Crimson Dawn

On the second day of the Northwest Peace Talks Conference, Wang Shizhen still attended the meeting.Duan Qirui also showed up at the venue on time, just looking at his ashen complexion and bloodshot eyes, he knew that Duan Qirui hadn't slept all night.

After sitting down, Duan Qirui said: "Mr. Jidao, if the peace talks are successful, I want to go back to my hometown in Anhui to retire. I don't know how."

"No." Yan Fu replied very simply, "Brother Zhiquan is now the most charismatic person in Beiyang. Things in the northwest cannot be done without brother Zhiquan."

Wang Shizhen felt relieved for a while. The People's Party forced Duan Qirui to work, which showed that they really didn't want to do anything to Duan Qirui.

Duan Qirui was not as open-minded as Wang Shizhen. He said: "I know that the people's party's rules are very different from ours in Beiyang. If we do something wrong, I don't know how the people's party will deal with it."

Yan Fu said: "I also know some of the rules of Beiyang. It is indeed difficult for others to say that we will completely follow the methods of our People's Party in a short while. The following things can also be handled according to Beiyang's methods, but the higher-ups have to adopt our methods. People’s Party’s democratic centralism. Everything has to be discussed at a meeting. Once a resolution is reached, everyone has to act in accordance with the resolution. It may not be possible to do what others say, but you can always do what you say.”

Duan Qirui took a look at Yan Fu, and felt that Cai Cai's words contained a lot of meaning. Could it be that Yan Fu was planning to use a military order to solve the problem?It's just that there's nothing wrong with these words, so Duan Qirui didn't bother with this detail anymore.

After negotiating many conditions with difficulty, Yan Fu raised a new question, "We want to appoint brother Zhiquan as the chairman of the CPPCC of the five northwestern provinces, but we don't know what brother Zhiquan wants?"

Duan Qirui was taken aback, Yan Fu had always said that the People's Party would not appoint officials to make wishes, but now he broke the original statement and promised a chairman of the CPPCC of five provinces.Duan Qirui doesn't know what the CPPCC does.

Yan Fu continued: "In addition, brother Duan, the prime minister, has to change and become a deputy prime minister in charge of the five northwestern provinces."

Now Duan Qirui is even more confused, the deputy prime minister has no real power.To be a deputy prime minister with real power is not a drop in price compared with the prime minister.As for the position of the chairman of the CPPCC, Duan Qirui realized after discussing for a while that the CPPCC was going to replace the current local councils of the five provinces, which was an institution transitioning from the National People's Congress.

No one from Beiyang likes the parliament. After thinking about it in his heart, Duan Qirui found that although the People's Party said it was cruel, it actually allowed Duan Qirui to control the power of the parliament, the army, and the government. suffered any particular loss.It can even be said that with the support behind the People's Party, Duan Qirui's real power has expanded.

If you don't surrender, you will die now, if you surrender, you will die later.Not to mention the favorable conditions offered by the People's Party.On the third day, Duan Qirui held a symbolic meeting of the Beiyang remnants.The leaders of the Beiyang army had long been in a state of panic, after hearing the conditions conveyed by Duan Qirui.Each of these people showed their true colors as troublemakers.

Except for a few of Duan Qirui's cronies who simply questioned whether the People's Party was sincere or false, everyone else began to bargain on this condition, as if they really had the ability to refuse this condition.

Duan Qirui is a smart person. After being scolded by Wang Shizhen, he felt enlightened. Seeing the performance of these bird people, Duan Qirui said directly, "If you think it's okay, then don't say anything. Yes. If someone thinks it’s not good, then I will give up this seat, and you can sit here.”

Troublers, especially incompetent trolls, are all virtuous. When encountering things, they will be noisy and happy, and let them take responsibility, and they will be completely soft-hearted one by one.

Hearing Duan Qirui's harsh words, who would dare to talk nonsense again.Those who are capable just keep silent, and those who are incapable can't help but justify themselves, trying to convince others how loyal they are to Beiyang and how worried that everyone will be deceived.Duan Qirui didn't even have the urge to scold these guys.Just simply order the meeting to end.

The People's Party doesn't expect people like Beiyang to succeed at all, as long as they don't fail.In order not to stimulate the nerves of the remnants of Beiyang as much as possible, the People's Party did not send troops in Shan County into Shaanxi.But it turns out that the good guys will sooner or later swallow the bitter pill of their own making.

Yan Fu left Xi'an, just got on the train from Shan County to Zhengzhou.News of the successful peace talks between Duan Qirui and the People's Party reached the Beiyang defenders in Tongguan.In the past, in order to control the soldiers, the Beiyang Army could only use the core troops to guard the soldiers with unstable morale.Now Beiyang is relaxing up and down, even the hardcore Beiyang army has no heart.As for those soldiers who didn't want to work for Duan Qirui for a long time, they seized this opportunity and flocked from Tongguan to Shan County.

The people's party's defense did not relax at all. Even though these escaped Beiyang troops tried to bypass the defense line of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army still captured them all.After being arrested, these Beiyang soldiers only made one request, "I don't want to be a soldier and fight, I want to go home!"

Regardless of whether Duan Qirui on the opposite side will be angry or not, the People's Party sends these escaped soldiers to concentration camps for centralized detention and screening. After screening, the soldiers who have no problems will be sent back to their original places first.

A few days later, the intelligence system of the People's Party passed the latest news back to Wuhan.Duan Qirui was really angry, but he was not targeting the People's Party, or even these deserters.With his current financial resources, he can't support so many soldiers at all, and those who are not determined can just run away.What made Duan Qirui angry was that some daring guys actually began to challenge Duan Qirui's prestige at this time, calling out the People's Party to hide evil intentions during public meetings, and these deserters were deliberately instigated by the People's Party.

Without the external pressure of the People's Party, Duan Qirui unceremoniously removed these people from their official posts.Then the Tongguan troops were transferred back for reorganization.Duan Qirui will let those who are willing to leave.Those who are unwilling to leave, Duan Qirui should be promoted, and should be adjusted.At the same time, the troops were broken up and reorganized.

There were actually quite a few factions in the Beiyang Army who fled to the northwest, and Duan Qirui never had the chance to rectify them.Taking advantage of this opportunity, Duan Qirui made a big purge of his opponents and promoted all those who were loyal to him.Although the size of the Northwest Beiyang Army has shrunk greatly, it has managed to reorganize the order and unite internally.

The ongoing Politburo committee meeting has no interest in this change. Duan Qirui's ability to control the situation is even beneficial to the People's Party's march to the north. In November 1918, the People's Party focused on when the World War would end.Another question is the extent to which the BJP's relentless industrial development can sustain things in the country.

railway!railway!railway!With a strong railway system, the country's operating costs can be greatly reduced and economic activity can be greatly increased.When the whole country has been liberated in the name of the present, it is no longer an era in which strategic goals can be achieved only by relying on wisdom, bravery, and even the spirit of sacrifice.What China needs is strong industrial capacity.Most importantly, at least the BJP understands what industry is capable of.The fog that was once covered in front of our eyes is lifted, and we see a vast new world. Everyone's biggest impulse is to gallop in this new world as soon as possible.

All the committee members looked at the leader of the People's Party, Chen Ke, who led the People's Party to this point and brought China to this point.Before this new threshold, everyone waited for Chen Ke to issue a new order.

Chen Ke did respond to everyone's expectations. He said: "This round of good days of easy money is over. In the future, it will not be the time to sell any crap. Comrades, work harder."

No one said a word, because most comrades couldn't understand what it meant to "sell any crap".

Chen Ke explained: "Once the world war is over and Europe needs to be rebuilt, the United States will become the biggest economic winner in the North Atlantic economic circle due to geographical reasons. Britain and France will suffer the most, and they will definitely try to make up for the loss. You don't have to look forward to it anymore. They are so kind to us."

This is just common sense, and the Politburo fully understands it.As the leader of the industrial sector, You Gou asked on behalf of the comrades: "But what do you mean by rotten goods?"

Chen Ke said with a smile: "In order to make money, the best industrial products in the world will compete with us. Do comrades think our industrial products are of good quality?"

These words are too hurtful. The industrial system of the People's Party has created more than ten times the previous industrial categories. These industrial categories have grown vigorously after the nourishment of the First World War.Comrades are quite proud and confident about the crystallization of sweat.

Chen Ke said with a smile: "After the war is over, we will import steelmaking technology from France, especially technology and personnel from Germany as much as possible. We have to make good use of the nearly one billion pound bonds in our hands. In addition, Belgium China, the Netherlands, and the Netherlands all have quite good technology. Italy’s shipbuilding is doing well, but they are still very poor, so we must fully cooperate with Italy.”

It is no longer necessary for Chen Ke to "prophesy" like a magic stick, and the personnel of the People's Party overseas have collected a large amount of information.Comrades also understand these things.

"What about America?" Zhang Yu asked.As the largest international collaborator of the People's Party, it seems a little puzzling that Chen Ke didn't mention the United States at all.

Chen Ke replied: "At the current level of inflation in the United States, expecting to import technology from the United States will definitely suffer losses. The United States now has a European market, and they don't really care about us. Comrades, I used to talk about the economic crisis. Now we Looking back, every time we make a fortune in the international market, we rely on the global economic crisis or world war. Without these, we would not have been able to complete so much accumulation before World War I.”

After hearing this, the members of the Politburo laughed more or less quickly.Many things cannot be looked back. When looking back, the People's Party either tightened its belt, or accepted seemingly extremely harsh conditions, or borrowed a large amount of foreign debt in fear.Facing the unknown future, except for the comrades who have blind trust in Chen Ke, everyone is uneasy.Only now do comrades understand how much benefit they made back then.

"The noose that hangs the capitalist, the capitalist will sell it to us. That's probably what it means." Yu Wenba couldn't help laughing.This remark caused a roar of laughter. This is what Chen Ke once said.At that time, everyone really took it as a joke.

After everyone laughed enough, Chen Tianhua said: "That means the next economic crisis will first erupt in these countries that rely on world wars to make money?"

"Yes." Chen Ke nodded yes.

"Then what about next time?" Chen Tianhua asked.

"Economic crisis basically happens once every ten years. No industrial country can escape this fate." Chen Ke expounded a simple experience induction.

"That means we can't escape from China?" Chen Tianhua was very serious about the theory.

"Yes. If we also adopt the capitalist approach, we will not be able to escape." Chen Ke has never shy away from medical treatment.

"How to do it specifically?" Chen Tianhua continued to ask.

"Advance with the times, cross the river by feeling the stones." Chen Ke replied.

Chen Ke knows that in the 20 years from the beginning of the 21th century to the beginning of the 100st century, the world has really undergone tremendous changes.The most notable change is that the world is becoming flatter.In the 20s, there were eight dealers who resell steel. At the beginning of the 80st century, China's four-way businessmen and five-way businessmen can still flourish.In the second decade of the 21st century, the Internet age has reduced the living space of the three dealers to an extremely pitiful level.

A lot of high-level "keyboard political bureaus" can appear on the Internet, not only because everyone can really eat enough to have more time to think about other things, but also because a lot of information has almost reached the level of national leaders. The extent to which information is received almost at the same time as ordinary Internet users.

Chen Ke's friends in industry and commerce said that as soon as the Sanlu incident broke out, the administrations for industry and commerce in various places began to gather personnel on their own, and completed a full set of preparations to seize Sanlu products overnight.The reason why the local industrial and commercial bureaus did not act immediately is because everyone is waiting for the order from the SAIC.Unilateral action without orders is not in line with organizational processes.

The efficiency of the People's Party is only due to Chen Ke's ability to completely ignore the normal process of all research, analysis, induction, summary, and final results.Completely rely on the cognitive level of his traveler to implement a strong push.Moreover, the comrades have sufficient revolutionary enthusiasm and the action power to dare to pull the emperor down from his horse.That's why the People's Party can develop at a speed that is completely inconsistent with seeking truth from facts.

But in this era when the second industrial revolution is still in its infancy, China's industrial level in the second decade of the 21st century is still in the distant future.Chen Ke could only let himself adapt to this reality.Chen Ke must find ways to establish a more mature organization.An organization that can function normally without Chen Ke.

Naturally, members of the Politburo could not understand Chen Ke's thoughts. Chen Tianhua raised a very general and representative question, "How about more specific implementation steps?"

"In addition to constantly innovating, we have to eliminate. And it is forced to eliminate." Chen Ke said.After he finished speaking, seeing the eyes of his comrades looking at him full of thirst for knowledge, Chen Ke wanted to talk about some more conceptual thoughts but couldn't help being dismissed.Crossing the river by feeling the stones is easier said than done.

"The most important task in the near future is to improve the national large laboratory system as soon as possible. While temporarily having money to buy technology, try to make up for the lack of technology and practical experience in various categories..." Chen Ke began to describe the basics practice.

This is actually an important link in Roosevelt's New Deal. In order to save costs, Roosevelt ordered the United States to engage in mandatory technological unification.All production companies have to pay some money to the national laboratory every year, and then the national laboratory entrusts various schools and technology development institutions to develop.Enterprises have the right to share technology from these technology development departments.Moreover, production equipment and technology must be forcibly eliminated every time.Especially in the later space competition with the Soviet Union, the United States took this system to the limit.

New China also has a similar system, but because China's technology lags far behind the world's first-class level, as a result, this system has been mainly digesting technology and parameters imported from foreign countries for a long time.In addition, this kind of construction investment has a slow effect, which is inefficient compared with the direct introduction of technology.So this system has not played a big role.

However, in Chen Ke's era, there was not such a big technological gap between China and the world.Coupled with the accumulation of these years, the People's Party needs exactly such a system to strengthen the development of China's science and technology.

"This is the core work of the industrial sector in the next two years, to establish our own technology system." Chen Ke finally gave the order.

"Then what's the name of this plan?" You Gou asked.

"It's called the Technology Tree Project." Chen Ke replied.