In May 1929, Sichuan led by Jiang Baili and Wu Tiejun to capture Sichuan, and after half a year, the bandits in most areas of Sichuan were basically eliminated. In the Bashu region, except for the more complex terrain in western Sichuan, the rest of the country is just a shallow hilly terrain, which is not suitable for bandits to wander and hide.

In four months, with the major cities of Bashu as the center, it was carried out from all directions, and the bandits in various places were swept away by thunderous means with an absolute encirclement situation. Whether it is a small bandit of a few dozen people or a large number of bandits of hundreds or thousands of people, all of them have been wiped out like chickens and dogs. If the end is better, after half a month of encircling the mountain, the large army will go up the mountain to arrest people. The end is miserable, as soon as the cannon goes off, the machine gun sweeps, and the end of the New Deal axe is bound to be no good result.

In this battle of banditry throughout the mountainous areas at the junction of Sichuan and Yunnan and the Bashu mountains, the vast majority of the bandits still chose to abandon their weapons and surrender. In accordance with the promise made when he persuaded him to surrender, the southwest political axe will also screen and deal with these bandits, and those who are full of evil will naturally be punished by law. As for those who are coerced by evil forces and become homeless because of their livelihood difficulties, those who are willing to go home will be paid travel expenses, and the homeless naturally have more difficult mines and construction sites to arrange.

From the beginning of 1929, the comprehensive construction of the political axe in the southwest officially began.

Based on the large-scale production and construction of the four provinces, like a hurricane, it blew all over the four southwestern provinces. Under the overall arrangement of the political axe, from infrastructure construction such as road transportation, water and electricity, water conservancy, to large-scale industrial construction, from rural and urban construction to improve people's livelihood to urban infrastructure construction, a large-scale construction that began at the end of the Third Five-Year Plan has injected vitality into the entire southwest and even the land of Bashu, which has just joined the political axe of the southwest.

Everywhere you look, there are construction sites. On the road construction site, in addition to the occasional construction machinery, there are a large number of workers and farmers.

Whether it is from bankrupt households in rural areas or the unemployed or unemployed in urban areas, they can find a job on such a construction site.

Every morning, as long as you come to the construction site with a hammer and shovel, or a hoe and shovel to register, the amount of work in a day is recognized, and you can record the day's work. Wages are paid once a week.

However, even so, there are really not so many people on the construction site. Every road construction site, as far as the eye can see, is full of people, and in the end there is no choice but to say that it will not be recruited, as long as the old workers.

Now the contradiction came again, Zhang San worked here, and Li Si also wanted to work, but there was no way, and finally discussed a compromise solution. It's not just about money, but when farmers in many places see that they are building roads or dams, they really come out of their hearts to help. There is the propaganda of the political axe at the grassroots level, and the political axe that has not been encountered for many years does practical things for the people, everyone understands that there are thousands of things that benefit themselves and future generations, and it is false to say that they are not actively surnamed.

Therefore, when the construction team's project progresses to the scope of a township, the township will call on the villagers to help during the slack time, and the calculated work can be deducted from part of the seed and fertilizer money, and the other part, the construction unit will directly pay the remaining wages to the local political axe, under the supervision of the supervisor, and the money will be subsidized to the seed and fertilizer money as a whole, or used to subsidize the local school that has just been built.

The progress of major projects is very fast, and the construction of basic hydropower in some rural areas is progressing even faster, such as building a dam, building a grassroots hydropower station, and building a new large-scale factory.

The construction of the entire southwest, especially the three provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guangxi, is represented by the Panzhihua Comprehensive Iron and Steel City in Sichuan.

"Chief, you see, this is the first phase of our industrial city planning, from here to there, it is divided into mining area, processing area, supporting auxiliary factory area, and residential area. The design of the industrial city has been scientifically demonstrated to the greatest extent, and every effort has been made to ensure that after the completion of the four phases of the project, the industrial city will not be plagued by excessive pollution. A large-scale hydropower station with a total power of 500,000 kW will be built in the Guanyinyan area of the Jinsha River, about 30 kilometers away from the designed industrial city, with an estimated construction period of four years, which will be used as a supporting power supply facility for the industrial city in the future......"

On a high mountain, Lu Chuanxiong, director of the planned Panzhihua Iron and Steel City, is introducing the planned Panzhihua Iron and Steel New City to Zhang Shusheng, the chief of the southwest political axe, and his party.

From the location of Zhang Shusheng Station, even if you don't use a telescope, you can clearly see the busy construction site in the distance, the lively construction of the mining area, the construction of the factory, and the supporting construction, which are basically carried out at the same time, and even the accommodation area is also being built while living in a tent, and the construction period is not waiting for anyone, in order to complete this urgent construction period, no one dares to relax.

In the past, although the Panzhihua Iron and Steel Base also undertook 81% of the steel consumption of the southwest political axe, not only the mining area, but even the supporting factories including smelting and thermal power stations, were built. But compared to the Panzhihua that Zhang Shusheng went to in his later life, it is still not the same, and it can even be said that it is only the scale of a town.

In the future, the iron ore that has been proven in Panzhihua territory, although the reserves are amazing, but mainly vanadium titanium magnetite, and Zhang Shusheng through the database, but in this later generation of super steel base found richer reserves and mineral species, whether it is the current southwest political axe, or the future of the new China, will have a great demand for resources here.

Therefore, at the beginning of the year, the large-scale construction plan of the steel city was put on the ground, and the budget accounted for a considerable amount of the political axe investment plan.

"Let's go, go down and have a look."

Zhang Shusheng did not let a large group of people follow, in the political practice of the southwest, the leader went down to inspect, basically without prior notice, and did not need to be accompanied by the local political axe, but when he arrived at the place, he went to the local grassroots political axe to call a secretary, which was regarded as participation.

However, even if five or six idlers walk into the construction site, it will attract the attention of the workers.

"Chuanxiong, the peasant compatriots are working on the construction site, can the family be busy with farm work?" Looking at the workers who were carrying them on their shoulders, some of them were peasant brothers who had just come out of farm work, and Zhang Shusheng was afraid that they would delay their farm work.

In his previous life, he was also from a peasant family, and knew the hard work of farming, when his father went out to work in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, his mother almost fell in the field alone.

"These Sichuan people are very hard-working, specializing in heavy work. They go to work on time every day, and when they go home, they have to do farm work until the time of the lamp, and I heard that some old dealers go home from work, and go to the field to light a stick of incense, and they can dig out rows of neat small nests. Lu Chuanxiong said with emotion that he was not born in a peasant family, and he admired and sighed at these half-workers and half-farmers. However, the male laborers of every household came to the construction site, and the women were not idle, some came to the construction site as small workers, and some directly carried hoes and dung to work in the field, which is really admirable. ”

"Hehe, this is true. Sichuan is constrained by regional conditions, and although it is poor, the peasants are very hardworking. Zhang Shusheng is not a face-saving word, before coming to this era, his grandfather had the experience of "lighting incense and making nests" and "lighting incense and pouring manure and manure", where mechanization is difficult to popularize, but it can only rely on the hard work of the farmers themselves.

Looking around, there were construction sites everywhere, except for the vague mountains around, Zhang Shusheng did not find the familiar shadow of Panzhihua in later generations.

At lunchtime, Zhang Shusheng and his entourage ate in the construction site canteen as construction technicians, in the simple super-large open-air canteen, Zhang Shusheng was like the most ordinary person, eating pieces of fat back to the pot meat in the meat bowl with the migrant worker brothers, and also drank two small sips with his co-workers at the table.

Perhaps they will never know that a peasant who is illiterate and even needs the help of the village party secretary to settle the settlement when he gets his wages can sit on the crude table and chair of the farmer's house and eat the most ordinary lunch with the most powerful man in China and even the world in the future.

However, although they never know, Zhang Shusheng will always remember. It is these bits and pieces, and even more bits and pieces, that let him know that although he started all the way, there are more people who still need to follow him to make a fortune, and it is better to let a nation reach the peak of happiness than to reach the peak of power alone. Money and power, life does not bring death, let alone hope to leave a name in history, then, it is better to divide part of the limited energy into taking care of the people's livelihood, so that the people can eat, wear shirts, smile often, and have hope.

After a simple but nutritious lunch, Zhang Shusheng boarded the plane to Yibin.

Fortunately, the airport construction in this period was not as high-standard as that of later generations, a simple running sleeve, some basic supporting facilities, and a small field-level airport were enough to cope with infrequent aircraft takeoffs and landings.

Zhang Shusheng was on a military transport plane converted from a J-2 bomber. At the end of 1927, on the basis of the Jian-1 fighter and the Jian-1 bomber, three improved fighters entered active service.

After four years of improvement and development, the development of the J-2 fighter is very satisfactory, and all data have fully reached the initial model of the Luftwaffe BF109, which will appear a few years later. Dimensions: Wingspan 10.22 meters, length 9.57 meters, height 3.1 meters. Weight data: empty weight 2930 kg. Surname data: maximum speed 696 km/h, ceiling 11,000 meters, range 1,200 kilometers. Armament: one 24-mm cannon, two ZH25-12.7,mm aviation machine guns. In terms of power equipment, it is powered by a Kunlun 2 aero engine with a power of 1550 horsepower.

The J-2 bomber, on the other hand, is a bomber type developed by Readpower, and after sacrificing its maneuverability and speed, the bomb load of this new bomber has reached an astonishing 4.2 tons. The flight speed was reduced to 425 km/h, and the range was 1800 km. The main weapons of self-defense are cannons and aviation machine guns. As soon as this specially developed bomber appeared, Zhang Shusheng made a decision to mass-produce it, if nothing else, but in fact, its various data were enough for a long time, and even in the early days of World War II, bombing combat missions.

Therefore, the modified transport aircraft is also an excellent model, in addition to military use, it has also purchased 5 planes by Shusheng Company, preparing to establish Southwest Airlines, for inter-provincial long-distance air transportation.

From Panzhihua to Yibin, the straight-line flight range is less than 600 kilometers, and the plane finally landed at Yibin Caiba Airport after an hour and a half of sailing. Like Panzhihua, there is also a field airfield for military purposes, which is small in scale but is enough for low-density air force transfers.

It is only half an hour's journey from Caiba Airport to Yibin by car, however, when the convoy came to Yibin City, Zhang Shusheng did not go in, but just stood on the hill on the edge of the Minjiang River, quietly looking at this strange small city.

At this time, Yibin is so small that it does not have to be much bigger than the larger town in later generations.

"Things are not people, they are not ......"

Zhang Shusheng stood alone, and the confidential secretary Mao Yun waited far away from him.

Looking at the unfamiliar Yibin in the distance, as well as the high cliffs and Minjiang River close at hand, Zhang Shusheng's feelings were extremely complicated. This is his hometown in later generations, but now it is just a large area of riverside tidal flats.

This is the later Shangjiang North, down the high cliff, is the factory area of Wuliangye, the Minjiang River meanders from one side, brings vitality to the city, but also injects the source of the Yangtze River.

In later generations, there were no Minjiang Bridge, Wuliangye Factory, and Yibin College, and some were just wasteland, and Zhang Shusheng couldn't help but feel a little lonely.

And where he stood, it would have been a highway, which led to Yibin City at one end and his hometown at the other.

For a long time, looking at the continuous barren mountains, Zhang Shusheng shook his head and walked towards the foot of the mountain.

"In any case, when the big things are done, let's go back to my hometown and have a look."

This is Zhang Shusheng's idea, and it is also his decision, before getting into the car, Zhang Shusheng sighed, and then asked the mayor who was standing respectfully on the side: "Wensheng, is there a place called Guanyin Town in your jurisdiction?" ”

"How does the chief know? It's more than 60 kilometers away. In the Qing Dynasty, it was a small town, and the folk customs were very simple. Speaking of which, not long ago, I also went there once, because of the problem of Yibin County being a county, we are going to put the county seat there. ”

The mayor was a little surprised, but he didn't expect that even the chief had heard of this Guanyin Town, did he really want to set the county government axe there? Although there are two other towns in the alternative address.

"The county seat?" Zhang Shusheng was slightly stunned, if the county seat was placed there, maybe the locals would benefit, but maybe it was his own selfishness, if the local area completely changed, would he still be able to find the only remaining sense of familiarity and memories in the future?

"No, let's choose another place for the county seat, I will ask people to prepare a few political axe investment plans, and choose them to be carried out within the scope of Guanyin Town. For this place, the political axe should be more attentive......"

After saying that, Zhang Shusheng didn't go back to the car, and if he said too much, it would be over, no matter what, he was going to go back after all, and it could be regarded as the completion of his wish for many years.

"Yun Xian, inform the airport, we will go to Chengdu in the afternoon!"

In Chengdu, Zhang Shusheng will participate in a political axe meeting after the formation of the new political axe, and will invite some Bashu capitalists and respected people to participate in the discussion, which can be regarded as announcing the accession of the land of Bashu from the highest level of the southwest political axe.

(To be continued)