Chapter Fourteen I've Been Waiting For You
As time goes by, Donovan stopped appearing, and the debate about whether this American and his three blind partners can return to Ningwu has gradually subsided. Except for Kang Fan, everyone has no hope for Donovan's return. Even Wallace Chung, who dislikes the most suspicious, complains that Kang Fan's approach was too rash this time. You must know that Donovan took away enough gold and silver that he had used for several lifetimes! Everyone can't think of why he should refuse such temptation.
Fortunately, there is still a lot of work to be done in the industrial park, and everyone thinks that as long as Kang Fan is there, there will be an alternative solution, and I will no longer talk about this matter while I am busy. Donovan, an American, was quickly forgotten by everyone, and Kang Fan is the only one who is truly waiting for Donovan to return sincerely.
After the formation of the Blue Demon team was completed, Kang Fan led the Blue Demon team members to and escort various materials needed to build the industrial park in batches, or purchase grain and other goods from various places to supply the living needs of everyone on the construction site. Yu Hao finally understood his intention to support Kang Fan, hoping that Kang Fan could help him complete the task of eliminating bandits. Of course, Kang Fan would agree.
There have always been bandits of unknown origins around Ningwu County. These bandits came and went without a trace, hiding in the mountains and forests around the county, waiting for opportunities to rob and harm passing vendors or local people. Although Yu Hao organized officers and soldiers to clear them up many times, they finally achieved little success due to the complex terrain and unclear situation. Last year, a group of bandits attacked several villages around the county town, killing and injuring many local people, and robbing countless money and grain. As a result, during the New Year, the people who were suffering gathered in the county government to complain about their grievances, which made Yu Hao not well for many years and raised money and grain everywhere to help the people who were suffering.
In a rage, Yu Hao personally led the officers and soldiers to conduct a carpet-style search. Thousands of people took half a month. Not only did they fail to find the bandits, but they actually allowed several brave bandits to take advantage of the situation in broad daylight and harasse the county town and escaped. Although the losses of the people in the county town were minor this time, anyone with a discerning eye could see that this was a bandit demonstrating to Yu Hao, and they would not be so kind next time.
This incident had an extremely bad impact on the entire Ningwu Mansion. Yu Hao's uncle wrote a letter to severely scolded Yu Hao for his negligence and eliminated the bandits within a time limit, and did not delay it. Otherwise, he would never care about his uncle and nephew's feelings and investigate and deal with dereliction of duty in accordance with the law.
In Kang Fan's eyes, Yu Hao is an upright, enlightened, and too kind intellectual. His civil service is commendable, but his military service is just a mess. This cannot be blamed for Yu Hao. Although Yu Hao is well-read, he has no research on military training and fighting, so it is a bit difficult for him to take charge of military service. However, there is no way. After the original military officer in Ningwu County was transferred to the outside world, no new military officer was appointed here. Yu Hao's uncle was not available at hand, so Yu Hao, a literati, could only have both civil and military service.
For Kang Fan, on the one hand, he is a soldier and has the awareness of protecting the people. Even if Yu Hao doesn't ask him, he will take the initiative to do it; on the other hand, considering the needs of future career development, and making good friends with the government, no matter from any aspect, it will be a good thing that is beneficial but not harmful. In addition, Kang Fan respects Yu Hao very much. Therefore, he must do his best to do these things well.
Kang Fan knew that He Shuikuo had been running horses for many years and was very familiar with bandits along the road. The He family was able to trade safely for many years at the expense of paying huge amounts of "buying roads" to the bandits. This was a helpless move. The local government was incompetent and the people only wanted to protect themselves. However, after inquiry, Kang Fan realized that most of the bandits who often dealt with He Shuikuo were entrenched in the Taihang Mountains area in northern Shanxi and the border between Shanxi and Zhili, and had nothing to do with this bandits who were in chaos in Ningwu.
Kang Fan sent the Blue Demon team members to various villages to investigate secretly. After the information obtained, Kang Fan suspected that the bandits were locals or were a bandits from the local area and other places.
Since ancient times, the soldiers and bandits were all, and Ningwu garrisons were no exception. The contemporary Qing government was exhausted, the military expenditure was tight, and the corruption was becoming increasingly serious, and the military management was chaotic. Even the Eight Banners soldiers, which were equivalent to the regular army of the country, could not even guarantee the military pay for the Eight Banners soldiers, which were equivalent to the regular army of the country, let alone the local army? And even this pitiful military pay needed to be deducted by officers at all levels before it could be paid to the soldiers. How much can the soldiers get? How to support their families? How to drink, eat meat, smoke smoke, and play with women? In this way, being a soldier openly and a bandit secretly became their most convenient and quick way to make money.
Kang Fan took the above into consideration when he formed the Blue Demon Team and personally went to the Ningwu garrison to select. With the cooperation of Mei Xiang and several medical students, a group of healthy people who had never smoked smoked smoke and had no venereal diseases were selected from thousands of officers and soldiers for training. He also eliminated the unqualified ones through the training. Finally, the two hundred officers and soldiers who became members of the Blue Demon Team were the remaining winners, and they all had a certain cultural foundation. Although they had only been to private schools for a few years and recognized a few words, this is also rare in this era where illiterate people are everywhere.
Even so, if only strict military discipline is used to restrain them, although the Blue Demon team members are relatively high in quality, they will also violate the discipline. There is no way, the Blue Demon team members are also human beings. If they are human beings, they have to live, and there will be demands in life. Therefore, Kang Fan gave them high military salary and good welfare treatment, and conquered their hearts with his personal charm.
After listening to Kang Fan's analysis, Yu Hao felt that the matter was serious, so he followed Kang Fan's intention and inserted some of the Blue Demon team members into the county government office, military camp, police station and other departments with various false positions, and was responsible for intelligence collection and monitoring personnel. After combining and summarizing the information obtained from other channels, some suspicious elements were identified and all of them were closely monitored. The exact situation of several bandit gathering places in the mountainous areas around the county town was found.
Yu Hao never thought that there were bandits in the county garrison, and even the officials in the county government office had spies. These rebellions from subordinates who had been following his uncle for many years directly led to the failure of his many bandit suppression operations. This is really a huge irony! Therefore, how confidentiality is done in Kang Fan's subsequent bandit suppression operations has become crucial.
"Brother Kang just does it alone this time, and there is no need to report it. For brother, just take the result." Yu Hao said.
After Kang Fan received the order, he immediately summoned the Blue Demon team members to formulate a detailed combat plan. In addition to these team members, only Kang Fan and Yu Hao knew about this combat plan. Therefore, whether the bandit suppression operation can be successful depends on Kang Fan's vision: whether these Blue Demon team members are truly trustworthy people depends on this battle. If an accident occurs, Kang Fan will bear the biggest risk first! Because he will participate in the bandit suppression operation with the Blue Demon team members, and these well-trained Blue Demon team members will definitely be as easy as possible if they want to shoot him.
Facts proved that Kang Fan's concerns were unnecessary: under his leadership, the two hundred members of the Blue Demon Team wiped out these bandit nests with hidden and fierce attacks, killed and captured more than 30 bandits, and returned with great victory. After interrogation, half of the dozen bandits who survived were local garrison officers and soldiers. After their identification, they determined the identities of the previous suspicious elements, arrested them all, and sent them to the prefect's office for the law.
At this point, the bandit suppression operation ended successfully. Kang Fan showed his strong combat skills, extraordinary psychological quality and excellent command art in this series of actions. He always led by example and successfully established his prestige and won the full support of the Blue Demon team members.
Since then, the figures of these mighty Blue Demon team members riding tall horses, carrying sabers and steel guns on the back of the county town often saw these powerful Blue Demon team members riding tall horses, carrying sabers and carrying steel guns. They patrolled tirelessly day and night in various parts of the county, trying their best to protect the people in this area, and soon gained the recognition of the people in the county. The result is that whenever the patrol team members go, the local people will serve tea and water, and entertain good food and meat. However, these team members have strict military disciplines, never get off the horse and stop easily, and never accept gifts from the people. However, once they find the enemy situation, they act extremely rapidly and decisively.
After a period of time, with the effective efforts of the Blue Demon Team, the security situation in the county was completely changed. The Blue Demon Team quickly grew into an armed force that was loved by the people and scared the bandits, and became famous. Kang Fan also had a trustworthy team he had always dreamed of, and his arms became thicker and stronger.
At the beginning of autumn, Donovan and his three blind friends led a huge convoy to appear on the official road outside the county town. It was really surprising that the Qing officers and soldiers were on the escort mission for the convoy!
On that day, Kang Fan was patrolling the suburbs with more than a dozen Blue Demon team members. He accidentally discovered the convoy flashing in the morning mist from the telescope. When he recognized Donovan's colorful carriage, Kang Fan couldn't help but tremble all over with excitement.
"You American..." Kang Fan couldn't help but burst into tears as he held his hands tightly with Donovan.
Donovan also looked solemn, "I haven't seen it for a long time, my dear friend!"
Everything was said without saying anything. Donovan's return made everyone happy, and the accusations against Kang Fan disappeared. Donovan was a promise, and Kang Fan was honest and priceless. The two of them made a real gamble! Once this matter spread, it was a good story in Ningwu County.
"Since ancient times, heroes have been young. This is true!" He Shuichang sighed sincerely.
"Such a righteous act is rare in ancient and modern times!" Yu Hao also agreed very much. He immediately hired Kang Fan as the county garrison instructor with the salary equivalent to the seventh-rank military officer of the court, and helped with the county garrison in the county government. This gave Kang Fan a formal identity in the county government. Just from the official rank, Yu Hao's uncle only gave Yu Hao a seventh-rank civil servant a salary. In this way, Kang Fan could carry guns with him legitimately, and he could better provide protection for the students.
Donovan brought back steam turbine generator sets and related accessories, tap water system parts, boilers, various chemical and pharmaceutical equipment, various machine tools and electrical equipment, as well as a large number of chemical, metal and other raw materials. After acceptance one by one according to the purchase list provided by the students, there were a lot of them. In this way, the hardware required for the first phase of the industrial development plan is complete, and it depends on the students' next.
After the supporting infrastructure in the industrial park was completed, pharmaceutical factories, daily chemical factories and metal machining factories immediately began to produce and operate normally. Each factory recruits young and strong and healthy villagers to work in Mafang Township, with no limit on men and women. Medical personnel were selected from county hospitals to conduct regular physical examinations on these villagers who voluntarily registered. Those who passed the exam were hired, regardless of gender. Each person worked 5 days a week, worked 8 hours a day, and paid generous monthly salary.
The technical content of pharmaceuticals is high. Although the students have enough theoretical knowledge in their minds, it is still difficult to produce real medicines, so they have no idea at first. Later, after discussion, the students gave up the original unrealistic development plan, adopted a small and refined strategy, and focused on making breakthroughs to achieve the effect of point-to-face. Only then did the drug development and development plan get out of the dilemma. First, a traditional Chinese medicine with a medicinal effect similar to Yunnan Baiyao and a Western medicine with a medicinal effect similar to aspirin were successfully developed, named Traditional Chinese Medicine No. 1 and Western Medicine No. 1 respectively. Then they began to try to produce various antibiotics and other commonly used Chinese and Western medicines, and finally opened up the situation.
Those various and diverse daily chemical products, such as soap, soap, shampoo, laundry detergent, toothpaste, toothbrush, matches, etc., are relatively simple in production and have been pre-researched. After the raw materials and equipment are all in place, they will soon be mass-produced and continuously produced. It is particularly worth mentioning that these man-intensive industries do not have high requirements for workers' physical fitness, so they have placed a large number of unemployed women at home, making them like their fathers, husbands and brothers become "important family members" who can earn money to support their families. They have raised their status overnight and are of great significance.
With the novel 21st century medical equipment, equipment, medicines and professional minds, the county hospital soon established its reputation in the county and surrounding areas. Under the great news, the number of people who came to Mu Ming to seek medical treatment was endless. Although the fees were not high, due to the huge passenger flow, it still became the first enterprise to realize profits.
The female students in several hospitals made money for the first time in their lives, and they were very rare metal currency. Not to mention the strong sense of accomplishment, they all came to Kang Fan and rushed to show the copper coins, silver and other things to Kang Fan excitedly.
Kang Fan kept praising them, and suddenly thought that he should be confirmed as a formal financial manager, so he called Wallace Chung.
"I think about it all the time, you are the position of the head of finance manager." Kang Fan said.
It has been almost half a year since we arrived in this era. Kang Fan has been busy outside. The trivial affairs in the camp are managed by Zhong Hanqiang. The financial expenditures of all sizes are managed by Zhong Hanqiang very professionally and are worthy of being a successful businessman. Now, the development of the business has begun, and it is time to establish it.
Wallace Chung agreed.
After learning that Kang Fan would also implement the second phase of the industrial development plan, Donovan lived in the county town in order to facilitate future work. In this way, during the period when the first batch of industrial enterprises had just begun to operate and the second phase of the industrial development plan had not been implemented, except for some after-sales service work, Donovan had nothing to do for the time being, so he took the initiative to find Mei Xiang and asked for help from the county hospital.
Mei Xiang has learned that Donovan often treats and saves patients when preaching in China and is proficient in surgery. What's more, the hospital is now in a hurry to lack doctors with rich work experience. He can recommend himself, of course he is very unhappy.
"Mr. Donovan, you are a respected old angel who came from a foreign paradise to the Chinese world." Mei Xiang held Donovan's hands tightly and said enthusiastically in fluent English.
Chapter completed!