1928 was a year of development. Qiu Ziwen's 2nd Army successfully captured Ning Province, and most of the northwest was already in the hands of Zhang Yunhan.
Since the autonomous administration of Gansu Province, the northwest military government has begun continuous reforms, completely abolishing the previous policies of the Three Horses and Feng Jishan. The government encourages reclamation and has a white ocean as a reward. Of course, the government's revenue and expenditure are not large. Most people support the new policy, and farmers' taxes have been significantly reduced. In areas where there were droughts in the past, there will be no tax for three years. The Northwest Construction Engineering Group recruited a large number of well diggers and went to the countryside to dig wells in the villages.
Secondly, the highway construction company affiliated to the Construction Engineering Group has initially established transportation, and mechanized equipment such as bulldozers are widely used. Driving school graduates have found jobs one after another, and the wages are very good, from Qingcheng to Jincheng, Phoenix, Xiping, mainly The road has been widened and improved and is currently being covered with asphalt.
Third, a large number of light industrial products such as soap factories, match factories, pots and pans, etc. have flooded into markets around the world. The money earned by farmers has to be spent. The new cloth produced by textile factories is cheap and of good quality. Many of them come to Gansu. The vendors selling goods in the province not only failed to sell them, but instead bought a lot of goods and began dumping them to several neighboring provinces. A large number of oceans began to flow into the Construction Engineering Group. Coupled with the arms trade, another deal Not a small income.
Zhang Yunhan's current situation is that there are too few talents. Fortunately, the system has 3,000 places every month. Zhang Yunhan, who understands history, knows that the financial crisis is coming. At this time, he must seize the opportunity to introduce talents from Bald Eagle and install spies. Of course, he must also seize the opportunity to obtain some technical patents and equipment. It's not a problem, the system is there, the main thing is the talent. The technical college has a batch of students every two months, and then they are sent directly to the factory to learn through practice. After a large number of technicians poured in, factories were quickly established one after another.
Fourth, the Northwest Military Government integrated several newspapers, invested in equipment, and opened a new newspaper, the Northwest Daily. The daily mainly promotes government policies and has a reporting system. If there are officials, or wealthy businessmen, they will disregard human lives and bully the people. , you can write a letter to report. The report address is not a government building, but a police station in various places. Zhang Yunhan agrees with this. The police station is responsible for social security, and the chiefs in various places are biochemical people and are absolutely loyal to him. Therefore, Zhang Yunhan is relieved. There was a lack of manpower before and those former officials did not deal with it. Now he is not afraid.
Zhang Yunhan is sitting in his office, signing his name on the construction approval of the cement plant. Night schools are currently overcrowded, and the same is true for various universities. They often have large classes on the playground, and there are people all around. Silence, few people can speak. After all, if you learn these words now, you can enter the factory. Technical schools teach talents who need skills, but some ordinary factories only require workers to be literate, and the wages are not low.
Zhang Yunhan was very satisfied with his last unannounced visit. The entire northwest was completely in a construction boom. Various policies not only attracted the support of local people, but also the relocation of farmers from other provinces. Zhang Yunhan spared no effort in the education of various universities. He asked for money and equipment for equipment. Of course, if anyone dared to do such a thing as selling the equipment, the Intelligence Bureau would soon invite him to tea.
Zhang Yunhan is taking great steps now, but there is no way around it. If he wants to quickly catch up with these established empires, he must make detours.
At the same time, the Northern Expedition began again in the Central Plains. The principal was very angry when he knew that Zhang Yunhan had taken Qingning'er Province, but he thought it was nothing. He just bought some weapons. He had 700,000 troops under his command, a mere tens of thousands of them. And it’s still the desolate Northwest, so I don’t care at all.
Chang'an, this important town in the northwest, has slowly returned to its former prosperity after last year's war. Although it is far away from the sea, it is one of the few big cities in the northwest region. Here there is poverty and poverty, but also luxury.
In a daily necessities store, several women are buying supplies.
"Mrs. Zhao, look, this soap, I just heard from the shopkeeper, is actually imported from Jincheng in the west. I heard that these things are not available."
"Look, there is such a strong iron pot, and the price is not expensive."
A few ladies bought a lot of soaps, perfumes, etc. regardless of image.
After a while, a large number of people came running and swept away everything in the store. The store owner smiled and counted the money: "Quickly tell the second brother that we are getting a batch of goods. These foreign flowers are here."
At the end of March, the first wind turbine successfully generated electricity, which means that power can be continuously obtained from nature in the future. Zhang Kai carefully placed a piece of ore in his bag and recorded the discovery process in detail in his notes. After doing all this, he turned to the two people from other ethnic groups and said, "I kept you waiting."
"It's okay, we don't have anything to do. We all support Chairman Zhang's policies, and Chairman Zhang also distributes food. This is what we should do."
Another young guy opened his eyes curiously and said, "I heard that you have things that can glow without fire, and iron boxes that can run faster than horses on the ground." The young man was curious about something. Zhang Kai was asked many questions, and Zhang Kai answered them one by one. Many things could not be explained clearly.
The group continued to travel westward and discovered iron ore, coal mine, nickel ore, lead ore and many other minerals along the way. Soon after, the road construction team built a dirt road here and paved it with gravel. A few days later, large trucks pulling machines arrived here. Soon a truckload of construction teams came to build houses and pull wires. A mining plant was built. After that, workers arrived one after another, basically novices. , but there will be no problem after some exercise.
In the noisy workshop of the agricultural machinery factory affiliated to the Construction Engineering Group, engineers are instructing new workers to assemble harvesters. There are still three or four months before the summer wheat matures. We must seize the opportunity to produce and strive to have 56 harvesters in every town this year. machine. In addition, in fact, Zhang Yunhan secretly produced the harvesters from the system, and then brought them in with a fleet of vehicles. To the outside world, they were produced in the Longdong factory. In fact, the output of the Longdong factory was not high. In April, since the system upgrade, construction in the entire northwest has accelerated. Old workers transferred from Longdong have led new workers, and a large number of trained experienced veterans have appeared. Economic development is booming. By the end of April, steel production had reached 300,000 tons, oil production had reached 200,000 barrels, and a large number of Geese trucks were used in daily economic development. While the principal was still fighting with Zhang Yuting, the northwest was developing at full strength, and various industrial products were being dumped in the Central Plains, Sichuan, Sichuan and other places. Thanks to the construction of construction teams from various places, many roads were successfully opened, and gravel roads began to become a symbol of the northwest. Ethnic minorities were led by the government to join the industrial construction. Of course, the animal husbandry industry did not give up. The Construction Engineering Group recruited a large number of herdsmen and prepared to establish a milk industry. company. A radio station appeared in the town, telling people about the latest news in the newspapers every day, which greatly broadened the people's horizons. By the end of July, with the help of government agricultural machinery, the northwest had a bumper harvest. Farmers had an average harvest of 3,000 kilograms of grain per household. The northwest government began to purchase grain as a strategic grain reserve. The current military government in the northwest is so wealthy that it can hardly let go of the ocean.
