Chapter Seventy-One: The Base

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Yang Rui has already made up the story, in fact, there are not many clans in the Ming Dynasty that survive, but there was a powerful prime minister in later generations, because when he read his biography, he knew some details and remembered some things, and those who didn't remember were only made up. "I actually heard it from others," Yang Rui made up blindly, "This branch is the eighteenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang after King Minzhuang, I don't know what the name is, I only know that this branch fled to Tanzhou in the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty and settled there." ”

"Tanzhou is so big, how can you find someone here?" Zhong Guanguan asked, in his opinion, as long as it is a clan, Zhu Yuanzhang has so many sons, it doesn't matter which one of them.

If you have been looking at things for a long time, you would have forgotten them a long time ago, but Yang Rui still remembered a detail in it, and said: "It's easy to find, I remember that one of the people in this family is a celebrity in Tanzhou, I don't know what it's called Zhu, I just remember that he is a grain merchant, he is kind and charitable, and he once funded Zuo Zongtang to pacify Xinjiang, this person will know when he asks in Tanzhou." ”

Zhong Guanguan and Wang Ji looked at each other at the same time, just such a clue, is it true or false. Yang Rui looked at them as if he didn't believe it, and said with a wry smile: "I remember so much, this Zhu Dashan is the king of Minzhuang, I don't know if it's the eldest son, when I heard it, it was just a story, no one thought that there would be a revolution today, anyway, this news is true." Don't doubt the accuracy of this news, but think about how people can't be emperors, and are willing to risk their heads to revolutionize. ”

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, Zhong Guanguan and the others had to stop asking. This matter can only be discussed in the long run, first find this Zhu Dashan person, and then try to close the relationship and then make a plan. Because of the lack of information, a matter that was originally very important was over. Taking advantage of the early time, Wang Jitong opened the book and made a report on the recently collected Northeast data.

According to the previous plan, the students entered the Northeast after graduating from the Lorenzo Marques Military Academy, and thanks to the time travel novel, he was still very clear about the course of the war, and made detailed notes in order to prevent the computer from falling off the chain. In order to achieve the effect of fishing in troubled waters, the team had to be formed before the battle of the Liaoyang Conference in late August 19o4, and if it was calculated according to the three months of training soldiers, then the recruitment would begin in April. Backwards, I will leave South Africa in February, and the time to study at the military academy is only eight months, which is still a very tight time, after all, I am completely unfamiliar with the situation in the northeast.

In order to have a more detailed understanding of the situation in the northeast, Yang Rui has arranged for four students from the instrument hall to collect information in the past, Fengtian already has a factory point, and Yang Rui in Tonghua will also set up a point, which is located in the Changbai Mountains and will be the industrial base of the base area in the future. At the same time, Wang Jitong took the lead in collecting some news about Northeast China in English newspapers and old newspapers.

Now Wang Jitong is talking about the situation of the Northeast Loyal and Righteous Army. The people in the Northeast have always been fierce, and the loyal and righteous army began to resist Russia from the time of the Gengzi Incident and has persisted until today. At its peak, it was said that there were 20,000 people, known as 40 battalions. However, with the signing of the Xinchou Treaty, the Russian army and the local government colluded to suppress it, and the leaders were arrested and killed one after another.

Wang Jitong said: "Looking at this shape, it is estimated that by this time next year, this loyal army will be dispersed, should we contact them first, and if we can help, we will help first." When we recruit troops next year, it's better to lay the bottom first. ”

It's right to deal with the familiar faces first, but thinking of the students in the instrument hall, Yang Rui still shook his head, those students are still too tender, I'm afraid I can't do this thing with the loyal army, and said: "It's better to follow the news according to the previous plan, if you really go to the joint, I'm afraid they won't be able to say a few words." You can let them try it first, and it doesn't matter if it doesn't work. Besides, all we can give now is money, but what they want is guns. ”

Zhong Guanguan still knows those students very well, and said: "I think it's better to let them collect information first, don't contact first, and when the chlor-alkali factory is on the right track, I will go over there in the first month of the month to have a look with the rebels over there." It would be nice to be able to lay some groundwork for next year. ”

This is a good way, there is a clock to go sightseeing, then the Northeast can basically rest assured, as long as there is the support of local sources, plus the detailed details of the Russo-Japanese War, the success rate of fishing in troubled waters has increased greatly. Thinking of the place in Tonghua, Yang Rui said again: "When the time comes, we must take a closer look at the waterway from the Hunjiang River to the Yalu River to see how the traffic capacity is." ”

Wang Jitong asked: "Actually, why focus on Tonghua?" The place is located in the mountains and forests, and the traffic is very inconvenient. ”

Yang Rui smiled bitterly: "You think I'm happy to shrink into that mountain." In addition to the coal and iron complex that can be built in Anshan and Fushun, the only thing left in the entire Northeast is Tonghua. If you really want to gain a firm foothold in the Northeast, you can't just get some cheapness, Japan and Russia are not easy to deal with, you can't make guns and bullets, and the base areas won't last long. In addition, Tonghua is located in a mountainous area, and it is easy for a small force like ours to survive, so if we can't defeat it, we will drill into the forest. "After Japan occupied Anshan, Tonghua was the only choice, and Yang Rui didn't want to build a big steel plant, as long as it could produce guns.

Wang Jitong didn't understand that Tonghua still had such a role, but he knew that it was still very difficult to build an arsenal, and said: "It's good to have coal mines and iron mines, but where to buy this machine, how to transport it in, and what about workers, and ammunition always need saltpeter raw materials, right?" ”

These problems are also Yang Rui's headaches, I thought about this problem before, and now it is even more of a headache when I am led out by Wang Jitong, Yang Rui put his hand against his temples, massaged himself a few times and said: "I also have a headache with these problems." The machine should be easy to buy, at least the United States will sell it, and we buy small equipment, not many people pay attention, and the transportation is only to take the waterway of the Yalu River and the Hunjiang River, I hope that the river can go. As for the workers, they have to count on Mr. Hua Feng, after all, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau has steel mills, gun factories, and ammunition factories; The raw materials can be solved on the spot, and they can't be transported secretly. ”

Wang Jitong was taken aback and asked, "Mr. Hua Feng is also going to join us?" ”

Zhong Guanguan and Mr. Hua Feng were the most familiar, shook his head and said, "Not yet, I didn't talk about the revolution in front of him." ”

Yang Rui said: "This can be mentioned a little later, I guess Mr. Hua Feng will still help us." Even if the scholars of their generation are foolish and loyal to the Qing court, they are more dignified than ordinary people in the face of foreigners. Our biggest task in the Northeast is not to oppose the Qing Dynasty, but to resist Japan and Russia, and Mr. Huafeng is not revolutionary, so it will not help us by the way. Besides, what we want is just to help bring up the workers' church in the early stage, and when Qiē is on the right track, he can come back, and it will be a year of hard work before and after, so he won't help with this favor. ”

This is reasonable, but in the northeast, it is directly in direct opposition to Japan and Russia, and as long as you have patriotic thoughts, who will not help. Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau is really a treasure, and there are industrialized talents in it, but I don't know how to dig it out. Yang Rui asked Wang Jitong: "Didn't the students of the Cantonese Dialect School also participate in the anti-Russian volunteers?" Can you have some members in them? ”

In this era, there is no better choice than to be a member of the student exhibition, Yang Rui has abandoned the idea of being so unbearable before, and the policy of the association is also to do a good job in student work, and give priority to the student exhibition members. Wang Jitong has been working this, he said: "I have already shown activists in them, but it will take time to become a member, but it is still okay to do some work, what do you need them to do?" ”

"There's a lot of work to do. All of us now have no experience in iron-making, steel-making, and gun production, and although the Northeast can invite foreign technicians at that time, it is too eye-catching for so many foreigners to appear in Tonghua. I hope to recruit some technicians from the manufacturing bureau, but this problem is too difficult. Yang Rui sighed after speaking, he knew that this matter was not easy to do, now at this time the Hanyang Iron Works in Zhangzhidong has been out of production because the coke is not in place, China is currently speaking, there are only steel and gun production skilled workers in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, how to dig some skilled workers out is a very troublesome thing.

Zhong Guanguan smiled and said, "Actually, you can't keep thinking about how to dig it out, we can send it in." There is still a year to go until next year, as long as we get through the relationship with the general office and say that we are going to set up an iron factory, it is to send people to study for a year, then this problem will not be solved. ”

This is also a way, just send it in for internship, even if you don't learn well, you can get familiar with it. Wang Jitong thought about it more carefully and said: "It's easy to explain that iron-making and steel-making are easy to explain, what to say about making guns and bullets, the Qing court doesn't allow munitions factories to run private offices." ”

Yang Rui relied on his shallow military knowledge from the Internet and novels, and said: "Guns shouldn't be a big problem, I heard that bullets are the most difficult." He took the set of black gun dealers in later generations, "Besides, we make small cannons, and the bases are all mountainous, and the most used in them are mortars." ”

Seeing them nodding, Yang Rui only had a wry smile in his heart, he used to like to read through novels and farm the most, and he also liked to go to some military forums to see aircraft missiles or something, but he has not studied the most basic gun and bullet production, although there are many strongmen who have laid out some information in the forum at length, but Yang Rui quit as soon as he saw so many formulas, there were no pictures and only words. If you were more serious at that time, you wouldn't have understood anything if you read it a little, just like now, you don't know what gunpowder is filled in the bullet and what the structure of the mortar shell is. With a wry smile, he said: "This factory is such a big thing, we can't solve it overnight, the steel part will be done according to the constitutional method, and the gunpowder part will have to do Mr. Huafeng's work. ”

This is the best solution, Wang Jitong was busy finishing the meeting minutes. Although the problem has not been completely solved tonight, two major events have left tails, and they usually have to follow up. Yang Rui is about to leave Shanghai, and these next jobs can only rely on Zhong Guanguan and Wang Jitong, and Zhong Guanguan will go to the Northeast in a few months, and Wang Jitong can only be responsible for the rest of the things, fortunately, there are still a few capable students around him to help, otherwise he would have to be busy.

That night's meeting ended like this, and Yang Rui returned to the room, unable to sleep. Suddenly, I remembered Taizu's famous sentence about the revolution -- revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, not a painting and embroidery, it cannot be so elegant, so calm and polite, so gentle and frugal. The revolution is an insurrection, an action of a class to overthrow a class of violence -- the plan is about to be put into action, but he is in a panic in his heart, or the words of Taizu have power. Perhaps, if there is really a rebellion of the time-travelers, Taizu is definitely the first mentor, and suddenly feels that those rebels in the novel are very shameless, using Taizu's experience to say bad things about Taizu, and opposing the Red Party with the practices of the Red Party. At this time, another thought suddenly came to my mind, and I vaguely remembered Churchill's words after his defeat, and I couldn't remember it for too long, but I remember that he seemed to say that an ungrateful nation is a great nation or something.

In the intertwining of thoughts, Yang Rui fell asleep deeply......