"Mr. Zhang, don't worry. Our captain is very favored by the local government, after all, this will be an anti-Japanese war, and there are not many people who can run a big business like ours. ”

The shipyard built on the riverside can be said to be different from all the ships of this era. As usual, in order to have a shallow draft, the new boat adopts the shape of an inland river punt. It is powered by four gas engines with maximum power, and the gas tanks are used along with several sets of charcoal oil substitute stoves.

The two cabins, which serve as the bottom of the catamaran, are standard hulls with a load of five hundred tons. It has three levels of cargo holds, three masts, and a three-sided spinnaker to reduce fuel consumption.

Xu Zhongze, who was accompanying Zhang Sixing, watched the workers evenly coating the hot wax on the bottom of the mold boat. Then start to spread the wooden mat, brush the glue and then spread the glass silk cloth.

Such composite panels, although only two centimeters thick, were much stronger than wooden boats at this time. And the biggest benefit is that such ships are built very quickly.

The superstructure is naturally modular, and at the time of the production of the ship's bottom shell, the superstructure is already in uninterrupted production.

"It's just that the supporting glass filament and textile factories are in Kunming, and I don't know if the production of the captain here will be affected in the future."

Zhang Sixing was quite unimpressed by this,

"It doesn't matter, in the future, we will have more airships, and naturally there will be more travel between the two places. Deliver goods when you come, and transport people when you go back. ”

In just 20 days, the recruitment of troops in Shaanxi has progressed very smoothly, and more than 10,000 people have been successfully recruited, and they can start transferring to Kunming at any time.

Thinking about these things, as well as the battles that were going on on the front line from time to time, Zhang Sixing was anxious.

He has almost 100,000 people here, and at least 80,000 are already in the process of recovery. With just enough nutrition and food, he could supply tens of thousands of elite soldiers in three months.

But the Ministry of Military Affairs is just not in a hurry, and probably they don't care about the sacrifice of soldiers who are almost untrained on the battlefield. In fact, from the chairman of the committee to the officers, there is no one who does not expect his soldiers to be more elite.

However, the military administration is so slow, maybe they don't care about the blood of the soldiers, but their efficiency is only so high.

Even on the Songhu battlefield, the report of the German officers' advisory group at that time had already mentioned that there were problems with the entire system of military order transmission. Until now, however, the whole system has been like an old cow that cares about nothing, and it will not be touched at all without whipping.

With eagerness, Zhang Sixing's gaze swept over the site where the production of composite hulls had already begun. Probably Xu Zhong really wants to show his ability to organize and manage here, and there are as many as ten sets of molds for the bottom compartment of the riverside production ship.

Behind these models are woodworking factories equipped with woodworking machines such as band saws. Zhang Sixing can very much imagine that when these hulls are completed, the entire assembly work will not take more than five days, or the kind that can set sail after the engine is installed.

Thinking of this, I can't help but be anxious about the output of airships. instructed Han Sen and Xu Jiayu, who were following behind him, to urge together from both military and commercial aspects,

"The two of you, give production orders from your respective channels and tell Kunming that the construction of roads over there should be accelerated, especially the roads to Yibin. In addition, the production of airships and gas engines should be accelerated. ”

This is a very helpless thing, he needs a sufficient number of engines to be able to build cars and ships quickly. Only in this way can grain be transported back to Kunming from a distance as soon as possible, and with food, the soldiers can begin combat training.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, and the progress of the establishment of the paratrooper school under artificial constraints is really not satisfactory to Zhang Sixing, so he asked Xu Zhongze instead,

"Mr. Xu, when will the grain we bought in Sichuan arrive?"

"Food is easy to buy, but it's hard to transport. Now it was heard that the Japanese army had the intention of attacking Wuhan, so a large number of ships were requisitioned. If you want to get Wuhan's industry out of there, ......"

The more he said, the more Zhang Sixing felt that the current transportation capacity was his biggest bottleneck, and if there were enough cars or even horse-drawn carriages, many problems could be solved.

Of course, there is no need to count on the delta wing in this matter, such a "little thing" has no ability to transport distant grain to Kunming. The only thing to be counted on is the humble airship and the road that is being built.

Fortunately, the composite panels used for road construction are still linen and wooden mats, which are relatively cheap and abundant.

The old guy surnamed Hu really deserves to die, it's not that he needs to work so hard to buy food.

Thinking of this, he turned sideways and beckoned Hansen to whisper in his ear,

"Tell people to keep an eye on the surname Hu and arrest him to make a fortune in the country, if he still has something to do with the Japanese, understand?"

This time, Hansen didn't look like he was knocking on his heels, knowing that the matter was important, he just nodded quietly and slightly.

"When will the nearest grain arrive?"

Listening to Zhang Sixing's question, Xu Zhong took out a notebook and flipped it over, before looking at the notebook report,

"We have also purchased a batch of grain near Yibin, which can be shipped across the river very quickly. As for the food in other parts of Sichuan, we have to wait until the ship is found. ”

"Tell the people here to pay attention, notify Kunming by radio as soon as the grain arrives, and we will find a way to transport it as soon as possible. In addition, there is one more thing, how are our air defense airships selling. ”

The use of fiberglass for air defense airships, of course, is much better than ordinary soft airships.

"Well, our salesman has arrived in Chongqing and is moving people from the Ministry of Military Affairs. The news is that they are more interested in that kind of anti-aircraft generator, if ...... It's just that it may need to be operational. ”

What does it mean to need to operate, Zhang Sixing certainly understands it, and naturally he wants to stuff some benefits into the person in charge of procurement.

"Of course, there is no problem in business, but we don't have this tone internally, Mr. Xu has to pay attention to this, otherwise our company will be rotten like a fishing net sooner or later." I don't want to see that outcome, if it happens, then ......."

Xu Zhong nodded knowingly, he also hated these things, but in Huaxia, where there are still courtesies, this is unavoidable. Of course, there is Zhang Sixing who likes to kill people inside, as long as he can get off the knife, I believe there will be no big mistakes.

"After I return to Kunming, I will organize transportation forces as soon as possible, more than 400 kilometers of road...... In this way, I will rush the production of airships as soon as possible, as long as we have enough airships, then the volume of transportation should be large soon. ”

Although it is nearly 500 kilometers away, in good weather, airship transportation has advantages that are difficult to describe in words. After all, airship transportation is cheaper than train freight, and the biggest advantage is that it is extremely fast.

Compared with land transportation, air transportation is more suitable for Zhang Sixing's appetite.

Just when Zhang Sixing and Xu Zhongze were talking about career development together, their subordinates came to report,

"Sir, receive a secret message."

As soon as he heard the secret message, Xu Zhong left a few steps, Zhang Sixing only glanced at it, and his heart suddenly relaxed.