281 intends to deal with Korea and the Qing Dynasty

Dalian Bay in July is already the most lively season for cicadas and insects, under the scorching sun, countless figures are dotted in the meantime, noisy and busy. (Vertex Hand Hit)

After nearly a year of expansion, this important port in the north has begun to take shape, and at the same time, the small city that relied on the port has also grown little by little in the increasingly busy shipping.

With the emergence of a home processing workshop, the already thriving fishing and seafood processing industry has grown, and all kinds of small factories have become endless, but this is not the main reason why Li Mo quietly came here to inspect.

On the dock, a fleet of ships arriving from Honolulu via the Ogasawara Islands was slowly approaching, and hundreds of soldiers with loaded guns rushed to protect it, a huge fleet of twelve large cargo ships, loaded with all kinds of airship construction machinery and materials, and they were going to settle in Jinzhou Bay, opposite Dalian Bay.

After the airship was exposed to the eyes of everyone, its secrecy has been reduced a lot, so as early as after Li Mo decided to sell it to make money, the Government Council had already found a new home for them in Dalian, and also used the profits from this sale to expand the scale of construction a little.

Although the future is the world of aircraft, even if the aircraft is developed immediately, it will take a long time to put it into practical use, so the large load and long range of airships are still very valuable in a short period of time, and even the navy has placed orders for as many as twenty-four small reconnaissance airships, ready to be used for fleet reconnaissance, and transportation and patrols in Micronesia and the Marshall Islands.

After hearing that the airship could be converted into a special transport of personnel, Li Enfu also purchased five manned models in the name of the government, preparing to use them for personnel exchanges in the three northeastern provinces, temporarily alleviating the traffic problems caused by the roads.

In addition to the new airship manufacturing plant, hundreds of factories such as steam turbine factories, boiler factories, steel plants, power plants, cement factories, and larger automobile factories are being settled and accelerated in various parts of the three provinces, and a large oil refinery will be built in Yingkou for the first time.

In addition to a variety of factories, Tang Xiao's equipment department and arsenal are also speeding up the transfer, for example, the firearms and ammunition factory has taken the lead in putting into trial production in Haicheng, and the naval artillery and ammunition factory in the Ryukyus has also chosen a location, as long as the plant is built, the machinery and equipment can be transferred to production immediately.

More than 50,000 hard-to-build industrial factories have also shifted along with the boom, and many more young people who have just come out of the yellow earth are receiving various trainings and will gradually enter the workforce in the next few years.

Although the new assembly line production method has become popular, which has greatly improved the efficiency of the factory and made it easier to train workers, many special positions still require professionals.

So the biggest constraint at the moment is no longer resources and population, but education

But education is not something that can be done in a day or two, it will take up to several generations, and although Li Mo is ready to privately fund the construction of three universities in Dalian, Mukden and Changchun at the same time, universities are not just about desks and textbooks, and the lack of teachers makes the idea of universities very slow.

So at present, there are thousands of foreign employees in technical positions, who have gone to various places, enjoy higher pay than ordinary workers, and at the same time, they are also contributing to the development of this race against time. Of course, there were a pair of silent eyes silently watching behind them.

The huge resources of the Northeast are being transformed into various materials little by little, such as gold, tungsten, tears and other high-value metal ores shipped from Canada, Australia, Chile, and the United States, as well as a terrifying amount of iron, copper ingots and oil, and even the newly acquired Luzon resources are also gathering here little by little, even in the previous months of war.

Li Mo took a deep breath, this place will become the most important heavy industry base in his hands like the future generations, and it will also become his greatest reliance on devoting himself to that torrent in the future

No one knows what kind of drastic changes will occur in the world because of his arrival, and he doesn't know whether the scale of the war will be greater after the gunfire more than ten years later.

Of course, the most important of these things is still the shipyard on the west side of Dalian Bay, which is still under construction.

Many people will wonder why Li Mo is so keen on shipbuilding, and when he first arrived on Oahu, he threw down nearly a million pounds of pounds, and later robbed Japan's shipbuilding equipment to build a larger Ryukyu shipyard, plus Guam and Taiwan, so far there are already four shipyards, spending countless orders for machinery and equipment, not to mention the number of workers sent abroad to study and recruit.

In addition to training workers, he has also continued to send students to European and American countries through various means to learn advanced technology, and at the same time, he has also continued to wave checks to buy patents and recruit talents.

This kind of lavish money, even regarded as a lavish style, was ridiculed by many people who knew about it, but with the surrender of Japan under the muzzle of the duke, no one dared to say that he was stupid anymore.

The new generation of cruisers represented by the Jinghai class has become the object of imitation and research by various countries, and since its appearance, at least four or five countries have requested to board the ships for inspection, but they have all been refused.

This is the age of the ocean, and since the Age of Discovery, this kind of competition at sea has become more and more intense, from sails to steam engines, from wood to armor, from the old breech guns with a range of only more than 1,000 meters, to today's new naval guns with a caliber of several hundred millimeters and weighing dozens of tons of amazing destructive power.

Times are constantly changing amid the rumbling of cannons.

This is the best era, if it is not for returning to this year, Master Li's whole body skills will not be able to play, and this is also the worst era, as a Chinese, if you want to break out of the world in this era, you need not only technology and money, but also countless people to throw their heads and spill their blood.

The British understood the importance of sea power, so they built shipyards along the coastline, and the United States understood that the chimneys and dockyards on the east coast were a reflection of this, and Italy, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and even Russia were all doing their best.

If you want to participate in this competition and let the world recognize you, you can't rely on the pen and the rifle in your hand, you must rely on naval guns, armor, and these huge steel bodies.

Mahan used his pen and ideas to kick off this growing competition for sea power, and his fanatical followers, the German Emperor Wilhelm II and his cousin Tsar Nicholas II, were both die-hard admirers of the Great Navy, especially the latter, who, after losing a war, instead of learning the lessons, instead purchased warships all over the world, clamoring to blow Hawaii into the air.

Japan surrendered.

This country, which has participated in two world wars in history and relied on crazy gambling to rise, remembers how much damage it has brought to this continent, but aside from this feeling, you must admit that because they attach importance to sea power, the whole country has built ships to have a future generation of Japan, and can still persistently rise in the world after the defeat.

When generations of later generations of the Republic are obsessed with breaking through the island chain, and when a number of foreign ships appear at your doorstep, people will know the meaning of the navy Only by returning to this era and participating in this competition, will you understand how much regret that painful, dark and even missing historical time has brought to this nation.

Yes.

There is no doubt that the huge land territory restricts the pace of going to the deep blue, because every ruler in charge of such a large land must consider the safety of the continent, especially when there is a huge polar bear threat in the north, it is obviously unrealistic to give priority to a large navy.

But this moment is different, although the territory controlled by Li Mo is also vast, almost all of them are within the range of naval artillery, and the three sparsely populated northeastern provinces, and the islands of Luzon, which are temporarily covered, all have very rich and even eye-catching resources, which gives him the best opportunity to enrich his navy

Walking around the shipyard area under construction, Li Mo even felt that it was too early to consider the Qing Dynasty at this moment, once he really waved his army into the Qing Dynasty, the huge and complicated affairs would undoubtedly distract him from his fanaticism and pursuit of the sea.

However, this matter has been considered for too long at present, and the immediate priority is not to speed up the construction of the shipyard or to continue to expand the navy, but to establish a perfect regime to manage the current territory as soon as possible.

Fortunately, Li Enfu and Tang Shaoyi were much more active than themselves in this matter, but they took away most of the work, especially the personnel structure, justice, etc., almost all of which were taken care of by them, and in addition to listening to reports and making suggestions every day, they became the biggest rice worms, so he pulled Chief of Staff Chen out of his heavy post-war daily work and accompanied him to inspect the Dalian Shipyard.

Chen Ping was also born in the navy, so he immediately threw his job to Zhang Zuolin and others, who shook their heads with a wry smile, and joined the "investigation".

"I said Yuanshou, I didn't see you so happy when I went out in the morning?"

Young Master Li turned his head and glared at Chen Ping, who was learning about the progress of the shipyard from several engineers, this guy smiled since he opened the gate of the General Staff, as if it was a big happy event today, isn't it just a shipyard?

How could Li Mo know that Chen Ping was about to be annoyed to death in the past few days, after Saigo Congdao was officially appointed by the Japanese emperor to form a cabinet, hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops were laying down their arms, because Japan had lost all its maritime transportation capacity, and had to rely on the help of the navy to transport all these weapons and ammunition back, although it was more solid wealth, but it can also be seen that Saigo Congdao was indeed a very pragmatic guy, knowing what to do and what not to do at the moment.

The Japanese troops stationed in Korea were also laying down their arms and waiting to return home, and according to the agreement, they all had to rely on the navy to help transport them, and in addition, Japan was still unstable, so it was necessary to arrange daily maritime patrols, and after the war, the maintenance and supply of various ships, as well as the daily patrols of Luzon, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands, and the preparation for the construction of the Truk base, etc., all of which needed to be planned and adjusted.

Moreover, the army will also have to be adjusted, and all the Korean units, except for one regiment that will be stationed in Incheon, will also have to retreat and return to their respective defense areas; if it were not for the excitement of Japan's defeat, it is estimated that he, the chief of the general staff, would have been exhausted.

It is indeed very reasonable to agree to deal with the aftermath of the war, so it is very reasonable to take the opportunity to accompany Li Mo to come out and breathe, and finally relax, not to mention that the Dalian shipyard and the Huludao shipyard that are also under construction will be the main shipbuilding base in the future, and once all the construction is completed, the pressure on Honolulu and Ryukyu will be much less.

"It's hard to come out, young master, you're in a good mood, right?" Chen Ping snorted and said with a smile: "Did the four young grandmothers in the family give you a headache?" ”

"Fuck off"

Li Mo kicked in the void, and he also let out a long breath, originally this time should have been when he was preparing for the wedding, but after he proposed monogamy last time, it was obviously a joke, his thoughts were still stuck in the future and did not turn back, and at that time, everyone was also stunned by this question, and Tang Shaoyi answered him without careful consideration.

Now that Li Mo thinks about it, he realizes that he has put on a big oolong after crossing over, because marriage has nothing to do with constitutionalism, not to mention what year is it now?

Late Qing Dynasty

Although there was no shortage of population in China at the end of the Qing Dynasty, if monogamy was implemented now, it would undoubtedly be a harm to those women who relied on men to live and belonged to the state of servants, but it was not conducive to protecting them.

After all, this is the busiest time for everyone, and he needs to make ideas about a lot of things, plus it's hot, and he has nothing to do to hide from his wife to play, so he seems to be a little too unhappy.

After the two of them joked a few times, Li Mo finally turned to the topic, and after asking Chen Ping for a cigarette, he asked, "How is Japan?" ”

"Saigo is still quite acquainted from the road." Chen Ping took out a match, lit a cigarette for Li Mo and himself, and continued: "After he formed a cabinet, except for the retention of Ito Hirobumi, an old diplomat, all the others were dismissed, and now he has used a large number of pragmatic officials who were suppressed by the radicals at the beginning of the Restoration, and also under the banner of the emperor, ordered all the troops to lay down their arms, and the soldiers were dismissed on the spot. ”

"Didn't he meet with resistance?"

"Why not" Chen Ping replied: "It is said that there are many Japanese ronins who want to kill him at this stage, fortunately, he was very influential in the navy, and the officials he appoints now are all old subordinates, so he temporarily avoided the danger, so yesterday after we repaired the submarine cable from Japan to the Ryukyus and North Korea, he immediately sent a telegram to the Government Council, hoping that we could provide some food help." ”

"And this guy is not a soft-hearted fellow, he has used the authorization of the Japanese emperor as an excuse to arrest thousands of radical Japanese officers and ronin, exiled them all to the Izu Islands to fend for themselves, and also left most of the authorized 10,000 army quota to the original naval soldiers."

"Fortunately, most of the Japanese army soldiers are not willing to fight anymore, and with the Japanese emperor personally intervening, most of them have laid down their arms, and only a small number of radicals have taken about five or six thousand people to hide in the northern mountains, saying that they will not admit defeat and will not recognize the new government."

"But young master, you can rest assured, Hakodate has been cleaned up, the 2nd Marine Regiment is currently stationed there, and I have sent two destroyers and five gunboats to station, they will block the Tsugaru Strait to prevent this force of Japanese troops from entering."

Li Mo nodded, he was not worried that these remnants of Japanese militarism could cross the Tsugaru Strait, but Saigo Congdao was very unexpected to him, this guy was simply pragmatic and a little scary, but his biggest problem was that he didn't know how to develop the economy at all, and he was afraid that the development of industry would provoke Li Mo's hostility, but after seeing the competition for Japan's raw silk export rights in the negotiations between various countries, he embarked on the old road of vigorously developing agriculture and mulberry.

"Nongsang, Textiles"

Then help him and continue to lead Japan down this path

"You might as well send a few boats of grain over first, but not too much" Li Mo nodded: "In addition, you find someone to contact Tang Xiao and ask me how the sewing machine I asked him to imitate is doing, if it is done, you can tell Mr. Li that we may as well fund the establishment of a few garment factories in Japan to help Xixiang Congdao." ”

"Help Saigo from the road?" Chen Ping looked at Li Mo in surprise, and the latter immediately explained: "Garment making and textile are not small industries, if they are done well, they are all big profits, and Japan has enough human resources. ”

"Light industrialization?" Chen Ping is a soldier, he doesn't know much about the economy and all kinds of industries, and his eyes gradually brighten up until Li Mo finished explaining, the investment in light industry is small, and the results are not slow, if Saigo tastes the sweetness from the road, he will definitely increase his efforts to develop in this area, then Japan will go further and further on this fork in the road, and now after he enters this market first, then most of the profits will flow into his pocket, and he can make Japan go down the wrong path, and why not make money.

After Li Mo finished explaining, Chen Ping breathed a sigh of relief and secretly admired, worthy of being a young master, he actually thought of this soft knife stabbing people, and the knife went straight to the heart without seeing blood.

"Tell Mr. Li that for industrial workers in Japan, especially shipbuilding, weapons, and all kinds of technical personnel, you can take advantage of this opportunity to send food to everyone, and don't think that the Japanese are not good, there are still many talented people among them."

"Young master, don't worry, Li Enfu and they have been staring at this piece for a long time, and they have already set up recruitment offices in Tokyo, Osaka and other places, it is said that in just a few days, there are more than 10,000 people who are willing to come, most of them are people with a skill"

"Hehe, it's still Mr. Li who is powerful, and he thinks faster than me." Li Mo smiled, this is a great opportunity to drain all kinds of talents in Japan, the reaction of the Government Council this time is indeed very fast, so he also put down his mind, since Li Enfu, a black-hearted and ruthless literati who is becoming more and more cunning under his own training, has intervened, then he can only pray for Japan.

"By the way, have you made a count on how many weapons can be collected this time? What are you going to do? ”

Hearing Li Mo transfer to this question, Chen Ping couldn't help but take two puffs of cigarette, and suddenly became excited: "According to the information provided by Saigo Congdao, there are at least 500,000 guns alone, most of which are Mauser purchased by Japan before the war, and there are more than 200 Makqin machine guns and French-made 75 army guns, and there are also many other large-caliber shore guns, plus shells and explosives, I estimate that at least 50 ships will be loaded." ”

"So much" No wonder Chen Ping was excited, even Li Mo was a little hot when he heard such a huge number, not to mention the rest, just 500,000 Mauser, at least a million pounds, but unfortunately now the Pacific Army has established its own set of logistics standards, and most of these equipment cannot enter the army.

"Twenty percent of them, according to the agreement we signed with Germany, will be handed over to them for disposal, and the rest is being transported back to the Ryukyus by cargo ship for storage." Chen Ping continued: "Marseo has sent a telegram from the United States to Honolulu, hoping that we can provide another batch of supplies, and I have promised him that when all the supplies are collected, they will be loaded and shipped to Honduras as soon as they are collected, and through there they will be transshipped to Cuba." ”

"What? Something is wrong with Cuba? Li Mo frowned, Germany intercepted this batch of arms with his consent, because Germany was worried that it had cut off logistics, so it also wanted to take this opportunity to reserve some in Sasebo, which was not a big deal, but he provided no less than 100,000 rifles and nearly 100 cannons to Cuba before and after, why did Maceo still take himself as the wronged leader.

"Not yet, although the U.S. Navy has blocked the sea off Havana, the Army has not landed for a long time, and it is estimated that it is also worried about the Spanish fleet." Chen Ping recounted the information he had recently received about the Spanish-American War: "At present, the four cruisers that Spain has purchased from us are about to arrive at the Suez Canal, and they will be able to return to Spain in more than 20 days. ”

"We think that the United States is also worried that the army will be in trouble after the defeat of the navy, so we still plan to deal with the Spanish navy first, but according to intelligence, the United States is ready to do a good job this time, and Marseo is worried that the US Navy will learn from us after defeating Spain and completely blockade the waters off Cuba, so Xiang Xiang took this opportunity to reserve more, even if it was shipped to Honduras first, and it was better to be picked up by small boats in transit, and he also said that this time it was all paid for in gold and jewelry hard currency at market price."

"Hehe, it looks like Marseo is rich."

"Can there be no money? Sun Jiugong said that those guys fought all the way over, robbed all the foreign businessmen, and almost got their pants stripped of their pants, which is more ruthless than if you borrowed money from a sugar merchant in Hawaii. ”

Young Master Li glared at Chen Ping, what do you mean by borrowing money from a sugar merchant? Directly say how good it is for the young master to rob money, will the young master mind this?

"Tell Sun Jiugong and Wenxiu that they will all withdraw from Cuba after the mission is completed, and we must not get involved too deeply, so as not to be caught by the United States." After Li Mo reminded him, he climbed up to a rebuilt two-story factory and climbed to the top of the building to look at the southeast.

Suddenly asked, "What are you going to do with North Korea and the Qing Dynasty?" ”