All the carriages were made by Pingxiang itself, and the steel carriage wheels were transported to Songjiafang by water. It can be said that the amount of work is huge.

Pingxiang Coal Mine is a coal mine that has completely introduced Western machinery for mining. The power plant, machine repair shop, manufacturing plant, and boiler room are fully equipped. The mine is also traction by rail cars and winches.

Chen Tianhua fully acquired Hanyang Iron Works, controlled Daye Iron Mine and Pingxiang Coal Mine, and formed Fengzhong Hanyeping Iron and Steel Joint Stock Company, which was completely carried out in accordance with the modern enterprise management system.

Starting in July of that year, he officially dispatched security forces to western Jiangxi, and transferred the third commando battalion from Xihuashan Mining in southern Jiangxi to Pingxiang.

There are currently more than 20,000 underground workers in Pingxiang Coal Mine, 70% of whom are from Hunan, a neighboring province, and 20% who are from Hubei, while only 10% are native Ganxi people.

Many workers have families, and there are many gangs among workers, and conflicts often occur. Therefore, safety and management in coal areas are a big problem.

What worries Chen Tianhua is not the local bandits or the various gangs within the workers, but the Japanese from outside.

Chen Tianhua's series of share operations and rapid expansion have made Dongyang people feel increasingly uneasy and threatened. They originally fantasized about easing the conflict, but now they have to fight back and respond.

Foreigners have been spying on the mining rights of mineral resources and railway construction and operation rights in the Qing Dynasty for a long time. Whether they are Westerners or Asians, there are countless miners or plutocrats who are eyeing this piece of fat.

The Qing government had already seen the situation clearly and formulated special countermeasures and laws for this purpose, strictly prohibiting the transfer of mining rights and railway ownership to foreigners, but they could do so in the form of commercial shares or cooperation.

On these issues, everyone almost has a unanimous understanding, that is, the Western Europeans and Americans mainly seek profit, while the Easterners' main purpose is long-term occupation.

Chen Tianhua is even more aware of this, so for a long time, he has kept an eye on every move of the Eastern people. His strategy of using barbarians to control barbarians is to use the West to contain the East.

His series of mining investments and developments in southern and western Jiangxi, including the stationing of so-called security forces, were intended to kill two birds with one stone.

Not only for the development and utilization of Jiangxi's mineral resources, but also for the overall construction and control of the Guangdong-Hankou Railway, several secret chess pieces were preset.

Because although the Guangdong-Hankong Railway does not pass through Jiangxi, it is close to the Hunan-Jiangxi border and the Guangdong-Jiangxi border. He controls some mining areas in southern and western Jiangxi, and will control the Hunan and northern Guangdong sections of the Guangdong-Hankou Railway in the future.

The force is approaching the city.

How could the people in Japan not know Chen Tianhua's thoughts and strategies? They have no way to get involved in the Hubei section of the Guangdong-Hankou Railway. However, they have long used agent strategies to acquire equity in the construction of the Guangdong-Hankou Railway in the Hunan section and Guangdong, especially the northern Guangdong section.

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But as for Chen Tianhua's plans in southern Jiangxi, especially now that he is setting up in western Jiangxi, the Japanese people feel that the threat is coming, and they must fight back.

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In the thirty-third year of Guangxu's reign, it was late July on the lunar calendar.

Songjiafang Wharf, Pingxiang County, Western Gansu.

This deep-water cargo terminal is being expanded and repaired here, and it is by far the largest cargo terminal in western Jiangxi.

Chen Tianhua ordered Ji Chunsheng to personally lead an assault of nearly 600 people from the third battalion and arrive at Songjiafang by large barge.

The Chief of Staff patted his ass and left, leaving the Gannan mining industry to be guarded by Song Xiaoniu's Second Assault Battalion and the Xihuashan Security First Standard. Although Gannan is a large area and the mining areas are relatively scattered, he has

With an armed force of 2,000 people, there should be no problem guarding it.

On the contrary, Ji Chunsheng led the Second Assault Battalion of more than 600 men and fell into the mining areas of Pingxiang County, just like spreading pepper.

Fortunately, dozens of mining areas here are relatively concentrated. Ji Chunsheng adopted a centralized management method and sent fifteen squads to more than 20 mining areas, with one guard squad in each mining area.

A beacon tower is set up at the commanding heights in the mining area. If there is an enemy situation, a beacon is set up to send a signal. Of course, there may also be post soldiers to call the police.

Ji Chunsheng stationed about 400 troops at Songjiafang Pier, and began to set up camp nearby and build military bases and warehouses.

Dozens of large military tent dormitories.

The electricity at the wharf is supplied with three-phase AC power from Pingxiang Power Plant, because the wharf has large Western cranes, winches and other electrical equipment. Of course, lighting is also needed.

Two huge simple military warehouses are under construction and are expected to be completed by night.

Simple military warehouses mainly store weapons and ammunition, medicines, military rations, military uniforms and other indoor storage materials.

All the artillery and other artillery were placed in the open space of the base, and hundreds of war horses were built in a simple horse farm not far away. The inconvenience was that all the horse grass and horse food had to be transported in.

There are 15-meter-high observation posts at the east, west, north and south corners of the base. There are two team members on duty at each time, equipped with high-power telescopes and light machine guns.

In addition, there is a small hospital, but this hospital is not open to the public and is specially used by military personnel.

This place is a temporary garrison. If nothing unexpected happens, it may become a permanent military base.

After Ji Chunsheng entered the base on the last batch of barges, he looked around.

On the guard tower at the gate stood two soldiers in summer uniforms. They were holding Mauser M-1888 rifles and looking into the distance with somewhat dull eyes.

Suddenly, they discovered Ji Chunsheng and several other officers. They quickly stood up at attention, held their heads high and shouted:

"Hello, sir..."

This is the latest military etiquette, completely Westernized.

On the square of the base, several military women were feeding chickens.

That's right, I'm holding some food in my hand and feeding the chickens.

Ji Chunsheng, wearing sunglasses and surrounded by officers, guards and others, walked over from the dock.

After looking at the surrounding environment, I generally feel that it is pretty good. This can be regarded as my foothold in western Ganxi besides the Meiguang Autonomous Region.

Your own base is your own home.

There is nothing in the military camp now. The facilities under construction are quite complete and the weapons are also complete.

The commander of the third battalion was named Yang Shanxin. He took a few people and distributed water and food:

"Let's make do with what we have for the next two days. Our freighter from the base camp will arrive at Songjiafang soon. By then, we will have food and other things!"

These people all know what they are here for. In troubled times, they don't have to pay attention to anything except weapons.

Because weapons are their second life, they don't want their lives to be in the hands of junk weapons.

"Hey, I heard that your big shopkeeper is here? Please pay the protection fee for these two months!"

Accompanied by Yang Shanxin and others, Ji Chunsheng had just entered the tent and was about to rest for a while. At this time, a small barge came over from the dock. It was in dilapidated condition.

A dark man in his twenties, holding an old six-wheel pistol in his hand, followed by six gangsters with matchlocks on their shoulders, and jumped out of the boat very arrogantly.
Chapter completed!