Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 264 These past few years have been a lonely time

After Wang Shouliang returned to Shanghai, he only stayed for about a week before embarking on a new journey.

The place he set out this time was Qindao, Ludong! !
The Yangtze River Delta in 1906 was relatively miserable. Floods and floods began in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, but in 1906, eastern Shandong did not suffer from floods.

There is just some drought.

This drought also had a considerable impact on the original trajectory, causing massive crop failures and starving people everywhere. However, after making certain preparations, the Sihai Escort Bureau established ten scattered farms in more than 30 acres of farmland in eastern Shandong.

Deep wells were drilled early in the planning and equipped with pumps to resolve agricultural droughts. Steam pumps were already used in industrial mines 1705 years ago in 200 to pump water from deep wells in coal mines. Operation.

After 200 years of development, it is now gradually entering the fuel age. As long as deep wells are drilled and machines are controlled to pump deep groundwater to irrigate fertile fields, it can still be done.

Of course, when Wang Shouliang went out to Ludong this time, he not only went to Ludong's farm during the summer harvest time to see the harvest, but more importantly, his big farm and big agricultural plan.

The Pearl River Delta basically only covers nine cities in eastern Guangdong.

The Yangtze River Delta covers some cities in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui and other places.

Even in Shandong and Henan, can they expand from more than 30 acres each to one million acres of farmland? ?
On May 5, when Wang Shouliang's Sihai Fleet arrived at Qindao, Louis, Leon and others were in a serious greeting mode.

Leon was not much better, "I know that your Bao'an Automobile Factory and Shanghai Automobile Branch have been able to steadily produce 110 Zhujiang cars per month. At this stage, there should be more than 1500 Pearl River T-cars in the Far East. "

The range of the 75MM rapid-fire gun is eight kilometers!
There is no artillery team. In an army duel, you only need to use telescopes and the like to conduct early reconnaissance, arrange the forts, and then open fire...

In comparison, although the two Xijiang trucks had a low load capacity, they each towed a 75MM rapid-fire field gun and maintained the speed at 25 kilometers per hour with ease.

"My Sihai Security Department has also been working hard to build bridges and pave roads for more than a year. Let's check and accept the results to try."

In the provinces of Shandong and Henan, which are suffering from drought this year, the deep groundwater pumped out by steam and fuel-powered machinery near deep wells is also used in the plastic water pipes made by the polyethylene plastic industry for irrigation.

This time, in addition to observing the summer harvest of Ludong Farm and Henan Province Farm, there will also be another expansion. For example, the ten team leaders in Lu will expand from 120 people each to a deputy section chief department with a full complement of 400 people?

During this emergency march, the Liberty Truck could only maintain a speed of about 20 kilometers per hour at the fastest and move forward steadily.

Lewis's eyes almost fell out of his head when he saw it, "Wang, what do you mean? Another surprise exercise?"

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When the Pearl River Free Truck is fully loaded with 4.5 tons, its maximum speed is only 24 kilometers per hour, which is completely incomparable to the 70 kilometers per hour of the Pearl River T.

"This covers more than 300 kilometers?"

After more than an hour of adjustment, more than 4000 elite troops started to move all the way towards Zhangqiu.

It also started in February 1905 when the Pearl River Plastics Factory was added to the Pearl River series of enterprises, and polyethylene plastic bags, plastic bottles, etc. were separated from the petroleum industry.

Louis, who was still riding on a Pearl River T car, looked at the watch on his wrist with a confused, messy and shocked face, "In less than two days, to be precise, from the time we set off to now, including the rest in between, It only took less than 36 hours..."

But in Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, Wang Shouliang was too embarrassed to buy land and give it to others because it was too close to Datou.

But wait and see, one thousand Pearl River T-type trucks are driving down from the big ships one after another, including four Freedom trucks with a maximum load of 4.5 tons and two Xijiang trucks with a maximum load of 1.8 tons.

He was afraid that Datou, who was already under great pressure, would completely become a depressed patient.

"Hell, this is too outrageous. If the tractor truck of the artillery truck hadn't slowed down the speed, could it have been faster?? I simply can't imagine what kind of efficiency can allow a 150MM heavy artillery to cross 36 kilometers in 300 hours. Many kilometers!"

It is the 150MM heavy artillery that slows down the speed.

"It's more than 300 kilometers from Qindao to Zhangqiu. Last year's trial assault exercise still took broken roads, dirt roads, gravel roads and the like."

Long-distance running exercises not only allow every young man to fill the steel kettle he carries with him, but a car can also store several plastic bottles of cold drinks.

To put it bluntly, six Jiachen 6 1904MM field guns, a single-digit artillery force, and a total of less than 75 people can easily destroy an elite force of four to five thousand people.

The same is true in Yu Province.

Therefore, the entire Pearl River Delta plus the Yangtze River Delta is not as big as North China.

But don't forget the terrifying weight of the 150MM Krupp heavy gun.

When he sent out the Security Section to requisition a large amount of land last year, he only sent out ten fully-equipped squadron headquarters in East Shandong, with 36 people in one unit, and a total of 360 people. After the implementation, the recruitment expanded to 10 full-strength squadron headquarters, with 120 people in one unit. , a total of 1200 people.

The long convoy formed a long, straight line on the concrete road where only one free truck could pass in one direction. The starter's signal to rest on the spot swept away, and the large convoy gradually came to a halt.

The most critical thing is that there are four Krupp 150MM howitzer carriages and two Jiachen 1904 75MM rapid-fire guns, paired with a batch of artillery shells.

And 1000 bikes!

The pace of China's transition from an agricultural society to a semi-industrial society has been a bit slow, but under the promotion of Wang Shouliang, it is really developing steadily.

A day and a half later.

The problem is, this is the 20th century. Whether an army has cannons and whether it has heavy artillery are completely different things!
You don’t have cannons, so what if you have Maxim? The Maxim MG08 heavy machine gun has a maximum range of only 3.5 kilometers and an effective range of about 2 kilometers.

The North China Plain...the North China Plain is relatively large and generally refers to Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu.

The other 4000 people, car and bicycle teams, were still three people riding a Pearl River T, one person riding, and then they collectively loaded long and short guns, including Maxim, bullets, tents, multi-functional engineer shovels, instant noodles, drinking water, etc. into the car. Pretend.

Henan Province has also followed suit, that is, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, and Shandong each have 4000 strong men.

Under his words, the artillery department with more than 100 people, serving six gun trucks, was engaged in towing operations with the drivers of several trucks.

Sihai Farm is located near Zhu Jiayu’s living base in Zhangqiu.

"And you were still in Lushun, and you tested two Pearl River Ts towing a 150MM heavy artillery, but wasn't that a short-distance slow move?"

Wang Shouliang laughed, "Just because I have only tried short-distance traction in Lushun before, I want to try long-distance running this time."

More than two thousand mixed vehicles are moving steadily, looking at the X-shaped tube building in the distance ahead, as well as the abundant wheat on both sides of the road, which has entered the harvest period.

This thing has a terrifying firing rate of more than 15 shells per minute! !
6 doors is the result of 90 shells washing the ground in one minute!

So let’s not talk about the 150MM heavy artillery towed by the Liberty Truck. Let’s just talk about these six trucks all towing 75MM field artillery and transporting a large number of artillery shells.

Half of the town's troops, who could fight without artillery, were easily destroyed.

Compared with the furious surge of six cannons, Wang Shouliang's 4000 elite linemen and escorts, who traveled more than 36 kilometers in 300 hours, were not very impressive. His whole body was numb with shock. Louis suddenly ran to Wang Shouliang, who had just got out of the car, and asked in surprise, "Wang, can two Pearl River Ts stably tow a 75MM field gun at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour?"

Wang Shouliang's truck team is still in its infancy. It took half a year to build six trucks using half mechanization and half manual work.

However, the number of Zhujiang T sedans has already exceeded 110 units, and the monthly output of units is very stable.

According to the current situation, Dagukou is 140 kilometers away from the capital... As long as there is a cement road with good road conditions, it will take a few hours, and it will be a shameless output!

What if the Zhujiang car can also travel quickly with two towed cars? ? That's more fun.

Wang Shouliang shook his head helplessly, "This is quite difficult. The Zhujiang sedan does not have enough horsepower. Usually two vehicles tow a cannon cart. It is easy to pull over a short distance. No matter whether the driver cooperates or the speed is not required, stable towing can be achieved."

"Once the speed requirement goes up, there will definitely be trouble with the cooperation between drivers."

Are you towing one or two gun carriages? One or two doors, keep going, speed 20 to 30 kilometers per hour, drivers in pairs will not have any big problems.

But one or two gun carriages are meaningless.

What would a large-scale land battle be without a hundred or so cannons? During the Battle of Ghost Bear and the Battle of Lushun, the Japanese released four to five hundred modern artillery pieces one after another.

That's just the battle for Lushun.

So, there is no problem with two vehicles cooperating for short distances, but for long distances, there are hundreds of pairs of two vehicles stretching back and forth on a road, traveling at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour?
If the cooperation is not good, it will be a series of car accidents where cars chase cars and cars hit artillery cars!

Theoretically, it can be achieved, as long as 100 pairs of veteran drivers are all good drivers, drive more steadily, and the team can be longer, but in reality? When it comes to marching and fighting, it won't be as easy as these cross-country trainings.

From the first cross-country raid exercise to today.

Along the way, Wang Shouliang's Sihai Escort Bureau was not blocked, harassed, or targeted by the Qing court once. You may say that they are cowardly, but they are indeed cowardly.

But Wang Shouliang cannot expect every opponent to be an old witch.

It is still a single truck towing the artillery carriage, and the requirements for the driver are much lower.

It’s not a big problem anymore. It’s already the summer of 06. According to his stable development plan, entering the 07 Zhujiang Free Truck, Xijiang Truck will be able to steadily increase its production capacity, even if it is mass-produced dozens, one or two hundred units a year.

Hundreds of trucks were saved in two years, and when they move, they pull hundreds of rapid-fire cannons, howitzers and heavy artillery of different calibers into raids.

At a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, it can beat all the performances of the two top powers in the Battle of Ghost Bear.

While they were chatting and joking, Wang Shouliang laughed when he saw a team of security officers running on wheels at Zhu Jiayu's living base to greet him. "It's just the beginning of the summer harvest. This training session is over and everyone performed well."

"Enter Zhu Jiayu to assemble, and get busy with the summer harvest. We will reward you based on your merits afterwards."

Guard captain Xu Si nodded and went to deliver the order.

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Night falls.

Quancheng Railway Station, which has been gradually replaced with tungsten incandescent lamps, is still bustling with people and cars.

When Jin Quan led several people to the sleeper compartment of the train, he passed by a compartment with the door still open. He glanced at it and stopped in surprise, "Cao Guangui? What a coincidence!"

In the private room, a middle-aged man who was strong and energetic but occasionally saw white hair was also surprised and said, "Mr. Jin? What a coincidence."

"Have you had dinner? Do you want to come together? I don't have anything good here, just a few bags of Zhujiang instant noodles and boiled water. Although it's simple, the taste is really something you won't get tired of eating for a long time."

When Guan Cao stood up and welcomed them with a bright smile, Jin Quan looked at the other people in the private room...and then looked behind him.

Smiling, he asked the attendant to bring out two bottles of wine and some cooked food wrapped in oil paper, and walked into the private room, "Are you Xiaoyun? I've heard that Cao Guan brought a stunningly beautiful daughter to his family. Today, It turns out that it really lives up to its reputation.”

Guan Cao laughed and said, "I don't dare to take it seriously. The ladies in Mr. Jin's family have their own merits. One is more beautiful than the other. Who are these two?"

Coming in with Jin Quan were the fifth and eighth eldest children of the Jin family, the fifth and eighth young ladies, both of whom were also young and beautiful. The eighth eldest child of the Jin family, Jin Meili, was about the same age as Bai Xiuzhu, just about 14 years old.

But comparing the two Miss Jins with Cao Guan's daughter Cao Yun, the difference in appearance is a bit obvious.

Cao Yun, who just turned 18 this year and has a face full of collagen and long black hair, is definitely an exaggeration to say that she is an all-powerful woman.

But it’s not an exaggeration to say that this is a pretty face that matches the aesthetics of more than 90% of Asian men.

Several people sat down in the private room and chatted for a while. Cao Guan took a look at his daughter, then looked at the fifth and eighth ladies of the Jin family opposite, picked up the wine glass and poured a glass for Jin Quan, "Mr. Jin, if Things will change one day.”

"Given your status in the Marshal's heart, you must be the Prime Minister and Assistant. I would like to propose a toast to you."

Jin Quan took a sip of wine, looked at his daughter and then at Cao Yun across from him, and sighed, "In one day, I traveled hundreds of miles with heavy artillery, and the suppression, exclusion, and decentralization of power that were originally targeted at the commander were all reduced." too much……"

"It's a pity that the commander is not happy or optimistic."

The previous exercises of the Sihai Escort Bureau included one or two or three days of urgent marching for three to four hundred miles, or six to seven hundred miles.

If you can run like this while pulling a gun carriage, is Rehe even unsafe? Where else can I run? The big head had already become a leader advocating for the establishment of the constitution, but he also began to be suppressed.

But the four-sea land division exercise that can run so well has made too many people feel uncomfortable about eating and sleeping. If it continues like this, everyone will be fooling around.

Not to mention the 4000 pacesetters in Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong and Henan, there are also to uniformed regiments in Shanghai, eastern Guangdong, including Lushun.

There are also 10,000 to 20,000 water swimmers and escorts.

Hasn't Beiyang been lonely in the past few years? ? The quality is inferior, the equipment is crushed, and the quantity is despised...

Then don't blame Jin Quan, including Cao Guandai, for suddenly taking his daughter to Zhangqiu.

No one knows Shopkeeper Wang’s aesthetics or other mentality, but it’s not a bad thing to give it a try, right?

If you are lucky like Bai Xiuzhu, it will be a smooth journey.

Of course, Cao Guandai was only the leader of the first battalion, a middle- and lower-level officer, but he and another commander Cao, who commanded 5,000 people in the First Association, were somewhat related, and that was how he got to know many people in Beiyang.

There are 7.5 people in the entire six towns, and the boss of the 5000-person association is no longer a small player.

(End of this chapter)