Chapter 228 Hu Zhenyuan's Lessons

In his heart, Hu Chuyuan may be thinking about another question... Is he too kind and indulgent to these people?

Although Duan Qirui and other direct generals want to force him to take power, will they also rebel one day to force him to step down?

Once there is a beginning, it is difficult to ban things in the world for the second time.

Duan Qirui and Chen Shanyuan agreed to the mutiny with Lu Guangxuan in order to be the founding president of China, because they knew that even death advice was meaningless to Hu Chuyuan. Hu Chuyuan had always had his own plan, which was not slow.

More importantly, the relationship between Hu Chuyuan and Guangxu Zaitian is indeed very good. Duan Qirui and other people are very worried that Hu Chuyuan will not be able to do it.

From this perspective, most of the generals of these new army will not have any unfavorable measures against him. Lu Guangzuan just took advantage of everyone's loyalty to him to do another thing.

Everyone thinks that this matter is over. As long as Hu Chuyuan agrees to lead the mu muzzle, even if he secretly leads the muzzle, the major events in the world will be done, and the matter of pointing the gun at him will be over.

Is that really the case?

If this is the case, why only Duan Qirui dares?

Hu Chuyuan did not think that this matter would pass. For him, it would never pass.

Lu Guang Quan and Duan Qirui succeeded. They reached the goal of completely disappearing Man, but they also tore an invisible crack between them and Hu Chuyuan. No matter how hard they worked behind, this crack would not make up.

Hu Chuyuan kept his eyes closed and refused to get up. Everyone couldn't help but panic.

Duan Qirui has led troops to the capital. Except for him, no one dares to point his gun at Hu Chuyuan and force him to take the stage.

Lan Jianshu couldn't help asking Hu Chuyuan, "Your Excellency, don't you want to go back to Beijing?"

Hu Chuyuan said a slight hum.

His voice was not loud, but everyone was scared into a cold sweat.

Sun Zongyuan said, "Your Excellency, if you don't go back to the capital, the government will really be chaotic. I'm afraid China will also be chaotic...!"

Hu Chuyuan pointed to his temple and said, "Use your brain. What we used to say is the same thing. Now the situation is changing... Will the original method still work?"

"This...?"

Everyone hesitated.

Sun Zongyuan reacted faster and immediately said, "Your Excellency... Do you mean to wait first and let General Lu go first?"

Hu Chuyuan hummed again and said, "Don't be surrounded by such a large number of people. I'm in poor health, and I have to rest for a while. Jianshu, Zongyuan, you stay, and the others go out and wait first.

"Yes... Your excellency, you must take care of yourself!"

Sun Yuanheng and others were secretly in their hearts and didn't know what to do. They had to leave Hu Chuyuan's room first.

After a group of people withdrew, Lan Jianshu closed the door and asked Hu Chuyuan, "Your Excellency, what are you going to do now?"

Hu Chuyuan was not in a hurry to answer and asked the two of them to sit down first.

He thought about it in his heart. After a while, he asked Sun Zongyuan, "Do you think I should go back immediately?"

Sun Zongyuan said, "Of course, the sooner you go back, the easier it is to control the situation... However, if you are not in a hurry to go back for the time being, there may be other benefits."

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly, got up and paced, and said, "Yes, internal and external troubles intersect. Even if I go back at present, it is still a military and political axe. At that time, it is inevitable to leave a mouth to others. Tell Lu Guangqi that he can remove all my positions first, and he will serve as the interim prime minister first. You send another telegram to others so that they don't have to be impatient.

"Yes."

Sun Zongyuan nodded, and his heart became clearer and clearer.

He knew what Hu Chuyuan was doing. First, if Hu Chuyuan returned to Beijing now, even if he stabilized the situation, the political axe cabinet he led would be regarded as a member of the military axe and military rebellion. Hu Chuyuan seemed to deliberately teach Lu Guangzheng a lesson.

Seeing that Sun Zongyuan seemed to have noticed some clues, Hu Chuyuan explained to him and Lan Jianshu, "I'm going back now, which is no different from Lu Guangwen's direct prime minister. The top priority is to let Britain, the United States and other countries recognize the New Deal and retain all the original agreements and bilateral relations, especially to eliminate the military invasion of France and Russia. If the name is not correct, it will not be good. When they can't stand on their foothold in name, we can emphasize at home that they are invading China and use public opinion and their Resist. Those who win the hearts of the people win the world!"

Hearing this, Lan Jianshu sighed, "Your Excellency is wise!"

Hu Chuyuan said indifferently.

Immediately, he and Lan Jianshu ordered, "You go to the capital in person and tell Duan Qirui and Lu Guangjian that they should hold on first. The means can be tougher. All the Manchu officials will be dismissed, and those people of Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong should go down. The braids can be forced to cut... Take this opportunity to do something hard. If there is any trouble, I will come back and clean it up for them.

Lan Jianshu nodded and said, "Okay, I'm leaving for Jingshi to meet Duan Qirui."

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly and ordered Sun Zongyuan, "You don't have to stay in Dezhou. Just say that I want to go back to Shanghai to retire and arrange a train to Laiwu."

Sun Zongyuan also nodded immediately and said yes.

He and Lan Jianshu slowly left Hu Chuyuan's room one after another and went to do things separately.

In order not to let Lu Guangzhuen and Duan Qirui feel like cannon fodder, Hu Chuyuan personally wrote a letter for Lan Jianshu to bring to them, telling them that it was necessary to do so. Otherwise, it would be difficult to deal with Russia and France in the Three Kingdoms later.

After doing this, Hu Chuyuan did not leave Texas.

That night, he secretly shouted to Chen Shanyuan in the office, asked Chen Shanyuan to sit down, and made a pot of tea by himself, but he waited for a long time without saying anything.

Chen Shanyuan waited uneasily and quietly.

Hu Chuyuan was decorated with warm Biluochun. He spilled some tea soup in the tea tray and scattered the hot air full of tea fragrance. After drinking half of the tea in the cup, he put down the cup and asked Chen Shanyuan, "What on earth do you think? Don't you want to work with me?"

Chen Shanyuan was silent for a moment, and then took out a folded letter from his pocket and said, "Your Excellency, I know that you deliberately didn't go to the capital to teach Lord Lu a lesson, but you really blamed Lord Lu. This matter was actually chosen by the third master. How dare we do this without the support of the third master? This is the third master's letter!"

Hu Chuyuan frowned slightly, and he knew that Hu Zhenyuan's role in this matter was not unusual.

He took the letter and looked at it word by word.

The letter must have been written by Hu Yuyuan, and it was written a few months ago and has been kept beside Chen Shanyuan.

This letter was originally intended to be seen by Hu Chuyuan, and the context of the whole matter was clearly written. It was Hu Yuyuan's idea from the beginning. Even if Lu Guangxuan had this idea, he did not dare to tell others. It was Hu Yuyuan who was really responsible for contacting everyone.

If it weren't for Hu Zhenyuan's promise that as long as Hu Chuyuan became the founding president, no one would bear any responsibility for the mu mue, and no one would have been retaliated. Then no one really has such courage.

It is no wonder that more than a dozen division commanders participated in this matter, but none of them informed Hu Chuyuan, including Chen Shanyuan and Lan Jianshu.

Of course, Hu Yuyuan knows his eldest brother. If he really follows Hu Chuyuan's plan, he will probably deliberately delay Guangxu's death before entering the republic, which is too slow.

In this letter, Hu Zhenyuan also strongly persuaded Hu Chuyuan to take the opportunity to take a step forward and ascend the throne of the founding president. Even if he is not a president, he can first put the emperor under house arrest and truly control all the power.

At the end of the letter, Hu Zhenyuan said, "The power in the world is only for military affairs. The brother may have the power of the three armies, or he may not have a pawn. This matter can prove one or two. How can those who want to seek the world not have an iron horse? If the name is not good, the words are not correct. It is appropriate to take the opportunity to correct the name and take charge of the power of the three armies!"

After reading the letter, Hu Chuyuan just sneered and thought, Lao San, you actually want to teach your eldest brother a lesson.

The article in this matter is not as simple as Lu Guanghuan thought. Hu Chuyuan made it clear in his heart, but he didn't want to break the window paper with Hu Zhenyuan.

Hu Yuyuan played a good game this time, which not only let Hu Chuyuan see everyone clearly, but also Lu Guangyuan clearly.

But this game is very thrilling after all. In case of carelessness, I'm afraid it will kill Hu Chuyuan.

This makes Hu Chuyuan have some doubts about Hu Zhuoyuan.

If he dies, will Hu Yuyuan get all that he left behind?

Although Hu Yuyuan's possible surname to murder him is very low, it is also quite a terrible thing!

It can also be said that Hu Zhenyuan did give Hu Chuyuan a good drink.

After thinking about it in his heart, Hu Chuyuan and Chen Shanyuan asked, "Have you read this letter?"

Chen Shanyuan said, "No!"

Hu Chuyuan took the fire and burned the letter, saying, "You'd better not have seen it!"

After listening to these words, Chen Shanyuan complained secretly. He knew that it was impossible for Hu Chuyuan to trust him as before, but he felt that all this was worth it, although he had an indescribable pain in his heart.

After burning the letter, Hu Chuyuan asked Chen Shanyuan to go back first, but he did not change his decision. He still wanted to continue to wait and see the situation.

Hu Chuyuan decided to do an experiment - he deliberately let Lu Guangxuan jump into the fire kang. It depends on whether Lu Guangzuan jumps or not. This matter will be over for the time being. If he doesn't jump, it will be a long-term plan.

With two birds with one stone, Hu Chuyuan also wants to test what is the bottom line of the Allied attitude towards China?

Hu Chuyuan continued to stay in Texas for a period of time. He contacted the governors and governors of various places by telegram to confirm that the vast majority of people still wanted to follow him. Only then did he really feel relieved and let Ye Bojun, the Fujian and Zhejiang Corps and the East China Sea Water Divisions mobilize to Shanghai. In addition, he He wrote a telegram to Ye Fu alone, asking Ye Fu to transfer all the main forces of the Beiyang Marine Division from the entrance of Tianjin and stationed in Weihai Port. While guarding the entrance of the Bohai Sea, he also kept a distance from Lv Han, Lu Guangchun and others, and was not allowed to listen to the orders of these people.

After some mobilization in Texas, Hu Chuyuan has confirmed that the military power of the new and old systems is still in his hands, and the governors from all over the country continue to listen to him. There are only those new divisions in Lu Guangquan's hands.

After Chen Shanyuan continued to return to Yanjing to take charge of the intelligence work, Ye Boqi's Fujian and Zhejiang Corps has sent two brigades to Dezhou and evacuated from Dezhou together with one of Sun Yuanheng's divisions.

Hu Chuyuan then took the train to Shanghai.

On June 10, 1900, Hu Chuyuan's special train entered Laiwu from Heze and Tai'an counties and arrived at Huangzhuang Town, Laiwu.

This is Laiwu New Area, which is the so-called Laiwu Steel City. The total reserves of land iron ore and coal mines exceed 400 million tons, and the quality is good and the sulfur content is low.

Since 1886, Jiangnan Mining Bureau and Shandong Machinery Bureau have been exploring ore resources in this area. In 1889, the construction officially began. In 1894, Hu Chuyuan's cumulative investment in Laiwu reached 130 million yuan.

In addition to heavy industries such as steel machinery, another focus of Hu Chuyuan's investment is education. In this area, he engaged in Yishu education, prepared a technical school, a public school, and a vocational engineering and mining public school. He also officially donated money to establish Shandong Institute of Technology in 1894.

He planned and invested in the construction of the entire new urban area of Laiwu New District. Schools, communities, sewers, roads and parks are his hands and investments. Of course, the increase of land prices, housing prices and the long-term rent of shops are enough to recover these investments.

The train passed the edge of the new area. Looking at this new type of city and those beautiful buildings, Hu Chuyuan had an indescribable satisfaction in his heart.

Laiwu New District has three large factories, one is Laiwu Iron and Steel Machinery Factory, the second is the official Shandong Machinery Bureau, and the third is Fuguo Machinery Factory.

There are also a large number of other factories in the local area, all of which are around the upstream and downstream industries of the three factories, as well as small and medium-sized textile factories, flour mills and oil presses.

At present, the population of Laiwu County is 1.27 million, and the agricultural population accounts for only 31%.

In China, this is not the largest city. It is smaller than Shanghai, Fuzhou, Qingdao, Tianjin, Hangzhou and Tangshan, and smaller than Zibo and Ma'anshan.

There is a special railway line to the Fuguo Machinery General Factory. The special train of the Prime Minister's Office directly entered the Machinery General Factory and stopped in the mining area of the factory. At this time, Hu Chuyuan got off with Sun Zongyuan, Li Cunyi and others.

There is always a reason why Hu Chuyuan wants to come to Fuguo Machinery Factory at this gure.

The reason is very simple... Fuguo Machinery General Factory is currently the largest arsenal in China invested by him. The consortium formed by it, Laiwu Iron and Steel Machinery General Factory and Shandong Machinery Bureau should also be the largest arsenal in Asia and even in the world.

On the surface, Fuguo Machinery General Factory is just a factory that produces hand-behind tractors, crawler tractors, wheeled tractors, and tries to carry out machinery manufacturing in the automotive field. In fact, its real responsibility is to be responsible for the R&D and production of the domestic 9701 project.

In 1897, the Prime Minister's Office led by Hu Chuyuan formulated more than 30 large-scale independent research and development projects, with Project 9701 ranking first. This project is an armored vehicle and self-propelled artillery system.

Armoured vehicles cannot be regarded as absolute artifacts in this era. Britain has been studying armored vehicles since 1898, and more than a dozen of them were sent for testing in the Boer War in South Africa in March this year.

Because the scale of the experiment is small and it has not achieved decent results, it has not attracted attention.

Hu Chuyuan's train drove into the industrial and mining area and transferred to a Benz sedan imported from Germany into the seventh field deeper than the Fuguo Machinery General Factory. The guards in the middle were very strict, and the protection work was also in place.

After the train stopped in the seventh area, Luo Guorui, the person in charge and chief engineer of Fuguo Machinery General Factory, led the others to greet him.

This is the first time that Hu Chuyuan has come to the arsenal code-named 307 that he invested in. There are layers of seemingly ordinary residential houses in the distance, where workers and technicians are stationed.

Here, all living materials are shipped in directly, and personnel are not allowed to go out easily. It is said that they often live in the field of the 307 factory... the so-called seventh field.

Luo Guorui, a native of Boluo County, Guangdong Province, followed the first batch of young children studying in the United States in Tongzhi for 11 years. He graduated from Yale University with a major in mechanical engineering. In 1885, he went to work for Carnegie Steel Company and entered the Auckland Laboratory in 1887.

He returned to China in the spring of 1894 and was responsible for organizing the Fuguo Machinery General Factory and 307 Factory.

Half of the technicians around him have experience in studying abroad and interning. They belong to the sharp knife team in Shandong, so Project 9701 will fall on their shoulders.

Seeing Hu Chuyuan, Luo Guorui couldn't wait to say hello, "Lord Shoufu...!"

Before he finished speaking, Hu Chuyuan raised his hand to indicate that he didn't need to go on. He sighed, "It's no longer the first assistant. You don't have to be reserved. Let's go to the factory and have a look!"

Luo Guorui wanted to stop talking, and after a while, he hated it and said, "Lu Guang Quan... That thing is really not...!"

He and Lu Guangzuan are classmates in junior and senior high school, and it's okay to scold them.

Hu Chuyuan didn't mind too much and said, "It doesn't matter. Let's go and see the situation of Project 9701!"

Luo Guorui was very clear about the purpose of Hu Chuyuan's trip. Everything was ready. He immediately nodded and took Hu Chuyuan and Li Cunyi to the research and development base alone. Even Sun Zongyuan and others could only stay in place and wait.

In 1891, after the end of the Gengyin War, Hu Chuyuan knew that there would be a second time in China... There would be a war that really decided who would live and who would die, and there would be a larger-scale war between China and Russia. At that time, he had prepared for war in the industrial system he could control.

Although the power of the country at this time is in the hands of Lu Guangquan, the truth is whether Lu Guangquan's order can be effective in Yanjing City depends on Hu Chuyuan.

Now China has not yet reached the period of warlords' melee. Holding military power does not mean that it has everything.

Whether in terms of military strength, political prestige, strength and power, even if Lu Guang Quan decides to work alone, the gap between him and Hu Chuyuan is still too big, not to mention that Lu Guang Quan has no intention to work alone at this time... That's too stupid.

The country is still in the hands of Hu Chuyuan, and Hu Chuyuan also knows that he will regain control of all this sooner or later, so he has to consider what problems he will face when he is re-elected as prime minister?

... The predecessor of Project 9701 has two advance projects, 9207 and 9504. At present, the armored vehicles tested by Britain in the Boer War are basically equivalent to the results of Project 9504.

In 1897, after the re-establishment of the armored vehicle and self-propelled artillery system project, the domestic crawler tractor and 150 horsepower gasoline engine truck projects have entered the process of commercialization. In addition, the domestic 55mm smoothbore gun, 75mm wire gun, 25mm rotary machine gun, 7.62mm caliber light Machine guns, armored vehicle periscopes, electric rotary fire control systems, horizontal four-cylinder gasoline engines, etc. have also been successful.

In the past few years, the main work of the 9701 project has been to continuously test the combination, verify the most stable model and configuration, and continue to make breakthroughs in gasoline engine horsepower as much as possible.

A group of people drove through the living and production areas in the black Benz car, which was more like a carriage, and entered a dark tunnel dozens of meters long.

The whole laboratory and R&D base are hidden under the deep mountains, covered by underground mines, and will be a very good air-raid shelter in the future.

Entering the base hall in the cave, Hu Chuyuan saw three armored vehicles painted with dark black paint parked in a conspicuous position, waiting for his review.

The reflection of the light through the blue-white stone wall looks very bright. It shines on the armored car, which makes the armored car extremely powerful.

Hu Chuyuan looked very excited. As soon as Benz stopped, he couldn't wait to jump down and carefully looked at the differences and details of the three test cars.

Luo Guorui was also very happy and hurried forward to explain to Hu Chuyuan one by one.

Project 9701 has formulated three sub-projects from the beginning, namely, artillery armored vehicles, cannon armored vehicles and self-propelled artillery, that is, there are three models on the basis of the same chassis, V-A model has a 75mm smoothbore gun, V-B model has 25mm rotary machine gun, V-C model It is equipped with a 75mm howitzer.

Since Shanghai Baosong Machinery Factory is responsible for the new gasoline engine Q-5WL-230P, it can only use the Q-3WL-185P gasoline internal combustion engine for the time being. This is the first horizontal gasoline engine in China, which has changed the traditional vertical design.

Q-3WL-185P is a military engine. The material selection is the best, the production process is also very fine, and the rated horsepower is 185PS. With the use of pumping supercharging technology, it can also be increased to 200 horsepower, but it cannot last too long.

Even so, compared with the originally scheduled 230P, it is still much more. In order to adapt to this change, the three trial models currently produced have been significantly changed compared with the plan.

To put it simply... lighter, more expensive and smaller, not to mention the V-A model. The original standard was a 75mm wire-bore gun, which was temporarily replaced with a lighter 55mm smoothbore gun, which is also the main reason for the delay in reporting for acceptance of the 9701 project.

Hearing Luo Guorui's words of these preventive injections, Hu Chuyuan didn't mind too much. He just asked Luo Guorui, "Have you analyzed which armored vehicles used by Britain in the Boer War? What is the rated power?"

Luo Guorui said, "At present, there is only a gasoline engine of about 130 horsepower in Britain. I have seen it. They use wheeled armored vehicles with a very thin armor thickness. They just added a 7.62mm Markin machine gun, which is not the research and development of the system name. At most, we did it in 1992. The thing. If their armored vehicles are counted as one generation, we can now be counted as three generations.

The emergence of Q-3WL-185P gasoline internal combustion engine has a great impact on the research and development of domestic armored vehicles, making the body suddenly change from a vertical structure to a low horizontal result. This change makes armored vehicles have a very good off-road and barrier-crossing ability.

Hu Chuyuan read the report of the three test cars. The numbers were very beautiful and full of beautiful words. He couldn't tell what the specific surname could be.

(to be continued)