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In the sound of humming engines, a three-engine biplane plane slowly landed at the military airport in the northern suburbs of Xuzhou.

The airfield was built during the Sino-Japanese War, and because of the increasing importance of aircraft, the Ministry of Defense began to build airfields all over the country, especially in the coastal and northern Xinjiang. In particular, after the arrival of British and French support for military spending, the Ministry of Defense, which became rich overnight, immediately scooped up the grand goal of completing the construction of 100 airports within five years. You must know that the airport is not only about parking planes, but also needs supporting ground support and fuel, if there is no British and French sky-high military blood transfusion, even Yang Qiu is reluctant.

At the same time as the ground facilities were perfected, the aviation industry also made a big breakthrough two years after the pilots went to the Western Front. The plane that landed at this time was designed by Wang Zhu, Ba Yuzao, Zhou Houkun and others who returned from studying in the United States. It has to be mentioned that the design team also includes the aircraft designer Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, who was hired from Russia last year. The father of helicopters in a parallel world was hired by the Chongqing Aviation Research Institute early last year with a high salary of $1,500 a month, and brought his family to China to put down roots. The large three-engine biplane, named Albatross, is the culmination of this international design team. The Albatross 1918 transport aircraft, modeled on the Dapeng bomber, began design work in October 1916, flew in May 1917, and was finalized and entered low-speed production in October. It adopts a tube-frame fuselage structure, three 12-cylinder water-cooled engines from Shushan made in Chongqing, which are installed in the nose and two wings respectively, with a single power of 360 horsepower, and the landing gear and wings are reinforced to ensure landing on field airfields or flat grass. The most important thing is that it adopts a closed cockpit and cockpit design for the first time, and with 2 pilots and 5 passengers, it can fly at a speed of 180 kilometers per hour for 7 hours continuously, or carry a ton of cargo from Nanjing to Chongqing.

Whether it is load or range, the albatross is one of the best long-range aircraft in the world at present, second only to a four-engine water monster equipped by the Republic of China Navy and the British twin-engine Handley Page bomber. But the former is a testing machine, and the latter has only just begun production, so the albatross is deservedly the best in the world. It's a little bit of a pity. Although there is no problem in the design of domestic engines and airframes because of the data machine, it is always inferior to Europe in terms of materials and processing accuracy, and many accessories still need to be purchased from abroad, and many of the workers are old skilled workers from Europe. But as more and more young people enter the field of machinery. In the next decade, this shortcoming will soon be filled. Although the production capacity is not as perverted as that of Europe, in order to promote the aviation industry and promote the development of domestic aircraft research, the Ministry of Defense, which now has deep pockets, has ordered 68 aircraft for military personnel and transportation in one go, and at the same time gave contracts for the second generation of larger transport aircraft. The government also cooperated with the order of 12 aircraft for railway construction and government personnel exchanges. The most surprising thing is that the newly established postal department also bought 12 planes, and also purchased 26 second-hand sparrow trainer planes from the military.

The Ministry of Defense was originally very annoyed by the matter of digging corners. But now China has four major aviation schools in Chongqing, Changsha, Xinyang and Fengtian, more than 2,000 young people are registered to learn to fly, and the military has more than 1,000 pilots and various types of aircraft through five years of training.

Tang Jueton is a member of parliament and the mayor of Xuzhou, so after receiving the telegram, he came to the airport early to wait, and even felt a little dizzy when the huge albatross landed. As a member of parliament, he was also well-informed, but he was still taken aback by such a large plane. It wasn't until Dai Jitao and Dong Yongwei stepped off the plane that they came back to their senses to catch up.

"I'm sorry, I took off late when I set off, so I made Yushi wait for a long time." Dong Yongwei stretched out his hand politely. In 1913, he was one of the first batch of students on public assignment in the southwest. He studied in the United States for three years before switching to law and did not return to China until the beginning of the year. After returning to China, the first batch of Southwest Gong of the National Society were all reused, and he himself entered the Ministry of Justice as a local legal affairs commissioner of the Republic of China.

Tang Juedun had heard of Dong Yongwei and knew that he was Yang Qiu's second secretary, but he only knew this. Ever since the gentry in Xuzhou and Suzhou and Anhui used tenant deeds to resist the land law on immigrants a few days ago, the Republican Party has been worried. But I didn't expect that the other party would send such two people for a long time. Commissioner of the Ministry of Justice and the State Society, Dai Jitao, Director of the General Information Administration of the Republic of China, what is his idea? Although both of them are central government officials, they are only on the fringes in terms of seniority, so do they want to set off public opinion and solve it with the law?

If that were the case, don't worry too much. After all, the contract is real, and the central government of the Republic of China also openly recognizes it.

What's more, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui are different from other provinces in the country, the three places not only have a population of more than 100 million, but also the area with the highest concentration of gentry and landlords, and most of the cream fields in the entire south of the Yangtze River are in the hands of the gentry. More importantly, the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui are traditional cultural areas in China. The strength of the literati clan is far from imagining, and the folk customs are more conservative than many southwestern mountainous areas. At that time, Yang Qiu unified the whole country, and the southwest, the Central Plains, the northeast and even the two Guangxi provinces all used knives, but the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui did not move troops except for Ni Sichong, and also adopted a soft policy for Zhang Jizhi and Xu Guqing, who were important members of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, the former served as the minister of agriculture, and the latter is still the governor of Jiangsu Province. All parts of the country have been walked by Yang Qiu, but Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui are the only ones who are alone, why? It is because he knows that there is a gentry class that accounts for half of the country, and more than half of the current government officials of the Republic of China are gentry class, and seventy or eighty percent of the returned students are gentry children. If you move the dragon's head, the dragon's body will at least shake a few times!

Thinking of this, Tang Jue suddenly felt a little confident, and said with a smile while beckoning the two of them to get into the car: "Seeing this trouble, it's all my fault for not doing things well and causing trouble to the central government." ”

"Mayor Tang is polite, Tianqiu and I are not important members of the central government, and we are here to see if everyone has any disputes. Now is a good time for the whole country to work together to develop national strength, don't hurt the harmony and make foreigners laugh. Dong Yongwei seemed to be kind but his tone was sharp, and a big hat that made Tang Jue secretly feel at ease, and while he was impressed, he was also thinking about what Yang Qiu's idea was. said with a smile: "Yes, the president, vice president and prime minister have worked hard to get to where we are today, and we people should not make trouble if we can't help." ”

Dai Ji looked at it and asked, "I heard that Mayor Tang studied in Japan to study politics and economics?" He also taught at Yokohama Datong School, and was able to teach in Japan as a Chinese, which was admired by the enemy. ”

Speaking of this past, Tang Juedun was also secretly complacent, and hurriedly said a few polite and modest words.

The car arrived at the city hall very quickly. Because this was originally the Xuzhou County Yamen during the Manchu Qing Dynasty, many old people still call this place the county Yamen. When they arrived at the door, they found that they were already crowded with tenants from all over the world, most of whom wanted to participate in the immigration gamble and change their poor lives, but a paper contract made them unable to own their own land, so many people were angry. After learning the news that Nanjing sent people, he immediately surrounded the city government, and when he saw Dai Jitao and Dong Yongwei getting out of the car, several old people cried and took the lead and knelt on the ground: "Lord Qincha wants to make decisions for us!" ”

"Your Excellency, please."

The black pressure pressed a piece of human head that fell to the ground, making Tang Jueton's scalp tingle. Although this matter has nothing to do with him, he actually supports the "Immigrant Land Law", but after all, the incident happened in the area where he is an official. And kneeling like this, it means that the National Society and the Republican Party are strong, thinking of the National Society, thinking of Yang Qiu's decisive character, and then thinking that the Kuomintang Party was almost collapsed at the beginning, and I don't know what to do for a while.

"Hurry up, everyone!" Dong Yongwei didn't expect things to be confrontational to this extent, which shows how attractive the word land is to the peasants, so after helping a few old people with Dai Jitao, he immediately stood on the stone pier at the door and shouted: "Everyone get up!" Now it is the Republic of China, and it is fashionable to bow down from time to time. Nanjing already knows about the recent events, so send us to understand the situation first, and this matter will definitely give you a satisfactory answer, so get up. ”

Hao Chongwen also stood up with everyone. Because the third child of the Hao family was a soldier in the army, everyone elected him as a representative. First, he wanted to have a backer to be a soldier, and secondly, Hao Chongwen himself was praised by his neighbors on weekdays, but his own legs were a little shaky. This is a big official in Nanjing! Although the third brother is in the army, what if people don't give face? In a panic, he and more than a dozen tenant representatives were invited to enter the city hall, but when they saw their proprietor, Master Chen, and the representatives of the squires saluting the Nanjing officials, and talking and laughing, their hearts suddenly sank.

The meeting place was in the former county government hall, and after several tables were put together, Dong Yongwei and the three of them sat down first, and only after the two sides were seated did they slowly scoop out paper and pens and put them on the table. Seeing his careless appearance, the gentry representatives all looked happy, thinking that this was a deliberate attempt to make a big deal small. Hao Chongwen's heart sank even more, and now there is news that hundreds of thousands of people are going north to the northeast according to their handprints in Shandong, who is not in a hurry to these northern Jiangsu! What if the land is divided by Shandong people because of the late field? But he didn't dare to say it directly, so he had to wait patiently.

Dong Yongwei glanced at Dai Jitao after getting ready, and when he saw the latter nodding his head, he didn't ask about the confrontation first, and directly spread his hands: "I want to read the contract first." ”

How dare the gentry slack off, they have scooped out the contracts such as the contract deed and the tenant lease deed that they brought. Dong Yongwei studied law in the United States, Dai Jitao also studied law, and even Tang Juedun studied law, so he sighed secretly in his heart after passing on these contracts. It's not more than six years ago, the Republic of China is gradually on the right track, and rash scooping up the barrel of a gun will only lead to more instability. What's more, the contracts are valid, and the only thing that is unreasonable is the long time limit and the huge amount of compensation after the breach. To put it simply, a basic long-term contract contract lasts for decades, and it is basically impossible to leave the owner halfway except for birth, old age, sickness and death.

Originally, the two wanted to find out the strange from this, but now it seems that this road will not work, after all, the contract is signed voluntarily. So the two of them quickly glanced at each other, and Yang Qiu's words before leaving rose in their ears at the same time.

"It's not for you to settle disputes, it's for you to lay a century-old foundation for the country." (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (shuhaige.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )――

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