"One-two-one, one-two-one."

"Loyalty to the nation, loyalty to the principal."

"One-two-one, one-two-one."

In the spacious school grounds, students from East China Military University were jogging in the morning, and one of the leaders shouted loudly, followed by shouting slogans.

From the second, third to fourth, most of the students have not yet graduated, but some students are already regimental commanders, and some of the first students are now brigade commanders.

These students mainly come from two sources, one is a low-ranking officer in the army, or an ordinary soldier who has made meritorious contributions, and after they have passed the literacy eradication, they are sent to the East China Military University.

Another source is students who sign up for school.

These two types of people are different, those who enter the army to study in schools have certain martial arts, and those students have certain literary skills.

Generally, when they come to military academies for further study, they basically wait to be promoted when they return to the army, and those students who do not have a military foundation, after learning theory, many of them have to start from the grassroots level, unless they have particularly excellent grades.

All students work hard, and if they don't, they will be eliminated.

The education they received in the military academy made them loyal to Xia Jun. At this time, China has initially become rich and powerful, and such changes make no one question Xia Jun's prestige.

Although Xia Jun is not as old as many students.

Xia Jun has rarely taught in military academies at present, and the teaching is handed over to the following people, among which Chen Xuanyu and Liu Wenhong are the vice principals.

Liu Wenhong is the one who has made the most progress, because he served as a staff officer in the military department and worked very hard out of the military academy, so he has become the most promising graduate.

Yang Lie and Wu Feng were the two brigade commanders of the First Division, and the First Infantry Division was secretly called the 'Praetorian Guard Division' because the chairman of the committee was the division commander.

Those who caught up in the previous sessions have a great future, but it does not mean that there are no opportunities for latecomers.

For a huge China, its national defense needs a huge number of troops.

China is not the United States, and the United States only needs tens of thousands of soldiers to maintain the stability of a country, but China definitely needs more troops.

Although Xia Jun does not teach much in the military academy, he still often comes to the military academy, basically every other day to inspect once, when asked about the recent examination results, Liu Wenhong said: "Among the students of the third session, this Zhang Zizhong is the most excellent, he must get the first place in the literary examination, and the martial arts examination is also good, which is considered to be superior." ”

"Hmmm! This student should be focused on training. Xia Jun said to Liu Wenhong, "Wait until next year to transfer him to the East China Assault Battalion for internship." ”

"Assault battalion!"

Liu Wenhong couldn't help but marvel, what kind of shit luck did this kid named Zhang Zizhong take, he was transferred to the East China Assault Battalion, this is the elite of the army, this is a theoretical mechanized force!

Although the mechanized troops are still being explored, theoretically they are already mature, and there are advanced combat vehicles.

And as far as Liu Wenhong knows, the tank factory has developed a good tank.

Being transferred to the East China Assault Battalion basically means that it will be transferred to form a mechanized armored force in the future, which is definitely the future trump card of the army.

…… Hangzhou, the city has become the largest and most prosperous city in China by this time.

New buildings stand tall in the low, dilapidated old town, and from time to time you can see some foreigners on the streets, and these foreigners have complicated identities.

Some of them came to investigate in public status, some came to do business, some came to engage in spies, and of course most of them were foreign technicians and engineers hired by enterprises such as the East China Group.

Police officers can be seen patrolling every street, and they have guns on their bodies, and some sheriffs are even equipped with submachine guns in the back of their cars.

Every policeman patrolled the streets vigilantly, and they knew the neighborhood very well, because they were patrolling all day long.

As a police officer, he must put a stop to all kinds of illegal acts in the area he is responsible for, and if there is dereliction of duty, it will be miserable to be reported.

Basically, there are no cities, and there are police patrols in every county, from trivial things to pickpocketing and robbery, all of which they need to stop as soon as possible.

Most of these patrol officers graduated from the police academy and are of good quality. Each patrol officer has their own area of responsibility, and the people in this area are visited every month, and if they are not satisfied with the current patrol, they can be replaced with a new patrolman.

There may be two or three patrols in a busy neighborhood, only one in a less lively neighborhood, and in some places one patrol officer is in charge of two blocks.

At night, the patrol officers work together in groups of three or four to patrol the city. With such intensity, the law and order in cities everywhere is very good.

Especially after the last crackdown.

This is different from the extensive management of the crotch of the East China Autonomous Political Axe in later generations, so there will basically be no fights and fraud on the street.

There were no beggars on the streets, and if they were, they were all contained.

As for juggling and the like, there are still some phenomena. In recent years, there have been a lot of artists in the rivers and lakes, but they have all been concentrated in specific areas, and they are not allowed to sell any three-no products such as strong pills.

Recently, monkey tricks have been banned because monkeys have become protected animals, and if someone is caught playing monkeys, they will be caught and tried in court.

Under the rule of the East China Autonomous Axe, the law is everywhere.

These patrol officers are often nosy, and they will be accused of domestic violence if they beat their wives, even if the beaten wife is still pleading on the side, the result is still the same.

The so-called people do not hold officials accountable, and this is not the case at all with the political axe of East China's autonomous government. Even if you and I are willing, breaking the law is breaking the law, and the prosecutor will not let them go.

Someone is often caught inadvertently breaking the law, and if it is a trivial matter, they will basically only be sentenced to a few months in prison, and the imprisonment is to be locked up in solitary form, and the conditions inside are not bad.

If the circumstances are more serious, then you will have to serve a prison sentence, and you have to work every day.

Most people can consciously abide by the law, after all, thousands of years of feudal system.

However, the small number of people who want to take advantage of the loopholes have been beaten down by the strict system of the current political axe, so the law and order in various places is very good.

The number of migrant workers has also increased, but under the arrangement of the political axe, the livelihood of these outsiders is guaranteed, and it has not had much impact on law and order.

After several years of construction, the East China Autonomous Political Axe already has a relatively strict law enforcement team. The police force, in particular, has been greatly developed.

Recently, the most important action has been the clean-up of the Green Gangs, especially after the East China police entered the Shanghai Concession to enforce the law, a large number of Green Gang elements were arrested, and the local underworld forces were swept away, and the local areas became much quieter.

Hangzhou has been hailed by Westerners as the largest metropolis in the Far East, directly surpassing Shanghai.

Walking in the most prosperous city in the Far East will have a very strange feeling, and the people here have undergone great changes that people in any corner of the world cannot imagine.

At the same time, the city is also like a big construction site, full of construction sites.

University towns, research institutes, and large factories are lined up in the suburbs, and there are banks, insurance companies, stock exchanges, and so on in the suburbs.

The East China Autonomous Political Axe is located in the West Lake District.

With the exception of a huge East China Plaza, everything else doesn't look as grand as the architecture in a university town.

Hangzhou Bay is a busy area, with cargo ships coming in and out, and the container terminal is busy running, which reduces the demand for dock workers a lot, but you can still see many dock workers on the dock who are busy handling goods.

The world has been amazed by the dramatic changes in China.

The autonomous political axe of East China has also become a political system in the world that cannot be underestimated.

In particular, China's industry has suddenly developed this year, indicating that China has entered the process of industrialization.

…… In Europe, the atmosphere is becoming more tense.

The two camps have already reached the peak of their military budgets, and Germany has set a military budget of 2 billion marks this year, which already accounts for half of the financial budget.

This means that the arms race has reached the maximum that Germany can bear, and France has reached the limit of what the arms race can bear.

Britain is the only country that is much more financially well-off, so it can afford it for the time being.

At such a sensitive moment, any friction could become the fuse of war, triggering a declaration of war between the two camps.

Much to the displeasure of the French, their intelligence officers learned that China's East China Autonomous Government was constantly sending war supplies to Germany.

However, at present, the two camps have not yet started fighting, and France cannot stop such an act as the axe of East China's autonomous government.

Since the last time the East China Autonomous Government transported most of the arms in its reserves to Germany, it has begun to send all kinds of war materials to Germany.

For example, iron ore, crude oil, coal, cement, medicines, and canned food were among the larger quantities of materials transported to Germany by the East China Autonomous Government.

Especially for iron ore and crude oil, the big iron ore mine in Xiao is too cheap, and the East China Mining Company uses very advanced excavation equipment, and the production cost is very low.

Crude oil is even cheaper, and if there are tariffs on iron ore mining in Australia, there are no tariffs on crude oil in Rashid Arabia, and the cost of extraction is outrageously low.

The Kaiser was very pleased with this, and asked the following to actively cooperate with the actions of the autonomous government of East China, and provided them with as many warehouses as they wanted.

The East China Autonomous Political Axe is planning to reserve war materials to Germany, and the East China Autonomous Political Axe has a very abundant financial hand.

After all, there are so many funds in various departments, anyway, they will not be used for a while and a half, they can be used for embezzlement first, and various incomes are still being collected this year.

According to the original history, the First World War broke out in August, and the East China Autonomous Government still had more than six months to reserve supplies to Germany.

Most of the East China Group's profits were used to continue to expand production capacity, but some of the money was also withdrawn to reserve supplies to Germany.

Not all supplies are backlogged in Germany because of the military budget of two billion marks, and because Germany has already transferred a lot of capital back to China, it is buying war materials everywhere.

It's just that a lot of materials can be put away, and more money can be made. While this reserve has created some of the backlog, German money is also flowing into China, and the backlog is relatively light.

In the international market, the prices of many things have begun to rise, and many factories in the seven provinces of East China have begun to produce in three shifts.

Although it has not yet entered the Great War, the golden age of China's industrial development has gradually arrived.

France, by contrast, was slower to act, otherwise it would not have been possible to sustain the war after the First World War had begun and shouted that it would not produce 100,000 shells a day.

This year, Germany placed an order for 500 rapid-fire guns with the East China Autonomous Government, and this kind of rapid-fire guns have been selling well internationally.

This was originally a rapid-fire cannon of the French, but it was taken first by the East China Autonomous Political Axe, and it became the intellectual property right of the East China Autonomous Political Axe to own this 75mm rapid-fire gun, and France could not produce it.

In order to catch up with the arrival before the outbreak of World War I, Xia Junhua spent points to expand the military production capacity, Germany's annual production of 7.92mm caliber bullets increased from the original 100 million rounds to 300 million rounds, because the militia of the East China Autonomous Political Axe is using Mauser rifles, so the previous bullets have been stored nearly 100 million rounds, these bullets have been shipped to Germany.

It was almost enough to expand the bullet production to this extent, which cost Xia Jun 50 million points.

After all, it could not be shipped out after the outbreak of World War I, but fortunately, the East China Army also used 7.92mm caliber bullets, in addition to ZB-26, there were MG08/15 light machine guns and Makqin heavy machine guns. In the future, the East China Army will also be equipped with a powerful German general-purpose machine gun -- MG42, and there is still a demand for German ammunition, and these production capacities will not be wasted.

In terms of artillery, the main products now are 75mm rapid-fire guns, as well as grenadiers. Countries are interested in grenadiers, after all, this kind of individual weapon that does not occupy the establishment has a good power.

Since the East China Commercial Center began to sell arms in various countries, orders for these two main products have been good.

Xia Jun spent 100 million points to triple the equipment used in the military factory to produce artillery, and these machines could not only be used to produce 75mm rapid-fire guns, so the investment was very cost-effective.

At present, the population of the seven autonomous provinces in East China is 160 million, accounting for 37% of the Chinese population, and in terms of popular support, the average index of popular support in the seven provinces has risen to 4.0.

In one month, Xia Jun can get 640 million points from the hearts of the people. In addition, after the reading groups were dispatched to various provinces, the income of the bandits was nearly 10 million per month.

Although there are still a lot of technologies to upgrade, the current circle of money is important, so Xia Jun squandered the points that just arrived in February.

100 million points can increase the production capacity of artillery shells from one million rounds per year to 10 million rounds per year, and Xia Jun smashed these 100 million points.

The Entente needed 20 to 30 million shells a year, and there was definitely a market.

These capacities, before the outbreak of the First World Gate, were to produce German artillery shells in full force, and then produce artillery shells from the Entente countries as soon as Europe started.

The remaining 300 million points were all smashed into the shipbuilding industry, and ten 30,000-ton dry docks were frantically bought, and the shipbuilding capacity was increased to the level of 1.2 million tons.

…… The First World War broke out appropriately, and the initiative depended on when Germany was ready, or when it could not bear it.

In this way, no matter what kind of excuse, it can contribute to a world war.

In the midst of thousands of expectations, time rushed to July, and the summer harvest of the new year has arrived, and this year's summer harvest has been a bumper harvest in the seven provinces of East China.

72 million tonnes of wheat were harvested and milled into 49 million tonnes of flour.

The flour of the East China Autonomous Government began to be dumped internationally, and the international price of flour soon dropped to 1.8 yuan per quintal.

In Europe, the Sarager incident broke out on June 26.

At 9 a.m. on June 28, 1914, Archduke Ferdinand, the crown prince of Austria-Hungary, participated in and commanded a military exercise, after which 17-year-old Princip, a member of a secret Serbian organization, shot at Ferdinand and his wife, killing Ferdinand and arresting Princip.

This event, known as the Sarajevo Incident, was the trigger for the First World War.

Princip's actions were a great expression of love for the nation, but the Sarajevo assassination of Ferdinand was used by Austria-Hungary as a pretext for waging war against Serbia.

When Xia Jun learned of the outbreak of this incident, he stepped up the dispatch of merchant ships from Germany, and this was the last time period.

The Sara Fever incident soon continued to escalate!

On July 23, 1914, Austria, with the unconditional support of Germany, issued an ultimatum to Serbia, including the arrest of the murderers, the suppression of anti-Austrian activities, and the dismissal of anti-Austrian officials. However, Austria still escalated its actions.

At the same time, Germany was aware of Russia's military mobilization, and the Kaiser demanded that Russia cease and prepare for war quickly. Given the tough diplomacy of States and their arrogance over their military might, war is inevitable.

On July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.

On July 30, Russia mobilized and sent troops to Serbia.

On August 1, Germany declared war on Russia, followed by France on August 3.

On August 4, Germany invaded neutral Belgium, which declared war on Germany.

At the same time, Britain declared war on Germany, taking into account the importance of Belgium to its homeland security and the Treaty of London signed earlier in 1839 to ensure Belgium's neutrality.

On August 6, Austria-Hungary declared war on Russia, Serbia on Germany, and Italy declared neutrality.

On August 12, Britain declared war on Austria-Hungary. World War I broke out.

In this month, the East China Autonomous Axe transported nearly 300 million yuan of materials to Germany, and with the previous materials, it has reached a total of 1.2 billion yuan, half of which was shipped to Germany in the form of reserves.

These stockpiled materials are things that the East China Autonomous Government believes Germany will want, but Germany does not want for the time being. Germany was very proud of their military affairs, and they did not think that the war would last long, so they did not buy the supplies that were stockpiled to Germany.

But I'm afraid their judgment is about to be wrong!

These materials will still be bought by Germany after all, which Xia Jun is not worried about.

(To be continued)