After Yuan Shikai came to power.

Actively expand Beiyang military armed forces.

The 9 new army divisions in the late Qing Dynasty were expanded to 12 divisions and 16 mixed brigades of the new army, with a total of 10,000 guards. In addition, the old patrol battalions and Zhang Zuoshuang and other troops, a total of more than 300,000 people were expanded.

On the other hand, Huang Xing, who was left behind in Nanjing, was disbanding his troops drastically. Before that, Huang Xing had already raised nearly 150,000 civilian troops.

At this time, the revolutionaries had begun to be divided by Yuan Shikai, especially the general Huang Xing, who had no will to fight and basically ran away when he saw something wrong. Yuan Shikai bluffed a few times, and then he thought that the country had been unified and there was no need for so many civilian troops.

As a result, the revolutionary party's strength was cut to 5 divisions, and the strength of the party members was greatly reduced, but financial support was not supported was also one of the main reasons.

Xia Jun, who is in the three autonomous provinces of East China, is working hard to train his troops.

The five mixed brigades have undergone initial training and have been dispatched to the coastal areas by him and have begun to build large quantities of fortifications along the coast.

These fortifications have been built since last year. Xia Jun has his own coastal defense plan and has begun to build solid underground fortifications in areas where coastal areas may be landed.

This kind of underground fortification bomb cannot be blown up. Just a small force can defend the entire position to wait for the arrival of the large force.

As for the other five independent regiments, Xia Jun is asking them to march to the neighboring provinces to chop off bandits, and at the same time protect the business. The intention of these five independent regiments is to defend against attacks from neighboring provinces. It is better to take the initiative to click 1 to suppress bandits and warn the surrounding provinces by the way.

As for the three infantry divisions and one artillery division in hand.

As soon as the troops gathered again on the Lantern Festival, they immediately began to launch a climax of bandit suppression within the three autonomous provinces.

Among the three provinces, the bandits in Fujian have basically disappeared, and the bandits in Xijiang have almost been destroyed, but the bandits in Jiangxi have not been eliminated.

Zhang Jiyu and Lin Chenggui's second and third infantry divisions were transferred to Jiangxi.

Cooperate with the newly formed armed forces in Jiangxi to conduct a thorough cleanup of bandits in Jiangxi.

The bandits in Jiangxi were already hit before the Spring Festival, but many people continued to serve the bandits.

At the beginning of this bandit suppression, the Second Division and the Third Division gave Jiangxi bandits a thunderous offensive. The two divisions were scattered into battalions, and even smaller company-level units attacked everywhere in Jiangxi.

Such decentralized operations bring great challenges to the command center.

However, it is precisely because of this decentralized operation 1 that allowed the command headquarters and officers at all levels to accumulate certain command experience.

Because of the bandits, Xia Jun's points rose by more than 3 million yuan, and five independent groups entered the five provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan and Guangdong respectively.

Among these five provinces, most of the bandits in Hunan are, especially in the western Hunan area, where there are so many bandits there.

There were at least 50,000 or 60,000 bandits in western Hunan, but the Third Independent Regiment entering western Hunan was still encircling and suppressing the bandits in eastern Hunan.

Xia Jun began to build military and civil airports in various places, and the first batch of air force pilots recruited people.

A fighter brigade and a strike aircraft squad were established.

Of course, the Air Force still lacks bombers.

Xia Jun plans to develop the bomber himself, Anthony.

As the chief designer of East China Airlines Manufacturing Company, Xia Jun also trained some designers in advance.

These designers formed the design team of East China Airlines Manufacturing Company and began researching bombers and other aircraft.

For this purpose, Xia Jun provided electric bomb droppers, bombing sights, driving and piloting instruments for bomber design.

These technologies are very simple, but they were not available in this era.

Soon they designed the first plane.

A 150-horsepower biplane bomber is expected to be loaded with a kilogram bomb port when designed

The drawings soon entered the manufacturing state, and the plane was very simple at this time.

They all use wooden structures and cloth, but because of insufficient power.

Therefore, double wings are mostly used.

However, East China Airlines Manufacturing Company is not restricted by power. East China Internal Combustion Engine Manufacturing Plant has been able to manufacture high-power engines with horsepower, which has a lot of room for design.

Anthony Folk, who participated in the aircraft design, signed a confidentiality agreement for the East China Autonomous Government because he participated in technical issues.

The agreement stipulates that Fokker is not allowed to disclose all details about these technologies to the outside world, and even if he resigns, he can only open an aircraft manufacturing factory in China. This guy is naturally impossible for Xia Jun to let him go. Even if he resigns, Xia Jun will not allow him to leave the three autonomous provinces of East China.

At the same time, we will also study agricultural aircraft. To put it bluntly, we will replace bombers' bombs with fertilizers, insecticides, or seeds.

In addition to bombers, reconnaissance aircraft are currently the main development targets, which are mainly used for export. The requirement is to be faster and easier to observe than reconnaissance aircraft in other countries.

The air force is gradually stable, while the navy is developing very rapidly. Navy personnel have grown to 5,000 1 with 61 submarines, 80 torpedo boats, 10 300-ton class destroyers, and 1 8,000-ton class cruiser have been built in Ponytail.

The three navy, army and air force have entered a stage of steady development. The air force and navy are in an expansion state, while the army has not expanded, but will soon implement a compulsory military service system. Such a system is mainly to reserve troops.

After the compulsory military service system is implemented, adult citizens must enlist in the army for two years. These two years mainly involves regular military training for them, and they can be discharged from the army and go home after two years.

When the Industrial Army was expanded.

Then we will choose from the voluntary pong that is retired or is serving. When will the military source be available in Xijiang, the rural areas of Jiangxi also start to train militias.

In the future, China will face the situation of fighting against millions of troops, and all professions cannot maintain such a huge number in normal times.

While building the army, Xia Jun was also constantly investing. After the first batch of German loans arrived, Xia Jun invested in the raw silk industry, and East China Group opened several raw silk processing factories.

The largest raw silk production is Xijiang Huzhou Prefecture by Taihu Lake. There are many wealthy families who started with raw silk. The smaller ones are hundreds of thousands of taels, and the larger ones are millions of taels.

The Propaganda Department began to promote new silkworm seeds to silkworm farmers in Huzhou Prefecture. A batch of these silkworm seeds have been cultivated from the cultivation base.

The feeding intake is 50% higher than that of ordinary mulberry silkworms, and the spinning silk is higher than that of ordinary mulberry silkworms. From hatching to cocoons, it only takes the sky to emerge.

As for silkworm farming, the yield limit is not how fast the mulberry silkworm grows, but how many mulberry leaves are.

Therefore, this new silkworm seed has no obvious advantages in these aspects, and it also consumes more mulberry leaves. However, the focus is that the new silkworm seed has extremely strong disease resistance and survivability, and can be stocked in large quantities.

At the same time, there are also high-yield mulberry trees. The chestnut leaves grown by this mulberry tree grow rapidly, about 50% more than ordinary chestnut trees, which is very suitable for free-range mulberry silkworm mouth.

Raw silk is an important military-industrial and power exchange raw material.

These days, the number of people wearing silk will gradually decrease, but the market is still relatively good.

While investing in the silk raw factory, Xia Jun began to provide a large amount of advanced production equipment to the textile industry and paper industry. These equipment are mainly produced by the East China Machinery Manufacturing Factory. Xia Jun no longer needs to redeem it on the exchange platform or order it abroad. The drawings have been purchased before.

And a batch of equipment has been ordered from foreign machinery manufacturers using these drawings.

On the eve of opening zero tariffs with the United States, the commercial activities of the three East China Autonomous Provinces were abnormal, and various commodities of the three East China Autonomous Provinces began to spread to various provinces in China through various channels.

Because of the recovery of tariffs.

The price of imported cotton has been greatly reduced, which greatly improved the competitiveness of those textile factories. The dye industry has also made breakthrough development after mass production of chemical raw materials in Huai'an and other places in East China Chemical Company. The fuel cost has been greatly reduced, which has brought great competitive advantages to cotton cloth.

Just like the three autonomous provinces in East China where transportation is improving.

Dyeed cotton cloth is not much more expensive than native cloth. In the past, dyed cotton cloth was a luxury for the poor.

They all wore monotonous homemade cloth.

At present, the textile industry generally uses advanced textile equipment, coupled with the low labor costs and the development of the dye industry.

The cotton cloth in the three East China Autonomous Provinces began to spread to other provinces.

As for domestic commercial competition, in addition to the three autonomous provinces of East China and the connected provinces.

There is no transportation advantage in other provinces.

Many undeveloped areas are the world of those travelers. In these areas, there is no obvious difference in freight between the goods of foreigners and the goods of the three autonomous provinces of East China. The self-sufficiency rate in these areas is also relatively high, and most of them maintain a strong rural natural economic model.

And in the Yangtze River Basin.

It is the world of foreign goods. The goods from the three East China Autonomous Provinces began to enter the Yangtze River Basin market through ships from the East China Offshore Transport Company.

The Yangtze River Basin is densely populated and is the most important economic region in China.

However, China's wealth has basically been exploited a lot, and the people are generally poor.

The main source of wealth comes from agriculture and is also an important source of raw materials.

For example, the cowhide collected in Hankou can provide 100,000 dan of cowhide in the Yangtze River Basin every year.

These raw materials are the targets for the four major overseas shops.

The commodities of the three East China Autonomous provinces that had just entered the Yangtze River Basin soon broke out in the Yangtze River Basin. Foreign goods began to boycott the ethnic commodities of the three East China Autonomous provinces, especially several major overseas banks began to join forces to ban the commodities of the three East China Autonomous provinces.

In terms of cruel price battles and transportation control, the goods from the three autonomous provinces of East China were once defeated. However, when the East China offshore transportation company began to operate, national capital regained its momentum and launched another impact on the market in the Yangtze River Basin.

The impact this time was even more fierce, and those ethnic commodities became organized, and all commodities were labeled with a new trademark.

The trademark uses computer-created plate patterns 1. The three below the 1 are made in China with different light and angles. Four characters are also written on the edge: "Support domestic products and revitalize China."

At the same time, a large number of products have been labeled with high-quality trademarks, which were established by Xia Jun.

This trademark can be applied for by all kinds of goods owned by China Product Quality Inspection Station, provided that the goods meet the quality requirements.

And a certain deposit is required.

If products with this trademark are attached, you can find quality problems when using them.

China's commodity quality truncation test station.

, the testing station will use commodity deposit to compensate consumers.

Although Xia Jun did not increase the import tariffs in the three autonomous provinces of East China for the time being, and the ports in other provinces were under the control of the great powers, making it impossible for national capital to have tariff protection, Xia Jun began to use trademarks to allow Chinese people to distinguish their camps. The next step was to strengthen publicity and let Chinese people support domestic products.
Chapter completed!