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"I'm here this time, in addition to visiting my brother, there are two other things I want to ask me for help." Zhao Zhenzhong explained his purpose, "The first thing is that I basically have to stay in the cement factory now, and there are inevitably places where Qingdao and Nanyao cannot be taken care of. Although I asked Li Yuntian to manage the Sihai Industrial on his behalf, he is not as good as you are in the official position and well-informed as a brother. If there is any important news, please tell Li Yuntian so that he can send someone to find me in time."

"This is no problem. But can the autonomous government and the guards let people enter and exit at will?" Sui Shiqing was a little confused.

"Their investigation is very strict, and it is definitely impossible to enter and exit casually. However, because we, Sihai Industrial, has sold some shares in cement factories to the autonomous government, it is still a bit sympathetic. The people sent by our company don't think they will be too embarrassed." Zhao Zhenzhong replied.

"The second thing is to cooperate with my brother. We will contribute together. My brother will help buy some cotton and hand it over to Li Yuntian. He will organize manpower to transport the goods to me. When I came back, the guards told me that we hope that our Sihai Industry can provide them with the materials they need. They will purchase them at a price of 10% at the market price. This time, they called for cotton. However, my brother must not disclose the whereabouts of this batch of cotton, otherwise we will cause big trouble."

"It's August now, and there are more than two months left before the cotton harvest season. If you prepare in advance to purchase in the cotton production area, from the purchase price to the market selling price, plus an additional 10%, we will have at least 2.5% of the profit to make. I just don't know how much they need?" Sui Shiqing became interested.

"I asked at the time and they told me that there were nearly 1.3 million people in the jurisdiction, and at least half of these people needed to buy winter clothes this winter. Brother, how big is this?"

"Hiss", Sui Shiqing took a breath and was shocked. Then, he suggested: "Brother, why don't we just process it into a finished cotton coat and then hand it over to them? Then we will make more money."

"I have asked, but they don't want to wear clothes. It is said that men, women, young and old are different in height, fat and thin, and the clothes they bought don't fit, so it's better for them to make them themselves."

"That's how it is." Sui Shiqing felt a little regretful, but then he thought that what he said made sense, so he felt relieved. He then decided to say, "Then let's just use the excuse of processing cotton coats and send people to the cotton production area to purchase."

"Okay, you are familiar with this aspect and you will arrange it. If you need personnel, say to Li Yuntian. In addition, I have prepared 300,000 yuan of funds this time and will let Li Yuntian give you the check at that time."

"I didn't have that much cash at the moment, but I should be able to raise more than 200,000 yuan. However, the cotton we bought was much more than 600,000 yuan," Sui Shiqing asked the question.

"It's okay to be more, I'll be mine then. The orphans I took in and the workers from Sihai Industrial will also need them at that time." Zhao Zhenzhong didn't care.

"Okay, that's it." Sui Shiqing remembered something again and asked, "By the way, Zhenzhong, do you think we have any profit this year after we sold some of the cement factory shares to the autonomous government?"

"If the Guards have taken half of their shares, our income will indeed be affected. However, although the price of cement used by the Guards and the autonomous government is somewhat low, since it is sold on site after production, our company does not have to transport it outward or find buyers, which can save a lot of expenses and take less effort. In addition, some of the conveniences provided by the Guards and the autonomous government, if you calculate it together, you will make a lot of money than before."

After Zhao Zhenzhong explained, he remembered something and asked: "When Newber returned to the United States in March, I was still in Shandong. I wonder if he had explained how to deal with the shares he held?"

"I haven't heard of this. Is there any problem?" Sui Shiqing asked.

"Last year, when Courtman returned to China, he transferred his shares to Newber's custody. Now, Newber, the acting consul, has returned to the United States without explaining it clearly. It seems that when we pay dividends at the end of the year, they will have to save their share specifically." Zhao Zhenzhong said.

"Haha, it's really hard for you, I think so carefully. However, it's a great blessing to be able to cooperate with you, little brother." Sui Shiqing praised.

"Haha, it's just a matter of right between partners."

After coming out of Sui Shiqing, Zhao Zhenzhong told Li Yuntian to return to the base area after a while.

In addition to inspecting the relevant engineering construction in each county from time to time, Zhao Zhenzhong focused on recalling the legal knowledge he had mastered before. In the past world, after his parents had an accident, Zhao Zhenzhong put some effort into relevant laws and regulations. Although it has been a long time since I can't remember many contents, the various interpersonal relationships and production relations in the base area are much simpler, and the corresponding regulations and provisions are not so complicated.

After nearly a month of sorting, Zhao Zhenzhong successively drafted a series of rules and regulations such as the General Principles of Civil Law, the General Principles of Criminal Law, the Interim Measures for Litigation Management, the Regulations on Land Management, the Regulations on Marriage and Inheritance Management, the Regulations on Industrial and Commercial Mining Management, the Regulations on Traffic Management, and the Regulations on Tax Management. The various current policies and measures in the base area are standardized and institutionalized.

Subsequently, Zhao Zhenzhong handed over these rules and regulations to the county committees and the Ministry of Civil Affairs for about half a month to discuss them to make them more applicable to the actual situation in the base area. Based on the results of the discussion, Zhao Zhenzhong revised the corresponding terms. Then, he organized a study class to train relevant content for the personnel selected from each county and township.

After more than a month of study, when the rules and regulations courses were over and the students returned to their original positions, Zhao Zhenzhong issued an announcement on November 1 in the name of the autonomous government, announcing that this series of regulations and regulations will come into effect now.

At this time, the autumn harvest and autumn seeds in the base area have basically ended. Although there have been many natural disasters this year, under the influence of the relatively complete water conservancy system in the base area, a good harvest was still achieved. The 2.1 million mu of land was harvested in total about 500,000 tons of grain in summer and autumn. This not only completely solved the current grain demand of nearly 1.3 million people in the base area, but also used a lot of them to retain and rescue people from nearby counties and townships.

As the weather gradually became colder, Li Yuntian began to transport the purchased cotton into the base area one after another. Zhao Zhenzhong decided to provide free full set of cotton coats to the widows and widows in the district and students in the school, all officers and soldiers of the guards, government staff at all levels, members of village committees, militia reserve personnel, and factory and mine staff controlled by the guards, and personnel in the prisoner camps. At the same time, the remaining large amount of cotton was opened to the people in the area at the purchase price.

Seeing that winter was approaching, Zhao Zhenzhong ordered all regiments and the investigation team to send personnel to nearby areas to take in orphans and victims who were displaced due to famine, bandits or war.

When the soldiers responsible for leaving the surveillance guards and autonomous governments found that the escort troops were constantly bringing back some middle-aged men and women with blue clothes and skin and bones from nearby counties and townships, they promptly reported the situation. When the former commander of the 17th Army, Cao Wanshun, the commander of the 11th Division, learned about the situation after the troops were reorganized in July, he led a few people to the front to observe through a telescope, sighed and said nothing for a long time.

"Teacher, these guards seem to be half-baby, but why do they take so many victims from the mountains and go back? Can you find someone to support them if there is too much food?" asked a leader under Cao Wanshun.

"I don't know if they have a lot of food, but they may have taken people back to support them." Cao Wanshun was in a heavy mood and said with a little self-deprecating: "Since joining the National Government in the 15th year of the Republic of China, he fought all the way. From the Northern Expedition to the present, we have never seen our troops rescue the victims. It is not as good as the kids in the mountains who are regarded as bandits and opponents by us."

"Tell the brothers below not to make things difficult for them. We cannot save people, and we must not let others save them."

"Master, forget it, don't let Deputy Commander Chen attack your bandits with this." The regiment commander reminded.

"Hmph! Didn't Chen Cixiu talk about the Three Principles of the People all day long? Let him come over and see, and see that he has the face to talk. If he wants to attack, then let him attack. If he is really capable, he will not dare to lead troops to attack the guard's position?" Cao Wanshun was very disdainful.

After hearing this, Chen Cheng, deputy commander of the 11th Division, also went to the forefront to observe carefully with a telescope, but after watching it, he remained silent about it.

In this way, with the intentional or unintentional condolence of the 11th Division surveillance forces south of Mengshan, the guards brought a total of 150,000 people from Sishui County, Fei County, and the Anqiu area to the north before the arrival of winter, which brought the population of the base to 1.43 million.

In mid-January 1929, Zhou Hao brought two ships of supplies from the United States. However, there was no food in the cargo this time, all of them were mechanical equipment and some electrical equipment. In addition, Zhou Hao also brought back the construction drawings of the two dams. It was the first batch of concrete gravity dams, Aroroke Dam and Xiangshan Dam built in the United States in the early 20th century.

However, after reading it, Zhao Zhenzhong sighed and said, "If we talk about the current technical conditions, we can also complete such a project. However, if we want to build a hydropower station, we still need to solve the problem of steel. In addition to the construction of dams, the sluices of the hydropower station also require special large steel gates. In our original world, the Bashan Water Conservancy Project built on the Yishui River in the late 1950s, with a total of 16 gates, each of which is a steel arc gate with a width of 10 meters and a height of 7.5 meters. Now we cannot produce such gates in China, and it cannot be transported into the base area after production abroad. We have to wait for the future to build the steel metallurgy industry in the base area and produce it ourselves."

Zhou Hao scratched his head and said, "The thing you mentioned can definitely be produced in the United States, and I can also transport it back to Qingdao. But such a big guy is indeed unable to transport it into the base area secretly with his existing traffic conditions and transportation tools. It seems that the water and electricity unit brought back this time is temporarily unavailable."

"Then I can only wait for a favorable opportunity. However, I will produce these gates in the United States first and take them to Qingdao Port when I come back from the United States next year and put them there first. I think I won't wait too long." Zhao Zhenzhong said.

"When will you go to the United States next year?"

"Please go with the students who went to study in the United States in the summer."

"I will definitely give you a big surprise then!" Zhou Hao said exaggeratedly with a bit of mystery.

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The Spring Festival in 1929 came a little late, on February 10th, and Zhou Hao returned to the United States without waiting for the Spring Festival this time.

However, this Spring Festival is the first Spring Festival that people have no worries about food and clothing after the base is built. Men, women, young and old all have smiles from the bottom of their hearts.

Before the Spring Festival, Li Laodao, Li Shifen, Li Tongsheng, Liu Dehai, Kuang Zhenjue and others were also specially sent by Li Yuntian from Nan Kiln to the base area to attend the wedding of Gu Haichuan, Han Yumin, Liu Chengshan and Zhang Xiulan.

When everyone entered the base area, they were shocked when they learned that everything here was captured by the children of Zhao Zhenzhong and the guards.

After attending the wedding, except for Li Shifen, who stayed here to celebrate the Spring Festival, the others rushed back to Nanyao. In the words of Li Laodao, "I don't need to worry about so many people here, but the children in Nanyao are still waiting for me to celebrate the festival together."

In the first half of 1929, the production and life in the base areas were orderly. However, the Jiang-Gui War broke out in March in the world outside the mountain, and it lasted until June before ending with Chiang Kai-shek's victory. It had just subsided, but Zhang Xueliang, Northeast China, broke out in war with the Soviet Union over the Middle East Road.
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