Throughout the spring and summer, Chengdu is like a huge construction site inside and outside the ancient city walls, filled with dust and smoke when the weather is clear, and muddy water flows when it rains, this distressing scene has provoked many old masters to blame, if it were not for the mainstream media such as the government-controlled "Sichuan Yuebao" and the "Huaxi Times" of the Huaxi Group, perhaps the designer Xiao Yiming and the decision-maker Zhao Erxun would have been infamous for a while.

Another Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, with the newly built sewers sealed with cement covers, as a car of construction waste is quickly cleared out of the city, the blue sky and wandering white clouds become extraordinarily fresh, all Chengdu people seem to have just opened their eyes, and suddenly find that their homes have changed:

More than a dozen dirty and narrow alleys in the east of the city have been transformed into spacious and clean streets; The scarred shantytowns have been replaced by rows of neat and beautiful blue brick houses, and the banks of the eastern section of the Yuhe River, which were originally filthy and muddy, have not only been built with neat and sturdy embankments, but also planted with holly and moonflowers like green silk streamers on both sides of the wide roads built on both banks.

All this has directly led to the skyrocketing prices of land and property on both sides of the eastern section of the Yuhe River.

More than 1,000 workers of the arsenal and more than 3,000 of their families happily moved into new homes, more than 2,000 sets of "safe houses" built by the Chengdu government are about to be completed and are being sold to the local poor citizens, and the "Huaxi Group Company," which is rich and wealthy and obsessed with charity, will provide financial guarantees for every poor citizen who borrows money to buy a house, thus reducing the corruption and extortion of officials at all levels to the greatest extent, and half of Chengdu has changed its appearance as a result.

Just as the newspaper said, all of this is the result of the painstaking efforts of enlightened officials such as Xiao Yiming, an official of the Governor's Yamen, and Zhou Shanpei, the general office of Sichuan Quanye Dao, and so on.

For a time, people praised the governor Zhao Erxun and the parents and officials of the Chengdu Prefecture and the yamen of the two counties, and they received rave reviews.

In particular, the governor of the same Han people, Zhao Erxun, with his old body, alone withstood the heavy pressure of the imperial court to increase taxes, repeatedly sent people to Beijing to mediate bitterly, and made the imperial court sympathize with the tens of millions of living beings in Bashu and no longer add to the touching deeds, and finally a week before the Mid-Autumn Festival was published by Shanghai's famous "Zilin Xibao", which spread to all parts of Sichuan, triggering a strong response from all walks of life in the province and the deep gratitude of countless people. It is said that countless delegates from all over Sichuan are rushing here.

Under Xiao Yiming's quiet operation, the "Sichuan Daily" and the "West China Times" praised him at once, and gave all the glory to the officials of the Governor's Office, Quanye Road, Patrol Police Road, Chengdu Mansion and the Yamen of the two counties.

A few generous words of taking into account the overall situation have won the admiration of the Sichuan officialdom, and no one will talk about his Huaxi company secretly plundering a large amount of land outside the city, if any of the two hundred and five dare to talk nonsense, maybe Xiao Yiming will be drowned by the saliva of the people of Chengdu before he speaks.

Xiao Yiming's harvest is greater than anyone else's, not only from it to get huge benefits, to consolidate his talented, benevolent and sincere personal image, but most importantly, he has got from it is difficult for others to get the opportunity to hone, in the practical work to gain valuable experience in all aspects, people have become more stable and mature.

Something that made Xiao Yiming extremely regretful and even angry suddenly happened:

Due to the covert instigation and support of the British political axe, a large-scale armed rebellion broke out in the Kang-Tibet area, the garrisons in various places were frequently attacked, and a large number of people and caravans were slaughtered.

The decree of the imperial court was issued quickly, and the Sichuan New Army was strictly ordered to dispatch at least one contingent of troops to Kang-Tibet to quell the rebellion.

At this time, it was the young ruler Zhong Ying who stepped forward to take over the burden, and completed the preparations for the expedition in only one week, and immediately led more than 5,000 brothers from the 33rd Association under his command to set off three days later.

Xiao Yiming did his best to raise a large number of ammunition and materials for Zhong Ying's troops, and urgently ordered the newly established quilt factory and leather goods factory under the Huaxi Group to sew more than 1,000 sets of the latest military cotton coats, cotton hats and gloves at full speed, and finally sent Zhong Ying, Ruiyong, Tang Wulin and other good brothers to the south of the city for thirty miles.

Zhong Ying and others' westward expedition not only made Xiao Yiming temporarily lose a group of close friends, but also made Xiao Yiming temporarily lose the strong support in the army, and it was difficult for each other to see each other again in the next year or two.

No one knows how much sweat Xiao Yiming shed and how many sleepless nights she spent for today's small step, and Xiao Yiming didn't want people to know. I don't know why, the more he enjoys this loneliness and tribulation, the deeper he integrates into this era, the more small he finds himself, and in the face of unexpected difficulties, he is usually so powerless and helpless, but because of this, it also arouses his greater ** and never-say-die ambition.

Xiao Yiming is delighted and comforted by the fact that after more than half a year's efforts, a brand-new thermal power plant has been erected on the other side of the moat in the north of the city, a boatload of coal is being transported to the newly completed power plant wharf, and hundreds of local young workers who have been trained by German technicians for more than two months are working hard to start generating electricity in a month's time.

Immediately adjacent to the power plant are small steel mills and foundries where equipment is being installed.

These two important factories are connected to the power plant, covering a total area of 470 acres, separated only by a two-meter-high fence, and after the three factories are all put into operation, they will greatly enhance the weapons production capacity of the metal products company and hardware factory under the Huaxi Group.

If there is any regret, it is that the chemical plant in Dayi and the ammunition factory in Ya'an have just begun to build plants, and the required equipment will not arrive until early next year, and the official production will only be at the end of next year, at least until the autumn of the next year will bear fruit - and the autumn of the next year, which is one of the few but very fatal historical periods in Xiao Yiming's memory - the sound of that gunshot will spread from the sky over Wuchang City to the whole country and to the world.

The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Xiao Yiming sent the festival gifts, visited all the relatives and friends and colleagues at all levels who must be visited, and came to the hardware factory with the head of the guard, accompanied by the German factory director Max, successively inspected three parts processing workshops, all the way to see the stop, and constantly discussed and exchanged.

Max is very grateful to Xiao Yiming for his trust in himself and his six compatriots, and admires Xiao Yiming's proposal that "workers do not need to fully master all parts processing technology, but only need to be able to master some or several systems of parts processing technology". The qualified parts of each workshop are gathered into the assembly workshop, and finally more than 100 workers complete the assembly and inspection procedures of the products.

Since the official imitation of Mauser C96 and Telt M1903 pistols in June, the workers have slowly changed from rusty to skilled, the scrap rate has dropped from 34% in the first month and 28% in the second month to 5% at the end of last month, and the output has increased from 9 in May, 17 in June to 90 at the end of last month, and the product qualification rate is getting higher and higher. Carry out all kinds of firearms maintenance and make special knives, and the monthly output of 3,600 pistols in the whole factory is no problem at all.

To the slight regret of Max and his colleagues, Xiao Yiming was an extremely stubborn person, for example, in the production of the Mauser C96 pistol, he gave the order very wisely: abandon the beautiful concave and convex decoration of the pistol's shape, and change the round grip to a slightly square grip.

The improved grip design has been unanimously recognized, and the new grip solves the problem of poor control when skidding and shooting, and the shape has become much more harmonious.

However, another improvement suggestion made people very uncomfortable, the pistol produced on both sides of the smooth and smooth nothing, but he liked it very much, and said that it would be named "mirror box", and finally under everyone's protest, he reluctantly drew a circle, and then drew a leopard leaping from left to right in the circle, below the leopard is a hill deformed from the Chinese character "Chuan", and the two sides of the receiver are also marked with "German Mauser company authorized production. Chinese Huaxi Company".

In this way, everyone feels a little more comfortable, overall, the seemingly simple appearance of the pistol also has its advantages, not to mention that the leopard painted as a leap over the hill is very expressive, just in the processing link to save a lot of time and process, the cost has been reduced to a certain extent.

However, the most incredible thing for Max and the other six German compatriots is that this "cut corners" Mauser pistol was launched only a month ago, and it was widely sought after by Chinese users, and the price was still above the original imported gun, and now thinking about it, Max still does not understand, and can only believe the annoying conclusion made by his compatriots: the Chinese are crazy!

Regardless of whether the Chinese are crazy or not, rising sales and profits are the most convincing, so although Max frowned when he saw the light board Mauser on the production line, he would only smile when faced with increasing bonuses.

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