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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 174 What is the next goal?

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    Update time: 2012-08-21

    By the end of September 1917, the 240.3-kilometer railway project from Zhangjiakou to Guisui on the Beijing-Suiyuan Railway, which was started at the end of April, had been built to 180 kilometers and was expected to be completed in early November. From Baotou to the north to Baiyun Obo, and to the south  The railway exploration work to Ordos and westward to the Urad Rear Banner deep in the grassland has come to an end.

    As for the highway widening project along the Beijing-Suiyuan Railway, in the past five months, the Beijing-Suiyuan Railway Company has not only completed the widening and reinforcement of the high-level war-ready highway from Beijing to Zhangjiakou to Guisui, but also the widening of the section from Guisui to Baotou.  and reinforcement projects are also in full swing.

    China Iron and Steel Company's steel plant and iron ore area in Chahar have also entered the first phase of construction. Heavy equipment from steel plants, iron ore and coal mines, and newly arrived arsenal equipment are moving along the Beijing-Suiyuan Railway day and night.  Transportation in the direction of Chahar.

    Wang Geng almost concentrated the engineering regiments of the other five divisions of the participating armies except the third and fourth divisions and the five supplementary brigades on hand, all of which were invested in the construction of the China Iron and Steel Company's Chahar mining area and arsenal, and five divisions  All the automobile baggage regiments were also mobilized to prioritize the construction of mining areas and arsenals.

    If all goes well, the construction of the mining area and arsenal, which started in August, will be completed and put into trial production before the end of the year.  At the same time, the equipment for the second refinery that had already arrived in the Tianjin port area was arranged by Wang Geng to start plant planning and installation construction in the Chahar mining area.

    The eggs of oil refining cannot be put in one basket, but the area near Xuanhua in Chahar will obviously be built by Wang Geng into the first heavy industry base, including coal mines, iron ore, steel, ordnance, and oil refining and petrochemicals!

    By the end of September, when the participating armies had seven integrated divisions and five supplementary brigades, the total strength of the army was close to 250,000 people. In addition, there were 3,000 people in the aviation team and 6,000 people in the gendarmerie brigade.

    ??Nima, old Maozi, there are more than 1 million workers demonstrating on the streets of Petrograd right now, and there are 350,000 soldiers in the Petrograd military district!  Wang Geng didn¡¯t feel that he had too many soldiers participating in the war!

    Although the entire military strength of China is only about 1.2 million, of which the five newly-organized participating armies near Gyeonggi Province account for 250,000!  Moreover, the number of new recruits in the Nanyuan Barracks is still increasing at a rate of 1,000 people every day. Compared with the 10,000 new recruits in the United States on the other side of the ocean, the recruitment of Chinese war armies can only be regarded as drizzle!

    To prepare for a rainy day, Wang Geng has imported another 10 million US dollars of grain from the United States in the past three months, earning twice as much as an ordinary army. The highest honor of the national army, the three major disciplines and the nine points of attention are deeply engraved in everyone.  The discipline in the minds of officers and soldiers, as well as high-intensity training and equipment, make the centripetal force and cohesion of this army as strong as ever.

    Wang Geng feels that the first decent government army and central army of the Republic of China are gradually coming into being!

    In fact, as the Chinese yuan banknotes issued by the Bank of China and the Bank of Communications replaced the silver dollar and silver taels as the most creditworthy currency in this era, after the central government obtained loans from Japan and issued 380 million bonds, the economy and finance of the entire land of China were unprecedented.  of prosperity.

    As the First World War progressed and Wang Geng's war troops invested heavily in and built the Beijing-Suiyuan railway and highways, the production capacity and quality of different steel products of Hanyeping Company, China's largest steel complex, were also increasing day by day. Orders and business were increasing every day.  All dizzying.

    As for the private light industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as the Bank of China and the Bank of Communications get rid of the historical burden of government advances and Beijing banknotes and transform into commercial banks with central bank functions, the vitality of the entire private financial system is more prosperous than before.

    The remuneration of the education system has always been the highest priority in the government budget. A lecturer at Peking University originally earned a monthly salary of 300 yuan, while a Beijing patrol officer's monthly income at that time was only 8 to 10 yuan. With the aircraft factory and automobile factory near Nanyuan,  With the establishment of the factory, engineering accelerated vocational schools for middle school students have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain. After the China Charity Foundation and universities in Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai established various scholarships and grants for higher education, the enrollment scale of the school has almost expanded by half.  .

    In the Congress, Lao Duan and Xu Shuzheng adjusted their strategies under Wang Geng's suggestion. You need to invest a lot of preliminary preparation work to train your own members. In the end, you may be labeled by your opponents as manipulating and arranging. In this Congress,  With House elections at least a year away, it is actually much easier to influence and change the positions of existing members than to start from scratch.

    Members are also human beings. When the allowances of members of the House of Representatives have been increased and paid in full, and the country's foreign and domestic affairs are moving closer to the right path, not everyone will follow one or two stubborn southern party leaders into a dead end.  With the arrival of the war and the arrival of U.S. and Japanese aid, the new army participating in the war continued to grow.

    This branchRegardless of the combat effectiveness of ??, no one can deny that the model army participating in the war that always practices and sings the three principles of discipline and nine points of attention in front of the people is a new type of army, a civilized army, and a people's army.  The disciple soldiers!

    Of course, there are many people with ulterior motives or self-righteousness who accuse Duan Qirui of re-employing Wang Geng as an out-and-out warlord. But if a young Chinese man who does not own private property in China and even donated 35 million yuan to found the China Charity Foundation is a warlord, what will happen to ordinary people?  Such a warlord is welcomed, not to mention that his combatants avoided major floods due to rush repairs to the Yongding River water conservancy project and dug more wells for residents near Nanyuan and Tianjin Langfang than in the past ten years combined.

    Some people also say that the participating armies cut off dissidents and annexed other friendly forces. Some supporters of the participating armies jumped out and asked: Reorganization is a measure to nationalize the army and eliminate warlord separatism. Will the salary of these soldiers be increased or decreased after joining the participating armies?  Already?  Have those two division commanders been promoted or demoted?  Do they have more or fewer troops now?

    Those who oppose are always opposed. The struggle for power and profit is their ulterior secret deep in their hearts. On the surface, they want to uphold some doctrine. However, in the past few months of 1917, it is undeniable that the Chinese people seem to be more independent than before.  United, looking stronger than ever.

    In fact, Wang Geng is like a mystery. No one seems to know what the true aspirations of this Chinese youth idol are in his heart. Xu Shuzheng even once thought about it, if one day the Prime Minister decided to remove Wang Geng from all his duties.  , what will be the result?

    He didn't dare to think about it any further. He heard that this guy who came back from West Point was worth nearly 100 million U.S. dollars in the United States. At home, he invested heavily in giants such as China Airlines, China Steel, China Insurance, and Beijing-Suiyuan Railway Company.  Without exception, all the shares of Wuba's enterprises were donated to the China Charity Foundation free of charge.

    Xu Shuzheng didn't have that much money and couldn't do this. Perhaps the only thing that could be criticized about Wang Geng was that he had never been married and rejected all suitors who came to his house. However, he kept five beautiful concubines in the house. Moreover, Duan Tiezhu and Duan Tiezhu  Xia Shan is still his butler and personal lieutenant!

    A gentleman is magnanimous. Xu Shuzheng gradually felt that in China, there was no one else who could stop Wang Geng's progress except Wang Geng himself. When the ministers from the five countries saw this war supervisor and the five countries' negotiation supervisor, they all opened their eyes without exception.  Although the two sides would quarrel fiercely, every time they left Wang Geng's headquarters or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office, the envoys were obviously more interested than when they came!

    Wang Geng basically did not ask or interfere in any personnel appointments other than the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of China. Of course, the war army was a one-third area of ????an acre for the war supervisor. Jiang Fangzhen, whom he hated deeply, was invited to be the chief of staff by him, and he recommended it.  Li Jishen also became the actual commander of the Sixth Division!

    Even though he knew that Wang Tingzhen was a direct line of Feng Guozhang's Guards, he still dared to let Wang Tingzhen, who was directly related to him, be the leader of the teaching regiment. Immediately afterwards, the 16th Division of the Presidential Guard transformed into the 7th Division of the 30,000-strong participating army with fine equipment.  Wang Tingzhen returned to the throne of teacher!

    Not to mention that earlier, this guy used his sharp tongue and a mixed brigade of American equipment to recruit Wu Peifu, the so-called number one soldier in Beiyang, from Cao Kun's third division. Now Wu Xiaogui is in Suiyuan.  Not to mention the joy of doing it in a place where birds don't shit!

    After defeating the First Division and the Sixteenth Division, what is Wang Geng¡¯s next goal?
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