June 7, 1916

The group had less room three, more Cai Ye and Jiang Baili, and returned to Qinghe Village.

Standing on the top floor of the Longteng Building, Cai Ye and Jiang Baili looked at the industrial cluster in the distance, and they could also see trucks pulling goods coming and going on the road, some pulling raw materials in, and more pulling products out. From time to time, you can see the three-wheeled motorcycles used by the soldiers of the reserve regiment for patrol. The two of them have been quiet since they entered the Huashi Town area, and the people here do not have the dishes on their faces in other places, nor do they have that kind of numb eyes. Here are more rosy cheeks, a pair of eyes full of hope for life, revealing a sense of satisfaction with life. An industrial cluster of this size is not common even in Japan, let alone so many cars, and even in Japan there is no luxury enough to use cars to pull goods, and more is used by the military. This made the two of them more emotional, Mingxin is available, which cannot be seen anywhere in China, even in Peking and Shanghai.

The equipment of the Chinese People's Army made them even more in front of them, a three-wheeled motorcycle had a light machine gun on it, although the two of them couldn't tell which type of light machine gun it was, but it could be seen that at least this machine gun was equipped with a lot, and occasionally you could see one or two heavy machine guns, unlike all the heavy machine guns they had seen, this kind of heavy machine gun had a very long barrel, and it did not have the bloated figure of the Makqin heavy machine gun, and the soldiers with more strength could carry it alone, The prototype of the heavy machine gun is a large-caliber heavy machine gun designed by John Moses Browning, which fires 12.7×99 mm (.50BMG) large-caliber ammunition, which is commonly used in infantry fire positions and military vehicles such as tanks and armored personnel carriers, etc., and is mainly used to attack lightly armored targets, assemble live targets and low-altitude air defense. It has been in service since 1921 and has been in service until the 21st century. The M2 Browning large-caliber heavy machine gun has a maximum range of 7.4 km (4.55 mi) when firing M2 ordinary rounds, and has an effective range of 1.8 km (1.2 mi) when mounted on an M3 tripod. The M2 Browning large-caliber heavy machine gun weighs 38 kg (84 lb) net, and its M3 tripod weighs 20 kg (44 lb) with a V-trigger mounted at the tail of the receiver with two grips, allowing the shooter to adjust fully automatic or semi-automatic firing by locking or opening the bolt. The M2 is very versatile, and in order to cope with different equipment, it can be changed to the right side of the receiver for a short period of time without the need for special tools. One of the disadvantages of this heavy machine gun is that the rate of fire is slow, Chen Shao in order to make up for this shortcoming, can only equip the troops more, originally wanted to put this heavy machine gun on the motorcycle, but the recoil is too great, so he has no choice but to give up.

The reserve regiment was only equipped with a small number of machine guns when patrolling, but the rifles on the soldiers made Cai Ye and Jiang Baili think about all the rifles, and none of them matched, the Mauser 98K rifle was the main rifle in Germany during World War II, and now the German Mauser company has not yet made it. This is a very good performance rifle, with an effective range of 800m, and it is also the main equipment of the Chinese People's Army, at least before the automatic rifle came out.

The military uniform on the soldier's body is also something that the two of them have never seen, a grass-green camouflage suit, and a helmet, which is unique among domestic warlords, and the shoes are not common cloth shoes in China, but military boots, and the upper body is also full of bits and pieces, many of which have never been seen before.

Cai Ye said to Jiang Baili beside him with some emotion: "Not to mention anything else, this equipment alone is worth a lot of money, and the weapons here are all unseen before, you see the heavy machine gun just now, the good guy has a caliber of more than ten millimeters, I haven't even heard of it before, although I don't know the specific performance, but it looks very good."

Jiang Baili shook his head and said: "I don't look at weapons, I don't look at those patrolling soldiers, I look at some factories in the distance, do you remember what a British teacher said when we were still in Japan?" What words."" Whether a country is strong or not depends not on whether the country's military is strong or not, but on whether the country's industry is strong. I didn't understand that before, but now I understand what the teacher said."" Oh, what does that mean."" Although the military is strong for a while, but a country without an industrial base, no matter how strong the military is, it is also a flash in the pan, because you can't make weapons and equipment for your consumption, if one day others don't sell weapons to you, then what are you going to do. But there is no doubt that a country with a strong industry must also have a strong military. Seeing the business that Chen Shao and the foreigners did yesterday, what are you still questioning, you want to see, which foreigner is not arrogant now, but in front of Chen Shao, not to mention groveling, but at least they are already equal, because they have the basis of reciprocity. You don't see that anywhere else in the country." Jiang Baili was not quick to say no, but what he said made Cai Yi think about it carefully. Then you say, are we going to Yunnan?" Brother Songpo, what's the point of going to Yunnan now, I think Chen Shao asked us a question that night: Is it too peaceful in China if you beat Yuan Shikai? I've thought about it carefully, no, the situation of the princes fighting has become more and more obvious, they are all a group of ambitious people, unless someone can dominate China strongly, history gives many examples."" You have a point, I take it for granted, if the whole country has the spirit here, then China will really rise." Cai Yi touched the million-dollar bill of exchange in his pocket and said. Come down with me, both of you!" I don't know when Chen Shao was standing behind the two of them, and what the two of them said, Chen Shao also heard it. This is the main purpose of bringing these two to Qinghe Village, as long as they identify with themselves, then things are much simpler." Brother Songpa and I were so fascinated that we didn't even know that Brother Chen was coming, so we might as well go down and take a walk." Jiang Baili nodded.

A group of three people, slowly walking on the cement road, Chen Shao also introduced them one by one: "This is Qinghe Village Primary School, now there are more than 500 students, all of them are children from the surrounding villages and towns, next to it is a middle school, in the past a little bit is a high school, the university has not yet been built, but it is soon. In addition, as long as the students in my school are junior high school or above, they have to participate in two days of military training every week. As long as you complete the assigned tasks, you can come to school for free, and primary school students generally clean up, and the school includes Chinese food."" Do you need so many servicemen here? Even the students have to be trained, and they will have to become soldiers in the future." Cai Ye heard Chen Shao say that the students should also undergo military training. I couldn't help but ask." No, I don't need it, China doesn't need it, but a good discipline is still necessary, student military training, but also only to regulate their discipline, because they are all the hope of the future of the motherland, I hope that everyone can become talented, and I don't want them to slack off, to always maintain a hard and enterprising heart, maybe China does not need a group of soldiers, does not need a group of scientists, may not need a group of educators, but China cannot do without a group of Chinese with hard work and enterprising" Chen Shao said very excitedly.

Jiang Baili: "Brother Chen's words are a wake-up call to my generation."

Cai Yi: "Brother Chen's eyes, I am ashamed of myself."" Brother Baili and Brother Songpo, I haven't done enough, China has been weak for too long, and there are too many things that need to be changed." Chen Shao didn't feel complacent, this was also what he said in his heart.

Chen Shao took the two of them to the civilian factory area and called the factory directors to introduce them to the scale and output of the factory.

The director of the garment factory was originally a senior leader working in a British garment factory in Hong Kong, but due to all kinds of difficulties from his superiors, he heard that a garment factory in China was recruiting a factory manager, so he jumped ship and came over." Boss, now the quilt factory has a total of four production workshops and a dyeing room, a month can produce 5w sets of quilts, now our own yarn weaving factory has also been built, when our own yarn weaving factory begins to produce, the output will be further increased, now the quilt factory has more than 100 skilled workers, except for a few foreigners, the rest are us Chinese, and the technical worker given by the boss is too powerful, can lead more than a dozen new employees at one time, and the output is increasing every day."

The director of the cannery is a returned overseas Chinese, who James invited over in the United States." Boss, now the canning factory can produce all kinds of canned 8w boxes a month, but now they are all iron cans, and the glass jars in the glass factory are still debugging and producing, I think it won't be long before we can produce glass cans, but the output of canned fruit is not high, and now we can only make some canned chestnuts and canned lychees, and other canned fruits can only do very little due to the high price of fruits."