"The Prime Minister is serious, the contemptible people are just talking about things for the country, and they have no other intentions, and besides, I'm just making an analogy, I don't really want to mortgage 100 yuan per square kilometer." While speaking, the eyes of the plea turned to Liu Yun.

Zhang Jian was personally invited by Liu Yun to the headquarters of the Zhang Consortium in Shanghai to be a business minister, Liu Yun naturally couldn't help but give him face, and at this time he could only grieve his confidant: "Let's go back to the topic." ”

"In that case, let me give you my thoughts." Seeing that the leader actually protected outsiders, Yang Zhengjin was angry in his heart, and he didn't vomit or be unhappy, "I think that all the residents who are unwilling to be loyal to our empire on the recovered land should be expelled, the land and property should be confiscated, and this part of the land and property should be distributed to the retired soldiers at a price, and if the recipient is willing to stay in the local area for reclamation, he will be given special preferential treatment in terms of policy, and if he is unwilling to stay, he will be given cash to return to his hometown, and the remaining land after the last land will be included in the state-owned land reclamation and development company, and other preferential policies will be used to attract more people or groups to develop." All in all, the policy of land reconquest should focus on resettlement and development, and throwing such a vast amount of land into the bond market as a medium of speculation can only fatten a few speculators, so that the blood of 140,000 soldiers will only be shed for a few rich people. ”

"What the Prime Minister said is very true, but at present, the state is in financial difficulties, and it is in urgent need of capital turnover, and according to the Prime Minister's wishes, it will not be profitable until years or even decades later, and before that, the country's credit has long been broken......

"The Minister of Commerce is serious, if there is no capital, just start the money printing machine, isn't it inflation and soaring prices, the people have endured a year of war, why not endure it for a few more months, besides, the country has difficulties, it is the time when the business people generously donate money to repay the effect, and it is not in vain to ask them, the 19 government-run group companies of the empire have a registered capital of as much as 200 million yuan, and they are afraid that they will not be able to afford the mortgage?" Yang Zhengjin didn't plan to save too much face for the other party.

Of course, the new Minister of National Defense Hook wanted to help his brother, resting his elbows on the armrests of his chair and talking eloquently: "I agree with the opinion of the Minister of the Interior, from the perspective of national defense, the reconquest areas have formed a new frontier of our country, most of these places are vast and sparsely populated, and the inhabitants are mainly Russian, Mongolian, Hui, Kazakh ethnic groups and Siberian natives, which is very unfavorable to future national defense and war preparedness. Giving part of the recovered land to veterans is a good way to make real profits and inspire the morale of the army and the people, not to mention that since ancient times, there have been countless precedents for the army to garrison and reclaim the frontier, so it is better for us to organize the veterans who are willing to stay in the reclaimed land for reclamation into a production and construction corps, on the one hand, it is an enterprise agricultural reclamation company that adopts advanced production methods, and on the other hand, it is a combat reserve division that regularly holds military exercises. In the event of a war, the garrison standing army will first hold the important areas, and then mobilize the production and construction corps to participate in the war, and then dispatch the domestic standing troops to support the war, which will not only save military expenditures, but also multiply on its own over time, and in fact change the ethnic composition of the border areas, making it difficult for the border people to cause chaos......

On that day, Minister Zhang's face was not good-looking.

On 13 September, the National Assembly passed the "Guangxing September Ninth Financial Subsidy Treasury Bond Issuance Bill" proposed by Liu Yun's cabinet, which issued a five-year financial subsidy bond of 400 million yuan with an annual interest rate of 3% on the assets of 10 state-owned group companies as collateral. On the same day, seven financial tycoons, headed by Zhang Jian, minister of industry and commerce, who were on the list of the country's top 10 richest people, came forward one after another to subscribe for the new treasury bonds, subscribing for as much as 160 million yuan in one go.

From September 14 to September 20, the new government arrested 16 leaders of extremist organizations and gang leaders, including Jiang Zhi, chairman of the Iron and Blood Federation, Han Xinhuo, president of the Youth Guild, and Ma Langyuan, president of the Thousand Hands Association, and detained or extended the detention of more than 400 extremists.

The new officer took office with three fires, but Liu Yun's third fire unexpectedly burned to the head of the navy.

On 21 September, the Navy Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives secretly held a hearing on the Navy's three-year shipbuilding plan and budget in the Congressional Chambers to hear testimony from the Navy's Naval Ship Administration Headquarters, the Intelligence Department of the Ministry of National Defense, and the Armament Department of the General Staff Headquarters.

Jiang Wentao, chief adviser of the Navy's Ship Administration Headquarters, unfolded a sketch of the warship's design to the congressmen whose eyes were full of sand.

"This is the finalized design of the battleship No. 13. In terms of firepower, it is equipped with 8 305 mm guns with a diameter of 45 times, which far exceeds the active capital ships of the Navy equipped with only 4 or 6 40 times diameter 305 mm guns, and also exceeds all the capital ships in service or under construction of the major powers. In addition, it was equipped with a certain number of small and medium-caliber secondary guns, which was enough to suppress enemy light cruisers and mine-strike ships that dared to approach. In terms of power, with a newly designed boiler and turbine unit, this giant ship with a full load displacement of more than 20,000 tons can reach a theoretical maximum speed of 22 knots, and when traveling at a speed of 17 knots, the endurance can exceed 4,500 nautical miles, that is, it can go directly to India without stopping. In terms of armor protection, the special five-type armor steel under research and development by Beiyang Heavy Industry will be used, and the unit protection performance of this armor steel will be 40 to 60 percent stronger than that used by the navy's active warships, and the key protection part of the main armor belt will be enough to resist the main guns of all active naval warships in the world from 12,000 yards away. The new warship will be equipped with a five-year main gun firing commander under development to ensure the firing control of the battleship within 18,000 yards, and in this naval battle in the South China Sea, the navy's three-year main gun commander has been able to accurately hit the enemy ship within 12,000 yards with a 40 times diameter 305 mm main gun......"

Some of the parliamentarians admired, some shook their heads, some were unmoved, and in any case, they were waiting for the last word.

The director of the Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Defense has made up information on the development of foreign navies, but the parliamentarians are still waiting.

The chief of the armament department of the General Staff Department compared the skills of the Chinese and foreign navies, and the parliamentarians continued to wait.

In the end, Jiang Wentao still spit out the last sentence: "Prepare to build 4 ships, the first ship requests an allocation of 11 million yuan, and each ship in the future is 10 million yuan." ”

"11 million? That's twice the size of the Ruizi! ”

"The main guns have only increased by two, the tonnage has increased by only one-third, and the cost has doubled......"

"If you want to get 11 million, you need at least 10 main guns!"

"It's all doubled, the tonnage doubled, the main gun doubled, and the speed of 20 knots is about the same, so that you can reflect the superiority of the imperial technology you are talking about!"

In the face of the critics, Jiang Wentao could only fully exploit the potential of his three-inch rotten tongue and persuade and explain in a low-key manner, first citing the numerical superiority of the navies of the great powers, and then complaining about the lack of slipways that can build huge ships of more than 10,000 tons in China, and then boasting about how good the performance of the new warships is, which is enough to pick up four clouds.

The persuasion and explanation work went on for three days, and no progress was made at all.

After the event, the prime minister personally came to the hearing and announced that if the Diet did not pass the special budget for the navy, he would sell his property and beg to raise enough money to build the ship, and then began to talk about history, from Zheng He's voyage to the West to the recent naval battle in the South China Sea.

Three days later, the National Assembly passed a three-year budget for the Navy's three-year shipbuilding plan with a total amount of more than 90 million yuan, an average of 30 million yuan per year, and the total amount of the Navy's equipment procurement in 1902 was only 21.83 million yuan. The first was to approve the construction of four new battleships, the first ship in the 1905 fiscal year budget, the second ship in the 1906 fiscal year budget, and the third and fourth ships in the 1907 budget, with a total cost of 42 million yuan. The second item is cruisers, including two large armored cruisers each equipped with four 45 times diameter 305 mm guns and eight new light cruisers equipped with 45 times diameter 150 mm guns, which are included in the budget for the 1905-1907 fiscal year, with a total cost of 28 million yuan for the ten ships. The third item is destroyers, including 16 new destroyers with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons, which are included in the budget for the 1905-1907 fiscal year, with a total cost of 10 million yuan. The fourth item is the water engine carrier and naval floating equipment, including two fast water engine carriers with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, 102 naval aircraft of various types, and six naval airships, of which the water engine carrier is included in the budget for the 1906 fiscal year, and the rest is included in the budget for the fiscal year 1905-1907, with a total amount of 9.5 million yuan. The fifth item was a special weapon, including eight mass-produced submarines, which were included in the budget for fiscal years 1906 and 1907, with a total amount of 1.2 million yuan.

It is said that a number of high-ranking generals, including Admiral Liu Buyun, commander-in-chief of the navy, and Admiral Lin Taizeng, commander of the Combined Fleet, took advantage of the wine to dance striptease in the naval headquarters that night...... There is no guarantee of credibility as to rumors......

Autumn is getting stronger.

In the afternoon, in the pavilion in the back garden of the Duke of Wuwei's mansion, the eldest lady of the Duke in a white dress was holding a yellow book and reading it carefully, and from time to time she picked up a pen to fill in a few lines.

An autumn grasshopper jumped on the collar of the young lady, and in its yellow-brown decayed compound eyes, it reflected the slightly exposed snow-white skin on the chest of the young lady duke and the neat Chinese characters on the notebook.

"Hehe, it's boobs."

"Hehe, it's a Chinese character."

"Hehe, I'm a grasshopper."

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If the grasshopper's sights could be transformed into images that humans could recognize......

Chest...... Slobber......

Chinese character...... The edge of the black pen is filled with the red annotation of the E-cup lady:

June 18. In the naval battle of the South China Sea, the Second Pacific Fleet was completely annihilated, and our army suffered minor damage. (The battle to be won, not enough)

On June 26, bloody massacre occurred in St. Petersburg, when palace guards opened fire on the marchers. (Bloody Sunday Events, Dealing with History, Revolution Erupts!) ）

June 27. The new British minister to China, Sadous, arrived from Japan. (The UK's policy towards me has changed!) ）

June 28. The US minister met with the Prime Minister with a letter from President Roosevelt, again requesting mediation in the Sino-Russian war, and saying that the Russian side had ordered Count Witte, chairman of the Council of Ministers, to go to the United States as a plenipotentiary negotiator to prepare for negotiations.

June 29. The British and French envoys sent sternly worded notes one after another, demanding that our country stop expanding the war and settle the dispute with Russia through peaceful negotiations. (The Sino-British alliance is meaningless!) ）

July 1. The government agreed to start negotiations with Russia and decided to go to the United States for negotiations with returned Foreign Minister Zeng Jize as the plenipotentiary negotiator. (Convergence of fiscal and external pressures)

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July 14th. After receiving reinforcements from the Third Army Corps in the Northwest, the Northwest Front began a counteroffensive, and with the elite Third Army Corps, the future achievements of the Northwest Army should be more than the restoration of the pre-war borders. (nonsense)

July 15th. As a last resort, accompany the two little ones to the aviation summer camp, and now it is during the war, the aviation summer camp? Can't laugh. (Why did you agree at that time?) ）

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July 25th. Having witnessed the legendary Chiyun Airship, a perverted monster with no concept of the times, how could their father have thought of making such a thing? (Because they're monsters themselves!) ）

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August 16. The negotiations began, and my father really didn't have any sense of secrecy from me. The conditions for our opening were 200 million pounds in reparations, the return of the Lena River and East Siberia east of Lake Baikal, plus the return of more than 510,000 square kilometers of territory east of Lake Balkhash, including Jaisampo and Temuturnao (that is, Lake Issyk-Kul), plus the return of 20,000 square kilometers of territory in the western part of the Pamirs. The other side demanded that we withdraw from all the Russian territories that we had seized after the outbreak of the war, dreaming. (If the conditions for our opening are met, the tsarist government will inevitably fall immediately)

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August 28. Vladivostok surrendered, they held out for almost a year, their courage was commendable, it was of great significance, if they had surrendered a few months earlier, the Russian Army would have suffered an even worse defeat, but it would have been possible to keep the Second Pacific Fleet, and there would have been gains and losses......

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September 4th. It is said that the peace treaty will be signed tomorrow, our side will no longer insist on reparations, Russia will return all the Chinese territories annexed since the "Nebuchu Treaty", in addition to ceding the Kuril Islands to Japan, and rescind all unequal treaties with China, North Korea, and Japan. In accordance with the treaty, we must withdraw all occupied land west of the Ergun River and north of the Trans-Khingan Mountains, in exchange for which the other side must return a total of 530,000 square kilometers of land not under our control in Zaisangpo, Lake Balkhash, east and south of Issyk-Kul and the western Pamirs. (We have been betrayed by the British, and the continental powers have united in support of Russia, and for many, the humiliation of being forced to spit out a small piece of meat in their mouths cannot be balanced by the satisfaction of swallowing most of the rest of the meat.) So they smashed the Prime Minister's residence! ）