Three Towns has started another busy day.

The news that Commander Yang would return to Wuchang for the New Year and hold a meeting went away, and people were happy at the same time hoping to know what kind of policies the commander-in-chief who brought prosperity to Hubei this time had come out with the policy of benefiting the people.

As the starting place of Yang Qiu and the National Society, a series of policies and reforms implemented in Hubei have always touched the hearts of many people. The rapid development of industrial priority has led to an influx of young people from the countryside into the cities, crowded with technical schools of all kinds to receive training and then be assigned to various factories, if you are not satisfied with the assignment, you can find it yourself. Moreover, the 21 factories of various types left in Hubei after the resumption of the Japanese concession were confiscated and auctioned off to private individuals, and dozens of US Chapter 363 Guoshe (II) enterprises have settled in the Sino-US Bonded Industrial Zone in Hankou, and the Sino-US joint venture generator and power transmission and transformation equipment factory, which is a joint venture between the US GE Company and the Mustang Engine Company under the Hubei Industrial Group, with a total investment of 10,000 yuan, is a huge one. Immediately afterwards, it has been renamed Hankou Vehicle Factory (formerly Tractor Factory), in addition to the production of 35 horsepower internal combustion engine small tractors and 65 horsepower 2 tons of trucks, but also participated in the important project of the military's tracked armored vehicles have also begun to recruit a large number of people, coupled with the European war caused by strong demand, so the current situation is how many people in each factory to how many people.

Of course, the first choice for young people to dream of joining Yang Qiu's private enterprise Hanyang Hubei Industrial Group is across the river.

Hubei Industrial Group and Iron and Steel Company have become one of the Asian giants through and through.

In addition to the construction of branch factories in Daye, Xiaogan, Jiangxia and other nearby areas, the headquarters of Hanyang Group alone has 57 factories and workshops of various types. Day and night, 160,000 workers worked at the same time, and the total number exceeded 60,000. Last year alone, the total sales of the entire group (including the income from the sale of technology and military industry) reached 3.2 billion yuan, replacing Mitsubishi as the leader in Asia, but there is still a large gap in several key items such as quality, technology, manufacturing capacity, advanced precision and research and development.

Although the technology sales have come to an end, orders from Russia and the United Kingdom and France alone will bring at least at least a million yuan in sales to the group in the next three years. The huge income, especially after the sale of technology, Hanyang, Chongqing and Jiangnan are well funded. Su Hongsheng and Zheng Tingxiang of Chongqing recently joined forces to go to Changchun in spite of the severe cold to prepare to use the Maoshan iron mine bought by Huāwan to build a number of new factories. Even though foreign imports of equipment have almost stagnated, the expansion has not stopped. On the one hand, the domestic machinery manufacturing industry has made great progress after a steady stream of technicians who have fled from Europe have joined, and began to slowly produce the equipment they need, and on the other hand, Yang Qiu also used the national resources in his hands to find ways to buy from second-tier countries or let the Ministry of Intelligence directly act as a rampant "smuggling army".

With a good foundation, the pace of socialization and reform in Hubei is undoubtedly the fastest. As the first major province with an annual tax of more than 100 million yuan or even about to break through, free education has completely covered all towns and villages in the province since last year. More than 10,000 students have started to enjoy nine-year free education. The government also began to use industrial revenues to subsidize agriculture and animal husbandry. The amount of this subsidy is still very insignificant. But ordinary people can feel the changes around them. There are fewer small officials who are exploiting, and there is no need to bribe up and down in a lawsuit. Agricultural taxes were reduced to a low point, and landlords began to gradually turn their attention to more profitable industrial and commercial investment after the government imposed rent and interest cuts, or to use wasteland to develop and grow cash crops and receive government subsidies.

Children who go to the city to study and work can remit a lot of money every month, and the burden of farming is much smaller, and every family can save some money in a year. There are many people who have money to rush to the market, and self-produced bargains can be afforded, and even foreign goods are not luxury accessories that they dare not look at before. The bandits and bullies are almost extinct, and the security in the market is much better. It's not an exaggeration to say that heyday! And all of this was brought to everyone by Yang Lord, so before the Chinese New Year, many people went to ask for a portrait of him for a few dimes to be placed on the hall. When the dynasty changed, it was not a river of blood flowing in the hearts of the people, but this time it has only been a few years, not only has the days been stable, but it has also entered the prosperous era, which is really Commander Yang's blessing! If he is not a big president, who can be a big president?!

The old man held a long cigarette stick and watched with great interest as the soldiers walked by. These are all national defense forces, and they are the children of Hubei! If it weren't for Commander Yang who led them to fight in the south and the north, he would have driven the day himself away. How can there be such a good day as today? Therefore, young people in Hubei and southwest China are the most active in serving as soldiers. The first batch of soldiers who came back from retirement became the objects of the big girls and little daughters-in-law, who learned to read and write in the army, and when they came back, they were all the talents they wanted in the factory. Many people also received start-up loans funded by Commander Yang, and low-tech factories such as pig farms, flour mills, canneries, and honeycomb coal factories have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and recently private phosphate fertilizer factories and chlor-alkali factories have appeared for the first time in Xiaogan! I heard that it was made by several injured retired officers and foreign technicians.

Not only Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Jiangxi and Henan, etc., I don't know how many people only listen to Commander Yang now! He is the only one in the eyes of young students, and the YMCA, an important pillar of the National Society, has more than 4 million registered members alone, and even the young children of Nanyang and overseas Chinese regard him as an idol after the victory against Japan.

"It's useless to talk about that." On the ferry, a student representative of Hubei Institute of Technology, who wore the badge of the YMCA and came to attend the National Social Congress, clenched his fists: "In a word! I only support the chairman, he can make whoever is president, but whoever dares to mess around, we will oppose him! ”

"Yes, support the Chairman, support the National Society! Long live the YMCA! ”

When the young people shouted slogans, the auditorium of the Hubei government was also full of people, and the atmosphere was enthusiastic, and party members from all over the world gathered together to start the preliminary meeting. In the small hall next to him, Li Yuanhong stood by the window and looked at the prosperity and stability of Wuchang Street, and there was an indescribable feeling in his heart, emotion, admiration, and worry.

He came to attend the National Congress, although when he was in Nanjing, he often heard that Hubei had changed a lot. I can't help but sigh after I really see it. After the gunfire in Xinhai, Hubei fell into turmoil and unrest, and he was the governor of the capital at the beginning, and he had many elements of self-preservation, and later with the stability of his position, his mind also became active. But Yang Qiu's rise was unexpected, and in the end he even had to leave Nanjing to become an idle vice president.

It's impossible to say that there was no resentment in your heart at that time, but what if you don't have power and no soldiers? After arriving in Nanjing, the Kuomintang also excluded him. The vice president was more of an office teapot than a teapot, which hardly played a role except for tea and small talk, and it was not until the unification of the southwest that it was put into the national community.

suppressed the Kuomintang Party, propagated the national society, and gradually stepped onto the political stage, and was finally crowned as the third provisional president of the Republic of China.

The world has changed more than this! In just a few years, the Republic of China has given birth to three provisional presidents, so who will be the first official president? When his status reaches his height, his idea is fake, and the reputation of the first official president is even more coveted. But as long as you look out the window, you can understand how vain this idea is, that person is not only powerful in political means, but also stubbornly holds military power, and even in civil affairs and economy, he only has an orderly view of the whole country, who can have this kind of ability?

Looking from the outside, if a figure like him is not the president, I am afraid that even he will oppose it! It's hard to get to this day, this good name, hey! It's a shame. Li Yuanhong sighed, and before he could reach his lips, Tang Shaoyi and Tan Yan walked in after a sudden knock on the door.

Since Yang Qiu quickly settled in Hunan, Tan Yan knew that he couldn't fight it, so he put away his mind and did his best to be a green leaf match. In addition, he himself is a person who does not have much political ambition in a corner of the country, and it is already considered a high incense to become a member of the executive committee of the State Society, so Hunan Nengcheng, who has been working in the position of governor in recent years, has turned to chemical, coal and agricultural processing under the supervision of Yang Qiu, who has also contributed to it today.

Seeing Li Yuanhong's melancholy face, he didn't know the reason inside. It is only a matter of time before the election is won by the current status of the National Society, but the presidency is still undecided, but it is a matter of time for many people. In fact, he also quite understands Li Yuanhong, saying that he must be blind if he has no credit for serving as president for a year. Although Yang Qiu has always implemented the new policy, he relied on him and Tang Shaoyi in civil affairs and sorting out domestic government affairs. It's just that no one knows what that person is thinking about at the moment, so there is no way to persuade him, so he has to say: "The president doesn't have to be upset, this matter will be revealed one day." ”

"Huh." Li Yuanhong smiled and confessed: "Zu'an doesn't have to comfort me. Li has neither Sun Yat-sen's clever tongue nor Yuan Xiangcheng's great talent, and it is a fluke to be able to serve as a provisional president, looking at the grand scene of Hubei and the whole country today, if Chen Hua does not stand up, it is really unreasonable. Tan Yan also agreed with his words. Not to mention Hubei, which has a good foundation, even if Hunan has a bad foundation, it has not undergone earth-shaking changes! In just a few years, it has become the largest industrial production area in the country from a large agricultural province, and this ability alone is not something that ordinary people can do.

"Yes! Don't say two, even a halfway monk like me didn't expect to have today. Tang Shaoyi picked up the teacup, still with that elegant and gentle temperament. continued: "But if Chenhua will stand up now, I don't think so. ”

"Oh? What did Shaochuan say about this? Li Yuanhong moved his waist, which was already invisible, and the look of anticipation in his eyes flashed, and even Tan Yan sat up straight. Although he is far away from the central government, he also knows very well that Yang Qiu attaches great importance to rejuvenating the country through industry and commerce, and takes the road of foreign powers, so the prime minister with a deep British and American background can basically sit back and relax. What's more, Yang Qiu himself has said in public that there are only a handful of people who can support the position of prime minister now, and he has the support of young talents such as Gu Weijun and Shi Zhaoji behind him, so it is already nine out of ten to continue to form a cabinet.

Tang Shaoyi sorted out his thoughts and said, "Haven't you two understood Chenhua's mind yet?" When it comes to governing the country, fighting wars, and running business and commerce, he is proficient in everything, and his vision is far better than ours. With his position today, if he has an idea, it will be a resignation, and who can say a word to us? But he didn't do that, because he was afraid of getting entangled in miscellaneous things! ”

"Chores?" Tan Yanyi frowned: "Shaochuan is talking about government affairs?" ”

Tang Shaoyi nodded: "The country has improved slightly, but the things left by the previous Qing Dynasty such as congestion and government rigidity are difficult to return, and they can be sorted out in a short time." It will take years, if not decades, of hard work, and it will have to wait for the younger generation to rise up before it can bear fruit. But Chenhua and we can't afford to delay! The Great War in Europe will eventually come to an end, and once Britain and France get rid of the shackles, they will inevitably turn back, and the Battle of Japan will not be fully completed because of the lack of navy.

Although Wang Zhengting in the north signed an agreement with Russia, Mongolia and Xinjiang are still in great trouble, not to mention the Russian temperament, I think the agreement has probably been used as straw paper. Why is Chen Hua in a hurry to fight with the Japanese capital? Why do you want to control the Northeast Army? In the final analysis, he is still afraid of being delayed by government affairs! Although the Congress is now under our control, each family has its own thoughts, and it can be unified in major matters but entangled in small matters, if he comes out now, how can these things be avoided? ”

"Haven't you seen through it after so many years? Chenhua is far-sighted, I'm afraid that we people can't see through it. Tang Shaoyi's eyes gradually deepened, and he slowly put down the teacup and said: "So there are three things around him that can't be touched, military power!" Get in the way! Tie his hands and feet! When the president was in Hubei, he stood in his way, because he couldn't build the southwest into what it is now without power! Sun Yat-sen and Yuan Xiangcheng not only blocked his way but also threatened the military power, if they didn't get rid of it, they couldn't put the whole country in their pockets, and they couldn't do whatever they wanted according to his ideas, so they died and walked! ”

These words made both of them nod, Li Yuanhong couldn't show his ambitions without Yang Qiu at the beginning, and Lu Rongting and Cai Ye couldn't be regarded as mastering the southwest if they didn't disintegrate. Sun Yat-sen has little ability, but he has a supreme position in the KMT, and if he doesn't make a stink, he can't strangle the KMT, and if he can't kill the KMT, it's still a ridiculous situation. And Yuan Shikai and Beiyang are fundamentally naked threats.

On the other hand, Deng Xiaoke and Tan Yan took the initiative to cater to the high power, Cai Ye and Lu Rongting also became confidants after defecting, and he did not kill them all after the decline of the Kuomintang, which shows that as long as he does not get in the way, he has no intention of killing more. Seeing that the two of them listened to it, Tang Shaoyi smiled slightly: "Before Yuan Shikai died, he asked Yang Shiqi to bring a few words to Chenhua, asking him to beware of North Korea and Russia, and also put forward the eight words of no haste, patience, and age advantage!" ”

"Don't be haste, be patient, and take advantage of the age." Li Yuanhong and Tan Yan understood after reading it silently. Yuan Shikai is reminding Yang Qiu that after the country is stable, he can't mess around as he wants. is also telling him that many people will die at his age, so he can't help but sigh: "Yuan Gongbao is worthy of a generation masterpiece, and only he can see it so thoroughly, it's a pity!" What a pity! ”

"yes. I have been with him for many years, and I have never seen him make a mistake except for missing a good opportunity for selfishness in the first war in Hubei. He can see it clearly, so why should the president be worried? Tang Shaoyi smiled slightly: "I heard that Hanyang has an important model of equipment finalized today, the president might as well go and see the grand scene over there, Chenhua has not expressed his position for a long time, that is waiting for your words." ”。！！！