The Japanese army was built by Aritomo Yamagu, and his coming to power to take charge of the overall situation seems to have inspired the Japanese army, allowing them to recover from the silence after the emperor's death and launch the Siberian offensive. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Of course, it is not only for prestige, but also for the sake of power, after Yama Yama Youtomo came to power, he immediately announced the merger of Japan and North Korea, completely annexing Korea, a policy that only had political significance, and also played a role in encouraging young soldiers.

But the Russians did not recognize Japan's annexation of Korea, and at this time both countries were at war, and Russia, of course, had to oppose what Japan did. Even the Chinese government has issued a painless statement, saying that it has reservations about Japan's annexation of Korea, but in fact it will not agree, but it will not come forward to oppose it, leaving a room for opposition.

The Japanese also did not have the energy to argue with China about diplomatic vocabulary, and the Siberian offensive they launched also needed China's cooperation, the Japanese army set out from Chita, under the cover of Yang Chao's airship bombing, easily captured Irkutsk, which had long been bombed in ruins, and continued westward, capturing Barnaul ten days later, and Omsk twenty days later.

Japan's military action caused an uproar in the world, and they found that the armies of the Eastern countries had already annexed the gates of Europe, and although only Russia was on this side, the psychological impact on European countries was still very great.

But Japan's great victory caused a new round of madness in Japan, and the country of Japan was out of control.

The British refused to allow Japan to continue borrowing, while urging Japan to make concessions in the negotiations, and began to take clear sides in favor of Russia, a move that caused massive protests in Japan. France, on the other hand, lobbied the Russians to accede to the Japanese demands as soon as possible, and that it was still too late to cede the area east of the Lena River, and that it would be too late for the Japanese army to enter Europe.

Stimulated by this, the Russians also began to produce another round of unstable spearheads, and I wonder if it was supported by the Japanese.

After the Japanese army marched to Chelyabinsk, it stopped, began to vigorously repair the Trans-Siberian Railway, and began to deliver supplies to the front line on a large scale.

Obviously, they do not have the ability to repair the railway in the short term, but there is no problem in resuming transportation in the area east of Lake Baikal, and the plan of the Japanese is to transport the materials to Chita, and then during the freezing period, entrust Yang Chao's airship fleet to help them transport, although as an ally, Yang Chao did not agree to help the Japanese transport in vain, and knocked out a lot of money from the Japanese.

And to ensure the supply of one million people in winter, this is a very difficult task, and only Yang Chao in the world has this ability, because in the past two years, Zeppelin has produced another 2,000 airships, so that Yang Chao's airship fleet has expanded to 3,000 ships, each of which carries an average of more than 300 tons of luggage, and a transportation is nearly 10 million tons, which is more than enough to ensure the supply of the Japanese army.

However, Yang Chao told the Japanese that the cost of building an airship fleet is staggering, and although the price of airships is not as terrifying as the previous millions of dollars, it will cost at least 300,000 US dollars or more than 400,000 taels of silver, and it has already cost 1.5 billion taels of silver to equip so many airships, so naturally the Japanese cannot be allowed to use them in vain.

In fact, Yang Chao is still exaggerated, because although the airship is expensive, but it is impossible to have such a high value, in the past, Yang Chao only charged 100,000 US dollars for the processing fee of Zeppelin for materials, and now the price is lower, of course, Yang Chao has no time to process materials, the small-scale production is reasonable, and now the supply of hundreds of ships, it is difficult to hide from others, but now the American aluminum plant has been put into production, with the formula given by Yang Chao, large-scale production of aluminum alloy, 10,000 tons per year, the price is already very low, the material cost plus the processing fee, Yang Chao only costs 200,000 taels of silver for each airship, but 3,000 airships also cost 600 million taels of silver, which is still unbearable.

After repeated bargaining, the Japanese promised to pay Yang Chao 200 million taels of transportation costs, but Yang Chao promised to ensure the supply of one million Japanese troops after the ice began, and the Japanese also greatly increased the material ration of Japanese soldiers, with an average of ten tons of materials per person, which Yang Chao also admitted, but it was only one dispatch on average, what was so difficult, how much oil money could be burned?

After knocking on Japan, Yang Chao began to care about the construction of Northeast China.

Yang Chao is now the overseer of the three eastern provinces plus Shandong, theoretically the highest official in these three provinces, of course, some people are only theoretical, but some people can turn theory into reality, and Yang Chao belongs to the latter.

Even before he became an overseer, Yang Chao had already started to run the Northeast.

Although the three-year war started because of the Northeast problem, most of the people who fought the war were Northeast soldiers, and the name of the war was also the Northeast War, but in fact, the war was basically outside the Northeast region, only in the first two years in the north of Har, and the entire province of Heilongjiang was only two million people, and the north of Harbin was even more sparsely populated, so the population centers of the Northeast Fengtian and Jilin were not affected at all.

War is a huge machine for making demand, not only for industry, but also for agriculture, where millions of people are fed by horses and need a huge amount of food and meat.

The Northeast was the base for the production of these materials, and although many of the labor force in the Northeast participated in the war, many more were mobilized to the Northeast during the war.

From Shandong, from Henan, from northern Jiangsu, from Zhili four provinces, Yang Chao through newspapers, railway lines everywhere to promote the Northeast reclamation advertising, especially the Northeast and Zhili, these two provinces have always had the tradition of breaking into the Guandong, only because of the ban all along, as well as the nostalgia for the homeland complex, so continue to go to the Guandong, and finally many people still return to their hometowns, so the population growth in the Northeast is so slow.

But under the active encouragement, there are still millions of people into the Northeast to open up the wasteland, and they encountered a good time, the large demand of the army made the Northeast grain price very good, the first batch of rich guys brought relatives, friends and fellow villagers, forming a pioneering group, the land of the Northeast, for a time there were large and small new villages, most of them along the railway line, from Fengtian to Harbin.

In addition, Yang Chao encouraged large-scale farm construction.

After the truck and tractor factories cooperated with the Morgan consortium were put into production, Yang Chao had a big head for a while, because he couldn't find a market at all.

Even the army can't solve this market, because Yang Chao suddenly found that even on the northeast front, roads that can pass through trucks are too rare.

Tractors are better, so a large number of tractors enter the army, replacing the role that trucks should have.

But this is not a way after all, so Yang Chao began to think of other ways, and his first thought was to build a large farm.

The first person who comes to mind is Zhang Jian, no way, among the capitalists in Shandong, Zhang Jian is the one who has the capacity to build a large farm, because only Zhang Jian has experience in running a large farm, and his reclamation company in Nantong has developed more than 100,000 acres of land, which is saline-alkali land.

The Northeast is different, there is a lot of fertile land waiting to be developed, after taking Zhang Jian to the Northeast for a turn, Zhang Jian gritted his teeth and sighed badly, scolding the Manchu Qing that had perished, saying that they were simply a disaster to the country and the people, if the Northeast was released as soon as possible, so that the Northeast could be developed, where would there be hunger worries.

So without Yang Chao's mobilization, Zhang Jian expressed his willingness to take out 2 million taels of silver to purchase 500 tractors and 100 combine harvesters to open up wasteland in the Northeast, and Yang Chao immediately allocated him one million mu of land for free, but told Zhang Jian that if he wanted to expand in the future, he would have to pay for it.

Zhang Jian began to enter the Northeast in the second year of the war, and reclaimed 100,000 mu of land that year, which was worth his ten years of hard work on saline-alkali land, which once again stimulated him.

Although Zhang Jian's big farm this year could not be said to have a bumper harvest, the output was still very considerable, and under the condition that the grain price was good, he harvested 108,000 quintals of grain near the water, excluding the daily consumption of drivers, gasoline, and the investment cost of seeds, with sales of 150,000 taels of silver and a profit of more than 100,000 yuan.

The reason why such a fruitful harvest was received in the first year of land reclamation is also related to the commissioning of the fertilizer plant of Shandong DuPont Group, and Zhang Jian used fertilizer on a large scale with the help of DuPont Group technicians.

Zhang Jian's success stimulated a large number of Shandong entrepreneurs who made a fortune in these years, and they asked the government for treatment, and went through various ways to ask Yang Chao here, Yang Chao satisfied them one by one, and these people began to take out their profits, purchase tractors and harvesters on a large scale, and then recruit drivers to enter the Northeast.

In the two years from last year to this year, Yang Chao has granted 100 million mu of land, and large farms ranging from 500,000 to 1 million have been established.

There is one point, these soil buns easily earned the first pot of gold from industry, and in accordance with traditional Chinese habits, the funds were used in traditional agriculture, which made Yang Chao a little worried, isn't this a reversal of history.

But whatever, at least the tractor factory is alive!

After Yuan Shikai became the president, Yang Chao also became the highest official in the three eastern provinces, so he planned to further develop the northeast, in the past two years he nested in the northeast has not been idle, he has long scanned the mineral deposits in the northeast, immediately found out the most valuable coal and iron and other minerals, and advertised throughout the country to attract investment and open mines, as long as they are Chinese, the mining rights are given free of charge, and as long as they can raise one-third of the capital, the Yangzi bank group will give them loans.

Shandong's mining equipment production enterprises began to obtain a large number of orders, and after the development of minerals, it will produce benefits, mining, is the best accumulation method for a late-developing country!

At present, the coal and iron resources in the Tieling area have been exhausted, and the earliest dozen or so investors are all experienced mine owners, including the old wealth of Shanxi coal mining, and the capitalists who opened mines in the Huguang area, but later applied for a large number of capitalists in the Jiangnan area, and even some money banks and ticket number guys.

But Yang Chao rejected these guys, if you engage in finance, you can do finance well, no wonder you can't play HSBC half-heartedly, when did you hear that HSBC went to dig coal?

As the mines were developed, Yang Chao believed that these mine owners would build railroads to facilitate transportation, and their mining areas would be connected to the main railroad, and then along the railway lines, the land resources would be further developed, and towns would be built, just like the westward expansion movement in the history of the United States.

The slogan of the great development of the northeast has been shouted, and foreign countries also regard this as China's westward movement, and they have great confidence in this, especially the Americans, who are even more confident than Yang Chao in developing industry, and even expressed their hope to carry out some form of cooperation with Yang Chao, but Yang Chao refused, saying that the Chinese have the ability to develop the northeast by themselves. (To be continued.) )