Chapter 466: A New Journey
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It was late at night. The hustle and bustle of the day seemed to disappear completely, and the squeaking of cicadas outside the window was non-stop, indicating that another midsummer was coming. Yang Qiu leaned on the head of the bed, the former heroic Rui gang leader snuggled in his arms in a small coat, and the tight close-fitting fabric wrapped her already plump breasts more and more proudly, and even two full bulges could be clearly seen, constantly rubbing with the movements. Yang Qiu didn't pay much attention, carefully examining the photos taken from the data machine, which would soon be sent to the secret department to be converted into design drawings.
In fact, now he rarely uses the military data drawings in the data machine, and the training of his own technology and design talents is the key, and the data machine is nothing more than a booster for the finishing touch. What he would most like to see is something like an albatross transport plane that has been developed independently. Today's reason for taking the information again is because of the navy, because the navy really makes him very nervous. The first is that he himself does not understand the navy, and the second is that the Republic of China Navy is too backward in technology and the world is too much. Purely looking at the scale of shipbuilding, the Republic of China has not lost to Japan, and the Jiangnan and Mawei factories are required to have the capacity to build 300,000 tons at the same time. After the shipbuilding equipment provided by Britain and France was divided between Guangzhou and Qingdao, the two factories were also built in accordance with this requirement. There are also three smaller shipyards in Dalian, Tianjin and Qinzhou, plus private factories such as Qiuxin and Longsheng, and the domestic shipbuilding industry has ushered in the best season. But the problem is that shipbuilding technology is not accumulated by building a large number of docks. In particular, the design of warships requires a long process of technological accumulation, and so far the Republic of China has only built two types of warships in the true sense, the Changfeng-class destroyer and the Anhai-class large cruiser. The former can be said to be a test field, and from the current point of view, it still has not gotten rid of the shadow of old warships. And because he didn't understand the extent of international naval technology at the time, it was too heavy above the waterline and the speed did not meet the standards of destroyers, so the Admiralty had to dismantle a twin turret and cancel the construction of the last eight after the construction of 8 ships.
As for the Anhai class, it was built by its own requirements, and was designed and provided with drawings and technical support by the United States. Only hulls and a few auxiliary gun accessories were produced domestically. According to the Jiangnan report, the nationalization rate has not even reached 40%. Therefore, in terms of the scale of manufacturing, the Republic of China has equaled Japan or even partially surpassed, but there is still a gap in manufacturing technology, so even if the funds are abundant, it is impossible for the Republic of China to immediately and truly complete all the work from design to completion of a large warship.
On the contrary, the information sent by Fang Rui made the General Staff and the Navy very uneasy. After Japan seized North Sakhalin Island and the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk, domestic voices clamoring for "returning to the mainland" gradually raised their heads. In particular, the Japanese Navy has decided to start construction of two Nagato-class battleships and several light cruisers, including the Tenryu-class, next month, and the concerns of the Japanese and Soviet partners caused by the last accident are also hoping to build more warships to deal with maritime threats. In other words, he is not too worried about Japan, and he does not want to become an imaginary enemy of some countries because of the rapid expansion of the army, at least he should not compete for maritime supremacy under the condition of insufficient national strength, so the Republic of China must control the total number of navies and take the road of elite troops, but it cannot withstand the clamor of the General Staff and Sa Zhenbing. Moreover, the maintenance of the maritime frontier does require a number of new warships.
Under the pressure of reality and the idea of building an elite army, pertinence is particularly important, not to mention that although he does not understand the navy, he has heard of a sentence. The result of forcibly pursuing Gao Daquan is that there is not enough to do anything, so instead of forcibly launching battleships in the case of insufficient technology, it is better to specialize in a few targeted ships. Aircraft carriers are naturally a top priority, and in the case of already having 2 15000-ton training aircraft carriers, it should be a good choice to imitate the Yorktown class, of course, even if it looks like it. The performance of the build must have weakened a lot, after all, the most critical power, aircraft, etc. have not yet met the requirements.
In addition to the drawings of 2 new aircraft carriers modeled on the Yorktown-class, there are also drawings of the Omaha-class light cruisers and the Italian Zara-class heavy cruisers. In addition to the technology, the Omaha-class light cruiser was also urgently needed, and after studying the drawings of the Dutch De-Truy-class and the British Southampton-class light cruiser to the design department, it had been determined that it could not be realized with the current technical capabilities of the Republic of China, so he remembered this light cruiser built after World War I. Technically, the Omaha class is undoubtedly a continuation of World War I, and it is technically achievable. Of course, its messy naval gun arrangement was something Yang Qiu didn't like, so he mainly referred to its structural design. Moreover, the light cruiser is the most urgent need of the Republic of China Navy, so the construction program must be started as soon as possible. As for the Zara class treaty heavy cruisers. It is completely in line with the Washington Naval Treaty, which will start in a few years, compared with the more complex battleships and battle cruisers, the technical difficulty of the treaty heavy cruiser is much lower, and the technical restrictions of various countries on this level are not strict, and the accessories can be purchased smoothly, even if the power electronics are insufficient, seven or eight percent of the god-like goods can be built, so now take it out and study it first, and when the conditions are ripe, it can be built immediately, so as not to waste time.
Seeing Yang Qiu just staring at the photo and pondering, Rui Yao put one hand horizontally, pressed almost half of his body on his chest, and said quietly: "I see that you have been restless and insomnia for the past few days, and you have finally done something big today, so rest early." ”
"Big deal? It's not done yet. Yang Qiu smiled and kissed her cheek, and sighed: "The Chengcheng bill is only the first step, it is to let us have a legal basis for reform, and only after the basis can Dong Yongwei and them continue to purge Jiangsu and Anhui." Rui Yao didn't understand this, she only knew that Yang Qiu had worked too hard during this time, staying up late at night every day to write the reform draft, and her body had lost a lot of weight. Seeing that today's turmoil has passed and I have begun to study the affairs of the navy again, I feel an indescribable distress. But she also knew that Yang Qiu didn't like to talk about business at home, so Xiaoxiao deliberately diverted the topic and asked, "By the way, this reform law was obviously drafted by you, why do you want to name Cheng Cheng?" ”
Yang Qiu's hand shook slightly, put down the photo and said very seriously: "This is drawn up by Cheng Cheng, I just revised it!" He was a hero, a martyr who contributed to the country. His name is truly deserved, and it inspires other young people to take action! There's nothing like having your name engraved on a bill. It is more proof of the contribution to the country and the people. Rui Yao blinked, she understood what he meant, but in her opinion, it was still a little worthless, if this law was named after Yang Qiu, wouldn't the prestige and status be even higher?
After seeing through her careful thinking, Yang Qiu scratched his nose and said a little dotingly: "Don't beat your little Jiujiu, it's not a matter of prestige and reputation, but I owe him!" Not to mention my current position and prestige. There is no need for these things to improve. What I want to do is to leave something for our country so that our children and future generations can live a good life. Speaking of the child, Rui Yao's eyes suddenly became hazy, after Miao Luo raised a son for Yang Qiu, she always felt a little pimple in her heart, so she grabbed Yang Qiu's hand and stuffed it into her small clothes.
Yang Qiu was thinking about what to do next, when she suddenly found that her hand was on a ball of clotted cream, and when she turned her head to look at Rui Yao, she had already unbuttoned her blouse, completely exposing her perfect upper body to the light. grabbed his hands and put them on the soft flesh of his chest, and said in a crispy and numb voice: "Then let's have a child first, okay?" Yang Qiu smiled dumbly, she didn't expect that this could also be an excuse for her to want a child, but even he who had experienced the influence of later generations had to admit that this woman did have the capital to make the king not go to court sooner.
The night passed quickly, and Yang Qiu got up from the fleshy ** and threw himself into a new job again.
The series of reform issues that extended from the land reform in early 1918 did not end with the passage of the Chengcheng Act, but on the contrary, there was still a long way to go for the bill to be implemented because there were still many local resistance and opponents. But as he said, the passage of the bill is to play a supporting role, and many things can only be solved with a legal basis. In order to set an example for the whole country. Yang Qiu first selected seven provinces or regions of Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Anhui and Northeast China as models for reform and implemented the standard version of the Republic of China farming contract and lease contract.
These places are carefully selected, and most of them are the bases of Yang Qiu and Guoshe, so they are implemented quickly. Only Anhui and Jiangsu have always been difficult to gnaw on, but the sudden start of a large-scale purge by the Ministry of Justice has made this stubborn resistance a joke. A large number of officials and landlords have been found guilty of crimes, dismissed from their posts and investigated, and hundreds of people have been sentenced to death. The peasant associations also took active action to organize people to resist the landlords who were usually unkind to the rich and deliberately caused their fields to be wasted. As a result, the landlords had to bow their heads and sign new contracts for fear that they would be taken away by the state after a year of waste. In a total of three months of purge operations in Jiangsu and Anhui. A total of more than 100 million yuan of illegal gains were confiscated and confiscated, 10 million mu of various types of farmland, and 10 million mu of wasteland in the hands of the newly established Land and Resources Management Bureau, which was considered to have development value, and a large number of pumping machines were also allocated to build aqueducts for the construction of public leased land. It turns out that the public rental land does play a role in balancing the land contradictions, only on the first day of the start of the registration application. More than 100,000 peasant households have applied for public rental land. According to the statistics of the Reform and Development Commission, 20 million mu of land can fully ensure the land needs of about 2 million people.
Two million is not much for the two provinces, which together have a population of more than 50 million, but migration has accelerated the transfer of local labor. As the first immigrants arrived, news came back one after another. More and more people are moving to the two places, and 500,000 people are moving to the northeast in August alone, after the summer grain harvest. Although there are fewer in the northwest, more than 100,000 people have gone to Gansu and Xinjiang. In order to solve the problem of housing and farm tools after the arrival of the migrants, Yang Qiu not only handed over the funds confiscated by the two provinces to the resettlement agencies of the two provinces, but also ordered the army to hand over nearly 100,000 war horses and ploughing cattle seized from Russia one after another to the migrants in the form of loans for land reclamation, and also purchased a large number of horses, cattle and sheep from Mongolia and other places and planned them for the next three years, which promoted the outbreak of animal husbandry. Stimulated by the favorable immigration environment, the population of the two provinces began to flow out on a large scale, which made the large and small landlords unable to sit still, and they agreed to sign new contracts to retain the peasants, and began to sell more land than they could.
Xu Shaojiao resigned, Dong Yongwei temporarily acted as governor, and the thunderous and heavy-handed measures made Jiangsu and Anhui officials clear, and a large number of young people began to enter the officialdom of the two provinces, and compared with their dying predecessors, their attitude towards reform was firmer, and their determination to implement the Cheng Cheng Act was also greater.
Just when the domestic reform was vigorous, the European war finally came to an end. Although the German army did not need to continue to fight on both sides to solve the Eastern Front, both national strength and resources finally reached the limit after four years, but the strength advantage of the Entente became more and more obvious with the all-out efforts of the United States. In July, the Somme offensive, which was known as the precursor to the end of the Western Front, was fully launched, and at the same time, the Chinese Expeditionary Force commanded by Yue Peng also embarked on the war again, and grabbed the work of the American army in the parallel world, gathering more than 300 tanks, 1,000 aircraft (mainly British and French), more than 600 heavy artillery, and at the same time dispatched 20 infantry divisions of the expeditionary force and 10 infantry divisions of the French First Army to forcibly attack Saint-Mière, which is known as the gate of Lorraine.
At the first moment of breaking through the defensive line, Yue Peng resolutely threw two infantry divisions, took advantage of the night to abandon all heavy equipment, and forcibly inserted along the Moselle River.
The Battle of Saint-Miel was the biggest victory on the Western Front in August, and although the final cessation of gunfire lasted only two weeks, it defeated six German divisions, captured 41,000 prisoners, and captured more than 1,500 artillery pieces, 200 aircraft, and 120 tanks. Not only did they recover the Paris-Nancy railway, but they also took control of the most important Lorraine Mez iron ore mine in one fell swoop, once again aggravating the problem of Germany's lack of resources. At the same time, the U.S. forces also joined forces with the French to launch the Maas-Argonne Campaign. However, due to the tight defense of the German army in the Argonne area, the American army did not achieve victory until the end of September, and only barely took it at the cost of more than 40,000 men.
With the end of these two battles, the German army completely lost the land of Lorraine and other lands acquired during the Franco-Prussian War, and the production of iron ore also fell by 30%. After four years of fierce warfare, involving tens of millions of soldiers and a population of more than one billion, the war has finally come to an end.
While Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary have fallen one after another, China's power has quietly become a member of the new world. After opening the door of the great country, Yang Qiu was full of confidence and regained his spirit to join this change again...... (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )