Silent Development
Ximen Rui left Zhang Jiakou in high spirits. He thought that he had completed the mission Baldy Jiang had left for him. But in reality, it wasn't completed because Ji Yun was very clear about Baldy Jiang's character. He was actually a narrow-minded and very suspicious leader. It was very troublesome to work with such a leader. Sometimes, you couldn't expect him to help you. You should count on him not to disturb you or cause you trouble.
However, our Commander Jiang is just such a useless teammate. He always likes to trap his own people to death. In the end, his subordinates are also like this. This is very embarrassing.
Moreover, Commander Jiang might be a patriotic person and had very strict requirements for himself, but he was very indulgent towards his relatives. Jiang, Kong, Song, and Chen. How many people had they harmed for their own personal interests?
Among them, the Kong family was the most serious. Although the Kong family's Kong had the same surname as Confucius, he was extremely greedy. Greed, something he and his son did during the war. It was simply outrageous. How many people knew that Baldy Jiang had the right to operate the Yunnan-Myanmar Road during the Anti-Japanese War? He handed it over to the Kong family, but in the end, they urgently needed to transport the weapons and ammunition to the front line. Kong Lingkan actually wanted to charge a high transportation fee. This was simply inconceivable. This lifeline was supposed to be used to transport weapons to repel the enemy, but it was used by some people to transport luxury goods.
How could Ji Yun get close to him with such behavior? Now that Commander Jiang had suddenly appeared, it was likely that he had taken a fancy to these advantages of being in Chahar. He wanted to see if he could cause Yan Laoxi some trouble, but he had underestimated Ji Yun. Ji Yun was not a country bumpkin who had never seen the world. Ji Yun accepted it, but he had never promised anything practical.
As for Zhu Guangjian, his mission seemed to have been completed quite well. However, he was in a bit of trouble now. Zhu Guangjian originally planned to let Ji Yun withdraw his army from Jin Province, but Ji Yun's reaction was very strong. He refused to withdraw from Jin Province no matter what.
In the end, Zhu Guangjian had no choice but to settle for the second best option, first drawing the dividing line between the two sides. According to the current plan, both sides could not place more than 10,000 troops within 10 kilometers of the defense line. Within 50 kilometers of the defensive line, there could not be more than 20,000 people.
At the same time, the Chahar People's Government obtained the rights to develop the mines in the Suiyuan area. This could be said to be a great thing, because this could make up for the lack of mines in Chahar.
In fact, it was not necessary to go through so much trouble. Two or three months ago, a sub-base had already taken root in Baobao. It could be said that if Ji Yun really wanted it. He estimated that he would be able to take down the entire Suiyuan in a week, and that would be enough for him to settle down.
However, if he could get in touch with this connection, Ji Yun would be able to develop his business in Baobao more easily. Currently, Baobao didn't have a large population, and it was located in the Kuangqu Baiyunerbo. The area within a few dozen miles could basically be said to be barren and smokeless.
The area from Baobao to the other mining area was within the area that Ji Yun had designated. This area would be the future Baobao Industrial Zone.
Therefore, this area was reserved by Ji Yun. Yan Laoxi saw some sparsely populated territories, although he heard that there were some mines below.
However, he didn't know exactly how many there were, so the two sides argued for a long time. In the end, the Chahar People's Government had to pay the Jin Provincial Government 3 million silver dollars each year as the annual lease of the mine.
However, Ji Yun's request was to leave some troops in the Kuangqu as daily security.
Of course, Yan Laoxi would not agree to it. The two sides then started an intense discussion. In the end, Ji Yun guaranteed that these guards would only be equipped with rifles and some light machine guns. Heavy weapons such as cannons would not exist.
In the end, the two sides decided that the Jin army could only have about 10,000 soldiers in Suiyuan, and the mine guards could only have about 1,000 soldiers to maintain the daily security around the mine.
They were just like a mine protection team, but unfortunately, Yan Laoxi would never be able to figure it out in his entire life. The greatness of the base had forcefully built a huge industrial city in this sparsely populated area.
After settling this matter, Ji Yun still wanted to go from Zhang Jiakou to Wulanchabu, then from Sui to Baotou. Yan Laoxi agreed to build a railway connecting the three places, but he did not plan to fork out a single cent.
Yan Laoxi had some understanding of this road. With the development of transportation, the economy would naturally develop.
However, the construction of the railway was more troublesome now because the production of steel rails was relatively limited. There was no way for the railway to be fully operational, but it would take at least three months for the steel mill to start production.
Therefore, the road between the two places began to be built in advance. Duolun's oil refinery had already started working in secret. The various raw materials produced were basically stored, but all the asphalt was taken out. This was to prepare for the road construction.
Before Duolun's oil field was produced, Ji Yun's trucks used fuel produced by the synthetic technology brought by the base. However, with the current technology, the production of synthetic fuel was very low. Right now, there weren't too many oil spenders here. If Ji Yun was given 300 Tiger tanks, he might not even have enough fuel to drive them.
One had to know that a Tiger tank would consume eight liters of gasoline for every kilometer it ran. This was simply a bottomless pit!
During World War II, Hans did not have much fuel reserves. If he encountered such a gasoline-eating demon, he would be even more helpless. In the later stages of World War II, most of the German equipment, especially tanks and planes, were destroyed because of the lack of fuel.
This could also be said to be the sorrow of a small country. Without enough resources, they could only seek to expand outward, but because of the lack of resources, their expansion failed.
Of course, it was also because these countries were too radical, but some of their own shortcomings were too huge to be hidden, so most of the expansion of small countries would end in failure.
Just like the famous Alexander Empire in history, it took more than ten years to conquer a huge empire. After Alexander the Great died, his empire fell apart.
Putting that aside, most of the highway network from Zhang Jiakou to Baotou was relatively straight, but it was still a few hundred kilometers away. This route was the 21st-century Beijing-Tibet highway.
Naturally, it was impossible for them to create a future highway. However, it was not difficult for this bug to exist. Fortunately, the highway was a civilian technology. Otherwise, it would not have been so easy to unlock.
However, if it was built according to the model of the future. Based on the current situation, the cost was too high, so it was built according to the previous national highway standards, which was the standard of the Chinese Grade 2 highway. It would be enough for at least twenty to thirty years.
Moreover, the quality of the clone's construction was absolutely guaranteed. They would not cheat or cut corners. However, with Chahar's current industrial capabilities and engineering team, it would take at least another two to three years for this highway to open to traffic.
However, after the construction of the base in Baobao was completed, both sides would start working at the same time, and the speed would be much faster. Moreover, Ji Yun had built a second sub-base in the mountains not too far away from Gui Sui. The purpose of this base was to speed up the construction of the road.
After a while, his real destination should be Mongolia, but he would probably have to wait for a few more years.
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