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Section 11 In the National Assembly

After Zhao Gang finished speaking, everyone except Zhan Tianyou was surprised. Zhang Qian asked: "You have no limits on your words, you have to take out something to prove yourself."

Everyone responded, it seemed that if the evidence was not provided, the railway proposal would fail again. I don’t know when the next discussion will happen.

Zhao Gang had no choice but to get up and leave the seat and said to everyone: "Okay, come with me, but you keep your love for what you see secretly and don't leak it."

After leaving the gate, the group got on the carriage and led by Zhao Gang to the arsenal.

After an hour of bumpy ride, I finally arrived at the arsenal. Zhao Gang and everyone turned around several corridors and came to a huge weapon test site.

Looking from a distance, there seemed to be a locomotive on the test site. From time to time, a few things would fly out of this dark guy and smash them out from afar.

Zhao Gang said a few words to the person in charge of the test. After hearing this, the technician took out a red flag and shook it. The locomotive-like thing stopped.

Zhao Gang stretched out his hand and said to everyone: "Come and have a look with me. I designed the 'rail killer' specially designed for the invention of Russian narrow-gauge railway."

Everyone was curious, so they followed Zhao Gang and walked closer to find that the thing that looked like a locomotive from a distance was the shape of a locomotive at the front, a huge round barrel in the middle, two huge sickle-shaped iron hooks hung from the back, and a row of long boards on both sides.

Seeing that everyone was puzzled, Zhao Gang smiled slightly, took everyone into the cab, started the motorcycle by himself, and said with a smile: "Let you open your eyes."

The locomotive started on the railway, and the speed was not fast. The largest sickle behind him paved the sleepers on the rails one by one. When the rails were low, the bolts between the rails made a terrible creaking sound, and finally broke after a crisp sound. More than a dozen sleepers, two rails were carried by huge sickles, raised over their heads and threw them into the barrel in the middle. The rails were first sucked by the sucking stones and then crushed the next sleepers on both sides and threw them into the stove. Next, the long wooden boards on both sides suddenly threw out, and the two rails had already roared and flew dozens of meters away.

Next, the second, the third... at the seventh, the motorcycle made a rapid cough and fell into bed.

Despite the embarrassment, Zhao Gang still remained calm and explained the principle of the 'rail killer', and finally said: "The 'rail killer' is not perfect now, but there are still about 10 years before the Siberian Railway is opened to traffic. At that time, it will definitely become a 'rail killer', so that the Russians will never return."

The ministers were still immersed in the shock brought by the "railroad killer" and naturally did not express their objections.

Back at the headquarters, everyone continued the arduous tug-of-war. This time, Zhang Qian and Zhao Gang proposed the proposal.

"The industrial part is heavy industry, steel production will be from the current 200,000 tons to 1.2 million tons in five years.

Light industry will expand from 400,000 spindles to 12 million spindles, completely defeating any competitor in Asia and sharing the world market with Europe and the United States. Of course, it will cost only 240 million taels of silver.

This proposal is really scary. Zhao Gang once thought of the word "Great Leap Forward" in his mind, and he despised Zhang Qian's greedy appetite. Of course, Zhang Qian was also very disdainful of Zhao Gang's overestimation. The two of them first made some physical and mental contacts.

"President Zhao's proposal is very funny. Where does the money needed for heavy industry come from? How much money can the Siberian Railway earn every year? 10 million or 20 million are you going to build the railway. Where can you have the spare money to buy equipment?"

Zhao Gang said with a confident heart and smiled:

"This is not to make money from my father-in-law. As long as the steel mill makes money, I'm afraid that I'm worried about lacking money at that time, I'm afraid I'm worried about having too much money to spend? However, I heard that the price of imported foreign sand cloth has been reduced a lot recently. I wonder if it will affect your expansion plan?"

Zhang Qian was also facing tit for a while and refused to give in:

"Since the establishment of Dasheng Spinning Mill, it has made a cumulative profit of 900,000 taels of silver in two years. The shareholders' capital had already been recovered. I wonder how much your investment has been recovered by your wise son-in-law?"

Zhao Gang was poked into the sore area, and he felt very upset, and his mouth changed:

"Our heavy industry does not require additional investment, it only needs to accumulate itself."

"We don't need to do it in Qinghai Industry."

Before the others could express their opinions, the father-in-law and son-in-law solved the problem in advance. Since there was no need for a cent of the treasury, no one opposed it. This was like the proposal was successfully passed.

The Ministry of Agriculture has to propose to implement highly mechanized operations. The development of tractors is put on the agenda and prepares to implement all mechanized operations by 1900.

This is not much cost, but the effect is very significant and it was passed unanimously.

Finally, it was the hardest proposal

Military, the Navy's five-year expansion plan was implemented to build a new ship every year, with a tonnage of 1,000 to 2,000 tons per year. In 1900, the standard for 12,000-ton battleships could be manufactured.

The Army's expansion plan is more radical, implementing a conscript system, expanding from the current 35,000 to 255,000

After Zhao Gang finished speaking, he habitually looked at Liang Caishen first. Liang Caishen did not move. Zhao Gang was very surprised and looked at him one by one, but no one wanted to object. The military proposal became the third proposal to pass unanimously.

On December 10, 1894, the founding ceremony of the Northeast Republic was held in Liaoyang, the temporary capital, announcing the official birth of the Northeast Republic. The flag of the year was the "Flying Tiger Flag with Wings". An hour later, Germany recognized the Northeast Republic, and one day later, Russia, the United States, and France successively recognized the Northeast Republic. The United Kingdom only issued an ambiguous note and did not clearly recognize the autonomous status of the Northeast Republic.

Under the promotion and influence of the anti-catchment of Taiwan on and outside Taiwan, officials stationed in Taiwan, led by Taiwan Governor Tang Jingsong, also supported the people's "anti-catchment of Taiwan". Qiu Fengjia invited a group of famous Taiwanese officials and gentry to retain Tang Jingsong to temporarily take charge of the Taiwan government and advocated the establishment of a "anti-Japanese and Taiwan protection" regime. On November 15, a "Taiwanese Announcement" signed by "all Taiwan gentry" was submitted to the Forbidden City, with the announcement saying: "...a hundred and a hundred

The surname is Wuyi, so they can only defend themselves as an island country, and they are far away from home to the emperor... The goal is to hold on to the contrary and wait for a turnaround." On December 15, a temporary local anti-Japanese regime was established. In order to facilitate the dealings with the Japanese invaders and win the support of international public opinion, they used the banner of "Taiwan Democracy" to the outside world, and the governor Tang Jingsong was still presided over the governor, Liu Yongfu was the "general", and Qiu Fengjia, the head of the Ministry of Works, was the commander of the rebel army in Taiwan.

The temporary anti-Japanese regime also carefully designed a "Yellow Tiger Banner" with a high tail and a low head, and named the year name "Yongqing", which means "submission to the Qing Dynasty and permanently obey China". The Taiwanese people's sincere heart for the motherland is about to emerge.

The result of the Qing Dynasty's consultation with European and American powers was that if Japan could not occupy these places within four years, these republics were allowed to vote whether to return to the Qing Dynasty's rule.
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