Yuan Shikai quickly seized the handle of Brother Pao, and Chen Qimei, who was praised by Brother Pao as "the first hero of the revolution", sent the bald brother to assassinate Tao Chengzhang, the leader of the Restoration Society, in order to compete for the position of the overseer of Zhejiang. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Yuan Shikai immediately issued a strong statement, demanding that Chen Qimei be arrested and put on trial, and that the criminals who murdered the heroes of the revolution will never be allowed to go unpunished.

Yuan Shikai also proposed to Brother Pao to ask him to hand over Chen Qimei and let all revolutionaries go to trial.

Brother Pao was naturally reluctant to hand over his most loyal and most powerful little brother to Yuan Shikai, but under the manipulation of Yuan Shikai, there was a chorus of scolding from all walks of life across the country, and those other factions that were not subject to Brother Pao's management were also singled out, exposing Brother Pao's shortcomings.

For example, Liang Qichao ridiculed him, saying that Brother Pao had been fooling others for a long time, but he was just "deceiving people to death, and he enjoyed high-rise mansions in peace, but he was just a 'long-distance revolutionary'".

Those people from the Liberation Association, the Communist Advancement Association, and the Democratic Socialist Party also jumped out, saying that the Wuchang Uprising was launched by their members, and they had nothing to do with Brother Pao, but instead they regarded themselves as revolutionary heroes, assassinated the real revolutionary heroes, and strongly demanded that Brother Pao hand over Chen Qimei and be tried by everyone.

Yuan Shikai isolated Brother Pao with one move, and at the same time said that he would form a new cabinet, appoint his henchman Tang Shaoyi as the prime minister, and at the same time invite a large group of political leaders of the League to go north to take up senior government officials, and attracted a large number of League members.

Then Yuan Shikai began to publicly ask Brother Pao to resign, expressing the hope that Brother Pao would focus on the overall situation and not be rash, and generously invited Brother Pao to Beijing to discuss state affairs, but Brother Pao did not dare to go.

Yuan Shikai's army began to march again at this time, and Brother Pao found that there were not many troops listening to him at all, after all, he was active abroad all the year round, and although he was famous, most of the people who held the real power of the army were still those who were rooted in the country and played with their lives, especially in organizations such as the Fuxing Association, which had great power in the new army.

Seeing this, Brother Pao immediately announced the removal of his power, and then immediately ran to Shanghai, and took Chen Qimei with him to Japan.

Immediately afterwards, Yuan Shikai convened the National Assembly, announced that he was inaugurated as the provisional president, and began to prepare for the congressional election and other affairs.

At this time, Brother Pao received the support of Cai Yi, Cai Yuanpei and other military and political dignitaries of the Alliance, and immediately appointed Yang Chao as the president of Shandong and the three eastern provinces, collectively known as the overseers of the four eastern provinces, Zhan Tianyou continued to be the general manager of the railway company, appointed Xie Guanhui as the Shanghai Customs Road, and granted Shanghai a special status and became a special city in Shanghai.

Xie Guanhui immediately summoned dignitaries from all walks of life in Shanghai, capitalists, bankers, and foreign consuls, and declared that Shanghai was a free trade city, and all import and export goods would be exempted from regular tariffs, and customs tariffs would continue as before. This means that all domestic trade through Shanghai is duty-free. For example, the import tax from Guangzhou to Shanghai will not be levied, but the customs duty from the United Kingdom to Shanghai will continue to be levied, and only domestic customs duties will be exempted.

This will certainly allow Shanghai to further consolidate its position as a trade center, and the financial industry for trade finance will be more developed, and the cost of factories that rely on foreign raw materials for production will be lower, and the cost of exporting to other places will be reduced by half.

Xie Guanhui took the trouble to explain Shanghai's new policies to all walks of life in Shanghai, and the foreigners were the first to understand and welcome, and then those bankers and capitalists also understood that in the future, they Shanghainese would manage themselves, and the imperial court would not interfere, and this good thing.

More good things are yet to come, Xie Guanhui soon invited influential figures from all walks of life in Shanghai to enter the Shanghai Municipal Council, such as Chen Shengjiao, Yu Qiaqing, Fang Jiyang, Qin Runqing of Qian Zhuangye, Yan Yutang and Sheng Xuanhuai in the industrial circles, and Wu Tingfang and Liang Qichao in the legal circles.

Then he was busy discussing the issue of Shanghai's construction, and hired several foreigners from the Ministry of Industry Bureau as consultants, and planned to set up a series of management departments, including political, legal, administrative and public service departments, which basically copied the foreigners' Ministry of Industry Bureau to manage them.

Soon Yang Chao sent a town of troops, led by Ma Tengfei, who had returned from Beijing, and commanded by Xie Guanhui.

With soldiers in hand, Xie Guanhui immediately began to arrest a group of Qing gang leaders who robbed houses and houses everywhere during the Shanghai turmoil, of course, figures like Huang Jinrong in the French Concession could not move for the time being, but the group of low-level ruffians were unceremonious, in fact, they were the most hated by these people to harm people and disasters.

When Brother Pao learned of the situation in Shanghai in Japan, he scolded the revolutionary achievements for being destroyed and stolen by these evil capitalists.

Brother Pao began to re-energize in Japan, raising capital and accepting members.

Yuan Shikai began to play with power in Beijing, co-opted the political leaders of various provinces, wantonly sealed officials and made wishes, was happy to listen to the opinions of all parties, formed a large number of departments that did not threaten his status, and stuffed these people into officials.

Yang Chao was busy stabilizing Shandong's economy.

In such a big mess in the country, it is impossible for Shandong's economy to not have problems.

For example, Zhang Jian's factory began to lack raw materials, the price of cotton yarn in the Chinese market began to rise, and British and Japanese cotton yarn once again regained lost ground and occupied a lot of share.

However, with the stabilization of the domestic situation, cotton from Hubei can be transported to Shandong, and the textile industry can start working again.

There have also been some minor problems in heavy industry.

Although dozens of large factories that have received military orders have eaten a lot of money, many new foreign-funded factories have begun to hesitate due to concerns about economic expectations, and many American capitals, unable to see hope, have sold their land and half of the buildings they have built at a discount.

German capital was slightly better than the Americans, because they believed that their country was capable of protecting their assets in Qingdao, so it was calm, but it also slowed down the pace of construction.

This is the result that Yang Chao is willing to see, to be honest, to a large extent with the Russians to fight this battle, is forced by the sudden outbreak of investment boom, Yang Chao himself introduced 150 cooperative enterprises, the result is an influx of 300 their own investment, production capacity more than double the demand.

But the Wuchang uprising was also not expected by Yang Chao, because in the past two years, the south has been relatively calm, especially the Sichuan people are very honest, looking forward to the Sichuan-Han railway, there is no reason to make trouble, who would have thought that Wuchang still broke out as scheduled, triggering a revolutionary wave.

Although the economy is good in recent years, driven by the railway, not only Shandong, after the goods can be transported out, the economy covered by the railway is developing, a large number of pig skins and bristles in Sichuan are transported to Shandong, and the breeding industry in Sichuan has at least developed, and pig farmers must have made money.

But economic development will also bring certain problems, for example, the more machines used in Zhang Jian's factory, the more textiles he buys from other provinces, which means that the local farmers spin less cloth sold, and to a large extent, Zhang Jian's factory solves far fewer employment problems than the farmers who were hit bankrupt by him.

The benefits of progress are even less than the damage caused by development, this is the problem of the period of economic model transformation, a very deep contradiction, there is a critical point, beyond that point, employment will be more than unemployment, but before the whole economy has to face a painful period, if you survive it, you will complete industrialization, and if you don't get through it, revolution will break out, and society will collapse.

This large-scale visit to various factories, Yang Chao still has a lot of experience, such as seeing the cooperation methods of many manufacturing enterprises, which makes Yang Chao feel excited.

Because he saw that Shandong's heavy industry enterprises were slowly forming a net on their own.

For example, Zeppelin-Yang Chao Airship Company, Zeppelin is already developing the third-generation airship, and this time a large number of new technologies and theories have been applied.

Plante put forward a lot of new things by analyzing the air of the airship, for example, he decided that the airship is not as big as possible, with the current cigar-shaped airship design, when the length of the airship exceeds 100 meters, the power-speed ratio begins to decline, and reaches the limit at about 240 meters, that is to say, the most suitable length of the airship is 100 meters.

Plante also found a problem, that is, the previous airships took off with helium, which is actually completely unnecessary and even harmful. When the airship rises to an altitude of about 10,000 meters, the air pressure is only one-third of the pressure at sea level, which means that the pressure in the airbag is much greater than the pressure in the air.

Therefore, in the process of ascending, the third-generation airship will not only not be inflated, but will continue to deflate according to the change of air pressure to achieve the consistency of internal and external air pressure.

Other designers also proposed a number of different airship skeleton design models, and Zeppelin accepted one of them, using aluminum alloy forgings to make a large frame, which was riveted together to form a whole, instead of the past way of using aluminum alloy slats to tie and rivet, and the shell was not tied with wire, but riveted to the monolithically formed aluminum alloy frame, which would further reduce the weight of the airship.

But for the manufacture of this frame, Zeppelin's plant did not have equipment, and he subcontracted production to the Qingdao shipyard, which will undertake this batch of orders with a six-thousand-ton hydraulic press.

In order to undertake this batch of orders, the shipyard ordered large molds from the steel mills of the Americans, which could forge parts with a length of forty meters, and the airship would be riveted from more than a hundred such parts, and the test strength was not at all inferior to the previous double fixation of steel bars and riveting, but at least a tenth of its own weight was reduced.

Zeppelin's way of working closely with other enterprises allowed Yang Chao to see an industrial network, where an enterprise can cooperate extensively with other enterprises and use the technology and production strength of other enterprises, rather than relying on its own alone, and the entire industrial system has become an organic combination.

And Zeppelin is the leader of this combination.

This made Yang Chao understand that a leading enterprise can drive an industrial chain.

But this is not what he is most pleased about, what touches him the most is the production method of the Diesel engine plant and the Siemens power equipment plant. (To be continued.) )