Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 412 Imaginary Enemy

On July 1900, 7, Emperor Meiji examined the memorial of the naval officer in the palace, and it was written: "The emperor's prestige overseas is none other than the navy. Today, the navy should be greatly promoted."

These words immediately struck Meiji's heartstrings.Under the suggestion of Ito Yuheng and others, he drafted an imperial edict, ordering the whole country: the matter of the navy is a top priority, and the foundation should be laid as soon as possible.The human "water mill" is now about to run crazily when it encounters the impact of the Far Eastern Ocean Current.

As soon as the edict was issued, it immediately caused a huge commotion in the entire archipelago. For a while, the slogan of strengthening the empire's coastal defenses, building steel defense lines, and building giant warships quickly spread among the people. In the torrent of the ship power.They have only one goal, which is to surpass China in a few years!From this moment on, China has become the only imaginary enemy.

But it is a country that is good at learning from the enemy. At this time, even Lin Ziping's "Sea Country Soldier Talk", which had been buried for many years, was "liberated" and became an important theoretical basis for people to talk about coastal defense and military training.The 18th-century Sendai native also wrote a book called "Three Kingdoms Overview", which records the geography and folk customs of Korea, Ryukyu and Sakhalin Island, so that it can be used as a guide when "warriors lead their troops into the Three Kingdoms" .Those who were also sent to the imperial palace included Akai Tokai's "Theory of Coastal Defense", Matsudaira Sadanobu's "Maritime Defense Monologue", Yoshida Toshinari's "Maritime Police False Words", and Sato Nobubuchi's "Maritime Defense Remaining Theory", etc. His treatise on coastal defense, and even Chinese Wei Yuan's "Pictures of the Sea Country", which was once neglected and forgotten in his hometown, have become must-read books for the emperor and ministers.

With astonishing speed and determination, the Meiji regime transferred all the ships of the Navy distributed in various counties to the Ministry of the Navy.Soon all the warships available to the Navy were assembled under the Emperor's banner.In the ambitious plan concocted by the military, the navy of the future will surpass that of China, with 10 large and small warships within 200 years.Ito Yuhiro, who concocted this plan, planned to equip 20 battleships alone, and he also raised the navy's funding to a level that surpassed the army's funding.

In Tokyo, the original Hiroshima Naval Port was under intensive construction, and it was planned to turn it into a naval training facility for cultivating new naval talents. Several proud Britons came in and out, trying to shape the navy in a purely British way.

People can be seen in several major shipyards in Europe.These short orientals have long since taken off their traditional kimonos and clogs. They wear tuxedos and top hats, bow deeply everywhere, and ask around where there are suitable ships for sale.Their ship and gun business was doing extremely hard, as all of Europe was busy rebuilding and there was little interest in what they were doing.However, during the day, they still run around, move around, and never miss a possible opportunity; at night, they gather together, sit down again according to their status and rank in the country, reviewing the emperor's decree excitedly, looking forward to The magnificent scene of the fleet flying the sun flag sailing across the Pacific Ocean, at this time, they often burst into tears, forgetting the humiliation and cold reception they received during the day.

They are shrewd in doing small business on the beach, buying the dignity of a nation from the world.

In the palace, Emperor Meiji's eyes were bloodshot, and he was in extreme excitement.And with the construction of the navy, everything is waiting to be done, and there are clamors everywhere that there is no money.The Navy’s funds were added and added, and special national bonds for naval construction were issued. Tobacco taxes and drug taxes were all invested in the bottomless pit of the Navy.Emperor Meiji looked around, and over the heads of the courtiers who were asking for money, he saw another scene: the extremely luxurious mansions of powerful officials and nobles, all-night banquets, partying in the red and greenery, gambling with big sums of money, and the mansions full of stables. Famous horses, clothes inlaid with coral gems.

The angry Emperor Meiji raised an invisible whip to his courtiers, and issued a silent edict: From now on, the emperor will start to reduce the expenditure of the inner palace. Stop, what brocade clothes and jade belts, what bells and dinning food, the emperor doesn't want to enjoy it, don't want to be ostentatious, only the navy.

Lead by example, starting from me, the emperor will wave his invisible whip to speed up this old horse-drawn carriage and let it rush to the road of high-speed development of modernization.

On the other hand, he began to amass wealth crazily, monopolizing the development rights of emerging industries, controlling foreign trade, heavy industry, and banks of large companies such as Mitsui, Mitsubishi, and Sumitomo, and illegally expropriating land through various contributions and investments. The royal accumulation of the royal family increased rollingly.At the same time, he took the lead in saving expenses for the construction of the navy many times, opened his pockets, and dumped money without hesitation. He even proposed that "although the country's strength is invincible, it is a necessary plan, and it can only be done decisively."

The emperor issued a decree: I think that in the affairs of nation building, strengthening coastal defense is a matter that cannot be relaxed for a day.However, it is still difficult to immediately allocate huge sums of money for coastal defense from the national treasury, so I am deeply disturbed.It is hereby decided to withdraw 30 yuan from the internal treasury as a subsidy. I hope that all ministers will understand my intention.

As soon as the decree was issued, all wealthy Chinese in the country were shocked by it.On the streets of Tokyo, in the living rooms of the rich and the rich with exquisite flower arrangements, in the dojos of Go and Kendo, there are tears and noise thanking God for sending him to rule the world. In three months, the total donations for Haiphong reached 103 million.What is even more astonishing is that Emperor Meiji decided to spend 30 yuan of silver from the internal treasury every year for the construction of the navy for the next six years.And this has exceeded one-tenth of the royal family's expenditure.This move once again led the members to take the initiative to donate a quarter of their salaries for shipbuilding.

Meiji is a man who can sacrifice everything to realize his ambition.He wished he could turn the "sacred mountain" Mount Fuji into a mountain of gold, iron, steel, and gunpowder, and turn every reef in the Seto Inland Sea into a warship.He doesn't want to trek at a slow pace, but asks his country to "sprint" even though he knows that his country, like his sick legs, always feels powerless to this "sprint".

After the news spread back to Beijing, Guan Xuqing burst out laughing. The news that the emperor supported the navy by picking meat between his teeth was also spread as a joke in the capital.Guan Xuqing smiled and said: "Dongyang Xiaoyi, after all, Dongyang Xiaoyi, he is not afraid of being laughed at if he does this!"

At this time, China, the imaginary enemy of China, is focusing on the technological and economic development of the empire. On June 6, the Ministry of Development and Planning of the Chinese Empire was formally established.The establishment of the Ministry did not carry out too much publicity, but internally notified various government offices and industrial and commercial enterprises in the form of residence newspapers.

Regarding the initial structure construction, Liang Qichao and the cabinet ministers studied and decided to set up three departments within the Ministry: the Ministry of Science and Technology Research, the Ministry of Science and Technology Application, and the Ministry of Economic Development.The Science and Technology Research Department mainly coordinates matters such as basic scientific research, innovation and invention of various science and technology.The Department of Science and Technology Application is mainly responsible for the practical application of various scientific and technological inventions and innovations, so that scientific achievements can be realized as the driving force for economic development as soon as possible.The Ministry of Economic Development mainly manages the imperial industrial and commercial enterprises, so that they can achieve the best allocation as much as possible and avoid redundant construction. more wealth.

This is an important strategy of Guan Xuqing's new imperial policy. This time, he handed over this burden to the elderly Rong Hong. Of course, this is only a transitional arrangement. It is necessary to look for an economic talent who can take charge of this institution in the future.Yung Wing saw that he was still valued by the emperor at the age of 70, so he naturally felt pampered.

Of course, as an organization's structure, the top-level structure is easy to build, but the difficulty is to complete the middle and lower-level structures of the entire organization.Continuing to subdivide, there will be more and more complex organizational structures.Therefore, it took Rong Wing nearly a month to sort out the organizational structure of the entire Development and Planning Commission with a limited number of people under his command, and the personnel at all levels of the organization were also fully staffed.Dozens of divisions and bureaus were set up in front of the three ministries.In the Science and Technology Research Department, the Materials Research Department, the Electric Power Research Department, the Energy Development Department, the Mechanical Research Department, and the Power Research Department were established.Of course, there are also corresponding divisional departments in the Science and Technology Application Department.

In October, all matters of the Development and Planning Department were ready.Guan Xuqing came here enthusiastically and held the first mission planning meeting.At the meeting, Guan Xuqing, based on his preliminary ideas, proposed that various scientific and technological researches be divided into five-year plans as the basic divisions, requiring that 10 laboratories and 20 wind tunnels be built in the first year of this five-year plan. , set up 2 to 5 experimental factories, and set up about 8 secret companies in the name of private capital. The ultimate ownership of these companies will belong to the military command.At the meeting, Guan Xuqing first made a preliminary explanation on the formation of the secret company, and then focused on the construction of laboratories, wind tunnels and experimental factories.

Guan Xuqing said to the participants: "Although all state-owned enterprises in the country are currently assigned to the Ministry of Planning and accept the dual leadership of the Ministry and relevant departments, our most important thing is not to compete with relevant departments for the resources of these industrial enterprises. Instead, we must establish ourselves , Create another brand-new scientific research and industrial system. Of course, we still need to rely on the strength of the existing Imperial Academy of Sciences and enterprises to form the most basic backbone, and then seek further development."

There were a lot of constructive and other problems in the previous novel. I couldn’t find any information, so I had to learn from it. However, after reading everyone’s feedback, I feel that it’s better to make it my own, so I revised these few .Let everyone see it comfortably, and also guarantee the quality of the work, I hope everyone can give it understanding.Thanks.

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