Chapter 102: The Revolution Is Imminent
There is no shortage of weapons for militia training, rifle factories have begun to produce rifles, these rifles are enough for training, although it is not possible to achieve one gun per person, but it can be shared by many people with one gun, see how many gaps there are in wartime, Xia Jun will buy it from the exchange platform.
The progress of the negotiations was still very slow, and Nakano Saburo, at the urging of the political axe, gradually reduced the amount of compensation, which was also a downward adjustment made by the political axe after seeing Fujian like a powder keg.
Once the fight starts, it is said that Benzai may not even be able to get back the benefits of 1,000 taels, and if he does not fight, there will be at least 30 million taels of compensation.
In the end, the two sides fought each other on the front of 40 million taels, Li Shengguo did not deny the 40 million compensation, he said to Nakano Saburo: "If this compensation can be paid in ten years, we can agree, and we have no money now, we must wait a year before starting to pay." β
"We say that this empire can agree, but you must come up with something as collateral." Saburo Nakano replied.
"We're not going to put anything out as collateral." Li Shengguo refused, even if he signed an indemnity treaty with Yue Ben Zheng Axe, it would be postponed for a year anyway, and the contract would be broken at that time, and the battle with Yu Ben after a year would be different from now, and his own strength would be stronger after a year, and he would be more calm at that time. Since you have made up your mind to break the contract, how can you take something to mortgage.
On 6 September, under the mediation of the British political axe, the two sides each gave in and reached a settlement agreement in which the Fujian Autonomous Government would compensate 40 million customs taels, postpone it for one year, pay it off in three years, and no mortgage was required.
In the agreement, Britain recognized that the anti-narcotics of the Fujian Autonomous Government was a legal act, and stipulated in the agreement that it was not allowed to export drugs to Fujian.
On September 7, Li Shengguo signed the agreement on behalf of the Fujian Autonomous Political Axe, saying that the original political axe and the Fujian Autonomous Political Axe announced reconciliation.
This conflict ostensibly ended with the Fujian Autonomous Government softening, but Yu Ben did not get the money, which was destined to be a sum of money that could not be obtained.
In the eyes of these people, the rise of the Fujian Autonomous Axe is not a good thing for the long-term interests of the Fujian Autonomous Axe.
However, the overall strength of Fujian's autonomous political axe is still very weak compared with the strength of the capital, but it is the head snake in Fujian, and the political axe feels that the price of this kind of price is too high. Moreover, although he felt the need to curb the development of Fujian's autonomous political axe, he did not feel the urgency of it.
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When the news of the signing of the agreement came, the morale of the navy was suddenly unstable, and Zhou Xiulong and other officers and men of the navy had some stirring, thinking that since they had won the war, why should they pay money to themselves? If it weren't for the fact that Xia Jun won the hearts of the people in ordinary times, which made the navy feel deeply puzzled, maybe the navy would have even rioted at this time.
On September 9, Xia Jun rushed to Ningde, and more than 3,000 officers and men of the navy had gathered on the school ground, Xia Jun came to the school field and said to the officers and men of the navy present: "I know that you want to compete with Yue himself, but do you think that with our current strength, we can resist the Yue Navy?" β
There was silence below, and everyone knew that with their current strength, they could not compete with the Navy.
"Look at the people of Luoyuan County, they were affected by the war, do you know how many people were killed and wounded? More than 3,000 people, that's more than 3,000 people. Xia Jun said excitedly: "Once a full-scale conflict breaks out with Yueben, although our army and tens of millions of compatriots in Fujian can work together to defeat Yueben at home, how much price do we have to pay?" How many fathers, elders, brothers and sisters are we going to die? How much development time will we miss? β
"FΓΌhrer, then do we really have to pay the money?" Zhou Xiulong asked unwillingly.
"Everyone can see clearly, the agreement signed with this time, we will start to pay compensation after one year, and pay off the compensation within three years, if you don't want to lose money, just train hard, as long as you practice, we will not pay this one year later." Xia Jun said to them.
He didn't make it too clear, but told them that whether the reparations are paid or not depends on the progress of the navy's growth.
This time he made peace with Yueben, but Xia Jun continued to delay time, and he didn't give Xiao Yueben a dime after a year, and then he would tear his face and start fighting.
A year later, Xia Jun will have a larger and more regular army, and it will be easy to fight with Yuben at that time, and now although he is sure of victory, he will definitely suffer great losses.
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A stirring in the hearts of the military subsided in this way, and when Xia Jun left Ningde, the navy fell into an extremely crazy training.
'Swear to protect Xinjiang to the death, never pay compensation'
These eight big characters were hung in the barracks, and every barracks was practiced from dawn to dark, and after dark, they had to study naval battle tactics and discuss problems encountered in training.
The newly reorganized Fujian Navy has a strength of 3,500 troops, half of whom are students with advanced ideas, and the rest of the soldiers, although they are not educated, are also of a high ideological level. Everyone is working towards the same goal.
Xia Jun was also very cooperative, the navy gave as many torpedoes as he wanted, and as many shells as he wanted.
On July 10, Zhou Xiulong commanded the Reaper to sail out of Ningde Harbor and sail towards Tokyo Bay.
After arriving at the entrance and exit of Tokyo Bay, Zhou Xiulong laid 12 large mines here, and it was not in their consideration which country's ships would be bombed, and it would not be Chinese ships anyway.
In the days that followed, eight mine-striking incidents occurred at the entrances and exits of Tokyo Bay, in which five merchant ships were sunk, one fishing boat was sunk, one British merchant ship was damaged, and one German merchant ship was sunk......
He hurriedly sent people to investigate, but there was no result of the investigation, and they couldn't understand where the mine came from.
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The Army's training was more steady, with Lin Chenggui as the commander of the Second Division and Zhang Sigou as the commander of the Third Division, while the Fourth and Fifth Divisions had only one operational command center.
At this time, Sichuan's road protection movement had entered a new stage, and after the Chengdu Massacre, the Qing court had lost control of Sichuan.
There were violent battles with the government everywhere, and even more than 100,000 people besieged Chengdu, but because of the lack of offensive weapons, the siege failed, and soon dispersed into the surrounding towns.
Although the situation in Sichuan was out of control, the Qing court did not react, because it was only a violent struggle with limited means, not reading.
Just as Xia Jun was autonomous in Fujian, the Qing court simply left the local government to deal with it.
However, on September 25, Wu Yuzhang and Wang Tianjie, members of the League, led the Rongxian Reading Force and established the first county-level revolutionary regime during the Xinhai Revolution. The uprising of the comrade army soon caused the Qing court to fall into shock, and the Duanfang led the Hubei army into Sichuan to suppress it, and for a time the Hubei army was empty, and the Wuchang uprising was not far away.
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