Chapter 178: Trying the Claws South
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In 1911 the Sickle Society had unified most of the country and extended to the Sakhalin Island region in the northeast, because there were no Russians in this place, and the Sickle Society was reluctant to open further north, so the boundary was difficult to determine, and Russia now had only one Chita fortress left in the Far East, and because the Sickle Society forcibly recovered North Asia, Russia had no incentive to continue to build the Trans-Siberian Railway. There were nobles in Outer Mongolia who wanted to rebel, but unfortunately the Russian army in Chita did not dare to support it. In the end, it was pacified by the Sickle Society, this small population of Outer Mongolia is a fight with the Russian Far East, the grassland is so large, the resources are so rich, and it is still engaged in slavery. These Mongol nobles must be defeated, and as for the two major provinces of Tibet and Xinjiang in the northwest region, they have been completely controlled, and the Sickle Hammer Society has even taken over the warm grasslands of the Tianshan Mountains that were originally part of the Qing Dynasty. The southwest zone has been occupied by the boundaries of the original map of China, and the only thing that is not under the control is the southeastern part of the country, and the current Qing Dynasty is simply exalting it when it says it is the Southern Dynasty. The four provinces that the constitutional Qing Dynasty now controls are not complete, Jiangsu is gone, Zhejiang has retained Hangzhou, and the provincial capitals of Fujian and Guangdong are by the sea, and the two provinces of Fujian and Guangdong basically only occupy one side of the sea. The version of the Constitutional Qing Dynasty is extremely intellectually prolonged. Slim and slender. The population of the Constitutional Qing Dynasty is now only 60 million, and the population of the Sickle Hammer Society has just reached 480 million. The two sides are no longer at the same level in terms of the industrial population of the territory. Even Britain, who supported the constitutional Qing Dynasty, began to think about whether the Qing Empire's control of the market was worth hindering the British and the Sickle Society. However, the British colonies of Burma and India were too powerful in Whitehall, and the reconciliation of a backward country a few decades ago in exchange for land could not be explained to the people, so the matter did not work out. Britain is still very proud of itself as the global boss, the Sickle Hammer Society did not cry and gave up a little interest to let the UK admit that Britain is really not used to it, anyway, it does not affect the trade between the two sides, the two sides are supported like this, and the hidden dangers are quietly buried, the British do not think that they will decline in the future, and the Sickle Society also thinks that they will be stronger in the future, and the two countries are confident in the forces they can mobilize to deal with this hidden danger in the future.
This is confidence in the future, but if no one sees the future, who can say for sure. The cards in the hands of the Sickle Society are definitely better than those in the sixties of China in the original time and space. In the process of reunification, the class to which the old literati belonged was completely pressed under their feet, and it was absolutely not like the large number of "democrats" in New China who were mixed into the CPPCC, and the destruction of these old literati was a contempt for grassroots labor. I put the status of the wrench under the writer. In the process of its rise, the Sickle Hammer Society did not engage in a united front at all, but simply relied on the working class to rely on the science talents cultivated by itself to build up the country little by little, and completely elevate the status of science and engineering, which is the academic atmosphere of an industrial country. A pen that doesn't use a ruler or compass can never compare to a wrench, and an article that doesn't use it in mathematical, physical and chemical formulas will never have practical value. There are people who are materially rich and spiritually empty, and none of these people's material is earned by themselves, of course they are empty. The literati who can earn a lot of money by writing a few words are, of course, empty, okay, and moaning without illness. Seeing people participating in industrial labor, but drinking tea in contrast, these people are of course uncomfortable, and of course they think that industry is not emotional.
The current top management and management class of the Sickle Hammer Society all study science and engineering, industrialization has become an absolutely unquestionable goal, pollution, high energy consumption, low investment rate, these problems must be solved, but the premise of solving the problem is not to sacrifice industrialization, but to solve this problem for the sake of industrialization. There is no mess of ideas questioning industrialization. The use of scientific methods to plan the exhibition is the reason why the industrial output value of the Sickle Hammer Society has risen in recent years.
On the one hand, the ideological unification within the Kamaksha Society was more dominant than that of New China in the 60s, and on the other hand, the wealth accumulated by China in the process of reunification was controlled by the Kamaksha Society without going through a process of continuous loss for more than 30 years. This wealth is the bulk of the equipment and food purchased. There is also one most important aspect, that is, the industry has just started in this era, and the Sickle Hammer Society has quickly caught up with the industrial generation gap with the West. As long as the industrial generation difference is saved, it means that the competitiveness of your products is poor, and it will be suppressed by other countries' industrial products, and other countries will suffer a price war.
The large use of chemical fertilizers allows the Chinese to put their money in other areas after solving the problem of food and clothing, the Chinese market has expanded geometrically, but in terms of industrial plundering wealth, the great powers can not occupy an advantage in this market competition, China's participation in the world industrial competition has the greatest impact is Japan, Japan's steel industry is squeezed bleak, there are no good minerals, and the cost of workers is also lagging behind China, and now the Japanese shipbuilding industry has begun to use special steel imported from China in order to reduce costs, Otherwise, it will not be possible to maintain a huge shipbuilding program. Ignoring the sea power and giving priority to the development of industry, no country can play except China, China's huge territory and large population are enough to create one of the world's largest markets on its own.
In 1911, after Cheng Pan had just decided to "stand up to the sky" project, the second Moroccan crisis broke out in Europe, and as long as there was any wind and grass in Morocco, the intervention of foreign forces would be very troublesome, and France intervened to damage the interests of the Germans at the same time, and the crisis arose. The Kaiser was very tough on this occasion, and Britain took measures to suppress Germany because of its discord with the Germans in the construction of ships. Just as the British were trying to calm European affairs, the Far Eastern crisis exploded.
Qingdao Industrial Zone since its creation is for, China's future naval construction as the main goal, the navy in the current science and technology, armor is not a difficulty, some large forging press and high-quality steel armor can be easily improved, in this era of naval science and technology The three most important difficulties are that a large caliber naval gun, Sickle Hammer Society is now 3,000 tons of warships with 12o mm naval guns are enough, did not learn from European countries to soar the technology of the caliber of the capital ship artillery to 300 mm. The second difficulty is the steel keel, which requires large-scale forging equipment, and with a 10,000-ton hydraulic press, the Sickle Hammer Society forges a high-strength keel to strengthen the bones of its small warship. The last item is a variety of large-scale rotating equipment on the battleship, whether it is the turret or the steam runner, the bearing is difficult, the roller inside must be smooth, otherwise the turret rotation is not flexible, the steam engine consumes a lot of energy, and the battleship navigation is reduced. There are support for dozens of tons of hundreds of tons of large steel components to rotate, the strength of the central roller must be strong, the entire Qingdao iron and steel industry for the strength of this roller, apply to the central government, so that the country's counterparts together to quickly tackle the problem is finally solved the production process.
There is one of the most critical things in the forging of large marine steam engine wheels, this must use large hydraulic presses, large hydraulic presses are mainly free forging, this thing not only depends on how many tons of power can be exploded, but also depends on the forging accuracy, now the 10,000 tons of hydraulic press forging marine steam engine wheels produced by Sickle Hammer Society are very skilled workers, these old workers have a good idea of operating this large equipment, and they grasp the forging accuracy of these large steel components is very high. The steam engine wheel is also improving after a hundred years, and the accuracy of the steam engine wheel is improved a little, the upper limit of the pressure value of the steam can continue to be increased, and the power of the entire warship can be reached a stage. After Qingdao built three fishery administration ships with a maximum voyage of 2o knots, it finally improved the accuracy of the steam engine wheel step by step. Today, these 12 25oo-ton "carp" destroyers floating in Qingdao port are the current shipbuilding achievements of the Sickle Hammer Society.
These destroyers are Fletcher-class destroyers, compared to the performance of this World War II destroyer, it is still a little weakened, there is no radar and advanced fire control system during World War II, the maximum voyage is 35 knots, and the weapon is four all-metal covered turrets. The torpedo tube is not installed, yes, Cheng Pan made this thing to break the battle.
The fuse of the crisis in the Far East was like this, after the constitution of the Qing Dynasty on the southern coast was established on April 3, 1912, the Qing Dynasty placed the jade seal symbolizing the rights of the state in the Congress, and the news reached Nanyang, and the Chinese were jubilant, and the Qing Dynasty, which had ruled China for more than 200 years, handed over its rights, and the Central Plains had been completely recovered. It can be seen here how one-sided the reports of the southern newspapers are on the Sickle Hammer Society, and the impression of the overseas Chinese in Nanyang on the Sickle Hammer Society is only the persecution of gentry, about the Sickle Hammer Society's northern war against Tsarist Russia and the southern war against Britain, these Nanyang people are everywhere offended the powerful country and are isolated and helpless in the one-sided propaganda of the Europeans. The entire Sickle Hammer Society is a force that will eventually be exterminated, and the big 6 have forgotten the land of Nanyang for hundreds of years, so that the white people have accumulated a deep power in the hearts of the Nanyang Chinese.
These Nanyang Chinese also believed that China's hope lay in the southern constitution of the Qing Dynasty, (these people did not know what the Qing Dynasty had been squeezed into by the Sickle Hammer Society.) After the constitution, some Nanyang Chinese began to set off firecrackers, at this time, the Dutch, the forgotten country of Europe, was in the habit of thinking to shoot the celebratory crowd and drove away, killing two people and wounding 15 people, the news of the Surabaya tragedy in this time and space spread to the "Nanqing", the whole public opinion boiled, and the overseas Chinese also moved strong public opinion, because Southeast Asia still needs Chinese work, the Dutch colonial government has been prepared to engage a few indigenous soldiers as a substitute for the dead to appease the Chinese, and at the same time can incite the confrontation between the indigenous and the Chinese, why not. Just ten days later, the Netherlands announced the compromise decision, and the Southern Qing government was preparing to announce the diplomatic results. The crisis in the Far East, as the British called, began.
As early as the Surabaya incident, ten hours later, the Qingdao Naval Base Kamatsu Naval Lightning completed the replenishment of 12 destroyers and headed south to the Leizhou Peninsula Naval Base.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kamakama Society gave Japan an explanation of naval operations, asking the Japanese Navy not to misunderstand. Immediately after receiving the news, the Japanese headquarters sent a telegram expressing their appreciation for the behavior of the Sickle Hammer Society in maintaining the rights of the yellow race. Gao Yun immediately invited the Japanese Navy to go south with him, but the Japanese politely refused on the grounds that the fleet was undersupplied, and the Japanese Admiralty was bustling with activity at this time. Dongxiang said excitedly: "Gentlemen, now that China's small fleet is heading south, this is an opportunity, and it is an opportunity for the imperial fleet to observe the bottom line of the Europeans and Americans. Ito Hirobumi (this guy is not dead yet, since the big 6 market was robbed by the Sickle Hammer Society, Japan has stepped up blood pumping on North Korea, and the Japanese who are thieves have strengthened their protection, and Ito was not assassinated by the Koreans like history) said: "Dongxiang, don't be optimistic, Southeast Asia is the British navy is the strongest, but the Dutch navy is very fragile, now it depends on whether the British are willing to risk a 6 war to defend the Netherlands, as for us may not be able to intervene." Ito's words poured cold water on the Japanese, and a naval officer asked: "Don't we have a chance at all this time" Ito said: "The chance is slim this time, but the chance is even slimmer if we don't prepare for the next time, and the combined fleet should be ready to mediate at a critical time to show our country's role in Southeast Asia, so that the British will consider giving us a little benefit." ”
Cheng Pan was not surprised by Japan's choice, because the characteristics and national strength of a small country forced the Japanese to develop the character of speculation and grasping all kinds of favorable opportunities. By this time, the Japanese had already sold information about the southward movement of the Chinese fleet to the British. The British immediately sent a diplomatic note warning the Sickle Society not to challenge the order in Southeast Asia. The Sickle Hammer Society immediately announced that 300,000 troops would be stationed in the southwest, warning Britain that as long as there was a single shell to stop the Chinese fleet from moving south, the overseas Chinese protection operation in Southeast Asia would be fully exploded.
At the same time, the Sickle Hammer Society brought out the Dutch family, 3 35oo-ton coastal defense battleships (3 21omm guns), 5 5ooo-ton coastal defense battleships (2 24omm guns) and 6 modern 38oo-ton "Dutch" class protective cruisers, warning the British not to play the little trick of lend-lease battleships, once present, the Sickle Society cannot guarantee that there will be armed personnel of unknown forces in South Asia.
The British are caught in a dilemma, and it is the vested interest of Britain to defend the world's colonial order, but is it worth it to risk attacks on India and Burma to maintain this order?
British Minister Zhu Erdian came to Ma'anshan to have a secret meeting with the Sickle Hammer Society, at this time Gao Yun did not say anything, took him to visit the Anshan Iron and Steel Plant, Hubei Iron and Steel Plant, Chongqing Iron and Steel Plant, red molten steel flowed out of the converter, the huge chimney emitted black smoke, after the visit Zhu Erdian heart was heavy According to his estimate, the steel output of these three industrial zones has reached three million, which is not counting the North Anhui Iron and Steel Industrial Zone of the Sickle Hammer Society, Qingdao Industrial Zone, it is said that North China and Northeast China are also building steel iron works.
A makeshift negotiating place appeared in a humble hotel in Chongqing, and Zhu Erdian did not care about the poor hospitality of the Sickle Society, whose apparent power had made him lose attention to these details. Zhu Erdian asked: "Is your country ready to challenge the order of East Asia now?" Gao Yun said with a professional smile: "My country has no intention of challenging your country's order in East Asia" After speaking, Gao Yun threw out a treaty, which is the Hai 6 treaty signed between China and Japan, which says that China shall not build a capital ship of more than 10,000 tons. Zhu Erdian's brow soothed. Gao Yun said: "China attaches great importance to your maritime interests in East Asia and does not have the feeling of breaking the existing order, otherwise we will vigorously deploy our navy like Germany in Europe to challenge the foundation of your global interests." However, we are now considering whether the order established in your country is suppressing us, and if the most fundamental rights and interests of our Chinese in foreign countries -- the right to life -- cannot be guaranteed, then our country must consider whether this order is harmful to us. Zhu Erdian said: "Your country's military strength must not reach Southeast Asia, this is the bottom line of the British Empire." Gao Yun said: "Minister, you misunderstood that we have no intention of colonizing Southeast Asia, what we want is the right of overseas Chinese not to be insulted by third-rate small countries." Zhu Erdian said: "What do you mean? Gao Yun said: "The Dutch must have a bloody lesson, and the Chinese in Southeast Asia must have the right to defend themselves with guns." Zhu Erdian said: "The Dutch can be taught a lesson, but they must save in South Asia, and the right of the Chinese in Southeast Asia to carry guns for self-defense, we cannot agree." "Zhu Erdian is very wary of China's 6th Army...... "The Dutch can keep their colonies, but the Southeast Asian Chinese must have guns," Gao said. Otherwise, the Chinese are still second-class citizens in Southeast Asia. ”
After some bargaining, Zhu Erdian agreed to the conditions of the Sickle Society, but at the same time asked the Sickle Society and Britain to make a memorandum to guarantee that China would not build capital ships of more than 10,000 tons. And so the disaster of the Dutch came.
The British were now overwhelmed by the Moroccan crisis. The Kaiser was very happy that the attention of the British was again drawn to the Far East, and the polio Wilhelm and his subordinates joked: "The Dutch are our allies." "Germany began to threaten the French army with force, and the French army displayed on the French border to threaten France to make concessions, and there was a tendency for the war to explode early. At this time, Zhu Erdian's report reached Britain, and Zhu Erdian focused on China's industrial strength, and at the same time described that China's attention had to be fixed on the big 6, otherwise China would show its navy, and it would force the British Empire to become a two-ocean fleet. In this way, Britain reached a compromise with the Sickle Society.
In August 1912, the Chinese destroyer fleet entered the South China Sea and fought in the port on the west coast of Basilan Island in the Philippines. Zigzag dodge artillery, while calculating the relative degree of both fleets through the guò sight firing artillery. Luckily, the Sickle Hammer Society faced an even more scummy foe from the Dutch Navy. The Dutch fleet now has no experience in naval warfare of steel warships, and the navy of the Sickle Hammer Society is still trained by the old Beiyang naval officers, and the ironclad ships of the Dutch navy, which occupy a huge colony and wait for death, have low combat capability. At the same time, the Dutch Far East had only four light cruisers of the 38oo ton class, which lagged significantly behind in tonnage.
Twelve ships of the Sickle Society surrounded the Dutch navy like wolves. The height of the destroyer always maintained a local superiority of firepower against the Dutch battleships.
"Boom" a huge column of water was generated ten meters to the right side of the battleship, "turn, No. 3 and No. 4 batteries aim." The captain blushed and gave orders to the various parts of the fleet. Report "Cracked right hull" "Pipe damage team hurry up." The No. 3 "Carp" adjusted the angle and threw the shells one by one at the Dutch light cruiser, the Dutch are not in a good condition now, a battleship has been chasing and beating by six destroyers in the first thirty minutes of the battle, who said that the 12o mm shells are less powerful, the "carp" used the navy's special shaped energy armor-piercing shells, a shell hit the steel hull of the Dutch battleship, and the gelatinous explosives formed a powerful ray stream along the front cavity, tearing the poor armor of the Dutch battleship like a high-pressure water cannon hitting the sand. Thirty minutes later, the Dutch battleship was detonated by a fire, detonated the ammunition depot, exploded into two sections and sank, and after two hours of fighting, the Dutch fleet was sunk with two ships sunk and two seriously wounded, and surrendered with a white flag on the muzzle. The No. 5 carp of the Sickle Hammer Society was injured, and Captain Yan Zhòng gave the order to abandon the ship after the war. At this time, some of the soldiers of the original Beiyang Navy wanted to wave the fine tradition of people dying in the ship. At this time, Chen Fan, the commander of the navy's southbound fleet, said: "Sue them, if we lose one, we will replenish two ships, and if you want to die, give me back, and Lao Tzu will have someone to help drive the battleship." "The Chinese are very real, maybe it is meaningless for them to die like this, and these people quickly threw away the fine traditions passed down from Beiyang. After the poor navy of the Dutch knelt, the Dutch still had a hard mouth. Protest against China, which is an invasion that will be unanimously punished by white society. Well, Commander Chen Fan's explanation from the above is: "Overseas operations, lose the discipline." Chen Fan led the fleet to bombard the white community with high-explosive shells and destructive shelling of the target area.
At this time, the Dutch hoped that the British would see the friendship between the two families who had been "playing in the water" in the sea for hundreds of years, and now the Dutch informed the British of the brutality of the Chinese fleet. As early as after the Sickle Society burned down New Delhi, the British had a lawsuit with the Sickle Society, and the Sickle Society's reply was: "We remember what we learned from you, and we remember the teaching guidance of the Old Summer Palace." This statement did not alleviate the international community's accusations against the Sickle Society, but it was a view that the Sickle Society's style of setting fires was learned from the British.
The British began to call for mediation at this time, but the Dutch did not recognize the shape and did not agree to the Chinese right to self-defense, and the Dutch city was shelled again, this time with white phosphorus bombs. This fire helped the Dutch to recognize the international shape. Although the British fleet can destroy the Chinese fleet in Southeast Asia, but don't think about peace in your own backyard, who do you think you are, you really think that the two are an unbreakable alliance in Southeast Asia. Hundreds of years ago, Dutch warships went to the Thames to "play in the water". At this time, the Japanese fleet was somewhat active in the back. Britain knew that China was still a big six country and had no actual territorial claims to Southeast Asia. Britain and China are under the threat of 6 in the sea on both sides, and the Chinese fleet will have to leave sooner or later, but the Japanese are different, the 300,000-ton navy will be in trouble if they come and drive away.
On September 30, 1912, the Sino-Dutch treaty was signed, and the two sides did not pay compensation, but the Netherlands must recognize the right of Chinese to bear arms and organize escorts in Southeast Asia, a region where natives are rampant.
On October 15, the Chinese fleet began to pull anchor and return, in the port of Jakarta, a group of Chinese waved to see them off, at this time the overseas Chinese only want a strong Chinese regime to protect their rights on the big 6, when the cannon sounded in the southeast, it was these Chinese who knew that the team should stand on that side, the image of the sickle and hammer society rogue everywhere offended friends disappeared, a Chinese looked at the departing fleet and said to his two sons: "The Celestial Empire has returned, Tianci, Tianyu, you two go to the north to explore the wind." Also, don't associate with those revolutionary parties that don't make it, they can't do anything but ask for money. ”
After the departure of the Chinese fleet with the symbol of the sickle and hammer, the British said: "The Empire's policies towards this three-headed dog of hell need to be fully adjusted, and this time the irrationality of the Dutch has given us a good example." The British Empire could no longer be honorably independent, and the maintenance of the glory of the sun never setting required the cooperation of regional powers that could cooperate. ”