The next day, Jiang Cheng immediately sent a telegram to Zhang Ye of the United States and Chen Tongsheng, who had retreated to Wuhan, and others, asking them to buy 30,000 tons of grain in advance and send it to Yan'an, and then they were about to travel back to modern times with the things they had sorted out, but when they opened the door, they saw Chen Yun.

Jiang Cheng couldn't help but ask curiously, "Minister Chen, do you have anything to do with me?" ”

Chen Yun said with some embarrassment, "203, it was the chairman who asked me to come to you, yes, our mines have started to operate, but after the chairman went to inspect it, he felt that there were many shortcomings, so he asked me to come to you to see if there was any way to solve it." ”

Jiang Cheng also attached great importance to it when he heard it, after all, no matter what industry, the most basic thing is this mining. Then he said, "Well, let's go and see it now." ”

Jiang Cheng and Chen Yun came to the mining area, in order to keep secrets, the mining area set up a lot of light and dark sentinels outside, came to the mining area, handed over the documents, and the person in charge of the mining area immediately came out.

The person in charge was wearing coarse cloth clothes and was dirty, and when he saw Jiang Cheng and Chen Yun, he said, "Hello chief, I am Jiang Hui, the director of the No. 7 mine, who has just come out of the mine, and he is a little dirty." ”

Jiang Cheng asked, "Why do you want to go to the mine too?" ”

Jiang Hui said as a matter of course, "That's a must, little comrade, you don't know, it's easy to have accidents in the mine, if I don't go down to the mine for a day, I won't feel at ease, besides, I'm also a worker, where is the reason why workers don't work, if I don't go down to the mine to get to the work site, won't I have anything to eat." ”

Chen Yun introduced, "Comrade Jiang Hui, this can't be called a little comrade, this is also a chief, you can call him the 203 chief." ”

Jiang Hui heard a little foggy, and finally said, "203 Hello chief, chief, we are about to have dinner, you haven't eaten yet." Why don't you eat it together? ”

Chen Yun shook his hand and said, "We brought our own dry food, and you don't have much food." ”

Jiang Hui smiled and said, "It's okay, everyone is full anyway." ”

With that, everyone came to the cafeteria together.

The canteen is a big wooden house made of wood, and the workers are curious when they see someone coming in, and they no longer care about the Red Army's dress, after all, in the border area, the most important thing is the Red Army.

Jiang Cheng walked up curiously, and saw that everyone was at a table with four plates of things in the middle of the table. One plate is pickles, one plate is vegetables, one plate is wowotou, and one plate is a small piece of bacon prepared according to the head, depending on the quantity, it should be a small piece for each person.

Seeing Jiang Cheng walking up, Jiang Hui said, "Chief, this is our usual food." There are vegetables and meat, and everyone is happy to eat. ”

Jiang Cheng asked the worker next to him, "How is it, are you full of food here?" Let's be honest. If I can't get enough to eat, I'll let the top send out some more food. ”

When the worker heard that it was the chief, he immediately stood up and said, "Chief, we are well fed, because we are workers and we are heavy physical work in the mining area. So, hehe, the meal is full, and there is meat. We used to have meat all year round in the countryside, but now we have meat every day. ”

Jiang Cheng asked again: "Then will anyone waste food?" ”

As soon as he said this, Jiang Hui said unhappily: "Chief, where are you talking about this, we are all from the countryside. Who doesn't know the value of food, if anyone dares to waste food, we will go up and clean him up first. ”

Chen Yun smiled beside him, "Thanks to you, the food of the worker brothers has improved a lot, let's eat too." Saying that, Chen Yun and the guards also took out dry food, all of which were wowotou, pot helmets and the like, and Jiang Cheng took out a pack of compressed biscuits, okay, Jiang Cheng really couldn't get used to eating multigrain dry food at this time, so he was willing to choose compressed biscuits. But others are not so luxurious, compressed biscuits can be eaten in Yan'an at this time, except for the army fighting, other times it is still a luxury, it is an extremely expensive snack.

After eating, the workers took a break and started work, and Jiang Cheng and Chen Yun also began to visit.

First of all, mining, thanks to the help of American mining machinery, it is no longer dug with the most primitive hoe, this is an iron ore factory, although the steel plant has not yet been established, but it is always right to dig out the mine first.

Seeing that after a while, a cart of ore was piled up, and the workers pushed the ore outside the mine, put it on a cow, and transported it to a large pool with running water, Jiang Cheng asked, "What is this?" ”

Jiang Hui said, "Not all the ore that is dug up, so we have to screen it first, and this is the beneficiation pool." Jiang Cheng suddenly found that the workers were still using manpower and water flow impact to beneficiate, watching the two shifts take turns shaking the large sieve used for beneficiation, Jiang Cheng couldn't help but feel that the speed was too slow.

Chen Yun said, "When the chairman saw this, he said that it was not good, he thought it was too slow, but in fact it was very slow, you see, there are already a lot of ore piles there, and we are now processing ore much faster than mining." The current mining machine can only work for half a day and rest for half a day, or it is too late for mineral processing. ”

Jiang Cheng kept it in mind and continued to look, and saw that the selected ore was transported to a place again, where a few cows were pulling something and kept turning, Jiang Cheng saw that the workers threw the ore aside, and then smashed the ore with a hammer, and then used the ox to pull it into fine powder, and then used a large bucket to hold water, put the ore powder into the water and stirred, and finally took the ore that sank in the low water and put it aside.

Jiang Hui said, "This is called grinding, we call it "fine stickiness" when it floats on the water, "plum sand" in suspended water, and "coarse ore meat" that sinks at the bottom of the barrel. This is the ore that is really prepared for the steel mill, and this kind of ore can be refined into more and better steel because of the less impurities. ”

Chen Yun said beside him: "The chairman said that this method is too wasteful of animal power, but without such coarse ore, you can't make good steel." ”

Jiang Cheng secretly calculated in his heart, the design goal of the steel plant is to produce 10,000 tons per year, although he does not know the quality of these ores, but he also knows that most of China's iron ore is not of high quality, and the small mines here are even more unhigh. This annual output of 10,000 tons will cost 300 a day, and the ore will have to be 1 or 2,000 tons, such a speed is not good.

Is this a typical uneven development?

Jiang Cheng understood the reason why Chairman Mao asked Chen Yun to take him to see it, and said to Chen Yun, "Minister Chen, don't worry, I will find a way to solve these things." ”

Back at the place where he lived, Jiang Cheng couldn't help but think again, even if he bought machinery from the next generation, he had to have motivation, it seems that the pot camel machine has to be increased, and the pot camel machine was originally prepared only for farmers. It seems that it has to be used in industry.

Jiang Cheng knew that it was no further ado, so he said hello to Chairman Mao and traveled back to modern times.

After Jiang Cheng returned to modern times, he immediately came to the company, put a thick pile of paper on Sun Ning's table, and said with a smile: "Miss Sun, there is a new order again." ”

Sun Ning flipped through it curiously, and found that they were all books and instruments, material names, and hundreds of pot camel machines and mine equipment. At first glance, the handwriting was written by Jiang Cheng himself, and Sun Ning, who was poor in the handwriting, couldn't bear to look at it directly.

Sun Ning asked, "Why are instruments and materials again?" Isn't our client's university built yet? Why don't they buy it themselves? ”

Jiang Cheng said with a haha, "Isn't this a trouble, okay, prepare as soon as possible." These are not high-end instruments, so it shouldn't be difficult. ”

Sun Ning nodded and said, "No problem, I'll try my best to arrange it." These pot camel machines are a bit difficult, and they all have to be customized. But last time we found the factory. It's good to get in touch directly this time. Those mining machines can be ordered directly, and it is not difficult. ”

After Jiang Cheng gave the order, he waited for Yu Na to get off work and returned home, Yu Na said while wearing an apron, "Mom called, asking when we will go back for the New Year?" What are your plans for this year's Chinese New Year? ”

Jiang Cheng only reacted when he heard that he looked down at his thick sweater, and the 21st century was actually about to celebrate the New Year.

Jiang Cheng asked, "How long will it take to celebrate the New Year?" ”

Yu Na calculated in her heart and said, "Well, today is January 21, February 2, and the New Year, and there are still eleven days. ”

Jiang Cheng asked, "Gallagher, what time is it over there." ”

Gallagher said impatiently, "August 27. What are you going to do? ”

Jiang Cheng rolled his eyes and said, "Of course, it's here for the New Year." If I'm not here for the New Year, my parents will have to tear me down. ”

Jiang Cheng said to Yu Na, "In this way, how about we bring my parents to Shanghai?" Then we celebrated the New Year together, and I will talk to my mother later. ”

Yu Na smiled, "It's okay." Whatever—we should have discussed our business. ”

Jiang Cheng couldn't help but be excited when he heard this, "Okay, when the time comes, we can also set our marriage." Uh, wait—"

Jiang Cheng couldn't help but think that he would not be able to go to the Republic of China for a month after getting married. It's really not easy to decide about this matter, so he said, "Nana, let's talk about marriage later." Our business is just getting started, I'm flying everywhere again, and it's quite difficult to get on time,"

Yu Na's eyes darkened, turned around and said, "It's okay, I understand, I'll talk to my family." ”

Jiang Cheng sighed secretly and said with a forced smile, "Don't be sad, don't worry, I promise that when the customers over there are stable, we will discuss our affairs." ”

Yu Na said embarrassedly, "Where am I sad, well, I listen to you." ”

Jiang Cheng called home that day, and when his parents heard that they were going to meet Yu Na's parents who came last time, they couldn't help but be very excited, and immediately agreed.

And Yu Na was also preparing to come to Shanghai during the New Year, Jiang Cheng thought that the New Year was approaching, and the company would also give employees a holiday in advance, so he called Sun Ning and asked, "Sun Ning, when will our company start to have a holiday?" ”

Sun Ning said angrily, "Boss Jiang, haven't you been on vacation all the time?" ”

Jiang Cheng couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed when he heard this, and continued, "It's not me, isn't it almost the New Year, I think so, after you prepare the things this time, how about our company have a holiday?" ”

When Sun Ning heard this, he couldn't help but feel that this Jiang Cheng was still good to the employees, and said with a smile, "Okay, where do we have anything else to say, then it's decided, but boss, I just asked, I'm afraid there is a bit of a problem with the pot camel machine you want, and now those processing plants are on holiday for two or three days, and no one is willing to take orders." ”

Jiang Cheng couldn't help scratching his head, indeed, most of the workers in the processing plant were on holiday a week in advance, and at this time, no one was willing to take the order, so he said, "That's it, I'll add money, but I can't find it, forget it, let's talk about it after the New Year." ”

Sun Ning asked worriedly, "Is it too late?" According to the usual times, you usually have to come to the Lantern Festival, and those factories really start to open, and it will take a month. ”

Jiang Cheng thought about it, the steel mill over there hadn't been set up anyway, and he wasn't in a hurry and said, "It's okay, it's time, don't push yourself too tightly, the body is the first, it's okay." Let's put it this way. ”

After Sun Ning and Jiang Cheng finished speaking, they looked at the night scene outside and thought, "Is it the New Year?" Where should I go? I couldn't help but think of the Tyrannosaurus rex, so a group of people called the Tyrannosaurus and said, "Captain, where are you?" ”

The Tyrannosaurus said in a trembling voice, "I'm damn the Northwest Frontier, it's freezing here, what's wrong?" Is there something new on Jiang Cheng's side? ”

Sun Ning said with some hesitation, "It's nothing, it's still those instruments, mining equipment or something, it should be used for running schools and mining, that-captain, when will you come back." Are you coming back for the Chinese New Year this year? ”

The tyrannosaurus immediately said, "I can't go back, there's a damn extremist organization here, I can't go back for a month or two, and I have to stay here for the New Year, but I'm used to it, thank you for your concern, don't say it, I'm dying of cold." That's it, goodbye. ”

Sun Ning listened to the beep call. Holding the pillow in frustration, he shook his head fiercely and said, "No, I can't do this, I'm a NSA agent codenamed Yan." With that, Sun Ning turned on the computer again and started working.

Jiang Cheng knew that he wouldn't be able to go back for about half a month this New Year. As soon as Jiang Cheng's time came, he returned to Yan'an with the books and full of food prepared by Sun Ning, Chairman Mao heard that Jiang Cheng's era was going to celebrate the New Year, and said with a smile: "Happy New Year, the people of your era can celebrate the New Year happily, unlike the people of our era." It's not the New Year, it's a catastrophe. ”

Jiang Cheng asked curiously, "Isn't this the same?" ”

Chairman Mao smoked a cigarette and said with a smile, "It's not a festival, it's a catastrophe." Many of our people owe debts to the landlord's family to live, and every time it comes to the New Year, it is the same as the catastrophe, because they have to repay the money. Is the landlord's debt so easy to pay? The interest is not low, some families can't afford to pay it off for a lifetime, and every time they are forced to die in debt every time they celebrate the New Year. Do you say it's a festival or a catastrophe? ”

Jiang Cheng nodded with a sigh and said, "The peasants can't find a place to borrow money, so they can only borrow from usury, so we have to give them a place to borrow money." Chairman You said that there was a story in that era outside, called the white-haired girl, and the video I brought last time had this. ”

Chairman Mao nodded and said, "Oh, then I have to go back and see." But I believe that with our Red Party, our people will soon get better, what you have in your time, and what we will have in our time, okay, don't talk about this, you have to go back for the New Year, I'll give you a pair of words, didn't you say you wanted my words before? What do you want me to write? ”

When Jiang Cheng heard this, he immediately said happily, "Can you write, Jiang Cheng is a handsome guy?" ”

Chairman Mao immediately laughed and said, "You little ginger, you are really naughty." Don't bully me I don't understand the meaning of handsome, but I have been in Beiping for a while, and I have dealt with some Manchus, forget it, if you can't come up with anything good, I'll write you a poem of mine. ”

Jiang Cheng stuck out his tongue, he didn't expect Chairman Mao to understand the meaning of the handsome guy, nodded in agreement and continued, "The books that those experts want have been brought, but those equipment and machinery in the mining area are about to be after the New Year, and the modern factories over there will not do business during the New Year." ”

Chairman Mao exclaimed, "It seems that your era is indeed a good life, it's okay, this matter is not in a hurry, you are tired of going back and forth, and you will come to me to get a gift when you go back." ”

Jiang Cheng went back and told Huang Biao that he would come back in half a month, Huang Biao didn't care and just begged Jiang Cheng to find someone to change him quickly, Jiang Cheng didn't have anyone for a while, so he had to wait a few more months, looking at Huang Biao's complaining eyes, Jiang Cheng seemed to see a resentful woman. Jiang Cheng sent a telegram to Shanghai and other places explaining that he was going out for half a month, and that he would discuss and solve any problems by himself first. If you really can't make up your mind, just wait for yourself to come back.

Jiang Cheng came to Chairman Mao's cave the next day, and just saw Sister He coming out of next door, after the two nodded and said hello, Jiang Cheng went in and saw Chairman Mao reading a book, and stepped forward to ask, "Chairman, Sister He is not leaving, right?" ”

Chairman Mao sighed, "Your eldest sister He's temper is not good, this time I persuaded it, I don't know when I will make trouble to leave again, don't talk about her, come, look at the gift I prepared for you." ”

As he spoke, Chairman Mao took out a long scroll and opened it to see that it was Chairman Mao's extremely famous words "Qinyuan Spring. Snow" Jiang Cheng said excitedly, "Chairman, how do you know that I like this?" ”

Chairman Mao smiled and said, "Because I also like this, this is what I wrote last year, and if you take it back, it will be my New Year's gift to you." ”

Jiang Cheng nodded and hurriedly put the scroll away, in fact, Chairman Mao's words are definitely not as precious as Wang Xizhi and others in ancient times, and the words are not as good as Li Bai Du Fu, but if you add a sentence for your friend Jiang Cheng, it will be a priceless treasure for Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng happily returned to the modern era with the gift. Back in the modern era, that strange feeling of oppression comes again.

Gallagher smiled, "Congratulations, it's 7 meters." ”

Jiang Cheng was also very happy, the larger the space, the more things he could carry, Jiang Cheng returned home, and saw Yu Na cooking, so he said, "Nana, don't do it, come, come with me to see my new things." ”

Yu Na curiously came up to take a look, only to see that it was a calligraphy, and if you looked closely, there was Mao Yongzhi's signature mark below, but then look at the sentence given to Jiang Cheng. I couldn't help laughing, "Where did you get this fake?" He also wrote his name. I'm not afraid of jokes. ”

Jiang Cheng said disdainfully, "The person who laughed at me is stupid himself, come on, you go cook, I'll find someone to frame him." Tomorrow we will be ready to pick up my parents for the New Year. (To be continued......)