Chapter 249: Off-the-Field Failure (II)

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The weather is getting hotter a little bit, but the hearts of the people in Beijing are getting cooler, because the capital of the Republic of China Nanjing has been decided, so everyone knows that it is a matter of time before the capital moves to the north and falls lonely ().

The officials have already begun to run south, so there are obviously a lot fewer guests in the teahouse tavern, and the grandeur of the Bada Hutong has gradually dispersed, and it is said that many girls have planned to go south to the Qinhuai River to continue to operate the skin and meat trade. Now the most discussed thing in the city is not who sits in the world, but the reason why Yuan Shikai is paralyzed and bedridden and whether war will break out between China and Japan.

Duan Qirui put on a military uniform and hung the medal all over his chest, and now the Beiyang Medal is no longer valuable, but he insists on wearing it neatly every day, as if he will be despised by others if he hangs one less. After he was dressed neatly, Wu Guangxin walked in, and when he saw so many bits and pieces on his chest, he couldn't help frowning, and secretly said that his brother-in-law is good at everything, but this habit is not good, and now it is related to the future reunification negotiations of Beiyang, so domineering to sit in the conference room, no wonder there has been no charter for a few days.

However, he didn't ask much, because now Beiyang has been divided into two groups, one is Liang Shiyi, Yang Du and Chen Huan of the First Army of the Department of Transportation, and others think that power should be completely decentralized. One wave was Duan Qirui, Duan Zhigui, Lu Jianzhang and Cao Kun, who believed that even if Beiyang was merged into the National Defense Force, it should ensure that the original subordinates of each division remained unchanged.

Liang Shiyi robbed the money, and Duan Qirui had the second army as the backing, so the two factions are fighting fiercely now.

Wu Guangxin is Duan Qirui's brother-in-law (brother-in-law), and originally considered arranging for him to replace Lu Yongxiang to take over the 20th Division, but the position of the main road outside Shanhaiguan is important, and this brother-in-law's eating, drinking, prostitution and gambling are really not reassuring, so he had to let Fu Liangzuo take over (). Seeing him, he asked, "Is the car ready?" ”

"I'm waiting downstairs." Wu Guangxin patted his briefcase: "This is the bill for today's peace talks, and I have it with me." ”

Duan Qirui glanced at the briefcase, picked up the gun and hung it on his waist and asked, "How is the palace guard?" ”

Wu Guangxin pursed his lips with a look of disdain: "It's not like that, I can't move anymore when I lie on the bed, and Yang Shiqi is still on the side." Several aunts and wives in the family are now fighting for property, and yesterday Yuan Keding had to sell all the calligraphy and paintings at home, and as a result, he had a fight with Yuan Kewen. ”

"Shameless!" Duan Qirui gritted his teeth and scolded secretly, although Yuan Shikai couldn't move, but after all, he was his old boss, and sighed and said: "Go and take care of it, if anyone messes around again, don't blame me for not giving face." ”

Wu Guangxin understood what he meant, although Yuan Shikai fell, there were still many people facing him, and helping him deal with family affairs could also win over those people, and he was just about to turn around and make a phone call and stopped: "By the way, Wu Wenjue called just now and said that he wanted us to open the railway station and let the two brigades of the National Defense Force go north to Mukden to prevent the Japanese from sneaking up on the Northeast." ”

Hearing this request, Duan Qirui couldn't help but slap the table fiercely: "This Yang Qiu, do you really want to force us to death?" ”

Wu Guangxin didn't dare to answer, if the Zhili section of the Jinghan Line and the Jingfeng Line were opened and two brigades were allowed to go over, it would be the same as putting a brigade to support Dongying before, which would be equivalent to outflanking the Beiyang back road, but wouldn't it be released? Now that the Wehrmacht has the final say, if it really provokes people and continues to fight, no one will have good fruit to eat. So Duan Qirui was angry, and finally nodded: "Let it go, let it go!" Anyway, it's like this, there's no need to die and consume, and in the end, someone will poke you in the back. ”

After explaining the matter of opening the railway, the two drove to the meeting place, and as soon as they got off the train, they saw Liang Shiyi and Yang Du also arriving, and walked in with a cold snort.

Looking at his back, Yang Du sighed, these old Beiyang still didn't understand one thing, how could they continue to exist with Yang Qiu's means? Bing Yang Qiu wants, but people may be able to keep their jobs if they cooperate honestly, and if they want to set up a small hill, it will be the end of the second Kuomintang ().

After walking into the conference room with Liang Shiyi, a figure he hadn't seen for a long time made him stop suddenly, and even Duan Qirui, who came first, frowned.

Feng Huafu!

What is this old guy doing here?

Wu Tingfang and Wang Zhengting were pulling Feng Guozhang to talk and laugh, and when they saw the four of them, they immediately got up: "Hehe, everyone is an old acquaintance, and there is no need to greet each other, why don't you start today's meeting?" ”

Duan Qirui's heart suddenly had a bad feeling, and he turned his head to look at Feng Guozhang, but Old Man Feng actually turned around and didn't see it, so he couldn't help but sink down: "Brother Wenjue, Huafu him?" ”

Wang Zhengting took the lead and smiled: "Old General Feng has accepted the appointment of the president and vice president, and has agreed to serve as the deputy chief of general staff of the army. After he finished speaking, he pretended to pat his head and raised his voice a few degrees: "Look at my memory, the reorganization plan of the First Army in this meeting and Xuzhou can be removed, because General Chen Huan has already agreed to the reorganization plan with the entire First Army last night, and Xuzhou also opened the door last night." ”

Feng Guozhang as deputy chief of the General Staff? Chen Huan has been disarmed! Xuzhou is also gone? The three news shocked Duan Qirui and didn't say anything, looking at Wu Tingfang and Wang Zhengting with a smile on the corner of his mouth, he really had the idea of going directly to Wuchang to beat Yang Qiu, this guy blocked his own way.

Yang Qiu, who used Feng Guozhang to balance Duan Qirui, was not at all proud, and at the moment he was discussing the production situation with several technicians at the Hankou Tractor Factory.

After improvement, after adopting the assembly line method pioneered by Hubei Industrial Company, Hankou Tractor Factory has faintly had the shadow of some modern large factories. More than two dozen tractor chassis are lined up in two columns in the factory, and workers are assembling tractors from imported components.

As the first tractor factory to be introduced, it currently produces American wheeled and tracked Type 77 steam tractors, and like all new heavy factories, it can only be temporarily assembled with American-made parts in the absence of design, which has achieved the purpose of training workers and training their own design team ().

The lined chassis made Yang Qiu seem to see the shadow of some tank factories in old photos, but he also knew that without three or five years of exercise, even if he could build a "water tank" in World War I, he could not become a scale, but fortunately, he was not in a hurry for these gold-swallowing monsters, but with the unification of Henan, Shaanxi and other places, the urgent need for large-scale reclamation machinery to develop agriculture and forestry is the most important.

"How many cars can be built a month at the moment?" After Yang Qiu found a place to sit down, he asked the two young technicians beside him.

Wu Qingdu and Yuan Zhongquan, both 26 years old this year, were among the first batch of Gengzi Year indemnity students to study in the United States in 1906, studying electrical and mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respectively.

In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, it was not without talents, and the total number of international students who received the three batches of Gengzi annual compensation alone reached 170. There are many people in all walks of life, such as machinery, chemistry, biomedicine, petroleum and mineral deposits, agriculture, forestry and water conservancy, business administration, and even ship and warship design.

Therefore, he paid attention to absorbing these talents very early, not only sent people to the United States as early as possible to sign generous contracts with the three batches of Gengzi annual indemnity students who stayed in the United States after returning to China, but also introduced more than 500 non-governmental and overseas Chinese children through different channels, these people are generally between 20 and 35 years old, many of whom have joined the newly built factories in the southwest, and there are more than 300 people in his private three companies in Hubei, Chongqing, and Jiangnan alone.

According to his ideas, coupled with the Gengzi students who have not yet graduated, the students who have been sent abroad one after another and the talents introduced by non-governmental channels, they can initially establish the five major talent bases of Hanyang, Chongqing, Shanghai, Fujian Mawei and Pingxiang Xiangtan Chemical Industry Circle, if you add several universities in southwest China and universities all over the country, technical schools, etc., there is no problem in establishing a Chinese technical team of tens of thousands after ten years, and these people can basically get rid of foreign dependence with the introduction of Austria-Hungary, Russia and other technical expertsto ensure the needs of nation-building.

The two are also very excited about being able to take charge of such a large project as soon as they return to China, and said: "With the assembly parts, we can currently manufacture about 20 vehicles per month, because the United States provides the drawings, so we are slowly transitioning to complete self-construction, and it is expected that all parts will be produced in-house in one year at the latest." ”

20 cars a month is really nothing, even if the second factory in Hunan is put into operation in a year, it will only double, so he got up and walked to a chassis and pointed to the steel beam and said: "Our workers can't compare the number with Europe and the United States, so we can't be too strict with the workers in this aspect, and we must optimize and tap the current human resources through engineering design." For example, there are a lot of spare parts on such a tractor, and I just heard from you that most of the parts are ready to be produced in-house, but this is completely unnecessary. ”

Yang Qiu gave a detailed introduction to the methods of standardization of parts in later generations, and said: "This is really a lot of work now, because you need to standardize all the parts, but after the foundation is laid, you can contract the parts to other factories in the country to do, such as Jiangnan, Jinling, Mawei, and even private new shipyards, Hanyang Parrot Zhou Machinery Factory, Guangdong Union Factory, Tianjin Dagu and so on." As long as you strictly card the quality of the standard parts, so that they can also have work and earn money, you are only responsible for the main components and assembly, and the manpower can be much faster. In the future, if you develop a new model, you should also consider the use of standard parts, and try to make the old model and the new model of some equipment interchangeable, so as to develop the enterprise and form our own national brand. ”

Not to mention the two of them, Jiang Fangzhen and Liu Qingen and others who accompanied them to visit also listened to their eyes, and after the industrial standardization and streamlining that everyone knew in later generations calmed everyone, Yang Qiucai smiled slightly, and asked Lei Meng to take a thick briefcase and hand it to the two: "This is the chassis drawings of several small tractors I bought, using internal combustion engines, for you to participate in the research." Large steam tractors can be promoted in the northwest and north, and the dense and small water network in the south has more advantages. ”

Yang Qiuna has time to buy any small tractor chassis drawings, and what he gave is directly the chassis of several light tanks in the parallel world, including the French Renault FT-17, the German No. 1 tank, the American M3, M24, the Czech LT35 and so on, but it is not wrong, the tank chassis and the tractor can be used universally, and they will not be in a hurry in the future to study first.

The two were immediately drawn to the detailed drawings, which included freestanding coil springs, all-steel single-pin track shoes, leaf spring balanced suspension, gearbox and drivetrain design. If nothing else, the coarse coil spring alone is not something that can be manufactured at the special steel mill of the Chongqing Industrial Company, which has just bought back a set of second-hand Swedish mild steel equipment.

Yang Qiu also knew that he couldn't make it, but it didn't prevent him from studying it first.

The two were originally obsessed with mechanical motors, so they were reluctant to let go of the drawings, and then even the technicians of the Hubei Industrial Company who accompanied them to visit were rolled in, and after seeing their eyes full of stars, Yang Qiu simply let them study by themselves, only to explain that they must send someone to take care of the drawings to prevent leakage, and then left the tractor factory with Jiang Fangzhen.

Liu Qingen knew best what it meant for the technology provided by Yang Qiu, so he deliberately explained it several times, and when he saw that he was so cautious, everyone nodded.

"I didn't expect the commander-in-chief to know so much technology, standardized procurement of parts, and unified assembly." Out of the gate, Jiang Fangzhen was still thinking about his words, and the appearance of muttering to himself made Yang Qiu cry and laugh: "My senior principal, don't get involved in these things, let's help me think about how to deal with Japan." ”

Speaking of Japan, Jiang Fangzhen was a lot more serious: "Judging from the current domestic situation in Japan, a large-scale war is definitely impossible, but small-scale retaliation exists, but if you want to make a correct judgment, you must first understand why the Japanese Army is taking risks this time." ”

"Yes, I can't figure it out either, it stands to reason that they should know that entering Shandong will be opposed by us, and even if we don't do it, Germany won't give up, so." Yang Qiu said to himself When he said this, he suddenly thought of something, and suddenly looked at Jiang Fangzhen, who was also a little stunned after seeing his eyes.

"I see!"

Yang Qiu clapped his hands and wanted to understand why Japan wanted to enter Shandong under the different international environment, it should be said that this was a bitter ploy of the Japanese Army's self-exercise and self-directing! The reason is a strange circle that has been hovering over the Japanese Army for decades.

Kwantung Army!

If the ghost of the Japanese Navy is the so-called 88th Fleet, then the militarists in the Japanese Army have been dreaming of establishing the Kwantung Army since the First Sino-Japanese War to defend the Kwantung Prefecture (Japan calls itself the Liaodong Peninsula and South Manchuria, the Kwantung Prefecture) and as an outpost to China, but due to the severe decline of national strength after the Russo-Japanese War, the Constitutional Council and other factors, the Japanese Army has not been able to implement the plan of forming two new divisions in Korea, for which the two governments of Saionji Konobo and Katsura Taro were forced to resign until the outbreak of the Siemens Incident. It was only after Shigenobu Okuma, who was supported by Yama Aritomo, came to power that the prototype of the Kwantung Army was formalized by increasing the establishment of two divisions in Korea.

Later, the Kwantung Army not only became a nightmare for China, but also poured a lot of money into the Japanese Army, resulting in limited resources being consumed in the vast Northeast and Siberia, and later the Kwantung Army was transferred to the Pacific Theater, which also meant that Japan officially went into decline.

Seeing that Jiang Fangzhen was still a little puzzled, Yang Qiu was about to say his analysis, Cai Gongshi hurriedly ran over: "I just received a telegram from Nanjing, according to the latest news, the Japanese government and the National Assembly officially passed the proposal to form the 19th and 20th divisions yesterday afternoon, and both troops will be deployed to South Manchuria and Korea. ”

Looking at the telegram, Yang Qiu figured out a lot of things, and smiled bitterly in his heart.

I still lost to the old guys like Youpeng in Yama County, and the sacrifice of a brigade was exchanged for the appearance of two divisions and the Kwantung Army, and I would do this deal if I did it myself.

On the other hand, he ate a brigade, but he put a tiger into the Northeast early! If you want to fight, you must deploy at least 3 to 4 divisions of troops, put 4 elite divisions in the northeast, and when Qingdao starts to fight next year, you need at least 5 divisions, and you need at least 3 divisions in the northwest, plus there are not so many troops in the hinterland.

Why did Japan make preparations to attack Qingdao in 1914, it's all nonsense! How could the old foxes of Youpeng in Shan County not see the current situation in Europe, so they have been quietly deploying for a long time. I'm just a tool that others use to blackmail the government and Congress! If he doesn't show up, China will continue to remain divided and warlordized, and this old guy won't care about forming two more divisions at once, but now that China is unified, he must consider pinning down part of his troops, and then wait for the two groups to take Qingdao and even the whole of Shandong after the war!

“***！ Go tell Duan Qirui that after giving him ten days and ten days, the negotiations are not over, so we won't talk about it! Under the gaze of Jiang Fangzhen, Cai Gongshi and others, Yang Qiu, who had exploded into a foul mouth, squeezed the telegram into a ball.

He lost a mess this time.

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