Chapter 183: Cotton Yarn and Marston Pad

On Saturday, July 22, on the morning, Li Junhao came to the barracks at No. 527 Haiphong Road again. At this time, nearly 200 of the 1,400 patrols who entered the camp to participate in rotation training have been eliminated, and now the remaining more than 1,200 people have already qualified.

Li Junhao only made a simple speech, congratulating the patrol officers who had passed the rotation training and personally awarded new police uniforms and new police titles to more than 100 middle-level patrol officers, and the instructors of the training camp were responsible for the change of uniforms and awards to the other 1,000 people.

After that, they didn't even have a meal, so they gave these training patrols a holiday, but they also went to work the next day, and they didn't even have a break on Sunday - the patrolmen who were replaced by them were the second batch of rotation training personnel, and they entered the camp on Monday to participate in rotation training.

If there was enough time, of course Li Junhao would not complete this closing ceremony so simply, but now there is really no extra time!

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At noon, Li Junhao, who left the barracks and hurried to Wang Baohe Restaurant, accepted a banquet from the owners of various Chinese textile factories in Shanghai......

Seeing his convoy arrive, He Dongming, who was standing at the door of the restaurant, hurriedly stepped forward to greet him - this bureau was forced by his father to come out of the group, who let the Chinese businessmen now have not enough cotton yarn to start, but their He factory can start as usual?

In fact, there have long been rumors in the industry that Mr. Pan Sen, Assistant Military Attache of the US Consulate and the new Commissioner of Police of the Concession, has enough cotton yarn in his hands, and it depends on who can get it! And there is an example in front of the eyes of Chinese businessmen - He's Cotton Mill!

"I'm sorry, Panson, I'm causing you trouble!" He Dongming whispered.

"What's going on?" Li Junhao is a little unsure.

"The ...... of cotton yarn" led Li Junhao into the restaurant, and He Dongming explained softly.

Li Junhao nodded, thinking that this is actually a good thing, cotton yarn itself has it, which can not only make money, but also help Chinese enterprises, why not. And he now also needs to prepare a large number of goods produced in Shanghai, and it also needs gold coins to buy in the system mall, and it is almost the same to exchange cotton yarn for purchase, and it can also revitalize many enterprises, indirectly creating jobs and taxes, one mile and one outside, and the benefits are greater!

One side has a huge demand, the other side has enough supply, and the two sides are of course happy to negotiate......

Of course, the specific business details will not be discussed on this occasion, Li Junhao just promised that there is enough supply, and the bosses of the manufacturers will rest assured, and there will naturally be someone to talk about the follow-up - well, this person is He Dongming, who let his family "provoke" this matter!

Li Junhao only stayed for an hour and left, and after a discussion with all the manufacturers, it was decided to jointly establish a new Chinese Textile Industry Association, with He Fengmin, the head of He's Enterprise, as the president, and He Dongming as the secretary general of the association; The first thing after the establishment of the guild was the procurement of raw cotton yarn, and He Dongming was in charge of this.

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At 5 p.m. that day, the Jockey Club received a notice from the Police Department: from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. that night, the Police Force and the U.S. Army Marine Corps would requisition the Racecourse Stadium for drills and ask about rent.

The duty manager immediately contacted the board of directors, and the full-time secretary Yaerson replied on behalf of the board of directors that the Jockey Club would support the work of the Concession Police Department and would not charge rent.

At 10:50 p.m., 50 members of the Operations Division of the Investigation Department of the Police Force and a squadron (150 people) of the 4th Regiment of the Navy and Army arrived at the Racecourse and took over and cordoned it off.

At 11:10 a.m., Li Junhao led the escort team into the racecourse, selected a 15-meter-wide and 200-meter-long lawn near the racetrack at the edge of the pétanque court, and ordered the construction to begin.

A detachment of 50 people of the Army and Sea engineers, with the help of a small truck-mounted crane, unloaded a large number of straw mats and M8 steel plates from the trucks and began laying a temporary airstrip in the designated area.

Marston Mat is actually a kind of perforated steel plate (PSP), so it is often referred to as PSP plate and hole plate, and the military number is M8.

The Marston pad is a stamped steel plate, each 3 meters long, 0.38 meters wide, weighing 30 kilograms, with two transverse grooves to divide each plate into three sections, with a total of 87 holes on it, and buckles at the front and back for the assembly between the plates, specially used to quickly build temporary airports and landing fields.

Marston mat is simple and practical, placed directly on any paved or unpaved ground, you can quickly build a runway for aircraft to land, especially suitable for small venues, with excellent applicability.

Marston mats get their name from the small town of Marston, North Carolina, where they were originally produced. Carnegie Illinois Steel, a contractor for the U.S. Army, originally designed the building material to build a makeshift landing field next to the high-speed company, but it became one of America's most important inventions in World War II.

At the beginning of the year, the 4th Regiment of the Navy and Land in Shanghai received 636 tons (21,200 pieces) of M8 steel plates from China, which was enough to lay a wartime runway 1,000 meters long and 24 meters wide, but it had not been officially used. Therefore, Li Junhao has to organize an actual drill to avoid being in a hurry when he needs to use it.

The 200-meter-long, 15-meter-wide temporary runway required 2,635 M8 steel plates, weighed 79 tons, and required 20 five-ton trucks to transport it to the site.

In order not to destroy the sports lawn, the truck just drove onto the racetrack, unloaded it with two small cranes, and was transported into the field by the Marines on flatbed trucks with wide tires!

The installation of the temporary runway went more smoothly than expected, it only took two hours to complete, and the sappers thought it was very good after inspection, and even drove the truck up to try it, it was flat enough!

Li Junhao is very satisfied, this thing is very convenient to use, but it requires a lot of manpower when installing and dismantling, and it is not good to always trouble the sea and land team members!

The experiment was a complete success, and seeing that the time was almost up, the demolition began again. Because the sappers were already familiar with the M8 steel plate, the speed of dismantling was much faster, and it took just over an hour to complete, and it was not yet four o'clock in the morning. Li Junhao wrote down these two times and knew it by heart.

Because tonight was the first test, he didn't take out the plane, but fortunately, the scheduled trading time was in early August, and he still had enough time to prepare and test, so he didn't need to be in too much of a hurry.