Traveling through 1937, I came to fight against the Kwantung Army

Ten days passed in a row.

According to Yin Xinjun's request,

Tong Yu conducted a basic survey of the county's economic and demographic conditions. Except for a few small handicraft workshops, the industrial base was blank!

But there is good news. There are quite a lot of craftsmen in Mulan County, including carpenters, bricklayers, and painters, totaling more than a hundred people!

In recent years, the Japanese have been building a lot of buildings in Northeast China and have indirectly trained a lot of workers!

In addition, there are more than two hundred workers from various factories!

This number is still increasing every day, especially in the past week, all the Japanese factories have been confiscated and shut down by the Russians, and there is an endless stream of people returning home from all over the Northeast due to unemployment!

It’s already September, and it’s almost three months away from the Chinese New Year!

Today is Sai Mulan's busiest day, because there are three big events today! She has to attend all of them!

The first thing is that the shopping vouchers of Mulan County Economic Development Bank were successfully issued! A total of 1000 million yuan in banknotes were issued in the first phase!

The county finance director and president of the Economic Development Bank is Chen Yao, a returned youth who graduated from National Central University! He was originally a financial manager in a Hunan enterprise. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Yao quit his job and couldn't wait to return to his hometown to take a look. He happened to see the recruitment notice of the county government!

As a result, Sai Mulan was very satisfied after the interview and took up the job immediately. She quickly issued shopping vouchers. If she wanted to seize economic power and occupy a dominant position, she would surely not be able to do so without her own currency!

The second thing is that after half a month of rewriting the textbooks, one middle school and five primary schools in the county started school at the same time today!

This time, science subjects have been added to the middle school textbooks, covering basic knowledge such as physics and chemistry!

The third thing is that the Mulan County Department Store of the Supply and Marketing Bureau officially opened!

Yin Xinjun took out a large amount of rice, flour, cigarettes, tobacco, cotton, soybeans, clothes, cotton cloth, shoes and other supplies from the space.

They are basically self-produced resources in the space, and in this chaotic period, food and clothing are hard currencies comparable to gold.

Since the county department store only accepted shopping coupons, people found out through simple conversion that the prices of goods were half the market price, which led to many wealthy people running to the bank with gold and dollars to redeem shopping coupons!

Mulan County Security Command,

Yin Xinjun read the telegrams sent by Guo Qiang and Wang Yaohui. The Eighth Route Army began to enter the Northeast. Since the big cities were controlled by the Soviets, they could only go to the countryside or county towns. According to the orders of the superiors, Guo Qiang led his troops to the Siping area! And Wang Yaohui led his troops to the Mudanjiang area!

The main task of the Eighth Route Army now is to seize territory! We must first gain a foothold!

Recently, Yin Xinjun gathered all the craftsmen in the county to the county seat for mechanical training during the day. He took out a large number of construction machinery confiscated in Fengtian from the space.

Including diesel generators, road rollers, bulldozers, plate compactors, and concrete mixers!

Today he is waiting for an important person to appear!

There was a knock on the door,

Yin Xinjun opened the door hastily.

Deputy County Chief Tong Yu appeared in front of him, accompanied by a man in a navy blue suit.

The man has short, neatly combed hair, which shows his rigorous and orderly attitude towards life.

"Commander, this is Wang Shuigen, a top student from Northeastern University's Department of Architecture, who rushed back from Sichuan!"

"Hello, Director Wang, please take a seat!"

Wang Shuigen is from Harbin, he is 33 years old this year, and has been wandering outside for more than ten years. He has been engaged in the construction industry. Before coming here, he worked as an engineer in the Mianyang Municipal Construction Bureau!

He was recruited by his relatives to come to Mulan! The new director of the government office, Cao Hong, is his distant cousin, and he even made a special trip to Harbin for his sake!

"Hello, Commander!" Wang Shuigen was a little reserved. After passing the interview yesterday, today was his first day at work. He didn't expect the deputy county chief to bring him here to the security commander!

Yin Xinjun got up and made two cups of tea, brought them over, and said,

"Thank you, Director Wang, for traveling thousands of miles back to Northeast China to build your hometown. Mulan County is in a state of disrepair right now, and the most urgent task is infrastructure construction!"

Wang Shuigen said modestly,

"I really miss home. I have been in Sichuan for more than ten years. This time I came back with my wife and children!"

Yin Xinjun took out another cigarette and handed one to Wang Shuigen.

"To be honest with you, we have a lot of things to do, but we are waiting for you, the director of the Construction Bureau!"

After that, he stood up and took out a stack of blueprints from the cabinet.

"You may find it strange that I, as the commander, have to be involved in this construction matter, because I am the chief designer!" Yin Xinjun said without any concealment.

Wang Shuigen took a look at the drawings and immediately became interested.

There is a line of words on the first drawing:

Generator unit foundation drawing,

There is also a lot of Japanese mixed in it!

"Director Wang, do you understand Japanese?"

Wang Shuigen looked at the drawings carefully, shook his head and said,

“I don’t understand Japanese, but I can understand it pretty well!”

"It's okay, I understand! I marked some of the places on it with pencil!"

Wang Shuigen was flipping through them casually. The bag in front had more than 30 pictures from the power plant. The bag behind it was from the cement plant. The bag after that was from the lime plant, the gravel crushing plant, the brick plant, the garment plant, the shoe plant, etc.

After the thickest bag was opened, the first drawing was the words "Fengtian Iron and Steel Plant Boiler Plant"! This time it was all in Chinese!

Wang Shuigen's eyes showed a look of shock. He suddenly understood why the man in front of him was the chief designer of the entire construction. He asked cautiously,

"Commander, do all these drawings need to be constructed?"

Yin Xinjun nodded.

"The reason why China is backward and beaten is because we are a poor agricultural country. Mulan County will begin the industrial revolution and explore a path to becoming a strong country for the first time in the country! You and I are witnesses of this great era!"

Wang Shuigen was so excited that his whole body was shaking.

"The Industrial Revolution is the dream of generations of us in the Republic of China!"

Yin Xinjun knew that the most important thing to manage the cadres under him was to mobilize their work passion, which meant setting a grand goal! This was also the reason why he limited the age to 35 years old!

"Time is running out. I'll give you half a year to build everything!"

Wang Shuigen was startled.

"With so many construction projects, the demand for construction teams, materials, and funds is huge!"

Yin Xinjun said,

"That's not all. We also have the Mulan to Harbin highway and railway projects that are all going to start construction. However, those projects cannot be completed this year. We'll have to wait until next year. The most important thing right now is the building materials factory! The power plant! Only with a large amount of self-supplied building materials can we start other projects!"

There are many building materials factories in Northeast China, but the large-scale ones are all run by the Japanese. Yin Xinjun is now unsure whether these factories can resume operations after being looted by the Russians!

Wang Shuigen said,

"How much does this cost?"

Yin Xinjun said,

"Money is not a problem. I can give you as much as you want, gold or dollars!"

Now Yin Xinjun has made adjustments to the budget for purchasing arms. Instead of buying arms, it is better to make arms by himself. As soon as the Soviet Union withdraws its troops next year, he will start installing equipment, training workers, and fully invest in the production and supply of arms!

Wang Shuigen nodded and said,

"That's fine, Commander. I want to go back to Harbin. These projects require 10-20 construction companies to work on them simultaneously. I happen to have a few friends doing this, so I'll invite them to come and take a look!"

The two discussed various issues and potential difficulties for a long time, and finally decided to start work no later than September 9. Before leaving, Yin Xinjun gave Wang Shuigen two small yellow croakers.

"There are bandits everywhere now. I'll arrange for a few soldiers to go with you later. Bring some flowers with you on the way. Don't treat yourself badly. I'll be waiting for your good news!"