At the end of the Three Meetings in 1907, Ziyang, who had been chosen halfway through, became the official chairman and chief secretary, overcame the objections of the masses and became the official chairman and chief secretary. One of Ziyang's big decisions after taking office was to 'completely end the dual-track system.'
The dual-track system of the Min dynasty originated from the original system. From the beginning to the present, the most advanced industries of the Min dynasty were invested by the government and other institutions led by the Restoration Party. The purpose was to provide reliable products during the war. There were changes in the middle, especially after the end of the North American War, when large enterprises were released from the dual-track system. This led to the collapse of large enterprises, but at that time, the Min dynasty did not lack employment opportunities at all. As long as they dared to emigrate, their income would only rise. Therefore, the impact was minimal.
In the face of the last territory of the dual-track system, Ziyang made his move.
Vézé didn't say anything about it. He was still waiting for the important moment in Dongyuan City. Now that the Nicaraguan Canal had not been completed, the state-owned shipyard in Dongyuan City was the pearl of the Atlantic Ocean. The warships built here could directly enter the Atlantic Ocean to fight without having to travel thousands of miles. The damaged ships could also be repaired and then put into battle. From Dongyuan City to Florida, there were a series of military ports. It was not easy to fill these military ports with warships.
Dongyuan City also had another characteristic. The iron ore here was transported from Brazil. High-quality iron ore made the smelting cost of steel extremely low, and the quality of the steel was very good. There were already 100,000 tons of iron ore carriers participating in the transportation route. It was expected that Dongyuan City would become a new steel capital with an annual output of 10 million tons of steel in the next ten years.
Even if it did not reach the annual output of 10 million tons of steel, Dongyuan City still had more than enough steel to build destroyers. At the end of January, Vézé participated in the destroyer launching ceremony. On February 14, Vézé boarded the destroyer that had basically been installed.
At this time, the weather was still very cold, and the cold wind was blowing on the deck. As soon as he entered the cabin, he immediately felt warm. The XuChang-class destroyer also adopted cooling and heating equipment. In the summer, the cabins were directly used by the deck wind. In the winter, the deck wind was first introduced into the wheel compartment. After heat exchange with the chimney, the heated air was then input to the cabins. The temperature of the cabin could be more than 15 degrees.
"Commander-in-chief, this cannon is really good." The fleet commander sighed to Vézé.
Technology from World War II was already available before World War I. How could it not be good? Vézé sighed in his heart. However, the words that came out of his mouth were, "The technical department is able to produce such cannons. We still have to rely on the troops to unleash the potential of the cannons."
"We'll definitely do our best," the fleet commander replied, deeply moved. Then, the fleet commander continued, "Commander-in-Chief, the calculator has also been transported here. I'll take you there now. "
Vézé followed the commander to the shooting control room and saw a large, coffin-like case in the room. From the very beginning, this place was only designed to have cold air and not warm air. The cooling of the electronic equipment had already warmed up the cabin.
A calculator is not a computer. It is designed to calculate specialized data. There was no screen, only secondary LEDs to display the numbers. From the moment the artillery command tower discovered the enemy to the moment the first shell was fired, only fifty seconds had passed. Most of the time was spent on manual transmission and reading of the artillery data. It was still a long way from fully automatic fire control, but it was already on the right path.
Without giving any instructions, Vézé listened more and spoke less. If the Min dynasty would still be defeated at this point, then they deserved to be defeated. Tying the fate of a country to one's own body was easy to evoke "beauty." But from the point of view of a leader, this was a very unqualified performance. Even the dynasties understood that they should try to make the dynasty as permanent as possible.
After visiting the warship, Vézé headed west and boarded a ship in San Francisco for the South China Sea. He had been to the United States twice over the years and had never been to the South China Sea. It was time to see this beautiful land.
On the way to the South China Sea, Vézé passed the time with intelligence on Russia. Recently, the most popular person in Russia was naturally Prime Minister Stolypin. What was more interesting was that on the eve of the State Council meeting, two far-right members of the committee took the opportunity of the Tsar's summons to slander him, saying that Stolypin's land bill would kill Russia and that his purpose was nothing more than "forming a clique for personal gain." Nicholas II instructed the two to "act according to their conscience."
It was also true that they acted according to their conscience. The two really wanted to overthrow Stolypin's land reform plan. So they contacted Duma to oppose Stolypin. Seeing that it was going to be over, Stolypin immediately tendered his resignation and left after the three-day deadline for a reply.
Unexpectedly, things took a dramatic turn — Empress Dowager Marina? Empress Dowager Marina Fedorovna intervened. On the day of Stolypin's resignation, Empress Dowager Marina summoned Stolypin. When Stolypin entered the door, he met Nicholas II face to face, but the Tsar's behavior was uncharacteristic. He did not greet Stolypin and brushed past him, with tears on his face. Empress Dowager Fedorovna went straight to the point and told Stolypin that she had told her son that she was convinced that only Stolypin had the power and ability to save Russia, and repeatedly asked Stolypin to stay in office.
The next day, after a night of reflection, Tsar Nicholas II asked the palace guard to deliver a 16-page letter to Stolypin. In the letter, the Tsar repented to Stolypin and admitted that he had not been honest with Stolypin about everything. Not only did he admit that he was wrong, but he also said that he realized that only by working together with the Prime Minister could he bring Russia to the right track. The Tsar requested Stolypin to withdraw his resignation and report to him in the Imperial Village the next day. Not only did the Tsar agree to Stolypin's proposal to suspend the State Council and the State Duma for three days, but he also exiled the two main culprits who caused the collapse of the land bill. Thus, Stolypin finally survived the last crisis of his reign.
As a counterattack, Stolypin disbanded the Duma by force. He planned to restart the Duma after the reform.
"Gutsy!" This was Vézé's evaluation of Stolypin. Although he knew about Russia's poor performance in World War I, Vézé did not have any impression of this person. Therefore, Vézé suspected that this person was a new variable that appeared because of the change in time and space. Therefore, he could only not comment on this person.
It was March when the fleet crossed the Pacific Ocean and arrived in Luzon. Vézé received a report from Hungary. The Hungarian Central Committee members at the grassroots level worked hard and made great progress on the basis of their previous comrades. An agreement was reached on the joint mechanical harvesting in one-third of Hungary.
In May, intelligence from Russia began to appear about the "Stolypin necktie." Stolypin began to use state violence to deal with the rebels, and watching the hanging began to become a popular entertainment for the Russian people.
In August, Vézé prepared to leave the South Sea. The news from Hungary was that there was a bumper harvest of wheat. The Hungarian Slovak Parliament announced that by 1911, illiteracy under the age of 40 would be eliminated.
Before Vézé was ready to board the ship, he received a document forwarded by the Central Committee. Wei Kun, the provincial governor of the East Africa administrative region, asked the Central Committee for help on the issue of introducing Japanese immigrants. When Wei Kun was in Sudan, he brought in Japanese labor. Even if they were all old, weak, women and children, the overall effect was still very good. When Wei Kun returned to the East Africa administrative region, he found that he had a purpose to bring in Japanese, but the Japanese had limited interest. It was very different from the previous enthusiastic response of people as long as he recruited people.
After changing several methods to no obvious effect, Wei Kun turned to the Central Committee for help. He also noted that he hoped that President Vézé could give instructions. Wei Kun was so reasonable, and of course, the party would not act on their own. After reading the telegram on the ship, Vézé looked at the attached recruitment documents and could judge that Wei Kun had done his best.
Vézé wanted to help, but felt that it would not be good for him to let Wei Kun get the answer so easily. Vézé sent a telegram to Wei Kun, "Start with Japanese culture."
Wei Kun called back a few hours later, "My head is broken, I don't know where to start."
Seeing his son like this, Vézé could only give Wei Kun a suggestion.
In early October, China's recruiters all over Japan began to move out again. With previous experience, people in Edo and other places in Japan had limited interest in this. Africa was not on the Pacific coast, which made the Japanese feel too far away. Japan was not a closed country like Korea, and there was a lot of news about Africa heard from Europe and the United States. In addition, the Japanese servant army followed the Liberation Army across North America. The attitude of the white people who bowed to the Liberation Army toward the black people was also seen by the Japanese. In the eyes of the conquered white people, black people were slaves and inferior people. How could the Japanese, who followed the superior conqueror, put Africa full of black people in their eyes?
At this time, the most popular place in Edo was South America. Peru asked Japan to migrate to Peru to deal with the United States, which threatened Peru. Japan had a psychological advantage when facing the Americans because they participated in the war to drive the United States out of North America. However, in the recent news, the Japanese Reclamation Corps on the border was attacked by the American army, and it seemed that there were many casualties.
When the Japanese began to recruit people for Africa, the people in Edo were not interested. And this time, this group of people did not recruit in Edo. They just printed a lot of propaganda leaflets and then set off to those small cities and the countryside.
Since there were printed leaflets, there were naturally leftovers. After the group of recruiters set off, Edo began to be shocked by the content of these leaflets. The content of this leaflet was very different from the previous one.
First, this was immigration, not the recruitment last time.
Second, immigrants could bring their whole family.
Third, if immigrants worked in Africa for 20 years and did not commit crimes, they could choose to immigrate to the Min dynasty. If their children studied in Africa during the immigration period, they could pass the university exam. After graduation, they could immigrate to the Min dynasty.
These three had already made a certain connection between immigration to Africa and immigration to the Min dynasty, and the fourth was undoubtedly a blockbuster.
It was clearly written in the propaganda that all the immigrants this time, unless they had a surname before 1800, would be given the surname by Wei Kun, the second son of His Majesty Vézé, the emperor of the Min dynasty.
The common people were given the surname "He", and they could add one or two additional words according to their own wishes to form their surname.
The samurai were given the surname "Wu", and they could add one or two additional words according to their own wishes to form their surname.
When these two people immigrated to China in the future, they could also freely choose Chinese surnames.
The most shocking part was not these two, but the second son of Emperor Wei Ze, Wei Kun, would be given the surname 'Yuan' or even 'Wei' to those with 'status' and 'ability to convince the masses'.
What kind of person was His Majesty Vézé? Nihon had suffered a lot under His Majesty, so Nihon was convinced. His Majesty Vézé was the great benefactor of the current Edo regime, and he helped Nihon's state ownership of land. Nihon was convinced. His Majesty Vézé's expedition to North America forced Britain to sell its land and drove the United States out of North America. Nihon knew that Britain was once the world's hegemon. As for the Kurofune incident, the United States fleet crossed the Pacific Ocean to force Nihon to establish a country. Nihon certainly knew the power of the United States. For all these reasons, Nihon only had one word left for His Majesty Vézé: "I admire."
Now that His Highness Wei Kun, the son of His Majesty Vézé, was in charge of the administrative region of East Africa, the Japanese thought that he was probably the King of East Africa. It was already a great honor for His Highness Wei Kun to personally bestow a surname, not to mention the possibility of receiving the surname 'Wei'. The Emperor of Japan did not have a surname. If the Emperor had a surname, it would mean that the son of the Emperor had given the surname of the Emperor to someone else. How glorious would that be? The glory was so great that the Japanese felt that it was a lie.
Immediately, some people set off from Jianghu to chase the agents who had already set off, and some went to the embassy of the Min dynasty to inquire about the authenticity of this matter. The embassy responded, "The administrative region of East Africa is not the work of the Min dynasty's diplomatic field, so the embassy is unable to help."
When asked who to ask, the embassy said in the unique bureaucratic way, "The East African administrative region is under the control of the Central Committee of the Restoration Party in the Min dynasty, so if you want to ask, you have to ask the Restoration Party."
The Foreign Affairs Department of the Min dynasty was a government department, and there were places to find people. The Restoration Party was a political organization and had no external contact unit. The tossing and turning of this matter made the truth look confusing.
This matter became an anecdote in Edo, and when the British diplomats learned of it, they sent a telegram to Britain. At this time, the British royal family and parliament had moved to Victoria City in North America, and they had no interest in intervening in Japan. The attitude of the Edo government towards the British was not submissive.
When it came to the recruitment of immigrants by the Min dynasty in Africa, the first thing that came to Britain's mind was the new Suez Canal that the Min dynasty was about to complete widening. A year ago, the Min dynasty announced that they would widen it. The original new Suez Canal was more than 100 meters wide. Before the announcement, the Min dynasty had already flattened the other side of the river without cement embankment and made a lot of preliminary exploration preparations. The Min dynasty had already sent the engineering equipment there, and as soon as the actual widening was announced, they immediately started digging frantically. The newly dug deep ditch was also more than 100 meters wide. Just when the British thought that the Min dynasty was going to dig two canals, they found that their engineering assumptions about the Min dynasty were wrong. After the Min dynasty finished digging the other one, they blocked the two ends of the new Suez Canal, dug the part between the two, and then dug down.
The British also sent people to see. The new canal was about 400 meters wide and 14 meters deep. At the current progress, it would be navigable by 1908 at most. After it was navigable, probably even 100,000-ton supertankers and special ore ships could easily pass through the canal. More importantly, the large battleships of the Min dynasty had to go around the Cape of Good Hope to enter the Mediterranean Sea through the South Atlantic Ocean. Now all the battleships of the Min dynasty could easily cross the river.
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