A Type 35A airship slowly landed on the airport along the Hunhe River, and Li Ming and Ma Qing came to Shenyang this time to attend the spring meeting of the company's board of directors. As soon as the two jumped down from the pod, they saw Gao Jianguo and Wang He, and Li Ming hurriedly walked up and shook hands with the two cordially.

"We're flattered that you're all here."

Wang He laughed and said: "You have been gone for more than a year, and the Hetao base area is still so difficult, can we not come?" ”

Gao Jianguo also smiled and said: "I didn't want to come, it was Lao Wang who pulled me here, he said that if the two of us don't come, I'm afraid you will have ideas." ”

When Li Ming and Ma Qing heard this, they both laughed.

They got into a jeep and went all the way to the company's headquarters in Shenyang. Several other members of the Standing Committee of the Board of Directors also stood outside the gate of the headquarters to greet them, which made Li Ming and Ma Qing really flattered.

After a few pleasantries, everyone came to the conference room of the company's board of directors. After Gao Jianguo sat down, he took out a cigarette and handed it out to a few people, lit a cigarette and took a puff, and then said with a smile: "Li Ming, your Hetao base area did a good job last year, especially the winter training work, and as soon as the assessment results came out, we were shocked enough." ”

Li Ming shook his head and said, "Last year's situation was special, just in time for our Northwest Field Army to select new recruits. These homeless people who participated in the winter training did not know where to get the news, and they heard that the selection of recruits was based on the assessment results of the winter training. All the displaced people who participated in the training and the border troops of the Ming Dynasty played like they were training. ”

Hu Wei next to him also smiled and said, "Li Ming, it's a shame to say." Originally, I was supposed to go to the Hetao base last year, but the task of receiving displaced people on the company's side in the past two years was too heavy, and I really couldn't leave. It's good now. I have already arranged the work of the company's immigration team, and I will go to the Hetao area next month. ”

Li Ming smiled and said: "This is great, we have been looking forward to you in the past, we lack a person who takes charge of the overall situation, now I am relieved, no matter how difficult the work is, in the eyes of you workaholic." Then it's not a thing. ”

Everyone laughed when they heard him.

Wang He also smiled and said, "Li Ming, what are the difficulties in your Hetao base area now? Feel free to bring it up at any time. Now the company has passed the most difficult period, and all kinds of material reserves are extremely sufficient. In the past two years, the company has lacked sufficient support for the Hetao base area, which has really made the comrades in the base area suffer. ”

Gao Jianguo's face turned pale, and he said in a deep voice: "Li Ming." You're not welcome now. Old Joe has been in India a lot, and the materials have not been shipped yet. Our Far East is now wide, and all kinds of supplies are almost out of place. Now all departments of the company are staring at us, if you don't want it, you will be robbed immediately. ”

Li Ming shook his head and said with a frown: "To be honest, the conditions in the Hetao base area are indeed difficult. There is a shortage of materials and personnel. Of course, we hope for strong support from the company. But the Hetao is located in the northwest, and it is too far away from Liaodong. There is no water connection. Even if you take the land route from Keshiketengqi, it will take more than 1,000 kilometers to make a round trip, and the road conditions along the way are not good.

If you organize a large-scale horse team, it is obviously unrealistic, and the cost of fuel is high, not to mention the high cost of fuel, and the wear and tear of the company's modern vehicles is relatively large. If you organize a convoy for centralized support, once or twice is fine, and more is not cost-effective. So what we have been asking for are important materials, and the others are generally solved by ourselves. ”

Everyone frowned when they heard his words.

Far Eastern Group has brought hundreds of trucks from modern society, and has been active in the construction of the company, making great contributions to Far Eastern Company. But over time, these KAMAZ trucks have all had their engines replaced, and they have all undergone one or more major repairs, and other parts of the vehicles have also been worn to varying degrees.

The main reason is that there is too much running, especially after the company's Sakhalin petrochemical base solves the fuel problem, each car can run more than 100,000 kilometers per year, and even the mileage of some vehicles exceeds 150,000 kilometers. The company's upkeep is doing a good job, but the service life of the vehicle is there.

Fortunately, the Soviet-style vehicles are durable, and many of the vehicles are faulty, but they are still active on all fronts of the Far Eastern Company, shuttling between various construction sites every day. According to the company's technical estimates, according to the current running method, these cars should be scrapped one after another in a few years.

Fortunately, the company's power research institute and various enterprises in Vladivostok jointly developed several steam-powered automobiles and construction machinery, which are currently progressing very smoothly. But if you want to popularize the product on a large scale, it will take two or three years. So at present, these trucks of the company are used on the cutting edge.

After all, the company's own production and development of steam vehicles, has not yet formed a scale, the company is in an important stage of development, from Liaodong Daohetao to a round trip to more than 1,000 companies, just to transport ordinary materials, is really not cost-effective.

Gao Jianguo shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Then your Hetao base area can only hold on for another two years." In the future, we regularly organize long-distance horse teams to ensure the supply of materials in the Hetao area as much as possible. ”

Li Ming saw that the venue was rather dull, so he smiled and said to everyone: "Our Northwest Field Army is preparing to launch the westward expansion plan and the northward expansion plan at the same time next spring. At present, with the strength of our Northwest Field Army, it is completely capable of supporting two campaigns at the same time, and as long as cavalry units are dispatched, supplemented by airboat troops, it is enough to form a crushing situation against the Mongolian units in the west and Mobei. ”

Gao Jianguo nodded and said: "I agree with Li Ming's opinion, at present, all units of our Far Eastern Army are strong and strong, and after years of construction, their combat effectiveness is very strong. In the face of the Mongol tribes in the large steppe in the northwest, there was no pressure at all, and the question of each battle was no longer a question of victory or defeat, but whether they could be completely annihilated. Even if it is a crushing battle, we will lose the battle.

Not only that, judging from the three campaigns launched by the Central Military Commission in Korea, Japan, and India in the past two years, the combat effectiveness of the various units of the Central Military Commission, including the newly trained Death Army Group Army, is enough to sweep away all the armies of this era. Even if it sweeps the world, I think we have taken a little small step before, and we should completely solve the entire Asian continent before we become the master of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Qiao Haipeng also said after hearing this: "Yes, the current strength of our Admiralty is not known how many times stronger than the European colonizers of this era, but if you look at the European colonists, hundreds of people dare to invade the New World of America, and the colonies of big countries in the world have caught up with their countries dozens of times bigger." (To be continued.) )