War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 624 You guys don’t make progress yet, I’ll make progress first!

"Chief?"

"Chaoyang?"

Midsummer, night.

The cicadas' calls frequently rang out under the cover of night, but Yang Jingyu led the soldiers who had worked in the Tianjin Thermal Power Plant and rushed into the headquarters in a hurry.

At that time, Xu Chaoyang was looking at a map of the Yangtze River Basin. The latest "information bulletin" stated that the Japanese were preparing to attack Wuhan from the north and south sides of the Yangtze River Basin.

"The machinery for the thermal power plant has been installed."

Xu Chaoyang raised his head instantly at this moment!
The good news he had been waiting for for so long finally came!

"God finally opened his eyes!"

These days Xu Chaoyang has had some good ideas. The second batch of comrades who went to the United States as covert front returned, leaving him with a lot of funds. He saved as much as possible in the construction of Xin County. They laid the foundations of the thermal power plant and the hospital themselves, built the houses themselves, and even the bricks used to build the houses were made and fired by the soldiers and civilians. Even the kilns for firing bricks were earthen kilns at the beginning.

Xu Chaoyang has completely tied every penny to his ribs. Anyone who dares to touch even a penny will have to be pulled down with pliers.

So what did Xu Chaoyang use the money for?

A batch of thermal power plant equipment was purchased through Yan'an, but even so, he had few options to choose from. He could only choose the 1908KW unit used by the Russians when they aided the construction of the Fushun Thermal Power Plant in 200000. Moreover, he bought two sets at a time, one set remained in Yan'an, and the other set had just been assembled in Xin County.

Fushun has coal, and the power plant established in 1908 was even built at the entrance of a coal mine; behind the Tianjin Thermal Power Plant is the Jingxing Coal Mine; this time it is Xu Chaoyang's turn to build a thermal power plant himself, so of course he has to find the Xinzhou Coal Mine first.

As a result... just one week after the arrival of Maozi's mining company, they had already confirmed the authenticity of the Xinzhou mineral map given by Xu Chaoyang. After drilling holes underground along the tunnel, they brought up underground rocks and soil. After the coal content was tested, everything went surprisingly smoothly, as if God had specially prepared it for them.

"Chaoyang, don't be too happy too soon." Yang Jingyu said as if pouring cold water on him: "Our people, oh, the soldiers working in the Tianjin Thermal Power Plant said that this batch of machinery is not as good as they said..."

The soldier straightened up towards Xu Chaoyang and said with great respect: "Commander, we have invested a lot of money in the thermal power plant, but there is nothing I don't recognize among the machines those old Russians are assembling!"

"Yes, I may not recognize the circles and bumps on the machines, but I know what each machine does... This is not the world's advanced level. Our Tianjin thermal power plant was built during the Qing Dynasty. I see that the machines on both sides are not much different..."

Xu Chaoyang smiled at the two people in front of him and said, "Don't worry about whether it is advanced or backward. Has the machine been shipped to us?"

The soldier still didn't understand and said, "But that thing is not worth that much money!"

"You little brat... you're still thinking of giving me a lesson? Who are you saying is wasting money?"

Xu Chaoyang cursed, but he was happy to do so and his voice was not loud, so it sounded like a compliment.

The soldier in front of him is from Tianjin. He was recruited as a reservist when Xu Chaoyang was in charge of the Tianjin Garrison Regiment. If he could find Yang Jingyu, stand up and speak the truth for 217, and worry about whether the money spent on 217 was worth it, would Xu Chaoyang be able to tell whether these words were good or critical?

In addition, Xu Chaoyang certainly knows that the machinery of this thermal power plant is already at a backward stage in this era, but do you have any solution?

They only sell you this, nothing else. Do you want to buy it?

Nowadays, as long as someone is willing to send you a machine, they have the final say on the price.

Last year, in 1937, the Japanese asked Tokuo Honma twice to build a hydropower station on the Songhua River in Northeast China, but the unit was only 15 kW. This is how the famous Fengman Hydropower Station came into being. The Russians’ first move was the peak of Asia in 1908, with a 20 kW unit. Is that not enough?
Xu Chaoyang explained briefly and then persuaded the soldiers brought back by Yang Jingyu to leave, but Yang Jingyu took this opportunity to stay in the house... Xu Chaoyang knew that he was worried about the refugees.

"Anything else?"

Xu Chaoyang was just about to go back to look at the map when he saw Yang Jingyu looking at him sideways and almost laughed out loud.

"Tell me, what did you do today?"

When facing Yang Jingyu's question, Xu Chaoyang smiled obscurely: "What can I do? I'm tired, take a rest."

"Bullshit!" Yang Jingyu's eyes widened!

"I received the Russian mining company when it arrived in Xin County, and I organized the installation of the thermal power plant's machinery when it arrived. You, Xu Chaoyang, have set up such a big scheme, but you are nowhere to be found. Who do you think you are a fool?"

Yang Jingyu sat down on the chair, crossed his legs, and stared at Xu Chaoyang.

"The victims of the disaster in Henan have already arrived in Shanxi and Shaanxi. We in Xinzhou are already short of food. You haven't come up with a plan for what to do about this... Can you rest for a while?"

"Just tell me what you want to do!"

The victims have arrived.

When Xu Chaoyang saw that scene in Xinkou, his scalp went numb!
But all he could do at that time was to ask his men to send money to Yan'an as soon as possible so that Yan'an could buy food to accommodate the victims. He still had to set up guns at Xinkou to prevent a large number of victims from entering Xinzhou and disrupting the existing order.

What good solution could he have?

Just the vanguard of this group of disaster victims is like a plague of locusts, leaving no grass or grass growing wherever they pass by!

Does he dare to let these people in?
But Yang Jingyu is from Henan, and his mind is on the victims. If he is involved at this time, the main responsibility will fall on him because he is from Henan!
How could Xu Chaoyang possibly tell Lao Yang about what he had planned in his mind?
"I don't have any rules..."

Xu Chaoyang was just halfway through his words when Yang Jingyu interrupted him: "What else can you do?"

He didn't argue with Yang Jingyu, nor did he quarrel with Yang Jingyu as he did in the past, nor did he show off in various ways...

Yang Jingyu stood up and approached Xu Chaoyang step by step. When there was almost no distance between them and their noses were almost touching, Yang Jingyu said in the dim light of the oil lamp: "There's something wrong with you!"

Snapped.

At this moment, all the lights in the headquarters were on, and the yellow light illuminated the room very clearly, including Xu Chaoyang's expression and his dilating pupils.

Soldiers kept running outside and said, "The power plant has been assembled and powered on for a trial run. All team members of the guard battalion should pay attention to the wires to see if there is any leakage!"

Hearing this shout, Yang Jingyu quickly turned around and looked outside the door. Then, he strode out and stood at the door and shouted: "Check carefully. The wires in Xin County have been aging for a long time. After the bombing by the devils, we must check them carefully!"

At that moment, Yang Jingyu suddenly stopped at the door, turned around and said, "You waited for me to finish my work, there must be something wrong with you."

When Yang Jingyu left the room, the door of the inner room slowly opened, and Deng Xihou and Wang Zhen came out. They looked in the direction where Yang Jingyu was busy and asked, "How did he figure it out?"

Xu Chaoyang then put down the map in his hand. Under the map of the entire Yangtze River Basin was the map of Taiyuan. "Old Yang followed me out of the Northeast. We have been together for seven or eight years. To put it bluntly, he can tell what I am going to do if I just stick my tail out. If he hadn't been so busy these days, he wouldn't be able to hide this."

"I heard that the political cadres of your 18th Group Army are all upright and honest...Aren't you afraid that he will report you to the higher-ups?"

Xu Chaoyang looked at Deng Xihou and smiled: "Do you think our Lao Yang is one of those political cadres?"

"Stop talking nonsense and tell me straight out loud, are you going to do it or not?"

"Dry!"

In 1938, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was in full swing. After the Battle of Xuzhou, it was Wuhan, and later Changsha and Guangzhou. Brother Diary had no time to take care of the victims. He could only symbolically order the allocation of funds and grain, and distribute them to the victims in major towns along the way.

But how much of this food can reach the hands of the victims?
It is not enough for the progress made by the cadres under him, and it is even less than the corruption of warlords in various places!
Then why give you these foods?
Xinzhou is crying out for food shortage, Taiyuan refuses to trade with them, the crops in the fields are not yet ripe, and the victims outside Xinkou are staring at the green seedlings in the fields of Xinzhou with tears in their eyes. If Xu Chaoyang doesn't think of a solution, who will?

Therefore, robbing became the only option.

But 217 cannot be robbed. If 217 moves, it will be considered as actively destroying the joint anti-Japanese war... Xu Chaoyang then reminded Deng Xihou that the Sichuan Army is professional in doing this kind of thing!

(End of this chapter)