The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

"Come on, stop doing this useless thing! Isn't this just about catching a typical example to scare the monkeys and gain authority?"

Jiang Cheng was a little surprised that the second prince would do something stupid.

Based on the original owner's memory, I still have some understanding of him.

Even though Zhang Xuecheng was raised by the Marshal himself, one year when his cousin, who was the Marshal's biological son, was brought back to the Fengtian Governor's Mansion...his good days of being the center of attention were completely over.

Jiang Cheng really understood his mentality very well.

"You want to fight me, don't you?"

With one hand on the other's gun barrel, Jiang Cheng stood up straight, looking at Zhang Xuecheng who was getting more and more excited with a cold gaze, "You have been with the Ji army for three years. Have I, Jiang Cheng, ever treated you unfairly?"

"Which of the good guns and artillery equipment at hand is not given priority to your troops? Yes, your brothers have won many battles, but then what? When our Jilin Army reformed and developed and adjusted its strategic thinking, could your brothers keep up?"

"As long as we execute those who are disobedient and rebellious... it will represent my determination to change my way of leading troops and improve the overall quality of the army!"

"If you want to die, I won't stop you."

At this time, Zhang Xuecheng was holding the pistol, but his shoulders were shaking.

With his rebellious character that refused to admit defeat, he obviously would not back down because of Jiang Cheng's words -

But Jiang Cheng knew in his heart that whenever he came to him to make trouble, he was always raising a question, which showed that he still trusted him from the bottom of his heart... He was much better than those subordinates who pretended to obey him but actually disobeyed him.

Looking back calmly, Jiang Cheng slowly took the gun from his hand.

He threw the unloaded weapon to Feng Qing, whose face had already turned as pale as paper.

Jiang Cheng fell dejectedly into a chair in front of him, lowered his eyes slightly and sighed: "Don't go back to Jiamusi these days, go and relax in the capital with Xiaowan."

After saying this, Jiang Cheng raised his hand and patted the other person's shoulder, then turned around and walked quickly past him.

"I'll stay for two more days. I'm determined to get this."

Before leaving the venue, Jiang Cheng saw Zhang Xuecheng's wife Su Xiaowan.

The cheongsam she was wearing was wrinkled, and it was obvious that she had hurried here following her husband.

Seeing the high-ranking commander at this moment, she was so nervous that she even forgot to say hello. Her face was as pale as paper and her chest was heaving.

This wife was carefully selected by the Marshal, the daughter of the principal of Fengtian No. 1 Middle School. As her name suggests, she is gentle and pretty, and her weak temperament is just right to support Xuecheng's temper.

Jiang Cheng was polite to her. After asking her a few questions about daily life, he called Han Ming to take charge of sending the couple back to the Governor's Mansion.

He handed over the military training to Feng Yong and Jiang Dengxuan, but in fact his work focus was no longer on this matter.

Jilin's industrial development is undoubtedly the highlight at present... Although military construction is also important, the most important thing at the moment is industrial development.

After several months of fighting, Jiang Cheng successfully drove away the Kwantung Army in Jilin and also expanded his strategy to the interior of the country and Vladivostok.

Now all the roads from Britain, France and the United States to Jilin have been opened. We have finally arrived at the window period for the joint development of import and export. We must lay a solid foundation for Jilin's industrial development before 1922.

Because the First Zhili-Fengtian War was about to break out in 1922. He walked silently into the next room, because of Zhang Xuecheng's unexpected guest, their meeting was moved to the side.

Yan Ziwen, Sun Zhengnan, the general manager of the steel plant, Han Yanchao, the general managers of the coal mines and iron mines, and several civil servants in the capital were still having heated discussions on some important issues.

Jiang Cheng gestured to them to "continue", then he quickly walked forward and sat down in the seat reserved for him at the end of the long table.

As the meeting continued, Jiang Cheng supported his chin with one hand and coldly observed his subordinates' heated discussions.

Zhang Xuecheng's decision to call him to make trouble today actually represents the opinions of some members of the army.

Although the specific action of reorganizing the army through Wude was led by Jiang Dengxuan and Feng Yong, as the commander-in-chief, he was primarily responsible for the planning and implementation of the entire action.

It is not like the modern 21st century, where everyone from officers to soldiers are selected through layers of process, and each one is carefully chosen from hundreds of millions of men.

But the Republic of China was different.

There is a saying that goes, "Good iron is not used to make nails, and good men do not serve as soldiers" - this is actually what is happening nowadays.

Under the rule of warlords, each unit was just a private armed force, including the soldiers of their Jiang family.

If you think about it carefully, from top to bottom, it's just small warlords surrounding the big warlords. Everyone holds their own territory and tries every way to make money.

The Jilin Army began to reorganize and rebuild in early 1917. In addition to the troops "dug" out from the Military Academy, his cronies like Wang Junshan, Hai Rushong and Yang Hongyi, as well as people like Jin Yanxi who were reorganized from other troops.

The previous Ding Chunxi riot in Jiutai County showed, to a large extent, that his army was relatively scattered and that centralization was insufficient.

To put it bluntly, the biggest purpose of this military reorganization is not only to select the quality of soldiers, but also to eliminate those who are unqualified;
In addition, Jiang Cheng wanted to establish a centralized authority with the Military Governor's Office as the center and the United Front Cooperation Department which he would soon lead.

While he was deep in thought, Yan Ziwen's voice became louder and louder.

In terms of overall idea, he had very strong objections to the drawings proposed by the two American experts.

This is the blueprint for the transformation of the Jilinfu Steel Plant. According to the guidance of American experts, their blast furnace needs to be rebuilt and the production line needs to be transformed... in order to increase production and produce steel with better performance.

He believes that although there are currently two power stations in the capital, the nearest one, whether in terms of the load of the unit or the transmission capacity of the wires, is far from enough to meet the needs of such a large steel plant.

The electricity consumption of steel blast furnaces alone, as proposed by these American experts, has exceeded the power generation of power stations.

The factory is not just a blast furnace. Once many supporting facilities are fully loaded, not only will his power station not be able to meet the needs, but also the electricity consumption of Jilin Prefecture will be ignored?
Will the whole city go back to the era of oil lamps?

But Han Yanchao's idea was completely different from his: in his opinion, the steel plant must be built according to American design.

After all, even if the American design is used, it is still a relatively backward technology - and if the melting temperature cannot be reached, the fatal problem is that the technology is not up to standard.

"What Master Jiang is proposing now is not to make ordinary steel,"

Han Yanchao's voice was not necessarily high, but it was steady, powerful, and quite calm. "As for the steel that we can currently mass-produce, after the guidance of American experts--"

"It is already enough to manufacture some rifles and even mortar barrels, etc." (End of this chapter)