Changchun!

This is the name Li Xiao gave to this city in northeastern Liaoning.

This place is the hinterland of the Songliao Plain, with fertile land and abundant water resources. Huanglong Mansion, which Yue Fei said was directly called Huanglong Mansion, is not far from Changchun.

During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, this was the territory of the three guards of Uliangha. Then, it was the pasture of the Horqin Mongols.

Until Li Xiao became the governor of Shandong, the Yellow River flooded. Lankao, Henan, and Heze, Shandong, became a marsh country, and more than one million people were affected by the disaster.

Sun Chengzong moved all the victims to Liaodong. About 50,000 of them moved here.

Later, Li Xiao named the place called Long'anwei Changchun based on the location on the map.

This puzzled Sun Chengzong. For a place where there is winter for five months of the year, you call it Changchun?

But no matter what Sun Chengzong thought, Li Xiao still stubbornly called this place Changchun.

The vast Songliao Plain has rich land and abundant water resources. Although there are five months of winter in a year, only one season of food is grown a year, which is enough for the people's clothing and food.

Even three years later, this place became one of the main supply places for the Liao army's military supplies.

Now, a huge factory has been built in Changchun.

The reason why Li Xiao set up Ming Dynasty's first automobile city in Changchun was because, apart from his fixed mindset, the most important thing was that there were no foreigners here.

There are no foreigners, including those from the Ming Dynasty's vassal states, so the various secrets of the Changchun Automobile Factory can be preserved as long as possible.

Just last month, Luzhu just solved a spy case. The traitor bribed by the European Hebrew plutocrats was a North Korean.

This guy usually pretends to be a tavern owner and smiles at everyone all day long.

People from the institute ate in his restaurant, and they often added one or two dishes, as well as complimentary wine and so on.

If it weren't for his unusual interest in generators, people wouldn't even be suspicious.

When the people from the Security Bureau took away the stolen goods from others, everyone was surprised.

Places like taverns are an excellent place for spies. Chinese people have the habit of talking about things while eating. A lot of intelligence can be collected without deliberately eavesdropping.

After the incident was uncovered, various research institutes issued a ban. Eating out was strictly prohibited. All food and drinks had to be eaten in the cafeteria of the research institute.

No matter how delicious the food in the restaurant outside is!

Changchun has no other advantages, but this is good. Because the surrounding areas are all agricultural areas, and the town size is only a little more than 20,000 people.

Therefore, there are no Koreans or Japanese people here at all.

The nearest Korean settlement is in Yanji, but there are no Koreans there now. Last year, all the Koreans were expelled across the Tumen River because of Li Xiao's order.

From now on, whenever someone is caught sneaking across the border, they will be shot immediately.

The king of North Korea, Li Jie, didn't even fart, and even thanked Li Xiao for adding more people to him.

Li Xiao doesn't care about this. As long as he can keep the secrets of planes and cars, he doesn't count how many Korean families will be killed.

The First Automobile Manufacturing Plant settled in Changchun.

"Commander! One hundred trucks and thirty cars were shipped last month. Give me another half a year. The workers have lost their craftsmanship, and the output can be doubled." Jiang Dayong, retired factory director of the Liao Army, photographed

Chest assured Li Xiao.

One hundred trucks!

Li Xiao shook his head.

If this progress is followed, it will take more than ten years for the Liao army to be fully equipped with automobiles.

"No! Jiang Dayong, you are brave in fighting, but you also need to be brave in building cars. Do the math, we plan to equip each division of the Liao Army with 3,000 trucks.

There are more than 500 jeeps!

If you do the math, it will take three years to equip a division. When you say these cars, should I assign them to your teacher and commander Cao Wenzhao, Master Ao, or Commander Yuan of the second division?" Li Xiao looked at Jiang with a smile.

Great courage.

"Uh...! Marshal, what you said is the truth. I also know that you are anxious, but this morning the car must not only ensure quantity, but also quality.

You can’t say that if you don’t wash the mud when the carrot is fast, then the car has many problems and keeps breaking down, isn’t it a matter of delaying the troops?”

Li Xiao glanced at Jiang Dayong and admired his courage.

He deserves to be from the Liao Army, and he deserves to be called Dayong. If those officials in the capital were to be the factory director, they would not dare to say such things to Li Xiao.

They would just keep nodding and bowing, asking what Li Xiao said. Even if Li Xiao said that the eggs were grown on trees, they would still say that the eggs had a handle and two leaves.

"Haha! What you said, old boy, is right. Cars must not only ensure quantity, but also quality.

At least it must be guaranteed that the new car will not break down within 50,000 kilometers. This is the bottom line, and there must be no mistakes.

As for the output, tell me what you want. As long as I can help you solve it, I will help you solve it.

Do you want silver coins? Do you want food, or something else...!" Li Xiao waved his hand grandly and said boldly.

"Commander, what do I need those things for? To be honest, I've been getting calls for cars all day long, which has heated up the phone lines.

Either the First Division, the Third Division, or the Fourth Division. Even Commander Yuan of the Second Division in the south sent people to ask for cars.

All that was left behind were large sums of money. I looked jealous but didn’t dare to sell one privately.

If you want money, these are huge sums of money. They are all put into the public account, and I am not afraid of you looking at my head."

"Haha! You old boy is quite sensible. You don't want any of these. What do you want?" Li Xiao looked at Jiang Dayong and asked.

"People! I need people!

I want student workers who have studied and understand technology. I also want old masters with excellent skills!

Commander, our work is all about machines. The group of people who originally took the hoes had to go to the boiler room to burn the boiler.

You just need to give me eight hundred, uh... no, five hundred of these people. Under the condition of ensuring quality, if the output does not increase three times within a year, you can twist my head and kick it like a ball."

Jiang Dayong patted his chest again and promised!

"Haha! What you want is much more expensive than food and money. You want a master and a young student.

Do you know that these two types of people are the most expensive nowadays. There are only so many people in total, so I am counting them on my fingers.

In this way..., I'll take care of 300 people for you."

"Commander..., it can't be done, I can't open the door!" Hearing what Li Xiao said, Jiang Dayong was a little panicked.

"Listen to me! It's not difficult for you. I'll give you three hundred people. Within a year, you have to double the output.

From now on, I will send you 200 student children every year. As for how many successful ones you can get, that depends on your means.

Within three years, your production will be doubled for me, reaching the standard of producing 500 trucks and 150 cars per month!

In ten years, I want your production to double by twenty." Li Xiao held out two fingers to Jiang Dayong.

The vast Ming Dynasty could definitely handle even if its monthly output reached 10,000 vehicles.

Moreover, it is not just the Ming Dynasty that needs cars in this world. Countries such as Japan, Korea, Cochin, Siam, and Myanmar all have needs for cars.

Not to mention distant Europe, they are also big buyers of cars.

Li Xiao feels that even if a million cars are produced per month, the world can definitely afford it.

"This...!" Jiang Dayong hesitated.

"No?" Li Xiao stared at Jiang Dayong with sharp eyes.

"Sure! I have accepted the offer, Commander-in-Chief. As long as you can give me two hundred well-educated student babies every year. The output will increase twenty-fold in ten years. I will sign this military order with you.

If you fail to achieve your goal by then, you can take off my head." Jiang Dayong seemed to have made great determination, and slapped his chest again towards Li Xiao.

"There is no joke in the army!"

"There is no joke in the army!"

"Okay! I, Li Xiao, have made a note of it. As long as you can achieve this goal in ten years, the next Minister of the Ministry of Machinery will be yours." Li Xiao patted Jiang Dayong on the shoulder.

This made Jiang Dayong very excited. He had been a tenant for eight generations. He didn't even have a ridge of his own land. He thought that his career would be over at this point.

But I didn't expect that I would have the opportunity to become a minister.

The Minister of Mechanical Engineering is a third-rank official in the imperial court.

This is no longer green smoke coming from the ancestral graves, but thick smoke.

Perhaps to please Li Xiao, today is the day when the first batch of trucks will be delivered to the troops. These trucks will be sent directly to the automobile training teams and repair companies of each army.

The automobile training team is responsible for training drivers, and the repair company is responsible for repairing cars. In the future, when cars are used in the army, these two people are absolutely indispensable.

Watching the trucks boarding the train, Li Xiao seemed to have returned to the days when he went to the grassland for training.

Cars are the treasure of the army. They rely on them to pull ammunition for cannons. Later, they even built a truck cannon.

The cannon and the truck are integrated into one, which is as convenient as possible.

Over the years, the Liao army had howitzers. However, the howitzers and ammunition required oxen to pull them.

The main division's howitzers have always wanted to be equipped with 155 mm.

But with the 120mm artillery, it was already very difficult for the troops to rise. With the 155mm artillery, the troops were simply overwhelmed.
To be continued...