In January 1936, the economic construction of the whole country had reached its third year, and all indicators of the national economy were miraculously refreshed every year.

After the people of all nationalities were far away from the war, the reunification of the whole country was basically completed, and they were basically able to eat and clothe themselves, they burst out with unprecedented enthusiasm for construction. Under the call of the political axe, people of all walks of life and all ethnic groups are working with a spirit of challenging the limit. Strive to be an excellent builder of New China and a pioneer of labor.

At the end of the second year of the five-year economic plan, a number of medium- and large-scale construction projects were completed and put into operation, and a number of factories, mines, oil fields, shipbuilding bases, and railways with representative surnames completed their construction tasks ahead of schedule without shortage of materials, machinery, workers, and funds.

For example, after the first heavy machinery group and the second heavy machinery group, the third heavy machinery group has been able to produce a variety of medium and large machine tools required today. The Panzhihua Iron and Steel Base, which has completed the second phase of the project, and the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Base, which has completed the first phase of the factory, can also temporarily meet the steel demand of the whole country by relying on the first phase of the Panzhihua Iron and Steel Base and several other major steel bases. Two key oil wells in the Daqing Oilfield have also begun to produce oil and enter the trial production stage, and the Yumen Oilfield will also carry out trial production in the middle of the year. Others, such as the Chongming Island Shipbuilding Base and the Qingdao Shipbuilding Base, have also been officially completed, and the keels of small and medium-sized ships have begun to be laid for production. In terms of railways, after nearly two years of construction, the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway has finally completed the repair and convergence work, and the whole line of more than 2,000 kilometers of railways has been officially opened to traffic, and the fares are cheap, the locomotives and wagons are sufficient, providing great convenience for the passengers and freight from the south to the north.

The Bohai Rim Economic Circle with Beijing-Tianjin-Tangzhou as the core, the Yangtze River Delta Economic Circle with Han-Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou as the core (Hanjing and the other three places), the Pearl River Delta Economic Circle with Guangzhou, Fujian, Hong Kong and Macao as the core, and the Western Economic Circle with Chengdu-Yi-Chongqing as the core. The four major economic circles have achieved phenomenal development. However, the scale is smaller, but many high-tech industries are concentrated, such as the Dongchuan Industrial and Science Belt, the Kunming Industrial Belt, and the Nanning-Fangchenggang Industrial Circle, which are relatively small in scale, but have concentrated many high-tech industries, and have achieved considerable results. However, among the four major economic circles, the Chengdu-Yi-Chongqing Economic Circle has made the greatest achievements, with a number of industrial projects representing the most cutting-edge of the Republic put into operation, and some high-tech projects have also been completed and achieved output.

The development of water conservancy projects is also very fast, a number of large and medium-sized hydropower stations represented by the Northeast Fengman Hydropower Station, Sichuan Jinsha River Hydropower Station, Hubei Enshi Hydropower Station began to complete the first phase of the project, the total installed capacity of large, medium and small hydropower stations in the country reached 1.8 million kilowatts (but most of them are provided by small hydropower stations), and the total installed capacity of thermal power stations reached 400,000 kilowatts, that is to say, the total installed capacity of power generation in the country reached 2.2 million kilowatts in 1936, basically ensuring that large, medium and small towns, a small number of rural areas, several large industrial circles for sustainable development of electricity demand.

Iron and steel, oil, cotton, coal mines, power generation, grain...... and other major economic indicators have created miracles.

According to the latest statistics of the Government Council, at the end of 1935, the economic indicators of New China had already moved closer to France, and it was expected to surpass Britain and France in 1939.

Another characteristic of the overall economic development is that a large number of private enterprises have sprung up throughout the country, and all kinds of large, medium, and small private factories have sprung up in various places. For example, some patriotic businessmen in the southwest who are interested in investing can obtain scientific and technological guidance from the political axe while building the factory after paying the deposit and registering the factory. Because the patents are basically owned by the two giants of Zhengaxe and Shusheng Company, as long as you pay money or pay patent taxes on an annual basis and according to output, you can obtain these relatively advanced technologies at present.

A large number of foreign trade enterprises have emerged in the southwest, along the coast of Guangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. More than a dozen large and medium-sized ports are full of loaded sea vessels every day, and from here, China's production of televisions, washing machines, automobiles, medicines, low-end machinery, weapons and ammunition, chemical supplies, processed food and beverages, etc., has gone to the world. The domestic consumer market, on the other hand, is one step slower, and although the quality and technical content of the products sold to the country are higher, they are basically still aimed at those who got rich first, and the penetration rate in cities and towns is also higher. However, some particularly wealthy places, such as some rural areas in the southwest, have also seen a wave of purchases of TV dramas and washing machines.

In the past two years, in addition to the tremendous changes in the rural areas, large, medium, and small cities have also developed rapidly under the stimulus of the economy. Since the People's Republic of China adopted a floating household registration system, there was no threshold for urban and rural household registration, the population flow was relatively smooth, and the development of cities was very fast, and the number of cars on the roads of various cities was increasing rapidly every month.

In addition to the development of cities, the living conditions of rural areas are also improving.

Free schools, low-cost grass-roots health institutions, tax exemption for agriculture, the widespread use of high-quality seeds, the implementation of agricultural subsidies and compensation systems to combat natural disasters, and the further expansion of clothing production and dumping into the rural areas have basically made it possible for the rural areas to have enough to eat and wear warm clothes. Some of the peasants who had been liberated from the land went to the cities and factories to start new businesses.

In terms of railways, after the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway and the Longhai Line were basically completed, a large number of railway workers and prisoners began to move to the Lanxin Railway. 70% of the total construction of the Pou Cheng Railway has been completed, and it will be opened to traffic ahead of schedule by the end of 1937. As a result, several major transportation projects in China, such as the Baocheng Railway, the Lanxin Railway, and the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, will enter a period of full development in the last two years of the first five-year plan.

"It's good overall, but there are many small places that still need to be worked on. For example, the problem of migrant workers. Sitting on the plane to Yibin, Zhang Shusheng read the economic report on New China in the past two years.

The overall situation is good, but some of the details do reveal a lot of problems.

"The chairman is right, there are indeed some problems, and some of them are quite serious." Chen Yunsheng, vice minister of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, who followed Zhang Shusheng to inspect Bashu this time, said, "One is in the industrial sector, many large state-owned enterprises have ordered a large amount of machinery from factories and enterprises in the southwest, but they have encountered problems when paying. Don't let them pull the machines back, the factories that will put the machines on and start production can't start, but let them pull them back, these southwestern enterprises will have to wait a long time to receive the payment. The enterprises and factories in the political axe system, we should adjust a little, and we can compensate for the special approval of raw materials from other aspects. Several major companies such as Shusheng Company are special, they are not in the state-owned system, and they can only be compensated through special events again and again.

As for the problem of peasant workers, the main reason is that some private owners did not attach importance to the labor law and did not regard the peasants as human beings, thinking that they could still treat the workers as the cheapest animals as before. In response to this situation, we set an example by dealing with the factory owners concerned while establishing a sound Baath trade union system. ”

Zhang Shusheng also understands the question that Chen Yunsheng said. Now is the period of big construction, such as machinery, which is needed everywhere, but there is not enough money to buy it, even if the political axe prepares enough project funds, it is not enough for these factories. In this way, the only means of administrative adjustment can be adopted. As for the Shusheng Company, he thinks that under the condition that economic construction is the priority, it is better to do special things.

"Chairman of the committee, I am about to arrive at the Zongchang Airport in Yibin, the plane is about to start to descend in altitude, and now you need to fasten your seat belt, chairman."

Chen Yunsheng still wanted to say something to Zhang Shusheng, but saw a female officer from the secret service come over and whispered.

"Well, before you know it, it's here."

Zhang Shusheng asked the secretary of the secret service to fasten his seat belt while looking out of the porthole. He flew from Hanjing to Yibin, a distance of 2,000 kilometers, and the medium speed of this special plane only took four hours, which was not much longer than the time he flew from Shanghai to Chengdu in later generations.

Those who are familiar with the chairman of the committee know that Zhang Shusheng returned to the southwest and liked to fly directly to Zongchang Airport in Yibin instead of landing at Shuangliu Airport. Zhang Shusheng himself also laughed and said that this is one of his few 'old problems'.

However, this time he came to Yibin, which can be regarded as real official business, because Chengyi and Yibin are one of the most advanced high-tech clusters in China.

Zhang Shusheng inspected Yibin for two days, and after leaving Chen Yunsheng and others, he secretly went to Xichang with the special service personnel.

After landing from Xichang Airport, Zhang Shusheng boarded the secret convoy, and after a few hours, he passed through the heavily guarded secret highway and arrived at an SS-level scientific research base. The terrain here is dangerous, located in the middle of the mountains, and it is also in the belly of the mountain and underground, which is extremely secretive.

The guards were also more numerous and elite than those in other places, and just ten kilometers away, Zhang Shusheng secretly met with the commander of a guard brigade.

"Welcome the Chairman to inspect Base 5."

The person in charge of the base took the main officials of the base at the gate of the base, excitedly greeting Zhang Shusheng's inspection, not to mention them, but the guards with guns next to them, although their expressions were equally serious, but because of the arrival of the chairman of the committee, their eyes burst out with a violent divine light.

This is a huge scientific research base, and under the huge mountain, it has been hollowed out, and this SS-level No. 5 scientific research base has been put down. Zhang Shusheng was received by Professor Xiong Heming, the director of the scientific research base, who studied at MIT in his early years, and later returned to China to study at Southwest University for a while, then as a lecturer, and then as Einstein's assistant. After the establishment of Base 5, Einstein, who was indifferent to fame and fortune, refused to be the director of the base, so he served as this assistant.

"Welcome to the chairman to visit the base, Mr. Einstein is still in the laboratory."

"Don't worry, don't bother him." Zhang Shusheng said with a smile.

Next to him, a young man in his 20s was also standing there, looking like Professor Xiong Heming's assistant.

"Chairman of the Committee, this is one of the students you personally named and asked for the key training, Qian Sanqiang."

Zhang Shusheng couldn't help but look sideways, carefully looking at the student in front of him, although in this era, he was only a professor's assistant at Base 5, but, from the report, he had seen his name many times.

Even Albert Einstein praised him as a "genius of physics in the Chinese style".

According to the normal process, he may still be taking classes in the physics school of Southwest University now, but because of his extremely excellent performance and amazing talent in physics, he was specially recruited into the No. 5 base as Xiong Heming's assistant. While participating in some scientific research with basic surnames, I learned to improve myself, and made great progress.

The entire No. 5 base, the underground system is intricate, the security system, power supply system, ventilation system, transportation system, etc., the design is very complete, Zhang Shusheng accompanied by Xiong Heming for a long time, only to wait for Einstein to come out of the laboratory.

"Zhang, it's nice to see you again. Oh yes, my wife reminded me to congratulate you on becoming the most powerful man in China. ”

Einstein was full of spring breeze, and in 1932 he married a gentle and beautiful Chinese wife, a researcher at the No. 5 base, and the two had a very harmonious relationship after marriage, and they had been living in the attached mountain courtyard behind the No. 5 base, and Einstein was more fully integrated into Chinese life. Even the whole person has become younger.

"Albert Einstein, you are also one of the most powerful people in China, of course, scientifically, haha." Zhang Shusheng also joked with him, "Let's go, accompany me to have a look." ”

"As you wish, everything is going well."

Einstein has long lost the complicated mood when he first came to China, and now he is even married, and his mind is on scientific research, and he urged his wife to give birth to a cute mixed-race baby as soon as possible.

After watching it for two hours, when Zhang Shusheng saw the infinitely fascinating 'fat bomb' on the huge computer display screen in the most secret laboratory, he smiled with satisfaction.

This is one of the few places where large-scale domestically produced advanced computers are equipped, and the fat bomb above was shown to Zhang Shusheng as a drawing in the design.

"Albert Einstein, when do you think it's best to invite me to watch a breakthrough in the scientific revolution of mankind?"

Einstein scratched his head and said in Chinese, which he was already proficient in, "1938 is the fastest time." When I heard that the railway had been repaired to Gansu, my assistant Xiong Heming told me that a special department had already gone to Lop Nur to conduct preliminary inspections and preparations. When the live ammunition is manufactured and the facilities at the test site are in place, the test will be possible. However, I had to go to Lop Nur before, and if it didn't meet my requirements, I wouldn't agree to the test. ”

"Don't worry, everything is as you wish."

Although Zhang Shusheng knew that he would definitely not see live ammunition when he came this time, because he had not even made a test bomb, and he couldn't look down on the yield that was too small. Therefore, he was still very satisfied with what Einstein said about seeing the first Lop Nur test in 1938.

(To be continued)