"It's not easy to become a quasi-ally of Germany's Far East!"

Although he was holding a "letter" from Wuchang and the girl sent him, Li Han's head was undoubtedly thinking about something else. %%() tightened his military coat. He was now inspecting the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway in Yongchuan. As early as 1903, the Qing government had the intention to build the Sichuan-Han Railway, and its western section was the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway. However, the local government used the excuse of building the roads and plundering many people's money and paste, but it only had a "dashed line" on the map. In the seven years before the outbreak of the revolution, less than 3% of the journey was built.

After the founding of the Republic of China, Li Han Administration of Sichuan always believed that a major transportation artery running through Sichuan would be the key to boosting Sichuan's economy and completely making Sichuan a major base for economic and industrial in the Republic of China in the future. Therefore, the general government used labor-for-relief mobilization during the slack farming period to build water conservancy and roads to build railways in various places. It attracted up to 370,000 refugees and idle workers to participate in the construction of this "Chengdu-Chongqing Railway" which is related to Sichuan's lifeline. Even during the busy farming period, there were 210,000 surplus young laborers, which made this Japanese project

The master believed that in the absence of machinery, it took at least five years to build the railway, which took only three months to lay nearly 150 miles of single-line railway tracks. Later, the military government had to stop building the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway due to the Japanese's interference. At the beginning of this year, with the help of the Germans, the construction rights of the "Chengdu-Chongqing Railway" returned to Li Han's hands from the Japanese. For this reason, the price he paid was to pay millions of blackmail to the Japanese side. After the railway was completed, Germany would receive 50% of the operating dividends of the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway every year, which lasted for 15 years and decreased by 10% every five years.

After the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway resumed work, hundreds of thousands of road construction troops were illuminated with lantern torches, steel drills, sledgehammers and pickaxes, and still showed the heroic spirit of making the mountains bow their heads and making the river water give way, and the roadbed extended forward step by step. In half a year, nearly 600 miles of single-line railway tracks were laid, and the speed was almost as high as the speed of laying hundreds of miles of rails in January. On May 7, the tracks were paved from Chongqing to the west, Chengdu to the east, Zizhong to the north, and south, and the main force four lines began to lay single-line railway tracks at the same time. The rails produced by Chongqing Iron and Steel Plant were all used for the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway. On September 30, the tracks were paved in the Chongqing section.

In Yongchuan, on December 6, the track laying of Chengdu section will be completed in Jianyang, and the entire line of Zizhou will be completed. It is expected that after the thawing and resumption of work in March next year, the "Chengdu-Chongqing Railway" will complete all track laying of single lines and start the paving of the double line. According to the latest planning and expectations of the "Chengdu-Chongqing Railway Construction Bureau", it is expected that the construction period of up to 18 months will be completed. By the end of next year, the road problems that Sichuan people have been looking forward to being improved for thousands of years. The Chengdu-Chongqing Railway Dual Line will be completed by the end of next year, with an annual transportation capacity of up to 2.1 million tons per year, which will greatly activate the economic development of Sichuan and the entire southwest region.

“This road is very hard to repair!”

Jiang Fangzhen dusted the dust raised from the military cap, "But now I finally saw the reward for my hard work. I just heard what President Lin said. I will debug it for half a month. As long as the front of the car is transferred from Chongqing, the rails transported from Chongqing can be transported directly from the railway. The waterways are much slower than railway transportation. The construction speed will undoubtedly get faster and faster in the future!"

"Um!"

Li Hanping retreated from outsiders. They had been in Sichuan for almost a month. The many reasons on the surface were mainly for four things. Inspection of the war damage in southern Sichuan and accelerated the construction of the defense system in southern Sichuan, and urged the suspension of work to complete the full resumption of work as soon as possible; interrogation and rapid execution of more than a dozen officials involved in the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway; inspection of the third phase expansion project of the Chengdu tank factory and waiting for Wu Tingfang to go south from Gansu to meet him.

The reason why outsiders were shut down was a private topic. Jiang Fangzhen took off the military kettle around his waist and took a sip of hot tea. As the year approached, the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway gradually stopped. When the heavy storm and snow came, it was estimated that except for the 40,000 homeless refugees taken in by the military government, the rest of the nearby people should go home for the New Year.

Jiang Fangzhen's mind appeared in the chariots he saw in Chengdu a few days ago, and he couldn't help but feel aroused. The commander-in-chief mentioned that the chariot designed by intelligence spyed from the Ordnance Bureau of the European Power was a sensation. He understood why the young man was so confident that he might lose the battle with the Northern Army before, but he would definitely not be defeated. When he thought of those steel monsters with machine guns and 37mm small caliber cannons in his head, he finally understood what Li Han's confidence was.

Li Han spent the winter last year in Sichuan. At that time, he personally participated in the trial of the first batch of five tractors in the "Chengdu Tractor Factory". Then before leaving Chengdu, he personally ordered the development of the first tank vehicle to be accelerated. The production of the first prototype was very simple, because the military government did not have the ability to produce heavy gun tanks at that time. Therefore, based on the French Renault tank in World War I, it developed a tank vehicle with an 8mm caliber Hatchais, with a 90-degree rotating turret design. Strictly speaking, the earliest prototype could only be considered an armored vehicle, not a tank, so after several months of conquest by military experts, in May this year, another tank vehicle weighing 12 tons, 3-man crew, equipped with a 37mm small-caliber rapid-fire cannon, and fully realized the turret's 360-degree rotating information was sent to his table.

After several months of manufacturing, by the time the Battle of Yuan broke out, the military government had already manufactured 62 tanks equipped with Hatchkas machine guns and 35. The average total output of 30 vehicles per month was not the limit of the military government. Because the Chengdu Tractor Factory alone had the productivity of producing 500 tractors per month. However, due to the lack of special steel and the different specifications of tank-specific crawlers and special crawlers for agricultural machinery, under the influence of many factors, even if the military government has fully produced it in a month, it can only transform forty tanks around 40 tanks. The biggest crisis in the Republic of China is the coveted by foreigners, in order to be able to be used in the future and play a role in the real battlefield of the defense of the country. In addition to continuing to supervise Chengdu to continue production with quality and quantity, Li Han can only delay the time of tank exposure as much as possible!

"In the year of Wans, the Republic of Asia and the East are great! The mountains are independent and the rivers are spreading, and the waves of civilization are spreading; the 400-giant gods are the helmets, and the land is vast and the products are abundant. I promote my five-color emblem of the Republic of China and sing my anthem of the Republic of China!"

Li Han suddenly remembered the new national anthem that Beijing had just changed several words based on the 'Songlong Banner'. He hummed a few words, which made Jiang Fang beside him stunned, and then smiled, "I heard that the new Henan Governor Cao Kun is in trouble!"

He said that immediately after the military government drew all the troops back from Henan, Yuan Shikai encircled and suppressed the Henan bandit army. After one month to December, he wiped out more than 40 scattered Henan bandits, and massacred no less than 10,000 bandits and robbers. Once, the whole country believed that the chaos that lasted almost two years in Henan would end from then on. However, at this time, the Bureau of Investigation received a secret envoy from Yuan Shikai to contact Long and Lu, prompting the two to join forces to fight against Li Han in Hunan and Jiangxi. At the same time, he secretly exerted influence on the new British minister, which eventually led to the four-country bank group using the excuse of large loans requiring the Lianghuai Salt Affairs Office to collateralize them.

Although in the end, Jiang Fangzhen's plan to fight Lu Kulong was proved to be feasible. After the First Division of the Gui Army was completely wiped out in Hunan, the army went south until it approached the borders of the two provinces less than a hundred miles without encountering pressure from the Guangxi and Guangdong Army. The military government forced the two provinces to withdraw from Hunan with military blackmail of all wars, and Jiangxi swallowed up the Hunan-Jiangxi provinces. In terms of salt affairs between the two Huai Rivers, Li Han was unwilling to risk being suppressed by the four countries when there was still some time before the war, so he chose to give in.

"He can only suffer a small loss. Henan has been in chaos for so long. Both the forces and the people in the province really hope to end the turmoil as soon as possible. The bandit army is over!" Rejecting the kettle he handed over, Li Han put away the letters sent by the girl. Since Yuan Shikai made a move, Li Han was not a soft persimmon that everyone could pinch. The chaos on the battlefield in Henan was the counterattack he made. He personally ordered the seized batch of nearly 2,000 rifles equipped by the Northern Army to give to several bandit troops in Henan for free. As a result, Cao Kun did not investigate for a moment and almost destroyed a regiment. Although his army won in the end, more than 1,000 people beat him to only more than 400, allowing a group of bandits to eliminate the Northern Army veterans who had almost two battalions, which made him have a headache.

However, he was right in the situation in Henan. The central government made a ruthless attempt to govern Henan. A group of bandits could not stop it. Bai Lang, known as the world's number one bandit, did have a unclear relationship with President Yuan. Almost as soon as Cao Kun led his troops to suppress the bandits, he accepted Cao Kun's recruitment with three thousand elite troops, and is now transferred to Song County as the commander of the western Henan. With his example and Cao Kun's killing in Henan, the bandits of a large scale of the 7th and 8th Routes followed suit and accepted the recruitment. After accepting the positions of all major and large positions appointed by the central government, they all went to Rendi to take office happily. The politics in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China were so strange and ridiculous, but this scene was still a common scene in this country.

"By the way," Jiang Fangzhen put down the kettle and took out a telegram from his coat pocket, "Governor Wu photographed it. He has arrived at Zizhong now, and it is almost in the evening!"

Seeing that Li Han's expression relaxed a little, he asked curiously: "Why are you so anxious to recall Governor Wu from Gansu?"

After rubbing his nose, it seemed that he had been outside for too long and he caught a cold. Li Han felt a little cold and his nose was slightly uncomfortable, "He is the former ambassador to the United States. I want him to go to the United States for the sake of the military government!"

The high-rise collar of the military coat blocked his face, and Jiang Fangzhen did not see the expression on his face.

The Bureau of Investigation has developed very rapidly overseas. It has now controlled nearly 100 bag companies in Europe, the United States, South America, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Australia through various means. Through these bag companies and Chinese forces, the military government has whitewashed countless black gold in the past year. It is conservatively estimated that it has already owned assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars overseas that have been laundered after secondary whitewashing.

What does the concept of 100 million US dollars in 1913? Today's giant Britain has an open 10 billion pounds of overseas investment, which is about 10 billion US dollars (one say that before World War I, Britain was 24.2 billion US dollars and France was 20.7 billion US dollars. The domestic data was seriously distorted, so the data in the book "Rise of the Euro Empire" shall prevail). This is the government's surplus investment accumulated by the British Empire after robbing hundreds of years. The military government only took a little more than a year to save one percent of the measures such as selling new drugs to Europe and the United States through counterfeit money and selling new drugs to Europe and the United States. This is why Li Han later learned that his intelligence chief secretly ordered overseas intelligence personnel to develop drugs used to control foreign intelligence personnel and other new drugs sold through various forces controlled overseas control, he chose to acquiesce. Those sins are the capital that this country and him must have!

However, there are too many eyes on him now. According to the information feedback from the Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Investigation has fought with many forces in the overseas Bureau, including many opponents of national and local military nature. If the other party had not known nothing about the forces in the remote east of the Republic of China, and the Bureau of Investigation attaches great importance to confidentiality and spying under his personal intervention and guidance, it would have exposed some of the forces. However, now, it is time to transfer some of the property from abroad to return to China before the war begins.
Chapter completed!