Chapter 162: The North of Viet Nam shuffles

Similar to everyone's thoughts, anyone would have doubts about pie in the sky. :

This Governor Qin is really a very human being, he can casually throw out seven or eight kinds of profitable deals, and I don't know how much ability this Lord Qin hides, but this kind of good thing in front of him makes people feel incredible, and as a result, after a little hesitation, I found that someone had already taken the lead!

When you look at it again, there are two new industries that have been booked out, and the compradors of the thirteen lines can't hold back, the textile, silk reeling, and cotton yarn industries are not stipulated, as long as you agree to join the textile association, you can operate, and for a time, Guangzhou Industrial Zone has increased more than a dozen textile factories and silk reeling factories to invest in the operation.

In order to cooperate with the production capacity of the Guangzhou Industrial Zone, the two machine tool factories in Mawei started to produce the machine, but this speed still could not keep up with the speed of the order, which allowed Xu Guofang, who was in charge of the production of the machine, to have a few more gray hairs. As the cornerstone industry of Mawei industry, the training of machine tool factory workers has always been the largest training major of Mawei Technical School.

However, with the opening of Guangzhou Industrial Zone, a new round of machine ordering boom began, fortunately, these machines are mature products, the difficulty of processing is not high, after half a year of work of junior workers can complete the processing, but more important projects are still ahead.

Leizhou's newly built heavy industry zone - what is called "Zhanjiang", I don't know how Lord Qin came up with such a name, that is the beginning of the demand for the machine, after the completion of the layout of the heavy industry zone, where will a new machine tool factory be settled, which requires a large number of various processing machine tools.

The processing of qualified machine tools is the core and most technical work of the entire machine tool industry! The core technology of Mawei industry comes from the factory's own technology, but the problems exposed are also obvious, the lack of professional development groups, and the product technology update is not smooth.

Fortunately, with the steady operation of the Mawei Real Yàn Room, the professionals of Mawei Higher College, Mawei Technical School, and Mawei Senior School are gradually taking up technical positions in the Mawei Factory, and this contradiction will be alleviated, and Xu Guofang is full of expectations for it.

In Haiphong City, Vietnam, Lieutenant Colonel Ha Nyun, who fled from the warehouse in front of Chi Ling Fortress, was now guarded here, and the battle completely shattered his fighting spirit, and then when he heard the news of Li Weiye's death, he immediately reduced all his troops outside Haiphong City, and at the same time conscripted indigenous men and women near Haiphong to build a defensive fortress with all their might.

Zhou Ruidong led the First Association and the Fifth Association, with a total of more than 2,700 troops, and quickly swept away the remnants of the French on the periphery......

In this regard, Wu Dong, the commander of the Qingzi Army, was naturally quite dissatisfied, not that he didn't want to run fast, this barren mountain and wilderness, his soldiers and horses were tired after walking for a day during the day, and before nightfall, they had to set up camp and prepare to deal with it, which was also the traditional practice of the Qingzi Battalion, so naturally they could not be sloppy at all.

And what surprised him was that Hu and them were pursuing on foot, from the first day, the distance between the two armies was pulled more than 10 kilometers, after which although they hurried and hurried, but they were never able to shorten the distance, after discovering the difference in the speed of the march between the two sides, Wu Dong wisely chose to go their separate ways, detouring to the west and the right flank, and finally gained a little.

On December 7, the two armies turned outside the city of Haiphong, and the guard had arrived several days early, digging a criss-crossing trench outside the city, and did not attack, in Zhou Ruidong's thinking, the attack on the city was launched only in two cases, one was the absolute superiority of artillery, and the other was the premise of destroying the city gate or city wall.

Therefore, he chose the tactics of harassment in Haiphong City, and at the same time cut off all retreats in Haiphong except the sea, and the few mortars he brought every day fired a few shots at the city wall every few moments. ƒ{ Hand. Hit/bar shouda8.}

The re-dredging of the Taiping River has made the transportation of food, artillery, ammunition and personnel from the upper reaches of Zhiling carried out in an orderly manner, and the soldiers of the First Association and the Fifth Association have been transferred to the front line in turn to experience actual combat training.

On the banks of the Taiping River, Chen Gang was on standby at the disaster relief site, he had participated in the militia training organized by Commander Xue there in Hue, and as one of the first members of the Mutual Masonic Association, after arriving in Chiling, he was sent to the newly formed militia protection battalion as a squad leader. ,

As the front-line troops advanced, their militia squads were tasked with taking over the recovered Vietnamese villages, and today he received an order to go quickly to several villages near Ye Village, ten miles to the west, that had not yet been taken over.

In the past half a month, this matter has long been familiar to Chen Gang, he immediately ordered the soldiers of his team, and used two ox carts to pull two carts of nearly 1,000 catties of grain and began to set off, and in the afternoon, when they arrived at Yecun, the situation in front of them was also taken aback.

This should be a Yue village, but at this time the signs that can distinguish the village have become scorched earth, the villages that have been taken over before, the French generally do not implement this scorched earth policy, after all, the Vietnamese are enslaved, and the French are used to enslaving the local natives after plundering useful assets.

Seeing the appearance of Chen Gang's team, there was movement in the originally quiet village, some old men and children with yellow faces and thin muscles appeared, and at this time, the Mutual Freemasons who came together began to work intensively.

After Chen Gang inquired, he learned that a group of young people in this village had a conflict with the French, so the French completely destroyed the village.

The first thing the Freemasons did after they arrived in the village and took over was to redistribute the land in the village in the name of protection, and the rich landlords and officials died and those who fled, and now these lands are treated as ownerless land according to the protection announcement issued by Zhou Ruidong.

The distribution of land, this is a key issue, Qin Kai and Zhou Ruidong made a special explanation on this matter, all the land was allocated to the landless civilians in the village according to the first two acres of land per person, of course, if there is a land contract, the protector still protects their property ownership, and the distribution is only the ownerless land, and the remaining land, as the public property of the village, is disposed of by the government.

And those troublemakers who dared to rebel against the French were soon found by their own families.

However, for Zhou Ruidong, these are also available resources among the local people, and he will naturally not let them go, and soon most of them were absorbed into the militia group, waiting to be sent to the rear for reorganization, while the rest of the people under the propaganda of the Mutual Freemasonry chose to enter the Shishan Coal and Iron Industrial Zone to find new opportunities.

The war machine is rotating rapidly, but what really drives the war machine is the industry hidden behind it and the manpower lost in the war, but the Vietnamese protection is constantly growing in the continuous advancement, the coal and iron industrial area is like a sponge constantly absorbing the surrounding labor, and the protection is the surrounding youth and strong into the militia group.

Faced with the threat of war, there is no doubt that a large area north of Zhiling under the protection of zhì has become a place of refuge, and the militia and the Freemasons organized by Zhou Ruidong are promoting Chiguoguo in an effort to build a vast industrial and military base.

The members of the Freemasons repeat this idea over and over again, wanting to have enough to eat? Stay in your own fields...... It's impossible! The French are coming every now and then, and Haiphong is a big firecracker, which can explode anytime and anywhere! By the way, if you want to live a good life, you can go to the industrial area in the north with the Freemasonry to work, eat two meals a day, and have a salary of 30 yuan.

If you want to get ahead, then you have to follow the Freemasonry, join the militia to protect the village and protect the family, as long as you dare to fight, protect is a good place for you to get ahead, fight with the French now, and have the opportunity to fight abroad in the future! If you know what a foreign country is, it is a good place to make endless money......

In fact, the condition of eating two meals a day for 30 Wenbao is enough to defeat 90% of the poor peasants, even if there is rice here that crops three times a year, in fact, it has caused the situation of cheap rice and hurting the peasants, and a large part of the French business in Haiphong, Vietnam is to buy local grain at low prices!

Now that the land has been redistributed, the weak farmers have been left in the countryside and continue to engage in farming, while the young and strong have chosen to participate more in industrial production, and at the beginning of the design of this plan, Qin Kai knew very well that the large amount of labor required by heavy industry would definitely affect agricultural production in the early stage, but the huge labor force in East Asia has alleviated the outbreak of this problem in a certain way. ,

After the baptism of the French, after Zhou Ruidong took over again, the original thunderbolt methods were as smooth as a spring breeze, and the officials who lost the city were all dismissed from their posts and replaced by Chinese or pro-Chinese officials.

After a storm, the territory east of Zhiling in northern Vietnam was soon brought under the jurisdiction of Zhou Ruidong, and the local government affairs were given to the local officials who were able to do things, and agriculture was still the main body of the local area, but the core area of northern Vietnam has quickly shifted from the coastal area to the Zhiling near the mining area!

The Shishan Pass to the west of Zhiling has rapidly risen from a small village to a large county-sized gathering area, where workers from the surrounding villages have spontaneously migrated to live here, and a huge factory not far away has created wealth for them, but also given them a comfort and shock that they could not have imagined before.

Soon, everyone will find that the industrial chain here will be firmly branded with the logo of Qin Kai, and all people will rely on the industry planned by Qin Kai to survive......

The Qingzi Army, which arrived one step later, was obviously quite dissatisfied with the tactics of protecting the siege without attacking, and the Song Counselor General was already full of confidence in the French who had fled all the way, and even ordered Zhou Ruidong to attack Haiphong with him in the name of the Qingzi Army.

In this regard, Zhou Ruidong naturally did not hesitate to tell him, and he only accepted the orders of Lord Qincha and Nanyang Minister Qin Kai, and if the Qingzi army intended to attack, he could immediately get out of the way...... These words naturally angered Wu Dong, and after a few days of preparation, the Qingzi army even thought of a night raid, preparing to take the coastal defense in one fell swoop.

In the face of the Qingzi army's death-like move, Zhou Ruidong naturally would not stop them, let them touch the south wall, which would undoubtedly be more conducive to the future war, but Yuan Shikai, who came later, dissuaded Wu Dong's radical approach, he only said, "Lord Zhongtang is trying to take this opportunity to negotiate with the French, if you win, it will not help the negotiation, and if you lose, you will be responsible!" ”

Wu Dong thought about it and knew what was at stake, so he didn't greet the guard, and set up troops overnight to return to Bac Ninh with the property he had captured all the way! Zhou Ruidong naturally unceremoniously dispatched a large group of militias and Mutual Freemasons, and quickly brought a large area of ownerless territory on the right wing into his jurisdiction, and the Qingzi Army passing by like locusts made the work of the Mutual Freemasons easier to carry out.

At this point, a large area of land east of Haiphong in the northern part of Vietnam was directly controlled by the Protector Association. The Qing army Wu Changqing, the Yue army, and the Gui army were entrenched in Hanoi and Bac Ninh, and a large number of Dian troops in the back also entered the Bac Ninh area and set up camp.

And when this war was basically over, Qin Kai sent an urgent report to the Beijing court to report good news but not bad news, a large report of victory, and no knowledge of the defeat of the Gui army and the Yue army. And the style of the Qingzi battalion is exactly the same as Qin Kai, as for the old man Xu Yanxu, who was the political envoy of Guangxi to command the Gui army and the Guangdong army, he even went to the imperial court, saying that the two armies fought to the death and suffered heavy losses.

What's even funnier is the reward from the imperial court, Xu Yanxu was promoted to the governor of Guangxi because of the hard work of the superintendent, presiding over the war of the Gui army and the Guangdong army in northern Vietnam, and Wu Changqing of the Qingzi battalion was promoted to the commander of any product, and Qin Kai was promoted from a third-class baron to a second-class baron because he had just been promoted to the governor of Guangzhou.

For this battle, Qin Kai naturally did not forget to mention the merits of the subordinates, Zhou Ruidong was promoted to the third-rank general, Xue Chao was promoted from the third-rank guerrilla, and Liu Yongfu was promoted to the fourth-rank propaganda envoy Si Tongzhi.

However, when victory was approaching, the Military Discipline Department in Beijing issued a strange will, ordering all Vietnamese units to stick to their respective defense areas and not start the war lightly! This will is a place where the whole country is in an uproar, and the Qingliu people are all fighting in the face of the situation of successive victories, hoping to defeat the French in one fell swoop and boost the country's prestige.

But two days later, Mr. Li Zhongtang sent him an armistice agreement signed with the French minister, which was a peace agreement thrown out by the French minister Delrigu, who had just appeared after nearly a month of disappearance.

In the agreement, the two sides agreed to recognize each other's suzerainty rights and interests in Vietnam, Vietnam agreed to open the Haiphong port to France for trade, the two sides did not pay compensation to each other, and at the same time the French demanded that the Qing government repatriate the French captured in the previous wars!

The content of these treaties was obviously the terms that Li Zhongtang had hoped to conclude with the French before, but the French suddenly proposed to negotiate these terms at this time, which also prompted the Qing government to undergo a huge change in attitude, after all, in the eyes of the court bigwigs, no matter what the victory or defeat of the Vietnam War, this battle could not be fought all the time, and in the end it was necessary to settle this final dispute through the guò negotiation table. ,

And now, in what the bigwigs think is the best time, the French have been defeated and have lost thousands of troops, and this is the right time to set the tone for things in Vietnam! Another thing that Li Zhongtang was worried about was also the reason why the Military Aircraft Department issued this unexpected order.

Japan apparently saw that the Qing army was caught in a confrontation with the French in Vietnam, and that "China's difficulties are the opportunities of every foreign country" was the most famous phrase that circulated among the Far Eastern powers of this era, and the Japanese government was clearly well aware of this law, and two years ago, with the help of the Sino-Russian war in Xinjiang, little Japan quietly annexed the Ryukyus.

And just two days ago, another vassal state of the Great Qing Dynasty had a small incident in Korea, a Japanese expatriate is said to have died outside the barracks in the capital of North Korea, for this reason, the Japanese consul Horimoto immediately sent a note to the Min Concubine group in power, this Min Concubine who was praised as a god by the sticks in the TV series did not arouse any vigilance in the slightest, this matter was handled by the minister in charge Min Kao-ho, and this Min Kao-ho is a big straw bag!

Even Li Shuchang, the Qing government's minister to Japan, found out about Japan's changes on the Korean issue and immediately telegraphed to Li Zhongtang, the governor of Zhili, which was also an important reason why Li Zhongtang was anxious to conclude a Sino-French peace treaty.

In the Mawei shipyard, since Wang Ruijie took a group of key researchers to Germany to study, Hu Changchang and Liao Dechang took over the outfitting project of the battleship, and two warships, one large and one small, were under intense construction in the shipyard, in addition to thousands of shipyard workers, there were more than 100 German skilled workers and engineers.

In the construction of these two warships, one technical problem after another was overcome, and the rich experience accumulated in this is absolutely impossible to measure in money, but the seemingly ordinary technology brought by German engineers and skilled workers, after digestion and absorption, really improved the ability of the Mawei shipmaster.

After nearly three months of 24-hour round-the-clock work, the outfitting of the two new warships is finally coming to an end, and on the deck, the acceptance team composed of several senior technicians is nervously conducting the final quality assessment of all kinds of parts that have been installed.