Go back to the past and be a schoolboy

Chapter 246 Who Set the Fire
"Quick, come quickly! Come put out the fire!"

In October, Jiangnan Shipbuilding Institute's Cheng Nuo Division was carrying out the construction of the [-]-ton giant ship in a fast and orderly manner according to the existing plan.

In order to speed up the progress of shipbuilding, let more comrades get enough rest, and train more industrial workers.

Cheng Nuo continued to recruit new employees in Shanghai to expand his own strength, on the basis of returning Chinese workers from Europe and the original shipyard employees.

Unexpectedly, there was an accident during the recruitment period. A fire broke out in Wusong Town, and all kinds of business hubs suddenly turned into a sea of ​​flames. Coupled with the influence of strong winds, the fire was getting bigger and bigger. control.

"Zhiyuan, don't come here. This fire is too evil. Just now a pair of Ah San went to put out the fire, but just as the front foot entered, the fire on the back foot ran past from nowhere. It was impossible to guard against it. I guess those people are fierce. There is less Doji, and if we get closer, we might fall in." Jiang Jiangzuo looked at the fire with lingering fear.

"Back, back quickly, don't hesitate, the amount of water in our pots and pans is just a drop in the bucket." Cheng Nuo threw away the basin in his hand, and was about to take his comrades back. The wind direction was erratic, and there was no way Determine in which direction the fire will spread.

At this time, Chen Zhaoqiang looked very strange, stuck in place like a piece of wood, no matter how Cheng Nuo greeted him, he would not be moved.

Finally, Cheng Nuo couldn't stand it any longer, and trotted over and asked, "General Chen, hurry up and withdraw, if you don't leave, we might be the ones who burn next time. Although we are not rattan armor soldiers, we can't stand the fire. We’ll come back to recruit later.”

Chen Zhaoqiang, however, was like a balloon, it exploded as soon as he poked it, and he almost jumped up and said anxiously: "Zhiyuan, something is wrong, this fire is too untimely... Bah, this fire is too bad for us... Hey, Look at my mouth, this fire can't burn, it's all over!"

It's rare to see Chen Zhaoqiang lose his composure like this, Cheng Nuo looked at the sea of ​​flames and said cautiously: "Is there something important burning here?"

"It's not as simple as being serious, but as serious as life!" Chen Zhaoqiang said with trembling lips.

Just at this moment, because the fire was too intense, one of the buildings collapsed, and waves of heat rushed towards Cheng Nuo and the others. Khan, don't mention how uncomfortable it is.

Not caring about wiping his face, Chen Zhaoqiang's face was full of pain, his legs softened, and he was about to kneel on the ground, but it was Cheng Nuo who quickly supported him in advance: "General Chen, this place is too dangerous, what can we do?" It’s not too late to go back and talk.”

Chen Zhaoqiang's eyes were lost, and he was dragged by Cheng Nuo in a daze like this: "It's too late, did you see the factory building that fell to the ground just now? That's where we store the steel plates. Putting things outside for the time being, who would have thought that something would happen suddenly... Now it's too late."

For a moment, Cheng Nuo's expression was a little dazed.

No wonder Chen Zhaoqiang, who was recruiting this time, also came here, saying that he had prepared a big gift for him. With this gift, the order for the [-]-ton giant ship in the United States will completely relieve the worries about raw materials.

Unexpectedly, after a long time, it turned out to be this.

The gift is quite "heavy", no matter it's the intention or the quality, but I didn't expect it to look like this before I saw the gift.

As one of the main participants, Jiang Jiangzuo naturally knew the importance of raw materials, with a look of regret on his face: "As far as I know, our pig iron is collected from Daye, Hubei, and most of the wrought iron is imported. There are a lot of goods, followed by American goods, and steel plates are naturally very scarce as a resource for combat readiness.

What's more, Daye is now under the control of the Japanese, and their gunboats are swimming on the Yangtze River. The Chinese people are not allowed to interfere at all, let alone wrought iron. up! "

Chen Zhaoqiang was like a piece of dough, slumped on the ground: "Hardware is in short supply from European sources, and imports have decreased a lot. Except for a few scrap iron imported from the UK, the rest of the bulk iron, steel, tin and white lead, etc. are all from the United Kingdom. America comes.

Later, when the United States joined the battle group, the price of metal raw materials rose even more, and there was still no market for this, not to mention that after the United States declared war, it immediately issued a temporary ban on hardware exports. "

Cheng Nuo frowned: "That is to say, at a time when we are in urgent need of steel, the materials that have been prepared with so much painstaking efforts have just disappeared?"

Chen Zhaoqiang nodded helplessly: "In order to raise such a small amount of materials, I worked hard and even transferred the inventory of Fuzhou Shipping Bureau, just thinking that we can seize this unprecedented technology, give it to you, give it to me , for everyone, for our countrymen, but unfortunately... oh, it's all over."

Looking around, although there were not a few people around who were as downcast as Cheng Nuo and the others, there were more heart-piercing cries.

Some people even had their eyebrows burned off, half of their hair was burned off, and their slippers were worn up to their ankles. They were all pitch black, and they still desperately wanted to rush into the sea of ​​flames and try their best to save some losses.

Even with half his life, what he rescued was only a few stools, a few jars, etc.

His wife and children were separated, and his family was destroyed, right in front of Cheng Nuo and others.

"General Chen, Lifu."

Cheng Nuo helped Chen Zhaoqiang up, walked to Jiang Jiangzuo's side, and watched this human tragedy together, heartbroken.

With Minmin's dry lips, Cheng Nuo said seriously: "I reckon that there are not a few compatriots who have been damaged this time. Although most of them are just adobe thatched houses, they are still a home. Now after a fire, they are basically homeless. It's time to go home."

Jiang Jiangzuo turned his head to look over, and said seriously: "We have been partners for so long, you know, I believe in and support your decision unconditionally, and do what you want boldly!"

Hearing this, Cheng Nuo was very moved, and stretched out his hand to hug Jiang Jiangzuo for a firm hug.

"Good brother, thank you!"

Looking at Chen Zhaoqiang, the other party also nodded in agreement, obviously supporting his decision.

"Okay, then let's do what I say for the time being." Cheng Nuo stood among the three of them and said, "My idea is, for these homeless disaster victims, we can help them as much as we can. The recruitment quota has not been exhausted, and the rest can be recruited from among their groups.

First, let them have a home, take our Jiangnan Shipyard as their home, and do their best when they do things, and they will have a stronger sense of mission if they are both hurt and prosperous.On the other hand, it is also to show our sense of social responsibility, to set an example for the business colleagues in the entire Shanghai Bund, to give back to the people from the people! "

Jiang Jiangzuo and Chen Zhaoqiang thought it was a good idea, so they agreed to it.

But when Cheng Nuo turned his head and was about to take another look, he suddenly saw a few sneaky figures from among the crowd, met Cheng Nuo's gaze, first gave a fierce look, then immediately pretended to be harmless, and disappeared into the room crowd.

"This fire is probably an evil fire!"

Looking at the raging fire, Cheng Nuo muttered to himself.

"Of course it's an evil fire, otherwise it wouldn't have burned so badly. I don't know how many people would have died!" Jiang Jiangzuo echoed, and then asked, "Have you decided when we will start recruiting workers again?"

"Don't worry about it for the time being. Now that there is no steel reserve, the shipbuilding progress can't be as fast as before, otherwise it's meaningless." Cheng Nuo thought for a while, and then added: "The whole big Shanghai is full of fish and dragons, and there are all kinds of people. , This recruitment must be carefully screened!"

Jiang Jiangzuo nodded: "Okay, don't worry about this."

Cheng Nuo shook his head, trying to hide the uneasiness in his heart: "Modernization is not a natural process of social evolution, it is a highly efficient way for backward countries, including available traditional factors, through planned economic and technological transformation and learning world advanced,

It is the process of driving extensive social change to quickly catch up with the level of advanced industrial countries and adapt to the environment of the modern world, but this process must be a bloody process, and some people may not see us well. "

"Ah? Zhiyuan, what did you just say?" Jiang Jiangzuo was a little puzzled by Monk Zhang Er.

Cheng Nuo waved his hands repeatedly, pointed to the road ahead and said, "It's nothing, I was just talking nonsense just now, you must watch the road under your feet."

……

It's just that if the steel problem is not resolved, Cheng Nuo will not be able to sleep well.

He really couldn't sleep at night, so Cheng Nuo lay on the bed with his arms around his neck, looking at the moon in the sky through the window, letting his thoughts drift further and further away with the croaking of frogs.

In a sense, this is also a kind of rest.

During the period of returning to China, Cheng Nuo didn't expect to go back to Chongqing to build an industrial base. Even though Liu Xiang was behind him, after contacting some local officials and gentry, he was immediately annoyed.

I don't know where I learned that Cheng Nuo came back from Europe and made a small fortune. Some warlords opened their mouths and asked Cheng Nuo for benefits in various names to expand military expenses and strengthen their own power.

There are even more weird ones, who directly stated that money is something outside of the body, and asked Cheng Nuo to act as a broker and introduce some big wild horses to taste the taste of foreign countries.

All kinds of measures are really outrageous.

People at the time said: "In a district known as wealth, tens of millions are needed for military expenses. As for the fundamental affairs of industry, the mere amount has not been obtained for a long time. It does not regard industry as important. You can know it!"

Of course, a very important point is that Chongqing does not seem to be safe today. In the past, Japanese warships sailed to Chongqing only occasionally, and the frequency was not too high. However, since late October [-], Chongqing has been used as their permanent port.

If conflicts do arise, accidents can easily happen.

If not fully prepared, Cheng Nuo didn't plan to move there with great fanfare now, and develop in Shanghai for a while.

"It's just that today's fire is really burning strangely."

The breeze was blowing, and the shadows of the trees intertwined. Cheng Nuo felt that there were too many things in his heart that he had nowhere to say, so he could only talk to the moon to comfort himself.

He wanted to turn over, but he forgot that he was sleeping on a mat made of sorghum stalks, and some of the gaps secretly caught his hair. It was fine if he didn't move, but as soon as he moved, Cheng Nuo felt that his scalp was about to be ripped off.

"Damn it, it's really drinking cold water to stuff your teeth, and sleeping on a mat with your hair clipped, what's the point of this?"

Just as Cheng Nuo sat up to see how many hairs had been sacrificed, he suddenly noticed some rustling outside the window, and immediately became vigilant.

Immediately hid, shouted loudly: "Who, who is there, come out!"

"Meow~" came a cat meow from the darkness.

But Cheng Nuo couldn't be fooled so easily, and the decibel was immediately raised to the highest level: "Come on, catch the thief!"

As he said that, Cheng Nuo wanted to pick up some convenient things from the ground, but he didn't find anything useful after looking around.

He simply squatted down, buckled up the bricks laid on the ground for the floor, and smashed them directly.

The man's skill was also good. Seeing that he couldn't hide Cheng Nuo, he threw a small stone into the window, then turned around and ran, and ran out over the wall in the blink of an eye.

Cheng Nuo didn't know anything about the previous situation. For safety reasons, Cheng Nuo didn't chase after him directly, but stayed where he was and continued to wait for reinforcements.

Thanks to his loud enough voice, as soon as he yelled out the first yell, the surrounding windows started to light up one after another, and by the time the second yelled, some people had already rushed over with their stuff.

Seeing the "thief" running away, even some nimble ones had already chased him out.

But while waiting, Cheng Nuo suddenly found a small ball of paper tied to the stone with a rope. After opening it, it read:

"Warning: The Japanese have reached a steel cooperation agreement with Morgan."

The handwriting was exactly the same as last time, and Cheng Nuo could almost conclude that this was the person who delivered the note last time, and they were also tipping off the news.

Combined with the evil fire in the warehouse this time, Cheng Nuo's brows almost condensed into a pimple.

"This matter, why is it getting more and more coincidental,

Is this person an enemy or a friend? "

But seeing his subordinate coming to the door, he was about to come over to care about him, and Cheng Nuo couldn't allow Cheng Nuo to continue to think about it, so he quickly hid the note.

"Advisor, are you alright? We have brothers who have rushed over and will definitely catch the thief."

"Yes, Dean, this man is really daring, and he actually proposed to you. If you catch him, you must make him look good."

"Professor, have you lost anything?"

"Zhiyuan..."

Cheng Nuo's heart warmed seeing the people talking about each other.

He took the initiative to give everyone a fistful: "Thank you comrades for your concern, I am safe and well, and nothing is lost, everyone can rest assured, this matter disturbed everyone's rest..."

After spending a long time, Cheng Nuo finally calmed down everyone's emotions.

At this time, the person who went to pursue him finally came back, and before he could say anything, seeing his dejected appearance, he should be able to guess everything.

When I asked, I didn't catch up.

But this was also within Cheng Nuo's expectation. Judging by his skill, he knew that he had received professional training, and ordinary people couldn't catch up.

"Dean, I'm sorry, we failed your expectations. We already touched that kid, but who knew that this guy was slippery like a mud eel, and we couldn't catch him at all. In the end, we watched him jump into it." In the river, there is nothing we can do."

"It's okay, you've worked hard all night, and you're tired enough. I'll give you half a day off tomorrow morning, and your wages will be paid. You can take a good rest."

"But……"

"It's nothing, just go to rest!"

After pushing and pushing, Cheng Nuo finally got these people to "drive" them out.

When no one was around, Cheng Nuo took out the note again and thought to himself:

"In terms of safety, we have to think about it, but the issue of steel is more urgent, and it seems that we have to unite some forces.

Next stop, Qiuxin Machine Factory! "

(End of this chapter)