Hanxing Group Corporation will start next year to set up processing plants in major cities to process livestock skins, fur, meat, and milk on the spot, and at the same time build industrial zones in some places.

Zhao Shouhong has long been optimistic about the place. In Baotou, a treasured land of geomantic omen, the largest industrial zone of the Huns in China will be established.There are rich coal, iron and other mineral deposits here, enough to support a huge heavy industrial area.In addition, Baotou is still in the middle of two rich mineral areas, which are Ordos, which has one-half of the country's rare earth kaolin resources, one-third of natural gas resources, and one-sixth of coal resources.And Baiyun Obo, which has the largest iron-fluorine-rare earth comprehensive deposit in the country.

With these two rich mineral areas, together with the mineral deposits in Baotou itself, it is enough to support a heavy industry base that is not inferior to that of the Panzhihua Industrial Zone.Now several machinery processing factories in Zhongchuan have begun to produce various equipment accessories for the industrial zone of the Inner Huns. As soon as spring comes, they will be transported by rail to quickly form an industrial zone.At least Chen Bating has already discussed with Zhao Shouhong that he will establish an automobile company and a tractor factory in a joint venture with the Hanxing Group Company to produce the latest transportation machinery, including the first mass production for the Shu army. Tracked combat vehicle.

Chapter 537 Cassette Recorder

Zhao Shouhong used such a strange method to quickly quell the riots of the Xiongnu at home and abroad, which caused an uproar among all forces in the country.They never knew that it was possible to do this in order to suppress the chaos. They didn't need an army to fight, and the other party obediently put down all their weapons.The army that was supposed to quell the riots turned out to be the patron saint of those mobs this time and helped them build settlements.

In any case, peace was restored again under the rule of the Dashu military government.Regarding Yuan Kai's behavior of immersing himself in dealing with the Revolutionary Party, Zhao Shouhong did not take any action other than sending several telegrams, calling for peaceful treatment of those with different political opinions, and that everyone can rely on Congress to solve the problem.

The Northern Territory government is still going its own way, stubbornly cleaning up the forces of the revolutionary party, and the Shu army has not made any cross-border actions except for deploying defenses at various points in its own defense zone. The country seems to have entered a period of peaceful development.

After Zhao Shouhong returned to Shudu, he buried himself in the laboratory of Zhongchuan Electric Appliance Factory. This time he wanted to produce an epoch-making product.After the efforts of the chemical plant, high-purity germanium was finally produced through industrial means.With these semiconductor materials, Zhao Shouhong quickly produced the transistors he needed.

Bakelite was used in the manufacture of printed circuit boards, and after the addition of transistors, electrical appliances that were much smaller in size finally appeared.Two days later, Zhao Shouhong manufactured the world's first transistor cassette recorder.As early as 1888, Smith, a scientist in the White Eagle Country, published a paper that laid the theoretical foundation for the tape recorder. Ten years later, Poulsen of Denmark invented the wire tape recorder.

Just six years ago, Poulsen invented the DC bias magnetic method of the wire tape recorder, which brought the tape recorder into a practical stage.However, it will take more than 20 years for this kind of wire recorder to be put into commercial operation after the invention of the wire recorder AC bias method.The tape recorder designed by Zhao Shouhong was not invented until the early 50s.

Zhao Shouhong manufactured the cassette tape recorder 40 years in advance, so that such a product beyond modern times will naturally have no worries about sales.What Zhao Shouhong produced was not the kind of roulette tapes that were like movie films when they first appeared, but cassette tapes like later generations.

With these advanced concepts and the convenience of cassette tapes, people can no longer record in professional studios for the first time, which will be a technological leap.

Soon the Zhongchuan Electric Appliance Factory of the Hanxing Group Company began to sell Feiyan brand cassette tape recorders. In order to promote this tape recorder, Zhao Shouhong also recorded a large number of opera tapes through the Sichuan Opera Troupe and Peking Opera Troupe for bundled sales.

The folks quickly discovered the benefits of this tape recorder. As long as they put in the cassette tape, they can listen to their favorite operas all the time, instead of watching the radio and waiting for the scheduled program.As the people under the Dashu military government began to have more money in their hands, they were also willing to improve their quality of life, so the sales of tape recorders rose steadily.

Soon the common people developed new uses. The tape recorder can not only listen to operas anytime and anywhere, but after purchasing the empty cassettes sold by Hanxing Group, they can also entertain themselves and record their own operas on tapes. Appreciate slowly.

The function of the tape recorder continued to be explored, and Zhao Shouhong soon established an entertainment company in Shudu. Their first batch of works was to record military songs.Those songs that were widely sung in the Shu army, such as "Song of Three Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention", "Military Song of the Great Shu People's Army", and "The Great Wall of Steel", were all recorded into cassettes with passionate music.As long as the common people buy the cassette, they can enjoy these songs at any time.Soon the streets and alleys were filled with these passionate melodies. Walking on the streets, Zhao Shouhong finally had some sense of future generations.

Naturally, one cannot only make money from one's own money. Through the "cooperation" with the Hollywood consortium, cassette recorders were sold to the Western Continent and New World countries.Because of this, Hualan's music and opera became popular again in various developed countries.Soon the ingenious Westland and Newland companies began to record their own music. Blues, jazz, and even opera became the latest products on cassette tapes. These things were sold back to Hualan, and it also brought the people of Hualan into contact with life in developed countries for the first time. Way.

Just when the recorder was selling well all over the world, Hualan's first feature film was also released.After several months of hard work, Li Minwei not only established a film company and recruited a large number of people, but also shot his first feature film "Zhuangzi Tests His Wife".

"Zhuangzi Tests His Wife" is based on the section "Faning the Grave" in the legendary script "Butterfly Dream" of the Southern Dynasties. It shows the story of the philosopher Zhuang Zhou in the Warring States Period who faked his death to test his wife's integrity.This movie has achieved many firsts in the history of Hualan movies, the first domestic feature film, the first actress Yan Shanshan to appear on stage, and the first time to use special effects to film Zhuangzi's ghost to increase the effect of the movie.

After the film was shot, Li Minwei first sent it to the Governor's Mansion for Zhao Shouhong to comment.Zhao Shouhong was able to see Hualan's first feature film in the special movie room of the Dudu Mansion before the film was released.Although the content and setting are still very rough, it can be seen that these first batch of Hualan filmmakers still put their heart into it.What made Zhao Shouhong laugh was that the role of Zhuang Zhou's wife was actually played by Li Minwei himself in disguise.

For this film, Zhao Shouhong gave a very high evaluation, which greatly encouraged Li Minwei.Soon "Zhuangzi Tests His Wife" was screened in major movie theaters. Audiences who were tired of watching opera movies were exposed to fresh feature films for the first time, and were immediately attracted by this more realistic movie plot.As a result, the film was released for a month but the shows were sold out, and Li Minwei earned more than 40 yuan at the box office.In this era when each movie ticket only has two copper coins, such a box office can be called a miracle.

After being greatly encouraged, Li Minwei immediately started filming his second film "Rouge".Zhao Shouhong has a good understanding of these movies, which are quite rough in terms of set photography and plot acting.After all, this is the initial period of film, even in the economically and culturally developed Western Continent, this is a new thing.

As for Li Minwei's development, Zhao Shouhong does not intend to interfere. He hopes that Hualan's filmmakers can walk out of their own paths.He also believes that as long as the people are rich, they will have spare money to improve their quality of life, and many people will go to the cinema.As the audience's taste improves day by day, the movies will get better and better.

Chapter 538 The Assassination of Sarajevo

Time soon entered [-]. After Sun Yuting was pregnant in October, she gave birth to a boy for Zhao Shouhong.Zhao Shouhong cherishes his first child who came to this world very much. After consulting his grandfather, he named the child Zhao Zhen, in order to get blessings by touching the gods.

For this child, the Zhao family loves this child like the apple of their eye, and Zhao Erzhen and other grandparents all like it very much.The senior members of Zhongchuan's military and political circles are also very excited. Although Zhongchuan has begun to implement a democratic system, everyone still has the meaning of being loyal to Zhao Shouhong in their thinking inertia.Now that Zhao Shouhong has successors, everyone is relieved.

Zhao Zhen's "Hundred Days" was even more lively. Not only the military and political officials in the capital of Shu congratulated, but even the military and political officials in the Northern Region, and even President Yuan Kai himself sent gifts.In today's Hualan, there is probably only one person who can have such an honor.

Enjoying the family happiness, Zhao Shouhong spends his time at home playing with his wives every day.Seeing that Zhao Shouhong ignored political affairs and the entire military government of Dashu focused on economic development, Yuan Kai was completely relieved.He began to take power into his own hands in a drastic manner. First, he ordered the suspension of all members of the Senate and House of Representatives on January [-], and began to revise the provisional agreement.

Then the Ministry of Education issued an order requiring all schools and shops to delete all the photos of Sun Wenhai and Huang Bin in the textbooks and the words praising Sun and Huang Bin. On March 3, Yuan Kai promulgated the "Public Security Police Regulations", prohibiting political associations and alliance strikes, and stipulating that students are not allowed to form political associations or participate in political assemblies.

On May 5, Yuan Kai promulgated the "Constitution of the Hualan Republic of China", abolished the "Interim Constitution", expanded the authority of the president, and changed the responsibility cabinet system to the presidential system.On the same day, the State Council was abolished and the Political Affairs Hall was established in the Presidential Palace. Yuan Kui's loyal confidant and his ally Xu Haichang was appointed Secretary of State.

Facing Yuan Kai's overthrow of all the policies implemented by the Congress Party and turning the democratic regime into a centralized one, they also launched a counterattack. On June [-], the National Congress Party held its first meeting in Dongchencheng, the capital of Japan, and Sun Wenhai was elected prime minister.At the meeting, the leaders of the National Congress formulated a resolution to expel Yuan Kui by force and restore the democratic process in Hualan, and the revolutionaries once again entered the preparations for an armed uprising.

Just when Yuan Kai was trying his best to seize power, and the National Congress was preparing to confront it tit-for-tat, a major event that changed the history of the world happened in the Balkans.

On June [-], [-], the sky over the Balkans was cloudless. The Crown Prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Ferdinand, Zhao Shouhong’s good friend, took his wife Sofia to visit Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia.

As early as after the two Balkan Wars, the Slavs in Bosnia and Herzegovina under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire began a vigorous national movement.They strongly demanded that the two places merge with Serbia to establish a Greater Serbia state.However, how could the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which has been coveting the Balkans for a long time, spit out the fat in their mouths? Not only did they firmly oppose Serbia's expansion, but they also had the idea of ​​​​annexing it.

As the antagonism between the two sides intensified, the behavior of the grumpy Archduke Ferdinand became more and more explicit.On June [-], he chose to visit Sarajevo.Archduke Ferdinand chose this day because it was Serbia's national day and he wanted to humiliate his enemies in this way.

The actions of Archduke Ferdinand angered many Serbs. Among them was a radical organization belonging to the mafia called Bosnian Youth. They decided to ambush and assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Ferdinand and his wife decided to inspect the army on the outskirts of the city and visit military exercises by the way.They traveled through the streets of Sarajevo in a fairly sturdy car, protected by a large number of guards, and headed for the suburbs. The road was crowded with people, and these people came to watch the excitement.

The Chevrolet [-]J sedan that Ferdinand and his wife took was driving slowly on the main road.In order to show closeness to the people, Archduke Ferdinand also rolled down the window and waved to the people outside.When the convoy passed the Chumulya Bridge over the Milyatska River in the city center, an assassin suddenly stepped out of the crowd and threw a smoked grenade over.

The assassin was immediately pinned to the ground by the surrounding police officers. Because the first policeman reacted quickly, he barely touched the assassin's arm before he threw the grenade.As a result, the grenade was thrown a little crookedly. Instead of entering the car through the window, it hit the roof hard.

The heavy grenade hit the iron sheet of the car roof, making a muffled bang, and then it was bounced out, landing on the car behind.With an explosion, a big hole was blown in the car behind, and the two guards were killed on the spot.

When he met the assassin suddenly, Archduke Ferdinand was taken aback. He suddenly remembered what Zhao Shouhong said a few years ago in his mind.Assassins are likely to blend in with the crowd, and even if they are 400 meters away, they have a way to kill you with a rifle.

Thinking of this, Archduke Ferdinand hastily rolled up the car window to see that the surrounding area was sealed off, and he drew all the curtains inside.In his opinion, this would block the shooter's line of sight. Even with a shooter as accurate as Zhao Shouhong, it would be difficult to aim because of the blocking of the curtains.

Archduke Ferdinand had a good idea, but he ignored the small space inside the car. Even with the curtains closed, others could roughly guess his location.Seeing that Archduke Ferdinand rolled up the car windows and the guards hurriedly protected the car and walked towards the city hall, the assassins knew that their chances were running out.

Princip was walking among the crowd on the side of the street, his eyes fixed on the slowly moving car.He knew very well in his heart that now the other party was alert, and there was no window through which to throw bombs, so he could only use a pistol.Stretching his right hand into his pocket, Princip firmly grasped the Browning pistol that accompanied him every day, and then secretly opened the safety.

Calculating the distance of the car, Princip fixed his eyes on the position of the rear window.Although he couldn't see where the opponent was, he knew very well that as long as he tried his best to shoot at the part slightly behind the middle of the rear window, there was an [-]% chance of hitting the opponent.

Carefully looking for opportunities, Princip pretended to be casual, and slowly squeezed towards the side of the road. He soon reached the front row, next to a policeman.

Seeing that there were no other personnel around who could stop him, Princip accelerated forward, he suddenly took out a pistol from his pocket, and pulled the trigger on the rear window of the car that was close at hand.In order to increase the chance of hitting, Princip almost subconsciously fired all the bullets.

Chapter 539 Bulletproof Car

There was a bang bang sound, and the bullets fired at close range all hit the window glass.However, what surprised Princip was that these glasses were only cracked, but did not mean to break in the slightest.Archduke Ferdinand also heard the sound. He opened the curtain in astonishment, and saw the cracked glass like a spider web at first sight. What surprised him was that the seven flattened pistol bullets were embedded in the broken glass. There is no breakdown at the mouth, and the glass shows no signs of crumbling.

"My God, what's going on?" Archduke Ferdinand was inexplicably surprised.He didn't know that in order to keep his good friend, Zhao Shouhong racked his brains to get Chevrolet to produce a special car for Archduke Ferdinand, which was the Chevrolet [-]J sedan.

This car is different from ordinary Chevrolet cars because it has bulletproof steel armor all over the body, and the glass is also thick bulletproof glass.Even the engine was upgraded in order to be able to propel the one and a half tonne-and-a-half car.The car that Archduke Ferdinand was riding at this time can be said to be the world's first bulletproof car.

Seeing that he had escaped the assassination, Archduke Ferdinand, who was still in shock, immediately ordered to speed up. At the same time, the military police on both sides drove the crowd away from the road.Because of the strict order from above, in order to drive away the crowd as soon as possible, the brutal Austrian military police beat ordinary people with batons on their heads and faces.

The street was already full of people, and the local residents ran to the street to see the Ferdinand couple.There was already chaos in the streets after explosions and gunshots were heard.Although the people in front heard the order to retreat, they were surrounded by the crowd behind and had difficulty leaving.After the violent law enforcement by the military and police began, the situation became more and more chaotic. Among the crowded crowd, some old and weak people who were exhausted soon fell to the ground, and they were trampled to death in an instant.

"Someone was stepped on." Some people yelled, but it was difficult for everyone to hear.Some people stopped because they stepped on people, but more people continued to crowd, and the scene became more and more chaotic.There were too many people on the street. Obviously, the Austrian police had never dealt with such a chaotic situation, and they were helpless in the face of so many people.

More and more people were trampled on, and the crowded crowd blocked the traffic instead. The police were so angry that they swung their sticks desperately and smashed at the crowded crowd, causing more casualties as a result.The car of Archduke Ferdinand was in front, and he drove away with half of the guards, but the car of the second half of the guards was stopped on the road.

Angry guards jumped on the roof of the car and shouted, but again to no avail, no one could hear what they were shouting.The chaos did not subside until two hours later, but the casualties caused were irreparable.According to later statistics, more than 140 people were trampled to death during the chaos, and more than 3000 people were injured, one-third of whom were injured by the sticks of military police.However, the chaos this time was not useless, at least because of the chaos of the crowd, the assassins could no longer attack, and all subsequent assassination plans were aborted.

At this time, Grand Justice Ferdinand roared in the temporary official residence: "These damned mobs, these despicable Slavs, actually used such despicable means. This must be related to the Raksha people. I want to teach them a lesson that will never be forgotten." .”

"Your Highness, an assassin has confessed, and our people are rushing to his hiding place to wipe out the rest of the party." Colonel Poker, an aide, stood erect beside him, holding his helmet in one hand and holding his knife in the other. If he made the slightest move, he was afraid that Archduke Ferdinand's anger would affect him.

"Have you found out their origins? This is definitely not an isolated time, and there must be a mastermind behind it." Archduke Ferdinand said.

Colonel Pokel quickly replied: "At present, we only know that this organization is called Bosnian Youth, and the mastermind behind it has not yet been found out."

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