"Gold, a lot of gold!"

It's a line that fits in for someone who digs up a treasure, or if you find the lair of a pirate captain, but when you say it, your eyes must be shining, as if you're so cool that you're ready to fire a cannon.

It's just that the current scene appeared in Yang Hao's lair, as a well-informed bank housekeeper, facing a room full of gold, the joints pinched by his two hands were white, and his whole body was trembling like a sheep's horn, and the corners of his mouth were foaming, and he could pull over at any time.

Rao is Yang Hao himself is already rich and rivals the country, and when he saw the gold that could be piled up into a pile, he couldn't suppress his heart beating wildly, and he spat out dirty words: "His grandmother's, it's really a good thing!" ”

Yang Hao only accepted gold and silver for the warship power systems and steel accessories sold to the powers, and did not want their banknotes. In order to ensure that the foreign powers could pay happily, he righteously allowed the other side to provide gold and silver at a ratio of one to five. But even so, when the entire order amount rose to the figure of hundreds of millions of taels of silver, the gold and silver pulled by boats piled up into a small mountain, the scene was too exciting!

A battleship, on average, two million pounds, equivalent to fourteen million taels of silver. Britain, France, Germany, Russia, the United States, Italy, Austria and other powerful countries, even if one of them orders the equipment of two ships in advance and pays half of the payment, this has a figure of hundreds of millions.

One-fifth, hundreds of tons of gold, made Yang Hao suddenly think that he had seen the Federal Reserve Bank vault in the "American robbery". The sight of loading and unloading gold with a forklift makes people's blood boil at the thought of it, but now it is directly playing out in front of his eyes.

He was extremely suspicious that the total amount of gold reserves he now possessed actually exceeded the central treasury of the world. At least in the B plane anyway. The reserve used to support the issuance of banknotes. There's no problem with that.

No one doesn't love money. Those who say that there is so much money that a certain amount of dù is a number are bragging.

After fully enjoying the excitement of the golden house, Yang Hao could finally pat his chest and say responsibly that this business was done so well and it was worth it!

The most important thing is that he made the plan alone from beginning to end, without the sister-in-law of the business genius intervening. The final result is based on a naval battle and a political blackmail. Make full use of the contradictions and conflicts between the great powers, cut their pulses and kill them, and exchange a bunch of steel alloy products that are extremely cheap in the world for real hard currency. That pile of gold alone is worth ten times the price!

The steam turbines and heat-pipe boilers of the late nineteenth century can be done well by apprentices in the factories of the twenty-first century. Because he doesn't need precision machining machinery at all, even the second-hand, N-hand equipment that he pours to the second plane can easily deal with it.

Whether it is the alloy used to make the spindle rotor or the metal material used to make the blade, there is no need for advanced technology. So much so that when the scattered orders went out, they were embarrassed to tell them that it was used to build steam turbines - the output thermal efficiency of the equipment after Nima assembled it was less than 30%. Are you fooling people or are you fooling people?

The key is that a steam pressure is less than 2 megapascals, and the steam temperature is not more than 300 degrees.

In fact, in the decade around the 20th century, steam turbines of this level were simply works of art, miraculous creations that could not be surpassed.

Not to mention the blades with high strength and higher precision, the welded cylinders and tight air seals are only seen in life, and those pressure-resistant and high-temperature pipes are substandard products in the 21st century, but they are amazed by countless people here.

It's no wonder that after Friedrich finished doing the real thing, he felt like he was going to die when he saw the result, which was too exaggerated and shocking. They don't know where to start if they want to catch up.

Of course, it is also to set a set of extremely high benchmarks, so that they have a clear direction for catching up. Judging from the test results, this business is not a loss at all. Manufacturers such as Parson, Krupp, Siemens, and many others have been inspired to save at least years and millions of dollars in research dollars.

These points are particularly important in the competition for building ships.

The Germans' emphasis on technology prompted them to be the first to make the decision to import it at a high price. Friedrich, who had a developed business acumen, and the high-level talents within the navy tried to introduce a 10,000-ton hydraulic press and a complete set of equipment for a 30,000-ton slipway, and Yang Hao happily agreed.

This overjoyed the Germans! They have once again come to the fore in the competition of the European powers!

At the end of the 19th century, Germany's industrial technology and output value rapidly approached that of Britain, and some of them surpassed. However, when it comes to the speed and scale of shipbuilding, there are obvious shortcomings. This problem has not been well solved between now and the next 40 years. The unfortunate reality was that Germany would always have to deal with the majority of the enemy with a small navy in the war.

It's not a matter of having money or not having money, the British shipyards around the island and half of Northern Ireland are outside, and the number of industrial workers can eat half the world. Except for the United States, they are almost invincible.

For example, you can see how sad the German Navy was.

The British began to build the first dreadnought, which began on October 2, 1905, and was launched on February 10, 1906, and completed the hull in just four months. Later, in order to test the new equipment, it was delayed until December 3, 1907, when it was officially put into service. That's only 26 months.

Over the next decade, the British built 51 battleships at about the same pace!

On the other hand, the Germans, no matter how ambitious Wilhelm II was, no matter how eloquent Tirpitz was, could not escape the fact that German finances were in fact far inferior to those of the British.

The British could have shouted the slogan "Germany builds one, we will build two" and reached the exaggerated figure of £50 million a year to build a supernavy. Germany even squeezed 25 percent of its budget out to the navy, and later it reached the point of 35 or 55 percent! As a result, domestic prices soared, and the price of wheat soared from 3.5 marks per ton to 5.5 marks.

This is a proper soldier's reckless force!

In this way, Germany still could not keep up with the speed of British shipbuilding. Launched from the first dreadnought. The Germans built ships regardless of the speed and quantity. Or in the caliber of the main guns and the speed of the battleship, there has never been a time to surpass.

In the end, the war was waged under such disadvantages, and the result was a very bad omen from the beginning.

However, this desire for revenge and expansion engraved in his bones was caught by a person like Yang Hao who grasped the general trend of history, and the people who were trapped in it were particularly sad and helpless.

Yang Hao knew too well the ambitions of Wilhelm II, and he knew even more well how much the expansion of the Germans would bring to the surrounding countries such as Britain, France, and Russia. Therefore, he did not hesitate to throw out the chips that were fluttering to him, and the German swallowed the fragrant bait in one gulp. This directly prompted the entire Great Power to follow up on the results.

Unconsciously, the Germans acted as the pawns of the Yang family's black hand, and while greatly promoting the "shipbuilding race" to accelerate in advance, they also perfectly destroyed the last trace of hesitation of the great powers.

In any era, top-of-the-line industrial equipment is a military embargo. Yang Hao openly sold all the 10,000-ton hydraulic presses to the Germans, this is not just a capital enemy, this is asking for money and not dying!

Although, it will take more than a year to produce and deliver, and all the parts will need to be produced in the Chinese factory of the B plane, and it will be split off the coast after completion. Even if it can be safely transported to Germany, it will be installed and debugged. Don't expect to be put into operation for half a year. Before that, the Germans had to constantly spend money to buy Yang Hao's high-quality and low-cost equipment and materials.

People who know the inside story have to give Yang Hao a thumbs up, black, it's so black!

After finally reading Yang Hao's entire business operation plan, Yang Haixin rarely expressed his admiration: "Being able to integrate the international trend into business operations is a relatively qualified national salesman." ”

Yang Hao was a little fluttering. It seems that this kind of role can only be done by successive prime ministers in this world, who doesn't go out with a large group of top domestic companies and tens of billions of dollars in their pockets. The export of their own fist products to certain countries is necessarily of high quality and low price, and even in some countries it is based on the entire system. When they get to some powerful opponents, they throw out money and smash people.

With the improvement of the economic situation, often when the external environment is bad and some big countries pull a group of younger brothers to besiege them, they will go to other houses to throw a bunch of orders and create some internal contradictions for others.

Yang Hao is now simply doing the big boss's business, using an irresistible bait to instigate a group of evil wolves to bite each other. Hurry!

Looking at a pile of gold drooling is such a humiliating thing, it is enough to do it once. Yang Hao exhausted the turmoil in his heart, decisively cut off the greed in his head, and turned back to devote himself to the practical work of further consolidating the foundation.

In October 1896, the revolutionary military government completed the land reform of the occupied areas, and began to expand the railway center in Beijing.

To the north, the first phase of construction to Mukden was completed, and the second phase of the project to Jilin was immediately started with immigrants, and one of the branches would cross the Liaodong Peninsula into the Goryeo Peninsula.

To the west, stretching to Zhangjiakou and Datongfu respectively, the future will be based on this node, west out of Baotou, south to Taiyuan.

To the south, the railway first runs through Hebei to connect the Jiaoji line, until Xuzhou converges, and then goes straight to Jiangning; Immediately started the second longitudinal artery, from Baoding and Shunde to Zhengzhou and Nanyang, and ended at Wuchangfu, forcing into the Yangtze River.

From Haizhou to the westward railway, through Xuzhou through Zhengzhou, to Tongguan and close to Shaanxi, cross-linked and aggressive, become the vanguard of the pursuit of the Qing court and the two palaces. If you don't move a single soldier, you will be frightened and unable to sleep.

As soon as such a policy came out, everyone in the world knew the rhythm of Yang Hao's actions. The expansion of the revolutionary military government will inevitably be carried out in tandem with the railways and highways, strictly following its purpose of "building roads before getting rich," mobilizing the masses to carry out land reform movements along the way, and using the huge manpower mobilized to build roads and communications first, and water conservancy facilities later, and at the same time temper the ability of organization and cooperation, and at the same time penetrate the revolutionary concept into the grassroots level.

From point to surface, from one center to multiple directions, forming a rolling development, steadily turning a large area of land into a boiling ocean of the revolutionary tide, there is no need to worry about any worries, let alone worry about the rapid expansion of the internal incoordination.

In military training, we first attacked the stubborn bureaucrats and Qing soldiers, and then exterminated the cultists and bandits of the Huidaomen who refused to obey the king. Wherever the iron fist of the revolution goes, it doesn't matter what kind of squire you are. All of them are crushed mercilessly! The blow is over. and occupy thy house, and divide thy possessions and thy land. At best, they leave behind family members and basic breadwinners who have no record of public outrage.

The revolutionary army is not a bandit, and it does not engage in the practice of cutting grass and eradicating the roots.

The armed forces that came indiscriminately under the banner of the revolutionary army were dealt a more severe blow. While cracking down, it continued to propagate to all parts of the country, and told everyone that they should not expect to fish in troubled waters, the revolutionary army was not a peasant uprising, and there was no need for a mixed grass king. It was wisest for An An to wait for the army to advance over.

The Qing court bureaucrats in Shanxi and Henan had long been almost infiltrated. Those who were loyal to the court and refused to be a second minister either took up the burden in advance and went to Xi'an to cry to Cixi, or resigned and returned to their hometown to become a rich man. There are very few confrontations, and the thing of finding death is not something that everyone wants to do.

But Zhang Zhidong sat on wax. His hometown Hubei is the core area to be taken down next, Jingxiang is the hub of mountains and rivers in the surface, and the center of China's military and politics. If you take this place, you will definitely be able to move south and west. In all dynasties, whoever grabbed it first may be invincible. Dynasties and dynasties. The conquest of the north and the south must open a breakthrough from here. The southern and northern resistance to aggression often uses this as a former enemy bunker.

Zhang Zhidong stared at the railway propulsion engineering drawings issued by Yang Hao. Finding that the time left for him was less than two years, the railway construction team led by Zhan Tianyou followed closely in the second sequence of the revolutionary army's advance, and had begun to stretch from Henan to Hubei. The Jinghan Railway will run through even before the Jinpu Railway!

Zhang Zhidong sighed with hope, helpless and also.

Before, he still thought that Yang Hao's promotion mode of throwing money all over the ground would inevitably be delayed because of the broken capital chain. Even if he has hundreds of millions of taels of silver in his hand, at best, it will be good to support the development of Beizhili and Northeast China.

Build a railway, that's really spending money! Thirty and fifty thousand yuan per kilometer are all him, and if he doesn't have hundreds of millions of funds to promote the construction of the railway, don't think about success.

Zhang Zhidong also kept an eye on the progress of those steel plants, and was greatly relieved when he heard that they were busy providing raw materials for shipbuilding and various construction machinery manufacturing. There are no railroad tracks put into production, there is no foreign purchase, what will he take to pave?

He couldn't have imagined that Yang Hao was pulling second-hand steel rails everywhere in this world. In China in the 21st century, 60 kilograms of rails are being completely eliminated, and the price is only more than 2,000 tons, which is extremely cheap.

Compared with the elimination figures of the huge new China, at the end of the nineteenth century, when 35kg of rails were not popularized, where did these thousands of kilometers of rails go!

Zhang Zhidong had a sad face and had nothing to do. I can't fight it, I can't suppress the blackmail, and I feel really bad when I watch it being eaten by Yang Hao bite by bite.

It's good that he is still reluctant to resign, with his lifelong reputation, he can't afford to give up on a junior in his twenties.

The old guys who were counting on the revolutionary army to make the mistake of making a rash advance were utterly disappointed. However, the governors of South China saw that it was cheap, and they secretly calculated that according to Yang Hao's whole method, it would take ten years and eight years to bulldoze the coastal zone with convenient transportation. If you want to be in a remote area, will it take longer? Then they have room to get their hands on it.

Therefore, after the emergency telegram, Liu Kunyi, Zhang Zhidong, Tan Zhonglin and others jointly announced that the southeast would protect each other and the provinces would be autonomous, and they would not obey the program of these "anti-thieves" of the revolutionary army, nor would they be subject to the temperance and dispatch of the imperial court's orders.

"This is the Chinese version of 'non-violent non-cooperation'!"

Yang Hao laughed when he heard this, and then telegraphed the whole country to make a speech: "All provinces can be conscious and no longer follow the decadent Manchu and Qing Dynasty to the black, this is a great thing, and it has great interests for the country and the people, and it is worthy of praise." However, this alone is still not enough, and all provinces should not have the luck mentality of stubbornly resisting the revolutionary army to the end, and all military forces under construction should be aimed at maintaining regional law and order and ensuring the stability of the people's livelihood; it will not work to count on armed confrontation, and those who dare to let lawless elements run rampant in their jurisdictions and undermine the overall situation of stability and unity will be severely punished! ”

Not only that, but in the name of the commander-in-chief of the revolutionary army, he issued a special operation order, selected and assigned advisory groups, and sent them to various provinces to help the governors correctly establish military forces and police institutions, straighten out the work of industrial and commercial construction and farmland and water conservancy construction, and guide them in education and the building of government institutions, so as to lay a good foundation for the unified acceptance and smooth transition of the military government in the future.

It is a matter of time before they are all taken over, and now that the revolutionary army is unable to spare their hands, it is no problem for you to make more money, but you must first do a good job within the framework we have formulated, and then reap the benefits of it. Those who dare to create chaos and wreak havoc don't expect a good end.

Such a threat from Chi Guoguo, although the angry old men were full of chest tightness and shortness of breath, but they all knew that Yang Hao was not bluffing, he really had the ability and determination to punish him. In the face of the general trend of changing the dynasty, vainly trying to use the mantis arm as a car with personal strength will end quite miserable!

Li Hongzhang avoided his hometown in Hefei, and when he saw Yang Hao's fists and kicks all the way, he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion, and commented with Zhang Peilun who was following him: "This kid has become more and more sophisticated, and he has attained attainments in grasping the general trend and people's hearts, and he can no longer be judged by his stunned perception." can play foreigners around, and its methods are so old and spicy, the old man also has to say a word. ”

Zhang Peilun was not angry: "This son is too domineering, how is such a rude method different from tyrannical Qin?" It is really crazy to try to drive you to run for it all the time, and to send envoys to the oceans without any regrets! ”

As a hardcore clear stream, Zhang Peilun has always been haunted by the fact that his loyal master, the court, was beaten down.

Unexpectedly, Li Hongzhang smiled meaningfully: "The old man can have the opportunity to travel around the world, it is better than sitting at home, why not?" Go. ”

In mid-October, Li Hongzhang announced that he had accepted the invitation of the US President to visit the United States. Yang Hao said that he was happy to see it come to fruition, and sent a naval escort to start a protracted whirlwind diplomacy. (To be continued......)