Article 2 In the morning, Dong Shuheng got up very early. After making a decision last night, he asked Wei Yuxiang to inform the Army School in Gaoyou that Dong Shuheng would organize a "braid-cutting ceremony" at the Army School the next morning.
As the core of a group, sometimes it is necessary to put on a show. Anyway, they all have to cut braids, but the effect of Dong Shuheng cutting it at home is completely different from cutting it with his officers and soldiers.
At this time, in addition to the full-time non-commissioned officers who were admitted, most of the military academies were sent by the army for rotation training.
Now in the south, there is basically no fighting in the Huai Navy, so Dong Shuheng ordered the grassroots officers of each unit to increase the intensity of rotation training.
"Dudu..." The whistle for emergency assembly sounded in the military camp early in the morning.
"Wang Shaoyong, do you know what's going on?" A cadet in the barracks asked his classmates while quickly sorting out the housework.
This Wang Shaoyong, known as "Little Smart", is usually the most well-informed.
"I heard from Mr. Zhang from the school affairs office that a big shot is coming this morning." Wang Shaoyong said in a low voice.
"Isn't it the president who is coming?" the noncommissioned officer asked curiously.
"Shh... the president's whereabouts are top secret. Don't talk nonsense, or you may be imprisoned."
At this time, the second whistle sounded, and everyone rushed out of the barracks to gather in the school square.
There are now more than a thousand students in the entire military academy, and when they are all gathered in the square, it looks like a large area.
There are now fifty chairs placed under the rostrum. Everyone knows this kind of chair, the kind used by barbers.
Not only are there chairs, but there are also things to do! What is this for? Centralized head shaving? There are places for head shaving in military academies, but I have never seen a centralized shaving in a military academy?
All the students were wondering in their hearts. After a while, a young man wearing an unranked military uniform walked onto the podium surrounded by senior military school officials.
The audience immediately burst into warm applause. Everyone could see clearly that it was the president they had not seen for a long time.
The junior officers in the army are Dong Shuheng's staunchest supporters, because they all came from poor families. It was Dong Shuheng who led them to serve as soldiers and changed their lives.
It can be said that their future and their family's peace and contentment are all given to them by Dong Shuheng. At this time, the people of the Qing Dynasty were still very simple, and the simple idea of repaying kindness was deeply rooted in people's bones.
"Hello, classmates, I haven't seen you for a long time. I am very happy to see that you are still so full of energy." Dong Shuheng said hello.
"Hello, President!" the students below shouted in unison.
"Everyone must be wondering why there are so many shaving chairs today?"
"That's right, what happened today is related to our braids." As he spoke, Dong Shuheng pulled his own braids from behind.
"Do you think it's convenient to have this braid hanging behind your back?"
"It's inconvenient!" A few students replied sparsely.
"It seems that some students still have concerns. Don't worry. This braid was imposed on us after the Manchus entered the customs. They wanted everyone in this land to be the slaves of their Aisin Gioro family."
"However, we have stood up again. Our Huaihai Navy is only our own master, so here today, I will take you to cut off this braid. Do you dare?"
"Dare! Dare! Dare!" This time there was a thunderous cry from below.
"Okay, it's like this. I, the general of the Huaihai Navy, never know how to write the word "fear"."
After saying that, Dong Shuheng took the lead and sat down. Naturally, a master came over and shaved the hair off his head.
After Dong Shuheng stood up, he moved his neck and suddenly felt relaxed all over. It was as if the earth's gravity had suddenly weakened.
Under the instruction of the instructor, the students below, in groups of fifty, went forward to shave off their hair.
Dong Shuheng put on his military cap. It would be really awkward if his bare head was really exposed.
For more than a month, Dong Shuheng did not take off his hat except for sleeping. Although he didn't like braids, he also didn't like bald heads. Having been a policeman for several years in his previous life, he was still a bit taboo about bald heads.
According to the plan, Dong Shuheng and Shuheng had to shave their heads in the morning and had to take a bus to Dafeng.
Because after a short period of preparation, Huaihai-Krupp Heavy Industry Group will be established today.
After its establishment, this will be the headquarters and R&D center of Huai·Ke Heavy Industry. The heavy machinery manufacturing plant will also be located in Dafeng, but the steel plant will be moved to another location.
As for where to place this steelmaking plant? Dong Shuheng already has a plan in mind. However, it is still a bit early to start construction, and it will have to wait for a while.
As for the production of weapons, Dong Shuheng plans to set up a separate arsenal. If they are all concentrated in one place, Dafeng Arsenal, there will be no competitive effect.
Now is the early stage of starting a business, so naturally everyone is rolling up their sleeves and working hard.
However, Dong Shuheng knows very well that over time, personnel and systems will gradually become rigid. This is an inevitable process.
Many people will have this experience. You can understand it by comparing your first year of work with your tenth year of work.
Originally, Dong Shuheng was planning to go to Shanghai to have a look. Since the Huaihai Company developed residential buildings along the Suzhou River and allowed foreigners to purchase them, Shanghai's Bund to Suzhou and the area have gradually become more prosperous.
In the past, it was only along the Bund along the Huangpu River. The location of the concession was relatively prosperous, but after all, it was a small place and looked like a small town at best.
Now the area between Huangpu River and Suzhou River has been fully developed and is called Shanghai New City.
Many foreigners and wealthy businessmen from all over the world have gathered here to buy property. Foreigners cannot buy land directly, they can only buy developed villas, and the prices are extremely expensive.
However, the villas developed by Huaihai Company are well built and the service is excellent! So there are still many foreigners rushing to buy them. Rich businessmen in their own countries don't have so much trouble, they can buy land directly.
Shanghai County used the pre-sale money from land sales to directly spend money on the local people and relocate them. The vacant land was equivalent to a blank sheet of paper for urban planning, public areas, residences, roads, and modern water supply and drainage.
The system is all well planned.
The land is divided directly, and those wealthy businessmen can only choose which piece to buy, and cannot buy as much as they want.
Moreover, the shape of the buildings above must be determined according to a unified plan.
In Dong Shuheng's plan, if Shanghai is to be built into an international metropolis, it cannot be built into a place where wealthy Chinese businessmen gather with large mansions. This will leave no room for development in the future.
The new city has no city walls, and the roads are planned to be very wide. Many people don't understand why such a wide road is left, which can carry more than a dozen carriages in parallel. It is simply a waste of land.
However, not all roads are built in such a wide area, but a wide green belt is built in the middle. It is refreshing after seeing it. When the road is not enough in the future, the green belt can be demolished and the road widened.
Only Dong Shuheng himself knows how congested Shanghai will be in the future. Instead of trying to find ways to demolish houses at a high cost, it is better to do it now.
That night in Dafeng, Dong Shuheng received an urgent telegram from Pukou. Yang Xiuqing in Tianjing City was causing trouble again.
Speaking of telegraphs, the telegraph network in Jiangsu has basically been laid out. The laying of telegraphs is a very fast thing, unlike building railways, which is slow and slow.
Nowadays, you can see black telegraph poles everywhere when you walk on the road. These telegraph poles are made of logs that have been burned.
The most indispensable thing for the Huaihai Navy now is wood. There is basically nothing to bring back after the ship goes to the Far East. It can only come back with processed logs.
At the beginning, there were still people who would steal telephone poles, but later a group of people were arrested, and after education was strengthened in various places, such things were basically put to an end.
Let's talk about Yang Xiuqing again. When he was celebrating his birthday, he gave Hong Xiuquan a hard time, which made him feel very happy.
After his birthday, he issued a military order and sent all the kings who led the troops to other places. Yi Wang Shi Dakai was still stationed in Anqing to guard against the Hubei and Hubei troops in the west.
The Northern King Wei Changhui was assigned to Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, to guard against the Hunan Army in the west and the Huai Navy in the northeast.
King Qin Rigang of Yan was assigned to garrison in Danyang, and Luo Ganggang, who was originally stationed in Zhenjiang, was assigned to Luzhou, Anhui, to garrison the Jiangbei part of Anhui.
The three kings were all in different moods when they were arranged to leave the capital. Everyone saw what happened at the birthday banquet in the East Prince's Mansion. Yang Xiuqing's arrogance and domineering made all the kings unhappy.
Although the King of Heaven secretly contacted King Yi and King Bei, he had not made up his mind. Moreover, since the kings were leading troops in the capital, Yang Xiuqing must be on guard, so there was no chance to take action.
When Shi Dakai left Tianjing City, he glanced at the towering Tianjing City Wall and felt uncomfortable in his heart.
He said in his heart: Don't let anything happen! Once something happens, the consequences will be disastrous! For some reason, Shi Dakai shed tears from his eyes, which shows how heavy his mood is.
Unlike Shi Dakai who was dejected, Northern King Wei Changhui was very excited. If the King of Heaven and the King of East had been living in peace like this, he would only be six thousand years old in his life.
Wei Changhui was born into a landlord family and was originally from Jintian Village. The Jintian Uprising was held in his hometown. The Wei family joined the Taiping Army with their entire family and even donated their own property. They contributed a lot to the Taiping Army in the early days.
Therefore, Wei Changhui sincerely looked down on Yang Xiuqing, who was a charcoal burner. Wei Changhui was considered the third person in the Taiping Army when he was in Tianjing. He mainly assisted the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing in managing internal affairs. However, Yang Xiuqing was domineering and authoritarian and often humiliated Wei Changhui in person.
Wei Changhui kept all this in mind. Now Wei Changhui finally got the opportunity he had been waiting for.
The night before leaving, Wei Changhui secretly arranged two banquets in the mansion. Double posts were arranged both inside and outside the Beifu, and even on the roof, Wei Changhui arranged for people to be on duty.
Sitting at the dining table were King Qin Rigang of Yan, who usually had the best relationship with Wei Changhui, General Xu Zongyang, and more than 20 people from the six ministers of Beifu.
These people are the people Wei Changhui trusts most. Wei Changhui naturally conspired to usurp power by bringing them together.
"Brothers! Hehe! Let's gather everyone together tonight to discuss a special and important matter."
"I don't say that everyone knows that a fierce battle will break out in the capital today. I don't know how many people are going to lose their heads. But this is a good thing for us, and we can benefit from it.
A great thing."
"King of the North, is this King of Heaven really going to fight with the one from the east?" Qin Rigang's mind was relatively simple.
He is nearly two meters tall, broad-shouldered and round-waisted, as strong as a bear, and as brave as Zhang Fei in battle. He becomes slow when faced with such things that require thinking.
He and the scheming Wei Changhui are a perfect match and complement each other very well.