Chapter 399 Site Expansion
"Gold, so much gold!"
This line is very suitable for someone who has dug up a treasure, or to find the pirate captain's nest. When it comes to speaking, it must be that his eyes shine and his whole body is trembling, as if he is extremely happy and ready to fire a cannon at any time.
But the scene now appears in Yang Hao's old nest. As an experienced bank manager, facing a room full of gold, his joints were white with his hands, and his whole body was shaking like a rosy wind. There was white foam on the corners of his mouth, and he could suck him at any time.
Even though Yang Hao himself was already rich enough to rival a country, he suddenly saw that he could make a pile of gold, and his heart was beating wildly, and he spit out dirty words: "His grandma's, what a good thing!"
Yang Hao only collected gold and silver for warship powers sold to the great powers, and did not want their banknotes. In order to ensure that the great powers could pay happily, he was very righteous and allowed the other party to provide gold and silver in a ratio of one to five. But even so, when the entire order amount rose to a number of hundreds of millions of silver, the gold and silver brought by ships piled up into small hills, and the scene was so exciting!
A battleship has an average of 2 million pounds, equivalent to 14 million taels of silver. Even if one of the powerful countries such as Britain, France, Germany, Russia, the United States, Italy and the United States, Italy and the United States, is required to pay half of the payment for the goods, which is a figure of hundreds of millions.
One fifth, hundreds of tons of gold, made Yang Hao suddenly realize that he had seen the Federal Reserve Bank vault in the "American robbery". The scene of loading and unloading gold with forklifts makes people excited to think about it, but now it is directly staged in front of him.
He extremely suspected that the total amount of gold reserves he now had actually exceeded the central vault of this world. Anyway, at least in the B plane, the reserve used to support the issuance of paper money. There is no problem at all.
No one doesn’t like money. Those who say that money is too much to a certain extent are just a number, and they are bragging.
After fully enjoying the stimulation of the perfect house, Yang Hao could finally pat his chest and say responsibly that this business was done well and worth it!
The most important thing is that from beginning to end, he made the plan alone, without the sister-in-law of the business genius intervening. The final result was based on a naval battle and a political blackmail. Make full use of the conflicts between the great powers, and make a killer with a group of extremely cheap steel alloy products in this world, and replace them with real hard currency. That pile of gold alone can be worth ten times the price!
The processing technology of steam turbines and heat pipe boilers in the late 19th century was very good in factories in the 21st century. Because precision processing machinery was not used at all, even second-hand equipment that he had to relocate to the B plane could easily deal with.
Whether it is the alloy used to make spindle rotors or the metal materials used to make blades, high-end advanced technology is not used. So when the order is distributed, I feel embarrassed to tell them that this is used to build steam turbines---Nima's output heat efficiency is less than 30% after assembly. Are you fooling people or fooling people?
The key is that the steam pressure is less than 2 megapas and the steam temperature is not more than 300 degrees. Is this a thing possible?
In fact, in the decade around the 20th century, steam turbines of this level were simply works of art and unsurpassed magical creations.
Not to mention blades with extremely high strength and higher accuracy, welded cylinders and tight air seals are only seen in life. Those pressure and high temperature resistant pipes are unqualified products in the 21st century, but they are amazed by countless people here.
No wonder Fredrich felt like he was going to give up after he finished the experiment. It was too exaggerated and astonishing. They didn't know where to start if they wanted to catch up.
Of course, it also set a set of extremely high benchmarks, giving them a clear direction for catching up. It is also judging from the test results that this business is not a loss. Manufacturers such as Parson, Krupp, Siemens, etc. have made countless references and inspirations from it, allowing them to save at least several years and millions of research funds.
These points are particularly important in the shipbuilding competition.
The Germans attached great importance to technology prompted them to make the first decision to introduce high prices. Frederick, who had a developed business mind, and the talented people within the Navy tentatively introduced a 10,000-ton hydraulic press and a complete set of 30,000-ton ships. Yang Hao agreed very happily.
This made the Germans overjoyed! They once again came to the forefront in the competition among European powers!
At the end of the 19th century, Germany's industrial technology and output value quickly approached Britain, and some of them surpassed them. However, in terms of shipbuilding speed and scale, there were obvious shortcomings. This problem has not been well solved from now to the next forty years. So the helpless reality is that Germany had to always use a few naval forces to deal with most enemies in the war.
This is not a matter of being rich or not. The British shipyards surrounded the island and took half of Northern Ireland. The industrial workers with large numbers can eat half of the world. Apart from the United States, they are almost invincible.
By giving an example, you can see how miserable the German Navy is.
The British began to build the first dreadnought, which started construction on October 2, 1905 and was launched on February 10, 1906. It took only four months to complete the hull. Later, in order to detect new equipment, it was delayed until December 3, 1907. It was only 26 months in total.
In the next ten years, the British built a total of 51 battleships at almost the same speed!
On the other hand, no matter how ambitious William II was, no matter how talented and stubborn the German finances were, they could not avoid the fact that Germany's finances were far inferior to the British.
The British could arrogantly shout the slogan "German builds one ship, we will build two ships" and reach an exaggerated figure of 50 million pounds per year to build a super navy. Germany even squeezed out 25% of the fiscal budget to the navy, and later it reached 35 and 55! So that it led to the rise of domestic prices, and the price of wheat soared from 3.5 marks per ton to 5.5 marks.
This is a complete military war!
With this method, Germany still could not keep up with the British shipbuilding speed. It was launched from the first dreadnought. The Germans never surpassed the speed, number of shipbuilding, the caliber of the main gun and the speed of the warship.
In the end, the war was launched under such a disadvantage, and there were very bad signs from the beginning.
However, this kind of revenge and expansion engraved in the bones was captured by Yang Hao, a person like Yang Hao who masters the trend of history, and the person trapped in it seemed particularly sad and helpless.
Yang Hao knew William II's ambitions, and even more so that the expansion of the Germans would bring to Britain, France, Russia and other countries around him. Therefore, he took out the chips that were light to him without hesitation and threw them out. The Germans swallowed the fragrant bait in a gulp of hungry tigers, which directly stimulated the result that the entire great power had to follow up.
Unconsciously, the Germans acted as the pawns of the Yang family's black hand. While greatly promoting the "ship building competition" to accelerate in advance, they also perfectly destroyed the last bit of hesitation of the great powers.
In any era, top industrial equipment is a military embargo. Yang Hao openly sold all 10,000 tons of water presses to the Germans. This is not just a capital enemy, it is a matter of money but life!
Although that thing takes more than one year to produce and deliver, all parts need to be produced in a Chinese factory in Plant B, and then split off the shore after completion. Even if it can be transported to Germany safely, it will be installed and debugged. Don’t expect it to be put into operation without half a year. Before that, Germans had to spend money to buy Yang Hao’s high-quality, cheap and low-quality equipment and materials.
Those who know the inside story have to give Yang Hao a thumbs up, black, so black!
After finally seeing Yang Hao's entire business operation plan, Yang Haixin rarely expressed his admiration: "Being able to integrate the international trend into business operations is considered a relatively qualified national salesman."
Yang Hao is a little fluttering. It seems that such roles can only be done by previous prime ministers in this world. Anyone who goes out does not lead the minds of a large group of top domestic companies, with tens of billions of dollars in their pockets. They export their own flagship products to some countries - they must be of high quality, low price and competitive, and even in some countries, the entire system is built on the basis of some powerful opponents. They throw money to smash people.
As the economic situation improves, the external environment is often harsh. When some major countries are siegeing a group of younger brothers, they will go to other places to throw a bunch of orders and create internal conflicts for others.
Yang Hao has now simply acted as a big leader, and used irresistible bait to instigate a group of evil wolves to bite each other. How happy!
Seeing a pile of golden drooling, it would be enough to do it once. Yang Hao finished his inner feelings and decisively cut off his greed in his mind, turning around and devoted himself to the practical work of further consolidating the foundation.
In October 1896, while the revolutionary military government completed the land reform of the occupied areas, it began to promote and expand the railway with the capital as the center.
Go north, complete the first phase of construction to Fengtian, and immediately start the second phase of construction to Jilin by immigrating. One of the branches will cross the Liaodong Peninsula and enter the Goryeo Peninsula.
Go west and extend to Zhangjiakou and Datong Prefecture respectively. In the future, this will surely be used as a node to go west to Baotou and south to Taiyuan.
To the south, the railway first runs through Hebei and connects Jiaoji Line, and gathers until Xuzhou, and goes straight to Jiangning in sequence. Then the second project starts to look at the main artery, from Baoding, Shunde to Zhengzhou and Nanyang, the terminal is in Wuchang Prefecture, and forces into the Yangtze River.
The railway that crossed the westward from Haizhou, passed Xuzhou through Zhengzhou, arrived at Tongguan and approached Shaanxi. It crossed the cross-link and rushed forward and became a vanguard officer who pursued the Qing court's palaces. Without moving one soldier and one soldier, he was frightened and unable to sleep or eat.
As soon as such a policy was released, everyone in the world knew Yang Hao's movement rhythm. The expansion of the revolutionary military government must be promoted simultaneously with the railway and highways. It strictly follows its purpose of "building roads first if you want to be rich", and mobilizes the masses to carry out land reform movements along the way. Using the huge manpower mobilized, roads and communications are first built, and water conservancy facilities are then built, and while training organizational and collaboration capabilities, the revolutionary concepts are deeply rooted in the grassroots.
From point to surface, from one center to multiple directions, forming a rolling development, and turning a large area of land into a boiling ocean of revolutionary tides will not have any worries at all, nor do you have to worry about the rapid expansion and internal inconsistency.
When training troops, first of all, we should use stubborn bureaucrats and Qing soldiers to kill the Taoist cultists and bandits who were dissatisfied with Wang Hua. Wherever the revolutionary iron fist goes, no matter what gentry or local snake you are. All of them are crushed without mercy! After the attack is over, you will occupy your house and share your property and land. At best, leave behind family members who have no public outrage and basic wealth to support your family.
The Revolutionary Army is not a bandit, so it is not a trick to eliminate the roots.
The attacks on armed forces that were chasing under the banner of the Revolutionary Army were even more fierce. While attacking, it was constantly propaganda to all parts of the country. Ming Daming told everyone not to expect to take advantage of the troubled waters. The Revolutionary Army is not a peasant uprising and does not need a weed-headed king. It is the wisest way to wait for the army to advance peacefully.
The Qing bureaucrats in Shanxi and Henan had been almost infiltrated. Those who were loyal to the court who refused to be traitors when they died. They either brought their bags in advance to Xi'an to cry to Cixi, or resigned from their posts and returned to their hometown to become rich. There were very few confrontations, and not everyone wanted to do the things they wanted to die.
But Zhang Zhidong was waxed. His old nest, Hubei, is the core area to be taken down in the next step. Jingxiang is the hub of the mountains and rivers on the outside and inside, and the center of the central government. Taking this place, going south and west will surely be unstoppable. Whoever grabs it first will be invincible. After all dynasties, the north and the south conquer must open a breakthrough from then on. And when fighting invasions in the south, they often use this as a fortress for the front enemy.
Zhang Zhidong stared at the railway propulsion drawings issued by Yang Hao. He found that the time left for him was only less than two years. The railway construction team led by Zhan Tianyou followed the second sequence of the revolutionary army's advancement and had already begun the extension from Henan to Hubei. The Beijing-Hanzhou Railway must even run through the Jinpu Railway!
Zhang Zhidong sighed when he looked at him, but he was helpless and harmonious.
Before, he thought that Yang Hao's promotion model of spending money on the ground would inevitably be delayed due to a break in the capital chain. Even if he had a few hundred million taels of silver in his hand, it would be good to support the development of Northern Zhili and Northeast China at best.
It really costs money to build a railway! He is 30,000 or 50,000 per kilometer. If he doesn’t have hundreds of millions of funds to promote railway construction, he doesn’t want to succeed.
Zhang Zhidong was also paying attention to the progress of those steel plants at any time. When he heard that he was busy providing raw materials for shipbuilding and various construction machinery manufacturing, he breathed a sigh of relief. Without railway tracks and no external purchases, what would he use to shop?
He could not have imagined that Yang Hao was drawing second-hand rails everywhere in this world. In China in the 21st century, 60 kilograms of rails were completely eliminated. As much as you want, the price was only more than 2,000 per ton, which was extremely cheap.
Compared with the huge elimination figures in New China, at the end of the 19th century, when even 35kg of railway tracks were not popular, these few thousand kilometers of railway tracks went wherever they were!
Zhang Zhidong looked sad and had no choice but to do anything. He couldn't defeat the blackmail and couldn't help but watch Yang Hao eat it, which made him feel really bad.
He was still reluctant to resign. With his lifelong reputation, he would retreat from a young man in his twenties and could not afford to lose that person.
The old guys who were expecting the revolutionary army to make a rash mistake were completely disappointed. However, the governors of South China saw the advantage. They secretly calculated that according to Yang Hao's whole method, it would take at least ten or eight years to flatten the coastal areas with convenient transportation. If you want to be in a remote area, it will probably take longer? Then they have room to do it.
So after the emergency power was issued, Liu Kunyi, Zhang Zhidong, Tan Zhonglin and others jointly announced that the Southeast mutual protection and the joint provincial autonomy would neither obey the "rebels" program of the Revolutionary Army, nor be subject to the restrained and dispatched by the court. Of course, they would not dare to openly surrender to the foreign devils to build a country in the country, and to protect the country and the people should be safeguarded.
"This is definitely the Chinese version of 'non-violent non-cooperation'!"
Yang Hao laughed loudly when he heard this, and then called the whole country to deliver a speech: "It is a great thing for all provinces to be aware of and no longer follow the corrupt Qing Dynasty to the dark side. This is a great thing. It has great benefits for the country and the people, and it deserves praise. However, this is still not enough. Provinces should not be lucky enough to resist the revolutionary army to the end. All military forces under construction should focus on maintaining regional public security and ensuring people's livelihood stability. It is impossible to expect armed confrontation. If you dare to allow criminals in your jurisdiction to run rampantly and undermine the overall situation of stability and unity, you will definitely be severely punished!"
Not only that, he also issued a special operation order in the name of the Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Army, selected and dispatched advisory groups, and went to various provinces to help the governors correctly establish military forces and police institutions, streamline the work of industrial, commerce and farmland water conservancy construction, guide them to carry out education and construction of government institutions, laying a solid foundation for the unified acceptance and smooth transition of the military government in the future.
Mingda Ming told them that it is a matter of time before they are taken over. It is okay for you to make more money when the Revolutionary Army cannot make any moves. However, in the framework we have formulated, we must first do the things well and then gain the benefits. Those who dare to create chaos and cause damage, don’t expect a good ending.
Such a nasty threat, although the old men in the air were tight and short of breath, they all knew that Yang Hao was not bluffing, he was really capable and determined to punish him. In the face of the general trend of changing dynasties, if he tried to use his personal strength to drive the car, the fate would be quite miserable!
Li Hongzhang lived in his hometown in Hefei. Seeing Yang Hao's fist and kicks all the way, he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. He commented with Zhang Peilun who was following him: "This kid is becoming more and more mature and experienced, and has already gained some attainments in grasping the general trend and people's hearts. He can no longer judge him with a naughty impression. He can make foreigners play tricks so skillful that I have to say the word "submission."
Zhang Peilun was resentful: "This son is too domineering. How different is such a rough method different from a tyrannical Qin? He even tried to persuade you to run for him and go on a mission to Lie Yang without any care. He is really crazy!"
As a hardcore Qingliu, Zhang Peilun was beaten down to the court, the master who was loyal to his family, and he has been resentful.
However, Li Hongzhang smiled meaningfully: "I have the opportunity to travel to the nations, which is better than sleeping at home. Why not do it? Go."
In mid-October, Li Hongzhang announced that he would accept the invitation of the US president and go to visit. Yang Hao expressed his pleasure in seeing him accomplished and sent a navy escort to start a protracted whirlwind diplomacy. (To be continued, please search for Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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