The journey starts from the Titanic

The number of reserve forces is 20,000, including the militia construction corps. Due to the vigorous development of education in the past few years, the establishment of military national education systems in the primary and secondary schools in a dozen provinces under control, and the establishment of army primary and secondary schools in various provinces and cities. It is optimistic that the future Wuhan Zhi Gong Party After the government is mobilized, it can arm 30,000 armies within a year, and the domestic military industry can also guarantee most of the weapons production capacity.

To build the north, the railway takes the lead, focusing on investing in Zhengzhou in the Central Plains and Beiping in North China. With these two cities as the hub, the railway will be expanded, going northeast to the northeast, going north to Shanxi Inner Mongolia, and going west to Lanzhou and Xinjiang to lay the foundation for the final reunification of the country.

At the same time, taking advantage of the rich resources in the north, new investment in the steel industry and military industry are concentrated in Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Tianjin, Beiping and Tangshan.

In the past few years, the military has cooperated with the railway company to send a large number of personnel to conduct detailed investigations of the railway resources in the north, and the railway and factory plans have already been completed.

The double-track project of the Wuhan-Henan section of the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway under construction by the Construction Corps is about to be completed. They said they will continue to cross the Yellow River and spread new railroad tracks to Beiping City.

"Sitting in the north, you need a reliable general. Old brother, just work harder!"

Li Zongren found Bai Chongxi and said to him with a smile.

"Okay!" Bai Chongxi nodded readily, and added, "But I want the fifth division."

The Fifth Division is composed of Nanyang children and domestic educated youths. They were rigorously trained by German instructors when they were in South China. Situ Yong and others took the Fifth Division to participate in the Northern Expedition. They have made outstanding contributions and have been stationed in Wuhan since then, with the best personnel and equipment. It was the first armoured unit of the Revolutionary Army. No wonder Bai Chongxi saw it at a glance.

"Leave the Fifth Division in Wuhan and change it to the Third Division. The third division is also a unit brought by our brothers from Guangxi. It is also equipped with tanks, armored vehicles and heavy artillery, no worse than the fifth division!"

Li Zongren smiled, shook his head and refused.

"Isn't this a bad pilot? The Fifth Division has a flying regiment, the only one in the military."

Bai Chongxi pouted her lips and knew in her heart that only the fifth and sixth divisions had the most beautiful backgrounds among the several divisions that started in Guangxi, Guangdong.

Those in the Prime Minister’s Office cannot directly intervene in the army, but there is no denying that Song Ziwen, Lin Yimin and others believe in the Fifth Division and the Sixth Division.

"Well. With the third division as the main division, and then transferring a first-line division from southern China to east, it is enough for me to support the scene in the north."

Bai Chongxi said.

The Revolutionary Army’s first-line division adopts a master’s organization, with nearly 20,000 mans, similar to the Japanese division. After discussing with the Military Commission, Bai Chongxi will use the third division as the basis to dispatch military academies from the north to the northern garrison military area. The three places in Shandong and Hebei are mainly soldiers. It takes three to five years to build an elite force equipped with a large number of heavy firepower and machinery.

Sitting in the north, the elite troops commanding more than a hundred thousand revolutionary army, although not as high as the emperor, are indeed a vassal, a high position, and many people like this position.

After discussing with a few big bosses, Li Zongren believed that Bai Chongxi was tough, tough, flexible, and able to hold down the arrogant soldiers under his command and conquered local warlords such as Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang.

Bai Chongxi has always been arrogant and not afraid of foreigners. He can take the pressure of Japan and Russia by sitting in the north.

Bai Chongxi thought that he was competent, so he served as the chief of the general staff as the northern garrison commander. The work of the general staff was undertaken by the deputy chief of general staff and the capital garrison commander Situ Yong.

The southern garrison commander of Guangdong, Guangdong and Fujian was Deng Zhongyuan and Deng Keng, and many Cantonese generals in the Republic of China were under his command.

The Zhi Gong Dang does not play an official system in different places. Each province retains considerable autonomy. Government officials are mostly held by locals. The army is organized into divisions based on their native place. This approach is similar to that of Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Bai Chongxi sat on the flight and looked down. The escort formation consisting of ten fighter jets was surrounding the passenger plane. This is the first domestically-made all-metal fighter jet manufactured by American China Airlines from the United States. The metal skin is shining in the sun.

Although deep inland, there is no air combat mission, the fighter formation still flies meticulously in accordance with the requirements of the battlefield. Bai Chongxi saw it and was satisfied.

With regard to fighter aircraft experience, the southern and Wuhan air forces are the richest in the world, and they have also realized the importance of air power in wars of all sizes.

A giant like the US-China Aviation Industry, which manufactures aircraft and monopolizes the domestic and international aviation market, not only did not receive sanctions, but was encouraged to develop and grow. The military allocated special funds for this purpose and appointed this company to develop fighter jets, so Asia was born. The largest aircraft manufacturer and aviation market monopolist-American China Airlines!

Take the manufacture of fighter jets. Meihua Power, a subsidiary of Meihua Electric, provides in-line liquid-cooled engines, Apple Aluminum in Guangxi provides aluminum alloys for aircraft manufacturing, and Yangzi Machinery is involved in airframe manufacturing and aircraft assembly. These three companies are also Shareholders of American Airlines' subsidiary responsible for aircraft manufacturing.

In addition, there are more than a dozen related companies including Hanyang Arsenal providing aircraft machine guns and Meihua Tire Company providing aircraft tires.

Because of excessive participation in the aviation industry, Meihua Electric had to give up the automobile market. Meihua Power Company specializes in research and development and production of engines, which manufactures both automobile engines and aircraft engines.

There may be reasons why many German engineers participated. They prefer simple and reliable in-line engines and take the liquid-cooled route, while the relatively complex star-shaped engines are developed by another domestic company and South China.

With the development of the aviation market and the increase in military orders, the performance contributed by the engine department of Meihua Power is increasing. Although the majority of profits are still in the field of civil power generation, many people are optimistic that the aircraft engine department and marine power department will be the most in the future. Departments with development potential.

It is said that the Navy is looking forward to the cruiser powered by steam turbines manufactured by the Marine Power Department of Meihua Power. Zhanjiang Shipyard is working hard to build the first domestically-powered cruiser for this purpose.

In addition to the steam turbines used in the power of large ships, the diesel engines used in small and medium ships and submarines, Meihua Power also accounts for nearly half of the domestic and South China market.

The vast majority of people in China and South China do not realize that Meihua Power, which focuses on power R&D and manufacturing, is actually a leader in major fields such as automobiles, ships, and aircraft.

Under the connivance of many aspects, Meihua Electric has become a multi-industry monopoly, so that Situ Nan looked back and looked at it, this is simply a copy of the next generation of General Electric!

It sounds easy and simple to think that it is made of electrical and electronic products, but it actually includes the two major items of the second industrial revolution: electricity and internal combustion engines.

However, due to publicity reasons, the word “electric” is used as the name of the head office and the word “power” is used as the name of the subsidiary.

If it is located in the United States, Boeing Airlines Cummins-Lincoln Airlines, which is suspected of cross-border operations and monopolize the market, has already reported that the government will conduct antitrust investigations against these aviation giants.

Bai Chongxi does not care about the United States, nor does he pay too much attention to the military’s concern that Meihua Electric is the dominant one and intends to support competitors. The Hanyang Arsenal with military and national capital backgrounds and consortiums in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Guangdong will jointly invest to build one or more The military industry companies that can compete with the US and China are only happy for the domestic aviation industry to finally independently manufacture the first fully-made fighter.

Although it is said that the technology may not be as advanced as those of the aircraft manufacturers in the United States, if they fully develop new fighters, they may soon come up with more advanced fighters.

"Huh, in order to argue about the location of the aircraft manufacturing plant, the wealthy people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Wuhan, Guangdong, have been arguing, but there is no result. They asked me to say that they can be directly placed in the north, central plains or Beijing and Tianjin."

Bai Chongxi snorted coldly.

Along the Jing-Han Railway, the landscape on the ground has changed from the dangerous central plains of Guanxia to the vast plains of North China. The farther you fly north, the greater the gap between the north and the south.

When I arrived in Beiping, I circled the sky. This so-called arrogant city is really not decent. Those palaces with great momentum are okay, and ordinary civilian areas are just like the countryside.

This makes Bai Chongxi, who is accustomed to places like Wuhan, Shanghai and Guangzhou, reinforced concrete, high-rise glass windows, and modern industrial civilization a little disappointed, and even suspects that the Wuhan newspaper ridiculed Beiping City, "the ruined house on the street smells bad by the roadside, and there is no place to go." "Does the rumors really matter?"

However, Bai Chongxi, who came from the Qing Dynasty, understood that perhaps the gossip newspapers deliberately belittled their opponents for the recent discussion of “Who is the right capital for Wuhan, Beiping”, but the city he is about to set foot in, the dynasty has declined, and there has been no achievements in urban construction in 20 years. No matter how old the literati's writings are, the royal air is almost gone.

Otherwise, the Zhi Gong Party would not need a single soldier, relying on its industrial superiority to overwhelm the Northeast Army and voluntarily retreat to the customs.

After more than ten years of education in the Zhi Gong Party and the US-China Foundation, most of the government officials and military officers are regarded as peripheral members of the Industrial Party or half of the Industrial Party. They understand that in the industrialized era, the so-called kingly dynasties are all worthy. But aircraft cannons, the Pearl River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta, the two lakes in the Central Plains, you only need to find a large-scale city. There are several satellite cities nearby to form an urban agglomeration. With sufficient funds and vigorously developing industry, you can actually become the capital.

There are at least a dozen cities that meet this condition.

The conditions in Shu are also worse, but after the dredging of the Yangtze River channel, the construction of reservoirs and the railway into Sichuan, Shu is not much worse than Beiping, and the economy of Shu has stretched Hebei in recent years.

"The northern cities can be used in Tianjin!"

Bai Chongxi thought with regret, his fingers beat his knees rhythmically, and his mood was not as calm as his face. A popular sentence in recent years resounded in his mind-the rise of great powers must have a battle!

The top priority is to develop industry and use the power of the state to build a batch of large-scale military industries in a short period of time.

Today, the Zhi Gong Party government is relatively rich and can afford a considerable amount of construction funds. It does not need to be done by private companies or even foreign consortia as it was a few years ago.

Bai Chongxi doesn't need to be involved in politics, but he has a huge budget in his hand. He has the right to decide on what the military uses to build an arsenal in the north.

"Sir, the plane is about to land. The next is Nanyuan Airport. If you don't land anymore, it is estimated that the military and political leaders in Beiping will be waiting in a hurry."

The adjutant came to remind Bai Chongxi.

Bai Chongxi drove around Beiping and finally got off the plane, and he saw a small-scale and high-level welcome.

But he had no good face, his face was serious, and it was colder than the weather in the north. With a few words of courtesy, he drove away some guys who seemed to be idle and couldn't do anything practical. Regardless of fatigue, he called the military generals. In consultation with the military industry department, the decision to establish the Shijingshan Arsenal was made with high efficiency.