The First Warlord of the Republic of China

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spn "Hehe! It's lively now." Jiang Yu took the newspaper and handed it to Jiang Fangzhen, "Brother Baili, read this."

"Collective petition?" Jiang Fangzhen took the newspaper and looked at it, he couldn't help shaking his head and said: "The Qing court's eating habits are indeed too ugly. I'm afraid there will be a civil change this time."

"Sichuan people protect their legitimate interests through non-violent means, then they will inevitably turn to violent resistance. At that time, the Qing government will inevitably mobilize the army from Hubei to suppress Sichuan. At that time, the revolution in Hubei will inevitably break out. This time the rubber stock emptied the Qing court. First of all, the Manchus couldn’t spend much money to suppress them, and the businessmen complained, it was impossible to support the Manchu government, and the Manchus’ demise was imminent.”

Jiang Yu analyzed Jiang Fangzhen firmly, but Jiang Fangzhen was not too suspicious of Jiang Yu's words. After getting in touch with Jiang Yu in the past few years, he found that Jiang Yu always had a foresight grasp of things, just like the last time rubber stocks sold Manqing The vitality was emptied, and then all the money went into Jiang Yu's pocket.

Under the ebb and flow, with Jiang Yu's strength at this time, even if he rebels against the Qing immediately, he has a great chance of success. [

"Then what should we do? Rise to support immediately?" Jiang Fangzhen couldn't wait, Jiang Yu shook his head and said: "As the saying goes, if we show our sharpness, we will inevitably be suppressed by the Beiyang Army and the big powers. And our military strength Even if we succeed in overthrowing the Qing Dynasty, we will have to pay a very heavy price. As long as we wait and see, the demise of the Qing Dynasty will happen at the end of the year, and the whole of China will fall into a warlord regime What we have to do is to continue to grow ourselves and develop the national industry at the same time, so that the development of the national industry will not be interrupted by the war, and we will take it easy in the future.”

Jiang Fangzhen couldn't help but nodded. He also understood the importance of the development of national industry. Without his own national industry, he couldn't beat foreigners.

After getting in touch with Jiang Yu, Jiang Fangzhen also realized that it doesn't matter whether it is a republic or not. There is no such thing as justice or evil in politics. The only measure is whether the nation can survive better. Any means are just a process.

As long as it can make China stronger, as long as it can defeat the oppression of the big powers, then it is just, and the process is not important.

So Jiang Fangzhen didn't have any inner resistance when he heard Jiang Yu talking about warlordism and talking about land with him.

"Then let's wait and see what happens!" Jiang Fangzhen agreed. He had reason to believe that Jiang Yu would be able to dominate China in the future because his financial resources were the largest.

Moreover, Jiang Yu is proficient in business operations and industrial development. Moreover, with the support of the German rear, he has made many achievements in the military. It is not too difficult to defeat those warlords.

"However, we can be more unrestrained in terms of business scale. It is always right to make more money." Jiang Yu smiled.

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The road protection movement broke out like the original track of history, and the whole Sichuan fell into a massive force to protect the road. In order to suppress the Sichuan road protection movement, the Manchu Qing transferred the Wuchang new army to Sichuan, resulting in a emptiness in Wuchang city.

Jiang Yu, who was far away in Huaiyin, became more active.

In the past, the artillery training was somewhat hidden, but now the artillery is openly pulled out for training, and all the large-caliber heavy artillery are pulled out for training.

In terms of business, Jiang Yu has stepped up illegal salt trafficking.

A large amount of private salt in Huaiyin was escorted by armed forces and sold to various provinces along the three waterways of the Yangtze River, Huaihe River, and Yellow River at extremely low prices.

For a while, the price of salt dropped, and almost everyone paid attention to official salt. Jiang Yu's income increased. In just one month, he made a net profit of 500 million yuan by selling private salt. The degree of fear.

Since last year, in one year, Jiangyu's income from table salt has exceeded 2000 million yuan, of which refined salt is exported to Japan, Nanyang and other places.

After Huailong salt came into the market, it touched the interests of salt tyrants and foreign salt merchants. For this reason, they spread rumors that Huadong refined salt ate dead people.

At that time, rumors were flying all over the market. Seeing this, Jiang Yu also organized a "naval army" to spread rumors in the market, saying that foreign salt ate dead people, and blamed Huadong Jingyan.

At the same time, Huadong refined salt was publicized in the newspapers, and some big shots were found to deliver Huadong refined salt to their tables. The rumors were self-defeating for a while, and Jiang Yu also ruined the reputation of imported refined salt. Now people buy Refined salt, only look for 'Huadong Refined Salt'. [

Cheng Dequan also questioned Jiang Yu because of the large amount of private salt in the market, but Jiang Yu refused to buy oil and salt, and he refused to admit it even if he was beaten to death.

Cheng Dequan had discovered at this time that Jiang Yu was training troops in Huaiyin, hired many German instructors, and had a large number of advanced arms, so he had nothing to do with Jiang Yu. Turn a blind eye and close one eye, pretending not to see it, so as not to cause chaos, if the Jiangbei patrol camp is in chaos, then Jiangbei will definitely be in chaos.

Under this compromise, Jiang Yu obtained greater benefits.

Until September, the Chengdu massacre broke out in Sichuan. More than 9 petitioners were killed and injured, and then an armed movement finally broke out.

The Manchus were frightened and panicked, and quickly mobilized the new army from Hubei to Sichuan to suppress it, and the Revolution of [-] broke out soon.

In September 1911, the industries under the Huadong Group had reached a certain scale, and the arsenal had already been built in Wuhu. Due to the employment of a large number of German technicians, the arsenal quickly started operating, but many raw materials had to be imported, mainly steel .

After a year and a half of construction, the steel plant is almost complete.

Jiangyu built a 3000-cubic-meter blast furnace in Wuhu, with an annual output of 15 tons of iron, and a converter with an annual output of 10 tons of steel.

Converter steelmaking appeared relatively early, but because the quality is not as good as that of the open hearth furnace, the mainstream steelmaking technology in the world is still open hearth steelmaking.

However, the converter steelmaking built by Jiangyu uses the technology of blowing oxygen at the top, so that the quality of the steel produced by the converter can already match that of the open hearth furnace, and the efficiency has increased by about three times.

The top blowing method is a popular product in later generations. In addition, there is also the bottom blowing method, and there is also a compound blowing method that combines top blowing and bottom blowing, but it is more advanced. The experimental team formed by Jiang Yu has not yet Research it out.

However, top blowing is also sufficient in this era, and the cost of steelmaking can be greatly reduced with the top blowing method.

The supporting coking plants, iron mines, and coal mines have also been constructed. On September 1911, 9, Wuhu Iron and Steel Works successfully smelted the first batch of pig iron, and two days later successfully smelted the first batch of converter steel.

With the commissioning of the iron and steel plant, and the completion of the machinery manufacturing plant, machine tool manufacturing plant, motor manufacturing plant, engine manufacturing plant, tractor manufacturing plant, aircraft manufacturing plant, shipyard, arsenal, and oil refinery, Jiangyu has initially established itself in China. own industrial system.At the same time, the completion of the synthetic ammonia factory, the Huoyo factory, and the soda factory gave him his own chemical industry system.

Although it still relies heavily on German engineers and technicians, at least it already has, and its own talents have also begun to be cultivated.

In order to build these factories, Jiang Yu successively invested nearly 3 million silver dollars.

However, Jiangyu still has strong financial resources at this time, so it provides financial guarantee for the start of these factories.You must know that you can start work without a factory, and you must have production funds. Otherwise, how will you pay wages, how will you buy raw materials, and how will you transport them?

The Revolution of [-] is about to break out, and Jiang Yu has already started the final preparations.

The essence of action is just three words to grab the territory!

Jiang Yu began to explode again since the beginning of the year. After a few months, the strength of his men has exceeded tens of thousands, which is twenty times the normal establishment of the Jiangbei Patrol Battalion.

With the approach of the Revolution of 01, Jiang Yu played the banner of the "Renaissance Army". The revival army set up a division. Jiang Yu served as the division commander himself, and Jiang Fangzhen was the deputy division commander and concurrently the chief of staff. Yang Hongfei, commander of the 02 brigade, and Li Shoujing, commander of the [-] brigade.

The 01 brigade is stationed in Huaiyin, and the 02 brigade is stationed in Wuhu. [

At the same time, there is also a Shanghai reinforced battalion, the battalion commander Zhang Qingyun, who publicizes the caravan guards to the outside world, is stationed in Shanghai.

There is also a reconnaissance battalion and a special operations battalion.

Zhao Xueming, commander of the reconnaissance battalion, and Wang Chenghai, commander of the special operations battalion.

Today's revival army is definitely a strong lineup.Cheng Dequan, governor of Jiangsu, and Zhu Jiabao, governor of Anhui, both sensed Jiang Yu's actions.

However, Jiang Yu claimed that they were factory militiamen, and Jiang Yu had indeed run many factories. Neither Cheng Dequan nor Zhu Jiabao thought that Jiang Yu was going to rebel. Not strong.

"Report, sir, as of yesterday, all the tunnels you requested to dig have been completed." Wang Chenghai came to report to Jiang Yu on September 9.

"Okay, let people be optimistic about these tunnels, don't expose them." Jiang Yu clapped his hands, and saw that on the map, the major cities in Jiangbei and Jiangnan were marked with a tunnel.

Cities in the late Qing Dynasty had many buildings, whether inside or outside the city, and these buildings became excellent shelters for Jiang Yu to send people to dig tunnels.

Tunnels allow the army to enter the city easily, and once they enter the city, the morale of the defenders basically collapses.

"Yes." Wang Chenghai saluted, then retreated.At this time, a slender man standing quietly beside Jiang Yu asked Jiang Yu, "Junior brother, are you planning to do something?"

"Well! The time is almost here." Jiang Yu nodded. This person is his senior brother Han Muxia, who is usually his bodyguard.

Although Jiang Yu is not weak, he still needs bodyguards.

Han Muxia has a good relationship with him, and his martial arts skills are superior to Jiang Yu, so he is naturally the best bodyguard candidate. Han Muxia also leads a guard company, all of which are elite soldiers.

"It seems that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is coming to an end this time, and the nearly 300 years of slavery are finally coming to an end." Han Muxia sighed, without any doubt about the energy of this little junior. Ever since Jiang Yu joined Zhang Zhankui's family at the age of six, Han Muxia felt He is not simple.Many times, Han Muxia taught Jiang Yu martial arts, but Jiang Yu taught Han Muxia the principles of life.

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On the night of October 1911, 10, a gunshot fired in Wuchang, Hubei, which officially opened the curtain of the Revolution of 10.At midnight that night, Huaiyin received a telegram from Wuchang. The command room was brightly lit, and the telegram was quickly translated.

"Reporting, sir, according to the telegram from the commercial company, a revolution has broken out in Wuchang City..." The telegraph operator hurriedly read the content of the telegram, and Jiang Yu suddenly stood up, with a wolf-like light in his eyes.

The revolution is finally here, and it's time to grab the territory!

Kids, do you have a ticket?