Chapter 59: The War Machine
If the Russian war machine is industrialized and the Japanese war machine is semi-industrialized, then Yang Xiaolin is a handicraft industry, or that kind of primitive handicraft industry.
The current economic situation in the base areas is just improving, and a dozen factories have only been established, and as soon as the war hits, those factories are immediately in trouble, because the goods cannot be exported at all. The economy of the mountain itself is almost the same as the primitive agriculture and handicraft industry, as well as the logging industry.
With such a machine, it is absolutely impossible to fight hard with the Russians and the Japanese, so before the chariot starts, the first thing Yang Xiaolin has to do is to change the engine to make himself more powerful.
Yang Xiaolin made a stipulation that all the grain in the base area was not allowed to be bought and sold privately, and after each household had left enough of its own rations, the rest must be sold to the volunteers to replenish the military rations. This point is not a blow to the common people, because now the common people in this area are not enough rations, but those squires and old wealth have lost a lot. Yang Xiaolin explained to them that this was a temporary policy, and it would be lifted as soon as the battle was over.
In addition, Yang Xiaolin monopolized and reorganized all the handicraft workshops in the base area. He gathered the craftsmen scattered in various tunzi and adopted the policy of unified production, processing, purchase, and price to ensure that the economy of his base areas would not collapse during the war.
This is really important, because there is a lot of war all around, and prices are inevitably going up. The common people have no money left in their hands, and many people in the base area rely on grass roots and tree bark to survive the winter, and if the enemy does something in this regard, then he does not have to wait for others to fight, and he himself will not be able to stay in this area.
Wood is also a war resource, and it is the most abundant resource in Yang Xiaolin's hands, of course he will not let it go. Sporadic timber harvesting was immediately banned, and Yang Xiaolin stipulated unified felling and unified sales. He had to use a coercive means to ensure that he could do more with his limited resources.
Yang Xiaolin's speech at the oath meeting also spread quickly, and he was not much surprised by this old man, Yang Dagui was originally such a person, and it was also expected for them to say such things.
But Yang Xiaolin did something that challenged the nerves of the Russians very much, he first concentrated all the machines in those dozen factories when the production of those dozen factories was in trouble, and began to produce military products. In other words, he built another arsenal of his own and began to copy the latest Madsen light machine guns, which he could make in an average of two days.
This really made the old Maozi a little unbearable, but they couldn't take care of so much now, the beginning of the war surprised them very much, Commander Kulopatkin's strategic walk may have been walked with his eyes closed, and accidentally hit the wall.
Little Japan's despicable undeclared war first inflicted heavy losses on the Russian warships stationed in the ports of Arthur and Dalian, and although the Russian Pacific Fleet fought back, the situation in which the Japanese manipulated the initiative in the war became more and more obvious.
In just one month, a large number of Russian warships sank to the bottom of the sea, and their Pacific Fleet was no longer able to challenge the Japanese fleet, and could only play the role of interfering with the Japanese transportation lines until reinforcements arrived. The Japanese side was obviously unwilling to give the Russians too much time to prepare, and the 60,000 men of Kuroki's 1st Army landed at Incheon, Korea, and then quickly moved north, and the situation along the Yalu River was already very tense.
In such a situation, the Russians chose to tolerate Yang Xiaolin's actions. However, Yang Xiaolin didn't seem to know that there was a word called "receiving" when he saw it, and after seeing that the Russians had no reaction to his establishment of an arsenal, he went even further. He immediately carried out a large-scale expansion of the arsenal, from the Tonghua arsenal established in cooperation with the Russians, and pulled away skilled jishu workers, and in early April, Yang Xiaolin simply closed the Tonghua arsenal on the grounds that the geographical location was not suitable, pulled all the equipment over, and dismissed the Jishu personnel of the Russians, and this arsenal completely took the surname of the volunteers. …,
Which one of this arsenal is different from Zhou Tong, which one is not known to many people until now, Zhou Tong and those people are only responsible for research, and here they are responsible for production. The Russians' machines were brought in, and the Russian-trained skilled workers were added, and the output of the arsenal was immediately increased many times, and an average of one light machine gun, thirty rifles, and a number of bullets and shells were produced a day.
And Yang Xiaolin has no intention of stopping, he needs another thing now, bullets and guns are made of steel, and steel will also be needed for future development, although with the improvement of the relationship between him and Lao Maozi during this period of time, he has been able to buy the materials he needs from the mine opened by Lao Maozi, but Yang Xiaolin does not want to use this way of buying.
First of all, it takes money to buy, and secondly, it always makes him feel a little awkward to buy his own things. In fact, there are also a lot of minerals in Baishan, but now the Russians have not developed them, and Yang Xiaolin is too lazy to develop them himself. In the past few days, he has been staring at the location of Kaiyuan on the map, where there are dozens of mines large and small by the Russians, with ready-made labor and machinery in them, which makes him greedy. It's just that Yang Xiaolin is worried that he can endure the establishment of an arsenal by himself, and if he lays down Kaiyuan, will Lao Maozi still be able to endure it?
He shook his head slightly, his mouth pursed, there was little hope, it seemed that he would have to wait for the right time.
It took a lot of effort for Yang Xiaolin to take his eyes away from the original position, and then looked down.
He is not learning geography, he is looking at what kind of route the future war will take, including several major decisive battles in the Russo-Japanese War, and whether they will rush over from that line to fight themselves in the future, all of which must be prepared in advance.
Jin Dadao pushed the door from the outside and walked in at this time: "Put the total." “
Yang Xiaolin glanced at him and pointed to the bench next to him: "Brother Jin, sit down and talk, how is Fengtian doing?" ”
Jin Dadao nodded: "It's all dug according to your orders, it's almost there." ”
Yang Xiaolin snorted: "Lao Maozi didn't notice anything, right?" ”
Jin Dadao said: "No! You don't know how many trenches the Russians dug out, one after another, every day they walked Mukden earthwork can be piled up into a mountain, we dig a tunnel and they don't even notice it. Not to mention the Russians, even the fellows who worked with us didn't see what our brothers were doing. ”
Yang Xiaolin was very satisfied: "Okay, let those brothers remember, and when they come back, they will rot this matter in their stomachs for me." Lao Maozi stayed in Mukden and asked me to repair fortifications for him? Hmph, the fortifications we built ourselves naturally can't block ourselves, and when we want to be in Fengtian one day, we can take it when we say it. ”
Jin Dadao said: "It's true, those old hairy people are really not things!" You didn't go to Fengtian, you don't know, they have a better attitude towards our people, but for those fellows who were caught by them, it was a stick! Today I almost got into a fight with the Russians, the old man is in his sixties, and he walks a little slower, and they come up with a whip! ”
Yang Xiaolin looked at Jin Dadao: "Brother Jin, you are not a bandit now, you are the deputy commander of the Volunteer Army, sometimes you have to calm down and set an example for your brothers." ”
Jin Dadao knocked his hand on the table: "Okay, you don't talk about me, if you don't calm down, I tell you, there are still more than fifty corpses hanging outside Fengtian City!" Lao Maozi said that it was a Japanese spy and said that those people were doing things for the Japanese. ”
Yang Xiaolin didn't speak for a while, picked up the already cold tea on the table and took a sip: "Is there any news of Zhang Zuolin?" ”
Jin Dadao shook his head: "No, I just heard that the Russians are chasing him, it seems that he is hiding in the north, I don't know where it is." Zhang Lao Wu is enough for a master, the Russians gave him very high conditions, as long as he does not resist, let him be the commander of the garrison in Mukden, and he was given back by this kid. ”…,
Commander of the garrison in Mukden? From the Russians' arrangement of Zhang Zuolin, two things can be seen, first of all, Lao Maozi is really being beaten by the Japanese now, and the other is that they have no intention of returning Fengtian to the Qing Dynasty after the war.
Jin Dadao suddenly remembered something and asked, "He won't run to Jinzhou, right?" ”
In Jin Dadao's opinion, it is not impossible to do this, after all, Zhang Zuolin has done his best, and everyone has seen it. If he leaves at this time, the people in those tuns will no longer blame him.
Yang Xiaolin shook his head slightly after hearing this, he remembered that Zhang Zuolin had beaten Lao Maozi during the Russo-Japanese War, and later fought Little Japan, and was arrested by the Japanese, and it was Tang Yulin who let him escape. In other words, Zhang Zuolin will definitely not leave.
He really wanted to find Zhang Zuolin and work with him, but Zhang Zuolin didn't come to him, which means that the king of the Northeast has not yet admitted defeat. This is a condition that a successful person must have, tenacity. Until the moment of despair, they will not give up the blueprint in their hearts.
Yang Xiaolin put down Zhang Zuolin's matter first: "Those villagers who work for the Russians can't be disbanded after finishing their work, we also have a lot of things to do here, the key is in the tunnel, we must dig all the mines, Zhou Tong has already made out the mines, we will start production next month, the defense of Tunzi must meet the standard, especially where Biaozi is, there will definitely be a big war near Fushun, Japan wants to fight Fengtian must fight Fushun, and the Russians must also go to Fushun, you help me tell Biaozi, if there is a Tunzi slaughtered by the Russians by then, I'm going to screw his head off! ”
Now all the people in the base area are serving the war, and the women are making uniforms for the volunteers and sewing flags for the various teams and companies. The men worked hard in the places designated by Yang Xiaolin, some were digging tunnels, some were cutting wood, and the younger ones had joined the militia and had already begun intense training.
However, there are two kinds of people, Yang Xiaolin did not assign them combat tasks, one is children, who are still sitting in the classroom and studying. Police Yang Pian never had the idea of forming a children's group, and dragging children into the war is a crime. It is to quench thirst and destroy hope. The other is the gentleman who teaches. Liang Qichao once came to Yang Xiaolin and asked them what they should do at this time, now everyone in the base area is doing things, they don't do anything at all, as if they really responded to that sentence, useless are scholars.
Yang Xiaolin's answer to him was that they could teach well. Everything is for war, but war is for tomorrow, and the hope for tomorrow is in these children.
Therefore, even if the four years of Zou Rong and Chen Tianhua were all disrupted, when Japan and Russia had already started a war, when Yang Xiaolin concentrated all his resources and began to serve the war, the construction of primary and secondary schools in the base area was carried out in an orderly manner according to Liang Qichao's Jihua book, and not only was it affected in any way, but the largest middle school, "Xinghua Middle School", was also completed in Tonghua as scheduled, with more than 3,000 students. This middle school adopts a combination of Chinese and Western education methods, not only offering courses in ancient literature, but also physical resources, geography, chemistry, history, etc.
What Yang Xiaolin did made Liang Qichao very moved, if he was still a little reluctant and helpless when he stayed, now Liang Qichao has already held a belief that he will hold up the rising red sun with his own hands! (Ask for a recommended ticket, ask for a monthly pass!) )