"I need you to do something for me!" After talking about work, Hu Xiaoyan was indeed very satisfied with Chen Yu's ability, which gave him some confidence in the next arrangements.

"I feel like I'm your cart cow. Wherever you point, I'll have to fight. Chen Yu was slightly dissatisfied. In order to complete Hu Xiaoyan's explanation, he turned his face with his family. After all, a 10,000-acre rubber plantation is such a big deal, and his family can't accept it.

"You won't regret it." Hu Xiaoyan took out a map and pointed in the direction of Mongolia.

"Jin merchants have been entrenched here for two hundred years, their strength is too strong, and they don't want to forge ahead. I want you to replace their cooperation with Mongolia. At the same time, it is connected with the Russians behind Mongolia. ”

"The financial and human resources of the Jin merchants are extraordinary, and they occupy the right time and place. It's too light for you to let me replace them with a word. Chen Yu said while drinking tea.

"I'll arrange for you a large group of elite soldiers, a hundred-man team is enough to defeat more than a thousand cavalry. And five million taels of silver in cash and five million worth of goods for you. As for the official, I guarantee that there will be no pressure from the domestic authorities. Hu Xiaoyan said unhurriedly.

"That's when the time and place are right, and you'll have it. If you can't get them. That's a matter of your abilities. ”

"You don't have such a lot of power to solve the official pressure, do you?" Chen Yu didn't believe it.

"I don't, but I do." Hu Xiaoyan sneered.

The Mongols were a more formidable target than the Han Chinese since the founding of the Manchus, their cavalry was more powerful than the Eight Banners, and their ancestor Genghis Khan was far more famous than their Jurchen ancestors, who claimed to be descendants of the Jurchens. Compared with the Mongols, the Manchus are just a group of poor people. If Li Zicheng hadn't entered Beijing and destroyed the Ming Dynasty, the Manchus would not have been able to enter Shanhaiguan.

The Manchu strategy against the Mongols was religion plus population control. Specifically, Lamaism was introduced into Mongolia, stipulating that only one son of each family could inherit the family business, and if there was more than that, the extra sons must become monks. In addition, it is stipulated that the total population of Mongolia shall not exceed one value. exceeded, then more than part of the population must be killed.

Kangxi's mother was from Mongolia, and the population of Mongolia exceeded the number that year. Kangxi's mother pleaded with Kangxi, but Kang Mazi was unmoved and insisted. In the end, the Mongols had to select and kill all the old and weak people in the tribe to control the population.

The Manchus relied on many such means to control Mongolia to the death, so that the Mongol cavalry was inferior to the next generation, and Mongolia's fear of the Manchus was also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. In Mongolia there is no one who is not afraid of the Manchus.

If Zaifeng's greed for money still has the consideration of his own family and the entire Manchu Dynasty, then Yixuan's greed for money is only for himself, and he doesn't care about the future fate of the Manchu Dynasty. That's why Hu Xiaoyan said that there was no pressure on the official.

After Hu Xiaoyan entered Beijing, he gave some of his shares from Anqing and some of Shenyang's industries to Yixuan. Together, these elements add up to at least one million silver dollars a year. With Hu Xiaoyan's economic expansion, Yixiao's income has also risen, and Yixuan has no reason not to help.

The problem of Mongolia and a swarm of bees cannot be solved in a day or two. After Hu Xiaoyan arranged it, he didn't care about it. After he asked Zaifeng for the canonization decree, he went out of Beijing to Ma'anshan to inspect the steel mill and the ordnance factory.

In Ma'anshan, Hu Xiaoyan first went to check the production line of the new rifle. From the first day the German technicians arrived, Hu Xiaoyan asked them to design a rifle of their own for the Chinese. After more than a year, the rifle was finally designed.

The new rifle was named Anshan Type 1900.

The gun is 1100 meters long, and the ammunition is 7.92 * 57 pointed bullets

The barrel is 600 meters long. Muzzle velocity 780m/s.

Effective range: 500m

This rifle is also the official in history. It's just that the bullet was replaced with a pointed bullet at Hu Xiaoyan's strong request. And not the round-headed bullet of the G98. However, the propellant was invented and produced by China itself.

Xu Jianyin (Does anyone still remember him?) Historically, this person experimented with a new type of smokeless gunpowder at the Hanyang Iron Works, and as a result, the gunpowder exploded and he died in the explosion.

But when Hu Xiaoyan asked someone about the gunpowder expert in this time and space, Li Jingmai's first thought was this person. Therefore, Hu Xiaoyan sent someone to kidnap Xu Jianyin to Anhui. At first, the man was not happy. But when military experts from Germany, Britain, Belgium and other countries arrived, he gradually integrated into it. In the following year, he successfully Chinese and safely developed his own smokeless gunpowder.

With smokeless gunpowder and the requirement for pointed-nosed bullets, many experts easily imitated the design of the Mauser G98 to produce a mid-form that could only be made twenty years later.

After having this Anshan 1900 rifle, Hu Xiaoyan stopped the design of the rifle and asked them to update and study this rifle. In general, this rifle was only used in World War I and the early part of World War II. By the middle of World War II, this rifle would definitely be outdated. There was also the design of the artillery, due to the fact that Hu Xiaoyan deliberately humiliated Klint in Shanghai. So much so that the German Emperor Wilhelm II canceled support for the design of Manchu artillery. But Hu Xiaoyan didn't care too much about this. Because in the next 30 years, Hu Xiaoyan is not ready to launch a large-scale war. Artillery is important, but it is replaced by airships. The only concern is that both Britain and Germany seem to have developed an anti-aircraft machine gun specifically for fighting empty boats. However, there are no such rumors in Japan and Russia. That is to say, the airship can also bully these two countries for a while longer. That being the case, it is not very important whether there is artillery or not. Moreover, Hu Xiaoyan also spent money to buy a batch of artillery from the Krupp Arsenal. Enough for the next thirty years of war.

After inspecting the iron and steel plant, he confirmed through experts from various countries that the steel produced at the Anshan Iron and Steel Plant could fully meet the requirements of China's railway construction. From this he was relieved.

After leaving Ma'anshan, Hu Xiaoyan came to the coal mine in Lieshan, where Li Jingmai was in charge, and everything was running smoothly, because Hu Xiaoyan's support was not enough, and the quality of the steel plant in Lieshan was not very good, and it could only cope with civilian steel. And the output cannot be compared with the steel mills in Ma'anshan.

Because Lieshan had already been drawn from Hu Xiaoyan's hands, Hu Xiaoyan didn't care. It's a loss of ten earnings, and it's none of his business.

After chatting with Li Jingmai, Li Jingmai was a little frustrated. Li Jingmai is a little nostalgic for the feeling that he was never short of money when he was working under Hu Xiaoyan.

Leaving Lieshan, Hu Xiaoyan went to Anqing to meet with Governor Enming, and the two exchanged views on the development of Anqing Light Industrial Zone. Enming has one thing that is more satisfying, that is, he never interferes with the problem of not understanding, but leaves it to professionals to do. This may have been learned from Hu Xiaoyan. The scale of the Anqing Industrial Zone is now larger than the entire county seat of Anqing, and the population in it is even larger than the population of Anqing City.

A relatively prosperous town has been formed in the industrial zone. It is mainly a garment industry chain centered on weaving mills, garment factories and dyeing factories. Germany has set up a special sewing machine repair shop here, which provides repair services for more than 10,000 sewing machines here. Of course, the British were not bad, the British brought cotton from India, and then the cotton was woven into cloth, part of the cloth was sold to the whole country, and part of the cloth was directly made into clothes and sold to the whole Qing Dynasty. If it were not limited by production capacity, a garment factory in an industrial zone in Anqing could meet the clothing demand of the entire Qing Dynasty.

After leaving Anqing, Hu Xiaoyan went to Nantong to meet with Zhang Jian, a leading merchant.

Zhang Jian, 48 years old. Champion at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Because he was a Weng Men scholar, he was affected by it and never became an official all his life, and in 1898, he was supposed to be in the capital, but he was affected by the butterfly effect.

Ye Chengxin wanted to start the Shanghai University project at that time, so he agreed to Sheng Xuanhuai's fundraising request, and obtained Sheng Xuanhuai's support, and finally built the current Shanghai Chengxin University.

In the original history, Sheng Xuanhuai did not get enough money in 1896, and the part of the investment he promised Zhang Jian could not be put in place, resulting in the Nantong Dasheng Yarn Factory in 1896 not being maintained.

But Sheng Xuanhuai, who is not short of money in this time and space, was stimulated by Ye Chengcheng's investment in the university on the one hand, and on the other hand, he did engage in some industries to raise money, so as not to be looked down upon by people when he went to Shanghai every time.

Therefore, in 1898, Sheng Xuanhuai met Zhang Jian again in Shanghai after the successful financing, remembering the incident two years ago, Sheng Xuanhuai was quite ashamed to introduce Zhang Jian to Ye Chengxin and others, and the second son of the Ye family agreed to the investment of Dasheng Yarn Factory, and the amount was successfully in place. Zhang Jian's Dasheng Yarn Factory did not have a difficult birth as it did in history, but started smoothly.

Because Zhang Jian's plan was too big, the cotton in Daqing was not enough at all. On the other hand, India has a lot of cotton to offer. In order to curb Japan's cotton spinning industry, Hu Xiaoyan agreed to an agreement to import all Indian cotton at a higher price. This also caused Japan's cotton spinning industry to suffer a great blow. Japanese mills simply can't buy enough cotton. In the end, Japan had to agree to Hu Xiaoyan's request to send troops to the northeast to compete with Russia. On the one hand, Japan wanted to get enough money from the Russians, and on the other hand, it really needed to buy enough cotton from Hu Xiaoyan.

Domino effect. Zhang Jian needed a bigger gap in cotton (in the original history, he could still buy cotton from the British, but he couldn't buy it even if he had money in this time and space.) ）。 After Hu Xiaoyan learned about this through Li Jingmai, he signaled Tao Chengzhang, who was in charge of the Anqing Industrial Zone at the time, to go to Nantong in person and reach an agreement with Zhang Jian to provide a large amount of cotton to Dasheng Yarn Factory. From then on, Zhang Jian no longer had to worry about the source of cotton. Zhang Jian also had plenty of time to run his cotton spinning school.

Hu Xiaoyan came to Nantong to meet Zhang Jian this time in order to cooperate with Zhang Jian to establish a modern agricultural university. He brought with him five million taels of silver.

There is no doubt that Zhang Jian agreed. China's first agricultural university was established in Nantong in 1900.