"You know we're all going to be killed if you do that, and we're going to die without God knowing." Deputy County Magistrate Xu's voice was shaking!

"No, it won't!" Zhao Yun looked strange and quietly listened to Deputy County Magistrate Xu's words.

Wanxian County, Sichuan Province stores a batch of tung oil that the British foreign company is preparing to ship. This batch of tung oil was originally determined to be carried to Wuhan by the wooden ship of the "Sichuan Chu Boat Gang". In the afternoon of the same day, the "Wanliu" freighter sailed through Wanxian County and docked at the shore. The foreign bank Taipan Hao Lai changed his mind and suddenly announced that it would be shipped by the "Wanliu" freighter. This breach of contract caused the shipwrights to protest, and the "Chuanchu Boat Gang" would be the first to come forward to negotiate, but Hao Lai refused to accept it. The head of the meeting proposed that the "Wanliu" freighter and the "Chuanchu Boat Gang" wooden ship each carry a part of the shipment, but Hao Lai still did not accept it. When Hao Lai urged the cargo to be loaded on the ship, the boatmen stepped forward to stop him, and Hao Lai injured many people with his cane, arousing the anger of the boatmen. During the battle, Hao Lai himself fell into the water and drowned in the river.

After the incident, a British warship stationed in Wanxian aimed its cannon at the county seat and coerced the Wanxian authorities to ask Hao Lai, the leader of the boat gang, to take his life. The head of the boat gang is on the run after the incident. The British warships offered to use two shipwrights if they could not capture the leader of the ship's gang. It was also proposed that the Wanxian authorities must personally give Hao Lai's funeral and give a pension to Hao Lai's family. The captain of the British warship declared that if these conditions were not fulfilled within two days, the British ships would bombard the county town with artillery. The Beiyang government succumbed to British pressure and ordered Sichuan to deal with the aftermath and severely punish the murderers. A day later, the authorities shot Xiang Guoyuan and Cui Bangxing of the "Chuanchu Boat Gang" to death by the river. The military governor of Wanxian County personally walked behind Hao Lai's coffin to give him a funeral. After the incident was handled, the whole country was in an uproar.

Later, in order to consolidate its power in the Yangtze River valley, the British government dispatched a large number of warships to China, created friction along the southeast coast, and used merchant ships to commit misconduct in the inland rivers of China, provoking and causing trouble, and sinking the Chinese wooden ships and drowning the Chinese people in waves. (The real event is just because the plot needs time to advance)

"Got it! Little brother, my good county magistrate, you must not cause trouble here! Otherwise, all the counties and cities around Taihu Lake will not be able to eat and walk around. "This kind of big event is not just a loss of office, everyone in a circle along Taihu Lake can't run, so I can't let the deputy county magistrate not be nervous!

"Got it!" Zhao Yun gritted his teeth and spit out a sentence in a half-loud voice.

In the evening, Zhao Yun and Deputy County Magistrate Xu returned to the county office to wait, and waited until the evening when the news came from Wuxi that the warship had left Taihu Lake.

"Whew!" Deputy County Magistrate Xu exhaled heavily, "County Magistrate, it's getting late, or you will spend the night in the county office!" ”

Zhao Yun looked at the wall clock on the wall, it was already a little past. The British really come and go as they want!

"It's okay, I still have something I want to ask the deputy county magistrate! I happened to be free tonight, and now I'm sulking when I go back, and I can't sleep, I don't know if the deputy county magistrate can answer my questions? "Zhao Yun can't sleep at all now.

The docks there in Hangzhou Bay are already producing German submarines.

The various warships that were originally intended to be produced could not be produced for reasons that could not be kept secret. And this kind of World War I and World War II famous war weapons, Zhao Yun only sent spies to collect after hearing that the British warship entered the Yangtze River, and as a result, he paid the price of a dispatch person who was convicted of dereliction of duty, and got a German submarine of World War I as a prisoner from the British naval port, sailed it directly into the camp dock, and pushed it backwards. Then the same submarine was brought back to the British.

This time, a total of 20 dispatched personnel took action, either as cover, or set up the lighthouse, or directly drove the big guy to start and send it to the dock.

The hardships are enough to write a novel similar to that of the Allied death squads.

With the help of the warden of the prison, who was also "his own man", the arrested person was replaced by a death row prisoner, changed into a different identity, and infiltrated the British Navy's Plymouth Harbour again.

Now the spies have begun to march to the middle level of Britain, France and Germany, and Zhao Yun is not willing to take risks if there is no extraordinary situation.

It's just that Zhao Yun is not familiar with the submarines of World War I, and he does not dare to guarantee whether they will be discovered by anti-submarine ships.

But fortunately, the manufacturing cost of submarines is not high, no more than 1,000 yuan, Zhao Yun produced twenty in one go, ready to sell them to the overseers of Zhejiang to consolidate Zhejiang's coastal defense, and the direct overseers Zhao Yun could not believe them. Seeing how they looked at foreigners, Zhao Yun became angry.

Zhao Yun is ready to cooperate with the Zhejiang Overseers, first dismantling a few submarines, and then copying them, hoping to help the submarine construction in Huaxia.

Of course, these have to negotiate terms with the Zhejiang overseers. Submarines in this era still have a lot of restrictions, they can't stay on the bottom of the sea for a long time. The crew needs air, the engine needs air. The snorkel exposed to the surface may be hidden in front of the battleship, but for the anti-submarine aircraft in the air, neither speed nor the means of counterattack are helpless, and there is simply no place to hide in the vast sea area. There were a lot of seaplanes in this era.

However, it is enough for coastal defense.

Talking with Deputy County Magistrate Xu about the situation in Jiangsu, from Jiangnan to Jiangbei, Zhejiang, and Shanghai, Zhao Yun didn't know anything about these places in this era, but then he began to talk about the economy and foreign countries, Zhao Yun began to express his opinions, and Deputy County Magistrate Xu nodded again and again. However, when it comes to the international form, Zhao Yun can't keep up, so he can only talk about it.

Between 1912 and 1921, China's total output increased very slowly, per capita income barely increased, and the purchasing power of the ocean did not fluctuate much.

The influence of the Westernization Movement that emerged at the end of the Qing Dynasty still played a role in some sectors, and although the industrial sector and the transportation industry were smaller, they kept up with the trend of the world, and many new things continued to appear, but their impact on the whole country was limited, and everyone regarded them as Western landscapes.

During the Republic of China, most of the goods were still transported by backward traditional modes of transportation, and the contribution of traditional manpower shoulders, wooden boats, and animal power modes to national income was three times that of modern modes of transportation. For example, in 1915, the coking coal produced by Japan in Northeast China was 5.74 yuan a ton, and the transportation to Hanyang was 24.54 yuan a ton, and the transaction cost was 3.27 times the production cost. This was mainly due to the instability of the warlords in the country and the slow construction of the railway.

In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, a total of 9,618 kilometers of railways were built, and the movement in the early Republic of China was not large, and the number was pitiful. However, judging from the customs records, the goods transported by the private sector by traditional modes of transportation began to decline in the last year. It shows that more people are aware of the convenience brought by machinery.

If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, and there are still many well-known people who understand this sentence. Many large and medium-sized cities have begun to plan to build roads and railways to the outside world, and steam turbines will connect these cities with the outside world.

Now when you see a steamer running around with a big chimney in the river, few people will shout youkai!

This also told Zhao Yun about the feasibility of selling civilian bicycles, cars, trucks, and tugboats.

The coast of China has always been ahead of the inland. The large coastal cities were connected to the international market, and many new occupations and industries appeared in these areas, while the vast rural areas and the interior were basically self-sufficient societies, which remained basically unchanged from the Qing Dynasty, and the first to implement the village-level government enforcement unit was Yan Xishan in Shanxi. The clan power in rural areas is very large, and many of the cannibalistic teachings mentioned by Mr. Lu Xun come from these places. If the economy is poor, the mind will not be able to keep up. It is difficult for foreign goods to enter the Chinese market, and trade with foreign countries is limited.

Some new industrial equipment is also difficult to popularize and be used.

New occupations and Chinese and foreign enterprises developed in these cities, despite the continuous civil war, but many local bigwigs still had a tacit understanding of the development of arms and traditional heavy industry, the industrial growth rate was as high as 13.4% between 1912 and 1920, but this year in 1921 it was because of Outer Mongolia and led to a depression in the market, many materials were hoarded and not revitalized, but fortunately, Zhao Yun's crazy shopping led to the Jiangnan of the whole country's money bags to be revitalized first. This also made the Jiangsu and Zhejiang overseers surprised by Zhao Yun's strength, and their means of dealing with Zhao Yun were more secretive.

And in Wuhan, the steel mills there have also been constantly developing. Overseers everywhere also knew the importance of their region's economy.

Many people believe that the First World War reduced the competitive pressure of foreign products on the Chinese national industry, and thus gave the Chinese national industry the opportunity to develop during the First World War, although some basic industries such as flour mills developed, but many heavy industry projects had to be postponed because of the lack of much-needed equipment because of the First World War.

The proportion of modern industry owned by the Chinese people in the total modern industry has not changed much in the early Republic of China, and the per capita foreign investment in China was $3.75 in 1914, and this proportion has not changed much after nearly ten years. Foreign investment accounts for only 1 per cent of net national product.

Foreigners did not fully realize the development prospects of Huaxia, but regarded her as a source of raw materials.

During the period of the Republic of China, although the countryside was still basically self-sufficient, professional businessmen were more developed in commercially developed cities and coastal areas than in generally backward countries, which is also the reason why Shanghai can have ten miles of foreign companies and become the pearl of the Far East. Domestic trade between the coastal areas of Shanghai and Ningbo and the rest of the Yangtze River basin was the main business of these merchants.

The emergence of specialized warehouses, the emergence of guilds and chambers of commerce that specialized in coordinating and regulating commercial activities, and gave rise to a fairly developed financial network of its own. For example: Shanxi ticket number.

Various money banks and pawnshops have also formed a scale in coastal and developed areas, and various industrial customs and private laws (that is, unspoken rules) have also developed.

In the silk weaving industry in the Yangtze River basin, Huzhou people had already gone to Shanghai to set up a private machine qì silk reeling factory in the late Qing Dynasty to do business with foreigners. Merchants from all over the country began to look for foreigners everywhere to dig for gold. Zhao Yun found that he had a lot of opportunities, and now the overseers everywhere knew that there was such a person in Jiangsu, and now there was hope for them to cooperate, but they had to pass the Nanjing pass first.