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May 1929, Sichuan

After Jiang Baili and Wu Tiejun led their troops to capture Sichuan, it took half a year to basically eliminate the bandits in most areas of Sichuan. In the Bashu area, except for the more complex terrain in western Sichuan, the rest of the terrain is just shallow hilly terrain, which is not suitable for bandits to roam.

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In four months, with the major cities in Bashu as the center, the bandits were swept away from all directions with an absolute encirclement situation, whether they were dozens of small bandits or hundreds or thousands of people.

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The bandits were all wiped out like chickens and dogs. The better ones ended up with a large force going up the mountain to arrest them after half a month of siege. The worse ones ended up with the firing of cannons, machine gun sweeps, and the consequences of opposing the new "government".

There will definitely be no good results.

In this anti-bandit war that spread across the mountainous areas at the junction of Sichuan and Yunnan and the Bashu Mountains, the vast majority of bandits still chose to abandon their weapons and surrender. According to the promise made when persuading them to surrender, the southwest "government" will also screen and deal with these bandits.

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Those who are Ying will naturally be punished by law. As for those who are coerced by evil forces and become rogues because of their poor livelihood, those who are willing to go home will be given travel expenses, and those who are able to return will naturally have more difficult mines and construction sites to arrange for them.

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From the beginning of 1929, the comprehensive construction of the southwest "government" officially began.

Large-scale production and construction based on the four provinces is like a hurricane, blowing across the four southwest provinces. Under the overall arrangement of the "government", from infrastructure construction such as road transportation and water, electricity and water conservancy, to large-scale industrial construction

, from improving people's livelihood in rural areas, urban construction to urban infrastructure construction, a large-scale construction that only started at the end of the Third Five-Year Plan has injected a sense of vitality into the entire southwest, and even the Bashu land that has just joined the southwest "government"

Stock vitality.

Construction sites can be seen everywhere. On road construction sites, apart from the occasional construction machinery, there are numerous workers and farmers.

Whether they are bankrupt households in rural areas or unemployed people in urban areas, they can find a job on such construction sites.

Every morning, as long as you bring a hammer and shovel, or a hoe and shovel to the construction site to sign up, and your day's labor is recognized, you will be credited with one day's work points. Wages are settled once a week.

However, even so, the construction site really can't require so many people. Every road construction site is full of people as far as you can see. In the end, there is no choice but to say that we will not recruit anymore and only old workers will be hired.

Now the conflict arises again. Zhang San works here, and Li Si also wants to work, but there is no other way. Finally, they discuss a compromise. It is not purely for money. Farmers in many places see road construction or dam construction.

Wait, I really poured my heart out to help. With the propaganda of the "government" at the grassroots level, the "government" that has not been encountered in many years does practical things for the people. Everyone knows that there are thousands of things that benefit themselves and future generations.

It would be false to say that there is no positivity.

Therefore, when the construction team's project progresses to a certain township, the township will call on villagers to help during slack periods, and the calculated work points can be deducted from part of the seed and fertilizer money, and the construction unit will use the remaining wages for the other part.

It is paid directly to the local "government" and is supervised by supervisors. The money is either subsidized as a whole into seeds and fertilizers, or used to subsidize newly built local schools.

The progress of major projects is very fast, and the basic hydropower construction in some rural areas is progressing even faster. Building a dam, building a basic hydropower station, building a new large factory, etc. These seemingly huge projects are completed at a very fast speed under the hands of huge crowds of workers.

This construction covers the entire southwest, especially the three provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guangxi, and is represented by the Panzhihua Comprehensive Steel City in Sichuan.

"Chief, you see, this is the first phase of our industrial city planning. From here to there, it is divided into mining areas, processing areas, supporting ancillary factory areas, and residential areas. The design of the industrial city has been scientifically demonstrated to the maximum extent.

We will try our best to complete the four phases of the project in the future.

The industrial city will not be troubled by excessive pollution. A large hydropower station with a total power of 500,000 watts will be built in the Guanyinyan area of ​​the Jinsha River, about 30 kilometers away from the planned industrial city. The construction period is expected to be four years and will serve as a

The supporting power supply facilities of the industrial city in the future..."

On a high mountain, Lu Chuanxiong, director of the planned Panzhihua Steel City, was introducing the planned Panzhihua New Steel City to Zhang Shusheng, director-general of the Southwest Government, and his party.

From the position of Zhang Shusheng Station, even without a telescope, you can clearly see the busy construction site in the distance. The bustling mining area construction, factory area construction, and supporting construction are basically all being carried out at the same time. Even the accommodation area is occupied by tents.

The construction period is waiting for no one. In order to complete this urgent construction period, no one dares to relax.

In the past, although the Panzhihua Iron and Steel Base also shouldered the steel consumption of the Southwest Government 81, it was not only the mining area, but also included smelting, thermal power plants and other supporting factories. However, compared with the ones that Zhang Shusheng and later generations visited,

Panzhihua is still not the same as Panzhihua. It can even be said that it is only the size of a town.

The future army-building plan is destined to require countless amounts of steel. In later generations, the iron ore that has been proven in Panzhihua has amazing reserves, but it is mainly vanadium-titanium magnetite. However, Zhang Shusheng found out through the database that

This super steel base of later generations has discovered richer reserves and mineral types. Whether it is the current southwest "government" or the new China in the future, there will be a huge demand for resources here.

Therefore, at the beginning of the year, the large-scale construction plan of the Steel City was launched, and the budget accounted for a considerable amount of the "government" investment plan.

"Let's go down and have a look."

Zhang Shusheng did not let a large group of people follow him. According to the political practice in the southwest, when leaders go to inspect, they basically do not notify them in advance, and they do not need to be accompanied by the local "government" boss. They only go to the local grassroots "government" to call one when they arrive at the place.

Secretary, that counts as participation.

However, even if five or six idlers walk into the construction site, they will attract the attention of the workers.[

"Chuanxiong, fellow farmers are working on the construction site, are you busy with the farm work at home?" Looking at the workers carrying their shoulders and backs, some of them looked like farmer brothers who had just escaped from farm work. Zhang Shusheng was afraid that they would delay them.

to farm work.

In his previous life, he was also from a farmer's family and knew how hard farm work was. When his old father went out to work in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, his mother almost collapsed in the field from exhaustion.

"These Sichuan people are very hardworking and specialize in hard work. They go to work on time every day, and they have to do farm work until it's time to turn on the lights. I heard that some old farmers are doing tricks. After work, they go home and go to the fields to order.

With a stick of incense, you can dig neat rows of small nests." Lu Chuanxiong said with emotion.

, he was not from a peasant family, and he admired and lamented these half-workers and half-peasants. "However, male laborers from every household came to the construction site, and the women were not idle either. Some came to the construction site to work as small laborers.

Some of them just carry hoes and manure and go to work in the fields, which is really admirable."

"Haha, this is true. Sichuan is restricted by regional conditions. Although it is poorer, the farmers are very hardworking." Zhang Shusheng was not just talking about face. Before he came to this era, his grandfather once "lighted incense and made a nest."

"The experience of "lighting incense, pouring manure and spreading fertilizer", where mechanization is difficult to spread, can only rely on the hard work of farmers themselves.

Looking around, there were construction sites everywhere. Except for the vague mountains all around, Zhang Shusheng could not find the familiar shadow of Panzhihua in later generations.

During lunch, Zhang Shusheng and his team ate in the canteen of the construction site as construction technicians. In the simple and large "open-air" canteen, Zhang Shusheng acted like the most ordinary people, eating a piece of meat from the pot with his migrant worker brothers.

He ate a piece of fat twice-cooked pork and had a few sips with his fellow workers at the table. Although it was just plain rice and fat meat and vegetables, he felt the natural simplicity of farmers and workers, and their

of respect.

Maybe they will never know that they, an illiterate farmer who even needs the help of the village party secretary to clean up when he gets paid, can sit with the most powerful man in China and even the world in the future on a crude table and chair brought to the construction site by a farmer.

, have the most ordinary lunch.

However, although they will never know it, Zhang Shusheng will always remember it. It is these little things, and even more little things, that let him know that although he has made a fortune along the way, more people still need to follow him to make a fortune.

To reach the pinnacle of power, it is better to let a nation reach the pinnacle of happiness. Wealth and power cannot be taken with us in life or death, and we dare not expect to leave a name in history. So, it is better to use limited energy to take care of people's livelihood issues.

Let the people have food to eat, clothes to wear, smiles to smile, and hope for life.

After a simple but nutritious lunch, Zhang Shusheng boarded the plane to Yibin.

Fortunately, the airport construction in this period was not as high-standard as in later generations. A simple running cover, some basic supporting facilities, and a small field-level airport were enough to handle infrequent aircraft takeoffs and landings.

Zhang Shusheng was flying on a military transport aircraft modified from a J-H-2 bomber. At the end of 1927, based on the J-1 fighter and J-1 bomber, three improved fighter aircraft entered active service.

After four years of improvement and development, the development of the J-2 fighter jet is very satisfactory. Various data have fully reached the initial model of the German Air Force BF 109 that will appear in a few years. Dimensional data: wingspan 1022 meters

, 957 meters long, 31 meters high. Weight data: empty weight 2,930 kilograms. Performance data: maximum speed 696 kilometers, ceiling 11,000 meters, range 1,200 kilometers. Weapons and equipment: a 24-year-old

30mm cannon and two zh25-type 127mm aviation machine guns. In terms of power equipment, it is powered by a Kunlun 2 aircraft engine with a power of 1550 horsepower.

The JH-2 bomber is an independently developed bomber type. After sacrificing maneuverability and speed, the weight of this new bomber reached an astonishing 42 tons. However, the flight speed dropped to 425 kilometers, and the range was

1,800 kilometers. The self-defense weapons are mainly cannons and aviation machine guns. As soon as this specially developed bomber appeared, Zhang Shusheng decided to mass-produce it. For no other reason than its various data, it was enough for a long time, and even

A bombing mission in the early days of World War II.

Therefore, the modified transport aircraft is also an excellent model. In addition to being used for military purposes, Shusheng Company also purchased 5 aircraft to prepare for the establishment of Southwest Airlines for long-distance air transportation across provinces.

The straight-line flight from Panzhihua to Yibin is less than 600 kilometers. After flying for an hour and a half, the plane finally landed at Yibin Caiba Airport. Like Panzhihua, there is also a field airport used for military purposes. Although it is small, it is

It is enough for low-density air force transfers, etc.

It was only half an hour's journey from Caiba Airport to Yibin. However, when the motorcade arrived outside Yibin, Zhang Shusheng did not go in. He just stood on the top of the hill beside the Min River, quietly looking at this strange town.

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Yibin at this time was so small that it was not as big as the larger towns of later generations.

"Things are neither people nor..."

Zhang Shusheng stood alone, with his confidential secretary Mao Yun waiting far away from him.

Looking at the unfamiliar Yibin in the distance and the nearby Gaoya and Minjiang River, Zhang Shusheng's emotions were extremely complicated. This was his hometown in later generations, but now it is just a large stretch of riverside tidal flats.

This was later known as Shangjiangbei. Going down from the high cliff was the factory area of ​​Wuliangye. The Minjiang River meandered through one side, bringing vitality to the city and injecting water into the Yangtze River.

In later generations, there was no Minjiang Bridge, Wuliangye factory, or Yibin College. All there was was wasteland. Zhang Shusheng couldn't help but feel a little lonely.[

The place where he stood was originally a highway, one end of which led to Yibin City, and the other end to his hometown.

After looking at the continuous barren mountains for a long time, Zhang Shusheng shook his head and walked towards the foot of the mountain.

"Anyway, when the big things are done, let's go back to my hometown and have a look."

This was Zhang Shusheng's idea and his decision. Before getting on the bus, Zhang Shusheng sighed and then asked the mayor who was standing respectfully: "Wen Sheng, is there a place called Guanyin Town in your jurisdiction?"

"How does the chief know? I'm afraid it's more than sixty kilometers away from here. It was a big town in the Qing Dynasty, and the folk customs were very simple. Speaking of which, not long ago, I went there specifically because of the issue of setting up a county in Yibin County.

, we are going to put the county seat there."

The mayor was a little surprised. He didn't expect that even the chief had heard of Guanyin Town. Did he really want to locate the county government there? Although there were two other towns in the alternative address.

"County resident?" Zhang Shusheng was slightly startled. If the county resident was placed there, maybe the locals would benefit. However, perhaps it was his own selfishness. If the place completely changed, he would still be able to find the remaining sense of familiarity in the future.

And memories?

"No, let's choose another place for the county seat. I will ask people to prepare several "government" investment plans and choose them to be carried out within the scope of Guanyin Town. The "government" should pay more attention to this place..."

After saying that, Zhang Shusheng got on the car without looking back. He had said too much and it was enough. No matter what, he had to go back after all, which could be regarded as fulfilling his long-cherished wish.

"Xian Yun, please notify the airport. We will go to Chengdu in the afternoon."

In Chengdu, Zhang Shusheng will attend a "government" meeting after the formation of the new "government". He will invite some Bashu capitalists and highly respected people to participate in the discussion. It can be regarded as announcing the joining of the Bashu land from the highest level of the southwest "government".e
Chapter completed!