[240] Target Hong Kong

As Yao Fan's special train approached Beijing, a 50-meter sentry appeared on both sides of the railway, with loaded guns and live ammunition facing away from the soldiers standing guard on the railway; after the train stopped at a temporarily blocked platform at the Beijing Railway Station, Yao Fan got off the train and met with the cadres who had come to pick up the train, including Liu Jinbao, commander of the Beijing Military Region, and responsible persons of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Intelligence, and the Ministry of Public Security.

That night, Yao Fan held a meeting in Zhongnanhai Yi Nian Hall to listen to the reports of the heads of various departments.

First of all, Liu Taibang, Minister of Agriculture, reported: "This year, the collection of public grain and the grain drying and reserve work in various places have been completed, and so far the income is 50 billion catties of public grain, about 25 million tons, about 17 million tons of refined grain after threshing, and 8 million tons of feed. ”

Finance Minister Wang Gui interjected: "This is very good. ”

Liu Taibang nodded in agreement: "The chairman has always asked all parts of the country to vigorously resume production after the war, which has led to this year's bumper harvest, and the peasants across the country have their own land, and the labor motivation is very high." Now this output is still obtained after reducing the public grain in the drought-stricken areas of North China. ”

Yao Fan warned: "For the drought-stricken areas of North China, not only should the public grain be reduced or exempted, but the government should also visit the poor to inquire about their suffering, register families in particularly difficult circumstances, and give a certain amount of food subsidies every month. The General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the Joint Council of Ministers should supervise local governments in this regard. ”

The leaders of various departments attending the meeting nodded one after another.

Liu Taibang continued: "This time, we were able to complete such a large-scale public grain collection and storage, thanks to the new soil drying teaching materials issued by the central government, using kang drying, changing the backward method of relying solely on the threshing floor to dry grain in previous years, and the efficiency has increased tenfold!"

The central government has also equipped the conditional areas with grain drying equipment, which has also greatly alleviated the problem of grain storage, and the grain bureaus and grain depots in various places also hope to be able to upgrade to coal-fired boiler drying equipment on the basis of the kang drying workshop currently built. ”

Yao Fan said: "This is inevitable, and at present, all the equipment has been shipped, but at present, the national railway line is still under large-scale construction, and there are transportation problems in most parts of the country." Xu Jianyin, Minister of Light Industry and General Manager of NORINCO Group, has arranged for the equipment to be dismantled, hoping to break it down into pieces and transport it by the current road traffic of mules and horses. ”

Hearing Yao Fan's name, Xu Jianyin hurriedly said: "With the cooperation of the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Railways, at the latest, the county and township grain bureaus and grain depots in remote areas will be able to obtain coal-fired boiler grain drying equipment." ”

Speaking of boilers, Xu Jianyin said with flying eyebrows: "At present, the central government has allocated "fool boilers" to various places is very popular, and local governments are rushing to ask for it, this boiler can burn coal and firewood, and the operation and maintenance are simple and safe, which is really a great invention." ”

Yao Fan said: "It is difficult to achieve high efficiency if it is simple, the thermal efficiency of the fool boiler is still relatively low, and it is okay to heat and supply hot water to local government agencies, but to promote urban central heating on a large scale, it is also necessary to accelerate the construction of steam turbine thermal power plants across the country." ”

Xu Jianyin used a pen to write down Yao Fan's words in the notebook in front of him, looked up and said: "At present, the construction task is really heavy, and many factories under the Ministry of Light Industry are being built. Especially engineers. ”

Yao Fan looked at Yan Fu, Minister of Education.

Yan Fu hurriedly said: "At present, the multimedia training centers in Beijing and Weifang are overcrowded, and thousands of temporary board houses have been built, but the power is tight again, and only diesel generators can be used for power supply. It's because there are too many trainees from all over the country. ”

Yao Fan advised: "All multimedia training bases should implement militarized management of trainees, strengthen political education and confidentiality awareness. ”

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The meeting started late as usual.

Now the central government seems to be busy every day, Yao Fan feels that he should unload the burden from the position of chairman and prime minister, and try his best to hand over the post of prime minister, but there is no suitable candidate for a while, so he can only choose to continue to increase the scale of the Central General Office.

Because Russia took advantage of the warmer spring weather in Europe to launch the 10th Russo-Turkish War in early April, this act of breaking the regional balance kept Britain and France very busy.

The military repression of Russia and the ferocious provocations of a fledgling China on land and at sea have overwhelmed the empire and its allies.

At the Central Military Enlargement Conference, Yao Fan analyzed on the basis of the information sent back by the Russian branch of the Comintern and the historical facts held by the traversers:

“…… After Russia invested 720,000 people and 3,000 artillery pieces in 48 infantry divisions, it did not fight well in the face of more than 400,000 people and more than 800 guns of Ottoman Turkey, and in the Battle of Pushka, Russia suffered two heavy defeats and lost nearly 70,000 troops. And the Ottoman Turkey, with the support of the British, had sufficient logistical supplies, and the weapons and equipment made by the Anglo-American and French in their hands were also more advanced than the Russians, and with the onset of winter, Russia had a strict logistical problem, and the two sides were already deadlocked......"

"Now that the British warships have joined up with the Turks and imposed a blockade on the Bosphorus, and the British and French have sent a total of nearly 20,000 expeditionary forces to assist Turkey in the war, the Russians are having a hard time.

Therefore, Russia demanded that we fulfill our promise to attack the French army entrenched in Annam from the southwest of Guangxi, for which Russia was willing to pay 200,000 rubles, one ruble containing 0.77 grams of gold, which is equivalent to 100,000 taels of silver at the current exchange rate of silver. ”

Speaking of this, Yao Fan raised his voice and said: "Of course, we didn't send troops for this little money, taking Annan is part of our policy of returning the feudal domains.

China must shoulder its responsibilities for its neighboring subject countries, and Annam has been an inalienable part of our territory since ancient times, and Annam, which was previously highly autonomous, is now being invaded and enslaved by France, which is unacceptable to us.

In order to alleviate the suffering of the people in these colonized Chinese territories, it is our bounden duty to send troops to recover the inherent territory of our country.

The three torpedo boat brigades that were formed in May have now begun to take shape, and 30 026 torpedo boats have completed a six-month training at the Huludao base in Bohai Bay, and it is time to test their combat effectiveness.

If you want to send troops to Annam, you must first knock out the British power in Hong Kong and recapture Macao, which is occupied by Portugal.

As a result of the preparations made over the past six months, the original 10 and 16 group armies of the Guangzhou Military Region, plus the newly organized 21 and 22 armies, a total of four group armies, have been reorganized, and the mortar battalions of the entire military region have carried out thorough visual reconnaissance of Hong Kong Island, and once a war begins, the waterway leading to Hong Kong Island will be completely blocked.

The South China Sea Fleet has mobilized a large number of civilian ships, plus the original warships, which are enough to launch a landing campaign against Hong Kong......"

The commanders of the revolutionary army under Yao Fan listened quietly, taking notes from time to time, and there was silence in the conference room.

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Ever since the North Sea Fleet defeated the Royal Navy's Chinese fleet in a battle at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the British troops stationed in Hong Kong have been terrified.

In the first battle at the mouth of the Yangtze River, except for one steam carrier that escaped from the "Chinese fleet", all six warships were sunk and two transport ships were captured.

Frightened and furious, the British brought almost all of the East India Fleet to Hong Kong and, together with the French Far East Fleet, blockaded the Hong Kong area.

The British, who had now heard from the crew of the transport ship Erwin, who had escaped from Guò Wolf Bèi, had learned that the Chinese warships were all armed with some kind of high-powered shells, which had a short range, but were extremely destructive, and that the rate of fire had reached an astonishing rate of 5 to 6 rounds per minute.

When the news first arrived, the British Admiralty did not believe that there was such a fast artillery in the world, and it was not until the crew and captain of the transport ship Elwin were repeatedly interrogated that it was determined that China now possessed the most powerful short-range artillery in the world, and as for its gunpowder composition, Britain had not yet figured out.

In the eyes of the British Admiralty, the truth is now clear, and the Chinese rebels were able to quickly unify the whole country, annihilate British warships on the Yangtze River, defeat the five-nation coalition forces, and sweep the Chinese fleet, relying on a secret weapon they invented, which is a high-power gunpowder and metal fixed artillery shell, so that it can achieve an extremely high rate of fire and destructive power.

The empire on which the sun never sets must get this technology!

Therefore, the Admiralty demanded that the 15,000 British and French forces and the East Indies Fleet stationed in Hong Kong should not go north to harass while holding on to Hong Kong, but only carry out naval shelling of the Chinese troops along the mainland coast off Hong Kong, so as to achieve the purpose of intimidating the other side.

On the secret instructions of the Admiralty, the commander of the East India Fleet, Brusto, decided to organize a death squad to land in ports off the coast of China in an attempt to grab some Chinese artillery and shells.

At the same time, Hong Kong Governor John F. Kennedy decided to implement a buy-off plan, sending Hong Kong's local traitors to infiltrate the mainland and try to bribe and bribe the revolutionary army to obtain samples of artillery and shells.

At present, the People's Republic of China has set up a rational organization with reference to the government of the 21 st century, and the three major intelligence agencies, namely, the Intelligence Department under the General Staff Department, the Liaison Office under the General Political Department, and the National Security Bureau under the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, have completed the division of labor and independent operation.

As a result, the spies sent by Kennedy were arrested as soon as they entered the city of Guangzhou, for the simple reason that they could not find a letter of introduction from the hotel......

According to the regulations of the Ministry of Public Security, anyone who goes out on business or private travel must bring a letter of introduction from the employer or a household registration certificate and travel certificate issued by the local police station.

The certificates used by the Chinese People's Government are all printed on special paper with watermarks, and the quality of the 2013 side responsible for printing is of course difficult for countries around the world to imitate in 1877.