Chapter 21: Transformation

Nanking.

No. 36 Guangfu Avenue, the official residence of the Prime Minister.

"Declaration of war on Germany"

This news was like a sharp knife to the heart of Yuan Shikai, the prime minister of the cabinet, although he agreed to give the seal in the declaration of war, but after the seal was awarded, his whole person was completely in extreme panic, a kind of panic and anxiety about the future.

The House of Commons is against him, and he is not afraid; He is not afraid that the House of Lords will oppose him, and even if public opinion attacks him, he is also not afraid, because he knows that whether it is the House of Commons, the House of Lords, or even the public opinion that influences the political situation, in the end, it is not the forces of the parties in the House of Commons and the nobles of the House of Lords who have a key influence on the selection of the prime minister, but public opinion is only to a certain extent to influence the political situation.

The real decisive role is played by Your Majesty

In the depths of Yuan Shikai's heart, the only thing he is really afraid of is His Majesty, the Majesty who seems to have a smile on his face forever, is what is really terrifying, if he trusts a person, no matter what, that person will not fall, if he doesn't trust a person, then ...... It can be said that for Yuan Shikai, His Majesty's trust is his lifeline, and if there is a problem in his life, everything will be over.

Suddenly, by declaring war on Germany, Yuan Shikai found that he did not

, or lost His Majesty's trust, because it was not until the last moment that he knew that the uneasiness in his heart of "going back to his hometown to see" had finally become a reality with His Majesty's declaration of war on Germany.

With cold hands, he grabbed Li Yuan's hand and said weakly.

"Boyan, it seems that this time it's my turn."

Although Li Yuan is a royalist, but as early as the first year of the empire, he served in the Ministry of the Interior, it can be said that it is this highly talented student who graduated from the Department of Law of Chuo University in Japan, and the help of Yuan Shikai on the side makes Yuan Shikai still feel handy in the Ministry of the Interior in the face of complicated new laws, and later in North Korea, it was also Li Yuan who gave advice on the side, so that he issued laws and regulations aimed at pacifying North Korea as the governor of North Korea, although Li Yuan is not a close confidant of Yuan Shikai, but it is better than a cronie, after Yuan Shikai left North Korea, Le Yuan was the only secretary he brought back from the Governor's Palace, and when he became Prime Minister, he appointed him Secretary General of the Prime Minister.

Li Yuan looked at Yuan Shikai, who was distracted, but said comfortingly.

"Prime Minister, don't worry, for so many years, Your Majesty can be said to have trusted you, and this matter, it is not false to say that it is Your Majesty's instruction, but Prime Minister, if Your Majesty told you his intentions at the beginning, what would you do? Is it for His Majesty, or against His Majesty? ”

Li Yuan's words made Yuan Shikai's hand slowly regain its heat, and he muttered for a long time, he knew what kind of choice he would make, he must oppose the declaration of war on Germany, and the pro-German faction in the House of Lords and the House of Commons has an absolute advantage, even if the Sino-German alliance is aside, Germany is still the only power that waits for China on an equal footing, the return of the Jiaoao concession, and the technical cooperation over the years, in nine years, China has sent 80,000 students and more than 60,000 students to study in Germany, in comparison, it is only 10,000 in the United States, 5,000 in Britain, and 5,000 in France. This has created a huge pro-German group in China, and in this case, declaring war on Germany is simply nothing to do, and even if you are leaning towards Your Majesty, you will strongly oppose it, and even let Your Majesty withdraw the order at any cost. "The Chinese people are pro-German, as we all know, but the navy is pro-British, and it is also well known, under this premise, only the navy will agree to declare war on Germany, so this is why there are naval actions in German East Africa and German New Guinea, of course, it is ordered by His Majesty, as for the declaration of war, it is just an addition after the fact."

When he spoke, Li Yuan also felt strange, and he couldn't figure out where the stilt was, so he had to continue.

"In the final analysis, Your Majesty is still for the interests of overseas."

And Yuan Shikai shook his head lightly and said.

"You only look at one of them, but you don't look at the other."

Saying that, Yuan Shikai's face showed some bitterness.

"The Navy's actions are earlier than the declaration of war, and the Cabinet signs the declaration of war, which is later than the Navy's declaration of war, this point is unchanged, the Navy has His Majesty's support for them, you know, the Navy, the Navy is His Majesty's minister."

Referring to the ministers of Yin shares, Yuan Shikai only sighed in his heart, the whole of China, the whole of China

We all know that the emperor of China may be the emperor of soldiers,

The navy is a "royal" navy, and the navy from the former Qing Dynasty has always had a sense of gratitude to the royal family, and His Majesty also regards the navy as a silver stock. ,

"To put it bluntly, in this matter, the navy went to war before, but the navy acted on the orders of the emperor, but what about the cabinet?"

Yuan Shikai closed his eyes.

"The cabinet is responsible for overseeing the fact that the declaration of war is a use of the navy, but if the pro-Germans turn back, it will be ......."

Looking at the prime minister's appearance, Li Yuan fell in his heart

: If that's the case, I'm afraid it's time for that

The navy is His Majesty's favor, and if His Majesty attacks the navy are attacked, he will certainly be unhappy, and at that time, I am afraid that people will have to attack the cabinet.

Although he figured this out in his heart, Li Yuan was still comforted in his mouth.

"The prime minister can rest assured that everything will be fine, no matter what, the navy has opened up 1.2 million square kilometers of territory, and no one can ignore the contribution of opening up the territory, compared to pro-German sentiment, the interests of the country are always the first"

"Alas"

Yuan Shikai let out a long sigh and closed his eyes slightly.

"I hope Your Majesty can read it in my ......"

The people gathered in the battle map room in the palace waited for His Majesty

It's been nearly half an hour.

It's late, Chen Moran said this in his heart when he walked towards the combat map room.

Three hours ago, I met with representatives of the industrial circles, mainly to discuss with them the declaration of war against Germany, and of course, the most important thing was to instill in them a point of view -- how to use the first time in China

The Great War, this favorable opportunity to develop and strengthen himself, when talking about the use of war to achieve the great development of his own industry, he talked very energetically, forgetting to look at the hour.

"Soon, all our factories will not be able to meet the orders from the Entente countries, even if they are working day and night."

"We want to take advantage of the withdrawal of European companies from Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and South America due to the war, and export our goods to these regions."

"Even in Europe, with a large number of enterprises turning to military supplies, the markets of Britain and France also need our goods."

For China, for the first time

The war is a blessing of God, now China's gold reserves are only a pitiful 68 tons, and even silver reserves are only more than 200 million yuan, these nine years, China's industry is developing rapidly, but the price is a large amount of gold outflow, the use of paper money policy to recover 1.3 billion yuan of silver, 1.1 billion yuan outflow overseas, billions of Chinese yuan of foreign debt, although it is not to the end of the predicament, but if the war does not start, if you want to maintain healthy development, you need to continue to increase foreign debt, and eventually will further deteriorate the domestic economic situation, It's good to dare to borrow money, but if you borrow too much money, interest alone can bring down China's economy.

It's good now

The Great War began, China joined the Entente, and the whole The market will be open to China, and the factories and enterprises that have fully developed in recent years can produce a steady stream of goods, and even as many as 1.5 billion yuan of goods planned by the "planned economy" can be sold out soon.

In short, the current development situation is very good, and under its own leadership, China will make full use of the advantages of the planned economy to further accelerate China's development, but of course, the most important thing is another point......

All the people who were summoned had arrived, and before Chen Moran walked into the office, he didn't look at anyone, but just raised his hand slightly with his slap on his back in an instant.

"I've seen Your Majesty"

When the Minister of Finance Guan Mingtang, the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce Xiong Xiling, and the President of the Imperial Bank Huang Huiyun bowed, Chen Moran waved his hand.

"Sit flat"

Then Chen Moran sat down, and then said straight to the point.

"Well, as you all know, we are now declaring war and not fighting, and China will definitely not get involved in a big war until we have to, in short, for this war, just like my statement at the emergency cabinet meeting, take advantage of the favorable opportunity to fully develop the "war special needs economy"

While getting straight to the point, Chen Moran turned his attention to Huang Huiyun again.

"Huang Qing, from now on, the Imperial Bank must relax its monetary policy, provide loans to all private capital, and at the same time shrink the loan ...... state-owned enterprises."

"What?"

As soon as he heard the contraction of state-owned enterprise loans, Guan Mingtang's whole brow jumped, and he looked at His Majesty in surprise, almost unable to believe his ears.

"Your Majesty, shouldn't we give full play to the leading role of state-owned enterprises at this time? Compared with private capital, state-owned enterprises are larger in scale, larger in production capacity, and stronger in technology, and they are self-......."

As the Minister of Finance, Guan Mingtang held many positions such as the chairman of the Imperial Industrial Committee and the Imperial State-owned Enterprise Management Committee, and he may not agree with the industrial development path of the state advancing and the people retreating, but in this special period, he knows that if China wants to obtain the maximum benefits, it must further give full play to the role of the state-owned enterprises established in the past nine years.

"Therefore, it is necessary to tighten the monetary system for state-owned enterprises, relax the monetary system for private enterprises, and at the same time state-owned enterprises can also send technical personnel to private enterprises, if the conditions are right, the government can sell some small enterprises to large enterprises, this war for us, not only can reverse China's economic development crisis in one fell swoop, but also will change China's industrial economic model"

Chen Moran glanced at Guan Mingtang and spit out a sentence slowly.

"In the past, we were the country advancing and the people retreating, but now we want the country to retreat and the people to advance."

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