Time is like an arrow, like a white horse passing through a gap.

Five years passed in a flash, and in the dense sound of firecrackers, the entire Xiaoqingshan area finally ushered in 1923. Zhu Gong is prosperous, at least the people of Xiaoqingshan are indeed living a good life.

The three neighbouring villages, such as Lishuping and Wangshanya, have long since developed into one. With Lishuping as the center, a new urban area with a radius of more than three kilometers has been built. Outside the new urban area, there are several medium-sized industrial parks.

There aren't too many high-rise buildings in the new town, but it's well designed. The results of the past five years are not only reflected in the development of Shusheng Company and the growth of the Xiaoqingshan militia, but also in the improvement of people's living standards and the change of the overall appearance of Xiaoqingshan.

Three kilometers of the new urban area, Shusheng company accounts for half, in addition to the headquarters of Shusheng company, is a large number of human resource-intensive enterprises.

In the huge conference room of the headquarters of Shusheng Company, the 1923 New Year's Work Conference and the Summary Conference of the Five-Year Development Plan of Shusheng Company are being held.

The audience sat Zhang Shusheng, general manager of Shusheng Company, Sun Changqing, chief of the company's commercial special investigation section, Sun Laixi, executive deputy manager of Shusheng Company, as well as domestic and foreign experts and scholars who have made great contributions in the company, many heads of schools and factories and mines, heads of other businesses of the company, and representatives of outstanding workers.

"Dear Manager Zhang, colleagues: Happy New Year, let me briefly introduce the major developments made by our Shusheng company in the past five years."

Standing on the podium is Liu Dengke, director of the industrial department of Shusheng Company, the little accountant of the year, after entering the company, he continued to work hard to learn by himself, and finally caught up with the wave of the company's public study abroad in 1918, and became the first batch of lucky people to return to China in mid-1921.

He was just a small accountant back then, but now he has worked in the industrial department of Shusheng Company, responsible for the coordination, command and unified planning of the company's various businesses, which is a very important position.

After five years of development, the company has finally completed an eight-year arduous entrepreneurial phase. From the beginning of the difficult operation of a few small factories, to now gradually developed into a relatively complete system, radiating the three large counties at the junction of Sichuan and Yunnan comprehensive surname group, our company has made great progress in the following aspects.

The first is culture, education, and scientific and technological innovation.

Before 1918, the company only built Koaoyama Elementary School, Koaoyama Junior High School and Koaoyama Junior Technical School. By the end of 1922, the company had spent a lot of money on building thirteen new schools in five years. These include Huaxia Military Academy, Southwest University, Xiaoqingshan Senior Technical School, as well as five comprehensive surname experimental primary schools, three junior high schools, and two senior middle schools. At present, Huaxia Military Academy, Southwest University, and Xiaoqingshan Senior Technical School are recruiting students from all over the country, with 273 military academy students, 549 university students, and 1,250 senior technical school students. The total number of students enrolled in primary and secondary schools is 2,653. In other words, the company currently has 4,725 students of all kinds and 265 faculty members at all levels.

For the return of huge investment, in the past five years, in addition to the students of the Huaxia Military Academy, which belong to the Xiaoqingshan militia organization, several other middle and senior schools have sent more than 3,000 talents to the company's factories, mines, enterprises and departments. Of course, a considerable number of them have entered the political axe department of Xiaoqingshan District and the grassroots political axe department of the three townships under its jurisdiction. (In 1921, Xiaoqingshan Township and two surrounding townships jointly requested that the administrative planning of Xiaoqingshan District be added.) Under the huge temptation of public opinion and taxes, and the offensive of gold bars, Zhang Shusheng finally pry the mouth of the Kunming military and political axe, and personally served as the deputy county magistrate of Huize County and the director of Xiaoqingshan District. ）

"In terms of scientific and technological innovation:

Under the leadership of two scholars, Zou Shuming and Zhou Zikai, the company's pharmaceutical companies have developed nearly 10 new Western medicines. Among them, the sales volume of No. 1 drug and No. 2 and No. 3 drugs have provided more than 50% of the company's profit source in the past five years. ”

Hearing the report, there was a buzz in the crowd below, and everyone was guessing what kind of drugs were these three drugs. You must know that the various expenses of Shusheng Company in the past five years are very huge, and these three drugs can achieve such ungodly performance, what kind of precious drugs must be.

Zhang Shusheng looked at Shidelmann in the distance, this kid almost died when Germany was defeated in 1918. If it weren't for his own thoughts, he did everything possible to entrust the Jew Kenneth to unleash his tremendous energy in Germany to carry out a plan to snatch scientific and technological talents, this kid would have died from a gunshot wound. Compared with the more than 200 German scientists who were sent to China to take refuge in the same period, Schstemann not only became the first German to be treated with penicillin, but also became Zhang Shusheng's confidant, appointing him with important responsibilities.

The No. 1 drug, Penicillin, the No. 2 drug, which is sulfonamides, and the No. 3 drug, which is a new type of anesthetic, have been secretly exported to various Western countries. Although it is actually produced by Shusheng Company in the southwest, it is nominally produced in Hong Kong. Shusheng Company, Pan American Ken's International Co., Ltd. and Xinhe Industrial Co., Ltd. jointly invested, and the main ingredients of the drug are unknown to the outside world. Pan American Ken's International Zhang Shusheng accounted for eighty percent of the shares, and Xinhe Industrial was purely nominal.

The people below whispered to themselves, but Liu Dengke continued:

Secondly, under the German scientific team led by engineers Mr. Steadmann and Mr. Hermann, the company not only set up a heavy machinery factory, but also produced its own 8,000-ton hydraulic press. At the beginning of last year, the first practical truck was successfully produced, and the models of domestic and business cars, tractors and other models were also produced in the same period. Manager Zhang said that in the foreseeable next five-year plan, the automobile industry will gradually become another important profit contribution point of the company after drugs. ”

This group of middle-level scientists who took advantage of Germany's defeat and snatched back through Kenneth were not Germany's top talents, but they were better in a wide range of categories. Especially in terms of cars and tanks, through the joint efforts of Kenneth and Starman, most of the team was brought out. In exchange, Zhang Shusheng said that he would need to provide Kenneth with some necessary scientific and technological assistance.

As a result, Zhang Shusheng's long-dreaming automobile industry finally bid farewell to the era of research and imitation of motorcycle engines, and spent two years exploring, with the support of Zhang Shusheng's drawings, trucks, tractors and cars have come up with actual products. And the tank was not successful for the time being, mainly due to the fact that the problem of the horsepower of the engine was not solved.

In addition, under the leadership of Mr. Frank, the company's chemical industry has formed a one-stop derivative development, and the three factories produce soaps, shampoos, skin care and cosmetics, industrial plastics and chemical fibers, and several new fertilizers for agriculture, which have been gradually exported abroad. What has to be said here is that with the hard work of the R&D team led by the returned scholar Shi Bi, a new type of chemical synthesis has played a huge role in promoting the military development of the militia. ”

Offstage, Shi Bi, as the director of the Second Institute of Chemical Engineering, sat not far behind Zhang Shusheng. His greatest achievement is that with the technical support of Zhang Shusheng, he has completed the research and development of a new type of bullet with Jiang Guangting of Jiangnan Shipyard and Cao Bin, a returned scholar, and others.

"In other areas of technological innovation, the introduction of improved radios and record players into the southeast coastal market in late 1921 marked considerable progress in the manufacture of small electronics and machinery."

Zhang Shusheng nodded in the audience, in fact, the production of radios and record players is not difficult, but it is just a matter of production cost, and it was not until 1920 that all conditions were fully equipped with large-scale production of these two things. Subsequently, more products will be launched.

"In addition to science and technology education, the company has also made considerable achievements in people's livelihood.

First of all, Shusheng Hospital has completed the third phase of the expansion plan, and currently has 432 beds and 239 doctors and nurses. With the joint efforts of scientific and technological workers and hospitals, Xiaoqingshan District has carried out three smallpox vaccinations.

Transportation and water conservancy. Under the auspices of Feng Zhen, a returned water conservancy expert, the first phase of the Xiaoqingjiang Water Conservancy Project was officially completed in April 1922, with three units generating power and various supporting water conservancy facilities basically completed. In terms of transportation, Xiaoqingshan District has preliminarily completed traffic transformation. The core area has a two-lane cement road, and the villages have a gravel road. Three-quarters of the main road leading to the county, the Huiqing Highway, has been basically asphalted. ”

Zhang Shusheng originally wanted to build a cement road to Huize County, so as to facilitate the transportation of export goods, and in recent years, some important highways invested by some local governments in the Republic of China have begun to be gradually built. In the name of Pan American Ken's International Company, he exported from Yunnan through Myanmar, which has taken advantage of a lot of transportation advantages.

However, considering that high-level highways may attract unnecessary fear and trouble, the section of the Huiqing Highway that leads to the county seat at the end is just an ordinary gravel road. Nesting in a ravine, the relatively closed environment is very conducive to the development of the company, but once it is seriously remembered, it is not good.

Liu Dengke also talked about some other aspects of the company, and announced that he would invite Zhang Shusheng to speak on stage.

Zhang Shusheng is not a person who is too good at words, especially this kind of summary of the surname, which was originally just to unite the company, and just said some words of encouragement.

"Dear employees and scholars: with everyone's hard work, Shusheng Company has finally completed the first five-year plan in the eighth year, and various businesses have made great progress. From a company that barely makes ends meet, it has become a comprehensive group with an annual profit of more than one million, which is something worthy of pride and pride of all Shusheng employees.

Nowadays, our products are not only sold well in the southwest, but also exported to Europe and the United States. It has changed the situation that the Chinese people have no domestic products, and realized the development policy of industrial salvation.

Here, as the owner of the company, I am especially grateful to all of you. Thanks to the hard-working employees of all departments, units, factories and mines, to all foreign scholars, to all patriotic scholars, to the gardeners in the education industry, and to thank you for your efforts to develop and grow Shusheng Company step by step.

Here, I announce that all employees of the company will be paid a general salary of one level. In addition, the planned bonuses of various five-year plans will be announced in the near future. ”

The last award was presented at the meeting, and several winners of major scientific and technological progress awards, including Zou Shuming, took the stage to receive certificates. The whole meeting is very simple, and the pragmatic style makes the meeting of Shusheng Company not as gimmicky as later generations. After the meeting ended, two people who walked out of the large conference room at the end, dressed in military uniforms, looked at the people in the distance and were speechless for a long time.

"Brother Baili, if you don't see it with your own eyes, do you believe it? Such a young man, nested in a poor place where birds don't, actually made such a big name in just eight years. Such a large industrial center is rare in the whole country, rare in the whole country! Even you and I joined the army. Tang Jiyao, Tang Jiyao, hehe, it's really a troubled tiger. ”

"Brother Songpa, you are in the military academy, I am in the staff of the militia group, how strong Shu Sheng is, I think you and I both know. In the past five years, not only did he get out of China's No. 1 industry, but also trained a strong militia group, Tang Jiyao was also too busy to take care of himself, and now he was driven away by Gu Pinzhen, Yunnan is in chaos, heaven and earth, how can anyone help us, how can I get this small mountainous area. ”

Cai Yi sorted out the new 1923-style military uniform that had just been issued, and said with a smile: "I think the warlords in this world are in trouble." Let's go, you have to go with me to this military academy graduation ceremony today. You can't let Zhang Tuan wait for a long time. ”

"It doesn't matter if the warlords are in trouble, if all the people in China can live happily like the people in this small Qingshan District, the warlords will all die cleanly."

Jiang Baili was dressed in a military uniform, and he was even more heroic, and followed Cai Ye in a few steps, and the two rushed towards the Huaxia Military Academy.

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Fisherman: I'm sorry, I've had a terrible cold these two days, and I had a high fever yesterday and I had to use ice cubes to compress my head. Strive for another chapter later. Brothers who are happy to watch, don't forget to vote, it can be regarded as a strong push, although the results are dismal.