Chapter 153: The Current Situation

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If you want to open up the passage of the Dabie Mountains, it is indispensable to open the mountain with explosives. Previously, the industrial system established by the Sickle Hammer Society was only steel, and it was still lame in the chemical industry. In 1897, the explosives used in the war and the explosives used in mining were all saltpeter mines imported from abroad, and the shortage of saltpeter affected military exhibitions and industrial construction, and this situation was fundamentally reversed after the construction of the whole 1897 and the establishment of a production line in March 1898. China's first ammonia synthesis system was established.

Of course, the ammonia synthesis system here is not Haberming's hydrogen and nitrogen high-temperature and high-pressure catalyst reaction production mode, and the Sickle Hammer Society is not yet able to manufacture high-pressure resistant steel, and Cheng Pan has the cyanide method and nitrogen fixation method in the synthetic ammonia production line. Using the principle of calcium carbide calcium carbide energy and nitrogen reaction, nitrogen as long as the oxygen in the air is burned to remove it, calcium carbide in later generations has two production methods, one is the electric furnace method and the other is the oxygen heat method, the electric furnace wire of the electric furnace is too high, it is not used, Huoqiu Industrial Zone uses the method of co-thermal combustion of coal and calcium carbonate to make calcium carbide. Calcium carbide reacts with nitrogen to form net2, and ammonia is formed when lye is fused. This method was supposed to be discovered by A. Frank and N. Caro this year, and in 19o5 the first production line was built in Germany to supply ammunition for World War I. Now in this plane, Cheng Pan has made it out in advance, and this technology Cheng Pan has borrowed various technical details of the local ammonia method in 1958 and expanded its production.

The entire production of ammonia is very energy-intensive, and this technology will be completely phased out in 193o, but it is now the most advanced ammonia production method. This method of making ammonia is cost-effective to use to make explosives, but it is expensive to use chemical fertilizer, and the steel industry and education have a long way to go if the people of the country want to use chemical fertilizer.

As soon as the synthetic ammonia came out, the production of explosives in the Sickle Hammer Society was free from the dependence of saltpeter mines from the outside world, the nitric acid industry was completed, and the triacid and two alkali industries were completed. With enough ammonia gas, Cheng Pan immediately replaced the backward Lulan alkali production method and put on the Soxhlet alkali production method, because the price of ammonia is not low, because the Soxhlet alkali production method can recycle ammonia, the combined alkali production method is still a break. At this time, the Huoqiu Industrial Zone was already a complete primary industrial system, although it was still very low-level, but it could continue to move forward. With a complete industrial system in hand, the Sickle Hammer Society can be regarded as invincible in this era without bombers.

The Hanyang Arsenal was also in operation, large-caliber heavy artillery was being manufactured, the Sickle Society, which had enough ammunition, began to expand its army, and the plan for the complete liberation of Wuhan had begun to be established. At this time, the situation of the Qing Dynasty was very bad, and the great powers began to divide their spheres of influence in China. Famous unequal treaties in history, such as the "Luda Land Lease Treaty", the "Sino-French Treaty on the Mutual Signing of the Guangzhou Bay Concession", and the "Special Article on the Extension of Hong Kong Boundaries", arrived as scheduled this year. The advent of the Sickle Hammer Society did not stop this qiē from coming into being. The weakness of the Qing Dynasty was even worse than it was in history. The only thing that had changed was that the United States did not sign the "Guangdong-Hankou Railway Loan Contract" with the Qing Dynasty, and with the fact that half of Hubei was now occupied by the Sickle Hammer Society, and the notorious reputation of the Sickle Hammer Society, during the period when the Sickle Hammer Society occupied a large area of land in Hubei and Anhui, not a single foreign enterprise came to make money. Some time ago, the shooting of the opium merchant made the major foreign powers start to scold the Sickle Hammer Society as a barbarian.

At this time, Yuan Shikai was stationed in Shandong, and he saw a foreign newspaper and asked Duan Qirui: "Zhiquan, what do you think of today's situation?" Duan Qirui said: "In the first afternoon, the imperial court lost a chip, since then step by step, today surrounded by tigers, the imperial court under the oppression of foreigners step by step retreat, although the imperial court still holds this military power, but in the long run, the people's hearts are lost." Yuan Shikai pointed to the south and asked, "Can the thieves in the south have the power to win the championship?" Duan Qirui smiled contemptuously: "Although the anti-thieves in the south have sharp weapons, they are essentially the same as the foolish people in Shandong, they are all shouting loud and tall slogans, and in fact there is no trace of feasibility." Yuan Shikai nodded and said, "I think so too, but the thieves in the south always make me feel that something is wrong." Duan Qirui said: "Xiangcheng, the thieves in the south offended the court and shouted and killed the gentry, and finally offended the foreigners, I can't think of any chance to turn the tables in the south, as long as the court is willing to use the power of several provinces to encircle and suppress, the south can be destroyed, and the most important thing now is how to deal with the foreigners." I decided that the armed forces were stationed in Shandong in order to show the Germans our military strength and prevent them from going any further. Yuan Shikai nodded.

On April 21, Guangxu promulgated the "Ming Dingguo is Edict", and the 100-day Restoration began two months ahead of the original history, and the Qing Dynasty's high-level leaders fell into a political movement for power and profit, but it brought a trace of the possibility of local gentry interfering in politics. The entire Qing Dynasty did not have the heart to tidy up the country, and the Guangxu Emperor did not think about his own mistakes after the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, but the rebellion of his youth was completely explosive, and he was ready to kick out Cixi to directly control the country, and he believed that as long as he changed the law and imitated the German constitutional monarchy system, he could strengthen the country. Guangxu issued dozens of decrees in a row, but as soon as the holy decree left the city, it became an empty letter, and Kang Youwei's attention was to vigorously activate the new people, first move the old bureaucrats, and slowly seize power by leaving them idle. If Cheng Pan heard him say this, he would almost laugh, just you officialdom Xiaobai and Li Hongzhang for a while, the old man playing politics and fighting with his careful eyes is purely looking for death. If the Qing Dynasty could idle their rights, it would be to idle their centralized power, and the Qing Dynasty would have died a few years earlier if they did so.

The Hundred Days Restoration is absurdly carried out in the capital, many departments have been abolished, replaced by reformers, a large number of officials have been dismissed, so that the old class and Guangxu who originally supported the Qing Dynasty centrifugal, the intention of the whole reform is good, Kang Youwei and Guangxu have the idea of bringing the country to a strong and prosperous country in addition to the idea of seizing power, but they don't know how to change, and they don't have the power to change, and the power that can really change the day is in the hands of the people, but all the upper classes ignore this potentially huge force.

On May 4, Hong Kong, Tse drew the famous map of the current situation, which described the form of the great powers' intention to carve up China in the image of an animal, but Cheng Pan noticed that above the tiger representing Britain was a dog with a sickle and hammer. The dog seemed to bark, but its legs trembled under the majesty of the tiger. And the tiger stretched out a paw at this time, as if about to teach the dog a lesson.

The map of the current situation became popular throughout the country as soon as it was drawn, and it aroused the anxiety of the Chinese gentry about the partition of China by the great powers. But there was one wrong place in the picture, and the dog was by no means trembling. It's staging a live show of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. In June, 120,000 troops gathered on the Yangtze River. The army, which had just completed its expansion and had undergone simple military training, was ready to cross the Yangtze River in one fell swoop and completely recover the entire territory of Hubei and Anhui. In order to restrain the unscrupulous foreign ** ship Sickle Hammer Society, which lives on the Yangtze River, has created a large number of mines.

On June 3, the second Wuhan Battle in Hubei exploded, and it was still the same. Under the sweep of 60,000 Sickle Society's troops, Wuhan's Oriental Chicago was taken within three hours, because the last time Wuhan's industrial equipment talents were hollowed out by the Sickle Society, Zhang Zhidong no longer insisted on meeting with the commander of the Sickle Society, and hurriedly fled into the foreigner's embassy, but the Sickle Society's army with fifteen 200 mm caliber heavy guns Chinese had unimaginable courage after attacking Wuhan in this meeting. Ten days later, after the construction of the Wuhan improvised fort was completed, with the help of Cheng Pannian, the cannon was easily erected. The Sickle Hammer Society began issuing orders to foreign legations in Wuhan to demolish illegal buildings.

The representative of the Sickle Hammer Society said to the British Minister: "In view of the fact that you have erected buildings in the vicinity of our industrial base without our permission, you are now ordered to move out of this place within three days. The British minister pretended to be calm and took a sip of red wine: "You don't know, what are you doing." Our warships are coming here, and now that you take the joke back, I'll assume it's April Fool's Day. The messenger of the Sickle Hammer Society said, "If you don't withdraw, then let's fight." It was the French minister who shouted, "You don't know what you're doing?" Do you want war? The messenger of the Sickle Hammer Society turned his head and replied word by word: "When you enter this land, war is inevitable. The French minister's face turned blue and he scolded: "Stupid". The next day, after the ministers of various countries, surrounded by thousands of people, set off a cannonball at the Sickle Society, the legation flew a white flag. Wuhan was completely liberated. The Sickle Hammer Society resolved the conflict in the Wuhan Legation and immediately went south.

At this time, the Hunan army was almost rotten, and the only troops that could fight were lost in Hubei, and now in the face of the sweep of the Sickle Hammer Society, there was no official organization, and it was completely scattered, but the character of the Hunan people was as violent as a chili pepper, and the landlords hid behind the stone wall and resisted stubbornly under the slogan of the Hunan people controlling Hunan, but the Sickle Hammer Society did not occupy Hunan only as an army of people from other provinces, and the agrarian revolution won the support of the broad masses of the people. With the slogan of dividing the land, the landlords tried to form the Hunan united front went bankrupt, the same Hunan people why you have countless food and clothing, we will farm for you, pay rent for you, and pick out the social imbalance is a revolutionary means, in the late Qing Dynasty, the social landlords could not meet the needs of the people's food and clothing line, so the whole Hunan was a firewood pile for the revolutionary fire for the Sickle Hammer Society.

Just as the revolution was taking place in Hunan, a large number of large-caliber reinforced bamboo-reinforced concrete batteries were being built on the other side of Ma'anshan, and the powers, stimulated by the Sickle Hammer Society in Wuhan, a fleet of twelve warships composed of five countries headed in the direction of Anhui. The tonnage of warships that can pass through this channel of the Yangtze River is at most 4ooo tons, and the naval guns that can be loaded by the fleet of this tonnage are 200 mm caliber twin naval guns. In this era, the only thing that could fire at large-caliber naval guns was the turrets with large-caliber fortress guns. The Sickle Hammer Society went south this time with a large number of cement bricks and forty large-caliber fortress guns of more than 200 mm. All of them were bought by Cheng Pan from abroad. Because it cannot be built too early, otherwise the foreign first-class ships that perceive something wrong will come to the test, so that the Hubei Campaign will be fought in advance. Therefore, the fort was built four days before the start of the Hubei Campaign, and by now the mixed territory has not dried up, and there is not enough time, and such objects as mines began to be thrown into the river by the Sickle Hammer Society.

Harvis, the commander-in-chief of the joint operation of the British Yangtze River forces, looked at the mines floating on the river, and after hitting one or two mines with a gun, they were now fakes, and Harvey smiled at the commanders of warships of other countries and said: "The Chinese will only use this kind of bluff thing." The commander of the French warship smiled and said: "This is their military theory, which comes from two thousand years ago a man playing music on an empty fortress to scare the enemy away." Several commanders laughed, and they were not happy for long, but five minutes later a huge explosion sounded, and a thousand-ton light cruiser was blown open, and a few minutes later the rescue was ineffective and sank. It was a French warship that sank, and when he saw this scene, the fleet commander Harveys's face changed, and he hurriedly ordered to pay attention to the movement on the water. All with guns. This allows the warship soldiers to pay attention to mines with their firearms, which is still possible during the day, but does not work at night. As a qualified admiral, of course, he knew that it would take great risks to move forward, so he led the fleet to a halt at the Yangtze River port.

At this time, explosives are precious, so Cheng Pan naturally will not extravagantly scatter pure mines, but implement a ratio of one true and four false. As long as the foreign ** team wants to leave the port, they will immediately drop mines. As a side effect, Chinese fishermen and merchant ships in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River were afraid to travel for a long time.

The mine battle on the Yangtze River lasted for twenty days, the concrete buildings were finally completed, and the fleet carried out a final retrospective march after no mine harassment, and after firing at the cement battery for a while, it lost a ship of 2,500 tons and fled in a zigzag pattern, and the first confrontation between the Sickle and the Hammer Society and the foreign powers came to an end. At this time, Anhui's river-crossing troops had liberated Jiujiang, and Nanchang was advancing towards the central part of Jiangxi. Red Tide underwent a second expansion within the Qing Dynasty.