Respectfully

Mikhailov, the commander-in-chief of the Russian East Siberian Frontier Army, disappeared during a hunting trip!The bodies of Michalov's mistress and guards were found the next day, all bitten badly by wild animals.There were bloodstains everywhere at the scene, as well as traces of gunshots. Many people suspected that they encountered a large beast, but after a few days, even the body of the guard who was dragged farthest was found and identified, and Mikhailov was still missing.

The news was sent back to St. Petersburg. Tsar Nicholas II did not like this guy who had been defeated in Manchuria before, but he was unscathed by his family power.Grand Duke Dmitry saw an opportunity. Mikhailov was frightened by the Chinese people, and he was an out-and-out coward.Now that Mikhailov's whereabouts are unknown, he can recommend talents with courage and ability to the Tsar!

However, with Queen Alexandra and Rasputin as hindrances, Grand Duke Dmitry was not too sure. After racking his brains, he finally thought of Empress Dowager Marina.

After making up his mind, Grand Duke Dmitry met in private with Tsar Nicholas II's uncle, Grand Duke Nicholas. Grand Duke Nicholas was also a figure with great ambitions for the Far East, and at the same time he had no decision that the Tsar had not made.The two hit it off almost immediately, and immediately decided to meet the Empress Dowager the next day and ask her to speak to the Tsar.The opinion of the empress dowager was very important to Nicholas II. Because of the remonstrance of the empress dowager, Tsar Nicholas II continued to use Stolypin and punished the two people who slandered him.As long as the Empress Dowager is willing to help, neither Empress Alexandra nor Rasputin will be able to obstruct it wantonly.

Empress Alexandra trusted Rasputin, Empress Dowager Marina did not!She can be said to be extremely disgusted with this monk who has an unknown origin and confuses the Tsar and his wife.

The news that Grand Duke Dmitry and Grand Duke Nicholas met with the Empress Dowager quickly reached Rasputin's ears. When he was in command, he immediately slandered the Queen: "Polivanov is very arrogant. He lacks due respect to Her Majesty the Queen, and he has a very deep friendship with Grand Duke Dmitry. It is a disservice to the Queen to let him control the army." It is very unfavorable to His Majesty."

Queen Alexandra understood that Rasputin was excluding dissidents, but she didn't have any good impressions of Grand Duke Dmitry. Since Polivanov was his friend, she also couldn't get any positive impressions from the queen.

Instigated by Rasputin, Empress Alexandra had a fierce dispute with the empress dowager about the new candidate for the commander-in-chief of the East Siberian border army, and it was irreconcilable.

With the mother on one side and the wife on the other, the shortcomings of Nicholas II's character were once again exposed.He did not accept the candidate recommended by any party, but instead asked the deputy commander of the border army to temporarily take Mikhailov's position until he could confirm Mikhailov's whereabouts.

In fact, almost everyone, including Mikhailov's family, believed that he was dead. The tsar's move was undoubtedly to make peace, expecting to wait until the dispute between the empress dowager and the queen subsided before appointing a new commander-in-chief of the frontier army.The tsar's move was actually out of helplessness, but he didn't want to, but it planted the root of disaster for Russia's loss of the vast territory of Siberia.

Andrei, the deputy commander of the East Siberian border army, is a person who is completely opposite to Mikhailov. He is a Great Russianist. He is very hostile to ethnic groups that believe in Islam, such as Tatars, and advocates high-handed rule over other ethnic groups in the territory. .Mikhailov's family background and power are higher than Andre's, and his claims were suppressed for a time. Now that Mikhailov is missing, the Tsar appointed him as the temporary commander-in-chief of the border army. The shadow of racial hatred.

The key person who set off this series of events, the commander-in-chief of Russia's East Siberian border army, Mikhailov, did not actually die.Facing the current situation, Romikhalov still has a sense of honor as a nobleman and a soldier. He should commit suicide immediately, but he didn't. He doesn't want to die, he wants to live.

"Second sister, this old man is really a coward!"

Meng Erhu knelt down and poked Mikhailov, who was stripped naked and tied up like a pig waiting to be slaughtered, with a stick in his hand. Although a stove was burning in the room, his whole body was covered only with a piece of animal skin. Mikhalov was still shivering with cold.

"It's good to be a coward." Second Sister Xu stood in front of Mikhalov with her arms folded. "If he wasn't a coward, I would have killed him long ago."

"Second sister, why don't I understand what you mean?"

Chang Danian, who was squatting by the wall with a pipe in his mouth, smacked his mouth twice, "What's the use of keeping him? If the old Maozi follows his trail to here, won't he cause trouble?"

"I said," Second Sister Xu smiled coquettishly, "You were really bandits in the past? How dare you be a bandit?"

Meng Erhu and Chang Danian glanced at each other, Chang Danian said: "It's Erhu who is a bandit, I'm an honest man."

"An honest man is also an elm-headed man." Second Sister Xu snorted, "It's still a coward to catch such a big fish, and you will lose money if you kill it. Whether it is useful for killing or other uses will have to be discussed."

"That makes sense." Another man leaning against the wall responded, "It's not easy to catch a big fish, it's a pity to kill it. Maybe, this guy is really useful to the higher-ups."

Everyone else in the room is a joke, it's okay for others to say it, but it's a joke when it comes out of this person's mouth.Among this group of people, apart from Second Sister Xu, this old man nicknamed "Two Swords" killed the most!

"Okay, it's settled like this." Second Sister Xu made the decision, and no one dared to object, "Let's go back and talk about the situation here in detail, maybe someone will be sent down. I'll make a few tonight." Dish, let's have a good drink."

After finishing speaking, he tiptoed Mikhailov, who was lying on the ground pretending to be dead, and blurted out a series of fluent Russian, "Don't pretend to be dead, you are shaking like this, what are you pretending to do. I am in a good mood today, and I will appreciate it later. You eat a few bites of meat, so as not to starve to death before the people from above come."

Hearing Second Sister Xu cooking, the men's stomachs growled.Second Sister Xu's cooking skills are as good as her killing skills. According to her words, "My mother has opened a bun shop for so many years. How can I attract repeat customers if I am not good at cooking?"

Although everyone thinks that what she is actually doing is killing people and stealing goods, opening a bun shop is just incidental, but no one dares to refute her face to face. The group of people in the post-Baikal are like beasts in the forest and grassland, and they believe that the strong is king There is no distinction between men and women in the secular world, and whoever is strong will obey.Second Sister Xu is strong enough and hot enough, this gang of blood-smeared men will obey her!

When Xiao Youde received the news from Houbaikal, he was immediately taken aback. These people were really "daring" and arrested the old Maozi's commander-in-chief of the frontier army!But this is indeed a big fish. If he can pry his mouth open, how many troops Russia has deployed in East Siberia, how to deploy defenses, and what kind of firepower they can ask clearly.

"Commander-in-Chief of the East Siberian Border Army?" Li Jinyan was startled when he heard Xiao Youde's words. This is equivalent to the commander-in-chief of the Border Army, right? "Did you report to the young commander?"

"Not yet." Xiao Youde said: "The commander-in-chief means that the intelligence departments of the six northern provinces will be directly responsible for you in the future, and we must first ask you what you mean."

Responsible for him?Li Jinyan froze for a moment, did he make him the head of intelligence?For some reason, a Mr. Dai suddenly appeared in Li Sanshao's mind...

Forget it, don't care about these.

Li Jinyan suppressed the thoughts that suddenly rose in his mind, "I can't control this matter, I will report to the young commander immediately, and how to deal with this Mikhailov will be carried out according to the young commander's wishes."

In addition, Li Jinyan also thought that the role played by Post-Baikal was completely beyond his estimation. In order to transmit news in time, perhaps a radio station should be set up between the two places.The construction of the light industrial zone will also continue in March. Li Jinyan also intends to build a power plant in the industrial zone, which can only rely on foreign technology and equipment.

In other words, you have to spend a lot of money!

Excluding the funds set aside for the aircraft factory and the engine factory, the 1000 million marks given to him by Young Marshal Lou was still quite a lot, enough to cover the expenses of the power plant and the erection of the radio station.However, considering both technology and capital, Germany's Siemens is Li Jinyan's first choice now.

When the heavy industrial zone in Anshan Benxi is completed, the scale will definitely be several times that of the light industrial zone outside Guanbei City, and these supporting facilities will also be necessary.For the convenience of transportation, trams or short-distance trains may have to be run in the industrial area.That's a lot of money again.

Li Sanshao began to count how to spend the money with his fingers, and he couldn't be as extravagant as before, otherwise he would have a lot of fun when he thought of something necessary and found that he had no money in his hand.Thinking of this, he simply took out the plan that he had written before and began to alter it. When he was finally satisfied, he looked up and found that Marshal Lou had already stood behind him.

"Young commander," Li Jinyan patted his chest, "at least make a sound."

"I'm knocking on the door." Young Marshal Lou passed over Li Jinyan's shoulder and picked up the plan that had been altered several times, "Is this a deal?"

"Probably." Li Jinyan also said casually, since Young Marshal Lou said he had knocked on the door, then he definitely knocked, and it is likely that he changed the plan too seriously and didn't hear it. Some of them will be started immediately, but some will have to wait for a while, such as engine factories and airports, and the Germans need to nod and sell us the technology."

Marshal Lou flipped through the pages. He had read many proposals written by Li Jinyan, such as building a soap factory and borrowing money from the Germans. This one obviously cost him more thought.Judging from the traces of writing and alteration on it, he had been writing this plan for a long time. Some items on it had already been implemented, some were crossed out, and more were added.

"power plant?"

"Once the light industrial zone is built, the demand for electricity will definitely increase." Li Jinyan pulled the arm of Marshal Lalou and motioned him to sit down. Standing like this, he wanted to raise his head and talk, his neck was sore, "I think it's all about building factories. It’s better to do it in one step. The power plant built in the industrial area is mainly used for industrial power generation. The electric light company in Guanbei City is small in scale, and the machinery and equipment are also a bit old. You can inject capital in the name of the military government or me, and ask the Germans to expand or rebuild. .Arrange technicians to follow the whole process of building the factory, and you should be able to learn a lot.”

"Will the other party agree?" Young Marshal Lou was not referring to the Germans, but the operator of the electric light company.

"Of course." Li Jinyan raised his chin: "I am now the head of the General Chamber of Commerce of the Six Northern Provinces, and I was 'personally' elected by them. In any case, how much face should the head bring up? They also count on this matter. It’s not a disadvantage, when the scale of the power plant expands and every household in Guanbei City starts to receive electricity, they will be able to make more money, so why bother with me.”

"Aircraft factory?" Young Marshal Lou didn't continue to ask, but turned his gaze back to the plan, "Is this useful?"

"It's useful, it's definitely useful!" When it came to the plane, Li Jinyan's eyes lit up, and he poured out his idea of ​​using the plane to blow up the warship, "Young commander, think about it, let's throw bombs on the Japanese ship, what are they doing?" Jumping feet can’t help, how cool! Similarly, the plane can also bomb the infantry, and when they charge or assemble in groups, a bomb or a burst of machine gun fire is more effective than bombardment!”

"you sure?"

"I'm sure." Li Jinyan replied subconsciously, still wondering why Marshal Lou would ask such a question, but then remembered the current state of the plane, and suddenly understood.Even if Young Marshal Lou is a military genius who can analyze the situation in Europe and speculate that there will be a major war in Europe, he would never have imagined that a plane made of wood and wire could hang bombs to blow up warships.

In the eyes of people of this era, it is amazing enough that those wooden shelves can fly into the sky without falling down.Not to mention Marshal Lou, even the current Western powers only know about aircraft as "civilian toys". After the First World War, these aircraft were initially only used for reconnaissance missions, and the only thing pilots could use The weapon to protect yourself is still a pistol.

Machine guns, bombs?It is simply a fantasy.Being able to bring these weapons onto the plane depends entirely on the pilot's own whimsy.

Knowing what the problem was, Li Jinyan took a deep breath, "Young Marshal, just treat me as if I'm thinking wildly. In short, I firmly believe that everything I just said will definitely succeed!"

Marshal Lou quietly looked at Li Jinyan for a while, then leaned over and kissed Li Jinyan's lips, "I believe what you said."

Li Jinyan didn't speak, but put his arm around Lou Xiao's shoulder and kissed it back forcefully.

The next day, under the orders of Marshal Lou, Xiao Youde disguised himself as a fur merchant, and took a few of his men to Zabaikal himself.Li Jinyan met with the person in charge of the Harbin branch of the German company Siemens, and put forward an order with the other party to build a power plant and purchase a radio station.According to what Li Jinyan said, power plants and radio stations are not only built in Guanbei City.This was a big deal, and the person in charge of the branch immediately reported it to the permanent office established by Siemens in Shanghai. The main person in charge of the business in China replied immediately after receiving the telegram, and he would go to Guanbei to negotiate the business in person.If necessary, Siemens will open another office in Guanbei to be responsible for Li Jinyan's order.

Zhan Changqing finally negotiated with the Germans, and obtained the engine drawings from the Germans on the condition of increasing the sales of sulfonamide and disclosing the specific research data on sulfonamide to Germany two years later.Not just diesel engines, but also piston gasoline engines.

After receiving the signed contract, Li Jinyan opened his mouth wide and did not say a word for nearly 5 minutes.In the end, he could only look at Zhan Changqing with a look of admiration, his eyes shining with stars.

Zhan Changqing still had a gentle smile on his face. He told Li Jinyan that the Germans also promised to send professional technicians to China during the construction of the factory. "Of course, we will be responsible for the salary and all expenses."

"No problem!" Li Jinyan was so happy that he wanted to hug Zhan Changqing and kiss him fiercely, but his rationality stopped him, and there was Young Marshal Lou sitting next to him, so the consequences of impulsiveness might be very serious.

"However, if I don't want to say anything, I understand that blueprints alone are not enough, and the materials still need to be produced by ourselves." Zhan Changqing picked up the teacup in front of him, and took a sip, "There is nothing Zhan can do about it."

"Director Zhan, you should call me Jinyan." Li Jinyan said with a smile; "As long as there are blueprints, technology, and technical personnel, everything else is fine. Benxi and Anshan were snatched back by the young marshal!"

Anshan and Benxi are still China's largest steel production bases in later generations. In addition to imports, most of the domestic steel used in the aerospace field comes from Anshan and Benxi.Even if you can't produce suitable materials yourself in a short period of time, the worst thing is to buy them from abroad first, and then do your own research when you have a reference.

During this period of time, the Germans who helped build the arsenal in the six northern provinces often lamented the competence of the masters and technicians in the arsenal. The Chinese never lacked learning ability and hands-on spirit. All they needed was the opportunity to learn.

After sending off Zhan Changqing, Li Jinyan was still looking at the contract with amused expression, and Master Lou called him, but Li Sanshao was still amused.Marshal Lou raised his eyebrows, lifted Li Jinyan's chin, and bit Li Sanshao's neck.

Li Sanshao finally returned to reality.

"Young Marshal, I'm just too excited." Li Jinyan covered his neck, shuddered all over, laughed dryly, jumped up from the chair before Lou Marshal continued to move, and ran to the door in a few steps, " I have to go to the factory in the afternoon, young commander, you are busy!"

After the words fell, he pushed open the door and ran out.

Young Marshal Lou sat on the chair, maintaining the same posture. After two seconds, he propped his forehead with one hand, and a low-pitched laughter slowly flowed in the room.Adjutant Ji, who was about to knock on the door, froze on the spot. Young commander, are you laughing? !

No, he must have heard wrong!