Chapter 452 Five Industrial Zones

As the war approached, people in Xiangtan and Changsha began to flee the city. They could not die under the artillery fire of the two sides like the people in Jinling and Jinan.

The war carried out by the warlords in this era will not take into account any civilian casualties, and the large-scale shelling of urban residential areas has no psychological pressure on the generals.

Even if it is not accidentally injured by the artillery fire of the fighting sides, it is possible that the fighting sides will arrest the strong men and engage in the task of digging trenches and transporting heavy vehicles.

Whether it is the Feng army, the Anhui army or the Southern Federation, they like to force strong men to engage in some auxiliary work when fighting. Well, they don't pay, and even have to bring their own meals.

Not to mention other warlords, hundreds of thousands of people who are responsible for hundreds of thousands of military logistics supplies in the rear are forcibly recruited, and Zhao Dongyun will not pay even half a cent for this.

Of course, if the Feng army unifies the country in the future, it is estimated that the history books will record that the people will enthusiastically support the front line and are not afraid of fatigue and die to spontaneously transport supplies for the army.

Those people who are afraid of being caught and more afraid of death, especially those well-informed upper-class people, have left Xiangtan, Changsha and other big cities as early as when the Feng army entered Hunan. Some of them hid in the countryside, and some simply went to Shanghai, Jinling and other wars have stopped. Province.

However, after all, there were still a few people who got the news in advance. Most of them found that the death was close to Xiangtan City when Feng's soldiers were near the city, so they began to panic and wanted to escape from the city, but the southern federal generals in charge of Xiangtan defense were also a cruel man. They directly sent troops to block the passage and then opened The guns in the hands of the soldiers began to pull the strong men, and the good physical fitness directly entered the army as cannon fodder, while the general was directly pulled to the periphery of the city and began to dig trenches and other fortifications.

When the southern coalition forces excavated fortifications in Xiangtan City to defend, Gu Lanyu also ordered the troops to launch an attack on Xiangtan.

When Gu Lanyu launched an attack on Xiangtan, the 9th Division, another main force of the Fourth Army, also went north, and their target was Changsha.

Changsha and Xiangtan are strategically dependent on each other. If they only attack one of the places, the other side will quickly send reinforcements. Therefore, to attack the above two places, the Fourth Army must also attack the two cities at the same time.

When the Fourth Army launched a large-scale attack on Changsha and Xiangtan, Lu Yongxiang's First Army in the direction of Hubei and Zhang Guotai's Fifth Army were not idle.

Zhang Guotai's fifth army marched west to Yueyang, while Lu Yongxiang's first army was partially resting in the south of Hubei, while the other troops returned to southern Anhui.

Lu Yongxiang's troop mobilization is quite cautious, and his troop deployment can be seen at a glance in order to guard against Wang Shizhen.

While Zhao Dongyun asked Lu Yongxiang to guard against Wang Shizhen, Wang Shizhen herself was also thinking hard about her way out.

Wang Shizhen, who has been trapped in northern Hubei for two years, has understood that Hubei, a ghost place, is surrounded by all directions, and there is no possibility of continuing to develop. Moreover, with the destruction of the Anhui army, the southern federation has withdrawn from Hubei and Hunan can't hold it. If Wang Shizhen continues to stay in Hubei, then What awaits him is the attack of the Feng army.

Compared with his heart, Wang Shizhen believes that if he is Zhao Dongyun, then after taking Hunan, the next step is not to march into Yungui or Sichuan, but to take down Hubei first.

In this case, if he wants to expand his strength or find a way out for himself, then he will finally go west to Sichuan.

First of all, the southern federation in Sichuan is not strong. In the past two years, in order to gather troops to resist the Feng army and the Anhui army, on the one hand, it recruited troops in Hunan, Hubei and other provinces, and also in Sichuan and other places. However, the troops of these Sichuan and Yunnan provinces will not stay in this province. It will be transferred to the front lines of Hubei and Hunan.

That is to say, Sichuan is now in an extremely empty state of military strength. Wang Shizhen boasts that although his troops are not as large as the Feng army and the former Anhui army, he now has more than 70,000 people. There is no need to worry. As long as 30,000 to 40,000 troops are sent to Sichuan, it is enough to control this important province in the southwest. .

As long as he controls Sichuan, he can still have a certain voice in the domestic situation in the future, instead of worrying about whether Zhao Dongyun will beat him every day.

In fact, Wang Shizhen's idea and Wu Fengling's idea are very imaginable. Wu Fengling also wants to capture Shaanxi and then go south to seize Sichuan, the most important province in the southwest region. Unfortunately, Wu Fengling has been fighting for more than a year and has not been able to take Shaanxi, which is very aggrieved.

When Wang Shizhen marched into Sichuan, Zhao Dongyun naturally paid attention to it, but he did not express a clear objection, because the 70,000 people under Wang Shizhen said much, but it could not be less. If Zhao Dongyun wanted to deal with Wang Shizhen, he would have to gather at least 100,000 troops.

But although the size of the Feng army under Zhao Dongyun's command far exceeds that of Wang Shizhen, there are too many directions to be deployed, resulting in some dispersion of troops.

The fourth army is in Hunan, and the second army is in Guangxi and Guangdong. Only Lu Yongxiang's first army is aimed at Hubei. Although the third army in Henan will also draw a division south, it will have to keep at least two divisions in Henan, otherwise Wu Fengling will also send troops eastward, so that the Beijing-Han line will be guaranteed. I don't live.

At present, it is easy for the Feng army, whose troops are too scattered, to guard against Wang Shizhen, but it is very difficult to take the initiative to gather more than 100,000 main troops to fight with Wang Shizhen.

So he turned a blind eye to Wang Shizhen's march into Sichuan and did not take corresponding military action. As for the verbal permission, it was meaningless.

With the destruction of the Anhui army and the retreat of the Southern Federation, both Wang Shizhen and Wu Fengling have a strong sense of crisis, and in this case, their lips and teeth will be colder. Once Zhao Dongyun takes action on one of them, the other person will definitely turn against Zhao Dongyun, because not If you advance and retreat together, waiting for the end of another person is to be destroyed.

Therefore, if you want to take action against Wang Shizhen, you must also take action against Wu Fengling at the same time. In this way, tens of thousands of troops are not enough. You must gather most of the main forces to do it.

Therefore, in Zhao Dongyun's strategy, Wu Fengling and Wang Shizhen are still on the main precaution. If you want to deal with them, take down Guangxi and Hunan before the time.

As for whether Wang Shizhen's strength will increase greatly because of winning Sichuan, Zhao Dongyun is not worried about this.

Now the Soviet system has controlled most of China, and the areas under control are all China's population and economic elite provinces. If the Soviet system that controls so many provinces can't beat a Sichuan region, then Zhao Dongyun can hang himself directly and play a Mao hegemony.

Today's domestic situation, if there is no major strategic change, basically from a military point of view, Zhao Dongyun's unification of China is already a certainty.

This is also the reason why Zhao Dongyun has not devoted too much energy to the military since Duan Qirui surrendered!

Now, he has begun to shift the center to resume agricultural production and support industry and commerce.

In March 1909, Zhao Dongyun specially approved the establishment of Shanghai Industrial Zone and Guangzhou Industrial Zone, trying to integrate the two economically important industries of the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta.

Shanghai and Guangzhou are truly large economic cities in contemporary China. There have been many industries, but now they are supported by various policies of the central government. Zhao Dongyun believes that they will soon be able to develop two large-scale industrial zones in these two economic areas.

In addition to the two newly established industrial zones in Shanghai and Guangzhou, Zhao Dongyun has developed a total of five industrial zones in his ruling area, namely Huludao Industrial Zone, Yingkou Industrial Zone, Tangshan Industrial Zone, Shanghai Industrial Zone and Guangzhou Industrial Zone.

The above five industrial zones have a clear division of labor and have their own main industries. Huludao Industrial Zone is a light industrial zone that mainly develops cotton textile industry, followed by soybean processing industry. In addition to focusing on the soybean processing industry, Yingkou Industrial Zone also has a political task, which is to compete for investment with Lushun and suppress the development of Lushun, a public free port. Tangshan Industrial Zone is a typical heavy industrial zone, with Tangshan Industrial Company as the core, bringing together a number of heavy machinery manufacturing industries.

According to the plan of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the newly established Shanghai Industrial Zone is expected to build a top diversified industrial zone in the Far East. In the early stage, it will focus on the raw silk industry, and then the cotton industry, both of which can be regarded as the textile industry, and the Shanghai Industrial Zone will introduce it according to its own transportation and economic advantages. He is in light industry and even heavy industry.

In short, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce's positioning of Shanghai Industrial Zone is a comprehensive industrial zone, and both light industry and heavy industry need to be vigorously developed.

Guangzhou Industrial Zone intends to establish a typical light industrial zone, focusing on the most profitable textile industry these days, and other daily small commodities.

Among the above five industrial zones, the largest industrial zone is Tangshan Industrial Zone, the most potential is Shanghai Industrial Zone, followed by Guangzhou Industrial Zone, and the two industrial zones of Huludao and Yingkou have developed and matured. At the same time, the geographical and transportation restrictions are relatively obvious. In addition, there is a key factor. That is, with the gradual south of the Feng army and a large amount of northern capital going south, the subsequent investment in the two industrial zones of Huludao and Yingkou to a certain extent is a little small.

Of course, China's subsequent industrial layout is not only limited to the five major industrial zones, but also some small-scale industrial areas in other parts of China.

is mainly mining plants and steel mills around the mining area. For example, the coal mine in Fushun has developed rapidly in the past two years. In addition, with the huge investment of Tangshan Industrial Company to establish steel mills here, and with the beginning of coal and iron mines in Fushun and Anshan and other areas During the large-scale mining period, a small-scale supporting industrial cluster was also formed with Shenyang as the center. These small and medium-sized enterprises mainly serve the steel industry and mining industry, among which Fuyuan Company invested in the construction of a new ash factory in Shenyang.

In addition, there are relatively scattered factories in Zhili, Shandong, Jiangsu and other places, and there are also unplanned industrial clusters. Among them, the most famous is the textile industry in Nantong.

Nantong brings together the largest earth cloth workshops, mechanism cloth factories, cotton yarn factories and almost all other cotton-related industries in Jiangnan. The Dasheng yarn factory, which is well known to later generations, was built in Nantong.

Southern mechanism cloth represented by Nantong is also the second largest competitor of northern mechanism cloth enterprises represented by Fuyuan Yarn Factory and Huludao Textile Company. The largest competitor of northern cotton cloth enterprises is Dongyang cloth, followed by other domestic mechanism cloth.

As for other places, there are also many scattered factories that have not formed a large scale.

Overall, the current scale of domestic industry is still extremely weak, not to mention the great powers. Even the day apart from the sea is far worse.

Now what Zhao Dongyun needs to do is to plant seeds for domestic industrial development, then water and fertilize. Maybe after decades, he will be able to open factories all over the country.

Of course, it is possible that even bullets will have to be imported decades or hundreds of years later, just like India.