Chapter 32: Everything is for Jiawu

"Mr. Bai Lewen, I took the liberty to come here, not for anything else, just to see the hospital run by the Americans. In addition, I have a layer of selfishness, intending to invest by the government to make the hospital bigger, which can be considered as doing something for the people."

Although he disdains Chinese officials, he does not slap people with smiles, let alone send money. Western medicine is not the mainstream in China, and Chinese people trust traditional Chinese medicine more. Now some officials have expressed their support for hospitals and have to make the hospital bigger. This will naturally make the eyes shine for Bo Lewen, who is trapped in funding and manpower.

"Mr. Governor, what's the name? Is coffee OK?" Bai Lewen's face looked much better. Chen Congyun nodded. Bai Lewen smiled at the nurse who rushed in, "Trisey, go and make two cups of coffee."

The female nurse in white clothes is a young foreign woman. When Chen Congyun came in, he felt that the figure of a young foreign woman in the nurse's uniform really reminded people of many AVs before traveling through time. However, the skin of the foreign woman is really not satisfactory, especially after the age of 30, as long as you don't pay attention to maintenance, your body should not deform too quickly.

"It's better for Chinese women! Resisting old age! I have to get a few nurse uniforms and let the women at home wear them at night. Hehe, I'm really lewd now." Chen Congyun couldn't help but smile when such an idea came up in his mind.

"I'm going down to Congyun. If possible, I want to be a friend of Mr. Bai Lewen, so I hope Mr. Bai Lewen can call me my name." Chen Congyun spoke fluent English, and then Bai Lewen remembered that when Chen Congyun entered the door just now, he also spoke English. A Chinese senior official who could talk to Americans in skillful English, Bai Lewen's interest came.

The coffee was delivered quickly, and Bai Lewen pointed to the chair opposite and said, "Please!"

After Chen Congyun watched Miss Tracy walk out with her swaying buttocks, she then withdrew her gaze and smiled slightly at Bai Lewen. Bai Lewen did not discriminate much against Chen Congyun's actions. As a man, who is not good at this tone?

"It is an honor to know you, Mr. Chen, the governor of China." Bai Lewen looked at Chen Congyun's official position according to the American point of view. Chen Congyun smiled and shook his head, "No! No! No! Mr. Bai Lewen, you are wrong. China is an imperial country, unlike the federal system of the United States, so you should call me the governor, not the governor."

Bai Lewen was stunned, then smiled and said, "Sorry, the habit problem."

Chen Congyun shook his head and said he was not concerned, and then smiled and said, "Mr. Bai Lewen, I have been in the hospital for two hours today and roughly looked at the situation of the hospital. I personally think that everything in Boxi Hospital now seems very simple, which is not a good thing for the people of Suzhou who need treatment from your hospital. So, if allowed, I will invest 200,000 yuan to purchase equipment, expand wards, and introduce talents from abroad. Of course, this is conditional."

Speaking of conditions, Bai Lewen frowned slightly and said softly: "I admit that the hospital needs your funding and policy tilts very much, but as a professional, I still think that the hospital should have the autonomy."

Chen Congyun waved his hand and smiled, "You misunderstood. I have no interest in the ownership of the hospital. My conditions are very simple. I will build a medical school next to Boxi Hospital. I hope you can serve as the principal and cultivate China's own Western medical talents."

The idea of ​​building a medical school was Chen Congyun Yingkeze's suggestion. Unfortunately, Chen Congyun was not a pharmaceutical manufacturer, otherwise he would have made a fortune if he had penicillin.

For Bai Lewen, Chen Congyun's conditions are simply the only thing that is right. Bai Lewen has always been committed to promoting Western medicine in China. Chen Congyun's suggestion is undoubtedly a pillow when he is sleepy.

"There are really no other conditions attached?" Bai Lewen thought he had heard it wrong, so he confirmed his tone.

Chen Congyun smiled and said, "It should be gone. If there are really other conditions, I think it should be that once China is invaded and my soldiers are about to go to the battlefield, I hope Mr. Bo Lewen can help a medical team, that's all."

"Oh, what's the condition? Dear Governor, you are the most kind governor I have ever met in China. Thank God."

The matter was handled as soon as possible. Chen Congyun asked someone to call Ouyang Quan and he was supervising the matter. Chen Congyun asked Zheng Guanying to discuss the specific matter of how to move the military factory.

Zheng Guanying showed a strong opposition to the relocation of the factory. First, it pointed out that Shanghai has the Shanghai Bureau in the front, and the military factories that relocated to Vietnam are suspected of repeated construction. Secondly, from the perspective of confidentiality, it is obviously more convenient and confidential in Vietnam than in China. Furthermore, Vietnam has copper but Jiangsu does not. From the perspective of production costs, it is of course more cost-effective to set up a factory in Vietnam.

Chen Congyun considered the problem from the perspective of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. Once the war started, it would be quite troublesome to transport arms from Vietnam to the country. But this reason was not easy to tell Zheng Guanying. Considering the shortage of funds and the elimination of equipment, Chen Congyun had to give up the plan of relocation. He just ordered Zhan Tianyou, who was in Vietnam, to concentrate all his strength and to produce enough arms within two years to support the reserves of 100,000 troops for a year of war. He failed to persuade Zheng Guanying to relocate the military factory, so Chen Congyun had to propose to build more warehouses and stockpile arms in China. Zheng Guanying did not retort this.

(Note: Haha, I really don’t think about the relocation of military factories. Everyone reminds me in time and make changes.)

To increase and train new troops, hoard arms, and open medical schools for the military's medical security. Shen Congyun is everything for the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.

Just as Shen Congyun was preparing for war, Japan was preparing for the war to invade and China, and it was also at its last moment.

After the "Renwu Mutiny" in North Korea in 1882, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters had already begun to formulate plans for combat against China, and mobilized the whole country to speed up military preparations for combat against China. In 1890, Japan's military expenditure accounted for 30% of the national budget, and in 1892, it increased sharply to 41%.

In the early 1870s, the Japanese Army had a normal organization of more than 31,000 people and more than 46,000 people during the war. The Navy had only 17 ships (most of which were made of wooden), with a total displacement of 13,800 tons. After vigorous expansion, until the start of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, Japan mobilized according to the new wartime organization. The Army had seven divisions (including the Guards Division), plus the Military Field Corps and the Tsuma Guard Guard, with a total force of more than 220,000 people. After expansion, the Navy had 31 warships, twenty-four torpedo boats, and the dead substitute warships (armed merchant ships), with a total tonnage of more than 72,600 tons.

The reorganized Japanese army became: two infantry brigades (two infantry companies per brigade, three brigades per brigade, four squadrons per brigade), one cavalry brigade (three squadrons), one artillery brigade (two field artillery brigade, one mountain artillery brigade, and two squadrons per brigade), one engineering brigade (two squadrons), and one baggage brigade (two squadrons). The seven divisions will assist more than 123,000 people, more than 38,000 horses, one hundred and sixty-eight field artillery brigade, and seventy-two mountain artillery brigade.

In terms of military ordnance, in 1880, the Army's Nakasa improved the breech guns such as "Shi Nade" and "Li Enfei" to make the "Murada Thirteen-Year-Type" single-shot rifle, which was later improved to "Murada Eighteen-Year-Type". In 1889, with the emergence of smokeless gunpowder, the "Murada Twenty-Type" continuous-shot gun was born. Due to national strength issues, from the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, only the Guard Division and the Fourth Division equipped the continuous-shot gun, and other troops were equipped with single-shot rifles.

In order to deal with Dingyuan, the Japanese Navy forced the three warships of "Songdao", "Isanthemum" and "Kailao" to be equipped with 320mm caliber main guns on the 4,200-ton warships, which were equipped with 320mm caliber main guns in the history of the world's naval. In the later Yellow Sea War, the main guns of the "Three Scenery Ship" were simply decorations, which was also a big joke in the history of the naval. Of course, the Japanese soldiers did not think so.

In 1893, due to Weng Tonghe's obstruction, Li Hongzhang failed in the battle with Japan for a new British-made cruiser. Japan added new warships represented by "Yoshino". It can be said that due to China's internal friction, the strength comparison between the Beiyang Navy and the Japanese Navy increased and decreased, and the two sides were basically on the same level of strength. The Japanese Navy won the number of new fast warships equipped with rapid-fire guns, while the Beiyang Navy won the quality of soldiers and Dingyuan, Zhenyuan and the terrifying 305mm main gun. (Note: Some people have always believed that the quality of the Japanese Navy's soldiers was stronger than that of the Beiyang Navy at that time. I personally combined some historical data to believe that the quality of the Beiyang Navy's soldiers should be above the Japanese Navy.)

In order to prepare for a war against China, the Japanese authorities sent spies to collect information from all aspects. In 1893, the deputy chief of the Japanese General Staff, Kawakami Kawakami personally went to Busan, Incheon, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing and other places in North Korea. Focusing on spying on China's military, soldier training, military equipment, terrain and landforms. Before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, Japan had long drawn detailed military maps including North Korea, the three eastern provinces of China and the Bohai Bay, and even showed every hill and every road.

How could the Japanese General Staff, who was deliberately investigating Chinese military information, missed a sudden appearance of Shen Congyun, and Shen Congyun's new army.

The Spring Festival in 1894 has quietly arrived. When a gust of snow floats on the land in Jiangnan, the sound of firecrackers indicates that the green spring in the next year will return to the earth.

During the three days of the Chinese New Year, Shen Congyun finally had some time to relax. On the first day of the Chinese New Year, Princess Yuxiu, who had grown hair, refused to get up.

Yu Xiu, who officially followed Shen Congyun, looked particularly gentle in contrast to his past style. Seeing that there was no movement in the wives and concubines around Shen Congyun, Yu Xiu recently began to encourage Shen Congyun to find an opportunity to make his maid Xiaoju, saying that this is called Guangbu Yulu.

However, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Yuxiu showed a very firm attitude, pushing Chen Congyun away, getting up first and putting on it, and then pulling Chen Congyun up with a hard time.

Chen Congyun got up helplessly, and three concubines and maids rushed up to clean up Chen Congyun. After finishing the pack, they had just arrived in front of the living room, and the people had been waiting there to greet Chen Congyun. The Chinese people celebrated the New Year to celebrate. Yu Xiu, who was a big house, took out the red envelopes that had been prepared long ago and sent them one by one. After a while, Chen Congyun was planning to sneak back to sleep and get back to bed, but Zheng Guanying and Stephen came together. Before they could send these two, Aftershock and a group of officers from Tianjin student soldiers also arrived. After a while, all the German officers such as Keze and François and other French mercenaries came.

This year is very lively!

But the three days have not passed yet. On the afternoon of the third day of the Chinese New Year, when Chen Congyun was playing mahjong with his wife in the backyard, the commander of the 3rd Division of the newly formed Second Army hurriedly walked in.

"Hello military throne! Hello, madam!" After the aftershock reported, he looked at the mahjong table with a little embarrassed.

Chen Congyun didn't understand that this kid had something to say. He smiled and secretly touched Ruan Xiaozhen's butt behind him who was looking at the cards, and then said, "Come on, help me play a few."

He led the aftershock to the study room. The smile on Chen Congyun's face disappeared, and he said to Aftershock seriously: "What happened?"

"Military, we killed a spy and captured one alive. As a result of the interrogation, the one who was shot was a Chinese, and the one who was captured alive was a Japanese. Now the boy is holding on, saying that he is a Japanese businessman and comes to China to do business. This is found on him." Aftershock said, handing over a small notebook. Chen Congyun opened it and looked at it. It was all in Japanese and didn't recognize it.

"What do the staff of the Japanese Affairs Department of the Military Intelligence Department say?" Chen Congyun was shocked. Over the years, Chen Congyun also stared at the little Japanese very much, so he specially established the Japanese Affairs Department. The new military camp was more careful on weekdays, but he didn't expect that he came to him.

"This records the equipment, organization, and training of our army in detail." Aftershock said this, Chen Congyun's face immediately changed. If this information falls into the hands of the Japanese, it would be a big trouble.

"There is nothing to say. The first thing to do now is to figure out how he got this information. Secondly, the news was announced to the public and protested against the Japanese government. The spy was cut off at Caishikou three days later."

Aftershock stood attentively: "Military throne, the MIIS special department has checked. The Chinese man who was shot dead is a merchant who has provided vegetables to our army for a long time. With this relationship, it is more convenient for him to enter and exit the military camp, so..."

"Bastard! How did Zhao Xinglong be the intelligence director? I have been studying intelligence for three years in Germany, and I learned it in vain? Grandma, if it weren't for the timely discovery and going to the battlefield in the future, I would have suffered a lot. Let Zhao Xinglong come to see me immediately." Chen Congyun said angrily, and aftershock quickly whispered: "Zhao Xinglong asked me to tell the military captain that he had already gone to pay New Year's greetings to various military merchants. He also promised that something similar to today would never happen."

"He is smart, but he still knows how to fix the dead!" Chen Congyun snorted twice, and at this time, Yuxiu smiled at the door, walked in and smiled at Chen Congyun, "What are you doing? You can't speak well during the New Year?"

"Go down, come and report any matters at any time." Chen Congyun waved to the aftershock. After the aftershock went down, he said angrily: "Dog Japanese, it actually got my head."

Yuxiu was also shocked, but she was very sensible. She didn't interrupt the military and national affairs, but just gave Chen Congyun a tea and said, "Don't be angry, ask the servants to watch the joke."

Chen Congyun patted Yuxiu's hand and sighed: "You are tired of losing your flag, and you can't even know how to spend the New Year."

Yu Xiu gave Chen Congyun a blank look and said, "What are you saying? I want to go back at any time, why? I'm upset with me? I don't think I'm pregnant with you one and a half? This is not my own business, let's talk about it..."

"Stop! Stop! Stop!" Chen Congyun was sweating profusely and quickly stopped. He didn't know what to do recently. These women were very sensitive when they saw that their stomachs were not moving.

"You!" Chen Congyun smiled bitterly and took Yu Xiu's hand, touched it, "I have something to ask you. After this year, you can go back to Beijing quietly. Remember, stay by the Empress Dowager's side and don't walk around."

Yuxiu is not a stupid person. Chen Congyun immediately became energetic when he said this. He looked back carefully and whispered: "What's wrong?"

Chen Congyun whispered: "Remember, once there is a chaos in North Korea, you should notify me immediately, and at the same time find a way to incite the Empress Dowager and ask Li Hongzhang to send troops to North Korea."

Yuxiu nodded in a vague way, Chen Congyun patted Yuxiu's hand and said, "Go, call Mr. Zheng, General Keze, Mr. Hu, and I will invite you to discuss it with me."

Yuxiu went out a little nervously. Chen Congyun wiped his face and showed a gloomy smile on his face.

But in half an hour, Keze was the first to arrive.

"Governor General, what are you doing with me?" Kerze also had a rare day of rest. He was not here to accompany his daughter Xiao Laura at home.

"I asked you to formulate the battle plan for defense and counterattack in the Northeast if something happened to North Korea and the Beiyang operation was not effective, how did you make the most of how to complete the mobilization and deployment in the shortest time? "

After hearing this, Keze looked stern, and put his bag on the table, took out a document from it, and handed it to Chen Congyun: "It has been basically done, and now there is a lack of some individual data and specific intelligence. Based on the work of the General Staff on the Japanese Intelligence Department over the past two years, we can roughly draw the conclusion that once a war breaks out between China and Japan, the Japanese army can be put into the Korean battlefield in about seven divisions, plus some other troops, the total number may reach 150,000. Of course, the premise is that Japan does not mobilize the whole country. According to the analysis of Japan's comprehensive national strength, once a war begins between China and Japan, it is very likely to be a fight. This protracted war, and Japan's economic strength can support it for up to three years. Now, we will conduct pre-war analysis based on the situation of facing 150,000 Japanese troops. ………………………… The conclusion is as follows: If our army only conducts a Northeast defense war, it is more than enough. Once it needs to fight back, with the existing forces and without the cooperation of the navy, it will be difficult for us to carry out a devastating blow to the Japanese army, and at most it can push the front line to Pyongyang, because our supply line will be too long by then, and North Korea has no railways, and North Korea's narrow and long coastline, once the Japanese have the power to control the sea, they can land behind our army at any time and carry out counterattacks."

"Navy, yes, we don't have a navy! Damn!" Chen Congyun listened to Keze's detailed report and punched the North Korean map in anger.

"No, Governor General. China has a navy, Beiyang Navy!" Keze was really mean, Chen Congyun smiled bitterly and said, "Beiyang Navy, can it listen to me?"

"It's really hard for the Chinese to understand. As long as such a big country is united around the emperor, the small Japan, and the whole country is in power, as long as Japan dares to start a war, it will not be difficult to destroy Japan." Keze said and shook his head.

Chen Congyun also shook his head with a wry smile and said, "This is the current situation in China."

At this time, Zheng Guanying and Hu Xueyan came together. When Chen Congyun saw the two, he immediately asked them to sit down, and then asked Zheng Guanying seriously: "Brother Zhengxiang, are there any preparations for the Beiyang Navy?"

"Each gun can be loaded with a base grenade of ten bases, and I have already said hello to Xingsun. Some time ago, I went to the Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau. The shells produced there can only be used as coaches and the proportion of sand mixed is too large. Xingsun is helpless in this matter. Zhang Shiheng is Li Zhongtang's nephew. Some time ago, Xingsun told me that Mr. Hannagan could not do anything even if he wanted to get together for several hours. The Beiyang Navy's military equipment is so loose, how can he win if there is something?" Zheng Guanying's sigh made Keze very confused.

"Governor General, I really don't understand. You know what the consequences will be caused by such corrupt officials, so why don't you stop them?"

Chen Congyun shrugged helplessly and said, "I have no way to stop it, I can only take other methods to remedy it. Just to prepare this batch of shells, I would have put in more than one million yuan. I can only do this. No matter how much I say, I will be suspected of having ulterior motives."

"Okay, let's not talk about these things. Let's talk about what we should do!" Zheng Guanying immediately changed the subject. Many things were really unexplained with Keze, a German.

"Well! How is the railway going?" Chen Congyun is most concerned about the Luhan Railway.

"Zhan Tianyou called before the New Year and will be opened next month. In this way, the Luhan Railway will be opened to traffic throughout the journey. Stephen bought the latest locomotives from the United States will be in place. As long as it is well prepared, 30,000 people of weapons and equipment can be transported to Jinzhou within ten days." Zheng Guanying's answer made Chen Congyun feel much more at ease. The construction of the railways of the three provinces and the connection to the Luhan Railway was not done due to Liu Kunyi's obstruction. Chen Congyun had no choice but to settle for the second best and built a railway from Shanghai to Qingdao. The investor was the Rothschild family.

"How is the preparations for military affairs?" Chen Congyun turned his attention to Hu Xueyan, and Hu Xueyan is now responsible for these.

The God of Wealth is the God of Wealth, nodding with a smile: "Jianggui, don't worry, the Bank of China has a gold reserve of up to ten tons, and I can raise 10 million yuan at any time, and it's okay to have 50 million yuan in a month. In terms of military equipment, judging from the reserves of the twenty-three warehouses currently built in Shanghai, my 100,000-strong army will be rich for two years."

Chen Congyun was very surprised when he heard this, and couldn't help but ask: "Xueyan, where does so much gold come from?"

"Haha, thanks to Wang Chi. I heard you accidentally talk about the central and western Hainan, Zhaoyuan, Shandong, and other places with rich reserves of flying gold mines, so I found Zhan Tianyou and led a group of people to look for gold mines all over the world in these two places, and I really found it for him. Didn't he tell you about this?" Hu Xueyan was also very surprised. Why did Chen Congyun become so forgetful?

Chen Congyun slapped his head and said, "By the way, I was fighting with Liu Kun for the sake of the railway, and I forgot about this matter."

"Haha, that's right. Wang Chi, mining has been released in the past two years, and it has dug out 50,000 tons. In addition, you said that gold is the foundation of a bank, and I have also paid attention to this matter. I try every means to acquire gold for reserves. In the past two years, as long as pawnshops in various places receive gold products, they will strive to make customers die! In addition, the gold sent by Vietnam is not much more than ten tons."

The God of Wealth is the God of Wealth. There are not many ten tons of gold, so it’s a big tone.

"Everyone, something that must be paid enough attention to happened this morning. This is the main purpose of my invitation to come here......" Chen Congyun briefly explained the catching of the Japanese spy, and finally said to everyone with a serious expression: "Everyone, based on the comprehensive judgment of all aspects of intelligence, a decisive battle between China and Japan will surely take place this year between China and Japan. I order!"

Keze immediately stood at attention, and Chen Congyun's words were naturally said to him.

"The General Staff immediately began to formulate a detailed combat plan against Japan! Everything is prepared for the Sino-Japanese War!"

"Yes! Governor!" Keze agreed very simply.

Chen Congyun turned around and said to Zheng Guanying and Hu Xueyan: "Two, I hope you will cooperate closely with the General Staff. Once the war between China and Japan begins, I need you to prepare enough transportation capacity to transport the two divisions of troops and equipment from Vietnam to Shanghai within one month."

"No problem!"

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China does not have this habit of killing people on the sixth day of the Chinese New Year. However, officials from all over the Jiangsu province have long been used to the usual alien style of Chen Congyun, the immediate superior. After the announcement of the execution of spies was posted on the fourth day of the Chinese New Year, the people reacted very strongly. A group of gentry came to ask Chen Congyun not to start the operation in the first lunar month. Chen Congyun hesitated and decided to postpone the sentence until after the first lunar month, which was only solemnly quiet.

After the eighth day of the lunar month, Yuxiu was escorted by a team of guards to Beijing. Chen Congyun began preparing for the Sino-Japanese War in Shanghai. In order to prepare for the war, Chen Congyuntian stayed in the General Staff for more than ten hours. All of these German officers under Keze were not vegetarians, but in just ten days, three detailed strategic plans had been taken out.

These three plans are mainly about the following content. First, once the Beiyang Navy was defeated, considering that Li Hongzhang, who was expected by Chen Congyun to restrict the Beiyang Navy from taking the initiative to attack in order to preserve his strength, the situation of passive attacks caused by the Beiyang Navy, how can the new army complete the reinforcement to Weihai in the shortest time? The fastest reinforcement of Weihai is required, provided that the railway from Shanghai to Qingdao can be completed in the shortest time. The estimated time for completion is one year. Secondly, once the Korean War was corrupt, Chen Congyun took the initiative to ask for battle. Once the new army goes north, the troops' equipment, supplies, transportation and other issues must be prepared. It is recommended to consider sending personnel to the Northeast to do early material reserves after the war breaks out, and at the same time start purchasing necessary transportation animals such as mules and horses on a large scale. Finally, once the new army enters the battle, it is stable, and how to counterattack.
Chapter completed!