"Why can't it work, big brother, you're just brainless!"

While they were talking, a voice as crisp as a silver bell came, and a woman in her twenties stood next to Zhang Tinglan and the others, everyone knew her, it was Qiao Ruixuan's sister Qiao Lanyun.

At the beginning, Liu Shucheng recommended her to manage the Xingye Trading Company and be responsible for the smuggling of Russia, Zhang Tinglan personally talked to her, and found that this woman had amazing business talent, and had a ruthless and resolute spirit, even above his brother, Zhang Tinglan did not hesitate to let her be in charge of the trading company, during this time, the smuggling work was getting smoother and smoother, and Qiao Lanyun contributed a lot.

"Brother, you heard Zhang Shao say the same, I told you this at the beginning, you just don't listen, it's a dead brain!"

"Sister, don't talk nonsense, our Qiao family has been doing business for generations based on sincerity, small profits and quick turnover, this is our root, we can't forget. And this time it's selling canned food to the British, that's a big power, once you offend them, won't you make trouble for Zhang Shao! ”

"You talk about integrity, but people don't talk about it, how much has our money bank ticket number been bullied over the years, and the foreigners' banks can't play it clearly, so they secretly run on it, instigating the court to bully us, how much suffering we have suffered, and finally we can take advantage of them, how can we let it go stupidly!"

"Brother Qiao, I agree with your business philosophy, a businessman, a factory, if you want to stand firm forever, you can't do without these four words."

From the bottom of her heart, Zhang Tinglan agrees with Qiao Ruixuan's Confucian business concept, no matter when, this kind of real trade is the safest, no matter how fancy the capital game is, there will be a problem one day.

"But business is the most flexible, now is the time to be flexible, everything on the European battlefield has become a consumable, including life, soldiers on the front line can die at any time, who cares if they are killed by bullets or canned food. And the Americans will only do worse than us, as long as the cost can be reduced, the British will be grateful to us, and will not think about anything else at all! ”

Qiao Lanyun heard it in her ears, and a smug smile appeared in her eyes: "Big brother, you don't have anything to say now!" In fact, it is not difficult to make canned food, what we lack most is two raw materials, one is thin iron sheet, and the other is preservatives, which must be imported from the United States. As long as the cost of raw materials is greatly reduced, you can import more, and the output will naturally go up, and after half a year, it is not a dream to produce 500,000 canned food per month. ”

Zhang Tinglan listened on the side, and couldn't stop nodding, Qiao Lanyun is indeed more spiritual than his brother, and it is worth cultivating. Zhang Tinglan thought for a while and said: "If the thin iron sheet is not easy to import, we can also produce a little canned food in glass bottles, in short, the price can be lowered, even if Britain is not willing to ask for it, we can sell it to a Russian!" ”

They discussed about it, and then went around the factory, and arranged a special slaughterhouse behind it, and many people were already sending cattle, sheep and other livestock here, and many of them were herdsmen who had heard the news.

It's now September, and winter in the north is coming soon, and for herders, every winter is a severe test, and if the snow is too strong, it will cause a white plague, a large number of livestock will die, and the losses will be very heavy, so they will hear that the canneries buy a lot of cattle and sheep, so they will find a way to send them here.

"Brother Qiao, if you are worried about selling inferior canned food and hurting the heavens and reason, give these farmers and herdsmen some benefits, when buying meat, the price will increase a little, and the treatment of workers will also be improved every New Year's Day, all of them are their own compatriots. As for those foreigners, it doesn't matter what they do with their lives, it's better to die, and the province will create evil in the world! ”

At present, the factory has been officially put into operation, thousands of cans are being produced every day, and more than a dozen workers hired from Russia are carefully teaching jishu and training apprentices. When the British machine is in place, the production capacity can definitely be doubled, or even ten times a hundred times the increase is not a difficult thing, after all, the jishu of canned food is not very difficult, and the market is very broad.

Even if the First World War is over, there will be joint intervention in the Russian battles, and the Feng army will develop, and the annual demand for military cans is very staggering, enough for the factory to flourish.

Even according to the current production capacity, a can is 0.1 pound, and the profit is calculated according to one-tenth, and it can earn 30,000 pounds in a year, which is equivalent to more than 300,000 oceans. And relying on this factory, it can also support a lot of workers, which is also a blessing for herdsmen.

If we can establish heavy industry enterprises and extend the industrial chain, the people who can benefit can be more, and the real benefits are in front of us, and the interest of Fengtian businessmen in running industries is also increasing.

After Zhang Tinglan left the factory, he plunged headlong into the recruitment work. According to Zhang Tinglan's idea, the independent brigade must be turned into an ace unit, and all the bad habits of the old army must be completely abandoned. To create a new armed Liliang from head to toe, recruiting troops is the first level, and it must be strictly controlled.

Therefore, the recruit must have a clean family background, no bad habits, be in good health, and have no hidden diseases. In addition, Zhang Tinglan has special requirements for cultural level, if he can know more than 500 words, he can be selected as a key training object.

The military salary will be 20% more than that of ordinary soldiers, and they will also be promoted as reserve officers. Most of the soldiers of the 27th Division were born in the green forest, and they had no impression of cultural knowledge, even Zhang Zuoxiang.

On the contrary, they even think that if they read more, they will be less courageous, and if they have no courage, how can they fight! Therefore, it is more appropriate to fight hard in the war or be coarse, and the more stupid the soldier, the more he can not be afraid of death.

Zhang Tinglan obviously would not agree with this kind of thinking, war is not just about courage, especially modern war, it is also a contest of intelligence. Weapons are becoming more and more complex, and in order to get the most out of them, a certain knowledge base is necessary.

Moreover, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and it is difficult to imagine that an army without culture can meet the needs of modern warfare by grasping the situation on the battlefield, carrying out tactical intentions, reconnaissance, mapping, and so on.

In fact, from Zhang Zuoxiang and others, Zhang Tinglan also saw the problems of the Chinese army in this era. They are just an old-style army equipped with foreign guns and artillery, and they simply do not have the qualities that a soldier in the new era should have.

Zhang Tinglan could only spend a lot of thought to tell his father about the importance of cultural knowledge, and in order to increase credibility, Zhang Tinglan pulled Yang Yuting over again.

Yang Yuting is training artillery, but it is not too difficult for him to train a little artillery. After figuring out the performance of the artillery, he soon developed a corresponding training plan. However, Yang Yuting also encountered the problem of seriously low quality of soldiers.

Take the soldiers of those artillery regiments as an example, it is already very good that they can understand how to fire artillery, and most of the old-fashioned artillery guns equipped by the Feng army rely on visual aiming, so these people do not know how to use the advanced aiming instruments on the artillery at all, and they have empty weapons in their hands, but they cannot exert their combat effectiveness.

Yang Yuting was also distressed because of the quality of the soldiers, so Zhang Tinglan pulled him over, Yang Yuting also couldn't stop pouring bitter water, telling about the difficulty of training soldiers, he was a non-commissioned officer in Japan, and he was obviously more familiar with the army than Zhang Tinglan, and it was more convincing to say it.

Zhang Zuoxiang was also persuaded by them, and all agreed to Zhang Tinglan's recruitment request, and Zhang Zuoxiang arranged for someone to hire a few teaching gentlemen in order to teach these recruits lessons so that they could read and write.

After the conditions for recruiting troops were determined, Zhang Tinglan used Fengtian's large and small newspapers to start propaganda, and at the same time posted recruitment notices outside the main stores, listing in detail the conditions and treatment of recruiting soldiers.

It turned out that Zhang Tinglan was also going to use a lot of money to recruit qualified soldiers, but Zhang Zuoxiang stopped him from planning to die, after all, Zhang Zuolin was still watching from the side, if the treatment of the independent brigade greatly exceeded that of the 27th Division, then let Lao Zhang deal with himself, isn't it nothing to draw!

Zhang Tinglan also knew the importance of it, and dispelled the original idea, but he still formulated some welfare benefits, soldiers are guaranteed to eat two dishes and one soup, eat meat every three days, usually polish rice and white noodles are enough, each soldier is issued two sets of internal and external clothing, arrange half a month of family leave every year, can give priority to helping military families arrange work, and there are subsidies for children to go to school.

In addition to these, what is more attractive is the reward jihua, the military salary of ordinary soldiers is a piece of ocean per month, good training performance can be increased, and great progress in reading and learning can be rewarded, up to one and a half yuan. And those soldiers who are already literate can also take the initiative to teach others to read, and they can also win awards according to the number of people, and they can get up to two oceans per month.

Of course, ordinary people in Fengtian do not understand that the army weishenme has to read and write, and they still regard it as a joke, and the independent brigade has become a literacy school! But there are people who understand the meaning of this, and the most sensitive is the Japanese, who have been plotting against the three eastern provinces, and naturally do not allow Mukden to rise up a strong army, so these people began to step up their planning and tricks.

"Brother Tinglan, Brother Tinglan, big news!" Zhang Xueliang ran to the teahouse out of breath and found Zhang Tinglan in his old position.

These days, Zhang Tinglan has been busy with recruiting soldiers, and finally has a little free time, so he comes to the teahouse to sit for a while, a teahouse is a small society, and Zhang Tinglan is also happy to listen to the views of the people on various things here.

Zhang Xueliang hurriedly ran over, "Brother Tinglan, there is a master who was invited into the Great Marshal's Mansion by Duan Zhigui, this master is profound, and it is said that he has unpredictable opportunities. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Xueliang leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Brother Tinglan, this is not arranged, right?" I heard that this master drove back a group of vicious dogs with a slight wave of his sleeves, and he didn't eat or drink for three days, and Zuihou could still walk on the water, which is simply a land fairy! ”

Zhang Tinglan took a slow sip of the teacup, and said with a smile: "Han Qing, you also know this master, do you want to learn from him?" ”

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