Chapter 263 Sandstorms and Typhoons

As soon as the news came out, people couldn't wait to peel off Hu Chuyuan's skin.

They shouted angrily, roared and cursed, but they were right in Hu Chuyuan's arms. Hu Chuyuan regarded this distorted howl and curse as Man's familiarity with the national interests, as a despicable surname full of selfishness, and fiercely criticized and exposed it in the Oriental Daily.

The article was drafted by Liang Qichao, hanging in Hu Chuyuan's name, and the thousands of words of editorial suddenly aroused a terrible wave.

Originally, it was called "suspension", but it soon followed the public opinion and became a permanent suspension.

Make trouble, make trouble.

With the last point of the Manren, even if there was only one special brigade of the Secret Service in his hand, Hu Chuyuan didn't pay attention to them.

To be honest, Hu Chuyuan still made a lot of money from those depressed Baylors.

Especially the pawnshop, Poly auction house and Rongbaozhai held by Hu Pinyuan and him. Over the years, they have really acquired a lot of high-quality products, with double profits at low prices.

It's really a profitable business to lend usury to a full of people. The principal of hundreds of yuan has been rolled for two months, and the antique calligraphy and paintings worth thousands of yuan belong to the pawnshop.

Although he is two brothers, Hu Pinyuan is famous for being talkative. He is willing to deal with everyone, and his relationship with Manchu people is even better. Many things from Prince Baylor fell into his hands.

He is also a master of domestic appreciation, and he basically doesn't look away.

That night, Hu Pinyuan received a few special good things, and he couldn't wait to come to the East Garden of Zizheng Garden to taste and play with Hu Chuyuan in the middle of the night.

These are rare masterpieces. After a general look, Hu Chuyuan knew that they were good things flowing out of Prince Gong's mansion.

Especially Han Yu's "Shao Ye Bai", Hu Chuyuan has seen this painting in Prince Gong's mansion.

The authentic work, such as the real work of the fake package.

Hu Pinyuan whispered quietly to Hu Chuyuan, "I heard that Pu Wei has sold a lot of things recently and plans to mortgage Prince Gong's mansion. It seems that he really wants to raise a large amount of money."

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly. He knew that Hu Pinyuan was talking about another thing.

During this period, Pu Wei was the most uneasy person. He sold a lot of valuable antique calligraphy and paintings and raised money, which was clearly an attempt.

Seeing that Hu Chuyuan didn't speak for a moment, Hu Pinyuan couldn't help but continue to ask, "Brother, do you think we should buy his things?"

Hu Chuyuan said, "Why don't you buy it? Let him sell all these old things to foreign countries? These are all left by us Han people. Why should we let him sell them abroad? If it hadn't been for his grandfather's sake, I would have removed his prince.

Hu Pinyuan said, "Otherwise, let's investigate this matter more strictly. If we catch the evidence, we will copy it, so that we don't always pay for it, which is laborious and expensive."

This is the truth.

Pu Wei has been selling things very mysterious recently. He basically doesn't look for the Hu family, but Hu Pinyuan has a lot of magic power in the antique world and can always bring the goods back secretly.

Hu Chuyuan thought for a second and said, "Let Chen Shanyuan do this matter. Don't disturb too many people. If you catch the evidence, you can do it directly in secret. Don't say anything to the outside world. Let's settle it together when the big deal is decided."

Hu Pinyuan repeatedly agreed, and then said, "I have checked it out that Wang Xizhi's "You Mu Tie" is in his hand. Shall we find a way to get it? If this thing stays in our house, it will be the big treasure of the town.

Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "It's enough to report. It doesn't need to be so powerful. It will be assigned to the National Central Museum in the future."

"This...!"

Hu Pinyuan is a little reluctant.

What a good thing!!

The two brothers are the top collectors in China. Although they donated more than 160,000 collections to the National Museum at a time in the spring of the year before last, the collection of the Hu brothers is still the first hegemon in China.

At present, there are more than 600,000 pieces of various collections in Phu Quoc Villa. There are four categories: calligraphy and painting, bronzes, porcelain and ancient books. There are 300,000 volumes of ancient books of all generations alone, and a large number of rare treasures have been covered in China.

In the past seven or eight years, Hu Chuyuan's interest has gradually shifted to bronze ware. He especially likes the bronze ware of the late Shang Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty. Mao Gongding, Sanshi plate, Jizi plate and Dayuding, which are known as the big bronze ware of the Western Thursday, are all in his hands, and there is no shortage of them.

He originally wanted to donate it to the National Museum, but unfortunately, he was really reluctant to hide it in his hand.

There are too many things in Pu Wei's hands. It's too troublesome and too expensive to buy them one by one. Hu Chuyuan's surname is cruel. Even if he sends the national treasures of Prince Gong's mansion to the National Museum, he can't get one of them. He also hopes that it will be the end of this matter.

In the early years, there were only Manchu people who used bad extortion and the truth of the investigation of the Hu family. Now the feng shui rotates. As long as there are Manchu people, except for the royal library, the rest are within the scope of Hu Chuyuan's extortion and raiding.

If he is favored by him, you are fucking ready to pay the public... Unless you are really sensent and hide at home every day without causing trouble.

By the way, the allowance of the full man is not as much as the amount of money as the prince and the royal family, adding up to more than 40 million yuan, which is not enough to cover the half-month expenditure of the full [***] fee.

With a allocation of 140 million yuan of education funds and 175 million yuan of agricultural investment and construction funds, Hu Chuyuan seems to be particularly tight.

Hu's factory can not make money, but the wages of the workers should be paid, and the expenses of raw materials and other small factories should also be paid.

As soon as the contract for the production of military supplies was settled, the military spending in hand was insufficient again.

Hu Chuyuan's original 3 billion yuan has been used up, and the National Military Commission only has 1.47 billion yuan of war bonds left, which will last for another year at most.

On December 15, after auditing next year's government budget, Hu Chuyuan returned to the Prime Minister's office and asked Lu Guangzheng, Lv Han and Li Yuanhong to submit next year's arms expenditure plans.

The counterattack will begin in March next year, and the military expenditure is very large.

Among the armaments expenditure, the plan for large ships will be basically suspended by the end of March next year. At present, the contracts of Fuzhou Shipyard and Jiangnan Shipyard have turned to the production of destroyers and armored cruisers.

Weihai Shipyard of Fuguo Heavy Industries, Qingdao Shipyard and Tangshan Shipyard of Great Wall Heavy Industry each got two contracts for Weiyuan-class battlecruisers. In fact, this only gave them a chance to make the final transition to the production of 10,000-ton-class main battleships.

By March next year, the number of domestic warships will expand to an unprecedented limit. The main battleships Liangzhou-class and Ningyuan II-class have reached 16, Weiyuan-class battlecruisers are 28, and Jinzhou-class battleships are 12.

These four levels are all 10,000-ton warships, and their total displacement tonnage alone will exceed 648,000 tons.

Overall, the cost plan for warships next year is much lower than that in 1900 and 1901.

Army equipment expenditure will not be gradually reduced until June next year. By March next year, a total of 2,700 armored vehicles and 11,000 auxiliary vehicles will be produced, and the remaining number of conventional artillery will be calculated separately.

If the counterattack in March next year does not work, it means that we will continue to re-supply and continue to buy new armaments... Expenditure, expenditure.

Hu Chuyuan looked at these materials calmly and said nothing more.

Next March...!

Let's talk about it then!

He sighed in his heart.

When he put together the information book, Lv Han said, "Your Excellency, the navy has been able to fight against the Far East Combined Fleet. Several ships temporarily reinforced by the Netherlands are not worth mentioning at all. The main force of the Allied Far East Combined Fleet is still French and Russian ships, and the fleet is concentrated on the mainland coast. The early decisive battle will be better. France and Russia have only begun to increase the number of ships built in an all-round way since June this year, especially France. According to the information we have collected, the current tonnage of new ships in France is an average of 13,000 tons per month.

Hu Chuyuan thought to himself and asked, "What about Russia?"

Lv Han said: "Russia has an average of 40,000 tons per month, and Japan has a large limit on naval funds, which is also about an average of about 30,000 tons per month. Although Belgium withdrew from the Allies, they were still helping France build warships. It is expected that by September next year, France will add at least 155,000 tons of new ships with a total tonnage, which are basically 10,000-ton main battleships.

Hu Chuyuan sighed, "It's very expensive."

"Yes!"

Lv Han couldn't help sighing.

The naval fight really hurts the national strength.

The cost of a Liangzhou-class ship is basically no less than 30 million yuan, and 10 ships is 300 million yuan. The overall price in China is relatively cheap. The same main battleship is built in France, and the cost of the same main battleship is absolutely impossible to be less than 4,000 yuan.

At present, it is still in the class of 12,000 tons. In the future, when it reaches 30,000 tons and 40,000 tons, a main battleship can consume hundreds of millions of yuan, which is worth 1/10 of the annual fiscal revenue of the political axe.

Hu Chuyuan sighed and thought about it in his heart.

After a while, he and Lv Han said, "Concentrate the main force of the navy in the waters of Ryukyu Island, try our best to force the Japanese strait, and create enough threat to the Japanese supply line to force the Far East Joint Fleet to fight!"

Lv Han said, "Then we will launch a full-scale attack from the Ryukyu Islands and force them to attack!"

Lu Guangzuan categorically denied: "It's impossible. The army can't carry out effective cooperation in the operation, and there are not enough troops to carry out landing operations at all. The top priority is not to destroy the French-Russian joint fleet in the Far East, but to ensure that the northwest front will win.

Lv Han said, "Our army has limited military strength, and mechanized tactics have never been tested. It is hard to say that it must be reliable. Or we should launch a counterattack led by the navy, land on Kyushu Island, and force the Far East Joint Fleet and the main fleet of our navy to fight."

Hu Chuyuan finally understood what the two of them were arguing about.

Nowadays, the Army Department and the Navy Department have a set of counterattack plans. According to Hu Chuyuan's plan, the Army proposed a "sandstorm" plan, while the Navy Department has made great achievements and put forward a set of "typhoon" plans alone, that is, whether the comprehensive counterattack starts from the army battlefield or from the naval battlefield?

Hu Chuyuan took a look at Lu Han and asked simply, "Do you think the Russian and French navy will really take the initiative to attack?"

Lv Han replied seriously: "It is entirely possible that as long as we start to attack Kyushu Island, the overall plan of the Ally countries in the Far East War will be torn apart, and the army in North Korea will completely lose its supply line. The Japanese army's troops in North Korea have increased to one million, and now they have suddenly lost their supplies, and it is bound to be unable to join the British and French coalition forces in the northeast according to the original plan. This is a blow that the Allie States can never bear.

Hu Chuyuan asked, "The question is, how many troops do you need to work together to make the Ally confirm that you have the strength to occupy Kyushu Island?"

This is a question that Lv Han can't answer and can't get around.

If you have to start the counterattack from the naval battlefield, the military deployment across the country must be adjusted. It's too late to consider these now.

Hu Chuyuan did not continue to argue. He knew that Lv Han was still clear in his heart.

He and Lu Han continued: "The navy's local fleet can be transferred to Jinwu Bay Port, merged with the Pacific Fleet, and try their best to occupy the Five Islands, even Hirato Island, and Tsushima Island through naval advantages, forcing the Japanese navy to continue to attack, consume the Japanese navy through continuous small-scale naval operations, and contain the whole Japanese pair. The power of North Korea's war. At present, this is the main task of the navy. After constantly weakening the Japanese navy, it should reoccupy the port of Busan at an appropriate time and use the port of Busan as a springboard to launch a sudden attack on the Russian-French joint fleet.

Lv Han can only say, "Yes, my lord!"

Hu Chuyuan said, "Let the Admiralty make the plan and give it to me first."

Lv Han continued to agree, so he officially got up and left and returned to the Admiralty to make a new battle plan.

With so much money invested by the navy, the current total naval strength should be second only to the United Kingdom in the world. Of course, the navy hopes to become the leader of domestic military forces, just like the position of the British navy in Britain.

Hu Chuyuan understands this in his heart, but he knows better that in the long run, China must give priority to becoming an army power.

After Lv Han left, Hu Chuyuan and Lu Guangxuan said, "At present, the most important task is to ensure the implementation of the sandstorm plan. The navy can only play a role in containment for the time being."

Lu Guangzuan nodded slightly and said, "Yes, I think so too, but the colleagues of the Admiralty think too far. In my opinion, we still need to maintain a close cooperative relationship with the United Kingdom in the long run, and we should not be in a hurry to challenge the British naval hegemony."

"Yes!"

Hu Chuyuan nod. He shared the same opinion that the development of the Chinese navy still needs a long way to go.

In fact, even if the Chinese navy wants to fight a decisive battle with the Ally, the key to the problem is that the Ally's Far East Fleet dare not fight.

The blind know that the total strength of the Chinese navy is second only to that of the United Kingdom. In the absence of the French navy, the Far East Combined Fleet organized by France and Russia cannot be the opponent of the Chinese navy.

(to be continued)