These national heroes are an integral part of the Chinese national spirit and the backbone of the Chinese nation.
Dong Shuheng hopes that they can live in the hearts of every Chinese person forever.
If a nation does not have its own heroes, then the nation has no hope.
Dong Shuheng hoped that if one day someone forgets his ancestors, forgets these heroes, or even insults these heroes who sacrificed their lives for the nation, then every bloody Chinese person can stand up and condemn him and cast aside him.
Nail those people to the pillar of shame forever, so that their souls will not be able to live in peace.
It can be seen from the history of China that China is a region where the spirit of nationalism and national consciousness awakened relatively early.
This is related to the fact that China itself is the birthplace of civilization.
There are still many areas in the world where there is no national or national consciousness, and the people there are enslaved, colonized, or in a state of disorder by other nations.
It was not until the 20th century that nationalist ideas awakened around the world. At that time, national independence movements began around the world.
The borders of later countries also gradually solidified at that time.
Therefore, Dong Shuheng is doing his best to expand the territory of China and expand the living space of the Chinese. Because he knows that now is the last chance.
In the history of China, the main body of the territory has not changed much, but the extended space has been in a state of flux.
When the dynasty was strong, China's territory expanded, and when the dynasty was in turmoil, China's territory shrank.
Dong Shuheng knew that in a hundred years, even if China would become strong again, China's territory would not be able to expand again.
The world order at that time has been established. It will be extremely difficult to reoccupy a territory by then.
After arriving in Shanghai, Dong Shuheng mainly did two things. One was to attend a tea party organized by Shanghai's industrial and commercial circles.
The second thing was to cut the ribbon for the opening of the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
This was the first time Dong Shuheng met these Shanghai businessmen after he went north and after the establishment of China.
The businessmen gathered here are almost all the elites in China's business world. They represent a new and important class in China.
Many of China's industrial and commercial classes were actually born out of the original gentry and landlord class. They are considered the most enlightened among these people.
In fact, in China, the industrial and commercial class and the gentry and landlord class have never been completely separated. They are constantly transforming and integrating with each other.
Some enlightened gentry and landowners no longer focus on land, but invest in industry and commerce with better return rates.
There are also some businessmen who, after making a lot of money, choose to use the money to buy land and become landlords.
This is the reality. The Chinese class is not that solid. This is because the Chinese class is not bound by religion or aristocratic systems.
Many places today are different from China. For example, in India, their class is not only determined by individual talent and hard work, but is more restricted by the caste system.
The same is true in Europe, where ancestry based on surnames also has an important impact on class.
This relatively free class transformation provides impetus for China's progress and development. It is also an inherent advantage of China's development.
At the reception, Dong Shuheng delivered an exciting speech.
One of the skills a politician must have is speech, and speech is really important.
Especially when you want the people you lead to do something well. A good speech can often make them full of morale.
In many cases, if a leader cannot give a speech or mobilize the emotions of his subordinates, this person is basically not a good leader.
Dong Shuheng had seen many speeches before. In later history, many politicians relied on their eloquence to make their fortunes. Especially the neighbor across the Pacific Ocean from China who liked to talk too much.
In comparison, Chinese politicians are more pragmatic. At most, they can write a few majestic poems to express their mood.
Of course, speaking is also their specialty, but they will not show off this skill anytime and anywhere.
Dong Shuheng was facing a group of China's most astute businessmen today, so he was prepared to imitate their rhetoric. Businessmen may prefer good-sounding ideas and ambitious plans.
"Everyone, China is now at a new starting line." Dong Shuheng said at the beginning.
"Starting from scratch, everyone has opportunities and unlimited possibilities."
"A world of industrial civilization is rising. Driven by the industrial revolution, the world is developing rapidly, so fast that it has changed beyond recognition."
"We in China have accumulated thousands of years of cultural knowledge that cannot explain the current world."
"A locomotive can pull hundreds or thousands of tons of goods to travel on tracks made of steel. If there had been such a machine during the Han and Tang Dynasties, we would not have lost the territory that was finally opened up because it was too far away from the Western Regions.
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"A wire allows us to exchange information in real time with people thousands of miles away. If there was such a thing, frontier divisions would never have occurred due to lack of information in the past dynasties. Merchants would not have separated themselves because of information."
If you don't understand it, you will take huge risks."
"In the future, the invisible electricity on this wire can also drive the operation of our machines, light up a special lamp to illuminate us, even help us heat food, help us drive vehicles, and so on, which we can think of and cannot imagine.
matter."
"Everyone, I can guarantee that the next ten years will be the most exciting ten years in China. You will see countless novel things produced, each of which will change our lives."
"There is a kind of car that can shuttle in the middle of the city. It can seat hundreds of people at a time. People can take it to work and do errands in farther places quickly without having to walk or ride a bicycle. This kind of car will allow us to
Cities become huge. There will even be big cities with tens of millions of people.”
"In the future, you will have your own car, which does not require oxen or horses. This kind of car is driven by an engine smaller than a steam engine. As long as it is filled with fuel, it can go far away."
"In the future, there will be electrically driven things that can produce air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter. Our lives will not be disturbed by the weather."
"In the future, you can use the phone to complete most of your work as long as you are at home. You only need to dial a number to find anyone you want to find, and then express what you want."
"Things like clairvoyance, hearing the wind, moving mountains and seas, flying into the sky and into the earth, these mythical things will all appear."
"Everyone, in this era, businessmen will become the elite of society, because the magical things I just mentioned cannot be realized without industry and commerce."
"Businessmen not only create wealth for themselves, but also for the country and society. Some people say that businessmen are only interested in profit, but they don't understand businessmen. And our current businessmen are different from businessmen in the traditional sense. I call it industry and commerce.
Practitioners, production and sales and circulation are gradually integrated, which is the so-called industry and commerce."
"The process of production is the process of creation, and circulation maximizes the value of production. Every spindle we make, every ore we dig out, every tool we produce, and every grain of food we grow increase the wealth of China.
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"Everyone, China will not ask you what you have done for China. But everyone must have a strong balance in their hearts. What China has done for you, we have done for her."
"Without a strong China, what would we become?"
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Dong Shuheng's speech today was a revelation to many people.
The identity of businessmen has always been rather embarrassing in Chinese history. They have become mercenary people in the writings of literati.
Obviously, many businessmen's properties belong to those literati and bureaucrats, but they will not admit it to the outside world. They usually leave their properties to slaves, that is, domestic slaves, to manage them.
Looking back, they regard doing business as a despicable thing, and those who do business are just profit-seeking villains.
After the development of Confucian culture reached a later stage, it became more and more extreme and one-sided.
Otherwise, based on China's development process, it would have already advanced further. Of course, China's lack of breakthrough was also related to the relatively stable geopolitical relations at that time.
Therefore, it was not until the great powers rose up and opened the door of China with strong ships and cannons that China was able to take that step. Only then did the literati and officials begin to wake up and reflect on themselves.
Next, there is nothing to say about the opening ceremony of the stock exchange. This matter has been brewing for a long time. Before the opening of the stock exchange, several designated Huaxia Commercial Banks had already begun to provide customers with account opening services.
In just a few days, the number of accounts opened reached 30,000. It may not seem like a lot, but the minimum requirement for an account is more than 1,000 Chinese yuan. Based on purchasing power, it can be compared to hundreds of thousands in later generations.
You know, there must be many conservative people waiting and watching until they see others making money.
These conservative people will definitely want to enter when the time comes, and they will become the first batch of takeovers.
It is foreseeable that stocks will soon usher in a period of skyrocketing after the market opens. Because most people invest for the long term, and those who wait and see want to enter, then this state will definitely promote the skyrocketing of stocks.
Just like buying new stocks, the first batch of people buying stocks seem to have bought high-quality new stocks.
Tank collected a total of 7,000 Chinese yuan, selected three stocks of state-owned enterprises, and then signed a pre-purchase contract.
Because the amount of pre-orders now exceeds the issuance of stocks, the stock exchange will allocate them at a discount based on the subscription amount during the sale.
In other words, not all of Tank's 7,000 yuan can be used to buy stocks.
Originally it was possible to draw lots, but if we draw lots under the current circumstances, customers may not necessarily agree with it. Who knows if you are operating in secret?
Therefore, the exchange simply distributes the shares evenly according to the subscription amount. Of course, if there are fewer people subscribing for a certain stock, the winning rate will be higher.
This news did not make everyone depressed, but made everyone excited. It is somewhat similar to the effect of hunger marketing. People who buy it feel that they have earned something.
Dong Shuheng was not in a hurry to leave Shanghai. He stayed in Yuyuan to take a look at the stock trading situation in the first few days.
At this time, on the bank of Yibo Sea, Wang Congzhi's 1st Division and Yan Feng's 18th Division, which were heading north, were covering the left and right as they advanced all the way north.
The fortress blockade established by the Tsarist Russians in the northeast of Yi Bohai and along the Chinese border was no longer impregnable in front of the Chinese army.
They were able to hold off the Qing army and the backward nomadic tribes, but when facing the Chinese army with more artillery, these fortresses were torn down one after another.
Two hundred kilometers northeast of the Yibo Sea, Ayaguz Fortress.
Wang Congzhi's division has just occupied this place. These fortresses in Tsarist Russia were mainly designed to target the Qing cavalry and the Kazakh cavalry, so they cannot be said to be weak.
The old-fashioned artillery of the Qing Dynasty is not afraid of this kind of fortress, because there are also artillery on the fortress.
Moreover, the artillery on the fortress is protected by the fortress. Therefore, before the enemy's artillery destroys the fort, the artillery on the fortress will definitely be able to destroy the enemy's artillery.
Tsarist Russia's invasion of the Kazakh grasslands in this way was hopeless and disadvantageous.
The speed of Tsarist Russia's invasion depends on the speed of its fortress construction. If Tsarist Russia did not also lack manpower, otherwise Tsarist Russia's invasion of the east would be faster.
Tsarist Russia began to use this tactic more than a hundred years ago, invading from Western Siberia all the way south.
The nomadic tribes that once bullied Tsarist Russia have now become subjects of Tsarist Russia. We really have to admire this nation's ability to expand its territory.
It is China's misfortune to be neighbors with them.
However, in this life, when I met Dong Shuheng, the good days for the Tsarist Russians to do whatever they wanted in the East came to an end.
As the First Division fought all the way, almost no Tsarist Russian fortress surrendered voluntarily.
After the Renaissance Army entered the fortress, there were basically no people in the fortress.
Wang Congzhi's artillery supplies were out of stock again.
Just two days ago, Wang Congzhi had sent a group to the Babei Pier in the north of the Yibo Sea to receive supplies. However, they have not returned yet. It should be that the fleet delivering supplies has not arrived yet.
Wang Congzhi had tried his best to save ammunition. He knew how much effort it would take to transport supplies from the East to the Western Regions.
For some fortresses with flat terrain, the First Division did not use artillery very much, but used the trench-digging advance tactics commonly used by the Renaissance Army.
That is, the soldiers dig "s" trenches to shorten the attack distance to within the range of the mortars, and then use mortars to destroy the interior of the fortress first.
Then cover the attacking soldiers by firing at the fort from the trenches.
The fortresses in Tsarist Russia were usually not large, with a circumference of only about a hundred meters.
Therefore, mortars are still very lethal to them. Sometimes the shells will ignite flammable materials inside the fortress.
In one of the forts, flammable materials ignited the arsenal in the fort, and the fort was directly exploded from the inside.
By some bad luck that time, the First Division took the place without wasting a single soldier.
Regarding the issue of ammunition supply, the General Logistics Department has felt tremendous pressure. The only way is to build an arsenal in Ili so that ammunition can be produced nearby.
If it were during the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, such a plan would definitely be rejected by the higher-ups. Because if such a border town had food and guns, it would most likely become a local separatist force in the future.
Dong Shuheng is not worried about this. He believes that the system he designed and a prosperous China will never have such a situation.
In the end, Dong Shuheng decided to build an ammunition factory and a small arsenal in Yili.
The ammunition factory is very neat, but this arsenal is not large. It is mainly responsible for the production of spare parts for firearms and the maintenance of firearms and artillery.
At the end of August, Zuo Jigao also waited for his shipyard team. Just like Yongchang Shipyard in Yunnan, Yili Shipyard also produces standard gunboats and steam tugs.
Along with the shipbuilding team came steam engines and other accessories.
There are a lot of timber for shipbuilding in Ili.
Soon Zuo Jigao had a transport fleet that could support the front line. The area around Yibohai became the supply base for the Renaissance Army in Central Asia.
The 11th and 12th Divisions in the south and the 1st and 18th Divisions in the north all receive supplies from here.
Banan Wharf and Babei Wharf are used as temporary technical secondary school bases for supplies, and are guarded by two garrison regiments respectively. They are also equipped with several militia regiments to carry out development and construction around them.
At the same time, Zuo Jigao will also develop a potash mine here. This newly established mining company will be under the name of the Western Region Protectorate, adding an additional financial source to the Western Region.
The fortress that Wang Congzhi and others attacked today is the largest fortress south of the Irtysh River.
When attacking this fortress, the Renaissance Army suffered hundreds of casualties, and there were only more than 500 Tsarist Russian defenders in the city.
The resistance of the Tsarist Russian army was very fierce. They would first hide in the cellar during the shelling, and then suddenly rush out to fight with the Renaissance troops when they entered.
Standing in the ruins of the fortress, Wang Congzhi smelled the smoke and the smell of blood in the air, and looked at the exhausted soldiers in front of him. He couldn't help but ask: "Brothers, are you tired?"
"I'm not tired." Even though their throats were hoarse, everyone still tried to shout out.
The soldiers of the First Division are all veterans brought from northern Jiangsu, and they are all good.
Since Tsarist Russia invaded Ili and they set out for a few months, the soldiers have basically never stopped.
They first defeated 50,000 Tsarist Russian and Kazakh coalition forces, and then went all the way north to fight along the arid desert area.
Marching in the desert is a painful thing. Soldiers have to endure the scorching sun during the day and the cold wind at night.
Although they were close to Yi Bohai along the way, water supply was a big problem for them.
Most of the Tsarist Russian fortresses were built on oases, and the Renaissance Army sometimes had to capture the fortresses to obtain water.
"Everyone, hold on a little longer. The next step is the Irtysh River. Once we defeat the Irtysh River, our mission will be completed. Everyone must remember that we are the First Division, the elite First Army Division of the Renaissance Army.
, the most difficult battle should be given to our first division."
While Wang Congzhi was cheering everyone up, a messenger came to report: "Commander, our supplies are here."
Wang Congzhi raised his telescope and saw a huge camel caravan appearing in the south.
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