Jiangsu Outer Sea ().

The five-color national flag on the mast of the cruiser Hairong was hunting, and the two ships Haichou and Haichen echoed in the distance, and in the distance, the huge heavy cruiser Gneisenau and the three cruisers of Britain and the United States were in formation. This peaceful scene made Dai Tianqiu, who was on a warship for the first time, very interested, regardless of seasickness, took pictures with his camera wildly, and asked Murong Han to be his helper. Seeing that they were wasting such expensive film, Yang Qiu smiled slightly, if he walked over now and told him that these photos of him recording the last peace would be passed down for a hundred years because they began to fight each other soon, I don't know how this kid would feel.

"Commander."

After inspecting the whole ship, Wang Guangxiong walked over in a white New Republic of China admiral uniform, and he was still very satisfied with this first bearded captain who served himself, so after blackmailing Nanjing General Yang Jingxiu to become the chief of the navy, he immediately made him the commander of the First Fleet, and because of this incident, Sa Zhenbing had some pimples in his heart. Fortunately, Sa Lao, who had taken refuge in Tianjin, never forgot his dream of a large navy, and for the sake of the three training cruisers and submarine units that were about to return to China, he recommended the young Chen Shao's broadband team to Germany to learn submarine operations according to Yang Qiu's wishes, so as not to let the newly formed submarine force become an ornament.

Yang Jingxiu's naval chief didn't do it long before he had nothing to do because the provisional government was dissolved, Yuan Shikai invited him, but there was only one Haiqi ship brought back by Cheng Biguang in the north, and after handing it over to Liu Guanxiong, he himself took refuge in Fujian, and the north was not financially strong, so he simply returned to the First Fleet in the end. Although Yang Qiu generously let him serve as the captain of the cruiser Haichen. But this person was rigid, thinking that Yang Qiu had caused him to lose the command of the fleet and failed Sa Zhenbing's instructions, so he did not obey Wang Guangxiong's orders after he returned. If it weren't for the stakes this time, he wouldn't be willing to act.

Yang Qiu didn't have a good way to deal with this, Yang Jingxiu is Sa Zhenbing's person had to give some face, plus the generation of heroes after the First Wu Dynasty was lost, and the old navy people finally managed to get the current little seedling. They are all the hope of the country to enter the blue water, so it is not easy to force reforms, and can only slowly find ways to strip away the old forces.

"How long will it take to get to Tianjin?"

Although Wang Guangxiong used to be the captain of a gunboat, he also went to study at the Greenwich Naval School in England for three years at the recommendation of Sa Zhenbing. So the business is quite proficient, look at the sky and say: "It's a northwest wind now, and sailing on the wind will be slow for about half a day, but unless it is bad weather, it will be there in three days." ”

"Is the Japanese Navy active in this area?"

The question made Wang Guangxiong stunned, and he thought that Yang Qiu was worried about the Japanese navy attacking, and said: "It's much better than in previous years." In the past, battleships were often seen here, but in the past two years, I heard that Japan's military spending was insufficient, so the chances of seeing battleships were much smaller, and cruisers and gunboats could still be seen often. But they are generally not Taiwan, and I heard that Britain does not like Japan's excessive access to the South China Sea. However, although the commander can rest assured, this time our routes are not far from the shore, and even if there are no foreigners to escort us, the three cruisers can still protect the safety of you and Mr. Song. ”

Interlaced like a mountain, Yang Qiu knows nothing about the navy, he can still grasp the general direction, but when it comes to actual navigation operations, he is completely blind. After hearing that Britain restricted the Japanese navy's access to the south of Taiwan, he quietly wrinkled his eyebrows and changed the subject: "Yang Jingxiu, how are they?" ”

"Lao Yang is just a little stubborn. Anything else is ok. "After all, Wang Guangxiong is also from Fujian, and he doesn't want to tear it up and fall out with everyone. He is much smarter than Yang Jingxiu. Knowing that he can command a fleet today is because of this young man's trust, and the kindness of knowing should be reciprocated. But he knew that Yang Qiu was actually not satisfied with the current navy, and was afraid that his forcible reform would cause trouble, so he said worriedly: "Commander, don't worry, although everyone is not convinced, but in their hearts, they are still good. Those of us are looking forward to rebuilding the navy, so sooner or later they will understand your painstaking efforts. ”

Yang Qiu understood what he meant and asked, "How are the sailors who went to the United States and Britain to receive warships?" ”

Speaking of the three training cruisers that were about to be delivered, the bearded man's face was much better: "The sailors set off in July last year, all of them were personally selected by me, and the three temporary captains also selected young people who studied in the United Kingdom, and now they are training there, and the three ships will be back as soon as May this year." Wang Guangxiong said that he rubbed his hands here and stopped, and a person who was dozens of years old suddenly thought of a child who begged for candy but didn't dare to speak, which made people laugh, Yang Qiu glared at it and laughed: "Just say it, don't make me weird." ”

"Commander, both Yongji and Yongjian are about to be launched and outfitted, and the slipway is empty, or else." Wang Guangxiong said with a flattering smile: "Everyone admires you very much for supporting the Navy and building your own warships, do you think you will build another ten or eight warships?" ”

"I can't see it, you really dare to think about it!" Yang Qiu patted the coal ash falling from his clothes and whitened his eyes: "Do you know how much Yongji costs?" In exchange for the civil yuan issued by our southwest, it is 1.3 million, and the steel is all imported scrap steel, except for the cannon, the others are civilian standards, do you want more than a dozen civilian ships? ”

Wang Guangxiong scratched his head, in fact, he also knew that there was a big problem with the two destroyers (). Although the Jiangnan plant has undergone a major renovation, theoretically it will be possible to build 10,000-ton ships after all the renovations are completed in 14 years, because the United States has promised to sell three medium-sized ship machine tools to Jiangnan and Hubei, but judging from the models and sizes provided, the maximum number of military ships to build is about 2,000 tons. Because warships and civilian ships are completely different things, civilian ships can be assembled with rivets piece by piece like building blocks, but the keel of warships must be formed at one time because of the need for greater strength and toughness, but Jiangnan and Hubei currently only have small heat treatment furnaces, this small furnace is used to build civilian ship keels and small pieces of special steel, real ship models need to use ultra-large heat treatment furnaces that are often hundreds of meters or even hundreds of meters, this kind of thing will not be sold in Europe and the United States at all! Japan and Britain formed an alliance, and the Russo-Japanese War paid the price of more than 100,000 deaths to buy a 150-meter-long super-large ship machine tool eliminated by Britain and a set of armor steel heat treatment and quenching furnaces. Therefore, even if the Jiangnan plant completes the transformation, it will only be able to build 2,000-ton unarmored warships.

To put it simply, it is the color of 2,000 tons of ordinary steel plates, and if you confront the Japanese Navy, it will definitely be an instant kill. This kind of thing, training and technical reserves are okay. It can only be used as an offshore patrol ship for war, so Yang Qiucai stopped the follow-up construction after building two.

"Wait a little longer, in a few years the days will be better and more built, and in ten years I will definitely let you command a really big warship. But what you have to do now is to make use of the Shanghai Nanyang Naval Academy and the current warships to train reserve talents as much as possible. I have already thought about it, and when the three ships of Zhaohe, Yingrui, and Feihong come back, I will use your Hairong ship and three training cruisers as the backbone, plus two destroyers and six submarines of Yongji, and reorganize them into the second fleet. With the Beihai and Qinzhou Bay of the Leizhou Peninsula as the base to train talents, the first fleet will be handed over to Yang Jingxiu, you must have a bottom in your heart. ”

Wang Guangxiong still had a brain, and immediately understood that this second fleet was actually a new fleet that Yang Qiu was planning to build around the old navy, so that he could avoid the split of the first fleet and cultivate talents that belonged to him. It's just that Qinzhou Bay is still a barren beach, and it is difficult to supply and maintain. Unless the nearest Mawei shipyard can be taken, it will be quite troublesome, and it will not be able to avoid British interference. However, he didn't say much, because of the current mood and influence of the IDF. Fujian and Guangdong really want to fight, it will be a matter of two or three months, so since Yang Qiu wants to do this, he must also take into account the logistics problem ().

After crossing the main gun, Song Jiaoren and Cai Yuanpei were talking about something while watching the scenery on the bow deck of the ship, and immediately beckoned when they saw him coming.

It has only been more than a month since the last time the two parties were united, but Song Jiaoren looks a lot thinner, still wearing the suit he wore when he first met in Sichuan, the pockets on both sides have been sharpened because of frequent use, and the sideburns of people in their thirties even have a few strands of gray hair. It can be seen that this genius politician with extraordinary skills who can force Sun Wen to avoid Japan is really anxious to realize his ideals.

But he himself remains optimistic. As if he hadn't noticed that he was overdrawing his health, he pointed to the two cruisers in the distance. Not at all dissatisfied with Yang Qiu's fight against the Kuomintang forces, he smiled kindly and said: "Chenhua has really done a great thing for the country, when we were in Nanjing, we were worried about how to feed the navy, but you have to shoulder the burden and work hard." ”

A sentence of hard work made Yang Qiu feel as if something had flowed into his heart, warm. This is the first time that the politicians and bigwigs of this era have looked at themselves positively, and they are also a little moved: "The navy is the hope of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Throughout the century, Spain, the Netherlands, Britain and even Portugal have all risen because of the strength of the navy! The reason why Germany today can make Britain daunting is also because it took ten years to build a powerful fleet, and I have read Mr. Mahan's "Theory of Sea Power" and think he is very right, there is no border without sea, so it is Yang's lifelong wish to let the country go to the blue water. ”

After cooperating with the National Socialist Party, the Kuomintang was finally able to get rid of the pressure on both fronts, which allowed Cai Yuanpei to finally examine the rise of the young man in front of him with a relaxed attitude. It is false to say that there is no pimple in his heart, after all, he is the biggest political enemy of the Waimin Party except Beiyang, and he has risen rapidly through the actions of Sun Wu and others, and in the end, Sun Wu and Huang Keqiang have been killed by him, depressed and depressed, and because of his existence, they have all withdrawn from the southwest.

But calm down and think about it, no matter who you are, you must praise this young man who is only 23 years old, he can judge the situation and rise in chaos, which is very rare in itself, and the successful reversal under the pressure of tens of thousands of troops in Beiyang is even more shocking to the people. If these are not enough, then from his three provinces after the tour of the southwest, industrial construction, the implementation of the new policy and so on are exemplary, from Zhang Taiyan's several letters to himself, we can see how much pressure he has withen, how much effort and sweat he has put in (). Although the outside world called him an executioner, saying that his hands were stained with the blood of the Chinese people, who could avoid bloodshed if he wanted to deepen the achievements of the revolution?

After the cooperation between the two parties, it may not always be sweet, but at least he has done a generous job at present, but this is not to say that he has been perfect, too vicious and radical methods make many people shudder, and his political skills are even very worried about Song Jiaoren, especially the dominance of the Southwest National Socialist Party makes people see the shadow of dictatorship, so he can't help but remind: "What he said at the beginning is very right, Chenhua not only preserved the future of our country, but also set a good example." Now I don't know how many young people in the world want to follow you. Chen Hua has to lead them well, they are young and vigorous, impulsive and easy to overdo it, and it is not good to bring harm to the country. ”

Yang Qiu understood that Cai Yuanpei was reminding himself that the southwest had loomed signs of dictatorship. But he didn't want to mention this topic now, so he turned his head and asked Song Jiaoren: "What is Mr. Dunchu's expectations for this meeting?" ”

Cai Yuanpei is not dissatisfied with his attitude, his dictatorship has indeed brought hope to the people, and if you want to dig deeper, the Kuomintang really can't find a region that can be compared with the southwest. Jiangxi, the only better one, is also struggling because of its lack of foundation, while Guangdong is rich and politically divided into several factions. But the future of the southwest still worries him, where will this young man go? Seeing that he didn't want to speak, Song Jiaoren couldn't continue to speak, although the cooperation between the two parties seemed to be complete. But the fragile people in it are well known, and now the biggest target of the two is Beiyang, as long as they can take this opportunity to give Beiyang a set, it will be considered a success, as for the southwest, it can slowly develop the Kuomintang forces through a little infiltration, so he asked him with a smile: "What does Chenhua want to expect?" ”

Yang Qiu crossed Song Jiaoren, leaned down slightly with both hands on the railing, looked at the endless sea and said, "What Mr. thinks is also what I think. This country can no longer withstand too much toss, no matter if I want to give it a try, if the president agrees to a coalition government and ensure that the southwest policy remains unchanged, Yang is also willing to hand over power. ”

The two people next to him looked at each other in astonishment. Even Wang Guangxiong opened his mouth and immediately closed it again, when did Yang Qiu become so good at talking? Hundreds of thousands of Wehrmacht troops have already become a new force, will he be allowed to delegate power to be a fool?

Song Jiaoren didn't believe that he would be so easy to speak, but he couldn't guess that Yang Qiu agreed to go north so readily this time, this young man who had given him countless surprises since Sichuan seemed to be wrapped in a cloud of fog that people couldn't see through, not to mention how he was prepared to predict the time and process of the Wuchang uprising and quickly take down the two towns of Hanyang, just the fact that he used Tang Jiyao to take the southwest in one fell swoop not long ago, it makes people chill to think about it.

The southwest has slowly been shrouded by an iron curtain. This made him very worried that the country would fall into dictatorship again, but he was still satisfied with Yang Qiu's willingness to go north this time. smiled: "Chen Hua is really good at laughing, the southwest is still not good without you." The president's invitation to hold talks with us this time is certainly also a plan for a coalition government. So I would like to suggest that Chen Hua be the prime minister, how about it? ”

Song Jiaoren is worthy of being a master of playing politics, and if he were someone else, he would probably really be moved by this position of prime minister, but when he met Yang Qiu, he turned his head and looked at him meaningfully: "Sir, don't play tricks on me, a southwest has made it difficult for me to live in peace, and the prime minister is really incompetent." I think it should be as agreed before, the president should be left to Yuan Gong, Li Gong will continue to be vice president, and Mr. will be the prime minister. The Speaker of the House of Representatives is left to Mr. Shaochuan, the Senate is elected by the three of us, Yang of the War Department is not in control, and the Ministry of the Navy is handed over to Sa Gong, and the Minister of Education may have Zhang Binglin and Mr. Wenjue choose one or the other? ”

Cai Yuanpei listened to his nomination when he almost did not change the previous alliance between the two parties, and said in surprise: "Chenhua doesn't want others to poke the backbone of me and Dunchu, right?" You have plucked yourself clean, but the people of the world are afraid of scolding us to death. ”

Yang Qiu smiled slightly and pointed to his nose: "Yang still has some experience in industrial and commercial finance, if the two gentlemen can rest assured, why don't I supervise finance and industry and commerce?" ”

As soon as he finished saying this, Cai Yuanpei couldn't help but smile and glared at him fiercely, and said in his heart This guy is really cheeky, hundreds of thousands of national defense troops can ensure that the southwest is safe, if he takes on the key role of finance and industry and commerce again, this country will be handed over to him and the National Socialist Party in three years! However, he was not angry, looking at Yang Qiu's face, he also knew that he was joking, giving up such an important position, Yuan Shikai might as well risk his death. smiled: "I didn't expect Chenhua to really like to joke." ”

Song Jiaoren also smiled slightly: "Seeing Chenhua governing in the southwest, we people really feel old." Especially after the separation of the four powers of government, finance, law and army, there is already a faint republican atmosphere, but Chenhua, you have forgotten that the head of the republic is to maintain the balance of rights and restrain each other. Now the southwest parliament is full of friends from the country, although it can ensure the smooth implementation of laws and regulations, but in the long run, it will definitely lead to problems due to the lack of supervision and competition, resulting in excessive concentration of power. ”

Yang Qiu's heart was slightly shocked, Song Jiaoren deserved to be the top politician in China in this era, and he saw his biggest hidden worry at a glance. The dominance of the Kuomintang in the southwest was deliberately arranged by him, but how to supervise this team has been bothering him, the consequence of a dominance is undoubtedly another Bolshevik, this is the last thing he wants, but this era can not tolerate too much distraction in the political game and lost the time to catch up, plus at this moment he does not dare to introduce the power of the Kuomintang, to say in his heart, although the Kuomintang has narrowed the distance between the Kuomintang and the Kuomintang by relying on the armed forces, but if he is in a long-term political competition he may not be able to defeat Song Jiaoren, Moreover, from a historical point of view, the upper echelons of the Kuomintang are really unreliable, so restricting power is a problem for him.

The advantage of centralization is that it can hit all forces for national construction, and the speed at which the Bolsheviks caught up with Europe and the United States in just a few decades speaks for itself, but the consequences of dictatorship are bureaucrats and **, which does not need to be proven, how to maintain the balance between republicans and centralization? Song Jiaoren saw that he didn't speak, and his face gradually became serious: "I know that Chenhua still has concerns about our Kuomintang, but the harm of one family is huge, so I hope that this time everyone can make some concessions to reach a coalition, fair competition and mutual restraint, only by ensuring the balance of national political rights, can we get out of the turmoil as soon as possible and build the country." ”

Through these words, it can be seen that Song Jiaoren is indeed an idealistic politician, and there is indeed nothing wrong with his set of things, and rights need to be mutually restricted, but can a real republic be born in this barren soil?

Yang Qiu took a deep breath, saluted Song Jiaoren, and quietly turned away without saying a word.

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ps:I'm very sorry.,Cold runny nose and headache.,I can't write anything the day before sitting on the computer.,Please forgive me for the transition chapter.,I owe a chapter to make up later.