Young Marshal: Many children bring more blessings, marry a wife who is as powerful as the world - Chapter 31

Chapter 31 Catching Up with England in Three Years, Surpassing America in Five Years! Building a Modernized Military Camp!

Upon seeing this prompt, Zhang Xueming’s heart moved. He never expected that his unintentional actions would result in gaining prestige and a limited-time buff!

At the same time, he couldn’t help but sigh.

“Damn it, I just did the most normal thing, and yet it made the people rally around me.”

While all the warlords of the Republic of China were either slack or exploiting the people. Suddenly, there was someone like Zhang Xueming, a “normal person!”

He stood out like a crane among chickens. Amidst the cheers of the people, Zhang Xueming returned to the central military camp located 20 miles north of Daqing City. This “20-mile northern swamp” was originally a vast area of muddy land around Daqing.

After an engineering overhaul, it had been transformed into a large lake. Beside the lake stood a military camp that seemed completely out of place for this era. Inside the camp, there were 30 two-story soldier dormitories, two parade grounds, 16 basketball courts, and one soccer field.

In addition, to meet future demands for storing armored vehicles, the camp also had two fuel depots, more than a dozen large closed parking lots, a small airplane hangar, and a simple runway.

Furthermore, there were hot water rooms, a sauna, and a military hall. The entire camp was like a small world. This was Zhang Xueming’s designed standard military camp!

Each camp could accommodate one division, 12,000 combat personnel. However, now, the camp, which could hold over 10,000 people, only housed his own elite cavalry regiment, making it feel unusually empty.

Thus, Zhang Xueming decided to station the 300 skilled Soviet experts and 100 engineering machine operators, all of whom were “high-level technicians,” here. These people needed strict protection.

Besides this camp, ten kilometers away, he had also designed an industrial area. After several days of construction, the water plant, power plant, and cement factory had already been completed.

“It looks like, after finishing the basic infrastructure, I should quickly get started on military industry!”

Now that everything was in place, Zhang Xueming prepared to bring online the “four major industrial components”.

Steel factories, oil mines, chemical plants, and arms factories. These four factories were not just money-consuming beasts; they were also people-consuming monsters.

He feared that if they threw all the people they had found into them, there would be no activity at all.

“Fengzhi, how many people do we have on the construction site now?”

“The clerk reported that we have 4,000 bandit prisoners, and another 12,000 workers arrived today, totaling 16,000. If this trend continues, we’ll have an increase of 1,000-2,000 people every day!”

“However, the timber factory, coal mines, and quarry keep urging us to send more people. Their output is already falling behind.”

As the thermal power plant began generating electricity, the entire night in Daqing was lit up. But this thermal power plant was also a monster that devoured resources. The two 25-kilowatt thermal generators at Zhang Xueming’s power plant were nothing compared to the small power plants in later generations, but in this era, they were a dominant force.

For instance, the Shanghai Magic City’s Zhapu Road thermal power plant in the Republic of China era only had a 12-million-volt direct current generator, which was enough to supply all the electricity to the entire Shanghai-Suzhou region.

However, the larger the power generation capacity, the greater the consumption. These two generators at Daqing’s power plant consumed dozens of tons of water-washed coal every day. Moreover, besides generating electricity, they also had to supply power.

Unlike the later generations, where all the power poles were made of cement, Zhang Xueming sourced materials locally, and all the power poles were made of pine wood from the Greater Khingan Range. This pine wood was straight and long, making it ideal for power poles.

However, even the best power poles required a sufficient amount of timber. Each power pole was 75 meters apart, and if the entire city of Daqing wanted to be electrified, it would need at least tens of thousands of pine trees. But now, the lumber factory only had 250 workers.

How long would it take to cut all that timber?

“Damn! Why does it feel like this 10,000-strong workforce isn’t enough?”

“When will my old man send the civilian workers over?”

Seeing Zhang Xueming pulling his hair in frustration, Yu Fengzhi silently walked up behind him, pressed her two slender fingers to his temples, and gently massaged him.

“Dear, there’s no need to be so anxious. In less than a month, you’ve already created such a huge enterprise.”

“It’s truly rare in the world!”

Zhang Xueming took a deep breath.

Fast?

He still thought it was too slow.

After all, his plan was to “catch up with England in three years, surpass America in five years!”

“A thousand years is too long; we only fight for the present!”

But Yu Fengzhi’s fingers were neither too light nor too heavy. Soon, Zhang Xueming began to feel relaxed.

Ah!

Damn it, she helps me have children, helps me find concubines, and now she’s massaging me to relax.

“A man can’t ask for more with a wife like this!”

“Sixth brother, oh sixth brother! I really appreciate you! Big sister-in-law is truly delightful!”

As Yu Fengzhi, who was pregnant, reported to him, Zhang Xueming couldn’t help but sigh slightly in his heart. He needed to urgently find a few internal governance talents!

Otherwise, he would have to do everything himself, which would take too much time and seriously impact the expansion of his family, and this was the more important endeavor!

…

“Young Marshal!”

At this moment, Ma Maoxun suddenly knocked on the door.

“Young Marshal, good news! The 10,000 civilian workers sent by the General have arrived!”