Wang Yunpeng said: "It can only be dealt with in this way, in short, what we lack now is time, if we can give us five years of development time, even if it is only three years, the situation will be very different." ”

Xu Jichao said: "Yes, we still have so many advanced equipment, once we can stabilize, we will definitely be able to speed up our construction." ”

Qin Zheng shook his head and said: "We can't be too optimistic, we have a lot of equipment, but this is relative to our more than 6,000 people, and our base will never be such a small number of people, six million, or even sixty million is not impossible, at that scale, these equipment are nothing at all." Moreover, these devices basically cannot find accessories in this era, and once they are broken, they are likely to be unable to be repaired. Also, these devices are powered by either gasoline, diesel, or electricity, both of which we currently lack, so we must not rely on these devices, and the focus is on the role of people. ”

Xiao Jianjun said: "I suggest that all the diesel and gasoline in the vehicles should be pumped out and stored in a centralized manner, and if these vehicles and equipment are used, it is best to formulate a plan and then establish a special department. ”

Xia Bohai said: "This doesn't last long, we don't have much fuel ourselves, and gasoline is very volatile, so blindly saving is not the way, this era has diesel, gasoline, we should find a way to buy some, not only these vehicles and equipment, our warships, tanks also need." ”

Xiao Jianjun said: "If you want to buy it, you can only buy it from foreigners, but now that we are fighting a war with the Eight-Nation Alliance, who will sell it to us?"

Qin Zheng said with a smile: "You don't understand this, the essence of capitalists is to chase profits, as long as there is enough profit, there is nothing that cannot be sold, but there must be no capitalists here, in China in this era, the place with the most foreign capitalists is Shanghai, and you will definitely be able to find sellers in Shanghai." ”

Wang Yunpeng said: "Do we need to send someone to Shanghai now?"

Xia Bohai said: "It's not the time yet, our influence is not big enough now, and the power is not enough, it is too dangerous to send people to Shanghai at this time, at least after we capture Tianjin and defeat the German fleet, it is best to establish a stable base and create enough momentum to go to Shanghai, even if we can't buy gasoline and diesel, it will not have much impact on us." ”

Wang Yunpeng said: "I think we should now determine the affairs of the base area, how long will it take for us to establish a base area there, and we should make corresponding plans and arrangements, otherwise there is no clear goal, and there will be no way to make a plan." ”

Xu Jichao said: "Aren't we going to attack Tianjin immediately? After we conquer Tianjin, is it okay to establish a base in Tianjin?"

Xia Bohai shook his head and said: "As for the establishment of base areas, I have seriously thought about it in the past two days, and it is best to meet three conditions in the areas where the base areas are established: First, they should be in places where the imperialist and Qing court's forces are relatively weak, and there is enough room for maneuver, which will be conducive to our rapid foothold; second, there will be enough population base and natural resources, which will be conducive to our development; and third, there should be excellent ports, which can give our warships a place to anchor, and it is best to have certain facilities. Tianjin can only meet the third condition at most, and although the geographical location of Dagukou is important, it is not a good port; Tianjin also lacks natural resources; the scope of the area is too narrow, since ancient times, Tianjin and Beijing are integrated, unless Beijing is also included, the space for development is really limited; and if Beijing is also included, then it is necessary to cooperate with the Qing court, Imperialism is in a head-on conflict, because Beijing's political position is so important and there are so many aspects involved, and in our present situation, we must not establish a base within the confines of Beijing. Therefore, I think Tianjin is okay as a temporary foothold for us, but it is not suitable as a long-term base area. ”

Qin Zheng nodded and said, "These three conditions are indeed necessary for the base area, and Tianjin is indeed not a good place to establish a base area. ”

Xiao Jianjun said: "What about the Northeast? The Northeast should combine these three conditions, the Northeast has excellent ports such as Dalian and Lushun, which can allow our fleet to be stationed, and the population of the Northeast is also quite large, not to mention the resources, and it is far away from Beijing, there is not so much trouble, and in the old time and space, the ancestors occupied the Northeast before finally achieving victory, and we established a base in the Northeast." ”

After listening to Xiao Jianjun's words, everyone else began to think.

At this time, Qin Zheng said: "The population of the Northeast only developed after the founding of New China, and now at this time, the population of the Northeast is not much, it is estimated that it is about 10 million, but it is not 10 million, until Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Xueliang's father ruled the Northeast, the population only reached 30 million. Population issues aside, the situation in the Northeast in this era is very complicated, although the Qing court does not have the strength to control the Northeast, but the two imperialist countries of Tsarist Russia and Japan are now very fiercely contested in this area, according to the history of the old time and space, in five years, Tsarist Russia and Japan will break out in the Northeast for the dominance of Northeast Asia, that is, the Russo-Japanese War, so if we take the Northeast as a base, we will directly compete with the two imperialist countries, Tsarist Russia and Japan, with our current strength, I am afraid it will be difficult to gain a foothold in the Northeast, even if we do not gain a strong foothold, it will be difficult to gain much room for development。 ”

When Xiao Jianjun heard this, he couldn't help but be a little discouraged, and said: "If you can't even do the northeast, then you can still be there, although there are many coastal areas in China, but the resources in the southeast coastal areas are not very rich, and the imperialist forces are very large, and it seems that there is no suitable base area for us to establish a base area." ”

Qin Zheng said: "Why not, I think the Shandong Peninsula is a good place to establish a base area." ”

Xia Bohai said: "Why Shandong?"

Qin Zheng said: "Shandong Peninsula connects Bohai and the Yellow Sea, there are many excellent port cities, Weihai, Yantai, Rizhao, Qingdao are, before the Beiyang Naval Division set up a garrison base on Weihai Liugong Island, but after the First Sino-Japanese War, Weihai was occupied by the British, and the Beiyang Naval Division was changed to be stationed in Yantai. And Qingdao is not to mention, in the old time and space, Qingdao was a port that could be used as a base for aircraft carriers, and now Qingdao is occupied by Germany, and some infrastructure should be built, which can be used by us. Shandong is also a large province of resources in China, although it is not as good as the northeast region, but in the coastal areas, it is already rich in resources. According to the records of the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, the population of Shandong Province reached 31 million, which was not a small number in this era, the population of the British Isles was more than 3,000, while the population of Japan was only 43 million, and the population of Germany was a little more, and the population of Germany was only about 50 million. Therefore, I believe that the Shandong Peninsula is the most suitable place for us to establish a base at present. ”

Xiao Jianjun said: "The other conditions are good, but there are also imperialist forces in Shandong, Lao Qin, you just said yourself, Britain occupies Weihai, Germany occupies Qingdao, these two are also imperialist powers, in terms of strength is still above Tsarist Russia and Japan, if we want to establish a base on the Shandong Peninsula, don't we have to confront Britain and Germany head-on?"

After listening to Xiao Jianjun's words, others also thought that it made sense, if it was necessary to confront imperialism, it would be better to confront Tsarist Russia and Japan in the northeast.

And Qin Zheng obviously had a plan for this, and said confidently: "In today's China, if you want to find a place without imperialist forces, there is basically none. First of all, the British power in China is mainly concentrated in the area south of the Yangtze River Valley, but the power in northern China is insufficient, they occupy Weihai, mainly to counter the expansion of Russia in northern China, so they need to gain a foothold in the north, simply put, Britain only regarded Weihai as an outpost against Russia, not a trade point, and did not invest too much force in Weihai. ”

"Besides, Germany, unlike Britain, really wants to take root in Qingdao for a long time, build Qingdao into Germany's Hong Kong, and then rely on Qingdao to penetrate Shandong and expand its interests in China. In the old time and space, Germany did invest a lot of manpower and material resources in Qingdao to build Qingdao, it can be said that if there are no Germans, it is likely that there will be no future Qingdao City, even the name of Qingdao, are also taken by the Germans, the original area is called Jiaoao, just a fishing village, Qingdao is a small island off the coast of Jiaoao. But now Germany has not occupied Qingdao for a long time, only more than two years, the foothold is not stable, many infrastructure construction has just begun, and the German power in the Far East is not strong, only Qingdao is a foothold, so although there are these two imperialist forces in Shandong, but the strength is not strong, and Tsarist Russia, During the Russo-Japanese War, Japan basically used all its national strength, while Russia also used all its forces in the Far East. ”

"With our current strength, we should be able to easily defeat the British and German forces in Shandong, and then establish our base on the Shandong Peninsula with Weihai and Qingdao as the core. In this way, we will not only gain a foothold on the Shandong Peninsula, but also occupy the highest political position, and if we recover the land ceded by the Qing court, we will be able to expand to Shandong Province in an all-round way, to the north we can cross the sea to enter the northeast, to connect Shanghai and the southeast region to the south, to the east we can suppress Japanese expansion, and to the west we can threaten Beijing. ”

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