The speed of the empire's expansion was not too affected by the First World War, which was also the previous Northeast Army's too rapid transformation of divisions left some shadows and lessons for Song Biao, in addition, the empire still seriously lacked middle and senior commanders, and there was a serious vacancy for divisions and brigades, so it was inappropriate to rashly form a large number of divisions and brigades.

At present, the official establishment of the Imperial Central Defense Force is 11 integrated infantry divisions, 27 regular infantry divisions, 5 integrated cavalry divisions, 7 cavalry brigades, 11 artillery brigades, 3 railway engineering brigades, 2 railway artillery brigades, and 7 baggage brigades, with a total strength of 1.12 million troops.

Since the beginning of World War I, the empire has set up new barracks in all provinces across the country to train new soldiers, and recruits are drawn for a period of six months, plus some retired soldiers are re-recruited to form new regiments.

Officers at the regimental level, there is still no shortage in the empire.

By the end of 1915, the empire had formed 224 new regiments and increased its army by 740,000.

The First Imperial Expeditionary Force sent to Europe was commanded by General Martos, Zhao Tingzhu as deputy commander, and Chen Qicai as chief of staff, with a total strength of 213,000 troops, including 4 integrated infantry divisions, 3 conventional infantry divisions, 2 artillery brigades, 2 baggage brigades, 12 new regiments, and 1 new engineer brigade.

The Second Imperial Expeditionary Force in Africa is commanded by Zhang Xiaohuai, with a total of one integrated division, 4 regular infantry divisions, and 7 recruit regiments.

Initially, according to the agreement between the Central Military Department and the French General Staff, the First Expeditionary Force of the Reich did not participate in direct front-line operations in principle, but was responsible for coordinated operations in the second-line theater, as well as operations against Italy, as a result, Italy switched to the Entente camp before the First Expeditionary Force of the Reich arrived in Europe, and finally at the request of Britain, France and Germany, the First Expeditionary Force was transferred to the Italian garrison, saying that it was to assist the Italian army in the war with Austria-Hungary, but to monitor the Italian army by the way and prevent the Italian army from being capricious.

The Italian army is really bad.

The Germans once said that it only took 3 divisions to defeat the Italian army, 10 divisions to occupy Italy, and 100 divisions to be an ally of Italy, and this is really a fucking right.

The First Expeditionary Force of the Empire had only 213,000 men, but it had to block the 15 infantry divisions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire for the Italian army, and the total number of troops attacking Italy in Austria-Hungary was only 40 divisions, because the First Expeditionary Force suffered heavy casualties, and the Second Expeditionary Force also temporarily transferred two infantry divisions and three new regiments to the rescue, and the Empire continued to send 30 new regiments to Europe and Africa to supplement the loss of troops before December 1915.

For Song Biao, before Britain and France did not have enough major concessions and concessions to China, he would only maintain 300,000 troops in the European and African theaters, of which 1/4 was in Africa to grab territory, especially German East Africa, and he would not leave after the occupation.

Taking advantage of the chaos during this time, the Imperial Navy also established a naval supply base in the Riau Islands north of Singapore and the western part of the Zengmu Dark Sands, and originally wanted to occupy a position in the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, but the British saw through the intentions and resolutely disagreed with the Imperial Navy's small goods to occupy the islands everywhere, and forced the Imperial Navy out of the game, but agreed that the Empire would retain a naval base and material transfer station in Port Sudan, so that the Empire could use the Suez Canal to transport arms and materials to the Mediterranean Sea and France.

The strength of the Imperial Navy is too weak, don't look at the combat strength of 37 cruisers on the surface, in fact, most of them are light cruisers with a displacement of 2,000 tons to 4,000 tons, and the total displacement of the Central Navy is only 220,000 tons, which seems to be not small, but in fact, it can't beat any of the top ten countries in the navy. Take advantage of the flight a little more.

It is not a matter for this to continue, so the Imperial Navy has already ordered two 10,000-ton battleships from the United States, and the Imperial Navy, which has always been picky, is naturally reluctant to buy new ships, but only buys two old models of former dreadnought battleships from the United States and overhauls them.

Military spending is limited, the army side is extremely expensive, the Imperial Navy can have military spending even if it is thankful, naturally a penny is halved, try to spend a small amount of money to do more, now specifically staring at the South China Sea, and then guarding New Guinea, the Caroline Islands, and the Rione Islands is considered a great contribution to the empire.

Now it can really make a profit, but if it continues to expand like this, it will definitely have a decisive battle with the Navy, and this matter is also a shadow, don't look at the Navy with a total displacement of 700,000 tons, just pick out four battleships and four cruisers to bomb the thirty-seven cruisers of the empire into mud.

Many of these cruisers of the empire are just tortoiseshell ships that have long been obsolete, and because of technical limitations, the empire can only manufacture such lightly armored cruisers on a large scale.

Might is right.

Although many things are Chinese, but without force, it is impossible to come back, relying on negotiation to solve bilateral problems is simply the most cowardly and ignorant fantasy, Yuan Shikai did not come back then, Chiang Kai-shek did not come back those things that year, the empire at this time will not come back, the empire is just more deceitful than Yuan Chiang.

The British Empire was unwilling to return Hong Kong, and the German Empire was unwilling to return Jiaoao, and the only way to recover it was to go to war.

Without war, you can't get any actual territory back.

The merit of the empire lies in the deceit.

At the beginning, Germany had no intention of returning Jiaoao, nor did it intend to transfer the ownership of the Jiaoji Railway, so the empire "blatantly" decided to operate 50% of the right of way of the Central Railway Corporation in a joint venture with the German company, in exchange for 1/2 of the ownership of the Jiaoji Railway.

The most famous of the imperial railway plans is a horizontal and a vertical, one vertical is from Harbin to Nanning, the Northeast Railway, the Jingfeng Railway, the Jinghan Railway and the Hangui Railway are all linked into a longitudinal line, and the other horizontal is from Qingdao to Jinan, from Jinan along the south bank of the Yellow River through Kaifeng, Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Xi'an, Lanzhou to Xinjiang Province.

The horizontal line is also called the mainland railway, and the entire railway line and the railway rights of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningbo, Jin, Yuchuan are owned by the Central Railway Corporation, and the two railway lines connecting Inner and Outer Mongolia also belong to the Central Railway Corporation.

From 1911 to 1914, while cooperating with France and Russia, the Central Railway Corporation signed a joint venture agreement with seven railway companies including Deutsche Bahn, and 14 German banks borrowed a total of 73 million pounds for the construction of railways.

At this stage, there were too many imperial railway projects, and the country's technical personnel and strength were simply not enough to support such a huge railway project, and more than 30% of the railway lines were supported by German companies.

Power is right, and nothing can be recovered without war.

Therefore, after the construction of these railways was completed one after another, in September 1914, the empire could not wait to declare war with Germany, and at the same time took back Jiaoao and nationalized all these railways.

Beginning in 1905, Germany gradually turned to foreign investment after the industrial revolution entered its peak, and the scale of its investment in China expanded, and in 1914, Germany's total foreign investment was about 26.4 billion German marks, about 1.3 billion pounds, of which about 1/4 was concentrated in the three eastern provinces and other parts of China, and now it has become a state-owned asset of the empire.

Although before the German Minister Xin Liping left China, the Imperial Premier Tang Shaoyi and Xin Liping signed a secret treaty, stipulating that if Germany was victorious, the Reich would return these properties in its entirety, and if Germany was defeated, Germany would recognize that these properties officially belonged to China, so as to avoid the theft and division of these assets by Britain, France, Russia and other countries after Germany's defeat, resulting in an extremely unfavorable situation for both China and Germany.

The empire is nothing more than deceit.

While actively participating in the war against Germany, and at the same time reaching a secret treaty with Germany, the Reich will occupy German colonies abroad in the official name, and ensure the safety of German overseas Chinese and German assets, if Germany is defeated, the Reich will open its net to Germany, and share overseas colonies in a peaceful and friendly manner, if Germany wins, the Reich will be very beautiful.

So, with the exception of some accidents in the engagement with the German Far East Fleet, the reich's engagement with the German colonial forces abroad has been unusually smooth, and can be described as calm, and most of the imprisoned Germans will be released in a few months in the name of retirement from active service.

At this time, the empire was rolling around the world for benefits, making huge profits with those cheap and low-quality industrial products and barely qualified ordnance and ammunition, and using those poor small cruisers as weak as paper skins to run around, scraping land and benefits everywhere, so that in the eyes of Britain, France, Russia and the United States, as well as Germany and Austria, the empire was like a clown-like character who accidentally ran into good luck like shit.

Of course, the Empire was a cut above Italy, at least keeping its Covenant commitments, and had an army force not to be underestimated, holding off 15 Austro-Hungarian divisions in Italy with only 10 divisions.

Even if the old British and French empires looked down on the newly rising Chinese Empire, the third-rate industrial level of the empire, the fourth-rate fleet of the empire, and even the army of the empire continued to be regarded as a second-rate army, and even more despised the empire for occupying so many advantages with such a low race and such a small strength, they still had to purchase arms and explosives from the empire, or they still had to constantly negotiate with the empire, hoping that the empire would send more land forces to support the European theater.

In any case, the empire survived in the First World War with such deceit and shit luck, and mixed very well, in short, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and Austria fought desperately in the front, and the empire kept stealing chickens and dogs in the back, and also set up more coastal and inland open cities, introduced more foreign investment and tax incentives, and attracted foreign capital, companies and talents to continue to flee from Europe to the empire.

The empire's current joy is so much, in short, it can make Britain, France, Germany, Russia and Austria go crazy.

After the confiscation of German assets in China, the Imperial Central Railway Company became a world-class railway company with a total capital of more than 100 million pounds, and the foreign debts owed to many German banks were also denied.

When it comes to this, the Northwest Ma Jiajun really can't fight it.

After the Chengdu-Tianshui Railway and the Jinan-Tianshui Railway were built, the Beijing-Xuanzhou Railway was linked with the Shanxi Railway, which bypassed the Yellow River and went south from Baoketu, Ordos, and Yulin all the way south to Xi'an, and the railway was so joyful that military supplies, food, and troops arrived before March 1916.

At present, the 1st Cavalry Division is stationed in Baoding, the 2nd Cavalry Division is stationed in Uriya Sutai, the 3rd Cavalry Division is stationed in Kulun, the 4th Cavalry Division is stationed in Xianyang, and the 5th Cavalry Division is stationed in Harbin.

The Northwest Military Headquarters is numbered as the Fourth Army Headquarters among the military departments, and it has two infantry divisions, the Fourth Cavalry Division, the 10th Cavalry Brigade, the 11th Cavalry Brigade, the 3rd Railway Engineering Brigade, the 4th Artillery Brigade, and the 4th Baggage Brigade.

The 10th, 11th, and 12th Central Army are different from other cavalry regular formations, and their characteristics are closer to those of the Cossack cavalry, mainly light cavalry and pure mobile combat, and their distinctive feature is that on the basis of the conventional equipment of the Shenyang rifle, C305 barge guns are generally installed to increase the combat capability at close range, and there are no light cavalry guns, only a small number of 60mm mortars and Browning light machine guns.

Such a large-scale mobilization of troops to the northwest is enough to prove that the emperor and the central military department have no intention of negotiating with the local forces in the northwest, power is the axiom, and there is no room for negotiation at this time, and there is no need for negotiation, in order to ensure the long-term stability of the northwest, the only plan of the central military department is to completely eliminate the three horses.

Although there may be a war with Soviet Russia in the future, or in the process of conquering Central Asia, the Northwest Majia Army has room to play its value, but for the Central Military Department, the ownership of military forces to private individuals and localities is always the most evil drawback, which must be eradicated, and there is no room for negotiation.

Under the emperor, no one was allowed to be armed.

This is the motto of the empire and the only iron-blooded dogma, and those who do not obey die.

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During the period when the Imperial Army continued to mobilize to the northwest, Song Biao did not care too much about the military, because the preparation time had been a long time, everything was ready, and there were few things that still needed to be worried about now.

In the past few months, as the emperor, Song Biao traveled north and south around Xi'an, and went to Yan'an, Hanzhong, Tianshui, and along the Yellow River to inspect various problems in the management of public affairs.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Song Biao also took the railway to continue south to Chengdu to check some local problems.

Returning to the Xianyang Military Headquarters, Song Biao at this time had already realized that it was better for him to stay in the west for a longer period of time, the control of the Yellow River, the prevention of desertification, and the water conservancy in the northwest are all major problems, and the problem of land equalization in Sichuan should also be accelerated, and the resettlement and deployment of the population in the northwest and Sichuan need to be dealt with, especially the westward expansion strategy of the population in the northwest, which is related to the stability of the entire territory.

Regardless of whether it will be promoted 30 years later or popularized in the open boiling industry 100 years later, if the Han population cannot account for the majority of the population in the northwest region and the process of national reunification cannot be accelerated, the issue of Xinjiang Province will always be a big problem.

Song Biao is also a very happy emperor, although he only lives in a Guanzhong courtyard on the west side of the Northwest Military Headquarters, and the one that Duan Qirui and Cai Yi live together is about the same size and standard, which is a typical Guanzhong residential style, but he named this courtyard the Beidi Courtyard.

Northland.

A county in the Han Dynasty, including the current northern Shaanxi and Gansu, Ningxia, the famous Huangfu Song in the Three Kingdoms era is three generations of the Northland Taishou, Song Biao named the Guanzhong Courtyard where he lived naturally has a very special meaning.

As the emperor lived in Guanzhong for a long time, the General Administration of the Inner Court temporarily set up the Xianyang Office here to deal with regular affairs, and the secretaries of the Secretariat Bureau generally worked here.

Wang Yongjiang, the minister of agriculture, was a natural sufferer, and these sons have also been inspecting in the northwest, constantly going back and forth between Xianyang and various places in the northwest, and even going to Yinchuan to inspect various places, and when they come back, they will report various affairs to the emperor and discuss the agricultural governance of the northwest.

In the afternoon of that day, Wang Yongjiang returned from inspecting agriculture and goat breeding in Lanzhou, so he went directly to the Beidi compound to report to Song Biao, and it happened that Huang Zhongliang, the chief of water conservancy, was also in the flower hall to discuss with Song Biao the problem of soil erosion on the Loess Plateau in Shanxi.

After the report of the chamberlain, Wang Yongjiang walked into the flower hall and bowed to Song Biao, who was sitting on the low couch and knocked sunflower seeds, and said, "Your Majesty will meet the emperor." ”

Song Biao asked the chamberlain to prepare a chair for Wang Yongjiang, and did not rush to ask Wang Yongjiang about things, but continued to say to Huang Zhongliang: "Shanxi's problems are always the most annoying, they used to plant the most soil tobacco, and the soil erosion along the Yellow River is also the most serious, Shenwu engaged in silver and gold control and central reserves in the first year, Shanxi is the most uncooperative, Shenwu introduced a precious metal trade bill in three years, and Jin merchants also sent people to petition me. Now it is still like this, Shanxi's soil erosion problem is also the most serious, this to say not to blame Shanxi, but also to blame Shanxi, Jin merchants have good for Shanxi, there are also great disadvantages, a large amount of land is concentrated in the hands of Jin merchants, this is the root cause of Shanxi's large-scale planting of soil tobacco. Therefore, in order to manage Shanxi well, it is first necessary to force the Jin merchants and the big landlord class to spit out all the land to me, and the central government has made it mandatory that all land within three kilometers on both sides of the Yellow River and its main tributaries should be under the direct management of the central government, and the Central Yellow River Water Conservancy Management Bureau should be established to unify afforestation and reduce soil erosion. It is necessary to forcibly promote the return of farmland to forests and develop forestry on the Loess Plateau. ”

Huang Zhongliang nodded silently, and said to Wang Yongjiang, who happened to come in: "This matter is a matter of the Wang Cabinet." ”

Wang Yongjiang nodded and was silent.

Shanxi's problems are not easy to govern, which is also a well-known problem in the cabinet, and the key to this is that the Jin merchants do not eat hard and soft, and when this dynasty is the previous dynasty, the laws of the empire are not laws.

Song Biao sighed, and Huang Zhongliang and Wang Yongjiang said: "Previously, the cabinet has been committed to promoting 175 industrial plans, persuading Jin merchants to invest in the construction of factories and participate in factory shareholdings, and they are not strict in investigating their violations. Everyone is equal under the law, and it is impossible to say that they have to be special if they have money. ”

Wang Yongjiang said: "Yes, it should have been cracked down a long time ago." Some time ago, the Monetary Administration Bureau conducted a thorough survey in Shanxi, and estimated that the total amount of silver cellars of Jin merchants and Shanxi people was still 20 million taels of silver. ”

Song Biao said: "This matter is simple, in the "Monetary and Metal Management Act", the penalty for illegal holding of gold and silver is increased, and the penalty for tax evasion and tax evasion in the tax law is also increased. ”

Wang Yongjiang said: "The same must be done to deal with them. ”

Song Biao snorted.

The Empire has been opposed to silver cellars, and the Monetary Metals Act has imposed that citizens must not hold non-monetary precious metals, including gold and silver, and that those who want to hold these assets must purchase gold and silver bars from banks of a standard specified by the central government, and pay taxes on their holdings.

Shanxi merchants are very interesting, they just continue to cellar silver, and they don't report it, and when they send someone to ask, there is no cellar silver at all, as if they are afraid of confiscation by the political axe.

Since this is the case, it can only be forcibly confiscated, find the most powerful one to investigate directly, dig three feet into the ground and dig out the other party's cellar silver, and continue to punish the tax evasion after confiscation, and the circumstances are serious and directly prosecuted.

Now is not the time to deal with these matters, there are so many problems in the empire, so many that dozens of cabinet ministers have countless thorny problems.

Song Biao sighed and said to Huang Zhongliang: "The governance of the Yellow River and the problems on the Shanxi side are not things that can be dealt with in the past two years, so I won't talk about these things for the time being." ”

After saying this, he and Wang Yongjiang asked: "Do you feel anything when you come back from inspecting agriculture in Gansu?" ”

Wang Yongjiang truthfully said: "His Majesty also met with Ma Anliang after going to Lanzhou to inspect agriculture this time, as the emperor knows, Ma Jiajun has been advocating Gan people to govern Gan over the years, and elected Ma Anliang as the leader, in a vain attempt to establish Ganqingning Autonomous Province, after we beat Lu Rongting, they dare not mention autonomy again, but they still continue to talk about the proposal of Gan people to govern Gan. For many reasons, the central government did not directly clash with them, but only appointed the resident ministers of Qinghai, Gansu, and Ningxia, but in fact they did not have any real power at all in the localities, and from top to bottom, even the county magistrate level was completely controlled by Ma Jiajun. After my inspection, I can only say that these people have a bit of ability to march and fight, and the governance of the place is simply a mess, in order to compete with the central northwest military department, the local taxation is very fierce, especially the Han people who do not believe in Islam, the means are extremely bad, the damage to the economy is too serious, and it is forced to buy and sell, there is no order, I also directly said very clearly after I met Ma Anliang, their governance in the northwest is simply lawless, chaotic country and people, seriously hindering the expansion of the empire and the governance of Xinjiang Province, They are all out-and-out national sinners. Ma Anliang should be a very deceitful person, he is very decent in my face, explains a lot of things, and has always asked me to apologize to the emperor, and his loyalty is also very strong, but I heard Li Chenglin, the minister in Gansu, say that Ma Anliang has wanted to assassinate him more than once, and the situation is very critical, so that Li Chenglin does not dare to work in Lanzhou City. ”

Song Biao hummed lightly and said: "It's okay, let the ministers in the three places come back for a meeting, you don't have to go back after the meeting, there is always a death and sacrifice in war." Since sacrifice is inevitable, let's try to solve the biggest problems at once, delay the situation a little more tensely, and let them Ma Jiajun desperately recruit people, and when they have almost organized the local parishioners and radicals, we will fight again, and if we want to eradicate it, we will cut the grass and eradicate the roots, I am not the kind of emperor who likes to delay the problem and hand it over to future generations to deal with. ”

Wang Yongjiang said: "The emperor is sage." ”

He also shouldered the responsibility of Song Biao's special envoy to inspect agriculture in Gansu, and checked the local mentality in Gansu and the preparation situation of Ma Jiajun, as well as Ma Anliang's psychological state.

Wang Yongjiang is a very shrewd person, and his talent is definitely not as simple as being an agricultural minister, he has been checking all the way for more than a month, and he feels that he is still the same as the emperor, these people must indeed be completely eradicated, and the slightest thing left is the aftermath of the empire.

Don't look at him as a minister of agriculture, he is also ruthless, and he also thinks that he will either not do it, or if he wants to do it, he will be completely cleaned.

The Central Defense Force has long had the strength to eradicate the three horses, and deliberately expanded its forces in the northwest military headquarters to delay the tense situation for so long, so that the three horses have enough time to win over all kinds of local reactionary forces, and finally deal with them once again.

The source of the weapons of the three horses is very simple, basically purchased from Central Asia through Xinjiang Province, India in the south, and Tsarist Russia in the north, to say that the British Empire and Tsarist Russia did not steal chickens and dogs here, it is really nonsense, I don't believe it to anyone, but in terms of the level of equipment, it is definitely not enough for the CSKA to fight.

When resisting the Eight-Nation Alliance, the Ma family army was the most heroic arm, it was indeed very powerful, not afraid of death, Lao Tzu died, the son went into battle, the elder brother died, the younger brother went into battle, and the whole family died.

Therefore, Ma Jiajun is extremely strong, especially Qingma.

Basically after the Republic of China, the strength of the Ma family army began to replenish a large number of Han people, and now it is still dominated by the people, when the people killed at least one million Han people during the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo rebellion, and then Zuo Zongtang killed back, he used the Ma army as the vanguard, and killed millions of people, and the four-year war in Pingjiang basically killed most of the local population, so that the Ma family army at this stage wants to expand the army on a large scale The possibility of surname is very low, and only a part of the local Han people can be supplemented.

Song Biao didn't care about the lives or deaths of these people.

Killing all the way to the past, everyone fought to the death with each other, fought the local area, and continued to draw people from Shanxi and Shaanxi to replenish it later.

It's really not that Song Biao doesn't respect the people and religion, as the emperor, the safety of the empire is what he should consider, and this kind of repeated fighting that began in the middle of the Qing Dynasty was originally provoked by the people of the church, and it was regarded as the largest massacre in modern history in Asia around the world.

Until many years later, there were still many problems in the local contradictions between Han religions that originated from the war at the end of the Qing Dynasty, in fact, the massacre was provoked first, and it was the local Han people who were killed by the people, and the Han people were only the vast majority of the whole country.

Kill to the end, the real killing is the Ma Jiajun, before Zuo Zongtang leveled Xinjiang, they killed all the Han people, as soon as Zuo Zongtang arrived, they killed the same clan and the same clan, so as to get the appreciation of the Manchu court, the official shadow, to sit in the northwest.

Murder pays for life.

This is a very basic truth, and now is the time for Ma Jiajun to repay his debts.

At this time, Zhang Futian, a first-class chamberlain, came in and presented a gold-framed gift list to Song Biao, and reported: "Your Majesty, Ma Tingfu, the eldest son of Ma Anliang, the overseer of Gansu, came to ask for a meeting, saying that it was on behalf of his father and the people of Gansu to congratulate the emperor on the 30th Christmas Dragon Jubilee. ”

Song Biao was a little surprised, took the gift list and said to Wang Yongjiang: "It seems that I am very worried that you will speak badly when you come to me, or you will be frightened by you, you will walk on the front foot, and send your son over to give gifts on the back foot." ”

He opened the gift list and browsed it, and said with a smile: "The gift list is very heavy, there are actually 6,000 taels of gold and 60 catties of Hetian jade mutton fat material." Rare, rare. ”

Wang Yongjiang's memory is very amazing, the ability to quote scriptures and cite the number of various materials is very strong, and immediately replied to Song Biao: "Gansu has always been the largest province in the empire to produce gold, Guangxu 14 years had produced 11,362 taels of gold, since the Guangxu years, the annual gold production has never been less than 10,000 taels, the Han Dynasty Huo went to the Western Regions to conquer the Western Regions has won two gold people, used to sacrifice to the sky, the Han Dynasty gold has accumulated over the past dynasties, it is said that most of the gold comes from Gansu Guanzhong land. In recent years, with the large-scale mining of gold mines in Shandong, Liaodong and North Korea, Gansu's output is no longer outstanding, and the total amount is not comparable to these three major gold-producing areas, but if it is compared with other provinces, it is still very powerful, the most important problem is that these gold mines have not been under the jurisdiction of the central government, nor have they been included in the formal operation of enterprises. ”

Song Biao sneered and said: "We have been working hard to mine gold when we were in the Northeast, and after the establishment of the empire, we can't wait to implement the gold industry control bill, and again and again emphasize that the gold in the country must be purchased by the Central Reserve Bureau, even so, the annual gold output of the country is only about forty tons, which is still based on the fact that the company took back Taiwan's Jinguashi gold field, plus the output of the four major gold fields in northern Korea, the gold absorbed by the Central Reserve Bureau from the country is only about fifty-five tons, But they sat on the ground and divided the accounts, and hid tens of thousands of taels of gold in their belts a year. Thinking about the fact that the Ma family army has been in the northwest for 35 years, it is probably unknown how much property it has embezzled, and it can also be known from here where the large expenditure of the three horses to purchase arms from Central Asia in recent years has come from. ”

Wang Yongjiang is really not afraid of things, but he is afraid of the master who is not big, maybe he and Ma Anliang quarreled very badly in Lanzhou, and continued to fall into the well and said: "Gansu is still a major silver-producing and copper-producing province, and the silver output of Baiyin County and other places is also more than 100,000 taels per year. However, the largest financial source in Gansu and Qinghai is animal husbandry, especially the output of cashmere and wool is very large, Zuo Zongtang opened a Lanzhou weaving bureau in Lanzhou for this purpose, I also went to Lanzhou this time to take a look, the machines are very old, Ma Jiajun will not take care of this matter, anyway, it can make a sum of money. ”

Song Biao nodded slightly, and said to Wang Yongjiang: "It's really going to be over, the Ministry of Religion and your Ministry of Agriculture have the most onerous affairs, and you must be fully prepared in your heart." Post-war reconstruction must be done well, with sufficient financial and human support, and no mistake must be made. ”

Wang Yongjiang said: "Please let the emperor relax, your subordinates are all ready, the old jar has to be smashed and then rebuilt, and the subordinates ensure that the new jar is not only beautiful, but also a really beautiful porcelain kiln glass jar." ”

Song Biao understood Wang Yongjiang's thoughts and said, "With your words, I will be relieved!" ”

Immediately, he instructed Zhang Futian again: "Since someone else has a gift, let him in." ”

Zhang Futian agreed, and then went out to bring Ma Tingfu in.

After waiting for a while, Ma Tingfu, who was also the year of his establishment, walked in quickly with Zhang Futian, wearing a navy blue robe and horse coat, wearing a melon skin hat, and when he saw Song Biao, he stepped forward and knelt down and said: "Long live the emperor, long live the emperor, Ma Tingfu from the northwest is here to greet the emperor." ”

Song Biao laughed.

Therefore, these people in the Northwest Majiajun are still living in the late Qing Dynasty, thinking that the central court is afraid of trouble and accidents, and will not really turn against them.

Song Biao was not very useful to Ma Tingfu's set, and said very much: "Get up, I have read the gift list sent by your father, and there is nothing else, anyway, it is a heart, I understand it in my heart." The only question is whether your gold is a standard gold bar minted by the Imperial Central Reserve Board, or a gold brick? ”

Ma Tingfu was slightly stunned, didn't dare to get up, and continued to bow his head to the ground and said: "Back to the emperor, this place in the northwest is remote, too far away from the imperial court, and I don't know about those things in the Central Reserve Bureau, I haven't seen what standard gold bars and gold bricks look like, if I know, my father must be cast according to the standard." ”

Song Biao was very angry and said angrily: "Nonsense, the empire clearly stipulates in the "Currency and Precious Metals Control Act" that all gold produced within the empire's territory can only be purchased by the Central Reserve Bureau at international prices, and is used for the gold currency reserves of the central bank and the central reserve bureau, the British Empire has only a population of tens of millions, but it has 7,000 tons of gold reserves, one ton is 373,000 taels of gold, and the imperial gold reserves are only more than 1,000 tons, you don't feel ashamed, I feel ashamed." Under the law, everyone is equal, and the Son of Heaven must be guilty of the same crime as the common people if he violates the law. According to the central law, private individuals and institutions can only register and purchase gold from the Central Reserve Bureau, and they must pay the gold profit tax on an annual basis, charging 3.5% of the total gold price every year. ”

Ma Tingfu was shocked, he didn't expect that the emperor now hated Sanma to this extent, and even sent gold over to reprimand, and hurriedly defended: "The emperor is angry, my family runs groceries between Shaanxi and the Western Regions, and earns small profits from it, and only after years of accumulation has some family funds." We live in the northwest frontier, ignorant and ignorant, do not know the law of the emperor, and ask the emperor to forgive the sins of the ministers, my father is loyal to the emperor, and has no two hearts, but he has never seen the emperor, and I don't know what the emperor's holy will is. If the emperor is determined to punish the crime, the father of the family will bear the guilt and have no complaints. Your Majesty, our father and son are loyal and have no objections, and I ask the emperor to be aware of everything. ”

Song Biao didn't get angry when he didn't listen to this, and immediately reprimanded: "Yes, you really have no objection, that's because you can't oppose it, if you were against it, you would have killed the whole family a long time ago." You have not rebelled, but you have always reigned. Don't think that I don't know what you've done. You have bought a lot of weapons with Britain and Russia, the price is not high, and the quantity is still quite a lot, why do Britain and Russia secretly sell your weapons, because you help them block the westward advance of the Imperial Railway. Therefore, one of you is a scourge to the local people, a second is a calamity to the central government, and a third is a calamity to 40,000,000 descendants of Yan and Huang. If you don't believe in religion, you will be nobler than us, 4,000 years ago, we were all one ancestor, one tribe. The territory of the Chinese Empire is only 11 million square kilometers, Tibet Province accounts for 1/4, and Xinjiang Province accounts for 1/5, Britain is now supporting you to block here, so that they can occupy Tibetan Province, and Russia also supports you, so that they can gradually occupy Xinjiang Province. With 6,000 taels of gold, do you want me to continue to connive at your traitorous country and connivance with you to harm China? Are you like you to be a brute bitch? ”

Song Biao was not angry, he scolded Ma Tingfu very calmly, directly threw the gift slip in his hand on the ground, and said: "Get out, bring back all the people's fat and ointment that you sold the interests of your compatriots in the country, don't dirty my eyes, and tell your father when you go home, the Central Military Department has the Central Military Intelligence Department, the Cabinet has the National Intelligence Administration, the Inner Court has the Central Investigation Bureau and the Central Secrecy Bureau, the Ministry of Religion has the Zongxin Investigation Bureau, the Ministry of Land and Resources has the Territory Research Bureau, and there are as many as 40,000 intelligence personnel in the country. The good things that Ma Lin has done, I know with my eyes closed, I have endured you for a long time, and this time I want to eradicate you national scum for the country and the nation. Tell your father again, if he thinks that the previous dynasty is easy to mix and deceive allegiance, then let him go and say that he is loyal to Emperor Xuantong, and not to be loyal to Emperor Shenwu in China, I am a Shenwu, not a food. ”

Ma Tingfu was completely stunned, stunned for a while before he was as frightened as if he had been struck by lightning, and hurriedly knelt on the ground again and kowtowed, crying and begging: "Please spare the emperor's life, the emperor will spare his life, the ministers have no such intention, never have this intention, the ministers know their mistakes, they know their mistakes, they know their mistakes, they know their mistakes, they ......know their mistakes, they ”

He was already incoherent.

Thirty-five years ago, he probably didn't know about Zuo Zongtang's expedition to the west, but his father must still have a very clear memory.

Even when the Qing Dynasty fell in the West Mountain, the army could sweep through the western frontier with one shot, not to mention that the emperor [***] was at its peak today, with 300,000 troops sweeping through Korea, and killing more than 100,000 people in the army was only ten days.

The Ma family has always lived in the habitual surname of the previous dynasty, thinking that the central government of the empire and the emperor would not really care about such a barren place as Western Xinjiang, not to mention that there are not many Han people in Western Xinjiang.

They were wrong.

Under the whole world and above China, they are all sons and daughters of China.

As long as you live in this land, you are born, you are a child of this land and water, you are a child of this empire, a member of the countless components of this empire, just like the hair on a person's body.

You breathe, and empire breathes with you.

Under the empire, not an inch of land could be ceded or privately occupied.

Letting Ma Tingfu wail, Song Biao also sat on the low couch expressionlessly and closed his eyes and recuperated, without making any statement.

After a while, Zhang Futian, who was accompanying him, gently advised Ma Tingfu: "Mr. Ma, don't be rude and presumptuous before driving, please go back." ”

Hearing this, Ma Tingfu felt even more sad in his heart, and could only helplessly get up to wipe away his tears, and then follow Zhang Futian to leave the flower hall, but when he walked out of this flower hall, looked up at the sky, as if Allah was looking down on him, infinite strength and hatred surged in his heart, and he gritted his teeth and said secretly: "Yes, since you want to kill, the fathers will fight with your grandsons."

Song Biao talked to him a lot, but in fact, it was just talking about the cow, whether it was Xinjiang Province or Tibet Province, it was a fart for these people, no matter who occupied him, whether he was the territory of the empire or not, what they cared about was that this land had to belong to them, their Ma family had the final say, the gold was theirs, the silver was theirs, and the heads were theirs.

(To be continued)