Chapter 354: The Lion Opens His Mouth

Just before Xu Shuzheng came, Zhang Tinglan had already sent a secret telegram to Sun Liechen, which emphasized these two conditions, which were also necessary to be solved by the non-Feng army at present. Once the agreement between Duan Qirui and Japan is signed, Fengjun will have an extra sword on his head, which can fall at any time, and it will also seriously affect Fengtian's economic construction, so it must not be passed.

As for the other two things that Zhang Tinglan covets the most, the aviation school is the foundation of the future air force, and its importance is self-evident, and the Dagu Shipyard is one of the important factories that cannot be let go.

The Dagu shipbuilding was built very early, before the Beiyang Fleet was formally formed, the Dagu factory was established, mainly responsible for the maintenance of the Beiyang Fleet, repaired a large number of Beiyang ships, and then began to imitate munitions, with the ability to produce fast artillery, during the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, it also produced mines.

However, like all the factories of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they were all kinds of projects, due to insufficient orders and insufficient investment, the condition of the factories became worse and worse, and when the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded China, the Dagu Shipyard suffered an unprecedented catastrophe, the Russians occupied the factory, dismantled all the machines, and the workers changed from more than 600 people in their heyday to only more than 180 people.

Then after a dismal operation, the scale of the factory continued to recover, the Beiyang government also invested some funds, just last year, the Dagu shipyard successfully imitated the Makqin machine gun, it can be seen that the factory still has some accumulation, but because the Beiyang government does not pay enough attention, the Dagu shipyard can only rely on contracting some projects to barely maintain.

However, in the eyes of Beiyang, it may not be anything, but Zhang Tinglan is particularly interested in the Dagu Shipyard, which brings together China's earliest batch of shipbuilders, many of whom are old craftsmen in the former Qing Dynasty, although they have fallen behind the times, but have been honed for many years. They have a lot of excellent practical skills, which are absolutely invaluable.

In the field of jishu, it's not just what you invent that is great. It is equally important to turn the things on the drawings into real objects. And in order to do this, what is most needed is the practical jishu accumulated by the workers from generation to generation, and these workers have been drafted as a great asset.

Moreover, if the Dagu factory can be taken into its hands, Fengjun will have the foundation of the shipbuilding industry and can fill the gap in the industries of the three eastern provinces. At present, the Dagu shipyard can repair small and medium-sized warships, and can also produce cargo ships of several hundred tons. If some machinery is added, it will not be a problem to produce thousand-ton ships, so that destroyers, frigates, patrol boats, torpedo boats, and other warships can be produced by the army, which is also a great step.

In Zhang Tinglan's overall planning, the navy ranks at the bottom of the three armed forces. As a country with a vast territory, the Army is the foundation of the country. And the Air Force shijie is just getting started. It is also the time when the gap between Fengjun and Shijie is the smallest, and it must be firmly bitten.

Only the navy, since the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, the Feng army has been far behind the main opponent Japan, at this time to vigorously develop the navy, is to attack the enemy's strength with its own shortcomings. Very unwise.

Of course, this is not to say that there is no development of maritime liliang, on the contrary, it is also necessary to invest a lot of energy, and the mission of Fengjun maritime liliang is to ensure the safety of coastal areas and cooperate with the air force. Basically, the right to control the sea in the Bohai Sea is guaranteed. If the strength is strengthened, and then focus on submarines and threaten the sea lifeline of the Japanese with underwater Liliang, Zuihou is the only way to develop the aircraft carrier Liliang to compete for China's overseas interests.

Zhang Tinglan has a very clear idea of naval development, but the starting point of these is the shipbuilding industry, and Dagu Shipyard is an indispensable part. Moreover, the Dagu factory also has the ability to make guns, and it can be integrated into the military industrial system of the Feng army.

China's industrial base is not good in the first place, as long as a few factories, if Fengjun wants to develop rapidly, it must not fall behind at all, try to draw all of them to the three eastern provinces, and quickly establish an industrial system.

Xu Shuzheng heard Sun Liechen's offer, and his face suddenly changed, if he didn't sell the privileges of the three eastern provinces to the Japanese, Japan would definitely not agree to the loan, which means that the loan would be yellow, how could Xiao Xu's face be good-looking. As for the Aviation School and the Dagu Factory, which are also Beiyang's industries, and handing them over to Fengjun is tantamount to cutting meat on his body, and he doesn't want to agree.

Looking at Xu Shuzheng's embarrassed face, Sun Liechen said with a smile: "Secretary General Xu, a telegram was sent from the front just now, the Feng army has successfully repelled the counterattack of the pigtail army, and now the army is hoarding in Nanyuan, as long as an order is given, it can blast through the city of Beijing, the reason why we didn't take action is that we don't want Duan Gong to be difficult to do, if you are still unwilling to agree, then things will not be easy to do?" ”

Sun Liechen's words were like knives, poked in Xu Shuzheng's heart, from the time he saw the Feng army's troops, Xu Shuzheng knew that this was a very strong Liliang, cut off the supply of arms, they could still defeat Zhang Xun, then it proved that they really had the strength to break through Beijing.

Feng Jun rushed to advance to Beijing, Li Yuanhong must gain power, and Duan Qirui can no longer clear his name, I am afraid that he will no longer be able to be the prime minister. Don't look at the harmony of Beiyang, it seems that everyone respects Duan Qirui, but what the truth is, everyone has an account in their hearts.

Take this rebellion as an example, after the Fengjun moved faster, Wu Peifu, the number one cadre under Cao Kun, the overseer of the Zhili Army, also accelerated the speed of the march, and there was a great tendency to rush into Beijing before Duan Qirui, making it clear that the direct people were actually internal and external troubles in grabbing power for Lao Duan.

After careful weighing, Xu Shuzheng stomped his feet, and barely squeezed out a word from between his teeth: "Good!" ”

Seeing that Xu Shuzheng had succumbed, Sun Liechen also showed a smile on his face: "Secretary-General Xu is really able to take care of the overall situation, don't worry, I will send a telegram to Humble Yan now, and ask them to cooperate with your actions as much as possible, and the first credit for quelling the rebellion is still yours!" ”

After the two sides negotiated the conditions, Lao Duan also hurriedly swore an oath and quickly marched to Beijing along the railway, and Sun Liechen also sent a telegram to Zhang Tinglan, telling him about the situation.

Zhang Tinglan saw that Lao Duan finally gave in, and he was also very happy, this time he led the troops into the customs, the main purpose was to reap all kinds of practical benefits, and now he has swallowed two pieces of fat, but this is just an appetizer for Zhang Tinglan, and the real feast is still to come.

When the troops were resting, Zhang Tinglan called Xia Han over.

"Zhang Xun was hit hard by us, I estimate that he is about to be unable to hold on, you go and put some arms on him, let him hold on for a while longer, especially bullets and grenades, and supply them as much as possible, but there is a premise, the price must be doubled several times!"

"Don't worry, I know it all."

Xia Han accepted this task happily, and immediately left Nanyuan and infiltrated the city. At this time, Zhang Xun, the commander of the division, had just come back from defeat, his face was full of sadness, and his subordinates also wanted to eat bitter melon, crying with sad faces.

The other widows, old and young, and the civil and military officials who had just been released were all panicked at this time, like mourning. The vast majority of these people are full of rice buckets, if they had the ability, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty fell to the country, they would have tossed it a long time ago, so why wait until now.

In the past few years, they have also felt a huge loss, although there is still a lot of money in the family, but there is no power left, and the scene of the previous crowd has also disappeared, and they are all distressed when they finally run out of money.

Finally, Zhang Xun was restored, giving them the opportunity to crawl out of the grave, just like zombies, stretched out a hand from the grave, and was about to enjoy the emperor's rain and dew, but their only pillar was defeated miserably, seeing that Beijing was about to be lost, can they not worry!

"Don't look like a dead father, as long as I Zhang Xun still has three inches of gas, I will definitely keep Bixia's safety, there will be no mistakes, now the whole city is on alert, all the troops are strictly guarded, and they swear to defend Sheji.

"Lord Wang, Duan Qirui has also sworn to send troops, one day later, the Feng army, the three-way army of Beiyang will meet under the city, do you have a way to deal with it at that time?"

Facing Kang Youwei's question, Zhang Xun shook his head and said loudly: "Yes, why not, I will order now, all the children of the Eight Banners in the city are gathered, under fifty years old, over twelve years old, all bring me guns to fight, even if I fight for a river of blood, I must protect the master's country." ”

After listening to Zhang Xun's statement, Kang Youwei didn't say a word, as soon as he turned around, this Kang Sage continued to go to the toilet, quickly put on ordinary clothes, and rolled up the mending clothes and boots, the flower feathers, and the pearls together, and threw them into the big dung pit.

Kang Shengren understands in his heart that Zhang Xun is completely trapped and fighting, there is no hope, this dream of reviving the Qing Dynasty should also wake up, whoever wants to die will die, anyway, Kang Shengren will not stay to be shot, he has already thought about it, as long as he runs to Dongjiaomin Lane and shelters foreigners, he can save his life.

The last time he changed the law, he ran away like this, and now he still catches the medicine according to the prescription, and when he escaped, he also looked at the dung pit that symbolized the outfit of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, zuihou is ruthless, I am afraid that I will not be able to wear it again in this life.

Kang Shengren ran away first, and Zhang Xun was not willing to give up, ready to fight, he took out the remaining munitions and armed the pigtail army, but what made Zhang Xun angry was that there were guns and artillery, but the bullets couldn't keep up, how could he not be annoyed, and he couldn't stop scolding Gao Xiaoshan for being stupid, how could he not know how to match the bullets when he bought weapons!

At this time, someone suddenly came with a one-armed young man to ask for a meeting, and after seeing Zhang Xun, this young man was not restrained at all, but took the initiative to speak with a smile.

"Lord Zhang, I heard that you are in a little difficult now, I just have a batch of arms to sell, and you want to send it to you immediately!"

"Maniac, do you think that arms can be used casually, even if you have bullets, can you guarantee the same caliber?"

"Isn't it an eight-millimeter Steyrman Lixia rifle, what's so difficult, I have four million rounds of ammunition, I don't know if Prince Zhang wants it?"

Zhang Xun's eyes turned red when he heard this, this was exactly what he needed: "How much money do you want?" ”

The young man waved his hand: "Five million, not one is missing!" (To be continued......)