Chapter 354: Chaotic World (2)

For the Soviet Union, Wang Zhenyu has a heartfelt fear, and he and many post-80s generations with no background and only a back face the dilemma of personal development, if you really want to trace the source, and this huge red empire is inseparable.

When many people in later generations criticized Grandpa Mao on the Internet for how he was not haode, Wang Zhenyu still wrote very objectively, no matter what, if it weren't for Grandpa Mao, then we would either be completely happy like the people of Taiwan, or we would be as completely tragic as the people of Eastern Europe. Since the former is not sure, it is also haode that the latter can be avoided.

"The big highway Jihua must be carried out, and the big railway Jihua is synchronized, and the first step of our big railway and big highway Jihua is that the provinces and provincial capitals must be connected by rail and road; The second step is to connect the railway between the provincial capital and the important town, and the highway between the provincial capital and the county; The third step is that the conditions will allow in the future, the village is the same road, now we will do the first step, the provincial project, we must make jihua before July, and then start construction, this fund does not need to be included in the government budget, no need to go through the two houses, the project should be launched as soon as possible, and it must be efficient......"

The total mileage of the "big highway jihua" that caused widespread controversy at the time was 200,000 kilometers, according to the standards of later generations are nine meters wide secondary roads, the preliminary plan is to start twelve provinces at the same time, the main direction is to widen and cement on the basis of the former Qingyi Road official road, Jihua is to invest 600,000 to 800,000 people in the construction team, it took three to five years to pave the whole line. It is used for the use of trucks that have been introduced in agreement with France, Jishu, and the current annual output of Zhonghua brand cars, which is only about 3,000 units. The budget is to invest 90,000 tons of cement, 180,000 tons of sand, 220,000 tons of stones, and 20,000 tons of steel bar. The cost per kilometer is only a quarter of that of the railway, and the total budget investment is about 10 billion yuan. Considering bridging and various safety risks, this number will generally only be more, not less.

But Wang Zhenyu still signed decisively, not to mention anything else, how to get rich without a road is a big problem! Moreover, once this jihua is launched, many rural laborers will be able to earn a sum of money during the slack time, which can effectively improve their lives. As for how to operate this fund, Wang Zhenyu's current mode of operation of funds is very simple: all the additional currency issued by the bank will be withheld at the standard of 15 percent to the Nanjing side as the seigniorage of the Nationalist Government to make up for their lack of fiscal revenue. At the same time, the bank withheld 25 percent of the remaining money to provide loans. Sixty percent of the money will be transferred to the account of the Military Commission as the income of the Military Commission, and Wang Zhenyu will use the money in a simple way, in the name of national defense projects, and as long as it is listed as a state secret, he can successfully avoid the vote of the two houses. For example, this big highway jihua, this is the number of roads. The project was set up directly in the name of the Armaments Department of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, and then the contract was issued to the China Development Corporation, and then the money naturally went to the account of the China Development Corporation.

Compared with the government composed of various factions, although there is also corruption, embezzlement and even misappropriation, because of its enterprise nature, the handling procedure is simple, the involvement is less, and the cost is low, which is not only easy to control and handle, but also much higher than the government in the efficiency of project implementation. But there is the question of legality, and although the China Development Corporation played a key role in the early construction of southern China, its mode of operation is not legal after all. Wang Zhenyu is certainly right to use extraordinary means in extraordinary times, and the results of such operations have proved to effectively promote the construction of various industrial and infrastructure in the entire southern region, and more importantly, because of the engineers from Belgium and Luxembourg who are in charge, their projects are also very reliable in terms of quality, avoiding many tofu scum projects in later generations. But illegality is illegality, and perhaps the government's purchase of services from the society is not wrong in itself, but Wang Zhenyu used a company behind the government's back to occupy such a huge amount of money and so many projects, which is legally illegal, and it is also an exclusive act in terms of interests. According to the subsequent investigation by the congressmen who continued to impeach the matter, in the short few years of the existence and development of the China Development Corporation, by the time it was finally split, the total assets had swelled from 1 billion Chinese yuan in the first year of the Republic of China to 90 billion Chinese yuan, accounting for one-third of the total national economy. The assets of the Ye family, who are responsible for the company's operation, have swelled from the initial 30 million Chinese yuan to 8 billion Chinese yuan in the ten years of the Republic of China, and the wealth of the Wang family has also reached 4.5 billion Chinese yuan in the ten years of the Republic of China. In fact, when Wang Zhenyu completed the reunification of the southern region, the behemoth of the China Development Corporation had already aroused the dissatisfaction of all parties, and even aroused Wang Zhenyu's own vigilance, so when Huang Xing died of illness, the China Development Corporation was divided into three and the China Military Industry Group and the Union Reserve (or China Federal Reserve) were established.

But the company still contracts 70 percent of the government's infrastructure, but under Mr. Wang's control, the company is only allowed to participate in the construction of water, electricity and drainage systems. After all, it is necessary to support the development of other capitalists, and if the China Corporation takes it all, then within a few years, the company will become no different from the government because of the lack of competition.

However, in the early days of the Republic of China, the historical role of this company was still very obvious. In 2012, eight business giants, including China Military Industry Group, China Iron and Steel United Corporation, Bank of China Joint Reserve Management Committee, China Airlines Corporation, China Shipping Group, China Communications Construction Group, China Telephone Corporation and China Urban Construction Group, took the lead in organizing large-scale celebrations and theatrical evenings to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Xiangxi Development Corporation, the predecessor of China Development Corporation......

Far away, just as Wang Zhenyu was planning the next step in the development of the entire southern region, a secret meeting was being held in Tokyo, Japan.

The secret meeting was held at the official residence of then Prime Minister Masashi Terauchi, and the meeting was attended by the current elite figures in Japanese political circles, including Hara Kei, president of the Constitutional Political Friendship Association, Takaaki Kato, president of the Constitutional Political Association, Inukai Takeshi, head of the Kuomintang Party, Ichiro Honno, the new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shinpei Goto, Minister of Internal Affairs, Katsuta, Minister of Finance, Vice Admiral Kenichi Oshima, Minister of War, and Senior General Yuzaburo Kato, Minister of the Navy. Some of the most powerful ministers of the Japanese government and the opposition and the main ministers of the Yokai Cabinet (a Japanese name for the Terauchi Masaki Cabinet) were all seated. They were drinking tea while discussing China policy, because the time had come for this issue to be discussed.

As the master, Prime Minister Terauchi Masashi naturally wanted to speak first, only to see the bald head known as Prime Minister Billiken trying to sit up straight and said: "Gentlemen, you must have seen the war reports in Europe, and the army of China has shown amazing combat effectiveness in Europe, which is a deeply worrying thing. The future of the empire lies on the mainland, and we have been achieving this goal little by little through the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and through the continuous efforts and dedication of the warriors of Emperor Bixia. And China was also mired in revolution, civil strife and civil war under our planning. But after the collapse of Yuan Shikai's government last year, some unfavorable changes have taken place in the country, and now we are invited to discuss ways to deal with such adverse changes. ”

After a pause, Terauchi Masatsuki looked at Foreign Minister Ichiro Honno very majestically and said, "Honno-kun, now you can introduce the drastic changes in China this year for a few of you here!" I don't think you know much about it! ”

"Hai" looked very Sven Ichiro Motono nodded respectfully to show obedience, and then began to introduce seriously.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, Ladies and Gentlemen, according to the information available to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the country of China has undergone fundamental changes in the past year. In the first year of Taisho, the so-called Xinhai Revolution broke out in China, and we successfully subverted the rule of the Manchus through the alliance of Sun Wen and others secretly supported by the Black Dragon Society, but their liliang was very insufficient, so the supreme ruling power of China finally fell into the hands of Yuan Shikai, who held the Beiyang, and this ** family knows that it has been difficult to get along with the Japanese Empire since Korea. In the second year of Taizheng, Yuan Shikai also successfully suppressed the second revolution launched by Sun Wen and others, and established his dominance throughout the country. However, there was also a split within Beiyang Shili, and in the fourth year of Taisho, the empire succeeded in forcing Yuan Shikai's government to accept the Minsi Article by sending troops to Shandong, which dealt a heavy blow to the authority of the central government under his leadership. And Yuan Shikai was also successfully instigated by the imperial diplomats to become emperor, and as a result, everyone saw that the authority of the Beijing government was lost, and China fell into a state of division again......"

"Alright, Motono-kun, all of you here are busy people, and I don't have time to listen to you here to make a contribution to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and choose something important." Terauchi Masatsuki interrupted Ichiro Motono very unhappily and signaled him to hurry up, there will be a lot of time to discuss later.

"Hai" Ichiro Motono did not have half a dissatisfaction on his face, but continued: "After the outbreak of the European War, Britain and France and other powers had no time to take care of the interests of the Far East, and at this time, Yuan Shikai's proclamation of the emperor triggered a civil war in China. Considering the combat effectiveness of the army to which it belonged, our Ministry of Foreign Affairs made the judgment at that time that Yuan Shikai's army would inevitably win the victory in half a year at the latest, and the biggest idea we had at that time was only to plunge the China region into chaos and consume a little of its national strength, so the only action of the empire at that time was to pick up Cai Yi, a powerful faction in the southwest region, from Beijing, and did not agree to the Black Dragon Society's request to provide arms to Sun Wen's Chinese Revolutionary Party. ”