As Tang Shaoyi said, Yang Qiu is also considering the gains and losses of becoming president immediately, not because he doesn't want to be the president, but because he doesn't want to be entangled in troublesome civil affairs. The next three to four years is the best period for China to catch up, and the parallel world has also been economically prosperous and vigorous in recent years, but in the end, all the gains were destroyed by the war due to the entanglement of the Beiyang interest group. Now the National Society is dominant, but there are also many branches within the National Society, such as the Southwest faction, the YMCA, the Nanjing faction, etc., and once they sit in the position, they must weigh the balance issue.

So he doesn't want to be in office yet, and the positions of vice president and defense minister are enough to ensure that reforms are promoted. But only if one. You must get Li Yuanhong's guarantee and freedom! So on the matter of the next president, he has not said anything so far. Some things have been found in Chapter 364 (3) and will give the other party a wrong signal that "you need me", and only by letting people who want to sit at this position come to them can they gain the greatest degree of political and reform freedom.

To put it simply, now that he has the power to change the president, whoever wants to do it must come up with enough chips in exchange, this is politics!

Compared with politics, the military's current thinking is very simple, and the war in Europe and the Taiwan Strait crisis five years later have made the whole army full of energy, especially the navy is very concerned about improving its own strength, so after learning that the United States promised to start building large cruisers, the Admiralty immediately appointed Cheng Biguang as the superintendent, and also selected 2,000 officers and men to rush to the United States, where they will receive training and receive two capital ships to return to China in the next three years.

The Army has not delayed, and although the focus has recently shifted to the Navy, the issue of sending observers to Europe is already being negotiated.

Jiang Baili picked up an old Hanyang gun barrel from the production line and asked, "Why does this old gun barrel still exist?" ”

The young colonel who brought Jiang Baili back from Jiangsu is now one of the six pillars of the National Defense Force, and almost all the equipment and logistics of the whole army have to pass through him. Because of the affairs of Chapter 364 of the National Society (3) of that year, he once worshipped Jiang Baili as his teacher, and the latter also recommended him to go to Germany for a short period of study to study modern military logistics management.

So when I heard the inquiry, I also picked one up and said: "The submachine gun is in great demand, and if the new barrel is slow, it will also consume materials and labor." It's convenient to use the barrel of the old Hanyang . It can be used in two. We left about 60,000 barrels before we produced our new rifles, and with 120,000 ready-made barrels, within a year, the factory could complete the order for submachine guns from Russia and export a batch to France. ”

Zhang Xiaozhun looked at the barrel and found that most of them were not plated and there was no rifling. Asked: "The waste is a good way to use, but rifle bullets can't be used for submachine guns, right?" The recoil is not too much. ”

"Rifle bullets cannot be used directly, and reduced ammunition of the same caliber must be used."

"That's bad." Jiang Baili smiled: "Most of the old guns we sold to Russia are 79 and 65 mm, and there are many French 8 mm and British 77 mm, and now there are 792 mm reduced ammunition ̈ There will be 762 bottomless edges in the near future." If a country has a bullet caliber, Russia's logistics will be chaotic. ”

"It's better to mess around, so you don't have to go back and hit us with our equipment! Besides. They don't have time to care about logistics at all, and it would be nice to have guns. Zhang Xiaozhun said: "I heard that since the war started last year, they have lost 2.3 million people, which country can withstand this kind of attrition?" ”

Yang Qiu waved his hand: "Don't laugh at Russia, the chauvinism and violent character in their bones are very suitable for soldiers, so in terms of soldiers' personal qualities, they are second only to Germany and France, and it will be very terrible if they can receive systematic training." What is really mediocre is the rigidity of commanders and tactics, even if there is a Cossack cavalry who claims to be the first in the world, they do not know how to use it. Moreover, it is natural that it will have to face a three-front operation, and the losses will be large. ”

Jiang Baili deeply agreed with this point of view: "The commander-in-chief said a lot, and the combat ability of the Russian soldiers was still good when Japan and Russia were in the beginning. If it weren't for the mistake of command, the Japanese army would not have been able to take it so quickly, and if it could have been delayed for another year, the result might have changed. ”

"It's worse for us." Yang Qiu smiled, turned his head and asked Zhang Xiaozhun: "Is there a result of the matter of negotiating with Britain and France on the observer?" ”

Sending observers to Europe is one of the important tasks of the Ministry of Defense recently, and although the Wehrmacht has been tempered after the Sino-Japanese War and the new tactics have begun to show results, compared with Europe, the Sino-Japanese War can only be regarded as a child's play in terms of scale and ideology. Yang Qiu didn't think about taking the opportunity to join the Entente and send troops to Europe to further tie up relations, but for any unit that had not experienced a large-scale war, the only result of rushing to join without even the officers understanding was a fiasco! What was the scale of the Wehrmacht fighting? No matter how tenacious an army is, even if it is the imperial army of the Showa era. Preparing for artillery fire in the first battle takes days, throwing tens of millions of shells, throwing at least hundreds of thousands of battles, and if the officers themselves cannot avoid nervousness, the soldiers' fighting mood will quickly collapse.

Therefore, send observers for officers to experience first-hand in order to accumulate enough experience and lessons. In the future, we will not be in a hurry in the face of a war of this magnitude.

Zhang Xiaozhun, who was one of the first officers to set off, said: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chief of the General Staff have reached an agreement with Britain and France that I, Yue Peng, and Jiang Zuobin will lead a team to go in three batches, and a total of 500 army and navy observers will be sent to the Entente. According to intelligence, Britain and France have been active in the Dardanelles and Abashan areas recently, and it seems that they are preparing for two large-scale counteroffensives, so the first observers will leave in three days to try not to miss these two major battles. ”

Dardanelles, Battle of Gallipoli I. Thinking of these two words, Yang Qiu also scratched his head.

In addition to up to 50 percent casualties, it will also bring a very terrible and serious consequence, that is, the Western Front will be undermanned for several successive counterattacks, especially after the German poison gas bombs were dropped, and the entire Western Front was crumbling for a time. In the parallel world, it was because of this mistake that Britain and France began to lack human resources, which opened the prelude to the dispatch of 500,000 Chinese laborers to Europe.

In addition to the whole battle that the Navy and Marines could learn from, the Battle of Gallipoli was tedious and rigid for the Army, and it was just a waste to send too many observers there, it was better to observe the upcoming battles of Saint-Elois and Ypre, so he said: "The Navy and Marine Corps can go to the Dardanelles, your main job is to go to the Western Front, and besides, be sure to let everyone pay attention to safety!" Germany is afraid that in the near future it will drop poison gas bombs and some new weapons of mass destruction. ”

In the year of Gengzi, the Eight-Nation Coalition used poison gas bombs in China. So the faces of the two changed slightly, and Zhang Xiaozhun nodded even harder.

After leaving the firearms factory, Yang Qiu and his entourage drove to the torpedo factory, which had just been put into production 30 kilometers away from Hanyang. Torpedoes are one of the main weapons of the navy, and when he purchased submarines from Germany, Yang Qiu bought all the manufacturing technology of black-headed torpedoes, but even if he had the technology to build torpedoes, it was difficult. The most important thing is the torpedo fuse!

The torpedo fuse is an extremely delicate and complex component, and the American torpedo in World War II caused the navy to lose confidence because of the fuse. Judging from the feedback information, the current effective rate of European ship torpedoes can only reach 70 percent, and the effective rate of aviation torpedoes is less than 30 percent, and this is also one of the biggest problems restricting aircraft from carrying torpedoes in war. The 360-mm aviation torpedoes built by the Hanyang Factory based on the black-headed torpedo have been tested more than a dozen times, but without exception, after the torpedo fell into the water, the mine-head fuse could not withstand the impact, resulting in a direct sinking to the bottom, or deviating, or simply hitting and not exploding.

It was not until the end of last year that a large number of high-level European mechanics who had fled from Russia and Austria-Hungary were hired by the factories. The torpedo factory is also one of the few factories in Hanyang where foreign technicians and workers are concentrated, and the security work in the factory area is very strict to prevent them from leaking secrets. In addition to black-headed torpedoes, the plant is currently copying the famous German HB heavy torpedoes. This torpedo, for which Yang Qiu provided all the drawings, was a new type of heavy torpedo designed in 1912 and first appeared in service in Jutland in 195. Moreover, before the defeat, even the drawings and production lines were secretly destroyed, so the outside world rarely knew about this torpedo.

Caliber 600 mm, total length 8 meters. Thermodynamic propulsion, with a maximum range of 210 knots/1 meter when carrying a standard TNT charge of 30 knots, and a range of meters at 36 knots! This kind of range and power has far exceeded the heavy torpedoes currently equipped by countries around the world, and even before World War II, this torpedo was very advanced except for the perverted Japanese 93 spear. Of course, Yang Qiu will not copy the drawings, he directly took out the torpedo cap technology invented by the Italian Otto company before World War II, this sharp cap installed in front of the thunder head can theoretically help the maximum speed of UB to 50 knots, and the maximum range can also be increased to 50 knots / meter, 30 knots m!

In addition to the 600-mm marine version, the 550-mm version for submarines is also being developed. Although it is still not as good as the Type 93 oxygen torpedo, it is difficult to make that thing with the current technology. The main reason is that small oxygen concentrators have not yet appeared, and the Japanese Navy did not complete it until 1933. Therefore, HB already represents the highest level in the world at the moment, and theoretically only two of them can ensure the destruction of any capital ship in the current navies of various countries. Like the previous drawing imitations, the HB was renamed the Type 15 Storm Torpedo and was divided into three models, A, B and C, which were supplied to surface ships, submarines and aircraft. However, the latter has not made a breakthrough due to the delay in the reinforcement technology of the thunderhead fuse, so the aviation torpedo is still slowly dangling on the drawings.

As soon as Yang Qiu listened to the technician's introduction to the development progress of the storm torpedo, Lei Meng, who was on guard outside, walked in: "Commander-in-chief, the president is here." ”

"Please." Hearing that Li Yuanhong was coming, the corners of Yang Qiu's mouth finally pulled out an unknown arc, Jiang Baili and Zhang Xiaozhun knew that the two were going to talk about the recent ups and downs of the National Social Congress and the official election, so they also hurriedly avoided visiting other factories.

"Chenhua, you can chase me to death.

Although the winter has not yet passed, Li Yuanhong, who is getting fatter and fatter, is sweating profusely after coming in. This scene made Yang Qiu smile secretly in his heart, for the reputation of the first official president, this one is really persistent, if he showed this enthusiasm back then, it is difficult to say whether he can control Hubei. smiled: "It's all my fault for letting the president run so much." ”

Li Yuanhong laughed a few times, walked to the two wooden sample mines on the table in the showroom and looked at them carefully, as if he had chased him all the way from Wuchang to learn about the situation of naval equipment, but the eyes that passed Yang Qiu from time to time betrayed him. First asked: "This is the new torpedo you designed by Chenhua?" I didn't expect you to know all about torpedoes, and the country is lucky! The good fortune of the nation! In addition to being a little embarrassed at the beginning, the military equipment that Yang Qiu provided drawings later was named after his design, so everyone in the country who knew the details did not know that Commander Yang was a genius in weapon design, and perhaps he was the only super talent in the world who ate all the sea, land and air, so Yang Qiu cheekily accepted these two praises.

"The president was also born in the navy, so why don't you see if there are still problems there?"

Li Yuanhong picked up the basic data and looked at it for a long time, and said: "Chenhua, don't play tricks on me, if you want to say that I can drive a warship to release torpedoes, I can still deal with it, but I really don't know anything about design." However, if you are fast, the wake track will be more obvious, and if the weather is good, you can see it as soon as it is launched, and the enemy ship will have enough time to evade. He was born in the Navy and could see the flaws in torpedoes at a glance, but Storm is mainly to train his own large torpedo development and design team, and in the future, he will still develop in electric drive or oxygen.

Yang Qiu saw that his forehead was covered with fine sweat, and knew that he must still be hesitating how to speak, so he took the initiative to say, "The president came to me, is there anything wrong?" ”

Li Yuanhong raised his head and looked at him deeply, every time he faced this young man, he felt constrained, and he couldn't afford the slightest idea of confrontation in his heart, even if he had opened his mouth now, some words still didn't dare to say it directly. After thinking for a long time, he went around in circles and said: "Shaochuan came to me just now, Huang Yuansheng has resigned to declare the editor-in-chief and is ready to become a ** official, in addition, in the selection of the chairman of the senator, he tends to let Luo Lun come out, and the speaker of the House of Representatives or Pu Dianjun will continue to serve, do you think this is feasible?" ”

Luo Lun was a senior government official of the National Society, who was born in the military and became a provincial governor, and after Sichuan, he became a die-hard faction of Yang Qiu, otherwise Li Liejun would not have let him take over as the governor of Jiangxi Province, which is strategically important in connecting the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Pu Dianjun is not very capable in the current national society, but the House of Representatives itself is an ornament, so it is appropriate to let him, a good old man, come out, not to mention that he is also one of the nine executive committees of the national society.

Judging from these two nominations, even if everyone has their own thoughts, the idea of maintaining the dominance of the national society is still the same! This is also what Yang Qiu hopes to see, the National Society is not only a political group, but also an interest group! Only interests can bring together so many people and so many factions. Nodding: "It's up to the president and the prime minister to decide." In addition, I want to by-elect Song Ziqing, Cai Yi and Yan Xishan as executive committee members, expanding to 12 people, do you think this will work? ”

Li Yuanhong is an old fox, so he can't see this arrangement. Song Ziqing and Cai Ye are both people of the military Yang Qiu, Yan Xishan has done a good job in Beijing, and politically he is a wall-to-wall grass, as long as Yang Qiu stands tall, it is estimated that he will be loyal to him in this life. In this way, after the 9 executive committees expanded to 12 people, Yang Qiu's own position in the national society became more stable, so he nodded very happily.

Seeing that he agreed, Yang Qiu suddenly changed his title: "The student has thought about it recently, as one of the only remaining republican veterans who is now fruitful, how about the teacher serve another term?" ”。！！！