"The main purpose of our future development of the navy is to contain China, we have a huge advantage, first of all, we have enough financial resources, don't we?" The US Navy top brass asked during a conversation with Wilson.

Wilson shrugged his shoulders and nodded, "Yes, the war made us rich." ”

"So can it be said that there is no problem with the funding of the Navy?"

"That's right, but gentlemen, you have to tell me where the advantage is, don't forget, we have money, and the Chinese have money now."

"Our advantage is simple, that is, in addition to our United States, there is a real existence, and at the same time, Britain may also have to limit China's expansion. In other words, we have the equivalent of three countries working together against the Chinese Navy, and we can give them loans, can't we? Needless to say, Britain is the traditional strongest naval power. Although the main force of the navy has been eliminated, their foundation still exists, and as long as they have money, they will immediately be able to provide a strong barrier for us, the United States......"

"Good." Wilson nodded, it sounded very good, but the feasible surname seemed very high.

In terms of financial resources, the United States still has the advantage, after all, the United States is the most economically powerful country. At this time, the American capitalists have realized the pressure of commercial competition from China, so they will definitely support the United States to increase its investment in naval funding, and there is no money to borrow from them.

The fiscal deficit is not too much of a problem.

Aware of the competitive pressures that may be brought about by China's reunification, the US political axe quickly reacted, and after several meetings, the US political axe decided to increase investment in the navy, and the navy funding nearly doubled.

In addition, the support for the navy has also been increased again, hoping to restore the strength of the navy in a relatively short period of time.

At this time, the United States is not worried about whether it is overpowering, because China has appeared in Asia.

The biggest mistake of the United States in the past was to misestimate China, believing that China and China would lose both sides and that the United States would benefit from this.

Now that the United States has woken up, with the sheer size of China's territory and the overwhelming superiority of its population over the United States, its war potential will grow with China's reunification. The Ryukyu Islands and Sakhalin Islands were all swept away by China, and the resources were far inferior to China's, although they still occupied the whole of Korea.

In Yueben, the disintegration of the Beiyang political axe triggered a panic at the top of the city.

With China's rapid development, he felt more and more that he was even less in the footsteps of China, and now China's territory is larger than that of the United States, and it is about to enter a period of high unification.

A high degree of reunification means a faster pace of development, but in the past few years, the country has been constantly trading at a loss, and now the land area has been greatly reduced, and the vitality of the military force has been greatly damaged.

Previously, the East China Political Axe suddenly banned Freemasonry activities in China, and it is said that the Eastern Political Axe had convened a pre-imperial meeting on this matter.

Freemasonry exists not only in China, but also in the Masonic Chapter, and the Freemasonry Branch is much more active than in China.

The higher-ups also wanted to ban Freemasonry activities, but soon reluctantly abandoned the idea.

At this time, if Ben wanted to resist the pressure from China, he had to rely on the strength of Western countries such as Britain and the United States, and if Ben also banned Freemasonic activities, it might cause a change in the attitude of Britain and the United States.

Therefore, he decided to ignore the existence of Freemasonry first, but the problem of Freemasonry made the top brass extremely alarmed, because the existence of Freemasonry had threatened the imperial power.

However, it is not without its benefits to wait and see, and soon there is a wind on the US side that is willing to increase the intensity of aid to the government.

At this time, in order to confront China, the political axe of this country cannot take care of so much.

Because he had sent nearly 500,000 troops to the European theater and had shown 'one heart and one mind' with his other Allied partners, both the Allied countries and the United States had given him some support.

…… After several meetings, the main principles of the reception of the East China Political Axe to the Beiyang Political Axe were roughly determined.

In the treatment of Beiyang administrative personnel, the main thing is to dismiss them, and if they want to continue to participate in politics, they can go to participate in the civil service evaluation.

Except for those who have some ability, East China Political Axe will give them some vacant positions to inspect for a period of time, all the others will be cut off, and a certain amount of severance pay will be given to let them go home and pick up their children.

Anyway, they are all bare-handed literati, and now the East China political axe has its own system, and they are not needed at all, and the East China political axe has trained many administrators.

Although many of the talents cultivated by East China Political Axe are emergency talents, strictly speaking, most of them are emergency talents, emergency talents in economic development, emergency talents under the expansion of administrative scope, and emergency talents under the expansion of education scale.

However, even if it is some emergency talents, the quality is better than those officials in Beiyang.

And there is a problem that before the Beiyang political axe, as China's central political axe, the main social elites in the old era, or the group of elites with the highest status, were concentrated in the Beiyang political axe.

These social elites are arrogant first, and then their thinking is not uniform, and at the same time, their ability can no longer keep up with the needs of the East China political axe, and their habits are not in line with the atmosphere and habits of the East China political axe, so it is very unwise to include them in the system of the East China political axe.

The best thing to do is to send them home, and if they want to make trouble, let them go.

Except for one condemnation of the sudden disintegration of the Beiyang political axe as an irresponsible act, no one has made any response to the formation of the new political axe after the disintegration of Beiyang.

Yan Xishan's polemics with the extremist Mingzhuo people in the newspapers, as well as the cooperation of the East China political axe, soon influenced a large number of people.

Following Yan Xishan, the call for the restoration of the imperial system soon reappeared.

Some people began to advocate that Xia Jun should ascend the throne as the emperor of China, so as to lead the 40,000,000 people to the road of restoring China's heavenly prestige.

This faction soon also received the support of many intellectuals, these intellectuals are admirers of Xia Jun, although Xia Jun is not very obviously engaged in personality cult, but to a certain extent, there are also there, plus the creation of the East China political axe is very legendary, and the glorious deeds completed under the leadership of Xia Jun, many intellectuals are loyal admirers of Xia Jun.

Soon public opinion was divided into three major factions.

The first faction is the extreme Mingzhu Republican faction, and the second faction is the faction that advocates [***] and does not support the absolute Mingzhu Republic, but recognizes the necessary surname of Mingzhu to a certain extent. The third faction is the imperial faction, which advocates the restoration of the old system of the Ming Dynasty and the restoration of Han orthodoxy.

Among these three factions, one of the things that frightened the radicals of the Mingzhu faction was that the power of the imperial faction began to grow rapidly, and the speed was beyond imagination, and even many of the radicals of the Mingzhu faction fell to the imperial faction.

Liang Qichao panicked suddenly, he could keenly feel from the changes in public opinion that the imperial faction was growing rapidly, and this growth was not simply at the level of public opinion, many intellectuals who had previously adhered to the idea of a republican thought had joined the ranks of the imperial faction, among which the provinces with deeper political roots in East China were more serious.

"How so?" Liang Qichao was puzzled, and immediately conducted a careful investigation and analysis of the situation.

The results shocked Mr. Leung.

First of all, it must be made clear that the East China Political Axe is the sole party of the Baath Party, and the concept of the Baath Party is to rejuvenate the nation and restore the glory of the past.

Therefore, under the continuous propaganda and education of the East China Political Axe, all the traditional administrative regions of the East China Political Axe, and even the provinces that have just been incorporated into the administrative region, have seen a high degree of nationalism revival.

The imperialists have recently raised a banner -- the restoration of the Ming system, the establishment of a cabinet accountable to the monarch and the people of the empire, and at the same time a certain degree of constitutional monarchy, allowing the first monarch to have greater power.

After the emergence of this banner, it immediately received widespread support, because the nationalist ideology had been revived, and even the intellectuals who had previously supported the Mingzhu republican system were mostly cultivated by the East China political axe, and their national consciousness was extremely strong.

China has always been a monarch and a minister, and the emperor is a Chinese tradition, since it is a rejuvenated nation, it is natural to be more original, and the Westerners' Mingzhu republic may not be suitable for China.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty was a dynasty that already had a cabinet system and the idea of a constitutional monarchy, and many thinkers in the late Ming Dynasty proposed to limit the power of the monarch, and the Ming Dynasty's public opinion control was very loose, which also led to the emergence of these ideas.

Therefore, from the perspective of Ming cooking, it is a very popular proposal to restore the Ming system and continue the unfinished political changes of the Ming Dynasty.

The nationalist revival line that was determined by the East China Political Axe from the beginning of its establishment has also laid a good foundation for the imperial environment today.

Moreover, Liang Qichao found that in addition to those intellectuals, the imperial system has a very large market at the bottom of society.

Ordinary people don't care what you cook the republic, Chairman Xia let them eat their stomachs and live a comfortable and happy life, it is impossible to make Chairman Xia president, if you want to be the emperor.

Because there are rumors that the president can only be a dozen years at most.

Now the people are angry, so who will come to power in more than ten years? Can you do better than Chairman Xia? Isn't this deliberately trying to harm our people?

What if a straw bale president or a bastard president comes up? When the time comes, will China return to the China of Yuan Shikai's time?

The rumors soon spread across the Chinese provinces, and a chill soon lingered in the hearts of the people, as the radicals were still clamoring for Xia Jun to become the new president.

A popular movement began to brew at a rapid pace......

(To be continued)