"This is a war, and the clarion call of war has been sounded in Dongying, and the battle of Dongying has exposed the ambition of the West to enslave the East...... How can we deal with such a crisis? ”

Dong-A Ilbo, November 19, 1892, "The Crisis in East Asia"

How to deal with it, in November, when the news of Japan's surrender came, it did not seem to cause too much of a sensation in China, at this time, for the people on the territory of "I Daqing", all they were concerned about was whether the tax was increased or decreased, and whether the situation was stable at this time, it seemed that for the people, this is the most important thing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

It is no wonder that although the dragon flag of "my Qing Dynasty" is still fluttering, but the "nine governors of the world" control the situation of the world is a well-known thing, and these nine governors seem to work together for the country, but in fact they are different in mind, such as Hefei people control the Zhili, fake hands of his brother to master the two Guangzhou, and in the name of the in-laws to influence Fujian and Zhejiang, half of the world into its hands, such as the south of the skin sitting in Wuchang, in charge of Huguang, with the two rivers, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan as the aid, only so that the world faintly has the tendency of two powers.

On the other hand, in view of Japan's demise, the unprecedentedly agitated situation under internal and external pressures has only caused all parties to "make up their minds" one after another to "refer to Western France and implement a new policy in order to gradually become rich and strong." However, the new policy based on training the new army, repairing iron works, and building factories and mines required huge expenditures, and this tax increase became inevitable.

However, the only thing that makes them happy is that although the tax is increasing, the situation in the world is not as chaotic as some people say, but it makes people breathe a sigh of relief. Only in this world is that there is no chaos. As for the tax...... Ay. Bear with it first, whoever makes the common people belong to the sheep.

However, in this chaotic situation, the first one who jumped out of the head disappeared, more precisely, there was no news, when the eyes of the world were attracted by Tianjin and Wuchang, the Kanto land outside the customs was just like the past, and was ignored intentionally or unintentionally, but although it was ignored, everyone knew that the Qing Dynasty today was like the Three Kingdoms in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". The top three are hidden in the trend, and the Tang Dashuai of Kanto is also a hero in the green plum boiled wine even if he stops, as for who is the and who is Xuande, it is naturally the benevolent and the wise.

But in any case, it is a well-known fact that this Kanto is receding from the limelight, even if it occasionally appears in that newsprint, it is just such as "the Northeast Army dismissed the elite of the 10th battalion" and other news from outsiders to see the wings of the wings, as for what kind of railroad construction, set up factories, everyone is doing this. Naturally, there is nothing to be rare, even together with the move of the Governor's Office of the three eastern provinces to exempt domestic products from the three provinces in order to encourage industry and commerce. It also failed to attract the attention of the outside world.

Indeed, people like Li Hefei in the world have long been famous at home and abroad, and they are regarded by the West as "Bismarck of East Asia", and Zhang Zhidong is regarded as "the only Chinese politician who can challenge Li Zhongtang" and has attracted overseas attention.

Obviously, the vision of Westerners is more sharp, in fact, it is exactly the case, in terms of population, the population of the Russian Far East is 5 million, and the Northeast is less than 7 million, even if you add Korea, the population under the jurisdiction of the Northeast Governor's Office is only 20 million, while the Russian new conquest of Japan has a population of more than 30 million, in terms of military strength, the Russian Far East garrison is several times that of the Northeast.

It is precisely the disparity in strength that makes it seem to Westerners that from the day he became the governor of Northeast China, the seemingly powerful Tang Haoran was tied to an unbreakable shackle, and his strength was completely restrained by Russia, which had been eyeing the Northeast for many years, and he was naturally powerless to compete in the Guannai.

"At least until they solve the population problem, until the population of the Northeast reaches 30 million, they will not be able to pose a threat to Kannai, and even then, they will need to face the real pressure of Russia......"

Western diplomats assert that the vast land, the limited population, and the imminent threat of a large country are precisely the fundamental reasons why the Northeast has receded from the limelight -- before his strength is weak, he must rein in his minions and reveal the harmlessness of man and animals, so as to paralyze his enemies and gain time to practice his internal skills and enrich his own strength.

While putting away the minions, doing everything possible to attract immigrants, setting up migrant camps, and establishing new-style primary schools are all manifestations of the need to practice internal skills, compared with a series of new policy measures such as attracting immigrants and establishing new-style schools, the land in the southwest of Fengtian, which covers an area of thousands of square kilometers, is quietly showing its changes.

Western-style buildings are distributed along the streets, commercial districts, residential areas, parks and schools are scattered on both sides of the streets of the West District, and in the distance, tall factories stand on the former grassland, although like those buildings nearby, many of the buildings here have not yet been capped, the snowflakes fall on the steel beams of the houses, and the occasional construction workers can be seen walking in the air, as if the cold weather has not affected the construction of the factory.

But in fact, because of the arrival of winter, most of the construction has stopped, after all, winter is not suitable for the solidification of concrete, of course, another reason is that the ice of the Liao River makes it impossible to transport Incheon cement to Mukden smoothly. Construction stoppages have become inevitable, and many construction workers have even moved to railway construction sites to speed up the construction of railways, but construction has not stopped in some key factories, but most of them have stayed on some steel frame construction that is not affected by the weather.

In a stretch of factory rooms in the West District, more than a dozen tall chimneys spew smoke, this is one of the few factories in the West District to complete the construction, although it is late at night, but the electric lights still reflect the factory area brightly, in the dazzling light of the 100-watt electric lamp, a machine tool is transported out of the wooden box, is installed in the factory.

The dark, metallic machines are both imported from the Seoul Machinery Factory and newly purchased equipment, and the English and German on the wooden boxes indicate that the equipment comes from different countries. In fact, in the northeast, among the factories that were invested by the Governor's Palace. No factory has a single country of equipment. The wooden boxes are printed in English, German and even French.

"Dashuai, the new bullet machine is the same as the rifle machine, it is provided by the American company, the bullet machine is provided by the Remington company, compared with the German bullet machine, the Remington company is more advanced, when we were in Seoul, we purchased the German bullet machine. There are as many as 55 pieces of equipment, including shells, primers, and warheads, which can produce 300,000 rounds of ammunition per month, while Remington's bullet machine, although the number of machine tools is as high as 182, its production is the latest multi-machine joint production, which can produce as many as 100,000 rounds of ammunition per day......

100,000 rounds of ammunition a day, when he heard this number, Tang Haoran's brows couldn't help jumping, ammunition production has always been a problem for him, more precisely, the weakness of the Northeast Army. For this reason, when planning the construction of the arsenal of the three eastern provinces, the ammunition factory was listed as a key project of the factory.

"Say so. Yuelin, that year was 36.5 million rounds of ammunition, if I remember correctly, the first phase of the project planned in Fuzhong is 40 million, even if this bullet factory is put into operation, isn't there still a bit of a gap? ”

The first phase of 40 million, the second phase of 100 million, this is part of the four-year preparation plan, 140 million rounds of ammunition, but it is just enough to meet the needs of the Northeast Army in the future, but this is only a four-year preparation plan, according to the eight-year plan, there will be an investment in Harbin with a scale of 200 million rounds of ammunition factory, that is out of the need to prepare for war against Russia.

"Dashuai, the old factory moved from Seoul can produce 1.2 million rounds of ammunition per month, and if the two are combined, it can produce 50 million rounds of ammunition a year, which is more than the planned capacity!"

Although it seems to be a bit strong, Zheng Tingxiang then deliberately emphasized.

"The reason why the second set of equipment was not purchased is because our experts inspected the equipment in Remington, in which equipment such as copper grinding machine, automatic punching machine, cutting machine and other equipment can be imitated by the first machine company, and according to the principle of importing the No. 1 machine and imitating the No. 2 machine formulated by Fuzhong, the compromise on the appropriate output is acceptable."

Zheng Tingxiang's words show that Beiyang Company or the current Northeast Heavy Industry Development Company is different from any other enterprise, as a national policy company, it is not only responsible for the establishment of a series of heavy industry factories in Northeast China, but more importantly, the establishment of a complete set of industrial system.

In fact, this is also the task of the Beiyang company as early as the period, and in order to achieve this goal, the company's equipment procurement is submitted to the head office to submit orders, and then by the overseas companies according to the factory's orders to the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the United States and other countries to procure, due to the lack of intermediary foreign agency links and the number is larger, compared with the purchase of equipment in the customs is cheaper by three to four percent. But more importantly, the advantage of quantity allows companies not only to gain more bargaining power, but also to acquire a license to produce equipment.

The European and American industries at the end of the 19th century were not at the end of the 20th century, in this era, as long as there is money, you can buy the most advanced equipment and its patented technology, for the European and American industries, their first consideration is economic interests, as for whether the transfer of technology patents will bring national security problems, it is not something they need to consider.

Because of this, Tang Haoran will continue to repeat that it is necessary to seize the opportunity to introduce patented technology produced in Europe and the United States, the most important of these technologies is the patent of machine tool equipment, in the past six months, thousands of machine tool patents have been introduced into the company with the purchase of tens of thousands of machine tools and equipment, and the first machine tool company in the northeast of the West District and Beiyang Machine Tool Company are jointly undertaking the task of attracting technology, and the principle formulated by the Fuzhong, enterprises should use imitation equipment as much as possible.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the difficulty of machine tool equipment in this era without any technical imitation, as long as a certain amount of technical force is invested, even the most advanced machine tools can be imitated, and the reason why the company introduces technology patents, it is said that it is the introduction of patented technology, but rather the introduction of production technology. It is through the imitation of the past year or so that the machine tool company now has the confidence to imitate simple equipment.

"Shanzhai" this is the inevitable take-off of the rising industrial countries, even Germany was a "cottage" country, now China is catching up, copycat industrial products of other countries is a natural thing, even in the process of "cottage", the government should also give certain support, just like the current government and the company's support for machine tool companies, not only will make compromises on the planned output to wait for domestic equipment, and even make certain concessions in quality to ensure that its products can be accepted, of course, this is only temporary.

"Hmmm......"

Nodding slightly, facing the snowflakes, accompanied by the deputy manager of the Northeast Heavy Industry Development Company and the manager of the arsenal of the three eastern provinces, Tang Haoran continued to walk forward, every time he walked through a workshop, he would always look at the factory a few times, and when he walked to the gun factory, he looked at the dazzling light at the window of the workshop, which was the Siemens open-hearth furnace in the steelmaking workshop.

"Yuelin, do you know what the Arsenal of the Three Eastern Provinces means to Fuzhong?"

When Tang Haoran, who had set his pace, asked rhetorically, he turned his attention to the body, the general office of the Seoul Machinery Bureau back then, and now as the deputy manager of the Northeast Heavy Industry Development Company, his more energy is used in the arsenal of the three eastern provinces. It is inevitable that he will be a little dissatisfied, after all, compared with the arsenals of the three eastern provinces, there are more large-scale projects in the Northeast, and he has already trained his deputies in Seoul, so he naturally hopes to play a role on a bigger stage.

"The arsenal of the three eastern provinces is the capital of our livelihood, with an annual output of 150,000 rifles, 140 million rounds of ammunition, 400 barreled artillery pieces, and 1,000 mortars......

In his mouth, he was talking about the plan for this large arsenal, this plan was not formulated with the goal of those Tongze in the Guannei, but the planning standard formulated with the powerful neighbor in the north as the imaginary enemy, looking forward to the future of this large-scale comprehensive arsenal Tang Haoran suddenly changed the conversation again.

"If you don't have this factory, let alone sleep, you can't sit down with your eyes open, who knows what the situation will become?"

The marshal's words made Zheng Tingxiang's expression change slightly, as a high-ranking official in the mansion, he naturally knew what the marshal was referring to, and hurriedly asked nervously.

"Dashuai, is the situation really that tense?"

"Nervous?"

As his footsteps moved forward, Tang Haoran said with a solemn expression.

"It's not really that nervous, but it's really very nervous, what if the 400,000 Russians in the Far East cross the border? What do we rely on to stop them? Can the 100,000 Northeast Army stop them? ”

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