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When Yang Du returned to the presidential palace in Nanjing, Li Yuanhong had also returned ahead of schedule. Sitting in the study, pinching the newspaper and reading the news about Lenin's death, I saw him raise his hand and said: "The boy is here, have you read the newspaper?" ”

During this period, the news about Lenin's death was overwhelming, and unlike the bland narration of domestic newspapers, it was the heat in Europe and the United States. The British applauded, and businessmen paid for the front page to celebrate. However, there have been cases in Germany and France of setting up mourning halls, and many people in the United States have spontaneously organized mourning activities. Yang Dusuan saw that Lenin was a great man in any case, and at least the workers of the whole world should be grateful to him, and if it were not for the establishment of the Soviet proletariat, the trade union organization would continue to be strongly suppressed by the capitalists, and the exploitation of the workers would have been even more serious. However, because of the emergence of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the rise and fall of the worldwide workers' movement and revolutionary waves, the countries of Europe and the United States were much more cautious about the workers' question.

After the two talked about the aftermath of Lenin's death, Yang Du explained the intention. "It's not difficult to move the capital, and it's not a trivial matter to change back to the presidential system." Li Yuanhong narrowed his eyes and hesitated, although he could become the first official president of the Republic of China, and he would like to thank Yang Qiu for three consecutive terms, but President Taiping is used to it, and he always wants to leave a good reputation until he comes down.

Yang Du curled the corners of his mouth slightly, understood his thoughts, and said: "Du thinks that this matter will not only not affect your reputation, but will be applauded by more people." ”

Li Yuanhong glared at him, will anyone applaud the reform of the system and the revocation of the power of the Congress? Isn't this Han Qi himself: "Don't make fun of the old man, I know best how much I have the ability, if I say that I should help Chenhua get back power, it's just that the turmoil in changing the country is not small." ”

Seeing that he hesitated, Yang Du continued: "Great President, you are wrong. Both the presidential system and the parliamentary system are republics, not a change of state, but a question of who has the most power. France still has a presidential system, and the National Assembly can also monitor the presidential palace to prevent abuses of power. Besides. If you are succeeded by a mediocre person, you will definitely be poked in the backbone if you change, but the vice president is far-sighted and has a very good wrist. After you get the power, you will definitely be able to bring our country into Europe and the United States, and in the future, people will praise you for paving the way. ”

Li Yuanhong is right to think about it, if it is someone else who takes over, he will definitely not be at ease, but Yang Qiu's ability is obvious to all, and it is not good for the country to let the Congress hold his hands and feet. And he was already satisfied with being re-elected for three consecutive terms, and took the opportunity to help, and no one would leave office in the future. Not to mention that even if you don't do it yourself. Yang Qiu will definitely take other paths, so why be a villain in vain.

After Yang Du finished speaking, he also told the planned plan, and learned that Hu Hanmin of the Kuomintang and the poor party had colluded, Li Yuanhong was very angry, but he also felt that it was a good opportunity. After all, Yang Qiu is in charge of the national society, as long as he tacitly believes that the resistance in the party will not be very high. The Republican Party is now Tang Jueton in charge, and Liang Qichao's gang are all old and useless, but the Kuomintang still has some forces. Especially in Nanyang, the development is very good. But Nanyang is too complicated, and it will affect the whole body, if they mess around, it will still hurt the Chinese. Now that the Sumatra oil field problem has just been decided, it is necessary to let them converge and not sabotage the plan.

After the two discussed, Yang Du sent the news promised by Li Yuanhong to Yang Qiu overnight. Yang Qiu also breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately summoned Song Ziqing and other henchmen overnight in the name of holding a meeting to hear their thoughts.

Everyone has no opinion on moving the capital, Nanjing lacks depth, whether it is military or geographical is not advantageous, after moving away, the city can be returned to the jurisdiction of the Jiangsu Provincial Government, so as to make better use of the Yangtze River for construction. Yang Qiu's idea of preserving the ancient city and building a purely political capital similar to Washington, D.C., was also well received, but his idea of incorporating Tianjin into it was opposed by Xu Xiujun and Zhang Wenjing, among others.

The opponents are all economical. Cai Gongshi even felt that there must be a minimum foundation for construction. Under the circumstance that Liang Shiyi and others built a private iron and steel plant in Shandong, and Qingdao and Yantai are also important areas for US industrial investment, Hebei's rebuilding of large industries will be suspected of duplication and waste, and it is better to continue to maintain Tianjin's status as a municipality directly under the central government, so that the industries necessary for the destruction of ancient buildings can be placed in Tianjin, so that the Beijing-Tianjin area will not have any industrial capacity.

Yang Qiu finally adopted their opinions.

Everyone agrees with the change of the presidential system. Judging from the first ten years of the Republic of China, strongman politics is deep-rooted, and Yang Qiu's ability to hold the Congress hostage by party affiliation as vice president is beyond anyone's ability, and because the people want to see a strongman like him stand up and lead everyone, the presidential system can ensure his rights after coming to power to the greatest extent and not fall into internal friction. Zhang Wenjing, who quarreled last time, was originally opposed, not because he was afraid that Yang Qiu would abuse his power, but not because he wanted the country to fall into chaos, and he was afraid that he would play the trick of blackmailing public opinion again, but after hearing that Li Yuanhong was in charge of this matter, he was relieved and did not oppose it again.

After unifying the opinion, Yang Qiu returned to Nanjing and started to work normally, and Miao Luo was busier than him because he was going to Guangxi to carry out women's work, so the family relied on Rui Yao to be busy. After returning to Nanjing, he immediately went to Lu Bicheng and held a very low-key wedding, only entertaining Lu Bicheng's family and some good friends.

Knowing that Yang Qiu had plans to move the capital, Lu Bicheng, who had changed from a talented woman to a shrewd strong woman, immediately asked people to buy a big villa in the suburbs of Beijing, and then sent a telegram to ask Miao Luo's opinion. Seeing that she had to tell the "eldest lady" about everything first, even Yang Qiu, who was busy with a lot of fun, couldn't close her mouth with a smile, which made Lu Bicheng stomp her feet, who made her a "little three" all of a sudden.

The relocation of the capital and the restructuring will not begin until Li Yuanhong's third term, but there are some things that must be prepared first. The military attaches the most importance to it, and in the past, all defense work was centered on Nanjing, but now it is gradually tilted towards Beijing. Therefore, Yang Qiu first called Chen Meng, commander of the 101st Guard Division, who was stationed in Tianjin and Beijing, and at the same time allocated funds to expand Beijing's Nanyuan Airport, and transferred the 3rd and 5th Armored Brigades and the 102nd Guard Division stationed in Shanghai to the north and stationed at the base of the Beijing-Tianjin Garrison Area in Langfang.

Although the depth of the Bohai Sea barrier is greater than that of Nanjing, the defense of the Bohai Strait must be strengthened. Under the circumstance that Weihai, Qingdao, and Lushun all have naval and air bases, the navy has decided to completely turn the North Chenghuang Island and the South Chenghuang Island of the Miaojie Islands into strait fortresses, and will put all the four 305mm triple naval guns on the former Combined Forces-class battleship Taghoff (not owned by the Republic of China Navy), which has been bought back from Italy and dismantled, on the strait fortress to strengthen its control over the Bohai Strait, and is also preparing to put two torpedo boats and submarine groups on the islands to cooperate with the Beiyang Fleet to blockade the strait if necessary.

Of course, the navy will not be so conservative, after learning about the relocation of the capital, Cheng Biguang first expressed his support, and then proposed the Jiaohai defense line plan. That is, it is necessary to ensure the ability to block the line of defense from the Jiaozhou Peninsula to Haiju in North Korea. Of course, in the end, he also carried forward the navy's ability to ask for money, and euphemistically proposed that four more battleships and four heavy cruisers were needed to ensure the safety of the capital.

The Taiwan Island-class heavy cruiser reached out again to ask for funds before it was fully delivered, and Yang Qiu really couldn't stand the cheekiness of the navy. However, seeing that he defended the capital on the left and was loyal to the country on the right, and the official relocation of the capital also required naval support, he simply asked the Ministry of Defense to seek the design of four new heavy cruisers from various shipyards by bidding, but the construction needed to wait until about 1927.

The army will certainly get a lot of funds for strengthening the defense of the Jinjing area, and the navy will be proud of the tender for four new heavy cruisers, and the air force will of course want to get a piece of the pie. So Xue Muhua personally approached Yang Qiu and asked for the construction of a new aircraft. But I didn't want to be kicked out of the Ministry of Defense directly. It's not that Yang Qiu doesn't know the importance of aviation, but Wang Zhu and Ba Yuzao both told that a breakthrough in the engine is not far away, so it is not cost-effective to build a bunch of canvas wood.

The military needs to be adjusted, and the Beijing-Tianjin region also needs officials who can hold their ground and ensure that there is no chaos during the transition period. He remembered that Wang Geng, who had returned from a vacation in Egypt and was studying at the National Defense University for a short time, and after discussing with Xiao Anguo, he appointed him as the commander of the Beijing-Tianjin Garrison Region. At the same time, Shi Yixuan, a member of the Shandong Provincial State Society, mayor of Qingdao, and a former Harvard University student of finance and management, was transferred to become the mayor of Beijing.

The current Yang Qiu and Guoshe are not the local forces that drooled at the string of capable military generals in Yuan Shikai's pocket 10 years ago. Seventy percent of the country's officials and military officers are members of the National Society, and the vast majority of Chinese engineers have joined the National Society or are willing to obey Yang Qiu's dispatch. Shi Yixuan is one of the best. Not only does he manage Qingdao in an orderly manner, but he is also the first scholar-type mayor in the country to go abroad to investigate and attract investment.

The mobilization of troops in peacetime always attracts attention, and the Central Guard Division, also known as the army within the army, is one of the nine core main forces of the National Defense Force. The 102nd Division went north, and naturally some people talked about it, secretly guessing the meaning behind the transfer. As the Navy's budget report for increasing the defense of the Bohai Strait was submitted to Congress, the voice of moving the capital began to be loud. Since it has not yet reached the time to be announced, both the presidential office and the prime minister's office are silent on this matter, but some signs of the old Beijing city still make people who are interested understand that it is imperative to move the capital.

Neither the relocation of the capital nor the second five-year plan in the sprint has affected the work of some people.

The ship Sihai from Fuzhou slowly sailed into the port of Pontianak. On the dock, they stretched out their heads to look out, or held up the cards with their names written on them, anxiously looking at the passengers who were disembarking, while the boatmen next to them shouted slogans, ready to wait for the ship to stop and hurry up to load the goods.

Pontianak is the most important Chinese community in Borneo, home to about 70,000 Chinese. As long as you can speak Teochew or Hakka here. It's almost the same as going back home. With the prosperity of the country and the construction of the country, the Chinese of Pontianak found that there were many more ships from the motherland coming here, and groups of new "gold diggers" began to pour here. Unlike the older generation, they have abundant capital and large pockets, and thousands of acres of plantations are just small transactions, and there are many people who operate ore trading.

Backed by the great treasure of Borneo, the port of Pontianak has become the largest port of export from the Dutch East Indies to China, with mainly nickel, sulphur, rubber and timber, as well as small quantities of rice and pepper.

On the deck of the Four Seas, a group of youngsterly dressed people leaned against the railing of the ship's side, smoking cigarettes and pointing at the bustling crowd. There were two people standing next to the young man, one of whom was in his thirties, with a straight waist and eyebrows like swords, and a faint solemnity between the opening and closing. The one next to him was the opposite, not only younger but also excited, like a rich boy who had just escaped from his cage and seen the world.

"Brother Dai, it's your first time coming to Pontianak, right?" Zhang Haidong approached Dai Yunong excitedly, and gently bumped his shoulder and handed over the cigarette. After the Ryukyu operation, he also took the opportunity of the European war to train and is now the colonel of the 16th Brigade.

"It's really different from what I thought." Dai Yunong, who was on field duty for the first time, nodded, he was indeed the first time to come to Nanyang. Although I have already known all aspects of the South Seas through various types of information, I realized that it is completely different from what I imagined after seeing it with my own eyes. In particular, there is basically no shadow of the Lanfang tragedy here, and if you are not familiar with it, you must not know that there was a massacre against the Chinese here decades ago.

"It's not the same, you'll know if you stay a few more days." Zhang Haidong saw the familiar old friends on the dock, beckoned everyone to go and get the luggage, and then smiled and patted him: "Everyone is almost gone, let's go too." ”

After disembarking. Dai Yunong saw Zhuang Meisheng who came to greet him.

Like the name, Zhuang Meisheng is a child of overseas Chinese. Forty-year-old, short hexagram sweatshirt, wearing a straw hat. I don't know where I got a pair of sunglasses that were just popular in the United States, and shook a fan to get rid of a profiteer. In fact, he is still Miao Luo's senior brother and a former disciple of the American Zhigong Court. Since the younger sister married Yang Qiu, the Zhigongtang has completely become the largest overseas force of the National Society, and tens of thousands of Zhigongtang disciples have whitewashed their families to bid farewell to the gangster-style management model, and learned from the Yangtze River Gang that year quietly reorganized and established Haihua Trading Company. Among them, the largest shareholder is Yang Qiu and Miao Yuan, who manages Miao's enterprise.

Yang Qiu became a shareholder because he wanted Haihua Company to take care of his second uncle who went to South America to develop his second uncle, and Chen Yutang, who was sent to get instant coffee and nerve drugs, but he didn't expect that the intelligence department would also look at the platform of Haihua Company, so he quickly used their tentacles to spread all over the world.

"Brother Zhang, it's been a long time since I've seen you here." Zhuang Meisheng is obviously very familiar with Zhang Haidong, which makes Dai Yunong secretly surprised. I thought to myself, could it be that Yang Qiu had already secretly sent an army to Borneo? But he didn't dare to ask this question, Chen Haohui had already reminded that the most important thing as an intelligence officer was to be nosy, so he focused his mind on this mission.

Zhuang Meisheng is one of the largest Chinese businessmen in Pontianak. Five years ago, Borneo acquired the famous Dagang Company in Borneo, which not only owned a plantation but also two gold mines. He saw that Dai Yunong should be a newcomer, and said with a smile: "This is the brother Yunong mentioned in the telegram, right?" ”

"Yu Nong has seen Boss Zhuang."

"What a boss. Hehe, those who can come to Pontianak are brothers. ”

Dai Yunong saw that Zhuang Meisheng was so polite, and he was embarrassed to quickly change his name to Brother Zhuang. A big brother brought the people closer a lot, and Zhuang Meisheng hurriedly asked people to drive the car and take them back to Dagang Company.

The company is located in the most prosperous area of Pontianak, is a three-story Western-style house, Dai Yunong arrived to see two bodyguards standing at the door with revolvers at the waist. Zhuang Meisheng saw his attention and introduced: "Yu Nong, don't think that Pontianak will be safe if all of them are Chinese. The natives here are unruly, and they are lazy and often rob us Chinese, so each company is equipped with bodyguards. After the navy came over the oil field last time, there was a firefight on our side. ”

The Sumatra oil field conflict Dai Yunong is aware of. But he didn't expect to cause a conflict between the Turen and the Chinese, so he couldn't help asking: "Brother Zhuang, according to what you say, did the Dutch give the gun to the Turen?" They're not afraid to get into trouble! ”

Zhuang Meisheng was not surprised that Dai Yunong knew the details behind the natives, and after asking the servants to pour tea for a few people, his face became serious: "In the early years, the natives used machetes. But in the past two years, many Japanese guns have flowed into Borneo, and the Dutch can't do anything about it. In the past two years, the Arab guerrillas on the Batavia side have seen that we are booming, and they have often come to ask for money, which is really chaotic. Especially our few gold mines, if it weren't for Brother Zhang's secret care, I don't know how many people would have died. ”

Dai Yunong knew the details of Dagang Company, but he didn't expect that it was actually involved in gold mining! immediately understood why he and Zhang Haidong met. In fact, he had long known from some clues that Yang Qiu had a "golden army" in his hands that specialized in making gold in various parts of the South Seas. But he always thought that this unit must be very mysterious, but he didn't expect it to be the 16th Independent Brigade in the open.

Since Haihua Company is an overseas company controlled by Yang Qiu, and Dagang is a branch, the mined gold will definitely have to be shipped back to China, so it is not surprising that the 16th Brigade often comes. "Brother Zhuang, apart from the Japanese, what news does the poor party have?" Dai Yunong was eager to know the news of the activities of the poor party in Nanyang, which was also the main reason why he was arranged by Chen Haohui to come to Nanyang for field work.

After Zhuang Meisheng threw a few cigarettes to Zhang Haidong and the soldiers who came to escort the gold back to China, he continued: "There are many people from the poor party. I heard from the brothers in Batavia that dozens of people came from North Korea last month, and I am afraid that they are all good at fighting! ”

"North Korea, and there was a war?" Dai Yunong frowned, if this news is true, I am afraid that the hundreds of remnants in Shumyatsky's hands were defeated, but he didn't expect to be placed in Nanyang.

Zhuang Meisheng said: "The Dutch also kept a close eye on them, so as soon as these poor parties came, they contacted the Arab guerrillas, trained them, and instigated armed resistance and revolution many times. The other day, the two factions fought once in Surabaya, and my men came back and said that at least four Dutch military police officers had died. ”

After hearing this, Dai Yunong suddenly secretly complained, knowing why Chen Haohui asked him to find a way to stabilize the situation in Nanyang for a few years. The inflow of Japanese guns, the militants of the poor party, the Arab guerrillas, the British, American, Dutch and French forces, and the indigenous tribal armed Nanyang have become a mess! However, now that Britain still has the power to remain, and the United States is eyeing it, if the war starts now, I am afraid that the development of the Sumatra oil field will be delayed, and if it affects the Chinese, I am afraid that the Republic of China will have to passively get involved.

In the Republic of China, China, the United States, Britain, France, and Japan are bound to be completely chaotic wars, what can I do? …… (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )