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Yang Ping was taken aback, he looked at Yang Tong and other civil and military ministers of the kingdom, then at Wu Yuzhang and said, "Is this true?"

Wu Yuzhang nodded: "That's right, everyone has passed this matter unanimously, and the former king Yang Chunrong has also agreed."

"That's great, I knew that the Kokang Kingdom should return." Unexpectedly, although Yang Ping didn't usually say it, he was the first person to have this idea.

"Don't worry about getting excited, I think you'd better return all the money to the treasury first, then take a shower and change your clothes." Yang Tong reminded.

"Give it back? The money has always been in the treasury." Yang Ping said with a smile.

"It's impossible. Yang Guozheng searched the entire treasury, but couldn't find a penny. We also went to check, and there is no place to hide money." Yang Biao shook his head.

Yang Ping smiled slightly, and said to everyone: "You are looking for secret agencies everywhere, but no one pays attention to your feet? In fact, all the treasury money has been trampled by you all the time."

"Impossible, we have already beaten it, there is no secret passage underground." Yang Lin said.

Yang Ping stroked his beard and said, "It's true that there is no secret passage. In fact, the money is inside the floor tiles. I knew that such a day would come, so I secretly ordered people to burn a batch of hollow floor tiles to lay the ground of the treasury in advance. Before Guozheng entered the city, I took some cronies and put all the money in the eight floor tiles underground. The hollow floor tiles are filled with silver dollars, of course you can’t knock them out.”

"It turns out that in the entire Kokang Kingdom, the most sober and wisest people are here." Wu Yuzhang laughed loudly when he heard it, and the others also laughed.

Chapter 583 Change the country into a province

After everything in the country was stabilized, Yang Chunrong publicly announced his abdication.The name of the Kingdom of Kokang was cancelled, and changed to Kokang Province under the military government of Dashu in the Republic of Hualan. Everyone recommended Yang Ping as the first governor.All the Kokang people in the province were renamed as Hualan people, and everyone returned to the embrace of the Hualan motherland.

As soon as the news came out, the people rejoiced.Looking at the Western Special Zone under the rule of the Shu army in the past few years, the people are getting richer and richer, and everyone is anxious about it.Now they are able to join Hualan and live such an enviable life, how can this not make them happy.

The task of the Dashu military government to control the Kokang Kingdom was easily won in this way.A few days later, Yang Chunrong brought a lot of belongings and was sent to the border area of ​​Cochin with his wife and children, where he became a rich man comfortably.For a Yang Chunrong who has no ambitions, this ending may be the best for him.

The Kokang Kingdom was changed to Kokang Province, intending to formally merge into the Dashu Military Government, and the governments at all levels were quickly taken over by officials sent by the Dashu Military Government.Most of the original officials in Kokang Province are foreign students, and they have deep feelings for Hualan.After the official students arrived, they quickly established friendship with their classmates and cooperated tacitly.

After Yang Ping took out the funds hidden in the floor tiles of the national treasury, all these funds were used as the start-up funds for the development of Kokang Province, and were earmarked for special purposes.According to Zhao Shouhong's idea, in addition to vigorously building transportation lines and ports in Kokang Province, the shipbuilding, food processing, and wood processing industries will be vigorously developed here.The whole territory of Kokang Province promotes the planting of cash crops such as tobacco, rubber, sugarcane, etc., and also has high-yield rice, as a domestic grain production base.In the future, Kokang Province will become one of the important tropical planting bases of the Dashu Military Government to alleviate the growing pressure on food in the country.

Naturally, the construction of the army could not be relaxed. The remaining troops of the Regency Army and the King's Army were combined together, and all the officers who had been retired were recalled.In addition, the officers and soldiers of the Hualan Dispatch Army, as officers of the original Kokang Self-Defense Army, were again dispersed and deployed to the Kokang Provincial Army.

With Zhao Shouhong's consent, these armies were reorganized into the Gan Garrison First Army and Second Army, and the Kokang Garrison Artillery Division.The two armies, led by Wu Yuzhang and Yang Biao, were stationed at the north and south borders of Kokang Province to guard against possible invasions by Saar and Gauls.Under the leadership of division commander Yang Yufeng, the Garrison Artillery Division is responsible for coastal defense and operates the forts that have been built in major ports.The original Kokang Army quickly integrated into the Shu Army system, but Yang Tong became anxious.

After ten days in a row, the plan for reorganizing the navy was not issued. Yang Tong couldn't sit still. He immediately went to Wu Yuzhang: "Commander Wu, please help me to say something nice to the governor. The reorganization of the army is coming to an end soon." But there is no movement from the Navy yet."

Wu Yuzhang smiled and said: "You said the navy, it's not my business, you have to wait."

"Still waiting? Why?" Yang Tong asked curiously.

"Because several bigwigs from the Navy have gone to Guanghai City for a meeting, and if they don't come back, they won't be able to reorganize the Navy." Wu Yuzhang said with a smile.

In fact, Shen Shoukun, the commander of the Kokang Fleet of the Shu Army, and Xu Zhenpeng, the deputy commander, were indeed not in Kokang Province. They even secretly went to Guanghai City for a meeting before the outbreak of the Kokang Civil War.This meeting was not very important, but it attracted all the big names in the navy to attend.In addition to Shen Shoukun and Xu Zhenpeng, there are Lanfang Fleet Commander Cheng Biguang and Deputy Commander Liu Guanxiong, Guanghai City Fleet Commander Cai Tinggan and Deputy Commander Du Xigui.

Now the six most important members of the Dashu Navy gathered in Guanghai City for only one thing, and that was the expansion of the navy.The meeting was presided over by Cheng Biguang, the oldest officer in the navy. Besides the six commanders, Wei Han and Chen Zhaoao also participated.

Looking at the excited faces of the commanders, Cheng Biguang first said the opening remarks: "This meeting was held under the joint initiative of everyone, and the governor has agreed that we formulate a naval construction plan on our own. Everyone can speak freely."

Xu Zhenpeng looked at several old colleagues, patted the table and said: "We are old friends for many years, don't beat around the bush. Let's make it clear, everyone is here this time because of the three battleships." Xu Zhenpeng directly To clarify the words, everyone who was still tense looked at me and I looked at you, and laughed at the same time.

What Xu Zhenpeng was talking about was naturally the three Fuso-class battleships captured by the Guanghaicheng army from the Yokosuka shipyard. In 1910, the Japanese Navy selected the Lion-class battlecruiser of the Saer Kingdom as the master, and designed and built the "King Kong" battlecruiser in the Saar Kingdom. At the same time, it also introduced the blueprint of this battleship.According to the idea of ​​​​the Japanese navy, they will optimize it according to the drawings of this battlecruiser to design the first crossbow-class battleship (dreadnought) of the Japanese country, and at the same time build a follow-up battleship for King Kong.

Unexpectedly, Shen Ruoxue's large-scale rubber stock market disaster and Zhao Shouhong's subsequent attack on authentic and fake Japanese yuan caused heavy losses to the Japanese government, and the navy's funding had to be reduced.According to the Japanese government's plan, the remaining money will be used to expand the follow-up ship of the King Kong battlecruiser, and the original plan for the Fuso-class battleship will be postponed.

After learning about the intention of the Japanese navy, Zhao Shouhong deliberately asked Yamada Shigeru to use the Zhengjin Bank incident to help the Japanese build the Fuso-class battleship in the form of donations.The reason why Zhao Shouhong did such a seemingly benevolent thing, actually had two purposes.The first is that the King Kong battlecruiser has a speed of up to 27.5 knots, which poses a greater threat to one's own battlecruiser.

Because the Fuso-class battleship is the first Japanese battleship, there are many imperfections.For example, the turret takes up too much space, and the profile-type auxiliary gun is arranged in the long forecastle, and its arrangement restricts the space of the power cabin.The defensive part of the heavy armor belt is therefore extended too long, and the armor is diluted.When the main guns fire in salvo, the wind from the guns will sweep across the entire ship, and when the guns shoot, they will impact and interfere with each other on the superstructure.

It is for these reasons that only two Fuso-class battleships were built in history, and the follow-up ships were changed to build improved Ise-class battleships.This is Zhao Shouhong's second purpose. After using the support of the navy to build Fusang-class battleships to evacuate the construction funds for King Kong-class battlecruisers, he used the opportunity of the Yamada Group to donate funds to encourage major consortiums to donate funds, so that they are eager to grow The Japanese Navy started building six Fuso-class battleships at the same time.

Chapter 584 The Six Giants of the Navy

The six battleships built at the same time naturally could not improve the experience gained into Ise-class battleships, which also indirectly slowed down the development of Japanese warships.But what Zhao Shouhong didn't expect was that he had an unexpected harvest in doing so, allowing the Guanghaicheng fleet to capture the hulls of three Fuso-class battleships that had not yet completed their outfitting.

Seeing Xu Zhenpeng speak out at this time, Shen Shoukun shook his head and smiled and said, "You still have that temper. Since everyone knows what the purpose is today, I think I will let Boss Cheng arrange it."

"Don't do that." Cheng Biguang backed down and said, "The allocation of warships requires the consent of the governor. We are just discussing it. My opinion is that each of the three major fleets should be allocated one as the flagship."

"I'm afraid this is inappropriate. After all, the Lanfang Fleet is still in the dark and cannot be so obviously connected with the country. This will destroy the governor's immigration plan." Cai Tinggan, commander of the Guanghai City Fleet, said.The immigration plan mentioned by Cai Tingqian is actually Zhao Shouhong's plan for Australia and New Zealand. He led the purchase of a large area of ​​land in western Australia and New Zealand with a Hollywood consortium.

The rich western mining area of ​​Australia and New Zealand has a large number of high-quality mineral deposits, but at this time it is still a barren land.After the Hollywood consortium bought the 100-year mining rights of these lands at a low price, they brought in a large number of Hualan people from the country to mine, and at the same time built cities and railways there, looking like immigrants.

Originally, the Australian and New Zealand government was unwilling to allow so many people of yellow race to enter the country, but the Hollywood consortium is the White Eagle Consortium and has huge influence.The Australian and New Zealand government did not dare to mess with the White Eagle Consortium, so they had no choice but to turn a blind eye.Zhao Shouhong took advantage of this advantage to allow the Hollywood consortium to develop a large number of mines and smelting bases there in just six months, and at the same time secretly set up weapons factories to train militia organizations, preparing to launch a war against white Australians.

This matter is not a secret among high-level officials, and what Cai Tingqian said is this matter.Because those Hualan people were all introduced from the Lanfang Republic, once they have too close ties with the country, it is easy for the Australian and New Zealand government to be alerted.

"Old Cai is right. We must be careful in everything. Now is the critical period for the development of the governor's career. We must not make any mistakes. I agree that the Lanfang fleet will not increase the number of ships." Cheng Biguang nodded.In fact, he is the most depressed naval commander today. Both the Kokang Fleet and the Guanghaicheng Fleet already have their own battlecruisers, while his Lanfang Fleet only has six cruisers and twelve destroyers, as well as a large number of torpedo boats and gunboats. There are more than ten submarines.There are many islands in the Republic of Lanfang, and the complex water conditions require small warships, so they are mainly torpedo boats and gunboats, and there are very few large warships.

Since the commander Cheng Biguang took care of the overall situation, the deputy commander Liu Guanxiong couldn't say anything.After all, now is a sensitive period. According to Zhao Shouhong's temper, the Lanfang Fleet will definitely be greatly compensated when the immigration plan is successful.

Now that the Lanfang Fleet has chosen to withdraw, only the Kokang Fleet and the Guanghaicheng Fleet are left to compete for the three battleships.Cai Tingqian said first: "Brother Shen, Zhenpeng, your Kokang fleet has just merged with the Kokang Kingdom fleet, and you have a battlecruiser and an aircraft carrier. I think you should give us more of these battleships."

"That can't be done. This battleship is a good thing. Don't try to take advantage of it." Xu Zhenpeng quit immediately. The good brother is private, and he will not be relentless when it comes to grabbing equipment.

"I think it's better to ask Mr. Wei to talk about when this battleship will be finished. After all, they are all semi-finished products. If our shipyard can't finish the warship, what are we fighting for?" Today's naval shipbuilding chief Wei Han.

Hearing Shen Shoukun's words, everyone remembered that what the Guanghaicheng fleet had brought back was just an empty shell and could not be put into actual combat in a short time, so they all turned their attention to Wei Han.

Seeing everyone looking over, Wei Han cleared his throat and said, "Recently, the Japanese sent several groups of spies to try to sink these three warships, but our intelligence department uncovered them all. This shows that the Japanese people will never die. They don't want these three battleships to pose a threat to the United Fleet. It can be seen that Wa Kingdom will go to war against Hualan sooner or later, so my opinion is to keep all the battleships in the Guanghai City Fleet."

Wei Han's words made Cai Tingqian and Du Xigui very excited. Being able to control three more battleships is a huge battle force. Hualan has never had such a huge battleship in history.Seeing what Cai Tinggan was going to say, Wei Han waved his hands and said, "Commander Cai, don't be happy, because these three battleships will not be able to enter service for at least two years."

"Two years? Isn't it just outfitting? Why so long?" Cai Tingqian said.

Wei Han smiled and said: "The Fuso-class battleship has many defects, so I think it needs to be modified before it can join active service."

"Remodeling?" Cai Tingqian's eyes lit up. He knew that the combat effectiveness of the remodeled battleship would definitely increase a lot.

Knowing what Cai Tingqian was thinking, Wei Han said: "The Fuso-class boiler uses the Miyahara-style oil-coal mixed-fired water-tube boiler designed by the Japanese country, and is equipped with two Curtiss-Brown direct-coupled steam turbines made by Saar. This makes the warship not only It only has a speed of 23 knots, and it needs to carry coal and fuel oil separately. According to the progress of the power laboratory, we have developed a more advanced gear-driven steam turbine, which can increase the power by 25%. In addition, we plan to replace heavy oil Water tube boilers, not only can make the horsepower stronger, but also avoid the trouble of using two fuels, so that the battleship can reach a speed of [-] knots."

"25 knots?" Cai Tingqian couldn't help swallowing his saliva. He had never heard of a battleship that could reach such a speed.

Wei Han continued: "According to the captain's suggestion, we will cancel the main armor belt and replace it with key protection to strengthen the armor thickness of the vital parts, and other secondary areas will be subdivided into watertight compartments to enhance defense and reduce weight. In addition According to the request of the governor, the front and rear four turrets were replaced with the latest 85-inch triple-mounted turrets, and the main elevation angle was changed to 120 degrees. The two central turrets were removed and replaced with four dual-mounted [-]mm dual-purpose guns on each side. "

"Great, such a battleship is definitely quite powerful, probably much more powerful than the original Fuso-class." Du Xigui's eyes lit up when he heard it, and the others were envious.

Cheng Biguang nodded and said, "Since that's the case, I also hope that the General Office of Wei can complete the modification as soon as possible and let the three battleships enter service. I will report this plan."

Chapter 585 Assigning Battleships

"Actually, the two of us came today, and there is one more thing." Chen Zhaoao said.

"Chen Huiban, please tell me." Cheng Biguang said.

Chen Zhaoao nodded: "Two Guanghaicheng-class battlecruisers have entered service, namely the Guanghaicheng of the Guanghaicheng Fleet and the Kyaukpyu of the Kokang Fleet. There are still three battlecruisers in the shipyard that are about to enter service." In addition, there are two seaplane carriers. According to the request of the governor, except one of the three battlecruisers remained in Kokang, the other two were all commissioned in the Guanghaicheng Fleet, and the two seaplane carriers were all retained. In the Courageous Fleet."

"Great, this way, the Guanghai City Fleet will be able to compete with the Wa Kingdom." Cai Tingqian said excitedly, patting his thigh.