Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 143: Puzzling Site Selection
For Hu Zi, Minister Jiang's hospitality was a world of difference between the temporary capital and Kuncheng. It was wild vegetable soup with steamed corn bread, but it was enough to fill you up, which made Hu Zi feel at home.

Hu Zi felt that the steamed bread meal without wild vegetables was incomplete! Minister Jiang's meal made Hu Zi feel like he was back in the independent regiment.

Silent all night.

"Morning, Minister Jiang!"

"Morning, Boss Ren!"

The next day, Ren Zhong, who had recovered fully, got up early in the morning. Unexpectedly, Jiang Chongjing and Hu Zi got up even earlier and started eating breakfast.

Ren Zhong felt somewhat embarrassed. After exchanging pleasantries, he picked up the steamed buns and hurriedly ate two of them.

"Minister Jiang, let's go choose a place to build a research institute today. I wonder if your time is convenient for you?" After the meal, Ren Zhong made the request without hesitation.

"Of course it's convenient. These days, I will focus on your matters, Boss Ren. I will do my best to provide the service work assigned to me by the bosses." Jiang Chongjing said with a smile.

"Thank you for your hard work, Minister Jiang. The place we are going to today may be a bit far. Once we get there, we will not come back. We plan to take root there and start construction." Ren Zhong has now developed a decisive character and does not want to waste time at all. After all, the construction is fine now, but it will be troublesome if it gets colder after a while.

"No problem. We'll bring dry food and water and follow Boss Ren to choose a place. I wonder where Boss Ren is going to choose?" Jiang Chongjing asked.

"Ansai Haojiaping! It's a bit far from here. I estimate it's about 50 kilometers away." Ren Zhong didn't keep the secret and told the place he had chosen a long time ago in the main world.

"Haojiaping?" Jiang Chongjing didn't seem to have any memory of the place Ren Zhong mentioned. But that's right. This place is 50 kilometers away from the headquarters of the border area. It's not remote at all.

He didn't know why Ren Zhong didn't choose a place in the border area headquarters, but instead ran so far away.

However, Jiang Chongjing himself didn't care. The instructions he received were to fully cooperate with Ren Zhong's work, and he could choose any place in the border area, let alone a remote place.

The group rode north along the continent, urging their horses to trot for a long time before Ren Zhong arrived at his chosen destination.

Jiang Chongjing discovered that Ren Zhong was not walking aimlessly. He went north along the Yanhe River and stopped at the place where the road branched off to Anding. He looked left and right but could not see anything special here that could attract Ren Zhong.

Two rivers meet here, the Yan River and the Nangou River converge here. Long-term silt erosion has formed a river valley plain of about several hundred acres, so a small village has formed around it. About dozens of cave dwellings have been dug out on the mountain, and the wheat seedlings planted in the fields have begun to show green.

The Yan River, which was originally 40 to 10 meters wide in the lower reaches, is only about meters wide when it reaches Ansai. When it reaches the place chosen by Ren Zhong, it flows out from between two mountains and its narrowest place appears to be only about meters wide.

On the other side, the Nangou River flows slowly and the water is clear, forming a sharp contrast with the yellow Yanhe River.

"Minister Jiang, what do you think of this place?" Ren Zhong found everything more ideal than what he saw in the main world. After all, there was no building in the river valley, only flat land and bare mountains. It was desolate in the eyes of others, but in Ren Zhong's eyes, it was a treasure land.

The Yanhe River and Nangou River flow through the narrow valley, which is an ideal place for him to develop small hydropower. The Yanhe River has abundant water, and if it is blocked for more than ten meters, there is no fear of power shortage. However, these are not the main factors affecting the task. After all, there are many places with water now, but here, there are iron ore, manganese ore and oil resources!

Such places are rare elsewhere.

Within a radius of 30 kilometers, there is also a Zaolin Coal Mine, which gathers most of the raw materials urgently needed at this stage.

It is simply a unique place.

In addition, this place is very safe and far away from the core area of ​​the border area, which means that even if the Japanese come to bomb the border area, they will not choose such a seemingly deserted place.

Apart from some traces of crops being grown here, even the people cannot be seen from the sky; they all live in earthen caves on the mountain.

"Boss Ren, to be honest, I really can't see what's so special about this place that can attract you, Boss Ren, to come here. But it doesn't matter. Just tell me what you need me to do." Jiang Chongjing looked for a long time but couldn't see what was good about it, so he responded with a wry smile.

"I want to expropriate all the land within a few kilometers and build a research institute here," Ren Zhong said. "I will buy the land of the relocated people at the official price, as well as the cave dwellings on the nearby mountains."

The confidentiality of the institute must be done well, so it is impossible to allow ordinary people to live together with researchers here. Only in this way can the secrets of the institute be easily kept.

The arable land here is barren, and there are barren mountains everywhere. There may not be hundreds of households within a few kilometers. The value of an acre of land will not be too high. According to Ren Zhong's estimation, an acre of land can be worth at most 2 yuan. The cave dwellings of ordinary people usually take more than 2 months to dig one household, and half a month is enough for more people. According to the current labor value, 5 yuan per person per month is considered a high price.

So a cave dwelling costs more than 10 yuan, and ordinary people can make money by moving to a new place and digging a new one.

However, Jiang Chongjing needs to coordinate with the border areas to provide these people with new land for cultivation. There is no social security now, and after losing their land, the people will have no place to eat.

It was just a matter of exchanging a few hundred acres of land, and Ren Zhong believed that this was not a problem.

"No problem, leave this matter to us. As for the acquisition, Boss Ren is too polite. We will bear the relocation and resettlement." Jiang Chongjing was not unfamiliar with these things. After all, he was in charge of the military industry in the border area and had encountered similar things many times.

"Minister Jiang, I'm not being polite. It's hard to leave your hometown. It's only right that we give some compensation and buy this place. This will facilitate our subsequent development and construction. This will be the institute's own land in the future." Ren Zhong was still quite persistent about this point. After all, he had promised Fang Guangqi and others that after this institute was established, it would be managed autonomously.

So when it comes to property rights, it is better to be clear.

"Okay, since Boss Ren insists, I have no objection." Jiang Chongjing said with a wry smile. He felt a little alienated by Ren Zhong's approach of not taking advantage of the border area at all.

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