The results of the vote came out, and the final plan for the development of the Hetao base area was passed by a narrow number of votes. Now that the plan has passed the resolution of the Board Committee, the Standing Committee and members of the Board Committee have begun to continue to study the implementation of the plan.

The Hetao Base Area Garrison Area and Management Committee will be established, with Li Ming serving as the commander of the Hetao Garrison Area and Hu Wei serving as the director of the Hetao Base Area Management Committee. The two of them will set up a preparatory office for the Hetao base area, and while recruiting troops, they will draw up plans for the base area.

Li Ming and Hu Wei have respectively stated that in order not to affect all aspects of the company's work, the initial construction of the base will not occupy too much of the company's resources. This also made the committee members who voted against it unable to say anything, so the next few votes on the Hetao base area were unanimously approved.

After the meeting ended, several members of the Standing Committee sat together again, and Gao Jianguo smiled at Li Ming and Hu Wei: "You first set up the preparatory group in the base area, since the plan has been voted on, then the company will fully support your work, and you can put forward any requirements for materials and personnel." ”

Wang He also said: "You can rest assured and bold, and all departments of the company will actively support you." It's a shame that the two of you went to Hetao to work hard, but we hid behind and enjoyed the blessings. ”

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and they began to express their support for Li Ming and Hu Wei.

Li Ming thought for a while and said: "I think that in the early stage of the construction of the base area, it is not appropriate to invest too much, as long as the normal operation of the base area is satisfied in advance. However, the work of collecting displaced people will not be carried out until the following year. We will achieve food self-sufficiency in the shortest possible time, and strive to plant some sweet potatoes and potatoes next year in preparation for the next year's harvesting of displaced people.

Therefore, the current demand for materials in the base area is not urgent. For the personnel who are in the initial stage of the construction of the base, and for the employees within the company. I also do it on a voluntary basis, after all, the conditions there are very difficult, and we can't force others to make it difficult. If there is really no one to go, we will simply send a group of immigrant employees in the company to go to Hetao every year. ”

Hu Wei also said: "In the first year, we will do a good job in the infrastructure construction of the base areas, and in the second year, we will collect a small number of displaced people in the fields, and then increase the number and scale of the displaced people year by year. At present, the biggest difficulty is the food problem. The cost of transporting grain from Liaodong to the Hetao area is too high to be cost-effective, and the northern provinces of Daming will also be in drought for many years in the future, and it is not easy to get grain from Daming. ”

Li Ming suddenly smiled and said: "In fact, Daming has never been short of food, even if it is Shanxi and Shaanxi, even if there is a drought for many years, there is no shortage of food." But the grain is in the hands of those landlords and gentry, and the more disaster years there are, the less they will sell grain, and they are all waiting for the grain to be fried to sky-high prices. Every year of disaster and famine. The common people fled everywhere, and most of them starved to death in foreign lands, but the landlord and gentry class lived very well.

Not only can they make a lot of money from the food they have stored in their homes, but they can also take the opportunity to annex a large amount of land. The landlords and gentry prayed to God and worshiped the Buddha every day in anticipation of the disaster year, and every time such a year came, it was also the time for them to get rich. In fact, I already have an idea in my heart, that is, to investigate and collect evidence in the Shanxi area, and select some landlords, gentry, bandits, and gangsters who are very angry with the people. Take action against them to address the initial food shortfall in the base areas. ”

Gao Jianguo nodded. Said with a smile: "This method is good, Shanxi Fan Yongdou and other eight super-rich imperial merchants, according to modern society, are veritable traitors, long before the Manchurians entered the customs, their caravans often went back and forth inside and outside the customs. Outside of normal trade. Secretly transported military supplies to the Manchurians and provided various information in the Guannai.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Shunzhi did not forget to establish the eight great families who had made great achievements in the Central Plains for themselves, held a banquet in the Forbidden City, and personally summoned them. and gave him a horse coat and a traitor's suit. Shunzhi wanted to give them official rewards, and the eight families were flattered and tried their best to refuse. As a result, Shunzhi named them the "imperial merchants" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

There are also those local tyrants and inferior gentry, civil officials and military leaders in the Shanxi area, and the family is not fat. But Shanxi has been affected by disasters every year, and no one has ever donated some food to the affected people. makes starvation thousands of miles away, and corpses are everywhere, so there is no need to have the slightest burden to rob these guys, even if they kill them, they are not wronged. ”

Qiao Haipeng also smiled and said: "Don't forget, we have swept away all the tribes of Southern Mongolia, and we have captured countless cattle and sheep on the grassland, can we still starve you to death." If you take the troops to disguise themselves as Mongolian Tatars and destroy the eight Jin merchants, your Hetao base will not only not consume the company's resources, but may also feed the company. ”

Hu Wei said with a serious face: "We went to Hetao to work hard, and we don't need other materials, but steam-powered generators, pumps, woodworking machinery and machining equipment, these are indispensable." In addition, the Hetao base needs enough skilled workers in the early stage of construction, and the company has trained a large number of qualified industrial workers in recent years. ”

Everyone was a little embarrassed by Hu Wei's words. The results of the board committee vote have made some emotions in the hearts of workaholics. When several members of the Standing Committee saw this, they hurriedly expressed their stance that they would ensure the materials in the Hetao base area no matter what.

Li Yukun turned his head and asked Gao Jianguo: "Old Gao, has there been any progress in our big airship research and development plan recently?" The second phase of the northward plan will begin next year, and the front of the troops is very long, and the pressure on our logistics department is not small; if we only rely on the airships currently in the Air Force Department, it will be far from being able to meet the materials needed by the main cavalry units for large-scale and large-depth long-distance raids. ”

Gao Jianguo shook his head and said self-deprecatingly: "Liu He and Zhang Jiang's intellectuals, what annoys us soldiers and ruffians is to ask them about their progress, I have been scolded by those old guys a few times, so I don't dare to ask." ”

"Haha......"

His words made several members of the Standing Committee laugh, and the company wanted to say that the people who were not afraid of the black-faced god were several old comrades of the Science and Technology Commission. On a few occasions, in front of many people, Gao Jianguo was trained to be very unable to get off the stage, but the black-faced god still had to accompany the smiling face and accept the rules and regulations. Who makes the family educated, they are a bunch of people, but the company's baby, everyone has to be a grandfather.

Han Shanglin next to him said with a smile: "A few days ago, I met a technician from the big airship R&D center in Shenyang, and I chatted with him for a while, and I also learned about the progress of some big airships from the side. Listen to him, the design work of the latest medium-sized airship has been completed, and now only some key components are still being tested, and it is said that the prototype will be produced this year. (To be continued......)