Lao Jiang left, satisfied, taking away ten tons of gold and a large amount of medicine, and at the same time taking away Chen Feng's promise to provide 20 divisions of weapons and equipment free of charge, leaving only a calligraphy work for Old Man Chen as a birthday gift. If measured solely from the principle of equivalent exchange, this work of only 22 characters is undoubtedly the most expensive work in the world, and even the work of the "book saint" cannot be compared.

After Lao Jiang left, the other bigwigs also resigned from Chen Feng one after another, since the old man softened, their goal was achieved, if they didn't leave, it would really have ulterior motives, and they couldn't guarantee that the old man would settle accounts after the autumn.

Of course, Chen Feng didn't let them go back empty-handed when they left, not to mention the weapons and equipment, 200 boxes of medicines per family, so that Mr. Mao, Commander Zhu, Li Zongren, Sun Weiru and others all squinted their eyes when they left.

After sending these bigwigs away, Chen Feng's family had the opportunity to sit together and hold a new birthday banquet for the old man, to be honest, yesterday's birthday banquet was of high standard, but the old man didn't like it, and it was like a vegetable market. Coupled with this speech for a while, and that speech for a while, it is pure nonsense, how can there be a family happy to have a meal together.

It's rare that the people in the family can gather so together today, and even Yan Changxi, who is far away in Nanyang, has returned, so under the personal instructions of the old man, after sending off those masters, the Chen family and the family closed the door and had a warm 60th birthday again.

After the old man's 60th birthday, Chen Feng was busy again, and this year was a crucial year for the Eighth War Zone and the whole of China. Because according to the current trend of the development of the situation in the world, Germany's sweep across Europe has become unstoppable, and it is a foregone conclusion that Britain and France will be trapped on an isolated island. The Chen family's arms companies in the United States have amassed billions of dollars worth of arms, and it is time to find a buyer.

Secondly, the Japanese could not negotiate with each other, and coupled with the intensifying domestic crisis, it is not clear that they will embark on a crazy desperate road ahead of schedule. Moreover, after several years of operation, the industrial system of Saibei Province has been initially established, and as long as it is further improved, it will be enough to support the stalls of hundreds of thousands of troops in the Eighth War Zone.

The new year should have a new atmosphere, February 20, under the chairmanship of Chen Feng. The provincial government of Saibei Province and the 8th Theater of Operations held a meeting for six consecutive days. The military and political systems each have drawn up their own development plans.

Chen Feng has very high requirements for government departments, and he asked the provincial government of Saibei Province to achieve four basic goals in the new year, the first basic goal is to basically meet self-sufficiency in grain, and even have a certain surplus. The second basic goal is to make the traffic between the major cities of the province basically smooth. From Wuhai in the west. East to Xilinhot. There must be roads in good driving condition between the central cities of each administrative district. The third basic goal is that the coverage of science, education, culture, and public health in the province should basically reach the administrative division at the township level. The fourth basic goal is to double the province's per capita income in the new year.

Saibei Province is located in the northern part of China, with harsh climatic conditions and a vast and sparsely populated area. It has always been the best interpretation of barren land. In ancient times, it was the territory of Beirong, the territory of the Xiongnu since the Qin and Han dynasties, the territory of the Turks and Khitans during the Tang and Song dynasties, and later the territory of the Jurchens, Mongolians and other ethnic minorities.

For thousands of years, the food problem in this land has always been the top priority, and the shortage of grain seems to be a common thing, even since Chen Feng took charge of Saibei Province, there is often not enough food, and it is necessary to buy it from Shanxi, Shaanxi and other provinces every year.

However, Chen Feng knew that although Saibei Province is not a major grain province, it is still no problem to meet the food rations of less than 20 million people in the province, but many fertile lands in Saibei Province have not yet been developed, such as the Hetao Plain, which is known as the south of the Yangtze River, so an important task of the provincial government in the new year is to promote agricultural development.

Of course, these people alone are not enough, Chen Feng himself must also personally take charge of this matter, after all, increasing grain output is not only by expanding the sown area, but also by increasing the unit output. He had learned that the main crops in the province were now wheat and wheat, supplemented by potatoes, maize and flax, an oil crop.

However, the unit yield of these crops is not high, potatoes and corn are better, and wheat and wheat yield per mu is at most 1560 catties, which is already the best harvest. If there is a disaster year, it is normal to have a yield of dozens of catties per mu, so the farmers in Saibei Province often have to serve 20-30 acres of land alone, and a large family even has to plant hundreds of acres of land, but after a year of hard work, they can only barely make up for food and clothing.

As long as the people keep their mouths closed, other things will be easy to do, so the phenomenon of food shortage must be solved. In the new year, Chen Feng specially allocated 50 million yuan each from the provincial treasury to the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Water Resources, with a total of 1 billion legal currency, for water conservancy construction and the promotion of high-yield crops. High-yield crops are Chen Feng spent 5000 points from the system to exchange, high-yield wheat, potatoes, corn, according to the system prompts, as long as all aspects of the conditions meet the standard, the yield per mu of wheat can reach more than 800 catties, the minimum yield of potatoes per mu is 3000 catties, and the yield of corn per mu is at least 1500 catties.

In addition, the traffic situation in the province must be improved, the grassland in Saibei is sparsely populated, so far there are less than 10 cities with a population of more than 500,000, from east to west only Zhangjiakou, Datong, Guisui, Baotou, and Chengde can be counted as listed, and the others are small counties with a population of less than 100,000, and there is not a complete road between the major cities in the province, which has seriously affected the development of the Eighth War Zone, so this year Chen Feng instructed the provincial government of Saibei Province to allocate 30 million yuan to improve the traffic situation.

The second is that the software facilities in the province must also be improved simultaneously, and the hardware facilities Chen Feng is improving, and the software cannot be left behind. On 22 February, Chen Feng specially convened several vice chairmen in charge of science, education, culture, and health, as well as principal leaders of the Ministry of Education, the Propaganda Department, and the Ministry of Health, to hold a work meeting to formulate a plan for the province's science, education, culture, and health work in 1940.

Chen Feng demanded that by the end of 1940, the province should build three comprehensive universities that can accommodate 50,000 people at the same time, 12 vocational colleges, and at the same time, each county in the province must set up a senior high school, three junior high schools, and five primary schools. Each township should have at least one primary school and one junior high school.

At the same time, the establishment of provincial hospitals should ensure that each major city has a hospital that can independently perform major surgeries. The county town should have a small hospital that can independently complete minor surgeries, and each township should have a small outpatient clinic.

It is also planned to build libraries in Guisui and Baotou in Saibei Province to collect all kinds of books from all over the country. Set up provincial printing plants and other supporting factories.

After explaining these things, Chen Feng also gave the provincial government of Saibei Province a big task, that is, to double the per capita income of 19.87 million people in Saibei Province within one year. This is a difficult task, and although the per capita income of Saibei Province in 1939 was not high, ordinary peasants also had 50 oceans of income a year. If it were to double this year, it would be 100 oceans, and this task would be no small one.

However, after careful analysis, officials of the provincial government of Saibei Province believe that although this task is arduous, it is not impossible to accomplish, and since last year, 576 enterprises have moved to Saibei Province, which has greatly promoted the economic development of Saibei Province. Due to the large number of enterprises going to Saibei Province, and at the same time, the large-scale projects led by the provincial government of Saibei Province have started one after another, which has directly led to a serious shortage of labor in Saibei Province, and now the monthly salary of each ordinary worker has reached 6 oceans, which is more than double that of two years ago.

And this is still the level of last year, this year because part of the population has been relocated to the South Seas, so the labor gap is even greater, and the wages of workers will be further raised, reaching 8 oceans per month There is no problem at all. As long as a family has one laborer working in the factory, it should not be a problem to reach an annual income of 100 oceans.

However, workers are the largest labor group in Saibei Province, and the annual income of workers has increased, and the income level of workers in other walks of life will also increase significantly, as long as it is planned, it should not be a problem to double the per capita income level of the province.

At the same time, Chen Feng also gave the industrial sector a separate big task, set a goal, Chen Feng asked the number of steel plants in the province to reach 50 next year, with an annual output of 22 million tons of steel. There are 20 power plants with an annual power generation capacity of 100 million kilowatt hours. There are 30 cement enterprises with an annual output of 80 million tons

In addition, Chen Feng also set development goals for the Eighth Theater, and Chen Feng asked all units to step up their training and strive to complete the refitting of all units within one year this year. At the same time, there will be a large-scale conscription this year, and by the end of the year, the total strength of the whole army will reach at least 1.2 million, including 1 million in the army, 120,000 in the navy, and 80,000 in the air force. The army should build 10 integrated divisions, 30 combat divisions, 10 armored divisions, 10 artillery divisions, 5 air defense divisions, and 10 army aviation brigades.

The navy should build three major fleets, equip the flagships of each fleet, and build up submarine forces and formed marines and naval aviation. The Air Force will build five aviation divisions and five airborne brigades.

Chen Feng predicted that 1940 would be a year of development, and there should not be much war in China in this year, but as long as this year passed, the situation in the entire world would truly enter the era of Armageddon, and then it would not only be a war against the Japanese, but also the most favorable opportunity to regain lost territory.

Therefore, in the next year, what the Eighth War Zone has to do is not to attack, but to secretly accumulate strength, retract the fist, and when the time comes, then hit it violently, so that it will be more accurate and fierce. (To be continued......)