With a strong roar, the train entered the Suifenhe station from the direction of the Russian Far East, where a large number of soldiers and porters of the Fengjun army had been waiting for it.

This train was loaded with the first batch of important machines transported from Russia, and it can be said that these things carried the dream of industrialization in Mukden, and everyone attached great importance to it, and Zhang Tinglan personally greeted Horvat and asked the Russian army to provide convenience.

In fact, not only Horvat, but even other Russian officers, Zhang Tinglan also tried his best to buy them, of course, not only for this transportation, but also for the long-term plan for the future, a group of money-greedy officers, it is absolutely a big deal, now throw some money, it can also provide convenience for the next recovery of the Middle Road, after all, the problems that can be solved with money are not a problem.

The train entered the station and gradually stopped in front of everyone, Wang Tieshan jumped down from the car early, walked a few steps, and came to Zhang Tinglan, with an unconcealable excitement on his face.

During this period of time, he has been moving around in Russia, bribing high-ranking officials, investigating all kinds of intelligence data, not only trying his best to get the most haode equipment for the Feng army, but also trying to deal with those Russian magnates, and the whole person has lost a lot of weight. And these days, I am responsible for escorting the goods, and I have broken my heart and exhausted my mental strength, and I have hardly slept a good night.

The face is covered with stubble, the eye circles are dark, and the corners of the mouth and eyes are a little cracked, and it looks like I have suffered a lot.

"Good work!" Zhang Tinglan first stretched out his hand, grabbed Wang Tieshan hard, and asked: "You can see that you have suffered a lot from the wind and dust." ”

"It's a lie to say that we don't suffer, but we're all used to suffering, and we're not afraid!" Wang Tieshan said: "What I'm most afraid of is that these goods can't be transported safely, then I will die and die, and now I have finally returned to our territory." I'm a lot more at ease! ”

"What is the situation in Russia?"

"It's not good, Zhang Shao, just after the turn of the year, there was a general strike of 1560,000 people in the Russian capital, and not only in the capital, but also in other regions, there are more and more people, and not only the common people, but even the army is unstable, but the tsar's army is losing and retreating on the front line. A large number of war refugees poured into the rear, and the entire economy actually collapsed! ”

Wang Tieshan has been in Russia for a long time, has been in contact with all levels, and has a very intuitive understanding of the situation in Russia, and the situation in this country is even worse than in the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The opposition to Liliang faced by the Manchus at that time was mainly concentrated in the south, and most of them were speculative constitutionalists.

And the situation in Tsarist Russia was even worse than in the Manchus. The more people at the bottom. The louder the opposition to the Tsar, the more radical ideas were recognized, and the slogans of the overthrow of the Tsarist monarchy were raised in the midst of demonstrations.

"Zhang Shao, according to the original Jihua, I could have come back at least a week earlier, but there was a massive strike among the Russian workers. The whole society was about to stop, and it was only now that it was delayed, and I also paid attention along the way, and there were also a lot of war materials hoarded at stations in various places. But because the transport could not keep up, the troops at the front were not supplied at all, and I don't think the mutiny was far away! ”

After listening to this, Zhang Tinglan nodded, basically the situation in Russia is similar to what he understands, the revolution has reached an irreversible time, and soon we can see the collapse of an empire, and then an even more terrible red empire will be reborn.

"Since Russia is so chaotic, will it affect our material transportation?" Zhang Tinglan asked a little anxiously: "According to my estimate, there is not much time left for us, within a month or two, the situation in Russia will definitely undergo major changes, if you can't get the materials in advance, there will be more variables in the future!" ”

"Zhang Shao rest assured, now Russian officials at all levels know money, as long as they come up with a sufficient price, they can help us work, the first batch of goods is to open up the road, a lot of time is wasted, and then the road is familiar, everything is much easier!"

"Hmm!" Zhang Tinglan nodded with satisfaction: "Lao Wang, I will provide you with a sum of millions of funds next, you will use all of them to open up the joints and get enough machines, everything is up to you!" ”

"Don't worry, Zhang Shao, this matter is on me." Speaking of this, Wang Tieshan was a little speechless and stopped.

"Say whatever you want, just say it, for your credit, I will definitely not treat you badly!"

"With Zhang Shao's words, I will be relieved, in fact, I am thinking that the smuggling business will end soon, and if I want to mix up my personal appearance in the future, I have to do something serious, I am ready to invest in industry, I can't do anything else, I want to get a coal mining company, what do you think?"

Wang Tieshan is also a very smart guy, always look farther than others, now the three eastern provinces are not the most identifiable officials, but the industry, as long as there is a factory, local officials have to take the initiative to help solve troubles, and there are a lot of tax incentives, fools don't do it.

It is still difficult to do in other industries, but the difficulty of coal mines is not too great, as long as there is a machine, you can sit and count the money when you get the coal field, Wang Tieshan's idea is also good, how many coal bosses in later generations have almost become synonymous with the nouveau riche, and it makes sense for him to choose this industry.

"The idea is good, after you finish it, I will arrange it for you, there are many coal mines in Jilin, and there are also in Mongolia, where do you want to invest, I will help you find a way!"

got Zhang Tinglan's promise, Wang Tieshan put his heart in his stomach, this person is not just holding military and political power, and he still has unparalleled influence in the business world, and one sentence is worth a thousand or ten thousand sentences from others.

"Thank you, Mr. Zhang, I'm motivated again!"

As he spoke, the handling work had begun, and everyone's faces showed unconcealable joy, these equipment were carefully selected, basically all of them were new, and some of them were unopened, most of them were made in France, and some were made in England.

In this era, the most advanced science jishu is also concentrated in Europe, when it comes to jishu equipment, in addition to Germany, it is Britain and France, the United States at this time, in fact, is similar to China in later generations, and the production capacity is super strong, but there is still a little gap in the level of jishu.

Wang Tieshan was worried that the Chinese workers would not be able to get these things, so he specially brought back a few Russian Jishu personnel and asked them to guide the transportation.

"Tap, tap! Don't touch it! ”

"Speaking of you, why didn't you hear it, tap it!"

Xiong Mengyuan and Chen Qiming and others also joined the command, they are obviously the people who care most about this batch of things, and they have the strictest requirements for those porters, they must handle them gently, and there can be no problems at all, in addition to the equipment, those instructions are not allowed to be damaged at all, these are the best helpers for them to explore the performance of the machine.

Gradually, more and more things were shipped to Jilin, and some were also transported to Fengtian, with the arrival of this batch of machines, what they had been wanting to do but could not do, now all became possible, Zhang Tinglan sent an invitation to the industrial group, and the main businessmen of Fengtian also rushed over.

Qiao Ruixuan, Liu Shucheng, Song Zhongyi, Fan Xudong and others, in addition to the representative of the Zhou family, Zhou Shutao, Zhou Shutao is the eldest son of Zhou Xuexi's eldest brother Zhang Xuehai, the grandson of the Zhou family, the leader of the younger generation, and Zhou Xinyao's cousin.

Since the relationship between Zhou Xinyao and Zhang Tinglan has gradually become clear, the Zhou family has also formed two schools of view, some people support this marriage, of course, some people oppose it, the Zhou family and Beiyang share weal and woe, and the traditional old-school characters hope to continue to deepen their ties with Beiyang, and through continuous marriage, they are inseparable from each other.

However, there is also a faction of people who believe that the development momentum of the Fengjun is violent, and the business opportunities in the three eastern provinces are huge, and they should take advantage of the opportunity of marriage to extend their hands to the northeast, which is conducive to the development of the family, in short, the two sides argue endlessly.

This time, Zhou Shutao came to the Northeast, and he was also ordered to learn about the development of the Feng army, to see if there was any potential, and whether it was worth the marriage.

However, after Zhou Shutao arrived in Mukden, he was hit hard, don't look at their family set up a lot of factories, but because of the cooperation with Beiyang, they were naturally contaminated with bureaucratic style, and the stalls were very large, but the actual profits were not much, and because they could not control the financial power, their enterprises could only rely on the support of foreigners.

The situation in Mukden was quite different, the independent status of the Mukden Bank gave great support to business, and these enterprises generally adopted new management methods, and with the help of the precious opportunity of the First World War, they sold their goods overseas and exported them to foreigners in exchange for huge profits.

Then the production continues to expand, completely into a virtuous circle, the industry is getting bigger and bigger, as long as a few years later, Fengtian will definitely emerge a group of businessmen more powerful than the Zhou family, let alone the actual controller of the industrial group Zhang Tinglan, Zhou Shutao also has a strong interest in Zhang Tinglan, this person who is much younger than himself, has too much magic.

After the arrival of the industrial group, Zhang Tinglan smiled and said to everyone: "Everyone, we claim to be the industrial group, but we are mainly focused on light industry, heavy industry is almost zero, now there is a good opportunity in front of everyone, I am ready to build a number of heavy industry enterprises." Including coal, steel, metallurgy, power generation, machine manufacturing, etc., I don't know if you are interested? ”

As soon as these businessmen heard Zhang Tinglan's words, they also became interested, after this period of operation, they all held a lot of capital in their hands, and these people also had a very broad vision, knowing that relying on flour and textile enterprises such as flour and textiles, they could not last long, and when the war was over, they would face the pressure of the comeback of the foreign powers.

Therefore, some ambitious businessmen are ready to invest in heavy industry, but they don't have a clue, there are no machines, no factory personnel, so they can only suppress their ideas, but Zhang Tinglan suddenly said that he wanted to run heavy industry, and they all came to the spirit.

"Mr. Zhang, it's never wrong to follow you, you show us a way, the big guy will never frown!"

Zhou Shutao, who was observing from the side, was also secretly surprised, he didn't expect Zhang Tinglan to have such a big appeal, he was also very surprised, and wanted to see what Zhang Tinglan had the ability to turn stone into gold. (To be continued......)