"Quick, come on! Let's put out the fire!"

In October, the Chengnuo Department of Jiangnan Shipbuilding Institute was carrying out the construction of a 10,000-ton giant ship in a rapid and orderly manner in accordance with the existing plan.

In order to speed up the progress of shipbuilding, let more comrades get enough rest, and train more industrial workers.

On the basis of returning Chinese workers in Europe and the original shipyard employees, Cheng Nuo continued to recruit new employees in Shanghai to expand his own strength.

What I never expected was that there was an accident during the recruitment period, there was a fire in Wusong Town, and all kinds of business rushes suddenly turned into a sea of fire, coupled with the influence of strong winds, the fire is getting bigger and bigger, and it is impossible to control it in terms of manpower.

"Zhiyuan, don't come here, this fire is too evil, just a pair of Ah San went over to extinguish the fire, but the front foot just went in, and the fire on the back foot didn't know where it came from, and it couldn't be prevented, it is estimated that those people are more auspicious, and we are closer, maybe we have to plant it in." Jiang Jiang Zuo looked at the fire and said with more than one heart.

"Retreat, retreat quickly, don't hesitate, with the amount of water in our pots and pans, it's a drop in the bucket." Cheng Nuo threw away the basin in his hand and prepared to take his comrades back for a while, but the wind direction was erratic, and it was impossible to judge which direction the fire would spread.

At this time, Chen Zhaoqiang looked extremely strange, like a piece of wood, pestle in place, no matter how Cheng Nuo greeted him, he was unmoved.

In the end, Cheng Nuo couldn't stand it anymore, and trotted over and asked, "General Chen, hurry up, if you don't leave, maybe we will burn next time, although we are not rattan armor soldiers, but we can't stand such a fire, let's recruit workers in the future."

Chen Zhaoqiang was like a balloon, exploding as soon as he poked it, and almost jumped up and said anxiously: "Zhiyuan, it's a big deal, this fire is too late...... Phew, this fire is too bad for us...... Harm, look at my mouth, this fire can't burn, it's all over!"

It was rare to see Chen Zhaoqiang so out of shape, Cheng Nuo looked at the sea of fire and said cautiously, "Is there anything important burning here?"

"He's not so simple, but he's going to die so badly!" Chen Zhaoqiang's lips trembled.

At this moment, because the fire was too intense, one of the buildings collapsed, rolling up a wave of heat and rushing straight to Cheng Nuo and the others, and they all felt like they were being roasted for a while, sweating dry, sweating and sweating, not to mention how uncomfortable it was.

didn't care about wiping his face, Chen Zhaoqiang's face was extremely painful, his legs were weak, and he was about to kneel on the ground directly, but Cheng Nuo quickly held him in advance: "General Chen, this place is too dangerous, it's not too late for us to go back and talk about anything."

Chen Zhaoqiang's eyes were distracted, and he was dragged by Cheng Nuo in a daze: "It's too late, did you see the factory that fell to the ground just now?" That's where we store the steel plates, I thought that the space in the office was limited, so I put things out for the time being, who would have thought that it would suddenly be in trouble...... It's too late."

For a moment, Cheng Nuo's expression was also a little dazed.

No wonder Chen Zhaoqiang also came over this time, saying that he had prepared a big gift for him, and with this gift, the order of the 10,000-ton giant ship in the United States was completely free from the worries of raw materials.

I didn't expect it to be this after a long time.

The gift is quite "heavy", whether it is the intention or the texture, but I didn't expect it to become like this before I saw the gift.

Jiang Jiangzuo, as one of the main participants, naturally knew the importance of raw materials, and his face was full of regret: "As far as I know, our pig iron is mined from Daye, Hubei, and most of the wrought iron is made of imported products, of which British goods are the majority, followed by American goods, and steel plates are naturally very scarce as a war preparation resource.

Besides, now that Daye is controlled by the Japanese, and their gunboats are dragging on the Yangtze River, the Chinese people are not allowed to interfere at all, and there is no need to count on wrought iron.

Chan Siu-cheung was like a dough, slumped to the ground: "Hardware is in short supply from Europe, and imports have been reduced a lot, except for a small amount of scrap iron imported from the UK, the rest of the bulk iron, steel, tin and white lead are all from the US.

To the back of the United States to join the warband, the price of metal raw materials

Even more so, this is still priceless, not to mention that after the United States declared war, it immediately issued a temporary ban on the export of hardware."

Cheng Nuo frowned: "In other words, at the moment when we are in urgent need of steel, the materials that have been prepared so hard have just come to naught?"

Chen Zhaoqiang nodded helplessly: "In order to raise such a little material, I worked hard, and even transferred the inventory of the Fuzhou Shipping Bureau, just thinking that we could seize this unprecedented technology and give it to you, to me, to everyone, and to our people, but it's a pity...... Alas, it's all over."

Looking around, although there are not a few people around them who are as depressed as Cheng Nuo, there are more heart-rending cries.

There are even people whose eyebrows have been burned, half of their hair has been burned, and their slippers have been worn to their feet and necks, and the whole person is pitch black, still desperately trying to rush into the fire and try to save some losses.

Even if you fight for half your life, all you can rescue is a few stools, a few jars, etc.

His wife was separated, his family was ruined, and he was in front of Cheng Nuo and others.

"General Chen, Lifu."

Cheng Nuo helped Chen Zhaoqiang up, walked to Jiang Jiangzuo's side, and looked at this human tragedy together, his heart was like a knife.

Min Min's dry lips, Cheng Nuo said seriously: "I estimate that there are not a few compatriots who were damaged this time, don't look at most of them are just adobe grass houses, but it is also a home, and now after a fire, they are basically homeless."

Jiang Jiang Zuo turned his head to look over and said seriously: "We have been working together for so long, you know, I believe in and support your decision unconditionally, and I will boldly do whatever I want!"

Hearing this, Cheng Nuo was very moved, and stretched out his hand to hug Jiang Jiangzuo fiercely.

"Thank you, good brother!"

Looking at Chen Zhaoqiang, the other party also nodded and agreed, obviously supporting his decision.

"Okay, then let's do as I say for the time being." Cheng Nuo stood in the middle of the three and said, "My idea is that for these homeless victims, we can help as much as we can, and it just so happens that our recruitment quota has not been used up, and the rest can be recruited from among them.

First, let them have a home, take our Jiangnan Shipbuilding Institute as their home, and do their best to do things, and the loss and prosperity of the institute will be stronger. On the other hand, it is also to show our sense of social responsibility, to set an example for the entire business community in Shanghai, to take from the people and give back to the people!"

Jiang Jiangzuo and Chen Zhaoqiang both thought it was a good way to do it, so they agreed to it.

However, just as Cheng Nuo looked back and was about to take another look, he suddenly saw several sneaky figures from the middle of the crowd, and first glared at Cheng Nuo's gaze viciously, and then immediately pretended to be harmless to humans and animals, and disappeared into the crowd.

"I'm afraid this fire is an evil fire!"

Looking at the raging fire, Cheng Nuo muttered to himself.

"Of course it's an evil fire, otherwise it wouldn't have burned so badly, I don't know how many people would have to die!" Jiang Jiang Zuo echoed, and then asked, "Have you decided when we will start recruiting again?"

"There is no rush for the time being, there is no steel reserve now, and the shipbuilding progress naturally cannot be as fast as before, otherwise there is no point." Cheng Nuo thought for a while, and then added: "The whole big Shanghai is mixed, there are all kinds of people, this recruitment must be screened well!"

[In view of the general environment,

Jiang Jiangzuo nodded: "Okay, don't worry about this."

Cheng Nuo shook his head and tried his best to hide the uneasiness in his heart: "Modernization is not a natural process of social evolution, it is a way for backward countries to adopt high efficiency, including the use of traditional factors, through planned economic and technological transformation and learning from the world's advanced.

The process of bringing about extensive social changes in order to quickly catch up with the level of advanced industrial countries and adapt to the environment of the modern world is a bloody process, and some people may not look down on us."

"Huh? Zhiyuan, what did you just say?" Jiang Jiang Zuo was a little confused.

Cheng Nuo waved his hand again and again, pointed to the road in front of him and said, "It's nothing, I was just messing around there just now, I must be optimistic about the road under my feet."

……

It's just that the steel problem is not solved for a day, and Cheng Nuo will not be able to sleep well for a day.

I really couldn't sleep at night, Cheng Nuo, who was lying on the bed, simply held his neck with his hands, looked at the moon in the sky through the window, and let his thoughts drift farther and farther away with the croaking of frogs.

In a sense, it's also a kind of rest.

During the days after returning to China, Cheng Nuo didn't expect to go back to Chongqing District to build an industrial base directly, even if Liu Xiang was behind him, but after contacting some local gentry, he was directly angry and lost his temper.

I don't know where I learned that Cheng Nuo came back from Europe and made a small fortune, and some warlords directly opened their mouths and asked Cheng Nuo for benefits in various names to expand military spending and expand their own power.

There are even more strange people, who directly said that money is something outside the body, and asked Cheng Nuo to be a broker to introduce some Yanma over to taste the taste of a foreign country.

All kinds of measures are really outrageous.

The people of the time said: "To the district that is said to be endowed with wealth, the military expenditure needs tens of millions of millions, and the number of basic affairs of the industry has not been received for a long time, and it is regarded as insufficient for the industry, and the cover can be known!"

Of course, it is quite important to note that Chongqing does not seem to be safe today, and in the past, Japanese ships sailed to Chongqing only occasionally, and the frequency was not much, but since the end of the year, Chongqing has been used as its permanent port.

If there is a conflict, it is easy for accidents to happen.

If he is not fully prepared, Cheng Nuo does not plan to move there with great fanfare now, and will develop in Shanghai for a period of time.

"It's just that today's fire is really strange."

With a gust of breeze and shadows of trees, Cheng Nuo felt that there were too many things in his heart that he had nowhere to tell, so he could only talk to himself to the moon and chat for comfort.

wanted to turn over, but he forgot that he was sleeping on a mat made of sorghum stalks, and some gaps secretly carried hair, and it was okay if his body didn't move, but as soon as he moved, Cheng Nuo only felt that his scalp was about to be cut off.

", it's really drinking cold water and stuffing your teeth, sleeping on a mat and clipping your hair, what's the reason?"

Just as Cheng Nuo sat up to see how many hairs he had sacrificed, he suddenly noticed some rustling movements outside the window, and his heart immediately became vigilant.

Immediately hid and shouted, "Who, who's there, come out quickly!"

"Meow~" A cat meow came from the dark.

But where is Cheng Nuo so easy to be fooled by the lake, and the decibel of his voice is immediately pulled to the highest: "Come on, catch the thief!"

As he spoke, Cheng Nuo directly picked up some things from the ground that looked easy, but he didn't see anything useful when he looked around.

simply squatted down, buckled up the bricks laid on the ground for flooring, and smashed them directly.

That person's skills are also okay, seeing that he couldn't hide Cheng Nuo, he threw a small stone directly into the window, then turned around and ran, and ran over the wall in the blink of an eye.

Cheng Nuo didn't know anything about the situation in front, and for safety reasons, Cheng Nuo did not chase after him directly, but stayed where he was and continued to wait for reinforcements.

Thanks to his loud voice, as soon as he shouted out, the surrounding windows began to light up one after another, and by the second time, some people had basically rushed over with their guys.

Seeing the "thief" running away, some even had a quick movement to chase him out.

However, while waiting, Cheng Nuo suddenly found a small paper ball tied with a rope on the stone, and after opening it, it was written:

"Be wary: the Japanese have reached a steel cooperation agreement with Morgan."

The handwriting is exactly the same as last time, and Cheng Nuo can almost conclude that this is the person who sent the note last time, and he is also reporting the news.

Combined with the evil fire in the warehouse this time, Cheng Nuo's brows almost condensed into a pimple.

"How is this more and more coincidental,

Is this man friend or foe?"

However, seeing that his subordinates came to the door, they were about to come over to care about him, and Cheng Nuo couldn't allow him to continue to think about it, so he quickly hid the note.

"Advisor, are you alright, we've got our brother rushing over, and we'll catch the thief."

"Yes, Dean, this person really ate the bear's heart and leopard's guts, and even beat your idea, and if you catch him, you must make him look good."

"Professor, you don't have anything to lose, do you?"

"Zhiyuan ......"

Looking at the relationship between everyone's gossip, Cheng Nuo's heart was warm.

Take the initiative to hug everyone: "Thank you comrades for your concern, I am safe and sound, and there is no loss of things, you can rest assured, this incident disturbed everyone's rest......

After spending half a day's effort, Cheng Nuo finally calmed everyone's emotions.

At this time, the person who went to pursue finally returned, and before he could say anything, he should be able to guess when he saw his dejected appearance.

When I asked, I really didn't catch up.

However, this is also expected by Cheng Nuo, just look at that skill, you can know that you have received professional training, and ordinary people can't catch up at all.

"Dean, I'm sorry, we failed to live up to your expectations, we all touched that kid, who knew that this guy was like a loach, slippery, and couldn't catch him at all, and finally watched him jump into the river, there was no way."

"It's okay, you've worked hard all night, and you're tired enough, I'll give you half a day off tomorrow morning, and your salary will be paid, so you can have a good rest."

"But ......"

"It's nothing, let's get some rest!"

After pushing and pushing, Cheng Nuo finally let these people "drive" out.

When there was no one around, Cheng Nuo turned out the note again and thought to himself:

"In terms of safety, we have to focus on it, but the steel problem is more imminent, and it seems that we have to unite some forces.

Next stop, new machine factory!"