New Warlords 1909

Guo Tong seems to continue to report.But was interrupted by Hua Fei. "Guo Tong. You keep all the reports. I'll review them myself! You go to bed early. There are a lot of things these days. Thank you for your hard work!"

Guo Tong is really tired these days.Get less than five hours of sleep a day.But when he heard Hua Fei's words.Eyes are still red.Emotionally authentic. "Master. Guo Tong is not tired. Guo Tong can accompany you!"

"Go back to rest. This is an order! Put the report in your hand on the table. Go out and tell the guards. My supper can be delivered!"

"Yes!" Guo Tong quickly put the document on the table.Think about it.Still whispered. "Young master. It's better to turn Lieutenant Wang over. Continue to serve as your assistant adjutant."

Lieutenant Wang?Oh, Hua Fei suddenly remembered that Guo Tong was talking about Wang Zixia.Since the independent capture of more than 100 Beiyang troops, Prince Xia Rong made a first-class meritorious service in combat. In this award, he was directly awarded the rank of lieutenant.At this time, she is studying at the Jagged Military Academy, how could she be transferred here!

Before Hua Fei could get angry, Guo Tong immediately felt the young master's brows start to frown, and said quickly, "Master, why don't you just call that Huizi, Huang Hui, even that Japanese! They are women after all, and that Japanese women are still doctors. Young master, it’s better to have them take care of you than Wang Meng’s rough hands and feet!”

When he said this, Wang Meng just walked in, and he was not angry when he heard the words, but said, "Young master, the supper is ready. Well, young master, I think what Captain Guo Tong said makes sense!"

"Okay, okay!" Hua Fei smiled, and the scene of Wang Zixia sitting with him in front of Xuzhou City inadvertently appeared in his mind.Although I can transfer her here with a military order, that is not the life she expected after all!As for the Japanese, there are too many military secrets in his office, Hua Fei doesn't trust her to come and go freely.

Hua Fei shook his head and smiled self-deprecatingly, "By the way, has the Nanjing Military Medical College started?"

"Report, it has been two months since the school started. Dozens of prisoners were selected from the group, and dozens of doctors were hired from the community as teachers. A total of more than 300 people in the army signed up for military medical training, and more than 500 people were recruited by the local government. people, including more than 200 women!"

"Very well. Although those military doctors are prisoners, as long as they are willing to serve our army, they should not be treated badly. They must be treated as one of our own. Tell the propaganda department of the headquarters to let every soldier understand that the military doctor is the one who treats them when they are wounded. When they are dying, they are the ones who save their lives, let them respect the military doctors! Well, you go down! Wang Meng, bring the supper!"

There are a lot of reports and various chores, and it looks like it will be another sleepless night.Although it was harder than during the war, Hua Fei was very happy.After all, many things were slowly on the right track, and he saw with his own eyes that his efforts were bearing fruit step by step.China's industrialization process has begun to fully accelerate.

The overseas student program is almost ready. The headquarters has selected 13 outstanding teenagers and youths, including nearly [-] children over the age of [-] from the Boy Scouts. These people have been trained in basic education and patriotic education for nearly a year. , will be the focus of Huafei's in-depth training.

Although Pepsi was waiting to be done and the funds were extremely tight, Hua Fei still allocated 500 million silver dollars from his personal account to add to the funds for studying abroad.Even though Hua Fei's money is often not separated from public and private, the number of his personal account in the Pacific Bank is always increasing.

Once the government is formed, these will be formalized.The private assets of Pacific Bank and Bank of China are difficult because many factories, such as steel mills, smelters, and arsenals, were built with funds raised from construction bonds. Whether these are public property or private property is somewhat entangled .As for the treasury silver that Hua Fei once 'borrowed', the war seizures, and military expenditures are even more confusing accounts that will never be calculated. I believe no one is willing to try the depth of this pool of water.

Hua Fei didn't want to worry about these things. Anyway, the staff of the headquarters would negotiate with the autonomous government at that time. Without Hua Fei's final signature, the autonomous government would not be so stupid as to take over these factories by force.

The formation of the new army was carried out gradually and slowly, and Hua Fei did not like to quickly form the establishment of the three armies.Firstly, it is difficult to recruit such a large number of excellent soldiers, and secondly, the economy is shocked. For an army of 10, the army alone costs tens of thousands of yuan a month.Including living expenses, military uniforms, military supplies, training ammunition, etc., the monthly expenditure is no less than one million.

Therefore, Hua Fei's order to the headquarters staff is to complete the formation and training tasks of the first army as soon as possible, and the second and third armies need to reach at least 19149% of the number of troops in the next year, that is, before September [-].

Outside of the currently on-duty team, most of the officers are studying military school courses such as military theory and command art in the temporary study class of the Jagged Military Academy. Many soldiers have also started large-scale literacy learning activities after training.

The only problem with the telegram from the headquarters was the slow rate of recruiting for the Second Army.Although there are indeed quite a few young people who signed up, many unqualified young people were excluded out of the principle of preferring lack over abuse.For example, some young workers in factories and some technical youths who have returned from studying abroad, other positions are obviously more suitable for them.

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It was another night, and Hua Fei didn't get out of bed and go to sleep until the sky was getting dark.He needs to get up around nine o'clock and go out to deal with other tasks.

When the two provinces and one place were booming, Yuan Shikai in the north did not rest.Not only has it accelerated the construction of industrialization, but it has also raised loans from all parties to expand its armaments.

The situation in the world is also becoming more and more tense. The war in the Balkans continues, and the relationship between Germany and Britain has become tense.In addition to sluggishly developing the economy in the United States, the momentum of isolationism has intensified.Japan accelerated its spying on China, especially after Hua Fei took over the three areas of Jiangsu and Shanghai, a large number of Japanese spies entered here.At the same time, the Japanese tried their best to establish a 'good' cooperative relationship with Hua Fei.

Hubei Hanyang Iron Works, the office of the general office is full of smog. These officials are drunk and dreaming, and now they are all showing blissful smiles in the ecstasy of opium.The black smoke in the ironworks was low, and many blast furnaces were covered with rust.Even the main road is full of weeds.

"My lord, old man Yang, old man Tao, boy Wei, and that foreign devil Garif, and dozens of technicians have all handed in their resignations and have not come to work today."

"I didn't come if I didn't come, I'm afraid they won't make it if they run away!" The general office of Hanyang Iron Works exhaled smoke and squinted his eyes.

"My lord, it is said that they were poached by a headhunter, some factory."

"Poached? Send over all the wages they have accumulated in the factory. If they leave, the money will of course not be paid."

"But... but my lord, these people are here. Once there is a problem with the steel furnace, I am afraid that production will have to be stopped. Even if the production is not stopped, the output will decline, and the quality will not be well controlled..."

"What... What did you say? Stop production... Then what, the headhunting factory, whose factory is it? How dare you poach people from us?" Upon hearing about the suspension of production, the general office of Hanyang Iron Works realized The seriousness of the problem, threw away the pipe and jumped up from the bed and shouted.

"This...no...don't know!"

This scene was also staged successively across the country, such as Guangdong Weapons Factory, Fuzhou Shipping Bureau, Tianjin Machinery Bureau, Hubei Gun Factory, Shandong Machinery Bureau, Chengdu Machinery Bureau, Hunan Machinery Bureau and so on.All military factories and heavy industries that are a little bit famous in China are patronized by Hua Fei's new headhunting company without exception.

Without the slightest awareness of prevention, many key technical workers and engineers in various factories resigned one after another and moved to the Suzhou-Shanghai Autonomous Region with their families, moved by the favorable conditions of the headhunting company and the emphasis on talents.As a result, it caused quite a stir across the country, and the term headhunting appeared frequently in newspapers many times.However, none of the newspapers knew whose company this headhunting company belonged to.

It wasn't until a few months later when those technicians and engineers who disappeared and resigned appeared in the autonomous region that many people suddenly realized that it was Hua Lengzi who had made trouble again!

The competition of strength is often the competition of talents and technology!This view, which was very common in later generations, obviously did not attract the attention of domestic warlords in this era.The role of the headhunting company has completely exceeded Hua Fei's expectations. Within a few months, thousands of skilled workers of various types have joined Hua Fei's industrial construction plan.The generous remuneration and good working environment in the autonomous region, especially their extreme trust and emphasis on talents, not only aroused the extensive work enthusiasm of the technicians, but also attracted many technicians from other places to vote one after another.In less than a year, tens of thousands of experienced technicians of various industries have joined, far exceeding the number of Huafei's original local technicians, which has played an important role in the growth of Huafei's industrial planning and production development The effect of estimation.

The next day, just after waking up, Hua Fei received a report of Edsey's visit.Accompanying Edsey's visit were German Chargé d'Affaires Malzan, German Army representative Feng Qiexi, and German Chamber of Commerce representative Luden Fein.

Such a team can be said to be quite complete, including the old friend Edsey who is very familiar with Hua Fei, the government who arrested Malzan, the military representative Feng Qiexi, and the business representative Luden Fein.It seems that Hua Fei's strategic partner proposal must have attracted great attention from the Germans, otherwise such a team would not have been dispatched so quickly.

Regarding how to cooperate with the Germans, Hua Fei has recently considered very carefully.Especially after the oil cooperation with the United States did not go well, Hua Fei had to rely on the Germans for oil exploration and refining.We must know that there are almost no talents in this field in China today, so it is urgent to cultivate a team in petroleum technology.

"Good morning, Your Excellency Commander, please forgive us for disturbing your rest!"

Hua Fei was dressed in military uniform, military cap and leather boots, and appeared in front of everyone energetically.German Chargé d'Affaires Marzan's eyes lit up, and he immediately stepped forward very politely

.Although the Germans are not as gentlemanly as the British, they are rigorous in every way.

"Gentlemen, hello! It is my honor and honor to welcome you to our house. Everyone, please sit down, please sit down!"

Since Hua Fei doesn't understand German, and the relationship between Germany and the UK is relatively tense, Hua Fei can only use Edsey as a temporary interpreter.

After some brief greetings, Malzan quickly got to the point. It is conceivable that they are still extremely eager about this matter.

"Consul Edsey told us that, as the commander-in-chief of the National Defense Forces of the Chinese Autonomous Region, you intend to sign a so-called strategic partnership agreement with Germany. Our government is very interested in this, but I don't know how much power you have in the autonomous government. What aspects does the so-called cooperation agreement specifically involve?"

Hua Fei nodded. At this moment, he was not in a hurry. While drinking plain water, he muttered, "The self-government government has not been established, but I can tell you gentlemen that I can represent the self-government government and communicate with anyone in any country. , sign any agreement!"

Several Germans looked at each other, and of course they had no doubts about Hua Fei's words.As the most powerful and powerful person in the autonomous region, he Hua Commander does have the capital to make this promise.

"I believe in my friend Mr. Hua Fei, and we have cooperated with Hua Sling many times. Mr. Hua is a very straightforward and trustworthy Chinese. I can testify to this!" Edsey hurriedly said when he saw this. .He was able to achieve the post of consul in the German consulate largely because of his close cooperation with Hua Fei.So to the extent possible, Edsy and Hua Fei share common interests.

"Your Excellency, Commander, we have no doubts about your commitment. Then, please tell us specifically what is included in our strategic partnership agreement?" Marzan asked with a blank expression.

"One!" Hua Fei held up a finger, "A strategic partnership agreement is a comprehensive and close cooperative relationship. Except for a very few areas, the two parties are completely open to each other's markets without any restrictions!"

"Second, business cooperation. We have a preferential tax-free policy for all German businessmen's investment. Any investment in heavy industry can be reviewed and exempted from land expropriation fees! The two parties' commodity sales, the most favorable price trading, and the reduction of tariffs and other barriers .For the goods that the other party urgently needs, they can give priority to supply.”

"Third, military cooperation. The two sides will carry out closer military mutual assistance and cooperation, train special combat personnel, cultivate military technical personnel, and train military instructors! Provide military supplies at preferential prices.

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"Fourth, carry out oil exploration cooperation. The two parties set up an oil company, and the German side will provide capital, equipment and technology to carry out oil exploration and production in our autonomous region. Once an oil field is found, choose a suitable location to build a petrochemical plant. We can use petroleum products, Pay all the investment of the German side. In addition, the German side can be granted the exclusive right to buy and sell for ten years!"

"Fifth, expand industrial exchanges and cooperation. Germany has the priority to bid for all our industrial construction. Our mineral and coal resources are exported to Germany first!"

"The main points are these five opinions. If the German side feels that there is something wrong, it can be discussed and revised. Or if the German side needs to add anything, it can also be discussed and added. This cooperation is a secret agreement. I don't want to disclose it, so as not to cause trouble. Protests from Britain, France and other countries!"

Although Hua Fei's suggestions were few, some of them made the German representative's eyes brighten.Preferential tax exemption, land tax exemption, best price trading, optimal supply, oil exploration, priority export of resources...These lines, like magnets, quickly attracted all the attention of the Germans present.Especially Luden Fein, the representative of the Union of Chambers of Commerce, because he understands very well what the signing of these agreements means to German businessmen.

As we all know, as an emerging big country, Germany's rights and interests in the Chinese market are completely incomparable to those of established empires such as Britain and France.If these agreements can be signed with Huafei, it is foreseeable that in the short term, the proportion of Germany's interests in the Suzhou-Shanghai Autonomous Region will increase rapidly.Just, is there such a good thing?

Moreover, tariffs and military cooperation are also open to discussion.Chinese tariffs are basically controlled by foreigners, and military cooperation is even more sensitive at this moment.Although the relationship between the Germans and the United Kingdom is deadlocked, they are unwilling to openly confront each other and sell sensitive military technologies such as Huafei torpedoes.