The First Warlord of the Republic of China

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After the revolutionary turmoil in the early Republic of China, except for the provinces in East China, the business of the whole country was quite sluggish. However, driven by the congressional election, the business of the three industries in the voting place was extremely prosperous, and they became the direct beneficiaries of the election.

These three industries are: hotels, restaurants and brothels.During the election period, the hotels were full, the restaurants were full of guests all day long, and the rooms in the brothels were booked in advance. Each of them made a fortune in the election, and the driving force behind these spending splurges was small votes.

For example, Hubei is an area with sufficient financial resources for the Republican Party. The Republican Party branch in Wuhan has "the first Huadong hotel in Hankou, and several brothels in Sanfenli and Sichengli, which are contracted by guest houses. Several large-scale restaurants are stamped by the guest house. The account is really extravagant and extravagant, and it is magnificent for a while."

In Hubei, where the power is relatively weak, "three to 40 members of the Tongmenghui provincial councilors live in the branch of the Tongmenghui in the former Yandao Yamen on Sandao Street. There are many people and the houses are narrow, and it is too poor to start a gang."

The Republican Party relied on its strong financial resources to carry out canvassing and diplomatic activities, but encountered strong competition from the East China Chamber of Commerce in the congressional elections in Hubei. [

The primary election alone was secretly manipulated by the East China Chamber of Commerce using administrative officials placed in Hubei by the Lianghuai Administration.

In the re-election, the East China Chamber of Commerce supported the selected party members, and at the same time secretly bought the congressmen who were going to the Republican Party.

It is difficult for many Republicans to refuse the invitation of the East China Chamber of Commerce with strong financial resources. As long as they rely on the East China Chamber of Commerce, they will have a comfortable and comfortable life in the future, and they can concentrate on politics without violating their ideals and bottom line.

As a result of this, the Republican Party was gradually controlled by the East China Chamber of Commerce. However, the Republican Party's internal organizational capabilities were low, and they were dismantling each other internally, so that the Republican Party had no way to stop the East China Chamber of Commerce from infiltrating.

However, this election did make a lot of people rich. The East China Chamber of Commerce alone spent 800 million silver dollars. In addition, those gentry businessmen and other party members who are interested in participating in politics also paid their own money to bribe elections, or treat guests to dinner, Drinking flowers and wine to attract favors and so on, the cost in this area is indeed relatively large.

The hotels under Huadong Group are full every day.

After Jiang Yu attended the fashion exhibition, he walked to the street in plain clothes. The atmosphere on the street was very lively, with leaflets and banners everywhere.

Walking into a teahouse, I immediately saw campaigners who were debating. Among them, a group of students were advocating democracy, freedom and the Three People's Principles.

Jiang Yu drank tea and suddenly said with emotion: "This Beiyang is too free, people's hearts are going to be messed up~!"

Han Muxia shook his head and said, "How could Junior Brother suddenly feel so emotional?"

"It's nothing." Jiang Yu smiled and didn't continue the topic, but he thought in his heart that it was time to rectify and rectify. The Beiyang period was indeed too free.

"By the way, brother, what happened to the matter that I asked you to recruit those folk martial artists?" Jiang Yu asked Han Muxia.

"The progress is going very well. Now there are fewer and fewer martial arts masters across the country. Many martial arts masters can no longer rely on martial arts for a living, and many have even changed careers. And our request for inclusion just solved the livelihood of the martial arts masters. And because the younger brother won the Sino-Russian war, those martial artists are willing to serve us." Han Muxia said.

Most of the martial artists in this era have taken refuge in the warlords, and those with high martial arts skills have served as bodyguards for the warlord chiefs, but those who are not top-notch martial artists are not doing so well.

However, Jiang Yu was well aware of the strength of these people. During the later Liberation War, some of the KMT's spies were very powerful, and it was generally difficult to kill them. Many of them were blocked in houses and swept to death with machine guns.

"We can't let traditional martial arts be lost. We have to open more martial arts gyms among the people, and let these martial arts masters go to schools to teach students martial arts, and select a group of martial arts masters who have the potential to become spies to be absorbed into the intelligence organization. After a while, I will A new intelligence agency will be established to separate the spying agency from Zhou Ziyue's current commercial intelligence." Jiang Yu instructed that his intelligence network is now mainly managed by Zhou Ziyue, but it is more focused on the collection of commercial intelligence. It has been unable to meet the needs of counterintelligence infiltration and spying on enemy countries.

The creation of a new intelligence agency is imminent.

After Jiang Yu walked around the street, he went home again. The next day, Jiang Yu rushed to Hangzhou without stopping. The National Defense Force officially established the "East China Coastal Defense Fleet" and the "Hangzhou Naval Academy" in Hangzhou.

The East China Coastal Defense Fleet is equipped with ten small-tonnage frigates, hundreds of torpedo boats, and secretly equipped with twenty submarines that have just been launched. [

The Hangzhou Naval Academy is headed by Xie Baozhang. Xie Baozhang once ran a naval academy in Shandong and has more experience in this area.

Moreover, Xie Baozhang is quite upright, a typical soldier who can be entrusted with important tasks, so Jiang Yu specially invited him out of his hometown in the countryside of Fujian.

And Xie Baozhang's daughter who was only a few years old at this time was the later writer 'Bing Xin'.

At the inauguration ceremony of the East China Coastal Defense Fleet, Xie Baozhang was wearing a tall and straight military uniform, with a trace of unconcealable excitement on his resolute face.

Xie Baozhang regarded the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War as the greatest shame in his life. However, due to the constraints of the national conditions, the day of avenging his humiliation that he was always looking forward to became more and more elusive.

However, during the [-] Years, there was a turning point, and Jiang Yu sent someone to find him.

However, Xie Baozhang didn't have much confidence in Jiang Yu at that time, and he didn't have a good impression of Jiang Yu, a local warlord, so he didn't accept Jiang Yu's invitation to come out.

After the Sino-Russian War ended, Xie Baozhang's views were completely changed.

Through this war, he realized that Jiang Yu was the Chinese soldier who dared to go to war with the big powers, and he had enough financial resources to fight.

There is also enough financial resources to form a truly modern navy.

Just when Xie Baozhang was regretting, Jiang Yu sent someone to invite him out again. This time Xie Baozhang did not refuse again. Under Jiang Yu's invitation, he became the principal of Hangzhou Naval University and the commander-in-chief of the East China Coastal Defense Fleet.

When Jiang Yu arrived at the ceremony, Xie Baozhang gave Jiang Yu a military salute solemnly and full of respect, and Jiang Yu returned the military salute equally solemnly.

The two did not exchange pleasantries, and a military salute was all the language of a soldier.

More than 2000 sailors in white military uniforms stood solemnly on the school grounds. This is the naval team that Jiang Yu has been training for a long time, and he has also invited many German instructors. Create a navy.

Xie Baozhang spoke first. He stood on the high platform, looked at the neat and uniform navy soldiers below, and said sonorously: "Today the East China Coastal Defense Fleet was officially established. I just hope you remember that the defeat in the Sino-Japanese War in the past was the greatest shame for our Chinese navy." If you want to wash away this great shame, you must unite with sincerity, train hard, and be united as one, and have the spirit of not being afraid of death. Only in this way can we revive our Chinese navy. Although this is a long process, it may take a generation Two or even three generations have worked hard, but if we don't work hard, the Chinese navy will have no hope. From now on, I will train you with the strictest standards. I hope you are mentally prepared. General Dingguo spoke."

Standing aside, Jiang Yu heard Xie Baozhang's determination and belief from his speech. This alone proved that he did not find the wrong person. As soon as Xie Baozhang finished his speech, he immediately applauded enthusiastically.

Xie Baozhang made a gesture of invitation to Jiang Yu, Jiang Yu nodded and walked up to the high platform.

When the naval soldiers below saw Jiang Yu on stage, their eyes suddenly showed reverence, even though Jiang Yu was younger than him.

Jiang Yu looked around, and then said in a confident voice: "Today, the East China Coastal Defense Fleet was established. Although you are not a central navy, you are only a local navy in name. However, given the current situation in China, the central government is fundamentally able to form a modernized fleet with a certain scale. The Navy, and our East China Coastal Defense Fleet, will become the fleet with the largest investment in China. It can be said that you are more central than the Central Navy. You are the real Chinese Navy, and you are the hope of the Chinese Navy. Although we are under the banner of coastal defense , but what does the navy do? The navy is the arm of a country’s foreign wars, and it is also the arm that burns the most money. Many people say that I, Jiang Yu, are just a local warlord. Why spend money to build such a costly navy? I only need The Army is enough."

"Yes, I am a warlord. As long as I want to, I can replace the central government immediately. When I was 13 years old, Japan defeated Russia and became a new world power. A small Japan became a world power. From then on, I swore , one day I want to make the Chinese proud and let China stand on the top of the world again, so I want to be a warlord, because I can't trust those old bureaucrats, and I can't trust any revolutionary party. The purpose of my being a warlord is to Let China win when foreign wars break out, so I want to build a navy, no matter how much money I spend, I will build our Chinese navy. Maybe in the future, China may have a civil war, and maybe there will be many parties to win over you in the future. But you are important Remember the three iron rules, the first: You are soldiers, and the bounden duty of soldiers is to obey, and soldiers should not meddle in politics. The second: no matter how much civil war will happen in China in the future, you, as the navy, must remain neutral. The third Article: Your goal is to win foreign wars, and you must always use the Japanese navy as your imaginary enemy.”

"Perhaps you will think that it is so difficult to defeat the Japanese navy. Our naval equipment is not as good as Japan's at all, but this is not a reason. To what extent the Japanese navy can do in training, you have to do the same, even Surpass them. As long as you can do it, I, Jiangyu, will build you more warships than Japan even if I sell iron. Our Chinese territory is [-] to [-] times that of Japan. Could it be that we can’t build more warships than Japan? The warship won’t work? You just need to give me a little time, but you have to hurry up and train, otherwise, when I give you the warship, you will still look like you are now. How can I be worthy of the common people who used money to support you to buy warships? "

"Tell me, can you be disciplined?" Jiang Yu asked all the navy soldiers loudly. [

"Yes!" the navy soldier below replied hissingly.

"Tell me, can you train hard?" Jiang Yu asked again.

"can!"

"Tell me, can you fight without fear of death?"

"can!"

"Okay." Jiang Yu nodded with satisfaction, and said loudly again: "Today, I made another oath with everyone. If anyone can't do it, then he will apologize with death."

The first one arrives!