Beiyang 1917

Xu Shuzheng spent a lot of time and energy in preparing for the reelection of the Senate in early August. At the same time, the Speaker of the House of Representatives Tang Hualong and Liang Qichao jointly reorganized the research department, clearly supporting the current cabinet and Premier Duan. The transportation department and Lu Ding's revitalization department are also active in the parliament and have become staunch supporters of the current cabinet and the prime minister.

Xu Shuzheng's Anfu club will have to wait for the House of Representatives election a year later, but the Anfu faction has become a force that cannot be ignored in the senator reelection.

The Department of Research, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Revitalization, and the combatants in the southern party have become the majority of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Under such circumstances, the status of Duan Qirui and the cabinet is unstoppable. In order to formalize the President's request, without the support of the Prime Minister, it quietly disappeared in the pre-conference consultations between the Senate and the House of Representatives.

After the Progressive Party disintegrated and dissipated, the acting president Feng Guozhang found himself a mouse in the bellows. Rong, you Feng Guozhang is a serious Beiyang boss, and Duan Qirui controls the government, but after all he is a master with a cool personality and a strong personality.

You, Feng Guozhang, who can catch all the big fish raised by the Zhongnanhai dynasties in one go, are so greedy for money, if you really turn into a real president, what will you do?Are the common people still alive?Although when you were in Nanjing, you also engaged in some superficial charities and factories for the poor, but compared to Duan Qirui, the southern party members are more worried about handing over the country to you, Feng Guozhang!

During the second revolution, Feng Guozhang and Zhang Xun's two troops conquered Nanjing, and the blood debt owed by burning, killing and looting was not forgotten by the Southern Party members so quickly!

The third batch of U.S. dollar arms arrived at the end of June 1917. The list is as follows:

The machine guns and a large amount of equipment that Wang Geng was looking forward to appeared in the third batch of U.S. reinforcements. The specific list is as follows:

1. M1903 Springfield Manual Rifle: 30000 pieces

2. m1917bar Browning squad machine gun: 2000 pieces

3. M1917a1 water-cooled Browning heavy machine gun: 1500

4. M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle: 3000 pieces

5、柯尔特m1911.45口径自动手枪：30000支（含.45口径手枪弹900万发）

6. 7.62mm30.06 rifle bullets: 9000 million rounds

7、日式75mm41式山炮72门（含75口径山炮炮弹15400发）

8、日式75mm38式野炮72门（含75口径野炮炮弹15400发）

9、日式150mm榴弹炮24门（含150口径榴弹炮弹9800发）

10. American-made Dodge 1-ton military trucks (wide tires and all-steel wheels): 200

11. US-made Ford TT 1-ton multi-purpose vehicle (wide tires and all-steel wheels): 300 vehicles

12. American-made Ford Model T (wide tires and all-steel wheels): 300

In addition, there are complete sets of equipment for two oil refineries with an annual output of 50 tons of gasoline and diesel, and 1000 Ford Dodge sdk assembly parts. After a month of hard work, the Ford Dodge Nanyuan Automobile located on the west side of Nanyuan Airport The company's full set of equipment has been installed and commissioned. Next to the Ford Dodge Nanyuan Automobile Factory, the British Aircraft Repair and Assembly Factory of the Air Force of the Confederate Army has also entered a normal operating state at this time.

At this time, China mainly relies on imports of gasoline and diesel, and the reason why Wang Geng agreed to transport the equipment from the remaining two refineries in the third batch of US aid equipment is also because of the fact that the extended Rockefeller oil exploration team and Morgan Petroleum in Suiyuan Good news came from the exploration team.

The Yanyi well, which was drilled by the Qing government in 1907, located outside the west gate of Yanchang, was close to depletion after nearly 1.5 years of continuous exploitation with a daily oil production rate of 10 tons. As a result of the test drilling, Yanyi Well, which was originally depleted, was drilled to 118 meters and 152 meters, and it spewed out oil again, and the daily oil production even rose to 3 tons. Then the Rockefeller oil exploration team, Chinese and foreign members worked together, in Yanchang Yongping Three wells were drilled, two of which produced 3 tons of oil per day!

Of course, for Wang Geng’s three sets of refinery equipment with an annual production capacity of 50 tons of gasoline and diesel, the oil produced by the Yanchang Oil Mine is almost worthless for refining. The daily output of 10 tons of crude oil seems to be a lot, but it can be compared with the daily output of [-] tons in the future. Spontaneous oil wells are nothing in comparison. Of course Wang Geng knows that Yanchang and Dushanzi in Karamay, Xinjiang are among the earliest oil mines in China, but only God knows how far Xinjiang is to the inland Chinese in this era.

Wang Geng's big killer is Renqiu. In his previous life, Ren Sijing in Huabei Oilfield produced more than [-] tons of self-spraying high-quality crude oil per day, but right now Zhili is not in his hands. Although Wang Geng is anxious, the refinery is Don't worry about site selection and installation.

As for the Morgan Petroleum Exploration Team, they slept in the open air in Suiyuan, where the birds don’t shit. With the help of the motorized battalion sent by Han Fuqu stationed in Baotou, they touched the legendary Urad Rear Banner Chaogewendur Village. If experts reach out and know if there is one, the address structure over there is an ordinary grassland and hilly area in the eyes of others, with countless dry rivers and ditches. In the eyes of the exploration engineers of the Morgan Oil Exploration Team, it looks like a huge untapped oil treasure trove.

There is oil in the ground near Chaogewendur Village, and it is not deep, and the reserves are definitely not small. The news was strictly sealed under the order of Wang Geng, and a regiment of troops was sent by Han Fuqu to garrison nearby, within a radius of tens of miles. The barbed wire fence of the military restricted area was erected, and nearly a thousand households in the entire Urad Rear Banner were dragged by Han Fuqu in a Dodge truck to live in Urad Middle Banner, a hundred miles away, after receiving generous compensation for land acquisition.

At the same time, Wang Geng added another arduous task to Zhan Tianyou's railway exploration and design team, exploring the railway line from Baotou to Urad Rear Banner. From Baotou to the west along the Yellow River, a 220-kilometer railway is planned to be built. In Bayannur, turn to the northwest and build an 80-kilometer branch line directly to Urad Rear Banner.

The exploration work of the Morgan Petroleum Exploration Team in Urad Rear Banner is progressing every day, and the proven oil reserves have jumped from one thousand tons to ten thousand tons, then 10 tons, then one million tons, and finally ten million tons!

Although the exploration equipment and funding personnel came from borrowing from the United States, the borrower was the Chinese Ministry of Finance. The Sino-American Petroleum Corporation was officially established at the end of July 1917. With Wang Geng’s promotion, Morgan and Rockefeller reached an agreement to jointly develop China’s oil. protocol.

The new Sino-American Petroleum Corporation was established as a joint venture, with the Ministry of Finance holding 25%, the Ministry of Communications holding 25%, the Morgan Group holding 15%, the Rockefeller Group holding 15%, and the Manhattan Bank. Among them, 10% of the shares, the China Charity Foundation holds 10% of the shares, with a registered capital of 3600 million.An energy company that can be called the Asian giant in the future.

While the road from Zhangjiakou to Suiyuan was widened and reinforced by Wang Geng at all costs to become a high-grade road with smooth road surface, the road from Baotou to the west along the Yellow River along the Yellow River also entered the process of widening and strengthening. The reinforcement project, especially from Bayannur to Wulatehou Banner, originally had no road, so it was necessary to re-explore, plan and build this nearly 80-kilometer road.

Fortunately, if you run a Dodge truck on the Guisui prairie, as long as you are not afraid of getting lost, you can reach your destination even if you have no road.

The huge road and railway project from Zhangjiakou to the west is in full swing, and with the completion of the debugging of the equipment of Nanyuan Aircraft Equipment Factory under the Aviation Department, the appearance of the Handley Page 0400 heavy bomber opened a new era in the history of Chinese aviation. new chapter.

The 72 Handley Page 0400 heavy bombers are the same as the SE5 fighter jets and DH4 reconnaissance bombers. They disassembled the wings and landing gear, some were even segmented, and then packed together with the ocean-going fleet to China at the end of June. In a month's time, the air team of the participating army was formally formed, and the equipment of the Nanyuan British Aircraft Repair and Assembly Plant was also debugged and installed, except that the first batch of eight dh4 two-seat reconnaissance bombers were converted into training models.

According to the instructions of Wang Geng, Director Wang Zhu and Deputy Director Bayuzao of the Aviation Department of the participating army have been working overtime with the British mechanic team to assemble the Handley Page 0400 heavy bomber with priority. This aircraft can be called the Of course, there is no need for Wang Geng to use it to participate in ground bombing at the moment, so the instructions that Wang Zhu received were to first modify 12 of them to become civilian airliners!