Xiong Xiling is the first choice for Wang Zhenyu. This guy is currently in Beijing's political circle, but he is also a role with power but no soldiers. Naturally, he also needs strong support in the local area. Moreover, Xiong Xiling is a Phoenix native in Xiangxi, so it is common sense to take care of the village party. The last time the railway right was built was done by Mr. Xiong. But these relationships are not enough to be worshipped by his disciples...

I'm upset, so I'd better think about my plan in Liuzhou.

Wang Zhenyu flipped his body and felt that half of his chest felt much more comfortable when he entered the warm water. Liu Guxiang from the Liuzhou Military and Political Branch was a member of the old Tongmenghui who participated in the Guangzhou Uprising. Logically speaking, even if he was not the first to respond to this Second Revolution, he should be among the list. But to this day, even Grandma Tan, the pseudo Tongmenghui, has announced that he has been fighting against Yuan for more than a month, and our Comrade Liu Guxiang is still standing still.

In fact, in Guangdong and Guangxi, where the Tongmenghui is considered to be the foundation of the Tongmenghui, the situation is much more complicated than that of Jiangsu and Nanjing.

First of all, there were two very reactionary armies, the Long Jiguang tribe in Guangdong and the Lu Rongting tribe in Guangxi;

Secondly, most of the officers in the revolutionary Chen Jiongming's army received benefits and were unwilling to go north to attack Yuan. As for the failure to rebel, it was mainly just a trivial point for Chen Jiongming and others, after all, they were sworn brothers.

The first situation is that Liu Guxiang has been delaying in announcing the revenge of Yuan. He has only more than 1,000 regular troops under his command, while Lu Rongting holds 10,000 elite troops in Guangxi's new army. This old boy announced his support for the central government and is positioned behind Liu Guxiang. How do you ask Liu Guxiang to attack Yuan?

Wang Zhenyu understood this mentality very well. Liu Guxiang is now a person who has a family and a job to wear shoes, so it is naturally different from the bachelor revolutionaries when the Huanghuagang Uprising was launched.

Although he knew that Liu Guxiang would eventually be betrayed by Shen Hongying and had a different body and head, he could wait until this time to attack Shen Hongying and take the opportunity to seize the territory of Liuzhou and even the entire northern Guangxi.

However, the development of the situation made Wang Zhenyu a little impatient. More than 15,000 officers and soldiers of the First Division led by Xu Yuanquan himself, as well as their equipment, had already completed the assembly in Jingzhou. Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi's troops even left in Tongxian County, and were basically preparing for the final war. Wang Zhenyu's plan this time was to go into battle.

It is worth mentioning that the railway from Jingzhou to the passage can be opened to traffic, and the railway from Anjiang to Qiancheng has also been opened to traffic. At present, only the section from Qiancheng to Jingzhou in the entire Antong Railway is not open to traffic. There is no way, there are too many mountains in the same section, and the construction is a bit difficult.

Belgian engineer Fellaini and Chinese engineer Ding Wenjiang and others have already surveyed the terrain in the Xuzhou and Yuanzhou areas. With the capture of Changde, the Belgians proposed to build a railway from Qiancheng through Luyang, Yuanzhou to Changde.

Although the total length of this railway is 320 kilometers, which is longer than the Antong Railway, it is built along the Yuanjiang Road, and the construction cost and construction difficulty are mostly lower. The estimated cost of the Belgians is 11 million yuan (including three cross-river bridges). The construction period is expected to be three and a half years, but if the construction continues to be carried out according to the stage construction method, it is two and a half years. It is expected that if construction can be started by the end of this year, it will be completed around June 1916.

The steel plant project in Anjiang has shrunk again and again, and finally shrank from the terrifying annual output of 1 million tons to 200,000 tons. Wang Zhenyu could only nod and agree. There is no way, the raw materials are all supplied by Hanyang Iron Plant and Pingxiang Coal Mine. If you want to produce one million tons per year, it is indeed a big leap forward. Although Wang Zhenyu has been expanding a bit recently, he has not yet reached the point where he can ignore the laws of nature at will.

However, with the scale of 200,000 tons, the Luxembourg engineers at Anjiang Steel Plant are expected to not be officially produced until January 1914, so I went there.

The thing Wang Zhenyu feared most now is that his finances are about to go bankrupt. The 100 million silver that he fooled from Hongshang was basically used up. The 10 million pounds borrowed from the Belgians cannot be moved, otherwise what are the three major banks using issuance of paper money? Do they use rifles?

Wang Zhenyu knew in his heart that almost half of the 70 million spent was spent on the army. Although his military factory increased the output, the cost also increased. Sometimes the money spent on building guns and buying guns was the same. This was something that made Wang Zhenyu very unhappy. But there was no way. If you don’t run a military factory, the final outcome would be to be ruthlessly eliminated by history.

And it is not all bad news, at least the benefits of winning Changde are obvious.

First, Hong merchants, who were worried about losing their money, saw hope for profit, but now they have become our most loyal friend of Dashuai Wang.

Second, Changde's acquisition means that there are more commodities, better docks, and more taxes. Not to mention anything else, Wang Zhenyu's annual income has changed from 20 million to 40 million in the opium tax alone. The commercial tax is even more considerable.

Third, Wang Zhengya’s 8 million yuan at the bottom of the box was cheaper than Wang Zhenyu.

Fourth, Du Yuesheng now completely monopolizes the opium in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. Unless they go to Guangxi, these opium will eventually enter Boss Du's pocket. Du Yuesheng expects that he will pay a total of 20 million yuan in big tobacco tax to the concession authorities and the Chinese authorities every year in the future. His annual income will not be less than 50 million yuan. In addition to the necessary expenses and his own share, he guarantees to pay a difference of 40 million yuan to Wang Zhenyu every year to make up for military expenditures.

Thinking of this last item, Wang Zhenyu couldn't help but smile bitterly. Many years later, he might leave the reputation of an opium dealer in history like Cai E.

There are gains and losses. In China today, it is impossible for you to follow the right path to make money, unless you wait until the outbreak of World War I...

As he thought about it, he felt a little uncomfortable, so he turned his body to the side again. But he jumped into his mind and thought of another thing, that is, the role played by the Military Intelligence Department in the Battle of Changde.

In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that without the MIIS, the Battle of Changde would not have been so smooth.

It was the agents of the MIIS who found out the enemy situation and they instigated Qing Heng. It can be said that it was their series of meticulous work that turned this battle into a trip. Of course, for Bai Chongxi, the journey was very unpleasant. However, the road to Guangxi next time may be more difficult than Zhangjiajie.

Back to the point, what He Jian showed in leadership of the MIIS has already made Wang Zhenyu feel a little afraid. It would be good if these things were to deal with their enemies, but what if they were to deal with themselves? Can he withstand the hidden strength of Zhou Lan and Ma Xicheng?

After doubting, Wang Zhenyu sat up from the bathtub, but the door was pushed open. Wang Zhenyu looked back and Ye Ziwen wrapped in a bath towel walked in lightly. She glanced at herself and frowned slightly and said, "Brother Yu, you have used my bathtub again, and the bathtub has been stinked by you."

Looking at his wife with half of her body slightly exposed, Wang Zhenyu suddenly became interested. He stretched out his big hand and hugged Meimei Ye in the bathtub amid Ye Ziwen's screams. Then he paddled Ye Ziwen's neck with his arm, and yelled at his pink ears and said, "My sister Wen, don't you think our Jingsheng is actually very lonely?"

Ye Ziwen didn't understand what this said: "He is just one month old, so young, and grandparents coax him every day. Where did he get lonely?"

Wang Zhenyu smiled and flicked Ye Ziwen's nipples with his hand and said, "I'm not talking about this loneliness, it's loneliness without younger brothers and sisters. You little fool."

Ye Ziwen now understood everything and scolded her softly: "I know that you, a big pervert, have no good intentions, I will bite you to death..."
Chapter completed!