Bandits, a unique group that has been perpetuated in China for thousands of years, have a striking resemblance of surnames, and the thieves are more tactically sophisticated from generation to generation.

This is a very perplexing place, why do most of the peasant-born thieves have such sophisticated mobile combat tactics?

After a few hundred years of a dynasty, why are the re-emerging rogues able to pass on the form of the rogues of the previous dynasty?

In the case of Bai Lang, his strategic goal was to invade Sichuan and then establish a solid territory in Sichuan, which was similar to the Ming Dynasty thieves.

What kind of uprising, that's all.

Not being able to survive is a reason, but many times it is because of natural disasters, plus the decay of the dynasty, and without immediate disaster relief, it can directly cause a riot.

Just like the thieves of Bai Lang's department that appear today, their mobile combat tactics are very mature, and they can't be seen to be just two years old, and they basically inherit the thieves' tactics and strategies in the late Ming Dynasty.

These thieves all went to the inland provinces, because the people in the inland provinces were generally poor, so they had a mass base.

The coastal provinces are generally wealthy, and it is unlikely that people will starve to death, and even if people really have nothing to eat, they will eat grass roots and tree bark all over the mountains and fields, so they do not have any mass base.

The thieves of the Ming Dynasty also tried to develop into the coastal provinces, but apparently to no avail, and they all flowed inland due to the lack of a mass base.

Now this Bai Lang's strategic intention is very clear, to march directly inland, especially to Shaanxi.

Shaanxi this place, the Spring and Autumn Period out of the Qin State, destroyed the great enlightenment of thought, the end of the Ming Dynasty out of the thief, destroyed the Ming Dynasty, and later a certain crotch also developed there, it is simply an excellent development area for the thief.

At this time, Bai Lang went all the way to Shaanxi, although the situation in Henan has stabilized and will not affect the operation of the agricultural reclamation company for the time being, but the problem is that Xia Jun is not at ease, this Bai Lang may return to Henan at any time.

After Xia Jun telegraphed the Beiyang political axe, the Beiyang political axe called back and said: "Troops are being dispatched to encircle and suppress, and there is no need for the East China Autonomous Political Axe to send troops." ”

Yuan Shikai naturally did not worry about letting the East China Autonomous Political Axe send troops, after all, he sent troops to Henan and Shaanxi, and he could not guarantee that the East China Autonomous Political Axe would occupy a certain place under any pretext, and the Beiyang Political Axe would lose a lot at that time.

For this reason, Yuan Shikai hurriedly asked Duan Jirui, the minister of the army, to mobilize troops and horses to launch a large-scale encirclement and suppression of Bai Lang. Duan Qirui received the order and successively dispatched nearly 100,000 troops into the western Henan area, intending to surround the thieves of Bai Lang's department.

However, Duan Qirui obviously overestimated the combat effectiveness of the Beiyang Army, and the encirclement could not be completed, but let Bai Lang jump out, but only one Zhao Wei followed Bai Lang and chased and beat fiercely, and finally although Bai Lang was killed, he did not get Bai Lang's body, and Bai Lang's body was buried in Henan.

This news was learned by Liu Zhenhua, a warlord in western Henan, and sent someone to dig out Bai Lang's corpse, at this time Bai Lang's corpse was rotten to a certain extent, this Liu Zhenhua simply cut off Bai Lang's head, and then took it to the pot to fry it, and then sent it to the capital to Yuan Shikai.

This made Zhao Wei indignant, he chased hard all the way, and finally cheapened Liu Zhenhua's fried ghost.

…… Stabilized China was a period of great activity for merchants in the seven autonomous provinces of East China, during which more and more gentry and landlords used their money to invest in industry or agriculture.

Shanxi and Guangdong joined the scope of autonomy, and the Jin merchants in Shanxi also began to withdraw funds to invest in industry, and the same was true for the Cantonese merchants in Guangdong.

Compared with the capital of the Jin merchants, there is basically not much difference between the capital of the Jin merchants and the Hui merchants.

The merchants of the Jin and Hui factions were the two largest groups in the provinces of China, and the capital of these two groups was very large.

Yan Xishan carried the banner and led the Jin merchants to the agricultural field first.

The railway will be built to Shanxi, and Shanxi's agriculture will definitely have a future at that time. However, the Ministry of Agriculture sent someone to say that Shanxi should not open up land indiscriminately.

In some parts of Shanxi, farmland must be returned because the ecological environment in Shanxi is already fragile.

Of course, this is not a problem, Yan Xishan does not need to only engage in Shanxi, he simply rents land along the railway line, learns from the model of those agricultural reclamation companies in East China, plans to grow wheat and corn in the North China Plain, and plans to use silage corn to develop aquaculture in North China.

Yan Xishan also transferred capital to Guangdong to grow sugarcane, and as for management talents, he spent a lot of money from East China University and agricultural technical schools to grab some, but the resources of professional talents are still very tight.

In order to get a piece of the pie from agricultural investment, Yan Xishan selected hundreds of students from Shanxi and sent them to the Department of Agriculture of East China University to train agricultural talents in Shanxi.

However, after all, the Jin merchants are lagging behind the Hui merchants to enter the game, and the Hui merchants and Fujian merchants have occupied many industries, but there are also many blank industries waiting to be filled.

Today's businessmen are looking for industries that can have a higher rate of return, and these businessmen are very concerned about technology after tasting the sweetness of advanced technology.

In addition to setting up factories, some businessmen have recently begun to mine along the railway line, but the audit of mining is relatively strong, and the approval is relatively slow, and not many people are involved.

For example, the East China Mining Company is mainly engaged in mining, and the main mining area of the East China Mining Company is in Australia, and it is marching to South America.

At this time, the East China Mining Company can be described as a crazy expansion, because the domestic demand for minerals has increased, and the East China Mining Company has begun to build overseas mines one after another.

Some of the merchants in China went abroad, first marching to the Nanyang region, where there was a Chinese base, and some marched to the inland provinces.

The "East China Provisional Treaty" signed by the East China Autonomous Political Axe and the Beiyang Political Axe provided a good investment environment for East China businessmen in China, but this investment environment was still subject to the constraints of transportation to a certain extent, and with the expansion of the East China Autonomous Political Axe's railway, this kind of investment was also spreading in the direction of the railway.

The investment boom in the five provinces of East China soon attracted many businessmen from other provinces to enter, and China's private capital showed a trend of spreading to the five provinces of East China.

At the same time, because the East China Autonomous Axe needs a large number of literati, so the Chinese literati are also migrating to the five provinces of East China's Autonomous Government, whether it is financial or manpower, will be rectified under the guidance of the East China Autonomous Axe, and these resources will exert great energy after rectification.

In the blink of an eye, June 1st arrived.

It's Children's Day.

Xia Jun took Li Shijing back to Jian'an on this day, and Jian'an had become Jian'an City at this time, and the city had also become an industrial city.

After all, this is where Xia Jun started, and the foundation is naturally the most complete.

Northwest Fujian was the first region in China to build an electricity network and a water supply network, and at this time it had developed very well, and the people of northwest Fujian were generally rich.

Hearing that the chairman of the committee had returned to Jian'an, the people of Jian'an were as happy as if they had celebrated the New Year.

When Xia Jun moved the administrative center to Hangzhou, it really made people very depressed, and they didn't understand why Xia Jun wanted to move the administrative center to Hangzhou, which had no foundation.

However, Hangzhou is indeed more suitable as an administrative center, and Hangzhou has also been built well, and in the past year, the East China Autonomous Political Axe has also laid its roots in Hangzhou.

On this day, Xia Jun went to the primary school in the countryside again, where he spent a Children's Day with primary school students.

Education in the three provinces of East China has only just developed, so many places are still very simple, but the children's food has been greatly improved.

This time Xia Jun came to the school and saw that most of the children were out of the previous state of malnutrition, and these children have become much more lively, without the sluggishness they had before, which made Xia Jun very happy.

However, Xia Jun also has concerns, that is, the East China Autonomous Axe is now only responsible for the education of seven provinces, and there are still 18 provinces in China where children are still living a gray childhood.

At present, the teachers themselves are not enough, and the finances are not enough, so I can't take care of it, and it will take a few more years, but it won't be too long.

Xia Jun is waiting for the arrival of World War I, when China will be able to get really rich and education funding will no longer be a problem.

…… After Children's Day, Xia Jun spent the 400 million points he had just received.

First of all, it has to provide more power like the Navy, although it is said that he has upgraded the technology of the steam turbine, but it will take some time to build a more powerful steam turbine.

And the Navy already has six destroyers about to be launched with power, and at the same time, the hull of the 8,000-ton cruiser has been basically completed, just waiting for the installation of power plants.

The 'Zhendong Type 2 destroyer' with the new power plant was quickly determined, and the cruiser with the more powerful power plant was named the 'Sea Shield Type 1 Cruiser', and the cruiser was used for escort ships, so it was given such a name.

It is not known how fast and what range the destroyers and cruisers equipped with the new power will reach, but one thing is clear, it is certainly faster.

It's possible to reach thirty knots!

As for the 8,000-ton cruiser, the range at the beginning of the design could reach 7,000 nautical miles, and this range is definitely achievable.

At the same time, Xia Jun bought two 30,000-ton coal carriers from the exchange platform, the hull is very long and very wide, enough to be constructed into an aircraft carrier.

With this kind of 30,000-ton jumbo, there will be plenty of space on board, and if the plane is smaller, it will not be a problem to transport hundreds of planes.

As for the aircraft carrier technology, Xia Jun has no points to redeem for the time being.

Aircraft carriers are divided into three generations, and the technology of the first generation of aircraft carriers requires one billion points, which is really enough to cheat.

Although it is difficult for the first-generation aircraft carrier's aircraft to land back on deck after takeoff, Xia Jun used to build an aircraft carrier with a 30,000-ton coal carrier.

With such a huge coal carrier, it is not a problem to install hundreds of aircraft, and when the battle starts, all these planes can be dropped, and they can also exert a huge attack power.

However, the key is what the surname of the dive bomber can be, and now Xia Jun has redeemed the internal combustion engine technology of the thirties, and believes that a powerful dive torpedo bomber will be developed soon.

Therefore, Xia Jun simply did not exchange the aircraft carrier technology and developed it himself!

Anyway, the technical surname of the first-generation aircraft carrier is not high, and these billion points are really a bit of a cheat.

With points in hand, Xia Jun continued to develop the shipbuilding industry, the price of a 20,000-ton floating dock is 20 million points, and the price of a 30,000-ton dock is 30 million tons, as for the 40,000-ton dock, because it is out of time, the price is twice as high as the price of 30,000 tons, reaching 60,000 points.

Xia Jun didn't buy a dock before, because there were no shipbuilders, and the dock was large, and it was very reasonable to say that there were so many big guys suddenly.

Since the East China Group purchased many docks with a huge amount of loans, and at the same time recruited many shipbuilding technicians from various countries, the total tonnage of the docks has reached 900,000 tons, half of which are small tonnage docks, and the total tonnage of docks above 10,000 tons is only 200,000 tons.

Because the cost of small-tonnage docks is low and the technology is very cheap, Xia Jun bought the technology of small-tonnage docks and small-tonnage ships before, for which the small-tonnage ships manufactured by East China Shipbuilding Company have reached the world's advanced level, and have entered a profitable state since this year.

This time, Xia Jun exchanged five 20,000-ton dry docks, which are connected to land on three sides and face water on one side, and their basic components are dock mouth, dock chamber and dock head. The dock mouth is used for entering and exiting the ship, and is provided with a water retaining dock door, and the drainage and irrigation equipment of the dock is often built in the dock pier on both sides of the dock mouth; The dock chamber is used for placing the ship, and the keel pier and the side pier supporting the ship are arranged on the bottom plate of the dock; The dock head is the opposite end of the dock mouth, and its plane shape can be rectangular, semicircular and diamond-shaped, and the space of the dock head is part of the dock chamber, where the propeller and tail shaft are disassembled and assembled.

The dry dock is equipped with a variety of power pipes and auxiliary equipment such as lifting, rust removal, painting and boat traction. When the ship enters the dry dock for repair, first fill the dock with irrigation and drainage facilities, and when the water level in the dock is level with the outside of the dock, open the dock door, use the traction equipment to slowly lead the ship into the dock, and then drain the water body in the dock, so that the ship sits on the keel pier. When the ship is undocked after repair or construction, water is first poured into the dock, and when the water level inside and outside the dock door is level, the dock door is opened and the ship is undocked.

These five dry docks are mainly used for shipbuilding and ship repair, and more importantly, shipbuilding, which cost Xia Jun 100 million points and increased the shipbuilding capacity by 100,000 tons.

In addition to these five dry docks, floating docks are also needed, and the advantage of floating docks is that they can be moved and can be used for work such as fishing boats.

So Xia Jun exchanged two 20,000-ton floating docks, and spent 40 million points, and then 30,000 tons, after all, there must be a dock to transform the two 30,000-ton coal carriers, Xia Jun exchanged for two 30,000-ton dry docks, and spent 60 million points.

Xia Jun invested another 200 million points in the dock, increasing the shipbuilding capacity by 200,000 tons, and the shipbuilding capacity of the East China Shipbuilding Company has been increased to 1.1 million tons.

The dock can't be replaced, and it will feel weird to change it again, so Xia Jun invested more than 100 million points in the construction of the container terminal in the port.

Xia Jun was annoyed by the rigidity of Jardine Matheson, as long as containers were used for port transportation, then Jardine Matheson could be defeated.

To this end, Xia Jun did not hesitate to hire an engineering team from the system to build.

(To be continued)