Chapter 486 - Strengthening the Country and Power 'Jade'

At the same time that Operation Blizzard was in full swing in the three eastern provinces. In the inner 'gate' grassland, a military operation of the same 'nature' was also launched at the same time, but the operation code name was "wolf hunting".

The "wolf hunting operation" was carried out by the cavalry units of the Wehrmacht, of which the independent cavalry division was the main force, and the troops of Wu Junsheng and Zhang Zuolin, who had been fighting horse bandits and 'gate' bandits for many years in the grassland, also took part in this operation, and achieved very considerable results, killing thousands of 'gate' bandits and destroying more than 10 'holes' of the bandits.

In order to treat the wounded, the General Military Hospital of the rear of the National Defense Forces in Wuhan was also ordered to move to Zhangjiakou and set up a branch in Shenyang, and the War Department also used this relocation operation to practice the general mobilization capability of the Northern Railway. A small exercise was conducted to carry out a larger military movement.

All of a sudden. Everywhere in China's great rivers can be seen the tense movement of the army, and under the cover of this pretext of "clearing out bandits," a large strategic net has been quietly unfolded; as a person in the net, Meng Enyuan, the "southeastern town guard," first took the initiative and sent a telegram in Nanjing, unconditionally supporting the center's action to eliminate the bandits, and at the same time announced that from now on, the southeastern provinces will officially end the state of "military and government," and it is suggested that Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, and other provinces should immediately realize the separation of military and civilian rule, and that the governors of all provinces should immediately abolish it. Changed to Overseers to preside over the military.

Under the leadership of smart people, the governors and commanders of the southern provinces sent telegrams one after another, responding to the call of the central government, announcing the implementation of "military and civilian rule" in their provinces, ending the state of military and political affairs, and entering the period of political training.

For this appearance of harmony between the north and the south, the public opinion circles in various provinces have also made interest, and have praised the wisdom of the center and the wisdom of the powerful factions in various places.

At a time when the morale of the whole country was high and the morale of the people was high, the Central Governor formally submitted a letter of protest to the Japanese Minister through the Minister in Japan, lodged a solemn protest against the Japanese Government's unreasonable interference in China's internal affairs and judicial independence, and at the same time expressed strong indignation at the rude actions of the Japanese Minister to China against the Vice President. In the letter of protest, the Chinese Central Government told the Japanese government in black and white that in order to safeguard the country's sovereignty and national dignity, the Chinese Central Government would continue to prepare its army so that it could defend the country in the event of an invasion by foreign enemies.

Perhaps in order to prove to the world the strong determination of China's central government to strengthen the country and enrich the people, the day after the protest was submitted to the Japanese government, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, the President of the Republic of China Zhao Bei and the German Minister to China Rex formally signed a commercial contract, which involved cooperation plans in heavy industry and light industry, as well as chemicals, agriculture, shipbuilding, automobile manufacturing, etc. It is particularly noteworthy that in this commercial contract, the German government also formally committed to sell two of the latest submarines to the Chinese Navy as an important measure to strengthen the friendship between the two countries.

The day after the official announcement of the Sino-German business cooperation plan, Zhao Bei, President of the Republic of China, and Si Dade, the US Minister to China, appeared in Zhengzhou, Henan Province at the same time. The "Grand Cross Railway Project" is launched by the business community of China and the United States and the Chinese and American governments, and the engineers and technicians of the two countries will complete the construction of two railway trunk lines in four years, one railway is from Haizhou in Jiangsu Province to Lanzhou in Gansu, this railway runs east-west, and the other railway leads from Wuhan to Guangzhou, this railway runs north-south. The rendezvous point is Zhengzhou, and Zhengzhou Railway Station will also become the most important shunting yard and marshalling station in China's railway network.

In order to ensure that the "Grand Cross Railway Plan" can be successfully completed, at the same time as the construction of the railway embankment, the construction plan of a Yangtze River Bridge has also been officially launched, as a key point connecting the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway and the Jinghan Railway, the bridge will be jointly built by the United States and Chinese companies, and the technical personnel are mainly from the United States and Europe. It is enough to make people jaw-dropping, in order to raise funds for the construction of the bridge, China's central government has to issue the "Yangtze River Iron Bridge Public Bond" as a Chinese share.

At the same time, a Yellow River railway bridge in Gansu has begun to be explored for the site, which is less difficult to build than the Yangtze River railway bridge, so the iron bridge will be built entirely by the Chinese themselves. From the raising of funds to the selection of technicians, from the manufacture of bridge construction materials to the design and construction of bridges, all try to use Chinese, although for this ambitious ambition, both Americans and Germans have expressed a cautious and serious position, but the chief engineer in charge of the construction of this iron bridge Zhan Tianyou is full of confidence, and, as China's only steel industry base at present, but also the pillar of heavy industry, Han Yeping Company also announced in Wuhan that all the bridge construction materials of this Yellow River railway bridge are provided by the company, and, After getting the blast furnace and machinery provided by the German side, most of the rails and road spikes for the construction of the "Grand Cross Railway" will also be provided by the Han Yeping Company, after the news came out, the stock price of the Han Yeping Company immediately doubled, and the businessmen understood that this time, the Han Yeping Company will no longer worry about the sales of its products, and if the Sichuan-Han Railway also starts construction, then the steel stocks will become the mainstay of the stock market.

Driven by this optimism, there is a huge investment boom in China's business sector. Moreover, due to the establishment of the "Securities 'Trading' Supervision Commission" and the ensuing head-on blow to the "tide" of rubber stock speculation in Shanghai, Wuhan, and other places, a large amount of idle funds quickly withdrew from those non-existent foreign rubber plantations and rubber companies, and flowed to the industrial sector, such as textile mills, garment factories, silk reeling factories, machinery factories, leather shoe factories, and flour mills...... In this frenzy of investment in industry, even Mr. Zhang Jian, vice president of the Republic of China, returned to Jiangsu, made additional investment, and built several new textile mills and flour mills.

These industrial investment projects require not only capital, but also technology and machines, in these machines. China's local industry can provide only a drop in the bucket, so a large number of new and old machines from the United States and Germany flock to the Chinese market, although compared with the demand of European countries, the market capacity of this country is relatively limited, but in a short period of time there are so many machine orders, which also further strengthens the confidence of American and German businessmen in this emerging market, after all, for European and American enterprises that have just passed the economic depression, even if it is an order for a thousand textile machines, it can also make enterprises have a little more hope of survival. Therefore, not only American and German businessmen saw business opportunities, but British and French businessmen also saw business opportunities in China, so they absolutely did not want to disrupt trade in the Far East because of the war at this time, so that European companies could not take profits from this "business feast".

In this international context, the written protest of the Chinese central government against the Japanese government did not trigger any open armed conflict between the two countries, and due to the "Blizzard Operation" and the "Wolf Hunting Operation" carried out in the three eastern provinces and the inner "gate" grassland, the originally very active "Eight Banners outside the Guan" was not able to set off a big "wave", although there were indeed armed rebellions of the Manchu remnants in a few places, but under the strong counterattack of the superior forces of the political fǔ army, these armed rebellions were The chaos was quickly quelled, as far as the overall situation of the country is concerned, since the first time, the country has never been so calm, even the newspapers that have prejudices against the president of the Republic of China, Zhao Bei, have to admit that under the influence of this "Far East madman", both the international environment and the domestic environment are very satisfactory for China.

In the wake of this public opinion, newspapers have already begun to call for an extension of the presidential term.

Although it is still far from the goal of becoming a strong country and the goal of enriching the people, no one can deny that the president has done his best if anyone dares to oppose the president at this time. Then, he is either hopelessly stupid or has been bribed by hostile elements at home and abroad, as the "Pioneer Daily" said, so it is natural that everyone in the country will be punished by the whole country, and they will work together to deal with the hostile elements at home and abroad.

Of course, not everyone has a high level of respect for the president, at least, the 'radical' faction of the League has scoffed at President Zhao's series of actions, believing them to be "grandstanding" and "dangerous speculation".

However, no matter what these opponents of the president think, the current situation is that there is no place for them in the country, and they can only choose to flee abroad if they want to avoid being arrested by the military and police to be used in the northwest.

Like most fugitives, as a representative of the League's 'radical' faction, Chen Qimei's choice of escape destination was also Nanyang, to be precise, Penang, Malaya.

Now, Chen Qimei is standing on the foredeck of the steamer, surrounded by several of his fugitive companions, all of whom are the backbone of the League, and all of them participated in the "Guangdong Incident", and one of them even participated in the original plot to assassinate Tao Chengzhang, and the arrest warrant for them has not yet been revoked. Rioters, for example, Long Jiguang, now, Long Jiguang is already an official resident of Hong Kong, and he has also bought hundreds of acres of fertile land in the New Territories, and he is generous, as for how much money is the "** fund" that the alliance will give him, I'm afraid no one can figure it out.

The ship is now in Hong Kong, and it is about to depart for Singapore, Chen Qimei and others will rush to Singapore first, where a ** pioneer is waiting for their arrival in order to discuss the continuation of **.

This time I went to China, I don't know when I will be able to return to China, Chen Qimei and others are quite desolate in their hearts, although it is not impossible to continue to stay in Hong Kong by relying on the strength of the Alliance, but, after all, it is too dangerous, the Alliance will be very good at assassination, and the Liberation Society will not be left behind, and that President Zhao Da was born in the Liberation Society, and the Alliance's 'agitation' elements killed the leader of the Liberation Society, so, will the Liberation Members let go of the mastermind behind the scenes?

So, let's leave this country, as for "continue to **", Chen Qimei doesn't care much anymore.

A few whistles sounded, and the ship had begun to pressurize and rise, and it was soon ready to leave.

At this time, a young man rushed to Chen Qimei's side with a newspaper, handed the newspaper over, and said, "Brother Ince, this is a newspaper that has just been published. You see, that Zhao Bei is very beautiful now, taking advantage of the three eastern provinces and the 'gate' to suppress the bandits smoothly, coerced the parliament to pass a resolution, announcing the abolition of the establishment of the 'cabinet premier', and the cabinet directly obeyed the president's orders. Mr. is right, this Zhao Bei, in fact, does not want to be China's Washington, but wants to be China's Napoleon, he wants to monopolize power, he wants to learn from Yuan Shikai, maybe, he also wants to be an emperor. ”

Chen Qimei didn't take the newspaper, just glanced at the newspaper, and then smiled bitterly, he remembered the scene when he first met with Zhao Bei in Wuhan, at that time, everyone had a brief discussion on the issue of "the world's second Napoleon", and there was also a "constitutional wizard" Yang Du at that time, and the traitor Wang Zhaoming of the League also participated in the discussion. But no one answered.

Now, Zhao Bei seems to have answered Yang Du's question with practical actions, this country may only have Napoleon-like figures, not Washington-style figures, which is both a national condition and a political status quo.

"The second Napoleon in the world", can this person save China? His power is so heavy that it is somewhat similar to that of the Napoleonic Emperor of France.

Thinking of this, Chen Qimei smiled bitterly, if you talk about the desire and pursuit of power, this is probably a common feature of all politicians, even the League has a pathological fanaticism for power, otherwise, why bother to rush with your head? Now, his Chen someone's head is worth 10,000 yuan.

But perhaps no one will be able to carry the heads of Chen Qimei and others to President Zhao Da to receive a reward, because this ship is a British steamer, and it is now at anchor, and the destination of the ship is distant Singapore.

With the sound of the whistle, the steamer slowly left the dock, carrying Chen Qimei and his companions, as well as their dream of power, and they themselves did not know when this dream would return.

Chen Qimei turned his head, looking at the wharf and port that was gradually moving away, choked up and couldn't speak, now he didn't know that this was the last time he saw the land of the motherland with his own eyes, because after this trip, he never returned to China, after that, most of his time was secluded in Penang, until 1941 because of a Chinese Air Force bomber bombing and died, he could only return to his hometown.

Of course, that's a story for later.