On the platform of Jinan Railway Station, an officer in a pure black military uniform was constantly looking at his watch.

"Strange, why hasn't the train arrived yet?"

After saying that, the officer also looked at the person in charge of the railway station.

"Is it true that the watch says this time?"

Glancing at the more than 600 Wehrmacht soldiers on the platform, the stationmaster replied cautiously.

"It should be this time."

As the person in charge of Jinan Railway Station, the stationmaster originally didn't need to be so careful, after all, the Jiaoji Railway was German, and even Yan Guang couldn't control the affairs on the Jiaoji Railway. However, now that the Wehrmacht has just defeated Yuan Shikai of Beiyang and Sun Zhongshang of the Kuomintang, it is just when it is said that Zhongtian, and the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Germans has always been good, so it will be so...

Otherwise...

When Jin Yunpeng was stationed in Shandong, although the two were rare, they were also regarded as equals...

The officer didn't think as much as he did, at least in the eyes of the new battalion commander, nothing was more important than the orders from above. As for the twists and turns that those who are in high positions often have, sorry, he hasn't learned it yet...

It's just that while he was staring at his watch, the station commander was observing a battalion of Wehrmacht standing on the platform.

As an important passage connecting the north and south, Shandong is the only place where the Jinpu Railway passes, and as the person in charge of the Jiaoji Railway at Jining Station, he is also accustomed to seeing all kinds of troops coming and going in Shandong.

For example, the Beiyang Army that went south during the Second Revolution, as well as Zhang Xun's pigtail army...

He may be a layman in the military, but some things can still be seen on the surface, not to mention that he has seen many armies.

In his opinion, these Wehrmacht officers and men on the platform, not to mention anything else, all had ruddy complexions, and they were no more than some security regiments or mixed brigades in Beiyang, and they were all dressed in vegetables many times. The most important thing is ――――――that during the time when the Wehrmacht entered Shandong, I have never heard of a single incident disturbing the people.

This is an extremely rare thing in this era.

You must know that the Beiyang Army is extremely rare in this era, but things that disturb the people still happen from time to time. However, the national society ......... The Wehrmacht has nearly 100,000 troops in Shandong, and for so many days, there has not been a single case of disturbing the people.

In this regard, the webmaster is also very appreciative.

It's just that just when the stationmaster was still looking at these Wehrmacht officers and soldiers with appreciative eyes, the sound of a train horn suddenly sounded in the distance.

Hearing the whistle of the train, not to mention the stationmaster who had been in charge of the train station for many years, even the officer who had been looking at his watch all the time understood what it meant. So after hearing the whistle, the officer shouted to the more than 600 soldiers behind him.

"It's all set."

"Yes!"

Looking at the neat appearance of these Wehrmacht soldiers, the stationmaster nodded in his heart again.

While he was still nodding his head, the train from Nanjing had already entered the platform. And when the train had just braked and had not completely stopped, the door of the carriage had been opened by the "passengers" inside one by one...

"The army..."

Although there have been many trains carrying troops to Shandong recently, the stationmaster is still frightened when he looks at the dense soldiers in the carriage.

"Counting the troops carried by this train, this is already the sixth division..."

The first to enter Shandong were the remnants of Jin Yunpeng's Beiyang Fifth Division and Zhang Xun's Wuwei Front Army, after all, the garrisons of these two armies were once Shandong, and they were very familiar with the topography of Shandong, and they would also be very useful for future wars.

Speaking of which, because he did not participate in the battles of Wuchang and other battles, Zhang Xun's "Braided Army" was the most well-preserved of all the armies.

Moreover, Jin Yunpeng's Beiyang Fifth Division and Zhang Xun's "Braided Army" were also included in the sequence of the National Defense Force, but speaking of which, after the officers and men of the "Braided Army" shaved their braids clean, it was somewhat inappropriate to call them "Braided Army" again.

Of course, when Yan Guang ordered that all the officers and soldiers of the "Braided Army" must, including Zhang Xun, shave off their braids, Zhang Xun still led a few subordinates to argue in front of Yan Guang―――――― although he couldn't see where his reason was.

For Zhang Xun, the braids between him and the officers and soldiers of the "Braided Army" were his embodiment of his loyalty to the Qing Dynasty→ →

Let him and the officers and soldiers of the braided army shave off their braids, which Zhang Xun will never endure.

However, these are not worth mentioning to Yan Guang, Zhang Xun can't bear to have his braids cut, and Yan Guang can't stand the fact that the dignified National Defense Army still has a division of soldiers and horses with braids.

Under Yan Guang's hard work, whether or not it can be compared with the British and German armies, the former National Socialist Army and the current Wehrmacht have officially become a "modern" force (for this era).

And yet a modern army with thick black braids? You think you're black!!

So just when Zhang Xun and Yan Guang were arguing, Yan Guang made a phone call in front of him and ordered Zhu Qinglan to take two divisions to the garrison of the Wuwei Front Army and directly convey the order to cut the braids to the Wuwei Front Army.

If they don't want to...

"Keep your head without braids, leave your argument without your head"

Let them decide for themselves.

Facts have proved that people are very acquainted, and the fact that the people in the former army of Wuwei all have braids does not mean that they are extremely loyal to the Manchus like Zhang Xun.

Therefore, when the people of the Wuwei Front Army saw the troops of the entire two divisions and surrounded their own Wuwei Front Army, the person in charge of the Wuwei Front Army after Zhang Xun left had already accepted the order "very, very familiar", and the officers and soldiers below him knew each other even more than him. Before he gave the order, the ordinary officers and soldiers over there were already scrambling to cut their braids with bayonets...

Although in the eyes of Yan Guang's surroundings, his "big president" is easy-going, but he is always a little out of tune when he does things. However, the officers and soldiers of the former army of Wuwei had never seen Yan Guang, they only knew that the president, surnamed Yan, defeated Yuan Shikai and Sun Yat-sen.

Sun Yat-sen didn't care, at the time of the Second Revolution, the people of the former army of Wuwei had already seen how "mighty" and "majestic" the Kuomintang troops were.

But Yuan Shikai...

That is the strongest person in the entire north, even if their handsome man is obedient in front of Yuan Shikai, but this person was defeated by Yan Guang...

This is also why they are in such a hurry to shave off their braids, in the eyes of the former army of Wuwei, and even many Beiyang troops, the current Yan Guang is probably the most terrifying person in China.

As for Zhang Xun? This guy with the thickest and longest braids?

He was very tough, but in the end he was put on a chair by more than a dozen people, and then asked the barber to give him a big bald haircut.

And when the barber was cutting his hair, Yan Guang was also beside him, and he made it very clear.

"You are a general, I can't kill you, and I have to treat you well, but treating you well doesn't necessarily mean that you will be in command of the former army of Wuwei, if you are not willing to be the commander of the former army of Wuwei, I can change another person..."

Although Yuan Shikai and Sun Yat-sen were defeated, there are still more than a dozen provinces in China that fall into the hands of the warlords. That's right, the warlords of these more than ten provinces are not Yan Guang's opponents even if they are tied together, after all, the combat effectiveness of these miscellaneous armies can be seen by looking at the Kuomintang troops during the Second Revolution.

To deal with them, Yan Guang didn't even need to use the original National Social Army, as long as the remnants of the Beiyang Army were put on it.

But Yan Guang couldn't move them, at least not yet, because in a few months the European war would break out. Move them at this time, Yan Guang is confident that he will solve the battle in three to five months, but how long will it take to clean up the mess?

If you patronize and clean them up, will the European war still be fought? Is the country still developing?

If nothing else, if you really want to make a mess, you don't have to think about the Randy Railroad that is being built now...

So for these warlords, Yan Guang can only appease them while cutting power...

People like Zhang Xun not only can't be killed, but they have to be treated favorably, all the way...

You don't need to treat them until the time...

As for the problem of braids?

On the issue of braids, Yan Guang only took tough measures against the army, as for the common people and the gentry and even the old and young, Yan Guang was laissez-faire...

The army's braids not only disturb the morale of the army and damage its image, but also hinder its combat effectiveness.

That's why Yan Guang took tough measures, but ordinary people...

As far as Yan Guang knows, after the Xinhai Revolution, the revolutionary armies in many places really implemented the policy of "keeping their heads and not leaving their arguments, and leaving their arguments without leaving their heads." At that time, as long as you had a braid on your head, you only had one word whether you were a Manchu or a Han.

"Kill"

It's really hard to say much about the grievances and entanglements between the Manchus and the Han people for hundreds of years, after all, why can't the Han people do what the Manchus did back then?

But...

When Xi'an Mancheng was broken by the revolutionary army, the revolutionary army naturally did not let go of the Manchus inside, but when the Manchus were almost killed, the revolutionary army did not even let go of the Han people outside the city...

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"The braids on my head are tangible, but the braids of your hearts are invisible."

This is a passage that Gu Hongming said when he was teaching at Peking University, and Yan Guang highly recognized this passage.

Braids, if abroad, he is just a tangible hair ornament, but in China, because of the Manchu rule of China for more than 200 years, he is not only tangible but also intangible.

For the Chinese people, the most important thing is to cut off their invisible braids, not the visible ones.

Otherwise, the invisible braid is still in the heart, and what is the use of cutting off the tangible braid? And what Yan Guang wants to cut is the invisible braid in people's hearts.

Of course, the invisible is definitely more difficult to cut than the tangible, but this is not something that cannot be done, because the so-called invisible braid is actually the inferiority complex of the nation. So as long as this inferiority complex is eliminated, the invisible braid will naturally go away...

To this end, Yan Guang has prepared two steps.

The first is naturally the battle that will take place in Shandong, as long as the possible offender is defeated in Shandong, although it is impossible to directly cut off the braids in people's hearts, but at least it can be an enlightenment education.

Then there is the European war, as long as you can succeed in the European war, you can destroy one and a half countries...

As for the last...

Yan Guang remembered that there was a famous quote of Hitler on the Internet in later generations.

"Magnificent architecture is a good medicine to dispel our national inferiority complex. No one can lead a nation out of inferiority by just empty words. He had to be able to build something that people would be proud of, and that was something that could be seen and touched. This is not to show off, but to give a country self-confidence. Our enemies and friends must recognize that these structures have cemented our regime. ”

Yan Guang also agrees with this sentence, magnificent buildings are indeed much more credible than empty words.

However, in Yan Guang's view, it is not only the magnificent buildings that can inspire national pride, but also the powerful army and huge warships...

Get a 30,000-ton battleship to dock at the military port to ensure that all the people are like being smeared with divine oil...

In fact, after taking Nanjing, Yan Guang had already ordered the designers of the Sichuan Shipyard and the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau to prepare for the design of large ships. And this large ship, in addition to the heavy cruiser with a tonnage of about 10,000 tons, is a battle cruiser with a tonnage of around 20,000, and even more than 30,000 battleships ...

Don't say that Yan Guang is ambitious, he just designed a 1,000-ton destroyer and a 3,000-ton cruiser, and he thought about designing a 10,000-ton heavy cruiser, or even a 20,000-ton battle cruiser and battleship―――――― not to mention that only one 1,000-ton destroyer has just started construction in the Fuzhou Ship Administration Bureau, and the 3,000-ton cruiser is still on the drawings...

Yan Guang will do this because Yan Guang is confident.

Of course, this confidence does not fall on "domestic designers", but on those "imported designers".

There are currently two groups of designers working under Yan Guang, one German and the other British. These two batches of foreign devils were hired by Yan Guang at a great price through Jardine Matheson and Lihe Foreign Companies.

Of course, since Yan Guang spent a lot of money to invite them here, then they should also have some skills.

Therefore, these two groups of foreign devils are the kind with a little seniority in the shipbuilding circles of various countries.

Needless to say, although the British group is not a face-to-face figure in the United Kingdom, where the shipbuilding industry is developed, there are a few who have participated in the design of various types of capital ships in service. As for the German batch?

The Natsu class and the Helgoland class are also counted, but three of them were once designers of the King-class battleships. There is another, and Yan Guang's most valuable person, who once participated in Bavarian-level design work, but later had to leave his post because of his old age.

By the way, ship designer has always been a fairly well-paid job, and an old designer like him, who had participated in the design of Bavaria-class battleships, had an unimaginably lucrative salary.

Originally, after retirement, the old designer could have lived a fairly easy retirement life―――――― if it weren't for the fact that he had a son who was addicted to gambling...

It stands to reason that the Germans would not let such scarce talent go, even if the person is already retired. After all, he has participated in the Bavaria-class battleship, and he can quite understand the surname of this latest German battleship, you must know that this super battleship only began to start construction in 1913, and even one has not been launched yet.

But...

By the time Yan Guang took the 10 million pound order there, plus the legendary follow-up order, let alone just a retired ship designer. Even if Yan Guang wants to get the Kaiser's Lao Tzu over, I'm afraid this group of capitalists will find a way to get it...

So don't look at the pitiful few naval ships in Yan Guang's hands now, there is only one Qinghai class destroyer's number one ship, the "Qinghai Sea", which is under construction at the Fuzhou Shipyard. However, if you talk about design ability alone, Yan Guang here will not be inferior to any third-rate naval power.

―――――― Brazil, Brazil, Brazil...

Of course, Yan Guang also has something to worry about, that is, almost all of the really experienced and capable designers in Yan Guang's hands are from the United Kingdom and Germany. There are a few "domestic" designers who are very talented, but almost none of them have much experience.

Of course, this matter is not a big deal now, after all, those "imported goods" have been fed by Yan Guang with silver dollars, and now there is a feeling of joy in China. But what about after the outbreak of the European war? At that time, Yan Guang always had to choose to stand in line.

After standing in line, it's okay to say before Yan Guang participated in the exhibition, but after joining the war...

Maybe some foreign devils will regard China as their second motherland, but in the end, these foreign devils will still return to their first motherland...

In addition to these problems, there is another very important question.

That is, if you want to enhance the confidence of the nation, of course, a huge warship is very useful, but after all, such a thing as a warship can only be docked in a port. Especially a battleship of more than 30,000 tons, such a huge warship on the Yangtze River cannot accommodate it. So if you really want people to visit, you can only dock at a coastal port.

However, it is impossible for people from all over the country to visit the port, not to mention that for a ship as huge as a battleship, even if the design time is aside, it will take a year or two from the start of construction to the launch. (The Bavaria, one of the Bavarian-class battleships, was launched on January 22, 1914 and launched on February 19, 1915, and it took only one year and one month from the start of construction to the launch.) ）

Therefore, it is most practical to build a building that can be seen by all people in the country, at least by some people...

Let's say build an Empire State Building in Shanghai or something...

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Not to mention that after being cut off his braids, Zhang Xun looked dead or alive, but in the end he still had to accept the reality―――――― of course it may just be pretended, but it doesn't matter, anyway, Yan Guang has already arranged more than a dozen people from the Military Intelligence Bureau in the front army of Wuwei, and Zhang Xun has also developed several around him, if this guy is really looking for death, Yan Guang is absolutely sure to kill him before he makes any moves.

Therefore, after Yin Changheng's fifth division also arrived in Jinan, the main force of six divisions finally gathered in Shandong. In addition to these six infantry divisions in Shandong, five infantry divisions were also stationed in Zhili, as well as five infantry divisions stationed in Nanjing.

If a war breaks out in Shandong, it will only take half a month for Yan Guang to gather 12 infantry divisions in Shandong. Twelve infantry divisions with a certain strength will have no problem coping with ordinary battles.

Moreover, the reorganization of the troops under the command of the provincial warlords is also underway, although the troops of these warlords are really scum in Yan Guang's opinion. Either way, it's easier than recruiting a bunch of recruits to retrain.

Therefore, after the provincial warlords were appeased, Yan Guang collected military power from their hands while reorganizing the army in their hands.

So far, the work of reorganization has only begun in the first place, and in addition to giving them new numbers, the content of the work is to eliminate unqualified soldiers or units, and then the troops in the hands of the warlords will either be reorganized into one division from two or three divisions, or directly compress one division into one brigade...

In this way, after the dismissal of unqualified officers and soldiers, although the number of them was much smaller, the combat effectiveness of the troops under the command of these warlords was much stronger, plus the light and heavy equipment provided by the Sichuan Arsenal.

However, at present, in addition to making up for the losses of more than a dozen former National Social Army units, the equipment provided by the Sichuan Arsenal is the Beiyang Army in the past. After all, the Beiyang Army is the strongest in China in terms of quality and combat effectiveness, and after collecting new equipment, it will take much faster to form combat effectiveness than ordinary troops.

In fact, before declaring war on the Kuomintang, Yan Guang had already transferred a lot of equipment from arsenals to the Beiyang Army in Wuchang. These Beiyang troops lived up to their elite titles, such as Madsen, 40mm grenades and mortars, and it took only a small time to learn to use them. There are also 75mm, 105mm and 120mm artillery, and the Beiyang Army is also much faster than the original National Social Army.

The Beiyang Army, which is still in Wuchang, has at least three divisions that have completed the redressing. Of course, the soldiers they lost in the war were also replenished by the National Socialist Party.

At present, these Beiyang Army of the past and the current National Defense Force are resting and training in Wuchang, and I believe that in two or three months, these Beiyang Army of the past will be able to regain their strength and gain the combat effectiveness of the past.

It's just that when Yan Guang was still busy with many national affairs, those banner people in the capital didn't forget to make some trouble for Yan Guang―――――― although Yan Guang had almost forgotten about them at this time.

After a period of turmoil, the flag men in the capital have already made a decision, and a week later, that is, on May 1, International Labor Day, they will make a fuss on Guoshe Avenue and even in front of Yan Guang's presidential palace.

According to the predictions of Tie Liang and others, there will be at least 30,000 or 40,000 banner people who will participate in the commotion on May 1, and this figure is obtained after excluding the elderly, weak, women and children in the capital.

The demonstration of 30,000 or 40,000 people will be chaotic if it is not done well, but...

Just when Tie Liang and the others were sneering at the predicted figures, Yan Guang got this information a few hours earlier than them...

"Thirty or forty thousand..."

Looking at the information provided by the flag man who reported the news in his hand, Yan Guang also muttered.

"There are a lot of people, and I don't know if those things are enough to deal with so many people..."

(To be continued)