Chapter 72: The Fourth Fleet

Gu Weijun's body shook violently, and suddenly thought of something in his mind, it seems that several large domestic companies use the same voltage standards. For example, Yangtze River Electric Power, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Electric Power, and Wuhu Electric Power are all 220V standards. The three power companies also seem to have their own spheres of influence, and the Yangtze River Power Jiujiang began to go west, including the provincial capitals and surrounding provinces of Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou. Jiangsu and Zhejiang electric power swept all large and medium-sized cities in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong along the coastline. The Northern Electric Power Company is divided into Beijing, Tianjin, Zhi, Re, Cha, Jin, and Mongolia, plus a northeast market controlled by Wuhu Electric Power. These power companies seem to have a tacit understanding to develop in their respective spheres of influence.

Gu Weijun broke out in a cold sweat, and the only way to launch a standard is the standard implemented by these four companies. The more Gu Weijun thought about it, the more he thought about it, he suddenly realized a problem, this standard is what Fang Jianxiong wants, as for the nationalization idea to be implemented, he can't even think of getting the support of the majority of the parliament in fifty years.

"Shaochuan, industrialization is inseparable from standardization, and standardization means saving and efficiency. The standards we are promoting in China now should be the standards of Asia and even the world in the future. What you have to do is set standards, and what I want to do is impose standards on other countries. Some standards are already lagging behind, and we can only learn from other people's standards. But it doesn't matter, the changes in this century are so rapid that the roots cannot be kept up with by the human mind. Industrialization has brought earth-shaking changes to the world, if you don't want to be left behind by the world's top countries, you should work hard and seize the day! ”

It was a successful conversation, or rather a successful flicker. In short, this incident was not too long to talk, which gave Gu Weijun enough deep understanding. Gu Weijun, who calmed down and deeply introspected, quickly looked at many issues that he had not paid attention to or even criticized before from the perspective of the prime minister. For example, on the issue of railways, Gu Weijun has always had different views on this issue. At that time, the Sichuan Road Protection Movement was under the banner of protecting the right of way. Vigorous resistance. Later, when the Republic of China was established, the means of recovering railway rights were more direct. Gu Weijun was opposed to the nationalization of railways and the handing over of railway operating rights to foreign capital. But now it seems that many things are not as simple as I thought.

As far as the railway is concerned, in August 20, the Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge was opened to traffic, and the capital and technology of the Americans. In October last year, the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge was opened to traffic, and it was still operated by the Americans. Thirty years of management rights and the current rapid development of the free national economy have deeply stimulated American investment in China. After the opening of the Yangtze River Bridge in Wuhu and Wuhan, the American-funded Douglas Road and Bridge Company decided to build another Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing, in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Connect Jinpu Road and Huning Road. The bridge is still two-storey, and after completion, the toll alone can be reclaimed within 15 years.

This Douglas. It was the president of Citibank in China. This man took full advantage of his good relations with Chinese government officials and won the right to build and operate the two bridges. On the surface, it seems that letting foreign capital build railways and bridges betrays the power of the country, especially since this Yangtze River bridge is definitely a strategic bridge. But when you calm down and look at it, if you don't rely on foreign capital and technology. When will such a bridge be built? At the time of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, Zhang Zhidong spent a huge amount of money to recover the right of way from foreigners, but then what? It can be said that there is almost no then. The entire operation of the railway was paralyzed, and years of time were wasted. It was not until Fang's entry into Beijing that the construction of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway was restarted. Although he took out the right to operate the railway for 30 years, it was equivalent to getting a Guangdong-Hanzhou railway for nothing after 30 years.

While Gu Weijun admired someone Fang, he didn't expect that there was a big hole in front of him. That was the world economic crisis that took place in the thirties. At that time, the more American capital in China, the greater the benefits that the Republic of China can get. This pit can only be buried deep in his heart, and Fang Jianxiong can't tell anyone. It's like taking out a loan from the Germans and then losing it. How else would the Germans be resistant to China? It's not that you're forced to have no way out. The Germans will not choose to cooperate with China.

Using the traverser's understanding of history to dig a pit has always been Fang Jianxiong's favorite thing to do. In order to reflect the equal treatment of foreign investment. The construction of railways in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Guangxi, and Guangdong provinces was handed over to the Germans during the honeymoon period of Sino-German cooperation. In these provinces alone, the Germans have invested as much as one billion yuan. Fang Jianxiong is just waiting for the outbreak of the World Anti-Fascist War. If it weren't for the fact that the railway in the northwest did not have too much oil and water, and the foreigners were unwilling to do it, Fang Jianxiong would have liked the Germans to invest in building the railway.

Of course, Gu Weijun would not know Fang Jianxiong's abacus, so he could only talk about things. Although the reality of the rapid industrial development of the Republic of China can be seen, what we must see more is that except for the freak of the Eurasian Group, other private capital is mainly concentrated in the field of light industry that has achieved quick results.

Fang Jianxiong went back to the box to rest, and Gu Weijun, who had been excited all night, also went back to make up for sleep, and there was still time to sleep before Nanchang.

When the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge was completed, President Sun Baoqi personally attended the opening ceremony, the bridge adopts the latest technology today, the upper and lower floors, the bridge height is higher than the later one in parallel time and space, to avoid some troubles in the future.

In everything that is out of the limelight, Fang Jianxiong rarely comes forward, which is also a common practice. On both sides of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge today, the atmosphere was unusual, and the troops receiving the bridge were on high alert, prohibiting any unrelated personnel from approaching within 500 meters.

The special train stopped in Wuchang for half an hour, and Gu Weijun got off at Wuchang to start his inspection along the river. In the matter of hybrid rice, it is enough to have a handsome man. After communicating with Fang Jianxiong, Gu Weijun gained a lot and decided to inspect the situation along the river, and then set the tone for the standard matter of the power company. Since Fang Jianxiong has grasped the general direction, he has implemented it himself. Judging from the standards of several major power companies, the matter of unifying power standards started when Fang Jianxiong was still in Wuhu, and it was too late to worry about it.

After the end of the European War, the Navy was reorganized, and the headquarters of the Fourth Fleet moved out of Guangzhou and moved to Zhanjiang. In terms of strength, the Fourth Fleet is the weakest of the four fleets, with only two Qingdao-class battle cruisers Zhanjiang and Sanya, which are still designed and produced by Shanghai Jiangnan Shipbuilding Group. However, these two warships have always been the pride of the Chinese Navy, because they are more than 10,000 tons of warships designed and produced by China itself.

When Fang Jianxiong's special train stopped at Xiashan Station, Chen Ce, commander of the Navy's Fourth Fleet, had been waiting for a long time. Today, the naval strength of the Republic of China ranks fourth in the world, second only to the naval size of Britain, the United States and Japan. After years of consolidation, the Navy is no longer the gloomy factional situation of the past. Chen Shaokuan and Chen Ce, two young admirals, stood out and served as commanders of the Third and Fourth Fleets respectively, with the rank of rear admiral.

The greeting ceremony was very simple, Fang Jianxiong ended the process at the railway station with a sentence of "hurry up, have something to say", and then took the car to the dock and boarded the cruiser Ninghai of the Fourth Fleet. The reason for boarding this ship is that the Yulin Military Port in Sanya is currently under construction and cannot dock large warships. Besides, this Yulin Port is not a large wharf, but a base of the Navy's submarine force. If the submarine force is placed in Yulin Port, it is natural to keep an eye on the sea lines of communication in the South China Sea. A full thirty-six of the latest submarines, to put it mildly, can paralyze half of the South China Sea shipping routes if they are dispatched halfway.

On the whole, Hainan is still relatively backward or even primitive, that is, in the second half of the Republican Party's second term of administration, the cabinet began to increase support for Hainan's development. Prior to this, Hainan's development mainly relied on overseas Chinese in Nanyang, who cultivated plantations in Hainan to grow natural rubber. Rubber, which is a strategic resource, has been dependent on imports from Nanyang in the past. After the large-scale cultivation of overseas Chinese in Hainan, it has been valued by the state. Whether to plant rubber in a large area in China, Fang Jianxiong has always been difficult to decide. Rubber is too domineering, and large-scale planting will inevitably lead to ecological imbalance. With the development of the country's industry, the importance of rubber has become increasingly prominent. In Yunnan, Leizhou, Hainan and other places suitable for planting rubber, the policy of encouraging rubber planting has been introduced, and in just a few years, a large number of overseas Chinese in Nanyang have returned to China, and more than 50 rubber plantations of all sizes have appeared in Hainan alone.

The iron-rich ore in Changjiang, Hainan has begun to be developed, but it is only a matter of the past two years, and Tiandu, near Sanya, also has high-quality iron ore, but the scale is not large. The Tiandu Railway in parallel history was dug by the Japanese during the Anti-Japanese War. In this time and space, this kind of thing naturally doesn't happen.

It took about an hour from Zhanjiang to Yulin, and Chen Ce seized the time to "report" to Fang Jianxiong, which was actually complaining.

"Fu Shuai, it's not that I like to complain, the Fourth Fleet has always been grandma doesn't love uncle and uncle. Finally, Sanya had an additional Yulin base, but the result was not under the control of the Fourth Fleet, and it was directly under the direct command of the ship unit. Chen Ce spoke a very strange taste of official dialect, and the Cantonese accent was heavy and tight, and it sounded awkward. In this time and space, no one is proud to speak with a Cantonese accent, and if he can speak fluently in Beijing films, then he can be called a fan.

Fang Jianxiong really didn't care about this, knowing that Chen Ce would definitely complain. This is a national strategic consideration, and the center of gravity of the Fourth Fleet is in the South Seas, which is the layout for World War II more than ten years later. After the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty, there was still a long naval holiday for fifteen years, and it was impossible to get all the big guys to the Fourth Fleet at this time, isn't that to find the dissatisfaction of the British?

"Don't complain, just say what you want, let me state first, there are no warships with more than 10,000 tons, at most you will be given two destroyers and two brigades of naval aviation." Fang Jianxiong doesn't have a good way to take these guys who like to pester people, and every time he takes a vaccination, he takes a preventive shot first.