readx; Chen Jingyun asked directly, and Colin's answer was direct enough, directly saying that we have money, but what is lacking is investment opportunities, as long as the Nanjing Republican political axe can show enough sincerity, then the investment of a large number of funds is not a problem at all. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Chen Jingyun said: "Presumably, Your Excellency has also seen the initial outline of industrial development proposed by our country, and I don't know what you think about it!" ”

Colin said: "Of course, long before coming to China, many people, including me, have seen the initial outline of industrial development proposed by your country, and it is undeniable that we are indeed very interested in some of these projects, especially the development of Ma'anshan iron ore mine and the third phase of the construction plan of Southeast Iron and Steel, and some of China's iron and steel enterprises have expressed strong interest in this." However, we also have some questions, such as whether the Ma'anshan iron ore mine has sufficient reserves, and what is the specific way of cooperation, whether to adopt a joint venture model or use loans? If it is a joint venture, what is the proportion of the two parties' holdings? These are all things we need to know, and of course, more importantly, how is your country's political axe going to ensure the investment security of our entrepreneurs? ”

In fact, speaking of which, what holding ratio, joint venture or loan is not a problem, even if there is a disagreement, it can be discussed, and it will not affect the overall situation. In fact, what Americans really care about is not the specific cooperation of these projects, but what they really care about is, if they invest, how can Chen Jingyun ensure the safety of their investment?

You must know that China is now in a chaotic period of civil war, in the absence of a stable central political axe, rashly carrying out large-scale commercial investment is not a very rational thing, after all, now is not the previous United States political axe and Chen Jingyun signed two rounds of military aid treaty, this is not any aid, but a serious business investment, the money is out of businessmen from various countries, and even if it is a loan, it is impossible to be guaranteed by the United States political axe as last time, if you take out the money to invest, if it fails, The money of these American businessmen is gone.

Chen Jingyun naturally knows what is the key to this business negotiation, and whether or not it can attract a large amount of US capital investment this time, in addition to the project itself and various preferential terms, what is more important is that Chen Jingyun wants them to know that the national army under Chen Jingyun is capable and confident in reunifying China and maintaining China's steady development.

What these American businessmen need is a promise from Jingyun Chen: a promise to maintain stability in China!

In fact, it was precisely because Chen Jingyun won the Jiangbei Battle last year that these Americans came to China from across the ocean, but this is not enough. Although the strength of the Nationalist Army is getting stronger and stronger, the area of control is still limited to southeastern China, and in terms of map area alone, even a small half of China has not yet been occupied, and a large number of warlord forces such as the Beiyang Army, the Beiyang Branch, the Gui Army, and the Dian Army are still entrenched in the surrounding area. What the Americans want to see is that Chen Jingyun will sweep away or recover these forces one by one and establish a truly unified China, and only such a market owned by China can really attract American businessmen to invest heavily in it.

Chen Jingyun understood this very well, so when the US business delegation first arrived in Shanghai, Chen Jingyun asked the 11th Division to conduct a small-scale military firing exercise for them, in order to show the combat effectiveness of the Nationalist Army to these Americans.

Now, they don't seem to be satisfied, they need to see the actual victory of the Nationalist Army on the battlefield, and when they learned that the Nationalist Army was about to launch a spring offensive, Councillor Colin said that the delegation would continue to stay in China for a while, so that the heads of the various enterprises in the delegation could have a deeper understanding of the various areas controlled by the Nationalist Army, and at the same time have a deeper understanding of the potential of those large-scale projects, and of course, there will inevitably be preliminary negotiations on various projects. As for whether we can talk about the result, it is the performance of the national army on the battlefield!

Faced with this fact, Chen Jingyun has already given an order to Shen Gang and others, I need a victory in the short term, a huge victory that is enough in exchange for countless dollar investments!

Under such circumstances, the spring offensive planned by the Nationalist Army set the operational objectives even larger, and the focus was still concentrated on the Jinpu line. Chen Jingyun not only asked the troops to conquer Xuzhou, but also asked the troops to go all the way north to Shandong, and even threatened Yanjing!

In this situation, the military has evolved into a political service, and politics has become a service to the economy.

On February 5, 1914, Chen Jingyun held a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at the Presidential Palace, and as in previous years, all the military and political leaders in the national army system were attended. There are also many in the military system, basically the senior generals in Nanjing have come, and among the senior generals in other places, those in the areas with convenient transportation will come, but those who are too far away and the transportation is not convenient will not come.

Such a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner can be said to have concentrated most of the powerful people in the national army system, and so many powerful people gathered together, in addition to verbal greetings, naturally three sentences are not separated from official affairs. There are only two major events in the Nanjing Republican Political Axe, the military's spring offensive, and the political axe's is the initial outline of industrial development, and these two things are directly related.

Chen Jingyun also took this opportunity to cheer up his subordinates: "We have come through such hard work in the past few years, and now we are already on the road to victory!" However, I would like to take this opportunity to say to you that in the first half of today, the core of our work is only one, that is, to implement the initial program of industrial development, and to implement the initial program of industrial development, then the spring offensive in the army is particularly important, and our American friends are waiting for when we will take Yanjing! Therefore, in the near future, I hope that the military side will pay attention to this point and achieve victory as soon as possible, and in terms of political axe, you should also cooperate with the army in an all-round way, especially the Ministry of Civil Affairs and other departments to do a good job in comforting the families of the sacrificed soldiers and taking care of the families of the soldiers on active duty, so as to solve the worries of the army. ”

On the first day after the Spring Festival, Chen Jingyun sent a private telegram to several army commanders, and hinted that if anyone can achieve a major victory in the spring offensive, I, Chen Jingyun, will not be stingy with high-ranking officials! This promise was naturally to make the generals under him work hard. In addition to boosting the morale of senior officers, Chen Jingyun also issued the latest order in order to further boost the morale of ordinary soldiers in the army: All soldiers who joined the Nationalist Army after the Fuzhou Uprising can choose to continue to serve or retire after serving for four years. If they do not want to work and choose to work in agriculture, then the political axe will distribute a piece of state-owned land to retired soldiers for free.

As soon as this order was issued, it immediately aroused great repercussions, and the arrangement of employment was extremely tempting for many soldiers who wished to move to the cities, and the free distribution of land made countless rural children crazy. Moreover, the ordinance was temporary, and the distribution of land was to soldiers who joined the army between October 1911 and October 1914, in other words, only soldiers who joined the army before October of this year were eligible for free land.

Later generations could not imagine the attraction of free distribution of land to rural children, and as long as Chen Jingyun shouted for free distribution of land in these years, then there would definitely be countless landless people in rural areas who followed him to join the army and fight.

In order to encircle the troops under his command and increase the combat effectiveness, morale and loyalty of the troops, Chen Jingyun can be said to have thought of many methods, such as arranging employment, distributing state-owned land free of charge, and providing compensation for the injured and sacrificial soldiers. These measures have also put a huge pressure on the finances, for example, the future pension is definitely a huge amount, and the relatively huge repercussions of the free land distribution did not worry Chen Jingyun, because this kind of welfare will not be extended to the majority of the Nationalist soldiers in the future.

Even those soldiers who followed Chen Jingyun in October 1911 could not receive a piece of free land until they retired after October 1915, and the number of people in this part was not too large. In addition, the current income from joining the army is very high, if you retire to become a farmer, you can't earn a month's salary a year, so many soldiers will continue to serve, will not retire easily, even if they are retired, most of them will choose to go to the political axe to arrange the profession, such as police, such as ordinary civil servants, factory workers, these soldiers have participated in literacy classes after joining the army, most of them know the words, which is the best source of industry for the future Chinese industry, And even if you are a worker, your income is much better than farming!

Therefore, after this employment arrangement is solved, the remaining small number of rural veterans who believe that land is everything will choose the land distributed free of charge by the state.

After many divisions, there should not be too many veterans who will choose territorial land in the next few years, which is financially affordable.

In addition, Chen Jingyun originally planned to carry out land reform slowly, and then the political axe would have a large amount of land in his hands, so he did not have to worry too much about not having land distribution in the future.

However, this kind of consideration is not known to outsiders, especially the soldiers who are the parties have not considered these issues for the time being, and for ordinary soldiers, these soldiers from the countryside have a great desire for land, although they have a military salary of eight or ten yuan and have long been unable to look down on farming that only earns a few yuan a year of hard work, but this still cannot stop their desire for the most land.

Therefore, this kind of propaganda is greater than the policy of free land distribution in the actual sense, which has aroused great repercussions among ordinary soldiers, and in addition to the appropriate cooperation of the Kuomintang in the propaganda, the merit of this welfare has been completely placed on Chen Jingyun, and Chen Jingyun has been further deified in the national army.

Regardless of whether the way is right or not, and whether the brainwashing or ignorant way will make future generations disgusted, but for now, this kind of propaganda is extremely effective, many soldiers of the National Army may not even know the names of their parents, but they must know Chen Jingyun's name, maybe they can't even write their own name, but they will definitely write Chen Jingyun's name, maybe they don't even recognize their own appearance, but they must recognize Chen Jingyun's half-length photo wearing a military uniform and a saber.

After a long time, this kind of brainwashing propaganda has made many soldiers subconsciously regard Chen Jingyun as their parents, and even regard him as the only object of allegiance.

This is quite different from the many officers in the Nationalist Army shouting Long live the Nationalist Socialist Party. This can also be roughly seen that the officer class of the Nationalist Army, especially a large number of middle- and low-ranking officers from the Fuzhou Military Academy, believe in the rejuvenation of China and admire the Kuomintang Socialist Party, while maintaining a personal cult for the leader Chen Jingyun, they regard Chen Jingyun as an idol, but they are by no means the only object of allegiance, they follow the Kuomintang Socialist Party rather than Chen Jingyun personally.

Therefore, when many young officers went into battle, most of the slogans shouted by the Kuomintang Socialist Party, long live China, long live reunification, and so on.

Although many ordinary soldiers joined the National Socialist Party, they didn't even know what the constitution of the National Socialist Party was, and all they knew was Chen Jingyun, and these soldiers did not worship Chen Jingyun, they just regarded Chen Jingyun as their only object of allegiance.

The difference between the two is quite obvious, but it does not affect Chen Jingyun to become their leader! Because Chen Jingyun can give them what they need, ordinary soldiers need military salaries to support their families, they need land, Chen Jingyun gave them land, and officers need the ideal of China's rejuvenation, and they need to see the country strong, Chen Jingyun also gave them hope.

Until the Nationalist Army fails to pay salaries and the Nationalist Army completely loses no hope for reunification, Chen Jingyun's personal power will not be shaken, and if Chen Jingyun's power is not shaken, the Nationalist Army with him as the core will not collapse.

After Chen Jingyun carried out an almost army-wide morale mobilization, on February 9, 1914, that is, on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the units of the First Army and the Third Army of the Nationalist Army on the Jinpu Line finally launched the first large-scale offensive after resting for nearly two months!

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