Jiang Fangzhen seemed to understand something, and a bright light flashed in his eyes.Zhao Shouhong continued: "If we continue to follow up and report, tell all the actions of the people, tell them what kind of changes the donated materials have brought to the disaster area, this is a patriotic education. What our nation lacks today What is true is the consciousness of dedicating to the country and the nation. They can donate money and materials to the disaster area today, and when the country is in crisis, they will do the same, even at the expense of their lives. Cohesion is always the only thing for the reproduction and development of a nation The method, as long as all the people are united, any country can be prosperous and strong.”

"The chairman's words are thought-provoking, and made Jiang Mou suddenly enlightened." Jiang Fangzhen couldn't help sighing.

Zhao Shouhong said: "In addition to uniting people's hearts, we also need to improve the image of the military. It is difficult for any country to maintain respect for the soldiers. Only when the soldiers are respected and loved, and the whole people have a martial heart, can the prosperity of a country be guaranteed. It is our opportunity for the army to enter the sea for earthquake relief. As long as newspapers and radio stations follow up and report, the whole people will have a new understanding of the image of the army.”

"That's right, taking advantage of the earthquake to turn a bad thing into a good thing, the chairman's great talent is incomparable." Jiang Fangzhen sighed.

Zhao Shouhong sighed: "Whether bad things turn into good things or not, the people in Haiyuan are still suffering. I don't know if Zhang Shaozeng and the others have arrived."

When disaster relief Zhao Shouhong sighed, Zhang Shaozeng's bomber had already flown over Haiyuan City.Because the bomber units stationed in Shudu had limited carrying capacity, only one battalion arrived in the first batch, and the other units were still on the road in airships.

Looking at the ruins below, Zhang Shaozeng pulled down his goggles and said to the paratroopers opposite: "Now it's up to us, everyone remember that you are the soldiers of the people, now is the time for you to save the people from danger, jump with me. "After speaking, Zhang Shao was the first to jump out.

The roar of humming engines resounded through the sky, and dozens of bombers came overwhelmingly.This time the bomber dropped hope instead of death. As a paratrooper jumped out of the bomb bay, white umbrella flowers covered the entire sky.

At this time, there are many mourners on the ground, and the affected people have not yet woken up from the sudden disaster.Many people are trying to save themselves. They have found all the tools they can, even lying on the ruins with their own hands, hoping to rescue their relatives buried below.

Just then a person raised his head to wipe his sweat, and suddenly saw the sky full of planes and parachutes, he shouted in surprise: "Heaven, what is that?"

After he yelled, everyone nearby raised their heads and looked towards the sky.A sharp-eyed person saw the familiar grass-green military uniform under the parachute, and he immediately exclaimed: "It's the army, it's our army, we're saved."

His words elicited cheers, and the ground quickly returned to life.Zhang Shaozeng carefully operated the parachute and quickly landed on an open field.He didn't care about putting away the parachute, and directly unlocked the lock and rushed towards the nearby people: "How are you guys? Is the situation here serious?"

The man was taken aback when he saw a soldier rushing to him, and then couldn't stop crying after hearing his question: "The house is all collapsed, and my father is still buried in it, but the beams are too heavy. I can't move it."

"What? There, let's move it immediately." Several soldiers who had just landed heard his words and rushed over immediately.

"Everyone, hurry up and start working. Saving people is the most important thing." After Zhang Shaozeng shouted, he also threw himself into the disaster relief work.In fact, the soldiers did not need orders at all. After landing on the ground, they immediately went into disaster relief work.

Ordinary soldiers picked up their engineering shovels and began to dig the ruins, looking for the trapped people, while the health soldiers bandaged the wounds of the injured people and did simple trauma treatment.Driven by the officers and soldiers, the surviving civilians also launched self-rescue efforts. At this time, there was no distinction between family relatives or blood ties, as long as they were able to move, they all joined in the rescue work.

Three hours later, the follow-up troops of the paratrooper brigade also arrived here by airship, and they also parachuted into the disaster area.Some airships even landed at risk, transporting two division-level field hospitals, equipment and medicine, as well as a large amount of relief supplies to the disaster area.

After the arrival of the two field hospitals, the disaster relief work became smoother, and a large number of seriously injured people waiting for treatment were sent to the temporary operating room.These operating rooms are all set up with tents, and the interior has been disinfected by nurses. They are equipped with portable equipment such as shadowless lamps, ventilators and infusion stands used by field troops, which are very suitable for field use.

The military doctors in the field hospital are all experts in trauma treatment. They performed operations at a very fast speed and rescued critically ill patients.

Not only the inside of the disaster area is busy with earthquake relief work, but also many people are also busy on various traffic arteries in the vicinity of Haiyuan.At this time, the Fifth Army stationed in the Western Regions Province dispatched all the engineering troops. Under the leadership of the army commander Wang Bailing, they began to repair three roads and railways [-] kilometers away from Haiyuan City.

Because it is located in a hilly area, many mountain rocks were shattered during the earthquake.These broken rocks piled up on the road, seriously affecting traffic.At this time, the soldiers were pulling their shoulders and using crowbars to deal with heavy boulders.

Wang Boling was not idle either, he was also at the front line, sweating profusely leading the soldiers to carry the gravel.While carrying the stones, Wang Boling shouted: "Brothers, work harder, as long as the roads are cleared, the relief supplies will be sent to the disaster areas, and the victims will be saved."

Army commanders like Wang Boling went into battle in person, and no one else would dare to be lazy, so the soldiers were extremely enthusiastic about their work.With a large number of people and strong strength, with the full efforts of the Fifth Army, two roads and one railway line were finally repaired within six hours.In the dark night, Wang Boling showed a knowing smile as he watched the trucks with headlights lined up and headed for the disaster area one by one.

Chapter 9 Donations from wealthy businessmen

Looking at the tired soldiers, Wang Boling shouted: "Brothers, although we have built the road, now is not the time to rest. Now I order that the No. 15 Division stay and continue to rush to repair other roads, and the rest of the troops follow me Enter the disaster area and rescue the local victims."

Soon the nearby garrisons entered the disaster area continuously, and at the same time, many labor forces in the nearby areas also consciously joined the earthquake relief army.Airship teams, car teams and trains transported an endless stream of relief supplies from all over the Special Economic Zone, and the entire Special Zone has entered the national disaster relief operation.

Newspapers across the Special Economic Zone and Zhongchuan Radio Station broadcast the progress of disaster relief and various local heroic deeds every day.During these days, everyone in the Special Economic Zone was moved. Some people donated their savings to the disaster area, and the children took out their pocket money. Some people went to the hospital three times a day to donate blood continuously. car drivers asked to go to the front line to deliver supplies to the disaster area.

Some cities even organized disaster relief teams spontaneously, selecting young and middle-aged people to go to the disaster-stricken area for rescue. In the face of this catastrophe, all the people in the special zone were united as never before.They have only one goal, to rescue those trapped by the earthquake as soon as possible.

People in the SAR were not the only ones who were deeply moved. In all the areas where the radio could reach, the local people heard these reports.The cohesion shown by the special zone in the face of the catastrophe has shocked the governments of all countries, even outside the special zone, in the Hualan country, in the Lanfang Republic, in the Southern Cross Republic, and in places all over the world where Hualan people live together, There was an upsurge of donating money and goods for the disaster area. At this time, what they thought in their hearts was no longer divided by region or country. They only knew that they were Hualan people.

Regarding the disaster situation in the Western District, some friendly people from other countries are also taking action, and Hissler in Munich launched a donation campaign.The leader of the Social Workers Party, who rose to fame after the beer hall riots and spent several months in prison, is now in full swing.

After hearing about the disaster in the Western Special Zone, he gave speeches across the country for ten consecutive days, calling on everyone to donate to the victims of the disaster in the Western Special Zone.Because of what Zhao Shouhong did, he and the Hualan people had an excellent reputation in the Teutonic country.Now that they heard that the Western Special Zone of Hualan Kingdom was hit by a disaster, many Teutonic citizens, although very poor, enthusiastically donated money and goods, raising millions of Teutonic Marks in a short period of time.Hissler quickly transferred the money to Li Kegong, and showed the source of the money.Li Kegong expressed his gratitude for Hissler's approach. He only now realized that this seemingly ordinary moustache is definitely not an ordinary person.

Roosevelt Jr. from the White Eagle Country also did the same thing as Hissler.It's just that although this congressman gave speeches everywhere, not many people actively donated money.Isolationism has always been prevalent in the White Eagle Country, and it doesn't care about affairs outside the New World.What's more, domestic racism is prevalent, and they don't care about the life and death of yellow people at all, otherwise the Chinese Exclusion Act will not be eliminated.

Under such a national ideology, Roosevelt Jr.'s donation activities can only fail naturally. If under the call of the old Roosevelt, the family donates a lot of money, the results this time will be too ugly.This thought of the domestic people made Roosevelt Jr. very indignant, and he began to doubt whether the democratic system he once advocated was really so perfect.From this time on, Roosevelt Jr. began to change his thinking. He began to read a lot of utopianism and state capitalism books, looking for a "truly perfect" political system.

One month after the mobilization of the people in the Western Special Zone for earthquake relief, the government announced that the disaster relief work had come to an end and began post-disaster reconstruction.Due to the active rescue efforts of all forces in the special zone, the death toll in the Haiyuan earthquake was less than 2, and more than [-] people were still missing.Although the loss is still heavy, it is several times lower than in history.

This catastrophe is not only a matter of effective rescue, the key is to bring Hualan people from all over the world together.After the disaster relief work was over, the SAR government announced the amount of donations and blood donations from various places in this donation activity. At the same time, it released detailed data on the use of these donations to purchase disaster relief materials and invest in post-disaster reconstruction.The government's method of transparency in the whereabouts of special funds has won the recognition and praise of the people, and it has also given everyone a greater sense of pride in their own practices.

To the surprise of the common people, the list of donations includes not only the SAR and non-SAR provinces of Hualan Kingdom, but also donations from all over the world. Of course, it is indicated how many donations are made by Hualan people and how many are from other ethnic groups. people donate.

Looking at the large donations made by those overseas Hualan people, the common people felt the care from overseas wanderers for the first time. The old idea that going abroad is a deserted citizen from the Celestial Dynasty has changed, and many people have begun to care about Hualan people in life overseas.

The reality of this major earthquake has changed the thinking of many people, and many old concepts have been renewed.Not only within the Western Special Zone, the cohesion of the entire Hualan nation has been further strengthened.A strong country starts with a strong people, and the national ideology began to awaken rapidly among the people.

The awakening of the people is like a trickle of water, which will eventually converge into a great sea.This kind of great awakening of the people's thinking will also promote the rapid development of the country and regain its standing on the top of the world.Just after the government announced the reconstruction of the disaster area, many large companies in the western special zone, such as the Simple Consortium, Rong's Consortium, Paradigm Ocean Chemicals, Minxin Film Company, and Wu's Consortium, announced that they would donate huge sums of money for the government to rebuild Haiyuan. The total amount of funds is as high as 3000 million Chinese yuan.Zhao Shouhong also asked Sun Xize and Qin Zhongyi to announce that Hanxing Group Company and Guangming Group Company each donated 3000 million Chinese yuan for reconstruction work.

Zhao Shouhong is very pleased with the donations from these big companies, which shows that the capitalists in the Special Economic Zone have begun to change their minds, from selfishly earning money to giving back to the society.This is a very good phenomenon. For this reason, Zhao Shouhong specially announced to hold a banquet at the General Consulate General's Mansion to entertain those national capitalists who donated money for the reconstruction of the disaster area.

Many of the capitalists in this era were born as scholars. They have their own ethics and moral standards, which are completely different from those of later generations.Because of the public-private partnership in the early days of the founding of the New Hualan Republic and the wrong practice of comprehensive nationalization, although the national power has been greatly enhanced in a short period of time, these elegant Confucian businessmen have been completely wiped out.

Chapter 9 Chapter Seven

When the country opened up again decades later and made everyone rich again, the capitalists who rose again lost the profound heritage of their predecessors.Without the background accumulated by generations of nobles or wealthy families, those who became rich in later generations can only be regarded as nouveau riche. Many people feel very at a loss after becoming rich because of their lack of background.After many people have money, they bet their interests on gambling and drinking, only to return to poverty again.

It was not until another hundred years later, when some intelligent rich people gradually accumulated cultural heritage after two or three generations of cultivation, that they became Confucian businessmen with a virtuous circle again.It is not alarmist to say that only after getting rich can one become famous, and that only one nobleman can be born in three generations.

Nowadays, the emerging capitalists of the Hualan nation have unique advantages. They have been differentiated from the class of scholars and big landlords who have been influenced by Confucianism. They already have a very deep foundation of Confucianism. Improve and develop faster.

Naturally, Zhao Shouhong strongly advocated the ideological transformation of these emerging Confucian businessmen. At the banquet, he sat down with the capitalists, talked and laughed happily, and praised their righteous deeds.Those big capitalists also felt very excited. In addition to being able to meet the general leader, they can also exchange feelings with many colleagues here and discuss cooperation intentions with each other.

What Zhao Shouhong didn't expect was that more than 20 commercial contracts were signed at this banquet, which was really an unexpected harvest.Inspired by this, Zhao Shouhong announced that the Consulate-General's Mansion would hold a banquet every year, as a platform for everyone to communicate and cooperate, and this project was fixed. Later, a commercial club of alliance nature was formed to coordinate domestic major businesses.

Because this club was initiated from the Consul General's Mansion, everyone named it the Consul General Club. No matter where the club's headquarters moves in the future, the name has never changed.The Consul's Club has established the highest-level merchant alliance in Hualan Kingdom. Every merchant who can become a member of the club is very proud. Members of this club also establish a symbol of merchant status and affirmation of their status.

Under the guidance of Zhao Shouhong, this club has united the world's top Hualan businessmen, making it a barrier for Hualan businessmen to resist the world's trade attacks.With the growing power of Hualan, this organization has become the largest merchant organization in the world in the future.

Just when the people of the whole country were immersed in the emotion of solidarity and mutual assistance, a work with historical significance appeared in the Wanshi Animation Film Company in Guanghai City. "Big Havoc in the Studio" is the first original cartoon in Hualan's history, telling the story of the master subduing a paper figurine in the studio.This cartoon is directed by Wan Guchan, and the four Wan brothers participated in the production. The painter is also played by Wan Guchan.

This animation cannot be regarded as an animation in the true sense, because it just added an animated character in a movie, but it was the beginning of Hualan's animation career.

Once "Havoc in the Studio" was released in movie theaters, it was immediately welcomed by the general public.No one has ever seen such a novel film. As a result, the movie theaters were full, and Wan's Animation Film Company earned a lot of money.

After seeing such a huge profit, the four Wan brothers became more motivated, and they quickly devoted themselves to the production of new cartoons.What Zhao Shouhong gave them before was very effective. They first drew the base plate of the scene, and then used multi-layer celluloid plastic drawing boards to draw various characters, and shot them into film one by one.Utilizing this common animation production method in later generations has greatly increased the production speed of cartoons. In addition, after the release of "The Studio" aroused the interest of many people, many painters and young people have invested in Wan's company.

Wan's Animation Film Company is no longer the small studio of the four Wan brothers. They quickly made a fairly clear division of labor, and started the production of two cartoons at the same time in a manner similar to the factory assembly line. A large-scale and professional animation company officially started operation.

When "The Studio" swept the box office in Guanghai City, Zhao Shouhong also came here.However, he didn't come to watch the animated film, but went to Jiangnan Shipyard for inspection.After the launch of the first battlecruiser Zhongchuan designed and built by the Hualan people, the designers made improvements to the problems found in the sea trials and prepared to start construction on the next three battlecruisers at the same time.

Hualan Kingdom's shipbuilding technology has matured, and the expansion of the fleet should also be put on the agenda. Zhao Shouhong came here for this purpose.Relying on battlecruisers alone is naturally unable to support the entire Hualan Navy, so Zhao Shouhong decided to build an entire fleet this time, relying on the advanced design concepts brought by Teutonic designers and the experience exchanged with blood during the war , The construction of the Hualan battleship has stood on the shoulders of giants from the very beginning.

In the shipyard, Zhao Shouhong chatted with Wei Han and many other designers for a long time. Starting from the amount of steel used in the shipyard, the difficulty of machining, the manufacturing of naval guns, and the production capacity, he clearly understood the current construction capacity of the shipyard.After discussing with many designers, they quickly came up with a new warship construction plan.

There are quite a few new construction proposals, including blueprints for aircraft carriers, battleships, battlecruisers, cruisers, and destroyers.Among them, in addition to four aircraft carriers with a displacement of more than 3 tons, which are being built at the Kyaukpyu Shipyard, as many as [-] destroyers will also be built there.

The new destroyer is a large ocean-going destroyer with a displacement of about 35 tons. It is propelled by two gear-driven steam turbines with two shafts.Its main weapons are five 1mm dual-purpose guns and eight 130mm torpedo tubes.In order to serve as the fleet's air defense mission, the warship also installed four dual-mounted 533mm anti-aircraft guns, six quadruple-mounted 37mm cannons, and twelve dual-mounted 15mm machine guns.With such weapons, as long as there are a sufficient number of destroyers, it can support a powerful air defense firepower network.

The battlecruisers and cruisers other than these warships were all built by the Jiangnan Shipyard. Among them, the battlecruisers still used the drawings of the Nakagawa, but the number was expanded to six, and the cruisers were positioned at more than 35 tons. Propelled by four-bladed steam turbines, the speed is estimated to reach 152 knots.Equipped with three double-mounted 57mm caliber main guns, eight 12mm-caliber torpedo launchers, six double-mounted 30mm anti-aircraft guns, 15 single-mounted [-]mm caliber cannons, fifteen quadruple-mounted [-]mm Anti-aircraft machine gun.

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