In 1913, China underwent tremendous changes.

Tariffs were withdrawn and enforcement powers were obtained in the concession.

Although the railway rights, concessions, and Gengzi indemnities were still pressed on China, with the end of 1913 and the beginning of 1914, these things would soon be far away from China.

Because 1914 was the year of the outbreak of the First World War, after the outbreak of the Great War in Europe, it was possible for the East China Autonomous Government to take back anything.

But before that, the East China Autonomous Government no longer took any actions that were detrimental to the interests of the great powers in China, and Xia Jun began to hold back, waiting for the outbreak of World War I.

The East China Autonomous Axe was well prepared to deal with the First World War.

With the stabilization of the situation in China and the initial success of the policy of separating the military from the government in Beiyang, the people of the provinces generally feel much better.

There is no need to pay taxes on salt, and the price of cotton cloth and many daily necessities has been reduced, but correspondingly, cotton is not easy to sell, and grain is not very valuable.

But the world is changing, and it will get better and better.

…… In November, thirteen reading regiments had been assembled in Hangzhou, half of which were drawn from regular infantry and artillery divisions, and half were selected from the militia.

After several months of integrated training, these 30 reading regiments have been trained to a good degree, and they have neatly walked under the parade platform in their mighty military uniforms.

Today is the beginning of the 13 Reading Force Groups, which will be dispatched to different provinces, and when they go to the provinces, they will be mainly responsible for suppressing bandits and anti-narcotics, and will also cooperate with the Joint Gendarmerie Brigade and the Joint Supervision Yuan to carry out their work, and when these two departments are unable to sanction someone in other provinces, they can provide sufficient force to carry out sanctions.

When these soldiers stood under the stage and looked at the stage in unison, Xia Jun said into the microphone: "Today is the day for everyone to go on the expedition, I think everything that should be explained has been explained, so I won't say much here." But there is one thing you must remember, you are Chinese, and everything you do must be premised on the interests of the Chinese people and the image of the East China Army. Your mission is to eradicate all bandits and drugs, and do your best to help the people of the provinces, have you remembered? ”

"Remembered."

The officers and soldiers below gave a neat answer, Xia Jun showed a smile on his face, waved his hand and said, "Then what are you waiting for?" Let's go! ”

"Yes."

One by one, the regiments turned, and then trotted towards their convoy.

The convoys started one after another, and the long queues in a line drove out, heading towards their respective destinations and embarking on their journey.

Chen Xuanyu looked at the scene in front of him, and remembered himself four years ago, when he came to Jian'an when he was depressed, he didn't have much idea, but he didn't expect that now he has followed the chairman to build a strong army.

"Chairman of the Committee, this year we will establish five more production corps, that is, 12 production corps, with these 12 production corps, that is, the size of nearly 20 divisions, but China's area is too large, and it is still too small to establish a complete national defense system with these troops." Chen Xuanyu said to Xia Jun on the side that the army has always wanted to expand its strength, but Xia Jun has not come up with enough money to build the army.

"There is no hurry, at most two years, we will carry out a major expansion of the army, and the most important thing at present is to train army officers." Xia Jun said to Chen Xuanyu.

The size of the army is financially affected, and the need to strengthen the army is not too urgent now.

However, with the outbreak of the First World War, the finances will improve dramatically. At that time, both the army and the navy will have a large amount of military spending to be paid.

Anyway, the army can be built at any time, but education is a year earlier and better a year.

So the current focus is still on education.

…… After the announcement of the budget plan for the new year of the East China Autonomous Government, it aroused surprise in all countries in the world.

The current world is like a powder keg, not to mention that the relationship between China and Yuben is so tense that once a war breaks out in Europe, the great powers will not be able to suppress Yuben's ambitions in China for the time being.

In the eyes of various countries, the East China Autonomous Government should first invest money in the construction of the army, especially now that the East China Autonomous Government has been able to produce its own arms.

In the long run, the development of education is indeed a good choice, and for China, there is an urgent need to develop education.

It's just that the East China Autonomous Government has invested in education quite amazingly, and they have begun to plan to implement free education.

The New York Times commented on the huge education budget of the East China Autonomous Axe: "The crazy East China Autonomous Axe, when they are still borrowing everywhere for development, they are wasting a lot of money on education. Of course, there is no problem in developing education, but the problem is that they not only exempt students from tuition, but also provide students with free meals and uniforms, etc. But we have to commend them for their determination, and if this new political axe can hold on, I think China will soon be able to catch up with the world......"

The U.S. political axe also highly praised this, and Wilson publicly commented: "I believe that China has such a political axe, which can help their people get out of the current predicament and connect with the world." ”

After German Ambassador Todmann reported on the situation in Germany, Germany was also surprised that the East China Autonomous Government had invested money in education.

In the eyes of the Germans, the strength of the army of China's East China Autonomous Government is beyond doubt, and its combat ideas and weapons and equipment are in the forefront of other countries.

But why is the East China Autonomous Political Axe willing to be a local political axe?

It's very puzzling.

As the clouds of war continued to expand, military exchanges between Germany and the East China Autonomous Government also became frequent, the most frequent of which was the exchange of air forces.

The East China Air Force was recognized as the strongest air force in the world at this time.

The East China Air Force not only has the best reconnaissance aircraft in the world, but it is also rumored that they have bombers. Among them, East China Aerospace School is also the world's first professional pilot training base, and the hardware facilities in it are incomparable to any country.

The East China Autonomous Political Axe does have bombers, and bombers are developing rapidly.

Since Xia Jun upgraded his engine, reconnaissance planes, bombers, and fighters have all been rapidly replaced, and their improvement is beyond imagination.

The 'Hammer 3 Bomber' has been introduced, with a bomb load of 1,800 kg and a range of 500 km, making it the most advanced tactical bomber in the world.

The 'Eagle 3' reconnaissance aircraft also appeared, with a maximum speed of 360 km/h, a maximum range of 700 km, and a ceiling of 5,000 meters.

The Kunpeng 2 was also developed, a plywood single-wing, twin-engine long-range bomber with an astonishing 1,400 horsepower, a warhead of 1,400 kilograms, and a range of an astonishing 2,100 kilometers. It is a very large aircraft with a wingspan of 32 meters.

At the same time, the aircraft factory also created a dive bomber with a bomb load of 450 kg, a maximum speed of 260 km / h, and a maximum range of 600 km.

This torpedo dive bomber was named 'Intrepid 1 dive bomber', but it obviously did not meet the requirements of the Navy, this model was made with the previous internal combustion engine technology, plus it was not as large as the air force on land, and the aircraft was relatively small, so the surname was not high.

The Dreadnought-2 dive bomber is being developed, and the drawings have already drawn a dozen different types.

The Navy's requirement was that the dive bomber should have a bomb load of at least 700 kilograms, and the fish bomber had to have a bomb load of 850 kilograms.

As far as a 533mm torpedo bare bullet (without propulsion parts) is concerned, the torpedo currently used by the East China Navy is 850 kg. Torpedo bombers can fly at high altitudes and do not need to make a dive.

It doesn't matter if the aircraft is bigger, the navy uses two 30,000-ton coal carriers to build aircraft carriers, and larger planes are allowed.

Because the Navy did not come up with a mature transformation plan, Xia Jun had no choice but to spend one billion points to purchase the technology of the first generation of aircraft carriers.

The technology of the second-generation aircraft carrier, the number of points required immediately doubled, becoming two billion.

As soon as the technology was obtained, the shipyard carried out the modification of the two coal carriers, and there should be no big problems in the retrofit, and now the problem is in the aircraft.

Xia Jun accumulated points for a few months, and only 200 million was left to spend.

At the same time as the air force was making great progress, Germany also bought 150 Hammer 2 bombers from the East China Autonomous Axe, and the Germans found that they could not build such bombers because the engine technology could not keep up.

If you copy this design, the engine is different, and the surname can be different.

Due to the growing clouds of war in Europe, the demand for aircraft has increased dramatically in all countries.

Germany can buy Hammer 2, other countries can only buy Hammer 1.

As soon as the Heavy Hammer 1 bomber was announced, it confirmed the speculation of the outside world, the East China Air Force really has a bomber, and the surname can be very good, and the bomb load can reach 500 kilograms, which is a very terrifying value for the air forces of various countries that have just started.

The air forces of various countries have placed orders for the East China Aircraft Factory, Britain has placed an order for 200 aircraft, France has also ordered 100 aircraft, and the United States has ordered 10 aircraft.

He also wanted to order a few, but the East China Aircraft Factory rejected the order, and if he wanted to buy a heavy hammer bomber from the East China Flight Factory, he would have to buy at least 50 or more.

The price of a heavy hammer I bomber is 10,000 US dollars, and 50 is 500,000 US dollars, which is equivalent to more than 1 million yuan.

(To be continued)