Yang Hucheng and his entourage crossed the Yellow River from Hejin, passed through Linfen, Jiexiu, Fenyang, Yuci and other places, and came all the way to Taiyuan.

The perception of this road not only opened Yang Hucheng's eyes, but also made Yang Hucheng full of emotion.

The section from Linfen to Jiexiu, in the Linfen Basin, is a plain, and it has been the granary of Shanxi since ancient times. There are many rivers here, the natural conditions are very superior, and the crops in the fields are also growing very well, and even the farmers working in the fields are also very good. And the victims that Yang Hucheng cared about the most couldn't see any of them. Compared with Shaanxi, although it is only separated by a river, it is simply a world of difference.

In Shaanxi, this year's drought has eased, most of the abandoned land has been sown, and now the growth of crops is also okay, but after all, the summer grain will have to wait for a while to come down, and there are still many victims who need relief, even the victims in Xi'an can be seen everywhere.

However, after the Jiexiu, he entered the area of the Taiyuan Administration. Yang Hucheng found that the situation in Taiyuan was very different from that in Linfen and other places.

The water conservancy facilities between the fields here are very complete, and almost every field is connected by a canal, and the crops in the field are also growing better. Yang Hucheng, who was born as a farmer, has not seen such a good crop for many years. He could see that a bumper harvest would never be able to run.

There are relatively more farmers working in the fields here, but there are relatively fewer young and middle-aged people working in the fields than in Linfen, and there are not a single teenage children. However, the peasants who worked were in a good mood, and there was a lot of laughter in the fields.

After talking to a few old farmers, Li Yizhi told Yang Hucheng that the land was purchased by the peasants with loans from the Northern Investment and Development Bank and the Taiyuan Commercial Bank, and that they were cultivating their own land, and that they were naturally in a good mood when they saw that there would be a bumper harvest this year.

As for the fact that there are not many young people doing farm work, this is because the farm work is not very busy now, and the young people are involved in the construction of roads and working in the newly built factories to support their families. The children are all in school, and the Taiyuan Administration has a decree that all school-age children and young people must receive free education at least junior high school, and if any child does not go to school, the parents will be punished, and even the village head will be affected.

As for the Taiyuan Administration, a large number of victims have been received, but why can't they see any of them?

The peasants told Li Yizhi that whenever a victim came to the Taiyuan Administrative Bureau, they would be registered with the Civil Affairs Department of the Taiyuan Administrative Bureau, and then, according to the situation of the victims' families, their family's labor would be recommended to the factories and road construction sites where they were recruiting, or they would be placed in demonstration farms and Suixi to reclaim wasteland. It is said that a large number of victims who have recently arrived have been sent to Beimeng to go to Shibian.

When the victims arrived, the offices of the Civil Affairs Department in various localities would distribute a month's ration according to the number of families of the victims, and then return them after they had a source of livelihood. However, most of the victims who are now going to Beimeng have been told that they are provided with food rations for three months free and that they are also provided with housing free of charge in Beimeng.

Yang Hucheng thinks that the Taiyuan Administration has a very good way of dealing with the disaster victims, and that it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish, and to arrange corresponding jobs for the disaster victims, and then pay it back after the disaster victims have income, and the Taiyuan Administration does not consume much food, so it resettles a large number of disaster victims.

When passing by Wusu, Yang Hucheng was deeply attracted by the fighters that often flew at low altitudes in the sky, and people heard that Wusu had a large airport of the Fourth Route Army, and there were hundreds of planes alone, which surprised Yang Hucheng a lot, the Central Army only had a few hundred planes, and Song Zhewu actually had so many planes?

Yang Hucheng really wanted to open his eyes and see Song Zhewu's plane. However, there were still more than ten miles away from Wusu, and they were stopped by the guards and told them that the front was a military restricted area, and they were not allowed to pass without documents, so Yang Hucheng had to go to Taiyuan with regret.

The closer you are to Taiyuan, the more you can feel the strong commercial atmosphere. The area outside the Dongguan of Taiyuan to the small shops in the southern suburbs is the industrial zone demarcated by He Qigong, the head of the Taiyuan Administration according to Song Zhewu's suggestion, and the newly built factories should be concentrated in this area as much as possible. Today, the vast majority of this industrial zone is filled with new and ongoing factories.

In this industrial area, the most eye-catching are the several large factories affiliated with the Northern Machinery and Equipment Company, especially the towering blast furnace of the No. 1 Iron and Steel Plant and the giant chimney erected high with white smoke.

The flow of people in the industrial zone has increased significantly, not only the businessmen with various accents coming and going in a hurry, but also the man-powered flatbed trucks, carts, and automobiles that pull goods back and forth are also nervously shuttling, going in and out of various factories, and they are very busy.

From Taiyuan Dongguan and Nanguan to the industrial zone, two straight roads for four trucks have been built side by side, and now migrant workers are building concrete roads, and the flow of people and vehicles on this road is, in Yang Hucheng's view, more people and vehicles than on Shanghai's Nanjing Road. Of course, the largest flow of people is still located in front of the Xinghua Company in Dongguan.

After a long day, Yang Hucheng and his party went into the city to find a small hotel to live in, and the next day he went to the market and shops for another day, and then went to the Taiyuan Administration to find He Qigong.

Yang Hucheng and He Qigong are old acquaintances in the Northwest Army, and it will be much more convenient to find He Qigong who was reused by Song Zhewu first.

Seeing Yang Hucheng and his party, He Qigong was taken aback, and after asking what he meant, He Qigong did not dare to delay, and immediately called the Northern Frontier Governor's Office, and soon Xiao Guodong, Tao Rong, Jia Jingde, and Zhao Pilian hurried to Yang Hucheng and his party to the Northern Frontier Chief's Office.

Xiao Guodong told Yang Hucheng that Song Zhewu did not know that Yang Hucheng would come, and that he was now inspecting the partial section of the Taiku railway construction site, and had called Song Zhewu to inform him that Song Zhewu would not come back until the day after tomorrow.

In fact, after Yang Hucheng entered the territory of the Taiyuan Administration, Yang Hucheng and the others were targeted by Fang Zhen's security bureau, but they didn't know Yang Hucheng's identity at that time, or after Yang Hucheng arrived in Taiyuan, the security bureau knew Yang Hucheng's identity from the conversation of the guards who eavesdropped on Yang Hucheng, and Fang Zhen had already notified Song Zhewu and Xiao Guodong.

Yang Hucheng asked Xiao Guodong to tell Song Zhewu that there was no need to rush back, he wanted to visit the factory in Taiyuan first, and then he wanted to go to the construction site of the Taiku Railway to see it, and asked Song Zhewu to be busy with his business first, and the two met in Ningwu three days later.

The next day, Yang Hucheng and his entourage, accompanied by Xiao Guodong, Jia Jingde, Zhao Pilian, He Qigong, and Wang Xinggang, first visited Song Zhewu's wife Li Rujuan.

The last time Song Zhewu got married, Yang Hucheng gave a gift of Xi'an's famous double-layer fine yarn embroidery, according to the people who went back, Li Rujuan liked it very much. This time, Yang Hucheng specially bought a set of embroidery as a gift for Li Rujuan.

Li Rujuan, who had already received the news yesterday, also gave Yang Hucheng a refrigerator and an air conditioner, and gave Yang Hucheng's wife Xie Baozhen a mink coat, a total of 100 pairs of various nylon stockings.

Then, accompanied by Li Rujuan, he visited several companies in Xinghua. In the next two days, Yang Hucheng went to visit the North Machinery and Equipment Company, and Yang Hucheng watched particularly carefully in the arsenal and automobile factory. When he heard that all the locomotives and wagons of the Taiku Railway were designed and manufactured by the Northern Machinery and Equipment Company, Yang Hucheng was so surprised that he didn't say anything for a long time.

Xiao Guodong had already received instructions from Song Zhewu to visit all other places except the Electronics Institute and the Aviation Research Institute, as well as the aircraft factory and the tank factory. Therefore, as long as Yang Hucheng proposes it, Xiao Guodong will meet his requirements.

On the afternoon of the third day, after visiting the Northern National Defense Technology University and the Northern University, Yang Hucheng asked Li Yicheng to meet with experts from the Committee of Agriculture to discuss the development of agriculture and water conservancy in Shaanxi. But unfortunately, Feng Rui, Zhao Chengxia, and Cao Ruizhi are all in the Jinxi Demonstration Farm, and they are not in Taiyuan when they are researching and deploying the construction of vegetable greenhouses. After explaining to Yang Hucheng, Yang Hucheng was also very interested in the vegetable greenhouse, and he happened to go to Song Zhewu's demonstration farm to have a look.

Yang Hucheng, accompanied by Xiao Guodong and Jia Jingde, rushed to Ningwu and met Song Zhewu.

Although Song Zhewu had never seen Yang Hucheng, he was really thunderous about Yang Hucheng. This is not only because Yang Hucheng is a famous tragic figure, but also because Yang Hucheng, a peasant from Shaanxi who has only studied private school for two years, is very intelligent. Therefore, Song Zhewu has a good impression of Yang Hucheng, and has long wanted to meet this celebrity, and this meeting is naturally very enthusiastic.

Yang Hucheng is not only very grateful to Song Zhewu for helping him, but also through visiting Taiyuan for a few days, he saw that the Taiyuan Administration was prosperous under the governance of Song Zhewu, far beyond his expectations, and admired Song Zhewu from the heart, and had the intention of seeing each other late. Therefore, after the two met, they talked happily, like old friends who had not seen each other for many years.

After Song Zhewu ceremoniously set up a banquet for Yang Hucheng to wash the dust, that night, the two people surnamed Suo who were talking about Xing were sleeping in the same room, and they talked about the dawn of the next day.

Although the Taiku Railway has not yet gone out of the way, the construction of the railway from Taiyuan to Ningwu has now been completed, but the stations along the road and the roads from each station to the outside world have not yet been completed, and the rails, sleepers and reinforced concrete used in the construction of the railway, as well as the daily necessities of migrant workers are transported from Taiyuan by railway.

According to Xu Yiqing and Qiao Yingxia's plan, the section in Taiyuan and Biguan will be opened to traffic before the end of the year, so as to make a partial profit in advance.

Accompanied by Song Zhewu and others, Yang Hucheng asked to visit the Jinxi Demonstration Farm after a day of enthusiastic visits to the Taiku Railway.

(To be continued)