Chapter 21 Transformation

Nanjing.

36 Guangfu Avenue, the official residence of the Prime Minister.

"Declare war on Germany!"

This news is like a sharp blade that stabbed the heart of Yuan Shikai, the prime minister. Although he agreed to print the declaration of war, after the seal, he was completely in extreme panic, a kind of panic about the future.

If the House of Commons opposes him, he is not afraid; if the House of Lords opposes him, he is not afraid, and even if public opinion attacks him, he is also not afraid, because he knows that whether it is the House of Commons or the House of Lords, or even the public opinion that affects the political situation, in the end, it is not the parties of the House of Commons that really play a decisive role. The power of the faction and the nobles of the nobles have an influence on the selection of the prime minister. As for public opinion, it only affects the political situation to some extent.

What really determines the surname is - Your Majesty!

In the depths of Yuan Shikai's heart, the only thing he is really afraid of is your majesty. Your Majesty, who seems to always have a smile on his face, is what makes people really afraid. If he trusts a person, no matter what, that person will not fall. If he does not trust a person, then... It can be said that for Yuan Shikai As far as it is concerned, His Majesty's trust is his **. If something goes wrong with **, everything is over.

Suddenly, through the declaration of war on Germany, Yuan Shikai found that he had no strength, or lost the trust of His Majesty, because it was not until the last moment that he knew that his inner uneasiness of "returning to his hometown" finally became a reality with His Majesty's declaration of war on Germany.

He grabbed Li Yuan's hand standing beside him with his cold hands and said feebly.

"Beryan, it seems that it's my turn this time."

Although Li Yuan is a royalist, he served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs as early as the first year of the Empire. It can be said that it was this talented student who graduated from the Department of Law of Central University that made Yuan Shikai still feel handy in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the face of complicated new laws. Later, in North Korea, he was also Li Yuan. On the other side, he made suggestions to introduce laws and regulations aimed at pacting North Korea as the governor of North Korea. Although Li Yuan is not Yuan Shikai's cronies, he is better than his cronies. After Yuan Shikai left North Korea, Li Yuan was the only secretary he brought back from the governor's office. After he became the prime minister, he appointed him as the head of the cabinet. Secretary-General.

Li Yuan looked at Yuan Shikai, who was distracted, but comforted him.

"Prime Minister, don't worry, for so many years, your majesty can be said to have a lot of trust in you. It is not true that it is your majesty's instructions. However, premier, if your majesty told you his plan at the beginning, what would you do? Do you support your majesty or oppose it?

Li Yuan's words made Yuan Shikai's hand slowly regain its heat and meditated for a long time. He knew what kind of choice he would make. He must oppose the declaration of war on Germany. He had an absolute advantage in the House of Lords and the House of Commons. Even if he put aside the Sino-German alliance, Germany is still the only power waiting for China. In the past nine years, China has sent 80,000 international students and more than 60,000 international students to study in Germany. In contrast, it is only 10,000 to study in the United States, 5,000 in the United Kingdom and 5,000 in France. This has created a huge pro-German group in China. In this case, there is nothing to do if you declare war on Germany. Even if you are inclined to your majesty, you will strongly oppose it at that time, and even let your majesty withdraw the order at all costs. It is well known that the Chinese people are pro-German, but the navy is also pro-British. Under this premise, only the navy will agree to declare war on Germany. Therefore, this is the navy's action in German East Africa and German New Guinea. Of course, it is decreed by your majesty. As for the declaration of war, it is just an addition afterwards.

When he was talking, Li Yuan also felt strange. He couldn't figure out where the strange things were, so he had to continue to say.

"In the final analysis, Your Majesty is still for the interests of overseas."

And Yuan Shikai shook his head gently and said.

"You only look at the first one, not the second!"

There was some bitterness on Yuan Shikai's face.

"The action of the navy is earlier than the declaration of war, and the cabinet department prints the declaration of war later than the navy's declaration of war, which is unchanged. The navy has your majesty's support for them. You know, the navy, the navy is your majesty's ministers!"

Referring to the minister of Yin stocks, Yuan Shikai only sighed in his heart. All of China and the world know that the Chinese emperor may be the emperor of soldiers, but the navy is a "royal" navy. The navy from the former Qing Dynasty has always had a sense of gratitude to the royal family, and your majesty also regards the navy as Yin stock.

"to put it bluntly, in this matter, the navy was before the war, but the navy acted on the order of the emperor, but what about the cabinet?"

Yuan Shikai closed his eyes.

"The cabinet is responsible for supervision! Now the declaration of war is an instant fact that uses the navy, but if it is a pro-German counterattack, then..."

Looking at the Prime Minister's appearance, Li Yuan thought to himself: If it really develops like this, I'm afraid that the cabinet will really be responsible at that time, so that we can calm down the anti-German counterattack. The navy is your majesty's share. If you attack your majesty, you will definitely be unhappy. At that time, I'm afraid people can only attack the cabinet.

Although he figured this out in his heart, Li Yuan still comforted him.

"The Prime Minister can rest assured that everything will be fine. In any case, the navy has opened 1.2 million square kilometers of Xinjiang. No one can ignore this contribution to this frontier. Compared with the pro-moral sentiment, the interests of the country are always the best!"

"Alas!"

Yuan Shikai sighed and closed his eyes slightly.

"I hope your majesty can read it to me..."

The people gathered in the combat map room in the palace have been waiting for Her Majesty for nearly half an hour.

I came late. When I walked to the battle map room, Chen Moran thought so in his heart.

Three hours ago, I met with representatives of the industry, mainly to communicate with them about the declaration of war on Germany. Of course, the most important thing is to instill in them a view on how the Chinese industry took advantage of the First World War, which is a favorable opportunity to develop and strengthen itself, and talk about using the war to achieve its own industry. When I was developing, I talked so vigorously that I forgot to watch the time.

"Soon, all our factories can't meet the orders from the Allies!"

"We should take advantage of the favorable opportunity for European enterprises to withdraw from Southeast Asia, India, Africa and South America due to the war to export our goods to these regions!"

"It's in Europe. With the transfer of a large number of enterprises to military supplies, the British and French markets also need our products!"

For China, World War I was a blessing. Now China's gold reserves are only a poor 68 tons, and even silver reserves are only more than 200 million yuan. In the past nine years, China's industry has developed rapidly, but the cost is a large amount of gold outflow, using the paper money policy to recover 1.3 billion yuan. Silver, 1.1 billion yuan has flowed overseas, and billions of yuan of foreign debt. Although it has not reached the plight of exhaustion, if the First World War does not start, if you want to maintain good development, you need to constantly increase foreign debt. In the end, it will further worsen the domestic economic situation. It is good to dare to borrow money, but if you borrow too much money, interest alone can drag down China. The economy.

Now that the world war has begun, China has joined the Allies, and the whole world market will open its doors to China. The factories and enterprises that have fully developed over the years can continuously produce goods, and even the "planned economy" China Super Plan The 1.5 billion yuan of goods will soon be sold out.

In a word, the current development situation is very good! Under his own leadership, China will make full use of the advantages of the planned economy to further accelerate China's development. Of course, the most important thing is another point... All the people who have been summoned have arrived. Only then did Chen Moran walk into the office. He did not look at anyone, but raised his hands slightly in an instant.

"I have met your majesty!"

When Minister of Finance Guan Mingtang, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce Xiong Xiling, and President of Imperial Bank Huang Huiyun bowed, Chen Muran waved his hand.

"False! Sit down!"

Then Chen Moran sat down and said directly.

"Well, you all know that we are now declaring war instead of fighting. China will certainly not be involved in the war unless we have to. In short, for this war, just like my statement at the emergency cabinet meeting, take advantage of the favorable opportunity to fully develop the "war special needs economy"!"

While coming straight to the point, Chen Moran turned his eyes to Huang Huiyun.

"Huang Qing, from now on, Imperial Bank must relax the silver policy, provide loans to all private capital, and shrink loans for state-owned enterprises..."

"What?"

As soon as he heard of the shrinkage of loans for state-owned enterprises, Guan Mingtang's eyebrows jumped. He looked at His Majesty in surprise and could hardly believe his ears.

"Your Majesty, shouldn't we give full play to the leading role of state-owned enterprises at this time? Compared with private capital, state-owned enterprises have a larger scale, larger production capacity and stronger technology. They should..."

Guan Mingtang, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, holds many positions such as the Chairman of the Imperial Industry Committee and the Management Committee of the Imperial State-owned Enterprises. Perhaps he does not agree with the industrial development path of the country and the retreat of the people, but in this special period, he knows that if China wants to obtain the best interests, it must give full play to the past. The role of state-owned enterprises established in the past nine years.

"Therefore, it is necessary to tighten the silver roots of state-owned enterprises and relax the silver roots of private enterprises. At the same time, state-owned enterprises can also send technicians to private enterprises. If the conditions are suitable, the political axe can sell some small-scale enterprises to large enterprises. For us, this war can not only reverse our country in one fell swoop. The dangerous situation of economic development will also change China's industrial economic model!"

Chen Moran took a look at Guan Mingtang and slowly spit out a sentence.

"In the past, we were the country and the people retreating, but now we want the country to retreat and the people!"

(to be continued)