After the First Battle of Mt. Lost, it is said that the stronghold on the outskirts of Kyushu has been pulled out. The Chinese Empire took control of Tsushima and the Fukue Islands, and a landing operation on the mainland was about to begin.

Both the General Staff of the Chinese Empire and the National Assembly were not too satisfied with the Battle of the Fujiang Islands, so they ordered Yang Yonglin, commander of the First Task Force in charge of the operation, to return to Yanjing to explain to the Congress.

On 30 November, Yang Yonglin submitted a report entitled "Lessons from the Lost Mountain" to the General Staff Headquarters, in which he expounded a series of experiences: For a well-fortified island, it is far from enough to rely on a few hours of naval and air fire preparation. The nearby islands should be seized first, and ground artillery should be deployed for artillery support. For islands with reef obstacles, it is necessary to prepare a sufficient number of landing craft or landing craft with a shallow draft. When the landing force rushes to the beach, the navy must carry out close firing in order to provide effective fire cover. In order to ensure the smooth implementation of operational command, it is necessary to build a special landing command ship.

After that, the Chinese Emperor [***] built a complete fortification on Miyako Island in the Ryukyu Islands, completely according to the situation of Tongshan, and then organized warships to shoot, and finally found that to destroy such a strong fortification, only slow and accurate fire and firing large-caliber time-delay fuse shells could be effective.

Due to the huge casualties of the Chinese Emperor [***] in the Battle of Lost Mountain, through this battle, the Chinese Emperor [***] team gained a lot of experience, which has extremely important value and significance for the future landing battle, as Yang Yonglin said in the National Assembly, even if the above experience is not obtained in the Lost Mountain, it is inevitable to use the same or even greater cost to obtain it in other places. Therefore, the Battle of Lost Hill was vividly praised as the "cradle of victory" by Rear Admiral Li Jiwen, a historian of naval warfare in the Chinese Empire.

The third roundabout that the Chinese Emperor [***] planned to land on the Fukue Islands was Ukushima, which was located about 40 kilometers southeast of the Fukue Islands.

The Chinese Emperor [***] planned to first carry a detachment of marines on board the "Electric Fish" and other submarines to carry out reconnaissance on the island, and then organize troops to land after occupying Ojika Island and Tsushima Island.

On 18 November, the submarine "Electric Fish" arrived in the waters of Lishan Island and reported on the weather, waves, and the effect of the firepower preparations of the Chinese Emperor [***] in the area and the dynamics of the army.

At midnight on 20 November, when it arrived in the waters of the West Sea south of Ukushima, the submarine "Electric Fish" dropped its rubber boat and transported 68 marines and 10 engineers to the island with light weapons and supplies for 15 days.

On November 21, the Marines found that the Japanese army was weak, and immediately called for artillery support from the hunting fleet and launched an attack. The army resisted desperately, but the number of troops was too small, only 25 people, and after three hours of fighting, all of them were annihilated.

On November 26, the 3rd Battalion of the 206th Regiment of the 2nd Marine Division of the Imperial Chinese Army was sent to Ukushima Island and began to take on garrison duties.

The next day, the engineering troops went to the island and immediately built a wharf and an airfield in order to establish an air base for the next attack on Kyushu as soon as possible.

Yanjing, the dragon flag flutters in the sky above the Empire State Building.

Before defeating the Spoils, the members of Congress had already begun to discuss how much compensation and land to demand from the Sayben, and many departments had even begun to spit on each other as if they were distributing the spoils of the future, and even openly fought at the meeting.

Although Emperor Wang Chenhao was dissatisfied with the behavior and mentality of the congressmen, he thought that this was the only way in the process of Mingzhu, and any Mingzhuo country would need to go through such a process before reaching a high level of civilization.

Fortunately, to Wang Chenhao's delight, any developed capitalist country will go through a period of corruption, which may take more than ten years to correct (such as the United States), or decades (such as France), or it may perish without correction (such as the Republic of China). From the very beginning, the Chinese Empire has established a perfect supervision system under the strict control of Wang Chenhao, so that so far in the Chinese Empire, although the atmosphere of the political axe organs has not completely transitioned from the feudal society (mainly because many ministers and officials were born in the previous dynasty, and some ideas are deep-rooted), but on the issue of [***], the existence of the Imperial Anti-Corruption Office, the People's Procuratorate and other supervisory organs has made the Chinese Imperial Political Axe the most honest among all the national political axe organs in the world. It has been well received and praised by the society at home and abroad.

Therefore, although the emperor Wang Chenhao has a lot of dissatisfaction with the style and thinking of some imperial officials, he thinks that they are at least incorruptible, so Wang Chenhao turns a blind eye and pretends not to know.

In Wang Chenhao's words, the process of boiling in the Chinese Empire cannot be completed in ten or eight years, and it will take decades or even hundreds of years to complete. At least until the citizens of the empire who were born after the first year of Guanghua and had been growing up in a bright and civilized environment of the empire, until they entered politics, the situation could be completely improved.

Regarding the reform process of the Chinese Empire, Wang Chenhao understood that it would take time, and it would not be possible to force it in a short time. However, for the economic construction model of the empire and the future direction of national economic development, Wang Chenhao can still use his imperial power to enforce this.

In the current period, the economic model of the Chinese Empire has shifted to the mode of war, but to deal with a small capital, the Chinese Empire does not need to consume too many economic resources, so although the national economy has shifted to the wartime production mode, only 1% is used for the consumption of war, 30% of the materials are used for the national strategic reserves, and 69% of the materials are still exported to the European allies and the Entente countries, earning the gold of European countries, which is still the primary and most important task.

With the outbreak of the First World War almost a year on, the war attrition of the various belligerents in Europe was enormous and increased exponentially.

Earlier, under the wise leadership of Wang Chenhao, the Chinese Empire purchased grain and other strategic materials from all over the world on a large scale from the very beginning, so that European countries found that the strategic materials they needed were in short supply soon after the outbreak of the war, and they had to import them from the Chinese Empire at a high price.

It can be said that the political axes of various countries are extremely jealous of the Chinese Empire's state-level hoarding and speculation, and are jealous of the visionary strategy of the Chinese Empire.

After the outbreak of the war in Europe, the young and strong people of various countries have been conscripted into the army, so that the farmland in their countries is deserted, and food, the most important material of the war, has become urgently needed, and can only endure the slaughter of the grain merchants of the Chinese Empire.

In the thirteenth year of Guanghua, the grain harvest of the Chinese Empire continued to be abundant, exceeding 150 million tons. In addition to the increase in arable land brought about by the expansion of China's territory, the growth of grain has also benefited from the realization of agricultural mechanization, which has improved the scale and efficiency of farming, and the rapid development of the imperial chemical industry, and the widespread use of cheap chemical fertilizers that can increase production.

However, it is not these aspects that are most important. The most critical issue that can improve food production is the issue of grain seeds.

Wang Chenhao ordered more than 100 units, including the Imperial Beiyang Science and Technology Biological Laboratory, the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and major agricultural universities, to jointly develop grain seeds for increasing production.

As early as 1902, Wang Chenhao ordered the relevant departments to study the problem of fine grain varieties. However, although Wang Chenhao studied biological hybrid rice in high school, he has long forgotten about it, and at this time, he remembered the high-yield hybrid rice of later generations, but there was no way at all.

I had to give some hints to agriculturists in a daze, but Wang Chenhao obviously underestimated the madness of scientists in this era.

Because every time Wang Chenhao proposed ideas to the scientists in the agricultural laboratory, they would eventually come true, so that these scientists had a strong interest in the hybrid rice varieties mentioned by Wang Chenhao, and at the same time, the imperial political axe officials put great pressure on these scientists, that is, whatever His Majesty the Emperor asked, no matter how much it cost, it must be completed.

In this regard, the officials of the imperial political axe did not hesitate to risk being prosecuted by the Supervision Office, and tried their best to embezzle funds under various names to fully support the research of agricultural scientists, as long as they could complete the tasks assigned by Wang Chenhao.

But when mortals do something, they are afraid that they will not be interested and have no pressure. As long as there is interest and pressure, no matter how difficult things are, they will become simpler.

At this time, the Chinese Empire, under the vigorous advocacy of Wang Chenhao, continued to collect scientists and scientists' scientific research achievements from abroad. Due to this period, countries did not pay much attention to the management of scientists, and allowed scientists to run around the world. Therefore, all this has created conditions for the imperial political axe to poach people all over the world.

Since the day Wang Chenhao became the king of grass, he began to scrape scientists all over the world, or hired with high salaries, or coerced and enticed, or arrested and kidnapped.

More than ninety percent of China's scientific and technological achievements have basically been achieved with the help of tens of thousands of scientists from all over the world. At the same time, for more than ten years, the imperial political axe itself has cultivated a large number of scientific and technological talents, and following these foreign scientists, it has created a scientific and technological team that completely belongs to the Chinese. Of course, except for Tesla and other super bulls that cannot be replaced, even if other scientists leave China, the impact on China will not be great.

It is Wang Chenhao who has spent a huge amount of money to painstakingly train a large number of local Chinese scientists in the context of China's generally backward education, which has established China's current leading position in science and technology. In Wang Chenhao's words, foreign devils can't be trusted, and they have to be their own people!

Local Chinese scientists are like gods to Wang Chenhao's words, as long as Wang Chenhao thinks of something, they will go all out to research and develop.

Hundreds of plant and animal scientists have tested all the existing rice varieties in the world and cross-cultured them.

For scientists, what they lack is technology, and what they lack most is theory and ideas. During this period, international botany generally believed in the theory of casteless hybridization of rice. However, Wang Chenhao told scientists that the hybrid rice of the future is a surname hybrid.

Because these scientists believed in Wang Chenhao's visionary thoughts, they jumped out of the circle of surnameless hybridization theory and began to conduct experiments on surname-based hybridization of rice.

According to Wang Chenhao's idea, when Yuan Longping was in a poor mess in the country, he was able to use the existing rudimentary equipment and technology, and relied on the strength of one person to drum up hybrid rice. Nowadays, the imperial political axe wants money and people, and the equipment technology is far better than in the Yuan Longping period. The only deficiency is that the hundreds of scientists in the laboratory may not have the luck of Yuan Longping to encounter the hybrid rice that stands out from the crowd.

Lady luck always comes when Wang Chenhao misses her the most. Hundreds of scientists have carried out hybrid tests on all rice varieties in the world, up to 10,000 varieties, and carried out hundreds of thousands of tests, which is a huge project that cannot be completed for Yuan Longping, a scientist in later generations, but in front of hundreds of scientists and experts in the empire, it is a very easy thing.

Finally, Li Youcan, who graduated from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of Peiyang University and is now a lecturer at Imperial Agricultural University, was the first to discover the true principle of hybrid rice and cultivated the first generation of hybrid rice.

With the ontology of the first generation of hybrid rice, things will be much easier in the future. Hundreds of scientists worked together to continue the research and experiment in this direction, and finally in February 1910, the Beiyang Biological Laboratory finally completed the development of hybrid rice, and successfully planted rice with a yield of 400 kilograms per mu. It once again confirmed Wang Chenhao's great idea, and all scientists revered Wang Chenhao with the highest reverence, and some even directly called Wang Chenhao the reincarnation of the gods.

Since the 11th year of Guanghua, hybrid rice has been cultivated in the agricultural production base of Zhili and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. According to the estimates of the Imperial Ministry of Agriculture, once the large-scale cultivation of hybrid rice is successful, the Chinese Empire will increase its annual grain production from the current 110 million tons to 400 million tons. With an average of one ton of grain per person, it will surpass the per capita grain level of the first-class powers, the United States and the United Kingdom, and become the world's largest grain producer and per capita grain country.

However, it will take time to reach the scale of 400 million tons of food. Since the imperial government had just begun to cultivate and promote hybrid rice, the base was still too small. It will take two years for it to truly spread across the country.

The Beiyang Biological Laboratory not only studies rice, but also carries out large-scale development of agricultural products such as high-yield corn and soybeans, constantly updating varieties and continuously improving yields.

It was in this environment that the grain output of the Chinese Empire reached 150 million tons in 1913, and with the further promotion of hybrid rice, the Chinese Empire not only had its own rich grain reserves in the next year and for some time to come, but also could export it on a large scale.

Especially at the outbreak of world wars, food, as one of the most important strategic materials, often determines the balance of war. The Chinese Empire could make money by exporting grain, and controlling grain to control the political, military, and economic affairs of the various belligerents was a great help. In terms of making money, the merchants of the grain-rich Chinese Empire turned grain into alcohol and wine, which were luxury goods that were restricted by the European belligerents, and the Chinese Empire relied on the channel of the International Red Cross rescue team to smuggle this commodity on a large scale, and the profits were dozens of times higher than that of selling grain directly, and a large amount of gold and silver were transported to the Chinese Empire (trade between countries could only be settled in gold and silver, and paper money was not collected).

While China's agriculture has made great achievements, China's industry continues to grow steadily and rapidly.

By the end of 1913, the Chinese Empire's railway and road networks were largely complete. The completion of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway and the Qinghai-Tibet Highway marked the completion of the goal of connecting all provinces of the Chinese Empire with railways and highways. In this way, the resources of the provinces can be transported by rail. It not only improves the transportation network of China, but also drives the economic development along the route, because commerce and industry should consider the convenience of transportation, and they like to develop in areas with convenient transportation. At the same time, people of all ethnic groups in the country can trade and exchange through railways to promote national unity. And the most important thing is to consolidate China's national defense, in the past, it took half a year to send troops from Yanjing to reach the border such as Tibet Province, Xinjiang Province, Northern Xinjiang and other places, but now it only takes five or six days, strengthening the control of the central political axe of the Chinese Empire over the local political axe.

While land traffic has formed a large network, air traffic has also flourished. Airports have been established in all provinces to speed up economic development in peacetime as civilian use. In wartime, it was converted to the military, so that the emperor [***] team could put troops in a short period of time.

Just as the United States has developed rapidly, China's enormous economic potential has been unleashed when it has completed its rail network. Commerce can only flourish in populous areas, and China's huge population gives it a huge space for business development.

A country is not rich without business, and the richness of a country depends on the prosperity of its commerce. Especially the habit of Chinese, they like to have more people to join in the fun, and this habit is simply the best business atmosphere.

With the construction of railways and airports, rail and air transport have become the main arteries of China's commercial boom, which in turn stimulates the development of commerce and trade along the railway routes.

The expansion and development of domestic trade in turn stimulates the development of light and heavy industries.

With Tesla's construction of the world's largest high-voltage transmission grid in Zhili, the power from the Xiaolangdi Hydropower Station on the Yellow River can be transmitted over ultra-long distances, covering Zhili and the northern provinces, and the traditional coal steam power has gradually begun to be replaced by hydropower.

As early as the 19th century, with the progress of electromagnetism theory, engineering and technical experts were keenly aware of the significance of electric power technology to human life, and devoted themselves to the research of electric power development, transmission and utilization.

In 1834, the first practical electric motor was born, and the electric motor entered the practical stage. At the same time, the generator is also in the development stage. In the early days, most of the people used direct current, especially under the influence of Edison, people did not dare to use alternating current.

At the same time, at that time, a generator could basically only be used for one or a few lighting houses, and later, the power of the generator became larger and larger, and the power supply range became wider and wider, and entrepreneurs built power stations, so there was a technical problem of long-distance power transmission.

In 1882, an electrical technician in France built the world's first experimental line for long-distance direct current transmission. In 1890~1891, the world's first three-phase AC transmission line was erected from Laufen, France to Frankfurt, Germany. With the continuous development and improvement of AC technology, AC transmission has opened up broad prospects for the development of the power industry.

Tesla is undoubtedly an authoritative figure in power research, and since the Second Sino-Russian War, Tesla has asked Wang Chenhao to open up a site for him to test high-voltage transmission. Wang Chenhao knew Tesla's ability to alternate current, and he also wanted to let China carry out the second industrial revolution as soon as possible and go ahead of the great powers. Therefore, Wang Chenhao approved the establishment of the power revolution.

The electrification revolution is not something that can be completed in a year or two, so Wang Chenhao gave Tesla ten years, during which he asked the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Finance to fully cooperate.

Tesla has never liked to be brute, and what he wants to do has actually been run in his head. Therefore, Wang Chenhao has always wondered if this guy is a future alien, but his head was caught by the door, so that he lost his memory. Of course, with the existence of Area 51, Wang Chenhao's idea is not unreasonable.

Tesla first built a super-large hydropower station on the Yellow River, and then built a super-large high-voltage transmission substation near the power station. Five years have passed since all these experiments were completed.

In the following time, Tesla has a lot of other work to do, and it has been delayed for a while.

Beginning in 1910, Tesla restarted research on large electric motors. Two years later, he developed a large AC motor that could be used in industrial production.

The successful development of large-scale AC motors has made all boiler coal steam engines in the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Industrial Base come to an end and officially withdraw from the stage of history.

Compared with steam engines, large electric motors are not only small in size, easy to manage, but also use clean and cheap electricity, so they do not have to worry about transporting coal and air pollution.

At the same time, many industries no longer rely on coal, and factories do not need to be located in coal-rich areas, which greatly reduces costs.

Since the motor was put into use in the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Industrial Base, in one year, the energy consumption cost of the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Industrial Base has been reduced by 80%, and the output value has increased by 30%, which can be described as a great harvest.

For this reason, Emperor Wang Chenhot awarded Tesla the Order of Baoding of the First Class and the title of Marquis of the First Class to Tesla in recognition of Tesla's outstanding contributions.

In October 1913, after receiving a report on the work of the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Industrial Base, the Imperial Congress of China approved a project allocation of 1 billion dragon coins to promote the production and use of electrified equipment throughout the country under the semi-forced "promotion" of the imperial emperor Wang Chenhao. Electricity is not only cheaper than coal, but also much more efficient than coal. China has a huge amount of coal, but it is a country with a very uneven distribution of coal. Every year, the cost of many factories is high just for the transportation of coal, which seriously hinders the rapid development of China's industry.

The large-scale promotion of electricity in China has made China's industry no longer dependent on coal as an energy source, liberated productivity, and accelerated the pace of development and growth of China's industry.

In addition, electricity will replace coal in the next 10 years, so the empire will build 3,000 hydropower stations and 5,000 thermal power stations across the country in the next ten years, all over the country. Encourage the establishment of electrified factories to produce various electrical appliances.

As a result, when the Europeans were scrambling, the Chinese Empire set off the world's second industrial and technological revolution, and the electric power revolution quietly unfolded in China.

(To be continued)