After the high-level meeting of the military, the elite units of the revolutionary army were transferred to the north, and at the same time the army was expanded by 200,000 troops.

Excluding the armies of other warlords in the north, the total strength of the revolutionary army reached 700,000, and the total strength of the navy, air force, and tax police regiment was about 800,000.

The number of reservists is 2 million, including the militia and the construction corps, and because of the vigorous development of education in the past few years, the military and national education systems have been established in primary and secondary schools in more than a dozen provinces under its control, and the army primary and secondary schools have been established in various provinces and cities.

In the construction of the north, the railway will take precedence, focusing on investment in Zhengzhou in the Central Plains and Beiping in North China, and using these two cities as hubs to expand the railway, east to the northeast, north to Inner Mongolia in Shanxi, and west to Lanzhou and Xinjiang, laying the foundation for the final unification of the whole country.

At the same time, taking advantage of the abundant resources in the north, new investment in the iron and steel industry and the military industry was concentrated in Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Tianjin, Beiping, and Tangshan.

In the past few years, the military and the railway company have cooperated to send a large number of personnel to conduct a detailed survey of the railways and resources in the north, and the planning of the railways and factories has long been prepared.

The construction corps is about to complete the double-track project of the Wuhan-Henan section of the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway, and they said that they will continue to cross the Yellow River and lay new railroad tracks to Beiping City.

"Sitting in the north, you need a reliable general, brother, you have to work hard!"

Li Zongren found Bai Chongxi and said to him with a smile.

"Good!" Bai Chongxi nodded briskly, and added, "But I want the fifth division." ”

The Fifth Division is composed of Nanyang children and domestic intellectual youth. When he was in South China, he was rigorously trained by German instructors. Situ Yong and others took the Fifth Division to participate in the Northern Expedition. Outstanding meritorious service, since then has been stationed in Wuhan, personnel, equipment are the best, is the first revolutionary army to achieve armor troops, no wonder Bai Chongxi at a glance to take a fancy to it.

"The Fifth Division will remain in Wuhan and be changed to the Third Division, which is also a unit brought out by our brothers from Guangxi, and is also equipped with tanks, armored vehicles and heavy artillery. No worse than the 5th Division! ”

Li Zongren smiled, shook his head and refused.

"Isn't this a pilot? The Fifth Division has a flying regiment, and it is the only one in the army. ”

Bai Chongxi pursed his lips, knowing in his heart that among the several divisions that started from Guangdong and Guangxi, only the fifth and sixth divisions had the most American and Chinese backgrounds.

Those in the Prime Minister's Office could not directly intervene in the army, but it was undeniable that Song Ziwen, Lin Yimin and others believed in the Fifth and Sixth Divisions more.

"Hmm. With the third division as the mainstay, and then a first-line division from the south and east China, it was enough for me to support the scene in the north. ”

Bai Chongxi Road.

The first-line divisions of the revolutionary army adopted a master formation. The full strength is nearly 20,000 people, similar to the Japanese army divisions. After discussing with the Central Military Commission, Bai Chongxi will use the Third Division as the basis to send graduates of military academies from the north to the Northern Garrison Military Region, and at the same time, with soldiers from Henan, Shandong, and Hebei as the mainstay, to build an elite unit equipped with a large amount of heavy firepower and machinery in three to five years.

Sitting in the north, commanding the elite troops of more than 100,000 revolutionary armies, although they are not as far as the emperor of the sky, they are indeed princes with high power, and many people take a fancy to this position.

After Li Zongren discussed with several bigwigs, he believed that Bai Chongxi was tenacious, tough, and changeable, and could suppress the arrogant soldiers and fierce generals under his command, and subdued Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang and other local warlords.

Bai Chongxi has always been arrogant and not afraid of foreigners, and he can withstand the pressure of Japan and Russia by sitting in the north.

Bai Chongxi thought that he was competent, so he concurrently served as the commander of the Northern Garrison as the chief of the General Staff, and the work of the General Staff was undertaken by Situ Yong, deputy chief of the General Staff and commander of the capital garrison.

The commander of the southern garrison of Liangguang and Fujian was Deng Zhongyuan and Deng Keng, and many Cantonese generals of the Republic of China were under him.

The Zhi Gong Party does not play the system of being officials in different places, the provinces retain a considerable amount of autonomous power, the government officials are mostly locals, and the army is organized into divisions according to the place of origin, which is similar to that of Japan, Britain and the United States.

Bai Chongxi sat on the top of the flight and overlooked, and the escort formation composed of ten fighters was surrounding the passenger plane, which was the first domestically produced all-metal fighter plane imported from the United States by the United States, and the metal skin glittered in the sun.

Despite the fact that it was deep inland and had no air combat missions, the fighter formation still flew meticulously in accordance with the requirements of the battlefield, and Bai Chongxi saw it in his eyes and was satisfied.

The air forces of the South and Wuhan are the most abundant in the world in terms of experience in the use of fighter jets, and they are also aware of the importance of air power in large and small wars.

Giants such as the US-China Aviation Industry, which not only manufactures aircraft, but also monopolizes the domestic and international aviation markets, not only did not receive sanctions, but were encouraged to develop and grow, and the military allocated special funds for this purpose and commissioned this company to develop fighter jets, thus giving birth to Asia's largest aircraft manufacturer and aviation market monopolist -- American-Chinese Airlines!

Take fighter jet manufacturing, for example, Meihua Power, a subsidiary of Meihua Electric, provides in-line liquid-cooled engines, Apple Aluminum in Guangxi provides aluminum alloys for aircraft manufacturing, and Yangzi Machinery Co., Ltd. is involved in airframe manufacturing and aircraft assembly, and these three companies are also shareholders in the aircraft manufacturing subsidiary of Meihua Airlines.

In addition, more than a dozen related companies were involved, such as the Hanyang Arsenal providing aviation machine guns and the Meihua Tire Company providing aircraft tires.

Due to excessive participation in the aviation industry, Meihua Electric had to give up the automobile market, and Meihua Power Company specialized in the development and production of engines, both automobile engines and aircraft engines.

There may be many reasons why German engineers participated, they prefer simple and reliable in-line engines, taking the liquid-cooled route, while the relatively complex star engine is developed by another domestic company in cooperation with Nanhua.

With the development of the aviation market, the increase in military orders, the performance of the engine department of Meihua Power is increasing, although the majority of the profits are still in the field of civil power generation, but many people are optimistic that the aircraft engine department and the marine power department will be the most potential for development in the future.

It is said that the Navy is looking forward to the steam turbine-powered cruiser manufactured by the Marine Power Division of US-China Power, and the Zhanjiang Shipyard is working hard to build the first domestically powered cruiser in China.

In addition to steam turbines used for the power of large ships, diesel engines are used for small and medium-sized ships and submarines. Meihua Power also accounts for nearly half of the domestic and South China markets.

The vast majority of the people in China and South China do not understand it. Meihua Power, which focuses on power R&D and manufacturing, is actually a leader in major fields such as automobiles, ships, and aircraft.

With the connivance of many parties. Meihua Electric has become a monopoly on many industries, so that Situ Nan looks back and looks back, this is simply a copy of the later generation of General Electric!

It sounds easy to think that it is made of electrical and electronic products, but it actually includes the two major items of electricity and internal combustion engine in the second industrial revolution.

However, due to publicity reasons, the word electric is the name of the head office, and the word power is the name of the subsidiary.

If it is placed in the United States, it is suspected of cross-border operation and monopoly of the market Boeing Airlines and Cummins-Lincoln Airlines. There has been news that the government is going to conduct an antitrust investigation into these aviation giants.

Bai Chongxi does not care about the United States, nor does he pay too much attention to the military, worried that Meihua Electric is dominant, and intends to support competitors, and the Hanyang Arsenal, which has the background of military and national capital, and a consortium in Guangdong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang will jointly fund to build one or several military enterprises that can compete with the United States and China, and only be happy that the domestic aviation industry can finally independently manufacture the first completely domestic fighter.

Although it is said that the technology may not be more advanced than that of the American aircraft manufacturers, if they go all out to develop new fighters, they may soon arrive at more advanced fighters.

"Hmph, for the sake of arguing about the location of the aircraft factory. The rich men in Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Wuhan quarreled incessantly, but there was no result. Come to me and tell me, you can put it directly in the north, Central Plains Province or Beijing and Tianjin. ”

Bai Chongxi snorted coldly in his heart.

Along the Jinghan Railway, the scenery on the ground changes from the treacherous Central Plains of Guanxia to the vast plains of North China, and the farther you fly north, the greater the gap between the north and the south.

When I arrived in Beiping, I went around in the sky, this so-called city with the spirit of the king is really not presentable, those imposing palaces are okay, and the ordinary residential areas are almost the same as the countryside.

This made Bai Chongxi, who was accustomed to Wuhan, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places, reinforced concrete and glass windows of high-rise buildings, and the atmosphere of modern industrial civilization everywhere, a little disappointed, and even doubted whether the rumors in Wuhan newspapers ridiculing Beiping City as "stinky dog shit on the street and broken houses on the side of the road, and there is no place to put your feet" are true!

However, Bai Chongxi, who came from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, understood that perhaps the gossip newspapers deliberately belittled his opponent for the sake of the recent discussion of "who is suitable to be the capital city in Wuhan and Beiping", but the city he was about to set foot in, the dynasty declined, the city construction in the past 20 years has made no achievements, and the royal spirit of the historical flavor of the writer's pen has almost been dispersed.

Otherwise, the Zhi Gong Party did not need to use a single soldier, relying on its industrial advantages to overwhelm the Northeast Army and take the initiative to retreat outside the border.

After more than ten years of education by the Zhi Gong Party and the American-Chinese Foundation, most of the government officials and military officers are peripheral members of the Industrial Party or half of the Industrial Party, and they understand that in the era of industrialization, those so-called N Dynasty names with the spirit of the king are not comparable to aircraft and artillery, the Pearl River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta, the two lakes, the Central Plains, as long as you find a large-scale city, there are several satellite cities nearby to form an urban agglomeration, sufficient funds, and vigorously develop industry, in fact, you can be the capital.

There are at least a dozen cities that meet this condition.

The conditions of Shu are poor, but after dredging the Yangtze River channel, building reservoirs and railways into Sichuan, Shu is not much worse than Beiping, and the economy of Shu has distanced Hebei over the years.

"The northern cities can also be handled by Tianjin!"

Bai Chongxi thought regretfully in his heart, his fingers beat his knees rhythmically, his mood was not as calm as his face, and a popular sentence in recent years sounded in his mind - the rise of a great power, there must be a war!

The pressing task at present is to develop industry and use the strength of the state to build a number of large-scale military industries in a short period of time.

Now that the Zhi Gong Party government is relatively wealthy and can afford a considerable amount of construction funds, it does not need to hand over many of the country's lifeblood industries to private companies or even foreign consortia, as a few years ago.

Bai Chongxi does not have to interfere in politics, but he has a huge budget in his hand, which the military uses to build arsenals in the north, and he has the right to decide on this.

"Sir, the plane is about to land, and below is Nanyuan Airport, if you don't land, it is estimated that the military and political dignitaries in Beiping are in a hurry."

The adjutant came over to remind Bai Chongxi.

Bai Chongxi took a turn over Beiping and finally stepped off the plane, and sure enough, he saw a small-scale and high-level greeting.

However, he didn't have a good face, his face was serious, it was colder than the weather in the north, and he drove away some guys who seemed to be idle and couldn't do practical things with a few polite words.

"When I took off from Wuhan in the morning, the Military Commission had already ordered the engineering corps and the construction corps to go north, and the slowest was only half a month, and the personnel, materials, and machines from the south were being transported by train one after another.

Before that, I asked to take the Shijingshan Iron Works and Longyan Iron Mine within a week to lay the foundation for a future state-controlled iron and steel company. ”

Bai Chongxi acted vigorously and resolutely issued several orders in one breath, and under the banner of building a military industry, the military soon took over some of the functions of urban planning.

The Longyan Iron Mine and Shijingshan Iron and Steel Plant, which were prepared by the Beiyang government, were taken under military control on the same day, and were reorganized into the North Iron and Steel Company with extremely high efficiency, and through financial allocation, joint investment by Wuhan Industrial Group and Baoshan Iron and Steel Company, it borrowed 50 million yuan in legal currency from bank groups such as the Bank of America and China, the Bank of China, and the Bank of Communications, with a total investment of more than 230 million yuan in legal currency, and planned to achieve an annual output of 5 million tons of steel within five years.

Of course, it is necessary to include the Shijingshan Arsenal, which the military has high hopes for, and the Shijingshan Arsenal is ready to manufacture all kinds of artillery, aerial bombs, machine guns, rifles, bullets, and other equipment.

"This is a very ambitious plan, but with the support of our Meihua Bank, Wuhan Industrial Group and Baoshan Iron and Steel Company to provide technology and equipment, I believe that North Iron and Steel Company will be another Wuhan Industrial Group or Baoshan Iron and Steel Company."

Little Kadoorie flew to Peking to attend the inauguration ceremony of the North Iron and Steel Company and the Shijingshan Arsenal.

When meeting with Bai Chongxi, he commented so optimistically.

"Mr. Kadoorie flew to Beiping, more than anything else, people see that the God of Wealth has gone to the north to invest, why don't you hurry up and come over to invest?

However, the military did not interfere in politics, the Northern Iron and Steel Company made a period of backwardness, and the main task of the Northern Garrison Military Region returned to army building. ”

Bai Chongxi rarely said with a pleasant face.

Little Kadoorie nodded, the north is rich in resources, and it is more conducive to the development of heavy industry than the south, and the US-China consortium will not let go of this market no matter what.

As Bai Chongxi said, little Kadoorie is a celebrity, and his every move attracts attention, and under the call of the American-Chinese Bank, the banking groups in the south and the industrial giants of all sizes have set their sights on the north.

It is said that the Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company is very wealthy and is ready to invest 10 million yuan in legal currency to establish a cigarette factory, tobacco planting, cigarette sales and other businesses in the north.

"Nanyang Tobacco Company is very fat, even British American Tobacco Company can't help them, look, there will be a big war in the north, it is estimated that the tobacco companies in the north will have a hard time."

Little Kadoorie analyzed, and also joked that if the fact is that tobacco is exclusively bought and heavy taxes are levied on tobacco, it is basically possible to build a small half of the Northern Iron and Steel Company, at least to raise a few more armored divisions!

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(Actually, I read the messages on Tencent Literature, and I basically read every one.) To mention, the Q group of this book is 168015390, and I occasionally go up to complain about myself. (To be continued.) )