Throughout the spring and summer season, the ancient city walls in Chengdu are like a huge construction site inside and outside. When the weather is clear, dust and smoke are everywhere, and mud flows everywhere when it rains. This distressing scene has caused many old masters to blame. If it weren't for the official government's Sichuan Daily and West China Group's West China Times and other mainstream media sang praises, maybe designer Xiao Yiming and decision-maker Zhao Erxun would have been infamous for a while.

Another Mid-Autumn Festival is coming. As newly built sewers are sealed with cement covers, and as trucks of construction waste are quickly cleared out of the city, the blue sky and the wandering white clouds have become particularly fresh. All Chengdu people seem to have just opened their eyes and suddenly find that their homes have changed:

More than ten dirty and narrow alleys in the east of the city have become spacious and clean streets; shanty towns like scars have been replaced by rows of neat and beautiful blue brick houses. The originally dirty and mud-scattered eastern section of the Yuhe River not only built neat and sturdy river embankments, but also planted holly and roses like green silk streamers on both sides of the roads built along the two sides.

All this directly led to a surge in land and real estate prices on both sides of the eastern section of the Yuhe River.

Private houses that are being built or have been built have risen from the ground. More than a thousand arsenal workers and more than 3,000 families live happily into their new homes. More than 2,000 "safe houses" built by the Chengdu government office are about to be completed and are being sold to local poor citizens. The "Xiang Hua Group Company" that has a wealthy and is obsessed with charity after the integration provides financial guarantees for every poor citizen who borrows to buy a house, minimizing the corruption and extortion of officials at all levels. A small half of Chengdu has changed its appearance.

As the newspaper said, everything embodies the efforts of enlightened officials such as Xiao Yiming, an official from the Governor's Office, and Zhou Shanpei, the Sichuan Quanye Road General Office. With the insistence of Xiao Yiming and Zhou Shanpei, the entire renovation project has been made public for income and expenditure, and strictly and conscientiously fulfilled the commitment of national supervision. In a series of real estate auctions and engineering construction, no incident of embezzlement or misappropriation or fraud in raw materials procurement occurred.

For a time, people praised the Governor Zhao Erxun, the parents and officials of the Chengdu Prefecture and the two county yamen, and praised it very much.

Especially Zhao Erxun, the governor of the Han people, with his old body alone withstand the heavy pressure of the court increasing taxes, and repeatedly sent people to Beijing to mediate hard, making the court compassionate with the touching deeds of millions of creatures in Bashu that no longer add taxes. Finally, it was published in Shanghai's famous "Zi Linxi Daily" a week before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it was spread to all parts of Sichuan, arousing strong response from all walks of life in the province and the deep gratitude of countless people. The gate of the governor's yamen was crowded with representatives of people who beat gongs and gongs to deliver merit cards for several days. It is said that countless representatives from all over the country were coming from all over Sichuan.

Under Xiao Yiming's quiet operation, the Sichuan Daily and West China Times praised him all the praises, giving all the glory to the Governor's Office, the Convening Arts Road, the Patrol Road, the Chengdu Prefecture and the two counties. Xiao Yiming's reasons are very sufficient and convincing: vigorously promoting the achievements of governments at all levels is a struggle for the hearts of the people and the best guarantee for the stability and prosperity of the entire Sichuan!

A few words of generous and generous consideration of the overall situation won admiration in the Sichuan officialdom. No one will ever use his West China company to secretly plunder a large amount of land outside the city to make a statement. If any 25 dares to talk nonsense, maybe Xiao Yiming would be drowned by the saliva of the people of Chengdu before he could speak.

Xiao Yiming's gains are greater than anyone else. Not only did he gain huge benefits from it, he consolidated his talented, kind and sincere personal image, but most importantly, he gained training opportunities that others could not obtain, gained valuable experience in all aspects in actual work, and became more stable and mature.

Something that made Xiao Yiming extremely regretful and even angry suddenly happened:

Due to the secret instigation and support of the British government, large-scale armed rebellions broke out in Kangzang and Tibet, and garrisons in various places were frequently attacked, and a large number of people and caravans were brutally massacred. The border minister Zhao Erfeng had to report to the court and requested to send troops to Tibet to support.

The imperial court issued a rapid order, and strictly ordered the Sichuan New Army to dispatch at least one cooperative force to quickly rush to Kangzang to quell the rebellion. The chief officials of various departments of the new army who had just completed the expansion immediately closed their mouths of boasting and began to shirk responsibility to each other, stating the difficulties of their troops. Many people simply said they were sick and went home to recuperate, for fear of being unable to hide.

At this time, the young commander Zhong Ying stepped forward to take over the burden and completed the preparations for the expedition in just one week. Three days later, he immediately led more than 5,000 brothers under his command to dress up and set off.

Xiao Yiming did his best to raise a large amount of ammunition and supplies for Zhong Ying's troops, and urgently ordered the newly established quilt and leather goods factory of West China Group to sew more than a thousand sets of the latest military cotton coats, cotton hats and gloves at full speed. Finally, he sent his good brothers such as Zhong Ying, Ruiyong, Tang Wulin to thirty miles south of the city. After saying so, he gave all kinds of instructions, and the last group of men left reluctantly.

The Western Expedition of Zhong Ying and others not only made Xiao Yiming temporarily lose a group of close friends, but also made Xiao Yiming temporarily lose the strong support in the army. It will be difficult for each other to meet again in the next one or two years.

No one knows how much sweat Xiao Yiming shed for this small step today and how many sleepless nights he spent. Xiao Yiming was unwilling to let people know. For some reason, he enjoyed this loneliness and hardship... The deeper he integrated into this era, the smaller he found himself. Faced with unexpected difficulties, he was usually so powerless and helpless, but because of this, he also aroused his greater ambition and his ambition to never give up.

What made Xiao Yiming happy and comforted was that after more than half a year of hard work, a brand new thermal power plant stood up on the other side of the moat in the north of the city, and ships of coal were continuously transported to the newly completed power plant terminal. Hundreds of local young workers who had been trained by German technicians for more than two months were working hard to start production and generate electricity in a month.

Close to the power plant are small steel mills and foundries that are installing equipment.

These two important factories are connected with the power plant, covering a total area of ​​470 acres, with only a two-meter-high wall in the middle. After all three factories are put into production, the weapons production capacity of metal products companies and hardware factories under West China Group will be greatly improved.

If there are any regrets, it is that the chemical factory located in Dayi, Ya'an ammunition factory has just begun to build the factory, and the equipment required will not arrive at the beginning of next year. It will only be put into production at the end of next year, at least until the fall of the following year - and the autumn of next year, it is one of the few but very deadly historical periods in Xiao Yiming's memory - that gunshot will spread from the sky above Wuchang City and spread to the whole world.

The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Xiao Yiming gave the holiday gifts he should give, visited all relatives, friends and colleagues at all levels who must visit. He came to the hardware factory with the guard leader Wei Yi. Accompanied by German factory director Max, he inspected three parts processing workshops, watched the stops and stopped all the way, and kept discussing and communicating.

Max is very grateful to Xiao Yiming for his trust in himself and his six compatriots, and is particularly impressed by Xiao Yiming's proposal that "workers do not need to fully master all parts processing techniques, but only need to be able to master certain or several systems' parts processing techniques." It is precisely because of following Xiao Yiming's guiding ideology that more than 300 workers in the factory were able to master some processing skills in the shortest time, and through "flow operation" and "three-level inspection", they were efficiently divided and collaborated to collect qualified parts from each workshop into the assembly workshop. Finally, more than 100 workers completed the assembly and inspection procedures of the product.

Since the official imitation of the Mauser C96 and Tert m1903 pistols in June, workers have gradually changed from unfamiliarity to skillfulness. The scrap rate has dropped from 34% in the first month and 28% in the second month to 5% at the end of last month. The daily output has ranged from 9 in May, 17 in June to 90 at the end of last month, and the product pass rate has become increasingly high. If it weren't for the lack of raw materials supply, Xiao Yiming has planned to control the output, and has set up two workshops to process rifle parts for the Sichuan Arsenal, carry out various gun repairs and make special tools, the factory will produce 3,600 pistols per month.

What made Max and his colleagues feel a little regretful is that Xiao Yiming is an extremely stubborn person. For example, in the production of the Mauser C96 pistol, he issued an order very dictatorially: to abandon the beautiful concave and convex decoration processing process in the pistol shape, and change the round grip to a slightly square grip.

The improved grip design has been unanimously recognized by everyone. The new grip can solve the problem of weak control during slippage and shooting, and the shape has become much more coordinated.

However, another improvement opinion was very uncomfortable. The pistol produced was smooth and had nothing, but he liked it very much and said he wanted to name it "mirror box". Finally, under everyone's protest, he reluctantly drew a circle, and a leopard leaping from left to right. Below the leopard is a hill transformed from the Chinese character "Chuan". The German inscription "Germany Mauser Company authorized to produce. China West China Company" was also marked with the German inscription "Germany Mauser Company authorized to produce. China West China Company".

This will make everyone feel a little more comfortable. Overall, the appearance of a simple pistol also has its advantages. Not to mention that the leopard that was drawn into a leap flying over a hill is very vivid. It saves a lot of time and process in the processing process alone, and the cost is reduced to a certain extent.

However, what incredible to Max and six other German compatriots is that this "cut corners" Mauser pistol was widely sought after by Chinese users only one month after it was launched. The price was still above the original imported gun. Now when Max thinks about it, he still doesn't understand it, and can only believe the annoying conclusion made by his compatriots: The Chinese are crazy!

Regardless of whether the Chinese are crazy or not, the rising sales and profits are the most convincing, so even though Max frowned when they see the light plates on the production line, they only smile when facing the increasing bonuses.
Chapter completed!