When Dai Yunong began to find a relationship to get close to the Nanyang People's Party and was preparing to trap people, Yang Du also ran all over the country for moving the capital and amending the constitution, and when he returned to Nanjing, the five-year National Congress of the National Congress of the National Society had already been held in Zhengzhou, so he rushed to Zhengzhou non-stop to report the progress of the matter to Yang Qiu. 1. Zhengzhou is now a veritable railway hub center, with the Jinghan Line, Longhai Line, Zhengtai Line and the Zhengji Line under construction converging in one place, and the Yellow River waterway is close at hand, and the ancient city of the Central Plains is full of vitality.

In addition to the railways extending in all directions, Henan has also undergone earth-shaking changes in the past 14 years of the Republic of China. First of all, the population has dropped from 30 million in the early years of the Republic of China to less than 24 million now, and nearly 6 million people have been evacuated and emigrated to eight border provinces such as Beihai, Xinjiang, and Kashgar in the nine years after the Chengcheng Act. Secondly, for the first time in the Central Plains, there was an industrial scene lined with chimneys. Driven by the state-owned Zhengzhou Industrial Group, and using resources such as railways, waterways, coal and iron, a comprehensive large-scale group company like the Hanyang Industrial Group was rapidly established. Adopting the standard parts requirements formulated by the Ministry of Subcontracting and Industry, a large number of low-end accessories are contracted to surrounding private factories, and the Central Plains industry is gradually pulled up.

As soon as Yang Du got off the train, he saw that the front was blocked by soldiers, and Zhan Tianyou was circling around a train without a chimney during the break. ”

"It's Skin, you're finally here. The Vice President asked about it at the morning meeting. Although Zhan Tianyou doesn't ask about politics, he still understands the recent boiling wind of moving the capital, and he also knows that Yang Qiu deliberately let Yang Du blow it off.

Yang Du saw a train without a chimney for the first time, and only found out after asking. It turned out that this was a new product of Zhengzhou Railway Factory, a new locomotive powered by a diesel internal combustion engine. The engine came from a large marine diesel engine developed by Germany for the Mackensen-class battlecruisers in the Rhineland Project, and the Hanyang Engine Factory not only successfully copied it, but also improved it with German engineers. The power is two percent higher than that of the original model. But because the Navy temporarily Chapter 584 hapless Kuomintang does not consider the internal combustion engine. In order to reserve technology and maintain low-speed production, it was loaded on the train together with the Zhengzhou Group.

The advantage of diesel locomotives is their small size and fast start-up speed. The new locomotive could reach speeds of up to 60 kilometers per hour, and the disadvantage was that it had less power than a steam engine. 1. The van cannot be used. However, Zhan Tianyou attaches great importance to this technology, believing that it is the general trend that all countries are developing diesel locomotives, and has specially allocated 3 million from railway construction to fund this research.

Yang Du is a layman when it comes to technology. On the contrary, he was more concerned about Zhan Tianyou and asked, "Mr. Chengcheng, I heard that you are preparing to resign?" ”

"Hehe, when you're old, you can't stand it, and it's time to make way for young people." Zhan Tianyou's hand-held locomotive gaze was reluctant. In fact, since Tang Shaoyi stepped down, their group of young children who studied in the United States have gradually withdrawn from the stage, and they are too old to run back and forth, so they have officially submitted their resignation to Li Yuanhong.

Yang Du frowned. The matter of moving the capital is no longer a big problem, but the matter of amending the constitution needs broad support. Zhan Tianyou is Yang Qiu's hardcore. He is also known as the father of railways, and has a great influence among students and millions of railway-related business people, so if he supports it, he will undoubtedly be a little more sure. So he said, "Can Mr. Cheng be a year late?" ”

"A year late. Why? ”

Zhan Tianyou looked at Yang Du puzzled. The latter hurriedly talked about the constitutional amendment and the change of the presidential system. In all fairness, Zhan Tianyou is not very supportive of the reform. The greatest advantage of the parliamentary system is that it restricts power. But from the experience of the Republic of China in the past 14 years, it can be seen that this country still needs a person who can make decisions. Li Yuanhong is a typical Taiping president, with power in the hands of Yang Qiu, who used constitutional loopholes to install henchmen to control financial and military power, erect the presidential palace and the prime minister's office, and bypass the parliament. Doing so is a clear act of arbitrariness, but if it weren't for the centralization of power to do great things, would the country have come to this point?

When he first met Yang Qiu, he gritted his teeth to support education and railways under difficult financial circumstances, and spent huge sums of money to build the southwest railway network. In fact, Zhan Tianyou understands that at present, these projects are loss-making, and the annual railway profit after deducting operating costs is completely beyond his means, and it is impossible to complete these major projects without long-term unilateral state financial investment. Yang Qiu is now exploiting the loopholes in the constitution, but after coming to power, he can no longer go sideways, and even if all the members of the National Assembly are members of the National Socialist Party, some people will be unwilling to let go of power, and there is likely to be a dispute between the government and the court at that time.

Disputes are bound to lead to chaos, slowing down the pace of national construction and even canceling many projects with huge investments but no profits. Railways are typical of large investments and low returns, so if you want to maintain the country's investment in railways, you must support Yang Qiu to take back the power of the president.

After weighing the pros and cons, Zhan Tianyou still agreed: "Trouble the prince to tell the vice president, and Zhan will go and withdraw his resignation." ”

With Zhan Tianyou's support, the constitutional amendment had a few more chances of winning, so after asking Yang Qiu's whereabouts, Yang Du drove to the Zhengzhou Arsenal.

Zhengzhou Arsenal is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zhengzhou Industrial Group and one of the country's large military enterprises, which can produce almost all weapons and equipment, from explosives to tanks, and its fist products are armored vehicles and anti-aircraft guns. The 25mm, 40mm, and 85mm anti-aircraft guns that the National Defense Forces began to install were all from Zhengzhou, and their performance was comparable to the latest products in Europe and the United States, and even slightly exceeded. The formation of such an advantage depends on the beginning of the construction, Yang Qiu deliberately copied a large number of drawings of Erlikong, Bofors and other anti-aircraft guns to Zhengzhou, with the Rhineland plan to get a large number of German formulas and metallurgical technologies such as self-tightening of the body, quality and performance began to improve rapidly, especially the double-barreled 25mm and 40mm anti-aircraft guns have won the British Navy anti-aircraft artillery bidding last year, and to open the European market, last year only the United Kingdom ordered 360 double-barreled naval and 317 army single-barreled types in one go.

Compared with small-caliber anti-aircraft guns, the new generation of 85mm anti-aircraft guns was the main reason for attracting Yang Qiu and military representatives to inspect. The new 85mm anti-aircraft gun is one of the key projects of the military, and it is expected to enter service with 1928. The prototype came from the Type 72 85mm anti-aircraft gun of later generations, but due to factors such as metallurgical technology, manufacturing capacity and price, the body tube was shortened to 56 times the caliber, and the muzzle velocity, firing range, and firing height were reduced a lot. Judging from various data, it is very close to the upcoming German 88 gun, and it can even be said that it is the 85mm version of the German 88 gun.

The new 85 gun is now in the experimental testing stage, but many of its extended models have already been praised by the military. It can hit strong fortifications and tanks when it is flat, the cannon with a range of 12,500 meters at a 35° angle, the howitzer with a muzzle detractor at a 55° angle is a howitzer with a range of 11,000 meters, and a medium-caliber anti-aircraft gun at a large elevation angle. The only thing that displeased the military was that the gun was extremely expensive, compared to the 85m currently equipped.

When Yang Du arrived at the test site, the military officers were drooling at several experimental guns, and they also arrested the technicians of the Zhengzhou factory in front of Yang Qiu, loudly complaining that the price was too expensive, and demanded that the cost be greatly reduced. Yang Qiu knew that these words were deliberately said to himself, because the price of this gun was actually slightly cheaper than the German 88 gun, and because it was a revision of the drawings, the development cost was cheaper than that of the same caliber in Europe and the United States. In particular, the army spends only 50 million yuan on equipment procurement every year, while the entire equipment cost of an armored brigade is as high as 18 million yuan.

After meeting Yang Du, Yang Qiu finally had the opportunity to avoid the resentful military representatives and ask about the constitutional amendment.

Yang Du talked about the results of the lobbying during this time. Judging from the current situation, the problem of moving the capital is not big, and the areas north of the Yangtze River all support the relocation of the capital, and there is no firm opposition to the south of the Yangtze River. However, there is widespread skepticism about amending the constitution and changing the presidential system, and many legislators believe that it is good now that there is no need to change it, especially since many ordinary members of the National Assembly have said that the status quo should be maintained. But it is not without results, the congressmen in the northeast and southwest have clearly expressed their support for the constitutional amendment, those congressmen in the northwest who are under military control have no objections, Zhan Tianyou and Zhang Taiyan, two people who have important influence among the students, have expressed their support, and the military also supports them, and the most important representatives of the trade unions and peasant unions are now Yang Qiu's hardcore, let them go east and never go west, and the remaining congressmen in the Central Plains and Jiangnan are afraid that the president will have too much power, so they still have doubts.

"What about the Republicans and the Kuomintang?" Yang Qiu asked.

Yang Du smiled bitterly twice: "I don't agree, I don't even agree to move." ”

There are no surprises to this. If the two companies no longer show a strong posture of opposition, I am afraid that sooner or later they will not even be able to act as opposition parties. However, he could not wait, and the ongoing National Congress of the National Congress of the National Society had unanimously voted to appoint Li Yuanhong as a presidential candidate to help him fulfill his wish to become the country's first president whose term of office had expired, so it was only five years before he came to power. During Li Yuanhong's last term of office, he had to complete the constitutional revision no matter what, and if he waited until he came to power, he would be caught by the Republican Party and the Kuomintang Party for the pigtail promised by Song Jiaoren before his death.

Yang Du also knew these thoughts, and said: "The person who the Kuomintang and the Republican Party are most afraid of is you, as long as you conflict with the president, they will definitely support the president to take back his power. ”

Thinking that he had just used the Nanyang Democratic Party to promote the Nanyang Chinese Autonomous Region project not long ago, and now he was using their fears to promote constitutional amendments, Yang Qiu couldn't help but lament the bad luck for the Democratic Party......!!!