The 400-metre wooden track road occupies about the size of a school playground, and five wagons pulled by six horses are dumped on the tracks. The driver was killed and wounded, and the horses pulling the cart were dragged to the ground by the overturned wagon, making a pitiful neigh.

The newly established Rolling Stock Agency is responsible for testing the entire freight system and is also responsible for cleaning up the accident site. Zhou Qingfeng rushed to the clinic in person when he heard that he had died, and Zhao Ze from the Machinery Department also hurriedly came from Jinzhou for consultation.

"It's the wheel material." Zhao Ze leaned down and picked up a broken wheel fragment from the ground, looked at the fracture and said in frustration: "The wheel is cast, the material is too high in phosphorus, it is too brittle, and it will break if the pressure is too high." ”

When Chang Chang ......, Zhao Ze threw away the wheel fragments, saying that he was helpless.

"Can't you forge it?" Zhou Qingfeng frowned and asked.

"The key is the material, and forging cannot solve our current problem of high phosphorus and sulfur impurities in steel." Zhao Ze sighed: "I'm trying to find a way to make a converter for Stone, if I get it done, I should be able to increase the quality and output of steel by several times." But that thing involves too many technical aspects, and it needs to be tackled in many aspects, and I can't be busy alone. ”

When it comes to technological progress, both Zhao Ze and Shi Dong have to complain.

The current scientific and technological system of the 'revolutionary army' is to make do, and the east is also improvised, and the west is also improvised. On the surface, the industrial system seems to be progressing everywhere, but in fact, it is all about local law, and there are various defects that cannot be bypassed. Zhao Ze said to Zhou Qingfeng in a deep voice: "Our current system has only been developed for one year, and we can't pull out the seedlings anymore." It is necessary to concentrate on training professional and technical personnel. ”

Zhao Ze meant something, and the day before yesterday he was furious about one thing - in order to support the Northern Advance Detachment to attack Gyeonggi, he deliberately built a 500-ton steam barge. The ship had recently returned to Arthur for repairs, and it was discovered that the 100-horsepower steam engine had been completely scrapped.

The reason is that the operator is lazy and directly pours seawater into the boiler to burn. Not only the boiler was wasted, but even the cylinders of the steam engine were wasted.

"The steam engine we produced last year had a theoretical lifespan of at least a few years, but now half of it is out of service. Among them, quality problems account for only one percent, accidents account for one percent, and eighty percent are human errors.

Two workers died at the machine shop last month, both of which were caused by not following the operating procedures. Stone's steel plant is even more terrifying, there is a study and propaganda of safety production every month, but there are more than five deaths every month. ”

Zhao Ze shrugged his shoulders at Zhou Qingfeng and said that the current industrial system of the 'revolutionary army' is like this. He even said jokingly: "Now it's time to open a mine again, and that's a big pit for eating people." The early industrial development was filled with bones. Behind the industrial safety manual, a large number of human lives are written. ”

Zhou Qingfeng scratched his head, stared at the corpse that was being moved under the dumping compartment, and said, "Forget it, don't engage in special freight vehicles with a load of more than five tons." I asked people to directly change the structure of the four-wheeled carriage and run slowly with a two-ton load. ”

The technology of the four-wheeled carriage has been widely proven, and there are basically no problems. Although the load of two tons is a little less, it is at least safe.

Zhao Ze nodded, and Zhou Qingfeng's compromise made him breathe a sigh of relief. He was in a much lighter mood and said with a smile: "When I go back, I will arrange for some people from the wood processing plant to come and support your rail vehicle bureau." They can directly build a vehicle factory in Tianjin or Tangshan to solve the production and maintenance problems on the spot. ”

Zhou Qingfeng agreed, and his agreement means that the industrial development of the entire 'revolutionary army' will shift from seeking innovation and speed to seeking stability and security. However, the pressure on Zhao Ze and Shi Stone will be greatly reduced, and there will be time to carry out in-depth standardization of existing technologies and improve quality. So Zhao Ze smiled again and asked, "How is your recent road being built?" ”

"What else? All kinds of cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods have run out. "Referring to the 'Tiantang Wooden Rail' that he has focused on promoting recently, Zhou Qingfeng is also angry.

It was now the end of June in 1617, and the third phase of the expansion of the Guards was about to be completed, and the quality of the soldiers was still satisfactory. With 25,000 elite troops in hand, the 'revolutionary army' was not afraid of the enemy's attack in all directions. The next step will be officer training, efforts will be made to complete the deployment of officers in five brigades by the end of the year, and a multi-service combined combat exercise will be conducted.

The construction of the 50-kilometer urban circle around Tianjin is also going smoothly, with a large number of houses and roads being completed, and farmland renovation and water conservancy facilities are progressing on schedule. After accepting a large number of refugees from the north, the urban circle has an abundant labor force of 1.2 million people, and there is no shortage of people for anything.

Foreign trade is also doing very well.

Zhou Qingfeng originally wanted to carry out a small armed demonstration, go south along the canal to attack Cangzhou, and enter Shandong to loot the circle. However, the Cao Gang finally relented and was willing to open up the canal route and cooperate with the 'revolutionary army' in exchange for profiting from the trafficking of goods from the two territories of Tianjin and Shandong. So the military operation was abandoned.

As for the cloth merchants and salt merchants on the south side of the Yangtze River, they were too far away, so they could only endure it.

Under such a favorable situation, the only thing that can make Zhou Qingfeng angry is the 'Tangshan Coal and Steel Complex', the largest investment project of the 'revolutionary army' this year. As a supporting project that must be completed first, the 'Tiantang Wooden Rail' really made Zhou Qingfeng extremely embarrassed.

"I cleaned up the local ruffians and local tyrants and gentry, and also eradicated the civil clan forces with firearms and spears. I thought that this project would go very smoothly, but who knew that after a month, there were a lot of moths that ran out. We have inexperienced engineering staff, which I can understand. But those mud legs also came to make trouble, which made me very angry. ”

The trouble that Sang Quanlai encountered was not an isolated case, but a common phenomenon. Zhou Qingfeng also deeply understood that for Mao's later generations, the Turkish Communist Party should be 'led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants'. Uneducated peasants are really mud-legged - lazy, gluttonous, stupid, greedy, cowardly, and a lot of problems.

In addition, the 'revolutionary army' also encouraged the people to set up various enterprises and at the same time purchase goods from the northern gentry. As a result, those profiteers and gentry used the tricks they used to deal with the Ming court against the 'revolutionary army', and all kinds of shoddy things, such as shortages of catties and pounds, bribery, and exploiting tricks, emerged one after another.

The Administration Department of the 'Revolutionary Army' has set up an audit section to audit and track projects. As a result, in just half a month, the first section chief secretly accepted two pretty maids and two silver dollars from others, and was dragged into the water by profiteers. This is still an old cadre who has followed Zhou Qingfeng since Fushun. He consciously fought hard in the world and wanted to start sitting in the world to enjoy happiness, but Zhou Qingfeng personally issued an execution order.

Zhao Ze said that many people in the industrial system of the 'revolutionary army' are killed and injured every month because they do not operate in accordance with safety standards, but in fact, there are more people in the administrative system who are corrupted and degenerated because they involve a large amount of money and grain revenue and expenditure and the distribution of power, but they are not known. Behind every big project, there are people trying to make money, but these people don't feel like they're doing anything wrong.

"There are socio-cultural problems, and it is extremely difficult to correct them. As soon as I relax a little bit, the people down there will get out of control. Even many of the people we have cultivated ourselves will change in our contact with the outside world. It's much more difficult to sit in the world than to fight the world, and I'm trembling now, walking on thin ice, and sometimes I can't sleep well. ”

Zhou Qingfeng was deeply touched when he said this, he has no time to manage specific affairs now, but instead spends most of his energy on keeping an eye on the rule of the 'revolutionary army'. Constantly train new cadres, not only clean up the corrupt internal personnel, but also try to strengthen the rules and regulations as much as possible to prevent problems.

"Fortunately, most of my subordinates are technicians, so this kind of thing is relatively rare." Zhao Ze looked at Zhou Qingfeng's sad face, and it was rare to laugh happily. "Alright, alright, that's it. Development first and then governance, sometimes making the cake bigger can also solve many problems. In a few years, everything will be fine. I believe in your ability, and I believe in your knife even more. ”

After a few words of relief, Zhao Ze took a triplane back to Jinzhou. Zhou Qingfeng continued to fight against his own bureaucracy. In his eyes, the 'revolutionary army', which is extremely crude and full of problems, is not useless garbage in the eyes of others, but unimaginably powerful.

disappeared for half a year, Liu Fucheng and Liu Qianhu, who had dealt with the 'revolutionary army', developed again. This Ye Na's former benefactor, Yuan Qingying's master, and Zheng Guifei's lackeys found a backer again, and once again appeared outside Tianjin like a dog. He went down the river from Tongzhou and was startled when he arrived at the wharf in the north of Tianjin.

An explosion occurred not far from the pier, and a huge wave of water rose into the sky, and the power was extremely huge. Liu Fucheng came secretly this time, and he already had ulterior motives, and when he got to the ground, he was disadvantaged.

"This ......, what's going on?" Liu Fucheng hurriedly asked the sailors on the same ship.

"Oh...... it's supposed to be building a wharf and expanding the river." The sailors on board glanced indifferently, with mockery and disdain. The people of Tianjin are proud now, and even those who have just settled down from the north have learned to despise those startled outsiders in a calm tone.

The sailor's eyes made Liu Fucheng furious, but he didn't dare to make a mistake. Behind him was a young man in his twenties, wearing a felt hat covering most of his head, accompanied by his family. The young man patted Liu Fucheng on the shoulder, shook his head and said, "It's okay, Liu Qianhu doesn't need to panic." They all said that it was just a wharf, so let's go over and have a look. ”

The young man was followed by an old man and a young man, and the old man said in a deep voice: "What the master said is that the boy would never have imagined that we would come, so why should we mess with ourselves?" Just calm down. I want to see what that kid has done in the year since he left Liaodong, and we have a good heart. ”

The female dependents behind the young man pulled his arm tightly, and said in Manchu in a low voice: "My lord, this is Tianjin, the big city of the Han people?" It's such a lively place. There are so many people here, are they all the coats of the Zhou boy? ”

The young man immediately frowned, and reprimanded the female dependents and the old man in Chinese: "From now on, don't call me master, call me Huang Ye immediately." It is also forbidden to use Manchu again, in vain to provoke right and wrong.

It is said that the kid surnamed Zhou has a powerful secret agent, and we came silently, but we still have to be careful. He also deliberately said to his own woman: "I told you not to come, you have to come." Since you have come, you have to be obedient. If something happens, I can't protect you. ”

The old man said yes again and again, and a young man of eighteen or nineteen behind him also nodded in response. However, the female dependents were a little aggrieved, and whispered in Chinese: "The slave doesn't dare." ”

Liu Fucheng turned back again, he looked at the young man full of luxury, and then at the flower-like delicate female dependents behind him, and he kept guessing the true identity of the other party in his heart. Not long ago, a group of Jin businessmen came to contact him and spent a lot of money asking him to help take someone to Tianjin to have a look and open his eyes. He only knew that this person should be a Tartar head with a noble status, but he didn't know his specific identity.

However, Liu Fucheng is not clear about the identity of the young man, but the identity of the old man next to him is too clear. When he looked over, he saw that the other party was also smiling at him. Liu Fucheng couldn't help but snort coldly in his heart-Master Gu, don't come to harm!