Congratulations to you 12 and the two students surnamed Liu of the Han Kingdom for becoming the master of this book, mighty!

…… At this time, the wave of imperial advocacy was rising in various provinces of China, and there were also voices of restoration of the imperial system within the East China Autonomous Government, and the main advocates were the elders of the Guangfu Society.

That is, Tao Chengzhang, Zhang Taiyan and others, the Restoration Society itself has some ideas in this regard, and You Zhengbin also joined the ranks of advocating the imperial system, he himself is a down-and-out talent, and later came into contact with the Baath Party ideology and knew what nationalism is, but he still couldn't get rid of the feudal concept.

As far as nationalism is concerned, it is necessary to overthrow the Manchu emperor, but it is necessary to elect a Han emperor.

Without a monarch, there is no center.

These guys who advocate the imperial system naturally have their own interests in mind, if Xia Jun becomes the emperor, then they are all founding fathers!

Not to mention the sealing of the marquis, it is naturally impossible in such an era.

Xia Jun alone became the emperor, and he You Zhengbin was the secretary of the ministry.

Tao Chengzhang is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Zhang Taiyan is equivalent to the highest governor of Gyeonggi.

The most important thing is to go down in history and never be forgotten by future generations.

With the current development potential and momentum of East China's political axe, it is entirely possible to revive China, and then the name of 'assisting the real dragon' will not be able to run.

The more these guys thought about it, the more excited they became, and they vigorously advocated the imperial system.

As far as the emperor is concerned, the time for the chairman to be the emperor is not yet yet in place, but this does not prevent the advocacy of the imperial system, and as long as public opinion forms a certain scale, it will naturally come to pass when the time is ripe.

But there are also many people who oppose the imperial system, after all, there have been many revolutions in recent years, and they don't take the emperor seriously. Many intellectuals who had come into contact with revolutionary ideas began to engage in a war of words with the imperialists in the newspapers, and the major newspapers were in flames of war as a result.

Li Shijing is naturally very clear about the recent trends in public opinion, but Xia Jun has not made any noise, as if she has nothing to do with advocating the imperial system.

In the middle of the night, when she was about to go to bed, Li Shijing suddenly leaned into Xia Jun's ear and asked, "Husband, do you want to be the emperor?" ”

"Emperor? Who wouldn't want to be! Xia Jun shook his head and said, "But this year, the emperor is not good. ”

"Aren't all provinces preaching the imperial system now?" Li Shijing said puzzled, feeling a little incomprehensible about Xia Jun's words. Xia Jun smiled and explained: "Actually, it doesn't matter whether there is an emperor or not, it doesn't matter to most of the people, but most people are still used to having an emperor's son. It's just that some intellectuals don't buy the imperial account anymore. If anyone becomes the emperor, they will shoot at whomever they want, and it is better not to provoke this bad head for the time being. ”

"Then you just want to be!" Li Shijing said with a smile.

Xia Jun smiled and said, "It depends on the situation!" Although there is a difference between a talent reader and an emperor, the power of a talent reader is actually greater than that of the emperor. ”

The difference between reading talent and being an emperor lies in two points.

The reader is first of all darker, and the emperor is more open.

The power of the reader is greater, and the emperor's cohesive effect on the people is stronger.

In this era, it is naturally impossible to engage in the imperial system as in ancient times, and the emperor is naturally not specifically oppressing the people's personality, but more can unite the people and create a kind of fanaticism, as long as the country can be run prosperously and internal contradictions can be eliminated, then the people's allegiance to the emperor will be very common, which is equivalent to a kind of faith.

When you become an emperor, everyone naturally wants to be an emperor, and Xia Jun is naturally no exception.

But when you become an emperor, you will be constrained, first of all, there will be some restrictions on power, and it is impossible to be called emperor in this era, and it is impossible to use the ancient model. Secondly, it will provoke the outbreak of internal contradictions, after all, not everyone is buying the account of the imperial system now.

Therefore, Xia Jun has no interest in Emperor Cheng for the time being, and if the situation improves in the future, then he will consider one or two.

The so-called stick hits the first bird, let Yuan Shikai be the first bird! He just watched the play.

As for his views on the imperial system, Xia Jun was really inconvenient to express his views and opinions, so he chose to remain silent and wait to see the changes in the current situation.

…… On the European theater, the Western Front began to enter a stalemate, and Moltke, the chief of the General Staff who commanded the Battle of the Marne, was removed by Kaiser Wilhelm II and replaced by Falkingham.

German forces began to be drawn from the Western Front to the Eastern Front, as their attempts to quickly sweep away France were dashed, and the Russian army had already crushed the border and invaded East Prussia.

The commanders in charge of the Eastern Front were also removed, and Paul, von, Hindenburg were appointed commanders of the Eighth Army, and Erich, von and Ludendorff were appointed staff officers of the First Army.

The two newly appointed German generals quickly turned the tide on the Eastern Front, and Chief of Staff Ludendorff quickly used Germany's extensive rail network to drive the Russians out of East Prussia. In less than ten days, Russia lost nearly 300,000 troops.

These Russian soldiers were poorly equipped, slow-moving, and poorly coordinated, and were no match for Germany at all, and the weapons sold to Russia by the East China Autonomous Government had not even had time to be equipped in the troops. However, the Russians are reluctant to buy expensive weapons, and those conventional weapons have little impact on the war.

After learning of the German victory on the Eastern Front, Xia Jun began to realize that the two German generals, Hindenburg and Ludendorff, would dominate Germany in the future, and their power would surpass that of the Kaiser.

As long as nothing else, the two of them will defeat Russia on the Eastern Front according to the original history, so they will become the idols of the German people, and then they will be appointed governors of the Western Front, becoming the two giants of Germany.

Since this is the case, it is natural to have a good relationship, in order to win more orders for the East China Autonomous Political Axe, Xia Jun immediately drafted a telegram.

The telegram ordered the German East China Merchant House to provide 500 mortars and 10,000 mortar shells to the German army on the Eastern Front free of charge, and asked the East China Merchant House to convey Xia Jun's greetings to Hindenburg and Ludendorff and congratulate them on their victory in advance...... It is very necessary to establish relations in advance, and it is necessary to know that Hitler was supported by Hindenburg, which is conducive to continuing to create confrontation between the Western camp.

…… At the end of December, several Chinese merchant ships arrived in the ports of German East, West, and Southwest Africa, and the merchant ships were loaded with war materials.

Among them, German East Africa has the most war materials, because the commander of German East Africa is Paul? Emir? Feng? Leto Forbeck.

This German general has participated in the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, suppressed the black African uprising, and served in the colony for a long time, this is not the point, the point is to give the arms to this guy to make Xia Jun feel more bottomed, and he can turn Africa upside down.

The commanders of German Southwest Africa and West Africa were relatively straw bales, so Xia Jun did not send too much equipment there. Xia Jun not only sent a large amount of ammunition to the German army in Tanzania, but also transported 200 rapid-fire guns, 800 mortars, and 200 bombers. There are also a large number of automatic individual weapons such as machine guns, light machine guns, and submachine guns.

Forbeck looked incredulous as he looked at the new weapons and various war materials that were constantly being brought down on the docks.

He couldn't understand why the Kaiser attached so much importance to his Tanzania, where many of these new weapons they didn't even know how to use.

Like this bomber and fighter plane, they did not have professional pilots, but the Chinese quickly told him that a group of German pilots were being trained in China and would soon arrive in Tanzania.

The only problem was the number of soldiers, but Falbeck was extremely capable of controlling black soldiers, and he never distinguished between whites and blacks, so blacks were willing to obey his commands.

However, what he did not expect was that three days later, the cargo ship of the East China Ocean Company secretly transported more than 2,000 German troops from the port of the Rashid Kingdom.

Falbeck, having a relatively sufficient number of troops and supplies, immediately decided to attack Zambia, a British protectorate, to the south.

Forbeck's plan was to invade Zambia and Zimbabwe in order to threaten the security of South Africa, so as to drag Africa, the most threatening British colony, so as to protect the security of German South Africa and open up links with German South Africa.

This plan is more clever, that is, it can contain the power of South Africa, and it can unite its own forces, and then try to attack South Africa.

South Africa is an important British colony, and if South Africa is attacked, then Britain will definitely send troops to support the African theater, so as to distract the pressure of the German army in the European theater.

…… While people were paying attention to the European battlefield, the commercial activities of the East China Autonomous Government were very active, especially the increase in immigration to Nanyang and Australia, and the intensification of commercial penetration into South America.

In December, Xia Jun bought a detailed map of South American resources with the remaining 300 million points in his hand, and began to invest heavily in South America with the East China Mining Company as the main force.

In Nanyang, it is to develop the resources of Nanyang together with the Nanyang Chinese to provide a large number of raw materials for Chinese industry. Nanyang raw materials are relatively abundant, and the Nanyang Chinese are rich and familiar with the local area, so the investment is relatively simple.

In Australia's East China Mining Company in December to the Olympic Dam copper uranium gold deposit was excavated, this deposit contains 32 million tons of copper, 1.2 million tons of uranium, 120o tons of gold, is a very huge deposit, originally this deposit was discovered in the fifties, but was preempted by the East China Mining Company, and the outside thought that this is a small deposit.

On the construction site of the East China Mining Company, I saw huge excavators digging a large round pit for this deposit directly from top to bottom, and adopting an open-pit excavation method.

As soon as a shovel went down, hundreds of cubic meters of material were dug up and dumped onto trucks, which were transported up and down the roads in circles in the round pit.

Above is a concentrator where minerals are selected and transported by train to coastal ports, where containers are loaded onto container ships, which are filled and set off for China.

It's an incredibly efficient way of mining, but other countries can't replicate it because they don't have excavators, they can't build excavators, let alone excavators of this size.

These excavators are never exported, only supplied to China's domestic construction industry, mining industry, and only a few companies such as East China Mining Company can be used abroad, because the East China Autonomous Government Axe can not make these large machinery, all rely on Xia Jun to buy from the exchange platform.

In the remote location of the Olympic Dam copper-uranium gold deposit in south-central Australia, where there is not even a town for hundreds of miles, the East China Mining Company bought up all the surrounding land and began to dig frantically here.

A large amount of copper ore, uranium ore, and gold were mined, and there were not too many gold mines, because they were associated with it, and it was more troublesome to smelt.

However, copper and uranium ore are very easy to mine.

At this time, people did not have a complete understanding of uranium ore and did not know that it could be used to make atomic bombs.

Australia's political axe did not arouse much alarm about the actions of the East China Mining Company, but was happy with their frenzied mining of minerals.

Because the East China Mining Company exports every ton of ore, they can charge a dollar of export tax, the East China Mining Company has become a large taxpayer, this year's export tax has increased to 13 million US dollars, Australia in this era is very backward in all aspects, the industry is just starting, the East China Mining Company has naturally become the God of Wealth.

Compared with the increasing number of Chinese who are pouring into Australia, the Australian political axe has also not reacted, because these Chinese are mainly working in Chinese companies such as East China Mining Company, and the frequency of appearing in front of people's eyes is not too high, so the white people in Australia do not feel that the Chinese have increased too much, but when the Australian political axe comes out with immigration data, they will be shocked, and the original Chinese who have immigrated to Australia have reached 500,000...... At present, the mineral mining of East China Mining Company in Australia has begun to shrink, which makes many people wonder why so many mines in Australia are not digging and want to move to the Americas?

This is because Xia Jun's mentality has changed, he has his eye on Australia, and Australia will become Chinese territory in the future, so he no longer expands the scale of mining in Australia, but begins to buy land with minerals on a large scale, and puts mining targets in those areas where he has no territorial expectations.

South America and the United States became the preferred places, with the United States being the focus of excavation, while in South America, Xia Jun was more inclined to commercial control, and for the United States, Xia Jun began to try to consume their resources.

Therefore, the commercial center of the autonomous political axe in East China began to shift from Nanyang and Australia to North America, North and South, and Xia Jun still lacks a resource map of North America, so he will buy it next month.

Anyway, now that I have money in my hands, even if I can't mine it, I will buy the land first. Anyway, if the two sides fight, after the land is confiscated, it will be China that wins the war.

…… Three years, just three years, the original three autonomous provinces of East China have undergone earth-shaking changes at this time, and railways and highways have covered every county.

A large number of factories began to be opened in various parts of the three provinces, among which Zhejiang had the most factories, followed by Fujian and Jiangxi provinces.

With the opening of the railways connecting the provinces one after another, and the complete elimination of bandits on the railway lines by the East China Autonomous Government, laborers from various provinces began to pour into the East China provinces, among which the former East China Autonomous Provinces absorbed the largest number of laborers.

The people of the provinces heard that the three provinces of East China were doing well, and a small number of people first came to the three provinces of East China's autonomous province, and within a few years, they brought many fellow villagers to the three provinces of East China to make a living.

With the expansion of the East China Autonomous Axe, four provinces were swallowed in a row, three provinces were added to seven provinces, and jobs became more and more, and there were projects being started everywhere, and factories were constantly opened everywhere, so that the labor in the seven provinces of East China Autonomous Region was somewhat insufficient.

This year, it has reached the peak of a labor tide, and a large number of people have dragged their families and families to the seven autonomous provinces of East China to make a living.

This is a normal law for the population to move to the coast, after all, China, as a country with only one side of the sea, it is impossible to balance the two sides.

However, the coastal population will become deformed to a certain extent, and as 1915 is approaching, various departments will begin to direct the economy inland.

First of all, the economy will be transferred to the three provinces of Hunan, Hubei, and Sichuan, and the main measure is the transfer of agriculture, and the agricultural reclamation company has begun to develop in these three provinces.

Then there is the industrial transfer, the development of renewable resources in the industry, to encourage them to develop inland.

In terms of economic layout, the metallurgical industry is mainly located in the coastal area, because the East China Autonomous Government does not mine much internally, and takes the route of importing ores, so it is arranged on the coast.

These heavy industries are mainly deployed in Fujian, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, and at the same time, Shandong has recently become one of the provinces that develop heavy industry, and heavy industry will be mainly deployed in Fujian, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, and Shandong four provinces, aiming to form a dense heavy industry zone to treat sewage.

Other enterprises that do not cause pollution are encouraged to develop inland, and the minimum wage in the inland is low, and there is a demographic dividend.

Consumption is not as high in the interior, and the standard of living in these enterprises is not necessarily lower than in the coastal areas in terms of living standards.

The adjustment of the policy has caused those enterprises that will not produce environmental pollution to send personnel to the inland to inspect and prepare to open branches in the inland.

The agricultural reclamation companies are even more in the world to investigate and prepare to introduce all the world's cash crops to China for planting.

Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan provinces have a vast territory and a large population, and the landform is mainly plains, so it is very suitable for the development of mechanized agriculture.

Throughout this year, the Ministry of Agriculture has introduced nearly 60 varieties of cash crops from all over the world for trial planting in areas where China's climate may be suitable, and tropical crops have been planted in Chinese plantations in Nanyang.

Whether it is industrial crops or fruits, the Ministry of Agriculture is actively introducing them. If there is no problem with large-scale planting, and there is no problem with marketing, then write a report to the chairman. The chairperson will provide technical and policy competitive advantages.

If the country is really not suitable for planting, then it will move abroad, go abroad to open plantations, and also use high-tech planting models, and strive to monopolize global agriculture.

This can provide a large number of employment opportunities, although a large number of machinery is used in agriculture to reduce the input of manpower, but cash crops are different, cash crops input more manpower, many things do not use machinery at all, completely rely on manpower, so that a lot of jobs can be created.

However, the problem is only whether the input of manpower can receive good profits, if the per capita output value does not meet the requirements, then even if the market is vast and the country is suitable for planting, it still does not have the conditions for large-scale planting, and can only be thrown to those countries with low per capita output value, so that they can complete this labor production.

Because Xia Jun has an exchange platform in his hand, the agricultural system inside is very strong. The issue of increasing the personal output value of cash crops is mainly to increase the yield or to reduce management.

Just like the mulberry silkworm used in the development of the raw silk industry, this improved mulberry silkworm can be stocked, with strong extensive production capacity, greatly reduced manpower input, and personal output value has also gone up.

This year, the Ministry of Agriculture's goal is to completely monopolize cotton, cane sugar, and raw silk, and at the same time march into hemp, expand the planting area of traditional Chinese ramie, and introduce sisal and other leaf hemp for planting. In addition, the monopoly position of soybean oil will be ensured, and the monopoly of rapeseed oil, sunflower oil, and peanut oil will be increased.

In addition, it will increase the development of tea and plant coffee trees and cocoa in the Nanyang region, and strive to monopolize the production of the world's three major beverage crops.

The targets set by the Ministry of Agriculture this year are mostly for industrial needs, and there are still some deficiencies in consumption.

Xia Jun is not in a hurry to engage in agriculture, but agriculture can not be pulled down, the Ministry of Agriculture confirmed these crops with planting value, Xia Jun began to choose to build a cultivation base.

Ramie is a traditional Chinese hemp, its texture has a silky luster, more breathable, heat dissipation, textiles are very good for making summer clothes. Ramie leaves have a high protein content and can be used to feed livestock, plus ramie has a good water retention effect, which can also protect the environment.

Ramie can be harvested three times a year, belongs to the stem type hemp, south to Hainan, north to Shaanxi have a history of planting, in ancient times when there was no cotton, people generally wore linen clothes and silk.

For example, the cultivation base of crops is divided into four levels, but there are many varieties, such as ramie, which has two types.

The yield of first-class high-yield ramie is twice as high as that of soil species, and the quality is average.

First-class high-quality ramie, the yield is half higher than that of the soil species, and the quality is better.

One is to take the yield route, the other is to take the quality route, if it is a secondary variety, you can take into account both, Xia Jun now has points in his hands, you can choose the secondary crop.

For example, the yield of second-grade high-yielding ramie is half higher than that on the way, and the quality is good.

The second-level crop genus can meet Xia Jun's requirements, and the consumption of crops like ramie may not be too high, so Xia Jun mainly chooses to improve the quality of crops and then consider the yield. If the quality improves, the market will naturally be bigger, the price will also go up, and the personal output value will not be high.

For tea, Xia Jun's main consideration is also quality.

The output of tea is relatively high, and the monopoly can only rely on quality, and at the same time rely on cultural propaganda, so it is necessary to develop tea culture and cooperate with the national expansion machine, so as to promote it.

There are too many crop varieties that need to be improved, Xia Jun feels that there must be an overall plan, and he can't cram on his feet, so Xia Jun decided to invest 100 million points in agriculture every month, in order to basically monopolize the main crops within five years.

When the Europeans finished the First World War, the world's agricultural landscape would be completely upended.

(To be continued)