Cooperation with China is not only a military need to contain Japan, if China has just stood up and only has an invincible army, there is no way to stand here and negotiate with Britain and France, and Japan will not be wary of you like this.

Yang Xiaolin is still the commander of the army and navy, but everyone knows that he formed the current government. It has been three months since Yuan Shikai stepped down, which is definitely not a long time, and it may not be possible to pass a plan in the West. But in China, a lot of things have been resolved.

In fact, there is a little credit to Yuan Shikai in this, some things were started when Lao Yuan was in power, and Yang Xiaolin just finished him. Mr. Sadaoyi has been in China for many years, and he feels that after his return this time, China is changing at a rapid pace.

That guy is really different from others, not to mention other aspects, let's talk about the roads that China is building now. This guy demands that every county must be connected to a road! And it's the kind of road that is twenty meters wide, and the city streets have to be widened, which costs almost astronomical money.

This policy was strongly opposed in some places, and even in the eyes of the British, it was also an extreme waste. You must know that there are few cars in China now, and the local and central finances are in difficulty, why are you building such a wide highway at this time? Is it used for horse-drawn carriages?

Also, China is so big, all the counties have roads, do you have so much money? When Yang Xiaolin's policy was first introduced, some British economic experts asserted that China's large-scale highway construction would be halted in six months, and that many roads would be forced to stop halfway through, and that China's economy would be dragged into a bottomless abyss by this policy.

But the beast insisted, and when he insisted, it was useless for the people below to object. According to his logic, there must be a road before there can be a car. Otherwise, there is no place to drive the car even if it is built. And he said six words: "If you want to get rich, you must first build roads." ”

A piece of paper went down, and all parts of the country began to repair it. With such a large scale, the impact on China's economy is really huge. The large number of jobs brought by the road construction has stimulated the development of building materials enterprises, and at the same time, it has cast a psychedelic coat on the team that Yang Xiaolin has just established, and the government is working hard to improve their lives in the eyes of those ordinary people.

They didn't know at all that Yang Xiaolin had exhausted the central and local finances in order to build roads, and Sa Daoyi was sure that Yang Xiaolin had already been impeached in any Western country.

If he were in England, he wouldn't have been able to do that. Britain's finances must not be like China's. Although the social security system of the British Empire is still underdeveloped, the government has to invest a lot of money in the public service industry every year. Especially now that the economic environment is not good, it is necessary to regularly distribute relief funds to those families who are living in extreme difficulty.

And this situation does not exist in China, in their concept, if they are sick, just grab some Chinese medicine and eat, and never resent the government when they live and die. In the concept of the Chinese, there is no idea of letting the government support themselves when they are old, and if they have a son, they will follow their son, and if they don't have a son, they will ask for food everywhere with a stick, and they will be buried where they die. I never dared to say that I was causing trouble to the Yamen.

The tolerance of the common people enabled Yang Xiaolin to concentrate all the funds in China and put aside everything except for road construction for the time being. This is definitely a Chinese-style policy, and it will not work in any Western country.

And he said it nicely, an eight-hour workday. Eight hours is a strict requirement for workers working in factories and factories, but it is not the same for workers who build roads for the government. This guy was so shameless that he actually went to the construction site outside Beijing yesterday, and he picked up his own shovel and built the highway with those workers for a day. The newspapers carried overwhelming reports on Yang Xiaolin's move, and also published Commander Yang's speech.

Yang Xiaolin shouted a lot of slogans, demanding that all workers be paid without pay. Those who do not pay attention to treatment should contribute their own strength to the construction of the motherland. The newspaper published a speech by the workers' representatives at the end of the day, and the photographs showed the workers who seemed to be in high spirits, saying that they had said on behalf of all the workers that the working hours would be extended to 10 hours a day from today, and that the working hours beyond the eight hours would not be paid.

Tang Shaoyi expressed his appreciation for the active work attitude of those workers, and said that they were new workers in the new era, and officially announced that during the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional festival of the Chinese, workers' representatives from all over the country would be invited to Beijing to visit the premier's cabinet. During the Spring Festival next year, workers from all walks of life should be invited to gather in Beijing.

Mr. Sa Daoyi was really a little disdainful of Yang's method of beating ghosts, and he could imagine what it meant for a worker to suddenly get an invitation from the Prime Minister's cabinet. Under such publicity, Yang Xiaolin will save a lot of salary and time.

There is also the department store of the Chinese, if it is placed in Europe, this plan wants to be passed, and then implemented, you can't do it in a year or two. However, Yang Dagui only needs the next document, and the local governments immediately find shops in the most prosperous areas of each county, omit all the procedures, and start decorating after recruiting a few guys, and sell them just by waiting for the goods to arrive.

Then the next document to those merchants, you have something to sell hurry up to contact the Ministry of Commerce, a month and a half has not arrived, a large chain retail enterprise with hundreds of branches throughout China was born.

When we started business, we didn't even have a rule and regulations, and some stores didn't even have accountants. But Yang Dagui didn't care, the purpose of his department store was to help those merchants sell things, so he opened it first to do business, and then slowly improved it if there were problems in the future.

Whether Sa Daoyi agrees with this approach or not, the Chinese have shown the world that they are capable of solving problems, which makes all investors have more confidence in China. The injection of a large amount of foreign capital has also promoted the improvement of China's economic situation, although Yang has only been in power for three months, but the lives of the Chinese people are improving, and the business environment of Chinese enterprises is also improving.

Therefore, Sa Daoyi knew that he had to reach an agreement with Yang Xiaolin, not only for military needs, but also for economic needs of British merchants.

The three of them waited in the headquarters for more than half an hour before Yang Xiaolin hurried back from outside, and when he looked at his dress, he knew that this guy must have gone to the construction site again.

"Mr. Sadaoyi, Mr. Bowaugh, Mr. Conger, I'm sorry to keep you waiting." Yang Xiaolin didn't wash his face after entering the door, and stretched out his hand that was still a little muddy to Sa Daoyi.

Mr. Sadaoyi frowned, "Are you sure you don't need to wash up?" ”

Yang Xiaolin smiled: "My hands are labor, and in my opinion, they are the cleanest." ”

Sa Daoyi made a very helpless expression on his face, and gently stretched out his hand: "Okay, you won again!" Actually, I don't think it's a glorious thing for an army commander to run to the construction site every day, I think you should put your mind to building your army! Although China's army is already very strong, your navy is simply not up to the task of defending the maritime frontier. ”

As soon as Yang Xiaolin heard this, he knew what Lu Daosa Daoyi was here for, and he guessed it before he came back. On the issue of developing the navy, Yang Xiaolin was even more anxious than the morality, but his purpose was that I could not develop according to the model designed for me by the British, let alone fight a war that you needed after the navy was developed. Go your own way and fight your own battles.

"Mr. Sa Daoyi is right, my former chief of staff said the same about me, he is now in Yunnan, and he sends me telegrams all day long. But I don't have any extra time or money to spare, and I plan to raise the issue of the navy again next year, and I will ask you for more help when the time comes. ”

Before Sa Daoyi could speak, Conger stood up immediately: "No! Please forgive me for my frankness, Commander Yang, this decision of yours will be extremely wrong! Japan has just gotten Indonesia, their naval expansion has begun, China is already a lot behind Japan, if you catch up tomorrow, I can guarantee that you will repeat the scene of the First Sino-Japanese War in the future Sino-Japanese naval battle. ”

The reason why the Americans are more anxious than the British is because their Philippines directly feels the threat from Japan, and like the Indonesian problem, if the Japanese are given a year to stabilize Indonesia, the United States will be in an extremely passive position on the Philippine issue, and geographically speaking, the United States is too far away from the Philippines to start a war.

Moreover, the resistance of the Filipinos has never been extinguished, and the policy of the United States there is a bit too gentle, unlike the most direct way to resolve the resistance in the same way as Japan did with the Indonesians. They need China's help, but with China as a base, we can repair ships, supply a little supplies, and provide a little more troops, and the situation will be more optimistic.

This is strategically, tactically, as the Japanese feared, China could cut off Japan's sea lines at any time, as long as they helped China to give China the capability. There is also the issue of North Korea and Taiwan, if China sides with the United States, once a war breaks out, North Korea will definitely be gone, and Taiwan and Japan may not be able to keep it. This is tantamount to telling the Japanese not to fight the idea of the Philippines, and whether it is cost-effective to exchange Taiwan and North Korea for the Philippines, so that the Japanese will weigh it in their hearts.

Yang Xiaolin smiled at Kang Ge, and after shaking hands with a few gentlemen, he ran to wash his face. Putting down the towel, there was a slight smile on his face: "Mr. Conger, I understand what the U.S. government means. To be honest, I don't think the three of us are as resolute as China in their attitude toward Japan. Please believe that I want to challenge the Japanese navy more than the three of you, but I can't do it at the moment, please forgive me. (To be continued......)