Yan Xishan and Chen Jiongming walked around Hangzhou for another three days, and their understanding of the autonomous political axe in East China had reached a very deep level.

They have innumerable reasons to believe that in the future China will be the chairman's world.

If you go against the chairman now, you will definitely be liquidated in the future.

At the same time, they also saw another positive aspect, that is, if Shanxi and Guangdong were under the jurisdiction of the East China Autonomous Government, the people could get real benefits.

Although Yan Xishan, after studying the idea of revivalism, felt that this revivalism was a bit hazy and a panacea, but people did it, and this is a good idea.

It was a fanatical idea, and Yan Xishan saw workers on construction sites and factories who embraced the idea of revival and worked very hard.

Everyone is working hard and trying to create material wealth.

The political axe is working very hard to divide these wealth equally, so that children can go to school, so that the poor people can achieve food and clothing, so that all people can see a serious illness without spending money.

That's the point, if the political axe can't do these things, the revival idea is even more like a fart. After all, why make people work hard to cheapen the capitalists?

However, the political axe will strive to improve everyone's welfare as it develops, and people will naturally work hard, which is in everyone's vital interests.

This is a new idea that can only be played with by an enlightened political axe, and if a [***] political axe engages in such a thought, it will have no effect at all.

At the same time, Yan Xishan also found another characteristic, that is, revivalism has a strong nationalism, which those older people may not understand, but those students do.

Once those students enter society, they can even sacrifice their own interests for the sake of revival. Once the East China Autonomous Political Axe cultivates a large number of educated groups, and the political axe solves the people's living security, then these cultural groups will become very selfless, and the energy that can burst out will be very terrifying.

Who will be able to stop it then?

…… After the two of them went shopping for three days, they proposed to Xia Jun that they would hand over the military affairs of the two provinces to the chairman, and they would not ask questions about military affairs.

Xia Jun was very surprised when he heard this, and he didn't know why Yan Xishan and Chen Jiongming suddenly had to give up control of the army, but in the covenant, they were allowed to each establish a division B.

However, since they didn't want it, Xia Jun naturally wouldn't be polite, and cut the military content from the covenant, and in the future, Shanxi and Guangdong would be directly stationed in the East China Army.

In other words, Xia Jun is about to take control of seven provinces.

The seven provinces are Fujian, Zhejiang, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, as well as Shanxi and Guangdong. From the map, stretching from Hainan Island in the south to Jiangsu in the north, Xia Jun already controls most of China's coastal provinces. At the same time, Xia Jun occupied Anhui, which is located in central China, and Shanxi in northern China.

In such a situation, the construction of railways has become a top priority at present.

In terms of industry, Xia Jun must make the following preparations, one is the military industry, the arms are directly sold to the Entente, the other is shipbuilding, and the Entente countries will also come to place orders, and at the same time, because Britain, France, and Germany are in a state of war, their transportation industry is basically stopped, so that the British coal mining, steel, textiles, and German medicines, dyes and other industries in the international market will be directly stopped, so they must have their own merchant ships to occupy these markets.

Therefore, it is also necessary to be prepared in coal mining, steel, textiles, medicines, dyes, etc., and once the First World War breaks out, it will immediately start to seize the international market.

Among them, coal mining, iron and steel, and textiles all belong to the kind of technology that does not need to be too high, as long as there is labor, they can be developed, so the national industries around the world will develop in this world war.

To fill these markets, there must be enough ships, so shipbuilding is important. And if Xia Jun wants to produce these things, land transportation is also very important, so the railway must be developed.

At this time, Xia Jun already had one billion points in his hand, which was more before, but due to the soaring territory, Xia Jun had to exchange for more vaccines, medicines, diesel engines and other materials, and spent nearly 100 million points.

The investment direction of this billion points Xia Jun has been determined, that is, to continue to invest in internal combustion engine technology, and the current internal combustion engine is in the twenties.

Upgrading to an internal combustion engine in the thirties costs 500 million points, after all, the thirties are a little far away from now, so the points required for technology have skyrocketed.

After the internal combustion engine was upgraded to the thirties, the speed of the internal combustion engine produced could be increased from the current 1500r/min to 2000r/min, which is about 900r/min higher than the current state-of-the-art internal combustion engine. In terms of specific power, the maximum reaches 1000w/kg.

At the same time, the thermal efficiency has also been improved, from 33% to 36% of the current diesel engine, and the thermal efficiency of the gasoline engine has increased from 23% to 26%.

If the technology of the internal combustion engine is to be upgraded to the technology of the 40s, it will have to be a billion points, and by that time the T34 tank will be built.

However, Xia Jun is not in a hurry to build a T34 tank now, anyway, he doesn't have that urgent surname now, and Xiao Yue will not come to fight for the time being.

After improving the technology of the internal combustion engine, Xia Jun was able to build the world's best motorcycles, cars, trucks, airplanes, and tanks.

Xia Jun also had to build ships, so he improved the technology of steam turbines and high-pressure boilers, and Xia Jun bought them in the 20s, so he only needed 200 million points.

With these 200 million points, Xia Jun will be able to have the world's most advanced ship power, and in this way, the transportation cost of merchant ships will be greatly reduced.

First of all, after upgrading the high-pressure boiler and steam turbine, some savings were made in fuel, and at the same time, due to the reduced volume, more cargo could be transported.

As for the remaining 300 million points, Xia Jun plans to use them to build a container terminal.

One of the main reasons for the high cost of transportation in this era is that bulk cargo had to be handled by labor, such as moving from a train to a cargo ship. When the ship arrives at its destination, the cargo has to be unloaded manually.

In this way, it is a waste of time and requires a large amount of labor, and the cost will naturally rise.

Container refers to a large loading container with a certain strength, stiffness and specifications for turnover. The container can be used to transfer the goods, which can be directly loaded in the consignor's warehouse, transported to the consignee's warehouse for unloading, and there is no need to take the goods out of the box for reloading when changing vehicles and ships in the middle. So the container is a great invention. The biggest success of the container lies in the standardization of its products and the complete transportation system established by it. It is indeed one of the great miracles created by mankind to be able to standardize a behemoth with a load of tens of tons, and on this basis, to gradually realize the logistics system of ships, ports, routes, highways, transit stations, bridges, tunnels, and multimodal transport around the world.

Container unloading technology is the key to the development of container terminals.

The first generation of container unloading bridge is a chassis process, which has low loading and unloading efficiency, and can be purchased with 100 million points.

The second generation of container unloading bridges is much more efficient, with a capacity of 50 TEU (TEUs, 20-foot containers) per hour, and the second generation of container unloading bridges appeared after 1960, so they are very expensive and require one billion points.

The second generation of container unloading bridges is not enough now, but the first generation can be developed first, even if the first generation is not so convenient, but in terms of the current mode of transportation, it also has a huge advantage.

After the first use of containers, the goods can be loaded and unloaded faster, so that the ship stays in the port less, which can also improve the efficiency of transportation, so that the profit will also increase, or the transportation cost will be reduced. In addition, if there is less labor, the cost will be significantly reduced.

At present, the three autonomous provinces of East China are developing export trade, and the number of dock workers is increasing, although more jobs are provided, but there is no shortage of jobs.

After exchanging these technologies, Xia Jun successively set up a container manufacturing plant, a 'gantry crane' manufacturing plant, and a straddle carrier manufacturing plant.

These two manufacturing factories are also relatively high-end, and the points in Xia Jun's hands have been spent.

At this time, in terms of domestic offshore transportation and Yangtze River transportation, Swire & Co. had collapsed, but it was merged by Jardine Matheson.

Jardine Matheson, however, is still wrestling with the East China Offshore Transportation Company.

When the container terminal is loaded, Jardine Matheson can also get out, and China's offshore and river transportation industry will be controlled by national capital.

…… Xia Jun was busy investing, and Yuan Shikai was busy annexing provinces.

In order to have sufficient deterrent effect, Yuan Shikai immediately announced five days after the Xuzhou meeting that he would purchase 10 million yuan of arms from the East China Autonomous Political Axe!

That's a lot of money!

Although 10 million yuan is not much, it is a lot for arms.

In fact, arms are very profitable in wartime, because they can be produced and sold in large quantities in wartime, while the volume of arms sales in peacetime is generally not high, and even if a large army is to be equipped, the amount of arms is not as large as the sales of a large commodity manufacturing company.

As soon as this news came out, all provinces were awe-inspiring.

At the same time, Yuan Shikai also planned to train a model division, this so-called model division was the Central Army, commanded by his son Yuan Keding, but was strongly opposed by Duan Qirui.

The contradiction between Duan Qirui and Yuan Shikai occurred as a result.

Later, Yuan Shikai was forced to consider Duan Qirui's factors, and turned the model division into a model regiment, which was mainly used to train officers.

Yuan Shikai was the first to move Li Yuanhong in Hubei, Yuan Shikai summoned Li Yuanhong to Beijing, after the second revolution, the East China Autonomous Political Axe has declared political neutrality.

In addition, Yuan Shikai will purchase tens of millions of yuan in arms, and Li Yuanhong has to go to Yanjing.

As a result, Li Yuanhong was called away, and Duan Qirui went to Hubei on the back foot and directly took over his position as the governor of Hubei.

At the same time, Yuan Shikai summoned Cai Ye to Beijing to serve as the supervisor of the National Economic Boundary Bureau, and at the same time made him a vain general. Cai Ye belonged to the constitutionalist faction, so he did not oppose Yuan Shikai, and he obediently went after receiving the summons, and the Yunnan overseer was taken over by Tang Jiyao.

After solving Li Yuanhong and Cai Yi, Yuan Shikai was much more unrestrained next.

He directly issued an edict to dismiss Tan Yanmin's Hunan overseer, and at the same time dismiss the Sichuan overseer, appointing Cao Kun as the Hunan overseer and Wang Zhanyuan as the Sichuan overseer.

Then Yuan Shikai sent the Shaanxi overseer, the Gansu overseer, and the Chahar overseer...... The forces of the Beiyang political axe controlled 12 provinces, including Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, Huguang, Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan.

Only six provinces in the country, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Xinjiang, Tibet, and Outer Mongolia, are outside the control of East China and Beiyang, and all of them belong to the border areas.

The East China Autonomous Axe controls seven provinces, five fewer than the Beiyang Axe. But six of the seven provinces controlled by the East China Autonomous Axe are south of the Yangtze River, making them the most elite provinces in China.

The Jiangnan region has a characteristic, one is that the climate is suitable and the agriculture is developed. Second, it is densely populated and richer than other provinces. Third, the people are more diligent and have the spirit of enduring hardships and standing hard work.

Not all provinces in China are hard-working, and many inland provinces often see some three-day fishing and two-day drying nets.

China's tentative situation has been largely determined, that is, the eastern and northern provinces are divided into two countries, and the border provinces are still controlled by warlords outside the two factions.

Although the Beiyang political axe is the central political axe, it cannot give orders to the East China autonomous political axe, and at the same time, in many places it has to be subject to the East China Autonomous political axe, for example, the central government must be deposited in the East China Bank, for example, the central government must give priority to the purchase of arms and administrative supplies from the East China Autonomous political axe.

The two sides formed a tacit state of peace, and the central government could expand at will in the provinces outside the five autonomous provinces of East China and the two allied provinces.

The East China Autonomous Axe stopped expanding, because it was a local political axe, so there was no name for expansion.

Yuan Shikai's Beiyang political axe has a name, he can dismiss the local governor at will, and then send people from his own faction to serve as the top governor of a province.

Usually those who are deposed can only walk obediently, otherwise the next step will be a military blow.

As for those border areas, because the road is too far away, and the taxes are not much, the central government has to allocate funds to help, such as Yunnan, the central government has to allocate more than 200,000 yuan every year for help, so Yuan Shikai has no interest in the border provinces for the time being, he only needs those provinces that can collect taxes to fall under control first.

Yuan Shikai's combination punch made the provincial overseers unable to resist and dismounted, which made those border provinces also feel deeply oppressed, and now they don't even dare to come out.

Therefore, after a series of personnel changes in the top local governors, except for the seven provinces controlled by the East China Autonomous Political Axe, all other provinces in the country showed great obedience to Yuan Shikai.

After the Second Revolution, the country was once again largely harmonious and unified, with only Outer Mongolia and the five provinces of East China being autonomous, and Taiwan being occupied.

However, at this time in China, there was a very discordant thing and things, that is, the thieves who fought in Henan, Hubei, and Shaanxi, led by Bai Lang.

Yuan Shikai did not make a move against Bai Lang for a long time, Xia Jun couldn't bear it anymore, and on May 23, he sent a telegram to Yuan Shikai, saying: "If the central government is unable to exterminate the thieves under Bai Lang, the East China Autonomous Government will send troops to suppress it." ”

———— the temperature plummeted last night, and the side dishes couldn't stand it, so they went to sleep......

(To be continued)