Chapter 174: Existential in Name Only

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In 19o6, with the gradual realization of the long-term investment value of the Sickle Society's education, the industry entered a burst period, and in 19o6, the steel output of the Sickle Society reached 5.23 million tons, which was very close to the United Kingdom, but the quality was still not comparable to the steel technology trained by the British dreadnoughts. Eighty percent of the country's steel is still used in infrastructure projects such as bridges and railways. Infrastructure is related to the potential of the country, and the better the infrastructure, the stronger the explosion will be in the future. For this reason, the Sickle Hammer Society could no longer afford to see the northern provinces continue to be desolate.

Cheng Pan used a fountain pen to draw two circles in Baotou and eastern Hebei, Cheng Pan's point ore magic pen has been famous in the high-level circle of the Sickle Hammer Society, Cheng Pan said that where there is a mine, there must be world-class minerals. The high-level officials of the Sickle Hammer Society noticed the position of the two circles drawn by Cheng Pan, and Zuo Qiang and the others asked happily: "Is it to completely solve the Qing Dynasty?" Cheng Pan shook his head and said, "Leave them two places in Beijing and Tianjin, and Gao Yun will wait for you to announce our liberation plan this time." Gao Yun nodded and said, "Yes." Liu Shi looked at the map carefully and suddenly said: "Chairman, in three years, are we going to fight a war with foreigners in the three northeastern provinces?" Cheng Pan muttered: "The three northeastern provinces are a good place, but just because he is a good place, this place is stared at by a bear and a wolf, and I would not have entered it so early without absolute strength." Cheng Pan's tone suddenly raised and said, "Once we enter, we will completely expel them from the Northeast Asia Big 6." Cheng Pan drew two lines on the map, one was from Baotou to Hohhot to Zhangjiakou, from Chengde to Liao, and the other was from Jinan to Baoding to Zhangjiakou, bypassing Beijing and entering Liao. All the economic construction officials studied this plan one after another, and several officials pointed out the difficulty, that is, there are several points in the section from Zhangjiakou to Chengde that have to cross the mountain range, and it is relatively difficult to build. Of course, Cheng Pan knows that these points are several difficulties in the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, Zhan Tianyou's famous work. And Zhan Tianyou Cheng Pan has invited him to come, Zhan Tianyou is a native of Anhui, and at first he didn't have any feelings about the Sickle Hammer Society from the Anhui family, and he was even very dissatisfied with the way the Sickle Hammer Society rose up. However, in the past few years, after personally participating in several major lines of express trains, and eating and living with 100,000 workers, he gradually identified with the Sickle Hammer Society. In the past few years, Zhan Tianyou also tried to go to the coastal provinces to build railways, under the instructions of Cheng Pan, the officials of the Sickle Hammer Society let it go, and gave him the right to come and go freely, Zhan Tianyou, who had nothing to do in the south for only one year, came back, there is a contrast to have recognition, the words of the southern officials are all high, once the money is allocated, it is very petty, and all kinds of high-sounding words are used to shirk the hope that the road construction team led by Zhan Tianyou can understand, persist, and overcome difficulties. In contrast, as long as the line is determined and the materials and workers are continuously supplied, the road construction money is not to worry about at all, the government has planned it, and every payment is strictly listed. Wait for the road construction team to check the accounts. Acceptance of materials. In a year, comparing the people in the two places, Zhan Tianyou realized that the gentry said by the Sickle Hammer Society could not represent the people. Comparing the spiritual outlook of the people of the two places, one is at the colonial level and the other is at the level of the European and American powers. In particular, the two provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu, which are traditional land of fish and rice, have been colluded by local landlords and officials to flee to the two poor provinces of Anhui and Jiangxi. Water conservancy engineering, Zhan Tianyou understood what a country needs, a single railway industry cannot strengthen the country, shipbuilding industry, military industry is the same. There is only a strong person in charge, and the government that cannot shirk the fault has a consistent plan for the whole country, this is a strong country, and a year later, Zhan Tianyou looked at the noisy advisory bureau and packed his bags with a sneer.

Cheng Pan himself had the exact construction plan of several difficult points of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, but out of respect for the great man who was still alive, Cheng Pan did not directly take it out and copy it, but inadvertently discussed it with him a few times when Zhan Tianyou was working to design the Zhangjiakou and Chengde railway.

The topic turned back, when the Sickle Hammer Society announced that the liberation of Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, and Hebei provinces only left the Qing Dynasty with two small lands, Beijing and Tianjin, which caused the unanimous anger of the Qing Dynasty, and some Manchus said that they would resist to the death, but seeing the decadent appearance of Beijing, everyone knew that this was a fool's dream, and some people asked to move the capital, and it was a question of whether to return to Shenyang or go to Nanjing, and the Japanese minister immediately proposed a plan to the Qing Dynasty for the establishment of a Manchukuo state, Cixi was also hesitating, and finally persuaded back by the words of a Qing Dynasty prince, : "The national fortune of the Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years is enough, if we build a country outside the Guan, what will happen to the mausoleum of the first emperor, the anti-thieves in the south still treat the Manchus equally, if we go to the northeast to be Manchus who are not Chinese, the northwest is our lesson from the past."

Cixi is now terminally ill, but she still sweats at these words. With the gradual growth of the Sickle Society, the anti-secession law was gradually studied by all forces. The action of the great reunification of all ethnic groups in China is being carried out with iron and blood. Those who did not admit it were exterminated for treason and invasion. The concept of the Yellow River civilization is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, in China you can say that the ancestors moved from other places, but you must admit that after the ancestors moved to China, they enjoyed the glory of Chinese civilization from generation to generation, and now for this civilization, you have to dedicate yourself to the country and protect it. The Manchus who were very strict with the sinicization of zhòng were all dazzled when they heard this, and Huayi Zhi had been sublimated to the top here, and most of the Manchus had redefined their position in the country when the Qing Dynasty was about to fall. This is a very different theory from the Western theory of Manifest Destiny racial expansion. In the process of reunification, the multi-ethnic country of the East did not embark on the road of racial superiority, and the whole relied on its own civilization that has been proud for thousands of years and embarked on the road of reunification and integration.

When the troops of the Sickle Hammer Society completed the annexation of the three provinces, the troops formed by Yuan Shikai and others changed banners in large numbers, and for Yuan Shikai and Duan Qirui and others who did not resist, Cheng Pan was embarrassed to continue to dig deep into the crimes, but gave these people a huge sum of money to let them go abroad. I didn't want a few people to refuse this mention, Yuan Shikai seemed to say to the people of the Sickle Hammer Society: "My Yuan family has a spell of no more than sixty, I am already old, I don't want to move the land, I want to go home and see." Cheng Pan felt a little emotional about forcing himself like this before he debuted a few Beiyang warlords who set off monstrous waves in the original time and space. But there is not the slightest guilt, and the tide of history must give way when it should give way.

The sudden northward movement of the Sickle Hammer Society left two cities for the Qing Dynasty to make Beijing a mess, the hardcore crops of the Qing Dynasty have not come out, some people are making trouble in the streets, but some people are shrewd and have begun to form teams to go south to find work. The Qing Dynasty has existed in name only at this time, and the biggest reaction to the sudden northward movement of the Sickle Hammer Society is Russia, as early as a year ago, when the Sickle Hammer Society entered Xinjiang, the Russians became nervous, and the Russian army sent troops into the Tianshan Mountains many times, and after being eliminated one by one, the two sides began to break out a small war of thousands of people, and finally the two sides reached restraint and ceased fire. Now that the Sickle Hammer Society is very close to the east in the east, the Qing Dynasty has completely failed to play the role of a buffer zone, and Mao Ziyou has begun to scream. A few years ago, the Sickle Hammer Society had sworn to the Northeast that this was China's sovereignty, but at that time, the Sickle Hammer Society was still in the south, and no one cared about this declaration, but now the Sickle Hammer Society has reached the Inner Mongolia area of Hebei, and all countries have begun to consider the changes in the Northeast, but unfortunately Mao Zi was beaten too hard by Japan in the Far East a few years ago, and was stabbed by Umiyanlov again, and he has not recovered until now. Now that Russia is fierce but incapable of fighting, and the Russian Empire, which has just experienced defeat, no longer has to gamble on the Second Far Eastern War, the British have begun to intervene, and the British have now expanded the power of the Sickle Hammer Society to the point where they cannot control it. For the sake of the Great 6 Balance, the British pulled Japan and Russia together into the Far Eastern Entente Supplementary Treaty.

Said that Japan is now very sad, although Japan won the war against Russia, but as in history, it owes a lot of debt, and the market in China's big 6 was occupied by the Sickle Hammer Society, and now it is seen that the trade protection of the Northeast market cannot be maintained. The Japanese are already thinking about the fact that Japan did not get anything from the war two years ago except that it won the status of a great power, and that Japan's 70,000 tons of steel production seemed to have stagnated after the Russo-Japanese War. Light industry cannot effectively support heavy industry, and Japan is a capitalist country, and the country's chaebol needs to make money, although the emperor's majesty is very powerful, but it is still unable to use the power of the state to support heavy industry in terms of resources like Kamakamasha. Japan's powerful navy is a drag on the country's economy. The Japanese military department is now thinking about whether to have a war with the Sickle Hammer Society to gamble on the fortunes of the country, the Japanese upper echelons are still sober, and the Sickle Hammer Society is now only pushing the base to Hebei and not continuing to advance to the three northeastern provinces, at this time the 6th Army attacked from Korea and ran across a long distance to Hebei to fight, and all the commanders of the 6th Army in Japan were not sure that the Red Army of the 6th Army and the Sickle Hammer Society would have a victorious war. In terms of navy, Japan is now purely a dog biting a hedgehog and has no way to start, and only one province in Shandong has an outlet to the sea in the entire territory of the Sickle Society, and several important locations have been fortified. The invasion from Shandong was meaningless except for a brief occupation of a section of the beach. In desperation, Japan could only stand on a chariot designed by the British.

After Germany seized the north by the Sickle Society, William looked at the map and said: "The Qing Empire is no longer valuable" and then Germany began to recognize the Sickle Hammer Society as the sole legitimate government of China, and then most of the countries in Central Europe recognized it one after another, and the Germans had begun to ask the Sickle Hammer to withdraw from Dongjiaomin Lane and establish an embassy in Ma'anshan.

The British, on the other hand, still took advantage of the Qing Dynasty's treaties in Tibet and Burma, and still recognized the Qing Dynasty as the legitimate government, and on the other hand, they did not want to affect the relationship with the Sickle Society, so they sent people to Ma'anshan to explain. The British have this capital, southern China is still the British sphere of influence, the strength of the Sickle Hammer Society has not yet swelled to the point of challenging all the powerful countries in the Far East, and the diplomatic cliché still needs to say that trade must be maintained, otherwise the British will cut off the grain trade line of the Sickle Society, and the Sickle Hammer Society will not have such a high exhibition now. At the same time, the United States did not recognize the Sickle Society, and the trade lines were still in the hands of the British. However, this policy is about to be loosened with the circumnavigation of the Great White Fleet.

As for the southern provinces, it is the rabbit and the fox, at this time, Cixi began to order the four southern provinces to elect representatives to form a parliament on the hospital bed, the Manchu Qing did not make the imperial cabinet as in history, the Qing Dynasty had no strength in its hands and could only hope that the constitutional monarchy could guarantee the royal status, and the conditions proposed were similar to the abdication of the Manchu Qing in the original time and space, and the officials in the south could only firmly grasp the legal system left by the Manchu Qing as the basis for their own confrontation with the Sickle Society. Under the anti-secession law, these provinces did not dare to become independent, and they had to seize the skin of the legitimate government left by the Qing Dynasty, and at this time, Cixi in the palace made a decree to formulate a prince as the future monarch of the Qing Dynasty, and this appointed prince did not stop in Beijing but took the British ship south to Jiangsu. The British are now pinning their last hope on the impending constitutional government to the south.