It is very simple to ask the Nationalist Army to cease the war, either the Beiyang Army has completely defeated the Nationalist Army and the Nationalist Army has sued for peace, or the Nationalist Army has defeated the Beiyang Army and has taken the initiative and then proposed peace. Either way, the conditions are not available at this time.

Even if you want peace, you have to decide the winners and losers first.

Cai Ye didn't care about this, and after getting Chen Jingyun's willingness to stop the war, he felt that he had hope to calm down the war in southern Jiangsu.

Subsequently, Cai Ye and Sun Wen, who had arrived in Shanghai the day before yesterday, also talked, and Sun Wen also said that he supported the armistice in southern Jiangsu and was willing to mediate for this purpose.

Soon, the news that Cai Ye and Sun Wen wanted to mediate for the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army reached Yuan Shikai's ears, Yuan Shikai didn't care about it, he spent so much military money and used three divisions to go south, not for fun, but to hit Chen Jingyun's expansion momentum, infiltrate the power of the Beiyang Army into southern Jiangsu and even northern Zhejiang, completely lay the stability of the Jianghuai region, and even hope to take Zhejiang from the hands of the Nationalist Army, and then use the financial resources of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces to relieve the huge financial pressure of the central government.

It is okay to let him accept mediation, unless the Nationalist Army takes the initiative to withdraw from southern Jiangsu and even northern Zhejiang, and the Nationalist Army also has to withdraw from Guangzhou City, so Yuan Shikai may consider a truce when he has an advantage now, after all, although the Beiyang Army has an advantage now, it is not easy to defeat the Nationalist Army in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang, and the military expenses paid for this war are not small.

However, Chen Jingyun could not agree to these conditions, and if Chen Jingyun had been able to give in, he would have withdrawn his troops directly from Guangzhou, and it would not have caused tension on the Tianjin-Pudong line, so that the final contradictions had accumulated to the highest point and could only be vented by war.

On 4 November, Chen Jingyun, Cai Yi, and Sun Wen jointly held a dinner party, which hosted a number of foreign diplomats in Shanghai, some military and political dignitaries, and Shanghai's gentry, wealth, businessmen, and celebrities.

In September, Beiyang Zhengaxe and Belgium signed a loan contract for the construction of the Longhai Railway, which was scheduled to build a 1,800-kilometer Longhai Railway on the basis of the original part of the railway line, and now Sun Wen is still the general office of the national railway.

However, Chen Jingyun did not leave Shanghai in a hurry, but continued to stay in Shanghai.

For Shanghai in this era, Chen Jingyun's feeling is novel, the description of Shanghai in the film and television novels I have seen before is always a noisy and impetuous city, the melodious music sound flowing from the gramophone, the fashionable girl wearing a cheongsam that shows off her figure in high heels, the buildings on the Bund with different styles, especially after the 'Sauvignon Blanc' movie came out, the scene of the whirling Miaoman's figure swaying gently in the dance music of 'Night Shanghai' seems to set the style of old Shanghai.

Before coming to Shanghai, Chen Jingyun was also full of expectations for Shanghai, wanting to see how prosperous this first city in the Far East was, and then after actually arriving in Shanghai, he found that there was still a big gap between Shanghai in 1912 and the old Shanghai he imagined, and it could even be said to be completely different.

It is true that Shanghai is the first city in the Far East, but it is not the Chinese realm, but the concession.

Although there are more people and more prosperous people in Shanghai Huajie than Fuzhou and Hangzhou, Chen Jingyun did not get too many surprises. Although the concession and the Chinese realm are adjacent to each other, the development and order of the two are completely different, and there is even a very clear difference, although there is curiosity and expectation, Chen Jingyun has no intention of entering the concession.

This is mainly a matter of security, but also a matter of political attitude, the main concession authorities do not allow Chen Jingyun to enter the concession with guards and weapons, so Chen Jingyun will not step into the concession.

Although he did not enter the concession, this did not affect Chen Jingyun's activities in Shanghai, and in just a few days, he was full of arrangements and met with many people, the vast majority of whom were military and political dignitaries and gentry of prestige living in Shanghai.

On the sixth, he also went to visit the Jiangnan Dock. It has been fifty or sixty years since the Jiangnan Machinery Manufacturing Bureau was built in 1865, and it has been equipped with guns, ammunition, ships, machines, translation halls and other departments.

In the 31st year of Guangxu, that is, in 1905, the shipbuilding department of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau was read out and became the Jiangnan Dock, which was renamed the Jiangnan Shipyard after Xinhai, and the remaining Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau was no longer the glory of the year.

Although the current Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau still retains the ability to manufacture guns and ammunition, its technical level cannot be compared with that of the Hanyang Factory and the Fuzhou Arsenal, let alone the output. From 1905 to Xinhai alone, the Jiangnan Shipyard built 136 ships, including many warships, such as the 500-ton gunboat Lianjing, the 250-ton gunboat Ganquan, and on the eve of Xinhai, it was still undertaking the construction of two 860-ton Yongxiang and Yongji.

It can be said that in the past ten years, Jiangnan Shipyard has become the largest shipyard in China, and its technical capabilities are incomparable with Mawei Shipyard. For example, it is a good example that Jiangnan Shipyard can now build a larger warship of more than 800 tons, but Mawei Shipyard now needs to purchase machinery and equipment to build the same gunboat.

After the Nationalist Army occupied Shanghai, it also accepted the Jiangnan Dockyard and the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and soon renamed the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau as the Shanghai Arsenal, and sent technicians from the Fuzhou Arsenal to resume production, but even after the resumption of production, the output will not be too high, just like the Arsenal in Guangdong, the output is limited, and the important surname is not high.

But Jiangnan Shipyard is different, this is currently China's largest shipyard has technical capabilities that Mawei Shipyard can not reach, so Chen Jingyun also attaches great importance to it, not only personally renamed it Jiangnan Shipyard, but also personally went to Jiangnan Shipyard to inspect and visit.

Shanghai has changed its owner, and the Jiangnan Shipyard has naturally changed its owner, and the original Mawei Shipyard Xi Zhixing personally recommended himself to Chen Jingyun Mao, saying that he wanted to serve as the director of the Jiangnan Shipyard. Chen Jingyun agreed after thinking about it, and as soon as he arrived in Shanghai, he carried out a drastic reform of the Jiangnan Shipyard, eradicating all the official work style of the Jiangnan Shipyard, and dismissed some people who did not work or had no technical ability, and then promoted a large number of technical personnel to important posts, and applied for a lot of management personnel from the Mawei Shipyard and the Fuzhou Arsenal to come to the Jiangnan Shipyard to take up posts, and in less than 10 days, the Jiangnan Shipyard had taken on a new look.

"Governor, look, this is the Yongxiang that our shipyard is currently building!" Xi Zhixing pointed to an unfinished warship and said to Chen Jingyun: "This Yongxiang is the same model as the Changle under construction at the Mawei Shipyard. ”

Chen Jingyun looked at the gunboat in front of him, which had not even finished its shell, and couldn't see anything good or bad, so he immediately said: "Oh, in this way, we are building three identical gunboats now, and logistics maintenance will be easy to handle in the future!" ”

"It can be said that these three are all more or less the same, and the two gunboats that are being built in Ben are also of the same batch as these three!" Sa Zhenbing, who came with him, interjected and explained.

At this time, Sa Zhenbing saw that Chen Jingyun seemed to be in a good mood, and immediately said: "Commander, now that the Jiangnan Shipyard has been taken by us, are we not going to pay for the follow-up construction of these two gunboats, and use these two ships for our own use." ”

Chen Jingyun knew what he wanted to say, and immediately said: "Don't worry, the shipyard belongs to us, and the Admiralty in the north will naturally not continue to pay for it, and we will pay for the follow-up funds for these two gunboats, and your Navy Department will take care of it when the time comes!" ”

Sa Zhenbing also agreed with a smile, now the Navy Department has a lot of money, Chen Jingyun and the Americans' naval cooperation plan, that is, the Bethlehem contract, has provided 25 million US dollars in funds for the development of the navy, even if most of it must be used to purchase warships from the United States, but the remaining millions of dollars can be used to build and expand the navy's gun and ammunition factory and for dock naval bases, etc., and some of them can be used to pay for the follow-up construction costs of these two warships.

After visiting the shipyard, Chen Jinghai, who came with Chen Jingyun, immediately placed an order for two ships to Jiangnan Shipyard to show support, Chen Jinghai has been the president of Huaxia Bank since he became the president of Huaxia Bank, and Chen Jingsheng, the financial director of Huaxia Bank, managed the Chen family's industry together, and Chen Jinghai in addition to the traditional financial business and the original industry of the Chen family, more active outward expansion. The shipping industry is the focus of Chen Jinghai's recent investment, which mainly originated from the huge demand of the national army for maritime transportation, because Fuzhou to Guangzhou and Hangzhou are not open railways, logistics supplies can only rely on road traffic step by step, the logistics department in order to reduce costs, first use ships to send supplies to Guangzhou, and later Sa Zhenbing led the navy and forced the Beiyang Navy in Shanghai to surrender to the Fuzhou fleet, the maritime threat of the national army is almost negligible, Therefore, the logistics department began to use ships to ship logistics supplies directly to Hangzhou and Shanghai, and then transported them to the front line in Zhenjiang by rail.

The logistics department needs a huge maritime transport force, the Fujian fleet itself has several transport ships can not meet the demand at all, can only rent civilian ships, Chen Jinghai found that there are business opportunities after the first time is to set up a shipping company, and take a very loud title called the Pacific Shipping Company, first funded the purchase of a few second-hand ships, when buying new ships, in line with the purpose of not flowing outsiders and supporting their own shipyards, ordered three freighters from Mawei Shipyard, and now ordered two freighters from Jiangnan Shipyard. Strive to build a large-scale shipping enterprise.

However, it is still far from this goal, and the main business is to use the second-hand freighters purchased to transport supplies to the national army, and it has not even carried out civilian business, but this is not in a hurry, and it is not too late to expand the scale in the future