Chapter 378 Layout Northern Construction and Development Committee (3)

The reason why Song Zhewu also included it in the military industrial system is that Wang Lianzhang's western medicine laboratory is now developing the first antibiotic for mankind, penicillin, on the basis of the patent he purchased from Fleming, which requires absolute secrecy.

Penicillin will save lives not only in wartime, but also in peacetime, many of the patients who are now considered terminally ill, at least tuberculosis will no longer take the lives of millions.

Penicillin, at the same time, will also be a cornucopia and cash cow for Song Zhewu to get a lot of construction funds.

Moreover, not only in the Western medicine laboratory, but also in Wang Lianzhang's Chinese patent medicine laboratory, the prescriptions of a series of Chinese patent medicines developed also need to be kept absolutely confidential.

In addition, although there are several Western medical clinics and hospitals in the areas controlled by the Taihang Administration, they are not only small in scale, but also have a low level of medical care, which is much worse than the level of the Fourth Route Army Headquarters Hospital, that is to say, the medical level of the Fourth Route Army Headquarters Hospital is the highest in the area under the Northern Construction and Development Committee.

You must know that in the headquarters hospital of the Fourth Route Army, there are now five or six medical experts, including Wang Lianzhang, a double doctor.

To put it bluntly, this so-called Mobilization and Engineering Construction Committee of the People's Organizations is the leading body of the reserve forces, which was prepared by Song Zhewu for the future expansion of the army and the timely replenishment of troops in wartime.

The reason why Song Zhewu sells dog meat on the head of a sheep is because he does not dare to call him that now, and he cannot even mention any reserves, otherwise it will inevitably arouse Chiang Kai-shek's suspicions and vigilance, and he will be very suspicious of his purpose and motives, and he will even start to prevent and suppress him, even if he is listed as a potential target for attack and elimination.

Song Zhewu didn't want to get into such trouble now. Moreover, with his current strength, it is impossible for him to have the ability to withstand the blow of the Nanjing Central Political Axe, not to mention that his target enemies are Yue Kou and Soviet Russia, and it is impossible for him to fall out with the Nanjing Central Political Axe now, resulting in several enemies. If that's the case, don't talk about the War of Resistance, he will probably have to go to Mongolia to protect himself before that.

The director of the Mobilization and Construction Committee of the People's Organization was originally the most suitable person for Han Guangdi, the head of the teaching team.

Because the central government in Nanjing had already issued a clear order that local governments were not allowed to run their own military schools, now the northern military schools have been abolished, and all the cadets and instructors have been merged with the teaching corps of the Fourth Route Army. Of course, the current teaching corps still has all the functions of an officer school, but the name has changed.

Song Zhewu will need a large number of officers to expand the army in the future, and he will not ask Nanjing for graduates of Lu University and other military academies, and he is more at ease to train himself. Although there is no longer the name of the Northern Military Academy, Song Zhewu has trained more officers, the scale of the teaching corps is even far larger than the original Northern Military Academy, and there are more teaching subjects.

As for letting Xu Zheng serve as the director, it is because since Xu Zheng was dismissed by Song Zhewu last time, although he was quickly activated by Song Zhewu again, he was bitten by a snake for a year, and he was afraid of the well rope for ten years.

Even Song Zhewu believes that the reason why Xu Zheng has his current mentality shows that he has always been very concerned about being removed by Song Zhewu, and even complains about Song Zhewu in his heart, it is no longer suitable for such a person to continue to stay in the combat army, or Song Zhewu is already a little uneasy.

Therefore, this time Song Zhewu made up his mind to let Xu Zheng leave the combat unit, so as not to change his elbows and armpits in the future, and then he would regret it too late.

The reason for the establishment of the engineering corps is that the defense fortifications and many military industrial construction projects of the Outer Mongolia and Taiyuan Administration require absolute secrecy, and the employment of civilian companies and civilian workers is not conducive to secrecy, and allowing combat units to carry out construction will affect the training of the troops and the progress of the project, because the commanders and fighters of these combat units are not professional after all.

There is another point, that is, because of the construction needs, Song Zhewu bought some engineering construction equipment, these equipment can only be used in a centralized manner, will play a greater efficiency, it is impossible to distribute the hard-won construction machinery to various troops.

Moreover, Song Zhewu still remembers that until the 80s, China still had a large number of railway troops, which made great contributions to China's railway construction. In Song Zhewu's plan, he also needed such a professional army, because the railway in his mind was by no means just a railway from Taiyuan to Kulun, and he also wanted to extend his railway line further north......

As one of the two deputy directors of the Northern Construction and Development Committee, Jia Jingde is in charge of six committees, including the Taiyuan Administration, Suiyuan, and Inner and Outer Mongolia for industrial planning and construction, transportation, industrial guidance and promotion, industrial and commercial fiscal and tax collection, cultural and educational development and popularization, agricultural and water conservancy construction, and other civil affairs.

Jia Jingde personally served as the director of the Industrial Planning and Construction Committee and the Transportation Committee, and because Jia Jingde was responsible for organizing and planning the work of all non-military industrial systems, there were many affairs, and it was impossible to do everything personally, so he set up an executive deputy director in the Industrial Planning and Construction Committee, and Wen Shouquan, the former director of the Shanxi Construction Department, was responsible for presiding over the regular work of the Industrial Planning and Construction Committee. Yan Minghou, the director of the engineering department responsible for the organization and budget of the project, is Yan Minghou.

The Transportation Commission also has an executive deputy director, who was dug up by Song Zhewu twice by calling He Yingqin twice, and Ling Hongxun, who had published a monograph on "Railway Engineering" and is now the president of the "Chinese Society of Engineers" and the director of the Longhai Railway Engineering Bureau, served as the chief engineer of the Transportation Commission, Xie Zongzhou and Zhai Weizhong, deputy chief engineers, and Li Qichang, former director of the Shanxi Provincial Engineering Division, served as the director of the Railway Construction Engineering Department.

Yan Houming and Li Qichang, when Song Zhewu discussed Yan Xishan with netizens in his previous life, he studied a lot of information about Yan Xishan and was very impressed by these two people.

Yan Minghou, a native of Xiaowang Village, Dingxiang, was a rough writer, a worker, and calculated the materials and project budget of the construction project very accurately, so he was appointed by Yan Xishan and promoted him to be the head of the contractor group of the Engineering Department of the Ordnance Road Construction Headquarters. For all the projects contracted by him, if the contractor does not supervise the hard work and save materials, it is a blessing not to lose money, and it is difficult to earn his money. This was very much to the appetite of the budget-conscious Yan Xishan, who is said to have planned to send an intellectual to compile his experience into a book.

As for Li Qichang, he is very famous among Shanxi's engineering construction talents. Li Qichang, a native of Fengrun County, Hebei Province, is also a rough writer, originally an ordinary worker who repaired railways, and later worked in projects such as building barracks.

Once, when Yan Xishan was inspecting the project, he found that Li Qichang was working fast and well, and when Yan Xishan asked some questions, Li Qichang could also speak the truth, which made Yan Xishan very satisfied. Yan Xishan has a characteristic, that is, he has people who are very satisfied with what he has seen with his own eyes, and he often promotes them exceptionally and reuses them. Yan Xishan thinks that the person who is promoted in this way is not only capable, but more importantly, he will be loyal to him Yan Xishan. He then promoted Li Qichang to work in the adjutant office of the Overseer's Office. Li Qichang is extremely intelligent, after getting Yan Xishan's appreciation, Li Qichang knew that this opportunity was not easy to come by, began to use all his spare time to study culture, and then asked someone to teach him advanced mathematics and construction engineering related to material mechanics, etc., and soon mastered all the knowledge from drawing design to materials and payments, and his ability and knowledge level is no less than that of engineers who graduated from university, and has rich practical experience.

Later, after Yan Xishan transferred him to work in the engineering department, he often impressed the "Confucians" with his unique material-saving, money-saving, sturdy and practical solutions in the research and design of the project. Yan Xishan was exceptionally promoted to the director of the engineering department, in charge of all engineering construction in Shanxi. He was an important designer of the Yan family ancestral hall, the east garden of the riverside village, the Xihui villa, the highway and other construction projects, especially the design and planning of the Tongpu Railway.

There is one thing that Song Zhewu is very impressed, that is, in Song Zhewu's memory, in 1933, Li Qichang began to concurrently serve as the head of the engineering group of the Ordnance Road Construction Headquarters. In the design scheme of the northern section of Tongpu Road, the designers estimated that it would be difficult to build a road because the foundation of the river from the north of Yangqu Gao Village to Xin County was not good, so they designed it to go east from Gao Village to Dingxiang to Yuanping without passing through Xin County, "abandoning the bowstring and walking the bow back". Li Qichang did not agree with this plan, so he personally led people to survey, measure, and design, believing that from Gaocun to Yuanping through Xin County.

Although Yan Xishan trusted Li Qichang very much, after all, the other party was a chief engineer with a doctorate trained abroad, and Yan Xishan was also a little uncertain, so he personally rode a donkey to check the two routes on the spot, and finally approved Li Qichang's plan, which resulted in a saving of 2 million oceans.

Among the deputy directors and deputy chief engineers of the Industrial Planning and Construction Commission and the Transportation Commission, as well as the two engineering directors, except for Wen Shouquan, deputy director of the Industrial Planning and Construction Commission, who was recommended by Jia Jingde, the rest were appointed by Song Zhewu.

Among these people, although Yan Houming and Li Qichang are not from professional backgrounds, they all belong to the category of talent and intelligence, while Ling Hongxun, Xie Zongzhou, and Zhai Weizhong are personally intelligent and accomplished, among which Xie Zongzhou and Zhai Weizhong were the chief and deputy chief engineers of the construction of the Tongpu Railway in their original history, and their ability naturally goes without saying. It is worth mentioning Ling Hongxun here.

In the memory of Song Zhewu's previous life, Ling Hongxun was not inferior to Zhan Tianyou, and made great contributions to China's railway construction during the Republic of China......

(To be continued)