The hour hand finally crossed the New Year's Day of 1913, and the Republic of China entered its second year, and the wheel of history is still stubbornly moving forward according to the original track.

Soong began his democratically elected cabinet, Jihua, who first founded the Chinese Nationalist Party, with Sun Yat-sen as the party leader and himself as acting party leader, and began the national lobbying. Many celebrities and local dignitaries were persuaded by Soong Jiaoren to join the Chinese Kuomintang, which won 45 percent of the seats in the National Assembly, making it the largest party in the National Assembly.

But the first major party may not be able to form a cabinet, because Yuan Shikai in Beijing is not a political idiot, although the old Yuan was born in the former Qing Yamen, but it does not mean that he is not familiar with foreign affairs. In fact, among the princes and ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the one who was in charge of foreign affairs, Li Hongzhang, was Yuan Shikai. As the first governor of China in Korea, the founder of the new army, how could Yuan Shikai, who was not familiar with foreign affairs.

It's just that the king became a loser, and later generations portrayed Yuan Shikai as a Henan soil bun and a hooligan according to political needs.

Yuan Shikai soon secretly organized the Progressive Party by supporting Xiong Xiling and Liang Qichao, and then bribed other parties, so as to basically ensure that the Kuomintang could not form a government although it was the largest party.

The situation in Beijing is confusing, but there is rare peace on the Anjiang side......

The first news, and also very important news, more than ten days ago, Wang Zhenyu's wife Ye Ziwen was pregnant. Although Wang Zhenyu thinks that he is not diligent, he is still bearing fruit.

When his mother told him the news, Wang Zhenyu had everything in his heart, and it was difficult for him to find a girlfriend in the future, and he didn't get married and have children. I didn't expect that in this life, getting married and having children are all logical, smooth sailing, life, and I can't really figure it out......

Ye Ziwen had a baby, and her status in the Wang family immediately took a rocket, and her father-in-law and mother-in-law and a large group of servants circled around this daughter-in-law almost every day. This made the eldest sister-in-law He look a little jealous, and complained quietly to the eldest brother Wang Zhenkun: "When I was pregnant with Jing'an, I didn't see my parents so attentive......"

Wang Zhenkun hurriedly covered his wife's mouth: "I see that you are confused, where is the future wealth of our Wang family now?" It's in the belly of the third brother and sister, if you really want to be Jing'an, don't talk nonsense, if you really want to toss something, don't blame your wife. ”

As soon as He heard that he was going to divorce his wife, he immediately smashed Wang Zhenkun a few times angrily: "It's only been a few days since I put on this dog skin, and I'm thinking about changing my wife, and you're out of you!" If you dare to divorce me, I will dare to die to show you......"

Wang Zhenkun was a little afraid of guilt, and hurriedly coaxed and deceived his wife to stabilize him. Recently, his life has been very comfortable, after the establishment of the Armaments Department, Wang Zhenkun from the beginning of his cousin Ma Xicheng, familiar with the business, and then as the director of the statistics office, responsible for the inventory and management of armaments and materials, and recently promoted to lieutenant colonel deputy director, was arranged to be responsible for a batch of military equipment from Shanghai together with Ye Guoxuan, the eldest son of the Ye family. This is the equipment that the Armaments Department is preparing to use to prepare for the construction of a military factory, which is of great significance, so Wang Zhenkun's errand is naturally divided into hard work......

In fact, Ye Ziwen doesn't like so many people surrounding her to ask for warmth, the initial feeling is indeed happiness, but after a few days, she is annoyed to death. Wang Zhenyu naturally knew his wife's thoughts, and hurriedly asked his wife what she thought.

Ye Ziwen thought about it for a long time, and felt that she still had to invite Ye Xiaoyue and her mother to live with her, as for Wang Zhenyu, it would be dispensable. Wang Zhenyu, who was extremely depressed, had to be careful to accompany the smiling face, and when he went out, he instructed Zhu Cihan to take his warrant and personally go to the Fengshan base in Jingzhou to invite Commander Song's wife, and of course, according to his wife's request, he gave an order to Song Haomin, asking him not to mess with flowers and grass or steal snacks during Ye Xiaoyue's absence.

When Wang Zhenyu handed the warrant to Zhu Cihan, he felt that he was already crying without tears, what a mess this was, he was a dignified lieutenant general and a town guard, and he still had to issue such a warrant. No, he called Zhu Cihan back again, and added a sentence to the warrant: "After reading, it will be destroyed." ”

And Song Haomin's adjutant also recorded a very strange scene in his diary: on a certain day, a certain month, a rare doll commander with a serious face, Song Haomin received a warrant from the handsome adjutant Zhu Cihan, and then suddenly his eyes were dilated, as if crying and laughing, strange and inexplicable; What's even more weird is that he also burned the warrant in front of Adjutant Zhu, uh......

The brawl incident in the Jingzhou recruit camp was actually known to Wang Zhenyu through other channels, but he was unwilling to break it, and he also believed that Song Haomin could handle it.

Now that the Xiangxi Group has taken shape, it is no longer the original battalion of people, some of the things that should be there and what should not have will surface according to the inertia of the society, and there is no need to be too careful, as long as it is still within the controllable range, it is appropriate to close one eye.

With the help of the Belgians, the Jingzhou Cement Plant was completed ahead of schedule and the Luyang Cement Plant project was launched. After the completion of these two projects, Wang Zhenyu's annual cement output will reach 2 million tons.

The construction of the railway went well, except that one of the tunnels collapsed during construction, and the five workers were glorified. Wang Zhenyu, who came from later generations, ordered a heavy pension, and at the same time, the children of the deceased were enrolled in school free of charge, and after graduation, they were arranged to enlist in the army; At the same time, all the relevant responsible persons have demerits, so that they can summarize the lessons and lessons themselves. Of course, if there is another accident, then he will unceremoniously order the killing, and he will weigh the severity himself.

Various industrial projects are also progressing very quickly, especially those such as soap and matches. Liu Guojun's ability is indeed commendable......

The equipment of the power company also reached An Giang through the operation of the Armaments Service, and this power generation was necessary because the companies Paulwater and Albert in Luxembourg had agreed to accept the project for the steel plant. They provide data on steel:

1 blast furnace, a ton of pig iron, need to consume 1 ton of coal, 1.5-2 tons of iron ore (iron content of not less than 50%) The second statement, smelting 1 ton of iron needs to consume: 1550kg of ore, 220kg of solvent, 10kg of insulation agent, 400kg of coal, 150kg of coal injection, 52kg of coke powder, 158kw of electricity, 1.24m3 of water, 10kg of steam, 30m3 of nitrogen, 13m3 of compressed air, 35m3 of oxygen. This is the total consumption of molten iron in ironmaking plants (including blast furnaces and sintering) in terms of energy in terms of 2 steelmaking furnaces, one ton of steel, which requires the consumption of 500 kg of coke (the maximum temperature of coal combustion is 800 degrees, while coke can reach 1700 degrees), one ton of water, one ton of pig iron, and other metals (such as molybdenum). The second method, for every 1 ton of steel produced, the raw materials, products, and waste residues in and out are 5 tons, and the average consumption is 20 tons of water, 400 kilowatt-hours of electricity, and 1 ton of coal can generate about 2777 kilowatt-hours of electricity, so every 1 ton of steel needs about 0.144 tons of coal 3 (2) pig iron - iron-carbon alloy with a carbon content of between 2% and 4.3%! (3) Steel - ferroalloy with carbon content between 0.03% and 2%!

In fact, Wang Zhenyu doesn't know much about the above three items, but there is one he knows, whether it is railways, steelmaking, or even textiles and residents' lives, electricity is needed.

And An Giang, a model city, needs more than just beautiful houses, spacious roads, good medical care, educational facilities and transportation, and excellent drainage channels; More electricity is needed, which is a need for a modern city.

In the face of the thriving Anjiang, Hans of Lihe Foreign Company has put aside the original idea of selling some old equipment here, and he recommended to Wang Zhenyu a 6,400 kilowatt steam turbine generator produced by Siemens in Germany, with a price of 500,000 yuan a group, including 3 boilers.

Hans also helped Wang Zhenyu calculate that 1 million tons of steelmaking would require 400 million kilowatt-hours of electricity and 150,000 tons of coal, which is a rather staggering figure. Wang Zhenyu needs to pay 4 million generators (eight sets of steam turbine generators) and 30 million coal, of course, the income is also very rich, for example, if you use coal, you need 500,000 tons of coking coal, the cost will be as high as 100 million, and in fact, the annual output of the entire Pingxiang coal mine is only 800,000 tons, as for coking coal is only 100,000 tons, no wonder the steel output of Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant is so low, steel is indeed a supporting industry.

According to the current market, the profit of steelmaking is not high, the price of a ton of steel in the international market is only 60 yuan, and the production cost has reached 45 yuan. For this reason, Hans, a German, sincerely suggested that our General Wang Zhenyu should spend money to buy finished products instead of producing them himself, and there is not much difference between deducting freight, and it also saves worry and effort.

Wang Zhenyu is now sitting in a chair on the balcony of the study, basking in the sun while looking at the small door, and has a lot of thoughts in his heart.

In fact, the problem is not as terrible as the German said, there is actually a time lag here. According to Ding Wenjiang's information and the memories of his own later generations, there is enough coal and iron in the Liuzhou area, and there is even a Liupanshui coal mine area in Guizhou. So the question should be looked at like this:

First, all the steelmaking and iron-making equipment was in place, the training of workers was completed, and the official production of steel was at least at the end of 1914 and the beginning of 1915, you must know that the 240 acres of land in the current Anjiang Iron and Steel Plant were only leveled, and there was no other hair.

Second, at present, steelmaking is indeed not as good as selling pig iron, it is completely a matter of losing money, no wonder the private capital in this period has done all kinds of industries, but no one plays steelmaking, and the government has just come to lose money. But there is also a relative concept here, when World War I broke out, the price of steel would skyrocket tenfold, would it still be a loss? History textbooks liken this World War I to the spring of national industry and commerce. It is likely that the steel industry will not just be spring, but summer......

There is nothing to hesitate about, what to rely on to fight for the world, just rely on gambling, if you don't gamble on this, you are at best a small local warlord, and you will do it.

As soon as he figured out this joint, Wang Zhenyu saw a cute little head sticking out timidly from the small door of the balcony and looking at himself secretly......