Chapter 489: Exploding the Navy (1)
The northwest is full of war, and the bay in Qinzhou, Guangxi is also crowded with people.
After seven years of development, the small fishing port in the past has become one of the largest hub harbors along the southern coast. Putting aside the boring economic data, there are more than 10,000 dock workers of various types in Qinzhou alone.
There are more than a thousand factories and shops in all sizes. The pride of Guangxi people is second only to Mawei and the Qinzhou Bay Shipyard in Guangzhou.
More than 10,000 people scattered rice in the northwest border and desert, but they were all crowded at the harbor dock, which made the soldiers in the southwest garrison area sweat. Lu Yuguang and Ma Jiyi were in their thirties.
While commanding order, he stretched his neck and looked at the empty sea surface, and said anxiously: "Dad... why didn't the commander-in-chief's ship come yet?"
Both of them were the first group of students from Southwest to Europe and the United States in 12 years. After studying in the United States for three years, they entered the American West Point Military Academy as a non-commissioned officer, but they also missed the European war. So the two were notified of the European war.
People regretted it, so they wanted to take this opportunity of Yang Qiu coming to Guangxi to find a way to tell them about their achievements in the Northwest War Zone. Lu Rongting's thoughts of his son and adopted son glared and said, "Look at you."
You! How old is it that he is still so silent. Since he has joined the army, he should learn to keep calm. Do you think it is easy for the Northwest barbarians to pack up? I tell you, will this battle end in one or two years?
Now! Look at Brother Miao... learn more! Don’t think that after drinking foreign ink for a few years, your tail will rise to the sky."
Lu Rongting wore a Chinese-style robe, his face was red and his forehead was shiny. He could not see the shadow of wandering in his early years.
As for the Miao brothers he mentioned, they were Miao Luo's brother Miao Yuan. Since Song Jiaoren's death, he has put down all his thoughts and went to Ansheng, Guangxi to operate, and took over the Qinzhou Bay Shipyard under his sister's name.
Southwest Rubber Company and other industries not only recruited talents through the Americas Zhigong Hall, but also invited many technicians from the United States. After the signing of the Plum Blossom Agreement two years ago, they used Britain and France to support teachers.
The opportunity to discuss with Lu Rongting to invest in the construction of Guilin University, Liuzhou Business School and Nanning Industrial School in one go. It has become a hot industrialist in Guangxi and even the whole country. I met Lu Rongting at this moment
He taught his son a lesson and laughed: "Governor Lu is so polite. The two brothers should learn from you. If you hadn't planned, how could we have the grand scene of Guangxi today?"
Listening to Miao Yuan's words, "We Guangxi", Lu Rongting's eyes were full of excitement. He was at his age and was thinking about his descendants. He saw Yang Qiu at the beginning and even matched Miao Luo with him.
Isn't that just the thought? Now Yang Qiu has become the pillar that can hold up the whole country and even the Far East. If he helps him look forward to Guangxi and the southwest, his sons will make a living as long as they don't make big mistakes.
It is absolutely no problem, so he spent all his efforts to develop Guangxi over the years. Although his foundation is not as weak as other provinces, he took advantage of his fame in the Nanyang area to actively contact Chinese businessmen to return to China to invest, and borrowed them.
While the European war stimulates the development of traditional industries such as camphor, mosquito coils, medicinal materials, and vanilla oil, it also develops light chemical industries such as soap, saline and alkali, cement, aluminum plants, coal, mining and other resource industries.
The prosperity is soaring. Finally, these means have made Guangxi's finance and taxation more than triple in seven years! It has exceeded the national average, and with the completion of the construction of the Southwest Railway Network, Qinzhou, located at the coastal end
The bay has a vague attitude of surpassing Guangzhou to become the largest port in the south.
Not only that, under his control, the agriculture, forestry, water and animal husbandry in Guangxi have made great progress. First, they bought improved Chameng rice seeds from the French to promote the whole province, and according to Yang Qiu's suggestion, they strictly ordered all regions to do it.
Captive poultry industry. Although these have strong paternalistic executive orders, they have really changed the traditional agricultural landscape. Grain can not only meet the needs of the whole province but also provide a large amount of supply to the state for reserve.
, Guangxi bacon was once included in the Allies' priority military supplies!
Especially when Yang Qiu asked Miaoluo to invest and start the rubber planting industry, it was even more rapid. If Yang Qiu had not been afraid of destroying the environment, the planting area and quantity were stipulated, the whole province would not have been fully covered.
Question. Now the first batch of rubber plantations have reached the harvest period, and this item alone can earn tens of millions every year. Who wouldn’t smile and have a red eye?
In addition to industry and commerce, he also actively responded to Yang Qiu's request for provinces to do a good job in infrastructure related to national economy and people's livelihood, recruited civil servants to build a large-scale construction, and the two railways in Guangxi in the Southwest Railway Network were built in less than four years.
Not to mention, many roads were built, and they bought cars out of their own pocket to start Guangxi Automobile Transportation Company. Finally, they invited Americans through Miao Yuan to select a site to design and build five dam power plants in one go.
Nowadays, Nanning, Qinzhou, Guilin and Liuzhou can already use electric lights and start radiating to small cities.
Although many of these are done by state financial subsidies, he will definitely be the first to be credited.
Politically, he also actively supported Yang Qiu. Last year, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui made a big fuss in land reform, and Liang Qichao also initiated impeachment. After learning about it, he immediately sent a telegram to contact the Southwest Congressman to support Yang Qiu. Afterwards, he not only took the initiative.
In Guangxi, it also publicly criticized Liang Qichao as the lackey of conservative landlord Laocai in the newspaper. So when I heard Miao Yuan said he wanted to learn from him, he was secretly proud, but he deliberately said that he was on his face.
Ban, pretended to be angry and said, "Isn't I worthy of being Brother Miao's brother?"
Miao Yuan knew what he meant, but he laughed before he could speak, but suddenly a woman's laughter came from behind: "How could he not be worthy? Lian Chenhua often said that without Mr. Lu, there would be no Guangxi and Xi.
What about the South today.”
The voice made Miao Yuan happy on his face, and he quickly turned his head and shouted: "Sister!"
"elder brother!"
Under the protection of the guard, Miao Luo, who was in a light-sleeved long skirt, appeared behind everyone with a child in his arms. Lu Rongting did not expect Miao Luo to come. He dared to joke with Miao Yuan, but did not dare to be in front of the future first lady.
He was arrogant and quickly saluted: "Lu Rongting has met his wife."
"Governor Lu is out of here, Luo'er hasn't thank you yet." Miao Luo's eyes were light, and when he said this, a blush appeared on his cheeks. Lu Rongting was even more proud of his wife back then
The route was right, and he laughed and said, "Madam is joking. You and the Vice President are kind to Tiancheng, and Lu just went with the flow." Miao Yuan didn't expect his sister to come, but he was about to ask, "The distance is here."
But a loud whistle sounded from the sea that had been waiting for a long time.
This whistle made Miao Luo's eyes turn red. This time Yang Qiu went to Paris to attend the meeting, and it took half a year to go on the way. He had long been looking at him and lived with his fingers every day, so
I heard that the first stop when I came back was Qinzhou. I simply took my children here to wait for him in the name of seeing my uncle.
The sound of the whistle also made the crowd who came here to greet him feel restless. When he looked at him, he saw a few big guys with gun barrels suddenly appearing on the bay! Even Lu Rongting was scared.
Jump. Although he participated in the launch ceremony of the Anhai-class ship of the New Mawei at the beginning of last year, the spectacular scene of the three Anhai-class ships sailing into the bay at the same time still makes people feel extremely shocking! What's even more strange is.
In addition to the three Anhai-class ships, there are actually two large warships with more barrels... If it weren't for the Navy flag of the Republic of China on the mast, he would have asked the shore artillery to bombard it.
"Dad. That's the two battleships that the Navy just bought!" Lu Yuguang introduced the Navy to his father about the Navy's purchase of warships. When he heard that Britain deliberately broke the contract and sold four Japanese ships, he was so angry that he kept running.
Snorted a few coldly.
Lu Rongting was dissatisfied, but the harbor was already deafening. Compared with the big cities in Shanghai, Qinzhou has developed into a big port, and even several deep-water wharfs of 100,000 tons have been built.
Since Britain and France restricted the navy from coming a few times a year, they were all small ships, when the main battleship first appeared in the bay, everyone was frightened by their huge bodies and hideous cannons.
When I saw the flag clearly, I clenched my fists and cheered.
Because... this is his own iron armored giant ship!
When five main battleships entered the bay one after another, they crossed the Arctic Ocean and detoured by Chile. In order to avoid sight, they traveled across the vast Pacific Ocean, and the voyage almost circled the earth, carrying the national manufacturing industry
The fleet of Takeoff Hope also entered the bay and started to approach the port under the protection of 10 cruisers and destroyers. Even if Qinzhou wharf expanded and expanded, it was still very impressive to squeeze into 16 giant ships and 5 main battleships.
Crowded. Especially those ships that almost exceeded 20,000 tons, with a deep draft of the hull sailing for a long time, made dock workers secretly guess their identities.
As the fleets entered the bay, the naval destroyers and quickly closed the entire bay, the Coast Guard immediately announced that Qinzhou Bay was temporarily closed.
"Chenhua..."
As soon as she got off the warship, Yang Qiu heard a familiar shout. I saw Miao Luo holding the child, standing crisply on the dock. His eyes were staring at him, like a lily, beautiful and incomparable.
.The look made him feel a little excited. He ran over to take the child and then carried her deep into his arms.
The people who came back together with Song Ziqing and Zhang Xiaojun were not uncommon, but the others were still a little moved. After all, this was the Republic of China, and it was Qinzhou, Guangxi, which was more conservative. Even Xiao Yang Qiu included
With a finger, drooling, wide eyes, thinking about who this guy is? Why did you learn to hug your mother and not let go? The surprise, shock and even envious eyes around Miao Luo suddenly woke up
, quickly blushed Yang Qiu away, snatched the child's cover and said, "Okay, okay, what's it like."
"Let's go, take you to see someone." Yang Qiu also knew that her face was tender, and without waiting to speak, he grabbed her, Song Ziqing and others and walked towards the icebreaker behind him.
Miao Luo was curious about who he was going to meet, so he saw Bingwen and Liu Mingzhao walking down from the boat. She knew both of them, especially Bingwen was regarded as his younger brother by Yang Qiu, and Liu Mingzhao also accepted Yang Qiu's relatives.
The young officer who was self-tutoring came to attend classes almost every night before he and Long Yun went abroad.
"Bingwen (Liu Mingzhao), a non-commissioned officer of the National Defense Forces, completed his mission and came to report!"
"Welcome to return to the team!"
The loud voice and erect posture made Yang Qiu feel sore in his nose. Looking at their tired faces and wrinkled clothes, you will know how much hardship they suffered along the way! Besides, it was him
Our fearlessness and sacrifice brought back the high-end manufacturing equipment we had always dreamed of! It can be said that they raised the manufacturing industry of the Republic of China for ten years! It gave the Republic of China an opportunity to catch up with the world.
Based on this alone, any reward is light, so Yang Qiu felt that saluting was not enough to express gratitude, so he put down his right arm and suddenly stepped forward and hugged the two of them in his arms, patted his back hard and said:
"Thank you for your hard work! Thank you!"
Hugs made Bingwen and Liu Mingzhao a little dull. When a thank-you sounded in his ears, a warm current suddenly spread from his heart to his whole body. At that moment, they all remembered Chen Yuqiu and Su like an ice sculpture.
Hundreds of non-commissioned officers and sailors who sacrificed their lives for the plan.
When the three of them separated, Bingwen immediately dodged half of his body: "Commander-in-Chief, see who this is." Song Ziqing was the first to react, widening his eyes and seemed to be unable to believe it...
"General Hakan?"
.(To be continued)
Chapter completed!