As it turns out, none of the guys who can get mixed up in this part are not brainy.

From the Central Asian Railway, Catherine was a little puzzled. It stands to reason that the Ming has no reason to help Russia in this way.

If the Central Asian Railway is still a small favor, then so many industrial projects, even power plants, have helped Russia to build.

That's a bit of a stretch!

Politicians are creatures with very sensitive cranial nerves, which are linked to recent events in Europe. Catherine had a bold conjecture!

Of course, this is just speculation. Further verification is required!

"Go and tell that Zhang Shoufu that Daming treats his vassals like this, and Russia will naturally remain loyal to Daming.

Since the Crimean War was supported by the Ming Dynasty, Russia would restrain the Hebrews in its territory from leaving the border and joining Israel against Austria-Hungary. ”

With a smile on her face, Catherine guessed that her temptation would soon bear fruit.

At this time, Li Xiao took a train to the Northeast.

After passing Shenyang, the train entered a fork in the road. It's a separate stretch of line with only one train running!

Not two reciprocating lines, but only one.

Along this railway line, the train again traveled for more than six hours. Outside the train are rolling hills, and there is not a single house or man-made structure visible as far as the eye can see.

Not to mention, to see the trail of people.

Finally, the train arrived at a station.

The place says it's a station, but it looks more like a fortress.

The four corners of the station are all huge reinforced concrete batteries. Each fort is fifty meters high.

On the top of the fort, two double two-five anti-aircraft guns were placed. From the middle to the top, there are dense muzzles and machine gun muzzles!

On the platform, there were soldiers with loaded guns everywhere. On each side of the platform there are two fortifications more than two meters high, the soldiers hold large wolf dogs in their hands, and the machine guns are mounted in the firing holes.

Li Xiao wore a green military coat and leather gloves and walked off the train.

Looking at the guards here, Li Xiao nodded.

"There's a battalion there, mainly in those four turrets.

The boiler room was underground, which could generate electricity for the garrison and heat it in winter.

The source of soldiers is all from Liaodong, and the ancestors have checked it for three generations, all of whom live in Liaodong, and none of their ancestral homes are from other places or foreigners. ”

Following Li Xiao down was Luzhu, this elusive woman had disappeared for a while. I didn't expect to drum this out in the deep mountains and old forests.

"The nearby woods are not cleared, I mean the Oroqen hunters, or something else.

You know, things here need to be kept in absolute secrecy. ”

"At the beginning of the establishment of this secret base, there was a large-scale search of the mountains. Instead, several Oroqen villages were destroyed, and all the people in them migrated to Heilongjiang.

Now, as long as the weather permits, the two airships search the sky in the morning and afternoon until dark.

For three years, no one was found here except for the army and workers. ”

"That's good!" Li Xiao is very satisfied with this secret project, which has been under construction for two years.

The human, material and financial resources spent are more than the Western Regions Railway. Now three years later, it can finally come in handy.

The stuffy tank carriages in the special train opened, and the tall horses were led down from above by the grooms.

"I haven't ridden a horse for a few days." Li Xiao saddled his horse and galloped along the asphalt road deep into the dense forest, surrounded by a group of guards.

After more than half an hour of galloping along the way, you can see the faintly exposed bunkers in the dense forest on the side of the road.

Turning a mountain pass, Li Xiao saw two watchtowers four or five meters high, guarding both sides of the mountain road like door gods.

Seeing Li Xiao and his party, the soldiers on both sides of the watchtower hurriedly moved the barricades and saluted Li Xiao. A huge shadow was cast from the sky, and an airship was approaching from a distance, slowly moving into the base.

The cold wind of early winter blew the pine trees on both sides, and the branches kept colliding, making a "crackling" sound.

Li Xiao rode his horse and galloped in, and only more than 100 meters after the watchtower. On the side of the mountain, a huge cave suddenly appeared.

The cave seems to grow on a mountain, and it is more than ten meters high. The width is more than 30 meters, and the heavy door is creaking open with the full force of the two winches.

Riding a horse, he galloped into the cave. Li Xiao had a feeling of being swallowed up by a desolate beast!

At the top of the cave and on the walls, there is an electric light every one meter. Illuminate the inside of the cave!

In the depths of the cave, there was a faint sound of explosions. Listening to that sound was like the breath of a dragon.

"This is the usual entrance and exit of personnel, and in a little bit of the inside, there is a bigger exit.

In the past three years, 60,000 people have been mobilized one after another, and finally it has today's scale. Some places inside are still under construction! ”

When Luzhu arrived here, he immediately found a short guy. This guy is almost 1.5 meters tall, not only short but also thin.

Standing in front of Li Xiao's horse, he introduced to Li Xiao.

"Qiu Dayou, six years ago, you were already a lieutenant colonel. Why did you become a colonel now! "Li Xiao knows this guy, he was already the deputy commander of the Fourth Division six years ago, and now he has become a lieutenant colonel.

"In order to cover up to the outside world, the highest military rank here can only be regimental colonel. But in reality, he was in charge of seven or eight thousand people up and down here. I feel a little guilty about bringing him here. ”

Qiu Dayou blushed and didn't speak, and the green beads beside him hurriedly helped explain.

"Oh! I see, Qiu Dayou. I promise you, when you leave. There are definitely two gold stars on my shoulders, and that's my promise to you.

And ah!

You also know the nature of this place, since you are the chief here, then you must be prepared to be incognito in this life.

But I promise you that your son will definitely have a future in the future. Those who have dedicated themselves to Daming, Daming will not forget. ”

"Dashuai!" Listening to Li Xiao's words, Qiu Dayou immediately knelt down and kowtowed.

"My Qiu Dayou is a big old man, and when I first became a soldier, I didn't know a lot of words. After becoming a soldier and learning culture, he barely knew all the words.

I don't have any other thoughts in this life, I just think that in the future, I can have a son who can produce a good life in the family, and he is better than his old son.

Ever since I made up my mind to come here, I asked someone to tell my family that I was dead. You can rest assured, Qiu Dayou is alive here in this life, and he is buried here when he dies.

I will never let the secret here leak out a word. ”

"You old thing, take me to see what you've been working on for three years." Li Xiao got off the horse and was led inside by Qiu Dayou.

"It's been three years! With the manpower we used, we almost hollowed out the entire mountain. You see this is the general layout, here is the boiler room, here is the production workshop, here is the living area. ”

Qiu Dayou held a stick and pointed and poked at a huge layout plan.

It is indeed huge, with a single floor area of more than 20,000 square meters. Only two floors have been excavated, and the third floor is still being excavated.

This is Daming's aircraft manufacturing base, and it is also the future Daming's flight test base. When the technology matures, there will even be a wind tunnel here.

Of course, this is just a plan that stays on the drawing paper.

Long before the downsizing of diesel engines, Li Xiao had already set out to select a site for the future aircraft factory.

This thing must be kept absolutely secret, and not even a single screw is allowed to leak out until the plane appears in public.

So, in the depths of this Changbai Mountain, such a base was built.

Now that the downsizing of the diesel engine is complete, the last obstacle to building an aircraft has disappeared. The top talents of the Ming Dynasty are studying here day and night, striving to make the plane into the sky as soon as possible.

Of course, Li Xiao's design plan has to be carried out according to the drawings drawn by Li Xiao.

"There are so many parts and components of the aircraft that you can only build and assemble the airframe here. This is the first prototype, which was tested ten days ago and flew for an hour without any failures. ”

Xu Erjue stood in front of the huge glass curtain and pointed to the aircraft undergoing maintenance below.

Li Xiao came to the glass curtain, and in the huge assembly workshop below, there was only a lone plane.

The aircraft has two wings, with a piston engine in the middle. Below is the fixed triangular landing gear!

"This thing can fly for an hour?" Li Xiao was a little skeptical.

"The biggest problem with the aircraft now is the piston engine, because it has just been built, and the quality is very unstable.

It can be said that the biggest obstacle to the flight of the plane is this unstable piston engine.

Because of engine problems, we have lost four good test pilots in three months. Xu Erjue said helplessly beside him.

"What can be done on the ground, don't wait until heaven. Test pilots are not chopping wood, let you be such a scourge.

They are all elites of the Ming Dynasty, and they will do great things in the future. ”

Hearing what Li Xiao said, the tone was very heavy, and everyone didn't dare to speak anymore.

Only Lu Zhu said: "There are some things that can't be helped, obviously it's good to test on the ground."

But when it comes to heaven, there will be problems. ”

"Then do a destructive test on the ground to see what the problem is, we can't use the test pilot as a chopping wood.

In addition, it is necessary to study special parachutes for pilots. To ensure that they land alive, these people are our valuable talents. ”

Of course, Li Xiao knows the value of pilots, and to some extent, the value of test pilots is even higher than that of pilots.

Because, this is a group of people who test the extreme performance of fighters.

Before that, there had never been an airplane on the planet. Now if you want to test the extreme performance of the fighter, it is natural that this or that question will arise.

This is still a biplane, and if it develops to a monoplane, it will face no small difficulties.

Li Xiao has not studied aerodynamics, and he does not know much about aviation. The airplane, the most he can do is a sketch.

Tell the Xu brothers where to put the engine, where is the landing gear, and why there is a vertical tail. That's all!

In fact, this biplane was also built exactly according to Li Xiao's sketches. Being able to fly for an hour on end is already a miracle in this era.

Before that, nothing had ever been flying with anyone except an airship hot air balloon.

"Aircraft are the key to future warfare, and we need to step up the progress of testing. Time waits for no one! ”

"No!

Marshal, let's take a look at the car factory over there. When it comes to the car factory, Xu Ermo's face is full of pride.

It can be seen that the research and development progress of the car is still very smooth.

The development and production of automobiles were in another mountain, and Li Xiao had to ride his war horse again.

Walking forward on another hill, Li Xiao entered the same cave.

Li Xiao also saw a huge production workshop, a large group of workers, assembling car parts one by one.

In Li Xiao's view, this is not like a place to build cars, but more like a place to repair cars.

"Shuai, the car has been developed. Last month's production was five, and this month we aim to produce 10 vehicles.

If we increase the number of people, we hope to produce 30 vehicles a month. ”

When Xu Ermo said these words, he had a very proud expression on his face.

Producing 30 cars a month, what the fuck are you embarrassed to talk to yourself?

"Thirty vehicles a month is too little, and the monthly output of 3,000 is just qualified." Li Xiao's words made Xu Ermo's face collapse.

Three thousand cars a month, he didn't even dare to think about it.

"The production of automobiles should refer to tanks, and assembly line operations must be formed. And to do it, the universal spare parts.

In other words, what is removed from this car can be used on that car.

You produce things, and standardization is very important.

After the Battle of Tashkent, there was a general reaction among the troops that the repair and maintenance of the tank was very difficult. Spare parts are often not exchangeable!

On the battlefield, spare parts cannot be interchanged, which will directly affect combat effectiveness.

Before coming here, I had already approved the shooting of the director of a tank factory. I don't want to sign off on the director of the Wall Automobile Plant in the future. ”

When Li Xiao said this, he was actually very helpless.

A general once said that when you move a person's wallet, he reacts the fastest.

It's not that Li Xiao didn't think about moving the wallets of those who were on a vegetarian diet, but there was no way, moving the wallets didn't work.

These guys, all of them are full of brains. That's basically the salary doesn't move, and the wife basically doesn't use it. The gray income in the open and in the dark is their main source of income.

Punish them with that little salary, these people don't care.

Since you don't care about moving money, you probably care too much about these people when you move your head.

After all, there is only one life, and if it is gone, then it is really gone.

Two months before he came, Li Xiao personally ordered the director of the tank factory to be shot.

The deputy factory director who was promoted fired dozens of related households who had been entrusted with various requests on the first day of his appointment.

After all, the head is still more important than the face of colleagues.

Such a hot hand directly led to an unprecedented improvement in the quality of the tanks produced last month.