“…… Yesterday afternoon, District Mayor Zhang Shusheng attended a meeting on the implementation of school-age education in Dongchuan District and most areas of Guangxi. If you don't have money to contribute, you have money to pay taxes, even if everyone smashes the pot and sells iron together, you can't make the children's tomorrow dark............ The fishing ban will be extended at Nianhu Lake on the border between Huize and Qiaojia, and fishermen who have registered before the fishing ban will be able to go to the local government to receive a basic living allowance...... Here's what we're looking for:

The Ministry of Communications is recruiting a large number of workers, and the construction of the long-distance highway project from Xiaoqingshan to Nanlin will start on June 5...... Minsheng Washing Machine Factory is recruiting a group of junior technical workers, with a first-class primary technical certificate issued by the district political axe or junior high school education level or above, interested people can go to Puxi Road ......"

During the broadcast, the announcer's soft voice read the radio scripts one after another, and the radio waves spread throughout Dongchuan District, and the radios purchased by private individuals and the street broadcasts and outdoor broadcasts purchased by the political axe also emitted the same sound at the same time.

This is a town on the border of Huize and Qiaojia counties, and the town has put one of the few radios purchased with the political axe subsidy in this teahouse on the street, so that the business here is booming every day.

Dongchuan District Political Axe will broadcast several times a day, which is divided into: policy interpretation, government affairs reports, recruitment information, and entertainment programs including traditional opera, new songs and some educational cross talk.

Simple and efficient broadcasting, while delivering useful information to the poor areas of ten miles and eight towns every day, also brought them some minimum entertainment elements, listening to radio, listening to opera, learning to sing, especially the popular simple new songs, so that many people are fascinated. Occasionally, there will be one or two elegant tunes, or erhu, pipa music, guqin, or piano light music, which can make people who are tired of a day sit down to drink a cup of tea and take a nap.

The radio is slowly condensing them into a whole, and many people don't even know who the current president is, nor do they know what the north-south situation is, but they know the policy of benefiting the people of the district mayor Zhang Shusheng and many Dongchuan District political axes...... "I said old man Tong, now I see you come to drink tea every day, and you don't have to go into the water to catch fish anymore?" An old Miao man wrapped in a turban walked into the teahouse, and the familiar tea customers immediately greeted loudly.

"Nianhu Lake is closed, and there are no fish to fight. The political axe arranged for me to guard the forest for one night. I can't sleep in the afternoon, so I come to a meeting and listen to the radio. "The old man asked for a pot of "half a jar of green" tea, this kind of handmade coarse tea, the price is cheap and has a unique flavor.

"The current political axe is strange, it used to be the official who took the lead in cutting down trees, and the big trees that few people couldn't hug together were also cut down by the old overlord of the former town office. Now it's good, whoever cut down the tree on Gongjia Mountain, the next day the town's police will come to the door. The tea guests talked one after another.

"Yes, I heard that it is to prepare for the establishment of a nature reserve in the future."

"Tong Lao, you said that this Nianhu Lake, how can you say that it has been sealed for so long? Is there anything going on? ”

"What's the way? Now the two-mile radius is a forbidden area, and it is better not to fish than to be tired, as well as to be a worker. Old man Tong sighed.

...... "General Manager, this is the budget of Pan American Ken's International and Pan Eurasian Trading Company for the second half of the year. Sun Laixi came to Zhang Shusheng's office with a document marked top secret, two companies secretly controlled by Shusheng and registered in the West, and there is a budget review every six months.

Zhang Shusheng took the budget and looked at it, changed it on a few inconspicuous figures, added two more paragraphs, and then handed it to him: "The treatment of the senior management of these two companies has increased a little bit on the treatment of the domestic vice president, after all, the foreign cost is too high, and the special operation funds and the expenses that should be reimbursed should not be too stingy." As for the total budget given to their branches, it is necessary to control them in detail and strictly, and the auditors at the headquarters must not let it go hastily. ”

"Yes, don't worry, boss, their treatment will definitely not be bad, and it will not be too outrageous. As for the auditors, we change them every two months to prevent unnecessary situations. ”

After Sun Laixi went out, Zhang Shusheng pondered for a while, and the experience of later generations told him that everything is difficult at the beginning, and it is necessary to control these overseas institutions from the very beginning. It is precisely because they have access to large sums of wealth that the sky is high and the emperor is far away, once the system cannot keep up, it is easy to cause corruption. However, if the salary is too high, it will breed a privileged class prematurely, which is not conducive to the development of the company.

So, until now, the two most important Western companies have been openly controlled by two foreign spokespeople, but in fact, the most secret situation is that they only receive a little dividend every month at most. The financial process and the cargo process have always been directly responsible for the head office, and they only play a spokesperson role.

Thinking that he was going to go to the Nianhu Research Institute in the afternoon, Zhang Shusheng took a nap, and then was called up by Mao Yun first and took a car to Nianhu.

Lake Nian is a large plateau lake closest to Aizawa Prefecture, and its hydrological conditions and geographical location are relatively suitable as a research site. After the lake was closed last year, the 2201 and 2202 Nianhu Research Institutes were established here.

If an agent of the Special Intelligence Department of the People's Republic of China hears this codename, he will definitely know what it represents, in the current Dongchuan system, the research institute that starts with the number 1 is a civilian science and technology or high-end basic science and technology research institute, and the research institute that starts with the number 2 is a military research institute. And this military research institute is also different, if it is 21xx, it is a research institute on the army side, if it is 22xx, it is a research institute on the naval side, and if it is 23xx, it is an air force research institute...... Then, if there are intelligence officers, they will definitely react immediately, here are the two top-secret research institutes of the militia group: the first research institute of the Navy with the number 2201. Second Research Institute of the Navy No. 2202.

No one believes it, the Dongchuan militia basically occupied Guangxi only three or four months ago, and its sphere of influence extended to the sea for the first time, but I didn't expect to have a naval department so soon.

After several hours of turbulence, after some severe inspection, Zhang Shusheng and his entourage finally entered this top-secret Navy No. 1 laboratory.

Zhang Shusheng attaches great importance to this 2201 research institute, just for the sake of early theoretical basic research before and after four or five years of talent reserves, for the surname to recruit a group of loyal and completely trustworthy Chinese scientists and outstanding talents of Southwest University and senior technical schools, this Navy No. 1 laboratory, which has no foreigners, finally moved to Nianhu in 1924, officially established the No. 1 research institute, and began to verify the surname research work.

In order to better carry out the research work, Zhang Shusheng bought back a U9 submarine from Germany at a high price as soon as he established the Nianhu Research Institute. It was such a broken submarine, and it was turned over several times at that time, and it was first purchased by the Americans, and then it was sold several times before it arrived in China.

Although this kind of submarine can be directly sealed and stuffed into the museum in the future in Zhang Shusheng's view, the fledgling 2201 Nianhu Research Institute desperately needs to use it as a basis to verify some advanced submarine theories.

Although two Chinese scientists in the institute have conducted similar research in the United States, in general, most of them have only learned some relevant knowledge at Southwest University or advanced technical schools. Of course, some of them graduated from the School of Naval Architecture Engineering of Southwest University, which was formed just four years ago, in 1920.

Zhang Shusheng did not have high requirements for them, he only hoped to be as fast as possible, after all, let alone Jiawu, the Chinese had long been hundreds of years behind on the ocean, and the naval construction had never approached the level of the great powers after the Ming Dynasty. When he thought of the shame of Jiawu, he always felt that he couldn't spit out a sullen breath in his chest.

Regarding that naval battle, and even the comparison between the Chinese and the navy in that era, later generations of theorists, military scientists, and military enthusiasts have done too much research and comparison, and Zhang Shusheng does not want to review and regret too much. He only knew that the Chinese navy was not strong enough, whether it was human factors or equipment factors, and the overall backwardness led to the final defeat.

Therefore, he did not hesitate to invest a huge amount of money, opened a major in ship engineering a few years in advance, and recruited naval research talents everywhere in order to establish this submarine research institute. Judging from the current situation of China's navy, which is close to zero, he thinks that only this asymmetric combat method can allow China to catch up first in the navy. After all, giant artillery battleships are out of date, and aircraft carriers are not built in a day.

Therefore, in 1920, he launched the 2201 and 2202 research institutes, but the progress was very slow, and the two institutes were carried out some theoretical research and model verification work in the previous years. It was not until the emergence of the 2201-Nianhu Research Institute and the emergence of the J-1 fighter that the two major research institutes of 2201 and 2202 officially started at full speed and entered a new era.

The entire huge Nian Lake is divided into two parts, north and south, and the relative reading power is open. There are relatively few buildings on the south side, and apart from some research institute buildings, only one pier can be seen on the entire lake. In the north, it's much more complicated, with a concrete runway and a huge floating platform in the lake, which is held by several thick steel cables and occasionally pulled back and forth to make it move on the water.

"Buzz ......"

Hearing the familiar engine sound overhead, Gan Chuanrui, director of the 2201 Research Institute, said to Zhang Shusheng on the side with some envy on his face: "Alas, every day when I hear the big movement in the north, the young men below are about to get sick. ”

Having said that, he had a sense of confidence on his face, and there would definitely be a surprise when the district chief came to inspect it in person today.

"There is no need to be too anxious about the No. 1 boat, everyone is from a research background, and you should know that the taboo of scientific research work is impetuousness and blind rashness. How about this time again experimenting with animals? ”

It's not in a hurry, it's false, but Zhang Shusheng is still rational, and blindly rushing to catch up with the schedule will only cause backfire. And the method of speeding up the running with small steps, which was commonly used in later generations, has miraculous effects. In normal times, the staff of the Special Intelligence Department reported to him that the people of the two research institutes 2201 and 2202 were very desperate, and they were almost in three shifts.

The method he taught to the 2201 Institute was simple: build the model first, and then refine the other theoretical data with a full-scale model. So, after several years of preliminary preparation and half a year of actual preparation, after having a physical surname U-type submarine and the submarine information provided by Zhang Shusheng, the 2201 Research Institute finally ushered in this day.

Of course, the research and development of every advanced science and technology is an arduous system project, and breakthroughs can only be made after certain conditions have been met in various affiliated industries.

Therefore, the various difficulties during this period were simply innumerable, and the problem of steel strength alone dragged on for a long time, until 1923, when the new steelmaking plant was put into operation, and qualified pressure-resistant steel for ship hulls was produced.

It has to be said that the occupation of Guangxi is huge for the development of the militias, and the minerals alone are extremely rich, and the reserves of manganese, aluminum, iron, tin, lead, zinc, antimony, tungsten, copper, vanadium, and rare earth ores are very huge, especially Zhang Shusheng does not have to lie on the ground one by one to find out, and in less than half a year after the occupation of Guangxi, several important mines have begun to be put into construction, and in addition, the discovery of the small oil field in Tiandong, Guangxi, has made Zhang Shusheng see the hope of reducing oil imports.

And today, these simple researchers didn't even prepare any rituals, but after they declared Zhang Shusheng, they carried out this real underwater test.

Coming to a building near the lake, it is not so much a research room as a huge production workshop, and in the middle of the workshop, a 20-meter-long cigar-type submarine has a swarthy hull, although the displacement of the whole boat is only more than 100 tons, but it is a standard drop-shaped submarine, which has the advanced design concept of later generations, but the displacement has not yet been able to go up for the time being.

Lined with it is an apparently wooden model, identical in size to the black submarine, which appears to be a model for verification.

"Yes, at least it looks much more pleasing to the eye than the U-boat, but I don't know how it actually works." Zhang Shusheng walked over and touched the black hull, feeling the touch of steel on his hands, a desire to build a powerful navy, unprecedentedly strong.

"Don't worry, District Chief, Boat 1 is designed to work to a depth of 20-50 meters. Because of the use of a new alloy steel pressure-resistant hull, our No. 1 boat has a maximum depth of 247 meters, which has reached or even surpassed the advanced level of today's foreign countries. Gan Chuanrui, director of the institute, said proudly, "It is all the credit of the district chief that allows our Chinese submarines to reach an advanced level at the beginning." ”

"What I can do is only part of it, the key is for you to do it step by step." Zhang Shusheng is very satisfied that the No. 1 boat can maintain part of the lead, although it is only a verification boat, but the scientific research idea of small steps to speed up in later generations is indeed the most suitable for the current Chinese national conditions. Of course, there is indeed a huge role of Zhang Shusheng here, after all, without the technology he provided, the 2201 Research Institute, which was completely started from scratch, is estimated to be difficult to touch even the door bucket, so it can only start from the construction of a submersible boiler......

"Guys, everyone is ready!! Today, the district mayor personally watched the launch test of our No. 1 boat, and everyone must show 12 points of enthusiasm. Gan Chuanrui said energetically.

Zhang Shusheng also cleared his throat and said two words: "I won't say more, let's try boldly and be careful, I believe in everyone." ”

The test soon began, and with a single order, a dozen or so researchers drilled into the swarthy No. 1 verification boat, and after a few clicks, the No. 1 verification boat slowly slid down the track and successfully slid into the water through the open gate.

"Bang Bang ......"

There was a burst of applause in the field, and the next thing was to wait for the submarine to dive.

"Report command: The submarine dives to a depth of 5 meters. Everything is fine with the submarine. ”

"Report command: The submarine dives to a depth of 15 meters. Everything is fine with the submarine. ”

"Report command: The submarine dives to a depth of 25 meters. Everything is fine with the submarine. ”

"Report command: The submarine dives to a depth of 45 meters. Everything is fine with the submarine. ”

......" report command: the submarine dives to a depth of 100 meters. Everything is fine with the submarine. ”

When the submarine crew calmly and calmly reported that the depth of 100 meters and the condition of the submarine were normal, there was a burst of thunderous applause in the research room. Although the design depth of this small verification submarine is more than 200 meters, this time the depth test was only 100 meters, which proves that this stage of the experiment was successful.

"Very good, very good, I will notify the headquarters to record the collective first-class merit for everyone." Zhang Shusheng is in a really good mood, after four years of waiting, he finally saw the light today, although the submarine has not yet been loaded with weapon systems and sonar systems, but at least the most important step has been taken. So far, the overall design and power system of the submarine, the hull design and the onboard communication equipment have been very successful.

"Don't worry, the progress of the 1st institute will not be slower than that of the 2nd institute." Gan Chuanrui said confidently that the project that the 2202 Research Institute next to him was working on, and as a senior scientific researcher, he could know it just by looking at it from a distance.

Isn't that kind of aircraft that takes off on a floating platform a model of an aircraft carrier that has appeared in foreign countries? The militia has not yet built aircraft carriers, and like the 2201 Research Institute, the work of some verification of surnames has to be said to be very pragmatic.

In his opinion, Zhang Shusheng is indeed a person with a very good idea of construction, and he not only provides advanced technical materials from foreign countries, but also understands these obscure theoretical knowledge. Moreover, the full-scale submarine model he advocated for and the huge floating platform on the lake to the north were very realistic.

Every day, planes and pilots rise and fall on the north pontoon, and the progress on their side seems to be a little behind. But in fact, as long as this test can be successful, the progress of the submarines of the 2201 Institute will be much faster. At least the aircraft carriers of the 2202 Institute are not yet shadows.

"Well, that's good." Zhang Shusheng briefly talked to him about the next arrangement, "After the militia occupies Guangxi, some factories, mines and research institutes will gradually relocate some of them, and the first institute will also be ready to move to Guangxi, which is close to the sea, and the conditions are more suitable for submarine research." ”

"Don't worry, District Chief, it's absolutely no problem, the whole school has been waiting for a long time." Gan Chuanrui, who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a real expert, knows very well that Nianhu is only suitable for the early verification and research work of submarines, and to build a real marine submarine, it is still necessary to choose the sea.

"Chuanrui, come on, here is another news for you, at the end of this year, a shipyard located on the coast of Guangxi will be completed, and then we will be waiting for your rice to be cooked."

"Great, district chief, there is still half a year to go, we must be able to catch up." Gan Chuanrui was overjoyed.

Zhang Shusheng nodded, and in the afternoon, he had to go to the 2202 Research Institute in the north of Nianhu, where the No. 2 naval scientific research plan also made him very worried, and even in the long run, the impact of the No. 2 plan on the militia is even greater.

China not only needs hundreds of submarines, but also giant aircraft carriers one after another. In addition to forming an underwater wolf pack, it is also necessary to form a water carrier battle group.

"China's navy must not lag behind forever."

Zhang Shusheng secretly decided in his heart-

(To be continued)