The next day, it was very early in the morning, and Zhang Shusheng got up after the rooster crowed, and only after he entered the secret room and worked for two hours did the knock on the door sound outside. When I opened the door, I saw Lu Yunyan standing there wearing a skirt.

"Let's go, after breakfast, we'll take your cousin and cousin to see one of the gifts I have prepared for them." Although Lu Yunyan is too shy and has not had sex with her, she has a habit of dressing neatly every morning, and the most beautiful one comes to knock on the door to wake her up, in her words, every morning, she wants Zhang Shusheng to see the most beautiful herself.

It's a pity that Zhang Shusheng has the habit of getting up early, otherwise he can lie on the bed and let her lift the quilt.

After breakfast, Zhang Shusheng took the Lu family into the No. 2 special car in Dongchuan District. Unlike the No. 1 special car, which represents Zhang Shusheng's highest status and is used on formal occasions, the No. 2 red license plate special car is often used by Zhang Shusheng.

The convoy quickly left Lishuping and drove along a well-built road towards the mountains, and after half an hour, the convoy finally stopped in front of a huge military base.

There are many shallow hills and hills around Ishuping, but this military base is extremely flat, and the surrounding area is flat. At that time, when the site was selected for the construction of this large base, the experts of the engineering team also took a lot of effort to ride bicycles and ran all over a radius of more than ten miles before finding such a very large open space.

The entire military base is cut off from the outside world by a fence and barbed wire, and a number of tall buildings can be seen standing inside beyond the wall. The gate at the base is so large that it allows four or five trucks to drive side by side.

"Salute!!"

Many people were already standing at the gate of the base, including the top commander of the base, who had been waiting there for a long time. After receiving a notice from the militia headquarters that the division commander was coming to inspect the base, everyone ran out and waited without breakfast.

"Report to the division commander, the base commander, Lieutenant Colonel Fan Siran, will report to you with commanders and fighters at all levels of the base."

"Let's check the documents first." Zhang Shusheng pointed to his group and said that although as the spiritual leader of the militia and as the supreme commander, he has the only immunity in the militia system, he still insists on starting from himself, and everyone entering and leaving important military bases, regardless of their position, is subject to their documents, and with the secrecy level of the base in front of him, it requires the advance authorization of the militia headquarters. Otherwise, even if Wu Tiejun, the deputy division commander of the militia regiment, came, he would not be able to enter this gate.

Fan Siran personally checked the documents of Zhang Shusheng and Lu Yunyan, as well as the certificates of Lu Bingwen's two siblings issued by the headquarters of the militia group.

"Report to the division commander, the inspection is complete." Fan Siran put his legs together and saluted.

"Let's go, the weather is nice today, how are the preparations?"

"Everything is ready, just wait for you to come, division commander, the experts and pilots are waiting on the runway." Although Fan Siran can often see Zhang Shusheng, every time he sees this seemingly unserious supreme official, he has a kind of fear and admiration. This division commander can not only reprimand everyone with an iron face, but also objectively praise progress. You can also put down your body to participate in scientific research and work hard with everyone.

It turned out that Zhang Shusheng had come today to inspect the test flight of the plane.

However, because Zhang Shusheng brought a special guest today, the base commander Fan Siran did not repeat the detailed parameters of this aircraft, and he also knew that the division commander knew better about these data than himself. If you say it yourself, there is a suspicion of leaking secrets, and if the division commander doesn't say it, it is not something he can manage.

The history of the development of aircraft by the militia can be traced back to 1918, and in the first five-year plan, solving the problem of the existence or absence of aircraft was listed as a priority development project at the same time as the internal combustion engine, the preliminary electronics industry, and the precision factory.

Because of the high-paid returned scholars and foreign experts, as well as several aviation experts recruited by Zhang Shusheng from Germany, it can be said that the flying career of the militia got off to a very smooth start, and in less than half a year, a biplane canvas and wooden plane equipped with imported engines was launched into the sky.

However, it is easy to start and difficult to develop.

From the first biplane to the sky, by mid-1923 this monoplane, metal skin, with a new high-horsepower engine was successfully developed. During this period, there were too many difficulties, and almost every scholar from the first institute of aeronautical research and the technicians of the aircraft factory and manufacturer could talk about the difficulties they had encountered. Not to mention anything else, the plane fell several times, but fortunately it was at a low altitude and there were no casualties.

The reason is simple! The manufacture of the aircraft was completely from scratch for the militia group.

From the beginning of the aircraft research team composed of only a dozen experts and students from technical schools, to the next few years, Southwest University and Xiaoqingshan Senior Technical School of aerodynamics, aircraft power engineering, materials science, structure, physics, mathematics and other outstanding graduates entered various key research institutes in batches, as well as returning students and recruited patriotic Chinese, although they are not necessarily the best, and even many people are completely incompetent for research and development work at the beginning. The only thing they know is what is in the books.

But after five years of ups and downs, these immature young people gradually matured under the leadership of their predecessors.

What I have to say here is a young man named Feng Ruhai.

This young scholar who is only one more word than his predecessor Feng Ru, orphaned, has an amazing talent for aircraft design, it took only two years to graduate from Southwest University, to study abroad for one year and then returned to China, although he did not bring back any foreign university degrees, but with his unique talent in aircraft design, he beat the domestic and foreign scholars of the institute, and directly served as the director of the aviation research institute and the chief designer of the aircraft.

With the small-scale production of the precision manufacturing plant, and then the successful manufacture of the first new piston engine engine in the engine manufacturing plant with huge investment (because in the small-scale trial production of the precision machinery factory, some machining accuracy problems related to engine manufacturing have not been completely solved, and Zhang Shusheng temporarily provided some key components), the flight career of the militia has finally reached a big level.

Zhang Shusheng, who personally participated in the engine manufacturing and aircraft design work during this period, almost had an unforgettable feeling about the test flight of this aircraft. If you want to find the three most difficult experiences in the process of practical application of the existing scientific research of the militia, then it must be: aircraft manufacturing, electronic manufacturing, and precision manufacturing.

In addition to government and military affairs, in scientific research, he often wears workers' clothes to go deep into the front line of scientific research, works overtime all night, solves a key problem, mentions technical personnel, teaches potential students who have just graduated, and climbs and eats and drinks with researchers, which is simply commonplace. All this took most of his five years.

Sometimes he even thinks that it would be good if he were a god, recruit all the outstanding talents, snap his fingers, and give some drawings to solve everything.

But the actual situation is that he needs to wait for the students of the technical school and Southwest University to graduate one by one under the guidance of high-paid Chinese and foreign teachers, and he needs to wait for the return of the international students sent out at his public expense.

He needs to recruit those patriotic overseas Chinese who are technical and scholar-type one by one, and he needs to coax those Chinese sons and daughters who have finally gone abroad to study in major Western colleges and universities, and then coax them back to this mountain.

He needs to go to a foreign country like a thief to get back foreign experts piecemeal, he needs to go into the workshop bare-chested, he needs to lie on the table for four or five hours in a row to draw drawings, and he doesn't lift his ass.

And because of his personal leadership, his unique scientific research courage has infected everyone. Not only are the Chinese employees crazy, but also the foreign scholars are working overtime one by one, and almost every foreign scholar has such an experience: staying up all night, staying up all night, eating cold meals when hungry, drinking plain water when thirsty, just to overcome technical problems one by one. Then, while celebrating, while counting the prize money he received, he got drunk with him.

Finally, in 1920, the militia had its first tank. In 1921, we had our own electronics factory, in 1922 we had our own precision factory and engine factory, and in 1923, we had the test flight of this new aircraft.

This fighter, named J-1, represents the militia in the pace of aircraft modernization, temporarily catching up with the front of Westerners. The design idea of this fighter refers to the German Messerschmitt BF-109 fighter that appeared ten years later, although the data of the J-1 is still quite far from this famous aircraft of World War II, but the performance is still good. In terms of design concept, it has surpassed the West.

The wingspan reaches 8.62 meters, the length is 8.27 meters, the height is 2.3 meters, the empty weight is 2330 kg, the maximum speed is 390 km/h, the ceiling is 8000 meters, and the range is 500 kilometers. The armament consisted of a 22-year 30mm cannon and two specially developed 1922-year 12.7mm large-caliber aviation machine guns.

After coming to the airport runway, the Lu family brothers and sisters were completely stunned, they had never seen an airplane in Guangxi, and neither did their father's subordinates, only they had seen from the newspaper that there were planes in Guangdong, and they were all small and ugly. It was also heard that Sun Yat-sen in Guangdong seemed to be making airplanes.

The plane in front of them made them feel a chill, the mighty shape, the large-caliber barrel sticking out under the wings, it means that it belongs to a killing weapon.

"Get the plane ready for takeoff!" Zhang Shusheng turned to Feng Ruhai, the chief designer of the Aviation Research Institute, and said, Zhang Shusheng looked at the Lu family brothers and sisters who were a little stunned next to him, and the reason why he brought them to see the plane test flight was not simply to win over his in-laws, but to completely go to Lu Rongting's heart disease. Although this kind of aircraft is very advanced in China, in foreign countries, it is at most the same level as the aircraft of the same period, and he is not afraid of any leaks.

Marrying Lu Yunyan is one aspect, and being able to successfully win Guangxi is another. He would rather let the two sons and daughters of the Lu family see the power of this kind of aircraft and know a small part of their true strength, so as to stabilize the cooperation between the two parties, rather than do useless work by himself in the future, kill thousands of people and then take Guangxi.

A J-1 aircraft of the first model, showing them, at most shocked, not even a leak.

After receiving the order from the tower, the pilot began to start the plane, and after less than 400 meters of taxiing, the entire plane gradually left the ground, the nose of the plane was slightly raised, and finally soared into the sky. Ten minutes later, the plane returned to the base, landed again, and finally stopped on the runway, and the pilot also ran over to salute and report the test flight.

"Report to the division commander, everything went well with the fighter during the flight."

"Good work!" Zhang Shu returned a military salute.

Although ......it was not the first successful test flight, all the scholars involved in the study of the Jian-1, including Zhang Shusheng, applauded.

The brothers and sisters of the Lu family also recovered from their distraction just now, glanced at each other, and saw each other's surprise.

"Brother Polypropylene, why don't we arrange another live firing?" As a rule, the base conducts separate live-fire training of aircraft.

"No need, with the speed, altitude and configuration of a heavy machine gun of this aircraft, once it flies over the enemy, it will be a naked slaughter." Lu Binglun, who graduated from the Guangxi Army Martial Arts Hall, is certainly not an idiot, and anyone who sees this kind of aircraft with his own eyes will be shocked. "Brother Shusheng, it seems that if you enter Guangxi in the future, my father will definitely rest assured."

There is no need to look at anything, Lu Binglun already knows that Zhang Shusheng has countless factories and this kind of advanced weapons that only Westerners have, so do you need to say much about ordinary weapons and equipment?

Qian Duo has good weapons, is it still difficult to fight a warlord like Tang Jiyao? I'm afraid that someone else should pray, don't meet him.

Maybe he will still work under him in the future, Lu Binglun couldn't help but sigh with emotion, his father is indeed old. When his father's eyes were still on buying a few more rifles and a few more heavy machine guns, Zhang Shusheng had already built an airplane.

Zhang Shusheng smiled, walked over and chatted with the researchers on the spot for a few words and walked back, leaving them to record all kinds of data, although this is the first test flight, but the researchers still have to work hard to record the data of each test flight. He smiled and said to Lu Yunyan, who was looking at the plane in a daze, "What do you want?" ”

"If only I could fly into the sky!" Lu Yunyan said with a wink.

"Hehe, I'll fly with you in the future." Zhang Shusheng took her little hand and said, "Let's go, let's accompany your cousin to see the gift for your uncle this time." ”

This time, the convoy came to a garrison barracks on the outskirts of Lishuping. As soon as the convoy had been inspected and entered the barracks, a company of heavily armed soldiers arrived to escort it.

"Take a break, stand upright, salute!!"

Under the leadership of the company commander, the soldiers quickly lined up, and then the lieutenant ran to Zhang Shusheng's side and shouted: "Please instruct the division commander!" ”

"Take a break!" Zhang Shusheng changed his military salute and said.

"I didn't expect that these ordinary troops under Shu Sheng are also well-equipped."

In fact, the equipment of the guard unit is much better, but Lu Binglun still has a bit of luck, thinking that Zhang Shusheng is specially equipped to decorate the façade, but a company of guards on both sides is actually equipped with neat Mauser rifles, and the bayonets have also popped out, and the military posture is majestic, and the colorful military uniform looks very dazzling at first glance, but when you look at it again, you feel that there is a different deterrent.

However, as a soldier, what Lu Binglun cares about most is that every soldier's eyes seem to have a terrifying essence, which is a kind of eyes mixed with worship, fanaticism, and loyalty. This kind of gaze, when he was in Guangxi, was only seen in the eyes of his father's most loyal subordinates, and these soldiers were just ordinary troops under his future cousin-in-law.

Moreover, his brother-in-law's army still has a place that makes him feel very enthusiastic, and every soldier can't find the lazy atmosphere of Guangxi Guijun. Not to mention anything else, just the constant repetition of the military salute and every meticulous action made him marvel, and secretly said that the regulations of these troops were so strict, and they had indeed practiced the majesty of soldiers.

There seemed to be a lot of things in the small bags on the soldiers' bodies, and several of the officers were holding a strange gun with a short handle that was different from the guard troops, which he knew, called submachine guns, and his father's guard troops also had a small amount of equipment, but he didn't expect Zhang Shusheng to use it to equip ordinary troops.

This entire company, from the perspective of a soldier alone, Lu Binglun feels very elite.

Zhang Shusheng: "Open the warehouse door!" ”

"Yes!" A squad quickly stepped forward and slowly pushed open the large gate where the warehouse manager opened the double mechanical locks, and in the sound of the gate of "clang......clad", a huge warehouse slowly appeared in front of everyone.

Inside the warehouse, there was a large wooden box like a hill, with eye-catching military logos, Lu Binglun just looked at it, and his heart couldn't help pounding, "This is ......"

A soldier stepped forward, picked up a crowbar, snapped softly, opened a large wooden box, and what appeared in front of Lu Binglun was a box full of brand-new rifles.

"This is a little bit of my heart for the old man." Zhang Shusheng picked up a brand-new Huaxia-style rifle, today's Huaxia-style rifle is much stronger than the old Mauser, "This is a 3,000-branch Mauser-modified Huaxia-style rifle, which can be regarded as my expression of Yunyan's heart." It will be loaded and transported away immediately, and I, the prospective niece and son-in-law, will also support the old man in reorganizing the army. ”

Lu Yunyan stood there in a daze, two lines of tears dripped down at once, this guy suddenly gave such a big gift, she was really moved. Uncle will definitely agree with him.

Lu Binglun's two siblings stayed in Lishuping for a whole week, and it was not until they contacted Guangxi and sent troops to meet them at the junction of Yunnan and Guizhou that a convoy loaded with 3,000 rifles set off and rushed back to Guangxi along the road in the direction of Huize and Xuanwei.

During this week, the two of them also hemorrhaged profusely, and bought a lot of Lishuping products back, especially things like the new gramophone, which were still very fashionable at the time, and they brought a lot of them. Lu Bingwen even bought several high-end fashions for his two younger sisters compared to his own figure.

And Zhang Shusheng, although he gave 3,000 rifles to Mr. Lu Rongting, but for him now, the military factory is already preparing to sell and export a large number of arms, and 3,000 is just a drop in the bucket. Moreover, for Lu Rongting, he is not afraid of investment, the so-called loss is more, and he will earn more in the future.

He also asked Lu Yunyan to bring some special gifts to the two old men, but this girl paid for two boxes of penicillin, which is currently in great shortage in China, and asked her cousin to take it back. However, she didn't let Zhang Shusheng spend money directly, but insisted on borrowing it from him, saying that she would pay it back slowly after getting married, and she couldn't let Zhang Shusheng spend more...... When Lu Binglun was leaving, he said half-jokingly: "Brother Shusheng, don't worry, you cousin-in-law, I think so." I'm just waiting for the day when you sit in the southwest!! ”

(To be continued)