Yang Qiuxing is meeting many entrepreneurs, and there is also a group of local people's congress representatives. The reason for these people is very simple. They do not want the war to stop expanding to the south. In fact, many families in the Northeast are tied to the war, and some things cannot be stopped just by saying that you can stop. Fortunately, the war with Tsarist Russia has not stopped. Although the intensity is not as fierce as before, at least it leaves these people with a chance to breathe, so that they can change industries smoothly.

"Mr. Prime Minister, our ships of the East China Sea Transport Company were harassed by the Spaniards in Luzon. Can you send the navy to help us escort?" The speaker was Guan Binghe, general manager of the East China Sea Transport Company. [bsp;    "We already know what you said, and the South China Sea Fleet will consider your proposal."

Donghai Transportation Company is the third largest shipping company in Northeast China. The number one is Qichang Company, which operates global shipping routes. The second global transportation company mainly operates European lines. Donghai Transportation currently mainly operates Southeast Asian transportation business. During the war with France and Siam, their company obtained a large number of military material transportation orders, so it made a lot of profits. Behind it are several major families in Zhejiang who are jointly operating.

Yang Qiuxing understood that Guan Binghe's so-called unreasonable harassment was mostly excuses. These people clearly wanted to pretend to be powerful and asked the Navy to help deal with some things, and perhaps they wanted to take the opportunity to provoke a problem with the Spaniards.

"Mr. Prime Minister, I am Kim Byung-hoon, General Manager of Goryeo Group."

Yang Qiuxing nodded. He knew that this person had three relatively large enterprises after North Korea was incorporated into the Northeast, including Goryeo Group, which was one of them. It operated a medicinal material business, purchased drug production equipment from the Da Shang Pharmaceutical Machinery Factory, and hired a large number of scientific and technological personnel from the School of Pharmaceutical. The main focus was on various injury drugs and antibiotics. At present, the products not only supply the northern front, but also the southern front.

War is like a big net, weaving various interest groups in the Northeast Autonomous Region. Yang Qiuxing expected the resistance to stop expansion, but he never thought that the resistance was so great. Donghai Shipping Company, Goryeo Group, Andong Textile Group, arms company, food company, canning factory, etc.

After the meeting, Yang Qiuxing was physically and mentally exhausted, thinking that these people were really hard to deal with, so he called Wang Yi.

"Sir, what do you do when you think about this? There are too many people involved."

Wang Yi smiled and said, "No matter how many of them are, we have so many territories now, and we can do a lot of things. As long as you formulate relevant guidance policies, there will always be companies willing to follow up. As for companies that make money by just pointing to war, bankruptcy doesn't matter. For the country, peace is the norm we pursue."

"But these companies are really not allowed to care about them, they still have a lot of workers."

"The shipping company does not transport military supplies, but can also transport Southeast Asia's grain, sugar and rubber. The Korean pharmaceutical factory can also study other drugs, and it is not necessary to stick to the wounded medicine. Textile groups can make other clothes. Could it be that only military uniforms are called clothes?"

Yang Qiuxing understood and said, "What should I do if the arms company?"

"What are they difficult to arrange? There is no shortage of war in the world, no shortage of ambitious people, no shortage of resistanceists. Since the British dare to cause trouble for us in Siam, it is okay to come here. They probably think that Myanmar, which has just been annexed this year, is too comfortable and there are no guerrillas in it. I don't mind setting up some modern resistance troops in Myanmar. In addition, the Boers in Africa will definitely like the arms we provide. Aren't the British navy very powerful? Let them pay the price on land!"

Wang Yi is now so upset with the British. He can get some trouble for them, so he naturally cannot ask for it.

After entering 1886, the Northeast, except for the war between Tsarist Russia in the north, the rest of the world started a development model. Wang Yi established a large-scale rubber plantation, sugar garden, coffee garden, tropical fruit plantation, and farm in Xinde Siam Province. The Tai'an Group also participated, recruiting more than 200,000 people from several domestic provinces, and then carried out large-scale immigration from Nanyue Province, re-establishing transportation networks, and towns.

Zhan Tianyou also returned to the five Southeast Asian provinces from Sanya. After that, Dashang Railway Construction Company sent a large number of railway exploration personnel to plan the railway construction in the entire area. At the same time, heavy industry construction, coal mines, metallurgy, steel, and the entire area was in full swing in North Vietnam.

The weather was a little hot, and Zhang Zhidong was practicing calligraphy in the hall, and he was calm. Zhao Fengchang, a copywriter from the Governor's Office, walked in.

"Zhu Jun, you are here." Although Zhao Fengchang is only 30 years old this year, he is deeply trusted by Zhang Zhidong.

Zhao Fengchang bowed to Zhang Zhidong and said, "See sir!"

"No gifts, sit!"

"Sir, the Nanyang investigation you requested has been completed." Zhao Fengchang bowed and said.

"Come on me and see..." Zhang Zhidong looked at it, then sighed lightly, and said, "I didn't expect that the Northeast would occupy such a large piece of territory."

Zhao Fengchang also nodded, "I never thought that the Northeast had started a war with the French, occupied Vietnam, Nanzhang and Khmer, and drove the French out of Southeast Asia. After that, the South Vietnam rebelled, and more than 100,000 rebels in the Northeast were killed, and they marched into Siam along the way, forcing the Siam King Rama V to sign a peace treaty, occupying a large area of ​​territory."

"I didn't expect that they would be so powerful that they were so powerful." Zhang Zhidong sighed. Although they didn't speak very well, Zhao Fengchang heard the deep envy.

"The people sent by the bureau to investigate said that the five Southeast Asian provinces are building construction to accelerate industrial and railway construction. There are currently many factories in the North Vietnam region. Although they have not been completed, the prosperity will be imagined."

"It seems that Northeast China is really willing to spend a lot of money."

"This money is really a lot, about 20 million taels of silver every year, which is more than half of my annual income in the Qing Dynasty. In addition to official investment, private investment is also very prosperous, and a large number of sugarcane gardens and rubber gardens have begun to prepare. In our Qing Dynasty, such as Shanxi Piaohao, Hu Xueyan's Fukang Money House, Shanxi merchants, Hui merchants, and Zhejiang merchants have sent investment requests to the Northeast Autonomous Region. Even foreigners are allowed to start businesses there, as long as they meet the legal requirements of the Northeast and obtain the corresponding qualifications."

Zhang Zhidong was originally very confident in the Guangdong-Guangzhou region under his rule, especially Guangzhou, but now it seems a little too optimistic.

"It is also worth mentioning that while Northeast China is opening a large number of railways, larger investments are spent on running schools. All are new schools advocated by Northeast China, teaching barbarian Chinese and Chinese characters education. As long as children over seven years old, both men and women must let their children enter the school and implement nine-year compulsory education. Otherwise, it is an illegal act and parents will be severely punished."

"This is..." Zhang Zhidong couldn't understand. His path to education was completely different.

"I heard from people who have returned that Northeast China has introduced such a policy in order to enable local people to communicate better with Han people. They are extremely repulsive to religion, and neither Western Christianity nor Muslims nor even Buddhism are allowed to enter the classroom. At the same time, they encourage intermarriage between different ethnic groups, and the nationality is not indicated on the ID card. The saying is that all ethnic groups are treated equally, but from the perspective of their subordinates, Northeast China is undergoing sinicization. After decades, there will be no barbarians in the southeast."

Zhang Zhidong sighed and said, "Does the court know what's going on here?"

Zhao Fengchang shook his head and reported the news, but there was no news.

The Qing court is not very concerned about the trends in the Northeast at present, especially in Southeast Asia. Beiyang is expanding its military strength, and of course it is not the Northeast, but Japan. A few years ago, Liu Buchan was sent to Germany to escort the Dingyuan, Zhenyuan and Jiyuan back to China. Liu Buchan also left Nanyang. Although the three Dingyuan ships could not be compared with the Nanyang Navy, they were still deeply loved by Liu Buchan. After all, they were Beiyang's own warships.

In 1886, the Beiyang Navy Admiral Ding Ruchang, Lang Weili led the six ships of Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, Jiyuan, Weiyuan, Chaoyong and Yangwei to perform on the sea surface of the east coast of North Korea, and visited the Yuanshan Mountain in North Korea, and Vladivostok in the northeast. Later, the two ships of Chaoyong and Yangwei were left behind in Vladivostok, while Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, Jiyuan and Weiyuan were ordered by Ding Ruchang to advance to Nagasaki, Japan. (In history, in July 1886, Li Hongzhang received a report from Yuan Shikai that North Korea had planned to join forces with Russia to defend Britain, and Russia was coveting Yongxing Bay outside the Yuanshan Pass. The Qing government knew very well that once North Korea fell into another country, it would endanger its own security, so it ordered Ding Ruchang and Wu Ankang to lead the North and South Ocean fleets to patrol the Yongxing Bay area in North Korea, so as to demonstrate the strong naval strength of the Qing government and stop the enemy's possible invasion attempts.)

Originally, Da Shang had such maintenance and repair capabilities, but the relationship between the two sides was not very good at present. The main reason was that after Li Hongzhang signed a peace agreement with the French, Northeast China directly slapped the French in the face and started a war with the French, and did not give Li Zhongtang any face at all.

So Li Hongzhang is now guarding against the Northeast and does not want the data of the warships in his hands to fall into their hands. On the other hand, several large shipyards in the Northeast are currently busy with business and there is no spare dock for the Beiyang Navy to rest.

After the bombing of the Northeast Air Force, Nagasaki has recovered its former prosperity in recent years and the port has been rebuilt. Most of the warships that were previously sunk by the Northeast bombing have now been salvaged out of water, and some of them cannot be repaired have been restored to steel. Those that can be rebuilt are now revived and have all been incorporated by the Japanese fleet. The biggest gain is the French ironclad ship, the Triumph. Of course, the name has been changed now and has become the Eimaru.

However, although it seems that Nagasaki is not at all different in the past, the terrifying scene of the Nagasaki people being bombed by the Northeast may not be forgotten by all Nagasaki people. This is a scar that pierces the heart. Although it seems to heal, it still hurts faintly.

The people of Nagasaki felt a different feeling in their hearts about the news of the arrival of the Beiyang Navy.

As the sun sets, several shipyard workers who have just finished work have arrived at the tavern of Soyuki Yamazaki, drinking and chatting.

"Boss Yamazaki, let's have another bottle of sake."

"You wait."

The atmosphere in the tavern was warm and warm. The topics ranged from south to north. Some Tokyo people were talking about the political situation in Tokyo, and some were talking about the war between the Northeast and the French. However, as they were talking, the topics were focused on the upcoming Qing warships.

"I heard that the four warships from the Qing Kingdom were going to our Nagasaki for repair and maintenance?"

"Does the Qing Dynasty also have a navy?" asked an elderly Japanese man disdainfully.

"I heard it was ordered from Germany, so I don't know how powerful it is?"

"No matter what, what if you have a boat, you still can't repair it yourself." A shipman said unconsciously.

There is a strong smell of sea smell in the air, which smells very comfortable on summer evenings.

At this time, Yamazaki Soyuki suddenly interrupted: "Since it is a Qing warship, why not go to the Northeast for maintenance? I heard that the shipbuilding level there is very high..."

"Who knows, the Qing Dynasty was not like that, the endless internal strife."

It is difficult for Yamazaki Soyuki to understand. How to say that the Northeast and the Qing Dynasty are the same country, and the Qing Dynasty would rather come to Japan for maintenance than wait for a while in the Northeast. Could it be that the relationship between the Northeast and the Qing Dynasty is not even comparable to the relationship between the Qing Dynasty and Japan? Although the Qing Dynasty did not conflict openly, it was also a rival to compete with each other.

On August 1, the Beiyang Fleet arrived at Nagasaki Port and witnessed the first time Nagasaki citizens who witnessed the iron-armored giant ship from the Qing Dynasty crowded the dock. Looking at the majestic giant ship rising high on the dragon flag, the crowd suddenly felt a complex feeling of amazement, envy, and resentment.

"I'm afraid it's already surpassing the Northeast fleet."

"No, when we started war with us last time, the warships in the Northeast didn't look so huge."

Ding Ruchang and Lang Weili were chatting on the deck. Looking at the performance of the Japanese people, Ding Ruchang felt a little proud. Our Qing Dynasty navy, little Japanese, you are envious, jealous, and hate!

Liu Buchan and Lin Taizeng were also chatting together. Liu Buchan is now the pilot of the Dingyuan ship, and Lin Taizeng was once the pilot of the Zhenyuan ship. Seeing the reaction of the Japanese people, Lin Taizeng was also very excited. However, Liu Buchan didn't feel anything anymore. He turned his face and looked down, shaking his head.

"Why is Brother Zixiang like this?" Lin Tai asked with a smile.

"What's there to be happy about?" Liu Buchan said distractedly.

"Seeing the Japanese envy, shouldn't we be happy?" Lin Taizeng asked back.

Liu Buchan shook his head and said nothing.

Lin Tai once understood that Liu Buchan was thinking of the Northeast fleet again. "Zixiang is still heading to the Northeast fleet?"

"Brother Kaishi, you don't understand. I admit that our Beiyang Navy has made great progress compared to the past. But if you really stay in the Northeast fleet, you will understand. Compared with them, the gap between us has not only not narrowed, but has become bigger and bigger. However, the local fleet in the Northeast is just about the South China Fleet. Their cruiser tonnage is 9,100 tons, and the battleships have reached 13,000 tons, which is no worse than the United Kingdom. There are also long-distance communication facilities on it."

"As far as I know, their gun caliber is not as good as us." Lin Tai once said disdainfully. "When fighting at sea, the stronger the gun, the further the attack! One day in the future, they may not be able to win us firmly."

Liu Buchan shook his head and said, "Brother Kaishi, do you think the Northeast cannot build a twelve-inch caliber cannon? Not so! I heard Yan Jidao say that in the current naval battle, the firing rate of large-caliber cannons is too low. Although they are far away, the two ships are separated by thousands of meters or even tens of thousands of meters. If you shoot one shot, sometimes you can't even see the splash. So no matter how far the artillery cannon is, it is useless if you can't hit the enemy."

Lin Tai nodded, and Liu Buchan continued: "The warships in the Northeast are pursuing hit rate. Their warships are equipped with rangefinders. If combined with airships, there are also air data guidance. Speaking of which, although their gun caliber is not as good as ours, the power of ammunition is still very considerable."

"Why is this?"

"It should be that the gun medicine is much better than ours. I don't know much about the specific situation."

"Then we will play against them..." Lin Taizeng said.

Liu Buchan shook his head and said nothing.

Lin Taizeng smiled and said, "Okay, okay, we are unlikely to face Northeast China. As long as we can beat Japan, I will be satisfied."

For some reason, it was probably to show off the strength of the ship and the cannon, the Qing fleet sent an invitation to Japan for visiting. Togo Heihachi, the military god who later became the Japanese militarist, was also invited to visit at this time.

However, the Qing fleet's wishful thinking was obviously not heard. Donggo Heihachi, who had disembarked, didn't care about the Qing Navy at all, or he sniffed it! He insisted that Japan could definitely defeat the Qing Navy because he saw a sailor drying clothes on the gun barrel.

Of course, let’s not talk about whether to show off your clothes or not. The Qing naval ships entered the Japanese dock for maintenance and even showed the bottom of the ship. What are the secrets?

For Japan, which had long used the Qing Dynasty as a way to promote the country and adopted the expansion of the navy to implement this strategy, the Nagasaki incident was no different from a god-giant propaganda opportunity. As long as the people were careful that China had two new iron-armored giant ships and ships that agreed to the Japanese Navy's ability to compete, it was easy to add new ships and sell naval public debts. So in the summer of 1886, after several disputes over the construction and fundraising plans, the Japanese Navy had received special funds for the construction of ships. The four ships including Dingyuan arrived in Nagasaki during this period, and an incident occurred, giving Japan the opportunity to promote and excuse to build special ships! Subsequently, the three ships planned to destroy Dingyuan and "Zhenyuan" were collectively called the Three Scenic Ships, "Imao", "Matsushima" and "Bashiri" were built year by year.

On August 13, this day was the beginning of the Nagasaki incident.

The Qing sailors went shopping on the street. Later, five drunk sailors went to a brothel in Nagasaki for a prostitute. The sailors lined up for a long time outside the brothel, but found that some Japanese could go straight in and out. After receiving such different treatment, the sailors were furious and smashed the brothel. Because of the dispute, the owner went to the police station to report. One day, the police arrived and successfully calmed the dispute. However, the Qing sailors were dissatisfied. Soon six people went to the police station to argue. They were very excited and made a big fuss, causing conflict. One Japanese policeman was stabbed and the sailors who caused the accident were also arrested, and the other sailors fled.

The deputy commander of the Navy, Shang Yi, who received the news, was so angry that he told Wang Yi: "If this were my Northeast naval soldiers, I would have been sent to the military court."

Wang Yi waved his hand and said, "Li Hongzhang's soldiers are just that. Haven't you seen this yet?"

Wang Xiaoxiao said at this time: "The Japanese should have revenge, right?"

"You kid understands the Japanese... let alone the Japanese, even if foreigners go to our territory and cause such a problem, we can't let it go." Wang Yixiao said.

"The Japanese really got trapped?"

"I'm off, but my level is almost the same. If I were to be the one who had been dismissed, even the warship would be robbed." Wang Yixiao said. "On August 15, two days after the dispute over prostitution, the Beiyang Fleet took a holiday and hundreds of sailors took to the streets to visit. Ding Ruchang, in view of the conflict the day before yesterday, ordered sailors not to bring weapons to trouble. However, in the foreign concession and overseas Chinese residential areas, the sailors were attacked by Japanese police, and then a large-scale conflict occurred. As a result, more than 80 people were killed or injured on both sides, of which the death toll of Chinese sailors was greater than that of Japan."

"It's normal. People are deliberately taking revenge. You are heartless and weaponless. If the Japanese are injured a lot, it would be strange." Wang Xiaodao.

"At that time, hundreds of Japanese police blocked the two ends of each street, surrounding the unarmed Qing sailors and slashed the swords. Local residents poured boiling water from the upper floors, threw stones, and some even participated in the melee with knife and sticks. Qing sailors caught off guard and spread across the streets, but suffered a great loss, five were killed, six seriously injured, 38 slightly injured, and five were missing. One Japanese policeman was beaten to death, 30 injured, and many local citizens were injured."

Shang Yi looked impatient and sneered: "It's so embarrassing."

Wang Yixiao said: "It doesn't matter whether you lose it or not. But the Japanese are angry now when they see the Qing navy. With Nagasaki here, the Japanese will probably support their naval construction even if they sell their own business."
To be continued...