? "Xu Ning Railway? Jinling Arsenal?"

His intelligence chief put a new document on his desk. Li Han opened it and raised his eyebrows slightly, "The construction of the Xuzhou-Nanjing section of railway is started, and the construction rights are handed over to the UK? Feng Guozhang made a good plan. One railway was replaced with an arsenal. The UK assisted a batch of machinery to upgrade the Jinling arsenal, and there were 2.5 million pounds of loan support. Good guy... This is converted into our Huayuan, which is almost 28 million yuan!"

The unexpected intelligence failed to attract the attention of the President. His intelligence chief Li Donglai was a little confused, "Sir, should we hit Jiangsu?"

"Need not!"

Shaking his head and put it lightly on the table, he clicked the time on the document, "The loan promised by the British will not arrive after the end of the year. Now the situation in Europe is so chaotic. Whether the UK can squeeze out this money by the end of the year is still a question. "" Jinling Arsenal is also an old factory. Although it can produce old Mauser and Manlixia, the output of 180 shots a month is several times higher than that of a branch of the Hanyang Arsenal. We will recover sooner or later in Nanjing. The British are willing to help us update the equipment of the Jinling Arsenal! Feng Guozhang is really cautious. I thought there would be some secret agreement, okay... His caution saved his life and let him jump around for a while!"

He really didn't care much about this information that the Investigation Bureau finally obtained. Why... It's very simple. The battle is about to start. The British did not have any money to support Feng Guozhang. God knows that after the war began, the British moved money everywhere in order to get military expenses, selling overseas and American assets was the main means, and there were also some bad means, such as deliberately owing warships built by other countries in the UK, and even refusing to refund the full amount without compensation. Historically, Turkey joined the Allied Barisan Nasional camp in history, Türkiye joined the Allied Barisan Nasional camp.

It was somewhat because Britain refused to deliver the warships built by Turkey in Britain and failed to refund the money in full. For a mere million pounds, the arrogant British pushed Turkey into the camp of the Allies (of course, it was also related to Germany's agreement to provide Turkey with a loan of 100 million francs). Later in the Battle of Dardanelles, Turkey slapped the British hard. The casualties of hundreds of thousands of people and the losses of six battleships made the British pay hundreds of millions of pounds for their arrogance.

Li Han has experienced the selfishness and stinginess of the British many times, and he is 90% sure that once the war begins, the British will definitely refuse to provide loans to Feng Guozhang, and it is still unknown how many machinery will be sent to Feng Guozhang.

The Bureau of Investigation has been paying attention to Europe recently, but his intelligence officer is not as good as him. He is very sure of a war in Europe, but he is actually very cautious about when this war will come, just like European countries. Although there are many military critics and politicians in Europe that "the European war will come within one year" are reported, most people and countries do not believe that Europe will fight immediately. Because everyone knows that with the development of technology, the losses to start another war are far ahead of the chaos in Europe after the French Revolution. Therefore, there are many forces in various countries that restrict war, and their influence can temporarily gain the upper hand compared to the war-torn factions.

Seeing that the president did not attach importance to Jiangsu's performance, he opened his mouth and finally swallowed the words.

"By the way, come to the east, how are the other people in the south doing recently?"

It’s not that Li Han didn’t see his intelligence expression, but that he could not explain clearly the matter of World War I. Secondly, the government’s recent main energy has been focusing on reorganizing the troops in various places, including the North China, Chahar, Rehe and other places to hoard and transport military supplies. For the time being in the south, he mainly focuses on maintaining stability, and is hit hard, but it cannot really start fighting. All signs indicate that the Japanese are very dissatisfied with the current China and the government. Once the European war begins, Japan, who is no longer scruples, will take a lesson. Whether it is a threat of force or a direct war, he, as the president, must fight back hard, otherwise, he will face the continuous pressure and blackmail from the Japanese government for several years in the future.

He took the opportunity to change the topic. Feng Guozhang was an old man from Beiyang. He was very cautious in his career. This attitude made him unable to win and would never dare to openly attack the central government with his eggs. This is another reason why Li Han temporarily suspended his dealing with Jiangsu.

"Cai E did not break his promise and had sent Xie Ruyi back to Yunnan to persuade Tang Jiyao, but the effect was not obvious for the time being. According to the information sent back by the Bureau of Investigation, Tang seemed to be very dissatisfied with Xie's return. He had refused to meet him several times and added guards to his residence..."

"Is it under house arrest?" He raised his head, "Yunnan is easy to defend but difficult to attack. If it were possible, the central government would not actively send troops into Yunnan in a short period of time. Strengthen contact with Li Hongxiang, Han Jianduo, and Gu Pinzhen. After we instigated Liu Xianshi, didn't Tang Jiyao start to strengthen his control over Yunnan's military and political affairs, and was cleaning up other factions in the army? I don't want a chaotic Yunnan, but I don't need a Tang Jiyao's Yunnan!"

"Yes, in Guizhou, the Yunnan Army and the Guizhou Army have handed over fire several times in Yunnan and Guizhou in the past month. Among them, the Guizhou Army lost more than the wins and won less, and has lost control of more than ten counties on the Yunnan-Guizhou border. Lu Rongting in Guangxi has been honest recently, but the abolition of the power of local currency has hit him a lot. I went to the Ministry of Finance to ask. Last year alone, Lu Rongting issued as much as 70 million yuan in bad money in Guangxi, and his profits are as high as 10 million yuan. I am worried that he will be anxious and will make some mistakes.

Action! Guangdong Long Jiguang, the Guangdong city defender uprising two days ago. He was very unpopular in Guangdong, and the Kuomintang has been unrest recently. There are already voices that are unfavorable to the president on the market. It was my mistake. Chen Jiongming and Hu Hanmin secretly went to Fujian six days ago. The Bureau of Investigation did not realize that it was wrong until yesterday that the two announced the infection of wind and cold was an excuse. It is suspected that the Kuomintang may take action against Guangdong recently! "

The president frowned slightly, "Don't make promises easily on Liu Xianshi, and maintain his appropriate support for the weakness of the Yunnan Army. If you strengthen intelligence collection on Lu Rongting, I will then let Hunan keep a close eye on it. As for Guangdong..."

He pondered for a while, "Long Jiguang cannot fall for the time being, don't care about some infamy. Guangdong is not our main position in the general election. The Kuomintang and Fujian need to strengthen their attention. Sun Huang has resigned to me recently, and Wang Zhaoming has also made an excuse to leave the general election. The intelligence of the Bureau of Investigation coincides with our guesses. I also suspect that the Kuomintang may have to take action against Guangdong. Ask your people to be careful and hand the Kuomintang's actions to Long Jiguang. Then I will notify Jiangxi and Zhejiang to make preparations. By the way, will there be any further information about the Black Dragon I investigated last time?"

In early May, the Black Dragon Association was found by the Investigation Bureau to arrive in Fujian. In the following month, information was sent back one after another, but it was all worthless. Instead, in order to spy on the news, several intelligence personnel from the Investigation Bureau invaded the Fujian military government and lost several people.

"It was Donglai's negligence. Since the last assassination of Tooshanman, the Black Dragon has been very vigilant about us. Recently, it has shown that the Japanese military's intelligence experts have participated, and we have lost a lot of people."

"Strengthen the intelligence collection, but it may not be good news. I have been in contact with Sun and Huang many times. They are not the kind of selfish politicians or unwise traitors. However, there are too many speculators in the Kuomintang party, and I am worried about it. I plan to let Sun and Huang go back. It is not easy to fight in Fujian for the time being. With him, Chen Qimei and his ambitions will be restrained. But you can't rely on others. The Investigation Bureau should pay close attention and transfer a few good players to the side. The Black Dragon will stay as much as possible!"

"yes!"

Li Dong came over not just to report these things to him, but he also had some overseas intelligence to report to him.

purchase!

In the early years, the Bureau of Investigation received an order to cash out the Bureau's overseas assets at the beginning of the year, and exchanged them for precious metals such as silver and gold, guns, artillery and other weapons, even grain, books and materials, as well as foreign technicians, university professors, etc. Millions of overseas assets were ordered to be sold as much as possible and converted into physical goods to be transported back to China. There is no reason or reason. Li Han asked the Bureau of Investigation to pay attention to safety. This purchase of nearly 100 million US dollars has been scattered to Europe and the United States, among which the United States has eaten up a big head. For this reason, the Dow Jones Index has also risen by ten points in recent months, and the US economy has experienced a false prosperity.

The reason for this is that the Bureau of Investigation conducted three bulk transactions through hundreds of bag companies overseas. The first bulk transaction was purchased by more than a dozen companies in South America and Australia, and dozens of farmers' groups in the western United States. Given that the outbreak of the war is imminent, purchasing grain is naturally a very important link. Although China's domestic grain production is high, due to its large population, the per capita possession is not large. The United States, which has a large land area and a suitable climate, has been firmly the world's largest grain exporter since the middle and late last century, and its land-intensive advantage is obvious. As a consumable item, the United States has been in a continuous bumper harvest year in recent years.

The high harvest of a large number of agricultural products and the continued decline of the US economy in the past few years have made the domestic food price in the United States far lower than that in countries around the world. While the food price hurts the people, the US government has paid a considerable amount of agricultural support for it. At the same time, the United States has become the most jealous country in the world... A very cruel reality. When the people of some countries in Asia, Africa and even South America can't even afford coarse grains, the farmers and herdsmen in this country would rather feed corn, wheat, etc. because of the low grain prices. A large amount of grain found sellers, and all sectors of the United States were delighted. The consumption and sales of machinery driven by farmers' incomes ultimately benefited from all walks of life in the United States.

The Food Bureau is just one of the major actions started by the Bureau of Investigation overseas. The second major action was the procurement of factories. The Bureau of Investigation purchased several tractor factories, engines and motorcycle factories in the east and west of the United States. The entire production line was added with thousands of technical workers. Under various temptations, they nodded and agreed to go to the unknown other side to hunt for gold. Although they believed that the place they were going to reach was Europe or Australia, but the actual destination was the far Asia Far East.

The third transaction was also the one that satisfies Li Han the most. This is another reason why his intelligence officer came to report to him in detail today - arms!

In 1886, France took the lead in adopting the m1886 Leber rifle using smokeless drug bullets. European countries followed suit, and Tsarist Russia also decided to design a similar new continuous-shot rifle to replace the old Berdan single-shot rifle. "Shuishengzhu" was born in this case. Its official name was the 1891 Mosin-Nagan rifle. Although the new gun has been finalized, the Russian arsenal did not have enough ability to put it into production immediately. Therefore, the first batch of products were manufactured by the state-owned weapons factory in Chatlol, France the following year, and it was put into production in its own country in 1894. Due to the weak industrial foundation of Tsarist Russia, there were not enough new guns to fully operate until the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904.

Replaced the Berdan rifle, so the two weapons were still mixed at that time. Since 1911, the continuous conflict in Europe has intensified the dissatisfaction of the Russian military. The Russian army has expanded to about 1.44 million, but more than half of the troops are even using weapons from the 1950s and 1960s. Only by deploying troops from Europe and the Far East can you enjoy the old Berdan single-shot rifle equipped with some Mosinnagan rifles. In this case, at the end of 12, Russia provided relevant technologies to the two companies in the United States, Remington and Westinhouse, hoping that the two factories would produce a batch of ordnance. The total price of this batch of ordnance involves a total of 5.378,200 US dollars, totaling 240,000 Mosinnagan rifles.

After the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian domestic finance, which paid a huge loss of up to 4 billion gold rubles for this war, was immediately in a very bad situation. In order to cause some trouble for the Russians, not only did Japan and the Germans support and fund the revolutionary party in Russia in recent years, but the Bureau of Investigation has also joined the ranks of support behind the scenes. The European branch of the Bureau of Investigation has established contact with several revolutionary parties with wide influence in Russia, and has also provided them with 200 shots in the past year.

The brand new Mosinnagan rifle and a donation of 60,000 pounds further exacerbated the turmoil in Russia. As a result, after Remington and Westinhouse handed over 20,000 Mosinnagan rifles to Russia, some quality problems occurred in Russia for firearms and demanded a period of time to pay the remaining balance. As a result, the Americans looked back and found no problems. After finding that they had been tricked by the Russians who had no money, the Russians paid the remaining balance of 10,000 rifles again, but they lost the following for the remaining weapons.

If Li Han did not intervene in this matter, then the matter would have undergone a certain change after the war in the subsequent World War I. That is, after the war in the first World War I, the Russian army was still suffering from a shortage of rifles. Only half of the infantry divisions sent to the front line equipped weapons according to the standards, and were forced to purchase weapons from the United States again. Then, not only spoke kindly, they even increased the amount of Moxin Nagan's rifles from the two major companies to 1.55 million. Unfortunately, the two major companies only provided another 50,000 to Russia, and were dragged by the lack of money until the October Revolution. Then the Soviet government refused to pay the remaining funds. In the end, the US government took out its pockets and bought the weapons of millions of dollars, providing them to the Belarusian army in the Far East, and the rest were sold to the public.

Li Han was lucky enough to know this interesting news, so after the news broke out in April this year that Remington's company sued the Russian side for breach of contract, he signaled the Bureau of Investigation to contact the two major companies. In the end, he got what he wanted and won the final amount that the Russians could not afford. Nearly 200,000 new American-made Moxin Nagan rifles were transported out of the United States through various channels, the fastest of which would arrive in China in late June. 60 heavy artillery arrived with the ship, making up for the embarrassment of nine new divisions who had to use old weapons to train due to the several expansions of the National Defense Forces. Please visit "

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