Beiyang 1917

By the end of September 1917, the 9-kilometer railway project of the Zhangjiakou-Guisui section of the Beijing-Suizhou Railway, which started construction at the end of April, had reached the 4-kilometer point and was expected to be completed in early November. From Baotou to the north to Baiyun Obo, to the south To Ordos, to the west to the Urad Rear Banner in the depths of the grassland, the railway exploration work has come to an end.

As for the road widening project along the Beijing-Suizhou Railway, in the past five months, the Beijing-Suizhou Railway Company has not only completed the widening and strengthening project of the high-grade combat readiness road from Beijing to Zhangjiakou to Guisui, but also the widening of the section from Guisui to Baotou. And reinforcement works are also in full swing.

The iron and steel plant and iron ore area of ​​China Iron and Steel Corporation in Chahar have also entered the first stage of construction. Heavy equipment for iron and coal mines and newly arrived arsenal equipment are traveling along the Beijing-Suizhou 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 army except the third division and the fourth division, and the five supplementary brigades at hand. All the automobile and logistics regiments were also mobilized to give priority to the construction of mining areas and arsenals.

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

Oil refining eggs cannot be put in one basket, but the vicinity of Chahar Xuanhua will obviously be built by Wang Geng into the first heavy industry base, coal mine iron ore, steel, ordnance and oil refining and petrochemical!

At the end of September, when the participating army had seven reorganized divisions and five supplementary brigades, the strength of the whole army was close to 9. In addition, there were 25 people in the air force and 3000 people in the gendarmerie brigade.

Nima, old Maozi, there are more than 100 million workers demonstrating on the streets of Petrograd at this moment, and there are 35 miscellaneous soldiers in a military region of Petrograd!Wang Geng didn't feel that there were too many soldiers participating in the war!

Although the military strength of China as a whole is only about 120 million, among them, the five newly formed troops near Gyeonggi alone accounted for 25!Moreover, the number of recruits in the Nanyuan Barracks is still increasing at a rate of 1000 every day. Compared with the 1 new recruits in the United States on the other side of the ocean, the recruitment of the Chinese army can only be regarded as a drizzle!

Taking precautions, Wang Geng has imported another 1000 million US dollars of food from the United States in the last three months, which is double the income of the ordinary army. 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 felt that the first decent government army and the Central Army of the Republic of China were gradually taking shape!

In fact, as the Zhongyuan banknotes issued by the Bank of China and the Bank of Communications replaced silver dollars and silver taels as the most creditable currency in circulation in this era, after the central government received Japanese loans and issued 3.8 million bonds, the economic and financial development of the entire land of China was unprecedented. prospered.

With the progress of the First World War and the massive investment and construction of the Beijing-Suizhou Railway and Highway by Wang Geng’s army, the production capacity and the quality of different steel products of Hanyeping Company, the largest steel complex in China, are also increasing day by day. They are dizzying.

As for the private light industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as the Bank of China and the Bank of Communications got rid of the historical burden of government advances and Beijing banknotes, and turned to commercial banks with the functions of the central bank, the vitality of the entire private financial system has become more prosperous than ever.

The treatment of the education system has always been the top priority of the government budget. A lecturer at Peking University originally had a monthly salary of 300 yuan, while a Beijing policeman’s monthly income was only 8 to [-] yuan. With the establishment of the factory, accelerated vocational schools for engineering majors for middle school enrollment have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain. After the establishment of higher education by the China Charity Foundation in cooperation with universities in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and other places and various scholarships and grants, the enrollment scale of the school has almost expanded by half. .

In the Congress, Lao Duan and Xu Shuzheng adjusted their strategy based on Wang Geng’s suggestion. You need to invest a lot of preparatory work in the early stage to train your own congressmen, and in the end, you may be labeled as manipulated and arranged by your opponents. In this Congress With House elections still at least a year away, it's actually easier to influence and change the positions of existing lawmakers than to start all over again.

Members are also human beings. When the allowances of members of the House of Representatives have been improved and paid in full, and the country’s foreign affairs and internal affairs are approaching the right path, not everyone will follow one or two stubborn southern party leaders to a dead end. With the arrival of the war and the arrival of American aid and Japanese aid, with the continuous growth of the new army participating in the war.

Regardless of the combat effectiveness of this army, no one can deny that it will always sing the three major disciplines-nine items of discipline. Support the people's soldiers!

Of course, there are many people with ulterior motives or self-righteousness accusing Wang Geng, whom Duan Qirui reused, as an outright warlord, but if a Chinese youth who does not own private property in China and even donated 3500 million yuan to establish the China Charity Foundation is a warlord, then ordinary people Such a warlord is welcome, not to mention that his troops have avoided major floods because of rushing to repair the Yongding River water conservancy project. They have drilled more wells for residents near Nanyuan and Langfang, Tianjin than in the past ten years combined.

Some people also said that the participating army cut off dissidents and annexed other friendly troops. Some supporters of the participating army jumped out and asked: reorganization is a measure of the nationalization of the army and the elimination of warlord separatism. After joining the participating army, will the treatment of these soldiers be raised or lowered? up?Are the two division commanders promoted or demoted?Are they bringing more or less soldiers now?

Those who oppose are always opposed, and the struggle for power and profit is a secret deep in their hearts. On the surface, they want to uphold some kind of doctrine, but in these few months of 1917, it is undeniable that the Chinese looked more powerful than before. United, looking stronger than ever.

In fact, Wang Geng is like a mystery. No one seems to know what the real appeal of this Chinese youth idol is. Xu Shuzheng even once thought about it, if one day the Prime Minister decides to remove Wang Geng from his post and other positions , what will happen?

He didn't dare to think about it any further. This guy who came back from West Point heard that his net worth in the United States is close to [-] million US dollars, and he has invested heavily in China Airlines, China Steel, China Insurance, Beijing Sui Railway Company and other giants in China. Without exception, Wuba's enterprises and equity have been donated to the China Charity Foundation for free.

Xu Shuzheng didn't have that much money, so he couldn't do it. Perhaps the only thing Wang Geng could criticize was that he had never been married and rejected all the suitors who came to the door, but there were five beautiful concubines in the house. Moreover, Duan Tiezhu and Xia Shan is still his housekeeper and personal adjutant!

The gentleman is open-minded, and Xu Shuzheng gradually felt that in China, there is no one other than Wang Geng himself who can stop Wang Geng from advancing. Yiliang, although the two sides would be quarreling, but every time they left Wang Geng's headquarters or the office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, these ministers were obviously more interested than when they came!

Wang Geng basically did not ask questions or interfere with any personnel appointments other than the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of China. Of course, the army participating in the war was an acre of land that was supervised by the participating army. However, Li Jishen became the real commander of the Sixth Division!

Knowing that Wang Tingzhen is Feng Guozhang's direct line of guards, this guy still dared to let this direct line of Wang Tingzhen be the head of the teaching regiment, and then the No.16 Division of the Presidential Guard transformed into the Seventh Division of the 3-strong US armed forces. Wang Tingzhen sat back on the throne of teacher again!

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

What is Wang Geng's next goal after taking care of the First Division and the Sixteenth Division?