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The northwest is full of fires, and the bay in Qinzhou, Guangxi is also crowded with people.

After seven years of development, the former small fishing port has become one of the largest hub seaports on the southern coast. Aside from the boring economic data, there are more than 10,000 dock workers of all kinds in Qinzhou alone, more than 1,000 large and small factories and shops, and the pride of Guangxi people, second only to Mawei and Guangzhou, where the Qinzhou Bay Shipyard is located.

More than 10,000 people scattered in the northwest frontier and the desert to scatter rice, but all crowded at the harbor wharf made the soldiers in the southwest garrison area sweat profusely, Lu Yuguang and Ma Ji, who were in their thirties, while commanding the order, stretched their necks to look at the empty sea, and said with an impatient expression: "Dad, why did you say that the commander-in-chief's ship hasn't come yet?" ”

Both of them were the first batch of students from the southwest to study in Europe and the United States in 12 years, and after studying in the United States for three years, they entered the United States Military Academy at West Point as non-commissioned officers of the National Defense Force, but they also missed the European War. So the two of them regretted it, and they wanted to take the opportunity of Yang Qiu's visit to Guangxi this time to find a way to let them go to the Northwest Theater to make a war exploit. Lu Rongting didn't know what his son and his son were thinking, and glared: "Look at you!" How old are you and still so calm, now that you have joined the army, you should learn to calm down. Do you think the Northwest barbarians will be easy to clean up? I tell you, this battle won't end in a year or two! Look at Brother Miao to learn more! Don't think that after drinking foreign ink for a few years, your tail will rise to the sky. ”

Lu Rongting was wearing a Chinese-style robe, his face was full of red light, his brain was shining, and he couldn't see the shadow of his early wanderings at all.

As for the Miao brother in his mouth, it is Miao Luo's brother Miao Yuan. Since Song Jiaoren's death, he put all his mind down to operate in Ansheng, Guangxi, and took over the Qinzhou Bay Shipyard and the Southwest Rubber Company under his sister's name. After the signing of the "Mei Huā Agreement" the year before last, he took advantage of the opportunity of British and French support teachers to discuss with Lu Rongting to fund the construction of Guilin University, Liuzhou Business School and Nanning Industrial School. He has become a hot industrialist in Guangxi and even the whole country. At this moment, seeing Lu Rongting teaching his son, he smiled and said: "Governor Lu is too polite, the two brothers should learn from you, if you don't plan it." How can we have the grand scene of Guangxi today. ”

Listening to Miao Yuan's exit, it is "we Guangxi", Lu Rongting's eyes are full of excitement. When a man reaches his age, he is already thinking about future generations. When he saw Yang Qiu, he also matched Miao Luo with this thought. Now that Yang Qiu has become the pillar that can lift the whole country and even the Far East, if he is optimistic about Guangxi and the southwest, as long as his sons do not make big mistakes, it will definitely not be a problem for them to live in peace, so he has worked hard to develop Guangxi over the years. Although the foundation is not as thin as other provinces. However, taking advantage of his fame in the Nanyang area, he actively contacted Chinese businessmen to return to China for investment, and took advantage of the European war to stimulate the development of traditional industries such as camphor, mosquito coils, medicinal materials, and gold balm, and at the same time set up light chemical industries such as soap and salt alkali, and resource industries such as cement, aluminum plants, coal, and mining were also booming. In the end, relying on these means, Guangxi's finance and taxation have more than tripled in 7 years! It exceeds the national average, and with the completion of the construction of the southwest railway network, Qinzhou Bay, which is located at the end of the coast, has a faint posture of surpassing Guangzhou to become the largest port in the south.

And that's not all. Under his administration, Guangxi's agriculture, forestry, water and animal husbandry have made great progress. First, he bought improved Champa rice seeds from the French and promoted them throughout the province, and then strictly ordered all localities to engage in captive poultry industry in accordance with Yang Qiu's suggestion. Although these are very paternalistic executive orders, they have really changed the face of traditional agriculture. Grain can not only meet the needs of the whole province, but also supply a large number of countries for reserves, Guangxi bacon was once included in the priority military supplies of the Entente!

In particular, the rubber planting industry that Yang Qiu let Miao Luo invest in is even faster, if it were not for Yang Qiu's fear of destroying the environment, the order to stipulate the planting area and quantity, the whole province would not be a problem. Now that the first batch of rubber plantations has reached the harvest period, this alone can earn tens of millions of dollars a year. In addition to industry and commerce, he also actively responded to Yang Qiu's request for all provinces to do a good job in infrastructure construction related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and requisitioned and dispatched people to build a large number of railways, not to mention that the two railways in Guangxi of the southwest railway network were all completed in less than four years, not to mention that many roads were also built. He also bought cars out of his own pocket to set up the Guangxi Automobile Transport Company, and finally invited the Americans through Miao Yuan to design and build five dam power plants in one go, and now Nanning, Qinzhou, Guilin, and Liuzhou have all been able to use electric lights and have begun to radiate to small cities.

Although many of them are made by relying on state financial subsidies, he must be the first to say that the credit is the first.

Politically, he also actively supported Yang Qiu, and last year there was a big uproar in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, and Liang Qichao also initiated impeachment. After learning of this, he immediately sent a telegram to the southwest parliamentarians to support Yang Qiu, and later not only took the initiative to implement the Chengcheng Act in Guangxi, but also openly scolded Liang Qichao in the newspaper as a lackey who kept the landlord's old wealth. So when I heard that Miao Yuan said that he wanted to learn from himself, he was secretly proud, but his face was deliberately stiff, and he feigned anger: "Isn't the old man worthy of being Brother Miao's brother?" ”

Miao Yuan knew what he meant, and he didn't speak when he smiled, but suddenly a woman's laughter came from behind him: "How can you not be worthy?" Lian Chenhua often said that without Lu Lao, there would be no Guangxi and Southwest today. ”

The voice made Miao Yuan's face happy, and he quickly turned his head and shouted, "Sister! ”

"Brother!"

Under the protection of the guards, Miao Luo, who had light sleeves and long skirts, appeared behind everyone with a child in her arms. Lu Rongting didn't expect Miao Luo to come, he dared to joke with Miao Yuan, but he didn't dare to be presumptuous in front of the future first lady, and hurriedly saluted: "Lu Rongting has seen Madame." ”

"Governor Lu has seen you, Luo'er hasn't thanked you yet." Miao Luo's eyes were light, and when he said this, he couldn't help but have a flush on his cheeks. Lu Rongting was even more proud that his wife's route back then was right, and said with a smile: "Madame said that you are in love, you and the vice president are in love, and Lu is just pushing the boat down the river." Miao Yuan didn't expect his sister to come, but just as he wanted to ask, there was a loud whistle that had been waiting for a long time on the sea in the distance.

This whistle made Miao Luo's eyes a little red. This time, Yang Qiu went to Paris to attend the peace conference, and even the time on the road was half a year, and he had long wanted to live with his fingers every day, so he heard that the first stop when he came back was Qinzhou. Just take the child here to wait for him in the name of seeing his uncle.

The sound of the whistle also made the crowd who had received the news early to greet them agitated, and when they looked around, they saw several big guys with cannon barrels on the bay all at once! Even Lu Rongting was taken aback. Although he participated in the launching ceremony of the new Mawei-class Anhai class at the beginning of last year, the spectacular scene of three Anhai-class ships sailing into the bay at the same time at this moment is still extremely shocking! What's even weirder is that in addition to the three Anhai-class. There are actually two large warships with more barrels, if it weren't for the Republic of China Navy flag on the mast, I'm afraid he would have asked for shore artillery bombardment.

"Dad, that's the 2 battleships that the Navy just bought!" Lu Yuguang introduced his father to the Navy's purchase of warships, and when he heard that Britain deliberately broke the contract and sold four warships to Japan, he snorted coldly in anger.

Lu Rongting was dissatisfied, but the harbor was already deafening. Compared with the big cities of Shanghai, Qinzhou has developed into a large port. Even the 100,000-ton deep-water wharf has been built, but because Britain and France limit the navy to come a few times a year, and they are all small ships, when the capital ships first appeared in the bay, everyone was frightened by their huge bodies and hideous cannons, but when they saw the flag clearly, they clenched their fists and cheered.

Because this is your own ironclad giant ship!

When the five capital ships entered the bay one after another, they crossed the Arctic Ocean, made a detour through Chile, and finally crossed the vast Pacific Ocean in order to avoid the line of sight, and the voyage almost circled the earth. The fleet, which carried the hope of the country's manufacturing industry, also sailed into the bay under the protection of 10 cruisers and destroyers and began to call at the port. Even if the Qinzhou wharf was expanded and expanded, it was still very crowded to squeeze into 16 giant ships and 5 capital ships at once, especially those that were almost more than 20,000 tons. The deep draft of the hull and the huge ship that had been sailing for a long time made the dock workers secretly guess their identity.

As the fleet entered the bay and the Navy destroyers quickly closed the entire bay, the Coast Guard immediately announced that Qinzhou Bay was temporarily closed.

"Chenhua."

As soon as he stepped off the warship, Yang Qiu heard a familiar shout, and saw Miao Luo holding the child, standing crisply on the dock, looking at himself with his eyes, like a lily huā beautiful thing. That look made him a little excited, ran over to pick up the child, and then hugged her deep into his arms.

It was not unusual for Song Ziqing and Zhang Xiaozhun and others to come back together, but the others were still a little moved. This is the Republic of China after all. And it is also Qinzhou, Guangxi, which has a more conservative atmosphere, even Xiao Yangqiu has a finger in his mouth, drooling and staring wide-eyed, secretly thinking Who is this guy? Why do you learn to hold on to your mother and not let go? The surprised, stunned, and even envious eyes around Miao Luo suddenly woke up, and hurriedly pushed Yang Qiu away with a red face, grabbed the child and covered it up: "Okay, okay, what does it look like." ”

"Let's go. Take you to meet someone. Yang Qiu also knew that her face was tender, and she smiled slightly, and without waiting to speak, she grabbed her and walked towards the icebreaker behind with Song Ziqing and the others.

Miao Luo was curious about who he wanted to see, when he saw Bingwen and Liu Mingzhao walking down from the boat. She knew both of them, especially Bingwen was regarded as his younger brother by Yang Qiu, and Liu Mingzhao was also a young officer who had been personally tutored by Yang Qiu.

"The first non-commissioned officer of the National Defense Force, Bingwen (Liu Mingzhao), complete the task and come to report!"

"Welcome home!"

The loud voice and upright posture made Yang Qiu can't help but have a sour nose, looking at their tired faces and wrinkled clothes, he knows how much suffering he has suffered along the way! What's more, it is their fearlessness and sacrifice that bring back the coveted high-end manufacturing equipment for the country! It can be said that they single-handedly raised the manufacturing industry of the Republic of China for ten years! It gave the Republic of China an opportunity to catch up with the world.

Based on this alone, any reward is light, so Yang Qiu felt that saluting was not enough to express his gratitude, so he put down his right arm and suddenly stepped forward to hold the two in his arms, patted his back vigorously and said, "Hard work!" Thank you! ”

The hug made Bingwen and Liu Mingzhao a little sluggish, and when the sound of thanks sounded in their ears, a warm current suddenly spread from their hearts to their whole bodies, and at that moment they all remembered Chen Yuqiu, who was like an ice sculpture, and hundreds of non-commissioned officers and sailors who sacrificed for the plan.

When the three of them separated, Bingwen immediately dodged half of his body: "Commander-in-chief, look at who this is." Song Ziqing was the first to react, his eyes widened as if he couldn't believe it,

"General Hakan?".