"You have decided this matter correctly, you should sit down with him on paper to confirm this matter." Fu Xiaowen looked at Niu Jingye and said with some dissatisfaction, "If someone else robs this deal, we will lose a lot." ”

"Soldiers, murder weapons. Guns and cannons are all tools used to kill people, and I'm afraid that you think it's inhumane to manufacture and sell guns, so ......," Niu Jingye replied cautiously.

"Dedicated to you! Pedantic! Pedantic! Fu Xiaowen shook his head and said with some excitement, "Can kitchen knives and hoes be used to kill people?" Can a wooden stick be used to kill people? Is it because it can be used to kill people? ”

"That's just as well." Niu Jingye looked at the head of the Fu family with some strange emotions today, and he didn't dare to speak again.

"The manufacture of such sophisticated firearms is by no means something that can be done in a workshop, but only with new processing equipment and refined steel." Fu Xiaowen raised the "fifty rings" in his hand and said in a deep voice, "Being able to make such a good gun proves that their industrial technology foundation is very thick, no less than the Hanyang factory, and what they are doing now is that the scale is too small, so they seek to cooperate with us in production." Do you know what is the difference between our Chinese industry? That's the technology! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! The ideal of several generations of ancestors of the Fu family to save the country through industry is likely to be realized! ”

"In today's world, all countries take the development of industry as the first priority, and all the powers that bully our China are all industrial powers!" Fu Xiaowen put the gun on the table, took a newspaper and handed it to Niu Jingye, "Take a look!" The Japanese have already begun to move to Qingdao! You said! Why do they dare to be so rampant and domineering?! ”

Niu Jingye took the newspaper and couldn't help but sigh when he looked at the large photos of Japanese warships sailing on the sea above and the shocking headlines below.

"If Qingdao is lost, Japan will be able to hold my Shandong, and if it enters our China Hall, then my China will be in danger."

"So, we must do this business of producing guns and cannons! And it has to be bigger and stronger! Fu Xiaowen said, and looked at the gun on the table again, "Their gun has been made very well, but I don't know how the gun can be made." ”

"They have created a small artillery for the 5th Mixed Brigade, which is very light, but no less powerful than a large cannon. I have seen this kind of artillery test firing from them, it is very powerful, it is said that the security team of Shuanglong Town used this kind of artillery to beat off the bandits. On another occasion, bandits pretended to be officers and soldiers at night to rob the salt mines, but they were also killed and wounded by this kind of artillery, and fled in confusion, and even the bandits' capital was killed. Niu Jingye said, "I also saw the design drawings of a larger cannon from them, and one of their technicians said that the development work has begun." ”

"You have to put this matter into practice and be dedicated." Fu Xiaowen said, "The sooner these guns are built, the better, because Xiao'an will definitely be able to use them." ”

"Don't worry, Herun." Niu Jingye said, "Leave these things to me." ”

Fu Xiaowen nodded and stopped talking, at this time he picked up the "Fifty Rings" again and played with it carefully.

On September 2, 1914, the Japanese army landed at Longkou and Jiaozhou Bay on the north coast of the Jiaodong Peninsula and began to advance into the hinterland of Shandong. On September 3, after the destruction of its neutrality, the Chinese government was forced to invoke the "precedent" of the Russo-Japanese War and declare the east of Weixian Station a "war zone" between Japan and Germany, and a "neutral zone" to the west. The Japanese army ignored the statements of the Chinese government. On September 25, the Japanese army occupied Weixian Station. On October 5, the Japanese occupied Qingzhou Station, and on October 6, the Japanese occupied Jinan Station and announced the takeover of the Jiaoji Railway (the previous September 21, the Chinese government had announced that it would take over the railway from Germany).

Jurentang, Beijing.

“…… Everywhere the Japanese army went, atrocities emerged one after another, and the people of our country were tragically ravaged, just as when Japan and Russia exchanged troops in the northeast. An official reported to Yuan Shikai, who was sitting on a Western-style presidential chair, "Due to the heavy rain for several days, the Japanese army forcibly occupied our people's houses to hide from the rain, expelled the owners of the houses, and looted all the food and property inside." In all the villages along the way where the Japanese army passed, all the men were arrested to carry water and cut firewood, and many women were taken captive, and those who did not obey were all beheaded, until the whole village was slaughtered. All the mines along the Jiaoji Railway were confiscated by the Japanese, and the Japanese also set up military administration and civil affairs offices in the counties they occupied, erected military cables, expelled local officials, occupied police stations, forcibly requisitioned grain and grass, and killed and injured the people......".

Yuan Shikai's face became more and more ugly as he listened to the report, and he couldn't help but sigh heavily when he looked at the civilian and military generals who were sitting around without saying a word.

"It's so deceitful!" Yuan Shikai got up from his chair and paced back and forth in the room, "The Japanese have made it clear that they want to occupy the entire territory of Shandong!" Straight to my Gyeonggi hinterland! Sinister intentions! What a sinister intention! ”

"The Japanese have long had the intention of plotting against Qingdao, and this time the European war broke out, of course they refused to let go of the opportunity." Yuan Shikai's chief strategist Yang Du shook his head and sighed,

"If the president does not want the Japanese army to continue to advance, he can order the army to resist." Army Chief Duan Qirui said lightly.

"Didn't you say last time that, with the current state of our army, we can only resist for forty-eight hours?" Yuan Shikai turned his head a little annoyed, looked at the Beiyang general, and asked loudly.

"Judging only from the various armies in the suburbs of Beijing and the neighboring Shandong, it is true that they can only resist the Japanese army for 48 hours." Duan Qirui replied, "If we can gather the troops who can fight from all over the country to come to Shandong, unify the command with the generals who are good at fighting, and go all out to fight against the Japanese army, the time that can be held on should be far more than that." ”

"If the president wants to fight with the Japanese, Cai Yi is willing to lead Yunnan athletes as the forerunner." Cai Ye, the former governor of Yunnan, got up and said.

At this time, Cai Ye was appointed by Yuan Shikai as the supervisor of the National Economic Boundary Bureau, and he was not wearing a military uniform, but his gestures were still a military demeanor.

"Sit down, Songpa, sit down." Yuan Shikai came to Cai Yi's side and patted him on the shoulder with some emotion, "The national crisis is at hand, if only the whole country could think like you Cai Songpo, it would be good." Yuan Shikai sighed.

Cai Yi was originally the chief of general staff of Yuan Shikai, but this appointment was not implemented because of the "second revolution".

"Now that our country is preliminary, we should no longer start a war." Yang Du said, "What's more, this time it was Britain and Japan who jointly attacked the German army in Qingdao, with our country's current strength, it is not enough to confront Japan, once the Japanese are provoked, and we use this as an excuse to land in other places along our coast, and our navy and army are powerless to stop it, then our country will lose, and I am afraid that Qingdao will not be the only place to lose." ”

Yuan Shikai turned his head to look at Liu Guanxiong, the chief of the navy, and everyone's eyes immediately focused on Liu Guanxiong.

The First Fleet has 24 large and small warships, which are responsible for guarding the Yellow Sea, and the Second Fleet is blocking Jiaozhou Bay to cover the landing of the army, with 23 large and small combat ships, 13 torpedo boats, and 15 support ships. Liu Guanxiong got up and said, "Although the strength of our navy is inferior to that of the Japanese, it has now completed its combat preparations, and if the president is determined to fight against Japan, Guanxiong is willing to lead the navy to fight to the death." ”

"The navy's ships are outdated, and none of them can compete with the large warships of the Japanese, so they can only make sacrifices in vain." Yuan Shikai shook his head and sighed helplessly, "Our navy only has a few warships, so let's stay in the future." ”

After listening to Yuan Shikai's words, Liu Guanxiong sat down silently.

Although no one said anything critical or accusatory, at this time, as a navy soldier, like Army Chief Duan Qirui and all the generals present, he felt an unspeakable humiliation and helplessness.

As a person who personally experienced the Battle of Dadonggou in the First Sino-Japanese War, whenever he recalled the scene of commanding the battle on the "Jingyuan" ship and the comrades-in-arms who died in those years, his heart felt as uncomfortable as a knife.

In that battle, the Chinese Navy was still able to confront the Japanese Navy face to face, but today, it doesn't even have the strength to fight!

What he said just now was just Liu Guanxiong's angry remarks that he did not want others to blame the naval officers behind his back, and he didn't know what the final result would be if he really led the navy to attack.

The Navy is like this, and the situation of the Army, Duan Qirui's words have been made very clear. Maybe outsiders will think that he is shirking responsibility, but Liu Guanxiong knows in his heart that Duan Qirui is telling the truth.

And Yuan Shikai, who has always trusted him with common sense, doesn't understand the difference in strength between China and Japan, so he sighs so helplessly.

Yuan Shikai's words of "staying in the future" are actually not words of comfort to him.

After Liu Guanxiong became the chief of the navy, he proposed to Yuan Shikai a huge naval construction plan, the most important of which was the plan to build eight battle cruisers with a displacement of 28,000 tons and 10 356-mm main guns and 16 152-mm secondary guns with 230 million silver dollars in 10 years. Regarding this plan, which seems to outsiders to be completely "painting cakes to fill hunger", Yuan Shikai expressed his approval and support.

Although the outside world has always had a lot of bad comments about Yuan Shikai, and many newspapers and media have "scolded Xiang Cheng every day", Liu Guanxiong has been working under Yuan Shikai for many years and knows much more about him than others.

Although Yuan Shikai gives people the impression that he is more of a tyrant in troubled times and a military dictator, it is an indisputable fact that without Yuan Shikai's tremendous role in promoting the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty, I don't know what China would be like today.

To be sure, the results of the New Deal reform at the end of the Qing Dynasty were actually quite good. The chaotic situation after the "Gengzi National Change" quickly stabilized, and the country's economy was greatly restored, not only did foreign investment gradually increase, but the industry and commerce run by the Chinese themselves also showed a prosperous scene.

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