December 8, 1914

Chen Shao stayed in the shipyard for five days, and finally brought Feng Rupan here, and Feng Ru came with his two students, Qian Pengfei and Xu Jinghai. The three of them drove a plane and slowly parked at the airfield of the newly built air force command center. These three planes were brought by Feng Ru when he returned to China, and he also built them himself.

Originally, Feng Ru was full of enthusiasm and took his students to return to China with his own plane to participate in the revolution, but the domestic industrial level was so poor that he couldn't even build a propeller, let alone an engine, and the domestic warlords were fighting, and no one took the money to engage in the aircraft industry. In the past few months since he came back, although he also participated in the warlord war, the plane dropped not bombs, but leaflets, and was snubbed for several months, Feng Ru was almost disheartened, at this time, a person found him, and brought a 50w dollar bill of exchange, saying that it was for him to set up an aircraft research institute, as well as a picture of the factory. At first, the man said that this was established by a patriot in China, and he was still skeptical, and he had to ask two students to go to the place where the photo was taken together to investigate, and a few days later, he heard that these two excellent students were full of praise for that place, Feng Ru also completely agreed, and decided to take his best three planes to join the past, but he still left a few planes in Guangzhou, and a few pilots who were urgently trained after returning to China, and took two students to fly to Guangxi according to the map given by the person. The man said where there was an airport for him to land, originally he thought that even if there was an airport, it would just be a small straight runway, but he didn't expect to see the two long huge runways from a distance, row after row of tarmacs, a towering building, and there were flashing lights on the building. There are also several large factories next to the airport, but he can't tell what they are. Not far from the seaside, there is a large shipyard, and a wharf under construction, it can be seen that the shipyard is building ships, and there are busy figures everywhere, Feng Ru did not expect to see such a large scale of shipyards in China, and in a trance he thought that he was back in the United States. I couldn't help but circle a few times in the sky and control the plane to dock smoothly on the airport.

Chen Shao looked at the father of aviation in front of him, shook his hand excitedly and said, "Mr. Feng is righteous, Chen Shao admires him very much." Captain Chen, what you did made Feng even more admired, let me introduce to you, these are my two students, one is named Qian Pengfei and the other is Xu Jinghai, both of whom are my proud disciples, although they are still just getting started in aircraft design, but their flying skills are absolutely second to none." Feng was also very excited. Introduce Chen Shao to his two protégés." Chen Shao welcomes the arrival of the three of you, do you want to take a break or visit directly?" For Feng Ru, he can't wait to take a good look around.

Chen Shao took them to visit all the factories around Fangchenggang, Feng Ru kept asking Chen Shao along the way, and the more he knew, the more he admired the young regiment leader in front of him. In this era, to be able to see the world clearly, not to blindly compete for power like other warlords in China, but to develop China's future industry, and to build heavy industry at any cost, and to the point that it can produce automobiles and build warships, how much will it cost. If all this money is used to arm the army, it is also a place in Chinese politics now. But this young man didn't do this, but took it slowly step by step, which made Feng Ru a little puzzled, wouldn't it be better if he first laid down a big territory and then established an industry?

When it was time for lunch, Feng Ru couldn't help but ask at the dinner table. Head Chen, Feng doesn't understand something, and I hope to answer."" Mr. Feng, please say, Chen Shao must know everything."" I think that Commander Chen's family business is very large, why don't you directly participate in domestic politics without being in the army, and at least have more right to speak, so that there is a better foundation for Commander Chen's career development?" Hehe, let me ask Mr. Feng, what are you going to do in the face of a decaying mansion?" Tear down and rebuild."" What is the first step in building a brand new building."" Lay a good foundation" "Then now China is like a decaying edifice, there is still a group of people fighting in it, even if I join in, what I get is just a rotten edifice, and I will inevitably patch it everywhere in the future. Therefore, I gave up fighting for the building, but built a new building next to the building to replace the decaying building, and the industrial foundation I built is the solid foundation of the new building, and it is also the hope for the future of the Chinese nation." Chen Shao looked confident when he spoke.

Hearing Chen Shao's remarks, several people present fell into deep thought for a long time. When everyone almost came to their senses, Chen Shao continued: "The reason why I invited Mr. Feng is also for the future of China, a strong China must have a strong air force. Now that I have a good army, the navy has also started, and now I need an air force to defend my future airspace in China. So Mr. Feng, I hope that you can lead China's future air force to glory, and I will also support it, I will give you whatever you want, if you say that there are not enough airports, I will build them immediately, and if there are not enough manufacturing plants, I will build them again immediately. And a few days ago I was already recruiting the first batch of Air Force flight cadets, and we will not only build up army aviation, but also naval aviation in the future, and I hope that two of Mr. Feng's students will train new pilots with our Air Force instructors."" We will definitely do our best and will not disappoint Captain Chen." Feng Ru and the two students thought about the flatbread that Chen Shao had drawn for them, and replied in unison.

The next day, the first batch of 300 air force pilots and air force instructors arrived at Fangchenggang on time, Chen Shao built a new barracks for them at the airfield, began theoretical plus practical training, theoretical knowledge was learned in the barracks, practice was at the airport, with the three planes brought by Feng Ru to be converted into two-seater training aircraft, Chen Shao arranged Feng Ru in the air force command center at the airport, specially developed new aircraft, and the tank factory next to it was also urgently producing a batch of new training planes based on the three planes.

Seeing the orderly development of the entire Fangchenggang, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger, I think that this place should start to arrange defense forces, although the location is remote, but it also has to be defended, so simply the reserve regiment recruited this time transferred two battalions over, and began training in the mode of marines, and returned to Qinghe Village with Wang Jie and Wang Xiaoshan while thinking.

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December 9, 1914

Several pieces of news appeared in newspapers across the country.

The 18th Infantry Regiment under the GX Provincial Governor's Office recruited patriots from all over the country to join the army, and the army resounded......

Longteng Group in GX province recruits a variety of skilled workers across the country with ...... wages

The shipping company under the Longteng Group in GX Province recruits experienced seafarers from all over the country with a salary of ......

Huashi Town in GX Province recruits a group of teachers from all over the country, and hopes that people of insight from all over the country will come to apply for jobs and contribute to China's education......

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These news have attracted the attention of all parties, and many recruitment points have been set up in major cities across the country. Every day, the recruitment site is overcrowded, and the spies are almost out of breath.

Inside a teahouse in Shanghai." Have you heard, there are people recruiting there on the next street, and the salary is at least two oceans a month, let's go and take a look!" "Don't you see that the newspapers are all published, and I just saw a lot of people gathered there, several layers of people inside and out, I heard that not everyone wants it, it's better to be literate, if you are literate, you will be able to be charged."" Yes, a neighbor of mine, has been admitted, he used to work in the United States, I heard him say that as long as he goes to GX Province, he will be given 5 yuan for a month to start working, and he will also cover the travel expenses, and I heard that they have chartered a train, directly to Guangzhou, and get down the train and truck to pick up, my neighbor is already preparing luggage."" There is such a good thing, I am not doing things for foreigners when I go there, I am still doing things for foreigners here, it doesn't make much difference."" No, I heard that it was not opened by a foreigner, it seems that an international student went back to China to run his own factory."" The Chinese opened it, if it was the Chinese opened it, then I will go and save myself from those birds every day."" Let's go and ask and let's go."

After saying that, a few people left the teahouse and ran straight to the recruitment point.

At this time, a wave of job search was set off in major cities across the country "What, you teach sir, go quickly, I heard that GX Province is recruiting teachers, you will definitely not regret it" "You will be an electrician, I think you can definitely get a satisfactory salary when you go to GX Province" "Construction workers, I heard that there is a big construction in GX Province now, you will definitely not regret it"

At the same time, the various warlords received a message that the weapons were replaced, and as long as there were skilled workers, all kinds of talents were required, one person was exchanged for a Type 38 rifle and 20 rounds of ammunition, and if 100 people could be gathered at once, an additional Type 92 heavy machine gun would be given. This is undoubtedly good news for warlords who are only interested in fighting. However, this news also made them begin to know that it was this so-called Longteng company that had sold their weapons for half a year, which immediately made the warlords red. But a warning forced them to calm down, and James sent them a telegram in the United States, and they did not dare to act rashly about the interference of foreigners.

In particular, Li Zongren, the overseer of the GX Provincial Governor's Office, originally wanted to put pressure on Chen Shao to make Chen Shao commit the crime, but James relied on his American status to send him a harshly worded telegram to make him throw a mouse, so he had to give up.

In general, Chen Shao's operation has pros and cons, the advantage is that a large number of talents have poured into Qinghe Village, and the disadvantage is that he has entered the eyes of some well-intentioned people, but Chen Shao is not afraid of them now, with the protection provided by James in the United States, at least in the past few years, he does not have to worry about someone blatantly coming to make trouble. However, in the future, the actions in the dark will be inevitable, fortunately, now that Jian San has established a perfect spy agency in Huashi County, the battle in the dark does not need Chen Shao to worry too much at all.