In a short period of time, the East China Autonomous Government Axe borrowed a loan equivalent to 1.509 billion yuan, and with the previous loan of 1.3 billion yuan, the total debt of the East China Autonomous Government Axe and the East China Group has reached the point of 2.809 billion Fuxing coins.

Such a crazy debt has indeed caused heated discussions.

It was even believed that the chairman was too young and reckless. This kind of remarks are not very big in the press circles of the three East China Autonomous Provinces, but they are very big outside the three East China Autonomous Provinces.

For the three provinces of East China to borrow so much foreign debt, the warlords in all provinces of China felt a little frightened, and even Yuan Shikai felt fear.

However, the more powerful the East China Autonomous Political Axe is, Yuan Shikai can only use greater strength to envelop the East China Autonomous Political Axe.

However, such a large-scale borrowing by the East China Autonomous Axe is indeed seen as a very dangerous potential threat by China's warlords.

In terms of public opinion, except for the three provinces of East China's autonomous region, there is a wave of criticism of Xia Jun outside, some of whom criticize him for being reckless, and even more who criticize him for betraying the country.

Li Shijing and Tana Rao looked at those newspapers with interest, and when they saw some of the newspapers that were brilliantly criticized, they would read them to Xia Jun, Xia Jun said indifferently: "These guys are probably scared a lot, otherwise how could there be such a big reaction." ”

Of course, for those forces that were hostile to the three autonomous provinces in East China, Xia Jun naturally could not let them continue to make waves in the public opinion circles, and immediately notified the newspapers of the three provinces in East China to counterattack.

At this time, the newspapers of the three provinces of East China Autonomous Province were basically controlled by Xia Jun, and even the "Declaration" no longer found fault with it, and only complained that Xia Jun was too reckless for this big loan, and mortgaged the entire East China Group to make a bet.

The newspapers of the three provinces of East China Autonomous Region have spontaneously begun to fight back against the various excessive remarks made by newspapers in other provinces, slandering their chairman.

…… As for how to use these huge sums of money, Xia Jun already has a plan.

Xia Jun plans to spend one-third of his time on building domestic infrastructure, which has already begun to be built in the three provinces of East China, but transportation with other provinces is still a problem.

China is a huge source of raw materials, but without transportation, these raw materials cannot be transported to the three autonomous provinces of East China.

If there is transportation, then after the outbreak of World War I, Xia Jun can transport raw materials from other provinces to be processed into commodities and then sold.

In Na a third continued to strengthen the shipbuilding industry, as well as to build merchant ships.

The remaining third continues to strengthen the military industry.

Xia Jun sent these tasks down, and the following departments began to take action and began to look for things to buy, and Wang Chengyi, who had just stopped for a long time, began to contact shipyards in various countries again.

Wang Chengyi became famous in the international community, and as soon as he said that he wanted to buy a dock, shipyards or dock manufacturers in various countries sent personnel to solicit business.

The shipyard wanted to sell the obsolete dockyard or make a profit by reselling the advanced dock, and the dockyard factory wanted to attract the business.

However, Wang Chengyi basically did not buy a dock from the dock factory, because it takes time to build a dock, and the chairman of the committee instructed him not to buy any dock that could not arrive by the end of next year.

Just kidding, when the First World War broke out in 1914, the countries did not have enough their own shipbuilding industries, and the dockyards must have been detained by that time.

So all that could not arrive before the end of 1913 was cut.

Moreover, this time, Wang Chengyi mainly bought dockyards from the United States and Britain, and Xia Jun was more willing to buy from the United States, a business competitor in World War I.

Buy one of the Yankees' dockyards, and they'll make less money in World War I.

At the same time, Xia Jun also put the main goal of buying the arms industry on the United States, and the United States did not impose restrictions on the East China autonomous political axe out of the motive of supporting the East China Autonomous Political Axe to counter the Japanese capital.

First of all, the United States in this era was not too strong in the military industry, nor did it have too many restrictive military technology, and the East China Autonomous Government only purchased the basic military industry.

The shipyards in Mawei, Xiamen, Ningde and Hangzhou in Fuzhou have also received full orders with the arrival of loans, and the East China Ocean Shipping Company and the East China Offshore Transportation Company are ordering a large number of merchant ships. Shipyards hire foreign shipbuilders with high salaries for this purpose, and at the same time vigorously train their own shipbuilding technicians.

The East China Communications Manufacturing Company also used the loan to introduce two truck production lines, and Xia Jun gave the trucks produced by the East China Communications Manufacturing Company a name - Dongfeng Heavy Truck.

These trucks are all self-made engines, so it didn't cost much to introduce the production line, and thanks to the advanced engines, Dongfeng heavy trucks are much more advanced than trucks made in other countries.

In the steel industry, the steel industry in the three autonomous provinces of East China is also very rapid, because of the shipbuilding industry and railway construction, as well as other needs to use the steel industry driven, the production capacity of East China Iron and Steel Company has skyrocketed to an annual output of 500,000 tons of steel, although compared with the United States is very pitiful, but beyond the cost.

At this time, the amount of steel produced was still very small, and it was the First World War and the subsequent militaristic system that really made the industry develop.

In addition to the East China Iron and Steel Company, private enterprises have also opened more than a dozen iron and steel plants, the scale of these steel plants is generally not too large, but the smelting equipment is relatively advanced.

In the three provinces of East China, there are already about 500 mining sites, which can be mined without damaging groundwater after a long period of research.

If it is abroad, such as the East China Mining Company, you can dig as much as you want, and it is not a pity to waste resources. In domestic coal mining, it is necessary to study in great detail for a period of time.

For example, a mining site is associated with several mines, and the mining enterprise must have the utilization capacity of these minerals, and cannot waste these associated mines, and at the same time, it must also consider whether the factors that destroy the bottom water, whether it will pollute the environment, and whether the mining enterprise can ensure the safety of miners.

However, the efficiency of the administrative department is relatively high, and it does not take too long. However, under the restrictions of various policies, the mining industry in the three provinces of East China has not developed rapidly, and the main raw materials are still imported from overseas.

The progress of the East China Mining Company is much faster, and the nickel mines in the Philippines, the chrome mines in South Africa, the copper mines in Australia and the large iron ore mines in the west have been excavated one after another, and the raw materials are being shipped back to China in a steady stream.

In terms of railway construction, the railways of the three provinces of East China Autonomous Region are basically building railway branch lines in every county, and at the same time, the Ministry of Construction has set a railway trunk line to Jiangsu, as well as several branch lines.

The iron ore mining area in East China is mainly from Wuhu in Anhui Province to Nanjing in Jiangsu Province in the area of Aoshan, Nanshan, Gushan, Taochong, Meishan, Fenghuangshan and other mines.

The iron ore in the Wuning mining area is mainly hematite, followed by magnetite, and some sulfide ores such as chalcopyrite and pyrite. The iron ore grade is high, and some of the rich ore (including Fe50%-60%) can be directly smelted in the furnace, and some of the poor ore should be selected by beneficiation and sintered for use in the blast furnace. The reduction of the surname of the ore is better. Gangue minerals are quartz, calcite, apatite and rutile, etc., the ore contains high S and P impurities (P content is generally 0.5%, up to 1.6%, Meishan iron ore content S can reach 2%-3% on average), the ore has a certain solvent surname (such as the average alkalinity in the rich ore of Aoshan and Meishan can reach 0.7-0.9), and some ores contain non-ferrous metals such as V, Ti and Cu.

Although Xia Jun bought a large amount of iron ore overseas, there was still to be internal iron mining, otherwise it would be easy to be hit.

But when it comes to in-house iron ore mining, construction doesn't necessarily mean massive mining.

If the market is good, for example, during the First World War, then it is natural to mine more, and if the market is not good, it is naturally cost-effective to mine iron ore overseas.

80% of China's iron ore is poor ore, and with the current smelting technology, mining these iron ores is not very profitable, so it is better to dig up the iron ore of other countries first.

…… Under the situation of explosive development of various industries, the time is in October, and the autumn harvest has begun.

The output of sugarcane and cotton is very large, the output of corn is very huge, and the area of rice cultivation is not large, but there is enough grain for the three provinces of East China to eat until next autumn.

13 million acres of sugarcane harvest is larger, although the management of sugarcane planted in many areas is not very good, but the yield is generally ** tons, the sugar content is basically maintained at 18%, and the average sugarcane per mu can be squeezed out of 1.5~1.6 tons of sucrose.

The output of sugarcane in the three provinces of East China reached an astonishing 19.5 million tons, and the output value reached 680 million yuan at a price of 35 yuan per ton.

Cotton is strong, 18.5 million acres of planting area, the average yield per mu reached 370 kilograms, the total output reached 6.845 million tons, with a ton of cotton 150 yuan, there is more than 1 billion output value.

In the past, China had to import 150,000 tons of cotton yarn, 100,000 tons of cotton, and 100 million yuan of cotton cloth to foreign countries every year.

In addition, the corn planting area was expanded to 20 million mu, and 15 million tons of corn kernels and 15 million tons of silage were harvested during the autumn harvest.

Soybeans also received another 1.8 million tonnes.

Xia Jun, who has deep pockets, directly ate these corn and soybeans at a low price, and the purchase price of these corn and soybeans is very low, but the problem is that the production cost is lower.

At present, there are not too many businesses that need corn and soybeans, and the biggest demand merchants are Xia Jun's East China Group, as well as Zhongsheng and Huasheng Group, which control 40% of the intensive aquaculture industry.

Therefore, no one can eat so much feed.

The price is naturally set by Xia Jun, Zhongsheng and Huasheng Group, so the purchase price of corn and soybeans this year is relatively low, but those landlords have made a little money, but it is really very little.

Both corn and soybeans are mechanized, so the cost of production is also low.

These corn and soybeans were stored by Xia Jun, who wants to buy the original price and sell them to them, and then according to the rate of consumption, calculate how much corn and soybeans need to be planted next year to be enough for the consumption of the aquaculture industry.

Landlords who planted corn and soybeans in the autumn for little money began to turn their attention to aquaculture.

Feed is so cheap, you can earn everything you raise.

Moreover, the development of the breeding industry can be borrowed from the Bank of East China and the Commercial Bank of China, and even if you can't buy breeds such as beef cattle promoted by the political axe, there are huge profits from raising ordinary breeds.

An upsurge in agricultural investment has gradually taken shape.

In the three autonomous provinces of East China, there is nothing more secure than investing in agriculture. Of course, investing in industry is also a good option, but it is not as clear as the goal of agriculture.

At present, the most profitable development of agriculture is to set up agricultural reclamation companies and farm farms. If you don't run a farming company or a farm, planting fruit is also a good choice, and landlords in mountainous areas generally choose to plant fruits or mushrooms, fungus and other fungus projects.

In the bumper harvest of agriculture, six agricultural reclamation companies jointly organized a celebratory dinner.

Needless to say, the sugar industry is absolutely red across the board this year, not to mention the textile industry, the price of cotton in the agricultural reclamation company is one-third lower than that on the market, and the textile mills are working overtime in three shifts to produce, and even the weekly holidays have been canceled.

During the celebration banquet, the high-level executives of various agricultural reclamation companies gathered together in twos and threes to talk, obviously planning next year's actions.

After a while, Xia Jun came with Li Shijing, and Xia Jun, the leader of the big alliance, came, so it was time to start.

"Chairman of the Committee, we have a bumper cotton yield this year, and the foreign cloth of foreigners will soon roll out of China." Liu Jinshan said to Xia Jun very happily.

"It's not enough to just roll out of China, next year we will continue to expand the cotton planting area, and we will let China's textile industry occupy the entire international market." Xia Jun said to the people present.

"What the chairman said is very true."

"Chairman, how should we plan for next year?" The farming companies present are very concerned about agricultural planning, which directly affects what crops can be managed next year.

"It's not clear for the time being, but there is no upper limit for cotton and sugar cane." "Planning for other crops will have to wait a few months. ”

The atmosphere of the dinner was very warm, and Li Shilin pulled Xia Jun aside and talked to Xia Jun about the breeding industry, and Li Shilin planned to buy calves from other countries to expand the scale of the farm.

Li Shilin's plan was supported by Xia Jun as soon as it was proposed, and now the breeding rate of beef cattle in the breeding base is too slow, and it will take many years to let the people eat beef.

If heifers are purchased from abroad, the breeding industry can develop rapidly. Li Shilin also decided to cross cattle with foreign cattle next year to see how the effect is, at least these cattle are very marketable before the new breed of beef cattle is popularized.

…… In the past few months, the three films in the three autonomous provinces of East China have been screened in cinemas, triggering a technological revolution in film festivals.

For the first time, true color cinema appeared on the big screen.

In terms of evaluation, "The Battle of the Bandits" filmed by Huadong Film Company and "Huo Yuanjia" filmed by Zhongsheng Film Company have been well received, and the romance film "True Love" filmed by Huasheng Group has been criticized by all walks of life.

This kind of movie in which a poor boy seduces the daughter of a rich family has been criticized by many feudal forces.

However, the box office performance of the three movies is good, "Bandit War" naturally needless to say, this is a gunfight film, and the troops cooperate with the performance, which is called a cool, although it lacks love elements.

Zhongsheng Group's "Huo Yuanjia" created a precedent for Chinese film martial arts films, although it is still a little immature, but the fight scenes are still very attractive.

The movie "True Love" is a movie full of cheerful love and some dreams, which is very popular with young people.

Of course, because the audience of the movie "True Love" is not so large, the box office is the lowest, but it is not too low, and the film company still makes a profit.

Movie theaters in the three provinces of East China Autonomous Province have opened one after another, and in other provinces, Xia Jun has also opened some movie theaters, most of which are in cities such as provincial capitals, mainly for publicity.

"The Battle of the Bandits" will be released in provincial capitals in various provinces across the country in the coming period, and then two other films will follow.

The three film companies soon had a new shooting plan, and the East China Film Company originally wanted to continue to make a gangster film, and the story was based on Xia Jun's solo battle against bandits in Xixiang to show the courage of the chairman. This proposal was once supported by many people, but was rejected by Xia Jun.

He didn't want to learn from Grandpa Kim of North Korea, and he threw a stone and smashed down the Yankees' satellite.

It's okay to have a proper personality cult, so that Xia Jun's position can be more stable, and it's not good to overdo it.

The East China Film Company then decided to make a nationalist film called "Saibei", which tells the story of a Han army in the Han Dynasty that broke into Saibei and fought against the Hu people.

The crew will go to Inner Mongolia to shoot, this is not a problem, Xia Jun will send soldiers to protect the crew, in terms of props, Xia Jun directly buys them on the exchange platform, which is absolutely realistic.

…… However, in October, the East China Autonomous Government began to urge the East China Autonomous Government to pay the money, and in the settlement agreement signed last year, the East China Autonomous Government also had to compensate the East China Autonomous Government Axe 4,000 yuan.

Although 4,000 yuan was not enough to make up for the loss of the warship, it was at least a breath of fighting.

However, the answer he learned from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the East China Autonomous Government was: "No money!" ”

The Xiyuanji Gongwang Cabinet, which is the majority of the cabinet, believes that it should not recklessly launch a military attack on the East China Autonomous Axe at this time, and warns the Yuben Army and the Yuben Navy that the military strength of the Chinese cannot be defeated in a short-term battle, and that if a war is to be waged against China, it is necessary to be prepared for a long-term war.

But unfortunately, the company was financially strapped at this time.

The second time he came to power, Saionji Gongwang had recently vetoed the head of the Army Military Affairs Bureau. In Nakasada Nakayoshiichi's plan for the expansion of the army, the army used the 10-year plan to add six divisions and the army's standing strength to 25 divisions under the grounds that Russia's military strength in the three eastern provinces had been expanded.

At this time, the Cabinet meeting did not recognize the bill, and Tanaka said indignantly: "I don't understand the reason why the political axe is not interested in this major national defense issue!" ”

This time, the East China Autonomous Government refused to pay the reparations in the settlement agreement, which made both the navy and the army a little apprehensive, and they thought that a war should be fought with China to force them to pay reparations.

However, the navy's confidence is slightly insufficient, and they have not thought of any good antisubmarine means so far; according to the reconnaissance of the special agents, the number of autonomous political axe submarines in East China seems to be very large, and the navy, which has already suffered losses, is not very sure whether it will suffer losses again in the conflict.

The army believed that the army of the East China Autonomous Government was vulnerable, and the army only needed three to five divisions to deal with them.

(To be continued)