Auto factories are increasing their production, and Europe and the United States are the main sales regions, after all, China has too few potential customers.

At this time, Ford and other car companies were only curious about the secrets of Yushi Automobile Company about production capacity and cost, so they did not feel any threat. After all, at this time, the U.S. market is far from saturation, not to mention that Yan Shao's side can only produce more than 3,000 vehicles a month at most, even more than 30,000 vehicles may not be enough.

“…… The most important thing now is the optimization of the car and the assembly line, you don't need to think about anything else for the time being..."After hanging up the phone call just received from the research institute, Yan Shao slowly started to froze.

It's now May, and more than 3,000 cars have just been shipped to San Francisco. Although the West Coast is not as developed as the East Coast, the low prices are still very fast enough for the cars to be sold out, compared to the domestic sales of these cars in just over 200 units, only 100 more than in the first month.

However, these are not Yan Shao's concerns, or these are not the things that Yan Shao is most concerned about at the moment.

"What are you thinking about there?" Putting the book in his hand aside, Elano walked behind Yan Shao with some curiosity, and put his hands on his temples and gently massaged them.

"Nothing," he shook his head slightly, there were some things that even the closest people couldn't say. Like what he's thinking right now.

'Imperial Cabinet'

Historically, the Qing court announced the cabinet list on May 8, and then announced the plan to nationalize the railway. This led to the Sichuan Road Protection Movement.

"The question is whether the Qing court will still publish a 'royal cabinet' as it used to be, if not. So what to do..."

Eleno also saw that Yan Shao seemed to be hiding something from her, but she didn't ask, just put her hands on the back of Yan Shao's head and gently soothed her.

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On the lawn next to the mansion, Elanon, Caterina and Otsuki Mother and daughter were sitting on the ground eating a 'picnic', while Yan Shao was sitting on the side and looking at the four of them with a smile.

After all, he is different from when he first came to this era, and after a day or two of suffering and loss, he quickly returned to his former self.

"Anyway, what should happen happens always happens. It's useless to be anxious about what shouldn't happen, instead of rushing straight to the fire, it's better to think about how to solve it if it doesn't happen. ”

After figuring this out. Yan Shao became much more relaxed, and Elaline and the others on the side also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Come..."Taking out a piece of candy from the plate, Yan Shao said to Fumiko with a smile. Remember to brush your teeth often..."

"Xie Lu, Uncle Xie Yan..."Looking at the sugar cube in the palm of her hand, Fumiko's happy eyes narrowed into a crescent moon shape. After coming to China for almost a year. Fumiko's Chinese is already quite good. At least there is no problem with ordinary language communication, not long ago, Da Yuexun even found Yan Shao to discuss sending her to school.

Maybe it's because only Fumiko is left by her side, Otsuki Xun has put considerable expectations on her, and even her education has become much stricter.

There is no need to mention a lot of homework every day, and even a piece of candy is not allowed to be eaten.

It is also because of this relationship that Fumiko likes Yan Shao and Elano very much—————— after all, Otsuki Xun also wants to give them some face, so sometimes she can use their name Fox to fake Huwei, such as eating two pieces of candy or something.

I saw Fumiko holding a sugar cube in her mouth. Yan Shao put his hand on her little head and rubbed it vigorously. Yan Shao has always liked children—————— except when bear children and crying. So I like the sensible Fumiko very much, and I don't have any prejudice because of her bloodline.

About half an hour passed, and just when everyone was about to eat, a maid suddenly ran over and said.

"Boss, here's your telegram..."

After taking the telegram from the maid's hand, and after just a few casual glances, Yan Shao closed the telegram.

"It's finally begun..."

On May 8, 1911, that is, the tenth day of the fourth month of the third year of Xuantong, the Qing government announced the abolition of the Military Aircraft Department, the implementation of the cabinet system, and the appointment of prime ministers and ministers. At the same time, the Qing court also promulgated the "Cabinet Official System" and the "Provisional Regulations for the Cabinet to Handle Affairs". Since this was the first time in the history of China, the Qing government declared that it did not implement the new "Cabinet Official System" for the sake of prudence, but only established it in accordance with the "Provisional Regulations for the Cabinet Affairs."

The newly established cabinet has a total of 13 people, including the prime minister, Prince Qing, and among the 13 members of the cabinet, nine are Manchurians, including seven from the imperial family, and only four from the Han nationality. Moreover, except for Xu Shichang as the assistant minister of the cabinet, the remaining three served as the foreign minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the minister of academic affairs, and the minister of posts and communications of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, and they had almost no real power.

In contrast, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Degree Branch, the Ministry of the Army, the Ministry of the Navy, the Ministry of Law, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Industry were all held by Manchurians.

After this list was spread, the whole country was in an uproar.

The constitutionalists originally had two demands, one was to convene the Diet quickly and the other was to hold the Cabinet responsible, but the demand for the speedy opening of the Diet was discounted, and the Imperial Cabinet was even more disappointing to those constitutionalists. Because on this extremely sensitive issue, the Qing court inadvertently made a huge mistake, which is tantamount to proving the correctness of the revolutionary party's anti-Qing and anti-Manchu and racial revolution proposition.

Although most of these members of the Imperial Cabinet were well-known political reformers, not all of them were stubbornly conservative and incompetent, such as Prime Minister Yi Xuan, who was a corrupt official but was a recognized reformer, openly advocating the separation of powers. Zai Ze, Pu Lun, Shanqi, and Shao Chang were the most enthusiastic practitioners of constitutional government, and the most learned members of the Manchu elite, with quite enlightened political tendencies, and even secretly associated with 'anti-party' such as Liang Qichao.

So this cabinet is not as bad as it seems, but compared to the deformed cabinet personnel match, the merits of the cabinet members have become insignificant and meaningless.

In a conference room in the Headquarters building. The list was discussed by the main members of the Reform Council.

And Li Liang and the others, who were sitting on both sides, were looking at Yan Shao with strange eyes.

When the petition of the 'Congressional Petition Comrades Association' was successful, Yan Shao once told them that they should prepare to watch a good show. Now the show is on. But they thought that Yan Shao had already known about this matter...

I don't know what Li Liang and Yan Shao had talked about, Fu Xiuming, who has become the head of the armed forces, looked at Yan Shaodao with some eagerness after reading the newspaper in front of him. "Boss, can we start now?"

Hearing Fu Xiuming's words, the others also looked over.

In their opinion, the Qing court's doing so was tantamount to cutting itself off from the world, and now because of the 'imperial cabinet', the whole world has become disillusioned with the Qing court. Even those constitutionalists who were originally keen to cooperate with the imperial court were also the same, and now is undoubtedly the most appropriate time to start an incident.

Yan Shao was also a little moved, but he still shook his head.

"It's going to take a while..."

"Wait a while?"

"That's right." Saying that, Yan Shao looked at Yan Yongnian, who was in charge of recording on the side. "How's the progress going on over there?"

"Soon." I heard Yan Shao asking himself a question. Yan Yongnian hurriedly replied. "It is estimated that it will take another month at most to complete the project."

"One month..."Yan Shao nodded.

If you just act rashly, it's hard to say whether you will focus all the attraction on yourself. It is like the situation when the Wuchang Uprising was besieged by the Beiyang Army during the Wuchang Uprising.

Although Yan Shao was confident that the troops under his command were stronger than the patrol battalion. It will not even be inferior to the new army of Anhui. The problem is that Yan Shao's troops are less than 1,000 people. Even if you count the patrol battalion that is being bought, there are only more than 2,000 people, and it is impossible to be the opponent of the Beiyang New Army.

After all, at this time, the Beiyang New Army not only had an advantage in quality, but also had a certain number of heavy weapons—————— although it was only some 75mm caliber artillery.

So it's not a good idea to declare an uprising, at least until the new city is completed.

Wuhu New Area, also known as Wuhu New Town, is nominally a living area for workers, but in reality it is no different from a city. Even more reasonable than the average city. At the same time, the city is designed to accommodate a population of more than 100,000 people.

As long as the new area is completed. Yan Shao is equivalent to having his own city, and at the same time, it is equivalent to having a solid backing. Even if the Wuchang uprising did not happen. Let Yan Shao have to revolt on his own and lead to the siege of the Beiyang Army, Yan Shao can also rely on the city to hold out for a long time until the other provinces correspond.

"Whether it is standing still or starting an incident, we must wait until the completion of the new area by the river." After thinking about it for a while, Yan Shao made up his mind. "And maybe the Qing court will do something even more stupid..."

They looked at each other, and Li Liang nodded.

They were not very sure of Yan Shao's so-called stupid things, after all, in their opinion, it was difficult to have anything more stupid than the imperial cabinet in this world.

It's just that when they waited for the next day, when they saw the news that had just come from Beijing, Li Liang and the others were all dumbfounded, and even when they were looking at Yan Shao, they were like looking at a demon who could predict the prophet.

On May 9, 1911, the day after the establishment of the Imperial Cabinet, the Qing court, under the instigation of Sheng Xuanhuai, Minister of Posts and Communications, announced the policy of "nationalizing the railways", nationalizing the Sichuan-Han and Guangdong-Hanzhou railways, which had been run by commerce.

After the Qing government promulgated the policy of "state-owned railways", the people and gentry of Sichuan suddenly broke out in great anger because of their refusal to return Sichuan's shares.

The shares for the construction of the railways in Sichuan not only came from the gentry, merchants, landlords, and peasants, but also from the peasants who bought a large proportion of the shares.

First of all, it needs to be explained here that the Sichuan-Han Railway is different from the railways of several other provinces, and most of the railway stocks in other provinces are bought by the local gentry and merchants, while Sichuan is different, the vast majority of people who buy stocks are peasant households, no, it is not so much to buy as to force...

The Sichuan-Han Railway Company was founded in January 1904 under the auspices of Xiliang, a well-known new bureaucrat and governor of Sichuan, and was the earliest provincial-level railway company in the country. The company "does not solicit foreign shares, does not borrow foreign debts", and the funds come from four ways: government investment, businessman investment, rent-drawn shares, and public interest shares.

It needs to be explained that the latter two items, the leased shares are referred to as leased shares. At that time, it was stipulated that all peasant households in the province who collected more than 10 stone (120 catties per stone) of grain a year would be drawn "shares" according to 3 percent of their actual income in that year. Gongli shares are the income obtained from investing in other projects in the name of the railway company.

The problem lies in the leasing of shares. Although the leased shares also share dividends, the minimum denomination of shares at that time was 50 taels, and the vast majority of the people paid the leased shares far from reaching this amount, so the railway company first issued receipts, and then took the receipts to exchange for shares when they paid 50 taels every year, and this took at least sixty or seventy years for those farmers who were just enough to meet the standard to get together a stock.

Therefore, the people did not even have a single stock in their hands, and all the dividends went to the government of the collecting agency that rented the shares. The so-called leased shares. In fact, it is equivalent to adding a kind of "personal income tax", which will inevitably cause a certain degree of public resentment.

The Sichuan-Han Railway is different from the Hubei, Hunan and Guangdong railways in that the leased shares account for the majority.

In the other provinces, the vast majority of the stocks were bought by merchants and gentry, but it was the peasant households that held the main power in Sichuan. In other words, if the nationalization of the railways in several other provinces only harmed the interests of the gentry and merchants, then the nationalization of the Sichuan-Han Railway harmed the interests of more than 50 million people in Sichuan.

By the end of 1910, the Sichuan-Han Railway Company had an income of 11.98 million taels, of which the government invested only about 230,000 taels. The merchant invested 2.45 million taels. The leased shares were 9.28 million taels, accounting for about 77% of the total share capital. Although many people have not seen dividends, nominally the railway belongs to all Sichuan people, which is also a reason why the road protection movement was in full swing in Sichuan.

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First the imperial cabinet, and then the state-owned railway, a series of actions by the Qing court made Li Liang dizzying, and at the same time, they began to doubt the intellectual level of the rulers of the Qing court.

Now the situation in China can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye, and the Qing court is sitting in the crater of a volcano. It can be destroyed by an erupting volcano at any time. At this time, what the Qing court should do is try to calm down the volcano, so that it will erupt in the future. The losses will not be too great.

However, now, instead of thinking about how to calm the volcano, the Qing court threw two bombs into the crater, as if they were afraid that the volcano would not erupt.

"Could it be that the high-level leaders of the Qing court are all pig brains..."

At this time, even Yan Yongnian, whose expression had always been stiff, showed a puzzled expression.

However, the Qing court did this, which was also beneficial to Yan Shao and them. After all, if they don't do this, how can they exhaust the last bit of popular support?

On May 14, a rally of 10,000 people was held in Changsha, Hunan Province, to protest the Qing government's plan to nationalize the railways. After seeing the relevant reports, Yan Shao called Fu Xiuming and Qin Zhen to his home at the same time.

At this time, in the armed forces department of the Reform Association, Fu Xiuming was the minister, and Qin Zhen was the deputy minister.

"Get ready..."In the conference room, after waving off a few servants, Yan Shao said to Fu Xiuming and Qin Zhen. It looks like the time will come soon, but when the time comes, we will launch it immediately, and whether it will succeed at that time is up to you..."

"Boss, don't worry..."Hearing Yan Shao's words, Fu Xiuming and Qin Zhen hurriedly replied.

It's just that after thinking about it for a while, Fu Xiuming spoke. "However, now there is a patrol battalion of more than 1,000 people stationed in Wuhu, how should these guys solve it, more than 1,300 people, although the combat effectiveness of the patrol battalion is relatively poor, but if you don't deal with it well, it will be a trouble..."

"That's right." Qin Zhen also agreed. "We're confident that we'll get rid of them, but it's inevitable that there will be some ripples when we fight, if..."

After all, they have lived in Wuhu for so many years, and the two already have a deep affection for Wuhu.

The combat effectiveness of the patrol battalion is very clear to everyone present, at most, it is stronger than the militia, and there is a big gap compared with the current patrol team, so whether it is Fu Xiuming or Qin Zhen, they are not afraid that they can defeat the patrol team.

The question is what if innocent people are affected during the battle?

Now Wuhu is basically an industrial city, full of factories owned by the group, and at least half of the more than 100,000 people are employees of the group. If it really hurts the innocent, at least half of it will probably be your own people.

"You can rest assured about this..."Yan Shao shook his head. You just need to think about how to deal with the new army in Anqing, and the local patrol battalion in Wuhu will be handed over to me to solve..."

After Fu Xiuming and Qin Zhen left, Yan Shao returned to the room.

In the room, Eleno and Caterina were playing chess, and they all looked up when they saw Yan Shao coming back.

Sitting next to him lightly, after observing the chess game, Yan Shao put his hand on Katarina's leg and gently kneaded it.

"How's the buying of the patrol battalion going..."

"Two company commanders have already been bribed, but because we don't know when you plan to start an incident, we don't dare to make too big a move on our side."

"There is no need to worry about this now, before October, we must buy off most of the high-level leaders of the patrol battalion, and the same is true for the new army, even if we can't control all the new troops, at least half of the number..."

"Are you going to launch it in October?" Moving the chess pieces, Caterina looked back at Yan Shao.

"That's right..."Yan Shao nodded his head. October, at least for me, is the right time..."

After speaking, Yan Shao looked up at the window, in October, no matter whether Wuchang launched it or not, he would take action.

In order to welcome the new era that is coming... (To be continued......)