From the battle on the Goryeo Peninsula to today's continuous rotation for three consecutive days and nights, even Yang Hao's body and bones can't bear it. Having escaped the sight of the Beiyang Fleet, he immediately went back and continued to nap.

It was not until the flotilla reached the vicinity of Qingdao that he rode alone on the X203 to enter Jiaozhou Bay and landed from the north side.

It was already evening, and in the calm bay, the fine waves reflected thousands of phosphorescences under the afterglow of the setting sun, scattering dazzlingly.

On the original bumpy roadbed, three piers up to 500 meters long are stretching diagonally towards the middle of the bay. A kilometre away in the sea, another wide causeway is connecting several sand islands that are outcropping, forming a circular encirclement with a diameter of 1.5 kilometres.

It's striking that all of this work is happening simultaneously. It was almost sunset, and every construction site was still crowded, and the shouts mixed with the roar of the steam engines were blown in all directions by the sea breeze. The dust stirred up by manpower and machinery, and the black smoke emitted by the machine, are mixed into a strong smell of fireworks in the world.

Such a busy scene lifted Yang Hao's spirits, and he blurted out: "The old man is so efficient!" How long has it been? Looks like it will be put into use next year, right? ”

That's right, this port is the part where he didn't make a deal with Li Hongzhang last time.

He had already bought the land, but the construction movement was too great for it not to alarm the authorities. Qingdao General Zhang Gao Yuan is a stubborn old man, a very small number of generals who refuse to drink the blood of soldiers. It's not impossible to give him a gift, but it's hard to make him pretend he can't see.

Or after Yang Hao invited Li Hongzhang to participate in the auction last time. The news quickly spread around the world. Old man Li was silent. Only then was Yang Hao able to let go of his hands and feet and start working.

It's just that he didn't expect it. The old man moved so fast.

The gunboats docked at an improvised dock on the shore. The black-clothed regimental training soldiers guarding here all knew him and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

Yang Hao recognized that the leader of the squad was a soldier who was injured in the last battle, stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, and asked with concern: "Zhang Ping, have you recovered from your injuries?" Running out on duty so soon? ”

The young man's face was slightly red, and he replied a little excitedly and shyly: "Report sir, it's almost good!" Now I have been transferred to the Ministry of Internal Security, this time I am ordered to protect the old lady. ”

I can go to the internal security forces. It must be examined and tested to ensure that moral integrity and personal ability meet the standards. can be a squad leader again, which shows that the level is not ordinary.

Yang Hao smiled and nodded: "It's very good, go back to the old camp in two days, and let your company commander arrange it to go to the officer training class for further study." ”

"Yes! Thank you, sir! ”

Zhang Ping was so happy that the corners of his mouth almost reached the root of his ears, and the eyes of the other soldiers next to him all lit up with envy.

Entering the officer training course means that he is qualified to officially enter the core of the organization, and then he can serve as a platoon commander without accidents. The future is bright.

Yang Hao was also sincerely happy. His team is still very weak, but there are quite a few reserves. The point is the lack of experienced and capable middle and lower rank officers. But talents cannot fall from the sky, they can only be cultivated slowly.

Why did he take risks again and again to take people out to fight? It is to quickly temper and discover a group of qualified talents from actual combat. Then pull this group of people into the officer training class for further study, and after they come out, they will be able to meet the needs of army building at the moment.

In the relatively stable social environment before the great chaos in the world, it was quite difficult to get a large number of people who were determined to follow the rebellion and make revolution. Now these people who have participated in actual combat and have been tested, Yang Hao cherishes them very much.

Under Zhang Ping's guidance, Yang Hao came to the camp not far from the shore.

A large area of endless board houses and horizontal and vertical double-storey buildings have been built here, covering an area of at least thousands of acres. It is surrounded by iron fences and water injection ditches, and the playground connected in the middle is smooth and clean, and there are many sports equipment and fields set up on all sides.

In terms of scale, it takes at least tens of thousands of people to fill it, and Yang Hao himself was taken aback, it seems that he didn't arrange such a large-scale personnel at the beginning, right? If the Qing court knew about this, it might be frightened!

In order to curb the popular uprising to the greatest extent, the Manchus were not allowed to open even slightly larger private mines. What I am afraid of is the rebellion of the organized and powerful youth, which is difficult to clean up. Now let go, also because it can't be done if you don't do it. One is that opening a mine and building a factory is a source of money, and the other is that foreigners are doing it, and he can't manage it.

But there must be a limit, is it really okay to be like this?

He has been away for too long this time, and some of the changes in the middle are not very detailed through the telegram exchange, and it seems that the other people are not very busy!

After thinking about it, the loud and melodious whistle came from afar, and I heard the old man shouting in the loudspeaker: "Call it a day!" The captains of the major teams are staring at each other, put away the tools and check them, don't lose them! Check again when you turn on the machine to make sure there is water in the furnace and the valves are closed tightly! The safety patrol team went up to look at it, and found that the problems were clearly remembered by Lao Tzu, and the work was deducted ......! ”

The old man in his seventies, with his voice full of energy, was broadcast to every corner of the vast construction site. A breath of responsible village party secretary came to his face.

Yang Hao knew when he heard the movement that the old man had been living happily recently, and it seemed that he had found his second spring here. He couldn't help but speed up his pace, until he came to the three-story engineering headquarters board building in the middle, and entered the office on the top floor and pushed the door in.

The old man turned his head to see that it was him, and a flash of joy flashed on his dark face, but he still finished shouting his words step by step. turned off the microphone, then turned around and looked Yang Hao up and down, and asked casually: "This trip was quite smooth?" ”

Yang Hao patted his chest: "We are properly prepared, what can we do?" It's all right. ”

Old Man Yang immediately waved his hand very roughly: "That's it!" In war, it never hurts to be careful. Don't leave at night, let your grandma cook a delicious meal, and be treated! ”

Yang Hao shook his head: "That's not good, the soldiers are back tonight, how can I be the leader without showing up?" Lead by example. ”

The old man smacked his lips, rolled up a dry cigarette and lit it up, and nodded: "That should be!" You can't just let people be born and die, let's be an old lady on the kang cross-legged, it doesn't look good. It's good that you have this awareness. ”

is worthy of an old man who came from that era, and he can handle things clearly and let go.

Yang Hao asked with a smile: "Grandpa, you made the stall so big this time, didn't Zhang Gaoyuan come over to look for trouble?" I look at the tens of thousands of people, and his thousands of soldiers are not afraid! ”

Old Man Yang crossed his waist and pinched his arm of dry tobacco and raised it proudly: "Huh! The bear soldiers under that kid's hand are not in the eyes of the master at all. I'll tell you, if it weren't for his shrewdness and strictness, half of them would have gone to work on the construction site. Our workers earn a lot of money, teach them to be red-eyed! Besides, that kid can't care about it now. The Manchu Qing Dynasty issued an order a few days ago, asking him to lead troops to Liaodong to support, but now they have all been drawn and will not be able to return next year. ”

Yang Hao suddenly realized that he remembered this stubble.

The impact of the First Sino-Japanese War was enormous. After the start of the war in Pyongyang, the rear side also urgently mobilized troops and horses from all walks of life. The number of soldiers of the eighth battalion of Qingdao Wei is not small, and it is also in the sequence of mobilization.

It's just that if you want to mobilize the soldiers and horses this year, you have to give the silver first. Because of the proximity of the soldiers in the north, they were the earliest to be transferred and the money was the most timely. The Qingdao general army was a bit miserable, and the sequence was behind the other battalions of Dengzhou Wei. Historically, they didn't arrive until November.

Now that the Beiyang Fleet has just encountered a major battle, all the main ships have been injured, and the possibility of coming out again is very small, and sea transportation is almost impossible.

Zhang Gaoyuan's 3,000 soldiers and horses will inevitably have to walk by land, and they can't tell how long they will have to go along the way, so it is inevitable to leave early.

As soon as the officers and men leave, Qingdao will be left with no one to take care of. The people and horses brought out by the old man in the past six months have completed the construction of the barrage of the reservoir under the Mashan Mountain on the front foot, and the other part has been put into the construction of two major roads across the county. Now, a group has been set aside to engage in the construction of ports and industrial bases, and one person has managed more than 50,000 people, and the total number is actually in good order.

The old man sneered at Yang Hao's concern that people were not easy to manage: "You haven't been through the old days, and you don't know that the people of our country are actually very easy to manage." Take the village as a unit and elect the captain; Elect the captain of the brigade in the unit, let the literacy and hyphenation cultural instructors help manage it, plus the regimental training escort and pressure the formation, no one can take the lead at all. ”

In the old man's time, the whole country mobilized to overhaul farmland and water conservancy, and engaged in the construction of highways and railways. Construction sites with thousands of people and tens of thousands of people abound, except for the laborers of the villages who fight in groups, most of them are in order.

Of course, at that time, there were a large number of people who had served as soldiers who played a key role in it.

At present, it is the top man who has been trained after three months of military training and literacy classes to become the leader. Coupled with a generous salary, eating meat and fishy meals every day, fools come out to make trouble.

In addition, the construction site runs drills in the morning, works during the day, and goes to night school at night, and the schedule is full. Every once in a while, there is a rotation of personnel, and several construction sites are rotated. The old man's methods of management are some routines.

In the end, the old man patted his chest with vigor and promised: "It doesn't take until the end of the year here, and the dock will be put into use." The foundation of the shipyard and the steel plant is laid, and the construction cannot be delayed by storage. ”

Yang Hao really had nothing to worry about, and with joy in his heart, he took a boat back to Rizhao.

This time I came back, but it was not as quiet as last time, like a devil entering the village.

Yang Hao chose to be open-minded, let all the soldiers wear battle clothes, with the smell of gunsmoke, lined up on the dock, and then carried the banner of "Yanhua Group Escort", and drove to the county seat. (To be continued......)

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