Duan Qirui also knew at this time that the Beiyang political axe and the East China political axe would suffer a loss, and with the development, the East China political axe would inevitably want to unify China, because the gap between the two sides was not a little bit, and in terms of development speed, the Beiyang political axe would be pulled farther and farther, and after a long time, no one would take Beiyang seriously.

Where will the Beiyang political axe go then?

It is naturally impossible to run out of the country, and when the time comes, it can only be integrated into the political axe of East China, and the question is only about communication and whether it can seek greater political interests in the future.

Duan Qirui didn't want to fight Xia Jun to the death, which was unwise, otherwise he would not approve of letting Li Yuanhong be the president.

Although Li Yuanhong seems to be a bare-handed president, he can cooperate with Xia Jun in the name of the president, as long as Li Yuanhong gives an order, Xia Jun can directly kill Duan Qirui justifiably.

However, Duan Qirui still had contact with the East China Political Axe, and Xia Jun asked Duan Qirui to maintain a central government that still looked like that.

Duan Qirui didn't quite understand why Xia Jun was like this, but obviously he didn't want to come to the front of the stage yet.

At present, the most important thing for Duan Qirui is to keep the foundation of Beiyang, so that he can seek more benefits in the future, although he is the successor of Yuan Shikai, but Xia Jun is a level of Yuan Shikai, and his status in the eyes of the people is much higher than Yuan Shikai.

In this regard, Duan Qirui did not want to compete with the East China political axe anymore, and even said that the million-strong army could not stop the East China political axe, not to mention the more than 500,000 troops in Beiyang.

As a result, Xia Jun became the Minister of Defense.

Duan Qirui retracted his troops back into the Guan, and abandoned all the national defense outside the Guan, anyway, now that Xia Jun is the Minister of Defense, this matter is not in his charge.

On the side of East China's political axe, Xia Jun is constantly arranging the administration and military.

The provincial governors are appointed, and the defense and defense of the provinces must be arranged.

First of all, East China is divided into seven national defense military regions: the Northeast Military Region, the Northwest Military Region, the Southwest Military Region, the North China Military Region, the South China Military Region, the Southeast Military Region, and the East China Military Region.

Among them, the East China Military Region is the base camp, set up in Hangzhou, and is responsible for guarding the administrative center.

Northeast Military Region: It is responsible for the national defense of the three northeastern provinces, and covers the military of Sakhalin Island against the three northeastern provinces of Sakhalin and Tsarist Russia, and a military base will be built on Sakhalin Island, which will expand to the Korean and Russian Far East in the future.

Northwest Military Region: Expansion to Tibetan Province and Kazakhstan.

North China Military Region: Expansion in the direction of Outer Mongolia.

Southwest Military Region: Expansion to the Indochina Peninsula.

Southeast Military Region: Established in Taiwan, it is an important coastal defense area and a bridgehead for expansion to the South Seas.

South China Military Region: Established on Hainan Island, it will be the vanguard of expansion to the South Seas and the Indochina Peninsula.

In general, there are three in the north, three in the south, northeast, northwest, north, southwest, southeast, and south China, and then the East China Military Region as the center.

"We will expand the army to 1.5 million within a year, including 300,000 soldiers in the northeast, 100,000 soldiers in the Northwest Military Region, and 100,000 soldiers in the North China Military Region.

At the meeting of the military headquarters, Xia Jun pointed to the map and instructed the military high-level, "There are 100,000 soldiers in the Southwest Military Region, the South China Military Region, and the Southeast Military Region, and among the three southern military regions, the soldiers of the Southwest Military Region must be able to adapt to the jungle combat capability, which is also the main direction of military training in the future." The two military regions in the southeast and south China must be able to competently carry out landing operations and have the combat capability to adapt to the tropical rainforest. ”

Xia Jun just said a general indicator, and the following details are for the staff officers to calculate.

Everyone has no objection to Xia Jun's arrangement, which is obviously more reasonable, and the main enemies of China are concentrated in the north.

It is said that Ben and Tsarist Russia, and the most concentrated area is the northeast, which is close to Yuben and Tsarist Russia.

In contrast, there are many fewer enemies in the south, Southeast Asia is still in a state of colonization by Westerners, Britain and the United States and other countries are far away from Asia, and it is obviously impossible to invade China.

The establishment of another 200,000 in the East China Military Region is indeed enough to defend Hangzhou.

The remaining 500,000 troops are distributed among the provincial-level military districts, which are lower in rank than the national defense military districts and have fewer personnel, ranging in size from one division to three divisions, and belong to the local defense forces.

Although the national defense military region is also responsible for national defense, it is actually an offensive unit, because it is generally unlikely that someone else will launch an invasion, so defense is not the main task, while the provincial-level military district is specially used for defense, and at the same time, it is also a unit used to train troops and replenish the military region's troops.

"And what is the ratio of our conscripts to professional soldiers?" Chen Xuanyu asked.

"Five to one!" Xia Jun said that conscripts only need to pay a little pocket money every month, and professional soldiers have to support their families and have to pay military salaries every month.

In other words, there will be 300,000 professional soldiers, and the remaining 1.2 million will be conscripts.

This number is already very high, you must know that the strength of the East China Army during the war in Shandong was only 600,000, and many of them were conscripts before.

Professional soldiers can serve for a long time, and there is no problem until the age of forty, because they are professional soldiers, so they need political axes to solve their livelihood after being discharged from the army.

The number of 300,000 troops will be the limit, and it will not be expanded in the future.

These 300,000 must also be the best of the best soldiers, and they will also be cultivated as the target with the most powerful combat effectiveness, and at the same time, ideological education must also be grasped strictly.

In the East China Military Region, it is enough to leave one division of professional soldiers, and the others will be sent to the front.

300,000 professional soldiers can still afford to be raised, which is about 100 million yuan a year in military expenditure, including equipment maintenance.

Now the family is big, and 100 million yuan is still out.

The others are conscripts, and the conscripts have to spend much less money.

The issue of the army's national defense was quickly determined, and the General Staff quickly calculated the specific arrangements.

On the issue of naval defense, it is to build a naval military base in the Mariana Islands and the Marshall Islands, and at the same time build a military base in Taiwan, the Ryukyus, and Hainan.

In the north, a naval military base will be built in Dalian and Sakhalin.

At the same time, the navy also established a central military base with Hangzhou as the center.

In addition to these naval bases, there are several traditional naval military bases, which form the defense network of the Navy.

The Mariana Islands are used to defend against the U.S. Navy stationed on Guam, and the Marshall Islands are military bases used to expand into the Pacific.

The naval military bases in Dalian, Hangzhou, Taiwan, the Ryukyus, and Sakhalin were all used to contain the navy.

The main fleets of the Navy are the Western Pacific Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet. The South China Sea Fleet is responsible for operations and route protection in Southeast Asia, while the Western Pacific Fleet is designed to compete with the U.S. Navy.

As for the question of encircling the navy, it mainly depends on the air force.

In addition to the Wendeng strategic bombing airfield, the Air Force will also set up strategic bombing airfields in the Zhoushan Islands, the Ryukyu Islands, and the Taiwan Island to encircle the Navy.

At the same time, the Air Force will also set up strategic bombing airfields in the Mariana Islands and the Marshall Islands to protect the security of naval bases.

Among them, the main forces of surface ships are concentrated in the two fleets of the Western Pacific Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet, while the other fleets are mainly cruisers, destroyers, and submarines.

In China, the Air Force will build a large military airfield in each military region to deal with a possible war.

"According to this plan, we will repair hardware facilities this year, as well as equipment costs, etc., and we still have some surplus in military spending. But if we add in the expenses required for training and so on, our military spending is excessive. This year, an additional 200 million yuan in military spending is needed to meet the situation. Next year, according to the plan, we will expand the army to 2 million, but the military spending will be nearly 500 million yuan less than this year. Liu Wenhong reported the calculated results to Xia Jun.

Xia Jun nodded and approved, so the military expenditure increased by 200 million yuan again.

Next year, the army will also expand its army, mainly because of the increase in conscripts, mainly for the purpose of reserving soldiers; now China's conscription system has only been implemented for a few years, and the number of reserves is very small, so it is necessary to increase the number of troops, and as far as China is concerned, there must be at least one million reserves!

As for the reduction of military spending next year, the main reason is that the hardware facilities have already been spent this year, and the equipment can be used continuously, so there is no need to increase too much next year.

But now it's time to consider the issue of military district governors and provincial governors.

In terms of military commanders, the Northwest Military Region is under the command of Liu Xiaoguo, the North China Military Region is under the command of Zhang Jiyu, and the Northeast Military Region is under the command of Lin Chenggui.

The Northeast Military Region has the strongest troops, and the establishment of 300,000 troops, Xia Jun is naturally handed over to Lin Chenggui, who is the most reassuring, to lead, and then transfer Wu Feng and Yang Lie, two reliable students, to be second-line officers.

In the Southwest Military Region, Cai Yi served as the commander of the military region, and the soldiers were mainly composed of the Sichuan Army and the Yunnan Army.

Moreover, the grassroots officers in the Sichuan Army and the Yunnan Army had to be sent out by the East China Army, because the Sichuan Army and the Yunnan Army did not have so many qualified grassroots officers.

In addition, the folk customs of Sichuan are very good, and there is no problem with the soldiers' military discipline as long as they grasp it, so Xia Jun is relieved to hand over the Southwest Military Region to Cai Yi.

In the South China Military Region, Chen Xuantao was the commander of the artillery division, and was promoted to colonel after the Shandong War.

Guo Qirong was transferred to the commander of the Southeast Military Region, and like Chen Xuantao, he was also a student trained by Xia Jun.

As for the East China Military Region, it is naturally Xia Jun himself who serves as the commander. Chen Xuanyu was appointed by Xia Jun as Vice Minister of the Military Department, Vice Minister of National Defense, and Chief of General Staff.

To say that when he was in Xixiang, the person who helped Xia Jun the most was Chen Xuanyu.

Chen Xuanyu studied at the Military University of Munich, Germany, and has excellent military skills, forming a good complementary surname with Xia Jun, which also established Chen Xuanyu's position in the East China system.

As for the vice minister of national defense that Chen Xuanyu hung up, Xia Jun appointed it without authorization, and then reported it to the Beiyang Central Political Axe.

Duan Qirui simply criticized it after reading it, his prime minister, Li Yuanhong has not yet officially taken office, so it is basically handled by him.

Xu Shichang's guy was sent to Anyang, Henan by Duan Qirui, and he couldn't go back in ten days.

After Yuan Shikai's death, Yuan Keding also resigned gloomily, and settled in Tianjin with the Yuan family, which was the place where Yuan Shikai trained his troops back then, and the Yuan family had extensive connections in Tianjin.

It can be said that at this time, the Yuan family has completely faded out of the political stage, and the imperial throne is like a dream of Nan Ke, which is only cheap in the end, and it is estimated that only Xia Jun is available.

The military layout was quickly determined, but there is still a lot to be done in the future, especially in the areas of conscription, training, and the construction of military regions.

Among them, military training is the most important.

Xia Jun knows that in the future, when he and Lao Maozi stage an all-out military march, the biggest threat is not Lao Maozi, but the cold and harsh climate.

Compared with the cold problems faced by the three major military regions in the north, the three major military regions in the south have to face the tests of jungle warfare, landing operations, and so on, and they also need to conduct training for surnames.

In terms of local governors, it belongs to the Ministry of Administration, and most of Xia Jun has delegated power to You Zhengbin to manage in this regard, and You Zhengbin has also worked hard in this regard, operating according to the model that Xia Jun has perfected.

However, there are a few peculiar areas, namely the provinces of Taiwan, the Ryukyus, and Sakhalin, which are not the same as those in other provinces, and require the administration of surnames.

Among them, the first governor of Taiwan was quickly decided, and Huang Mingkun (a guest appearance of Taiwanese book friends) was appointed.

…… After the year, the East China political axe once again ran in an orderly manner, and Xia Jun finally found time to develop engineering vehicle manufacturing after arranging the military and administrative aspects.

Many engineering vehicles involve hydraulic technology, such as excavators, etc., and hydraulic technology is a technology that was developed in the fifties, so the exchange price is more expensive, requiring 1.5 billion points.

However, Xia Jun didn't blink his eyes, and directly bought hydraulic technology.

In the defense industry, the land and teaching. Many of the weapons and equipment of the Air Force are hydraulically transmitted and controlled. Such as aircraft, tanks, ships, radars, artillery, missiles and rockets.

In the machine tool industry, 85% of the current machine tool transmission system adopts hydraulic transmission and control, such as grinding machines, milling machines, planers, broaching machines, presses, shearing machines and combined machine tools.

In the metallurgical industry, hydraulic technology is used in the electric furnace control system, the control system of the rolling mill, the open-hearth furnace charging, the converter control, the blast furnace control, the strip deviation and the constant tension device.

In construction machinery, hydraulic transmission is widely used, such as excavators, tire loaders, truck cranes, crawler pushers, tire cranes, self-propelled scrapers, graders and vibrating rollers.

In agricultural machinery, hydraulic technology is also widely used, such as combine harvesters, tractors and plows.

In the automotive industry, hydraulic off-road vehicles, hydraulic dump vehicles, hydraulic aerial work vehicles and fire trucks all use hydraulic technical wood.

In the textile industry, plastic injection molding machines, rubber vulcanizing machines, paper machines, printing machines and textile machines are used in irrigation technology.

In the shipbuilding industry, the application of hydraulic technology is very common, such as full hydraulic dredgers, salvage ships, piling ships, oil production platforms, hydrofoils, hovercraft and ship auxiliaries.

In short, in all engineering fields, wherever there are mechanical equipment, hydraulic technology can be used, and its prospects are very bright.

The value of this 1.5 billion points is because hydraulic technology represents an increase in productivity, and the specific application can be continued to be researched and used where it can be used.

In addition to hydraulic technology, engineering vehicles are engine technology, and the others are in terms of control and a bunch of iron lumps.

The engine Xia Jun buys directly from the exchange platform, while the others can be made by himself.

In terms of engineering vehicle manufacturing, Xia Jun did not plan to set up factories in coastal areas, but began to develop inland.

The people in the interior live a leisurely life, that is the reason why the economy has not developed, as long as the economy develops, the leisurely life is estimated to be over.

China's economy must develop inland, the prosperity of the coastal provinces, the backwardness of the inland provinces, that in itself is a kind of deformity, although the inland provinces do not have the advantages of the coastal provinces, but it does not mean that they cannot develop industry.

The coastal provinces are indeed more suitable for the development of industry, but it is a large-scale resource distribution industry, because the transportation is suitable, and the inland provinces can develop other industries! For example, machinery manufacturing is not something that needs to concentrate too many resources, mainly technical things, and the test of transportation is not high, and it can be put into the inland to develop.

The development of the inland economy is imminent, and it is not wise to concentrate the entire Chinese industry on the coast from a strategic point of view.

China's advantage is that it has a large geographical area, although it is not the largest in the world, but there are only a few countries that are larger than China, so the strategic buffer capacity is very strong.

If China is invaded, the first thing to bear the brunt of is the coast.

Therefore, it is now necessary to transfer the economy to the inland, and transfer what can be transferred to the inland, while the coastal areas should develop the most suitable resource-gathering and distribution economy.

The inland provinces also have a large population and a vast inland area, and at this time China has entered the industrialization period, it is impossible to let all the inland population run to the coast, right? Isn't that too deformed!

Among the inland provinces, Hubei has the best conditions for industrial development, because the inland province with the most developed transportation is Hubei.

Therefore, the first to have a greater development is Hubei, and Wuhan as the center, in recent years, Hubei's railway network has been almost repaired, so Hubei has become the strongest inland economy province.

At this time, East China's political axe was dredging the communication lines to Sichuan on a large scale, and highways and railways were launched one after another, as long as the traffic was smooth, Sichuan's economy was also developing very well.

At this time, the military factory of East China has begun to transfer to Hubei and Hunan provinces, but the military factory is an electric tiger, and can only rely on thermal power plants and oil to solve the energy problem for the time being, but the medium-sized hydropower stations in Sichuan and Yunnan have begun to be built, and the first batch of eight medium-sized hydropower stations have been repaired.

The southwest region is extremely rich in hydropower resources, and these hydropower resources can provide enough energy for the development of inland provinces.

(To be continued)