Chapter 356 is here

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"North and South Hand in Hand, National Unification"

Seeing that it was about to enter June, a piece of news ignited the midsummer in advance, and the unification and peace that 40,000 people were looking forward to finally settled, and the Beiyang that had been in the late Qing Dynasty for decades was surrounded in Henan with the first army, Yuan Shikai collapsed after being bedridden, and after 18 months of chaos from Wuchang, the new Republic of China achieved its goal with iron and blood ().

With young people taking to the streets cheering, older people hiding in street corners and puffing their breath, newspapers praising the benefits of national unification and hopes for the future, it seems that everything is slowly starting to get better.

But while the whole country was celebrating, the sound of discord pierced all eardrums like needles, first of all, Britain said that because it had not yet reached an agreement with the Republic of China government on how to deal with the debts and tariffs of the Qing government, it rejected Tang Shaoyi's request to recognize first and then talk. As soon as the British boss spoke, the younger brothers naturally hugged their thighs, and France, Russia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and so on all kept silent on the issue of recognizing the regime of the Republic of China.

Even Germany, which had a better relationship with Yang Qiu, was also on the sidelines on this issue, because Germany felt that the government of the Republic of China must continue to fulfill all the debts of the Qing government and continue to give preferential treatment to other countries (). As for Japan, which was in the midst of political turmoil in the early days of Taisho, Gonbei Yamamoto, who was angry, simply stated that Japan would not recognize the government of the Republic of China.

Under the temptation of Nanjing's promise to gradually open up its domestic market in the coming time, the United States finally released a positive signal.

On 1 June, the United States took the lead in withdrawing from the British-led four-nation banking group, and before the news spread, Tang Shaoyi signed the Sino-US "Trade Compensation Loan Agreement" in Shanghai on behalf of the Republic of China government and US representative Stade. According to the agreement, the four consortiums led by Citibank will provide a total of 100 million US dollars to the government of the Republic of China with a loan of 96% off, and then Nanjing will use this loan to order a set of petroleum processing equipment with an annual processing capacity of 50,000 tons from the United States for the development of Yanchang and Hanjiang oil fields, all the equipment required for a medium-sized chemical plant in Xiangtan, Hunan, a set of tungsten steel and manganese steel sintering furnaces and rolling mills for Chongqing Steel Mill, a set of seamless steel pipe extruder equipment for Danggang Coating Mill, and an expansion of Mawei Shipyard and 42 steam locomotives. 1,200 industrial machine tools (including 36 six-axis high-precision machine tools), joint ventures to build three hydropower stations including Xin'anjiang, four medium-sized thermal power stations such as Xiangtan and Shuicheng, joint construction of 36 technical schools and 10 universities and provision of teachers, etc., with a total amount of 57.13 million US dollars.

On the same day, the Central Bank of the Republic of China, which was reorganized from the Southwest Bank, provided a loan of $15 million to three companies in Hubei, Chongqing, and Jiangnan to order production equipment and technology from Germany and France in the form of cash on delivery, including a steam turbine, a boiler factory, a truck factory, two ammonia fertilizer plants, and a phosphate fertilizer plant.

The Far East has ever made the largest single commercial order in the United States overjoyed, although it was divided by Germany 15 million, but this agreement also means that China began to gradually open its huge domestic market to the United States, after the news reached Wall Street, including Westinghouse, Rockefeller Petroleum Machinery Company, American Steel Corporation, including stocks have risen, Wall Street-controlled American-Asian Association has also submitted to the United States Senate and House of Representatives to recognize the sovereignty of the Republic of China draft, but because the American-Asian Association is only a non-governmental organization, So Nanjing is still calm about the United States.

When the news reached London, Whitehall was shaken, and the first telegram rebuked diplomats in China, including Jurdian, asking why the inactive French could get the $3 million order, while the British received nothing.

For this reason, Zhu Erdian had to personally come forward to pressure the government of the Republic of China, demanding that Britain give an order of at least 15 million US dollars, to which Nanjing immediately gave a positive reply, directly throwing out the order for two battleships (). Even despite European tensions, Britain would never help China build battleships, not even other countries, so it was impossible to agree, and finally negotiated a contract worth $3 million for civilian steam turbines and small water-tube coal-fired boilers that could build 10 freighters.

When the details of the contract were finalized, everyone felt the heat rushing to their faces.

However, Yang Qiu knows very well that national reunification does not mean that it will be stable, and large orders do not mean that Europe and the United States will help China become rich and strong from now on, just because Europe has been unable to get rid of it, and has to adopt a strategy of making a big profit economically and watching from the sidelines politically.

After busy with loans and orders, the change of banners of institutions in various countries, the adjustment of expatriate personnel, the appointment of officials in various places, etc., made Nanjing seem to have become a clockwork bugs in a parallel world, and even Yang Qiu, who was on vacation, slowly began to shift to work, and the first thing to deal with was the national layout of the National Socialist Party and the construction of the third industrial group.

According to Yang Qiu's opinion, seven manufacturing bureaus across the country, including Guangzhou, Mawei, Jinling, Anqing, Shandong, Dagu, and Beiyang Dezhou Machinery Bureau, will be merged, of which the Mawei Manufacturing Bureau, like Jiangnan, will be changed to a more specialized shipbuilding factory, and the other manufacturing bureaus will be changed to civilian factories after the main military equipment is removed, of which the Jinling factory will be changed to the Nanjing Vehicle Factory.

Although the main equipment of the seven factories are backward in technology, but the total number is still more than 2,000 units, these equipment will all be shipped to Zhengzhou, and here merged into Henan Industrial Company similar to Hubei and Sichuan, selected here because Henan is close to Shaanxi and Shanxi, Shaanxi to develop oil, Shanxi has rich coal mines, can make full use of the resources of the three provinces, and here is out of the intersection of the Jinghan line and the Yellow River, the traffic is also more convenient, in order to become bigger and stronger Yang Qiu also handed over the equipment bought by Russia to Zhengzhou, Since most of it was used to make trains, it will also be the place where China's first locomotive factory will be born.

Hanyang has a foundation, Chongqing is the old Hanyang and Jiangnan teamed up, Mawei shipbuilding experience, but the lack of industrial technology in Henan to develop is far more difficult than the three places, although the technical backbone of the seven factories will also be merged, but just like a large order on the factory, when can really be built not two or three years is impossible, fortunately, the country is at least nominally unified, and there is enough time to polish a little bit ().

At the same time as the North-South negotiations ended, the Sino-Japanese negotiations on the Dongying incident also began immediately, almost as imagined, except for mutual responsibility and compensation, there was no hope of reaching an agreement, the Japanese government only sent a diplomatic vice minister also showed that it had no sincerity in this negotiation, Tang Shaoyi also simply sent his son-in-law Gu Weijun to the right as a exercise, and he went to Shanghai to discuss the details of trade procurement with the United States.

At a time when the domestic political structure and industrial and commercial construction were only beginning to show their heads, the reorganization of the armed forces had already begun to deepen.

Xuchang, the north of the city crossed by the Jinghan Road, has built a huge temporary military camp, where the Yi Army, Xiang Yong, and Beiyang can see the old army as long as they can think of it.

In the middle of the large playground, several Wehrmacht captains sat behind desks, and thousands of former Beiyang and affiliated army soldiers lined up in a long line, and the military police who maintained order stood with loaded guns and ammunition.

"Jiang Hu."

The captain raised his head and glanced up and down at the burly and swarthy former soldiers of the Eighth Beiyang Brigade in front of him, and after talking a few words with the military trainer next to him, he said to the soldier named Jiang Hu: "Shandong? You're in good health, do you want to continue to be a soldier or go home? ”

The soldier thought about it and asked, "Is there money to take?" ”

The second lieutenant didn't want to let go of the good seedlings, and said with a pleasant face: "If you choose to be a soldier, you must first conduct four months of infantry basic training, 5 yuan per month during the training period, and if you are assigned to the regular army after the end, you can get 10 yuan per month if you are assigned to the regular army, and 8 yuan per month if you are assigned to the National Guard. ”

"What about going home?"

After the soldier blurted out, the second lieutenant frowned and shook his palm: "Sign the retirement agreement, a one-time settlement fee of 50 yuan." ”

50 yuan is a lot, and in this year, you can buy almost two cows, and the soldier who has a field at home can live a stable life with two cows, so this soldier is also a little moved. But he had been a soldier for almost two years, and when he suddenly put down his gun and felt as if he was missing something, he couldn't make up his mind when he thought about it, and his companions in line behind him were in a hurry, and they shouted for him not to rub it in.

The soldier was coaxed together, gritted his teeth and said, "Be a soldier." ”

The second lieutenant's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he quickly took out the ink clay and the enlistment book that had been prepared: "Press a handprint and go to the train station tomorrow to meet." When the soldier saw that he still had to press his handprint, he was a little hesitant to choose to retire, but he couldn't stand the louder and louder urging from behind, and quickly pressed the handprint before walking to the side and waiting for his fellow countrymen behind.

The second lieutenant breathed a sigh of relief and handed the enlistment to his assistant and began to report the next name.

Peng Shouxin, who was standing in the distance, completely took this scene into his eyes, and sighed in his heart, as an officer, he didn't need to make a choice to these soldiers, the General Staff of the National Defense Force sent him the position of commander of the 21st Brigade of the Sixth Infantry Division early, but these soldiers who chose to be soldiers or retire in front of him clearly told others that the great Beiyang was being rapidly disintegrated.

From the famous big mouth in the old Beiyang to the commander of the infantry brigade, not only was he not demoted, but he should be said to be promoted, because the national defense force is a three-three system, and a brigade has three infantry regiments and an artillery battalion, plus he has seen during this period of time that the officers at the brigade level of the national defense corps have great command power compared with Beiyang, so they are still relatively satisfied with this arrangement.

In fact, he himself is okay to say, even if he is a battalion commander, he will not choose, but his old friend Wu Peifu actually didn't get anything this time, you must know that in addition to Wang Jinjing being dismissed and forcibly retiring, Chen Huan and Jin Yunpeng's position as commander of the 15th and 16th Infantry Divisions, Xu Shuzheng was directly transferred to the General Staff as an operational staff officer, but he has not yet made any arrangements for the news.

Could it be that Tongguan fought too hard?

Peng Shouxin thought as he walked towards the temporary camp for officers not far away, but before he could see Wu Peifu, he saw two young Wehrmacht officers tearing their throats.

"Wu Xiucai, Lao Tzu came to you to settle accounts!"

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