Because the goal is too great, Xiao Yimin did not continue to inspect Hainan Province under construction.

Hainan, which had announced the establishment of a province as early as March 1, has not attracted much attention from all forces and great powers in the country so far.

In addition to the highly respected first governor Sun Baoqi and the low-famous governor of Hainan, Wang Zanxu, released a series of investment promotions and the grand goal of developing Hainan has caused heated discussions across the country for several days, Chinese and foreign forces are simply indifferent to Hainan, which is poor and far away from the Chinese political center. It is generally believed that the reason why Hainan was able to build a province was entirely the result of the joint weakening of the power and status of Guangdong and Guangxi. How could he have thought that Hainan Province, as an experimental field of economic development and a secret base for military industry development, has an extremely important position in the minds of Xiao Yimin and his group.

The Japanese army has been closely watching for a period of time, but seeing that Xiao Yimin spent a huge amount of money to buy back two second-hand refurbished battlecruisers from Britain, two Americans built for the world war, but the 3,800-ton destroyers that did not have time to play their role because of the end of the war, all of them were given to the navy commander Liu Guanxiong. The Japanese government was relieved. In addition to lamenting that Xiao Yimin made a big move to win over the navy to achieve his political goals, he gradually lost interest in the poverty-stricken economic reform test site Hainan Province, and so far, there has been no hostility toward Japanese merchants and expatriates in Hainan.

Only the Japanese Navy still attaches great importance to the newly established Hainan Provincial Coast Guard Force. As early as five years ago, Japanese Navy generals sent troops to occupy Hainan Island and completely blockade and oppress China's living space. However, this proposal has been high and low in the years when Japan's military expenditure was tight. Not only did it not receive the attention of the two cabinets, it was also opposed by the Japanese Army, which also demanded to strengthen itself.

Previously, Japanese political and military circles generally believed that the Chinese Revolutionary Party they supported could succeed and could easily enter Hainan to achieve its ultimate goal through the long-term loan plan proposed by the Chinese Revolutionary Party on holidays, and would not arouse strong opposition from the British and American powers.

But the Japanese government and the army have not yet seen it clearly. The Chinese Revolutionary Party has been strangled by the two major forces in China, north and south. The troops in the Nanjing camp controlled the entire Hainan Island in a blink of an eye, and then Hainan was demarcated to establish a province. Even if the Japanese wanted to turn around and attack Hainan Island, it was too late.

The Japanese Navy was resentful of this. The Japanese cabinet, under the navy's constant complaints, had to apply to the Beijing central government to set up a consulate in Haikou, the capital of Hainan Province. Who knew that Duan Qirui's government actually sent a copy of the legal document passed by the Central Supreme Council to Lin Quanzhu, and then made a moderate suggestion: "The Hainan Special Administrative Region Province is under the jurisdiction of the Nanjing Bureau. According to the resolution of the Central Supreme Council in February, the central government will not be able to interfere in the military and political affairs of Hainan Province within five years."

After reading the documents, the Japanese realized that the entire Hainan Province has become the only special economic development zone in China with a high degree of autonomy, and has become a large-scale test site for experimenting with various economic policies and development models under the banner of "exploring a modern agricultural, industrial and commercial development path that conforms to China's national conditions."

Recalling that the Nanjing Camp had repeatedly submitted applications to the Japanese government to set up consulates in more than 30 important cities in Japan through the Beijing Central Government, the Japanese government had no choice but to suspend the plan to set up consulates in Hainan. Otherwise, the Nanjing Camp's group of gentlemen on the outside but despicable inside would definitely make the Japanese diplomatic officials sent to negotiate vomit blood.

The Japanese Navy still refused to give up and was still closely following the changes in Hainan Island. On the grounds that "the Hainan Coast Guard Force secretly purchased and used a "Drésden-class" light cruiser built and put into service in 1906 with a standard displacement of 5,700 tons, two 3,150 tons fast destroyers and six other minesweeping, mine-breaking and marine mapping auxiliary ships", it continuously put pressure on the Japanese cabinet, demanding that the government take effective means to curb the development of the Chinese ** team, and thus achieve the goal of increasing the investment of the Japanese Navy.

Helplessly, with the end of the world war, the Japanese economy was also in trouble because European countries stopped a large number of purchase orders. In the past six months, the entire Japanese military and political circles have focused on the huge spoil sharing meeting of the "Paris Peace Conference". In addition, after the Chinese and northern and southern governments seized China's military and political power through political joint efforts, they issued a series of unprecedented preferential policies for attracting investment that surprised the whole world but were red in their eyes, successfully gaining favor and support from the United States, Britain, France and Italy, which brought unprecedented strong pressure and trouble to the Japanese government.

The delegation sent by the Chinese government even straightened up, taking advantage of the inspirational power and new economic policies given by domestic senior management, they were able to do everything in Paris and made a big move, causing headaches for the Japanese government delegation. They were almost every day in disputes with China or other countries. How could they feel to stay away from Japan and the poor and backward Hainan Island?

It is precisely because of Xiao Yimin's foresight and persistent unremitting efforts that Hainan can finally obtain a relatively relaxed development space. Therefore, in this sensitive period, Xiao Yimin can only let Hainan develop in a low-key manner and will never add any trouble to Hainan, which holds unlimited hope.

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On April 1, Xiao Yimin, who was listening to the report at the two major industrial groups in Nanjing, suddenly received a secret telegram from Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng, saying that the army that was about to head to Kulun to suppress the rebellion was basically ready. However, due to the insistence of Japan and Italy, countries around the world finally reached an agreement to impose an arms embargo on China, which made the army entering Mongolia lack automatic weapons, and asked Xiao Yimin to support it.

Xiao Yimin was very angry, not because Xu Shuzheng's army was not angry for a long time, but because the advanced equipment and 800,000 military funding assistance that had been allocated to Xu Shuzheng's two divisions for free was half removed by Duan Qirui for his other two direct divisions.

No matter how angry you are, the problem still needs to be solved.

Xiao Yimin, Duan Qirui, Xu Shuzheng and others were very clear in their hearts that if they did not seize this precious opportunity, taking advantage of the fact that the Red Russia has supported the Russian White Army to seize power because European countries are behind their backs, they have not yet had the energy to turn their attention to important strategic areas such as Kulun, and quickly sent troops to completely stabilize the vast Mongolian territory. In the future, it will inevitably endanger China's national unified territorial integrity. At that time, even if they spend ten or a hundred times more military spending, they will not be able to avoid the huge harm brought by the Red Tsarist Russia.

So far, the coalition forces of Japan, the United States and Britain still use the excuse of opposing the bloody massacre and plunder of Red Russia. They firmly occupy Far East areas such as Vladivostok. Red Tsarist Russia was firmly restrained by European countries to the west, and the world's eyes were turned to Paris.

Another more favorable factor is that at the grand rally last year to celebrate the victory of the October Revolution, Lenin, the great leader of the Red Tsarist Russia, once again reiterated to the world that the Red Soviet was a new regime that pursued truth and equality. Not only would it not continue the policies of the Tsarist Russia period. Instead, it took the initiative to lift all the unequal treaties imposed by the corrupt Tsarist Russian government on other countries and nations. Lenin also stated that the Red Soviet would return all the Chinese territory occupied by the Tsarist Russia period to the Chinese government and people.

It is precisely based on the highest interest of the country and nation that Xiao Yimin opposed the opposition at the urgent military and political meeting and decided to meet the needs of Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng.

Seeing that everyone did not raise any objections, Xiao Yimin turned to He Chengliang, Director of the Military Control Logistics Department: "How many light and heavy machine guns do we still have combat readiness inventory?"

He Chengliang, who was heartbroken, smiled bitterly: "The inventory of the Yichang base has been basically allocated to the Hainan troops. General Deng Xihou and the 10th Army who sent troops to southern Shaanxi, are basically ammunition and grain. With the newly developed m1918 air-cooled heavy machine gun, the m1919 air-guided light machine gun has been put into production, and you are named m1920 submachine gun is about to be put into production. The three major factories have stopped the production of the original two light and heavy machine guns. Only the Longquanyi strategic reserve base in the eastern suburbs of Chengdu still has some, but the total number is only 800."

Xiao Yimin waved his hand: "How many are there? All the machine guns and ammunition from the Yichang base are also sent to Pukou. Loading trucks at the fastest speed to send them to General Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng. At present, nothing can be greater than sending troops to Mongolia. This involves the fundamental interests of the country and the nation, and everyone must support them unconditionally!"

"yes."

He Chengliang responded, and after thinking about it, he sighed unwillingly: "In this way, the inventory will be completely empty."

Everyone knew the personality of this army chief. Haha, he didn't say anything else.

Chief of General Staff Zeng Chaoran knew that Xiao Yimin's decision was unreasonable and had a strong emotional color, but he still supported it with pleasure in the interests of the country and the nation. However, Zeng Chaoran also took the opportunity to remind Xiao Yimin through his own way: "Commander, there is a factor that needs to be considered more. Our army is adjusting according to the organization of the National Defense Forces. Moreover, nearly one-third of the light and heavy weapons equipment of each unit need to be updated due to wear or excessive use. Judging from the current production of the three new machine guns in the Sichuan Arsenal and Ya'an Arsenal, it is impossible to meet the requirements of each division within one year. I hope the commander will pay more attention to this."

Xiao Yimin rubbed his eyes and said, "Well, this is a big problem. There are four divisions in Hunan and Guangdong that are being reorganized and require the equipment of our light and heavy machine guns. We cannot make money from them. The two production lines obtained by the Hanyang Factory from the Ya'an Factory are being assembled and debugged. They cannot be put into production within three to five months, which is difficult to deal with!"

"Commander, Chief of Staff, I have an idea." He Chengliang's voice attracted everyone's attention.

"Chengliang, you said." Xiao Yimin hoped that He Chengliang would help him solve the problem.

He Chengliang stood up solemnly: "Just order the 36th and 37th Divisions stationed on the Sichuan-Guizhou border, the two guard divisions stationed in Chengdu and Chongqing, to sell all the light and heavy machine guns and mortars to the 41st and 42nd Divisions in Hunan.

"In addition, the Commander Dake agreed to General Chen Jiongming's plan to rebuild the Guangzhou Shijing Arsenal, and sold the two light and heavy machine gun design drawings and inspection molds that had been equipped before to them. There were also Guangxi Lu Rongting and Yunnan Tang Jiyao also made a request that they could be sold to them... Anyway, our three new light and heavy machine guns have been put into production, and there will be no major wars in the next six months. It is only a little profitable."

Zeng Chaoran was shocked: "Director He's proposal is too bold?"

"I think it's feasible." Yang Du surprisingly supported it.

The aviation commander Zhang Qun, who had just returned to Nanjing from the Hainan subconstruction airport, and Chief of Staff He Guoguang also agreed: "There should be no big problem. The 36th and 37th Divisions are located in a strategic depth area. The two guard divisions of Chengdu and Chongqing do not have any combat readiness tasks. The newly formed guard division of our aviation force can also wait patiently for the dispatch of new equipment, without having to be in place in one step."

Xiao Yimin thought for a long time and finally made a decision that shocked everyone: "Sell! In addition to the latest weapons of the latest m1918 air-cooled heavy machine gun, m1919 air-guided light machine gun, and m1920 submachine gun, everything else can be sold. Not only can the production equipment and drawings of the m1915 rifle and all pistols be sold, but the production technology and drawings of the 60 mortar and the 80 mortar can also be sold.

But it can be sold to new and old arsenal factories such as Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Henan and Shanxi, and to Zhang Zuolin in the Northeast, Yang Zengxin in Xinjiang and Ma Family Army in Ningxia. Anyway, most of our light weapons have been successfully developed, and renewal is necessary. Why not use the outdated things to exchange for more benefits while they are still valuable? Don’t worry, you have to give up, be willing to give up, be willing to give up, be willing to give up, be able to give up, be able to give up, be able to give up, be able to give up, be able to give up, be able to give up without giving up?"

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