and sales changes of Sichuan native products in the international market in the past ten years are summarized, and the future market is reasonably predicted, so that everyone can see the serious mistakes made in the export business of local products, and point out to everyone that "unite to form an industry monopoly, Finally regain the pricing power of export products", quickly made the whole Sichuan business community form a consensus, and then formed a strong cohesion.

What is afraid is that this guy is too good at making money, no matter what it is, he can make money in his hands, just take the transformation of Changping in the west of the city that no one was optimistic about at the beginning, the tattered Changping let him all knock down, built cement roads and drainage culverts, erected electric poles to pull wires, and then laid water pipes, and finally divided a large area of land into 1,600 homesteads, built several model buildings, and the newspapers were full of buyers, and the homestead with an average of Wu Baiyuan was finally frantically snapped up. More than a dozen wealthy people in Yucheng and southern Sichuan bought more than ten or twenty pieces of land, and built a large western-style building and garden in a blink of an eye, and in just two months, this guy made a net profit of 280,000 yuan, which made people blush.

Xiao Yimin took the overall situation into account, was extremely kind and generous, and after saying the astonishing words that "a big enterprise is not beneficial to the overall development", he immediately transferred to everyone the vigorous factories under his name, except for the high-tech and high-input weapons production plants that supplied weapons for the army, and which ordinary people were not qualified to do, even the power plant and water plant were transferred to the powerful Zeng Shouwu and Deng Xianke, two wealthy businessmen, thus closely uniting the industrial and commercial circles of Chengdu and Chongqing, and everyone exchanged ideas and shared business opportunities. I suddenly found that the world was so big and there were so many opportunities to make money, and I was deeply ashamed of my previous narrowness.

Entering the middle of March, a major event made everyone see Xiao Yimin's noble character.

With the completion of the renovation and expansion project of the Fenghuangshan camp where the First Division of the Border Army was stationed, the Sichuan Arsenal located at the western foot of the Fenghuang Mountain was also completed one after another; with the efforts of Chinese and German technicians and 1,300 workers day and night, a modern arsenal with a thermal power plant, two new-type electric smelting furnaces, a hot-rolling workshop, and five gun production workshops has completed the installation and commissioning of equipment as scheduled and is about to enter full production.

When the good news broke, some legislators proposed, either explicitly or implicitly, that the arsenal should be taken over by the political axe in advance.

The biggest reason for this argument is that through the efforts of all the military and civilian personnel and political axes at all levels in the second half of last year, the results of tax collection have been much better than expected, and since the provincial government has money, there is no need to hand over the already publicly-owned arsenals to private enterprises for management, and even if they pay some more money to redeem them in advance, it is worth it.

The high-level military and political officials and major businessmen all know that behind these parliamentarians are the Metropolitan Governor Hu Jingyi and the Civil Affairs Governor Zhang Peijue are instigating, so they are generally unhappy for Xiao Yimin, but Xiao Yimin is very frank and kind, and took the initiative to ask to see the Metropolitan Governor and the Civil Affairs Chief, and the three of them discussed behind closed doors for a long time, and they all came out with a smile on their faces.

On the morning of 18 March, Metropolitan Governor Hu Jingyi and Civil Affairs Chief Zhang Peijue held an extraordinary meeting, at which Xiao Yimin, commander of the border army, and Luo Fa, chairman of the board of directors of the Sichuan Huaxi Industrial Corporation, were warmly invited to attend.

"With the help of General Xiao Yimin, the provincial government and the Sichuan Huaxi Industrial Corporation agreed through consultation to return all the property rights and management rights of the Sichuan Arsenal to the provincial government in advance, and the Sichuan provincial government axe paid a total of 2.5 million yuan to the Huaxi Industrial Corporation for the payment of goods, plant construction advances, and worker training expenses."

When the news was announced, there was a brief silence in the audience, and then all the participants stood up and applauded Xiao Yimin and Luo Fa who attended the meeting.

Everyone is aware of the construction of the arsenal that has attracted the attention of the military and the people of the whole province, and the newspapers publish the progress of the construction and touching deeds almost every day, and they are full of hope for the new arsenal, and now the provincial government can redeem it five years ahead of schedule and only 2.5 million yuan, which is really a big bargain.

Metropolitan Governor Hu Jingyi stood up, motioned for everyone to be quiet, and excitedly told everyone:

"This money includes the construction of all factories and workers' residential areas, and at the suggestion of General Xiao, Huaxi Industrial Corporation did not even ask for interest, so high-spirited, admirable! The Governor proposes, and submits to the Parliament, whether a medal of honor for economic construction should be established, in addition to vigorously praising the high righteousness of Mr. Luo Fa, chairman of the Huaxi Industrial Corporation. ”

There was another round of applause, and all the officials raised their hands in favor of the governor's proposal.

Xiao Yimin, who had completed the task, refused to be retained by everyone, and left in a hurry after saying goodbye to a group of familiar old friends, leaving the brilliance to the fourth brother and the governor who were about to hold the signing ceremony.

This matter seems to have suffered a loss for Xiao Yimin and Luo Fa, in fact, this money has always been a big pimple in Xiao Yimin and Luo Fa's hearts, before there was no money, I felt that I had earned it, and I felt that there was no pressure, but now that the family has a big business and does not worry about spending money, this matter has become a lingering pain and guilt, so it will be done so simply and beautifully.

The 2.5 million yuan obtained, Xiao Yimin and Luo Fa will not keep, they have made a budget, of which 1.5 million yuan is used to purchase Germany's rifle production line and machine gun production equipment, strengthen the strength of their own arsenal, the remaining 1 million yuan are all invested in the construction of the Chengya Highway, at present, the Chengya Highway has received strong support from the people along the way, each family brings their own food to repair the road, the project is progressing rapidly, the only difficulty is the construction of three bridges, this money will become a strong guarantee for the construction of the bridge.

In the next week, Xiao Yimin stood up before dawn to box, went to the headquarters to deal with official business, went to the military academy in the afternoon to perform the duties of the principal, and in the evening, as long as he had time, he frequently inspected every classroom in the military academy, took turns to meet with the students, chatted about the study and training, and then encouraged him.

Principal Siao's trust, respect, encouragement and encouragement often touched the students who were interviewed, and the relationship between teachers and students was harmonious.

On the evening of 20 March, the sniper brigade that had returned from special training reported the good news:

After more than 40 days of training and summing up, the 10-round magazine-type Mauser sniper rifle modified by the institute has fully met the design requirements and is deeply loved by officers and men, and the sniper rifle equipped with a ZF09 quadruple scope has increased its hit rate from the initial 62 percent to 87 percent in the live firing at a fixed target of 500 meters, and 19 of the special shooters have received full marks in five tests.

That evening, the excited Xiao Yimin came to the research institute again and instructed the general director, Max, to select all the guns that could meet the technical requirements of sniper rifles from the 27,000 new rifles existing in the arsenal, and then transform them into 10-round magazine-type sniper rifles.

Max sensitively asked, "Is there going to be a war?" ”

Xiao Yimin nodded:

"Soon, the General Staff estimates that by June at the latest, the armed forces of the Kuomintang in the south will definitely launch a large-scale war, because Mr. Song Jiaoren, the number three person in their party, was assassinated in Shanghai today, and the information we got is that the bullet entered Mr. Song Jiaoren's back, and it is estimated that it injured the liver and caused heavy bleeding, and judging by the amount of bleeding, even if he was sent to the hospital, there was no way to treat it."

"It's horrible...... Xiao, this is a very bad behavior, it can easily lead to large-scale assassination retaliation, China's political environment is really bad! ”

Max was shocked, and the seven or eight technicians working overtime on the side were all attracted to him.

Xiao Yimin agreed with Max's opinion: "Yes, I am also worried that from now on, this kind of despicable assassination will become a habit, but fortunately, our Sichuan is relatively stable." Rest assured, we now have a close security system for officers and specialists, even the cleaners who sweep the floors are our security guards, and the school is the same, and the entire northwestern city is under the heavy protection of the army and plainclothes police. ”

Everyone was in a much lighter mood and went back to work.

Max and two ammunition experts began to report to Xiao Yimin on the research progress of mortar shells, focusing on a series of satisfactory experimental data obtained from 81mm mortar shells, saying that the finalization could be completed in half a year at most.

Xiao Yimin smiled and said that he was not in a hurry, and suggested that the transformation of the MG08 heavy machine gun weight reduction should be temporarily stopped, and then he took out a purchase list and submitted it to Max for review.

Max finished reading the list and was excited: "Xiao, who are you going to let take over this glorious mission?" ”

"It's just you, you and the five of you have not been back to Germany for so many years, take this opportunity to go back to visit your parents, relatives and friends, and when you arrive in Germany, you still need to go to several factories with us to sign a joint cooperation agreement to see their research progress, in addition, help me bring seven young people to Frankfurt for further study, these seven people's German conversation and literacy skills have met the requirements of their German teachers, let them go to medical school, our army is most lacking doctors." Xiao Yimin said with a smile.

Max immediately agreed, and Powers, a newcomer to the firearms designer, came up and asked with a smile: "Shaw, can I go back to Germany too?" ”

Xiao Yimin was a little surprised, but he still generously allowed: "Of course you can, it's best that after you come back, I can say hello to your new wife." ”

Everyone laughed, and Powers was very happy:

"Xiao, I have decided to give you two gifts, one is the steel helmet production mold you listed on the plan, and the other is that I plan to invite my uncle here to work for you."

"Your uncle?" Xiao Yimin became interested.

Max explained with a smile: "His uncle Bowers Sr. is a very well-known mold design expert, and at the same time is also very proficient in automatic weapons, but unfortunately, the old Powers's factory is too small, and it is about to go bankrupt in the competition with major companies. ”

Xiao Yimin was very happy:

"Powers, your uncle is very welcome to come to China to work, I can now entrust you to tell your uncle, as long as his equipment is still usable, I am willing to buy it together with his equipment, in addition, I can give you and Max carte blanche to use this opportunity to purchase a batch of thin steel plates from Germany that can produce at least 100,000 steel helmets, and if you encounter a suitable stamping machine, you can also buy a few, I have the highest credit rating and financial security in Deutsche Hua Bank, you can buy it according to your needs, Even slightly over the budget on my list is worth it. ”

"Thank you, Xiao, for trusting us!"

Max and Powers stepped forward to shake hands one after another to express their gratitude to Xiao Yimin.

Xiao Yimin continued: "Powers, before you go back, please adjust the production plan, increase the production of new military pistols, and speed up the progress of the 100 MG08 heavy machine guns that are being improved. ”

Max looked solemn: "Sichuan also wants to fight?" ”

"It is very possible, so I need to be prepared, try to control the scope and intensity of the war, once the fighting starts, strive to end it within half a month, and then have a plan to sell the old guns in the hands of the border guards in phases and batches, and replace them with better and more advanced new weapons." Xiao Yimin replied in a low voice.

Max nodded heavily: "Don't worry, we will complete it within half a month." ”

(To be continued)