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Fearing the powerful military power of the Xia Empire, the Russian Empire finally chose to forbear, agreed to the demands of the Chinese Empire, completely withdrew from Heilongjiang Province, and delivered all the Eastern Railway to the Chinese Empire.

The other Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, etc., had no choice but to agree to the demands of the Chinese Empire, although Belgium was unwilling, but its strength was too weak, so it was not agreed or had no way, and the Chinese Empire could take over the Jinghan Railway by force.

At this time, Yuan Shikai and the entire Chinese Empire were very happy, but the value of the recovered railways and assets in the concession far exceeded the 230 million taels of silver to be paid to the Xia Empire, not to mention the value of customs duties and salt taxes, as well as the military value and long-term economic benefits brought by the recovery of the railway.

Even the personal prestige that comes to them is not something that money can measure.

After the tariffs were recovered, the Xia Empire dispatched some customs personnel from Lelang, Taiwan, Xinzhou and other places to urgently support the Chinese Empire, helping them to establish an independent General Administration of Customs Yamen, as well as customs offices in various places, at the same time, the Xia Empire sent a large number of customs professional and technical personnel and financial personnel from Beijing to the Chinese Empire, and helped them set up the Chinese Imperial Customs University in Tianjin, specializing in training customs professional and technical personnel.

At the same time, under the order of Yuan Shikai, the Tangshan Railway School was expanded to train personnel in railway design, construction, and operation.

All foreign garrisons along the route from Beijing to Tianjin to Shanhaiguan were required to evacuate and return to China, and permanent military installations began along the Bohai Rim to protect Beijing and Tianjin from naval attacks.

The German military procurement delegation returned from the Xia Empire this time with a full load, not only purchased suitable battleships and battlecruisers, but also bought 2 King-class battleships that the Xia Empire took the initiative to promote, and more importantly, signed an agreement with the General Staff of the Xia Empire to conduct military exchanges, and happily returned to Germany; The only person who was unhappy was Prince Heinrich, whose naval philosophy was incompatible with that of the Xia Emperor Zhang Wei, Kaiser II, and German Admiral Minister Tirpitz, and his opposition to the Giant Ship Cannon Doctrine led to his somewhat sullen late visit.

And Zhang Wei also made a lot of money, not only sold 6 capital ships, but more importantly, through the sale of capital ships, it can promote the naval competition of European countries, so that European countries can invest as much limited resources as possible in the navy, so that the future European war will be more fierce after the outbreak of the war, it is best to fight the whole of Europe into ruins, and then the Xia Empire will take advantage of the situation to fight out, clean up the mess, and let the European people struggle in the war forever, peace is a luxury for Europe.

What made Zhang Wei and the people of the empire even happier was that in late February, the imperial concubine Zong Zhenglan and the imperial concubine Chen Jingya gave birth to a healthy prince for Zhang Wei respectively.

The prince born to Zong Zhenglan is the second prince, Zhang Wei named him Zhang Haode, and his nickname is Haohao;

The prince born to Chen Jingya is the third prince, Zhang Wei named him Zhang Haoyang, and his nickname is Yangyang;

The two of them are both Zhenguo Gong in order, because they are still young, they have not canonized the fief for the time being, and they will be canonized after the canonization of the fief and then canonized the official title of Zhenguo Gong.

Zong Zhenglan and Chen Jingya were canonized as imperial concubines.

On March 1, Zhang Wei and the Japanese princess House and Yoko held a simple wedding, which was attended by ambassadors of various countries to Beijing, special envoys of Japan, and German arms procurement delegations.

The wedding was simple and lively, and the house and Yoonko were very satisfied, and now the two of them have lived separately in two adjoining villas; Congzi obediently went to study under Zhang Wei's arrangement.

Both of them are imperial concubines, and they still have their original names, the house princess and the princess Yunzi.

In early March, it was found out that Queen Xiao Yuer was pregnant again.

In mid-March, Princess Anna finally found out that she was pregnant.

During this period, Zhang Wei reviewed the work summary of each ministry last year and the work plan for this year.

Zhang Wei is more satisfied with the steel output reached more than 9 million tons last year, especially with Australia's high-quality iron ore, coupled with the efficient steelmaking equipment and methods provided by Zhang Wei, so that last year has achieved very great results, this year's plan is to reach 13 million tons of high-quality steel output.

At the same time, Zhang Wei asked to expand the output of steel companies in Incheon and Hainan Island to meet the market demand nearby.

The shipbuilding industry is developing at a very fast pace, not only state-owned shipyards can produce cargo ships with a load of 5,000 tons, but also private shipyards can manufacture cargo ships with a load of 3,000 tons, which fully meets the needs of the current empire.

The Circum-Australia Railway and the railway connecting the north and south of Australia have been completed; More than half of the railways connecting Guangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Chongqing in the Chinese Empire, which Zhang Wei was most concerned about, were already completed, and they were planned to be completed by the end of 1909, especially the train from Nanning to Kunming was already running, the railway from Nanning to Guizhou and the railway from Chengdu to Chongqing had also begun to operate, and only the railways from Guizhou to Chongqing and Guizhou to Kunming were still under construction.

As long as the train from Nanning to Kunming is opened, it will be much more convenient in the future when the battle to occupy the Indochina Peninsula occurs.

Zhang Wei also ordered the construction of roads and railways from Kunming to Xishuangbanna, as well as roads and railways from Kunming to Lijiang, Baoshan, and Dehong, in preparation for war.

The Academy of Sciences organized public relations forces to solve the problems of steam turbines, special steels, transmission technology, sealing technology, welding technology, etc., which made the shipbuilding industry of the empire develop rapidly and became one of the pillars of the empire's economy.

The automobile manufacturing industry and the tractor manufacturing industry are booming, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW have become the main brands of high-end cars exported by the empire, and the tractor factory can produce tanks as long as it is slightly transformed in the future; Driven by various technical schools and professional colleges, private supporting manufacturers have developed rapidly, and there are many manufacturers and complete varieties of various machinery processing plants, parts factories, wood processing factories, rubber factories, etc.

Zhang Wei has a system and has mastered the technical products of the 90s, so he is really not interested in the current industrial development, and his current energy is still focused on army building, and he must take advantage of the awakening of the independent consciousness of all nationalities in the world to occupy more territory and immigrate more. The economy at this time, in Zhang Wei's mind, was to serve the war and immigration.

The annual plan of the General Staff has also been completed beautifully, and it has been able to produce all rifles and ammunition domestically, and has been able to produce fast torpedo boats, destroyers, cruisers with a displacement of less than 5,000 tons, as well as various minelayers and minesweepers.

Helped Yuan Shikai overthrow the Qing Dynasty and achieve a smooth transition of power, which was done very beautifully, especially Xiao Xuguang, who also brought hundreds of millions of silver income to the empire, but only set aside a village on the Lelang Peninsula as the residence of these Manchus.

The unfinished task was the plan to occupy Australia and New Zealand, but under Zhang Wei's adjustment, he occupied a large part of the territory in North America, which was generally considered to be an overfulfilled task.

The construction of air bases is very good, there is at least one air base in each province, and one air base is built on the outskirts of large cities; For example, five air bases have been built on the island of Java, four air bases have been built on the island of Sumatra, air bases have been built on Sabang Island, Blair Island, Christmas Island, Nasna Island, etc., and the construction of 2,000-meter-long permanent runways has begun in many places; Zhang Wei was very pleased with the Air Force's advanced behavior, and what made him even happier was that the Air Force had now begun aircraft research and development and manufacturing.

Subsequently, Zhang Wei and the General Staff carried out the reorganization of the current army.

The original 19th Army was returned to Qi as the 3rd Army of Qi, and the 20th Army and the 21st Army were changed to the 1st Army and the 2nd Army of Qi respectively.

The establishment of the state of Lu remains unchanged for the time being.

The Imperial Army, which is under the jurisdiction of the General Staff, as well as all the armies of the Northern Theater, the Western Xinjiang Special Administrative Region, and the Southern Xinjiang Special Administrative Region, were reorganized.

A total of 39 corps and one Yulin corps were reorganized, for a total of 40 corps. The commander of the army shall be the division commander of the former Praetorian Guard, and if the division commander has not been promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, he shall be the acting commander or the chief of staff of the general staff of the military region shall personally serve as the commander of the army.

Each corps has 1 division of the Praetorian Guard, 2 divisions of the Wehrmacht and 1 brigade of mercenaries, totaling 62,000 people.

All the cavalry divisions under the original army's jurisdiction were under the direct jurisdiction of the theater general staff.

In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of each theater and to have the ability to fight independently, Zhang Wei added a 5,000-man heavy artillery brigade to each staff department, under the jurisdiction of two 155mm heavy howitzer regiments and one 105mm howitzer regiment.

Originally, Lu Weimin still wanted to change the equipment of the troops, but Zhang Wei vetoed it after looking at his establishment and allocation form.

Zhang Wei means that there is no major battle now, there is no need to change clothes to cause the world to follow suit, or wait for the general decisive battle in Europe before changing clothes, now the firepower density of each squad has far exceeded the British, French, German and Russian armies at that time, and the army of any country has a considerable firepower advantage.

What I am quite satisfied with the work of the General Staff Headquarters is that every month, more than 100,000 unmarried young women are sent to Lu to help the officers and men of the Lu army get married. Most of these unmarried women are Japanese girls, Han girls, unmarried mixed-race girls recruited from Thailand and other places, and unmarried mixed-race girls recruited from the Southwest Dominion.

Zhang Wei has always had a headache about this matter, you know, there are too many unmarried women needed, and the number will be more in the future, I didn't expect the General Staff to do this work in front.

Lu Weimin laughed after knowing Zhang Wei's thoughts, and said: "Your Majesty, you don't have to worry about this matter at all, you must know that the international status of the Xia Empire is very high now, and everyone knows that the Xia Empire's soldiers are well paid, and now I don't know how many girls are willing to marry the Xia Empire's soldiers as wives; The number of girls in the Chinese Empire and Japan is the largest, and this is still our strict control, from the height, figure, facial features, intelligence, language and other aspects of the elimination assessment, carefully selected, every month more than 100,000 people enter the training schools around the country, for at least half a year of education, and then the qualified ones are selected and transported to the country of Lu. ”

Zhang Wei is busy while waiting for the weather to warm up in Canada.

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